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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This is episode number two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty six, and today in the show, we are

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Speaker 1: here again with another radio report, getting updates from across

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Speaker 1: the country on the latest white tail activity, conditions, behavior,

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Speaker 1: and the tactics that are working right this very moment.

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Speaker 1: All right, and welcome to this week's episode of Wired

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Speaker 1: to hunts wrote Radio, brought to you by Onyx. This

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Speaker 1: is your host spent anymore. And on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the line is Mark, who is yet again slacking

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Speaker 1: in front of a computer, so have him on his

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Speaker 1: cell phone. How's it going, Mark, you know, doing the

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Speaker 1: best I can here man. I'm driving home to Montana

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Speaker 1: right now. Um been l cutting over the past well

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Speaker 1: for five days, I was l cutting, and then I've

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Speaker 1: had a day and a half meetings and then it

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Speaker 1: was right to the truck and onto the road, try

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Speaker 1: and get home times, spent a little time in the

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Speaker 1: family and then be ready for the Michigan Archery opener.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very excited about all the aboves. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't take back the slacking thing. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about the Michigan opener? You will be hunting on Monday? Correct? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Michigan opens on Monday. I'm really excited about it. Last

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Speaker 1: time I checked the weather, I've been. I've been as

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Speaker 1: long as the fifteen day outlook has been available. I've

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Speaker 1: been checking it out, and it's pretty good as far

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Speaker 1: as it gets not too hot. Um, it looks like

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have like just below averaged temperatures maybe, which

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Speaker 1: is usually a great thing. The only downside is that

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Speaker 1: those temperatures have been in place for a while now,

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Speaker 1: so it's gonna be like almost a week of like

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Speaker 1: sixty degree temperatures leading up to the opener. It's not

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Speaker 1: like it was really warm and then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden we had that front hit. I think that usually

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Speaker 1: those temperatures I know you're not necessarily believe are on this,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like you get some that best activity

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Speaker 1: right when the change occurs. Just after the change. There's

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Speaker 1: not so much change in this situation, so I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be pretty decent. Um. It definitely bad, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not looking at it as like one of those blessed

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Speaker 1: cold fronts that get everything up and moving. Uh. So

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Speaker 1: that's my high level thought process at least. Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the people that I've talked to have referenced,

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Speaker 1: like today September as being one of the days to

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Speaker 1: be out there because this is at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: that cold front rout. Fresh people were talking about as

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Speaker 1: well that we're providing reports. So uh, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this, the end of this week is

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Speaker 1: is going to be pretty solid or people are optimistic

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Speaker 1: at least for for that cold front. Hunting it right now? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, Um, it's a great time of being the woods,

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Speaker 1: you know, for people's seasons that are just opening. It's

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Speaker 1: really nice because you've got the limited hunting pressure since

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Speaker 1: mostly no one has been out up to this point,

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Speaker 1: plus the good weather. I mean, this could be one

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Speaker 1: of your better chances of the year, at least before

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Speaker 1: the rut. So I'm gonna when I'll be hunting one

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Speaker 1: of my better early season stands and uh take a

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Speaker 1: stab on the Holy Field property and that doesn't work out,

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Speaker 1: I'll kind of back out and reassess the plan. But

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Speaker 1: opening night will be highly anticipated. Evening Master. Sure, Well,

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Speaker 1: I have not been hunting for a while now. I

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Speaker 1: think it's been over two weeks probably since I've been

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Speaker 1: in a tree stand. And like I said last week,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of saving up those wife vacation days because

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Speaker 1: like craziness until December. I have I don't know if

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this, but I have nine buck tags

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Speaker 1: this fall, so I will be busy once yea, once

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Speaker 1: be maximum amount of haunting. So that is why I've

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So on this week's episode, we

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Speaker 1: Then we go to Tennessee and from down south hunting

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Speaker 1: it's Adam Cruz, and then we talked to Jake greg

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Speaker 1: Is from Daybreak Ranch in South Dakota and then from

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Speaker 1: Louisiana Bowl Hunter in Louisiana is Kyler Moppert, all Right,

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Speaker 1: sound like a great diversity of characters in areas. I

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Speaker 1: like that. I'm looking forward to hearing this one, especially since, um,

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Speaker 1: especially since I'll be actually hunting now white It's been

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Speaker 1: So one thing I wanted to bring up was that

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Speaker 1: Jake from South Dakota brings it up on this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: Last year, the night before I killed that big buck,

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Speaker 1: how that's something he's seen in the past, and he's

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Speaker 1: we haunt similar areas. Now we're a few hundred miles apart,

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Speaker 1: seen like Doo's bonds definitely do that. I've seen like

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Speaker 1: to hear what he has to say about So maybe

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Speaker 1: guest intrbutors on the line, all right, talk to you

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Speaker 1: next week. Mark. Thank you Spencer. Before we get to

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Speaker 1: our first update, let's pause for a word from our

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Speaker 1: sponsors at white Tail Properties. This week with white Tail Properties,

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Speaker 1: we are joined by Dave Skinner, a land specialist out

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Speaker 1: of Kentucky, and Davy is going to be telling us

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Speaker 1: about what to look for when buying a property with

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Speaker 1: intentions of early season white tail hunting in Kentucky. Our

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Speaker 1: season comes in in September, and if you're looking specifically

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Speaker 1: for that early season hunt, there's a couple of things

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Speaker 1: keep in mind. One, just like late season food sources

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Speaker 1: that trump everything else in September soy beans and acorns. UM.

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Speaker 1: If I'm looking to hunt specifically that early season, I

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Speaker 1: want to make certain I either have soy beans on

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Speaker 1: the property or adjacent to the property. More than anything,

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Speaker 1: though acorns are always number one, I want to know

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Speaker 1: that there's white oak trees on the property. UM. We

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Speaker 1: pose when those eight mons are falling that's where the

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Speaker 1: deer will be. If you'd like to learn more and

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Speaker 1: to see the properties that Dave currently has listed for sale,

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Speaker 1: I N N E r are And joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line first is Dave Bechtel out of Wisconsin from

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Speaker 1: Chase Nation TV. Now, Dave in Wisconsin, what would you

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Speaker 1: say the bucket activity has been lately on a scale

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Speaker 1: say either a five or six. Right now the opening

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Speaker 1: part of the season, UM is extremely hot, UM higher

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You took advantage of that cold front. Dave,

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Speaker 1: shot that nice white tail. Yeah, it was an area

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Speaker 1: treeline that is just loaded with oaks. So it's a

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Speaker 1: perfect scenario as far as if they're in the oaks,

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Speaker 1: But if it's in the bean field, you know you're

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Speaker 1: right there. And I was set up in a speeding area,

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Speaker 1: the oaks have dropped and then they were dropped in

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Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activity has been lately

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Speaker 1: get out and move, but they don't want to move

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Speaker 1: where they're headed for that evening quite yet. Going forward,

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Speaker 1: then in the sixt week or so, what do you

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Speaker 1: think that buck activity will be on a scale of

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Speaker 1: one to ten in South Dakota. I think from here

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Speaker 1: on out it should only get better unless we get

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Speaker 1: some really hot weather or something that might might make

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Speaker 1: them move less. I would say in the next week

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Speaker 1: or so, i'd probably be uh seven or so out

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Speaker 1: of ten. And and all those bucks are they're callable.

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Speaker 1: But with this cold weather I thought that they would

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Speaker 1: be even more visible. But they're still moving pretty late

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Speaker 1: in the evening and and then you have to be

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Speaker 1: pretty lucky to catch them right first thing in the morning,

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Speaker 1: before they make it back to where they're going to

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Speaker 1: spend the rest of the day. So I would say

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Speaker 1: a seven out of ten for now. Well, good luck

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Speaker 1: to rest the season, Jake. I know you're gonna kill

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Speaker 1: a couple of good days this year. It's not even

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Speaker 1: a matter of if it's just in So thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me. Hopefully you two Spencers appreciate it all and

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line. Last is Kyler Moppert from Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Bowl Hunter in Louisiana. Now Kyler in Louisiana, what would

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Speaker 1: you say the buck activity has been lately? I'm scaled

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Speaker 1: one to ten, well a scale of one to ten

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Speaker 1: for our open areas are going to be Area ten,

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Speaker 1: Area three, Area seven. Um, we've got a pretty a

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Speaker 1: pretty substantial buck activity for this early in the season

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Speaker 1: because number one, those are the only areas that are open,

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Speaker 1: so only about maybe a quarter of the state is

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Speaker 1: open for hunting. But the reason why that is is

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Speaker 1: because that population of deer is more of a coastal

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Speaker 1: population that is um in a different ret cycle. They

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Speaker 1: read a lot earlier in the year than some of

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Speaker 1: our other deer we have in the state, it would

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Speaker 1: be comparable to maybe a Florida ret cycle of a

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Speaker 1: lot of their swamped here. So UM, on a scale

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Speaker 1: of one to ten, I'd probably put it about a

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Speaker 1: five or six right now with the heat, a lot

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Speaker 1: of oppressiveness with the weather and just being out in

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Speaker 1: the woods and uh not being easy for them to

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Speaker 1: want to move, pick up and move during the day.

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Speaker 1: But um, the other parts of the state, UM, I

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Speaker 1: would probably put it about a five or six, mainly

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Speaker 1: because there's no hunting pressure on them, but they're still

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Speaker 1: not moving just because I mean it's still been a

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Speaker 1: hundred degrees down here. But the season opens up on

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Speaker 1: Monday the first for the rest of the season as well. UM,

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Speaker 1: So this time of year, you know, people aren't exactly

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Speaker 1: that gung ho about getting out in the woods because

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Speaker 1: of you need about seven thermo cells and almost an

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Speaker 1: a C unit strap to your back. But if you

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Speaker 1: can get out in the woods and you can sit

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Speaker 1: in an area where you know you've got some um,

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Speaker 1: some rutted bucks moving through or you've got some bachelor

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Speaker 1: groups moving through that and haven't broken up yet, and

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Speaker 1: you've got a pretty good chance of uh seeing something.

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Speaker 1: And how did those setups vary for those guys who

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Speaker 1: are maybe hunting the route right now versus everyone else

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Speaker 1: who has an open or coming up on Monday. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, so we we are a uh, we are

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Speaker 1: a state that does have legalized feeding UM. And this

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Speaker 1: is something that we actually talk a lot about on

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Speaker 1: on our podcast that We've got UM. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: a hot topic for a lot of people in the country.

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Speaker 1: Some people like it, some people don't. But the thing

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Speaker 1: that's interesting about Louisiana is that we hunt areas that

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Speaker 1: is so thick you have zero percent chance of ever

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Speaker 1: doing any type of spot and stock, any sort of

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Speaker 1: setting up on observation stands. And we're hunting thickets where

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Speaker 1: you might only have one small hole to put an

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Speaker 1: arrow in, and so UM, you've got to be able

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Speaker 1: to bring those deer in close without having to track

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Speaker 1: them all the time. But the setup is gonna be

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Speaker 1: UM pretty much the same. If you can attract the dose,

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Speaker 1: then you probably and it's the rut um you can

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Speaker 1: probably bring in some bucks in behind them. So what

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Speaker 1: I and what a lot of people do is, UM,

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Speaker 1: we're hunting a hundred yards from the feeder UM or

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Speaker 1: hunting a hund yards from where weever, wherever the food

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Speaker 1: sources that we're putting out, and we're trying to let

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Speaker 1: the doose pass and then focus in on the bucks

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Speaker 1: that may be behind them right and kind of get

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Speaker 1: out of that circle if you will, that that circle

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Speaker 1: of vulnerability around your feet are where a buck might

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Speaker 1: not come into. Get out behind that and hope that

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Speaker 1: you're on the right trail for them coming in. Do

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Speaker 1: those different deer populations in Louisiana react to weather differently?

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Speaker 1: Say you were to get a huge rainstorm for a

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Speaker 1: few days, or if a cold front comes in, do

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Speaker 1: you notice those two different populations acting differently when that happens. Absolutely? Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would say rain is our number one

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Speaker 1: motivator for getting getting deer up and moving. Um. We're

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Speaker 1: pretty uh, we're pretty level. When it comes to weather.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna either be hot or it's gonna be hotter.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a whole bunch of cold fronts coming through.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a whole bunch of, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: huge temperature swings until maybe into December, late January, Um,

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Speaker 1: but early in the season. If you're gonna hunt from

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Speaker 1: now until Thanksgiving, you pretty much know you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: in a short sleeve shirt and uh in ninety degrees

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna be hunting in once the sun comes up.

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Speaker 1: So um, like I said, it's pretty pretty uh stable

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Speaker 1: as far as weather for us. Unfortunately it's stable on

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Speaker 1: the hot end. Um. But because of that, the deer

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Speaker 1: you do see a lot of um, I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: a lot of it, you do. You do see primarily

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Speaker 1: very crepuscular deer where they are only moving in the morning,

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Speaker 1: they're only moving in the evening, and there's not a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of hour or two after sunrise, hour and

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Speaker 1: two before sunset. It is like right there with the sunset,

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Speaker 1: right there with the sunrise. So a lot of very

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Speaker 1: short hunts. Sometimes you know, it's not really worth it

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Speaker 1: to get out there at one in the one in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. At the time of year, a lot of

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Speaker 1: times you can climb up at four thirty five o'clock

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Speaker 1: hunt for an hour and a half until it gets

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Speaker 1: dark and um and if you don't see anything in

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Speaker 1: that time periods come back the next morning, you know.

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Speaker 1: Going forward then in this next week or so, what

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Speaker 1: do you think that bucket TVT is going to be

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Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten in Louisiana, Skeller

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Speaker 1: one of town. I think it's going to say the

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Speaker 1: same thing. It's gonna say a four or five. Um.

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Speaker 1: Just this type of year, this time of year, with

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Speaker 1: um type of weather patterns and the heat that we have,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to expect them to get up and move

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Speaker 1: until another month or two down the road. It's great intel, Kyler,

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Speaker 1: good luck on your approaching opener, and thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you, And that concludes this week's episode

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Speaker 1: of Wired to Hunt's Radio. Thank you to Dave, Adam, Jake,

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Speaker 1: and Kyler for joining me, and thank you guys for listening.

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Speaker 1: As always, make sure you follow Wire to Haunt on Facebook, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: and Instagram, and follow at Spencer New Hearth and at

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Speaker 1: Fresh on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. The next

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Speaker 1: time I talked to you get guys, it will be October,

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Speaker 1: and I am so excited for all the rest of

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Speaker 1: the states in the Midwest to open up. Good luck

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Speaker 1: to everybody, and stay Wired to Hunt. H