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Ep. 478: Rut Fresh Radio 11/10/2021 - Spencer Kills Two Bucks

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This is the 11/10/21 episode of Rut Fresh Radio! In each show, Spencer interviews hunters across the country to get the latest intel on whitetail buck movement. This week he talks to whitetailers from Iowa, South Carolina, Ohio, and North Dakota. They discuss trends like weather patterns, moon phases, crop status, hunting pressure, sign making, and more. For more content that's relevant right now, check out these articles from Wired To Hunt:


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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunts rut Fresh Radio, bringing you the latest reports from the White Tailed Woods and now your host, Spencer new Hearth. This is Wired to Hunt's rout Fresh Radio powered by First Light. I am your host, Spencer new Hearth, and then this week we're talking about rut hunting success stories. Welcome to Wired to Hunt's rout Fresh Radio. This is episode four. I am Spencer new Hearth and I am not joined by Mark Kenyon's week because he is out on assignment filming something where he doesn't have great service. But instead I'm joined by fellow Wired Hunt contributor and Foundations host Tony Peterson. Now, an update from last episode is when Mark and I had talked, we had talked about the one week in November project a little bit, and I had promised Mark that I was gonna come home um and and record our next episode of rout Fresh with two less buck tags in my pocket. And that is what happened. I killed a buck in Montana and in Wyoming UM and joining me on that hunting and with the our crew of four was Tony Peterson along with Mark and Clay Nucom and Tony did something similar. He filled two buck tags in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Now we're gonna be kind of light and vague on the details, because um, it's gonna be real damn exciting when these shows come out on YouTube and when a different Wired Hunt episode comes out where we talk about this project. But for now, Tony, I want to hear just about the rutting activity that you saw in Wisconsin and Minnesota over the last week. What were seeing for daytime movement, for mature buck movement, for signmaking filming out, and what was happening in that Great Lakes region man for the for the buck movement, it was excellent, seeing lots of cruisers, lots of chasing. Uh, you know, I didn't see too many bucks laying down signed, but I did see a few deer work scrapes and and kind of hit him up when they were cruising through. But just just for deer of all calibers covering ground, it was real good. And when you killed that giant buck on day one of our haunt, tell us about that setup, why you were in that spot, and why that buck was in that spot. I was in that spot because it was sort of a centrally located hub of three three kind of like wooded waterways to connect huge blocks of timber, and so it was just, you know, you look at it on aerial photography, you're like, man, that's that's a place where deer should cruise. And we just happened to have a really good wind for that stand that a buddy and I hung the summer, and that deer was I think actually think he had lost the dope, but he was cruising the downwind side out of a kind of a betting area and he was just along the edge of a cornfield in the woods in a way on one of those little travel routes where they just you know they're going to go from point A to B and they're gonna use cover, and those those little wooded waterways they were the ticket. And he was he came in hot and that's what he was doing. He was just following that woodline. And I think you said he was in July that you identified the spot and you hung that tree stand. What was about it in July that you saw that made you think like, oh, this is gonna be the perfect spot to be on November one. It actually started last year. My buddy had some observations there and then I saw really big dear kind of kind of corral a dough in there, probably on like November five or six, and so we've we spent some time talking about it in spring and looking at it, and then went in this summer because it was like, that's that's kind of a spot. That's just a hub where bucks could come in from a bunch of different directions, but if they if they used those waterways, they're gonna end up there. And so it was, you know, it was it was partially EA scouting and it was partially in season observation that that put that spot together for us. All right, So that giant eight pointer you killed was November one in Minnesota. Now let's talk about your hunting Wisconsin. I think it was November five. You tagged another buck there. Tell us about that set up and why you were there and why that buck was there. That was a different setup. That was a would it would it draw? Pretty big valley? Actually that has a pond in the bottom, and I knew there'd be some cruising in there, but I thought, you know, we we had that that blip a warm weather where it was getting into the sixties that in the afternoon, and so I was like, I know the cruise here, there's a couple of pinch points around this pond, but it's also one of the few water sources in that area that I was in, And so I had I had a bunch of stuff going for me, and you know, good cover as well, because you know, this time of year, there's a lot of people out, a lot of rusher you know, everybody wants to get their rut, their rut hunt going, And so I was like, this thing has a bunch of different stuff going for it. You know, the same kind of deal went down and hung that this summer in anticipation of this week, and it just worked out really well. Yeah, And speaking of hunting pressure, like, how do things differ for you, Tony when you're hunting the rut on a piece of public ground or a piece of private ground that has a lot of shared permission versus sort of like a manicured property that you tend to have all by yourself. How how are your strategies different when you're hunting public land this time of year. Um, you know, in my world, whether I'm on private or public, you know, I'm never the only one, and so you're you're always factoring that end, but I kind of just go to, like, what do I have real confidence in the deer doing? Like what spots do I just believe in? And those are the those are the places I might as long as the conditions work for me, I might volume on them for a couple of days. And you know, if you're on public land, you've got a way bigger chance with somebody coming in and you know, maybe messing up a party your hunt. But you kind of learned like that's part of the process. I mean, it happens on private land too, So it's like scout for those spots where you're just like, I believe in this spot and then let the deer tell you whether you're making the right decision or not. And I think the hard part, and I think we saw this with our shoot, was that self doubt creeps in if it doesn't work out. You know, if you spend a whole day during the rut and it really doesn't happen, it's super hard to stick with that. But if you've done your homework and you and you've got a lot of confidence in it, it's it just might have been an off day, and you've got to give us some real time, and I really don't think that varies much between public and private, to be honest with you. Yeah, and other perspectives you're gonna hear this week from about the white Tail rout is from Dan Johnson from Sportsman's Nation in Iowa, and then Mark hasm from Southeast white Tail dot Com in South Carolina, and then Byron Horton from The white Tail Experience in Ohio. And we end with Sam Soul from Public Land Teas in North Dakota and are reading materials for this week which you can find in the description in the episode. Uh these articles we have or why transitions are the perfect rot setups by Alex Gilstrom. Alex goes over why hard transitions and soft transitions are where you should focus your attention during the rout and how to find these areas. And then we have can You burn out a rut Stand? By Dylan Tramp. Dylan covers the nuances of two types of rout stands and locations you can burn out the locations you can't burn out? And then we have how to kill a pressured buck during the rut by you Tony Peterson. Tony discusses how hunting pressured deer during the rout. It's more about out thinking other hunters than is out thinking the deer. And then finally we have what is the White Tail Lockdown by Mark Kenyon. Mark looks at what big buck killers and science say about the white Tail lockdown and how those viewpoints differ. Now to see Tony's episode where he kills that giant Minnesota eight pointer that is going to be out in November sixteen, and we are going to be dropping an episode a week for every week after that, basically all the way through the end of one. Uh, Tony, how how excited are you to see that episode one? I can't wait, buddy, I can't wait to see all of them. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm stoked for episode one. And then you had some other crazy encounters in those first four days. Um, and then we end on a real high note. But more on that later when we record a longer Wired Hunt episode. But for now, let's get to the reports. Thank you, Tony, Thanks buddy, all right, and joining us on the line first is Dan Johnson from Sportsman's Nation in Iowa. Now, Dan in Iowa, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. Yeah, Spencer, that's a that's a tough question to answer. I would say on the area of the farm and the doge group that I was hunting around, it was more for this this week. It's been more in earlier, earlier, this this last week, it would be more of a a seven right as far as buck activity, but based off trail cameras and sidings, even just a thousand yards to the east on that property hunt, you know, hunting in an area with a different doe group, I would say more of a three or four. So if I was a hunter, I wouldn't get too crazy worked up about what's going on right now. You have to be in the woods right now in order to figure that out for yourself. Now, you just killed a slammer buck recently that I think you said had almost a twenty four inch spread. Tell us about that hunt. Tell us why you were in that specific spot and why that buck wanted to be there. Yeah. So, you know, a lot of it had to do with historical information and how the deer worked the terrain through you know, through through that area, throughout the thirteen years that I've been hunting that farm. Uh So, the first hunt was a was an afternoon hunt, and on my way into that that hunt, I are not that particular hunt. So that my success this year was based off three different hunts, an afternoon, a morning, and then an afternoon and um so I checked trail cameras. On the way in, I got some intel of where I you know, where this buck had been in the previous week. And on my way out the next morning, I checked two more trail cameras. I got one more piece of intel for him. And what I did was I kind of triangulated his position based off the trail camera information and based off of the the terrain features and and how these deer used these terrain features. And then I had to use what was given to me, you know, the wind direction, and I just put myself in the best possible position, um in a draw that kind of at the very bottom of a draw that led up into a standing cornfield, and uh, that's where that's where he showed up. How much stock are you putting in trail cameras in the first two weeks of November. I mean, if it is all this, all the trail camera does is tell you that a deer has been there, doesn't mean that they're there right now. And as we all know, the rut is a time of year where chaos, it's chaos in the woods and anything can happen. But I feel that if the dog group, the active dog group in the area stays on a routine, these bucks will stay on some kind of routine as well, until these dog groups start going into into heat. And so I would say that trail camera intel helped me out a lot because I was able to put a point on a map where this buck had been in the past five days, and then another point on a map where he had been in the past five days, and then I add that It's almost like an equation, and I added all up together based off of um past you know, history with dear, how dear move through the terrain, and then I just I put together. I just throw information into that equation and outspits the best possible tree stand location for me. You mentioned that you killed this buck hunting a draw that led up to a cornfield. What is the crop harvest status for most of Iowa right now? Well, it just depends on what part of the state you live in. Man the area that I hunt uh in the area that I live in. There's still a lot of standing crops, especially on one of my main farms that's closer to my home, there's still, you know, I would say over acres of standing corn in the area, and it does make things really difficult to try to to try to locate a deer, especially when they're they're spending a lot of time in that corn. Let's pretend that you're not tagged out, Dan, and you're gonna be in a tree on November ten. What does your ideal set up look like. My ideal set up, it looks like wherever the deer at um. I wish I could sit here and tell you that, hey, you should be in a drainage or a pinch point, or downwind of a betting area, or over a popular scrape, or you know. You hear people talk about all the great places that they need to be a good travel corridor. But I think what a lot of people miss out on is, yes, these places are great, but there's still times where deer do not go there. They're not active in these areas. So what I would do is I would maybe put some boots on the ground, look for some active sign um, look try to find where the deer are at Maybe an observation sit is in your future, maybe not, But get into the woods and just observe and if deer aren't there, then you move to the next terrain feature or betting area or UH or travel corridor or whatever, and you just you you just keep going through the cycle until you locate them. And then once you locate them, then you can refine those those stands, that placements and set ups um until you get close enough for a shot hopefully going forward. Then this next week or so, what do you think that buck activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Iowa? Yeah, man, we're we're coming up on what some say is peak breeding, which is of November. Again, it just depends on what the dough groups are like in your area. Like I said, I got a I got a dough group on this one farm that I hunt. It is a it's a late October early November dough group. And then the other dog group further to the east is a is a mid October when they come into or mid November when they come into heat. So I'm just gonna go try to locate the dough groups and typically at that point the dough groups are going to indicate whether or not there's deer in the area. I'm gonna check my trail cameras. I'm gonna cycle through tree some of my favorite tree stam locations and hopefully run into something. Dan, congrats again on that Amber buck. Thanks for joining me. Thanks Spencer all right and joining us online. Next is Mark Haslam from Southeast whitetail dot com in South Carolina. Now Mark in South Carolina. What would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten, Spencer, I would say the buck activity has probably been um, right about a nine. We had a nice coal front that came through last last week. We're wrapping up, wrapping up right now, starting to warm up a little bit um and right now bucks have been chasing does. We're seeing bucks ten tender does and you know, lockdown with them in some thick in areas and uh not wanting to really bump off of them. So we're seeing some good, um, mature bucks palin doos and uh, we're right, I think partly towards the end of our peak, uh first round of breathing. So what would you identify this phases the road as in South Carolina going in I guess go on the second week of November, this is we're wrapping up our our peak breeding. UM, it should be. It should be closing out pretty soon. And then towards the end of November going into December, we should hit that second run with those where those does that weren't bred the first time, she should go back and into a second heat cycle. UM. A lot of Georgia, South Carolina southeast has high deer densities and in button those ratios that are a little out of wax. So in some parts. UM, in a lot of South Carolina, we've got more does than the box. So there's they do not get bread during that first cycle. I know this morning you rattled in a buck. Tell us about that encounter and what you're calling strategies are in early to mid November. I I'll do some grunt sequences, but not really a whole lot of blind grunt calling. UM. I started off this morning right daybreak and did did a couple of sequences very very verish for very light um uh, just rattling. I did hear two probably young bucks spar sparring this morning and had a four point came up to him. UM, and then about down thirty UM, I went a little harder, UM, a little sequence maybe fifteen twenty seconds with some antlers. UM, a little hard, a little bit louder, more of like grinding and you know, not not so much smashing, but just kind of more some pushing with antlers and grinding. And uh, within probably fifteen seconds, I had some movement down. I was up on the up on a ridge right the side um a creek bottom, and it had some movie coming out of that creek bottom thicket and had a nice, just beautiful eight point came out, UM about five yards or so, and I was coming out, take a look at the take a look at the action. So that's UM. Typically if I'm going to rattle, it's gonna early in the mornings, and I'll be outside right on top of some thick betting. What are you seeing for signmaking right now? Um, there's some new scrapes there. They're being hit. UM, lots of scrapes just being hit constantly fresh um. Not so much new rubs, UM, but I would say there are certain scrapes, the key scrapes are being visited quite often and at night. What food sources are relevant? Right now for white tail hunters in that part of the country right now, Spencer, I would say, um, unless you've got some egg or some food plants that have not been touched to have that that have very little pressure so far, I would stay off those. Do you're still coming into him, but you know we are. It's just knee deep um in the season. South Carolina opening up and most of the state in August and Russia State in September. So there's not a lot of hunting pressure. Do you having highly educated this points so I would stay away from from from highly prushed areas and I would get off in the woods. The rut. The buck action we've seen the past week has all been in Deeptember, all been in thick areas, thick cover and in some mature pine blocks that are between food plus between stands. We're seeing a lot of deer, a lot of bucks moving. Um. I mean it might be two hundred yards from a food plot. They're not going into it, they're just skirted by it. Uh. Deer hitting acorns and they're hitting some of that uh natural vegetation in the pine forest. Um so um. They're still hitting food plants and what's left in the act fields. But I bet, but I just feel like it's it's it's it's not important because they're probably hitting at night UM, and I would just focus right now in the woods getting their deep hitting mobile climb UM and figure out where hunters haven't been yet. And that's probably before you're gonna find the box because right now there's there's does being breath, there's there's bucks tending does, and they're moving a lot during the day, but they're just moving moving in some thick areas. Let's see, you're in a tree stand on November tenth in a state like South Carolina, what does your ideal set up look like right now? I would probably be either I would be outside of a thick area there's some betting um or ideally maybe between two maybe between two UM two betting sizes, and it might need too. It might be outself a clear cut that's been replanted and it's got a pipe to it. But I would be in or around some batting and being close and tight. So right now you've got bucks that are cruising around UM check in dough betting UM checking see you know, checking those dough groups, seat who's in heat and you've got bucks, like like my encounter this morning, that you're gonna hit them just that right time where they're jacked up and they're gonna come and looking looking for a fight. I've had most of my success rattling this first second week in November. UM for mature box usually the box I rattle end in October. The late October is gonna be you know, immature yearlings or one year olds to your two year olds. But I would be in some dents cover and it might be a pine block where it's been spend a couple of times, you've been burned. But it's got some it's got some you know, UM, got some high vegetation where you can climb and see some distance and it's it's catch those deer moving with the keys. You've got to be around or or close to some thick, thick areas and it could just be a little pockets here and there. Um, But if you can find where the does are, if you if you go where they're betting, hunt around those because you're gonna you're gonna find the box um right on top level. Going forward. Then in this next week or so, what do you think that bucket TV is going to be on a scale of one to ten in South Carolina. Um, we're gonna start to level off a little bit. Um, I think you know, we're gonna start to see if you know, if if if hunters are staying the woods, we're probably gonna see some more chure bucks, some order ones. There was some five and six year six year olds starting to show themselves a little bit more. If think young bucks are out. Um out was first first round breeding. But this will start to level off because most of these does a lot of them have already been bred. Um, but it's gonna pick back up a little bit. We easily get a little stars around Thanksgiving going into December of that second second bright cycle. So I think it's still gonna be great. Uh for the next week. Um, we got some a little bit warmer temperatures got coming in the high seventies and probably something like the low fifties, so it's not gonna be getting cold, but they're still out. Um, you just gotta get the stick areas all right, Mark, congrats on your success earlier this season. Good luck with the rest of your fall, and thank for joining me. Thanks Spencer, thanks for having me all right and joining us Online. Next is Byron Horton from the white Tail Experience in Ohio. Now, Byron in Ohio, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. I gotta go with a solid tent on this one. Um from my hunt the other day to having a few few bucks come in and oh, make scrapes kind of be poking around some doughs. In the last few days, we've seen chase thing um bucks responding to calls the woods have been on fire. Now, you just killed a giant buck over the weekend. Tell us about that hunt, why you were in that area, and why that buck wanted to be in that spot. Yeah, So I think what made that spot super hot is, uh, there was a couple of scrapes all in a collective area and that particular piece you can go good ways without finding good bucks sign but it's kind of was an old logging road set up. But there's also like what we call a hogback kind of funneling some movement down on and uh. I noted that there were those that tended to feed in the evening or I'm sorry, in the mornings, kind of coming back probably to where they vetted, but they tended to cross this oak flat into this general area. And uh, I had actually hunted this stand location as several times, and I thought it was just a matter of oh being there the day they daylighted, if you will, or or or the day it got hot. And sure enough I was able to time that up and saw three three bucks all within bow range and and just have an awesome morning. In September, you mentioned that there was a cluster of scrapes nearby. What have you seen for signmaking over the last week. Yeah, I uh, I did witness the first book come in and hit the scrape, but the the other two seemed to pass on by or kind of just be more in the cruising style mode. Um I do. I am still finding somewhat fresher rubs where there are still shavings, but it's definitely not not as how to say that late October time period, um so, so I'm not is super worried about that. I am still paying attention to tracks. In fact, that particular shelf had a good amount of tracks on it in some good size one so so that kind of led me to believe it's worth another hunt if you're doing some inseason scouting. You mentioned that you might be looking for scrapes and tracks. What are some other things you're trying to identify in the middle of the rout if you're on a new piece of ground. Yeah, and and right there when you said new piece of ground, I think not being afraid to to go for a walk about his key. Can you gotta figure out where you want to be? But uh, I you know, if I was new to a piece, I would also maybe look at some some creaker or ditch crossings where they too, you know, it's a little easier for them to lay down a solid track. Um. And honestly to bumping some does. Um. You know that this time of year could be key. I've never pulled off to Jared Scheffler whitetail adrenaline, bump a pair and then go in and shoot them. But I have bump does and that has led me to then, you know, twenty minutes later, an hour later, having bucks come by, so so so being you know, getting in visuals is always a good thing. I know you have to do a lot of aerial scouting to make haunts like this happen. So if you're doing some aerial scouting, what are you looking for to try to find dough or buck betting on a piece of ground in the Midwest and stay like Ohio. Yeah, I full disclosure, I'm not the best eat scouter, um, but I I do look for for maybe subtle um vegetation or habitat style changes. Um Me personally, I think in my playbook, I gotta walk that stuff and see it in field versus um finding on the map. And that's just requires some bootleather. Honestly, if you're running trail cameras in the middle of the ruts, how much stock do you put into the information you're getting from those? Yeah, I'm not opposed to to getting a trail camp picture and acting on Um. I know those bucks are moving, but I have seen bucks so kind of repeat their cruising loop. Um So, so I do put a little bit of stock in that, maybe more on like a three or four out of ten compared to stay late October, it's like a seven to nine out of ten for me. Let's say you're not tagged out in Ohio and it's November ten and you're gonna be in a tree stand. Tell us what your ideal set up looks like. Yeah, this is my go to combination of features. Um, I like to be on the down wind side of does, but I need a secondary or third feature in there to kind of draw the bucks. And I like I like the hogbacks. I really like some sort of a terrain cut or erosing cut to to funnel those deer down. And then, um, I like habitat that that maybe gets a touch thicker. So those bucks have to visually see some sometimes and find those does. Um that is kind of my go to. And if the slope tends to catch morning sun, those thermals tend to rise a little bit, and I think those bucks like them a touch more than then maybe a shaded hillside going forward. Then, in this next week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on a scale of to ten in Ohio? Oh I think in the next couple of days we do have some warm attempts. But Dave has been seeing a good amount of a buck activity. I'm gonna still go a ten. I think this is the time of year it is that you can go ahead and give it that high number. So alright, buying, congrats again on the awesome buck good luck the rest of your fallen. Thanks for joining me, appreciate it alright and joining us on the line. Last is Sam Sohold from Public Land Teas in North Dakota. Now Sam in North Dakota. What would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten, I would say probably a five or six. You know, I've seen some small bucks cruise and kind of some of those. Yeah, younger bucks cruising for sure. I have, you know, on trail cameras that I run. I've had some more mature bucks daylighting. But it doesn't feel like the rut is in full swing yet. What have you been seeing for signmaking over the last week? Signmaking has been really good. Lots of lots of bucks hit scrapes, lots a lot more rubs and stuff like all the small scrub brush getting shredded. But yeah, lots of scrapes everywhere the last couple of years, this time of year, you've killed a buck using a decoy and tell us about your decoying strategy in early to mid November. Yeah, there's uh, there's hard. There's very few things I love more than decoying deer. Um. My strategy is typically too one of two things, either I'm gonna get I'm gonna hunt somewhere where there's really good visibility, and I'm gonna put out a full size decoy um and so you know deer. So if I could see a deer crossing, I can call to it, rattle at it, and it gives it something to focus on when it's coming in. Um. So that's one scenario that I've had work really well. And then the other scenario is using heads up decoy one that attaches to my bow and try to get into a spot where I think there's gonna be bucks cruising with dose um Or if I can find a dough that has a buck Honor, that's a really good scenario to go decoy and sneak in and then pop up that decoy kind of get in their bubble and make a mad and make am make a move Toria towards you and slip up where you can get an air whint them. And is there a phase of the rout that you like decoying especially? Yeah, I mean I think like right when kind of right before it all goes nuts, when those bigger books are looking for Dose that are coming into estrus and they're they're just trying to fight off anything that might be, you know, like in their territory. If you're going into a piece of public for the first time in a state like North Dakota, what are you looking for when you're doing some in season scouting? So I'm looking for fresh sign, whether that be scrapes or rubs, um, and then just looking for stuff like a lot of the public isn't gonna hold crops or egg you know. Um, so a lot of times I'm just looking for stuff that has transitions between bedding and food. Uh, you know, funnels, pinch points, stuff like that. What is the crop harvest status right now in North Dakota? You mentioned that not a lot of the public as egg, but for the private that does, what does that look like? Um? The majority of the crops have come off with it being such a dry summer. Everything started coming off early and over the last couple of weeks. Like most of the beans have been off for a while, but most of the corner has not come off. Does water ever factor into your setups in a state like North Dakota this time of year? I don't. I typically don't focus on water much this time of year, But it's also a very different year this year with how dry it is. Um. You know, typically the deer aren't struggling to find water because every ditch and whatever has water somewhere. So um it will probably play a little bit more of a factor this year in focusing on it, um you know, and maybe finding some small you know, slews in back you know, hideaway spots that might bring in a few more deer, but um, not typically historically in the Great Plains. When do you expect to start seeing some midday movement and are you seeing that yet? In so right now should be seeing good midday movement. Um, have been seeing a whole lot of it yet. But there's a huge cold front coming kind of across the entire country later this week, and I think that will help a lot. Um. I know, some areas are supposed to get snow. Uh, definitely a lot of areas and going to get rain. And the high tempts are looking in the low thirties, So there should be a lot of good midday movement, uh, you know for the next seven to ten days. I would guess it's November ten and you're going to be in a tree stand. What is your ideal set up? Look? Like on that date. For me, I want to be somewhere on the down wind side of a real thick betting area. You know, if I can, if I can add to that, you know, some sort of a pinch or a funnel that kind of leads to that type of area. UM is even better. But a lot of times this time of year, when all those doughs are starting to come into estus, you'll have bucks that are walking on the down wind sides of betting areas, just sent checking and looking for those that have come in UM and you know, go going after him. So I want to be on the down wind side of something really thick going forward. Then is next week or so you think that buck activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in North Dakota, I think it'll ramp up to about an eight. I just think with the cooler weather coming in. UM, we've had a real dry, warm kind of lead up to the rut, and I think with with that chain shifting weather padam pattern, especially after that front blows through, it really should have everything moving. I mean, they're still deer, they're still running, UM, but it just doesn't feel like I haven't had that. You know, massive chasing activity. I haven't seen you know, bucks really acting stupid um like they tend to this time of year. All right, Sam, good luck with the rest of your falling Thanks for joining me. Yeah, thanks you too, And that concludes this week's episode of Wired to Haunts Rut Fresh Radio. Thanks to Dan Mark, Byron, Sam and Tony for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. As a reminder, the reading materials for this week's episode can be found in our description of the episode. You're gonna see articles like why transitions are the perfect rut setups? Can you burn out a rut? Stand? How to kill a pressured buck during the rut? And what is the white tail lockdown? If you want to see the two bucks that I just killed in Montana and Wyoming, make sure you're following me on Instagram at Spencer new Hearth, and to see Tony's kills, follow at Tony J. Peterson on Instagram. Both of those hunts are going to be featured on Wired to Haunt in Meat Eaters new series called One Week in November, which starts November six and runs through the end of the year. If you want to stay up to date on that new show. Go over to our YouTube channel, meat Eater and subscribe. I will talk to you next week, but until then, stay wired to hunt.

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