1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better dear hunting, and now your host, 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: This week's episode is all about going old school to 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: watch big bucks do their thing throughout the summer. If 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: you spend any time at all hunting with a Western 8 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: bow hunter who has truly dialed in, you'll see someone 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: who spends a lot of time glassing. White tail hunters 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: can learn from this. Even though we tend to glass 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: before the season is open to gather summertime intel instead 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: of finding an animal to target right now. Like our 13 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: Western brethren, I realized not everyone has the chance or 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: the means to glass summertime bucks, but if you do, 15 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: you absolutely should. I think this is one of the 16 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: most enjoyable types of scouting, and honestly might be the 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: most valuable in some situations. That's the whole idea behind 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: this episode, which is dedicated to busting out the optics 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: and tapping into your inner dear voyor. Welcome to the 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast, brought to you by First Light. 21 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: So far We've covered boots on the ground scouting, and 22 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: just about everything I can think of when it comes 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: to trail cameras. Now it's time to get serious about 24 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: my favorite kind of deer scouting, summertime glassing. This is 25 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: almost a lost art these days for a couple of reasons. 26 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: For one, why would you swat mosquitoes while a spotting 27 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: scope sucks your eyeballs out of your head just to 28 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: watch bucks feeding when you could walk in, hang a camera, 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: and get out in the same amount of time it 30 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: takes to watch a Simpson's rerun. And there is also 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: the reality that many of us face where we don't 32 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: have a dreamy soybean field or fell fulfield to glass. 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: If you're a suburban hunter, or maybe a big woods hunter, 34 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: it might not be possible to hike in with a 35 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: spotter and watch a group of velvet bucks do their thing. 36 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: You got to read your situation and understand that while 37 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: you might not have an ideal glassing scenario, you might 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: have more options than you think. When I was living 39 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: in north central Minnesota and hunting ground in a region 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: with limited hay fields and other egg I realized that 41 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: the crop heavy style of scouting I grew up with 42 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: was gone. I also realized that there were some meadows 43 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: worth watching and occasionally clear cuts, really fresh clear cuts 44 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: that would allow me to post up in a corner 45 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: and observe. After moving from there to the suburbs of 46 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: the Twin Cities, I realized I was around more egg 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: but also relegated to small properties, really small properties. This 48 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: was tough because the food was always on someone else's ground. 49 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes you just have to accept that you can't scout 50 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: the way you want to. In that case, I could 51 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: drive by and throw the binos up when I had 52 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: the chance, but it was a poor substitute for actual 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: summertime glassing sessions. So it's not possible for everyone. But 54 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: if you do have the chance to glass summer, dear 55 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: that you could eventually hunt in the fall, you absolutely should. 56 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: Here's why it's not just about hitless and inventory. And 57 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: sure it's fun to lay eyes on a red coated 58 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: summertime toad out munching away with his buddies in the evening, 59 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: But what does that do for you? It might change 60 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: your hunting plans and force you to get a little 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: more serious, which is good. Or it might prompt you 62 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: to run a few more cameras or spend more time 63 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: on the glass, both of which should increase your odds 64 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: of success as long as you don't overstay your welcome 65 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: where he lives. Seeing big Bucks is fun, But the 66 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: benefit isn't getting to give a wild critter acute name mark, 67 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: or knowing that you've got four fifty inches in your 68 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: neighborhood to target this fall. The benefit is that watching 69 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: deer is well, it's beneficial. There are a few different 70 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: fronts here, but I'll start with one that you might 71 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: not be thinking of. How often in your life do 72 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: you encounter mature bucks? For yours truly, who hunts quite 73 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: a few states and puts in a lot of time, 74 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: the end seasoned encounters might tally up to half a 75 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: dozen on any given year. Of those, one, or if 76 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: I'm really super duper lucky, two or three will end 77 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: up in the back of my truck. That's not a 78 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: lot of interaction, it's not a lot of experience. And 79 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: I'm a lucky guy. I get to hunt, at least 80 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: partially for my job. Most of us just aren't encountering 81 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: mature bucks on any level of consistent basis While we're 82 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: hunting This is part of the reason why buck fever 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: is so much more common than most of us will admit. 84 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: Even hunters in the great state of Iowa, who have 85 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: a higher expectation of running into big bucks than anyone 86 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: else often fall apart when those bucks actually do walk by. 87 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: This is because it's just not that common, even in 88 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: the places where it's most common. Another way to look 89 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: at this is just to like, turn on out door 90 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: television and watch a few hours if you fancy a 91 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: little low level torture. It won't be long before you'll 92 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: see some twelve year old kid who was spawned by 93 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: an industry celebrity power couple hunting. This kid will shoot 94 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: right in the lungs a buck bigger than you could 95 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: imagine seeing in any given decade of hard hunting, and 96 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: you'll probably think, how the hell does a sixth grader 97 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: keep it together on a booner when I lose my 98 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: ship on bucks? It's because they know that if they 99 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: screw up, the next one is coming down the trail. 100 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: They miss a big one, go to moral, there'll be 101 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: another pass up a one. Don't worry, there's a one 102 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: hitting the other end of the plot. He'll be there 103 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: in a second for you, that one buck that represents 104 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: something big for you is a rare thing. Indeed, this 105 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: is one of the reasons we kind of had these 106 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: mythical elements to what amounts to rabbits with antlers. We say, 107 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: do dear have a sixth sense? Can they recognize when 108 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: you're looking at them in the eyes? Honestly no, but 109 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: they are good at detecting two pound quivering lumps of 110 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: anxiety hanging off trees and what amounts to their bedroom 111 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: because if they weren't, they die as four keys. Big 112 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: bucks aren't unkillable. Survival machines and long range glassing will 113 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: teach you that at no time of the year can 114 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: you watch mature bucks doing what mature bucks do more 115 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: easily than you can in the back half of the 116 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: summer when I was in college, I really started getting 117 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: after the long range glass and game, really started to 118 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: enjoy it, and I remember how astonished I was that 119 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: I could often find an observed box that were forty 120 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: or sixty inches bigger than anything I'd ever killed. What 121 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: was crazier was that they would often walk out and 122 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: feed along the whole woodline or enter a corner of 123 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: a field every night like clockwork, as long as I 124 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: didn't creep in too close and start blowing deer out. 125 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: Those efforts made me start to consider that not only 126 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: were they not as special as I thought, but then 127 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm might kill one. I did too. Eventually, after fourteen 128 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: years of obsessive bow hunting, that non typical fourteen pointer 129 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: looked like a moose when I first saw him, and 130 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: it was an absolute act of God that my arrow 131 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: passed through the right stuff when he was just ten 132 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: yards away on the edge of a bean field in 133 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: a September drizzle. So many of my previously held beliefs 134 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: died with that deer that night. And while that success 135 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: wasn't solely due to summer glass ng, a huge part 136 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: of that level up moment can be attributed to just 137 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: watching Bucks in August. Look, what I'm saying is that 138 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: glass in one evening can teach you more about dear 139 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: behavior than running a pile of cameras can all summer long. 140 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: This is important because the Bucks will give you a 141 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: first hand glimpse into how they use the terrain during 142 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: various weather conditions. So instead of just watching to see 143 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: big Bucks, watch to see big Bucks step up. From 144 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: the trail and look around. Pay attention to wh already 145 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: walked out the trail. Did a doe group them already? 146 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: How about a bachelor group of scrappers? What did the 147 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: big boy or big boys do before they got into 148 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: the field or right after they got out there? Could 149 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: you get into a situation where you could see them 150 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: before they made it into the groceries? This is possible 151 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: in a lot of places they are more open, like 152 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: when it comes to western white tails. Farther east, It's 153 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: not as likely, but could still be possible depending on 154 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: your hunting situation. Pay attention to what wind direction was 155 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: blowing when the bucks stepped out of a specific trail. 156 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: Did that favor them? And they're likely travel route? How 157 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: so when they entered the field, where they in a 158 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: low spot that isn't visible from any road, or were 159 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: they on a high spine that gave them the best 160 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: chance to see predators in the field? Kind of like 161 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: where Big Tom's really like to strut in April? Did 162 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: the bucks come out two hours before dark or five 163 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: minutes When they got to the food, did they dive 164 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: right in and start eating without a real direction in 165 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: mine or did they look like they were working toward 166 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: a bigger goal. That goal might be a pond tucked 167 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: in somewhere, or it might be that they are headed 168 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: toward a fence crossing that leads to the neighbor's field. 169 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: Their direction of travel and the rate they move and 170 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: where they end up before you lose sight of them 171 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: are huge things to know. You get to see what 172 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: they favor and can speculate why they favor those things, 173 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: which is valuable intel to file away for the hunting season. 174 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: And I can't stress this enough. All of that stuff 175 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 1: is important. In today's dear world, we tend to try 176 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: to control the uncontrollable as much as possible. For example, 177 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: where baiting is legal, it's to go to strategy simply 178 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: because it's sort of promises results in the exact spots 179 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: we want to hunt. Food plots offer the same illusion, 180 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: and although they take a little more work than a 181 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 1: bait pile, the results can be very similar. Cutting trails, 182 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: adding in water sources, whatever. We love to try to 183 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: nudge deer to do what we want them to do 184 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: to make our hunting easier. And that's okay, it's part 185 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: of the game. If you can plan a food plot, 186 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: do it. If you can hire someone to come in 187 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: and build upon go for it. That part's fun too, 188 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: if you have the option. But if you want to 189 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: be a better deer hunter in general, learning about what 190 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: dear do naturally is how you do it, And the 191 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: window for the most education here is now, in the 192 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: form of summertime observation. Now, of course, you've got to 193 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: have the ability to see dear from far away. For me, 194 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: this involves both binoculars and a spotting scope. In some situations, 195 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: you could probably get away with just binoculars if that's 196 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: all you got, but a spotter really changes the game, 197 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: even a relatively inexpensive one. There's no need to take 198 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: out a helock loan for a spotting scope used solely 199 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: for white tails. But I will say this, when it 200 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: comes to glass, you get what you pay for. Inexpensive 201 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: isn't necessarily bad. It just won't be crazy good. It 202 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: could easily be good enough, though, which is fine. But 203 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: what's not fine is a super cheap tripod. Spending thirty 204 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: dollars for a tripod is a great way to wipe 205 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: your butt with thirty dollars while still not having a tripod. 206 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: I bought a cheaper and a pinch one time for 207 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: a photo shoot, and it literally broke while I was 208 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 1: unboxing it. It didn't even have the structural integrity to 209 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: hold up while I removed it from a cardboard box. 210 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: The difference in spending an extra hundred dollars on a 211 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: tripod is truly incredible. It's one of those things where 212 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: you just don't want to go cheap, like when it 213 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: comes to broadheads or buying a Western hunting pack, and 214 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: when you do get out with your optics, you want 215 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: to use your binoculars to scan. These are for picking 216 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: up the color of a summer coat, or the flicker 217 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: of velvet tines above a sea of green waste high soybeans, 218 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: any hint of a deer, and the spotter it gets 219 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: trained on the location and the magnification gets dialed up. 220 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: This seems simple enough, but there's an art to it 221 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: in art, not only to reading the landscape and picking 222 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: out the deer, but then really getting on them quickly 223 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: with your optics. If you don't believe this glass with 224 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: somebody who's really good at it or someone who's really 225 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: terrible at it, the difference in dear spotted will be appreciable. 226 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: The people who are good learned to about the inconsistencies 227 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: in the landscape, just like the hunters who are quick 228 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: to pick up the hint of a back line in 229 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: the woods or a glimpse of a white tail's white tail. 230 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: Just like with hunting, sometimes when you're glassing, the deer 231 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: suddenly appear or unmistakable. They're just there. But other times 232 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: it's a matter of slowly scanning with your binos to 233 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: look for something that just doesn't quite belong. This might 234 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: be that reddish summer coat that isn't quite the same 235 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: color as the c RP grass, or the flash of 236 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 1: a throat patch as a buckle pokes his head out 237 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: of the woodline to see if there's any visible danger 238 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: in the field. Practice and experience matter here, and the 239 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: more you glass, the better you'll get at it. This 240 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: is an obvious benefit during summer scouting sessions, but also 241 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: carries over into your time into the field come fall. 242 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: And also pay attention to your comfort. In the next episode, 243 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: I'm really going to break down a glassing strategy, but 244 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: for now consider some of the big picture stuff, like 245 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: how you'll deal with bugs and whether you can sit 246 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: comfortably in the edge of a cornfield while poking your 247 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: spot or out for a few hours. Have a way 248 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: to deal with mosquitoes, whether you spray down or you 249 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: use a thermocell unit. Discomfort is the enemy of hunting 250 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: success and glassing success. You need to enjoy this time, 251 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: and if you're constantly swatting mosquitoes, you're not gonna enjoy it. 252 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: You won't enjoy it either if your lower back is 253 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: screaming in agony after half an hour of sitting on 254 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: the ground, A good cushion or a little tripod chair 255 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: like those we use in Turkey season can be the ticket. 256 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: And don't sabotage yourself before you even get out there. 257 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: Give yourself a chance and understand that what you're doing 258 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: is going out an hour or two before you plan 259 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: to see a deer, and we'll be sitting until it's 260 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: too dark to see anything. This might be three or 261 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: four hours on a decent evening, and at least two 262 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: if it's really hot. As much fun as I think 263 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: summertime glassing is, I'm also reminded that it's often mostly 264 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: tedium and discomfort until the deer show up. Just like 265 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: a lot of my actual hunts, are, but they're always 266 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: worth it if you see them through to the end. 267 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: So take a look at your hunting spots, both your 268 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: private spots and any public you might be interested in hunting. 269 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: The good thing about summertime glassing is that you can 270 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 1: devote an evening or two per week for the month 271 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: August and really get your finger on the pulse of 272 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: different spots. A night spent watching an egg field that 273 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: borders a large chunk of public land might not really 274 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: seem like it's worth it. It's not maybe a great 275 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: way to spend your time, but it can tell you 276 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: whether the public might be worth hunting or whether you 277 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: are better off sticking to those smaller chunks of private 278 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: you have permission to hunt if you've been scouting in 279 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: person and with cameras a couple of nights. A long 280 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: range glass and can also really help you tie together 281 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: the dear movement on your property. Not only do you 282 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: have pictures of the buck you're after slur bring up 283 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: some water in the morning as he heads back to bed, 284 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: but now you've watched him enter a certain field three 285 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: different times in two weeks. That knowledge is how we 286 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: get those instagram worthy trophy photos. My friends, make a 287 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: plan to long range glass if it's possible. You'll learn 288 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: more about mature books than you ever could listening to 289 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: random hunting podcasts or reading random hunting articles. You'll also 290 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: find that it's probably the most fun type of scutting 291 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: there is, aside from the early spring days when you're 292 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: just itching to get out and shake off the cabin 293 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: fever while putting on some miles in the woods. So 294 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: get ready to glass. But I understand that you won't 295 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: be driving into the edge of the field and watching 296 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: from your truck while singing along to Luke Brian. You're 297 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: instead going to treat your glassing sessions like a rifle hunt, 298 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: which is the topic of next week's episode. So please 299 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: tune in and I promise you we will make this 300 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: amission that will help you kill more big bucks. That's 301 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: it for this episode, my friends, be sure to check 302 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: out next week's show so you can keep leveling up 303 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: your white tailed glassing game. I'm Tony Peterson and this 304 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: has been the Wired Hunt Foundations podcast. As always, thank 305 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: you so much for your support and we will see 306 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: you right here next week.