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, and this is episode number three, six nine and we're back today for our first episode of our rout Fresh Radio mini series for two thousand twenty, in which we are getting the latest reports from across the country on current deer activity, behavior, and what you need to do right now to fill your tag. All right, welcome to the wire Hunt podcast, brought to you by on X. As you just heard, we are back with a new season of rout Fresh Radio. If you're new to the wire Dhunt podcast, this is something we do every single year during hunting season. Myself and co producer Spencer new Hearth rock out an extra epiod so every week of this series in which we get hot intel from different deer hunters all across the country each week telling us, you know, what kind of deer activity we're seeing, how our current conditions impacting dear behavior, what types of things right now would be working as far as tips and tactics. That's the kind of stuff we're gonna cover in just a minute, I'm gonna hop over to a quick introductory conversation that myself and Spencer new Hearth had. I'm on the road hunting Idaho, so you're gonna hear me calling in from the phone, but we'll hear Spencer and I kick things off, and then we'll get to Spencer's interviews with four different hunters from across the country getting all sorts of interesting insights, and then make sure to stay tuned for one of these each Wednesday throughout the rest of the fall. It's gonna get you the best updated information you could possibly ask for coming into your hunts. So, without further ado, let's kick it to the intro to this season of rut Fresh Radio. Uh, Spencer or it is? It is good to be back doing a rout Fresh Radio with you, my friend. Yeah, this this like feels the most normal out as I shoot my bow and prep for a haunt and look at on X like that's one thing that feels normal in a time of a lot of things and not feeling normal. That is true. And what else is normal for rot Fresh Radio is me calling in from a pickup truck on my phone while I'm driving back from a hunt. So we're kicking it off on a strong note, man, Yes, but we were looking for the freshest, hottest intel anywhere in the world. Right, so you can't get it better than really right off the tree stand right. That's right, That's right. That's why I like these calls. Yeah, so you know, anyone listening, I heard my very brief instro giving you the fifteen second rundown of what these episodes are all about. Anyone who's been a long time listener why're done, knows what Refresh Radio was about. But I don't know. You've been doing this four years, Spencers the start season. This is the fifth season, fifth season, I think I think we started in sixteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nine twenty. That's crazy. So five years end up doing these Now, if you were to make the sales pitch to someone tuning into this kind of thing for the first time, now that you've done it for five years, agot all the experience. You know what this is all about. You know what folks that have listened to have thought about it. What's what's the Spencer new Hearth pitch on Fresh Radio? Why should people be tuning in every week for this rut Fresh Radio is the most timely dear movement reports that you can possibly get UM. And in every episode, we're gonna talk to four or five experts throughout the country and hear about what they've been doing. We're gonna talk about different things, is like moon phases and weather patterns and crop status and browse status, hunting pressure signmaking. Everything that's relevant to a white tail hunter, we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna hear about their tips and tactics, and then we also sort of have a forecast on deared movement and we do this all in about a thirty minute episode to make it super digestible, that sort of thing you can listen to on your drive to work or put it on over your lunch break, UM, and you're gonna come away hopefully learning something UM and then using the information that you hear all our experts talk about and apply it to your hunt's coming up over the weekend. And this is particularly important for a lot of folks right now because there's a lot of opening days that either just happened or are about to happen right There's like September twelve, I think opens in Minnesota, Wisconsin or something like that, and Missouri always opens the fifteen, and I don't know a bunch of states I know are are opening up here pretty soon. So I'm sure there's a lot of people that are Auntie getting the amps to get in the woods and and want that latest information. So the question then is this, Spencer, do you have the goods to provide the people this week that are going to be hit in the woods for the first time? We have the goods. We We talked to four hunters this week in Nebraska, South Carolina, North Dakota, and Kentucky, and two of them were successful and just killed deer within the last couple of days here. And when I say you know that we have like the most relevant timely info, um, I genuinely mean it, because we're talking to people like you, Mark, that just got in their pick up out of the tree stand, or we're talking to somebody that just got done gutting a walk, stuff like that. But this week we talked to Tyler Jones from the Element podcast in Nebraska, Richard Peoples in South Carolina, and then in North Dakota from White Tailed DNA, talked to Alex Compstock and then Greg Farrell from First Light in Kentucky Beautiful. Do we have any kind of high level takeaway or do we have something that we should be listening into particular as we listen to interviews so that we get the most out of it. I don't know that there's like one big takeaway from this week. You know, something that I think is really interesting is two of the hunters we talked to this week, we're hunting public land. Two of them were hunting private land. And you'll sort of hear the difference in urgency when you talk to those hunters um. You know, Tyler and Alex were traveling bow hunters um out of state on public land, and they're just a little bit more aggressive, Like they're hunting in the mornings, UM, and they're looking for sign and they're getting closer to betting and things like that. And then you have like Richard Peebles in South Carolina where he's around these properties a lot more so it's about more conservative approach UM. And Greg was down in some private ground in Kentucky where he can return to if need be. And so I think, you know, this year you're gonna have like some of the biggest discrepancy in how aggressive a hunter is based on, like if they're traveling out of state, they're hunting private ground or public ground. Uh. And I'm guessing you'll hear some things Mark that are pretty relatable to your early September haunts being in Idaho. Yeah, that's the truth. And I think you hit the nail on the head right there. You know. I don't want to give too much away about the Idaho hunt because the main episode of Wired Hunt this week is going to be the full recap of that trip. But um, but definitely, we have had to approach things in a very different way that I would ever hunt private land that I could, you know, have multiple opportunities at throughout the rest of you. We've been very aggressive. We've had to do a lot of different things. We've had to hunt mornings, we've had to hunt betting years, We've had, I don't know, done just about everything but write a unicycle upside down. So so it's been the trip, man. I'll tell you what. My my teaser for tomorrow's podcast is that it has been a trip. Um. But but yes, I am interested to hear what these folks have to say when in to your point, not only does weather and time of year, and all these different factors influence what you should be doing as a deer hunter and when you should be hunting certain places, but also where you're hunting public versus private. So I think that's something, as you point out, for us to key into throughout the whole year. And if you're new to the podcast, you'll learn that. I ask everybody the exact same question at the beginning and the end of the phone call. Uh, And I've been asking to you Mark, because you've been at this for about a week now. So in Idaho, on a scale of one to tend, what do you think the bucket activity has been? And then in the coming week, on a scale of one to tend, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be? In Idaho? It has been a a five point seven five. So I say that because we have seen some night without giving too much away, we've seen some good bucks and we've seen a good number of deer um. But almost all the movement every day has been in the last half hour forty five minutes. It's been very late movement, and it's a very quick little blip, and you've had to try to take advantage of that. Um So, so it's a little above average because we're seeing quite a few, but it's not like rampant. Uh. That's that's my answer for your first question. And did you already ask the second question? He did, So, what do I think is it going to be moving forward? I think it's going to get better because it has been in the nineties here for most of the week that we've been hunting. It's been super crazy hot, and a coal front just hit today and so today was the first day of the cold front. I gotta believe it's gonna keep on getting better. So I'm gonna give it as a seven. Moving forward, as I think, um these deer will be hitting the feedbag and where they've not been crazy pressured, I'm sure they've been moving pretty well. All right, Mark, Well, I think that's a good teaser for tomorrow's episode, and I think that's a good way to set the table for the rest of our episode. In the beginning of season five of Red Fresh Radio, sounds good to me, Spencer, take it away, Talk to you next week, Mark alright in joining us on the line now is Tyler Jones from The Element podcast. Now Tyler in Nebraska, what would you say the buck activities been lately on a scale of one to ten. Uh, Man, I'm gonna give it a five probably and know that's kind of right in the middle. But it depends on really whether you're talking about the rud or whether you're talking about morning or evening movement. The evening movement was a lot shorter lived. It seemed like the morning movement, uh seemed to last longer. And I think the cool weather had something to do with that. But you know, the heat of the afternoon tend to be you tended to see buck movement right around sunset or a little early if you were lucky. But it was good. The you know, the early season pattern is something that we were definitely seeing and we were able to uh kind of game momental one. Were you seeing a lot of bucks still in bachelor groups in Nebraska? Not really know? Um? And we we hunted a portion of the state, not necessarily just one area and across the board. Um, if they were in a bachelor group that I mean, we probably didn't see any more than two bucks together, um. And lots of loner bucks for sure, even even the smaller bucks were by themselves. What food sources were you focused on all week? Um, Well, we went into the to the hunt with the plan to focus on the green food sources like alfalfa and beans and ended up um kind of throughout the hunt figuring out how heavily they were using corn and all the corn is still up and uh. It made it very very difficult for us, um because you know, typically what you think of if you hear any kind of media in the white tailed deer hunting world, you're talking about a bed to feed pattern and bed being in the day, feed being at night. So in the evenings you're hunting deer that are headed from heading to the feed to the food source these big agricultural fields corn fields for example, But these deer living in corn um and if the corn has a pivot in it, it's got water source for him, and if it's got you know, and obviously it's got food source for him, and then you've got shade from the heat. In those big corn fields, they've got everything they need there. So we almost found like an exact opposite uh pattern of movement or direction of movement where um, you know, I was able to get drawn on a deer um that was leaving corn in the evening, So they were It was kind of weird, but they were coming out of the corn in the evening and kind of just doing some you know, just random kind of exploring. I guess you could say, um, in all the brush and the creek bottom and the and they just you know, grazing pastures and that kind of thing out of the corn. So UM, it was hard to to put that together with it ingrain in your mind that they're going to bed in the brush and feed in the corn fields. It was the exact opposite, and it made it difficult. UM. But we did have a pretty close encounter. Were you doing any morning haunts in Nebraska? Um, Yes, we did a few, UM, and most of them were of kind of an observation type of stand. We would try to find, um a tree that we could see a pretty vast area of and that way we could PenPoint deer going into the corn. Um. If we didn't hunt out of a tree, UM, we would oftentimes drive. I bet we drove about half the mornings are a little less and we hunted you know the other half. Um, But we would drive. We would get up on hills and glass and um, deer, we're moving a lot in the mornings, I think, um, even in the early season, I totally think hunting in the morning makes sense. I mean we had the the morning before we had the buck encounter on this strip really close range. Um, we actually had that bucket a hundred yards in the morning from from our tree. So, UM, you know, I definitely think it's worth it. Uh, probably worth being very conservative and careful, especially if you're hunting a private piece that you don't want to mess up. But um, you know, probably probably worth hunting if you can make good plans for it. This time of year. Did water factory into any of your setups at all? It did, actually, Um, we had some we had two fronts in about five or six days that we hunted, so it was it was pretty good weather overall, but there was a couple of days when it was like load of mid nineties, um, which from what I understand, it's pretty hot up there. It's not too hot for texting. But uh, you know, that was definitely something that played into our last hunt. Um, we kind of sold out. We moved for the last evening, UH, drove about an hour and a half down the road and set up on upon that I could see from the aerial was super clear as compared to some the other tanks around it, and it looked like to me that it was going to be spring fed. Um, it was really dry in Nebraska, and everybody, all the locals, talked about how dry it was this year while I was up there. So I thought, well, it's hard to find a tank or pond that's got water in it right now. And so this spring fed pond, if it is spring fed in fact, you know, we should have some deer around it. It's about a mile in and we went in and hunted. It had water quite a bit, and we had a really good hunt that even actually we saw about fifteen deer um and we just didn't have any any bucks that we thought we needed to take home come by us that evening. But I think it's definitely a tactic if if you get some heat this time of year, for sure going forward then in the sex week or so, what do you think that buck activity is going to be on a scale of one to tend in Nebraska. It's a good question. I think that, Um, you know that we're gonna see cold weather coming in across most of the US. UM, And I think that the big massive cold front is gonna push a lot of animals around, um, and I think that it's gonna get them up on their feet. Um. It looks like not just cold weather, but some snow and stuff like that. And I don't know exactly what the forecast is for Nebraska going forward. I'm kind of thinking about Colorado, but I would assume that, uh, with that cooler weather, that the deer really going to start moving around. I don't know what that does to the corn crop. I don't know like what colder attempts might do to that crop, and and with the farmers and how when they would pull out corn and that kind of thing, um, But I would assume that just overall general movement, being that it seemed like it was good in the mornings or better in the mornings than the evenings because of the cool weather, I would assume that cooler weather could definitely bump the the movement up. So I would say, like, if you're if you're looking to hunt on early season pattern you've got, you know, you're gonna look at like a six or seven on the movement scale. Um, And hopefully that leads us into some pre rut stuff. Alright, Tyler, great Intel, good luck with the rest of your season, and thanks for joining me. Thanks man, I appreciate you having me Spencer alright and joining us on the podcast. Next is Richard People's in South Carolina. Now Richard in South Carolina. What would you say the bucket activities man? Lately on a scale of one to ten, So I think as we're moving into September and right now our buck movement has been about two to a two and a half. Everything seems to be really nocturnal right now. And um, I hope we're putting forward. We're going to start to get into this next month's and our buckets TABE will pick back up more in daylight, probably more in the mornings and afternoons. But as of right now we're probably sitting at like a two two and a half for daylight activity for bucks. South Carolina has one of the earliest openers in the country. And I know you've been hunting since the middle of August, So how has deer movement changed in the last three weeks or so? Well? As as we're in our summer pattern in the deer in velvet and they're really bachelored up. Um, depending on your food sources on your property. Your daylight activity can be really good if you have a good solid food source and the Bassaard group coast to bedding. Um, a lot of times you have a lot of daylight activity. UM. My properties, I have food plots and and feeders set up all year round. So my day letter is really good in the mornings and really good in the afternoons. But as the season opens and they start feeling that pressure. Um, you know, your daylight activity starts to go down as we start to move into September. And that's that's kind of where we're at right now. Um, it's just that transitional period between velvet summer patterns. We stripped velvet and now we're kind of we have that low between velvet and then pre rut and a lot of a lot of stress on the animals as we have hunting season now and um, we're kind of in that low period where everything is nocturnal. You mentioned food sources. What are some of the food sources that haunters should be keyed in on in that part of the country right now. Well, if you have the beans, beans are king, um that if you have if you have a big beans filled. Uh, you're you're ruling the roofs right now. Um. Most deer this time of year are traveling miles to get to a good bean field. Um. I have some food plots planet in astronomy and clover which astronomy, if you guys will know, is also known as deer fetch um, which is very attractive as soon as it starts to bloom. Um. And that and some clover and some clay peas is what I have planted right now with. Also, I was running protein and corn over the summer, which now we're switching more into just strictly corn um. But if you have a big bean field, um, maybe even a cut corn field, those can also be very good, uh food attractives. It looks like the weather in that part of the country is pretty stagnant for the next week or so. Do you have any special tactics or tips for people that are hunting when the weather is just eight to nine degrees every single day for like the next ten days. Well, right now, I've been checking the weather too, because this is uh, strictly when I when I hunt is on when we get a cold front come down right now, And it looks like over the next three weeks. Actually we have a couple I say cold fronts, but basically they're just low pressures moving down through the South Um and it will lower our temperatures, you know, for that three o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock range down into the six degrees um. So I'm looking for that first movement in daylight. Maybe just stretch us out in after great daylight and do hunting hours or legal shooting hours, or maybe you get that five minutes where you get a buck moving in there. But you know that it's you know, it's so hard right now this time of year with it being ninety degrees in the afternoon. So if you do get one of those little pressures and it gets you down in that six six three degree rains in the morning, maybe one of your bucks will stick around long enough to get a shot on them. Early season in South Carolina is also your hurricane season. How do things change and how does your hunting change when we have a hurricane move in pacans approaching um. First thing, first, let's get prepared for the hurricane. Make sure everything's good there, but for deer movement and for hunting. When you are prepared, your house and all that you've got all your supplies. Um. As the hurricanes moving in, uh, you're gonna start to get a big pressure change. And deer and all the animals feel at pressure change. They know what's going on in the atmosphere and with the weather. Uh. So you're gonna get a big movement of white tail or of deer at some point. Um. And they're gonna be hitting the food because you know they're gonna have to be bedded up for long. Uh So your food sources again are gonna key to that, you know, pressure change as some kind of storm system is moving in. Do you notice any shift embedding from mid August until right now from a chure Bucks, Yeah, absolutely, I definitely noticed, um a shift inbedding. Uh. And there's summer patterns when they're all baschetard up. If we do have a heavy rainfall year, they're gonna be up on the high ground. Uh. In your your planet pines normally your lines that have been implanted in the last ten years that are probably six to eight feet high where there's a lot of vegetation. Um. And they can get in there and be able to get in the ship and bed down in the earlier in the year. Uh and I try to key in on those kind of betting sources going forward. Then in the sixt week or so, what do you think that buck activt is going to be on a scale of one to ten in South Carolina? Uh? Yeah, Well, you know, we're kind of getting a low pressure system that's kind of gonna come through this week. Um. So I'm hoping on the mornings are definitely gonna be better, and I'm just gonna try to catch uh so that first hour of daylight. Um, I'm just hoping that buck stays up on their feet for that extra ten minutes right now or fifteen minutes past legal shooting light and maybe just catch them slipping. Other than that, it's very hit or miss in the afternoons, and I'm not seeing any gear movement on my cameras or a while I'm in the stand for for the afternoons. All right, Richard, But I hope they things turn around for you in South Carolina. Good luck and thanks for joining me, all right, and I appreciate it. Thank you. Good luck to everybody, all right, and joining us on the line. Next is Alex Compstock in North Dakota from White Tailed DNA now Alex in North Dakota, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. I'd say in the last week it's probably been in about an eight. We've had some really good weather conditions in North Dakota that's solicited quite a bit of movement. We had six guys in deer camp over opening weekend and pretty much I think every guy was seeing Shooter Bucks and or having counters with Shooter Bucks. A couple of nights ago, you arrowed an awesome dear tell us about that hunt. Yeah, so that was actually morning hunt. We got a substantial cold front that rolled through on months like Sunday night in the Monday, and so, you know, typically early season, I'm focusing on the evening. Hunt says. You know, getting into a morning spot can be rather difficult. Um, but with it went from you know, in the eighties, in the forties, and so we slipped into a spot in the morning. We're in some oaks about fifty yards off of bean Field, and we got set up about an hour and a half before first light. And as soon as I got light out, I could see deer out, you know, just shadows out in the beans, and there's a ton of deer in the beans, and they started working their way back towards me into the woods, towards their bedding, and I had a nice maturity pointer comes through and kind of just read the script and I was able to arrow on my thirty yards working the scrape. Actually, so it was pretty cool hunting early season in the mornings. How close to the bedding are you actually getting? We weren't terribly close to the bedding. I'd stay within a few hundred yards, but we had we had to come through I guess where they probably were headed more to bed and so that was why we wanted to get in so early, because you know, typically in the morning, the deer already usually you know, back to better close and so on a typical morning you probably renny busting deer going out. But with the with the giant col front that I had rolled through, that allowed us, I think, to slip in essentially at the back door and have a successful hunt. You mentioned that that book was working as scrape. Did you see a lot of signmaking when you were in North Dakota the last couple of days. I did, so we I think, you know, kind of as soon as uh, you know as their velvets getting ready to come off, or as there as their shedding velvet O. They're starting to actually work the ground and started making these scrapes and uh you know using them more. I think it's as a communication tool. But there were a couple of spots we had where scrapes were popping up that weren't there, you know, opening night and we're there two days later, early season in a western state on public land. What are the specific things that you're looking for when you set a tree stand right now, I'm looking for areas that aren't getting aren't getting hunting pressure, that are close to you know, usually bean fields are kind of the food source that I'm seeing also deer on and I'm trying to find areas that are secluded. So that's what we're really noticing, was area is that we're secluded, that we're back. You know, you couldn't see from the road, um where you could get in and there was no hunting pressure. We were seeing a lot of deer movement in areas like that. Besides beings, what other food sources are you looking for this time of year other than beings? You know there you know there are a lot of wheat fields that it seemed to me that as soon as they get cut, the deer were hitting up, and the wheat fields this time of year, especially in you know, areas like North Dakota are getting cut right now. So a fresh cut wheat field, you know, if that was we had a couple of spots like that, that would thought up to either some cattail sleues for betting or a standing cornfield something like that where he gave them still some cover, because the one thing with the cut wheat field is is you know, you have no cover at all, and so something like that can be definitely something key on when you're planning a hunt for September. This water factor in your decision making it all. It typically does. We have a couple of spots um one in particular, we're actually another guy killed and camp at night that's really close to a pond. We weren't hunting directly over it, but definitely if you can find a good water source, I find that to be pretty important. After spending about a week in North Dakota, what percentage of bucks would you say right now are still in velvet? I'd say probably only about most of the bucks I was seeing was we're already hard horned going forward. And 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 North Dakota. I put it in about a five or six. The temperatures overall are going to be not bad, um compared to a year over year, as it will be the load of mid seventies. But after getting that initial cold front where it was down you know, today the high was fifty. Um, app is going to kind of go up from there, So I put it back down to about a five or six. All Right, Alex, we'll congrats again on the awesome book. Good luck for the rest of your season. Thanks for joining me, all right, appreciate it. Thanks Spencer, alright and joining us on the line. Next is Greg Ferrell from First Light in Kentucky. Now, Greg in Kentucky, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. I would say where we were in Butler County, Um, it's probably been about a seven. Um. Right now, we've noticed that bucks are definitely still on the tail end of their summer pattern, so we're able to we were able to find them, UM and kind of hone in on them based off of those feeding patterns you know that you're used to seeing in these early fall, late summer months. So coming out into the fields, you know, still half an hour forty five minutes before dark. UM. So because of that, UM, the fact that they're still on some of those summer feeding patterns. UM, it's actually been been pretty good by us. You just arrowed a great buck last night. Tell us about that hunt. Yeah, So we were, UM, we kind of came in blind to this property that we're hunting this week. UM. We get in day before season opened, UM and did some scouting UM from a distance, basically through spotters and buyos UM. And then our kind of our game plan for this week, since we had never hunted this property, was to kind of play conservative um at least the first three days, UM, figure out what those d are doing. UM, then just kind of slowly chip away at them, you know, getting closer and closer to betting areas, UM, but doing so in a way that we weren't busting them out of there in the first first few days. So UM, this is kind of the culmination of that. UM. It was a buck we found the first night actually in a bachelor group, UM, when we were doing that scouting, and after this was the third sit, so basically just kind of moving closer and closer to learning about where they were coming out and kind of what they were feeding towards. UM, and eventually was able to get in the right tree, UM, slipping arrow in him at about forty yards. You mentioned that those deer still in the summer pattern. How much longer do you think that summer pattern is going to last? You know, where we are, I think you probably have maybe throughout this week, depending on you know, geographically where you're located, UM, in reference to where we are in Kentucky. UM. Really for us, we especially like Friday and Saturday. So Friday was scouting, Saturday was first Dave season UM, and both of those sits we were seeing a lot of bucks still in bachelor groups, definitely still in those feeding patterns UM, and kind of following the same script every night, UM, which you know is indication of of summer feeding patterns for sure. UM. But actually, interestingly enough, UM, a few days after that, a few of these bachelor groups that we had been watching UM started to lose one, two, three of those deer and break up UM. And then actually the deer that I shot last night, UM, he was actually fully solo last night, and when we recovered him, he was actually starting to lose some of the velvet on one of his side. So I think within the next probably five to seven days, UM, in the majority of the state, you're going to see that transition of deer off of that summer pattern into more of an early fall um range in pattern. With this being your first trip to the property, I assume that you threw up some trail cameras while you were there. Where are you focusing your trail cameras this time of year? Yeah, we definitely did UM. And like I said, our strategy because we had not set foot on this I mean we had we did a ton of e scouting UM, and we were pretty confident that we had both betting travel corridors and evening feeding pegged down UM, but without actually having hunted this property. We wanted to make sure that we had that figured out before we went trumping in. So what we tried to do is, UM, we put a bunch of cell cameras up actually UM on field edges as to not be intrusive UM, but kind of use it as like a confirmation on the data that we were finding during our hunts and scouting. UM. Now, as the hunt goes on, we still have UM one guy in camp with a tag UM. We're kind of changing our strategy, so we're getting a little bit more aggressive, moving in a little bit closer to where these bucks are betting, and we're moving our cameras with us as we do that. UM, not making specific trips into hang cameras, but as we're moving in through these areas to you know, do hanging hunts essentially every night, bringing those cameras in with us UM as a confirmation of that information. Besides beans, what are the food sources should hunters be focused on in Kentucky right now? Honestly, I would say beans would be the primary um by us. They're still green. I know, as we were kind of traveling to the property, UM we did see some fields that we started to turn brown. But with those those green um bean food sources, they're definitely honed in on those. UM. It seems like the areas that have corn UM it's more holding deer than they're hitting too hard. They seem to still be coming out of the cord and heading towards those beans. So, whether you have beans on your property or um a neighboring property, I would be focusing on understanding that those deer eventually want to be in those bean fields at night, um, while they're still green and before they're kind of browning up. 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 tend in Kentucky, I would say you're going to see a drop from that, you know, like six seven like we've been seeing, um, probably down to you know, four's um, maybe even threes as those bucks kind of go a bit more nocturnal um and get into their solo um fall um kind of patterns, both feeding, betting, um, travel corridors, et cetera. All right, Greg, what congrats again on the awesome book. Good luck for the rest of your season. Thanks for joining me. Yeah, thanks for having me appreciate it. And that concludes the first episode of season five of rut Fresh Radio. Thanks to Tyler, Richard, Alex and Greg for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. I'm thrilled it fall us here and I look forward to the next fifteen weeks of recording these episodes and talking deer hunting on every Wednesday this fall. If you like this podcast and make sure you're regularly checking out the meat Eater dot com, we're gonna have tons of written reports that are just like this podcast, as well as a bunch of great articles for me, Mark Kenyon, Tony Peterson, and others. I'll talk to you guys again next week. Until then, stay wired hunt

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