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Wired To Hunt Podcast #240: Rut Radio 10/10/18

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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, and this is episode two and forty and today we're back with another episode of our rut radio mini series in which we're hearing from hunters all across the country about the dear behavior that's happening right now, the conditions, the activity that folks are seeing, and the tactics that are working right now. All right, welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx, and we are back here today for our weekly mini series that we like to call radio. And on this show every Wednesday, we tried to get you the most recent and up to date intel on what's happening in the white tailed world across the country. So I've got this friend. He's got a big beard and a low voice, and I sent him out each week to talk to people across the country in different states to hear what's happening. And that big beard, low voice friend is Spencer new Hearth. How are you, buddy? I am doing good. That's uh, the first time you've introduced me that way, but I like it. You know, I'd like to try to keep everyone on their toes. Um. So, so you did just that when I just mentioned you chat with some folks already this week. Maybe you've got a call or two still to do. Um So, I know we're gonna get some reports and mother folks, But do you have any kind of report yet? I don't have much of report. No. I have been hunting a little bit more now since we hit October. I hit it pretty hard at the beginning of September, take a little hiatus, and now I am back in his own and I'm I'm back in getting some tree stand time in, but not a whole lot of actions so far. Have been seeing some younger bucks, quite a few doughs, but nothing that gets me super excited. The biggest thing that I've done now is pretty much all of my cams have been taken off of what they were doing this summer, and they're all looking at scrapes, kind of like we discussed last week. Yeah, it's hard to beat that. That's that's what all my cameras are on. Two So, so, on a scale of one to ten, what would you say that deer movement has been so far in South Dakota Spencer, It's it's been salad. I think here lately, we've had some cooler weather, there's been quite a bit of precipitation, uh, and there's also kind of been a delay in harvest. So things overall have just been consistent and steady, and I tend to think that that helps, uh kind of pattern to your better. So if I was gonna say a scale one to ten, maybe like a seven or so, how about you in uh, Michigan, because you've gotten quite a few sits in here lately. Yeah. Yeah, And you know, it's been kind of an interesting week and that we've had very it's been like seesaw weather. We've had like really nice cold weather, cool and kind of rainy weather, and then the next day will be like eighty degrees, and then the next day it's like fifty five degrees and cool and nice again, and then two days later it's eighty five. So it's been back and forth, back and forth. Um. So I personally haven't seen a ton of activity. Um. I've spent a couple of nights just observing. Was out hunting last night and that was super slow. It was really warm, um. And there was also I think some people, um harvesting apples on a neighboring property or something like that. There's a whole bunch of commotion on a neighboring property. UM. So I would say the activity here has maybe been kind of five ISHU. It's gonna be kind of average. There's been some better days, there's been some not so good days. UM. But I do see a light at the end of the tunnel, and I know this is something that I'm sure you're going to talk about and the rest of our our guests that they're gonna be talking about. But there is this pretty significant, very significant I would say, cold front pushing across the country that's gonna hit me here in Michigan on Thursday. And I think that's gonna be pretty good. Are you seeing the same thing for you? Yeah? So this week on the podcast, we talked to Caleb Simon from Simon Brothers Outdoors in Ohio, that we have Tyler Jones and Texas from the Element podcast, and we talked to Brett Joy from Parallel forty three in New Hampshire. Then we go to Illinois and from bow hunting dot Com it's justin Tsar and all of those people touched on this just like you said, the approaching weather front that we're getting, and and much of the cold or much of the Midwest UH is experiencing cold front. And then like where I'm at in the Great Plains, UM, we're having some change in weather as well. Right now it's kind of cold and snowy and rainy, but that's gonna break as well this weekend, and so everybody is optimistic that they're going to be some good deer that hit the ground this weekend. Yeah, you know, it is mid October, so there's always a worry that that's gonna slow things down. But I think this is a really nicely timed front to UH to keep the action going. So I'm excited about it. I'm gonna hunt um Thursday when that front hits, and and hopefully Friday too, UM, and we'll go mitten that to my very best spots that I would hold off on until it rot, but I'll go to some better areas UM and see what we can do. So I am looking forward to it. Are you gonna be hunting the front too, I'll be hunting it. Yeah, And I think a good example of how optimistic people are is like Justin's are in Illinois. Um, he is someone who is very calculated when it comes to deer hunting pressure and when you hunt mornings and when you hunt betting and stuff like that. And he said he's gonna be doing some morning setups this weekend with the cold front, which for a lot of people, this is maybe a little bit early in the season, but that's, uh, you know, shows you how excited people are about this cold front coming through. And it lines up really nicely with like Friday Saturday, and people are getting out of work and uh, should get some time in the woods. Yeah. I agree. I'm probably not gonna hunt mornings myself yet, but I certainly would not fault someone for doing it because there are going to be some really nice cold temperatures here Friday morning, Saturday morning, UM for us here in Michigan. I think I saw it might not even get out of the forties for the whole day. So that's pretty darn good for October twelfth or whatever it's gonna be. So Mark Kenyon reporting a eight maybe for my one to tend scale. Looking forward over the next week, I think it is gonna be good. Um, I don't know. I every time I ask you about the one to ten scale or I say the one ten scale, it makes me kind of giggle. I'm not sure why, but I like stealing your line. Um, So, I guess that's that. Is there anything else that you want to touch on here at the beginning before we do get to those um those contributors, Uh, I don't think. So Let's touch base again next week and see if that eight was a correct call by you or not. Figures crossed. 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 drawn by Blake Farah, a land specialist out of Texas, and Blake is gonna be telling us about what a potential buyer should be looking for improperties in states like Texas and Oklahoma. You know, I think that it's probably pretty much the same answer no matter where you go, even if it's outside of Texas. You don't know, but the main three things I'm looking for in a peach of property, you know, to translate to you know, as big a white tail as you could possibly grow in the region, really is you gotta have good food, you gotta have good water, and you've gotta have good cover. And you know, the different regions of Texas offer a variety of those different type of categories. But at the end of the day, if you get a property that has a really good diversity of those three things and has a good balance of all three of those things, you're gonna have it just an outstanding hunting property. And it's gonna hunt differently depending on which region in Texas obviously that you're in. But at the end of the day, if it's got those three things, you absolutely can't go wrong. I'd say the one other key factor that I would also plug in there specifically related to Texas is the fact that you know the land is gonna hunt much larger in Texas, I would say than maybe other different parts of the nation. Um, you've got a lot larger pieces of property. The deer's you know, range, how far they're going to travel is probably a lot bigger, um, And so you know, these places aren't necessarily you might find a honey hole here and there, but at the end of the day, you're gonna have a lot bigger country to hunt, and and that translates to the size of the neighbors that you're hunting around you, how cooperative you are with them, that kind of thing. That's really going to translate to the good hunt ability of a property and overall age structure of the deer, which is probably the most important factor. If you'd like to learn more and to see the properties that Blake currently has listed for sale, visit white tail properties dot com. Backslash farah that's f A R R A R all right. And joining us on the line first is Caleb Simon from Simon Brothers Outdoors in Ohio. Now, Caleb in Ohio, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale one to ten? Right now, I'd say the buck activities it's not a four. Uh. You have beans that are still green, you've got offalfa, clover, food plot, chick or something of that nature. Uh, you're gonna have some some good hunts. There's been some guys killed some next year in the state and over that kind of stuff. But if you don't have that, you don't have any corns hunt, it's gonna be pretty rough. You guys have been experienced a little bit of a heat wave here lately, haven't you. Yeah, I'd say probably the hottest October it's ever been. And so you think that's really surprissed movement then as well? Uh, last light right at dusk. Uh, there's been a lot of guys see some deer. But during the day, especially early evening, it's still degrees. The other day it was almost ninety. Uh, the derectivities real down. You brought up food sources a little bit before. What's the crops satus like? In much of a hier right now? Right now files are taking off the beans, at least around here in the northeast Ohio, most of the beans are coming off. If someone put them in late. You know, there's some no till going on. Uh, those beans are still green. Like I touched on before, those beans are getting hit pretty hard. The corn right now is turning. No one's really started harvesting yet. There's been some styleage cutting, some chopping going on, but mostly corn fields are still standing. And how will that change things for you guys? Once more, those crops start to come out as soon as the corn comes off, which usually farmers will start taking off the end of October early November, which coincides with the run pretty well. Corn will no doubt be the hottest spot you can be on by that time. The braskets aren't quite ready. How your clover pots are all burned out from this heat, and that's where I would be. Beans will be off by then, Um, everything else will be already stand still for the time being. Though it sounds like you're focusing on acorns. How does this year's mass crop compared to other years in Ohio? The mass crops pretty good. I know a lot of guys. Uh, if they have acorns, which it's spotty around here. If you have them, you're a good situation. If you don't have them, you're in a world to hurt. But the acorns are dropping fruit trees most of them are doing pretty good. So if you have apples, uh, something of that nature, those are sort of real good year for that as well. What are you finding for signmaking to this point? Uh, there are some rubs popping up, nothing too big. A lot of it is on trails entering exiting food sources are trail cameras are showing that gear really are coming back to them, So they're not really signed post rubs yet. They're just kind of being made spur of the moment um. There are some scrapes popping up. I know a lot of guys in the suburbs are finding scrapes. They are a little more active than us out here in the farm territory. But the scrapes with cameras on them hit or miss um. Not a lot of scent marking going on, just deer checking them out. Maybe a buck makes them. Continues on mock scrapes. Han't to heat it up yet, just because of the weather. I would assume were you guys doing any calling this yearly in the season when it comes to grunt stories or any kind of rattiling, not not our group right now. Maybe just maybe if you have some gear out the field eating uh you know, last light touch situation, they're clicking their horns together, maybe you'll click the horns together a little bit. But no grunt calls, no bleeding, nothing of that nature going on yet. How about with moon phases as we enter mid October? And do you feel like that affects deer movement all in Ohio? Um? Some people swear by it, don't. Um. You know, I've read some recent studies where people are saying that the moon phases do not correlate at all, So the other guys that have bigger names will say that it does matter me personally. I don't pay too much attention to the moon. I pay more attention to pressures and either rising or falling temperatures. That's gonna be the key right now, I feel. And so when you talk about the rising and falling pressure, what are you looking for in mid October as far as getting those bucks on their feet, I want to see a fifteen degree temperature drop. Honestly, pressures over thirty maybe thirty point one, thirty point two. I want to see a big weather shift. It doesn't have to be drastic, it doesn't have to get terribly cold. You just want to see a change in the weather from really hot to mediocre, from mediocre to really cold, something of that nature. Maybe a storm front moving in that would really helped. This time of year, we've had a lot of rain, but it's been warm rain. So if there hasn't been a much much in the way of change as far as the weather goes, unfortunately going forward, then a sex week or so, what do you think that bucket ativity is going to be On a scale of one to ten in Ohio. Right now, I'd say the bucket activity is gonna go from a four later this week to a six, maybe seven. There's gonna be some guys they're gonna kill some year this weekend because we've got temperatures going from the eighties and nineties down to the fifties and sixties. Loads in the forties. They're talking about a possible frost's you can hit right on Friday when everyone's getting off work. So Pierre, Ohio, this weekend, I'd be in a treat stance i could, because it's gonna be as good it's spent all year. All right, Caleb, thanks for joining me, and good luck to you and your brothers this year. No problem, Thank you very much. Are in joining us on the line. Next is Tyler Jones from the Element podcast in Texas. Now, Tyler in Texas, what would you say the buck activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten. On a scale one to ten, about a week and a half ago it was really starting to ramp up, and I'd say probably, you know, five to six, um, but we've had a lot of humid and hot weather, low ninety degree temps and uh, that pretty much shuts them off, since most of them have got their winter coat on at this point. And uh, honestly, the last week it's been probably a one. It's been pretty rough. Now we're not a lot of the country. We've heard about a lot of the massive acorn crop that's hitting the ground. Is that something you're dealing with there in eastern Texas? Sure, Yeah, we deal with that every year. We've got bunch of swamp folks and willow except put off a little tiny orange akreins every year, you know, in a bunch in a bunch of them said something we were used to dealing with his heavy achren crop. Where we where we've actually seen probably a difference is our schuemarred oaks, which are a red oak that put off a big acorn um have been Last year was a banner year for them, and so this year is not nearly what it was. So it's definitely changed up our strategy this year in October, especially those bigger acorns that you just talked about. Is that something that you can plan on like clockwork, that if one year they're great, the next year they're not going to be very good. Um, well, I don't have a whole lot of historical background with those type of trees. Uh, maybe a couple of years. So it's hard to tell, um, but I do know that that second week or so in October where we're at kind of right now, um, was uh death. I mean they were keen and hard. I mean they're they're pretty close to the size of a wide oak acorn and uh, extremely preferential, I'd say after seeing what I saw last year, So I would think that, you know, going into this year, my plan was that in the first part of October I would definitely be hunting those trees, but they just didn't produce this year. I know you're in the heart of dairy country there. Um, what's it like or what are some of your strategies for hunting some of those active cattle farms. Yeah, we we have a lot of a lot of cattle. We don't have many corn or beans like a lot of the country has. So UM. You definitely, UM, when I were a bait state, so you have the opportunity to either have a feeder or throw corn out on the ground. Um, And so that's that's helpful. But if you've got cows around, you're gonna probably have more of a headache than anything dealing with corn. So uh, focusing on on acron trees is definitely something UM that can be done this time of year. Uh. And I would say, you know, your best option is if you're hunting an active farm too, uh, stay away from the cattle side of things and stay more in the hay production side of things. So if you can find those permissions that have that have no cows on them because they're in hay production, I tend to see more dear on those pieces of acreage you're far enof inland where those hurricanes but you don't touch you guys, but you'll still experience that heavy precipitation UM in mid October like this, If if you do get a bunch of brain, how do you see that change to your movement? Yeah? I mean, if if we get a hurricane UM in our area, it turns out to be a lot of rain. Usually because we're still pretty close to the coast, we get a lot of humidity, which in my opinion, like I said earlier, with the they're putting their winter coat on at this point, most of the dear habit on um. You know, the humidity really does shut them down. They don't like to sit there and and be hot and uh so, Um, after a rain, it's a lot like other places in the country. I'm sure where you're gonna get dear increased after a heavy rain because they've been kind of hold up all night and uh they're ready to get active again. Not to mention, uh, you know with a with a hurricane tends to come a lot of wind. Therefore, Um, you know our hackberry trees that we have a lot of, in our boat ark trees that we have a lot of, they're gonna they're gonna shed some leaves, and especially the boat arcs I've noticed it here, will really come out and try to hammer on those leaves and those limbs that have fallen, um that they couldn't reach before going forward. Then in the next week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on a scale of one to ten in Texas? Well, Uh, you know, looking at a week and a half ago, seeing the movement we had there with a good coal front, and then coming out of this week where we've seen hardly any movement even just locally driving the roads and stuff. Um, we've got a coal front coming in today and it's supposed to drop quite a bit. I think, Um, I would expect that we see similar movement as we saw in late September, especially coming out of this kind of low period that we've had. So I'm pretty excited. I would think, you know, on a scale of one to ten, I would have to rate that we're probably going to see a five or six uh in movement um and building it to the rut hopefully. Alright, Tyler, good luck to you and Casey from the Element podcast. Thanks for joining me. Hey, thanks man, so I appreciate a lot. Man alright and joining us on the line. Next is Brett Joy in New Hampshire. Now Brett in New Hampshire. What would you say the buck activity has been lately? On a skille of one to ten, I would say it's probably a five or six. Um. You aren't moving typically very far from the vest during daylight, but they were moving a bit. It's probably dependent mostly on cold fronts or for weather conditions. UM. So yeah, it's about a five or six let's say right now. I know in the past when I've talked to you that acorns have always been a subject that we've covered. What is the acorn crop like in New Hampshire this year. Actually this is a little bit different. It's actually a pretty poor mass crop all around, both soft and hard mass, so not many apples, acorns, beets, any of that. Um, So that's changes changes it a little bit. Um. If you can find acorns, you're gonna be in good shape, especially if that's tight to bed and cover. Um. But if they're if there're no acorns in the area, then um, early succession growth of brownsts play their fact and it has in the past at this time of year, and so does any hay fields and agriculture. We have very little agriculture. We do have some hay field um hayfield so um those are actually drawing to hear to a significant degree right now. So um, people are focusing on that. Those other things weren't finding those isolated pockets of acorns their masks are you know, getting into the view pretty get and having some pretty good success. So you're set ups a little bit different this season, and then are you focusing on those field edges a little more then with the lack of acorns. Yeah, absolutely, I haven't done a ton, just had a abusity, but I have been out a few times, and all my sets have gone on food plots or hay fields. Actually, Um, one of my buddies actually killed a really good buck I think a few nights back, and he was sitting in a transition between betting here in a swamp and hayfield and he had pictures of that buck coming into that hayfield it last light. Um, that was a great deal of really big deal from the answers. So yeah, that's that's kind of the end of the game right now. They're not moving far from betting still that that's not doesn't really change. It's just that they're having to move a little more and they're a little more concentrated on the food sources typically as acorns everywhere, so they don't really have to move very far betting his food and it's all the same and I'm just kind of having to stand up, walk to in Neard's eat and lay back down type of deals. So I'd say that the movement's more defined this year, um, and they're having to move a little bit further. They're still not doing a tundering daylight, but um, it's a little better than I would say normal it is. Are you seeing any signmaking in the woods. Yet as far as rubs of scrapes go, I'm starting to see a little, but really not that much. Um. I'm kind of gauging that by a couple of big primary scrapes that usually turn on at some point in October, and they really haven't at this point. Just seen a two smaller rubs pop up. Really no scraping activity, although I have got I got a couple of pictures the other night on a food plot of a couple of the bucks up after one of the big old one in particular, and another four or five year spanning. So um, I think that as you know, the October develops and as they start to get some cooler weather, it's going to stick pick that activity up in the next a couple of weeks. The lack of signmaking then and the lack of acorns that seems like it might change where you're putting your trail cameras right now. So what is your trail camera strategy as we get into mid October here? Yeah? Actually, the scrapes that I use around them and been pretty dead, um hopes as well for the most part. Um, So really right now I have most of money on food plots on field edges. Um. I have some one edges that cuts as well any transition line. Um, so it's a lit more of a challenge. But it seems like those city fields and most food plots are really feeding up. I think I had last week in particular, it was all after dark for the most part, but I had five different mature bucks on a little you know, eight of an acre clover plot in the middle of timber um. So that's pretty significant to have that concentration mature deer in one air. So really, those those other alternative food sources, if you will, really drawn deer. And at this point you've said a few times now that the bed to feed pattern is pretty tight for the time being. Does that mean you were a little ways off from where you would be hunting some mornings I actually for the most part, Yeah, So though I did hunt the morning, it was a few mornings ago because I had a real high pressure day with cold temps that was down in the series. And I actually had a buck I was after I had him moving, um in conditions like that early season in the past two years. So I went and I didn't see him, but um, you know, I was enough to know that historical patterns enough to push me into that area to go hunt them. But typically I'm not hunting mornings, so no, I would say that most of the time they're probably on their belly, um, you know, by shooting like. Of course there's exceptions to that, but yeah, in general I would see that little mornings unless you have some reading to other than you know the standard. So going forward in the next week or so, what do you think that bucket activity is going to be on a scale of one to tend in New Hampshire, I would say it's probably gonna be pretty close to the same. I think we're probably still a couple of weeks away, so we get that, you know, real strong prered activity of late October. Um, I still think it's gonna be food source in cold front dependence. So I think we're kind of in a stage where, yeah, it's gonna ramp a bit, i'd say scraping and rubbings. I don't think it's going to really get going crazy for maybe another two weeks, but we should see it slowly start to build as we get as October goes along. All Brett were good luck in the Northeast. Thanks for joining me. Thank you Spencer alright, and joining us on the line now is Justin's are from bow hunting dot com in Illinois. Now Justin in Illinois. What would you say the buck activities been lately? On a scale of one to ten, I'm gonna give it up four. Early in the season, we've had some warm weather here, We've had a lot of rain, wind. Um. I think overall it's kind of kept dear movement down a little bit. Um. It seems like the younger bucks are up and moving around in daylight. But you know, sightings as well as trail camera activity of the bigger deer is I don't want to say non existent, but pretty sporadic during during daylight hours. Anyways, Now, I know you run trail cameras pretty much all year. How does your trail camera strategy change once we hit early to mid October? Sure, Um, every not every camera, but the majority of my cameras right now are getting moved onto scrapes, um usually along food source edges. Um. So during the summer I like to keep them, you know, on green food for the most part. Um, So they're close to where they've been all summer long. But as those scrapes really start to open up, I like to move my cameras onto them. They seem to be the most consistent, UH source for trail camera data through throughout October. How about hunting on scrapes? Will you focus on those for setups or is it more just to get inventory of bucks with your trail camera. I think it depends on the scrape for me anyways. You know, I think there's a lot of scrapes that pop up, you know, on field edges and places, but the likely places A lot of times they get made and never touched again, so they're not always the best places to hunt. But if you you know, traditionally have some history, maybe on a piece of property, or you'll find a community scrape it's maybe tucked into some cover somewhere. Definitely key in on those scrapes, you know, specifically in mid October when we get some cooler weather there. You talked about food sources a little bit earlier. Um, what are deer keying in on right now? Big agriculture yet or has been a shift of the acorns right now? Yeah, I think they've been in the acorn for a while. We've had a great crop here in Illinois this year, so I think they've been hitting acorns probably since September, to be honest with you. Uh, and they're still falling. So definitely seeing a lot of sign around that. As far as you know, agg Field, I'm still seeing a lot of deer on green. A lot of our green food plots are doing really well, so like our clover chicker rail falfa type stuff are still getting just absolutely hammered right now. So that's where we've been focusing a lot of our attention now. A lot of the Midwest, I think you guys included, has gotten a lot of rainfall here in September and October. Um, how has that changed things for deer patterns for you guys or maybe affected food sources? Um? Well, I think more than anything, it's going to keep the crops in the fields a little bit longer. I know that the farmers are working hard through most of September trying to get the stuff out, and then we've after this real rain weather that's hit here lately, so it's definitely gonna delay things for a while. I think, you know, specifically, I'm mostly concerned about the corn right the beans is great because they can still hunt the beans when they're in. But when the corn's up, you know, it makes things a little bit more difficult. I don't know that it's necessarily going to change the way that I hunt per se um. I know, the deer and even with the acorns and the green that you are still hit the corn fields pretty art, at least on the properties that I hunt a lot of sign in the corn fields, which can be frustrating uh as a hunter, because it's uh they're difficult to hunt. But I also like when the corn is up because it does allow me some better access in and out of my spots because you can hide, you know, in those corn fields to get in and outwards. When that corn comes down, I've got a few areas that are more difficult to get into. So it's kind of a blessing an ochers both. I know you're very particular about pressuring deer, and so you're probably not hunting any mornings yet, But when will that shift happen for you? When you'll start hunting some mornings. Honestly, I'll probably hunt this coming weekend. We've got what I'm considering our first really good cold front of October coming through. We've had a few minor little dips in temperature, but nothing like what we're getting ready to see here this weekend. So I'll probably hunt both Saturday and Sunday morning. Um, I'm gonna get a little bit more aggressive than I usually do on probably one of my properties. Um, and if I blow something out, I blow it out. I guess I'll go hunt one of my other pieces. But I figured, with this good temperatures that are coming in good weather conditions, I'm gonna press my luck a little bit. You sound optimistic, So what do you think that buckettvity is going to be on a scale of one to tend in Illinois is coming week or so, I think we'll probably ramp up to a five or six at least. I mean, it's still early. I don't want to get my hopes too high. But with that first cold front, I mean good cold front. I mean we're talking temperatures today here in Illinois. It's eighty in the eighties. Uh, two days from now, we're going to be struggling to get out of the fifties with temperatures all down into the thirties at night, which we haven't seen yet. So I'm anticipating some some better buck movement Uh, it's not the rut yet. It's not even really the pre rut yet. We're kind of the pre pre rut, so you don't want to get your hopes up too much. But man, that first good cold snap of the year usually puts a few deer on their feet. Uh, and I got to imagine that we'll see some bucks going down here this weekend. Alright, Justin, good luck to you and everyone else at bow hunting dot com and bow Hunter Die. Thanks for joining me, no problem, Thanks be, And that concludes this week's episode of Wired to Haunt's Radio. Thanks to Caleb, Tyler, Brett and Justin for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. Make sure you're following Wired to Hunt on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, and follow me at Spencer New Hearth and at Rut Fresh on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. Good luck to everybody with this approaching cold front, and stay wired to Hunt.

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