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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 Kenyon, and this is episode number thirty.

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Speaker 1: Today in the podcast, we're hearing from six white tail

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Speaker 1: experts on their ideal hunting set up. Enjoy all right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. Today is actually

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Speaker 1: a bonus mini episode of the podcast. But since it's

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Speaker 1: early November and the white tail ronaissan, we're pulling out

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Speaker 1: all the stops to keep you well informed and ready

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Speaker 1: for big bucks, So there will be two episodes this week.

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Speaker 1: How about that. That said, today, we're actually going to

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Speaker 1: be sharing with you an exclusive snake peek at our

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Speaker 1: Rules of the Rut two point oh podcast series. As

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Speaker 1: you've probably heard about already. Earlier this year, I launched

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Speaker 1: The Rules of the Rut two point oh, a digital

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Speaker 1: product package comprised of two e books and three podcasts

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Speaker 1: featuring some of the top white tail hunters in the

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Speaker 1: country covering all things related to the Rut. Today, I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share with you an excerpt from the second

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Speaker 1: podcast in that series, in which we discuss rut hunting

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Speaker 1: stand sites. For this section, I asked six incredible white

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Speaker 1: tail hunters to describe their ideal rut hunting set up

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Speaker 1: in detail. In this section, you'll hear from Bernie Barringer,

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Speaker 1: Scott Bestel, Randy Hines, Don Higgins, Jeff Sturgis, and Dan

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Speaker 1: in Fall. If you like what you hear, be sure

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Speaker 1: to visit wired to hunt dot com slash Rules of

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Speaker 1: the Rut to download the full package with the two

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Speaker 1: of you books and three podcasts, jam packed with more

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Speaker 1: great rut hunting information. That all said, let's dive right

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Speaker 1: into our expert from the Rules of the Rut two

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Speaker 1: point oh podcast series, Part two. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Rules of the Rut podcast series. This is part two.

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Speaker 1: To this point we've talked about the time of the rut,

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Speaker 1: characteristics of the various phases of the ruck, and dear

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Speaker 1: behavior at this time of year. How many you have

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Speaker 1: said that hunting during the rut is as simple as

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Speaker 1: hunting long hours and hoping for a big buck to

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Speaker 1: eventually waltz by. And while of course long hours in

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Speaker 1: the stand are important, that's not everything. As they say,

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Speaker 1: it's about being in the right place at the right time. Well,

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Speaker 1: that said, in this podcast episode, we're going to be

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Speaker 1: focused on tree stand placement and set up philosophy. He's

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Speaker 1: for the rut in short, everything you need to know

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Speaker 1: to make sure you're in the right place when that

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Speaker 1: buck of your dreams comes moving through. To begin this section,

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Speaker 1: we asked several of our white tailed experts what their

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Speaker 1: ideal rut hunting setup would look like. Their answers are

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Speaker 1: loaded with wisdom that you can amply during your own hunts,

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Speaker 1: So get out a piece of paper and get ready

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Speaker 1: to take notes to kick things off. Here's Bernie Beranger,

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Speaker 1: an accomplished outdoor writer, the author of The Freelance bow Hunter,

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Speaker 1: and a blogger at bow Hunting Road dot com. I

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Speaker 1: think my perfect rut stand would be in a pinch

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Speaker 1: point that is leading between betting areas. Um bucks know

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Speaker 1: their feet during the day during the peak of the rod,

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Speaker 1: and so that pinch point would be something that funnels

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Speaker 1: Ideal stand site would be um in between where I

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Speaker 1: In November, we get those really good cold fronts to

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Speaker 1: the first time for the year. Finally, here's Dan Info,

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Speaker 1: founder of the hunting Beast dot com and a notorious

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Speaker 1: Field and Stream magazine. In this segment, Dan shares this

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