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Speaker 2: The crops are coming out, the acorns are falling in.
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Speaker 2: Kenyan on the phone right now and we are we
Speaker 2: are not in need too much at the moment. We
Speaker 2: are riding high on some wattail high because it's opening
Speaker 2: day in Michigan, which is like a state holiday.
Speaker 3: From what I understand, right man, it doesn't get any better.
Speaker 4: It's a glorious day.
Speaker 3: We were listening this morning. Do you know the album
Speaker 3: The Bone Collector? Oh, oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't listen to it often, but you know it's
Speaker 2: like you whip it out every once in a while
Speaker 2: when you really need it.
Speaker 3: You know, well, this is that.
Speaker 4: Time of year. One of the songs on that album's
Speaker 4: Opening Day, and so we were jamming to Opening Day
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 3: Radio this morning. When I was taking my son to school.
Speaker 4: We listened to some Fred Baher, we listened to some
Speaker 4: thirty point Buck.
Speaker 3: We bust out all the hits.
Speaker 2: That's what I was wondering if you did a thirty
Speaker 2: point buck. You know, that's not a thing here at all,
Speaker 2: but I appreciate it from afar.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not that far. It's like a Northern
Speaker 4: version of a Texas.
Speaker 3: Bill billy kind of song.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's right up right up your guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but yeah, we're uh, we're all excited here.
Speaker 3: One of my.
Speaker 4: Best buddies, his son killed his first buck with a
Speaker 4: bow all on his zone this morning. So super exciting
Speaker 4: to see that. I'm getting ready to head out here
Speaker 4: in a couple of hours. So I'm excited. And it's just,
Speaker 4: you know, it's the beginning of the season. You're just
Speaker 4: so full of hope and optimism and excitement. There's nothing
Speaker 4: but good stuff ahead as far as I can think.
Speaker 4: Of at the moment right, none of the none of
Speaker 4: the tough realities have shown their ugly faces yet. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm riding high. Yeah that's cool, dude, that's exciting. Do
Speaker 4: you have a Mark Kenyon Worthy plan for opening day?
Speaker 3: I would say I.
Speaker 4: Do have a Mark kenyan Worthy playing You're a planned
Speaker 4: out guy, That's that's That's what I'm you know, kind
Speaker 4: of referencing here.
Speaker 3: I feel as if you are in the Deerwoods.
Speaker 2: You're conservative by nature, and so I think, you know,
Speaker 2: knowing you in your past, if you didn't have a
Speaker 2: good plan or a good win, you would you would
Speaker 2: very well glass or observation sit for the evening.
Speaker 3: But do you feel like you're going to be in
Speaker 3: the chips?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got I've got a pretty decent shot tonight.
Speaker 4: I'm not going in with like the Shike's level of confidence.
Speaker 4: Like there's sometimes when you go in and like just
Speaker 4: walking in and you're like, oh my goodness, this is
Speaker 4: gonna be the night. But it's still pretty darn good.
Speaker 4: So I'll try not to bore you with too much
Speaker 4: of this. But the short version of the story is
Speaker 4: that one of my two main target bucks in southern
Speaker 4: Michigan has been pretty active the last seven to ten days.
Speaker 4: I was able to do some glassing, and on three
Speaker 4: different occasions over the last it's like seven.
Speaker 3: Eight nine days something like that, in that window, three different.
Speaker 4: Times I've seen him on his feet in daylight on
Speaker 4: a similar basic track of movement. And what these deer
Speaker 4: are doing right now in my area at least, is
Speaker 4: that they are shifting off of the green soybean fields
Speaker 4: that have just recently defoliated and are mostly all dried
Speaker 4: down now, and they've shifted to different food sources. There's
Speaker 4: some hitting acorns, but there's not a huge mass crop
Speaker 4: at least in my zone from what I've seen, nothing
Speaker 4: like what we had last year. So at least where
Speaker 4: I'm at, the big new local food source that a
Speaker 4: lot of deer turned their attention to is actually cover crops.
Speaker 4: There's a number of fields in my region that have
Speaker 4: planted cover crops after wheat, and so that cover crop
Speaker 4: is like oats and rye and various brassicas and so
Speaker 4: it's a green food plot basically. So I've got like
Speaker 4: a twenty five acre green food plot on one of
Speaker 4: the neighboring farms next to one of the spots that
Speaker 4: I can hunt.
Speaker 3: So that's been pulling a lot of deer.
Speaker 4: So this particular buck that I'm gonna be hunting to
Speaker 4: night has shifted off of the beans and I think
Speaker 4: is keying on mostly that cover crop, and I've got
Speaker 4: a couple spots I can intercept him from one of
Speaker 4: his main bedding zones heading towards that cover crop.
Speaker 3: One of those spots is a.
Speaker 4: Little kind of Heidi whole food plot that I was
Speaker 4: able to plant, and that is similar to what's in
Speaker 4: the cover crop.
Speaker 3: But just a little bit more hidden away and a
Speaker 3: little closer to betting. And so one of those.
Speaker 4: Nights that I caught him moving like five six days ago,
Speaker 4: he hit the food plot, first made a scrape, and
Speaker 4: then headed off towards the big destination. So with the
Speaker 4: wind we've got tonight, that's the only spy I can
Speaker 4: safely hunt and be in a pretty good spot. So
Speaker 4: I'm hunting that little Heidi hole plot tight to one
Speaker 4: of his bedrooms.
Speaker 3: It's kind of on the way to the bigger destination.
Speaker 4: So it's got all the markings of a standard high
Speaker 4: quality early season hunt.
Speaker 3: I can get in there without anything.
Speaker 4: Knowing I'm going to be there and get out pretty
Speaker 4: safely without anything knowing I was there. There's a scrape
Speaker 4: tree within range of this spot.
Speaker 3: There's a actually the tree.
Speaker 4: Stand I'm in is in a white oak that does
Speaker 4: have some acorns, so there will be some acorns right
Speaker 4: next to me. So there's a bunch of good looking
Speaker 4: things in decent weather. It's not super hot, it's not
Speaker 4: super cool. It's kind of right around average. But there's
Speaker 4: a cool front hitting tonight, and temperatures tomorrow morning will
Speaker 4: be like fifteen degrees cooler than they were this morning,
Speaker 4: So you know, there's a little bit of that environmental
Speaker 4: thing that might get a move just a tiny bit more.
Speaker 3: So all I has to say, I'm excited. I feel
Speaker 3: pretty decent. I think there's a pretty decent chance that
Speaker 3: he could come through there. Yeah that's cool, man.
Speaker 2: Do you feel how much let me ask this differently,
Speaker 2: how much emphasis do you put on moon phases?
Speaker 3: Mark? Almost none? Yeah, almost none. I would say I
Speaker 3: would say close to zero.
Speaker 4: The only time I'll look at it, you know, And
Speaker 4: I've got somebodies who are red moon obsessed, and so
Speaker 4: they're always saying, oh, it's red Moon's red moon.
Speaker 3: So if ever, like a red moon, or if.
Speaker 4: Ever the rising and setting moon times coincide with the
Speaker 4: first hour or last hour of daylight, which is supposed
Speaker 4: to be a good trigger. Whenever that happens, and I'm hunting,
Speaker 4: I'm always thinking, well, hey, the moon's good, maybe that'll.
Speaker 3: Mean today's the day.
Speaker 2: It's only a factor for optimism, right exactly, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: But I don't take it into account anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it would it be in a new moon
Speaker 2: right now, I'm like you, I don't actually think about
Speaker 2: the red moon stuff too much, but I'll like new
Speaker 2: moons and it's never going to keep me from hunting.
Speaker 2: But if there's no moon at not, it's just like
Speaker 2: what you were saying, where it's like, oh, well, there's
Speaker 2: a chance they get on their feet a little bit
Speaker 2: earlier because they know that, you know, they're their patterns
Speaker 2: are such that they don't have as much light at
Speaker 2: not or whatever. You know, you can always kind of
Speaker 2: come up with a good reason to go. And so
Speaker 2: that's kind of what I'm looking at. And there's others,
Speaker 2: you know, the guys that we've talked to this week
Speaker 2: are kind of thinking that too. Now, when you're looking
Speaker 2: at your set up to not I know you being analytical,
Speaker 2: you've thought about the liabilities. What's your big liability tonight
Speaker 2: with this sit That's.
Speaker 4: A great question, and that is a very important thing
Speaker 4: to think about, especially early in the year, because you know,
Speaker 4: every time you hunt your roll in the dice and
Speaker 4: you've got the possible chances of a reward, it's like
Speaker 4: how likely it is that you're gonna kill something? And
Speaker 4: you have to balance that or compare that to what's
Speaker 4: your chance of risk? Like what's the downside? What are
Speaker 4: the liabilities that you're talking about? And if you press
Speaker 4: in and do something where it's low odds of success
Speaker 4: but very high odds of something bad happening, and by
Speaker 4: bad happening, I mean educating deer, well, then you might
Speaker 4: end up blowing your future opportunities when there really was
Speaker 4: a chance to get a crack at the deer you're after.
Speaker 4: And so my liabilities tonight are pretty well accounted for,
Speaker 4: which is, you know by plan. Two things could be
Speaker 4: a problem for me. One would be if the wind
Speaker 4: direction was different than what it is. So I always
Speaker 4: like to hunt opening night almost never. I almost never
Speaker 4: pass on Opening night just because these deer haven't been
Speaker 4: pressured yet.
Speaker 3: There's still a little bit on the summer pattern.
Speaker 4: But if I had a wind direction that was pressing
Speaker 4: into these betting areas that I'm hunting, you just can't
Speaker 4: do it because you're just not going to have any
Speaker 4: deer come out, or at least not the deer you're
Speaker 4: after if they're winding you, and so tonight, if the
Speaker 4: wind switched on me, that would be a major issue.
Speaker 4: But as of right now, I have almost as good
Speaker 4: of a wind as I could ask for hunt this spot,
Speaker 4: a very safe wind that blows back into an area
Speaker 4: where almost there's never deer, almost.
Speaker 3: Never coming from that area.
Speaker 4: They're not deer bedded there, so it's a pretty safe wind.
Speaker 4: But that if it changed, that would be a liability.
Speaker 4: And then the second thing is my exit. My entry
Speaker 4: is rock solid.
Speaker 3: I don't need to go through anything that will have deer.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't spook any deer unless I get there super
Speaker 4: late and there's already deer in the food, but that
Speaker 4: won't be the case. The exit is the situation that
Speaker 4: can be tricky, and I'm lucky enough that I have
Speaker 4: this particular place I'm hunting tonight is close enough to
Speaker 4: where I live that I can get my wife on
Speaker 4: some evenings to drive out and clear any deer that
Speaker 4: might be out in the neighboring fields and kind.
Speaker 3: Of make sure it's safe.
Speaker 4: So she can drive out in the truck if the
Speaker 4: fields are if the fields are picked dirty, or she
Speaker 4: can hop in the canam and drive that down and
Speaker 4: sometimes pick me up in that. And so tonight is
Speaker 4: actually a night where I'm going to use use my uh,
Speaker 4: use my brownie points and get her to drive all
Speaker 4: the way on the can m so that basically I
Speaker 4: can get out of there without any deer being busted
Speaker 4: by me climbing out of the tree and walking out
Speaker 4: of there.
Speaker 3: So it's a luxury to have a spot this close
Speaker 3: enough and a.
Speaker 4: Wife who's who's kind enough and understanding enough to sacrifice
Speaker 4: some over evening to do me that doing that solid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nice man.
Speaker 2: You know. Early on in the Element podcast catalog, we
Speaker 2: had an episode called burning Brownie points, and we assessed
Speaker 2: that you have so many and they, uh, they're kind
Speaker 2: of like some you know, like savings accounts or or
Speaker 2: stuff like that, where like they they don't roll over
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 3: So like you gotta use them wisely.
Speaker 2: But also you can't like accumulate too many and then uh,
Speaker 2: some days you burn more than others for the same tasks.
Speaker 2: So you know, I can assume you've assessed that as well.
Speaker 2: With this brownie burning, you're about to do not and
Speaker 2: it's going to be totally worth it. And I think it's.
Speaker 4: Funny, you know, like back before I used to hunt
Speaker 4: the same general area, remember the first like five to seven,
Speaker 4: I don't know how many years, a decent number of
Speaker 4: years I hunted this area and I would just walk
Speaker 4: in and out to the road on foot, and it
Speaker 4: was always hard to get out of there without spooking deer.
Speaker 4: And then when I finally realized, oh, you know what,
Speaker 4: if I could just get like a friend who's.
Speaker 5: In the area, or Kylie.
Speaker 4: Or if I can convince someone to come out here
Speaker 4: and how to pick me up or clear the field
Speaker 4: of the vehicle or something, that would probably be a
Speaker 4: significantly less you know, damaging exit. And since we started
Speaker 4: doing that, my success in my settings of mature bucks
Speaker 4: in that area.
Speaker 3: Have gone up dramatically.
Speaker 4: Like that was one thing that made a huge difference
Speaker 4: over the last I don't know, seven to ten years probably.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: It's good to see things like that, like you used
Speaker 2: to see the return on that you know, and be
Speaker 2: able to make a actual deduction.
Speaker 3: Oh, this has a direct impact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just really feel like they're much more forgiving
Speaker 4: of a vehicle than a person. And so in spots
Speaker 4: where there's not a great way to walk out without.
Speaker 3: Something seeing you.
Speaker 4: In this particular area, that's very tricky to get out
Speaker 4: because there's so much open croft field and where I
Speaker 4: have to access from the road is on the opposite
Speaker 4: side of those open fields.
Speaker 3: If stuff's picked or open, you're very exposed.
Speaker 4: So on the nights when I have to go on
Speaker 4: there for an evening hunt in one of these places,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's very.
Speaker 3: Helpful when I can get that ride. Yeah, very nice, dude.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like you've got the pieces in place
Speaker 2: to at least having good hunt, and I hope you
Speaker 2: find success.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I think you kind of have a little bit of
Speaker 2: a tradition of at least coming close early. It was
Speaker 2: it last year or the year before you killed a
Speaker 2: deer pretty early on. I can't remember, for.
Speaker 4: I almost always see a good one one and yet
Speaker 4: two years ago I killed one of my targets opening
Speaker 4: nights last night. I saw actually the last night, the
Speaker 4: Buckham after tonight. I had an encounter with him last
Speaker 4: year on the second day of the season. So so yeah,
Speaker 4: there's definitely there's been a lot of good sightings, close calls,
Speaker 4: a couple of kills. So I always feel very good
Speaker 4: those first couple of days of the season here in Michigan.
Speaker 2: So I said, awesome, man, Well, I hope you find
Speaker 2: some good success. It sounds like around the country that
Speaker 2: optimism is high as well. I got a lot of
Speaker 2: states opening up right now, so everybody's kind of like, hey,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be an awesome week.
Speaker 3: Like I said, optimism is high the first day of
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 2: Hey, dude, optimism kills deer. Absolutely. You know, if you're
Speaker 2: feeling pessimistic and you this is for lots of things
Speaker 2: in life, right, But take a page out of Tony's
Speaker 2: book here, But like, if you're pessimistic in the weight room,
Speaker 2: or you're pessimistic, know with your job or with deer hunting,
Speaker 2: or in your marriage, it's not going to produce good fruit, right,
Speaker 2: But not saying that optimism is going to result in success,
Speaker 2: but you're you're taking steps in the right direction.
Speaker 3: I one a grief makes makes a big difference. Man.
Speaker 2: Well, let's uh, let's get the reports from the guys
Speaker 2: around the countries.
Speaker 3: That sound good, that sounds great. I'm excited to hear them.
Speaker 2: On the phone. Now, I've got a local guy here
Speaker 2: from Texas. Colton Roberts had him some opening day success. Dude,
Speaker 2: congrats on the big buck.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Casey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, for sure, that's a big deal because, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, October in Texas is tough, and so you
Speaker 2: probably had to have something figured out. What was like
Speaker 2: your major tactic on trying to get this deer down.
Speaker 7: Well, I had an account encounter with him last year.
Speaker 6: I think I did. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 7: And I kind of just went in blind having an idea.
Speaker 7: That afternoon, me and my dad and I didn't like
Speaker 7: what I see in and I was about to.
Speaker 6: Head out and saw a.
Speaker 7: Little patch of white oaks and had some caps popped
Speaker 7: off the acorns, and I thought, just thick enough, and
Speaker 7: there was a bunch of beauty berry there and we just.
Speaker 6: Hung up right there and he come out about six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Man, that's early too. You must have been pretty close
Speaker 2: to his bed. I'd imagine I had to have been. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did he come in and browse or was he just
Speaker 2: walking the trail?
Speaker 7: The first thing I heard was him browsing on a
Speaker 7: beauty berry and I glanced over and I thought it
Speaker 7: was a dough. And then whenever he moved his head,
Speaker 7: the whole beautyberry tree moved and.
Speaker 6: I went home.
Speaker 8: Not a dough.
Speaker 3: Things are getting a little more interested real quick.
Speaker 7: Right, And I mean he hit a dead load to
Speaker 7: that acre tree, Like I'm a loaw.
Speaker 3: How about that? I bet you.
Speaker 2: I've been in a little scouting too, and maybe you
Speaker 2: can confirm this, but there's not many trees dropping yet,
Speaker 2: so you probably found the few tree.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 7: I've always heard feed trees and I have had trouble
Speaker 7: finding them anywhere.
Speaker 6: Like it's just aprons here, aprons there.
Speaker 7: And when I saw those green white oaks on the
Speaker 7: ground with the caps popped.
Speaker 6: Off of them, I was like, well, they're hitting them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting that you could recognize the detail of
Speaker 2: the caps popped off.
Speaker 3: You know, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: So when you found that tree, did you set up
Speaker 2: for the wind to be perfect for you? Do you
Speaker 2: set up on a just off or how did you
Speaker 2: you know, negotiate situation.
Speaker 6: It was the wind was coming north, I think, and.
Speaker 7: It was a cut that went down into a little
Speaker 7: creek and these weren't a flat.
Speaker 6: Right before you dropping the cree.
Speaker 7: And the wind was out of the north, so it
Speaker 7: was in my face coming away from that cut. But
Speaker 7: I knew when it got dark, it would start dropping
Speaker 7: down in that cut if that wind died any and
Speaker 7: it when dark started rolling around in the shade started
Speaker 7: coming it, it did start dropping and I was just
Speaker 7: dropping milkweed every five minutes, but it was it would
Speaker 7: drop down in there, but then it would float to
Speaker 7: the creek, and I, for some reason I had a.
Speaker 6: Feeling they might come off the top.
Speaker 7: And as long as I could get a shot before
Speaker 7: he got to it.
Speaker 6: And he did. He was in a dead run and.
Speaker 7: Then coming to that tree and he hit that thermal
Speaker 7: and just locked up, and I already had my pen
Speaker 7: on him.
Speaker 2: Too late, huh. It was yeah, that's awesome, man, So
Speaker 2: he said earlier. The historical dad, you know, played a
Speaker 2: little bit of a factor into this.
Speaker 3: Did you look at the moon at all thinking about this?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: He came in early on an evening and it just
Speaker 2: so happens a week in a new moon period. Do
Speaker 2: you feel like that correlated?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure it probably did. I've never I always.
Speaker 7: Think about looking at the moon, and then when it
Speaker 7: comes time to go, I just got I mean, it
Speaker 7: don't really matter what the moon's.
Speaker 6: Doing, and I have time off, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Yep, though, that's how you kill big deer man. That's
Speaker 2: I think that you could talk yourself out of hunting
Speaker 2: a whole lot. But it doesn't take too much taught
Speaker 2: me into it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: No, not really Like if I get home from work
Speaker 7: and I got two hours of the daylight, I'm going
Speaker 7: to try.
Speaker 2: To go, Yes, sir, I can understand that completely. So
Speaker 2: looking forward here, we got cooler tempts than some years,
Speaker 2: but it's a real stagnant period. There's no weather systems
Speaker 2: at least on the ten day forecast. Do you think
Speaker 2: that we're going to have kind of similar buck moving
Speaker 2: over the next week or do you feel like it's
Speaker 2: gonna kind of peter out after this initial kind of
Speaker 2: cool spell we had in early October.
Speaker 6: I think it'll be all right.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think temperature is gonna be the low nineties,
Speaker 7: mid eighties coming up, and to me, eighties in Texas
Speaker 7: is pretty mild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for this part, I would think for sure we
Speaker 2: can see eighties in December, right right.
Speaker 7: I just don't think it bothers them much down here. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're just gonna keep doing what they've been doing.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: So if you had to look at the next week
Speaker 2: and ranking on a scale of one to ten, what
Speaker 2: would you give it?
Speaker 4: Five?
Speaker 3: That's pretty good for early season. I'd say I would
Speaker 3: give it five.
Speaker 7: Like the only thing I've seen influence so much, like
Speaker 7: the Weather's not a big deals pressure around where I'm at.
Speaker 2: So it's uh, you know, honestly, looking at it being
Speaker 2: opening weekend that just happened, there's a chance that it
Speaker 2: might even get a little bit better. Guys kind of
Speaker 2: get that Russ knocked off and then they say, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not November yet, you know, So you could be
Speaker 2: looking even at the mid Octobers is the time when
Speaker 2: the pressure lets up?
Speaker 6: Oh they do. I guarantee it. There won't be shoot
Speaker 6: next weekend.
Speaker 7: There might not be four cars on that whole seventeen
Speaker 7: thousand acres.
Speaker 2: Yep, YEP makes a difference, man, for sure. Well, hey,
Speaker 2: do you can grats on me? Was that opening day
Speaker 2: or or opening weekend?
Speaker 3: Opening?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Way to go, man, Well, I hope you uh uh
Speaker 4: can kind of regroup each of some backstraps and figure
Speaker 4: out another deer to shoot somewhere.
Speaker 6: And I'm gonna try to.
Speaker 3: This is my good buddy Reed struggle.
Speaker 2: He is in the tri state area of Ohio, Kentucky
Speaker 2: and Indiana. But you're pumped about your Indiana season about
Speaker 2: to open, right man.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir Todaymber one. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: I didn't I'd go work a little bit this morning.
Speaker 9: So, uh, I mean the wife, My wife is hunting
Speaker 9: for her first year season ever, So her and I
Speaker 9: are going to be hunting this evening, and uh it
Speaker 9: should be should be good. We finally have a good
Speaker 9: solid wind for where we're gonna be set up tonight.
Speaker 3: We have east winds for like a week and a half.
Speaker 9: It's really weird with you know, Hurricane Helen, and uh
Speaker 9: but yeah, we're we're really excited for time. Got a
Speaker 9: north northwest wind and should should set up really good.
Speaker 3: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: So earlier off air, we were talking about food plots
Speaker 2: a little bit is that are you kind of manicuring
Speaker 2: food plots and getting ready to go or kind of
Speaker 2: what does what your setup look like for a preparation?
Speaker 9: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 9: So I like you said, I'm Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana. My
Speaker 9: private properties are Ohio and Indiana, and I've got food
Speaker 9: plots at both.
Speaker 3: I planted some oats land we had that heleen.
Speaker 9: Hit and from within two or three days, my oats
Speaker 9: have grown five inches.
Speaker 3: It is the craziest thing in the world.
Speaker 9: Turnip's blowing up, right, is blowing up because we had
Speaker 9: that drought and all that and everything. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 9: so tonight we're actually going to be setting up. We
Speaker 9: did did a little deal with our farmer that they
Speaker 9: left some corn standing for us, nice and which is
Speaker 9: great cover. So we're actually going to be doing a
Speaker 9: little bit of We're going to be in the standing corn.
Speaker 9: They left about fifteen rows on the edge of this field,
Speaker 9: so we're gonna make us a little blond in the
Speaker 9: standing corn, get a couple of rows back, and just
Speaker 9: kind of PLoP down in the middle of the corn stalks.
Speaker 9: But it should be a pretty cool hunt, kind of
Speaker 9: kind of old school little Dan Fitzgerald style.
Speaker 3: The videos of my dude, Dan the Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could be, it could be really cool.
Speaker 9: I'd love to shoot one in the in the corn
Speaker 9: stalks like that, you know, early October.
Speaker 4: So you got off the camera data there or just
Speaker 4: knowing that's a good spot.
Speaker 3: Or what it looks like. It's a it's a historical spot.
Speaker 3: My little brother.
Speaker 9: Actually just killed a buck out of there on Saturday.
Speaker 3: And the youth opener a nice, nice.
Speaker 9: Eight point good mass uh, you know, around one twenty,
Speaker 9: so we have a lot of deer down in there.
Speaker 9: They saw twenty deer that morning in the first ten minutes.
Speaker 9: He killed his bucks seven minutes in an open day.
Speaker 9: It's we call it the Cethro Special. It's just kind
Speaker 9: of what he does. But anyways, Yeah, so I've been
Speaker 9: running cameras all summer and I run mock scrapes all
Speaker 9: summer long, and I have doze and bucks hitting these
Speaker 9: mock scrapes from June to now.
Speaker 3: So that's what I've been monitoring.
Speaker 9: The there's a couple really nice there's a really nice
Speaker 9: a point that we're kind of trying to key in
Speaker 9: on him.
Speaker 3: I got him up on the top of my folks,
Speaker 3: up on top.
Speaker 9: Of the ridges and then it's kind of a valley
Speaker 9: down on the bottom where the where the ag is
Speaker 9: and you've got a nice river right there, and uh,
Speaker 9: we're hoping to catch them this evening coming to feed.
Speaker 3: And that's right now. It is so interesting. They've been
Speaker 3: pulling ag early, really early this year. It's like two
Speaker 3: three weeks early.
Speaker 9: So they're gonna be in those ag fields right now
Speaker 9: specifically because they just pulled the ag and then once
Speaker 9: they're going to start transitioning out of that into your
Speaker 9: acorns and leaves dropping and and you know, but there's
Speaker 9: just there's a lot of germination going on right now
Speaker 9: from the amount of rain we've had, so just that
Speaker 9: that's kind of the pattern we're on, you know, with
Speaker 9: with having an ag and stant literally standing corn.
Speaker 4: So you feel like the new moon plays a factor
Speaker 4: in deer movement. You know, there's no moon at night
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: Sudden, do you feel like you're going to see more uh,
Speaker 2: you know, evening daylight activity.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, which we've noticed lately with that heleen when it hit.
Speaker 9: You know, there's some alfalfa fields around me and we're
Speaker 9: seeing deer in the field around five o'clock, you know,
Speaker 9: it's getting dark at seven thirty, and then it's pretty early.
Speaker 9: I saw a couple of mature bucks out in that
Speaker 9: alfalfa at five o'clock.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, that could have played a little
Speaker 3: role with with Helene hitting and whatnot, but definitely.
Speaker 9: And then so we also right now we have that
Speaker 9: really really low parametric pressure for about a week with
Speaker 9: you know, and like I said, that wind switching, it's
Speaker 9: starting to phase out. So I'm really expecting some better
Speaker 9: hunting later in this week. The you know, we have
Speaker 9: a cold front coming in. It's gonna be forties at
Speaker 9: not and barometric pressure.
Speaker 6: Is gonna get right, and I.
Speaker 3: Really think later this week's gonna do good for us.
Speaker 3: And then, like you said, the.
Speaker 9: Moon phase, it just seems like a lot of things
Speaker 9: are lining up kind of the they're switching, they're getting
Speaker 9: out of their bachelor groups.
Speaker 3: You know, these bucks fins start breaking off, they're.
Speaker 6: Gonna be looking at their buddies like, dude, you've been
Speaker 6: cool all summer.
Speaker 3: I don't really like you anymore. Man, you know, you
Speaker 3: get gone out of here, that's cool.
Speaker 2: So, you know, you kind of mentioned over the next
Speaker 2: week and high anticipations of that if you had to
Speaker 2: rank buck movement on a scale of one to ten
Speaker 2: for the state of Indiana for the upcoming week.
Speaker 3: What would you give it. I'm not going to do
Speaker 3: a Midwest six.
Speaker 6: And we're gonna.
Speaker 9: So you know, like like we said, the pressure, the
Speaker 9: very much pressure lining up that Helen getting kind of
Speaker 9: moved out of here. I mean I would say an eight.
Speaker 3: Man. I really think I'm giving it.
Speaker 9: An eight because of the cold front two and them
Speaker 9: phasing out from just there that rut phase is like
Speaker 9: really good. They're gonna be hitting scrapes. I mean that
Speaker 9: that's gonna be, you know, be hunting on my own.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna be sitting.
Speaker 2: Over scrapes the next week. N dude and eates enough
Speaker 2: to get me in the woods. Ate, I'm pumped now,
Speaker 2: appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's oping day two.
Speaker 5: Like maybe I'm a little extraly fired up, and I
Speaker 5: really think.
Speaker 3: I really think, man, I mean it's could be really good.
Speaker 4: Enthusiasm kills deer, dude, and you gotta get after man.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Absolutely, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: Enthusiasm.
Speaker 3: This is Ben shup Trone. He has been hunting in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Killed him a big giant, massive ten point congrats man,
Speaker 2: First of all, thank you man.
Speaker 8: It's a it's been a ride it uh. You know,
Speaker 8: it's something that I like to do every day. I
Speaker 8: like to you know, we like to chase white Tail
Speaker 8: every day. But yeah, when something like this happens, it is, uh,
Speaker 8: it's super special.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, for sure. You sent me a picture of
Speaker 2: him ago. He's awesome, and it sounds like you got
Speaker 2: some history with him. The historical data come into play.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So it's actually funny you say that. So you know,
Speaker 8: before this happened, you know, last summer, I had been
Speaker 8: seeing this property that I've been managing forever three years now,
Speaker 8: and every time I drove by, it's like I almost
Speaker 8: was going to hit a deer acrossing the road from
Speaker 8: the property, and it was like somebody was saying, Hey,
Speaker 8: there's the launch.
Speaker 3: Wh aren't you hunting here?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 8: And you know, I ended up bushogging that place and
Speaker 8: putting out a camera and this buck was actually the first.
Speaker 3: Picture I ever got at twenty twenty five. Oh, I
Speaker 3: take that camera.
Speaker 8: I take my cameras up every year. And uh, I
Speaker 8: was laying in bed one one the evening, actually two
Speaker 8: hours after a bush hoogg.
Speaker 3: And uh, he just happened to be there.
Speaker 8: Man, he was curious, he's checking things out, and man
Speaker 8: was he he was way beyond the game every he
Speaker 8: was killing everybody in Bellot season.
Speaker 3: So that's cool, man.
Speaker 4: So did you kind of put the pieces together and
Speaker 4: look at data and like have a strike mission on
Speaker 4: this deer or so a kind conservative seit and he
Speaker 4: happened to be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's it's weird.
Speaker 8: So I usually, you know, I've all the people that
Speaker 8: I've kind of looked up to, you know, they just
Speaker 8: say the hunt right, just get them in a tree
Speaker 8: and see what things happened. And with this deer is
Speaker 8: a little different for the past, I'd say since I
Speaker 8: got a picture of him, which was I guess was.
Speaker 10: In May or June.
Speaker 8: I was trying to figure out a way to find
Speaker 8: out his exact path or his morning path or feeding
Speaker 8: ground every morning. And you know, I walked on the
Speaker 8: park property about I guess three, three or four times
Speaker 8: just looking for something.
Speaker 3: And I ended up finding this tree.
Speaker 8: And it was a four foot diameter tree as a
Speaker 8: white oak, which is a giant oak here in Tennessee.
Speaker 8: And I got my binoes, and I looked up and man,
Speaker 8: this thing was absolutely loaded of acorns. And it was
Speaker 8: pretty early for that to happen too around here, I guess.
Speaker 8: And but anyways, I put up a camera there and
Speaker 8: I figured out that in the morning, I got him
Speaker 8: a picture right where he crossed the fence line and
Speaker 8: then right when he was going towards.
Speaker 3: The acorns, and he was eating them every single morning.
Speaker 8: So I knew just in and there I needed to
Speaker 8: that's where I wanted to kill this deer. And I guess, uh,
Speaker 8: from there on, I guess he only came in our
Speaker 8: north wind, because north wind was the wind that blew
Speaker 8: into his face. And and I was like, I don't
Speaker 8: know how the heck I'm gonna kill us deer because
Speaker 8: the only you know, he only comes on this wind,
Speaker 8: and I can't cross his fence line because it's something
Speaker 8: else property, right, And so I figured out a way
Speaker 8: and the only wind I could possibly hunt him in
Speaker 8: was a perfect southwest wind cross wind, and uh, it
Speaker 8: definitely helped me out on Saturday.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, man, you know, I think that conservative appro
Speaker 4: and being there at the exact right time is huge
Speaker 4: for killing big deer.
Speaker 2: Especially outside of the rut. And you know you said
Speaker 2: acorns played a big part of it. That were you
Speaker 2: scouting and finding the feed trees or you know you
Speaker 2: said you kind of went in there trying to figure
Speaker 2: that out, right, Did you already have all the trees
Speaker 2: exactly kind of plotted out?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 8: It's so it was so thick in there, and that's
Speaker 8: why I bush howked it and it was so thick
Speaker 8: in the past two seasons.
Speaker 3: You know, I never hunted it.
Speaker 8: I just kind of let it at that area be
Speaker 8: a you know, a zone where they are, you know,
Speaker 8: completely safe.
Speaker 3: But I did see a.
Speaker 8: Pattern with his deer where they would go from point
Speaker 8: A to point B all the way to that oak
Speaker 8: tree almost every single day. And sure enough he was
Speaker 8: one of the deer that just I guess he designated
Speaker 8: this tree as his feeding tree, so you could the
Speaker 8: amount of rubs around the tree were kind of crazy too,
Speaker 8: So it.
Speaker 3: Was definitely his territory or his betting around. I got you.
Speaker 4: So from around the country, it seems like crops are
Speaker 4: kind of coming out a little bit early this year.
Speaker 4: First off, you live in crop country, and then did
Speaker 4: that play a role in kind of what's going on
Speaker 4: where you're at.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, so we we live in Bradley County, Tennessee.
Speaker 8: He was killed on the outside of Bradley County, Tennessee,
Speaker 8: and Bradley is very well known for crops and I
Speaker 8: guess growing corn, soybeans, things like that. But the cool
Speaker 8: part about this property is that it's bordered by not
Speaker 8: only soybean field, but an edge of corn corn line.
Speaker 8: And I could and every single night on the other
Speaker 8: side of the oak tree, I was able to actually
Speaker 8: ask for permission to sit on this lady's property and
Speaker 8: watch him where I you know, she'd never she'd never
Speaker 8: let me hunt, but she was. I was able to
Speaker 8: watch him in that soybean field and so I got
Speaker 8: to watch him grow, and it was you know, at
Speaker 8: that moment, I was kind of like, I wish this
Speaker 8: lady would.
Speaker 10: Let me hunt.
Speaker 8: But but man, I am so glad that I killed
Speaker 8: him when he was hard for me.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 8: He's so pretty. So the funny part is, and all
Speaker 8: my friends are giving me absolute crap about the shout
Speaker 8: out to Toby Dean in twenty one South but because
Speaker 8: he's great at that, but uh, I was. It was
Speaker 8: on video, and I got him coming in and I
Speaker 8: got him actually fighting this buck, which is actually part
Speaker 8: of that story.
Speaker 3: But that's cool.
Speaker 8: He actually fought a buck for about probably about ten
Speaker 8: minutes before he came in, and which.
Speaker 3: Is kind of really weird. I mean that really weird.
Speaker 3: But I guess they get territorial, yeah, pret past.
Speaker 8: But I had it out and it was an absolute
Speaker 8: torrential down poor from the hurricane that came in, Hurricane Heleen,
Speaker 8: and man, I was out there for I guess from
Speaker 8: five to seven. I saw him at seven, and then
Speaker 8: he started fighting this buck and those were blowing and
Speaker 8: I thought this, you know, I thought everything was history.
Speaker 8: And sure enough, that younger buck that came down was
Speaker 8: the one he was fighting, and he went right past me,
Speaker 8: and then Macho he followed right behind him, and probably
Speaker 8: about twenty five yards. Man, it was an absolute just
Speaker 8: roller coaster, I guess of emotions.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Man, Well, you have a channel called bear Level and
Speaker 2: I look forward to I want to see the experience
Speaker 2: on videos.
Speaker 3: That that's cool, dude.
Speaker 2: So if you were looking forward here for the next week,
Speaker 2: you know, I know you don't have a tag in
Speaker 2: your pocket, but I bet you got some buddies that
Speaker 2: are thinking about it. You're still scheming on deer, right,
Speaker 2: If you had to think about the next week and
Speaker 2: rank buck movement on a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 2: what would you rank it?
Speaker 3: And why?
Speaker 11: You know, it's funny you say that because I was
Speaker 11: just talking to you, you know, a couple of minutes ago,
Speaker 11: and my buddy, we're on a deer at one of
Speaker 11: our places, and you know, he hadn't moved it all
Speaker 11: since June and just kind of sticking around getting the
Speaker 11: velvet pictures, you know, and.
Speaker 8: Just today he started coming into our main food plot
Speaker 8: and he's been hammering every single day. So tomorrow we're
Speaker 8: actually targeting him. And I've actually seen i'd say over
Speaker 8: fifteen different deer hit this food plot.
Speaker 3: And it's I think it's because it's just.
Speaker 8: Right after this huge storm that you know, Center Country,
Speaker 8: and they you know, I mean, I've seen them in
Speaker 8: the crazy winds and crazy rain before, just kind of
Speaker 8: like I was hind Macho Saturday.
Speaker 3: But I think after this.
Speaker 8: Storm, they're ready to eat and they're ready to get
Speaker 8: back in there and start moving around and figuring out
Speaker 8: their patterns a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So on a scale of one to ten, What
Speaker 3: are you going to call it? Oh, scale of one
Speaker 3: to ten.
Speaker 8: I'd say, I'd say I'd say high sevens man.
Speaker 3: Who, that's pretty encouraging.
Speaker 8: I know, I know it's pretty encouraging. But you know,
Speaker 8: we've had south winds all all week long here in
Speaker 8: southeast Tennessee and it's finally switching to the north and
Speaker 8: it's finally cooling down really.
Speaker 10: Quick in the evening.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I think evening hunts is probably a high seven.
Speaker 3: Man, Man, that sounds pretty good. We'll appreciate the report, dude,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Casey.
Speaker 2: My man Tony Peterson of Media of course, is on
Speaker 2: the phone now, and uh, as always, Tony is a
Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge. I've spent a lot of time already
Speaker 2: on the phone with him before we got to this
Speaker 2: because we had a lot to discuss. But it's deer
Speaker 2: hunting time right now, Tony, it definitely is, buddy, Thanks
Speaker 2: for having me on. Man, You're welcome.
Speaker 3: Dude. How is Minnesota right now? Is it dry? Is
Speaker 3: it wet? What's going on?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 12: Well, you know, you Southerner's always you guys from down
Speaker 12: South and oak West always asked me what our water
Speaker 12: situation is lake. I'm like, brother, we got fourteen thousand
Speaker 12: lakes here, man, We.
Speaker 10: We literally we don't dry out too often.
Speaker 12: But yeah, it's we actually have pretty crazy conditions here.
Speaker 12: Our woods are thicker than I think I've ever seen
Speaker 12: because we got so much rain in June that it's
Speaker 12: like there's a noticeable difference, you know, especially coming out
Speaker 12: of last winter when we had really mild winter and
Speaker 12: then we got just tons of rain and good growing
Speaker 12: conditions this summer. It's like the animals are big and
Speaker 12: the woods are like a jungle. It's kind of cool
Speaker 12: out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that sounds fun.
Speaker 2: Are you out there bushwhacking and getting deep in the
Speaker 2: timber or are you hunting crops?
Speaker 3: Or like what's the move right now?
Speaker 12: You know, I've been doing a little of all of
Speaker 12: the above, you know, with my daughters, had them over
Speaker 12: in Wisconsin and we did some stuff and they ended
Speaker 12: up they ended up killing a spike buck and a
Speaker 12: doe on the edge of a field on a private chunk.
Speaker 10: I've got over there.
Speaker 12: But I killed a dough just a couple of days
Speaker 12: ago here in Minnesota on this place I just got
Speaker 12: permission to hunt. And that was in the woods, kind
Speaker 12: of on an acorn, kind of on a pond, and
Speaker 12: right in the middle.
Speaker 10: Of the thick stuff. So kind I've kind of been
Speaker 10: all over man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have y'all had your first frost yet?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's always the thing that I kind of
Speaker 2: think about when you think about whitetails shifting their patterns
Speaker 2: and all. You know, that first frost really has a
Speaker 2: big effect on browse, right, and so right now you
Speaker 2: just mentioned acorns or acorns excuse me, since we're talking
Speaker 2: about Minnesota, and I'm sure that all that herbaceous growth
Speaker 2: is still around as that first frost approaches. I mean,
Speaker 2: y'all's first frost has to be in the next week
Speaker 2: or two. Is that going to change what the deer
Speaker 2: are doing?
Speaker 10: Dude?
Speaker 12: You would think so. But we've been in We've been
Speaker 12: in the eighties every day. It's been wild. We actually
Speaker 12: have a cold front moved in last night. I'm going
Speaker 12: hunting here right after this because I think there's going
Speaker 12: to be some deer on the move. But even now,
Speaker 12: it's still in the sixties. So it's pretty crazy, man.
Speaker 12: But it's weird because you know, last year I was
Speaker 12: baiting bears and kind of dealing with that situation, and
Speaker 12: the acorn situation was nuts and you know, some of
Speaker 12: the soft mass too, And then this year I'm not
Speaker 12: seeing nearly as many acorns.
Speaker 10: There's still plenty.
Speaker 12: Out there, but I saw seven dos the other night,
Speaker 12: seven dos and fawns off that stand where I killed
Speaker 12: that one, and they all came in on an It
Speaker 12: was eighty three degrees when I got out there.
Speaker 10: Not a single one of them went to this little pond.
Speaker 12: They all just ate acorns around it, And I'm like,
Speaker 12: I kind of think it's a little bit of a
Speaker 12: clue that they've been you know, they've had so much
Speaker 12: good browse and so much greenery and now we kind
Speaker 12: of have this limited mass thing happening and they're really
Speaker 12: keyed in on it, and so it's just it's cool
Speaker 12: to see because that's it's not going to last that
Speaker 12: long for us here, because it doesn't feel like there's
Speaker 12: nearly as many out there.
Speaker 10: So it's sort of like a you know, like a
Speaker 10: typical mass.
Speaker 12: Thing, right, like you better get in and get on it,
Speaker 12: figure it out, and then you know, expected to die
Speaker 12: on you because it's certainly going to.
Speaker 2: So you just mentioned there that you feel really good
Speaker 2: about to not in like the next upcoming days.
Speaker 3: What's the main factor on that.
Speaker 10: So a couple of things.
Speaker 12: You know, we had a cold front come in, so
Speaker 12: it's you know, we're twenty degrees colder today than we've
Speaker 12: been for two weeks, so you know when you have
Speaker 12: that going for you. But also we were like in
Speaker 12: this weather holding pattern that was just calm.
Speaker 10: It was perfect fishing.
Speaker 12: Weather, like calm, sunny, just you know, eighty degrees, t
Speaker 12: short weather, T shirt weather, shorts weather, whatever. And now
Speaker 12: last night it was real windy, and today it's just
Speaker 12: more windy as this front pushes through. So I know
Speaker 12: where I'm going to go sit tonight. I know there's
Speaker 12: I know there's a little waite acorns in there, and
Speaker 12: there's one apple tree that I bet deer going to
Speaker 12: come check today because it's been windy for the first
Speaker 12: time in a couple of weeks, like really windy, and
Speaker 12: so I kind of think, I mean, I have a
Speaker 12: stand set up specifically for this apple tree, and there's
Speaker 12: some acorns that it'll play off of, but I kind
Speaker 12: of think that there's going to be deer coming do
Speaker 12: a quick sweep around there and check it.
Speaker 10: And keep moving.
Speaker 2: So it seems like around the country, the word is
Speaker 2: that crop for getting harvested early. Are you seeing that
Speaker 2: there too?
Speaker 12: You know, I haven't seen that around my house, but
Speaker 12: I'm not I'm not hunting in a place with a
Speaker 12: ton of egg. But I did see it when I
Speaker 12: was with my daughters in Wisconsin, which was.
Speaker 10: I guess, you know, eight nine days ago.
Speaker 12: Now they were starting to cut corn for silage, and
Speaker 12: you were starting to see some crops come out, and
Speaker 12: I think that I actually think that factored into a
Speaker 12: little bit on how we ended up getting on the
Speaker 12: deer we did. So it's it's definitely happening.
Speaker 3: Mm hm, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just didn't know if that would play into
Speaker 2: your strategy or it seems as if, you know, you're
Speaker 2: kind of removed from that bed to food crop pattern there,
Speaker 2: so you kind of looking at somewhat of a main
Speaker 2: food source hunt to not huh.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I'm I'm hunting here in the suburbs
Speaker 12: and there are no fields around me there. Yeah, there's
Speaker 12: a farm next to this property that has it's a
Speaker 12: sod farm, so there's no food in there. It's just
Speaker 12: you know, yard grass essentially, and so these deer, they
Speaker 12: live on a pretty heavy you know, brows and masked pattern.
Speaker 12: You know, like a lot of the other places I
Speaker 12: hunted or I hunt, I would still be on some
Speaker 12: kind of bed to food thing. This is this is
Speaker 12: just a different deal here. It's just kind of a
Speaker 12: unique situation. And it's you know, it's this is a
Speaker 12: tiny property. It's only twenty five acres and so there's
Speaker 12: just a few pockets where you're like, well, they're either
Speaker 12: going to come through here to.
Speaker 3: Eat or not.
Speaker 12: And so you know, you kind of it's a small
Speaker 12: property thing. You kind of cross your fingers and hope
Speaker 12: they show up tonight.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, are you using camera data to make
Speaker 2: decisions on stuff like this?
Speaker 12: So no, And the reason why I'm not is the
Speaker 12: landowner's wife doesn't want anybody to have cameras out there.
Speaker 10: She goes and hikes around behind her house.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so I go into this place blind and I
Speaker 12: kind of love it. I mean, I wish I could
Speaker 12: use cameras there, but I'm you know, I know, there's
Speaker 12: a couple of big deer in there that swing through.
Speaker 12: Sometimes there's a couple of really nice bucks. But I'm
Speaker 12: mostly I'm mostly looking for a dough and kind of
Speaker 12: getting ready for to take my daughters in there, and
Speaker 12: it's kind of using it as a it's sort of
Speaker 12: a release valve for me because it's right next to
Speaker 12: my house and it's just a little hunt with like
Speaker 12: low standards. But you know, I went out there a
Speaker 12: couple of days ago and I had seven deer come
Speaker 12: through and shot a big dough and made a good
Speaker 12: shot on her, and.
Speaker 10: It was just a it was like a blast.
Speaker 12: I mean, it was one of those sits when it
Speaker 12: broke loose and those deer started showing up. I had
Speaker 12: deer around me on every side of me for forty
Speaker 12: five minutes and I ended up killing one and it
Speaker 12: was just like, you know, just one of those fun deals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's cool, especially whenever it's you know, I
Speaker 2: don't mean this in a bad way, but it's kind
Speaker 2: of low pressure because it's right next to the house
Speaker 2: and you know, you you're everything is on the menu,
Speaker 2: per se, you know, dose bucks, whatever. It's just like,
Speaker 2: let's go have a good time and do some hunting
Speaker 2: and and I'm thankful you get to do that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: For sure, if you look forward to the next week,
Speaker 2: I don't know what your weather patterns like that are
Speaker 2: like there, but here it's very consistent, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it seems like around the country that's that is kind
Speaker 2: of the case. Do you feel like you're going to
Speaker 2: see good movement throughout the next week?
Speaker 10: I think next week's gonna be really good. Just by
Speaker 10: looking at the forecast, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 12: Think I think we're sliding into the right time where
Speaker 12: it's gonna be, you know, pretty soon we're gonna be
Speaker 12: hunting scrapes and the weather is going to be just
Speaker 12: generally a little cooler, and it's it's starting to break
Speaker 12: in the right direction. I don't I guess I should.
Speaker 12: I don't know if this is unfortunate or not. But
Speaker 12: I'm gonna be down at Louisiana fishing next week, so
Speaker 12: I'm not going to get the ground truth this stuff.
Speaker 12: But just by looking at the forecast, I feel like
Speaker 12: it's gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's cool, all right, right it on a scale of
Speaker 2: one to ten for buck movement, then for the next week.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna give her a seven point five.
Speaker 2: Buddy at said point five, dude, that's pretty optimistic, and
Speaker 2: from a guy like you, I believe it, so it's
Speaker 2: time to get in the woods to Minnesota.
Speaker 10: We'll see, We'll see buddy.
Speaker 3: Hey Man, I hope you have a great hunt tonight.
Speaker 10: Awesome, thanks man.
Speaker 2: Mark Kenyon actually went back to the back recently on
Speaker 2: a hunt with a couple of guys. You should go
Speaker 2: check out that down below at the YouTube link to
Speaker 2: a list here, And if you want to see what's
Speaker 2: going on with the Element, we have just put out
Speaker 2: an awesome epic hype session of our best season ever
Speaker 2: over on here our YouTube channel. Go check that out
Speaker 2: down below. Guys, I want to say something here that's
Speaker 2: kind of removed from Retfresh. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: Americans who are hurting and having a difficult time right
Speaker 2: now in the wake of Hurricane Helene. He heard that
Speaker 2: mentioned a little bit in some of the interviews here,
Speaker 2: at least the effects of the hurricane. If you can
Speaker 2: find a way to give or help anyway at all,
Speaker 2: find an avenue to do that, because that's what makes
Speaker 2: us a great country. And I just wanted to put
Speaker 2: that on your heart today. Get out there do some
Speaker 2: hunting as well. Seasons are opening around the country. It's
Speaker 2: an exciting time of year. Remember this is retfresh, keep
Speaker 2: it fresh,