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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. This episode number two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty six, and today we're back with another Rut radio

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Speaker 1: episode in which we're hearing from hunters all across the

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Speaker 1: country to find out about the progress of the White

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Speaker 1: Tail Rut, about how current conditions are impacting deer and

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Speaker 1: what tactics are working right now for deer hunters across

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Speaker 1: the country. All right, welcome to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx and Uh.

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Speaker 1: I am sitting today in my pickup truck in the

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Speaker 1: woods of northern Michigan at my family deer camp, and

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta camp full of guys inside. They're

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Speaker 1: sitting by the woodburning stove drinking cold beers, and Spencer

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Speaker 1: has forced me to go sit in the truck and

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Speaker 1: record a podcast with him. Um, so it's better to

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Speaker 1: be a good one man, right, Yeah, it will be.

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Speaker 1: You know what happened the last time you left me alone,

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Speaker 1: So uh, going out of your way to to be

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Speaker 1: on this episode not gonna let that happen again. So

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Speaker 1: for for anyone who hasn't heard these episodes before the

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Speaker 1: twenty the ten second cliff notes is that we hear

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Speaker 1: from hunters all across the country about what's happening right now,

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Speaker 1: what's happening in the woods, what are the deer doing,

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Speaker 1: how are different current conditions impacting deer, and what can

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Speaker 1: we as hunters be doing right now to have a

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Speaker 1: little bit more success in the woods. So we're in

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Speaker 1: December now, things are changing, aren't they. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is sweet. November came and went, and it came and

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Speaker 1: went fast, and yeah, it feels like it. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned we're now in December. Some of the late season

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Speaker 1: stuff is what you're gonna be hearing, uh, you know

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Speaker 1: for these next few episodes, in our final episodes, um,

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Speaker 1: and for the first time in probably a month, we

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Speaker 1: are hearing a lot of weather talk. Um. That is

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Speaker 1: something that you get in September, in October, but then

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Speaker 1: the rut comes in November, and just the rut and

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Speaker 1: the time of year, Trump's everything else. But now that

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Speaker 1: we are in December, you hear a lot more of

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Speaker 1: of what the forecast looks like. And how that's going

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Speaker 1: to affect dear movement. It's very true. Um, I'm also

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Speaker 1: curious about what the emotional forecast is for your right now, Spencer,

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling emotionally now that you've made it

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Speaker 1: through the month of November, Because it's always a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a grind. It always kind of wears me

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Speaker 1: it's also it's like adrenaline rush of excitement for several

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Speaker 1: Where are you are you? Are you a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Do you have like that postpartum depression happening right now

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Speaker 1: post November depression? Or you rejuvenated after nice Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: you're excited for the late season. So most years I

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Speaker 1: would be bummed that it is December and we now

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Speaker 1: But this year I drew a rare muzzleloader tag in

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Speaker 1: So I'm very excited. Um. You know, I'm one of

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Speaker 1: There's only like a thousand of them given out, which

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Speaker 1: so it's a tough jaw. I'm very excited for this December,

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Speaker 1: more excited than I normally would be. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: like South Dakota. It just seems like you've got like

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Speaker 1: seven buck tags every year. It just seems like every

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Speaker 1: A lot of deer and few hunters. It's a good situation.

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Speaker 1: And I was gonna say, you want to keep that

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Speaker 1: I'm on the emotional upswing. I had, like my post

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Speaker 1: more pannable deer. These deer return to more consistent bed

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Speaker 1: defeat patterns that if you're a hunter who's got deer

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Speaker 1: gotta believe that's probably something our guests talk about this week.

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Speaker 1: Is that? Is that true for sure? Yeah, that's something

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Speaker 1: something that came up with a few colors this week,

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Speaker 1: on how November went. Specifically, here two of our people

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Speaker 1: UM talk about how they felt it was more of

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Speaker 1: because you know, these hunters felt that they observed what

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Speaker 1: some things late season. Yeah, that is uh, that's an

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Speaker 1: interesting observation observation. Who who are these people that we

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Speaker 1: Ranch Outfitters in Oklahoma. Is Clay Force that we talked to,

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Speaker 1: T J Unger from the Virtue TV in Indiana, and

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Speaker 1: Ellis Lee Ellis that guy gets after some real big

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Speaker 1: really unique insight. I think on this week's episode, I'm

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Speaker 1: Before we get to our first color, they'll let's pause

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Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsors at white Tail Properties.

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Speaker 1: This week, with white Tail Properties, we are joined by

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Speaker 1: Neil Hagger, a land specialist out of Wisconsin, and Neil

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Speaker 1: is going to be talking to us about what buyers

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Speaker 1: should look for when they want to put food plots

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Speaker 1: on a property that doesn't currently have any. Well, I

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Speaker 1: always like to try to add food plots in areas

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Speaker 1: my limitations were that I only have so many places

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Speaker 1: Where is it dry enough? Um? But what I tried

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Speaker 1: meaning kind of have a ninety degree angle, so that

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Speaker 1: I have I minimized the opportunity to cross paths with

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. So, uh, cover bedding cover to

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Speaker 1: is Mike Fitzgerald in Minnesota from bow hunting dot com. Now,

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Speaker 1: Mike in Minnesota, what would you say the bucket activity

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Speaker 1: And if you have one of those spots, that's a

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Speaker 1: great place to be this time of year. So what

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Speaker 1: for us are signs of logging activity, nuclear cuts. UM.

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Speaker 1: There's kind of that sweet spot that two of probably

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Speaker 1: five year old clear cut um has a lot of

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Speaker 1: woody brows. Those asked and tend to be the first

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Speaker 1: key and on people's bird feeders. There's always people that

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Speaker 1: are feeding deer throughout the season. So UM are the

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Speaker 1: biggest yard of the areas that we see around here

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Speaker 1: tend to be on one of two of those two

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Speaker 1: kinds of areas. What do you look for in bedding

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Speaker 1: with these deer kind of manking that winter migration as

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Speaker 1: they get into some new areas this time of year

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Speaker 1: lot of uh, rocky ridges and outcrops things finding those

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Speaker 1: self facing UM bedding ridges that make good bedding area. UM.

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Speaker 1: Next is Clay Force from Stewart Ranch Outfitters in Oklahoma. Now,

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Speaker 1: Just big cold snaps, big cold fronts. We're expected some

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Speaker 1: With your recent successful rifle hunters, what time of day

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Speaker 1: Do mature bucks not really kind of fall for that trick? No,

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Speaker 1: So about a six to seven. Great intel, Clay, Good

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Speaker 1: Next is t J Unger in Indiana from the Virtue TV. Now,

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Speaker 1: ten Spencer. It's been about one month exactly since we

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Speaker 1: UM gun season closed last weekend, UH, and now we're

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Speaker 1: So for our farms, you know, we run a lot

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Speaker 1: every day, uh, and you're seeing chasing every day during

431
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: late you know, daylight activity hours. So um, it's been

432
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: a long time. So because of that, I've really changed

433
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: it up on how we hunt. So you know, going

434
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 1: into where we're at now we're in December. UM, I'm

435
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: actually still focusing on dough activity. Now. Don't get me wrong,

436
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: the majority of the dose, uh, at least on our farms,

437
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: they're all bred, they've all been bred, but truck cameras

438
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 1: and and you know what we're seeing from the stand.

439
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: We actually we had a really high success rate or

440
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: I had population of fawns this year, and a lot

441
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: of those fonds came on early. UM. So we've got

442
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: big yearling does um big enough. You know, they say

443
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: that threshold about sixty five to seventy five pounds um

444
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: could initiate a late estras cycle. So I'm hopeful that

445
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: some of these yearling does are big enough that that

446
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: they could hit estrius here um during this late season. So,

447
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm still focusing on does um or

448
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: not hunting nearly as hard as what we are. But um,

449
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: those those are still feeding. They're feeding pretty hard right now.

450
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: On grain. We actually still have some fields that are

451
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: holding standing beans um just because of that weather so

452
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: um showing little decent daylight activity for those does. UM.

453
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna keep an eye, uh, you know,

454
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: on on what you know, what bucks starts to show

455
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: up during the day. UM. You know, I made a

456
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: pretty pretty big change up the weekend after Thanksgiving. I

457
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: moved all of my trail cameras to food and and

458
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: greens and that sort of thing, and then two major

459
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: travel routes, whereas before, you know, all of us had

460
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: our trail cameras on scrapes and communication points and you know,

461
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,959
Speaker 1: where we're seeing that hot and heavy rout activity. So

462
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: I've changed it to you know, really more populated locations, UM,

463
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: feeding sources and routes. Um. Honestly, where we're at December,

464
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: I don't even know the day to day December four.

465
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: I think, um, the cameras are really going to kind

466
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: of dictate when and where I'm gonna hunt, following the

467
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: ruts and following those gun seasons in Indiana. Do you

468
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: notice a shift in the bedding by mature bucks? Yeah? Absolutely, so.

469
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: You know these deer where before I was seeing bucks,

470
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: you know bed, I had it pretty pretty tacked down

471
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: um on where they were bed and at least on

472
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: my farm, they've really broken up a ton um. Obviously,

473
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: you know, they sorted out their dominance, but they're in

474
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: the thickest, gnarliest cover, but at the same time, as

475
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: close as they can get to food and water. You know,

476
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: I really do believe that their primary focus right now

477
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: is refueling. Um. It's just like you and I. You know,

478
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: we put in a ton of time during that rout

479
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: all days six. We gotta get our batteries recharts. So UM,

480
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,719
Speaker 1: you know, I do expect to see a little bit

481
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: of late season activity, um, but nothing like you know,

482
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: nothing like what what November should have brought. Um. But

483
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: I think because of that trick, all right, it should

484
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: drag out a little bit into December going forward. Then

485
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: in the six week or so, what do you think

486
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: that buck activity is going to be on a scale

487
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: of one to ten in Indiana? Yeah, So, you know,

488
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: I love it when we're in October going into November

489
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: because we can talk about changes on a daily or

490
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 1: even hourly basis. You know, things can change any minute. Um. Unfortunately,

491
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: where we are in the season, I probably a three

492
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: or four out of ten. But as soon as we

493
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: get more favorable winter conditions, that should create a little

494
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: bit more urgency in their seating. I'd actually, I think

495
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: I can go out on limits and say I expect

496
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: to see an update uptick of maybe five to six, um,

497
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, out of ten. And when that happens, I'll

498
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: probably focused on afternoon hunts. Um over green. So we

499
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: put a lot of time into our food plots late

500
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: summer for this time right now. So, um, once we

501
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: get some snow on the ground, I expect you to

502
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: really funnel into those greens. But um, with you know,

503
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: with still a heavy drop of beans and corns still

504
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: laying out there. They're gonna hit that until it gets

505
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: a little more drastic, you know, a little more drastic

506
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: so um, you know, heavy weather, I think we could

507
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: see a pretty significant uptick. But until then, I'm probably

508
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: gonna do what the bucks do and like I said,

509
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: recover from those all day russis and and uh at

510
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: least for now, rely pretty heavily on the cell cameras

511
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: to give us the information that we need to make

512
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: a new plan. Alright, t J, well, good luck during

513
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: your late season hunts. Thanks for joining me. I really

514
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Spencer, have a good one, all right, and

515
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: joining me on the line. Next is Lee Ellis from

516
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: Seek One Productions in Georgia. Now, Lee in Georgia, what

517
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: would you say the buck activity has been lately on

518
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten? Uh, this last week

519
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: has probably been an eight. Usually our prime week or

520
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, second third week in November, and for some

521
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: reason this year, I don't know if it was weather

522
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: or what, but I did not see chasing, wasn't seeing

523
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: much activity from the mature box on cameras, um, and

524
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: it was just it was just off and the last week, Um,

525
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: I've seen more bucks chasing, more those coming in the heat,

526
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: uh than I have all of November. And actually last

527
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: night I had about a pointer. I got two pictures

528
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: of them actually mounting and breeding a dog and turning

529
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: the camera last night. That's where I'm going to sit

530
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: this evening. What phase of the row would you say

531
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 1: that we're currently in, and what phase of the row

532
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: would you say you're normally in this time of year.

533
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: Normally it slows down big time this time of year.

534
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: But I think that um, like I said, I don't

535
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: know if it was weather, but I think a lot

536
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: of those just didn't really come into heat very strong

537
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: or just weren't weren't didn't get bread um. And normally

538
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: it's slow this time of year. It's really post rut.

539
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right now, this is the time

540
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: to be entry. Uh. Like I said, I'm seeing way

541
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: more hard like hard chasing. I had an encounter with

542
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: a year last week dog and two does and I

543
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: having at forty yards, but I couldn't get a shot

544
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: on them. Um. This last the last five days, I

545
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: had seen all I've had encounters with all of my

546
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: mature bucks. Uh, that I'm after. Is your rut in

547
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: Atlanta normally difference than the rest of the state or

548
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: do things typically time out the same. I think most

549
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: of the state is typically the same. Uh. Second third

550
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: week is kind of you know, around Thanksgivings, really kind

551
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: of the heat of the rut um. But I've talked

552
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: to a lot of people and that's a lot of

553
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: people are saying the same thing. It's just been an

554
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: off year and they're starting to see that second I

555
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: think we're having a I think we had a soft

556
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: first rut. I think we're having a really hard second

557
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: rut with those coming back in the heat. It didn't

558
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: get bread and things like that. Also, the weather is

559
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: just getting trime this week. It's gonna be like in

560
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: the twenties in the mornings and so it's it's gonna

561
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: force the dear get up and feed. And I think

562
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna have dose coming the heat. I think that

563
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: they're also going to be thinking about food again. Um.

564
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: So I've been trying to stick to my thicker areas

565
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: getting around, you know, private bushes and things like that.

566
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: We're losing a lot of cover in our trees too,

567
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: and it's just there's a more open field, and I

568
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: think that those doer like to really kind of hug

569
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: tighter to that thicker cover. You've got the food with

570
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: the privet, and you've got a combo of kind of

571
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: later season than going to food, but also the second

572
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: right kicking, and I think that's that's at least where

573
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm focusing my efforts. You were touching on food there.

574
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: What are some of those food sources that you focus

575
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: on in Georgia really when it comes to late season.

576
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: One of the primary obviously there's still you know, still

577
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: some acorns around, but really the primary food source I

578
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: see is printed. We've got a lot of printed bushes,

579
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: uh kind of in low lying creek areas and things

580
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: like that. And then they've pile start to pile the

581
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: private bushes this time of year. With it being an

582
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: unusual rut this year, have you seen some weird signmaking

583
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: as well, or is that something that's still relevant for

584
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: you in December? Oh? Yeah, I mean all the bucks

585
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: I've seen have been chasing hard. I've had you know,

586
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: younger bucks come in and our blast and scrapes and stuff,

587
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: and usually that kind of cools off this time of year.

588
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: But I just think this this cold snap late rut.

589
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think that they're you know, a

590
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks behind this year. I was gonna say, so,

591
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen a lot of activity, beer making,

592
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: rubs and scrapes, a lot of you know, grunting and chasing.

593
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: You've touched on weather patterns a few times. But are

594
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: there any moon faces that get you excited in early December?

595
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: I really like the new moon. Um, and that's kind

596
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: of where you're around the new moon, but i'd really

597
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: like a new moon. I just think that full moons

598
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: I believe anyways that they just roam around all night

599
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: and usually I'll see moment really late in the mornings

600
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: and midday during full moons. But new moons, I think

601
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: that it's like as soon as they like cracks, they're

602
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: up a moment, they're ready to go. Um. I don't

603
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: think the heat around as much, and especially when you

604
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: have these brutally cold nights, which which we're about to have.

605
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes I laugh at the night and then first cracking on,

606
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: they're up, moving and feed, looking to feed or yea

607
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 1: if it doesn't heat, coming to check her. Going forward.

608
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: Then in a six week or so, what do you

609
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: think that bucket activity is going to be on a

610
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in Georgia. I think it's

611
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna get better this week. Like I said, I saw

612
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: that about that brock breeding a dough. It was in

613
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: heat last night. It's gonna be brutally cold this week.

614
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: If it was an eight last week, last week was

615
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: really good, I think it's gonna be better this week.

616
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna at the nine. All right, Lee, Well,

617
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing what giant white tail you

618
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: kill next. Good luck and next for joining me. Cool. Thanks,

619
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: and that concludes this week's episode of Wired Hunt's Brought Radio.

620
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: Good luck to all the late season hunters out there.

621
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: Stay warm when you're in the field. You can tell.

622
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: I obviously didn't because I've had a nasty cold for

623
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: this entire episode, So my apologies for you guys having

624
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: to listen to that. So thank you guys for listening.

625
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: Thanks to our guests Mike, T J. Clay, and Lee,

626
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: and until next week, stay weird, Haunt