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

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

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

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number two

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Speaker 1: and today of the show. I'm joined by Dan nine

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Speaker 1: Fingers Johnson and Josh further Hilliard to set the stage

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Speaker 1: for the upcoming season day secting our goals, hopes and

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Speaker 1: hit lists for two thousand. All right, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Wired Hunt Podcast, brought to you by on X, and

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Speaker 1: we've got a good show for you today because already

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Speaker 1: myself and my two partners and Hime I guess you

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Speaker 1: could call him, we've already been laughing. We've already been

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Speaker 1: making inappropriate sexual jokes. We've already we've already had a

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Speaker 1: really good start to the conversation before we started recording,

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Speaker 1: so it should just go swimmingly from here. We got

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Speaker 1: Dan Johnson and further Hilliard and uh, Dan, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you something O. Me and Josh further Hilliard. We're

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Speaker 1: going up north to my family deer camp earlier this summer,

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Speaker 1: and it was me, him and my dad. We're in

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Speaker 1: the truck at the gas station, and we'd like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, Josh had to take a big dump or something.

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Speaker 1: So he was in the bathroom for a long time exactly.

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Speaker 1: He finally came out and as he's walking to the

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Speaker 1: truck from the other side of the parking lot, someone

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden yells further, Oh, now he's got

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Speaker 1: some clue. Don't care about Mark, It was it was

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Speaker 1: pretty great. That's awesome, Mark, You're lucky you got to

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Speaker 1: can I get your picture? So, so the three of

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Speaker 1: us are here today because we need to do our

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Speaker 1: annual Goals, Hopes and hit Lists podcast in which we

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Speaker 1: kind of like to just set the stage for the

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Speaker 1: upcoming hunting season. Um, I think we've done this every

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Speaker 1: single year of the podcast, Dan right. So basically the

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Speaker 1: gist will be we'll kind of run through each one

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Speaker 1: of us and talk about, like, what's the final schedule

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Speaker 1: for the year, where we're going, what are we doing,

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Speaker 1: what are some of our kind of tangible goals, Maybe

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Speaker 1: what are some of our pine this guy hopes, Um,

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Speaker 1: if there's any specific bucks were after any specific I

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Speaker 1: don't know, projects or things that we just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure we really do well this year. I want

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Speaker 1: to kind of touch on all that. Um, I have

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Speaker 1: a few ideas and notes of what I want to

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Speaker 1: kind of cover through each of us. But you know,

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Speaker 1: let's just see where this goes. If all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden we decided want to talk about I don't know

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Speaker 1: further's bathroom schedule, we can do that if need be. Um.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of which, my goal is to completely derail this episode.

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Speaker 1: By the way, yet I know we can. We can

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Speaker 1: be done with the bathroom schedule stuff. I know where

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Speaker 1: this has gone, so we should just and he works.

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Speaker 1: He works for the q d M A mark. We

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Speaker 1: can't like Burt smirch. Smirch if that's even a word. Professional. Man,

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Speaker 1: he's a professional. Now, you're right, he's a professional. And

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Speaker 1: when a professional visits another professional for an appointment, you

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Speaker 1: shouldn't talk about it publicly, right exactly. It's like hip

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Speaker 1: hop stuff, hi stuff. So we'll keep Josh's hippo related

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Speaker 1: news just to the three of us. But Dan, be

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Speaker 1: be easy on him, be gentle to Josh today. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I like Josh. It's you that I'm gonna thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's nice to have some backup once in

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Speaker 1: because I love him, right, you think he can handle it.

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Speaker 1: like when they get that news, like, oh, probably Further

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Speaker 1: probably snapped. It's either it's either Further or the guy

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Speaker 1: who thinks we swear too much on this pod gap

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Speaker 1: or talk about kids too much. That's right, h So

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Speaker 1: I can I can add into that convo now. I

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Speaker 1: so I can. I can give the classic Hey, Mark,

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Speaker 1: laughed really hard Dan, when you wrote that, like I

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like they have an agenda. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: But that kind of ties into one of the first

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Speaker 1: things I did want to ask you about, Dan, not

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Speaker 1: quite getting into our main topic. But um, when we

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Speaker 1: keep each other accountable on it. And since that point,

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Speaker 1: we've been getting the little onex trackers going and sending

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Speaker 1: I tell you what. Um, It's kind of funny. There's

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Speaker 1: have to get up and go for a run just

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Speaker 1: Jack for the mountains. Yeah, I think that's I think

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Speaker 1: joke further, Okay, I'm not. I'm dead serious, man. So

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Speaker 1: that I gotta shoot your bow. All that stuff perfect,

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Speaker 1: like I'll fit right in. So there's this there's this Jeff.

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Speaker 1: You guys know what Jeff is or gift I don't

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Speaker 1: were coming up. How does everybody feel with their summer

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Speaker 1: half weeks the summer um Dan, how are you feeling

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Speaker 1: a lot of it's just going to be winging it

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00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: and getting out when I when I can so and

428
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: then you get November gun November gun season. Yeah, I'll

429
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: be a deer amp and then um, um, you know

430
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 1: that's always something I'm looking forward to. And man, I

431
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: feel like this year, like I'm more excited for that, um,

432
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: for that trip than I have been a long time.

433
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: I feel like things just keep getting better and keep

434
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 1: getting better and keep getting better, and like last year

435
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: was like really close to making it happen. Um, I've

436
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: got a lot of I've got a lot of hope

437
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: and confidence um for this year. That's probably like if

438
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: we're talking about goals like that would probably be like

439
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: my number one goal would be to kill a good

440
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: buck up there. That'd be awesome. It would be so

441
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: it would be um, and I agree, I feel like

442
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,919
Speaker 1: the Northern Michigan deer camp is making steady progress. So UM, okay,

443
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: so that if that's one of your goals, what what

444
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: else would be considered a goal for you this year?

445
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: Given it's kind of tough, tough circumstances this year, with

446
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: time and everything. I mean, that look honestly like my

447
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: my buck goals. Um, you know, my kind of standards

448
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: are like a three and a half year old. UM.

449
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: I think my best chance for that is going to

450
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: be um that small piece of private that I have

451
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: access to. Um, but man, I would be I would

452
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: be stoked if I killed a good one in public.

453
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: And I've I've got a few spots that i've I've

454
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: i've found that I think it can maybe happen. Um,

455
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: we'll see. Um, but I think really just kind of

456
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: filling my freezer with with some deer or over some

457
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: does would be um good for this year. I'm getting

458
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: low on venison. UM, I have another another mouth to feed, um,

459
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, as he's getting older and eating real food. UM,

460
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 1: so it would be nice too. It'd be nice to

461
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: put a couple of doughs in the freezer this year, UM,

462
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: to kind of get a good re stock of venison. Um.

463
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: So I mean if I could, if I could put

464
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: two does in the freezer this year, i'd be I'd

465
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: be really happy. Um. You know, obviously i'd love to

466
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: kill a buck. That's that's what I'm gonna be shooting for, um,

467
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, really the whole season. But if I can

468
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: take a dough here or there, um, that'd be That'd

469
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 1: be awesome. And I really like to I'd really I

470
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: like to kill one of those doughs on public land

471
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: with my bow. That would be cool. So two doughs

472
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: and the three and a half year old buck, and

473
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: it'd be even better if you got that big one

474
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: up north exactly exactly. And and I think my goal

475
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: for our Minnesota trip would be to see a deer.

476
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: That's that's my hope up there. Yeah, I think that's

477
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: a reasonable goal to have. What about you, Dan, what's

478
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: your final schedule and what your goals would be then?

479
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: Given that schedule? Yeah, so let's see, we got a

480
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: second week of September is going to Elk, second week

481
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: of October we're going to South Dakota for meal deer.

482
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: And then obviously Iowa probably won't hunt much until you know,

483
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: mid October. But as far as starting there for white tails, um,

484
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: I probably want to go. I probably want to get

485
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: I got a new deep freeze, so I want to

486
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 1: fill that out. My goal this year is to kill

487
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: three doughs, and I want to put that meat into

488
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: my freezer. Because I threw a piece of cardboard out

489
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: my window and it knocked the plug in out of

490
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: the wall and I didn't notice it of my old

491
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: deep freeze and all my meat defrosted everything, and so

492
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,719
Speaker 1: I had to throw away probably about there wasn't a

493
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: lot in there. I would say about twenty five pounds

494
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: of venison, and it really pissed me off. So I

495
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: want to fill that freezer up again and get my

496
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: family back on the deer meat train, especially just the

497
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: ground stuff that you can add to anything. Right, and

498
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: then from the buck side of things, man, this might

499
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: be a year where I eat my tag. Just I

500
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,479
Speaker 1: got a couple of deer that have shown back up

501
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: and I've only checked my trail cameras one time. I

502
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: got a couple of deer that have shown back up

503
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: and they're nice and they're good, and I might eat

504
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: a tag for them. So yeah, we we got to

505
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that, um, But before we

506
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: get to that real quick, what would a success for

507
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: your elk trip look like? What's your goal for that

508
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: Colorado trip? Shooting a bowl, shooting a cow, just getting Yeah,

509
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm shooting the first elk that comes within shooting line

510
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: range with my bow. Now, if we're if we're in

511
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: the mix right, we're gonna be going during the rut

512
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: or during the pre rud, I guess you would say.

513
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: And if I could get and we're in the mix

514
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: right and we're starting to hear bogle in and the

515
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: responding and it's getting crazy like you see on a

516
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: one of those premost videos, then I'll probably pass one

517
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: to hopefully get a bowl. But if it's real slow

518
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: and we're not having the encounters and a and uh

519
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: a cow gives us the opportunity, I'm gonna I'll probably

520
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: take a shot at a dough and then meal deer

521
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: in South Dakota. Like I said, that's such a that's

522
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: such a brand new thing that just to see a mule,

523
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: your buck in its natural environment through the spotting scope

524
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: and maybe take a stock even if I fail, would

525
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: be such a huge takeaway for me that I would

526
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: consider that a success just to even get a stock in. Yeah,

527
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: that would be that'd be pretty cool. Yeah, And we

528
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: need to take a quick break here to thank our

529
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: friends at on X and the on X Hunt app

530
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: is something I'm using a lot this time of year.

531
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: Here too, specific examples of what I've been doing recently.

532
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: Number one the mapping feature that allows you to mark

533
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: an area and actually measure an area like a polygon,

534
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: create whatever shape you want on the map. It will

535
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what the acreages. That's a very handy

536
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: when you're trying to plan out how much fertilizer seed

537
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: to use on a food plot. Number two, I've been

538
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: setting up a bunch of new tree standing, tree settle locations.

539
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: When I'm marking those on my map as a waypoint.

540
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: On x now has custom icons. You can choose the

541
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,959
Speaker 1: waypoint icon to look like a tree stand or ground blind,

542
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: a trail camra, or all sorts of other things, just

543
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: to make it that much easier when you look at

544
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: your map to know exactly what waypoints mean. What very

545
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: handy tool. Check it out at your mobile app store

546
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: of choice. We also want to thank our friends at

547
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: White Tailed Properties and Spencer will take it from here.

548
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: This week with White Tailed Properties, we are joined by

549
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: Justin Mason, a land specialist out of Illinois, and Justine

550
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: is going to be telling us about what are some

551
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: often overlooked things that buyers forget to communicate with their agents.

552
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: You know, I think oftentimes buyers overlooked the fact that

553
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: they're already working with me as an agent. So if

554
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: they're browsing online and they see a property that they like,

555
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: they may just kind of impulse and call that other agent,

556
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: and then they forget to mention that they're working with

557
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: me as their agents. So they ask all these questions

558
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: and then call me back and and tell me the news.

559
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: And I said, well, did you first tell them that

560
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: you're working with me? Um, just so that you don't

561
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: step on the other agents toe. So is probably the

562
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: most common overlook thing that myers, you know, forget to

563
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: tell me as their agent. If you'd like to learn

564
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: more and to see the properties that Justin currently has

565
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: listed for sale, visit white tail Properties dot com. Backslash Mason,

566
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: that's m A s O N. Now what about your

567
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: back to Iowa? Back to these bucks? Walked me through

568
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: these handful of bucks that you think you're willing to

569
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: pin your whole season on. Yeah. So you know we've

570
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: talked about the Spencer new hearth Buck right, so he's

571
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: back this year. I don't know if you necessarily put

572
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: on a ton of inches, but I think he's going

573
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: to be a six year old this year. Uh, maybe

574
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: a five year old. I don't know. But he's got

575
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: the body, he's got the rack. Right, he's a shooter,

576
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: and I have an idea where he's cruising through, so

577
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: he's he's a hit lister. I mean, I just, I

578
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: just I'm coming off of a year where I just

579
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: shot my biggest buck. So it's not like I need

580
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: to shoot. I don't know, I don't want to. I

581
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: don't want to say I don't want to put any

582
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: restrictions on the first four year old that comes through

583
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: is going to get an arrow. That's not gonna happen

584
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: this year. I'm gonna be more specific in what I'm

585
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: targeting and and try to go with a set hit list. Now,

586
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: barring that, nothing gigantic walks through. You know, you know

587
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: that I don't have any history with or I don't

588
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: have a nutrail cameer pictures with a big six year

589
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: old one ninety walks by that you've never seen before,

590
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: You're not going to turn your nose up on it. Exactly, yeah,

591
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. He'll get an arrow sent his way. And

592
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, I got a couple other deer that are

593
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: returning customers from last year that are gonna be really good.

594
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: Hopefully they stick around, and I can. You know, there's

595
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: a lot of things that are in play this year

596
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: that weren't in play the year before, and that is

597
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: this heavy rain in the spring cost some fields to

598
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: be planted, just like you you were talking about further

599
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: and some new fields that were in CRP previous years

600
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: to be taken out of CRP and now they're an egg.

601
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what's going to happen with the

602
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: deer movement with these new fields in play. So it's

603
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be a little bit of a

604
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: learning curve, right just and I think I'll be able

605
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: to learn it by putting some trail cameras up in

606
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: these areas and checking them every once in a while.

607
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I feel like I'm on point

608
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: with this farm now. And like I said, it took

609
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: me seven years to figure some of this stuff out

610
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: to where I think I got a shot at a

611
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: really good deer this year, and if he if he

612
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: does what he's done the last two years, um, then

613
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: I probably won't even start hunting until m Man like

614
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: November five or sixth or something like that. He doesn't

615
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: the last two years, he hasn't shown up until like

616
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: the eleven or twelve, and he's stuck around to and

617
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: then he disappears, and then he comes back pretty much

618
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: for late season and then he's gone again. So we're

619
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: talking about Narlie Charlie, right, that's right. So yet Narlie Charlie,

620
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's a November type of strike. Uh October,

621
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: and you only get one You only have one tag

622
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: in Iowa, only one archer tag. Right, Well, I can

623
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: get an archery tag and then I can buy a

624
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: late season tag if I fill my right, I can.

625
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: I can use them. I can use a bow for

626
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 1: a muzzleloader tag. Okay, So well, I guess what I'm

627
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: trying to understand though, is if you know you want

628
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: to go for Narlie Charlie in late or mid November,

629
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: something you probably wouldn't want target spencer or dork or

630
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: something like that in early October because you don't want

631
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: to shoot that with your bow and then not be

632
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: able to hunt Narlie Charlie on the eighth, ninth, tenth,

633
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: or ever with your bow. Is that right? Right? Right?

634
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: So that's why A, I'm probably gonna stay out of there. Um,

635
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: I'll probably do some of those those observation hunts where

636
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: I am hunting really easy access, hopefully with some kind

637
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: of visibility into the timber um And you've been on

638
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: that farm before and there's that huge valley where you

639
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: can see a long ways if you get into it.

640
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: So my goal is to, you know, maybe just camp

641
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: out on one of these easy access points and just

642
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: watch and then if I see something or my trail

643
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: cameras tell me something, then I'm going to jump in

644
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: and go for the kill. Have you considered changing up

645
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: your normal trail camera locations two more zero in specifically

646
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: for Gnarly so instead of spreading them out where you

647
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: usually do, have you thought about focusing all of your

648
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: stuff in the zones you think he's most likely to

649
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,479
Speaker 1: be Yep, And that's typically what I do every year,

650
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: is when I get a really good buck on camera

651
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: I take some down somewhere else and bring them in

652
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: to hope, hopefully zero in. But I won't do that

653
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: until the actual hunting season, gotcha? Okay? Uh So Narlie,

654
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: Charlie's number one, Spencer's number two probably is dork up

655
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: there still. Yeah, Man, he's a nine year old this

656
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: year and he's probably like in the one high one thirties.

657
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: So what happens if it's like November eight or ninth

658
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: or ten. You haven't seen Narlie yet, but this nine

659
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: year old dork Buck comes by that you've seen for

660
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: six years now, where we've been talking about him since

661
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 1: the podcast started. I think, I mean, that's crazy. Well,

662
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: are you going to have a hard time passing on him? See?

663
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I have these debates. Let me

664
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: ask let me flip it and ask you that same question. Dude,

665
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's really hard because you just came

666
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: off of the exact same year that I had. You

667
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: just shot your biggest buck ever, and I definitely come

668
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: into this year feel just more picky. I don't I

669
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: don't have I have no pressure. You know, there's some

670
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: years if you don't kill buck for a year or

671
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: two you're like, you know what, I just need to

672
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: get back into I gotta get some momentum again. I

673
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I remember a few years ago, we're like,

674
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: I used to shoot it, shoot up, shoot a four

675
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: year old, shoot a buck. Have that feeling again. You'll

676
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: get after it. But then when you have that success, now,

677
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: it's like, I just want to hunt more. I want

678
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: to challenge myself more. I want to wait and see

679
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: what might be out there. And yeah, if I if

680
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't feel a tag whatever, um, I kind of

681
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: feel if I if I was in your scenario. And

682
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 1: and again we've said this many times. Scorer isn't everything,

683
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: of course, but sometimes there's nothing wrong with being excited

684
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: about a deer that's really rare and exciting. And if

685
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: you want to challenge yourself in that way, I have

686
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: no problem with that. And I myself sometimes i'm like that.

687
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: You know, like, there's this buck Frank last year that

688
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: he was he was obviously mature, but he was also

689
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: the biggest antler deer I've ever seen before while hunting

690
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: in Michigan, and that was really exciting and I wanted

691
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: to try to kill him. Um, So I would probably

692
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: in your scenario if I knew that Narlie was still alive,

693
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: Like if I got at least one picture knowing that

694
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: he was around owned and I thought I was in

695
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: the game, I would probably not shoot anything else unless

696
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: like a no brainer, knock your socks off something similar

697
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: to Narley came, but at least for a while, I'd

698
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: want at least give it a chance. You know, I'd

699
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: hate to go out there the first day of my racation.

700
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, I don't know. It'd be like

701
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: if holy Field showed up again this year for me

702
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 1: and he was like seven years old and a hundred

703
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: fifteen inches, but I'm also hunting a hundred and sixty

704
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: inch mega giant again. Um, it would be a huge dilemma.

705
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do. Um. In that case,

706
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: I might shoot holy Field just because it's been a

707
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: crazy thing for me. Um. But in your scenario, I

708
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: I could understand either way, whichever way you end up going,

709
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: I would get it. But I think I would probably

710
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: lean just a little bit towards at least give myself

711
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe see Gnarly. Um. I just see

712
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: him on the foot would be amazing. I mean, in

713
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: the in the same goes for a nine and nine

714
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: and a half year old buck who has pretty much

715
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: been not turnal on my farm the entire time that

716
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: I've known him, Right, So I have a feeling he

717
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: goes somewhere else during the hunting season because I don't

718
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: get any pictures of him. I think early October I'll

719
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: get some pictures of him, But I don't know. There

720
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: there is a there is a something cool about the

721
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: rarity of antlers, But at the same time, there's there's

722
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: also a rarity to a really old buck that makes

723
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: it through the winters and making his body's huge, and

724
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: he's just he's like the king ship of the world.

725
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, I don't know. I'd

726
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: say that's more rare than a than antlers. You know,

727
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: nine and a half year old buck. I mean you

728
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: don't you don't see that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's

729
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: like a ghost. I mean, if you haven't been seeing it,

730
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: like if you're just totally nocturnal. Man, think about that story.

731
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: If you're able to wrap your tag around nine and

732
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: a half year old buck that finally slipped up and

733
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,959
Speaker 1: you were able to capitalize on it, that'd be that'd

734
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: be awesome. So let me ask you guys this. Then,

735
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: you know, like this is a podcast we're telling we

736
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: tell stories. You know, we're storytellers. So what what's a

737
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: better story? Hey man? I have two years of history, um,

738
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: with this one buck, and he's got big anglers, and

739
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: I end up, you know, putting the piece of the

740
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: puzzle together and I kill him. Or I got six

741
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: years of experience with this dear. He's nine and a

742
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: half years old, completely nocturnal. I figure him out and

743
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: I shot him and killed him. Well, Josh out to me,

744
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: that's that. To me, it's an easy answer. Um, I

745
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: would say that nine and a half year old buck

746
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: that you've got so much history with, regardless of what

747
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 1: he scores, I just don't think you're gonna have another

748
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: opportunity out of nine and a half ye old buck

749
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: if to do it, maybe a long long time. UM.

750
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: To me that that would be my answer. So my

751
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: my answer would be this, It would be I would

752
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,919
Speaker 1: I would agree with Josh, except for all of your

753
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: dork stuff has only ever been summer pictures like they're there.

754
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: There's never been actual hunting encounters or hunting season strategy

755
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: around him. Like he always disappears. So it's always been

756
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: like I got a picture of him the summer, and

757
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: then we don't hear about until the next year. I

758
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: got a picture dorc again, and then he disappears. If

759
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: if if it became like a hunting thing, if you've

760
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: been hunting him and seeing him for nine seasons, and

761
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: then I'd be like, no brainer, go after Dork. Given that,

762
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, six years of summer pictures

763
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: kind of equals in my mind two years of hunting

764
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: actual in season, back and forth, back and forth with

765
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: a mega giant. Probably. And I will also say, if

766
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: we're looking at story value to us internally, probably all

767
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: those years. If we're looking at story value to the

768
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: outside public, we're kidding ourselves. If like, whether we like

769
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: it or not, just the reality of the world is

770
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: that huge deer just get people excited. I mean that's

771
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: just the truth of it. And uh, and you know

772
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with getting excited about a big deer,

773
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: and this big deer year after like people will get

774
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: excited about it. Um, no doubt about that. So I

775
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: think you've got two great stories, whicheveryone ends up panning out.

776
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: You're in good shape, So consider yourself lucky for that,

777
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: right well, you know, and there's still the you know

778
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: that part of the that part of the state right

779
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: now is in a drought advisory, So who knows what happens.

780
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I've had deer disappear in the past, you know,

781
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: never found them. E h d is a thing thing

782
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 1: again this year. So it's just I always have these

783
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: these awesome conversations with everybody, Hey, what are you doing?

784
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: You know, maybe flat show camp picks, whatever. But the

785
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, I'm not making any decisions

786
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: up until the day I get into that tree stand

787
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: and a deer walks by. That's when I make my decision.

788
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: Right if, in the words of Dan Johnson in the

789
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: year two thousand and eight, if it makes me go, uh,

790
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot, that's a fact, Man's I'll always remember

791
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: that clip. Yeah, and that crazy how far back that goes.

792
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: We're getting old, dude. Um. So I'll walk through my

793
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: schedule for you guys. It keeps on getting changed since

794
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: the last time we talked to all the stand Um.

795
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: So I'm doing this North Dakota hunt at the beginning

796
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: of the season. It's August thirty through September seven, so

797
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: that's a public land hunt. Um. Spencer new Heart is

798
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: going to join me now for that one, so that

799
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: should be cool. My goals for that hunt are to

800
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: kill mature buck. I'll be pumped if we can finally

801
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: find a mature deer during hunting season and getting there on.

802
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: I feel like we kinda just didn't have enough time

803
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: or didn't quite get to figure it out last year

804
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,479
Speaker 1: when me and Josh were out there. So I want

805
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: to take another stab. Um. So that's my goal there.

806
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 1: I just want to figure it out. Like it's just

807
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: being like a little bit of a thorn in my side,

808
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: so I need that whatever that feeling is the fulfillment

809
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: of answering the question, right, and that's what I need

810
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: to figure out there. Um. And then I'll come back

811
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, take care of stuff around

812
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: the house, be a dad again, and then October one

813
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: and that whole time will begin a bunch of Michigan

814
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: hunting for me, hunting a couple of spots in Michigan. Um,

815
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: and then that mid October hunt that Josh talked, well,

816
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: I am going to go in one of those field

817
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: of fork mentor hunts with Josh and mentors new hunters.

818
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: And then yeah, the third week in October, we're shooting

819
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota hunt. UM. I agree with Josh. My

820
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: goal there is to just see some deer and survive. Um.

821
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: If we survived the trip find some deer, I will

822
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: be like, wow, we did great. UM. As far as

823
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: what I would shoot, I will shoot probably anything that's legal. UM.

824
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: That's my my goal. From a what I will target

825
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: on that hunt, I'd be to take any deer out

826
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: of there. I feel like canoe in you know, ten fifteen,

827
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: twenty miles or whatever ends up being in that kind

828
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: of wilderness. I feel like getting in and out of

829
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 1: there with a deer would be one heck of an accomplishment. UM.

830
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 1: So that's my Minnesota thoughts. UM. And then get back

831
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: again focusing on Michigan through the rut this year UM.

832
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: And then Ken Rovan toward Deer Camp. Same thing as

833
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: Josh looking forward to that. Would love to take a

834
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: nice buck up there. I will say that my goals

835
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: as far as Michigan deer this year are a little

836
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: bit location dependent. In that up there at the deer camp,

837
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: I would happily shoot a three year old. Like, if

838
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: there's like a decent little three year old buck, I

839
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,919
Speaker 1: would shoot that thing in a heartbeat up there. That'd

840
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: be amazing. Um. While down in southern Michigan and these

841
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: other spots, I'm becoming much more picky, um, just because

842
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: I know there's some potential I've been putting in a

843
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: lot of time and work. I'm I'm just trying to

844
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: ramp it up to the next level now, especially. I mean,

845
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: I can't set my standards by Frank because that's unrealistic

846
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: for most years around here. But I'd be lying if

847
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't see him in the back of my mind

848
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: a lot when I'm like, you know, like the just

849
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 1: some dear jokes don't have the same jaw dropping effect

850
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: they used to have. After I've now had a bunch

851
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: of encounters with a deer like Frank here. Um. So

852
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll be brought back down to reality this season.

853
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: It's guaranteed to happen. But there's something about that area, though, Mark,

854
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: that is holding good dear right. It's not a coincidence

855
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: that holy Field got old, that Dear got old, and

856
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: so it's not to say that another deer won't get

857
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: old in that in that neighborhood. I feel like that's

858
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: an under like your underestimating yourself. That's a good point.

859
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: It definitely has it had this little spot I've been

860
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,479
Speaker 1: hunting for it's like eight years a now or something.

861
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: It's come a long way. It has been cool to

862
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: see the progress. You know, those first few years I

863
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: was hunting here, I was lucky to have one three

864
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: year old to hunt. And then fast forward two years,

865
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: like five six. Then you know, I saw there was

866
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: one buck that maybe was four one year, and then

867
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: the Holy Field years, you had this one buck that

868
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: kept coming back for three years in a row, made

869
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 1: it to five or six. That was that was cool

870
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: and that you're right, there's there's a couple of properties.

871
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: I think the act as sanctuaries. And then I do think, um,

872
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: and I want to pat myself on the back too

873
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: much here, but I I think it's probably fair to

874
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: say that the fact that I've been handling the property,

875
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: I can hunt with like kids gloves like white you know,

876
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: like white gloves, I think is the term like I'm

877
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: so careful, trying to be so clean when I hunt it.

878
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: I think that's probably helped and I've been trying to

879
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: improve habitat on it as much as I can. I

880
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: have a lot of good food out there most years now.

881
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: I think that's helped have more deer hang out of

882
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: my property. That then I'm the one that gets to

883
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: make the trigger decision on so instead of all these

884
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 1: bucks being all over the place and getting shot by everyone,

885
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: a disproportionate number hang out in my food sources where

886
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm passing of them. So I do think that probably

887
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: has helped. Um. So you're right. I think there's a

888
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:37,919
Speaker 1: good chance that could be a four year old again,

889
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: and I hope that Buck is going to be tran.

890
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: He was the three year old last year that I

891
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: saw a lot I did. Um. I've been starting to

892
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: put together a little spreadsheet on him and I have

893
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: I think the numbers fifteen different days during the hunting

894
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: season last year. I have either a daylight photos of

895
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: him or daylight actual visual encounters of him. So of

896
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: the three months season, so ninety days he was moving

897
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: fifteen days in daylight that I can confirm. That's pretty

898
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: good for Michigan buck. Um. So I think he's pretty

899
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: killable if he if he comes back. I have not

900
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: gotten a confirmed trial camera picture of him yet. Um

901
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: but my summer troal camera pictures around here are usually

902
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: pretty lousy anyway, so I'm not putting too much too

903
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: much into that. Um but yeah, definitely a four year

904
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: old or older. I did. I have been getting some

905
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: some scouting intel. There's a pretty darn nice ten pointer

906
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: I've been seeing here recently, saw three days in a

907
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: row last week, some across the road from the main property.

908
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: I can hunt a couple of days actually on the property.

909
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: I can hunt, and he he's either a really nice

910
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: three year old or like it's a good solid four

911
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: year old. I don't know yet, so hard to tell him,

912
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: like when they're standing chest high and soybeans and stuff. Um,

913
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: but if he's a four year old hill bear, no brainer. Um,

914
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be mid on a mid one thirties.

915
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: If I'm trying to be conservative with it, you could,

916
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, he twisted my arm and I'm really excited.

917
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: I would say he's high one thirties. But in reality,

918
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: once the albot comes off, he's probably a little smaller.

919
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: But he's like a really nice Michigan buck any other year.

920
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: I mean, if I look back over all the years

921
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: I've hunted this property, Frank was obviously the biggest. This

922
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: buck would probably the second largest deer that I've had. Well,

923
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: there's there was one other mega giant that showed up

924
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the summer, really early, but consistently.

925
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: If this buck sticks around, he'll be the second biggest

926
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: deer probably is that that's been here. If he becomes

927
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: a huntable buck, So so that's pretty cool. How far

928
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: is he how can you can you answer that? Or

929
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: from here? From that property? How far is you can

930
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: that property to make him unable? Oh? Well, twice I've

931
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: seen him on the property I can hunt, and then

932
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: once I saw him just across the road from it.

933
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: So very huntable. Um, if he you know, if his

934
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: summer range is the same as fault, if he stays around,

935
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: he seems like and I've got a bunch of pictures

936
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: of him too, So he's been very much on the

937
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: proper day hunt so far this summer. So figures crossed.

938
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: That could be a good situation. Um, But yeah, that

939
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: you don't have any You don't have any pictures of him.

940
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: You haven't pulled cards since you've seen him yet, have you?

941
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: I do have pictures of him. Yep, yep. I went

942
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: and looked back that original nice buck that I posted

943
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: pictures of right when I got back from Montana. That

944
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: was him. He just had him. He just hadn't grown

945
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: much time length it when I had that picture. Um.

946
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: And then I have multiple pictures of him like profile

947
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: view walking. I don't have any really good like head

948
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: on pictures of him, um, but multiple profile shots as

949
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: he walks to the side, you know. So it'll be

950
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: interesting to see what those dear do UM on that

951
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: main piece you can hunt now that it's like planet

952
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: and two different things. I think you said, that's the

953
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: first time that's happened since you've been there. Yeah, since

954
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: you've been hunting. It will be interesting to see how

955
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: that has a has an effect on which dear stay,

956
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: which dear leaves. Um. Maybe you'll hold more dear. It'll

957
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. Okay, we need to take another

958
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: quick break here to thank our friends at Morton Buildings,

959
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: who are the builders of wood frame steel side of buildings.

960
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 1: If you need more space for your dear mounts, like

961
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: my wife is saying to me, or if you need

962
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: someone to store your tractor or want a building on

963
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: a new deer hunting property to put some bunks in,

964
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: or an a TV or a skinny check Morton Buildings

965
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: should be when the first options to check out. I'm

966
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: super intrigued. I keep on waiting to put one of

967
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: these up somewhere someday that as the hope. And I've

968
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: been learning more about they have to offer by visiting

969
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: Morton Buildings dot com, and I suggest you do the same.

970
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: And while we're at it, I also want to thank

971
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: Vortex Optics. And it's that time of year that I'm

972
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: out there watching bucks in the crop fields, and I

973
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: would say that a good spotting scope can make all

974
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: the difference and how enjoyable that kind of evening activity is.

975
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: I personally have been rocking the Vortex Viper HD scope

976
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: most often, and I'm using a phone scope attachment so

977
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: i can attach my phone to that scope and then

978
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: I can photograph and video deer with my iPhone. Really

979
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: easily turns out great. I love it. You also get

980
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: to see the screen, you know, instead of looking through

981
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: the I piece, which is great. But you can now

982
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: also attach your phone, which is super handy. And the

983
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: Vortex Viper HD gets me a nice crisp, clear image

984
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: and really reaches out there and touches these deer. So

985
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: if you're hoping to do something similar over these final

986
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: weeks leading up to the season, I'd encourage you to

987
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: check out what Vortex has to offer as far as

988
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: their spotting scopes, and you can find that at Vortex

989
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: Optics dot com. Yeah. I don't think I told you that, Dan,

990
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: But the main farm now is is usually it's always

991
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: just one type of crops either corner beans and it's

992
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: rotade every year. But this year, because of how wet

993
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: it was early, they planted corn on one side of

994
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: the farm, but they didn't plant the north side of

995
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: the farm until late in the summer or late in

996
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: the spring, and that's beans. So for the first time

997
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: I've got both major crops on the farm. Well that's

998
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: gonna help, I think. Yeah, I'm kind of excited to

999
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: see what that does for things. So so, yeah, I

1000
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: mean this new buck, we've been kind of calling him

1001
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: risky business, is what my buddy, well, you know, you know, Corey.

1002
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: Corey dubbed him risky business because if he's a three

1003
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: year old, he's like, it's very risky for him to

1004
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: come close to me because of how impressive he looks. Um,

1005
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: but I'm still on the fence. If he's a three

1006
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: year old, would I take that buck? I don't know,

1007
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: because he'd be, like I said, the second biggest y

1008
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: I've ever been on a hunt here. But he's not.

1009
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: If he's not a four year old, that makes him

1010
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: it's a tough decision for me. I don't know. I

1011
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: just kind of to feel that one out. Um, So

1012
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: r B is definitely one on paying attention to. And

1013
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: then I think Trans gonna show back up. But if

1014
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: Trans shows back up, he'll be a stud I think.

1015
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm excited to see that. Um, what you

1016
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 1: should do is and I'm I'm doing this in quotations,

1017
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: and one's a regular quotations and one looks like a

1018
00:53:53,719 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: comma but finger quotes that. Oh yeah, I see, I

1019
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: get it now, Okay, I should apostrophe yeah anyway, but anyway, yeah, idiot,

1020
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: but you should accidentally take a lawnmower and run over

1021
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: some of those beans, knock them down, or or do

1022
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,720
Speaker 1: it legally and not accidentally run over him. But asked

1023
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: the farmer to see if he can keep some of

1024
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: them up. That would be nice. Pay him, pay him

1025
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: like you know, paying for However, many bushels come out

1026
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: of an acre and they say, hey, maybe we leave

1027
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: an acre beans up, or you know, a half acre

1028
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 1: or something like that. It would be awesome to have

1029
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: an acre standing beans. I mean that that pull them in,

1030
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I'm always amazed though here how

1031
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: much they they they hammer the bean fields even after

1032
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: they're they're harvested for a long time. There must be

1033
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: a lot of waste screen. This farmer's combine must miss

1034
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: a lot because they stay on those picked fields for

1035
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: much longer than I've seen in many other places. So

1036
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: it's always it seems to be. I get a lot

1037
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: of good food source actions still well into late season,

1038
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: so we'll see. It's gonna be interesting hunting, like you know,

1039
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: kind of similar to you on your main farm. I've

1040
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: been hunting this main farm now for eight years or

1041
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: something like that, so I have a lot of experience

1042
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: with it. I didn't have to do a lot of

1043
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: new work on it. I just check the straps on

1044
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: my existing stands. I prepped one new location. UM, I

1045
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: gotta finalize my food plots. I'm still dealing with that. UM.

1046
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: But I know kind of what's happening. I'll hunt my

1047
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: main spots until I see different behavior, and if I

1048
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: see different behavior, I'll just run and gun hang a

1049
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: saddle somewhere new. Um, But I don't need to reinvent

1050
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: the whealel. I don't think I've got a pretty good

1051
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: handle on what's happening. So I do have a new

1052
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: farm I'm hunting this year on that Joshua hunt. A

1053
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: couple of times. We've probably been doing some work out

1054
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: there recently, and and that will be a brand new

1055
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: one and that will be some new a lot of

1056
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 1: a lot of learning to do there, So I don't

1057
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: know what to expect if if you know, I still

1058
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: haven't gotten any trout camera pictures of the mature buck

1059
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: out there, so I don't know what's there, but I

1060
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: gotta believe there would be something eventually. So that's like

1061
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: a big TB D. I don't have a whole lot

1062
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: of exciting stuff to share, but but hopefully by the

1063
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: time season comes around, that will be like my second

1064
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: really good kind of local spot and we'll have something

1065
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: to talk about there at that point. But question marks otherwise,

1066
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: and I guess the one other the one other hunt.

1067
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: I told you last time we talked about our schedule

1068
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: that I was going to try to do this New

1069
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: York hunt and do like a big woods tracking a

1070
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: deer in the snow. That one fell through, but it's

1071
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: been replaced with a late season muzzleloader hunt in Nebraska

1072
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 1: with a bunch of the Mediator crew. So I'm gonna

1073
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: tryt some public land, um late in the year out

1074
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: there and see what that's like. So that would be

1075
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: a wild card. I have no expectations. I don't know

1076
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: what that will be like, but um, that would be

1077
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: a fun time to get out there and explore a

1078
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: different landscape again. So that's it. And it's paid for

1079
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: by the company. That is a it's it's nice to

1080
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: be able to have my hunting be work as well.

1081
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: So that's what my season looks like. It's it's it's

1082
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a busy one. And did we talk about

1083
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: this on the podcast yet? Did I tell you this? Dan?

1084
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if I did tell you this. This

1085
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: is what I've got a second child in the way.

1086
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: Did I tell you that? I didn't know that until

1087
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: right now. Yes, It's I'm so like lost on like

1088
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: who knows and what Yeah, we got another one on

1089
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: the way, so that makes him a little interesting. Get

1090
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: that a stack to me, buddy, I know, yea, yeah,

1091
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: this is the end for us, so good. Well, first off, congratulations, thanks,

1092
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, number two is a little scary though

1093
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: everything you told me. All right, now, how old your

1094
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: how old your boy? Right now? He's a little over

1095
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: a year and a half now, a little over a

1096
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: year and a half. Okay, cool, So he's really close

1097
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: to my uh my son. So let's see. Do you

1098
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: know if it's a boy or a girl yet? We

1099
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: do not know yet? Do not you know? Are you

1100
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna find out? We are going to find out. We'll

1101
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: get to find out in September. Cool. Well, congratulations, and

1102
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: yeah I don't have three, I guess. I mean, I

1103
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. Any any any advice

1104
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: for having a toddler and a pregnant wife at the

1105
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: same time. How should I deal with that during hunting season? Anything?

1106
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: I need to be a little more careful about. Man,

1107
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: You get out of the house, that's how you deal.

1108
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: Just get out, leave for a week in Minnesota with

1109
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:42,479
Speaker 1: no service and Nebraska. Yeah, my wife's uh, it's it's

1110
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: should be the exact same due date that ever was

1111
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: so early February early February. Were you planning for this?

1112
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean, given your respective career, were you planning to

1113
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: have a baby after January? We definitely, we weren't planning

1114
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: everyone yet. We were thinking like a little bit later,

1115
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: we would try, like a few like handful months later,

1116
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: maybe we'd start, you know, trying to make that happen. Um, say,

1117
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: were you about to say, start exploring, experimenting, but maybe

1118
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: that try because this time, you know, we're gonna explore

1119
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: each other's bodies. This time, I was trying to avoid

1120
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: this conversation. Uh so, yeah, we're we we definitely do

1121
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: try to keep hunting season in mind. Um, so we

1122
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: wanted to avoid hunting season. But it was a little

1123
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: bit of a surprise, but but certainly not so outside

1124
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: of the real and possibility that it was totally shocking.

1125
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're excited. But of course it brings all

1126
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: sorts of new things to mind, and and that will

1127
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: probably change my hunting season a little bit. If if

1128
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, if the pregnancies more of a struggle for her,

1129
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: if she's not feeling well or whatever, that I might

1130
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: need to cut back on some stuff and be around more.

1131
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, this will be the last time season

1132
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: with just one, so I gotta take advantage of it.

1133
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: I supposed to. I've got one final thing I want

1134
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: to cover with everyone because I feel we've covered our plans,

1135
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: We've covered our big goals. Um, you know my big

1136
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: goal was mature buck in North Dakota, survive Minnesota. I

1137
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: think I can kill two mature bucks in Michigan between

1138
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: the three different farms I talked about, and then Nebraska.

1139
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: Just have a good time. Um, no expectations there. UM.

1140
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: I want us each to think of a challenge for

1141
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: one of the other two here, so you can we

1142
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: could either give a challenge to each person or if

1143
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: we just want to each pick someone and give them

1144
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: a chance. We've done this in the past year's Dan,

1145
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna give one piece of advice or one thing

1146
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: we want the other guy to do this coming season

1147
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: or in the coming weeks leading up to this season.

1148
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: So we've got just something to push us a little harder.

1149
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 1: So I've got a couple. I've got one for each

1150
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: of you. Um, and then I'll give you guy, it

1151
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: is time to think of yours. So for Josh, my

1152
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: challenge for you is to we kind of have already

1153
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: touched on this, but I still want to lock down

1154
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: one good piece of private land that you can hunt

1155
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: without having to ask someone else if you can do it. So,

1156
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: if that's this one piece that you've already been talking about,

1157
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: if you've got a position now that you can hunted

1158
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: on your own and you're in good place, just lock

1159
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: that down. My challenge for you is to get that

1160
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: locked and to get it prepped so that you can

1161
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: be out there in early November whenever you find the

1162
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: time and you can get that buck. So that's my

1163
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: personal challenge to you. I really want to see you

1164
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: kill a good one in Michigan this year. I like that.

1165
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: I think that's a good one because that would be

1166
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: the challenge I would have given myself. Maybe it's too easy.

1167
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: My challenge for Dan, because of some of the struggle

1168
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: not struggles, but challenges that both you and I have

1169
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: had over the years, and we've talked about it, my

1170
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: challenge to you is to try to find time to

1171
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: continue your bow practice in season, so make sure that

1172
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: the season doesn't hit and then you just are running

1173
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: around and you don't shoot your bow anymore. We gotta

1174
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: we both need to have some killer shots on deer

1175
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: this year, I think, and I think for both of

1176
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: us to do that, we gotta keep keep up our

1177
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: good habits or working on Now. We got to keep

1178
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: that all the way through the season so we don't

1179
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden have a month that passes by

1180
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: during the season we haven't been shooting her bow. So

1181
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: that's my personal challenge to you. Um, those are my two.

1182
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: Do either one of you have an idea that you

1183
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: want to share for any of us. I will say

1184
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: something to Josh, And this is in all seriousness, by

1185
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: the way, It's not meant to be a joke. But

1186
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: you only have one kid, and I heard you. I

1187
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: heard you already talking about man, I gotta make sure

1188
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: I get home and and be there for my wife

1189
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 1: when she needs me and family. How old your kid now?

1190
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: Just a couple of months? Six weeks old? Okay, six

1191
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 1: weeks right, so that is probably the easiest age to

1192
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: take care of a child. Yeah, right, do like this

1193
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 1: is this is and I know it's stressful time a year,

1194
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 1: you know you're you're just new parents, but one kid

1195
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: is easier to take is easier to watch than two kids.

1196
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: Two kids are easier to watch than three kids. A

1197
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: baby is easier to watch than a toddler. A toddler.

1198
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: A toddler is easier to watch them. And then you

1199
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: get into activities and you're hunting. Is time as you

1200
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: get older with your family is actually going to shrink.

1201
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: So my challenge to you is, although you do have

1202
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: a kid, take advantage of this time to still continue

1203
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: to hunt and make sure you put in time for

1204
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: hunting to I mean, it's your passion, right, Like I said,

1205
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: I think it, I think it will. I think I'm

1206
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: confident that like we'll kind of figure it out right,

1207
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 1: we'll settle into like a good, um, a good routine

1208
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: with him, and I think I'll have more time than

1209
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: maybe what I'm thinking I will right now. Um, So

1210
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm hoping for anyway. Um So, no,

1211
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: I think that's that's some great points there. Yeah. And

1212
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: then for Mark Man, I don't I don't know. I'm

1213
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: just I wish I could hunt as much as you.

1214
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't necessarily have a challenge for

1215
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: you other than I know there's times on some of

1216
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: your farms where I you play on the side of caution.

1217
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: And I almost feel like there's a time, especially a year,

1218
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: where you're coming off killing an absolute stud animal, to

1219
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 1: to try and be aggressive. And maybe I'm wrong and

1220
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: an aggressive move doesn't work, but maybe I'm right in

1221
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: an aggressive move maybe early in the season or um,

1222
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:56,479
Speaker 1: when a deer pops up and you take a slow

1223
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: step first before you take the fast step, take the

1224
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: fast step first, and see what happens. I like it.

1225
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: I definitely. I feel like every year that's something that

1226
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: I liked that I have in the back of my

1227
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: mind too, is I'm getting more and more comfortable with

1228
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: being a little more aggressive. So I think that's a

1229
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: good challenge. Thank you for that, Dan, Josh you anything, Yeah, yeah,

1230
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking of one for Dan here, but I

1231
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: got one for you. And we've talked a little bit

1232
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: about it before, probably on air and off air, but

1233
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: just to just to make sure you're you're you're enjoying

1234
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: it right, like not stressing yourself out too much about

1235
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: um what you need to be doing and and um,

1236
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: just making sure you remember what it's all about and

1237
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: uh have a good time. UM. That would be my

1238
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: my one challenge, and I think you've you've come along

1239
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: way with that. I think probably um, having ever written,

1240
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: having a year that you had last year kind of

1241
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: helped put things in perspective. But I just I worry

1242
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: about you when you get stressed out about stuff. So

1243
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: just keep keep that all in perspective and what getting

1244
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: to do? Um and Dan Man, I don't I don't know. UM,

1245
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: I think maybe along your lines of stuff, being aggressive.

1246
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna be on a couple of out

1247
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: of state hunts that are probably going to be what

1248
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: just a week in time, and just making sure you

1249
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: stay aggressive. I think that was one of my mistakes

1250
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: in North Dakota last year, was not being aggressive enough. Um.

1251
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, just just stay after him, getting tight on

1252
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: him if you can. And and uh, you only got

1253
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: a week, can't screw it up too bad. So that's right,

1254
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 1: that's right. And it's public land, so it's almost like

1255
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: it's meant to be screwed, screwed exactly. True. I've got

1256
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: one more actually for all three of us, and it

1257
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: kind of ties into situations that we're all in for

1258
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: different reasons. Um. You know, Dan, you and I have

1259
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: had at times occasional struggles with rushing our shots and stuff. Josh,

1260
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: you haven't necessarily had that problem, but you know you're

1261
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: still you know, I haven't hunt you haven't killed two

1262
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: billion deer yet. Um So, I think all three of

1263
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: us a good thing to do would be to try

1264
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: to kill more deer in general, like kill more does

1265
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: this year, just because we had this conversation with Mark

1266
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: Drew the other day and that there's nothing that prepares

1267
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 1: you to handle the moment of truth better than just

1268
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: being in it often, being in that moment often and

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Speaker 1: dealing with it. And so for me, dealing with these

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Speaker 1: different variations of target panic over the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years and trying to just lock down a better shot process.

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Speaker 1: Um I switched this back tension release that we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about, and for me, a personal goal is to

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Speaker 1: is to shoot more deer with my bow using that

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Speaker 1: back tension release, just to have like a newfound, rock

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Speaker 1: solid confidence in that thing. Um So, personally, I want

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Speaker 1: to target does earlier than usual, early and often, and

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Speaker 1: go into the rut like feeling like ice cold gonna

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Speaker 1: make it happen no matter what, because I've already yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I've already put three doughs in the ground or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, and I've had perfect shots, like I

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Speaker 1: want perfect shots this year. I don't want to have

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Speaker 1: a shot that's like when I was a little back

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Speaker 1: or I was a little high, but I got him. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've had too many shots like that over the years

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Speaker 1: that they got the job done. I've been very fortunate

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Speaker 1: only wound one dear I didn't find right away. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to have as well it was Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want perfect shots this year. That's my big goal

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Speaker 1: for myself. Um. Some I'm working hard trying to make

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Speaker 1: it happen. And um, we'll see if it comes together.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I'm trying to push myself to do.

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Speaker 1: So with that, I think we've covered a lot of ground. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm good to wrap it up. A few guys there,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go fishing, so yeah, let's wrap it up. Nice.

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Speaker 1: Got your living the dream now? Man, that's all right.

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Speaker 1: You should have seen my week this week. I deserve

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Speaker 1: to go fishing, all right, You deserve to go fishing.

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Speaker 1: Three kids doesn't sound so bad, seriously, all right, guys, Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you Dan, thank you Josh, and uh, before you

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Speaker 1: know it, a few more weeks when we be out

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Speaker 1: there with the bows and arrows, so oh, let's get

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Speaker 1: after it and that will do it. Another episode is

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Speaker 1: on the shelf. Hopefully guys enjoyed this fun one bs

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01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 1: and a little bit and uh setting things up for

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Speaker 1: the upcoming season. As you know, we'd like to have

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Speaker 1: these in depth interviews with different experts across the country.

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Speaker 1: But then I also think it's important that we share

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Speaker 1: our own personal stories so you can kind of see

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Speaker 1: how we're trying to implement the different ideas that we're

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01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: learning from all these guests throughout the year. So now

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Speaker 1: you know kind of what we're shooting for, what we're

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Speaker 1: trying for, what's up to come in the coming weeks

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Speaker 1: and months, and hopefully you'll follow along, hopefully you have

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Speaker 1: some some exciting trips and hunts of your own, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully laid out some goals you can be working towards.

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Speaker 1: And Uh. In the meantime, I just want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for spending this time with us, thanks for laughing along,

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Speaker 1: for following along with our journey, and when we chat

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Speaker 1: to you next, I hope you'll stay wired to hunt