00:00:01 Speaker 1: Hey guys, this is Mark Kenyon of the Wired Hunt podcast, and I'm here today to introduce you to something new. As you might be able to tell, this isn't a regular episode of the Wired Hunt podcast. In fact, you're listening to the very first episode of a bonus mini series that we're going to be running over here over the next few weeks that we're going to be calling Wired Hunt's rut Radio. And here to help me with this new project is Weird Hunt contributor and now producer of this mini series, Spencer new Hearth. How you doing, Spencer, I'm good. I'm excited that we're getting closer to November. Yes, yeah, me too. I'm really excited about that. And I'm excited about this podcast, especially kind of in relation to that whole time period of November, because I don't know about you, but when I think of that month, I think about the rut am. I right, yeah, absolutely, And and this has been a really strange set of interviews that we've done. Um, you know, I reached out to to five contexts that spread across White Tail Country from Minnesota to North Carolina, and you know, I opened it up asking him all the same thing our scale one to ten, what would you say the bucket activities right now? And I heard everything from a seven down to it too. And I don't think there's any other time of year that you would get that kind of response besides mid October. Yeah, the dreaded October level. But let's let's rewind a little bit because you came to me earlier this year with this idea for this kind of mini series related to the run. Um. But but Phil, fill our listeners in what is this? What is this all about? What are we gonna be hearing today? What are we gonna be hearing over the coming weeks? So I think every fall um me, just like any other you know, archery white tail hunter is dying to hear reports of what's going on in the woods. And we want to have our thumb on on the pulse of, you know, what the white tail are doing, and uh, this is one way, uh for white tail hunters to confirm or deny what they're seeing in the woods. And so each week I'm gonna talk to four or five or six you know white tail hunters that kind of spread throughout white tail country and you know, get get a sense of what they're seeing. In the woods and hopefully help us piece together of what exactly is going on right now. You know, are they hitting soybeans right now? Are they really nocturnal or they working up scrapes? Um? You know, are they seeking and chasing it? All that kind of information that can make us better hunters. Um. You know, it's it's great for that guy who maybe hasn't been out in a couple of weeks and um, you know, needs to pick a stand to hunt and he's not sure what you go into, but he's hunting North Dakota and he just heard somebody from Minnesota on the podcast say that, you know, they're seeking and chasing really hard right now, and you should be hunting aggressive. You know, that's just one example of what this podcast is intended to do. I love it. I'm excited about that because I think there's there's a lot of value to that. As you just said, you know, if you're not able to be out there, you want to know what's happening in your region. And what I like about what you're putting together with this series here is the fact that you're gonna be talking to people all over the country and getting different perspectives and updates from everywhere from you know, the northeast down to the south like could be, so we could hear someone from North Carolina, we could hear someone from Tennessee. We could hear from someone from Wyoming or Maine or Michigan or all the way across the board. So I think, no matter where you live and hunt, you're going to be able to hear some updates throughout these coming weeks that are relevant to you. And hopefully you can take some of these things you here here and say, Okay, maybe that's what's happened near me, I should try X or Y and um. You know, as you know, Spencer, at this time of year, white tail behavior and activity changes so dynamically over this next kind of six week period. I mean, things are going to go from zero to a hundred pretty fast here, and it's as far as I'm concerned, it's important to know where we are on that acceleration and and be able to then apply the right tactic to the right time. Um. So I think that's what we're gonna be achieve here right you With this time of year, it's still strange because I don't think there's one overarching theme, you know, that fits the whole country. Because I was talking to you know, our listener from North Carolina, Haynes Shelton, and uh, you know, I was completely agreeing with what he was saying. And then I would talk to uh Trent Siegel from Kansas, who's much closer to my homestate of South Dakota where I'm I'm hunting, and uh, I felt it was very different than when I was seeing and so it's it's just a weird time of year, but it's still really cool to to hear those reports and how guys are using tactics right now to you know, help their success rates. Yeah. Absolutely, So we're going to be having a new episode every week for at least the next six weeks, I think, and we're gonna be covering this type of stuff right We're gonna be talking to, like you mentioned, three or four or five six different guys from across the country getting their updates. And that said, you know, we shouldn't beat around the bush, I don't think, Spencer, because I know we have some great stuff the cover today. So so who are we talking to today and what regions are they covering. We started off in Minnesota with Tony Peterson. He's a gear editor for bow Hunter magazine. Uh. Then we have in Kentucky Josh Honeycutt with real tree dot Com. In North Carolina, we have editor of North American Whitetail Haynes Shelton. In Illinois, we have bow Hunting dot COM's Justin Zaar. And then to end the podcast, we talk with Trent Siegel of Heartland bow Hunter in Kansas. And Trent just had an amazing hunt last week. Um, and we'll get to that at the end of the episode. If you haven't seen what happened yet, go to Heartland bow Hunters Facebook page and check out his recent pictures. Oh my gosh, that dear is insane, incredible, incredible buck. Yeah, he was. He was excited to talk about it, and uh, just you know how he went into the hunt. He said he was literally a hundred percent confident he was going to kill that deer. Um. And it's just so different than when I out to like Justin from Illinois, who said, you know, this is just terrible. Right now he told me it to two out of ten for hunting, and so it's just completely different. It's still exciting to hear what tactics these guys are using and just how different it can be from one stage to the next. Definitely. Well, I'm excited to hear because I haven't got to hear from these guys yet, so correct me if I'm wrong. But the way this is going to work is we're going to jump right into that first interview and then we're just gonna go you know, one, two, three, four, five or and here the mall and then that'll be our show. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. We talked about four or five minutes with each guy, uh, you know, get a pulsible what's going on, and then it's onto the next interview, so we'll wrap up the whole thing and you know, around thirty minutes with these guys. Awesome. Well, this sounds like an exciting new series, Spencer. I'm pretty pumped about it. I know you are too, and I guess without further ado, let's just get right into it, all right. We'll get to the first caller, but quickly before we get our first update. As all Wired Hunt podcasts are, this episod so it is brought to you by sit Good Gear. If you'd like to learn more about Sitka Gears technical hunting apparel, you can visit Sick of Gear dot com and now onto the show alright, and joining us on the phone first is Tony Peterson. Tony is a notorious public land killer and gear editor for bow Hunter magazine. Tony, No, No, you just spent some time hunting in your home state of Minnesota. On a scale of one to ten, how would you say the buck activity was? Um, I would probably go with about a five five And so is that kind of what you expected for this time of year? Yeah, you know, it wasn't bad. I ended up seeing two bucks in the last couple of days that are both pretty good ones, um and some other buck activity. Actually saw my first chase of the year, I think Saturday morning, and I saw two bucks going after a dope pretty hard. But it's this this time is just up and down. If you get the right weather, it can be really good. And if it gets hot, like we just got it, you know, it slows down a little bit. So it was it was probably about what I expected. And so before it got hot, re seeing a little better activity or about the same. I was seeing better activity with that big front that came through. Um, you know it was it got real windy or we were fighting thirty mile our winds, but the deer were moving and you know, once it once it came through and those temps got about you know, we were sitting at about twelve degrees above normal. Um, it's it's shut down for me, pretty good. I still saw some deer, but not not the way it was. And what type of an area you know, have you been hunting lately? Are you pretty aggressive right now? I was? You know, I'm hunting staging areas. I'm kind of trying to get between betting and food sources, um, in the mornings and the evenings. Um, you know, and I tried to hunt water a little bit when it got hot, and it just it just didn't play out for me that well. Um. But I'm kind of my treatment Minnesota a little differently because it's my home state and I'm I'm working on some really big bucks. I'm kind of playing it a little safer than I would in some other states. Um, but you know, there's a lot of a lot of transition routes for me right now. And so outside of the bucks, you know, with with the does and even the younger bucks, are you seeing them about the same activity level as it was a bigger deer you're targeting or is it different for them? You know, like you see more of those deer because there's more of them out there. But the you know, the activity in general was just okay. I mean I saw some does, I saw some young bucks, um, but it wasn't I never had one of those sis where I was seeing deer left and right and it was just on fire, you know. I mean, it was pretty typical mid October type of stuff. M sure. And what what about first sign right now? I mean, are you are you seeing some scrapes popping up or or some being active? They're laying down sign everywhere. Um. I took a little walk on Sunday afternoon just to check some areas that I haven't been hunting, and I found so many rubs and scrapes. Um. They're really really laying down some sign hard. So it's getting pretty cool out there right now in the woods. There's a lot of a lot of signs showing up, and you know, we're getting pretty close to one. It's gonna get really good. And and how can you use that to your advantage right now? You know, if you find it a couple of good scrape lines, um, you know, is there anything you can do that to help you kill a buck right now? With that? Um? You know, scrapes are good right now, um, and they will be for you know, a couple more days. But I'm I'm I'm looking at rubs because rubs tell me an awful lot about wear bucks like to travel and where they like to kill times. So I'm looking for a staging area with a ton of random rubs in it right now, and I found a few of those places. So as soon as I get the chance, which will probably be about Thursday, I'm gonna go back in and start hunting some of that sign I found this past weekend, get right on top of it, and hope to catch those bucks moving in the cover sure in and going forward, say you were going to be hunting these next you know, ten days or so, what would you expect on a scale of one to ten for the buck activity to be? Then, well, you know it's going to get better here, I would say, you know, within the next few days, we're kind of stuck in a warm weather holding pattern, so that's gonna stay pretty consistent. That maybe a five or six, But you know, as we push on here a week down the road, and you know, ten days down the road, it's gonna get better. I mean, we'll be well, we'll be pushing up on Halloween and it's going to get good, you know, seven or eight, I'm sure. So that's that's pretty exciting, alright, Tony. Well, I'll be hoping that a cold front rolls through before you and you can get back in the woods. Awesome. Thanks man, Thanks for your time. We'll connect again in a couple of weeks. And joining us on the line now is Haynes Shelton, Associate editor for North American Whitetail. Haynes, I know you were just hunting in your home state of North Carolina and targeting a big buck. UM. So, on a scale of one to ten, what would you say the buck activity was while you were there? Oh? Well, I would say, you know, buck activities were still relatively low during daylight hours. You know, it's fortunate enough that I I saw the buck I've been after on Saturday evening during daylight during shooting hours, you know, so that's a major plus. Um. But other than yesterday afternoon, all the buck activity I've had has been on trail camera and it's all been nocturnal, but you know, I am getting regular movement, So I would say four to five on a scale of one to ten. You know, the bucks are moving, but like I said, I'm not getting I'm not getting any consistency on my buck movement during daylight hours yet. Sure. So what I just talked to Tony Peterson from Minnesota and he told me that up there it's like a five, um, you know right now, and and so it's pretty incredible. The same thing down there. Is that typical for this time of years that we'd expect to see a lot of nocturnal movement. Sure, I would say, yes, you know, we're hunting, uh in Davy County, North Carolina. You know, it's Piedmont area, central North Carolina. UM, And I hunted there, you know since I was a little kid. You know, I grew up on there, and I'm really familiar with kind of what those deer do. And you know, it can be largely weather dependent, but we traditionally have an extremely good muzzloader season that comes in that first week in November. You know, you can almost always bank on that November muzzloader being really good for rud activity. Usually by that part of the year. You know, the bucks have really started rubbing good. Uh, they've laid down a lot of scrapes and that you know, you're starting to see and chase a bunch of those. You know that that's one is really on fire. Um as far as bow hunting up until they're you know kind of point in time we're in right now. I've killed there, you know, I've killed big bucks during this time. But it's a lot harder. You know, you can kill them on scrapes. You know, you can go out and put down some mocked scrapes and you can get some bucks coming in to check them. But I've never killed I'm screaming hot. Rut during this time is still still a little early, you know, at least a week or two early, that's a sure. And sot with with the hurricane, they just moved through that area. Um, did you notice a change in jew behavior during that time? And do you think they will have any repercussions going forward or right now? Yes, you know I did notice. Uh, I did notice some some really cool things to going on with that hurricane. And that's the reason I went back home, uh to hunt this weekend or this past weekend. You know, that's a long drive from Georgia and you know, really not gonna make it unless I think it's a good shot. But with the hurricane that came in last week, you know, checking my trail cameras, I saw, you know, really great deer movement and excellent buck movement. We actually had three um new bucks coming on camera that we have not had a photo of all year. And we ran cameras all summer. You know, we've got these deer patterned and you know, we've got a great feel for what bucks are in our area. They want to check cameras two weeks ago and saw all of a sudden these three new bucks that were all good, big bucks, and you know, two of them were solid shooters. Um. You know, I think that hurricane what it did was it probably you know, had the bucks hunkered down, had all the deer hunker down while it was happening. We had two or three inches of rain, you know, in in one evening and then again the next day. And I think after the storm rolled out, I think it got the deer on their feet and got them out to feed. You know, we had a big high pressure front, which is typical on the back side of one of those storms, and you know it was good. You know, we had a lot of deer on camera, but once again still primarily nocturnal. You know, that's really that's the kicker, as you don't know if these deer are gonna get out during daylight or you know, during legal shooting time because they're almost always moving right on the cusp of that, you know, right, but right at dark sure, and and going forward, I mean, do you think that will change you in the next ten days? You know what, what would you say on a scale of one to ten, that buck activity is going to be in North Carolina? Oh? Yeah, you know, I think uh, I think in the next week, you know, it could get a lot better, especially depending on the weather. You know, if you get, uh, if you're lucky enough to get a good cold front coming in on the back side of October, you know, you can really do some good because those you know, those big mature bucks are gonna get have they want to be the first one to lay down the scrapes. Man, they're gonna hit the rubs and you know they're gonna start cruising and kind of getting ready to start finding those does, and they just get fired up. You know. I'd say the next week it could be a lot better. Next two weeks it could be awesome, you know, just hopefully we'll get some good weather. Man, we can get one killed. Sure, all right, Haynes, Well, I'll be following along in North American White Hill. I hope to see you with that big eight point in your hands. Oh yeah, I appreciate it, man. It's good talking to you, Spencer. Joining me online now is Justin Tsar, general manager of Bowl hunting dot Com. Great forum, great blog, check it out, guys. So, Justin, I know you've been hunting in Illinois lately. What do you gotta tell me? What's the activity been like? On a scale of one to ten, I'd say maybe a two at least in the areas that myself and most of my guys uh have been hunging here lately, it's been pretty slow. So that's devastatingly low. What what factors are contributing to that, you know, terrible activity? Um, My best guess is probably going to be weather. You know, it's been unseasonably warm, I think throughout probably most of the country I know, definitely here in the Midwest for sure, this warm. Whether it's certainly you know, kept the buck movement subdued. We've had a few little pulled fronts have pushed through, and I I don't even know if you'd call them cold fronts. There are more like cool fronts that came through, and you know we'd see a little bit of buck activity. Um. But I mean today it's almost eighty degrees here and you know, buck activities pretty much down to zero from what I'm seeing. Sure, And you're you know, getting that information from from your hunts or from your trail cameras or what are you seeing out there? Sure. I mean i'd say a combination of things. You know, my hunts personally, UM, pretty much just you know, all dough activity, dough sightings during the daylight. UM, trail cameras you know, obviously it's a big thing. We run a lot of cellular cameras. UM, you know, my self and some of the guys that I hunt with, UM swinging between the five or six cell cameras that we've got out. UM. I'm not sure we've had a daytime picture of a shootable book you know, on his feet in probably a couple of weeks now, UM. And then you can just look through our forum you know, see what guys are doing on the forum, and you know you see a deer here and they're getting getting shot, but you know, nothing with any sort of real regularity. It seems like, sure, So what is your hunting tactics beend then lately? With you know that terrible movement? Have you been addressed at all? You know, I haven't been super aggressive yet. You know, I'm kind of just gonna wait. Um, you know, another week or two here, we'll start getting real aggressive with them. But you know, with these warm temperatures, I mean, unless you're right on top of one, or you've got some areas and maybe that are super super low pressured, um, it's gonna be hard to get you know, get them on their feet and and get a shot at them. So we're kind of staying out of some of our better areas. Most of our evening hunts have been over some sort of green food source. Uh. You know, one of my protraft guys actually shot a real nice buck here over the weekend Saturday evening here in northwest Illinois. Um, that deer just hammered him mock scrape, uh and then stuffed out in one of his green food plots before he shot him, so definitely doable. You could kill him. Um, just a hard thing to do right now, right, So what about other deer sign Are you seeing a lot of scrapes up right now? Yeah, the script activity is definitely starting to pick up. You know, we're starting to transition a lot of our trail cameras over onto some of those scrapes, you know, to try to monitor that buck activity, and they're definitely hitting them. Um, I'd say almost on a daily basis. The scrapes are getting hit right now, but it seems like most of that activity is still after dark. Sure, So do you think there's any information you've gathered from this last week or so that would, you know, help you kill a buck in these coming days or is it just a bat tough right now that you don't think so? Yeah, I mean I don't know that I've gathered any information that I didn't already know, um about most of the deer that I'm hunting. If anything, you know, the few trips out to the field and the trail cameras have just confirmed what I kind of thought was going, which is, you know, movement is going to be a little slow. But again we got another front pushing through here in a couple of days. And you know, as we get further into October, even if these fronts aren't quite as cold as we want them to be, I definitely think they're going to be more effective at getting these bucks up on their feet. So, you know, over the next seven to ten days, I would imagine we start seeing people harvesting bigger deer on probably a more regular basis, right, I mean, it sounds like it just you know, pretty much can't get any worse than it is right now. Man, it's been brutal. I gotta be honest with you. Then it's pretty tough. You know, most of them, I said, seeing some younger deer a year and a half, two and a half, you know, a lot of dose hitting, the hitting the food before dark. But the bigger deer just don't seem like they're moving a ton right now. And so going forward, you know, like in these next ten days, what do you think the buck activity would be then, on the scale of one to ten, Is it gonna be pretty low yet? Or do you think I gotta imagine what's gonna start picking up? I mean, just given the time of the year, you know, we got another front pushing through later this week. So I mean, let's got to ramp up to a five or six at the very least, you know, maybe even the seven. You know, hopefully you know, the evening haunts really start to pick up. Um, you know, front pushes through, we got some high pressure on the back side. Temperatures are gonna be down probably degrees from where they're at right now. Um, so yeah, we wish just to hopefully start seeing some year on their feet right on. Well, I'll be hoping for a cold front for you, justin, not just for me, for everybody, right So thanks for your time. Justin will connect against noon sounds good. Thanks and joining me on the phone now. Is associate editor for real tree dot Com. Josh Honeycutt. Josh, I've seen the pictures of one of your recent hunting Kentucky. Why don't you tell me about what the buck activity has been there on a scale of one to ten and a little bit about the pictures you sent me, I would probably a six to a seven. Um, you know last week I shot the deer last Thursday afternoon. Um, you know they're in south central Kentucky and uh, we're kind of moving into that period A lot of people like to refer to as the October October law, which is actually one of deer hunting the biggest uh largest misinterpretations in all of deer hunting. Um, it's actually just just shift in in in how the deer behavior where the where they go, the big shifts and food sources and key and on that is is pretty much how relocated the deer that I shot last week. Um, you know, they're shifting off of those agg fields of soybean fields, and they're they're hitting the mass crops hard right now that we've had a big the biggest acre and crop um that we've ever had at least in in recent years that I can remember. And so the deer hunting is gonna be tough. Uh from from here on out, it's gonna be a little bit tougher than it usually is because the deer aren't gonna have to move much. Uh you know, they're pretty much gonna get out of their bids and they're gonna move very little to get to where they're gonna feed, especially right whenever they get up um, because they just don't have to move as far um. And and for the field hunters, it's gonna be a little bit more difficult because the deer just aren't going to make it to the fields until after dark. So I'd say last week we had that cold snap around Thursday Friday, and and that's wherever I was able to get on that deer that I shot. I'd set up right off the edge of a betting area, and I've grown up thick at area, a lot of grasses and a lot of brush, and the deer is just feeding through that, eating akers and uh you know, I'd say last week, like I said, it's probably a six or seven, maybe five, depending on what day it was. But I was hunting right there on that cold front, and that's what had the deer up on their feet last week. And so how confident were you going into that one? Did you have a pretty good idea of what this buck was doing? Well? I had a pretty good idea. He'd been hitting my trail cameras at at night, because I had my trail cameras right off the the edge of a green uh soy being filled. But but he wasn't making it to him in daylight because that's about the time those acren started dropped and kept my ground pretty hard. So he was getting up out of his bed. He was feeding on uh acrons, acorns however you want to say that, depending on what part of the country areaIn. But he was feeding through. He was feeding through there, but he wasn't making it out. So I had to kind of get back off of those, uh the green soybean fields, you know. I got it back further away from those and get closer to of course they weren't green at that time. They leaves it started dropping stuff like that, but you know, those dear will feed on those at least where I hunt. I've seen the dear hit those even after those leaves start to fall off, you know, but there comes a time whenever though those beans they just they aren't hitting them like they were. So they were still going towards those fields, not like they were back in September obviously in August, but they were feeding mostly on acrons. So I had to back further away from the field edges, back further away from the green food plot which I had positioned between those soy being filled in the betting area, and get closer to those acrens. And uh so, yeah, I had an idea of what they were doing. I had an idea of how I needed to change my tactics based on what the deer were doing and where they were going and how they were using the land. I didn't know if i'd seen the deer or not. Of course, you just you never know how things will pan out. But but he did. He did slip up. That cold front had him up on his feet a little bit earlier than normal. I shot the here about forty five minutes before the end of legal shooting light, which is pretty rare for uh, middle October to see a deer on it facing like that. But I just had to get close to his betting area, and I'd say I was within about a hundred to a hundred and fifty yards where he was laying down at and still going forward. Do you think those field hunters could find success here again shortly? Or is that time of the year pretty much over with and you should be hunt think a little bit of that thicker stuff like you are. Well, it just depends. Every place is going to be different. That's a hard question to ask, is where everybody hunts different places with different train I mean, obviously they're gonna be off those soy beans now because they're the beans haven't quite ripened up yet. You know that it's not that the soy beans aren't in a stage really where where the deer are hitting them hard. And actually a lot of the farmers are coming in and starting to harvest those uh soy beans. Of course most all the corns out by now. But uh, it's possible to hunt on the edge of the agg field that's uh, that's that's near harvest or has already been harvested, find success. But it's gonna be a whole lot more productive if you back off of those fields and you kind of get in somewhere where it's in a staging area where the deer kind of staging before the head out into the big agg fields or into the big food plots that you planted, or whatever the case um. For me, at least for the next two weeks prior to the rut, before you start hitting, you know, hunting your traditional rutstand locations um for the next two weeks, you know, through the to the end until the end of October, at least the last few days of October. I would back off and try to figure out if you've got a deer on camera, figure out where his core areas, figure out where he's betting, and I would set up between where that deer is betting and the best a mass crop that you've got available for where you hunt, because that for now, that's where those deer are going to be going to. And still on the scale of one to ten UH, going forward, what do you think that buck activity will be well, I mean, based on the science, is should only increase. And that's kind of going back to the October law I mentioned earlier that it's it's one of the biggest misinterpretations in all of deer hunting. There's plenty of data and research out there that biologists have conducted that shows that the deer activity, both buck and though activity only increases from summertime all the way through September October and into the rut UH. That's daylight activity to The biggest thing is that a lot of times the hunters don't transition with the deer as they transition from food source to food source, and so that lack of sighting, lack of activity is just because the hunters aren't set up in the right places. But based on the size that it should only get better because the daylight movement with it. Like I tell, deer only increases as as we progressed through October. Um it all. But obviously you've got to look at other things too, like weather temperature. And it's hot right now, but it's very hot right here in Kentucky. Right now, it's warm. It's you know, recognized this week. So but we've it's supposed to cool off again towards the end week, around Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So as we move deeper into this week and get closer to the weekend, if you're hunting that cold front, you should see a spiking increase in daylight activity because even though even though that daylight activity and deering activity increases through them mysth October, that hot weather does have the ability to suppress that daylight movement. So I wouldn't hunt if you've only got a couple of days in the up this week, I wouldn't hunt, you know, early this week, I wouldn't hunt me all the week out, hunter round, wait untill that cold front yips toward the latter half. So this week, moving into the week right on, well, I think everybody's getting more excited. You don't as we get closer to November, but you got it done early and congrats on the buck, Josh, thank you. And finally joining us on the phone is Trent Siegel heart Lamb bow Hunter team member. Trent just shot a buck that broke the internet. If you haven't seen yet, go to heart Lambo Hunters Facebook page and check it out. Uh, it's going to correct, yes, sir, all right, tell us a little bit about that man. It was the buck I've had on camera for the last few years, actually, just kind of sporadically. He shut up late season last year, after I'd already filled my canvas bag. H put some more cameras up trying to figure him out, UM, little bit more up this summer and got him. Was getting him about once a month and once every three weeks um. And then came out and he just was everywhere on all the cameras I had. UM. And then actually we it was last Friday, um, the Friday before I shot him. On a Wednesday, the Friday before I hunted. We didn't see him. And then he was out in daylight Saturday and Sunday on um some scrapes. Uh. And so the wind was right on Wednesday and we had a high pressure. The pressure was rising and we had a cold front come through, the temperature drop twenty degrees from Tuesday, and like, man, we gotta get out there and share enough. He came out. Um, we watched him his three scrapes out in front of us, and we had some little bucks bumping some does just kind of you know how they are starting to see me and the doors are ready, and um, he was making scrapes and came into twenty yards and shot them and he went about sixty yards and piled up just an incredible hunt. Well that's awesome, But how about overall in Kansas right now in your area, what would you say the bucket activity is on a scale of one to ten Um as far as activity, I would say, I mean we're probably sad, and I mean the bucks are really starting to move around, and a lot of it has to do with, um, some of these colds weather systems that are pushing down and then all the crops are finally getting out, so they're they're getting a little more concentrated. Start to see a lot more activity on on the trail camera. And so how confident were you going into that hunt, you know, with that buck? MoU Fassa, I mean I don't. I don't want to sound bad, but I mean, I mean I was confident. It was. It was a weird feeling that day, um, I told I told my wife second the second day, where that I knew was going to be the best day of my life, where I could kind of see ino the future. I told her that morning, Uh, it felt like our wedding day. I just knew it was gonna be one of the best days of my life. And I could see everything happening before it. I just everything, you know. We had a rising moon, we had the weather system push it down, and the pressure was rising. U it was like thirty points three that day or so. It was just everything was lining up where we were going to see a bunch of deers tear enough. Uh. We saw him and I actually actually grunted him in Um, I grunted at him because he the second scrape he made, he started to turn away and walk away from us, and I was like, well, I don't know really what else to do. I mean, we have a twoundred inch white stail in front of us. Beginning kind of the first part October. Ive never grounded at a buck in October, but I've never had that big one out in front of me either, and so I had to dig my ground, call out on my back and grounded at him. And I mean just instantly he snore wheats right back at me until I snore wheats to him. Then about a minute or two later he came on. It made it very like soas twenty yards. So it's pretty awesome. Yeah, And you know, that's that's a complete change of pace from the other guys I've talked to, you know, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina. They're all reporting you know, really uh lack of deer activity right now. And so would you say this is typical for your area this time of year. I mean, it's just something you could expect to happen again next year or the year after. Yeah, I from what I've seen in the past, and yeah, I mean it seems like the harvest moon. Um, and we started getting crops out in some of those cooler nights that really, um, the buck activity really starts to pick up. And I started to get a lot more new boxer. I mean, it's bucks. I've had it's creepy years, but they won't show up until you know, October November. So I started picking up those bucks um that don't summer on some of the properties. I huh, I started picking them up this time of year, so it is an exciting time, uh, checking cameras and stuff like that, and getting out in the stands. I mean, like I said that there was bucks little bucks grunting and trying to they were buff them some dose out of the field the other night. So sure in going forward, do you think it's only gonna get better? I mean, what would you say that that deer activity level is going to be on a scale of one to ten for like these next ten days, the next ten days, I don't know here we have a it's heat back up here. I mean I would say it's probably gonna stay the same I mean for the next ten days. But I mean then after that, it's it's only going to get better. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic. I shout it to its rights over at the same time, like bumps, because I don't have attack here um in campus anymore left to go hunt the red I mean, the run is the rud is this magical here? I mean to watch you never know what's gonna come chasing under your stand or anything like that, but um, and I mean we're only just you know, less than two weeks away really from that kicking getting wild. Sure, well, congrats on the deer of a lifetime, Trent, and uh, we'll look for the footage. Uh you got it on footage right, Yes we did, we did. Okay, well, we'll definitely be watching for that. So thanks again, and congrats on the kill. Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate it man. And that wraps up our very first episode of the Wireded Hunt miniseries Radio thanks to Tony Haynes, Justin, Josh, and Trent for providing the reports. And you can follow Wired to Hunt on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Spencer new Art. We'll talk to you guys next week, and thanks for listening.

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