Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone.
Speaker 1: Last week we talked about October phase mule deer. This
Speaker 1: week we're gonna be jumping forward and covering rut phase mulis.
Speaker 1: There's a few states out there that offer tags that
Speaker 1: go into the rut, and we're gonna be covering good
Speaker 1: tactics by exploring what deer doing and how to suss
Speaker 1: out big mature bucks at this most vulnerable time of
Speaker 1: the year by looking first at rut behavior, then focusing
Speaker 1: in on the places to concentrate your efforts and the
Speaker 1: tactics to employ. Before we do that, I want to
Speaker 1: share the story of the One Eyed Jack, one of
Speaker 1: my best rut raged yal deer. Right now, I'm actually
Speaker 1: in my cabin and I'm looking up on the wall
Speaker 1: here and I'm looking at one of my probably one
Speaker 1: of my best bucks that I've taken during the rut um.
Speaker 1: This happened to be a season where I could hunt
Speaker 1: through the archery season, So starting in September hunt archery,
Speaker 1: and then it went all the way through pretty much
Speaker 1: the end of November. This particular year, I was wanting
Speaker 1: to find the best dear that I could. I had
Speaker 1: scouted really hard during the summer. I mean I put
Speaker 1: all my time into chasing big meal dere from essentially,
Speaker 1: I think I started probably scouting in June or July
Speaker 1: and found some really really big bucks, and a couple
Speaker 1: had a couple of target bucks that I was looking for,
Speaker 1: and my dad had a meal deer tag, a friend
Speaker 1: of mine had a deer tag, and we were just
Speaker 1: kind of like dedicating this season to finding a big
Speaker 1: meal deer. So I hunted all of archery season. I
Speaker 1: mean I put some stocks on some great deer, um
Speaker 1: got in within range and just passed because it wasn't
Speaker 1: the caliber of buck that I was looking for. I
Speaker 1: really wanted to take a buck that was over eight inches,
Speaker 1: and up until that point that would have been my
Speaker 1: my biggest year. So I mean I I snuck in
Speaker 1: with a bow within thirty yards of some mid one
Speaker 1: seventy bucks. I mean I passed up. Probably I don't
Speaker 1: even know a hundred and fifty what I would consider
Speaker 1: like good solid one seventy type were once not on seventy,
Speaker 1: but like one to one seventy type bucks. And so
Speaker 1: the season continued on. UM I was also guiding during
Speaker 1: this time, so I was like, I hunted a lot
Speaker 1: of the archery season for myself. I did a lot
Speaker 1: of pre scouting and other things, and then I had
Speaker 1: a few weeks during the rifle season to hunt. I
Speaker 1: was during general rifle season, so I UM I was
Speaker 1: still bow hunting the first part of the season, but
Speaker 1: as it winded down. It was during that last week
Speaker 1: of this season, I think we had three or four
Speaker 1: days left to hunt, and I thought that myself, Man,
Speaker 1: I put in so much time. I've been super diligent.
Speaker 1: Um I just hadn't found the book that I was
Speaker 1: looking for, and there's only a couple of days left.
Speaker 1: I'd seen some really nice dear but just nothing that
Speaker 1: really was like that that buck. So as the rut
Speaker 1: was going through, we were I had a few different
Speaker 1: pockets that I kind of kept going back to areas
Speaker 1: where I saw a lot of really good rut behavior
Speaker 1: bucks kind of really corralling the does and then a
Speaker 1: lot of pockets of dos, and I just kind of
Speaker 1: keep cruising going through these these different pockets. Well, this
Speaker 1: one particular pocket I probably checked daily, maybe multiple times
Speaker 1: a day. Big open basin had some trees and timber
Speaker 1: in it, but um, it's kind of one of those
Speaker 1: more dry south facing slopes, big kind of rock rims
Speaker 1: at the top, and it held held a lot of deer.
Speaker 1: So I'd seen a lot of the deer that i'd
Speaker 1: probably even some of the many of them that I
Speaker 1: had already passed on, and I was looking for one
Speaker 1: particular buck, but it just couldn't turn them up. So
Speaker 1: I'm standing there. My dad was with me, and this
Speaker 1: particular day, I was like I carried the bow pretty
Speaker 1: much every day, and I thought, I'll just I'll just
Speaker 1: bring the rifle because it's a pretty open country here.
Speaker 1: I thought, man, if I see the deer that I'm
Speaker 1: looking for, you know, it doesn't matter rifle or bow.
Speaker 1: It's like that point in the in the season. So
Speaker 1: I actually had my rifle with me. Is like the
Speaker 1: first day I took the rifle and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is area is just so open and there's i mean,
Speaker 1: probably on average forty does in this canyon. So I
Speaker 1: thought it's gonna be tough to sneak in on one
Speaker 1: either way, and with limited time. Cool, So I've got
Speaker 1: my rifle with me. So we're sitting up there glassing
Speaker 1: and see some bucks, you know, nothing real crazy. There's
Speaker 1: like a kind of like a couple of deer doing
Speaker 1: the stomp rounds. So it's like big redded up meal.
Speaker 1: Their necks are just swollen. You know. These are probably
Speaker 1: some some nice decent looking bucks, like three by threes
Speaker 1: or whatever, but decent looking bucks. And they're they're pushing
Speaker 1: the doughs around, they're stomping around doing their thing. They're
Speaker 1: kind of do this like stiff neck walk stomp grunting,
Speaker 1: and the way that I can actually hear some like
Speaker 1: a couple of grunts down below us. You can't see him,
Speaker 1: Like okay, and then I start hearing just like some
Speaker 1: major rattling two bucks fighting. I'm like, okay, but this
Speaker 1: blow is right below where we're glassing from. I can't
Speaker 1: see him. So I start working down and sure enough,
Speaker 1: down below me's like the way the hills slope, there's
Speaker 1: these these two. This one buck runs out and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a nice buck, like mid one sixties type buck,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, And then I see the
Speaker 1: like the forks of this other deer, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's a big deer. But i can't see. All I
Speaker 1: can see is like his top back for so I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that that's a that's a good buck um. And I
Speaker 1: see that he's got a couple of extras on him,
Speaker 1: like inline, so he's essentially like four by main, four
Speaker 1: by four, and then he's got like these inline extra
Speaker 1: fifths and he's got eye guards too, So I us,
Speaker 1: if you're a white tail hunter, would that be six
Speaker 1: per side? Times to doing math, that would be twelve.
Speaker 1: It's a Texas twelve pointer. I would call it a
Speaker 1: five by five and uh, some people would call it
Speaker 1: a six by six. So nice, just a solid buck um,
Speaker 1: definitely over that one eight benchmark. Uh. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's this buck. So I'm being super cautious. I'm like, all,
Speaker 1: I don't want to blow him out, and I can't. Really.
Speaker 1: It's like he's actually pretty close the way the hills sloped,
Speaker 1: and I just hear him grunting, grunting, grunting, and I
Speaker 1: don't have a call or anything with me, but I
Speaker 1: give him a couple grunts like and and then I
Speaker 1: just see like antler tips start coming my way and
Speaker 1: he's working up the hill and he's just on a
Speaker 1: cruising mission. So he goes and and now he's just
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty sure he won that fight, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why, Like he's just he's just rut raged.
Speaker 1: I mean he is full on beast mode, just stocky
Speaker 1: in the front moving and he's moving. Now, he's moving
Speaker 1: pretty good, and he's he's not running, but he's just
Speaker 1: like cruising and I don't have a shot. The way
Speaker 1: the hill is, he's like working up past me at
Speaker 1: this point, and he's going up over the ridge. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh crap. So I I throw up my
Speaker 1: binos and now he's going he's like past me. Because
Speaker 1: I couldn't actually see him so that the hills steep,
Speaker 1: he like worked right below me. I could just see
Speaker 1: the top of his rack. He never stopped. I kind
Speaker 1: of went down and then I look up and he's
Speaker 1: already up and going over cresting over the ridge. I
Speaker 1: throw my binoculars up and I noticed something weird on
Speaker 1: his left side. I was like, guy, his face just
Speaker 1: looks like I was like, man Like, it looked like
Speaker 1: I could see blood, and I'm like, okay, well, he's
Speaker 1: just got in a fight. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: fresh or what. So that buck went over the ridge
Speaker 1: like a ways above me, and I'm like, gotta make
Speaker 1: a move because I mean, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: cruising to the next set of doze, what the heck
Speaker 1: he's doing. Maybe there was some doze he was fighting
Speaker 1: about on the other side or pocket, maybe that's where
Speaker 1: he was. And I don't know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: I gotta move. So I run up over the hill,
Speaker 1: get to the top, and I don't see him. It's
Speaker 1: the same deal. It's like I get to the top
Speaker 1: and then it's just super steep and I can't really
Speaker 1: see below that pocket. So I start working down. Now
Speaker 1: it's kind of like this is more of like a
Speaker 1: burned a little bit of cover in here. And I
Speaker 1: go and I I'm moving down and I hear it grunt.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be him, you know. I'm like, okay, So
Speaker 1: I start I started working towards that grunt, and I
Speaker 1: see antler tips and he's just like he's cruising, he's grunting,
Speaker 1: he's moving. I throw out my binoculars and all I
Speaker 1: can see is like his neck and his head, and
Speaker 1: I look and I see that he only like he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a left eye, like it had been gored
Speaker 1: out while fighting, so that I'm like, oh, that's probably
Speaker 1: what happened. He's the bigger deer, but must have just
Speaker 1: lost his eye. And he's like, what's going on. He
Speaker 1: sees out of his right side his left eye is gone,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is my time. So I start,
Speaker 1: I start moving in. I mean, he's like, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: nothing like stalking a blind deer, you know. So I'm
Speaker 1: moving down and he's definitely alerting. I'm trying to hustle
Speaker 1: because he's like cruising, So I parallel him on the
Speaker 1: ridge dropped down and I'm like, I can't get a
Speaker 1: good shot. I just gotta keep stalking in. So he stops.
Speaker 1: I grunt and I can tell like I'm on his
Speaker 1: blind side. Now. I'm just using this to my advantage.
Speaker 1: Although he's a d percent alert, He's got his other eye,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got his nose, he's got his ears,
Speaker 1: so I start moving down, keep creeping down. He's so
Speaker 1: rut rage, like every little stick snap you can just
Speaker 1: see he's pretty much blown steam out of his nose.
Speaker 1: And I get to a point where I finally get
Speaker 1: like he's slowed down enough and stopped, and now I
Speaker 1: can get into position. Of course, the day that I
Speaker 1: take my rifle this deer, I'm stalking a one idea
Speaker 1: called one eyed jack and I'm like it probably thirty
Speaker 1: yards broadside, pull up, the rifle off and boom, shoot,
Speaker 1: buck goes down. And I was still pretty stoked, because,
Speaker 1: of course, my first thought was like, damn it, the
Speaker 1: one day you don't take your bow and you're within
Speaker 1: bow range of the kind of buck you're looking for
Speaker 1: after pretty much ninety days of chasing deer. But on
Speaker 1: the flip side, I was pretty excited to take my
Speaker 1: biggest buck today to that point. Um, whether with a
Speaker 1: rifle wail or with a bow whatever, but just a
Speaker 1: a rut raged warrior for sure, And it was a
Speaker 1: pretty cool deer, one that I still look at and
Speaker 1: have the memory of that hunt. When we're talking about
Speaker 1: rut tactics, when it comes to meal deer, we first
Speaker 1: kind of need to understand what the bucks are doing.
Speaker 1: The rut is really probably the best time, one of
Speaker 1: the best times, I would say to target mature mule
Speaker 1: deer because they're out searching for does, and there's a
Speaker 1: couple of types of mule deer. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: just put a blanket statement of our mule deer and
Speaker 1: then assume that the behavior is the same between all
Speaker 1: mule deer, because there's some mule deer that are fairly localized,
Speaker 1: like their homebody mule deer. They might be in one
Speaker 1: canyon and they'll rut in that same canyon and they're
Speaker 1: going to do all their things in that canyon. They're
Speaker 1: just like very local to that particular area. And then
Speaker 1: there's other ones that are mule deer. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: more migratory area, maybe it's got a big mountain. It's
Speaker 1: like it's got mule deer that are just on a
Speaker 1: cruise mission. And either way, whether they're local or whether
Speaker 1: they're moving along ways into this area to rut, the
Speaker 1: goal of those boxes the same. It's to breed. Bucks
Speaker 1: are trying to find doughs that are going into heat.
Speaker 1: They're they're looking for those estrus doughs that they can breed.
Speaker 1: That's their whole focus that time of year. Now, of
Speaker 1: course there's all that other behavior that coincides with them
Speaker 1: trying to breed, because the bucks are are essentially fighting
Speaker 1: for that right to breed those does. One thing I
Speaker 1: like to think about when it comes to hunting the rut,
Speaker 1: and one thing that's very cool is big bucks can
Speaker 1: literally turn up anywhere. But when I concentrate on finding
Speaker 1: mature meal there when I'm looking for the best bucks
Speaker 1: um that I can, whether it's a general area that
Speaker 1: happens to be during the rut, whether it's a limited
Speaker 1: tag area, there's gonna be certain areas that are more
Speaker 1: productive than others, and those productive areas this time of
Speaker 1: year are where the does are. I always have the
Speaker 1: same to my brother would always say, find the does,
Speaker 1: find the bucks. It's one of the things like when
Speaker 1: other times a year, if you're looking, maybe you'll see does.
Speaker 1: Even during that October phase. See does, it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: mean that the bucks are there. Once you've hit that
Speaker 1: rut phase, probably at the beginning of November, even when
Speaker 1: they're starting to cruise through the end of November. Once
Speaker 1: you find the dose the bucks will be nearby or
Speaker 1: at some point will be there. So we're gonna focus
Speaker 1: our tactics on those pockets of doughs and then kind
Speaker 1: of how to exploit those dough pockets and the tactics
Speaker 1: that you want to use during the rut to kind
Speaker 1: of make the time that you've got more productive. When
Speaker 1: you're focusing in on buck behavior during the rut and
Speaker 1: you're looking at does you've got to think of them,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like two different species because what's happening
Speaker 1: is the bucks during this time of year are the cruisers.
Speaker 1: They are moving from pocketed dough to pocketed dough. What
Speaker 1: they're doing is they're looking for uh, well, they're looking
Speaker 1: for a lot of things. Some of the younger bucks
Speaker 1: are probably looking for a dough that they can sneak
Speaker 1: away and nobody else has got. The bigger bucks are
Speaker 1: looking for those doughs that are ready to breathe that
Speaker 1: they can kind of take control of that group. But
Speaker 1: they might even they might be there for an hour,
Speaker 1: they might be there for twenty minutes, especially early in
Speaker 1: the rut in that moving phase, mature bucks are doing
Speaker 1: a lot of cruising. They're kind of looking for groups
Speaker 1: of doughes that are clustered up that are kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: more in one spot. It's like, if I take control
Speaker 1: of this zone, I've got thirty doughs to breed as
Speaker 1: opposed to one dough off in the timber somewhere. So
Speaker 1: the mature bucks, as the rep progresses, are looking for
Speaker 1: those those good concentrations does. The bucks are the cruisers,
Speaker 1: but the does are more constant, you might find. So
Speaker 1: what I like to do is I like to look
Speaker 1: for what I call dough pockets. Uh It's it's a
Speaker 1: certain area that just has what does like the does.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they want to breed, they want to procreate,
Speaker 1: but it's not the same intensity. I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: as those bucks go through, the does start clustering up
Speaker 1: and they're just doing their thing, and then the bucks
Speaker 1: come in and kind of disturb that. Their thing is eating, feeding, surviving.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes they're gonna be clustered up and they'll be in
Speaker 1: these areas where they've got that food source, the things
Speaker 1: that they like, they've got that water, they've got that cover,
Speaker 1: they're they're safe, but they're in these kind of like
Speaker 1: ICLM pockets because it's an isolated uh area of habitat
Speaker 1: where it's got everything they need in a very small area.
Speaker 1: Because they're they're the constant. They know that the more
Speaker 1: they group up their sense gonna be around, it's gonna
Speaker 1: attract more bucks. It's just lends to that breeding cycle.
Speaker 1: So the does are kind of going to pick these
Speaker 1: micro habitats where they've got a little bit of everything
Speaker 1: they need. Yeah, they'll travel a little bit of distance,
Speaker 1: but not like the bucks will. I've seen I've seen
Speaker 1: a buck that like one day during early rut phase
Speaker 1: on one area of the mountain and seen that same
Speaker 1: buck about ten miles away later that day. Just like
Speaker 1: that deer never stopped moving, And what he's doing is
Speaker 1: he's he's cruising all these little micro habitats, all these
Speaker 1: little pockets, looking for those pockets of does. So what
Speaker 1: I like to do during the rut phase is find
Speaker 1: the pockets of does. That's gonna be kind of like
Speaker 1: my live bait. Those are going to be the places
Speaker 1: that I focus and concentrate my efforts on. And knowing
Speaker 1: that bucks are covering country and they can kind of
Speaker 1: show up in these areas at at anytime, So what
Speaker 1: I like to do is I kind of do the
Speaker 1: same thing that a buck would do. I like to
Speaker 1: tailor my hunt thinking of like if I were a buck,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? And that involves covering country and
Speaker 1: checking multiple pockets repeatedly. Uh, there is there is an
Speaker 1: idea of thinking like, Okay, I could just sit on
Speaker 1: this one pocket and anything could show up at any time.
Speaker 1: That is true. But what I like to do is
Speaker 1: I like to figure out where these pockets of dough
Speaker 1: is gonna be and then kind of covering a lot
Speaker 1: of country in between that, checking different pockets, seeing kind
Speaker 1: of the rut activity, and deciding okay, this is one
Speaker 1: where it's it's it's going to be create a really
Speaker 1: good rut magnet. I'll talk about that a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but um, figuring out kind of like checking the temperament
Speaker 1: of each of these pockets. So when you're thinking about
Speaker 1: dough pockets, I like to find there's like different productivity
Speaker 1: levels of pockets of doughs. You might be in an
Speaker 1: area and you go, God, there's a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: does in here. What I like to do is I
Speaker 1: kind of like to to factor in, Okay, how productive
Speaker 1: are these doughs gonna be coming into cycle soon. And
Speaker 1: if I find a pocket that's like a lot of
Speaker 1: does and fawns, I know that yes, deer will like cruising,
Speaker 1: deer will go check them out, but it's not really
Speaker 1: they aren't especially early in the rut, it's not really
Speaker 1: going to hold the bucks. Um. There is that occasion
Speaker 1: like yeah, some some does with fawns can be bread,
Speaker 1: it's generally later. Um, sometimes you'll see a big buck
Speaker 1: chasing a fawn around whatever. But it's the pockets of
Speaker 1: doughs that don't have a lot of fawns that are
Speaker 1: going to be more productive. Those are the ones that
Speaker 1: you're gonna get these like rut magnets where it's it's
Speaker 1: one buck kind of gets on that group, another buck
Speaker 1: comes in, they start fighting. They're creating more noise, spreading
Speaker 1: more scent, circling around each other, which is drawing in
Speaker 1: more bucks, which is creating this magnet. The larger it
Speaker 1: gets in, the more it draws in. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're looking for, those high productive pockets where the bucks
Speaker 1: are really active and it's kind of drawing in the
Speaker 1: deer from other areas where it's pulling bucks away from
Speaker 1: those less productive pockets. Um, And what's gonna end up
Speaker 1: happening is the mature bucks are going to be in
Speaker 1: those highest productive areas. They're gonna be the ones kind
Speaker 1: of fighting for those really good doughs, those those high
Speaker 1: likelihood of breeding doughs, Whereas you're gonna find probably your
Speaker 1: more immature bucks in those kind of nursery pockets with
Speaker 1: a lot Maybe there might be a lot of doughs,
Speaker 1: but um, you know they're gonna be trying to sneak
Speaker 1: away does that probably won't be receptive to breeding. Uh. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're just looking to shoot any deer, once you
Speaker 1: find those pockets, like sweet, you're in the money. You
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be probably an ample amount of fork
Speaker 1: at horns and little three points cruising around. But if
Speaker 1: you're focusing on big mature deer or um, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to take better bucks, like better age class bucks,
Speaker 1: then you want to focus on those higher productivity pockets.
Speaker 1: Once I've got an area where I think, okay, here's
Speaker 1: where the doughs like, here's some good areas, then I
Speaker 1: then I spend my time. I do two different tactics.
Speaker 1: One is kind of cruising and covering country, especially cover
Speaker 1: more country. It seems like I cover more pockets the
Speaker 1: later in the rut, so earlier in the rut when
Speaker 1: I've got good glassing vantages. So like let's say, beginning
Speaker 1: of November whatever, I'm generally looking for good vantages where
Speaker 1: I can cover a lot of country with my eyes.
Speaker 1: The reason for that is early in the rut, during
Speaker 1: that cruising phase, the mature deer are gonna be checking
Speaker 1: a lot of pockets and not really focusing in and
Speaker 1: holding down on a certain particular area. As the rut progresses,
Speaker 1: as it gets actually closer to breeding time. So like
Speaker 1: what the bucks are doing earlier, they're cruising, they're figuring
Speaker 1: things out there, like where are the does at? What's
Speaker 1: you know? Maybe there's gonna be a hot dough here,
Speaker 1: and I'll spend a little bit of time. But they're
Speaker 1: just they're cruising, they're checking, they're moving, they're going. So
Speaker 1: what I like to do is cover a lot of
Speaker 1: country the whole The whole key with rutt meal that
Speaker 1: you're hunting is covering a lot of country. Just how
Speaker 1: you do it might change a little bit. So the
Speaker 1: early stages, I'm doing a lot of glassing. I'm covering
Speaker 1: country where I can see a long ways, because at
Speaker 1: any point in the day, I know that a big
Speaker 1: deer could walk through. Some of the best year I
Speaker 1: found early season like that or early rhut like that
Speaker 1: is from sitting in one van it's covering five or
Speaker 1: six miles and going, oh, there's one cruising across that opening. Now,
Speaker 1: sometimes by the time you get there, they aren't there.
Speaker 1: But if you'll watch and I'll say, oh, there's a
Speaker 1: pocket of dose here, Okay, he's going he's checking them out.
Speaker 1: Gives me a little bit of time to try to
Speaker 1: get over there and figure out where the deer at
Speaker 1: or get into a nice area where I've got a
Speaker 1: good advantage and hey, uh there's some good does maybe
Speaker 1: a good pocket here that bucks are going to be
Speaker 1: continually checking and I can kind of cover multiple places
Speaker 1: with my eyes, with my optics, with my spotting scope
Speaker 1: and binoculars and then just keep checking in on those spots. Now,
Speaker 1: as the rep progresses, I actually like to kind of
Speaker 1: figure out like I actually do more moving then because
Speaker 1: I've got pockets of does that go like, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: this this pocket is going to be the one that
Speaker 1: creates that that deer magnet today, it's the one where
Speaker 1: there's a doze gonna come into heat. Bucks are gonna
Speaker 1: be fighting for this one dough that sounds going to
Speaker 1: kind of be a natural call and a magnet to
Speaker 1: other deer. So I just start going and checking different
Speaker 1: pockets of dose. I might move in if I can,
Speaker 1: if I can glass it, and it's that kind of country.
Speaker 1: If it's the kind of country where it's more broken
Speaker 1: like breaks type country, if it's more um, you know,
Speaker 1: like different canyons and goalies type country, then I use
Speaker 1: my feet or whatever however I need to cover more
Speaker 1: country and find those little pockets. I'll then go in
Speaker 1: and I'll set up and I'll watch and say, okay,
Speaker 1: like you know, is this an area that's gonna be
Speaker 1: holding dear And you might even find those pockets that
Speaker 1: are really active in the morning, and then just kind
Speaker 1: of keep watching them because there might be bucks that were,
Speaker 1: you know, running hard early and before daylight hours bedded off,
Speaker 1: and then they're going to move in and try to
Speaker 1: steal some dough during the day. So I'll then kind
Speaker 1: of focus in on those doughs and then see what
Speaker 1: gets drawn into that, and then I'll keep checking different
Speaker 1: pockets where I know or have seen doughs in the past.
Speaker 1: One thing to think about is when you find a
Speaker 1: pocket that's like pretty productive, has a lot of doughs,
Speaker 1: what I'll do is like I'll pull out my maps
Speaker 1: and I'll just try to find other areas that have
Speaker 1: that similar type habitat. Whether it's you know, depends on
Speaker 1: where you're at what you're doing, but where you're finding does,
Speaker 1: like kind of pay attention to that habitat, pay attention
Speaker 1: to the hill orientation, that the type of terrain it is,
Speaker 1: and then find other places like that, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing a pattern where it's like, hey, now I'm
Speaker 1: finding more pockets of does, and it gives me more
Speaker 1: places the check to try to find the place that's
Speaker 1: going to draw in those mature bocks. I appreciate everybody
Speaker 1: that's been sending me messages. Man, some really good October
Speaker 1: season bucks have been coming in Mule Dere. I've been
Speaker 1: getting some awesome pictures from people using a couple of
Speaker 1: the tactics from last week already. It's like, hey, caught
Speaker 1: that before I went out this weekend. Look what I got.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, heck, yeah, man. Uh. You know, if
Speaker 1: you've got a rut mule, der tag or whatever and
Speaker 1: you find some success, make sure to keep me posted.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it so many awesome messages coming in. Don't
Speaker 1: forget to send in your questions because we're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing a Q and A here pretty quick. Next week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into a little bit of fun gear stuff.
Speaker 1: I've got some like just I just kind of thinking
Speaker 1: about some of the fun things that I say when
Speaker 1: I'm out hunting. Um, I'm gonna get a little bit
Speaker 1: of a teaser one of my gear mantras protect the
Speaker 1: puffy at all costs, you guys will understand. Next week, Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to talk about a little bit of
Speaker 1: some of the gear stuff, just some of the fun
Speaker 1: stuff that I've got tried this year, some of the
Speaker 1: other stuff. So I got a little bit of gear
Speaker 1: stuff coming up next week, and then of course some
Speaker 1: Q and A s and make sure to share your
Speaker 1: success with me. Hopefully some of these these ideas kind
Speaker 1: of help, you know, maybe maybe things you already know,
Speaker 1: but it just resonates like, oh, I'm doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: I'm finding those pockets of does and this time of year,
Speaker 1: this is what we're looking for, So I think that
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of good success had this season.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to start doing some serious meal deer hunting.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of late season elk hunting stuff.
Speaker 1: My guide season starts kicks off rifle this weekend, So
Speaker 1: it gets to that time of year for me where
Speaker 1: I'm just like uncent going after elk and then we
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a break in that and
Speaker 1: have some guided meal your hunts and some other stuff.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple muleder tags myself, which man, I
Speaker 1: feel like, if you're gonna pick two species out west,
Speaker 1: it's like mule deer and elk are the kings of
Speaker 1: the country. Of course you've got the sheep tags and
Speaker 1: the other stuff sprinkled in here there, but it's what
Speaker 1: most people hunt, and it's just, um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's something about mule there. Like if you're ask me
Speaker 1: what what animal antlers just kind of like make you
Speaker 1: the most excited. It's it's a big mulder, absolutely hands down. Now,
Speaker 1: giant elker or rad any elk is rad They're the
Speaker 1: most delicious creature on the planet. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to just hunting hunting deer, I don't know. For me,
Speaker 1: it's just something so cool about mule deer. Actually, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny man. This podcast is where it
Speaker 1: like episode what one sixteen or something like that. It's
Speaker 1: that's nuts. Uh. It just seems like yesterday I was
Speaker 1: talking about rattling in mule Deer and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I was trying to scroll back and like
Speaker 1: find the episode and like what this episode seventeen? Um.
Speaker 1: But today I'm going to release a video. I found
Speaker 1: all the like footage that I was looking for and
Speaker 1: did just kind of like a little throwback video. So, uh,
Speaker 1: becall you can watch me rattle a mule deer off
Speaker 1: of private land to where we could shoot it. That's
Speaker 1: on my YouTube today, remy war on YouTube channel. Go
Speaker 1: check that out. And yeah, excited to keep leaving the
Speaker 1: comments and keep reaching out. I appreciate you all. Until
Speaker 1: next week, Find the does Find the Bucks