1
00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,440
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

2
00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,479
Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

3
00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:16,440
Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

4
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,160
Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This is episode number two hundred

5
00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,759
Speaker 1: and thirty and today the show we have back for

6
00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,120
Speaker 1: the third year in a row, our radio mini series

7
00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,680
Speaker 1: in which we are getting from the field updates from

8
00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,360
Speaker 1: all across the country on the latest and dear behavior,

9
00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:49,479
Speaker 1: activity and conditions. All right, welcome back to the Wired

10
00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,280
Speaker 1: to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx, and today

11
00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,480
Speaker 1: we are here for the third season of our radio

12
00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,160
Speaker 1: mini series. We started this back in two thousands sixteen.

13
00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,640
Speaker 1: It had rave reviews. We've kept it going and we

14
00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:10,560
Speaker 1: are back now. I'm excited. And for those who are

15
00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,280
Speaker 1: not familiar, we have Spencer Newhart. You probably know Spencer

16
00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,720
Speaker 1: by now, but if not, he's a producer with the

17
00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,280
Speaker 1: show and helps us run Runt Radio. And Spencer, you're back.

18
00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,920
Speaker 1: Can you give us the once more the quick rundown

19
00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,800
Speaker 1: of what we've got going on in these episodes, what

20
00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,280
Speaker 1: we can expect here today and in the future. So

21
00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,720
Speaker 1: with each episode, uh, these will come out once a

22
00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,800
Speaker 1: week in the fall. All the way through January, and

23
00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking to hunters from across the nation,

24
00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,119
Speaker 1: people who I really respect their opinion on white tails

25
00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,480
Speaker 1: and want to hear about what they're seeing. And so

26
00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to them and interview them and bring you, guys,

27
00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,360
Speaker 1: um you know the intel that I think is super

28
00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,600
Speaker 1: relevant about what they're seeing for buck activity and hopefully

29
00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,480
Speaker 1: make it a piece of the puzzle for when you're

30
00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,840
Speaker 1: out haunting this fall. And if you're trying to say

31
00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,639
Speaker 1: between a couple of stand locations, uh, you know, maybe

32
00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,040
Speaker 1: something can be pulled from these thirty minute podcasts that

33
00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,399
Speaker 1: will help you decide on you know, what the deer

34
00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,480
Speaker 1: might be doing. Well, I sure as hell hope that's

35
00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,480
Speaker 1: the case, because I need a little bit of help.

36
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,000
Speaker 1: I've been hunt in the last three nights, haven't got

37
00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,360
Speaker 1: it done yet. Do you have some information with our

38
00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,640
Speaker 1: guests today that's gonna help me put narrow in Montana?

39
00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,200
Speaker 1: Dere I. I think this will be pretty helpful because

40
00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,960
Speaker 1: of the four hunters we talked to today, two of

41
00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,079
Speaker 1: them tagged out September two kill and in August thirty

42
00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,840
Speaker 1: feet kill. So you'll have to listen and see who

43
00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,320
Speaker 1: we talked to that tagged out there, and we start

44
00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,680
Speaker 1: in Nebraska with Derek Lininger from the Lindsay Way. Then

45
00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,520
Speaker 1: we talked to Terry Hires from Blackwater Hunting Club in

46
00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,359
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Then we go to North Dakota and talk

47
00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,760
Speaker 1: to David g Arizo from Tagging Brigg and then we

48
00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,160
Speaker 1: talked to Josh Honeycutt from real tree dot Com in Kentucky. Nice.

49
00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,440
Speaker 1: I like it. We got kind of west, We've got

50
00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,919
Speaker 1: the middle of the country, we got the South. Good

51
00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,400
Speaker 1: job on that Spencer, Thank you. Now, Now what everyone's

52
00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,000
Speaker 1: wondering though, I just spilled the beans and told everyone

53
00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,959
Speaker 1: I haven't filled my Montana tag yet. Um, but is

54
00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,280
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Dan dead? Have you killed Lieutenant Dan yet? I

55
00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,200
Speaker 1: have not killed him. I've haunted two out of the

56
00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,040
Speaker 1: last three nights since opener and have yet to lay

57
00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,280
Speaker 1: my eyes on him. So we will see how that goes.

58
00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,959
Speaker 1: But I am not super confident right now. But it's

59
00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,880
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of fun to be out there

60
00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,320
Speaker 1: and early September like this. It's just totally different, um

61
00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,919
Speaker 1: on all your senses. So I'm having fun either way.

62
00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,840
Speaker 1: And even if I don't kill Lieutenant Dan in early

63
00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 1: September here, I don't think that's going to close a

64
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,400
Speaker 1: book on on me getting a chance at that year. Well,

65
00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,800
Speaker 1: I have lots and lots of questions about what You've

66
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,160
Speaker 1: been trying to do so far, and I've got a

67
00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,680
Speaker 1: lot to share about what I've been up to so far, UM,

68
00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,280
Speaker 1: But we're gonna save that stuff for the main podcast

69
00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,000
Speaker 1: this week because on Thursday's episode, you, me, and Further

70
00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,240
Speaker 1: are all going to spend the entire podcast talking about

71
00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,760
Speaker 1: how our haunts have been going, what we've been doing,

72
00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,080
Speaker 1: what we've been trying, what's working. UM. Josh actually just

73
00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,760
Speaker 1: got to North Dakota today, so he's gonna start hunting tonight,

74
00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,400
Speaker 1: so we'll have two hunts in the books by the

75
00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,400
Speaker 1: time we record. UM, so last to share there. But

76
00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,200
Speaker 1: I guess can I spend my typical or your typical

77
00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,120
Speaker 1: question back at you really quick and just see in

78
00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,840
Speaker 1: South Dakota so far, how has the movement been at

79
00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,200
Speaker 1: a high level? Without giving away two men too much,

80
00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,640
Speaker 1: I I don't have a ton of intel from my hunts.

81
00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,119
Speaker 1: I'm hunting a fairly closed off area where I don't

82
00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,159
Speaker 1: have a huge view of, um, you know, like the

83
00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,960
Speaker 1: bean field that I'm hunting around, so my observations might

84
00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,760
Speaker 1: not be a great representation of what's actually going on.

85
00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,120
Speaker 1: But the weather right now looks really good for early September.

86
00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,520
Speaker 1: Like this, this is what you would want. It's it's

87
00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,000
Speaker 1: a cold front right now, and that's going to go

88
00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,000
Speaker 1: through all the way early next week. And so I

89
00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,920
Speaker 1: would say it's it's pretty good right now, probably a

90
00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,560
Speaker 1: seven or eight, But I don't have great intel. How

91
00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,400
Speaker 1: about you, Mark, what would you say? In Montana? Yeah, well,

92
00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,520
Speaker 1: it's been probably like an eight or nine. I mean

93
00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,679
Speaker 1: it's been really good. And I don't think that's because

94
00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,760
Speaker 1: of any kind of weather factor yet, because it's been

95
00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,400
Speaker 1: pretty hot. Um. But I've found this little tucked away

96
00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,600
Speaker 1: a couple of pieces I've tucked away public land that

97
00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,960
Speaker 1: are just really hard to get to that I just

98
00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,040
Speaker 1: don't think anyone ever goes to. And because of that,

99
00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,400
Speaker 1: these deer are very unpressured, very comfortable. Um. And I've

100
00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,080
Speaker 1: also found the right food sources. So because of that,

101
00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:37,200
Speaker 1: seeing great activity, and just haven't quite been able to

102
00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,080
Speaker 1: get everything put together. But but it's looking really good.

103
00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,440
Speaker 1: So probably an eight or nine. And as you mentioned,

104
00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,080
Speaker 1: that cold from that hit today, so it's gonna be

105
00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,680
Speaker 1: really good today and tomorrow, I think with those temperatures

106
00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,400
Speaker 1: dropping high BEARO metric pressure. UM, so I feel I

107
00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,159
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about things, about as good as I

108
00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,320
Speaker 1: could ask for. So things are? Things are lining up nicely?

109
00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,600
Speaker 1: Anything anything different? If you had to like summarize or

110
00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,440
Speaker 1: cliff note what the rest of the guys have told

111
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,400
Speaker 1: you so far? Is that kind of what everyone's been saying?

112
00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,000
Speaker 1: Or are we unique? No, a lot of people are,

113
00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, around that seven or eight they feel for

114
00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,960
Speaker 1: what the bucket activity has been and a very similar

115
00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,560
Speaker 1: number for what they think it's going to be here. Um,

116
00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,640
Speaker 1: we're kind of seeing some unique weather across the country

117
00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,080
Speaker 1: and so that's playing a factor for what some of

118
00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,800
Speaker 1: these guys are saying. UM. But they also have a

119
00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,880
Speaker 1: lot of good food sources available. Um. And they've been

120
00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,240
Speaker 1: doing pretty vanilla setups for the most part too, UM,

121
00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,320
Speaker 1: kind of your typical early season field edge set up

122
00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,680
Speaker 1: or hunting over water. So there are still some intricacies

123
00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,240
Speaker 1: though to hunting this kind of year. And then they

124
00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,960
Speaker 1: can pick up on some of those things from these

125
00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,640
Speaker 1: four interviews. Awesome, Well, anything else we need to cover

126
00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,000
Speaker 1: before you can take it away? With the interviews, I

127
00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,839
Speaker 1: don't think. So let's get to our first guest all right.

128
00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,640
Speaker 1: Before we get to our first update, though, let's take

129
00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,720
Speaker 1: a break for a word from our sponsors at white

130
00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:03,400
Speaker 1: Tail Properties. This week. With white Tail Properties, we are

131
00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,320
Speaker 1: joined by Tom James, a land specialist out of Central Indiana,

132
00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,640
Speaker 1: and Tom is going to be telling us about what

133
00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:14,240
Speaker 1: to look for when your goal is to flip a property. Okay,

134
00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,600
Speaker 1: great question. Um First and foremost, looking at a good

135
00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,720
Speaker 1: county in your state, or even a good part of

136
00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,520
Speaker 1: the county that is known for producing better quality deer,

137
00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,520
Speaker 1: and that's typically easily found out in the in the

138
00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,400
Speaker 1: state's record book program, So those counties are typically more

139
00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,440
Speaker 1: highly sought after by buyers um as opposed to you know,

140
00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,160
Speaker 1: maybe counties that are off out of that parameter. So

141
00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,040
Speaker 1: number one, a good county, maybe even a better part

142
00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,280
Speaker 1: of the county that is known for producing better deer. Secondly,

143
00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,160
Speaker 1: I would look for property that you can pick up

144
00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,920
Speaker 1: right at market value and slightly under market value, obviously

145
00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,480
Speaker 1: as a home run, but make sure you do your homework,

146
00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,880
Speaker 1: find out what the comps and local local land is

147
00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,440
Speaker 1: selling for in that mixed recreational ground and that would

148
00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,800
Speaker 1: be timber and maybe some pasture, some tillable ground mixed in.

149
00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,600
Speaker 1: So number two good value at at the current market price,

150
00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,920
Speaker 1: and number three look at uh sometimes. An often overlooked

151
00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,040
Speaker 1: aspect of timber that people don't know a lot about

152
00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,760
Speaker 1: is um the quality of the hardwood species that are

153
00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,400
Speaker 1: on the property. If you can find eighteen inch and

154
00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:26,360
Speaker 1: larger diameter trees in their specifically white oaks, red oaks, walnut, cherry, um,

155
00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,800
Speaker 1: sugar maple, the white oak market is extremely hot right now,

156
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,079
Speaker 1: and anything above that is gonna that size range is

157
00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,960
Speaker 1: going to return dividends that you could use the applying

158
00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,440
Speaker 1: to paying the property back off and also doing some

159
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,800
Speaker 1: great habitat work in the process by opening up the

160
00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,840
Speaker 1: canopy and getting some good habitat work going on in there.

161
00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,520
Speaker 1: If you'd like to learn more and to see the

162
00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,200
Speaker 1: properties that Tom currently has listed for sale, visit white

163
00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,280
Speaker 1: Tail properties dot com. Backslash James. That's j. A. M. E.

164
00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,840
Speaker 1: S alright, and joining me on the line first is

165
00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,720
Speaker 1: Derek lining Or of Nebraska from the Lindsay Way. Now, Derek,

166
00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,600
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, what would you

167
00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,680
Speaker 1: say the buck activity has been lately? Oh, lately, I'd

168
00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,880
Speaker 1: say this last week it's been uh, probably seven out

169
00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,839
Speaker 1: of ten it's hit or miss. I've been uh. This

170
00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,520
Speaker 1: time of year, I really plan on the first six

171
00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,720
Speaker 1: days of hunting season to uh capitalize because I leave

172
00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,360
Speaker 1: that seventh eighth to get down to Georgia with the

173
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,199
Speaker 1: Jeff and David to uh hit the Georgian Georgia opener.

174
00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,800
Speaker 1: So I really plan all my food plots and everything

175
00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,240
Speaker 1: around these first six days. And ever since Nebraska opened

176
00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,440
Speaker 1: their season up on September one, it's it's helped a lot,

177
00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, get those bucks closer to velvet and they're

178
00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,200
Speaker 1: still on their summer patterns. So right now, uh clover

179
00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,080
Speaker 1: this first week. Actually the last four years, me and

180
00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,680
Speaker 1: my wife have killed a deer on this exact same

181
00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,199
Speaker 1: plot in uh out of the same tree stand, four

182
00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,800
Speaker 1: years in a row. And so I would say, clover,

183
00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,560
Speaker 1: uh this first week. If you don't have any beans around, beans,

184
00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,920
Speaker 1: I think with trump clover, but in a section that

185
00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,679
Speaker 1: I have, there's no other food besides my clover plot

186
00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,520
Speaker 1: and a little off alfa, and I strategized and cut

187
00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,880
Speaker 1: my clover about two weeks ago so i'd have a

188
00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,360
Speaker 1: good regrowth and Uh, it paid off. Well. You killed

189
00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,160
Speaker 1: an awesome buck there on the second sid of the

190
00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,600
Speaker 1: season four. You in September two, tell us a little

191
00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,920
Speaker 1: bit about that buck and about that hunt, you bet.

192
00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,000
Speaker 1: So it's a deer that my son Cole called Slade.

193
00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,080
Speaker 1: It's off a superhero movie, I guess, but uh, I'm

194
00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,120
Speaker 1: not familiar with that one. But he called it Slade,

195
00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,240
Speaker 1: and so I went with it. But there was a

196
00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,320
Speaker 1: last year was a three year old, and uh in

197
00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,000
Speaker 1: my area, you know, Jeff and David always preached five

198
00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,959
Speaker 1: years or old there. But obviously they're their properties are

199
00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,200
Speaker 1: a little well, more well managed and have better neighbors

200
00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,920
Speaker 1: in the area where I live in southeast Nebraska, about

201
00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,760
Speaker 1: twenty minutes from Lincoln, so it's very heavily populated area.

202
00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,920
Speaker 1: I have actually have about six acres of state you know,

203
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,960
Speaker 1: public ground across the road for me and a lot

204
00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,240
Speaker 1: of uh if it's brown, it's down neighbors. So if

205
00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,320
Speaker 1: a deer gets to four for me, it's it's uh,

206
00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,560
Speaker 1: it's considered a five year old in my area and

207
00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,240
Speaker 1: in my opinion and whatnot. So you kind of I

208
00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,880
Speaker 1: set my age structure based on, you know, the situations

209
00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,480
Speaker 1: that I have here, but uh, but no, it was

210
00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,439
Speaker 1: it's been raining since Saturday night, opening night. It was

211
00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,520
Speaker 1: raining on me the whole time, and the deer moved

212
00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I didn't see any bucks, and

213
00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,440
Speaker 1: the bucks, the buck that I shot, actually didn't even

214
00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,480
Speaker 1: show up on camera that night. I run spartan cell

215
00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,920
Speaker 1: camera on this clover plot, and uh, always with an

216
00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,080
Speaker 1: easterly wind, it didn't matter if it was southeast northeast,

217
00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,600
Speaker 1: any easterly wind, he would usually show up in daylight.

218
00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,200
Speaker 1: But Saturday night, opening night that wind, and uh, there

219
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,280
Speaker 1: was not much of a wind. It was just uh

220
00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,839
Speaker 1: kind of calm, and I've noticed that deer don't like

221
00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,599
Speaker 1: to move when it's calmer in my area. But and

222
00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,880
Speaker 1: then the rain held him back. But the next day,

223
00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,400
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday, when I killed him, there's a nice

224
00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,439
Speaker 1: twelve twelve mom our wind and uh, straight out of

225
00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:09,960
Speaker 1: the east, and it was a little bit of a

226
00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,360
Speaker 1: cooler wind, and I just felt right. And the rain

227
00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,240
Speaker 1: had it rained all afternoon up until the last two hours,

228
00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,839
Speaker 1: and I think once we got that break, they got

229
00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,000
Speaker 1: up on their feet and he was coming to a

230
00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,320
Speaker 1: plot about eight fift with another buck that's a five

231
00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,560
Speaker 1: year old that I had, and uh, they came walking

232
00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,840
Speaker 1: down the trail at eight oh five, so a little earlier,

233
00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,800
Speaker 1: and stopped at twenty six yards and I was able

234
00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,079
Speaker 1: to make a good shot and recover them pretty quick.

235
00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,160
Speaker 1: That was an awesome dear. No matter where you're at her,

236
00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,800
Speaker 1: what kind of property hunts. So you know, I'd be

237
00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,080
Speaker 1: static with a September second buck like that. Now you

238
00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,960
Speaker 1: touched on it a little bit there talking about that hunts.

239
00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,560
Speaker 1: But you guys have had some unique weather as of late.

240
00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,559
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about those monsoon like conditions

241
00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,480
Speaker 1: that you've experienced in Nebraska. Yeah, so since uh, since

242
00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,280
Speaker 1: let's see Saturday evening, it's either rain between one and

243
00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,320
Speaker 1: five inches in some of the area every single day.

244
00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,600
Speaker 1: So and it's it's coming down right now again and

245
00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,240
Speaker 1: we're almost that three inches just from last night. So

246
00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,440
Speaker 1: it's been NonStop rain and the forecast throughout the day

247
00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,200
Speaker 1: starting on you know when I was checking the weather

248
00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,200
Speaker 1: last Saturday or on Saturday, you know, looking at this

249
00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,120
Speaker 1: whole week, you know, the only week that I had

250
00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,839
Speaker 1: to hunt solid before I start traveling in filming Jeff

251
00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,360
Speaker 1: and David, Uh, it was rain every night and so

252
00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,320
Speaker 1: I was a little nervous, and uh, thank god, you know,

253
00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,120
Speaker 1: the one night that I I killed it, it didn't rain,

254
00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,000
Speaker 1: So thank the Lord that you know, I got that opportunity.

255
00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,199
Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks like rain NonStop. And uh, Kyle

256
00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,160
Speaker 1: Carter or the other producer for US and land manager

257
00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,480
Speaker 1: over at the at Iowa, the Iowa farm, he actually

258
00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,280
Speaker 1: sat the other night and his brother's truck from when

259
00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,640
Speaker 1: he got in the treat and got out, his brother's

260
00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,320
Speaker 1: truck had water up to the headlights. So it's it's

261
00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,959
Speaker 1: been NonStop rain here and it's it's gonna kill the

262
00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,280
Speaker 1: deer movement for sure. I actually had the uck that

263
00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,000
Speaker 1: runs with the one that I had harvested the other night.

264
00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,839
Speaker 1: He was on camera at three am when it stopped raining.

265
00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,439
Speaker 1: So I think if a guy can get some breaks

266
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,080
Speaker 1: at the you know, the magic hour in the evenings,

267
00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,720
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be really good these next couple of days.

268
00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,320
Speaker 1: But it's it's not looking like the rain is gonna

269
00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,080
Speaker 1: stop for the next three days going forward. Then in

270
00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,040
Speaker 1: this next week or so, what do you think that

271
00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:24,760
Speaker 1: buck moon is going to be on a scale of

272
00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,440
Speaker 1: one to ten in Nebraska? In Nebraska, I think you

273
00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,360
Speaker 1: know the movement's it's still gonna be good. You're still

274
00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,400
Speaker 1: gonna want to hunt if you've got good green beans.

275
00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,240
Speaker 1: Yet there's depending on when the farmer got the beans

276
00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,520
Speaker 1: in your area. If you've got a nice spot close

277
00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,200
Speaker 1: to bedding or a hidden area that you know near

278
00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,160
Speaker 1: some good bedding in timber, that he can still kill

279
00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,960
Speaker 1: him on the greens. And if we get some cool fronts.

280
00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,680
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow there's actually it's supposed to drop down

281
00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,680
Speaker 1: into the sixties, high sixties, lower seventies, So I think

282
00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,760
Speaker 1: these next couple of days, if it stops raining, a

283
00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,960
Speaker 1: guy can really capitalize if he hunts, if he's got

284
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,600
Speaker 1: some good green plots, or if he's got good good

285
00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,400
Speaker 1: green beans, that if he's got a buck that he

286
00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,480
Speaker 1: knows is in the area, he could have a good chance.

287
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,440
Speaker 1: But there is also a lot of beans starting to

288
00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,280
Speaker 1: turn in the southeast corner Nebraska. So I've noticed as

289
00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,280
Speaker 1: soon as those beans turn a little bit, I mean

290
00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,400
Speaker 1: automatically the deer shut off. So if you've got a

291
00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,880
Speaker 1: good rat gratish plot or any sort of good green

292
00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,240
Speaker 1: clover plot or a nice off off the field, you

293
00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,920
Speaker 1: can hunt. I would definitely camping out over those the

294
00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,360
Speaker 1: next couple of days. Yeah, so I think, you know,

295
00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,960
Speaker 1: this next five days, it's supposed to stop raining Friday,

296
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,560
Speaker 1: and then into the weekend it's supposed to you know,

297
00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,080
Speaker 1: get some better weather. So I think, you know, anywhere

298
00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,960
Speaker 1: from a seven to a ten out of ten these

299
00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,800
Speaker 1: next couple of days, if the rain stops the movement,

300
00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,520
Speaker 1: the bucks are just starting to shed, they're still you know,

301
00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,160
Speaker 1: I think they've still got a good week or so

302
00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:49,120
Speaker 1: of summer movement and before they start getting hard horn

303
00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,080
Speaker 1: brain and moving all over all over the county. Congrats

304
00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,800
Speaker 1: again on the great deer and thanks for joining me, Derek.

305
00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,840
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing some little lindsay Way work

306
00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,480
Speaker 1: this fall, all right, Thank you, sir, all right, and

307
00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,640
Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Next is Terry Hires from

308
00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,760
Speaker 1: Blackwater Hunting Club in South Carolina. Now, Terry, what would

309
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,040
Speaker 1: you say the buck activities ben Leley on the scale

310
00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,800
Speaker 1: of one to ten, well, one to ten if you're

311
00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,640
Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, a week or so ago,

312
00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,920
Speaker 1: we were probably up there around i'd say around seven percent,

313
00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 1: maybe eight. Now, uh, seems like after these bucks shed

314
00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,200
Speaker 1: the velvet, we go into a little bit low and

315
00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,280
Speaker 1: we're we're probably around the five scale on the scale

316
00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,520
Speaker 1: of five. And you know, and I don't know what

317
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,240
Speaker 1: the reason for it, but it seems like when these

318
00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,400
Speaker 1: bucks shed their shed their velvet, they just they start

319
00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,040
Speaker 1: splitting up a little bit and um, you know, start

320
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,440
Speaker 1: rubbing trees and but but they're not near as active.

321
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,960
Speaker 1: Um is generally only in the late September early October

322
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,200
Speaker 1: before they uh start getting moving a lot. You know,

323
00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,640
Speaker 1: in this part of the country, we we've got eleven

324
00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,800
Speaker 1: thousand acres were only on eight people a day and

325
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,040
Speaker 1: um we probably said me five percent wooded and the

326
00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,639
Speaker 1: rest of its agriculture and most of that being peanuts

327
00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,680
Speaker 1: caught and corn, uh soy beans, that type stuff. Now,

328
00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,960
Speaker 1: you guys have the unique opportunity to hunt starting August

329
00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,320
Speaker 1: fifteenth there in South Carolina. How is the hunting change

330
00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,240
Speaker 1: from August fifteenth until now? Do those setups look similar?

331
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,639
Speaker 1: Are you hunting a lot of the same patterns that

332
00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,679
Speaker 1: that those deer head back? Then? We do hunt the

333
00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,920
Speaker 1: same patterns. And you know, we're a little different than

334
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,640
Speaker 1: some states because we can, you know, because we can

335
00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,040
Speaker 1: put out corn and that type stuff, and our our

336
00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,280
Speaker 1: road systems, you know, we were pretty flat with our

337
00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,320
Speaker 1: road system. Uh, you know pretty much you can every

338
00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,960
Speaker 1: three or four yards you can drive driving. You know,

339
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,680
Speaker 1: if a deer runs off, if you try them, you

340
00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,160
Speaker 1: can get into another road. So you know, we don't

341
00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,679
Speaker 1: have to put the hunters out and uh, you know

342
00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,160
Speaker 1: routy man, we can basically drive right to our stand.

343
00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,480
Speaker 1: That's a big sparse it it helps, you know, with

344
00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,920
Speaker 1: the human scent um, you know, we can we can try.

345
00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,160
Speaker 1: I've seen some talk lately of hurricanes are on Florida,

346
00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,440
Speaker 1: and you know that's always a threat to you guys

347
00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,399
Speaker 1: are in South Carolina. How does that affect the deer hunting?

348
00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:20,080
Speaker 1: When those hurricanes started moving up the coast. Well, you know,

349
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,320
Speaker 1: weather always, you know, a change in weather can be

350
00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,120
Speaker 1: a good, good thing. I mean, we get these these

351
00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,720
Speaker 1: showers in here and cool things off. You know, these deer,

352
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean they're great. We're reading this weather, so you

353
00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,199
Speaker 1: know it usually it usually helps us. Now if it

354
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,800
Speaker 1: gets rain and nasty and it'll shut them down for

355
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,640
Speaker 1: a while, and as soon as it you know, kind

356
00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,040
Speaker 1: of clears back up, they'll they'll turn back on. And

357
00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,760
Speaker 1: of course, I think most people know with the deer hunting,

358
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,399
Speaker 1: especially when you get into the cool weather. If you

359
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,520
Speaker 1: if you get a rain and a good rain, and

360
00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,800
Speaker 1: after that it cools down the next day and it

361
00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,600
Speaker 1: clears up. Man, that's that's just jimmy. When when they're

362
00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,840
Speaker 1: on for sure we'll going ward than in this next

363
00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,000
Speaker 1: week or so. What do you think that buck activity

364
00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,840
Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to ten?

365
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,119
Speaker 1: Well in the next week or two, Well will still

366
00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 1: be in the September. I mean it should get better

367
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,720
Speaker 1: if if if we're around the five or six, now

368
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,719
Speaker 1: get up there, six, six and a half. How wouldn't

369
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,639
Speaker 1: want to put much more than a seven because I

370
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,160
Speaker 1: don't want to miss lead anybody on that possibly eight,

371
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 1: but you really just don't say the good buck numbers. Uh,

372
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,720
Speaker 1: it's see in a plasta seven mark to probably get

373
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,840
Speaker 1: into um like I said about the fifth to ten

374
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,440
Speaker 1: to October. All right, Well, thanks for joining me, Terry,

375
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,679
Speaker 1: and good luck to your hunters there at the black

376
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,360
Speaker 1: Water Hunting Lodge. Thank you, Spence, I appreciate the coal.

377
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,800
Speaker 1: Joining us on the line. Next is David Gizo from

378
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,680
Speaker 1: Team Tagging Brigg in North Dakota. Now, David, what would

379
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,680
Speaker 1: you say the buck activity has been lately on a

380
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,600
Speaker 1: scale one to ten. Honestly, this last week i'd probably

381
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 1: say it was it was about a six out of

382
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 1: ten UM. I actually I got lucky and shot a

383
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 1: buck on opening night of North Dakota season on Friday.

384
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 1: But since then the buck activity has gone pretty nocturnal.

385
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 1: On the bucks at least that we're observing, seems to

386
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,679
Speaker 1: be splitting up a bit. We had, we've had a

387
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,679
Speaker 1: couple that have turned hard horn, so I think you know,

388
00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: their hormones are kicking in, um, They're starting to feel

389
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 1: a little bit different, and the bachelor groups right now

390
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 1: are starting to split up a little bit. On top

391
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 1: of which, the weather up here has been average to

392
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,560
Speaker 1: a little bit warmer um so the daily activity in

393
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 1: general for the deer, because it hasn't been the greatest

394
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 1: over the past couple of days for sure. So that's

395
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at right now, hoping that things

396
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 1: change over the next few days as we've got a

397
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 1: cold front rolling in here. Tell me a little bit

398
00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 1: about that hunt where you killed that buck on August thirty. Yeah,

399
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 1: so we we actually we came up here probably three

400
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago and set UM eight eight trail cameras up

401
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: and on this particular spot. We've had three what we

402
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,120
Speaker 1: call shooter box four and a half plus year old

403
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: deer coming in on a pretty regular basis, so we

404
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: had higher hopes going into the hunt. Although like I said,

405
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 1: it's been a little bit warm in a few days

406
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 1: prior to the hunt. Um, there was not a whole

407
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: lot of buck activity. And honestly, I think we just

408
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 1: we just timed it up perfect on one of those

409
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 1: one of those nights where it was just right and

410
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of deer. I mean we saw

411
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: probably ten to twelve year before we saw him, We

412
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: saw one of our other shooters before we saw Um.

413
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 1: I think we had we had two bucks that were

414
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: literally right under us for probably twenty minutes that really

415
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 1: kind of held us hostage in the stand for a

416
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. But for whatever reason, these deer were

417
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 1: up on their feet early that night. Um, it was

418
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: a little bit cooler, and it was a little bit breezier. Uh.

419
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, like I said, the deer were coming from

420
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: all different directions we were hunting, Uh, the edge of

421
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 1: a soybean field that basically connected to a big finger

422
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: of of a of a tree row, and the deer

423
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: typically come from the back side of this soybean field

424
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: out of these slews, and they worked their way through

425
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: the soybeans and then they just kind of feed up

426
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: and down the tree rows. Is what we've really observed

427
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years coming up here. Honestly,

428
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: this has been one of our better spots over the

429
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 1: last few years. So that was gonna be our tactic

430
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 1: going into day one. And you know, it just so

431
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: happened that we got lucky and and one of those

432
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: shooter box came across the beans and literally read the script.

433
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean he ended up yards um, made a perfect

434
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: double one shot and he fell within sight um and

435
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: a matter of a second. So it was, honestly, for me,

436
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: it was a dream true. I've I've never shot a

437
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: velvet box before, but think dear today along with shooting

438
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: the velvet box, so to to start off the season,

439
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,880
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, we're on cloud nine right now. Yeah,

440
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 1: that was a textbook set up. It looked like the

441
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 1: shot was great. The set up was like your ideal

442
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, early season stand location and and everything came

443
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: together for you. Guys can check out that video on

444
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: tagging Briggs facebook page and one of the cool things

445
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: about these guys and why I enjoy following them is

446
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: the quick turnaround time. Like you shot that deer on Friday,

447
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: and I think it was by Saturday you had you know,

448
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: fully edited produced video of that haunt up and and

449
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 1: so it's really unique to to what you guys are

450
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,199
Speaker 1: doing now. I know you've been running some show came

451
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: is there for a while. Tell us a little bit

452
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: about what you've learned from from having those up for

453
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: the last month or so. You know, it seems like

454
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: we're in we're in that kind of finicky period right

455
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: now where the box are starting you kind of feel

456
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 1: their dominance. They're starting to a lot of them are

457
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: getting hard horned right now. Some of them may be

458
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: losing velvet, and they're starting to go from like bachelor

459
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: groups to like, I don't know if I want to

460
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: hang out with you anymore, you know what I mean.

461
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: So it's it's it can be a great time of

462
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: the year to hunt, and also it can be very

463
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: tough because some of the bucks we've been watching for

464
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: the last three weeks five days, and that's frustrating because

465
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 1: you know what you're you're anticipating this coming out here

466
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: and feeling good about coming out here, and all of

467
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, two to three of these other

468
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: shooters are just M I A. And so right now

469
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do is just shift the trail

470
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: cameras a little bit um. You know, it could be

471
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: a hundred two hundred, three hundred yards one way or

472
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: the other, and all of a sudden that shooters buck

473
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 1: may pop up again, But right now it's just it

474
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: really seems like the bigger bucks at least are kind

475
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: of splitting off of the echelor groups, or at least

476
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: they're starting to and they're starting to kind of go

477
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: on their lonesome and and and do their own thing

478
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: as they shed their velvement. So it's like I said,

479
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: right now, we're just trying to play the weather and

480
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: uh and trying and get lucky again and get one

481
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: of these shooters coming out to one of our thoughts

482
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: going forward, Then in the next week or so, what

483
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: do you think that bucket activity is going to look

484
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: like on a scale of one to ten in North Dakota.

485
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 1: You know, I really think over the next couple of days,

486
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: for like specifically, it's gonna be probably right around that

487
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: eight out of ten mark. Um, I think the next

488
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: couple of days is going to be the best hunting

489
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: days of our whatever week to ten days up here,

490
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: because the weather has finally switched. So we had we

491
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: had temps in the high seventies, low eighties for the

492
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: first you know, three to four days of the hunting season,

493
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: and now we have highs in the upper sixties. It's

494
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: getting down to the orties at night. So as soon

495
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: as that sun goes down, I mean, it cools down

496
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: quick when you're in the stand, and I really think

497
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: that's gonna play a huge factor. Um. I am kind

498
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: of foreseeing that these somebody's box, some of these shooters

499
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 1: that we haven't seen in four to five days or so,

500
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: are gonna reappear and it and you know, we shouldn't

501
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: be hesitant hunting the spots that we've hunted over the

502
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: past couple of days where we haven't seen a lot,

503
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna return to those spots based

504
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: on you know, the water, with the weather patterns, the

505
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: pressure being high and all the overall cooler temperatures. Well,

506
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: great inside, David, thanks again for joining me. Congrats on

507
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: the velvet buck. I appreciate you having me on Spencer

508
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: thanks a lot alright and joining us on the podcast.

509
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 1: Last is Josh honey Cut with Real Tree dot Com

510
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: out of Kentucky. Now, Josh in Kentucky, what would you

511
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: say the buck activity has been lately on the scale

512
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: of one to ten. Uh, From what I could tell,

513
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: it's been like a free three and a half. It's

514
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: been pretty poor daylight activity so far. Um. You know,

515
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: there have been some people in Kentucky it's had some

516
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: early success I had to expect regardless of the temperature.

517
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: You know, there's always some success you know, that first

518
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: week of the season, just because of the patterns that

519
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: some of the deer are still in. Um. From my

520
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: perspective though, what I have seen for the first few

521
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: days of the season, UM, it's it's been a little

522
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: tougher this year than normal. We've got a lot of

523
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,479
Speaker 1: patrons on this surties. The mass crop is a lot

524
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: heavier this year, and believe it or not, it's actually

525
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: started dropping already. UM. You know, there's uh so there's

526
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: a lot of challenges which you know heavy get mass

527
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: prop is good for the deer. Obviously that's good for

528
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: the deer. Uh. But it makes the hunt and tough,

529
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: and you know those those I've noticed a big shift.

530
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, I do a lot of scouting for a

531
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: lot of trail cameras, and there was a huge shift

532
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: about a week ago, about five or six days before

533
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: the season harded. A lot of the deer that I've

534
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: been watching on the different properties that I hunt, they just, uh,

535
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, immediately change all at once, within about forty

536
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: eight hours, um, not all of them, but a lot

537
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: of the beer that I've been keeping tabs on, they

538
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: just they changed their patterns up, you know, almost overnight.

539
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: So it's almost like that mass crop has started dropping,

540
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: I believe. And the temperatures have been really what's that

541
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: what's hurt us as much as anything, but had really

542
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 1: stagnant hot temperatures, no fluctuation whatsoever. And as as you know,

543
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, that's that makes something tough. Under those circumstances

544
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: with warm weather and a big mass cup, big mass crop,

545
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: what would you say would be an ideal set up

546
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: right now? Then to get them ature buck on the ground.

547
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's tough because you know, generally speaking for

548
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: this part of the country, you know, especially to the

549
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: places that I hunt, and uh, you know, you usually

550
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: can pretty much bank on those deer being in there

551
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: summer patterns that you've even been watching them on and

552
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: following them on, you know, in June, July, August. Uh,

553
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: they usually carry those into the first week at least

554
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: the first week of September. UH, sometimes as late as

555
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: the tenth of the fifteenth. So it's it's really made

556
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: it a little more difficult this year. UM. And you

557
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: you you gotta relearn the deer. You've got to relearn them.

558
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: You've gotta figure out what their new patterns are. UM.

559
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: I think a lot of those new patterns are. Uh,

560
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: they're hugging a little tighter to the beds. I don't

561
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: think they're getting up from their beds quite as early

562
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: of an afternoon because the hot temperatures. UM. I think

563
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: they're pretty much hugging and hugging the timber too because

564
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: of the mass crop, you know, and you know they're

565
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: already dropping. I've talked to a lot of people and

566
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: everybody's hearing acrens at the ground right now. So, UM,

567
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: it's that coming year where that shift happens. So you

568
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: gotta get back in the timber with them, because you know, uh,

569
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: for a lot of places around here. Up here can

570
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: pretty much stand up out of its bed and immediately

571
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: start eating uh eating mask. So uh, you just gotta

572
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: get in tight to the beds. You know. It's a

573
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: risk first reward type thing where you gotta you gotta

574
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: get in as tight as you can without bumping them.

575
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: But that's really what it's gonna take. And with these

576
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: hot temperatures, if you don't have it here that's moving

577
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: in daylight right now or at least in the afternoon. Um.

578
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: You know, it kind of goes against a lot of

579
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: the things that you hear that you read. Um. But

580
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, hunting mornings can be productive early season as

581
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: long as you do it intelligently, into it wildly. So

582
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: if you were to do a morning set up, then

583
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: what would that look like? Well, it really depends on

584
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: the situation. Every every situation. There's certain farms that I

585
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: just would not hunt mornings this time of year simply

586
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: because you can't get in there without spook and deer.

587
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: But if you have a good entry and exit roots

588
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: that you can use uh to get into a spot, Uh,

589
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna gets you to the tree s damn

590
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: without bumping dere um you know that might you know,

591
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different scenarios out there, but one

592
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: particular scenario might be, uh, you know you're gonna be

593
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: closer to the beds you obviously you don't want to

594
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: get out almost set sources in the mornings because you're

595
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: gonna bump deer off. So you definitely want to be

596
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: back in the cuff, back in uh, back and cover

597
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper than you normally would be. Uh,

598
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: you don't want to travel past um big food sources

599
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: on your way to this dand because you've risked off

600
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: the deer. So so it is tough, especially early season,

601
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: trying to get into a a stand location of a

602
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: morning without bumping deer. But if you've got a spot

603
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: that you think you can get to, um that's close

604
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: to a betting area, that might be a staging area.

605
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: It might be a you know, an oak flat that

606
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: deer travel through as they you know, go from bigger

607
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: food sources back to their betting areas. If you've got

608
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: to assist a situation like that or a similar scenario, uh,

609
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: it might pay to do something like that of a

610
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: morning right now. Ordinarily, right now we'd still find bachelor

611
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: groups hanging out together. Are you seeing that in Kentucky?

612
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: In I'll tell you, it's been a weird year for me. UM. Typically,

613
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: almost always our bachelor groups remain intact until about you know,

614
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: the middle of September anyway, you know, I usually don't

615
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: see the first bachelor groups breaking up until about September ten, twelve,

616
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: and some of them even hang around into you know,

617
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: the middle of September and even the end of September.

618
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: I have even thing which is obviously the other end

619
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, But I've seen bachelor groups last into

620
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: the middle of October, which is which is rare too.

621
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: But this year it's been a little different. You know,

622
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: the deer have started breaking up a little bit more.

623
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: There's a particular deer I've been watching all summer long

624
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: because that's there that I wanted to target in that

625
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: deer just completely. He was on a heavy, heavy pattern,

626
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: consistent pattern up until about the last week, uh leading

627
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: up to this opening day. So up until about last

628
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday, he was on a really consistent pattern

629
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: and then just changed overnight and he had been run

630
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: with two other bucks and that bachelor group split up

631
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: right whenever that Uh, that shift that changed, that transition happened,

632
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: and that deer has been running on his own for

633
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: the last week's per so. So those Batchelor groups, I think,

634
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they're but starting to bust up a

635
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: little bit earlier than they typically do this year. Going forward,

636
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: then this next week or so, what do you think

637
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: that bucket TV is going to be on a skill

638
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: of one to ten in Kentucky. I don't think it

639
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: gets any better than it is right now. Um. You know,

640
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: and there might be some people out there who are

641
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,479
Speaker 1: seeing something completely different than I am. There might be

642
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: you know, they might be night and day. You know,

643
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: my situation is may be completely different from what others

644
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: are experiencing. UM. Hearing a lot of the same though.

645
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: But I don't think it gets any better. If anything,

646
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: I think it gets worse. Um, because you know, I've

647
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: looked at the forecast in the next ten days, it's

648
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, consistent highs, consistent loads, there's hardly any variation

649
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: and temperature. The only thing that we really got going

650
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: for us in the next ten days is there's gonna

651
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: be a lot of weather events and there's a lot

652
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: of you know, you know, some people think you know

653
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: out there say that you know rain events will encourage

654
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: your movements, I'm gonna say they don't. Uh something else

655
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: can you been onto? Are these hurricanes that are coming

656
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: up through the golf Because if those hits just right,

657
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: that can give us a little bit of a cold shot,

658
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cold front or dropping temperatures

659
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: as those passed through. So that's something to keeping on.

660
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: But if the temperatures remain staggnant and they stay hot, um,

661
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be tough. And I'd say that dear

662
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: activity is gonna remain about us three or three and

663
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: a half and maybe at four best for the next few,

664
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: uh a few days leave, you know, up to the

665
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: next seven or ten days. Well, I hope things turn

666
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: around for you down there, and I always enjoy talking

667
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: to you and hearing your reports. Thanks for your time, Josh,

668
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: Thank you, and that concludes this week's episode of Wired

669
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: to Hunt's radio. Thanks to all the guests who joined

670
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: us this week, and thank you guys for listening. As always,

671
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: check out Wired to Hunt on Facebook and Instagram at

672
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: wired to Hunt, and you can check out my new

673
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: website rout Fresh on Facebook and Instagram or at the

674
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: website's address www dot rut fresh dot com, where you'll

675
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: see some gear reviews, tips and tactics UH and some

676
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: additional field reports like you here on RUT Radio. Good

677
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: luck to everyone out there who is pursuing a velvet book,

678
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you guys next week