1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt podcast, and we are back for another 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: season of our rut Fresh radio mini series. This is 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: like season eight, maybe it's been a long time running. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: It's a fan favor every season. Come the fall, we 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: do this extra drop, which if you are not familiar, 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: I want to give you a very fast rundown of 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: what this show will entail this week and every week 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: from now on through the rest of the season. What 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: we're doing is we are chatting with a handful of 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: different deer hunters from across the country every single week 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: to find out what they've been seeing in the woods, 13 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: what kinds of behavior they have been noticing, how recent 14 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: weather factors or conditions or atmospheric conditions, whatever be, how 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: that stuff's impacting deer movement, how the changing habitat out 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: there is impacting deer movement, deer behavior and hunting strategy, 17 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: and how all of this can help you he was 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: a hunter in your coming hunts over the next three, 19 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: four or five, six, seven days. That's what we do, 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: quick hits with people all across the country to get 21 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: the most recent relevant information to help you as a 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: deer hunter. This week. So that's what the show is. 23 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: And it's been like that for like I said, seven 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: or eight or nine years now. Now what is different 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: this year is that we have a new captain for 26 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: the rot Fresh ship. This year, my good buddy mister 27 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 1: j Koefer is taking the reins from our palace Tyler 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: and Casey, who've ran the show for the last two 29 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: or three years. Jake just ran an awesome mini series 30 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: called the Back forty Podcast, which hopefully you heard, that 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: is wrapping up and now rutfresh is kicking off. So Jake, 32 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: great work with a Back forty and welcome to rot 33 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: Fresh Radio. 34 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: Hey, it's great to be here, and it's gonna be 35 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 2: an exciting fall and it's gonna be a roller coaster. 36 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: There's gonna be things that we can predict and there's 37 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: gonna be things we can't predict, and it's gonna be 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: great to get and idea what's going on across the country. 39 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: And I would say this too, key weather fronts. You 40 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: can listen to a guy that's maybe further west and 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: what was he seeing just a couple of days ago, 42 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 2: and how can it apply to your neck of the 43 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: woods or north to south. 44 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 3: So really excited for it. 45 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you've heard this episode, You've heard this 46 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: show as a listener, You've tuned in as a listener 47 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: over the year, so you know what it's all about. 48 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: But you've never been in the captain's seat having to 49 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: find these people, talk to these people, extract useful information 50 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: from them. How are you feeling about this new responsibility 51 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: that you bear, having to be the conduit for tens 52 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: of thousands of people to get the information they need 53 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: this week to have success in the field. 54 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 2: Do you feel that pressure maybe a little bit now. 55 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. 56 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: It's going to be great to hear the success of 57 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: you know, people having throughout the season, or maybe the 58 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 2: struggles or just the anticipation of the season builds up. 59 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it's going to be contagious 60 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to it. I mean, we have 61 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: some really good guests here for this week, and we 62 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 2: actually have one if a guy that shot a really wide, 63 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 2: awesome buck and so as a as a deer hunting fan, 64 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear the story firsthand and see what 65 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: he keyed it on. And so it's great to be here, 66 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: grateful for the opportunity, and it's gonna be a lot 67 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: of fun. 68 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: So is there anything new that we should be watching 69 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: for this year? With you running the show? And you know, 70 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm here this episode, but I'm I probably won't be 71 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: around for most of the episodes. You'll be running the 72 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: whole show from here on out. I'll drop in as 73 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: a guest here and there. But do you have any 74 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: changes you're wanting to make? Is there anything new coming 75 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: down the pipeline that we should be watching. 76 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: For The plane is gonna get built in the air, 77 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: so as it sits expect some really good information. 78 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: You know why. 79 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 2: It's been a favorite in the past. And I feel 80 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: like once I get my sleeves up and maybe ankle 81 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: deep in some mud, there's very possible there's gonna be 82 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: some audibles or some different approaches here. So that's that's 83 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: my foreshadowing without an idea of what the foreshadowy really is, 84 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: and for there that's fair. 85 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: Now. 86 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: One thing, though, am I right? Are you still planning 87 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: on having video for all of these interviews? This is 88 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: that right? 89 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 4: Yeah? 90 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: All of them are still gonna be video. 91 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 2: There'll be some challenges, yeah, there'll be some challenges throughout here, 92 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: so that is one of the biggest changes. And I 93 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: feel sometimes it's crazy just how many people watch podcasts 94 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: on YouTube now. And I think that audio is great. 95 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 2: But to see the excitement or maybe see the dark 96 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 2: circles under my eyes or guest eyes. They've been out, 97 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 2: you know, in the in the woods chasing deer for 98 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: three weeks, four weeks or a week slid, it's going 99 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: to be fun to look at my face. I guess 100 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: week one here in September, September, and then by the 101 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: end of December, see what I look like. 102 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: Well, you know what you should try to do. Here's 103 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: a little stretch goal for you. If we could somehow 104 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: get some of our successful guests, you know who just 105 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: kill the deer. We got to get some of these 106 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: guys to like take us out to the truck or 107 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: to the barn, or to wherever they've got there. Did 108 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: I want to see some of these deer in real life. 109 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: That'd be pretty fun, a great story. So if that 110 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: works for anyone, try to get that. I'd love to 111 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: see some video of these deer that we're getting the 112 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: recent stories and recent information from or another good one. 113 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: Maybe we can get someone to report to us from 114 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: a tree. I don't think that's ever happened before. We've 115 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: never hit anyone calling before from a hunt where they 116 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: can actually show us what things are looking like right now. 117 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: I don't know. 118 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: Maybe that won't work because they'll be whispering on a podcast, 119 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: which doesn't sound ideal. 120 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 3: But brainstorming here I'm supposed to do. 121 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: I might be hosting from the tree at one point, 122 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens. 123 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: I love it, so okay, so that's the game plan. 124 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: That's what we have to look forward to. What else 125 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: do you want to cover here before we get to 126 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: the interviews? 127 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: I think that's that's the premise. I'm excited. 128 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: Hopefully everyone is just chomping at the bit for this 129 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 2: upcoming season. I know some folks are still waiting for 130 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 2: that October one date to hit the calendar, but there's 131 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: people that are up and going and we've been talking 132 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: with them, and uh, that's pretty much all the housekeeping 133 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: I can think of for the time being. And I 134 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 2: know you recently just got back from a trip and 135 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 2: I haven't I don't know how it went, and so 136 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: I'm really eager to hear your Western Adventures slash Fishing 137 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 2: trip too like Hunting and Fishing trip. 138 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, the cast and the last we're going to be 139 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: doing a full podcast on it, so I won't give 140 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: away too much, but I can tell you that probably 141 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: one of the big things that we experienced on this 142 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: trip is something that a lot of folks are going 143 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: to be experiencing over the next week as they're listening 144 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: to this, which is still a lot of these hot 145 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: and dry conditions. And I'm really curious to hear from 146 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: the other guests that you have on the show today 147 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: about how they are dealing with this weather, don't I 148 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: don't think this is unique to me. I think that 149 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: this has been a very dry, hot, you know, late 150 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: summer and early fall for a lot of people, and 151 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: I gotta believe that's going to be impacting deer and 152 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: deer hunting strategies. I'm I'm, you know, seeing this with 153 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: my food plots. I've never had a worse food plot year. 154 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if you had the same problem, but 155 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: it has been horrible by us. So I'm just very 156 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,119 Speaker 1: curious how is that going to impact people's food plots 157 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: and they're hunting strategies around green plots and stuff like that. 158 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: How is this dry weather going to impact people with 159 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: mass crops this year? Are the mass crops going to 160 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: be impacted by that? What about water sources? Are the 161 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: little isolated water holes and maybe people usually depend on 162 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: in the early season, are those going to be dried 163 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: up and not you know, available for us to hunt over? 164 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: What about EHD? I've been hearing more and more reports 165 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: of EHD in certain parts of the country. Is that 166 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: going to be popping up and really impacting people's seasons? 167 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: All of that is very much on my mind right now, 168 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: based on what I've seen and heard. I don't know 169 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: if you've heard any of this with your interviews so far, 170 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: but I'm curious. 171 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's already been a common occurrence. EHD has 172 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: been brought up the just the level of dryness from 173 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: failed food plots, potentially acorn dropping maybe a little bit earlier. 174 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 2: In some parts of the country, crops got in late, 175 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: so they say that crop's going to be out, you 176 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 2: know a little bit later this fall, and obviously that 177 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: can change things. 178 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: And then. 179 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 2: For some of it too, it's so dry that some 180 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 2: of the crops are going to come out early, So 181 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: it's it feels like we're getting a little shaky start 182 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 2: to the season, like the stage is not set as 183 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 2: of right now to be. 184 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 3: This amazing thing. We had a really wet July. 185 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 2: You know, It's like there was a lot of things 186 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 2: that we're setting up a really exciting year, and now 187 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: mother nature seems to be even the playing field as 188 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: we get closer to a lot of these season openers. 189 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I hate I feel like many seasons we're 190 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: kicking it off with a lot of excitement, and for 191 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: some reason, I'm kicking off this season with like some apprehension. Yeah, 192 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: because of some of those things we just talked about. 193 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: So I just don't know. I'm a little bit nervous. 194 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: I'm feeling nerves from people right now given some of that, 195 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: especially the EHD thing, I think, yeah, it's getting that's 196 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: getting scary for a lot of folks. 197 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 2: So I actually I call. I called my local game 198 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: boarden yesterday just to see have you heard any rumblings 199 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 2: of a BHD in this area? 200 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 3: And he said no, not at this time. 201 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 2: I talked to not in regard to refresh, but just 202 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: talk to some folks where not you know, southern Ohio 203 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: places outside of there that are experiencing them some EHD 204 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 2: or people getting nervous that deer are disappearing. And then 205 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: you know, we did that podcast on the back forty 206 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 2: about failed food plots and I had I had bragged 207 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 2: that I typically had don't have failed food plots. I 208 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: do have a failed food plot here where I live. 209 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: And I went out there last week and I said, 210 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: why is there no germination? But on some of the 211 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 2: other ones, they're they're coming up. Okay, But man, we 212 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 2: need we need some rite. 213 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: We need rain so bad, so bad. Well, I'll be 214 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: doing rain dances over here. I hope you'll be doing 215 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: the same. And maybe between all of us here, uh 216 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: listening to the Wired hunt podcast and deer hunters all 217 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: over the country, of all of our rain dances are 218 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: done at the right times, enough times, maybe we'll finally 219 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: get some of that pre sip that we so desperately need. So, uh, Jake, 220 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: who who are we hearing from today? Who are we 221 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: hearing from? Where are they from? What's coming up next? 222 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 3: We have Cameron Dirt. 223 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 2: He had success in North Dakota earlier this month, and 224 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 2: he's gonna be You had to listen on how excited 225 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: he is about the Ohio opener. 226 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: We have Joe Cater from Missouri. 227 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 2: Their season opened up September fifteenth, and his approach and 228 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 2: what he's keen in on. He's had success in the 229 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 2: early season when when conditions are right, and it doesn't 230 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 2: sound like he's as bullish as it sits right here now. 231 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: And then we have our gentleman from Wisconsin who killed 232 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: a beautiful deer is and his name is Mitch Stam 233 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 2: and the Deer Society posted recently it's a very very 234 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: impressive frame deer and he shot that on the first 235 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: sit of the season. So we're gonna hear how all 236 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 2: that came together, and it's gonna be a great kickoff 237 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: to refresh and I hope everyone tunes in every single 238 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 2: week because it's gonna get it's gonna get more exciting. 239 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: We're gonna things are gonna fall into our lap and 240 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 2: there's gonna be some positive bounces along the way. 241 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 3: And I'm very very excited. So we have some great guests. 242 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: Awesome, well, Jake, thank you for taking my baby and 243 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: stewarding it into this next phase of its life. I'm 244 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: excited for the Ja Koper era of Retfresh Radio, and 245 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: let's get to those interviews. 246 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 3: Thanks, Let's do it. 247 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: Real quick. 248 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: Before we get into the episode with the guests, I 249 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 2: want to let you know that Roughresh is brought to 250 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: you by land dot com, the leading online real estate 251 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 2: marketplace to find your perfect rural, recreational, agricultural, or hunting 252 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 2: properties here in the US. All right, we got Cameron 253 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 2: Der on the line. He recently tagged a buck in 254 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 2: North Dakota. He's back home in Ohio and your season 255 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: is opening up this weekend. But you kicked off the season. 256 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 2: How everyone dreams with a buck tagged out on an 257 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: out of state trip. 258 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 3: Where were you and what were you doing? 259 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 5: I was in Minnesota. I'm just kidding. I was in 260 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 5: North Dakota. Went out there for the archery opener. 261 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 6: This year. 262 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 5: It opened earlier than it's ever opened. August twenty ninth 263 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 5: was the opener, so we were like, man, we could 264 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 5: really hone in on a deer doing something consistency, with 265 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 5: some consistency, And I actually took a trip out there 266 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 5: in July at the end of July to hang cameras 267 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 5: and kind of figure out what the deer we're doing. 268 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 5: The way it goes is when you take those trips 269 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 5: out early and think you have something pinned down, you 270 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 5: get out there to hunt at that time deer shedding 271 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 5: and they start doing crazy things and you lose them. 272 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 5: So it was a game of game of glass and 273 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 5: a game of time, and I was able to connect. 274 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 2: What was one or two key things that put you 275 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 2: an opportunity but to be you know, sub twenty yards 276 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: with with a buck that you were happy to shoot, 277 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 2: you know, target buck. 278 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 5: So we've been going out there for five years and 279 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 5: I learned a lot in those progressions. But out in 280 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 5: those scenarios glasses, the time behind glass and really figuring 281 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 5: out what deer are doing. It's so open that it 282 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 5: may seem like a deer doesn't have a trail or 283 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 5: a pattern or something that you can hone in on. 284 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 5: But if you spend enough time behind the glass watching them, 285 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 5: there are areas where they're vulnerable. There will be some 286 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 5: type of terrain pinch or some type of something that 287 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 5: you can take advantage if you spend enough time behind glass. 288 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 5: If I watch this deer do something one time and 289 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 5: I was like, okay, well I'm gonna go kill him, 290 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 5: I wouldn't get it done and I learned that over 291 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 5: the time of being out there. So watch them do 292 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 5: the same thing on camera three times, physically watched them 293 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 5: with glass twice, and then I made my strategic move. 294 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 2: You come from a tree, come from the ground. What 295 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 2: is your strategy If it's really open, I have to 296 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: imagine traditional Midwest. I'm going to be getting a tree 297 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 2: or wise off twenty feet up. It's probably not in 298 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: your playbook. 299 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 5: No, No, this area, it doesn't have this particular farm 300 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 5: that we were on, there are no tree. There's not 301 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 5: a tree on the farms, a fourteen hundred acre piece 302 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 5: that does not have a single tree on it. There's 303 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 5: some shrubby brush things that would be like head high 304 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 5: that if they were in the right position, you could 305 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 5: make a hide out of it. But in this particular area, 306 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 5: I had a standing corn field behind me, standing beans 307 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 5: in front of me, and I had a draw that 308 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 5: was going down into a lake below me. In between 309 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 5: the beans and the corn there's a bunch of sage. 310 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 5: So the sage is like if you get into it, 311 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 5: it's like head high strategy we've used in the past 312 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 5: is taken like a t post or a fence post 313 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 5: or something in there with us and like zip tying 314 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 5: some of that sage to it, just to give you 315 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 5: some sort of structure in front of you. And then 316 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 5: the standing corn was kind of like my backdrop and 317 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 5: some sage. So it's a fantastic hide. It's worked for 318 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 5: me twice in the same exact little sage pinch. When 319 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 5: you get that crop rotation of corn and beans, you 320 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 5: have that edge out there, dynamite and below me was 321 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 5: a cattail slew. If you have cattails, standing corn, standing 322 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 5: beans in the first week of September in Dakota State, 323 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 5: you're in a pretty good situation. 324 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 2: What about you know we're near the end of the 325 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 2: month of September. Would you say that same strategy and 326 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 2: advice would ring true if someone had a tag in 327 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: their pocket and they're in the Dakota's or they're in 328 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 2: a plain state, you know, ready to go this weekend. 329 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 5: If there are trees in the area, like oak trees 330 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 5: and stuff, oaks are dropping and deer are are going 331 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 5: to prefer the oaks. But in those ag areas where 332 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 5: the beans are still green. The Dakota's were wet this year, 333 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 5: so they got a really good stand crop stand. If 334 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 5: the beans are still green. Yeah, that's that's exactly what 335 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 5: I would still be doing it. But if you are 336 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 5: in other areas that are going to have oaks, oaks 337 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 5: are dropping and bucks are switching for sure. 338 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: Okay, so now Ohio is going to be opening this weekend, 339 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: what's your what's your strategy? You know you already have 340 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 2: one down right, So what is your strategy an outlook 341 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 2: over the next seven days for Ohio's opener. 342 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 3: A lot of people are excited. 343 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: I'm sure there' given me a lot of people that 344 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: are gonna go out there and scratch that edge they've 345 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: been waiting a long time to hunt for the first time. 346 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 3: And their respective home state. 347 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: If it's Ohio, what would you say or what are 348 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 2: you paying attention to as the season is about to open. 349 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: Temperatures and oaks for this weekend? But depending on what 350 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 5: part of Ohio you're in right now, I severely fear 351 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 5: for you. If you're in the southeast portion, I don't 352 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 5: know what you do down there, I don't I don't 353 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 5: know what you plan to do. Do you even hunt 354 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 5: this year? 355 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 4: I don't know? 356 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 3: Is that Have you heard it being that severe? 357 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 5: Yeah? There was a report It's like on Facebook and 358 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 5: I didn't validate it, but they said they were over 359 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 5: seven thousand deer reported reported in ten Yes, that's not 360 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 5: what hasn't been reported or hasn't been found. So it's 361 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 5: really ugly in the southeast portion right now. So you 362 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 5: probably are gonna get yourself in a situation where you're 363 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 5: gonna travel or go somewhere new. And if you're in 364 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,479 Speaker 5: that boat right now, I would be paying attention to oaks. 365 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 5: Oaks are starting to drop. It's been so dry there 366 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 5: seems like they're dropping a little earlier than maybe typical. 367 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 5: So yeah, oaks. For me, I'm going to pay attention 368 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 5: to the weather. I have that tag filled, so I'm 369 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 5: not itching or dying to get out there. And right 370 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 5: now the outlook doesn't look too great for temperatures mid 371 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 5: mid to high seventies. A couple of weeks ago it 372 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 5: was in the sixties and feeling right and then we 373 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 5: had this warm spell pop up. So in the outlook 374 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 5: that I have right now, there's not that cold front. 375 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 5: But when we get that cold front, if you have 376 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 5: a deer still doing some sort of pattern on on 377 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 5: some oaks, or if you still have green beans, they're 378 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 5: yellowing up really quick. But right now it's all bed 379 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 5: to food and temperatures. 380 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: If you had to put a scale one to ten 381 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: for the next seven days with your guys season opening Saturday, 382 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 2: ten being electric best it's ever been, and one being 383 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 2: you're not going to probably send an alarm on Saturday. 384 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 3: Where does it fall? 385 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 5: Time of year plays into a lot of this, But 386 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 5: I'm gonna say like a five. I'm in the middle. 387 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 5: I don't feel great about it because you're not getting 388 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 5: the most optimal temperatures. But if you're in a position 389 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 5: where you have a deer doing something with some sort 390 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 5: of consistency, he's not been pressured yet. This first week 391 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 5: of the season for a lot of people is go time. 392 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 5: It is the time to take advantage of that. So 393 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 5: for me personally, I don't have that situation. The deer 394 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 5: are switching into smokes and I got to move some 395 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 5: ultary cameras around and figure them out a little bit more, 396 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 5: spend too much time focusing on north of Yoda. But yeah, 397 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 5: I would put it at like a five. But if 398 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 5: you're in a situation where you have a deer pinned 399 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 5: down and you know what he's doing, it's probably a 400 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 5: little higher. On that scale for the first week of 401 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 5: the season. 402 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 3: I love it. 403 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 2: Well, the time is here. Congratulations once again on successful 404 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: Dakota's buck. It's always great to it's almost like is 405 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 2: the sun going to come up? Is camera going to 406 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: shoot a buck in the Dakota's it's almost you shoot it, 407 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 2: you show it in. So congratulations with that. Awesome, awesome 408 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: to hear that story. And good luck this season, good 409 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 2: luck this weekend if you head out, and thank you 410 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 2: so much. 411 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 4: Thank you. 412 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 3: All Right, we got Joe Cater on the line. 413 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 2: He's in Missouri and their season has already been opened. 414 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,239 Speaker 2: How is everything going in Missouri? It's a little hot, 415 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 2: it's a little dry. What have you been seen or 416 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: not seen? 417 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 7: So it's kind of been all over the place. I've 418 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 7: got a couple of shooters that have been on my 419 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,120 Speaker 7: dad's form, but it's one of those spots where it's 420 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 7: it's a duck hunt farm. He's a duck hunter, so 421 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 7: he's always up there being retired and doing whatever he wants, 422 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 7: scaring the hell out of everything. But so I haven't 423 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 7: those deer have not been regular in any way, shape 424 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 7: or form. And I'm really concerned that you know that 425 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 7: three letter word we all fear when the drought comes 426 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 7: is EHD. So I haven't had pictures either one of 427 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 7: those deer for three weeks, two three weeks at least, 428 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 7: and haven't had any rain of any measurable content over 429 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 7: there for probably six weeks. 430 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 4: I want to say, yeah, six weeks. My fault plot's 431 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 4: over there, complete loss. 432 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 7: So here at home, we had a half inch the 433 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 7: other day, but again before that, it. 434 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 4: Was I mean, I haven't had any rain since July. 435 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 7: So I redrilled fault plots Saturday when cereal grains because 436 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 7: they just I mean it's hard, you know, unless you have. 437 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 4: A really good way to irrigate. 438 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 7: And I'm busy trying to stay married and raising my family, 439 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 7: so that's uh, that's priority number one. So uh, it's 440 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 7: just been kind of tough. Uh had one years, probably 441 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 7: a shooter here at my house at least one, and 442 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 7: there's another one that it's kind of hard because at 443 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 7: my home home farm there, you know, I'm I'm kind 444 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 7: of in the hills off of the river bottoms, and 445 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 7: until they cut those crops in the bottom, I don't 446 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 7: see a whole lot of activity as far as mature 447 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 7: bucks go. 448 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 4: So that's kind of that's kind. 449 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 2: Of where we're Yeah, what would you say, are you 450 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 2: anticipating crops to get out on time this year? If 451 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 2: you had a guess when they might eventually get out? 452 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 2: I mean, what's kind of your prediction for that if 453 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 2: if for folks that have similar situation. 454 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, they're gonna be a little bit behind of where 455 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 7: what we would consider normal here in north central Missouri. 456 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 7: We had a rotary club dinner Monday night, and I'm 457 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 7: surrounded by farmers at that thing, and you know, there's 458 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 7: probably gonna start cutting here this weekend, is the word 459 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 7: on the street. As far as cutting corn. There's you know, 460 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 7: because a lot of those crops we had a very 461 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 7: wet spring and summer. We had a very wet springing summer, 462 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 7: and you know, they didn't get a lot of those 463 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 7: crops in the time that they normally do. 464 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 4: So that's just kind of what the cars that we're 465 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 4: dealt right now. 466 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: So so looking you know, looking at the extended forecast, 467 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 2: looks like it's still going to be warm this upcoming weekend. 468 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 2: You know, your season at that point had been open 469 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 2: for you know, almost two weeks or so. Are you 470 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 2: are you going to be out and doing dope patrol. 471 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 2: Are you going to be sitting back and waiting? What 472 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 2: is your strategy going into this upcoming weekend, you know, 473 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 2: like the twenty fifth or twenty sixth of September. 474 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 4: Unless I got a deer that's doing something. 475 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 7: Silly on a fault plot that's doing well the first 476 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 7: few weeks of the season. 477 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 4: I'm just kind of a hurry up and wait kind 478 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 4: of guy. 479 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 7: I mean, if you're one of those guys that's got 480 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 7: a got deer on camera doing something in daylight, I mean, 481 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 7: get after him, because well, the deer on the wall 482 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 7: behind me, I killed him on September twentieth. You just 483 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 7: got to have you just got to have the right 484 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,479 Speaker 7: cards played, and you know, the deer have to exist 485 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 7: and be in order to be able to hunt a 486 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 7: mature buck. So you know, if you're if you're getting 487 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 7: consistent pictures of one even though it's hot, I mean, 488 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 7: get out there, you know. But that's that's kind of 489 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 7: what's you know, I've had limited early season success only 490 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 7: because the opportunity was there. And if the opportunity is 491 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 7: there and you got cameras out or any MRI, you know, 492 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 7: get after him. But but I'm kind of My farm 493 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 7: is mostly CRP and it got sixty acre September, but 494 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 7: it's that's my home form. But it's just kind of 495 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 7: one of those spots to where once I get those 496 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 7: crops out, it really picks up after the first of 497 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 7: October tenth of October, that's kind of when things start 498 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,479 Speaker 7: getting real. I just took my electric fin down off 499 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 7: my beans last week, so and they're the beans. Did 500 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,479 Speaker 7: I mean the crop? The spring plots did incredible. I 501 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 7: think we I don't want to speak for the whole 502 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 7: entire area, but I lost something like twelve fourteen inches 503 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 7: of rain in July in Missouri. 504 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 4: It is like crazy, it's crazy. 505 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 7: It's you know, so my soy beans are not up 506 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 7: to my chin, but you know they're incredible. And those 507 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 7: were late ones, just because I had I had a 508 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 7: wrong variety. 509 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 4: Of beans and I messed up and spray two four 510 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 4: D on them. 511 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 7: But just I when in the spring I'm like super 512 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 7: busy with all the different plots and things, and. 513 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 4: Draped the wrong bottle. That's all it was to it. 514 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 7: So I smoked them and had to replant them. I 515 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 7: replanted some for a buddy on July fourth, and they're 516 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 7: up almost up to my waist. So just because I 517 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 7: how much moisture and that's not very good dirt either, 518 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 7: So but just go go ahead. 519 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you had to for someone listening, if there 520 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 2: was one specific food source with you know this warm 521 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 2: temperatures that's been dry or I guess one one terrain 522 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 2: feature one one a focal point to fill a tag 523 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 2: on a buck, and you had to and you had 524 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 2: to look at it over the next seven days, you know, 525 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 2: twenty second on what is the one thing that you'd 526 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: be keenan on the. 527 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 7: Most attentionally history in years past. If you've got that 528 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 7: white oakridge just dropping acorns, do not overlook that without 529 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 7: any MRI. If you're just one of those guys that's 530 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 7: got to get in the woods even though you don't 531 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 7: have any intel, got it, gostit and white overridge or 532 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 7: something were historically you've had acorns drop. Because even though 533 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 7: around here anyway, even though we didn't have a whole 534 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 7: heck of a lot of rain recently, you know, we 535 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 7: are still going to have a really good acorn drop 536 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 7: on timber farms. I don't have a ton of timber 537 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 7: on my form, but I've got some permission spots to do. 538 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 7: And if I get a wild hair and the family's 539 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 7: all good, you know, I'll still go sit in eighty 540 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 7: five degrees on a white oak bridge on a spot 541 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 7: that I got and which is actually not very far 542 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 7: from where that deer came from behind me. So yeah, 543 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 7: that's that's kind of something that I would key in 544 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 7: on if you're somewhere that just got to get in 545 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 7: the tree without the MRI so. 546 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 2: Love it all right, So in the next seven days, 547 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 2: ten being the best week of hunting of your entire 548 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,199 Speaker 2: life and one being yeah, you'd be just fine if 549 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: you don't go. 550 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 3: H that would be one one to ten. Where does 551 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 3: the next seven days fall. 552 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 4: For me or for everybody? For you? 553 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 2: For you, and for Missouri. You're you're speaking for the 554 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 2: state of Missouri right now. 555 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 7: I mean three maybe, yeah, you know, I mean I did. 556 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 7: I did get into recurve a little bit. 557 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 4: I've got to recurve a. 558 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 7: Few months ago, and I've been jam and arrows into 559 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 7: the hay bill. With that, I might get a wild 560 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 7: hair to go try and spek a dough, But other 561 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 7: than that, I'm. 562 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 4: Kind of I'm kind of laid back in the early season. 563 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 7: You know, if something shakes out to where I got 564 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 7: some MRI, I got to make sure that Jesus is 565 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 7: worth the squeeze when I leave the family, you know, 566 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 7: with a four year old and an eight year old 567 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 7: to to finn for. 568 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 4: Let my wife fends for so well. I love it. 569 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 3: I love it. 570 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: Joe, Well, good luck, appreciate the insight, and uh, it's 571 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 2: gonna get better. So if so, hopefully someone doesn't get discouraged. 572 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 2: It's a long season and we're gonna get some cold fronts. 573 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 2: You know, everything's going to happen the way it's supposed 574 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 2: to do. But you know, we're in the very first 575 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: leg of the race here. 576 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I still got dear. 577 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 7: They're packing velvet, so I mean, it's not you know, 578 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 7: it's kind of one of those things that where you know, 579 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 7: hurry up and wait and then go like hell when 580 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 7: it gets you right for you in your particular situation. 581 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 4: Love it. 582 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Joe. Good luck this season. 583 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 4: You bet you too, buddy. 584 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: Next up on the line, we have Mitch, and Mitch 585 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 2: is fresh off killing a giant in Wisconsin. How does 586 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 2: it feel, Mitch, You're kicking off the season with a 587 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 2: lot of intensity. 588 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 6: Feels pretty incredible and not gonna lie like getting her 589 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 6: done on eighty three degree weather is almost unheard of 590 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 6: without a cold front or anything that early. But got 591 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 6: lucky that he was still sticking to that summer pattern 592 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 6: kind of and got after him. 593 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: I love it, so give us set the stage for us. 594 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 2: So it was eighty eighty some degrees and he was 595 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 2: sticking to a summer pattern. Where was he going to? 596 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 2: How far do you think he was coming out of 597 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: a bedding area? And I'd love to hear those details. 598 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 599 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 6: So actually the night before I was filming a wedding 600 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 6: that Saturday of opening day, and he came through on daylight, 601 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 6: about an hour before like last legal shooting light. So 602 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,239 Speaker 6: I'm sitting I'm like, oh man, he's still moving an 603 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 6: eighty three degree weather. So that's it's good to know. 604 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 6: I would get up there and maybe try to hunt him. 605 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 6: So the next day we had a birthday party and 606 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 6: I was trying to get my dad to go all day. 607 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 6: I was like, Dad, I think we should go after him. 608 00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, maybe we'll go. 609 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 6: And then after a while it kind of got hotter 610 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 6: and hotter out He's like you can go. I don't 611 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 6: know if I want to go. I'm like, well, I'm 612 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 6: gonna go after him. He's like, all right, well, good luck, 613 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 6: and we went up. The spot is actually where I've 614 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 6: killed my last couple of bucks. It's up on top 615 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 6: of a ridge. This is in Buffalo County, so the 616 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 6: infamous bluffs and everything around is pretty much right on 617 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 6: the top of one of those. Got a water hole 618 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 6: up there, and we have probably about a half acre 619 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 6: food plot, and actually a tree just went down in 620 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 6: that food plot. We had a big storm like a 621 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 6: month ago or so and a huge oak tree fell over. 622 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 6: So we had to get up there and reconstruct that 623 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 6: whole food plot. I think it was like August twenty 624 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 6: second or something like that. So we went in there 625 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 6: and planted a bunch of rye and clover and got 626 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 6: it coming up pretty well, and he was on it 627 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 6: almost immediately and got pretty excited right after that because 628 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 6: at Young Rye they love that this time year, especially 629 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 6: when I mean the opening week, and there's a bunch 630 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 6: not only that are or oak tree, there was a 631 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 6: bunch of other oak trees around. And that night when 632 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 6: I was sitting out there, there was six sols probably 633 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 6: fifteen yards away from me, just lunching on acorns. So 634 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 6: I'm sure that had quite a bit of a draw 635 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 6: as well, because I could hear him the whole night 636 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 6: when I was sitting there, just falling and hitting my 637 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 6: blind the whole night. It was pretty pretty comical just 638 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 6: hearing them just continue to hit the blind too. 639 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 2: Man, So it was raining acorns, you had fresh, tender, 640 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 2: new growth. How far do you think that buck went 641 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 2: from when he got up out of his bed that evening. 642 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 6: If you had a guess, Well, there's a huge cornfield 643 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,719 Speaker 6: on the neighbors to the south there, and I'm almost 644 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 6: positive he came from out of there, And I wouldn't 645 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 6: say if he was betting in there somewhere. I don't 646 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 6: think he traveled less than one hundred yards. He was 647 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 6: better in that cornfield, and I kind of rolled the dice. 648 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 6: Normally we have a pond set up that we normally sit, 649 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 6: like early season or whatever. But southeast wind is almost 650 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 6: dead wrong for that spot, uh so, because of winds 651 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 6: blowing right to that pond, and normally they like to 652 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 6: come out on that point more. 653 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 3: But I from. 654 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 6: The pictures of the night before, I looked like he 655 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 6: was coming from the corn the other way instead of 656 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 6: that point. So I'm like, well, by go and sit 657 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 6: in this blind instead of down by that water hole. 658 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 6: I'll have a good shot at maybe seeing him, and 659 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 6: the wind would be perfect for that. 660 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: And ended up getting lucky. 661 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 6: And came out and then within the daylight and had 662 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 6: a quite the hassle getting drawn back in that blind. 663 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 6: I had to draw back three different times before I 664 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 6: shot him. 665 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 3: But what was going on? 666 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 6: Well, I was in this blind, It's well, this is 667 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 6: pretty much my gun stand that I only sit in, 668 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 6: and we have a tree stand probably fifteen yards away 669 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 6: from it, but it's hard to sell film out of. 670 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 6: So I was like, I don't know if on a 671 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 6: roll the dice go up there and it's a little 672 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 6: bit more self and the wind would have been a 673 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 6: little bit more wrong. So I was like, I got 674 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 6: a chance it out of that blind. And as soon 675 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 6: as I got in that blind that night, I wanted 676 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 6: to practice drawn back and everything. But twenty minutes probably 677 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 6: after I got in a dough in a fawn came 678 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 6: to that food plot and didn't give me a chance 679 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 6: to mess around with anything or draw back, and that 680 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 6: kind of screwed me over, but man, I got lucky 681 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 6: that I was able to finally draw back and release 682 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 6: an arrow at him. 683 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: No, that's that is amazing what you've had success early. 684 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 2: So for someone listening, you know, let's just say for 685 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 2: the last eight days of September, so you know, picture 686 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 2: the last eight days of September, last nine days of September. 687 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 2: What's one thing that you think would be very important 688 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 2: for people to key in on hopefully have a you know, 689 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 2: similar success to yourself. 690 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, Uh, this time of year, a lot of times, 691 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 6: those Braskas are holding so much moistury yet in those leaves, 692 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 6: and they don't really need to go to the ponds 693 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 6: to get all that water but because they can just 694 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 6: get it right from the braska leaves. And actually Friday 695 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 6: night he was out daylight and a whole different food 696 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 6: plot munched in front of a big old Braskat plot 697 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 6: that we had. So I'd say definitely keying on those 698 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 6: Braskas especially. I think there's a cold front coming through 699 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 6: here in the next couple of days, so I'm sure 700 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 6: they'll be moving pretty well there. And definitely the acorns 701 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 6: were a drawing card. On Sunday night when I killed 702 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 6: my buck too. 703 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 2: How risky did the hunt feel based off of access? 704 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 2: Were you were you nervous about going in there or 705 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 2: did you feel that was a pretty bowlproof setup? 706 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 6: I thought, I mean I was a little nervous because 707 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 6: of where he was coming from the corn I kind 708 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 6: of got to well, I literally gotta drive our ranger 709 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 6: all the way up that bluff and come around from 710 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 6: the opposite side. We park up kind of on this 711 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 6: hillside and walk in that way. But I knew it's 712 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 6: kind of hidden from the top of the cornfield. It's 713 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 6: probably like thirty forty feet down below, so you can't 714 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 6: really see the ranger if they're better than that corn there, 715 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 6: And I had multiple different times we'd be out working 716 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 6: this year. We made a new pond for him and 717 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 6: put in a blind, and he seemed to not care 718 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 6: at all. He came out a couple hours after after 719 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 6: we were all messing around and digging in a new 720 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 6: water hole. So I think he got pretty used to 721 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 6: the ranger over time, because he just still come up 722 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 6: and daylight and act like nothing was new. But uh, yeah, 723 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 6: I think it was kind of risky, but I figured 724 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 6: I had to give it a chance because the night 725 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 6: before he was out there broad daylight. 726 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, conventional wisdom would say, man, it's 727 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 2: eighty some degrees, don't even bother. But you went out 728 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 2: there and made it happen. You had really good intel 729 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 2: that you had, You had a really real chance, and 730 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 2: you made it happen. How have you measured the inside 731 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 2: with it that deer yet? 732 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: I did? 733 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 6: Actually I took it over to a good friend of mine, 734 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 6: Shane Innerbow. He does a lot of antler stuff with 735 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 6: sheds and scores a lot of deer, and he I 736 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 6: think he got it at twenty five and seven a'es. 737 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,320 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 738 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty unreal. 739 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 3: I called him. 740 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 6: I had nicknamed him the two footer last year when 741 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 6: I first got pictures of him, I'm like, holy crap, 742 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 6: that's got to be the widest deer I've ever had 743 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,439 Speaker 6: on camera. And I guess I was underplane how wide 744 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 6: he was. It was pretty awesome getting that tape on 745 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 6: him after we got him all tracked down and got 746 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 6: him out of the woods. That's the first thing we 747 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 6: were we got to get a tape on him. See 748 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 6: how why this guy is? 749 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 4: Yeah? 750 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 3: Unreal, No, totally totally unreal. 751 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 2: Congratulations if you had to skit, you know, give a 752 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 2: scale one to ten on what the last eight days 753 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 2: of September may look like, ten being to kill a 754 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 2: deer's widest two feet wider than two feet wide, and 755 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 2: one being it's going to be really tough. 756 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 3: Where would you rank that one to ten September? 757 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 6: I mean they're still kind of in their summer patterns 758 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 6: before they start breaking up, and normally around this time 759 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 6: here we get new bucks that are showing up from 760 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,720 Speaker 6: I don't know, a mile a mile and a half away, 761 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 6: kind of getting out of their summer ranges. But it 762 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 6: seems like there's another drawing card that I was on. 763 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 6: I put a mock scrape rub and got a couple 764 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 6: oak branches hanging off there too, And he was coming 765 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 6: line right for that scrape tree too, And I kind 766 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 6: of noticed in trail camera pictures that he was a 767 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 6: certain his dominance. Whenever he'd come up to the plot, 768 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 6: you get all a little bristled up and show off 769 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,839 Speaker 6: the other younger bucks what he's made of. 770 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 3: And yeah, he game be lined right for that scrape 771 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 3: tree too. 772 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 6: So those scrapes are starting to heat up now too, 773 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,840 Speaker 6: now that all the velvet's. 774 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: Gone and I don't know. 775 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 6: That's one thing that I know everybody's starting to key 776 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 6: in on more is those scrapes because they're not only 777 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 6: good for pictures and hunting over but they're just yeah, 778 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 6: they're a game changer. 779 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 3: So one to ten, you gotta give us a number. 780 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 6: If you get a cold, good cold front in late October, 781 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 6: late September, I give it's high up there. I give 782 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 6: it to probably a eight or nine. I really liked 783 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 6: late September. 784 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 3: Awesome man. 785 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 6: Well, I hadragulas, I had another buck that I shot 786 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 6: a couple of years ago. I probably had one of 787 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 6: my best hunts hover and that was on September twenty 788 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 6: second in a cloverfield on a cold front and probably 789 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 6: saw fifteen to twenty deer that night, including that giant buck. 790 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 1: Never got a shot at him that night, but it 791 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: was awesome night. O. 792 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 3: That's that's super cool. 793 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 2: Well, those great advice, congratulations once again, and yeah, just 794 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 2: an incredible deer. And I encourage everyone to go check 795 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 2: out that they have to see this deer to believe it, 796 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,840 Speaker 2: because when I saw it, I said, I got to 797 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,800 Speaker 2: talk to Mitch and thank congratulating, so thank you so much, 798 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 2: and good luck the rest of the year. 799 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Jake, thank you here. You guys have it. 800 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 3: Welcome back to rtfresh. 801 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,279 Speaker 2: We had some common advice of if you have a 802 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 2: buck that is doing the same thing, you can take 803 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 2: advantage of it. Go out and do it, even if 804 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,359 Speaker 2: the conditions aren't perfect. Mitch is the example of this 805 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 2: and I hope you guys have a great week And 806 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 2: if you're waiting on the sideline for October first, your 807 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,320 Speaker 2: time is coming. 808 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 3: Stay strong, keep scouting. 809 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,840 Speaker 2: And get ready to enjoy a fun and exciting fall. 810 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 3: We will see you next week on retfresh. See you