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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunts rutt Fresh Radio, bringing you

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Speaker 1: the latest reports from the white Tail Woods and now

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Speaker 1: your hosts, Casey Smith Tyler Jones. This is RUT Fresh

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Speaker 1: Radio powered by Vortex. I'm your host Tyler Jones, and

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Speaker 1: this week we're talking about how changing weather patterns can

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Speaker 1: bring killer success this time of year. We have some

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Speaker 1: phone guys on the phone right now that I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do it in the normal way for some reason.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why. But we've got Mark Kenyon, I've

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Speaker 1: got Casey Smith, and we're all in three different places

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Speaker 1: this week across the US. Mark, where are you at? Actually, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm still at home in Michigan, but leaving here

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Speaker 1: shortly for Ido for my first white tail hunt of

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Speaker 1: the year. So just hectically frantically packing and prepping and

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Speaker 1: trying to make sure I forget as few of things

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Speaker 1: as possible. I know there'll be something, but hopefully not

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Speaker 1: my bow or released at least about grizzly spray man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what my spots that I'm hunting this year.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there should not be grizzlies. If plan A comes together,

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Speaker 1: we will not need bear spray. If I have to

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Speaker 1: fall down the plan C or D, then I'm in

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Speaker 1: you know, all sorts of trouble, and bears will be

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Speaker 1: not the only thing on the list. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you forego like the tree stand snacks when you're in

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Speaker 1: grizzly country. No, I don't forego. I don't forego snacks,

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Speaker 1: but I do forego nose jam because that's like just

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Speaker 1: putting like a bakery at the base of your tree

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Speaker 1: stand and asking for bears to come in. Non. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So does it really smell really good? Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: have you not smell that was jammer? Is it like

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Speaker 1: make you hungry the whole time? I swear it's a goodness.

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Speaker 1: It smells like a vanilla cookie or something. It's like

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Speaker 1: it's just a really delightful cookie cake factory kind of smell,

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Speaker 1: and it is strong, and no doubt about it, it

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Speaker 1: bring a bear in in a hurt. Could you not

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Speaker 1: do that with like a tide pod, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Not eat it, but uh put it in

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Speaker 1: you know, the wash and just make your stuff smell

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Speaker 1: really good and some noses. Yeah, I think that that

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Speaker 1: would be a great idea in certain parts of the country.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not, maybe not some of these spots. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: that's good man. I I'm glad to know you're a

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Speaker 1: very careful guy in grizzly country. Actually have a guy

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Speaker 1: goes to my church that has ah. He lived in

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Speaker 1: Alaska for some time, and I was talking to him

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Speaker 1: yesterday about things and a greater Yellowstone trip and uh

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Speaker 1: we um he he was like kind of a little

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Speaker 1: just get used to him. It's probably better safe than sorry,

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Speaker 1: you know. So he's like, I'm gonna let you borrow

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Speaker 1: a gun next time, though, because nine millimeter is not enough.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know until you've tested it on a

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Speaker 1: grizzly Can you really say that though? Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: It's it's all just hypothetical, hoping and wishing until the

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Speaker 1: that's the real stuff. It's yeah, yeah, for real. So, Ksey,

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Speaker 1: you still in Arizona right now? I'm still in Arizona. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Flag Staff is where we stayed to night if we

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Speaker 1: I very much enjoy getting to hunt ill Can not

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Speaker 1: I can. Mark Casey used to say that black bear

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Speaker 1: You just kick him in the nose and not go on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Some serious tricks that can. Man, it's cool being here though,

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Um, speaking of being out there hunting elk,

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Speaker 1: there's been some elk hunting success within the Wired hunt

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Speaker 1: update Casey and Tony Peterson killed bull last week too.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's been shared on here yet, so

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Speaker 1: these days. Um, but that was pretty sweet. He killed

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Speaker 1: good news Casey, You've got more. Yeah. So I actually

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Speaker 1: it was great. That's that's terrific. Correct, Thanks man. I'll

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Speaker 1: We cast some milkstakes. I like that. I do, hate does,

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Speaker 1: but he does. And last night at like twelve thirty,

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Speaker 1: Arizona's weird time zones, so like we're two hours behind Central.

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Speaker 1: We're like on you know, Pacific time. Right now or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So we uh, we've been very pacific. Yeah, very very pacific.

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Speaker 1: let's give back to some serious talk. Mark, Uh what

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Speaker 1: is me lasting? So? Uh? Mark? The forecast for Idaho

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Speaker 1: like ho hum about it? Yeah? Man, it's it's good. Um.

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Speaker 1: one might think to kill a deer, even though you've

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Speaker 1: got food on the ground that you've put. No, Absolutely,

427
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot there's a lot more to it than

428
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: just you know, dumping food on the ground. It's a

429
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: lot of it is is location, you know, putting those

430
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: in the right spots where you got you know, where

431
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: a mature deer is gonna feel safe coming there in

432
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: the daylight, and you know, just putting it between you know,

433
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty methodical, you know when you come down

434
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 1: and think about it, trying to get it close enough

435
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: to his bed, but far enough you know from the food.

436
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: So so he's got to get up and move and

437
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: you know, show himself in the daylight. It's really no

438
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 1: different than you know, somebody putting in a water hole.

439
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: It's the same draw. I mean, they got water everywhere

440
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: they look out in North Dakota, and you know in

441
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: these in these lose so I mean it's no different

442
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: than somebody in Iowa or Kansas or Ohio or something,

443
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, installing a water hole, and they're probably that's

444
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: essentially what we're doing. We're just putting something to make

445
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: those deer swing past us in wide open country on

446
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: their way to opig food sures. That's right, man. I'm

447
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: not like necessarily a big ted Nugent fan, but I

448
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: heard him say one time. So you're telling me I

449
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: can't take the corn from this field and put it

450
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: over here to kill a deer. That is like legally

451
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 1: within my means and uh, you know bag limits. So

452
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: it is a good point, man. It's like you know

453
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 1: what we were created as a supreme being here and

454
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Speaker 1: uh we we get, uh, we get as long as

455
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Speaker 1: we stay within the bag limits, you know, then that's

456
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: that's what the bag limits are created for, is to

457
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: keep us from over harvesting. So anyway, cool deal. Uh,

458
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,479
Speaker 1: I appreciate you you're admitting that and and not admitting that,

459
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: but talking about it because it's something that doesn't get

460
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: talked about enough. Now you talked about how uh the

461
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: cold fronts bringing in a northwest wind? Is that important too?

462
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: Is that just something to say? Is that explains that

463
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: is the cold front for you? Or are you saying

464
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Speaker 1: that you guys prepare for cold fronts and that you

465
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Speaker 1: try to be in areas where co fronts are therefore

466
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: your stand locations and that kind of thing are picked

467
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: out due to those northwest winds. Yeah. So when we're

468
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: scouting and uh kind of picking out standing locations and

469
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: whatnot and where we're running our cameras, we try to

470
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Speaker 1: uh we try to have you know, pretty much options

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Speaker 1: for every wind direction, um, whether it's north or southeast

472
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Speaker 1: or west. And predominantly when those cold fronts hit the

473
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: first day or two is usually a northwest. UM. So

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Speaker 1: most of our spots um we try to set up

475
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Speaker 1: for a northwest, but on the other side of that

476
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: usually and it was perfect example is opening weekend we had.

477
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Speaker 1: So the season opened on Friday, and we had northwest

478
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: Friday night, Saturday night, and then Sunday night the wind

479
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: switched to the south. And I'm kind of a Mark

480
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: dury nerd and that guy is insane, And I listened

481
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: to a lot of stuff. You know that he puts

482
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Speaker 1: out in the knowledge that he shares is just through

483
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: the roof. If you're not paying attention to him, you're

484
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: missing out. But he says, you know, those northwest winds

485
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: are great, he goes, but the first south wind after

486
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: a few days in north winds is just as good.

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Speaker 1: And on day three of the the season, sure enough, that

488
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: wind switched to south where we had spots that we've

489
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: been sitting on the first two days because we couldn't

490
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Speaker 1: get in them on the northwest. Went in there on

491
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Speaker 1: the south and and kill one of the biggest day

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Speaker 1: that we shot all week up there on that first

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Speaker 1: south wind. And I've noticed that a wind switch after

494
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Speaker 1: you know, a few days of you know, if it's

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Speaker 1: a north wind for three days and then a south

496
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: or if it's a south wind for a whole week

497
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Speaker 1: and then it switches to north like it's it seems

498
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Speaker 1: when that that wind does a three switch, that's when

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00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: those deer off because you know, they just where they're

500
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: betting and where they're feeding, like everything's new to them

501
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: for that day there, you know, trying to figure stuff

502
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: out a little bit earlier what it is. Well, it

503
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: seems like when that win degree switch, it just gets

504
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: those deer on their freeze. Yeah, yeah, man, I agree.

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00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: That's uh, you know, I think it's it's a changing

506
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: condition thing. You know, anytime you can see some sort

507
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: of a changing condition, there's a chance that something changes

508
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: in that that deer's life for in his daily habits.

509
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of like, uh, you know, you

510
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: may working nine to five and you go to work

511
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: every day for six weeks or six months or whatever,

512
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: and then uh, you're like, oh, now it's time for

513
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: me to go to vacation and things are different, and

514
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: like you just have more excitement and you're and you're

515
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: ready to go and you're packing. You're doing different things

516
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: in your life. And I think it's similar to a

517
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: deer where it's like, you know, you get a bunch

518
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: of days of South's and fairly warm weather, and all

519
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the north comes in. More than anything,

520
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: it's just a change, you know what I mean. I mean,

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00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure the cold weather and everything helps too, but

522
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's just something that that makes

523
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: things different in his world. So, um, dude, I appreciate

524
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: you hopping on. Now, as far as the deer movement

525
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: goes in the last week for North Dakota, what do

526
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: you rate that as on scale of one to ten?

527
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: Opening weekend? The first three days I would have rated it,

528
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: I mean, damn near a nine. I mean it was

529
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: it was good. It could have been better, but it was.

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00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: It was damn good. And then after the first three

531
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: days it dropped. It was we we stuck it out.

532
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: We had, you know, the guys that tagged out. We

533
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: had three guys taging out the first three days that

534
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: first weekend of the season. I would damn near rated

535
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: a nine. It was about as much as you could

536
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: ask for for early season. Um. You know, getting that

537
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: cold front and the wind switches were just ideal. So

538
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: that was the nine. And then after that, I would

539
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: it dropped significantly. Um. Most of the guys tagged out

540
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: and headed out for work, but being Aaron continued to hunt.

541
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: But the temperatures climbed back into the eighties and deer,

542
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: the deer movement just dropped back off again, and we

543
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: we grinded for the next four days. I think it

544
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: was four or five days, and then we finally got

545
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: another cold front and Aaron ended up killing on the

546
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: second cold front. Um, so it went from a nine

547
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: down to probably a three or four and right back

548
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: up to you know, in that eighth to nine range

549
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: when another cool front came through. So very weather depending,

550
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: it seems like, um okay, so going forward here, um

551
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: and the next week. I don't know if you've looked

552
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: at weather or anything like that, but assuming that weather

553
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: is very important, how do you rank from a scale

554
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: of one to ten, the deer movement and what you

555
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: assume it will be in the next week. Well, I'm

556
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: kind of I'm sitting on hold right now, kind of

557
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: piste off, to be honest, because Aaron, the guy that

558
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: runs around in films with me all fall um, he

559
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: got some in the jury duty back home in Wisconsin,

560
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: and so we had to come back to Wisconsin last

561
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: night and he was supposed to have jury duty this morning.

562
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: While he found out late last night that the jury

563
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: duty was resolved, the case was closed. So now we're

564
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: stuck and there is another cold front hitting in North

565
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: Dakota tomorrow and we're gonna miss it. Um, but we're

566
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: gonna we got we got some other plans this week.

567
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: We kind of gotta make a big loop um and

568
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: get a bunch of cameras out in a few other

569
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: states to get ready for later in the fall. But

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00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: if you're in North Dakota, uh, tomorrow to yeah, Tuesday

571
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good day. And then it looks

572
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: like another cold front is gonna hit um Friday. UM,

573
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 1: not as big as cold front, but I think it's

574
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. And I know a lot

575
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: of a lot of states are coming into season here.

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00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: I know Kansas um early muzzloader, and I believe archery

577
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: just came in today, and I know Wisconsin opens uh

578
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: this weekend. Uh. It looks like so the weekend back

579
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: in like the Midwest is gonna be on a little

580
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: bit on the warmer side. But I'm noticing in the

581
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: long term forecast around like there's gonna be a really

582
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: good drop coming, So that second week this season might

583
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 1: might be pretty good. You might want to burn a

584
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: day of vacation. It's awesome, dude. Let me tell you this.

585
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: In Texas, it's pretty much always hot this time of year,

586
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: So I mean, anywhere is better than here this time

587
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: of year usually. But to be honest, we did have

588
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: a we had my my kids had dropped off of

589
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: school this morning and they were like, it's freezing outside.

590
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: It was sixty one this morning and they were freezing cold.

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00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: So uh, I guess you could call that a cold front. Man.

592
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: We'll take it, you know, or whatever it. Man, Brennan,

593
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate you hopping on and doing this, man, And

594
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: and you guys had m a killer year so far. Um,

595
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, I hope the best for you going forward.

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00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: What's the what's the best way for somebody to connect?

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00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: Do you see what you got going on? Check out

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Speaker 1: some of those Velvet Deer and early season dear, you've

599
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: been shooting absolutely no we got You can check out

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Speaker 1: our Facebook page it's just at the breaking point, and

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00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: then on Instagram our handle is at the point TV

602
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: and you can find us. Probably the best way to

603
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: find us is on YouTube. Just searched the Breaking Point

604
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Speaker 1: TV and we are dropping our ninth season on YouTube

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00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: right now, and fourteen brand new episodes will be released

606
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: on YouTube throughout the fall. That's all our content from

607
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: last year. And at the same time, we do a

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Speaker 1: semi live series where we dropped a new episode every

609
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Speaker 1: Sunday throughout the entire year. UM opening again. Action from

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Speaker 1: last week actually just dropped last night on the channel,

611
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: so you can see one of the velvet deer we

612
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: killed opening day, UM actually on the on the channel already.

613
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: And then you're actually doing a live series this fall

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00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: where during the rut for six weeks, once a week

615
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna have live units in the field and uh,

616
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: every Saturday, we're gonna do a broadcast where we've got

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00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: three or four live units in the field across the

618
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: Midwest and actually have live streaming hunting action from the tree.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, Well, busy, busy. I appreciate what you

620
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: guys do and how hard you guys work at it. Man,

621
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Speaker 1: you guys put on a great, great show, and uh,

622
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll talk to you again soon this year with

623
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: some more big Buck news downs. Good Man, I appreciate

624
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: you reaching out to me. All right on the phone

625
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: right now, I've got Eric Albas He's from Milk River

626
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: Outfitters up in Montana. Man, you guys have a pretty

627
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: uh I guess you could say famous outfit up There's

628
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: been a lot of TV show hosts and that kind

629
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: of thing that have been in and out over the years,

630
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: and that's kind of how I knew about you guys. Um, Eric,

631
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: how's everything going? First of all, Man, Hey, everything's going great.

632
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Sure, no

633
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: big deal, man, thanks for coming on. Um. I wanted

634
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about white tails. I think

635
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: this is something you guys are uh know a lot about.

636
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: You get to you get to see a lot of

637
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: white tails up there in that country from what I understand,

638
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: and um, I just kind of wanted to see this

639
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: time of year what you guys are focusing on. It

640
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: looks like to me that you're looking at al fal

641
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: fa fields and stuff like that a lot. But is

642
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: there any other is are there any of their pieces

643
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: of the puzzle that you're thinking about this time of

644
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: year when you go out to hunt white tails? Yeah,

645
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: there are a few, you know, we we were very

646
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: fortunate and blessed to live in a place where the

647
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,479
Speaker 1: white tail deer actually moved from. We can watch moving

648
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: from the first of September into November. We see deer

649
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: and watch deer watch bucks every day, and we're one

650
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: of the few places in the country that you can

651
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: actually see buck movement in that mid the late September

652
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: to early October time. We still seabucks moving today that

653
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: edward mainly concentrating on feet patterns. Uh. Alfalfa is great.

654
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 1: If you have to get lucky and have a barley

655
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: field nearby, they're hitting barley green as well, and it

656
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: just it makes it for a fairly easy hunt because

657
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: the deer paturnable and predictable enough. Sometimes the big deer

658
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: are a little more sporadic in their movements. They'll be

659
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: they'll be moving field field at times, just checking things out,

660
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: getting ready for the rut to start, even this early really,

661
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: so they're kind of as soon as the velvet comes

662
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: off there thinking about it. Huh, they're starting to think

663
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: about it. We see someone the bigger deer as soon

664
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: as the velvet comes off, we'll go no nocturnal for

665
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: several days and then they'll show up on a different field,

666
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: maybe a half mile away, and then to send a

667
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: work on a rotation, the two to three day rotations.

668
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: So as far as like in a if you're thinking,

669
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out for an evening to hunt

670
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: white tails and there's been a buck coming in the

671
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: last two nights here, would you expect that that buck

672
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: would show up if he did early in the in

673
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: the in the evening, or typically later. Because for me,

674
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: growing up at least, I always think of the big

675
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: buck coming out at last light or whatever. But is

676
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: that the case with you? With where you're at there,

677
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: here's a little different, you know, you can I try

678
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: to get everybody on stand by two o'clock in the

679
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: afternoon because you just you never know. We've had we've

680
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: had big deer show up here this week, even out

681
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: of the blue. I mean like at three thirty four o'clock,

682
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: come out and feel, eat a little bit, go back

683
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: and then come out again closer to dark and eat

684
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: it more more time. M hmm. Do you ever see

685
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: like just straight up midday movement, uh to come out

686
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: and eat um this time of year. I've seen the

687
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: deer this time year, even just laid down in the

688
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: alpha alpha fields because our deer don't get pressured ray

689
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: and that makes them really difficult willing to go back

690
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: into the brush bay down. Yeah, oh yeah. Patterns are

691
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: are part of what makes it easier. I love going

692
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: in in the evenings normally because for me, especially if

693
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm hunting public or something like that, I I don't see,

694
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, any deer. If I walking in the field,

695
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: I know, I'm pretty good until I get you know,

696
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: set up usually because this dear gonna hang back and

697
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: so I I totally understand what you're saying there. Um, now,

698
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: as far as uh, as far as like your weather

699
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: patterns lately, have you have you guys experienced any drought,

700
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 1: any cooler temps, any hotter temps. What's it been like there?

701
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: We've been We've been in another severe drought up here

702
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: in northeast. Wantta, I'm the groundshoppers, correct, they say. Um,

703
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: the first week of season, we experienced some temperatures in

704
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: the hunters and triple digits. Um. Now it's cooled off

705
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: a little bit for us. Um we're looking at the

706
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: daytime the last days and mid the upper seven these

707
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 1: lower eighties and now Monday we're gonna be nineties again.

708
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: But the guys have still been seeing good deer movement

709
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: and and sporadically seeing those good bucks show up. Mm hmmmm. Okay.

710
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: So as far as have you guys had any any

711
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: success on what til this year so far? Yeah, we've

712
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: we've taken we've taken a couple and we've had a

713
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: couple of misses. And we've had a couple of deer

714
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: that had blood drawn on him that it wasn't fatal.

715
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: So the guys were still hunting. So we still got

716
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: three or four hunters out here for the next couple

717
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: of it, and everything seems to be going well. They're

718
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: seeing enough buck when to keep everybody happy. Sure, sure, Okay,

719
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: So as far as deer movement goes the last week,

720
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: what would you rank it on a scale of one

721
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: to ten, I'd puttered about a six or seven. Okay.

722
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: I've had guys seeing you know, anywhere from six deer

723
00:38:55,080 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: to night. M hm wow, man, that's awesome. So going forward,

724
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: is there a way to beat sixty to a hundred

725
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: deer a night or is it gonna be about the

726
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: same next week it's gonna be It's gonna stay pretty consistent.

727
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: Even through this full moon. They were seeing good numbers

728
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: of a mature box and uh, those bonds. It was

729
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: just the mature box that we're a little more sporadic.

730
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: You know. They'd see one, see one of the good

731
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: ones to night, and then they'd be two nights later

732
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: before they see him again. Hm. Well, awesome man, Eric.

733
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate you a lot coming on the show and

734
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: doing this with us. Um, give me a quick plug.

735
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: Where where's the best place to find out what you

736
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: guys are doing? The best place to track us out

737
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: is www dot Melk River Outfitters dot com. Awesome man, Well,

738
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. All right,

739
00:39:48,520 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: Thank you and have a good day. M Now on

740
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: the phone. Parker McDonald from Southern Ground Hunting. Some of

741
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: you guys are probably pretty familiar with him. He is

742
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: a doe slocking full dude. What's been going on? Man?

743
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: That's right, dude, those are not safe around you. I

744
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: will say that for sure. No man, especially early season,

745
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: well I mean early season, middle season, in late season.

746
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: I could all come up with a good excuse. Yeah, oh,

747
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: but early season. I just like to me, there's like

748
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: not a better practice on a light target. Yeah, dude,

749
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean the only time they're safe is out of season,

750
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: right mostly, Yeah, depending on what what vehicle you're driving

751
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: and how distracted you are, right yeah, I mean I've

752
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: been known to swerve to try to hit them. Dude.

753
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: That's the thing like down here, and uh, you're from

754
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: You're actually from Texas, right, You're from the my hood,

755
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: right yeah? So, um, the like down in the hill country, man,

756
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: there's so many deer and they're little. They're like tiny

757
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: little deer, you know, and uh, everybody down there has

758
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: like a ranch hand, which if people don't know what

759
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: that is, it's like a girl guard, big, you know,

760
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: heavy duty one because like it's not like it's not

761
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: at all like when like if you'll hit a deer.

762
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: It's when you'll hit a deer and they just the

763
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: grand they're like they're the ranch hands. Don't even get

764
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: bent because it's deer so small. You know. It's but

765
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: just reminded me of that you're you're kind of one

766
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: of those boys, you know, Like some of them guys

767
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: down there, i'd say probably high school to college age. Uh,

768
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: they kind of use that ranch hand as an excuse

769
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: to swerve to hit a deer, like you said. So, Uh, dude,

770
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: you've been in Kentucky for like a week straight, right, Yeah, yeah,

771
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: we were here. I'm actually driving home right now, back

772
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: to Alabama. Are you sad? What's that? Are you sad

773
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 1: to be driving home? Oh? Man, I've actually I'm really

774
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: excited to be going home. It was a it was

775
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: a fun week. Uh it was you know, the weather

776
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: was good. Usually I just get my butt beat down

777
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: the whole time. It's hot as mosquitoes and ticks and

778
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: poison ivy and I just my my motto for this

779
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: week was hunt dumb, because it always seems like that's

780
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: the guys who kills buck kill bucks. Yeah, man, and

781
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: see what you're saying about me? Yeah, no, Um, definitely not.

782
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: I've been out here. I've been hunting this early season

783
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: UM opener in Kentucky several years. And I I mean

784
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: I I you know, like a lot of people that

785
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: probably listen to this podcast, and and like you are, Tyler,

786
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: you and Casey. I'm very analytical about how I set

787
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: up and going in by water and doing all this stuff.

788
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: And then you come back to camp and the guys

789
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: who have ducks are the guys that said, yeah, we

790
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: just went in and set over beans next to the

791
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: parking area. I'm telling you, dude, that's the truth. And

792
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: so I thought. My dad came this time and and

793
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: I told him. I was like, we're just gonna hunt dumb.

794
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: We're gonna have fun. We're gonna hunt dumb and just

795
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: enjoy it. And and so that's what we did. I'm

796
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: going home actually feeling kind of like kind of refreshed,

797
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, not up, which is good. That's a good

798
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: way to start to see it. Yeah, for sure, man,

799
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a good actually a pretty interesting

800
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: thought there. It's just if you hunt dumb, in other words,

801
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: you don't think too hard about where you're going and

802
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: just go and hunt and get out in the woods.

803
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: You're kind of doing like you're taking pressure off, right

804
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: because now the way that the hunt goes is not

805
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: doesn't make you feel like, um, that you're a bad

806
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: hunter because you didn't put a whole lot of effort

807
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: into it, and at the same time, like you're you're

808
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: that lack of pressure just allows you to have more fun.

809
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: And of course, I know, especially October, late October comes around,

810
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna be just like we we are

811
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: and all these people that listen is like, will be

812
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: analyzing and trying to figure out exactly where those deer are.

813
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: But in an early season situation with your dad around me,

814
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: and like, that's a that's a great idea, man. So

815
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: with that though, you had a couple of chances at

816
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: bucks right that, Uh, you know, I guess we're dumb

817
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: enough to be in the spot that you were in. Well,

818
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 1: so when I say I hunt dumb, like, I still

819
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: used the water. I bought a boat this year. I'll

820
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: always use the kayak. That'll where you about a boat

821
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: this year? And um, a couple of the hunts, you know,

822
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: for a few of the hunts, I took the boat

823
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: out and went and hunted the same spots I normally

824
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: do that I kind of historically have opportunity in. And

825
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, man, we had some of

826
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: the best weather that I could possibly ask for us

827
00:44:54,760 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: for early September hunt, but the deer just weren't do

828
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: and what they normally do. Um, for whatever reason, I

829
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: don't know, if the bucks were shedding velvet early and

830
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: the kind of get them off of that summer pattern. Um,

831
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: but the opening day is the only uh, the only

832
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: shooter buck opportunities that I had. I had. I saw

833
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: one in the in the morning. First thing, Um, I

834
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: had some squirrel hunters kind of spooking in my direction.

835
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: I just didn't have a shot. And then that evening,

836
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: I think it was the same buck, but I had

837
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: him at Corenty Yards and I was fiddle hearting with

838
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: my camera. I should be hardcorn on opening day, so

839
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of start splitting up and going

840
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: into those their their fall range, um, getting off of

841
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: the beans and out of their bachelor groups and all

842
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: that stuff. And so it was just a tough week, man.

843
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: And it was typically like last year on this particular place,

844
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: this this w m A, there was twelve bucks that

845
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: were killed on opening day and here put out a

846
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: report that there was only one buck that was killed

847
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 1: from Saturday through through Monday. Wow, one buck in three

848
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: days with a ton of people there, and so you know,

849
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: that was pretty clear to me that the deer were

850
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 1: just not doing what they normally do. And I don't

851
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: know if it was because it was unseasonably cool, Um,

852
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: it could have been something with the moon phase. You know,

853
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: I don't put a whole lot of stuff that most

854
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: of the time. But I mean my mind could be

855
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: changed after what Sure, Yeah, that's part man, that's part

856
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: of being a good deer hunter. Two. You're right, there

857
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: is that. But your mind can be changed. I think

858
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: you know to to to be able to go. These

859
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: are the things I believe in when it comes to

860
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: deer hunting. But but if you, you know, plead your

861
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: case and it's plausible and it's logical, like, then I'm

862
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: willing to listen to it and potentially try it and

863
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: if it works for me, then maybe be a believer,

864
00:46:54,280 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, so what's ahead? Um, like where

865
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm at in Alabama and and probably very similar to

866
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: what the public areas that you guys hunt in Texas. Um,

867
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: you have to be analytical, man, you have to be

868
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: like hardcore. You've got to find the unpressured are unpressured

869
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: areas and um, and and think about things the thing

870
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: about Kentucky and and these kind of more Midwestern type

871
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: states where you have a lot of farmland, the deer

872
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: just doing completely different things. And so, um, that's why

873
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: I like hunting, this opener is because I mean I

874
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: have some of the best opportunities I've ever gotten in

875
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: my life hunting the Kentucky opener, because the velvet bucks

876
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: are just kind of doing there. Like I said, people

877
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: are who are killing them are hunting two yards from

878
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: the parking area in a in a bean field that

879
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: you can see from the road, you know, and like,

880
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: um can actually have those opportunities at mature deer uh

881
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: in that scenario. And and in fact, most of the

882
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: people I talked to this week that saw bucks, we're

883
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: seeing them in the bean fields. And I saw I

884
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: saw a pile of small bucks, you know, year and

885
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: a half old deer. Um. But as far as just

886
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: like you know, the only buck that I saw that

887
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: actually had like an eight point or better rack was

888
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: that opening day. Yeah, So what are they usually doing?

889
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: What what patterns were you hunting them on starting out

890
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: that you thought they would be using. Well, usually there's

891
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on the place. And so what

892
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: I find is is these deers, it's part of the

893
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: reason why I use water accesses. They'll go back to

894
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: the ridge, the ridges in the back of the property

895
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: close to the water and and it really funnels the

896
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: deer that are getting pressure. Do you have dove hunters

897
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: and squirrel hunters and deer hunters out there all at

898
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: the same time and been all these deer back to

899
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: the back corners. And so if you have a boat,

900
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: you know that's part of That's really where I spend

901
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: most of my time is in those very far back

902
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: corners using the boat, and I literally might walk, you know,

903
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: a hundred yards from my boat and it just I

904
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: always seem to get it and and then corresponding, um,

905
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: finding those funnels that kind of lead to two beans

906
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: has always been pretty productive. Mm hmm. But the beans

907
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: this yere, we're very green, so you would think the

908
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: deer would still be hitting them pretty hard. Uh, But

909
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: I set over being several times and I I didn't

910
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: see much. I really didn't see a whole lot of deer.

911
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: Does does that be betted in there? Um in those

912
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: bean fields? And that can make it pretty tough to

913
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: even get a shot when the deer are all betted

914
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: in the beans kind of bed out in the middle

915
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: of the bean field, so you can even you set

916
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: up and you know, get up high and you see them,

917
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: but there untouchable. You can't get out there with them.

918
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: Um hm. I typically try to out hunt honestly, rut

919
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: funnels kind of seems to be where I have the

920
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: most opportunity at um in these early season hunts, just

921
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: because of the pressure, the deer are running back to

922
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: those using those same funnels and running back to that

923
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: security cover. Yeah, are you are you seeing um? Do

924
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: you feel like you see more of deer movement this

925
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: time of year in a pressure situation like this in

926
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: the morning or the evening. Um this trip, this trip,

927
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: by far, I saw more deer activity in the mornings.

928
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: And the changing point for me right then was or

929
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: for this one was I was getting in the middle

930
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,959
Speaker 1: of the betting, like right smack dab in the middle

931
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: of one of the dose that I shot was about

932
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: to lay down when I shot her. UM, which is

933
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: gonna be the thick, thick cover around those bean fields.

934
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: And a lot of times out here like Kentucky, a

935
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: lot of places in Kentucky, a lot of places in

936
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: the Midwest are gonna have like crp with like sycamore

937
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: sapling type blocks that are right next to the beans

938
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: are like it's almost like a buffer strip between the

939
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: woods in the in the bean fields. And I was

940
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: finding that if I would get as close to those

941
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 1: that CRP sycamore junks. That was where I was gonna

942
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: see deer, and your shot opportunities weren't weren't gonna be

943
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: uh plentiful because it's so thick in there. But you're

944
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: at least gonna have a chance. Uh, I see here.

945
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: And And in fact, most of the deer that I

946
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: uh most most mornings going in at four thirty in

947
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: the morning, Almost every morning I walked up on bedded deer.

948
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: They were just already bedded down before the sun came up. Hm.

949
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: And so I think that was kind of what was

950
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: going on. And the bucks, you know, I I just

951
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: I think they were bedded down. I don't think they

952
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: were getting up at all during the daylight. Not much.

953
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: Do you do you if you're in that situation, do

954
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: you ever take a morning off or do you always

955
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: try to find a place to hunt in the morning. Um,

956
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: we took. We took one morning off this trip. I

957
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: typically do not. Uh. The only reason I took a

958
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: morning off is because most of the time in the

959
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: mornings is when I'm going out and I'm like, Okay,

960
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:30,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and hunt a spot where I feel

961
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: confident I could shoot a dough. Um. And in the evenings,

962
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: these evenings is where I kind of go and try

963
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: to try to hunt for a buck. But um, after

964
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: I shot the first dough, I took off that next

965
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: morning was like, I mean, the only thing I'd be

966
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: going to hunt right now is a dough more than likely. Um.

967
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: But every once in a while, man, I actually got

968
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: my two years ago, I got my opportunity and I

969
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: missed uh there that probably would have went close to

970
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: one fifty um. And it was a morning hunt at

971
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: like ten thirty in the morning. But I find on

972
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: these early season hunts, if you'll, if you will really

973
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: watch that wind direction, because the wind can be so

974
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: variable this time of year. Um. A lot of times

975
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: if you can be up in a tree when the

976
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: wind direction changes or when it forecasted to change, a

977
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: lot of times you'll find those bucks adjusting to their

978
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: adjusting their bed to another spot that's more favorable for

979
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: that wind. Um. You know. So like that particular morning, Uh,

980
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: the wind changed that like ten o'clock, and sure enough

981
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: I was set up to where I thought a buck

982
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: would be coming through to go to a different bedding

983
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: area for that wind. And that's what happened. It happened

984
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: almost like two a t in it. It doesn't happen

985
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,720
Speaker 1: like like that a lot, Like usually your ideas suck.

986
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: But it just kind of happened to work. And maybe

987
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: it didn't work. Maybe I just maybe it was just

988
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, a coincidence. But um, that's those are of

989
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: times when I think that you can start getting like

990
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: putting the puzzle pieces together for these early season hunts, um,

991
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: to give yourself the highest odds of of getting a

992
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: shot opportunity at buck mm hmm. Man, it sounds uh,

993
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: it sounds like there's a lot of variables this time

994
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: of year. I know that. And um, and so with that, Um,

995
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: the one thing that a guy can always look forward

996
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: to is basically better weather, new week, new moon, all

997
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Um, different variables, right that that

998
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: can potentially help in a situation where he's struggling to

999
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: find bucks currently. So with that, on a scale of

1000
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: one to ten, and tell me, why what do you

1001
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: expect dear movement to be like in the next week. Well,

1002
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 1: there's the one variable that I think changes a lot

1003
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: in farm country is when they start cutting the corn.

1004
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: And last night, uh, yesterday afternoon and they started cutting

1005
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: corn on this w m A. And I think for

1006
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: anybody who is going to be hunting this coming week,

1007
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: they're cutting corn. A lot of those deer I think

1008
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: are living in those corn fields, and um, when they're

1009
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: standing and they're cutting it right now, and if you

1010
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: can get close to some fresh cut corn, I think

1011
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: a lot of bucks are gonna die this week because

1012
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: of that one factor. Um, it forces them to get

1013
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: up and move from the place they've been, the places

1014
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: that they've been living and having security cover and kind

1015
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: of being untouchable out in the middle of those corn fields.

1016
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of friends who are coming

1017
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: up this week, and when I sent them, when I

1018
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: sent them a picture of the combines out in the

1019
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: corn field, everybody got excited because that's a that's that

1020
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: can be like a game changing factor on this farm

1021
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: country stuff. M hm, cool man, that's exciting. That's definitely

1022
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: something a good variable to look forward to. Man, it's

1023
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: something that takes a big swath of cover out of

1024
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: the equation and puts a bunch of food in front

1025
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: of you know, where deer normally eat. So I think

1026
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: if I had to put a number on it, I

1027
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: think it's gonna go from about a one or two

1028
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: that we experienced this week too, probably a six or

1029
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: seven because it's happened before where they've cut it really

1030
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 1: really early while we've been there for the opener, and

1031
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: as soon as they cut it, man, you start seeing

1032
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: deer just piling into that corn field, and part of

1033
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: it feels like it should be a crime because there's

1034
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 1: just piles of corn out there in front of Hey,

1035
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: Texas bro, we know all about it. Yeah, yeah, it

1036
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: feels normal to me. That's right. That's right, man. Yeah,

1037
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: it's it's all about it's all relative. Man. So that's cool, dude. Well, um,

1038
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: so I guess with that, that's exciting. Um. You know,

1039
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: people can watch your stuff on you too. I can

1040
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: hear your podcasts. Give me a quick rundown of where

1041
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: they can find this kind of stuff, man, Yeah, so YouTube,

1042
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: it's a southern ground hunting. Just search that. Um. If

1043
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: you see a chubby bearded guy with a bunch of

1044
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: tattoos and uh, he's in a kayak or a boat,

1045
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: that's probably me. We're gonna see the dose being slocked

1046
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: from this hunt, absolutely yes, sir. And then uh and

1047
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: then you go to the podcast. It's a part of

1048
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: the Sportsman's Empire podcast network. Uh and just you know,

1049
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: you can search Southern Ground Hunting and you'll find it

1050
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: there as well. Cool man. Um, there's some other more

1051
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: associated stuff that you're gonna be doing coming out soon.

1052
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: I think I don't know how much I can reveal

1053
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: about that, but I'm excited to see that. Um. And

1054
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: then also, Um, Parker is a dose slacker, but he

1055
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: kills a lot of bucks too, so I don't want

1056
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: that too. I don't want that to be a diss

1057
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: by any means. He just shoots a lot of deer.

1058
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: So it's definitely worth going checking out. Thanks for coming

1059
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: on the show giving us run down to Kentucky, Man,

1060
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we will be talking to you later

1061
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: on this year. Absolutely, Thanks Tyler for having me on.

1062
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: All right now, on the phone, we've got Ron Stoddard.

1063
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: He's from Nebraska. Ron. What's happening, dude? What's up man?

1064
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: How's it going? It's going great, dude. I Um, we

1065
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 1: got some pretty good weather coming in here. We've got

1066
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: like a lot lower lows and we're hitting the dew

1067
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: point a lot more often, which is good for us

1068
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: because we've been kind of dry and um, you know,

1069
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: helps keep some moisture around the ground. So that's good

1070
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: and then just feels like deer season, which I know,

1071
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: uh feels the same for you right now, because uh,

1072
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: you shot a pretty good buck recently. Man is the

1073
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: eight point? It's a ten point ten point? Yeah, I

1074
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: saw pictures uh last night of it. Man, it looked

1075
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: like he was he had come out of elvit just recently, right. Yeah,

1076
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: he uh was probably just coming out of elvet that

1077
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: day when I shot him. Um, he was bedded down

1078
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: in a CRP field on off the edge of a

1079
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: bean field, and it actually was the first year I

1080
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: saw that night. And he came into about eight yards

1081
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: and I shot him, and he went about thirty yards

1082
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: and I was able to recover him. Dude, I love

1083
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: making shots like under fifteen yards. It's like you almost

1084
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: don't even have to aim, you know. No, it was

1085
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: definitely pretty cut and dry, and yeah that's cool. Man.

1086
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: He was actually right off the edge of a bean field,

1087
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: and I had the perfect lend and had a twenty

1088
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: twenty degree temperature drop that day, so it was almost

1089
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: like he read the script, you know, sure was that?

1090
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: So that what that deer was like his destination that

1091
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: night was the beans. Yeah, so he was. So it's

1092
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: just a really tiny piece of property, like maybe ten

1093
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: acres and it's right in between a big CRP field

1094
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: and a bean field and it comes right down into

1095
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: a funnel. And I've always seen deer in there, and

1096
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: this deer actually I've had him on camera for five

1097
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:09,479
Speaker 1: years so and he's never really been like a huge deer,

1098
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: huge deer, but he kind of meant a lot to

1099
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: me and it was super fun hunt dude. I had

1100
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: a similar deer like that in Kansas a few years back.

1101
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: Like when I shot that deeries seven, I assumed he

1102
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: was seven and a half when we picked him up. Uh,

1103
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,439
Speaker 1: I thought he was three. So I had about five

1104
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: years of time with him. And it's the same way

1105
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: like he was like a I don't know when I

1106
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: when I shot him, he's probably like upper one forties

1107
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: type deer. And he was never he was like always

1108
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: probably one thirty to upper one forties. He never he

1109
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: never like grew much. It always looked the same every

1110
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: year as a ten point every single year mainframe, you know.

1111
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: And but it's just cool like that, um when you

1112
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: can grow history with a deer like that and really

1113
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: just kind of like more than anything, kind of grow

1114
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: more massive and just look older every year, and you're

1115
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: just finally like, man, you know what, that's a cool

1116
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: deer right there, you know. And the really important thing

1117
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: about this deer was he was kind of named after

1118
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: an old boss. He was a goofy deer when he

1119
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: was really young, and uh, named after my boss, joking

1120
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: around and but come to come to fruition, Uh my boss.

1121
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: That boss actually ended up passing away like a year

1122
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: later from a heart attack. And I've hunted that property

1123
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: ever since. And so it's kind of kind of bitter

1124
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: sweet when I was able to end the chapter with

1125
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: that deer. Sure do to understand that the sentiment that

1126
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: we have in white tails, in white tail hunting sometimes

1127
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: it's just like the best part of it, you know

1128
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: that it was almost like the Lord was watching over

1129
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: that day, because, like I said, it was perfect. The

1130
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: wind was coming right on the funnel of this and

1131
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: that was literally the first dear I saw on the

1132
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: only deer I saw the whole day. Mm hmmmm, Man,

1133
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: that's cool. And it was like I feel that way too. Man.

1134
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: It was like seven o'clock when he came out. Man,

1135
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: So it's such I don't know those moments, man, Like

1136
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: we get to shoot maybe a couple of deer years

1137
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: sometimes and it's just like when that happens, man, it's

1138
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: just like you said, it just feels like such a blessing. Man.

1139
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: It's a cool thing. But anyway, let's let's talk a

1140
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 1: little bit about how, um like, why you decided to

1141
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: hunt that deer, because I'm kind of interested. You talked

1142
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: about a temperature drop there. Is that what brought you

1143
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 1: out into the woods? Um? Do you normally wait for

1144
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: a temperature drop this time of year? Are you just

1145
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,439
Speaker 1: hunting hard no matter what, trying to find a place

1146
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:50,919
Speaker 1: to scratch one out? Um right now? Like this year,

1147
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: I would hunt pretty hard on betting areas and stuff,

1148
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: but it's been so dry this year that most of

1149
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:02,439
Speaker 1: our dear movement has been after dark. So yeah, that's

1150
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: exactly what brought me out of the woods. I've actually

1151
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: been chasing mule deer for that reason because the white

1152
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: tail has been predominantly nocturnal, and I uh had or

1153
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: that twenty degree temperature drop and I just said, heck,

1154
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: might as well go sit in this to day and

1155
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: and it I'll just kind of kind of unfolded perfectly.

1156
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: So we were you on a like a field edge,

1157
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: on the edge of the beans when you shot him. Yeah,

1158
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: So there's just this little teeny strip of timber that's

1159
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: it's literally a triangle like a funnel that brings all

1160
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 1: the deer through it right to the beans out of

1161
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: the c r P and yep, and they all end

1162
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: up in the beans. They either come back in there

1163
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: through there in the morning and then back out there

1164
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: through the night. Cool. Well, let let me ask you this, dude.

1165
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: Can those deer Can those deer see a road or

1166
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: people on a road from from where they end up

1167
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: in the field there. Yeah, they actually have to cross

1168
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: a road in between the trees and the being field

1169
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: to get there, and there's only about three yards away. Man.

1170
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: So basically those those deer will still come out in

1171
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: daylight this time of year, despite having to cross the

1172
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 1: road and or being like a visual uh spot towards

1173
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: a road. Ninety per cent of the time they won't, man.

1174
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: And that's why it was kind of almost bitter sweet,

1175
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 1: because I didn't expect anything to happen and run, I

1176
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 1: just you know, I knew that there was a good

1177
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,919
Speaker 1: chance because of the temperature, job then maybe it would

1178
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: get him up on his feet, And I sure did. Man,

1179
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: that's awesome, dude, that's it's so cool. So as far

1180
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: as like betting areas go, uh that if you're you know, say,

1181
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: on a normal year, you said you would probably be

1182
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 1: hunting closer to betting areas and stuff this time of year,

1183
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that a little bit, like what

1184
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: you're set up usually looks like, and what you kind

1185
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: of prefer and how how to get in there and

1186
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: when you know, all the different kind of tactical things

1187
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: involved around that. Yeah, so usually earlier in the year

1188
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: were only predominantly hunting evening hunts, just because all the

1189
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: betting areas are like off open fields, like little teeny

1190
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: thickets that are maybe one two acres at the most,

1191
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 1: and you can't really get into them in the mornings

1192
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: because all the year out in the egg fields of course,

1193
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: so you get you gotta sneak in there and the

1194
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: evenings while they're sitting on their bed and I just

1195
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: kind of hope they come out at last light or

1196
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: whatever because you and yeah, okay, mostly on the edge

1197
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 1: of the soybean fields this time of year until that

1198
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: last green soybean field, uh turns over, and then they'll

1199
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: be headed towards the corn. But and then and that's

1200
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: kind of a whole another ball game, you know what

1201
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, um, would you

1202
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: say that you seem to think that this was kind

1203
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: of a providential experience where this buck walked by you

1204
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,959
Speaker 1: that day. It kind of seemed like you weren't expecting much.

1205
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: What would you say the deer activity has been like

1206
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: in the past week or so, Scaling one to ten,

1207
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:39,439
Speaker 1: I would say probably a four during daylight, three, three

1208
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 1: or four during daylight, just because I mean we've had

1209
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: highs and three the last four days. So but coming

1210
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: up it's probably gonna be you know, six or seven

1211
01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: because we're gonna have a thirty degree temperature drop this

1212
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: evening into some rain, into some real foggy morning tomorrow morning,

1213
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: and more rain tomorrow morning. All Right, dude, that's what

1214
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Cool weather this time of year. My

1215
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: next starts swelling. I'm not like a scrape, I'm telling you, dude. Yeah,

1216
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: starting to feel like your season. It's getting the blood boiling. Man. Yeah,

1217
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: that's cool. Hey, lets let me ask one more question. Um,

1218
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: how do you feel about runs is? That is an

1219
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: odd question, But I do not like runsas really I'm not.

1220
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: I'm not a Midwestern born boy. Actually, I'm raised in

1221
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: saw Lake City, Utah. So really, do you ever do

1222
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,919
Speaker 1: any fly fishing out there? I've done a little bit.

1223
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: I moved out of there when I was fourteen fifteen. Yeah,

1224
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't really the best situation, so I was never

1225
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: really got to do all the lot of that stuff

1226
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: till I moved out to Nebraska. So sure, well, I, um,

1227
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: I've had a few runs is in there. They are

1228
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: fast food type runs is. I don't know if like

1229
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: the the homemade ones are better or not, but I'm

1230
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: sure they are. Um, but yeah, the the fast food ones,

1231
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: I did the Southwestern flavor, and I gotta say I

1232
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 1: liked it pretty good. Man. It's it's it's a treat

1233
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 1: because we get pretty bogged down with burgers and fries

1234
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: on the road, you know. So uh, I'll definitely take

1235
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: something like that when I get it. But I'm I'm

1236
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,679
Speaker 1: actually a little bit surprised to hear you just don't

1237
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: like the runs of man. I think it's more just

1238
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: living in a little town. I've eaten everything that's here

1239
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: so many times. You know what I mean. I guess well,

1240
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: I like to cook my own meals and me too,

1241
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: me too, man. Well, I appreciate the information. Man. I'm

1242
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,520
Speaker 1: looking forward to uh being in Nebraska at some point myself,

1243
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: especially with your report here of it, to being in

1244
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: a pretty good dear movement coming up. So uh, thanks

1245
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 1: for taking the time, run, and we'll be talking to

1246
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: you sometime soon. Man, Thank you, man. Big congrats to

1247
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 1: these fellows that were able to punch tags this week.

1248
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 1: I hope any of you listening out there are able

1249
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,520
Speaker 1: to use the info from them to make some success

1250
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: of your own this week. Like was mentioned last week,

1251
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: Hunter's velvet buck video from Tennessee has released on the

1252
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: Element YouTube channel, and Mark's first episode of his new

1253
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: Deer Country series has released on the meat eat channel

1254
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: as well. Also, early teal seasons have begun to open

1255
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 1: across the states, So if you're needing to make some

1256
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: room in the freezer with last year's waterfowl, the Meat

1257
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: Eater website has a new goose stew recipe that will

1258
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: help you turn tough, dark meat into pass me more

1259
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: of that gravy. Lastly, remember stay fresh. This has been

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Speaker 1: rot Fresh Radio