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 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This is episode number one and 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: today the show. We're back with another rut radio episode 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: in which we're getting real time updates from hunters across 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: the country about current deer activity and behavior and the 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: tactics that are working right now. All right, welcome to 9 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by sit 10 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Ka Gear, and we are back for another one of 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: our radio episodes in which we are checking in every 12 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: week throughout the two thousand seventeen hunting season, chatting with 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: your hunters from across the country to find out about 14 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: the current deer activity, uh, current running activity, possibly is 15 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: that starts ramping up dear behavior, current conditions, and how 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: that's impacting deer. And we even get into the different 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: types of tactics that people are trying right now, whether 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: or not those are working, and then what we're expecting 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: in the days to come. Um, so that's the game 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: plan for today. We've been doing this for a few 21 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,639 Speaker 1: weeks already this season. I've already been getting people telling 22 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: me about how it's been helping them. So that's really encouraging. Uh, 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: And it means Spencer, you're doing a good job. Well, 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: thank you. That's that's the idea. So I hope you're 25 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: getting that kind of feedback. Yeah. Absolutely, And uh, I 26 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: don't know, I know, we've got a good lineup for 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: today's episode. I don't have a whole lot to share today, 28 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: unfortunately from Michigan. As far as my report, I did 29 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: hunt four days. Um, I guess, I mean, I guess 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: I do have stuff to share. It's not necessarily exciting, 31 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: but um, I'm look at me, I'm just like kind 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: of going off on wild tangents in Michigan. My my 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: radio report in Michigan was that we've had hot weather 34 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: and lead to pretty slow dear movement, and it kind 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: of looks like that's gonna be the case for like 36 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: the next two weeks. Like our long term forecast for 37 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: the most part is uh is pretty warm. There's a 38 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: few little cold friends in there that might be spikes 39 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: of activity, but in general, it's kind of a dire 40 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: long term forecast for me here in southern Michigan at least. Um, 41 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: what's what's going on up in your neck of the woods. Well, 42 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you because I have not been out 43 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: now in quite a while, so I am not Yeah, 44 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: the great White Hunter kills the giant, that's right. I'm 45 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: not accustomed to filling a tag in September, but that's 46 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: what I did this year. So I do not have 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: much intel on South Dakota. But for the rest of 48 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: the country, the people I talked to this week, we 49 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: have Brodie Swisher in Tennessee with bow hunting dot Com, 50 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: then Justin Longclow with Louisia and a bowl hunter in Louisiana. 51 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: Then we have Brett Joy in New Hampshire with Parallel 52 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: forty three and Ben Harshine in Iowa with hunt Tera Mapping. 53 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: Now all four of those guys, um kind of tell 54 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: down the same two things right now. It's the food 55 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: sources and the weather. There's been a change in the 56 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: food sources. Um. You know, as you might expect, the 57 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,239 Speaker 1: oaks are becoming really popular. That's really been suppressing dear 58 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: movement as far as visible dear movement, I guess. And 59 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: then the other thing is the weather. Um. The people 60 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: who give us favorable reports are like coming off of 61 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,399 Speaker 1: the cold front, and the people who give us poor 62 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: reports are going to be going into a cold front, 63 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: So you kind of have both ends of the scale there, um. 64 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: And you'll notice that this week from Louisiana all the 65 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: way to Iowa. Interesting. Well, that that certainly makes sense, 66 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: and that's that's right in line what I've been seeing 67 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: and from what I've been here and too. So I hope, 68 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: I hope that next week I'm gonna have a good 69 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: report for you and a good story to tell, because 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: there is a cold front hitting tomorrow. Well actually when 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: this podcast airs, it will be that day. There's a 72 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: cold front hitting in Michigan. Temperatures are dropping from the 73 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: day before by like at least where I'm at, by 74 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: like thirteen degrees, and it's gonna be really rainy all 75 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: morning and then stopping in the afternoon. And so I'm 76 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: gonna sneak deep into a piece of public land that 77 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: I scouted this spring and try to use that wind 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: and rain to get in there undetected and setting set 79 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: up close to a buckbed that I found this spring. 80 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: So hopefully I'm gonna have a successful public land story 81 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: for you next week. Yeah, in the Midwest. That sounds 82 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: exactly like what Ben Harshin just talked about. He picked 83 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: out Wednesday and Sunday as two days in particularly where 84 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: the weather looks really favorable, and I think at this 85 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: time of year you probably agree. But um, it's all 86 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: about you know, playing the hand that's dealt to you. 87 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: And so it's not being too aggressive if it's eighty 88 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: five degrees during the day. Um, it's if you get 89 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: a cold front, maybe hunting one of those better stands. 90 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: But for the most part, the ideal scenario right now 91 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: is probably just to hold out for another you know, 92 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: week or two, until we hit better pre rut or 93 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: until you know, better weather comes. Yeah, yeah, agree, or 94 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: you know, if you if you you know, lots of 95 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: people can only hunt when they got the time to hunt, 96 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: and so that's what I always recommend is if it's 97 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: poor conditions but you still want to hunt, just go 98 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: to a piece of public land that you're not worried 99 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: about messing up. Or if you've got several different pieces 100 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: of ground you can hunt and there's one that you're 101 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: not really expecting to try to target a buck, you know, 102 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: go there and hunt for some doughs, or just go 103 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: enjoy a nice night in the woods, but don't go 104 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: mucking up your best stuff if you don't have you know, 105 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: the right factors, the right conditions that could make it, 106 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: you know, higher odds exactly. Well, hopefully you'll be listening 107 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: to this on Wednesday, and uh somebody will have you know, 108 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: a great hunter repoured on like we talked about in 109 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: the episode. I think that's a good plan. I hope 110 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: that happens for everybody out there. So Spencer, I will 111 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: let you take it from here, all right, talk to 112 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: you next week. Mark, thanks man. Before we get to 113 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: our first update, though, let's pause to think our sponsors 114 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: at sit GI Gear. For this week's sick of Story, 115 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: we're joined by SITA ambassador Jess Deay Lorenzo, who tells 116 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: us about harvesting our first Miriam's turkey. So we headed 117 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: out to Nebraska, myself and um my media partner Jacob Condres, 118 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: and we were hunting with Prairie Rock Outfitters out there. 119 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: This was my first time archery hunting for Miriam's bird. 120 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: I hadn't had one on my list yet, so um 121 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: it was kind of a combination of a big game 122 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: hunt and big game terrain mixed with turkey hunting, which 123 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: was really exciting. Um We had spotted a couple of 124 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: toms and tried to call them in and it was 125 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: just not happening. And finally one night we uh found 126 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: a roostree and set up nearby and the action was 127 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: just incredible. There were so many birds coming in and 128 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: uh I was able to get a shot off on 129 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: one of the nicest times that came in. He played 130 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: with the decoys and we got some great footage and 131 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: I put a really nice shot on him, and then 132 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: we just ended the night with the sun setting and 133 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: the wild Cat Hills in Nebraska was my first Miriam's bird, 134 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: which was super, super exciting. On Jesse's hunt, she was 135 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: wearing sick a sub alpine camel in the women's line. 136 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: If you'd like to create a sick of story of 137 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: your own and to learn more about Sitka's technical hunting apparel, 138 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: visit Sitka gear dot com. Okay and joining us on 139 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: the line first this week is Brodie Swisher, the editor 140 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: of bow Hunting dot Com. Now, Brodie and tennessee what 141 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: would you say the deer activities ben lately on the 142 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten scale of one to ten, 143 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: I would say, uh, we're probably we were probably in that. 144 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say five. Honestly, Uh uh just just with 145 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: the transition. What we're seeing right now, Um, you know, 146 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: call it the low, call it um just in my 147 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: mind again, it's just that transition period. You know, we've 148 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: had these uh bean fields, I yelled out for the 149 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: most part. And uh so we're seeing that transition from 150 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: the deer in the fields hammering the beans too. Now 151 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: all of a sudden disappeared and uh and so um, 152 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: you know those guys continue to sit there and and 153 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,679 Speaker 1: and you know they'll cry the crowd of tears about 154 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: the low, but those of deer, honestly, they're just transition. 155 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: We're seeing that activity that was out invisible from the 156 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: optics and sitting there watching field and and the post 157 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: positions out there. Uh. Now of a sudden, all of 158 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: a sudden, they're they're not there, and they're just kind 159 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: of slipping off. And it's uh for our area, our 160 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: neck of the woods, it's it's white oaks dropping hitting 161 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: the ground. They have not disappeared, they're not laying low. 162 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: It's just they're moving on the food source. So so 163 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: the visibility wise, it's gotten tough. Yeah. We uh we're 164 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: in our second week, uh season now going in our 165 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: third week, I guess now. And uh that first couple 166 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: of weeks, we were seeing the bucks still batched up 167 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: and uh tolerating each other, and then the velvet came 168 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: off and and all of a sudden, they're just a 169 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,599 Speaker 1: different creature. And uh it began to see less and 170 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: less of the big Bucks and uh those little bucks 171 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: what we're seeing now out in the opening big Bucks 172 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: have sleeked off a little bit, holding tighter to cover. 173 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: So the activity, yeah, it's it's definitely backed off in 174 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: the last two weeks since opening day. I'd say it's 175 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: in that five to six range as far as activity, 176 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: But it's just a matter of getting in there tighter 177 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: to cover and finding that food source that they're heading 178 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: right now. Well, Brodie, how aggressive do you think hunters 179 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: should be in that area then? Uh, if they need 180 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: to get a little deeper in the woods, yeah, man, 181 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: I think it. You know, to me, it really goes 182 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: on what they're finding from those trail cameras, you know, 183 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: and I hate to get so locked into, uh, you know, 184 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: relying on the trail camera but man, it is it's 185 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: that recond it's that boasted recent information telling you what 186 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: they're doing right now. And and the guy that's got 187 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: that and that intel and can say, how you know 188 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: what these deer are on this consistent pattern here, they 189 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: can be a little more addresses you know. Um. But 190 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys think, oh man, they're 191 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: they're not in the bean fields, they're not out the 192 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: corner stuffle. They've got to be off in the timber, 193 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: and they just take off blindly, uh looking for that 194 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: needle in the haystack, and take off through the timber. 195 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: And I think they can do a lot of a 196 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: lot of damage real quick when they just throw all 197 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: regards to the wind out the window and just take 198 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: off in that cover. But again, going back to those 199 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: trail cameras, Um, that to me tells me I can 200 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: be a little more aggressive. I know they're coming in 201 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: and out here, they're using this food source here, and 202 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: then therefore you can you can play that wind. But 203 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: the guy that just takes off gets aggressive with no 204 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: regard to wind direction and how they approach those uh 205 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: timber food sources. I think there's a lot more harm 206 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: than good. I still like to play play a little safe, 207 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: you know, on this time of season, uh, mid early 208 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: to mid October. Um, and unless I know I've got 209 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: that that timber food source, those acorns, right, I know 210 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: I can get in slipping the cover uh and not 211 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: bust out. Um. You know, I'm gonna play a little 212 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: more safe and back off again if I if I 213 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: know exactly through trail cameras where I I know those 214 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: gear doing how they're hanging out, and I can get 215 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: around that that food source in the timber or that 216 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: betting you're in the timber, uh not blow them out 217 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: with the wind. Uh, then I'll get more aggressive. And uh. 218 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: It's a great tactic early season, you know. But a 219 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: lot of that again goes back to what you're seeing 220 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: on that trail camera. Uh, that information you're getting uh 221 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: and and and just being able to get in and 222 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: out without busting that uh busting that cover and uh 223 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: blowing them out too quick in the season. You know 224 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: a lot of guys do that very thing and wonder 225 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: where the deer went. But they've again just disregarding any 226 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: of their wind directions and and just put too much 227 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: pressure too quick on the on that particular deer. Now, 228 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: are you personally hunting any mornings yet? Are you still 229 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 1: strictly hunting evenings. Yeah, I've got a couple of places 230 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: that i'll catch my my personal property. Here's fifty acres 231 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: that I live on. It's just a little uh, mostly timber, 232 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: and it's just a perfect funnel between agg country across 233 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: the road, a field across the road and then a 234 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: big bottom on the back end. So it's just it's 235 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: just a perfect funnel for deer and I can slip 236 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: in catch them coming back across the road. And so 237 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: I hit some mornings around here, and that's how you know, 238 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: it's honestly been it's been slow. You know, we've had 239 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: beans yelled out quick across the road and and um, 240 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: we just not have that keivity in the morning. So 241 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: afternoons have honestly been where the activity has been from me. 242 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: Very little action in the mornings, um, very little, you know, 243 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: it seemed very little in the morning. So it's it's 244 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: definitely been thus far as it's been afternoon hunts and 245 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: in those agg fields. And again that's that's changing right now. 246 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: I just hunted a corn stubble field the other night, 247 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: and the deer have been there. It was adjacent to 248 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: a bean field that they've been in real hard the 249 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: first two weeks. And then again this corn field got 250 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: cut and a lot of corn on the ground in 251 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: the corn field. You know, it's going through the other 252 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: night looking and so there's been you know, deer in 253 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: that that failed every night last couple of nights. And 254 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: so that's kind of where I shifted gears, coming off 255 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: that yellowed out being filled, going into corn stubble, and 256 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: then again just trying to pick off some spots where 257 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: I can slip into the timber and um, you know, 258 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: playing the wind and new it right and get into 259 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 1: the timber and cut eat coast those white oak a 260 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: few food sources. That's where they're between the corn stubble 261 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: and white oaks. That's really where I'm seeing the activity 262 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: right now. We're going forward in this next week or so. 263 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: What do you think that dear activity is going to 264 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: be then in Tennessee? You know, I think I think, guys, 265 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: we're finally getting the first uh yeah, I don't want 266 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: to even say cold snap because it's not cold snap, 267 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: but it's going from eighty eight degrees we had yesterday tomorrow. 268 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: It's gonna be down at the low seventies up leaped 269 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: for the hide. So we're finally getting some of that 270 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: cooler weather that I anticipated will help out. I mean, 271 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: we've had deer uh and a lot of in a 272 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: lot of situations. You know, my truck camps, I'm seeing 273 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: deer running the night shift, you know, just almost doing 274 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: the nocturnal thing, and and uh, a lot of other 275 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: things is hot. A lot of that, I think because 276 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: guys hammered it out the first week this season and 277 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: because of that pressure and bumped them back. But um, 278 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: I really love to see uh, you know, from the 279 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: activity picking up some cooler weather. Um, and you know, 280 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: food sources getting uh, concentrating those deer a little better. 281 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: You know, you get you get bean fields and corn 282 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: fields and and all the you know, all the food 283 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: sources at one time, some white oaks dropping for someon 284 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: and there's so much food. Oftentimes a deer don't have 285 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: to go far, and the beans yellow out, and the 286 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: corn gets picked and and uh some of those you 287 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: know per simmons run out and it just gets to where, 288 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: you know, now you can start to concentrate. Food sources 289 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: are definitely more concentrating for those deer and you can 290 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: start picking away at those those hotspots on where they 291 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: are now instead of just the smartest bort of food 292 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: form out there. Uh So, I think we're definitely gonna 293 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: see that this next week is again cooler temperatures and 294 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: then just as we ramp up towards the pre run, 295 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: so based on you know, cooler temperatures and concentration on 296 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: food sources, I think you know we're gonna be looking 297 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: this next week or two, you know, bumping up to 298 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: that seven seven out of ten as far as dear 299 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: activity here in West Tennessee. All right, well, thanks for 300 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: joining me this week, Rody, I look forward to talking 301 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: to you on later in the season. Thanks Spencer, appreciate 302 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: your time, all right and joining us on the line. 303 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: Next is the founder of Louisiana bowl hunter dot Com, 304 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: Justin line Cloth Justin and Louisiana. What would you say 305 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: the deer activity has been lately on the scale of 306 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: one to ten, I give it about a six and 307 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: a half. We've had some extremely high temperatures here lately 308 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: with the heat indecks and triple digits. Uh It's it's 309 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: been extremely dry for about the past six weeks and uh, 310 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: deer just aren't moving a whole lot during the day 311 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: right now. Now you are located where at in Louisiana, 312 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: justin what would you say the dear activity has been 313 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: like in the rest of the state beyond your reach. 314 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: I'm in southwest Louisiana now and the rest of the 315 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: state A lot of the deer are still on their 316 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: summer patterns. So some guys have been having some pretty 317 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: good luck catching some big bucks that are still moving 318 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: on the same summer patterns. Going back and forth between 319 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: feet and betting. Now, what do the summer patterns look 320 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: like in Louisiana as far as um, what betting is 321 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: and what food is? Uh? For the bucks? The food 322 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: is going to be uh, usually cutovers of some sort. 323 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: Most of our area is consists of logging company property. Um, 324 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: see you've got fresh cutovers, they're gonna have a lot 325 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: of brows. The bucks will tend to hang out in 326 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: that and and eat there as well. Know, it's been 327 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: extremely dry the past few weeks, so the acorns will 328 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: started to drop prematurely. Uh. And those are really good 329 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: areas to key on as well. So besides the summer patterns, 330 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: are you seeing some rutting activity in the state. Yes, absolutely. 331 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: In my area, I've noticed the Tarso glands starting to 332 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: get dark. Louisiana has a pretty interesting story. It was 333 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: restocked back in the sixties with deer as far away 334 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: as from Wisconsin, so you can hunt the rut pretty much. 335 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: At any point between September and February, the southwest part 336 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: of the state where I'm at, the deer will be 337 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: starting to rut heavy literally any day. Are you seeing 338 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: a lot of rut sign as far as scrapes and 339 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: rubs right now, I'm not seeing. I haven't seen any 340 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: scrapes or rubs in my area yet. I've seen some 341 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: guys from other parts of the state reporting straits and rubs. Um, 342 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: I said. The only rud activity I've seen is in 343 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: my area. The bachelor groups have split up. UM. I 344 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: was watching one group of about six bucks. Um they've 345 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: they split up about a month ago, and UH and 346 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 1: I have noticed that their Tarsa glands are getting dark 347 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: as well. I've also noticed that the doughs have kicked 348 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: out there. I've been watching a dough that's got a 349 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: u a set of twin fawns and she's no longer 350 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: with them, So I assume she's going to be going 351 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 1: into estris here pretty soon. Well, what does the typical 352 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: setup look like for you this time of year? Are 353 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: you hunting mornings or more evenings? Uh, it's pretty much 354 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: mornings right now, just because it's it's coolest. Uh. You know, 355 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: the heat in deck is up over a hundred in 356 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: the evenings, and some of my morning activity has been 357 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: later morning. UM, so I've been able to get in 358 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: and uh take advantage of the slightly cooler weather in 359 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: the mornings. It's it's just too hot and too many 360 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: mosquitoes right now out for me at this point. We 361 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: do have a coal front coming through. Actually right now 362 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: it's raining and I'm gonna have some so much cooler 363 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: temperatures here over the next few days. Well, speaking of 364 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: that cold front, do you think that's going to change 365 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: the deer activity in this next week or so? And 366 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: what do you think that's going to look like? On 367 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, Definitely, the weather changes 368 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: is one of the most effective effective things to uh 369 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: to hunt, especially here in Louisiana. Um, cold fronts here 370 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: can be drastic. You know. We can go from being 371 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: in the eighties and the nineties to being in the 372 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: thirties or forties within a twenty four hour period. UM. 373 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: I'd like to think in my area it's gonna bump 374 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 1: it up to a seven or in eight. Um. As 375 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: far as the rest of the state goes, it'll it'll 376 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: bump it up as well. The cooler the temperatures, the 377 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: more of that they're gonna be on their feet, especially 378 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: during the daytime. Okay, justin Well, I hope you're able 379 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: to take advantage of that cold front and good luck 380 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: this year. Thanks all, I appreciate it. Before we get 381 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: to our next call, let's stop to think our sponsors 382 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: at White Tail Properties, and this week with white Tail Properties, 383 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: we are joined by Brandon swar Slander, a land specialist 384 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: out of Illinois, and Brandon is going to be telling 385 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: us about what to look for when buying a property 386 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: as a nonresident. 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On a scale of 419 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: one to ten, I would say it's been a two 420 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: or three um fide? Did you us? I think it's 421 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: probably pretty difficult to get down to a one, but 422 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: it's been pretty poor, so I'd go up to two 423 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: or three right now? Why uh such a poor number? 424 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: Is that something that is typical for early October for 425 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: you guys? There is this a normal? Um? I'd say 426 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: it's more typical and abnormal. The reason that it's um 427 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: typical is because at least the last five or six 428 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: years have had an exceptional mass crop, specifically red oaks 429 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: in the areas that we hunt, and that really subdued 430 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: dear movement. They don't have to move far to get food. 431 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: UM typically are betting and feeding. Since we're in heavily 432 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: timbered area, is is one and the same pretty much, 433 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: so they're they're just getting up off their belly, moving 434 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: ten yards, eating acorns and lying back down. So that's 435 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: pretty typical of late September early October New Hampshire. But 436 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: the thing is really subduing the movement on top of 437 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: the mass crop is the weather. The weather has been 438 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: above average I think most of the deer season so far. 439 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: The first you know five or six weeks that it's 440 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: been open, so um, they just aren't moving far that 441 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: out with the mass crop. It makes for really tough 442 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: hunting and really kind of poor dear activity. Now, how 443 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: aggressive have you been then? If you know it's it's 444 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: that tough to get close to de right now, I 445 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: might personally haven't been that aggressive. I haven't been hunting much. 446 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: I've been monitoring trail cameras. I think there's two schools 447 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: of thought on this. One is to monitor your cameras, 448 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 1: wait for a cold front until you start getting more 449 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 1: daylight buck activity and then moving, or you can get 450 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: aggressive early um hunt a bunch of different spots, hunt 451 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: betting areas. Essentially, I've chose the first option just because 452 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: I have one deer in particular I'm hunting now and 453 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere, So I just don't 454 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: want to push some look too early in the season. 455 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: Um So right now I'm waiting on a cold front 456 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: and uh, I'm gonna go from there. Hypothetically speaking in 457 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: that area, what have you had food plots or a 458 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: different food source. Would the deer potentially be hitting that 459 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: or do you think it's just acorns across the board 460 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: right now? Um No, they're definitely some variety. They're not 461 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: gonna eat, you know, only oaks, but it is definitely 462 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: the number one thing they're keen in on. I have 463 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: some food plots up here as well. I am getting 464 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: pictures of some mature bucks on food plots, but it's 465 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, so I think that's kind 466 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: of an afterthought at this point. Um it seems like 467 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: right after, you know, the third week in September through 468 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: the middle of October, red and white oaks or the 469 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: number one food source. So that's gonna be what you have, 470 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: what you can focus on. I mean, you could definitely 471 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: probably kill a buck on a food plot or greenfield 472 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: or maybe in a cut um, but I don't. I 473 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: think that's more of the exception than the rule of 474 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: this time of year. Well, are you seeing any scrapes 475 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: or rubs. Um, you just talked about trail cameras a 476 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: little bit. Where are those located at? Yeah? I have 477 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: actually actually did some scutting yesterday, um, and I found 478 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: some some fresh rubs and scrapes in the area that 479 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: I was hoping to see them in. So Yeah, most 480 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: of my cameras this time of year definitely on scrapes, 481 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: either scrapes a deer made themselves or mock scrapes. And 482 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: I'm I am starting to see that activity. I think 483 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: that the warm weather is probably surpre U said a 484 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: little a little uh more than normal. I usually see 485 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: a little bit more than I am right now. But 486 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: I think the next cold front should really ramp up 487 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: that activity, should get those deer moving, um, you know 488 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: a little more at night out exploring, whereas they just 489 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: aren't going far right now. Now, going forward in this 490 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: next week or so, what do you think the bucket 491 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: activity is going to be like then? On a scale 492 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: of one to ten, I think it's probably gonna be. Oh, 493 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: I'd say it could get up to a six or seven. 494 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: We have a cold front that's supposed to come in 495 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: the middle of this week. When I say cold front. 496 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: It's it's really just a cool front. It's only a 497 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: few degrees below probably a seasonal average for this time 498 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 1: of year. But since I've been in the seventies and eighties, 499 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: these last you know, three four weeks, I'd say it's 500 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: gonna get them on the feet. Um so I'd say 501 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty good. The only thing that's keeping it, 502 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: obviously from being a little higher than that, maybe like 503 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: a seven or f storry eight to ten would probably 504 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: be the mass crop that's still gonna play a big 505 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: factor and subdue their movement to an extent. So all right, Brett, Well, 506 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. Look forward to checking out Parallel 507 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: forty three on Carbon TV. Good luck this year. Thanks sponsor, 508 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: you too, alright and joining us on the line. Last 509 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: is Ben Harshein, the founder of Ontero Mapping and a 510 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: land specialist for white tail properties. Now, Ben in Iowa, 511 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: what would you say that dear activity has been lately 512 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: on the scale of one to ten, I would I 513 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: would say, with these different weather patterns and some cooler 514 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: weather and some change coming in, you can be having 515 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: some six, seven or eight. I would say, uh, you 516 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: can have some really good sits, uh everything else in between. 517 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: You know this this warm weather, it's no tourists for 518 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: early October. I would say, you know, you're down at 519 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: your twos or threes. UM, I think it's I don't 520 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: say a waste of time, but you're you're hurting yourself 521 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: unless you're you're hunting these these weather fronts that are 522 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: coming through. UM. Specifically, what I like in the next 523 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: ten days, we've we've had historically some really warm weather 524 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: that UM is setting up. Any sort of precipitation or 525 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: cool weather or UM a change in wind direction is 526 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: interesting to me. Uh, I'll be out tomorrow night. UM, 527 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: we're basically getting a lot of rain right now, and 528 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: and UH we're gonna get a strong northeast wind tomorrow 529 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: dying down as far as the wind speed around primetime. 530 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,719 Speaker 1: So I'll definitely be out tomorrow night, which should be Wednesday, 531 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: and and then UM, the next the next weather that 532 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: looks good to me will be will be Sunday. So UM, 533 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: I know that what what guys are seeing right now, 534 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: UH is a lot of Uh there's just a ton 535 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,959 Speaker 1: of acorns is a huge mass crop this year, at 536 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: least in the heartland. And UM that can be preventing 537 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: a lot of trail camp pictures of deer that you 538 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: maybe expect should be there. Um, not a ton of movement, 539 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: But the guys that are hunting food is either you know, 540 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: seeing deer on acorns or green plots in the evening. 541 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: All right, well, Wednesday and Sunday put it on the 542 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: calendars Iowa listeners. But Ben, you were talking about the 543 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: weather front making those couple of days so good so 544 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,239 Speaker 1: far in October. Have you got a chance to take 545 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: advantage of some of those weather fronts. Um, let's see here, 546 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: I've only got one sit in that would have been 547 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: UM last Wednesday, I believe, UM, I really wanted to 548 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: get out on Saturday. Last Saturday was I believe the 549 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: best sit of the season so far for for here 550 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: in Iowa. UM had a number of different clients that 551 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: I have been in contact with and and some friends 552 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: as well. UM, Saturday looked really good as far as 553 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: how UM. The weather was was really stagnant and stale 554 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: and warm all the way up into a bunch of 555 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: rain Saturday morning. Things cooled off and some really heavy 556 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: winds throughout the day leading into prime time where there's 557 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: winds dropped down to fifteen to ten. Um, put a 558 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: bunch of deer in front of people. I had really 559 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: everybody that sat that night that I did, I know 560 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: saw bucks. Two two of them killed to my contacts, 561 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: killed and and uh um the other one saw mature 562 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: deer out in out in the field. So that that 563 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: was just a classic Uh. That was a classic scenario 564 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: of of this warm weather setting up for for a 565 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: cold front to come through or some precipitation or just 566 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: some drastic change uh in direction of wind or whatnot. 567 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: That was a really low pressure day, um, but deer 568 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: were still out hot and heavy. So um, that's what 569 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm looking for in early to mid October. Now, with 570 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: that good deer movement that some of your contacts, do 571 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: you know if they were seeing any running activity yet 572 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: as far as scrapes, rubs, sparring, any stuff like that. Yeah, 573 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: we're pre pre rut um pre ruts not even the 574 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: term yet, we're before that, but the beginning signs of 575 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: you know, some scrapes um uh, scrapes pop in especially 576 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: with this this rain that's coming through, and I would 577 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: imagine they're gonna be a lot more visible and scratching 578 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: the ground a lot more here in the in the 579 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: coming days. UM My specific property as of last week 580 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: just started to have a couple of scrapes show up. 581 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: But um on on the other hand, I've talked to 582 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: guys that have been seeing scrapes prevalent throughout some bigger 583 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: ones where where they're at. So um, I would say 584 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: that it's gonna be about that time where um, you know, 585 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: more and more rubs are going to be showing up, 586 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: more larger scrapes will be showing up, and and when 587 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: you get some cooler evenings, you're gonna see at least 588 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: some of the younger deer coming out and sniffing around. Um, 589 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: some of these doughs in the in in addition to 590 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: grabbing a bite to eat. But still too early to 591 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: be talking pretty right yet, Well, it sounds like you 592 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: like the forecast coming up. What would you say the 593 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: dear activity and I, well, there's going to be on 594 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten in this next week 595 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: or so. Well, I would say, I'm gonna say Wednesday night, 596 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: um is gonna be Um, I'll just shoot and say 597 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a seven. We'll go for a seven. 598 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: I'm not really putting anything up towards a eight, nine 599 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: or ten, you know, until we get closer to the 600 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: end of October. But I would say you're looking at 601 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: the seven on on seven or in eight on Wednesday, 602 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: and then Sunday as well. Um got some warm weather 603 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: leading into showers, uh, and then some pressure that will 604 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: be rising Sunday into Monday. So let's put those into 605 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: seven as well. All right, Ben, Well, good luck on 606 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: those sits, and look forward to talk to you later 607 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: this fall. Okay, Thanks luck, And that's gonna be at folks. 608 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: And as you heard Ben say and a few other people, 609 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: you know, we got that cold front coming across some 610 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: of the Midwest right now. I know it's hitting for 611 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: me today Wednesday as this podcast is dropping, So in 612 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,479 Speaker 1: just a matter of hours, I'm gonna be sneaking out 613 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: into some public land. Fingers are crossed. And good luck 614 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: to any of you that are gonna be hunting this 615 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: week or weekend. I hope it goes well for you. 616 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: So that said, I want to give a big thank 617 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: you to our partners at SITKA, gear Y, Eddie Cooler's, 618 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: Matthew's Archery, Maven Optics, the White Tailed Institute of North America, 619 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: Trophy Ridge and Hunt terror maps. And finally, of course, 620 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Thanks for taking some time out 621 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: of your busy day to tune into the wire Hunt podcast. 622 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,719 Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and, like I said earlier, if you're 623 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: hitting the woods, good luck and stay wired to Hunt.