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Wired To Hunt Podcast #238: Rut Radio 10/3/18

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Today on the show we’re back with another episode of our Rut Radio mini-series, in which we’re getting realtime from-the-field updates from across the country regarding deer behavior, current conditions effecting deer, and the tactics that are working right now!...

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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 in this episode number two and thirty eight, and we are back with our weekly radio mini series in which we're hearing from hunters from all across the country about the current deer activity, behavior, rep progress sign and the tactics that are actually helping people. Right now, real quick, before we get this one started, though, a couple announcements I want to share with you. Number One, as most of you probably know from hearing past podcasts, I and Wired Hunt have become involved with Steve ronnello new company, Meat Eater, Inc. A lot of exciting things going on there. If you heard our podcast, I think it was to fifteen, Steve was on, I explained exactly what's happening. I also posted a video on YouTube explaining in more detail why I decided to do this, what that means, where and how my content is going to live into the future. Make sure check out the wire hunt YouTube channel to see that. But tied into that is the fact that the new season of the Meat Eater TV show just premiered on October two on Netflix as a Netflix original, which is a which is a really big deal. This is the first hunting show ever to be a Netflix original, So I'm excited about that. The whole team is excited about that. And if you heard last fall about my caribou hunt that I went on with Steve, that hunt is now on Netflix. It's two episodes. I just watched them last night, and Wow, Steve and the production team did an incredible job of of telling that story in what I think was just a really beautiful, moving, powerful way. I mean it was, it was super cool. Maybe I'm biased because I actually was on the trip, but man, I was excited to see that. I think you guys will enjoy it too, especially if you heard me, you know, share the story of that experience in the podcast. Actually getting to see that now with your eyes, I think that might be pretty neat for you, So be sure to check it out. It's on Netflix now, the whole new season, sixteen new episodes, and uh, like I said, I've only seen two episodes so far, but they're great. I'm sure the rest are gonna be a lot of fun too, So go on over Netflix. Give those a watch. We would certainly appreciate that. Now. The other announcement is that our partners over at first let are running a sale on a bunch of their white tail gear. And if you're listening to this on the day of this podcast drops, this is October three, two eighteen. That sale is going on today, but today is the last day it's on, and you get up to thirty off a bunch of their white tail essential pieces, stuff like uh, their hybrid saw too vest, stuff like their Catalyst pants that I've been wearing, um, a bunch of neat products. Check it out. If you've been wanting to try first Light, this sales, great opportunity to do it. Today is the last day though, October three is the last day, so head on over to first light dot com to try some of that gear out, and that we'll do it for these couple of announcements. Onto the show. All right, welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx, and we're here again for another episode of the RUT Radio mini series that my good buddy and producer Spencer new Heart is running the show on. Spencer, thank you for carrying more of the burden even than usual over the last couple of weeks, as I've been glomping all over the nation in the back of my truck, I finally have a microphone. Yeah, that's all right. Very jealous of the troops you were on. But now it's gonna be flipped around. I'm gonna be hunting all the time and you're gonna be the guy sitting at a computer. Yeah, it's time for you to cash in your wife vacation days. Right, that's right, that's right. They have been accumulating. That's good. That's good man. I uh, I'm excited because you know, my white tail season started at the beginning September in Montana and North Dakota, but it doesn't really feel like it's officially started until the at home season is kicked off, and that that happened yesterday. It's it's now really hunting season because Michigan hunters are out there. So my my excitement levels at at all time high now, and the RUT radio episodes then for me even get more interesting because I need that up to date intel too, So I'm excited for this one. Yeah, Michigan as well as much of the Midwest and much of the South just opened either yesterday or this weekend. So, uh, a lot of this stuff is becoming more relevant to the rest of the nation. Yeah. So, as we do on every RUT Radio episode, you've been collecting updates from folks all across the country. Three, Who are we going to hear from today? And where are these folks at? We start off in Nebraska with Bryce Lamley from Sitky Gear, and then in Pennsylvania from Flat Lion, White Tails is Tyler Kravitz. And then we talked to Gray Drummond from Florida Outdoor Experience in Florida, and then in Kentucky from Dream Chaser's Hunt is Colton Clemens. Awesome. Now, from people you've spoke to so far, is there anything you're picking up as far as a trend or anything that you've just been hearing with your other conversations. Yes, So this kind of goes back to last week and brings in this week as well as some reports that have had on RUT Fresh. But it sounds like across the country that signmaking is kind of a head of schedule. As you and I record this mark it's October two, and this would typically be the time I think for most guys that you would just start to see some scrapes or rubs show up. UM, maybe not even yet where things would get really hot a few weeks from now. But like I said, UM, from the reports I've been hearing, there's been a lot more signmaking that has shown up in the woods a result of that. UM, I'm not totally sure. Some of the people I talked to UH got hammered with E h D like five or six years ago, and so maybe the age classes now to a to a point where there's a lot more bucks around, mature bucks that are doing some rubmaking or excuse me, some scrapes, whereas that something that you maybe would have noticed over this last half decade or so. Another reason could be that a lot of the country, UM has had precipitation over this last month or so. And I'm not sure that it's ever been proven or verified by any biologists or anything like that, but a lot of hunters I tend to think that there's a correlation between the ground being soft and scrapes showing up, and so with a lot of the country having precipitation in September, that could be another cause as well as UH, the increase in signmaking for this early in the season m very interesting. I don't know if I've heard that theory before. I had heard that, you know, oftentimes a buck will want to go freshen up a scrape after a rain, but I hadn't heard that maybe that increased precipitation just leads to more scrape production in general. So, UM, I'm intrigued. Spencer Newharth, I am intrigued. Um. I can't say that I've seen that yet this year myself, or the last week I did, Like I mentioned, you know, Michigan season kicked off, and I did see a few light rubs when I was heading out to my stand last night, so it was a little bit of that. Um, I haven't seen any scrapes made, but I do have a cell phone camera pointing on a like a scrape tree that I put out in the middle of a food plot, and I've had a good number of deer hitting that, not necessarily scraping it up yet but smelling the liking branch. Um. So I think there'll be plenty more to come here soon. But that's interesting to hear that folks are seeing that too. So is that something that you've manipulated and added some sense or anything, or you just have the camera waiting on that tree for a deer to open it up themselves. So we usually what I do when I did in this case was I went out there, I placed the tree where I wanted in a licking branch at the right height where I wanted it, and then I kicked up some dirt underneath it. Um. And in the past, I've put scent on the ground, or I started up sitting the ground, I put scent on the licking branch. This year, I didn't do that, but I do always pee in the scrape, leave a little bit of a human urine, which eventually just smells like ammonia, which dear just kind of pick up is urine. Um. So lots of times i've I've read and I've used it myself. It works just fine. Just use your own non or totally natural scent. So that's what I did in this case. Um, that's the scent I've used. But I did last night when I left my tree stand. Um, I was picked up on a TV and I brought a little rake out and I didn't rake up the scrape and just had it kind of opened up a little bit more so it looks like it's been freshened up recently by an aggressive deer, and I'm hoping that's going to trigger even more activity at that location. Well, I have a blog post that was posted on August twenty nine and refresh I think you should go check out, as well as some others, and it talked about why you should start using mock scrapes earlier in the season. And I referenced this study that this guy did from Deer and Deer Hunting magazine back in late eighties and early nineties, and basically he had this um penned deer population and over four years, he would have control years where he made no scrapes, and then he would have the scrape years where he created the scrapes um and during those scrape years, he would uh witness like dozens and dozens of scrapes that were worked and visited by bucks. By September twenty six, I think the one year it was like thirty something that scrapes had shown up in the woods when he started those scrapes in early September. Uh. And then the years where he did not create any scrapes, he would only witness like one or two at the end of September. So by starting those scrapes early, it seems like you can actually kind of disrupt the social behavior in the woods with those bucks, and they'll start visiting those scrapes as well. Now that might not necessarily help you kill a deer or even get them moving in daylight better, but if you're someone who likes scrapes for the purpose of inventory or learning where these deer traveling, Uh, that's something that can be really crucial that you can use in September that maybe other hunters aren't doing. Oh man, I a percent agree that is my number one most important trail camera tactic Now. I I even put my cameras mostly on scrapes or historical pass scrapes or new mox scrapes that I create. I start that even in late August, Like if I'm in a spot where I can't put out mineral or bait or anything like that to get trail camera pictures in the summer, I was just put looking put these cameras on licking branches, and I still get bucks coming and checking those. And then definitely one September hits almost all my cameras are on either a real scrape or mock scrape tree in a field, UM or pulling down a licking branch in the woods. There's no better way to get consistent pictures that I've found, um, assuming you don't want to put corner bait or something out there that of course gets a lot dear to one location, but otherwise licking branches and scrapes of the way to go. So I'm on board for sure. Well, I think we'll have plenty of more sign mace signmaking talk over this next month of radio. But for now, let's get to the October third episode. Let's do it. Before we get to our first update, let's pause for a word from our sponsors at white Tail Properties. This week, with white Tail Properties, we are joined by Andrew Schultz, a land specialist out of Illinois. And Andrew is going to be telling us about what to look for when buying a piece of ground with intentions of putting in a small pond. Yeah, it's really attainable, and there's a lot of people that look to do that when they're searching for a piece of ground or the right piece of ground, And a large part of that is what are you intending to use the pond for I mean, is this pond gonna be something that you can fish with your kids or grandkids, um, when you come out to visit the property, or is this pond gonna be the pond that your dream home overlooks when you're building on this property. So first identifying what it is that you're putting the pond in for um. So once you've done that, location is everything. Obviously, if the pond serves a purpose for wildlife, you want it in the best location to do so, where soil is also going to be relevant. Depth is going to be relevant. Drainage is another thing that's relevant. So UM, once you've determined that a property is the right one for you, you know you've got lots of options as it relates to put it in a pond. Um, just do your homework ahead of time and figuring out what you want to use it for. Um you know, the best purpose and then how to go about achieving your goals. If you'd like to learn more and to see the properties that Andrew currently has listed for sale, visit white tail properties dot com. Backslash Schultz that's s h U l t z are in joining us on the line. First is Bryce Lamley, an outdoor writer out of Nebraska. Now, Bryce in Nebraska, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to tent Well, I'm usually really conservative for you, but I'm actually going to say a nine right now. In thirty eight years of serious bow hunting, this is the most early season scraping I've ever seen. And I think it might be a combination of being wetter than normal and and we've got a little bit of a strange age class on some of the properties I hunt. But it's uh, it's been this multiple big scrapes opened up, and lots of them. Now I don't hunt that far away from you in South Dakota, you're in Nebraska. Typically I'm hard to seeing any scrapes at all this time of year. Are you seeing a lot of scrapes or just a small number pop up which is more than normal even Well, I'll give you an example. Last year October nine, I killed a nice buck and over a scrape. But I walked in with some cent on my boots and I opened that scrape up that night it had not been hit. So that was October ninth last year. This year, starting around September twentieth or so, these scrapes are beginning opened up and beat up, and multiple visits, mostly at night. But it's it's honestly, the scrape scenes on some of the properties of the two main properties that I hunt. It's just it's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. We'll speaking of killing an ice buck. You just did that. I believe it was last night. It was a great dear you got and tell us a little bit about that hunt. Well. I was in kind of a pin north of a small creek and just south of a dyke levy bordering a bean field, and and it was kind of one of those almost perfectly wrong winds where it was gonna be difficult for dear to get down wind of me if they wanted to visit these scrapes, and kind of a staging area before they hit the beans. They've not been as much in the beans lately since the beans are starting to turn brown, but I still thought I might have a chance in this book. Was actually he actually got out into the beans um pair or off the side of me. I didn't see him get into the beans, but then he was walking down the androws about thirty yards away, which is a little far from my longboat, and just for grins, I thought, I've got nothing else better to do, and it was a little bit windy, so I hit him with a snort snort wheels with my mouth, and he immediately started scraping out in the bean field, and he looked back hard twice, and I hit him again when we started walking, and he trotted away out of my vision down the androws, and I thought the last the end of that now. He ended up coming back up over the dike into the little strip of woods I was in and tried to circle down window me and next time I saw him he was ten yards away, and that was down in us great Ordinarily, would you be trying to call a buck in this early or is it all that sign that you've seen in the woods that inspired you to snore weeze in that dear No. In fact, I don't even have my rattle bag or carrying my rattling homes or anything like that right now, because it's like you said, it's usually too early for me to even be thinking about that. I do see a lot of times, a lot of scrape activity starting to open up around October four to October tennis seems like for me most years, So this is really really early. And and yeah, I just I think I had nothing to lose, and by reason at this guy, and I was just kind of dumbfounded by how he responded. Last season, you had mentioned that a theme was kind of all the water. Um, not only that kind of delaying harvest and doing some other things, but also just changing the deer movement in general, and you had to kind of pattern them differently. Is that something you're still dealing with dealing with It's a different kind of water situation where it's actually been more consistently wet instead of the big, heavy, almost flood like waters. And so this year, um, we just the ground has been wet a lot, and I think that's been more conducive to scraping. I don't think it's had much of as an effect on the deer movement like it did last year. Um, it has kept the farmers out of the fields. I think they would already be well into the bean harvest right now, and there's there's they're cutting some beans and I've even heard of a cornfield coming out. But it's not I mean that the farmers are kind of handicap. Right, A lot of states across the Midwest are just opening for the first time here earlier this week or this coming week for those people who are just getting to stand for the first time. Uh, you know, explained to us price what your favorite setup is this time of year. I am still even though in the Braska starts September one, I would say between September one and oberfter so or October tans I'm not getting down into the woods very much at all. I'm hunting the edge or maybe some staging areas just outside the egg fields um, looking for easy entry, easy exit, trying to learn what's going on and and still give myself a chance without buggering up the inside of the woods too much. Going forward, Then, in the sixth 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 hope for it to still be a nine. And the reason I I'm saying I'm hoping it will be that way is we've got a really weird weather week looking wrapping up this coming or coming up this week. It's just I mean it's supposed be ninety tomorrow and then drop back down into the fifties and sixties and be wet six of the next seven days, and so it's it's just gonna be really unsettled, it looks like, but I think maybe a nine. Congrats on the great white tail Bryce, thanks for joining me, appreciate it. Thank you, Spencer alright and joining us on the line. Next is Tyler Kravitz in Pennsylvania from Flat Line White Tails now Tyler in Pennsylvania. What would you say the bucket activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten, um, I would say personally, as far as the activity for myself, I would say right around seven to eight. I mean, every time I've been out so far, I've definitely seen various bucks for sure. Um, So I would say it's definitely it's definitely pretty good this year so far. For most hunters this time of years, it can be an awkward transition of food sources. Is that something you're seeing right now in Pennsylvania that you're having a lot of natural brows available and losing some of those big egg fields. You know? Something for this year that I've noticed is uh, more than any years in past. Um A lot of the bucks that we're hunting, um I think are feeding in this corn field and working their way out of these corn field because there's a lack of aggs this year is in surrounding areas. So with that being said, hunting it trains istionary coming out. It's kind of perfect. I haven't seen a lot of them switching their summer patterns yet, so everything is kind of going how we wanted to as far as right now. How about it for some of those natural food sources, are you finding that this year has a solid acorn crop or not? I would say personally in our surrounding areas, UM, as far as the acorns go, this year, all of the oak stains I know of the red oaks, there's definitely a decent amount of red oaks, but not as many as years in the past. That the problem that we run into is we have hundreds and hundreds of acres of state ground around us that is all solid oak trees. So you know, in order to hunt these deer and be able to hone in in acorns, it's tough unless you can find a producing white oak, in which I do not know where any are this year that are producing that are white oaks. You mentioned maybe doing a morning set up focusing on that corn field. What would a morning set up look like for you trying to get one of these hit list bucks? Typically, what I'm gonna try to do when I when I get into this in the morning. Uh, you know, when these deer feeding in this corn yields a lot of times they're gonna leave your food source before daylight. So with that being said, what you want to do is you want to get into a transition area halfway between food to cover and a lot of this time. A lot of these times, what you can do is you can catch them in daylight coming back into the betting area without having to get into the bedding area. Disturbance and less need be. Are you seeing much for signmaking at this point? Actually? You know, lately I have started noticing a lot of scrapes and stuff like that. So they're definitely hitting a lot of scrapes around field edges and whatnot. Um as far as our cameras are showing us too, they're starting to hit scrapes as well. So I would say, yeah, I'm seeing a lot of sun. Are there any weather patterns coming up in these next few weeks that get you excited now that all of Pennsylvania is open for deer hunting. As far as for the next week's whether on my phone would it shown me it looks like it's actually gonna get warmer, So unfortunately, I feel as if that's not gonna be too good. But as far as tonight's looking, it looks like we're pretty good. We got some rain coming in stuff like that, so it should overcastye, as far as the evening hut goes, they should move a little bit earlier this evening. On that note, then what do you think that bucket activity is going to be in Pennsylvania on a scale of one to ten over this next week? I would say, if you're hunting unpressured white tails, you know where they're where, they're not getting a lot of the crowd of other people and whatnot. Um, it might not change a whole lot, but I would say at the tail end of this week, then gears are definitely gonna start switching. I would say to your activity this week would be right around the five as far as good movement. Al right, Tyler, good luck to you and the other guys a flat line white tails. Look forward to seeing what you come up with this fall. Thanks for joining me already. Thank you alright and joining me on the line. Next is Colton Clemens from Dream Chaser's Hunt in Kentucky. Now, Colton in Kentucky, what would you say the bucket activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten right now here? Lightly, it's probably been um anywhere between a six and a seven. Akrons are really really falling uh here lately. And the deer. We had a big cod front both both through last weekend and I had a lot of deer show up, a lot of daylight activity, and they were hitting acrons pretty hard here recently you mentioned the large amount of acorns. How does that compare two years past? This year has been quite a bit more than normal. We had a lot of rain early in the spring and I think that really really bumped them. And it's just been they were falling from the trees Saturday and Sunday it sounded like it was raining. You guys in Kentucky, you've been hunting for over a month now, so how have your setups changed from maybe mid September until now early October? UM meds early in September to mid September. We're pretty much sitting on food sources being filled. And in Kentucky it's legal debate, so a lot of people hunt over corn piles. Um as we get in Doctober, it's gonna change, probably gonna stay up on ridges, an oak ridges and scrapes Rob Linds. That's gonna get pretty hot here pretty soon. You just mentioned scrapes and Rob Lindes. Have you been seeing any signmaking in the woods yet, Um, a little bit, Uh, starting to, not a whole lot, but uh there within the next few weeks it should pick up. Well, you just killed the great buck here a few nights ago. Congrats with that. Tell us a little bit about that hunts a little bit about that setup. Um, we hunted, Well, it's on an oak flat. I hunted Saturday. The pressure was sky high. I think it was thirty point two four and I actually didn't see a deer Saturday afternoon at all. So I was pretty discouraged about that. With the spot I was sitting at because it's usually pretty good and uh, I didn't even know if I wanted to hunt Sunday, but I had a good wind, so we decided to go back in there. The pressure was a little lower Sunday. That was Saturday, and from five o'clock until I shot, the deer were absolutely just traveled up in deer every direction. There was deer everywhere, And so you are attributing that dear movement to the pressure change, I would think so, Um, yeah, I mean it was thirty points one five. I think Sunday it wasn't as high as it as Saturday. I think that had a little bit with it the weather. The temperatures were a little warmer actually Sunday. But um, for some reason, the deer everybody I talked to didn't see hardly anything Saturday, but Sunday they were just seeing a ton of deer. Now most places in the Midwest, the combines are getting started going. Will that change much for you guys in your part of Kentucky with that large acorn crop or once you see much of a difference. Mm hmm. Most the corn here is being harvested, are already harvested. The beans are still standing. They should be starting on them when the ground drives up. But I would say most people are going to be hitting re just because this year, because the icons are just crazy amount this year going forward. Then in the Sex week or so, what do you think that buck activity is going to be on a skill of one to Tanning, Kentucky going through this next week. I don't know the weather here. I don't know about anywhere else in Kentucky, but here and U between the southwest and south central. It's uh, it probably stayed the same because the weather really isn't gonna change much. It's still it's gonna be hot, actually, and the pressure is not gonna be they high. But it wouldn't hurt to be out in the woods. I mean, it's it's gonna get pretty good here soon. Congrats again on the great buck look forward to seeing what else you guys come up with the Dream Chasers hunt. Thanks for joining me Colton, I appreciate it all and joining me on the next is Gray drumming from Florida. Outdoor Experience in Florida. Now Gray in Florida. What would you say the bucket activity has been lately on a skiale of one to ten. Well, I think it started out as a nine, but within this last week in full moon it um, I think it's down to about a four. So we're anticipating it go back in the coming week, hopefully now in your part of Florida, you guys are in peak rut right now? Is that correct? We are we Um, we hit the rut about a week and a half ago. Um, the first part of this moon I think might have triggered it. But UM, and and we're seeing just a lot of chasing. UM. It's an exciting time to be out there. It's just ninety two degrees, so it's tough. And how was the timing of this year's rut played out versus other seasons? You know, I've seen it this time um in my past. UM, but it seems like it might be a week week and a half from what I have in my books on my calendar. But that's okay. UM. It's always nice when it's a little closer to UM, a little further in the fall, you know, with just comfort, um as far as the weather goes. But UM, hey, we'll take it when we can get it. And it's it's been active, so it's been exciting. You reference the full moon a little bit earlier. What are some moon phases that you're looking for this time of year when the rut is really going or do you think the moon doesn't quite matter as much? Well, one thing about it, We're gonna hunt regardless. You know, sometimes we find ourselves spending so much time on what moon phases it's going on and everything, and then and we tell ourselves, shoot, we're gonna go out there regardless what it is. So um, but I think just before the full moon is probably my favorite time. It seems like everything is really active and moving. Um, it's kind of um correlized with them with the start of our rut here this time of year or this this particular year, and um, that's generally my favorite time just before the full moon. Uh, but it's definitely been tricky this last week. I would say, I imagine one of the challenges you guys face every year is the precipitation. You guys have made quite a bit of water this year as well. Correct we have, we have we've dodged the hurricanes, but um, we've had quite a better rainfall record rainfall for us and the majority of the woods. We have a little ever ten thousand acres that we utilize here and I would say that's flooded. So it's been challenging. But um, you know, if you can target the high ridges, um, find some some oaks, um on the high ridges than you you know, that's that's what we're trying to target right now. Um, the morning is obviously a little more comfortable. It is getting down to around than the upper sixties at night, so it's not unbearable to hunt the mornings. Um. We're trying to my strategy when we have hunters and in the morning time, you don't obviously want to bust the deer off the the feed patterns, so we'll try to maybe set up some strategic ambush spots, you know them coming back from feeding. Um, going back to bed, I would say, other than this last week, it's been a very successful year for us the floor. Talking about those flooded properties, how did the deer respond once that water does recede. Are they moving back in there pretty quickly or is there a little bit of a leg period? Um? Were there not necessarily working that as soon as the water's gone well the way it is right now, that's a good question. Um. Most of the time when it does flood, the majority of our rains is hitting us in in August, first part of September, and you know it won't recede UM, I would say until about mid December. Um. Once that happens, the majority of our acons have either rotted or dried up, you know, and they're starting hit feed. You can't hunt over feed in Florida attractives they had obviously a deal, obviously spread out more. It makes it a bit more challenging, but it kind of corelides with the acorns and the in the natural fruit so to speak, drying up too. So we're able to just move from targeting the high ridges once it drives up into focusing on our attractments. Has this been a normal you for you guys as far as the acorn crap goes. Are you seeing an abundance there in Florida? We we seem to always have a pretty good acron crop, but I would say this year has been an abundance, and it's been early too for us. It's it's come in about three weeks early. I don't recall seeing the quantity of acrons on the ground as as I've seen this year, um, And that that has made it a bit challenging. How about with signmaking, you guys being in peak right, there are those scrapes and rubs still relevant and something that you're keying in on or not it's they're starting to phase out. I'm seeing a few of them still being hit, but I'm not seeing any of real I would say fresh new sign um. So it's starting to phase out, definitely. But in Florida, we have several different ruts, So this is the first one and it's one of the few states I've met, not the only, that they will run throughout the season. Um. So it's and you can find a rut in August, and you can also find a rut um similar to Alabama's and um late January going forward. Then in the sext week yourself, what do you think that bucke activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Florida. Well, I can't speak for all of Florida, but I know in our part of Florida, with it being in the rut, I anticipated to be an eight from what I'm seeing on camera. So if they can just shift their feed patterns into a little bit more daylight than then it will definitely be an eight or higher. All right, Grey, Well, thanks for joining me, and good luck to all your hunters at Florida Outdoor Experience. Thank you very much. Have a good one. And that concludes this week's episode of Wired Hunts wrote Radio. Thanks to Bryce, Tyler, Ray, and Colton for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. As always, follow Wired Haunt on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and follow me, Spencer new Hearth, and Rutfresh on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. Happy October to everybody, and stay wired to Haunt

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