00:00:02 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm your host, Mark Kenyan. This episode number three hundred and today we've got another installment of our rut Fresh radio mini series in which we're checking in with four hunters from across the country to get the latest on deer activity, current conditions, and the tactics working right now. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx. We're here for another episode of our rut Fresh radio mini series in which myself and Spencer new Hearth are here to break down the latest and greatest recent intel from across the white tail hunting world. That means, Spencer, what exactly that means. We're gonna be talking buck movement in mid September, and I think this is probably like the most up to date buck movement intel available. We're recording this on a Tuesday. This podcast comes out on a Wednesday, so all the information that you're hearing is less than twenty four hours old. Then we're gonna talk about things like bachelor groups, how the weather has changed, stuff, if their signmaking happening, yet what the preferred food sources are, all that kind of stuff that would factor you're into your decision for going out and hunting, and what you're set up is going to be like, Yeah, I love it, and I'm going to add one more consistent kind of segment to each one of these episodes. It's going to be the segment on Fresh Radio where Mark gives Spencer ship for not white tail hunting. So I don't I do not like the fact that you're or a high faluton elk hunter now, Spencer, uh No, not not high falut I would I would be happy to be in a tree stand right now because the elk made me feel like an absolute idiot so far this year, Can you give us like a thirty second cliff notes on your first elk hunt ever or your first bowl elk hunt ever? Right? Yes? Um, lots of walking around, lots of calling and sounding like a sickly elk, lots of baron oia where I'm looking around hoping grizzly, hoping grizzly isn't like the next big brown thing that I see instead of an elk. Um, And yeah, that's pretty much it. Walking and calling until I'm tired. Sounds like fun. I trust that you will eventually figure it out. I have faith. I hope you're right. Um, so even though you haven't been on white tail hunting, you have been talking to a whole bunch of people who have. And who are those guests that we're going to hear from this week? We started Wisconsin and talks to Tyler Frank's from Tenadie Outdoors, and then Andrew Maxwell in Georgia from The Southern Outdoorsman, and then we talked to Keith Thompson from Montana white Tails incy in Montana, and then we end with my constuctor from Heartland bow Hunter in Missouri. Sounds like a good slate of folks and locations. I like that we got like far West, we got far South, a little bit here in between. UM, what is on your mind at this time of year? And now, I know you're not hitting it right now, but in past years you have. Um. Where are we We're entering the third week in September, so a lot of opening days just happened this past weekend. There's a lot coming up in the next well in the September. Another slate in October one is a whole bunch that dropped. So so what's on your mind at this time of year, Spencer, do you have like a quick cock tip that's top of mind? Well, historically South Dakota is opener would be the of September, and I haunted every year, and what I kind of learned was that if I didn't have any like good or recent intel available to me, and I didn't know, you know, exactly where these deer were entering a specific field that I didn't have trail cameras up that point, I would look to lifetime patterns. And what I mean by that is trying to think back as to what the deer did the year before and the year before that and the year before that for herds as well as individual bucks, because a lot of times you see the same kind of shifts that this time of year when the food sources become this or the weather does this, that the deer are going to respond a specific way, and you can kind of track that year after years. So if you're hunting a property that you're familiar with, like I was in South Dakota, you can kind of sometimes go into an opener in late September blind, but still have success. And now that wasn't the case with your mega early season a couple of years ago, right, because that was a little bit of a surprise. But but did you have some kind of patterns that you knew that kind of applied. Like I said, in that case, I was hunting the lifetime patterns of just like the deer herd in general. I knew that the end of September, when there's corn in that kind of creates the specific funnels that the deer tend to enter the field in the same place. And so I didn't have any recent intel, and I hadn't done much summer scouting, but I knew that when there's corn in that time of year, most of the deer would walk this specific area. And that was how I killed my biggest box of my whole life. Yeah, so it wasn't specific buck lifetime, but it was overall heard annual pattern stuff that you apply that makes sense, um, so, so kind of jumping off of that, the one thing I would think about at this time of year, um, other than than the obvious things that I'm sure we'll talk about with the guests as far as keying on food sources and changing conditions and all that. But but this is when we start getting the first impacts of hunting pressure for a lot of people. Because if you are one of those states where the season opened at the beginning of September, you've had three weeks of hunting at this point. If you are in one of the states that opened maybe September, here now into the first week of hunting and deer changing their behavior. So for anyone who's in those situations right now, the summer patterns that you're looking at, the feeding, the bed to feed patterns that you maybe had keyed on those first couple of days, that's going to change to some degree, possibly very dramatically, depending on how much hunting pressure is around you, but it's going to change to some degree, and you just make go to make sure you can adjust to that. A lot of people talk about something they call the October lull, and you can see that same thing in mid September if you are hunting somewhere, that's all of a sudden getting hunted a lot because because oftentimes that lull, regardless of what it pops up, that's simply a change in deer activity or where they're being active. Because all of a sudden wearing their mucking around. So just be be aware of that. Think about that, don't hunt the same spots over and over and over again, that you saw a deer on the opening at a hunting season and then wonder why is he not here anymore? Think about how they're adjusting to people going in. And you know, you can do one of two things. You could either play it safe and you know, just wait until they become more active in the places that you had pre planned. That might be the case if you just have a small property to hunt that you don't want to push a bunch of deer off of. Or if you have a whole bunch of places you can hunt, or huge property or a bunch of public land, you can get aggressive and try to find out where these deer have shifted to. UM. So, so that's something I'm thinking about this time of year. If my season has been open for three weeks already, that's something I'll be thinking about in Michigan for sure. One we get to you know, October fifteen, sixteenth, that ballpark, that'll be when we're really feeling that in Michigan. UM. But it's an interesting time of a year. I just kind of had the kick in the teeth moment where I realized, oh man, in like two weeks, the absolute marathon begins, like already. Once September kicked off from me, I was, okay, yeah, it's starting. But what October shows up, It's just like, buckle up, you're in for the ride. And uh, that's staring me right in the hairy eyeball. So that's exciting though. Yeah. And and both of those strategies that you kind of just mentioned for the different approaches the opening day, we hear about that on this week's episode Tyler Frank's Wisconsin. He went all in on his opener and he killed the buck. But then you have someone like Michael hunt Sucker who does very selective calculated pressure um, and he's kind of doing the thing where you live to fight another day and you're not over pressuring these dear so you have more chances later in the season. So you hear both of those strategies kind of broken down in this week's episode. Yeah, I love that stuff, hearing about those different situations. And and I do think that one of the real art forms or one of the like, there's there's some kind of threshold that you push through as a hunter, when you go from just getting out there and hunting when you can and just doing which you can, to all of a sudden that next step when you know when to go all in or you know, one hang back, Like there's a certain art there that it takes some time to figure out. But once you do, when you do know the right time to strike to really make that kill, that just seems to be such a big, such a big paradigm shift, I guess as a hunter. So all that's to say, I'm interested to hear these guys examples and how one of them knew it was not the time to push in and go for broke and one of them said it was and it worked out maybe, So I am intrigued to listen to the rest of this episode. Is there anything we have to cover off on other than a couple housekeeping things before we do that? Um? No, I don't think so, but I'll start with one of those housekeeping things. If you like this kind of info, the uh you know, up to date on strategies for this timing year, then you should head over to Meet Eaters YouTube channel, where you'll see the second episode of a series that me, Mark and Tony Peterson. You are part of where we talked about how to kill a buck that time of year. In the most recent episode, episode two, is about how to kill a buck in late September, and we talked about some of those things we just discussed Mark, but even even greater detail. And then when we're all done talking about how we would put together a hunt for late September, we even break down a property. And the property in this week's episode is a huge piece of public land in Missouri that Tony Peterson is actually hunted. So Mark and I take the first step dab at diagnosing this property and talk about where we would set up it and why, and then Tony tells us what we got right and what we got wrong. Basically, Yeah, it's a it's an interesting one. Did you happen to see Tony just showed how to kill a buck in mid September? Yeah? That that guy never fails. It's like late September and early October. He is always killing. Dear he knocked on a giant, So I'm gonna try to have him on the podcast here sooner talk about that one in more detail too. But yes, definitely check out the how to Kill a Buck series on YouTube. Also, I'm gonna keep on reminding you folks of this. We've got this new white Tail Weekly newsletter. That's where all the white Tail stuff that I'm putting out, that Spencer's putting out, that the rest of the Meat Eater team is putting out. That's like the clearinghouse for everything. So if you go to the meat Eator dot com. Um, I'm not sure now if the pop up is still there to sign for the newsletter, Spencer, I think there's a new one now, was related to the second piece of news I have. Um, But if you head there, you'll see an opportunity, an option to sign up for the white Tail Weekly Newsletter. Get on that list. Then you're gonna get the updates about these new videos. You're gonna get the updates for a new podcast, new articles that me and Spencer are both writing, and you will get news such as that which we are announcing in tomorrow's Wire Done podcast, this episode three oh one, in which we're sharing some really exciting stuff you may be already heard about on social media. I'm just gonna tease it for now. If you want to get a preview, you can go to the meat eater dot com slash win a Hunt. It's a big hint right there. But if you go to meet Eat the meat Eator dot com slash We're gonna Hunt, you can get a preview of the special news that myself and Steve Ronella and Janice Ptelis are gonna be telling you about in tomorrow's main episode of the podcast. So with that, Spencer, I'm going to go to bed. It's late. I'll let you take it from here, all right. Yeah, there's a one of new content over at meat Eater white Tail Specific and we're gonna make you guys sick of Mark and I. Yeah, that might have already happened, Spencer, but for those that are hanging around, we'll try our best to keep it going. All right, We'll talk to you next week, all right. And joining us on the line first is Tyler Frank's in Wisconsin from ten eighty Outdoors. Now, Tyler in Wisconsin, what would you say the bucket activity is man lately? On a scale of one to ten, I'd probably rate it and about a four or five. Noticing that the weather is fairly warm, especially a little above average for this time of year. What I've been seeing on the trail cameras the buck movement has gone shifted a lot more towards night. Um, the bachelor groups have broken up belt at the shed and then also noticed a lot of acorns are starting to drop, which just pulled them off to the food sources. UM. But the heat really seemed to put a damper on opening weekend activity overall, not just bucks, but those also. I'm surprised to hear you say that it's been a four or five because you happen to kill a great buck over the weekend. Tell me a little bit about that setup I did. Um, I got very fortunate and harvesting and I thought was opener um just an hour and a half into the season. But um, leading up to that, I didn't really expect to be seen much back there. It kind of just went off of the past history of where I've seen dear move up on a betting area and where there's a large amount of acorns. UM. I hunted very close to their last year and saftmore tea opener and the weather was a lot more, a lot cooler, UM, So I kinded I was only out there for an hour and a half, But um, I had already been seeing more deer, and then, like I mentioned earlier, the trail cameras really showed a distinct shift here once the velvet shed um on the farm. My hunts, it's not uncommon to have a large amount of shooter gear throughout the s commer and then once the velvet sheds and they all split up, and they refuted that. This year, I had about eight or nine bucks that I was really looking at targeting, and within the last three weeks I haven't seen but maybe about thirty of them show back up, and they had been pretty consistent. But I've got some weather coming in here this week. Temperatures won't be as hot. They're still gonna be warm, but with the rain and temperatures that hopefully will change something and we'll see what that brings with that buck behavior change that you've noticed here lately, Have you seen any signmaking start to show up? Then? Actually, yes, there I have another big reason I set up where I did opening days because I did find a scrape line. One of the scrapes is one that's been there that shows up every year, but it had been hit fairly hard. And then a couple a couple more scrapes down this old bogging road that had been worked were pretty fresh, so that that is something I was encouraged by saying that. Top of that, like I mentioned there, was the acorns are definitely dropping right now and they're they're targeting that as a food source that they seem to have dropped a ball earlier this year and they're actually probably on the flowing down, but they're definitely still going after the You mentioned that you were getting a lot of different books on trail camera earlier this year, but not so much anymore. How does your trail camera strategy change as we get into mid and late September, Well, this year it will be UM just probably leave them up the rest of the year and pretty get about them because I don't have a buck take anymore. But usually in years past I've I've taken them off off the off the field the farm. My hunt. He takes his corn off really early, uses it for silage, and UM we're pretty much limited to corn and corn and alfalfa. Some years we have beams, but at this point those are already started and to draw up at least in western Wisconsin, and they're really starting to change color. UM and then I started focusing on more of the the pinch points in bedding areas and oak flats areas where there's going to be in transition. UM. I also kind of start to shift my my my hunting strategy that way. Also, I started working my way in a little bit off the field here. Later in the later September and October, I kind of put all my eggs in the basket for opening morning and just went I went in pretty deep opening day, just because that's where I felt I had the best shot at some nice deer, and because of the heat, I wanted to be close to the bedding area with them probably having a little more restricted morning movement going forward. Then in the sixt week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on scale of one to ten in Wisconsin, I'd probably I'd probably only raise it up to about a five or six just looking at the looking at the weather I had, and we do have some fronts moving that it's gonna get a little cooler, but it's still not going to be a huge swing, at least over here in western Wisconsin. I think what I saw for next week was highes in the mid seventies and right now we're right in the low eighties. So but there might be some opportunities to get in and find some dear moving right before after those fronts passed, I noticed Monday looked really good with some little cooler temperatures than what they have been and sunny, sunny skies um day. I would probably look at going, but I have not. I won't be able to do this year because now I'll be focusing on bear hunting the rest of the season. For that, it's a good problem to have. Congrats again on the awesome dear good luck with that bear tag in Wisconsin, and thanks for joining me. Appreciate it. Thanks very much, all right Enjoining us on the line next is Andrew Maxwell from The Southern Outdoorsman, who's been hunting in Georgia. Now, Andrew and Georgia, what would you say the buck activities man lately? On a scale of one to ten, I would have to say it's probably been a or a five. You know. The We had quite a bit of people hunting the public parcel that we were hunting this weekend, and I know some people saw some stuff, including myself. I did see one younger buck on the first morning, but nobody killed anything. Uh No one saw like a big mature buck. Um. And the reason I say it's the four or five and not Lowers because I think that they were out there moving somewhere. I just think that a lot of us are set up in the wrong spots. Being with as hot as it was, I think we set up wrong. When you're hunting public land on the state's opener like this, how do you go about avoiding other guys? Uh So, A big part of that is gonna be, you know, if you have it previous year's knowledge is really important. Um, I'll take a day off of hunting and just drive around and see where other people are part and you know, try and figure out where the gaps are between them. If that's not an option, then I mean it really comes down to just looking at the basic access points and knowing that most of these guys, especially down in Georgia, are going to be hauling in bigger, heavy climbers and they're probably not gonna be walking four yards. Uh So I essentially got in a little bit later. Uh It's very like fluid was what I was gonna do, kind of salvars, and people were parking we're walking in and then made an effort to kind of swing around them and get on the escape routes of a deer that they might have bumped. So just it really comes down to assuming where that pressure is going to be coming from and where these people are gonna be parking and walking to, and then setting up in the gaps between that. So you said you can't see much for deer activity when you were down there hunting, how would you now change your setups looking back on the weekend and knowing what you know now, Uh, definitely get closer to the river. So the property we're hunting has a river on it, uh, and a course down by that river. It is noticeably colder. I mean it's been in the mid nineties this weekend and this week so I think that we were hunting stuff that would probably be good, but it's probably not good. Was as hot as it is. We were hunting some thicker cover um just around some regular hardwood essenc smaller creeks. I think that if we were to have gotten down by the actual river where it's cooler, I think we would have done much better, which which seems to be the case. I have a friend of mine, who's actually staying down here with me right now, who's hunting that same property. And he went and hunted the river yesterday and I saw that he saw two rack bucks and then had a deer cross the slough behind them coming off an island. Went to show us that they're definitely betting on these islands, and they're definitely betting down close to the water and cooler areas. What do you think is the preferred food source right now in Georgia? Uh, that is very It's very dependent on where you're at. I mean, obviously acorns and for simmons are gonna be huge right now where you have them. But that being said, uh, let's say you have a betting area that you're wanting to hunt and there's not acorns for per simmons within you know, an easy walking distance of that betting area and find acorns or per simmons in very close proximity to water and good cover, I think that's a home run. If not, if you've got a betting area that's still got a bunch of native brows in it, you know, whether it be you know, they're still hammering poke salad right now, beauty berry and then various other things greenbrier, basically anything green that if you're canny, I would definitely key in on that as well. Uh, just because in years past this time of year, we've killed deer and have opened them up and they've been full of green stuff, not necessarily acorns. So uh, I wouldn't get too fixated on acorns and per simmons unless you can find them in the right spot. Does that make sense? Early season like this, what do your morning setups look like and how did those differ from your evening setups. My morning setups, I'm typically gonna be pretty aggressive. I mean, obviously it's early season, and I don't want to blow out my good spots, so I kind of have backup spots around kind areas that I'm not super interested in, but I think I could have a good chance of maybe nailing a buck but also just a dough, uh. And I'll be getting in very close to bedding, and I'll be setting up on basically where I think they're gonna enter back into that, and I'll get in, you know, way before daylight, and I hopefully have something slipped by me. Um. Afternoons are basically the opposite in the afternoons. You know, it's much lower risks. So I will go to some of my better areas in the afternoons, and uh, we're gonna be focusing in the next week. Like tomorrow, I'm going out and be hitting the staging area. Um. We're basically we got some thick you know, anybody in the South can be familiar with, like thick pines, like old cutovers, cutovers probably seven or eight years old. Now it's really good deer cover. Um. And we got a a wheat field on this place that we're hunting, and the deer hitting that wheat stilled pretty hard. But in between there there's this nice, beautiful little hardwood flat. It's got some privet and stuff down there. It's kind of thick, there's some acorns in it, and it's to tour up with fresh rubs everywhere. So that's gonna be my set up in the afternoon. I'm gonna try and slip down in there and get within a hundred yards of where they're probably bedded. Uh, and hopefully they come out and stage up right there before moving on to the major destination food source going forward. Then in the six week or so, what do you think that buckettt is going to be on a scale of one to ten. In Georgia, I'm gonna say it's probably gonna be like seven or eight. Uh. Tomorrow, we actually have a good cold front moving in, which in the South is gonna that means it's gonna go from eighty five. Uh. But in the mornings it's gonna be nice and cool. I think Friday morning it's gonna be high fifties, which is gonna be phenomenal. Uh. That ought to really get them on their feet and moving. I mean they've already been pretty active close to dark. We keep driving by this one field as we leave and every night we're seeing books in it, you know, thirty to forty minutes after dark. So hopefully that cold front really gets a moving better. And a lot more acorns and for simmons are starting to drop now, so that'll just hopefully concentrate them a little bit. All right, Andrew, Well, good luck to you and the guys from Southern Outdoors been thanks for joining me. Thanks better all right and joining us on the line. Next is Keith Thompson from Montana White Tails Inc. In Montana. Now, Keith in Montana, what would you say the buck activity has been landy on a scale of one to ten. As far as movement goes, i'd probably I'd probably give it a seven or eight. I mean, we have some clients out and they're all seeing a lot of deer, and some good deer. The big deer are still on their feet. Um. From a harvesting standpoint, it's been a little tough. Everything so green and so tall this year. We've talked to some ranchers that they said they can't even remember having this much hey in the last thirty years. Um. This is just for example. Some of the field that we generally hunt that are normally a foot to a foot and a half tall, at this time of the year, we have some took some photos that they're up over six ft tall. I mean the deer you can you can barely see them walking through it. So activity wise for sighting has been good, but as far as harvesting goes, it's been a little tough. We've killed a few good books, but it's it's been tougher than in past years, that's for sure. You hear of white tails often bedding down in like corn fields and bean fields, but will you find that they also bed down in hay fields. And how has that changed then with this Hey, that's been so tall. Yeah, it's it's been tough. Um. We we hunted, predominantly hunted, try to hunt the river bottoms in the morning for the bedding, and it's been like just like you said that there's that much Hey, is that or the wheat field of that tall everything that the deer aren't even coming down into the river bottoms. They're just they're hitting the alphastle fields and may everything else is that tall, they'll just lay in it. They So it's been it's been quite challenging early as far as, like you said, as the harvesting goes. Now, we had the full moon this last weekend. How does that change your guys a strateg g Oh, well, basically trying to get in on them without blowing them out. And it's been so bright, I mean, crossing the river and everything you can see cloud across the river. There's no need for flashlights this week, that's for sure. Um, you know, it's it changes it a little bit, but predominantly we're still doing the same thing. I mean, we're on betting. We're getting guys into the betting in the morning and then, and I said, even from activity standpoint, it hasn't seemed affected too bad, So it's been a plus. You mentioned that you're seeing a lot of deer this time of year, but does that mean that you're still seeing the bucks traveling together and those bachelor groups are still together. Yeah, I would say so. We've had a lot of our clients coming back at night talent and even in the morning and at night coming back telling us that typically when they've been seeing the deer, it's been the it's been the does and the fawns, and and you know some young bucks, uh year link bucks coming out together, and they've they've taken notice that once they started seeing a little bit higher age structure class here, that it's been strings of five or six books that are of the higher age class. So I would definitely say, yes, they're they're bachelor up. Yet to the envy of many hunters, you guys are white tail hunting in an area that also has elk. So do you notice that this time of year, during the elk rot, that maybe those elk are pushing some deer awful food sources or off of water holes or anything like that. We we do see a division there. Um, there's the elk like there's seemed to congregate. There's there's two big alfalfa field that they tend to stick to every every early season for us um and we actually we've kill some elk out of deer stands already. M As far as the separation goes, I would say so it just seems that the deer just more or less kind of stay away from them. They don't they don't intermingle too much. If if it's a big alfa alfa field, you'll see some deer out there with the elk, but there they they definitely keep their distance going forward. Then, in the next week or so, what do you think that buck activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Montana? Well, I hope it's high. Uh. I'd say I'd keep it around a seven or so somewhere around there. Um, it's been pretty good. I'm hoping we actually can get some cold leather here and maybe kill off some of this this green. But I know, I'm sure we've probably got a few more weeks for than green yet. But I'll be optimistic and try and keep it at a seven and eight. Alright, Keith for good luck to your clients at Montana White Tails, Inc. Thanks for joining me, Thank you all right and joining us on the line. Last is Mike han Sucker in Missouri from Heartland bow Hunter. Now, Mike in Missouri. What would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten, I would probably say yes, seven. Um, it's been really surprising actually as hot as it's been. Um, we've been seen some really good activity and actually even seen some too, dude, only you know two nights. This is the third Matta season right now, so but I've been surprised. Actually when it's been so hot, does that change any of your strategies? Are you still hunting some destination food sources there? We've been hunting food sources, um, mainly clover and actually surprisingly the past few hot days, the deer really been keying on a bone yard plot, which is a classica tourn of Radish mix. They've really been him and those which usually they don't really hit too much till later in the year. So it's been interesting because every you know, all the buck activity we've been seeing has been on those plots, which unfortunately most of our set up in north winds, so we've been having to set the clover and had some good action, but there's not not any Bucks in me. How do you see those preferred food sources changing throughout the month of September. Do you think they're going to be consistently on those couple of plots that you were just talking about or is that going to switch? Well, I mean a lot of times, you know, do you you know employeeaans right now them are still green, but they're just starting to turn um some you know, opendion when they were playing it. So as those being fields change, you'll definitely see a shift in in the deer and in the sources that they kind of key on. And so colovis huge, usually really really good plot for October. Get those uh those North Wayne cold fronts in October and Colover plots can be awesome. But I'm definitely keep an eye on some of the phone your plots to keep utilizing them. How about bachelor groups. Are you still seeing bucks traveling together? Absolutely? Yeah, yep, call all the Bucks for the most part, you know, they're still that's that's that pretty good. It's just send some young bucks hanging out with those. Now, we just had a full moon for missouries opener. Does that change what you're doing? It on what your setups are like? You know, I don't pay a ton of attention to the moon, and honestly, um, you know, I don't know how that that is really effective, but I mean it's definitely you know, seeing seeing the bucks you know, move around those a little bit. Scrapes were actually starting to open up. Past couple of days, I've seen some new scrapes open up and it seems couldn't though, so they're definitely starting to. Yeah, kind of uh, you know, get out of the summer routine and get more into the scrapes that you're seeing opened up for those kind of the community scrapes on field edges. Are you seeing some more like individualized scrapes that specific bucks are making on specific trails. Yeah, I think it's one of the social thing for sure, you know, I like shed velvet, rubbing, rubbing on trees and hitting, lifting branches and the type of stuff. So it's definitely stuff near You knows, where are your trail cameras at this time of year and how is that going to change as we get to the end of September and the beginning of October right now, most of them are on food sources, UM edges of foot plots, you know, trail waiting into food plots. UM. I do have a couple on those those freshness scrapes that the opening up, but as obviously we train usen in October and the stape starting ripped part. That's my favorite, you know, favorite place to have cameras on scrape and it's one of the best times of year to get pictures about especially UM eating c w D zones Like we're in our farm, Missouri, but we can't you know, put out any any sort of attackants having those scrapes. Is speaking of cw D. I know parts of Missouri have been dealing with e h D here late in the summer. Is that something that has affected you guys. Yeah, we haven't knock on wood. We haven't had any uh, I haven't had anything happened that we've seen. But I know a lot of people in southern Iowa, a lot of people in North sent from a very northwest Missouri. I didn't hit bad and it's wiped them out. And it's kind of my right this year because you know, e h D is a here of on a grout year. Um, we've had you know, heavy, heavy range and lots of lots of moisture the springs. But since the moisture of spring, we've had a a lot of heat and that those waters that was you know, resessing and coming down. Um, it's causing a late late bloom of h D unfortunately. No, I know you guys do a lot of setups from the ground where you're hunting out of saying hey, bail blind Are you hesitant at all to do that early season or is that something that you use no matter what time of the year it is. Yeah, I mean we we'll use whatever we need to use to to kill there. Um, you know, blinds are hot, hot this time of the years. Back the other day, I just wore a short man. So it's it's been man, it's been a record temperature year for us. And I remember, you know, it's always one eas season and people complain about it, but you deal with it because because the hunting can be so good. But it has been downright hot. So we've been having out of blinds both past to unite and just because you know that's what we had it up on the plot. But you know, they're so good for containing scent and movement that a lot of times of politives kind out way a negatives going forward. Then in this next week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Missouri? I'm gonna say in eight and nine, I think it's gonna really pick up. Um, we got a cold front coming in. I think the cold front but cool from those the ninety two. Whether it's gonna it's gonna be done next week, it looks like some time this weekend substances of rain and cool weather time. And so I think you know that that's first worth when and and a high question get in there. It could be deadly alright, Mike, Well, thanks for joining me. Good luck to you and the guys from Harlan Bow Hunter. I hope it cools down for you. And that concludes this week's episode of Wired to Hunt's brought Fresh Radio. Thanks to Tyler, Andrew, Keith and Mike for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. For more great white tail content. To check out the sweepstakes that mark you alluded to earlier, head over to the meat Eater dot com where you're gonna find articles, videos, and other podcasts that will hopefully help you this fall. We'll talk to you guys next week, and until then, stay wired to hunt.

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