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 Kenyon, and this is episode number three and four, and today we're back for another one of our rut Fresh radio episodes in which we are getting hot off the press intel from all across the country from different hunters about what's happening in the woods right now. All right, welcome to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx. We are back for another rut fresh radio episode in which Spencer and I are going to be talking just a little bit here on the front end about what's going on in our white tailed world, and then we'll be chatting with deer hunters all across the country to find out what is happening, what kind of activities out there, how are the current conditions impacting deer movement, what kind of tactics and ideas could be working right now, and all the above. So, Spencer we le I should say you you chatted with those folks, Um do we get some good reason intel? We did, And this is probably my favorite time of year for the podcast. Because like, the intel that you get over these next three weeks is maybe the most valuable. I think, because although it's fun to hear guys say that activity, you know, that first week of November is like a nine out of ten um. You get everything else across the board from like now October one through kind of October fifteen, it's it's maybe the least predictable time of year, and so I think this is maybe when the intel is the most valuable. UM. And from the guys that we talked to this week, everybody kind of discussed that it was poor dear movement this past weekend, but they are optimistic for really good dear movement this coming weekend, and that mostly has to do with the approaching cold front. Most of the Midwest in the Northeast has a large cold front on the way that looks like it's supposed to set in on Friday and kind of hang around through Sunday. And last year mark, if you recall, we had sort of the same conversation this same exact time that first weekend of October, and it seemed like, although anecdotal, UH, people were killing a ton of deer and social media was lighting up with big bucks that were killed, maybe at a time that you don't normally expect that. Yeah, it's true that the cold front. I know you sometimes are skeptical of it, but and time and time again, whether it's the placebo effect or real it certainly seems to help a lot of hunters. But I've got a hot tip for you tonight. Uh, something a little bit contrad victory to the usual report about cold fronts. Do you want to hear the latest and greatest, the very first update on my two thousand, nineteen Michigan hunting season. Yeah, because, as we talked about this, today was Michigan's opener, right, Yeah, Opening day here in Michigan, and a cold front ruined my first night of hunting season ruined as Spencer, Because here's the deal, it's opening night. I have hunted Opening Night in Michigan every single year for years and years and years, at least I can't remember the last year. I think I might have missed Opening Day when I was working in California just out of college, but since then, so at least the last ten years, I've hunted Opening Night every single time. I think, I think I know where this is going, don't steal my thunder, Spencer, don't steal my thunder. I saw the forecast, and I saw that opening day it was going to be hot, hot, hot hot, superhumid, muggy, crappy. It's like mid eighties really warm today and then tomorrow though, by the time the evening time rolls around, it's gonna be more than twenty degrees cooler by tomorrow night. And I thought to myself, Wow, I can hunt the first night like I usually do, but I'm not feeling very good about that really warm weather and the next day and the following couple of days after that are gonna be so great with his cold front running through. I don't have any kind of really great recent intel that tells me that the buck I'm after on my main farm is moving in daylight yet, So why don't I watch? Why don't for the first night ever? I'm just gonna sit back and observe opening night. I'm gonna scout, I'm gonna get better informed, and then with a cold front coming through, I will sneak in hunt one of my better spots the first you know, October two and third. That was my game plan going to this. Okay, and did this warm weather, just save a deer's life. So there's a there's one deer, and there's one dear only spencer that I'm interested in killing on my main Michigan property. That's a buck I called Tran. He's a buck I passed on last year. He is a buck that showed back up this summer. Just an absolute stud four year old, really tall, tight mega eight pointer. Just like I'm smitten, absolutely smitten with this deer so badly want to see him. I had a bunch of encounters with the last year, lots of intel on him. UM just excited to hunt him this year. So I got set up near the road on a hillside where I could look way down this property down a power line where I can see two different little food plots I have planted, and several different areas were deer crossed between two chunks of timber. So I thought, all right, this will allow me to see all the way to the back and the back of the farmers where this deer usually is the most active. UM, so I can see that. Even though it's warm and I wasn't really expecting to see much, I thought, well, I'll just observe see what's going to happen. Maybe he'll step out at last light way in the back. At least i'll know when that cold front comes by tomorrow night that backspots, you know, the spot to be well fast forward is the evening progress as I see some dos, more doughs, more doughs, more doughs, gets just about last light, and I'm about to pack it in and head out, and I see a big body in the front, and I pulled my binoculars, and I pulled up my spotting scope, and outsteps Tran and he walks within ten yards of the stand that I've hunted an opening night the last three years, walked right by the spot I would have hunted tonight if I was gonna hunt just I mean, just as pretty as you could ever ask for. Sat there, feeding on some clover, puts them around with at least five minutes, maybe ten lent two ventsus shooting light left um and I was sitting two fifty yards away watching and a tiny part of my soul died to night Spencer. Have you ever killed a deer on opening night? That's that's one question. Another question is how confident are you that he's going to be there one of these next like three days. And then the other question is is the wind going to participate for you to go kill that deer? Yeah? So question number one, have I ever killed an Opening night buck? Yes? I actually killed an Opening night buck four or five years ago from this exact tree stand that trand walked by tonight. It's like, my it's my favorite little spot for Opening Night because it's a great early season food sources tight to good betting. I can get into it pretty easily without blowing up the farm. It's it's near the front of the property, but it's it's good even though it's low impact. So it's just a really nice balance. Um. So I've hunted an Opening Night quite a few nights. Um killed a buck a few years ago. I saw hold field one year, another year, so it's it's a high odd spot. But but you know, tonight decided to save it, save it one day. And so that leads me to question number two, which is will the will the wind work right? That's what you're gonna ask um and tonight, Now, this is the only thing that makes me feel slightly better about the situation. Tonight, we had like a west southwest wind, and if I had hunted that tree tonight based off the direction he came from. He came from the south, or at least he entered the He entered my line of sight south of that tree stand, so I might have got away with it, but without west southwest wind. If he was coming from the west and south, he and based off of my previous year's worth of intel with him, I think he beds pretty far to the east and south of this tree stand, so I think he would have had to be moving into that wind unless he unless he came from due south, I don't know, but it was There could have been a chance that if I sat there tonight, he would have winded me, and maybe he wouldn't have actually showed up there at all. Now the good news is I saw him tonight. I saw him come out to that food source in daylight, and because of that, it changes what my plan would have been for tomorrow's hunt. Otherwise, I was thinking I was going to have to hunt near the back of the farm, and I thought, because he had been in the backs quite so often last year and conditions look good, I was going to push back there and try hunt for him. But now he's in the front and I've got the perfect wind for the front of the farm tomorrow perfect so it's still northerly ish, um, which would give him what was it win today? It say it was west west, it was west southwest, I think, so tomorrow's a little more easterly, so so he maybe he won't come out because the wind is not as much in his favor. But the wind is better for me tomorrow, I guess. So that'll be interesting to see if he moved the way he did because the wind was working for him, and if tomorrow the wind is not going to be as much unfair, he'll steal based off where he is. He'll still have a northerly ish wind which will be into his face from where I typically think he beds um. So I'm not sure what will happen. But he didn't get pressured right, I saw him moving comfortably tonight. Um. I snuck out of there without spooking any deer, So I feel confident that with a good wind where I do not think I'll get winded, I know I can get in there without spooking deer. I know it's a hot food source, and I know that tomorrow evening it will well tonight it was in the mid eighties. Tomorrow evening it's gonna be like high fifties, low sixties by the time that prime time gets there, so and it's gonna be lightly raining throughout the day and just petering out during primetime, So it should be a dynamite sit um. So I'm very excited, like frustrating that, a little frustrated by tonight that I wasn't able to be sitting there when he walked by, but also very excited for tomorrow, Like this is one of those nights where I'm gonna be sitting up texting my buddies all night, looking at maps, thinking about tomorrow. Tomorrow is gonna be that. Do you ever have those days? I have these every year. We're just the conditions seem perfect. You feel like you're going in for a kill set, like you're just kind of tingly all day with anticipation. I have that now, and there's nothing I enjoy more during hunting season when you are leading up to one of those kill knights where it just feels like this should happen. Well, I like that you're calling your shot, but yeah, like the feeling that you're describing, that's pretty rare for October. Second, I think so like, I like where you're at because I don't know your schedule or when you leave from Minnesota, but just maybe not much that's stopping you from like hunting this spot when the conditions are right, like while he's still on this pattern. So it seems like it's gonna work out. You know. I don't want to go as far as to say that I'm gonna cross all my fingers and toes on a knock on wood because you know, right the odds are probably that he won't show up again. But I feel better today than I would have this morning. You know, now that I know he was there, there's a good chance he might be back again. I hadn't gotten pictures or seen him since September four before this, and that was the day of I think that was the day before our youth season in Michigan, so I didn't even know if he made it for youth season. So now I know at least he made it to opening day. He's still here. He was moving in daylight and on a hot day, So that makes me think that dang, once we get a good cold day tomorrow and the next day, um, it sure feels good. So if nothing else, I'll be going into a confident and excited and that's that's a good thing on So is there anything that like threatens to push him off his pattern? In the Midwest this time of year, there's a lot of things that can kind of cause the deck to be reshuffled, like, uh, some kind of crop being harvested, or some sort of other season opening. If you hunt in a wet area in duck season opens, or if you hunt in a CRP area or like an upland season opens, those things can kind of reshuffle the deck. Is there anything like that that threatens this buck from changing what he's doing? I don't think he's necessary. I wouldn't go so far as to think that he's on like a hard pattern, right because I've been able to watch this little area a decent amount over the last couple of weeks, and this is the first time I've seen him come back out there. Um Like, I saw him in this general area a couple of times during the summer, gotten a handful of pictures of him at the back of the farm, and now, for the first time in weeks, I saw him back at the front. So I'm not gonna go and be so confident to think that this he's gonna keep doing this over and over. I think there's a decent chance he might do it again tomorrow simply because he did tonight. But you know, he just as well could be back on the back of the farm somewhere too. I think crops could be harvested. Uh. You know, the beans are still not fully dry down on this property, so I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. The corn's got a long ways to go, so that won't be anything that will impact me, probably hill November. Um. You know, if acorns are going to be an impact and impacting issue, they would be already. I know there's make corns hitting the ground around here. I'm sure he's feeding on those at times. But you know he's he's gonna hit the ice cream on occasion. So I can hunt the edge of these corn fields he can hunt. I can hunt these couple of little small food plots of green food sources that I know he's going to hit on occasion. Um, And so I'm just gonna play safe, hit the edges of things a couple of times here early while the conditions are good and then I'll be out and I've got that Minnesota hunt, and I've got other hunts going on, and be hunting the back forty um and then we'll get back after him and late October and hopefully the testosteron will be picking up. We'll hopefully he'll be dead tomorrow night, but if not, then I'll be thinking late October and or if a big coal front comes through or something. So the cold front theme that we'll be talked about by all the guests is definitely on my mind. It's definitely um already impacted my season. Hopefully it'll influence it for good here in the next day or two as I'm gonna get a little bit more aggressive than maybe I do in past years. I'll hunt the front, but I might push into the back the day after that or the day after that, depending on what I see and how things go. So I'm gonna try to take advantage of this weather. Well. Besides your report from Michigan, we also hear from Byron Horton from White Tail Experience in Ohio, and then John Armand in North Dakota from Ultimate Outdoor Adventures TV, and then we talked to josh Ganthony from cut four Outdoors in North Carolina, and then we go to Nebraska and t talk to Bryce Lambley. Well, I can tell your sweating already that I've been blabbering on for fifteen minutes cutting into the normal nice, short and sweet Spencer podcasts. So should we get to the interviews. Yes, we'll talk to you next week. Mark, all right, I'm gonna do my best to have good news before we move on, though, I want to tell you about all the new content over at the meat Eater dot com that's available right now. If you head over there, you're gonna find episode one of The Back Forty where Mark and Steve investigate Mark's new Michigan property. And you're also gonna find episode three of How to Kill a Buck, where Mark, Tony Peterson, and I break down early October tactics and also look at the Back forty property in Michigan and eat scout that property talking about how we would approach hunting that ground this time of year. While you're there, sign up for our new white Tail weekly news letter. It has our latest and greatest white Tail content from Mark and I comes out on Mondays and it will be hitting your inbox every single week. All right Enjoining us on the line now is Byron Hornton from the white Tail Experience in Ohio. Now Byron in Ohio, what would you say the bucket activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. Oh I gotta go with a two out of ten here. This last week we've had major warren temperatures and that is just not working for us. Have you seen any signmaking start to show up yet in Ohio? Yeah, I would say at least from the scouting. I did a lot of a lot of scouting. I feel like, uh this past weekend and noticed like in certain areas is that that there is a concentration a buck sign and then there's gaps where there is no concentration of buck sign. I think the key is now finding those those areas. I do this like seven rubs within a fifty yard area right on the edge of this betting area, and then walked for the next half mile and it came across zero buck sign. So I definitely think if you can find it, that's that's where they're they're holding up at this time of year. What is your scouting strategy when you're in season like this? So if it's a morning hunt and the sun comes up, and I have zero confidence I am getting down the first forty five minutes or or an hour. I'm not gonna wait. Um. Generally I go into two pre scouted betting type areas. Um that is that I've scouted in the winter. But then it is it is covering ground and kind of I've used on X and marked uh known betting areas and so that gives me like a blueprint. So I am just trying to get toe in and around them, um at a distance, but pick up buck signed that might be leading back some of these bed areas, uh, some of these oh kind of second tier spots on the public land that all I need is to know a good track or a couple of good rubs leading one and hopefully I can then dive in and make the game playing on and figure out what's going on in there. Do you find it difficult to avoid public land pressure on opening weekend? Oh? Yeah, Saturday morning? In fact, we uh we we're not alone in the parking lot and uh pulled in kind of had to make a judgment call on me if I stuff these guys were oh dicky mos or or legit guys and they had no stands, there's no headlands, So it was more of I'm not worried about these guys going very far doing anything really to kill a big buck in this area. So I stayed state point and went hunt at that same piece. And um, it is something that we definitely know and you know, the squirrel blasters or something you gotta take account for here on the public pieces, avoiding stuff like hickory, gros and and walnuts. Um, those guys tend to be in the as areas and and they'll they'll hike just as far as you because all they gotta do is carry At twenty two, what food source are you concerned with this time of year? Have have acorns started hitting the ground yet? Yeah? And here it's it's it's all. The acorn crop isn't isn't as big as what it has in the last two to three years. So to me, that's good. I mean, if you can find the white oak this dropping, it's it's it's uh the money source. I also see a decent amount of like meadows and prows being like a popular item since all the beans are turned and are pretty much dry at this point. You mentioned before that the hot weather made for really poor dear movement. Does that mean you're getting really aggressive when we do get those cold fronts this early in the season. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of have the philosophy, oh that if you leave a buck's in there, you know that at least on the public, you're gonna be fighting other hunters. So if it's a cold front, why not get aggressive? And then I also have the philosophy that, oh, my in season scouting, I can go find another buck that kind of hits what I'm looking for out there. It's a long so if I if I bugg or something up, I'm not just solely chasing one deer. I think at least with where I'm at and what I'm doing, I'm not chasing that one particular giant. As someone who mostly does mobile setups, is there anything with your mobile setup that changes between now and the RUT? Yeah? I would say right now, I'm actually taking four Mini six because I'm not you know, with with canopy coverage, I'm not getting up as high. Um, I'm also not hunting the big woods, so I'm not taking the full length six at this point in time. And then uh, as far as packing in, I don't have to bring any layers. I just have to bring my camera gear and just a few minimalist things. So running gun hunting, I feel like in October is is definitely just easier. You you're less bulky and and you have just less items going forward. Then in a six week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on the scale of one to ten in Ohio? I really think we've got this first cold front twenty degree tient drops coming Friday, some systems pushing through, and it's gonna stay cold for a couple of days. Um, I'm gonna go ahead and give it an eight. I truly think if you're gonna kill an early season buck um, this is this. We'll see some big bucks here in Ohio hit the ground this weekend. I like your optimism. Thanks for your time, buying a good luck, absolutely, Spencer, thanks for having me on alright, enjoying us on the line. Next is John Armand in North Dakota from Ultimate Outdoor Adventures TV. Now John in North Dakota. What would you say the bucket activities been lately on the scale of one to ten? I would say probably about a six. We were earlier, I would say an eight, but we kind of slowed down with some of the moisture coming through. Now, moisture has kind of been a theme for the great planes this summer in this fall. How has that affected dear movement this season in North Dakota. Well, there's been you know, for us getting out on the weekends, it seems like every weekend we're getting trench or downpours. Um. I think beer no different than we are. They don't mind the rain, but when it's blowing thirty miles an hour and the winds and rain is going sideways, they kind of hold up. So Um. We've had a few weekends where the movement has been slower, but once the weather you know, breaks, the movement has been actually really really good this year for us. How about the rain that we had this summer. Has that effected anything as far as is it's going to be a late harvest in North Dakota and how will that change things? It is that it's gonna be one of those It's gonna it could change a lot of things, especially for rifle season. I think there's gonna be a lot of crops that are still um left um right now. We're seeing small greens. I think a lot of them haven't been taken off and they're probably not even going to get them off because they're ruined right now. Um starting to see you know, soy beans are starting to turn, but there's still a lot of them that are still growing and still green. Um. You know, the moisture has been kind of a blessing and occur so I'm one that I would much rather hunt a dry condition than the wet condition. And this year where as wet as we've ever met. You talked about the soybeans still being green there. Does that mean that's your focus right now for food sources? It is. We have a couple of fields that we're put in at different times, and the ones that have matured and they're turning brown don't have a lot of activity, and the one that are green and have have all of it diering right now. So we're still still hunting soybeans and hoping to knock down a deer. We've we've we've gotten a couple of opportunities early and we didn't capitalize, but we're hoping to make something happen in the next week. Have you seen any signmaking start to show up yet. Yes, you know, I was just down checking pool cards the other day and a lot of the rub lines, the scrape lines, you know, you're starting to see a lot more activity, you know, where they were just kind of you know, paught up a little bit. Now they're starting to get after them. Started some mock scrapes that are getting hit really hard. So I think, you know, things are starting to crank up a little bit. How concerned are you with moon phases in early and mid October? You know, I'm one of those guys that I get that I only get to hunt so many days, so I hunt no matter what. But there's definitely a difference. And you know, this year, when we the opening weekend, the moon phase seem to be perfect. And that's what I'm hoping for in the next week. I think it's going to follow the same pattern, um like the moon always does, and you're gonna start to see that activity because to me, there's that three or four days out of the month that the movement is just crazy, and I'm hoping that's going to happen. Uh And the next rself, what's your strategy this time of year for hunting those deer that like to bed out in the egg fields. We're you know, we kind of know different. We hunt um the edges of our coolies and the edges of the egg field, so we try to get them coming out, trying to pattern them. You know, most of the time they're going to come out from the corn fields because they're not really feeding in the corn fields, going to come out hit the alfall fulfilled at the smybeans. So if we can see that they're betting in those fields, those cornfields, we'll try to set up, you know, and in the way and kind of get lucky and hopefully have one um walk bias going forward. Then in the next week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in North Dakota. Well, if it follows the suit that we had opening weekend, we're coming around the same moon phase and things like that, it should be excellent. Because our our movement this year has been really really good, almost crazy. It seems like the deer have been out in the field earlier and I've been staying out longer. So we're we're hoping for a ten out of tenna the next week. Our John Well Good luck to you and everyone else from Ultimate Outdoor Ventures TeV. Thanks for joining me all right, buddy, thank you very much, and good luck to you guys alright and enjoining us on the line. Next is Josh Genty in North Carolina from Cut four Outdoors. Now, Josh in North Carolina, what would you say the buck activity has been lately? On a scale of one to ten, I'd probably have to give it probably four, maybe a three just with all the heat it went again. I mean, we don't really haven't been on their feet a whole lot um. They just kind of kind of like that summer pattern where they don't want to be far from the three, but they ain't getting up until they absolutely have to. So probably give him a sore on that one that Josh, you just tagged a buck about a week ago in North Carolina. Tell us about that set up. Well, I had my Number one saying that I had been watching all some mean, uh, I knew that's the tray I wanted to be in, and opening day, which was probably two weeks before, I noticed all the doing coming out on the other side of the field. Which it's kind of odd considering all the scout and I've done everything. A couple of weeks later, the same patterns continued, so I just took a climber. Whenever they're got in there kind of room had to set up where I know they wanted the stage in this other corner of the field, and they always worked their way down. The food of this acorn had just started dropping maybe a week before, and that's how I felt, they're just waiting and what a who was the second dud that came out? I mean there was a sport before corn that came out and he was out behind it, which was kind of weird because it was real early. It's probably six o'clock when he came out. It just kind of caught me off good just to see him out that early and just kind of leave that. We made you touch on that the acorn that just started falling in North Carolina? What is that a corn crop? And like this year it's honestly, I've I've never seen this many falls. Um. You know, usually you know, you can always tell when the white oaks and still start falling, you can sell it they started migrating to that. But I mean oak trees that I haven't even noticed that they are honestly like they just never dropped until now. I mean that's playing a huge role, especially this past week, because now it's it's almost like they don't even want to stage up anymore. It's like they've made their mind up where they want to get, where they want to be every evening or every night, like they're just that they're determined to get to that oak tree light evenings and stuff like that. So how does that change your strategy for hunting to lead to mid October? When there's so many acorns on the ground. Nicely, I couldn't use it the same way that scouting, So then I couldn't rely do more observation sits and kind of figure out what's fine the field they want to be they want to come out, and then golf of that, figure out what acorn tree they want to be near, and then just kind of want my way back through there trying to find you have more of the community trails and stuff like that. So I'm trying to figure out where I'm catching the daylight. Now, have you noticed any signmaking start to show up in North Carolina? Um, just just a few robes from where they said they're velvet, another warm one, the smallest grape, but nothing crazy. I don't have seen any significant robes. Maybe one or two it the most, but nothing really to think of. I feel like they're just barely moving into the fall transition right now, but not really fully committed to their home ranges going forward. Then, in this next week or so, what do you think that bucket is going to be on a scale of one to tending North Carolina? Um, I feel like it's gonna jail bouts approbably eight because we gotta from about ninety grades nine of averages. It's gonna be a high. I really feel that the bus I'll be on their seat moving because it's just gonna be a change for them. And I really saw they're gonna be up in lazing around, definitely trying to get ahold of what I had been in the past week. Alright, Joshua, thanks for joining me, Congrats on the great deer alright and joining us on the line. Last is Bryce Lamley from Nebraska. Now Bryce in Nebraska, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten? Well, you know, I'm usually conservative, and right now I'd say five, but it's starting to pick up. We start September one with both season September has been pretty slow for myself and a lot of the other guys, but it's just starting to pick up. The last week we've been um seeing quite a few bucks that we haven't seen before show up on trail camera. Were starting to see some scrapes show up. Nothing really you know big you know, carbood types of scrapes or anything like that. But we're starting to see scrapes and scrape line show up. And one of my good friends from the Lincoln area killed a really nice pope and youngrossing five by seven on September twenty seven. And that we've had some up and down weather we've had. I mean, yesterday was nineties three here and today at sixty five. It's been crazy. But when the weather has cooperated, um, the deer starting to show up now, Bryce, you have great record keeping. That's one of the reasons I like talking to you. You You mentioned last year that you saw more signmaking than you've probably ever seen in your life. Why do you think that was and what is your kind of scrape forecast? Well, I think last year was due to combination several factors, but mostly because I had beans in an area that um, it's kind of concentrated where the bucks were all coming out in the same quarter mile to access the egg fields to a to a bean area, and this year I don't have that, so that may have been the catalyst for what I saw last year. Now I'm not seeing a whole lot of scrape activity yet, but two of my friends, like I said, are starting to see an uptick in that, and also seeing an uptick in the trail camera pictures on those sites. And one of those friends from Hall County out by Grand Island, it seems quite a bit of sparring even on his trail cameras in traditional like staging areas with with the scrapes and so forth. Now, most of the great Planes were hit with a lot of flooding in this summer. I assume it's been the same for you in Nebraska. How has that changed things for you this fall? Well, I have two different places where the river literally took ten acres of land from them, and these are betting areas close to the river, and I've had a hard time finding those betting areas again. But I think what's going on is they're betting out in grassy cover, weedy coover um in some cases three quarters of a mile from their original betting areas. Places that aren't being pastured with cattle have really grown up and are really good places to hide out, and also um places where they get away from mosquitoes that tend to concentrate on the timber bryce. Historically, when you see that summer flooding, do you notice that those deer kind of always returned to the same area. Well, I've noticed that a lots of spapes are starting to show up in those same areas, and I tend to believe that we have I read an article this summer about, you know, how floods affect things, and that the I guess the theme of that article said that they would return to their old areas, and so I'm kind of banking on that and I'm just starting to see that happen a little bit. Now. How do you think all the moisture is going to affect harvest this year in Nebraska? And how is that going to change deer hunting for you? I haven't seen any crops coming out yet, except some guys that are cutting from corn. Looks like for you know, silas or something like that. Um Beans are pretty much uh yellow now some turning brown. Although a friend of mine has had really good luck in in a corner of a field southwest corner where there's a low spot and it's still green on those beans. However, my buddy that's further west is says all the beans are yellow, and in his case, they're walking through the beans going to the path Afla. Now, Bryce, you hunt quite a bit and you can kind of pick and choose your spots when you get out there this time of year. What are the ideal conditions you're looking for in early October? Well, I guess I'm still looking at um. I like staging areas just inside the timber where I can still make a relatively secret entry and exit. Um those staging areas where they're um kind of killing time before they go out to the egg field. And usually in the evenings mornings that might go to those same places, or maybe a little bit deeper, but on like lanes in the woods, so again I can get in and out. I really don't want to booger up the woods too much this time of year. That having said that, I have killed a nice deer in in this you know, early October first ten fifteen days. You just got to be out there. It's true about my hunting that I hunt all the time no matter what, and because of that, I haven't really paid a lot of attention to moon faces. However, I can tell you that there's a really big increase in sightings and so forth when I see um cold weather maybe on the back side of a low pressure system and that type of thing. And so when we have like this next week coming up, it's supposed to be highs in the fifties and sixties and lows in the forties, I'm pretty excited about that in October going forward. Then in a sex week or so, what do you think that buck activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Nebraska. I'm gonna be optimistic and for October and say seven, because I tend to have a flurry of stave activity on trail cameras in that August excuse me, the October tenth timeframe, couple days either side, and with this cold uh weather coming in for the time of year, I'm really encouraged to be optimistic. I guess alright, Bryce, great info is always good luck there in Nebraska, And thanks for to one to me. Oh, thank you. And that concludes this week's episode of rut Fresh Radio. Thanks to Byron, John, Josh, and Bryce for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. Happy October to everybody out there. Most of the states in the country should now be open, so I hope everybody has some hunting in by the time you hear this podcast. And for more great white tail intel like this, make sure you're checking out the meat eater dot com. We're gonna see all kinds of new white tail content coming out for Mark and I and follow me market meat Eater on social media to stay up to date with what we're doing this fall. Until next week, stay wired to Hunt

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