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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan in this episode number two D

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Speaker 1: and to Dan the show. We're kicking off another year

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Speaker 1: of our radio mini series in which we chat with

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Speaker 1: hunters from all across the country each week to get

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Speaker 1: the latest intel on current deer activity and the tactics

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Speaker 1: that are working. Right now, all right, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Wired Hunt Podcast, brought to you by on X, and

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Speaker 1: this is our first episode of two thousand nineteen of

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Speaker 1: our RUT Radio series. But we're actually calling out something

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Speaker 1: slightly different this year. We're calling rut Fresh Radio. But

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Speaker 1: it is the exact same things that you've heard over

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Speaker 1: the last three seasons. We're calling this rout Fresh Radio.

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Speaker 1: I will give you a very quick behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: explanation here because our buddy Spencer new Hearth. While you, Spencer,

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Speaker 1: you started something called RUT Fresh I think last year,

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Speaker 1: right a blog in which you were sharing written RUT

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Speaker 1: of things we were talking about on RUT radio. And

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Speaker 1: when you joined the Mediator team, which happened when last

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Speaker 1: year earlier this year October. Okay, so when you joined,

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Speaker 1: we decided, hey, we should keep ret Fresh Reports going,

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Speaker 1: it could get kind of confusing if we had the

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Speaker 1: two same things but with slightly different names. We decided

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Speaker 1: to combine the names. So there's going to be the

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Speaker 1: same RUT Radio mini series that we do here in

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Speaker 1: the podcast. We're just gonna call rut Fresh Radio, and

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Speaker 1: then you're gonna have rut Fresh written reports on the

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Speaker 1: mediair website to right, That's right. Those are going to

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Speaker 1: start in October, okay, sweet. So for those that aren't

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Speaker 1: familiar with what we do here on this series, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a series that we are running

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Speaker 1: in addition to the regular wire Dump podcast each week,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to run from this week all the

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Speaker 1: way to the end of the two thousand nine hunting season.

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Speaker 1: Give me the cliff notes on what folks can expect, Spencer.

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Speaker 1: This is the fourth season of doing this mini podcast.

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Speaker 1: These episodes are going to come out every single Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and every week I'm going to talk to some highly

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Speaker 1: respected white tail hunters from across the country and get

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Speaker 1: the latest reports from what they're seeing, what the buck

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Speaker 1: activity has been like, uh, if the moon face has

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Speaker 1: what those food sources look like in their area, if

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Speaker 1: the bachelor groups are still together, if calling works right now,

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Speaker 1: if signmaking has started, all of that stuff. And so

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Speaker 1: we get a breakdown of what they've been seeing in

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Speaker 1: the past few days, and then also prediction on what

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Speaker 1: they expect to come in the coming days. Right, that's right,

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Speaker 1: And the idea of this podcast is to give you

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Speaker 1: the freshest intel possible. Good at give you guys a

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Speaker 1: peep behind the curtain here. But we are recording this

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday in this episode will drop Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: so the reports that you're hearing are less than twenty

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Speaker 1: ideas of what to do in the upcoming weekend. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear some great reports on here from hopefully somebody

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Speaker 1: happens to me almost every week prior to a hunt.

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Speaker 1: I'm using this intel hopefully just like you guys are,

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Speaker 1: and it's really helped me in a lot of cases

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Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, I'll say another thing that we've

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Speaker 1: update Spencer Um. Sort of in tandem with these podcast episodes,

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Speaker 1: Is that right? We are? Man? Uh we uh. We

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Speaker 1: that you couldn't really see, and I think I think

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00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: that's why they picked it. How early in the evening

433
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: were these books showing up um. Some of them were

434
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,719
Speaker 1: living in it. The buck that I killed was betted

435
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: in there. When I hung my stand opening night, I

436
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 1: watched him get up and feed fifty yards away after

437
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 1: I got my stand hung, and then I watched another

438
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: bucket I had seen the previous night get up um

439
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: from inside the field. So they were you could see

440
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: when you got above these real lush, tall soybeans, you

441
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: could see all these little bomb crater looking at the

442
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 1: holes in the soybeans. And I think it was just

443
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 1: those bucks were spending so much time in there just

444
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 1: betting stand up feed. The bucket I killed actually ended

445
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 1: up bedding in front of me at thirty seven yards

446
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: for an hour, and I could see him seating while

447
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: he was laying down. Going forward to the next week

448
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 1: or so, what do you think that bucket ATVT is

449
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,120
Speaker 1: going to be a skill of one to ten in Nebraska? Oh,

450
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: I would say with the coming forecast, I would say

451
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna stay around a seven or eight probably. I

452
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to change too drastically with all

453
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 1: those deer going hard anlard yet. All right, Tony, well,

454
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: congrats again, thanks for joining me. Always look forward to

455
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 1: hearing these public land adventures that you're on and way

456
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: to go on the awesome deer. Awesome, thanks buddy, alright

457
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line. Next from South Carolina

458
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 1: is Cameron Busty from cut Forward Outdoors. Now, Cameron in

459
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,199
Speaker 1: South Carolina, what would you say the bucket activity has

460
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 1: been in the last week or so on a scale

461
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: of one to ten, I'd say about a six. The

462
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: deer kind of getting into a little transition period between uh,

463
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: they're they're coming out of their summer velvet and they're

464
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: starting to get hard to him. There usually their velvet

465
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: right hair around Labor Day weekend, so we're kind of

466
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: in that transition period and we're trying to target in

467
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 1: on bucks for the summer patterns of the fall pattern.

468
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: So we're kind of one of these a little transitions

469
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: right now. So what would you say the ratio is

470
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: in South Carolina bucks that are still holding velvet to

471
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 1: ones that are hard horned. I'd say it's about hard

472
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: horn the bigger bucks right now, or they're they're a

473
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: hard horn they're usually the first ones get rid of it.

474
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: And so with these early season sits, when you're trying

475
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: to catch these bucks going from those summer patterns to

476
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: fall patterns, what are you focused on protecting? When I

477
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: started August fifteen, so August fix, they still have their

478
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: bilment on. They're pretty pretty consistent, so you can get

479
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: on the food tourse early. UM your field agg fields

480
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 1: we had We've had some success in big fresh cutovers

481
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: um a lot of regrowth out there, especially in the morning,

482
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: and those big cutovers seemed to play the big cutovers

483
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: off the egg fields and staging aary for them to

484
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: come back to bed. They'll hang out there and mill

485
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: out there and after her in the morning, they're coming

486
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: from food back to bed. What we did augustly the

487
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: te um August eight tenths, you're killed the monster, I

488
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: mean heavy warned eight pointer Um in a cutover just

489
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: like that in the morning. Um. But right now we're

490
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: gonna start getting on some transition lines. UM. Food still primary,

491
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 1: especially in the afternoons, because they're still kind of comfortable.

492
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: They're not really getting too much pressure right now. We're

493
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: trying to stay out and not really bumping too hard

494
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: on the food. You mentioned that some of those caught

495
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: areas kind of function as staging areas in the mornings.

496
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: Does that mean that you've been doing some morning setups

497
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: this early in the season. Yes, actually we have. Actually

498
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: those have been most of our setups. Um. The farm

499
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: we hunt, it doesn't have egg The egg field is

500
00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 1: not on the property. It's about um half mile the road.

501
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: So the deer are going to the hagfield tonight, but

502
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 1: we can't haunt the agg field. So we're catching them

503
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: coming back and they're using our cut over. It's a

504
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: two year old cut over. They cut it last year

505
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: and it's got vegetation that's probably nick highing and if

506
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: you get up on the edge of it and get

507
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: get high enough, and they're using that. I mean, we've

508
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: had an agatack days down here, so we're catching them

509
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: coming back to bed up the Creek games now coming

510
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: up here at the end of the week. It seems

511
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: like Hurricane Dorian maybe making contact with South Carolina. Do

512
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: you ever notice in the past that hurricanes affect the

513
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 1: deer movement before after hurricane and what does that look like?

514
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: Dorian is gonna be a little farther to our east

515
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: and more towards the coast. Were actually towards the center

516
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: of the state. But we've had hurries in the post

517
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: come come through and we've actually noticed buck moving right

518
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: before the storm. Or two years ago, we killed a

519
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: really really big eight pointer the day before hurricane came

520
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: and he learned he was up in October moving at

521
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: five o'clock in the afternoon. I mean, just something you

522
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: don't see, very rare, and there's a buck. We only

523
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: had a couple of pictures last year one of our

524
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: members because in North Carolina, you know, they had that

525
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: major storm I forget what the name of it was.

526
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: They came through last year. And he was hunting hadn't

527
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: had one huge I mean probably a hundred and sixty

528
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: five inch in North Carolina out in the bean fields

529
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: right in the middle of afternoon. Even so, I feel

530
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: like they know the storm is coming and it puts

531
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: up because they know the next days are going to

532
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: be bad going forward. Then in the sex week or so,

533
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: what do you think that bucket activity is going to

534
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: be on a scale of one to ten in South Carolina?

535
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna pick up and probably be

536
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: about seven and I have eight before the storm. During

537
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: the storm, it could drop back to a three or four,

538
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,040
Speaker 1: and then right after it should should get back to

539
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: about normal, so about five or six. I mean, it

540
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: could vary through out the week with the storm coming there. Alright, Cameron, well,

541
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me and good luck to you and

542
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: everyone else from Cut four Outdoors. Thank you alright and

543
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Next is Dylan Lens out

544
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: of North Dakota from Breaking Point TV. Dylan, on a

545
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: scale of one to tendon, what would you say the

546
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: buck activity has been lately? I would say it's about

547
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 1: a six right now. Um, we had some warm weather

548
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 1: while we were out hunting through the opener of this

549
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: past weekend and started off strong with some high pressure.

550
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: We had some good buck movement and then it really

551
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: tailed off. Is that weather stabilized and uh, I didn't

552
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: have much daylight activity for bucks at once. That kind

553
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: of settled out. Someone in your group did have success though.

554
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: On was it opening night there in North Dakota? Opening night?

555
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: Are buddy and in script checked or JP as we

556
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: call him, uh took out an awesome velvet stuck on

557
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: opening night UM with quite a bit of daylight left,

558
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: so he was he was pretty fortunate to be in

559
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: the right place at the right time out there, and

560
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: I believe does this first of velvet white scales. So

561
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: it was a pretty awesome night. And what do those

562
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: setups look like that you guys were using. Was it

563
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: mostly field edgies. Yeah, it's almost all feel edges that

564
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: were hunting out there on North Dakota's a lot of

565
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: big marshes um where you can't really get in and

566
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: get on it. Didn't you know, access point to you know,

567
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: set up an ambush. So he kind of gotta pick

568
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: tree rows or small wood lots where we think we

569
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: can get the beer. Um while they're headed to food,

570
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, leaving the big marshes and kind of in

571
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: a vulnerable spot. Tell me more about that buck that

572
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: your buddy killed. How early was that deer out moving?

573
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: Was he traveling with others? So he was actually coming

574
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: behind two doughs, Um, it was kind of a different situation.

575
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: He had crossed the road and a car had come

576
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: past right about when they crossed the road, so kind

577
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: of hurried that buck up, um coming towards the tree

578
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: line that he was sitting on, and he basically followed

579
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: the dosh down the trail and straight as to stand.

580
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: So it just worked out perfect. That was I believe

581
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: with another hour hour and a half of daylight left.

582
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: So it's really fortunate to have that movement that early.

583
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: You guys had a really short window there in North Dakota,

584
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: because I know a few years took off and are

585
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: now haunting Muley's when the window is that tight. Are

586
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: you hunting any mornings early in the season like this?

587
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: We truly don't hunt mornings in North Dakota just because

588
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: of our stand setups. Um, you know, we went in there,

589
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: we'd definitely be pushing dear off for food and we

590
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: aren't hunting betting areas, because like I said, you know,

591
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: they're betting out in the marches and that sort of thing.

592
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: So if we're going in the morning, we pretty much

593
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: blow the whole sit right off the bat. So kind

594
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: of getting out there where we think that deer headed to,

595
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: are in between where they're headed to and their betting

596
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: has worked out best for us. That's always happening in

597
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: the keeping. What was the ratio of velvet bucks to

598
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: hard worn bucks there in North Dakota while we were

599
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: out there this patch weekend, it was almost all still velvet.

600
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: We had one buck that was full hearted horns, had

601
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: some awesome horners of him actually uh right before he

602
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: lost his velvet and then he must have you know,

603
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: went and shredded it right nearby. And that was actually

604
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: in August, so that was pretty early. Um, but all

605
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: the other year that we had on camera or saw

606
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: while we were in the stand, we're still holding velvet.

607
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: So that was pretty cool. Had those opportunities while we

608
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: were there on those velvet buckets. Are you guys worried

609
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: about water sources all this time of year? Is that

610
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: something that you focus on just like you would these

611
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: food sources. How were we hunt in North Dakota. It's

612
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: so wet anyway, with all the marshes that first wet

613
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: of the years it's been out there, we haven't noticed

614
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot of difference in you know,

615
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: their activity um pertaining to water. So I don't know,

616
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, if you were in a drier area, maybe

617
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: it's be a little bit different because of how much

618
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: water is available to him this year. But we just

619
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: didn't notice that kind of you know change. I know,

620
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: you guys are potentially hitted back to North Dakota like

621
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: next week or so, how will your actors have changed

622
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: from just a few days ago to about seven days

623
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: from now. During the early season, we pretty much kind

624
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: of employed the same tactics and you know, really just

625
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: checking the cameras and trying to stay out of air

626
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: as much as possible, keeping them fresh, sneaking in during

627
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: broad daylight middle of the day when we know we

628
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: can get in there those deer in the marshes, they're

629
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: gonna see yea, We go in check the camera see

630
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: if they were in that area either you know, before

631
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: dark the night before or maybe move through on their

632
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: way back into bed in the morning. And then we

633
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: just try and pick that spot and play the wind

634
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: and hope that they're going to make that mistake again

635
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: or show up during daylight. Going forward. Then in the

636
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: six week or so, what do you think that bucket

637
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: activity is going to be on a scale of one

638
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: to ten in North Dakota. I would say it's still

639
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,719
Speaker 1: going to be that six maybe seven area. It's really

640
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: gonna depend on the weather. I haven't looked at the

641
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: expended forecast, but you know, if we get a little

642
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: bit of cool front um and some higher pressure, I

643
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: think maybe those bucks will get on their feet a

644
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: little earlier. Our Dylan, thanks for joining me, good luck

645
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: on the rest of your traveling haunts and everyone else

646
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: from the Breaking Point TV. Thanks a lot you guys.

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