Ep. 572: Rut Fresh Radio 9/14/2022 - Fall Is Here

I'm not sure why. But we've got Mark Kenyon, I've got Casey Smith, and we're all in three different places this week across the US. Mark, where are you at? Actually, well, I'm I'm still at home in Michigan, but leaving here shortly for Ido for my first white tail hunt of the year. So just hectically frantically packing and prepping and trying to make sure I forget as few of things as possible. I know there'll be something, but hopefully not

my bow or released at least about grizzly spray man. Yeah, I don't know what my spots that I'm hunting this year. Hopefully there should not be grizzlies. If plan A comes together, we will not need bear spray. If I have to fall down the plan C or D, then I'm in you know, all sorts of trouble, and bears will be not the only thing on the list. Do you do you forego like the tree stand snacks when you're in

grizzly country. No, I don't forego. I don't forego snacks, but I do forego nose jam because that's like just putting like a bakery at the base of your tree stand and asking for bears to come in. Non. Yeah, So does it really smell really good? Oh my gosh, have you not smell that was jammer? Is it like make you hungry the whole time? I swear it's a goodness.

It smells like a vanilla cookie or something. It's like it's just a really delightful cookie cake factory kind of smell, and it is strong, and no doubt about it, it bring a bear in in a hurt. Could you not do that with like a tide pod, you know what I mean? Not eat it, but uh put it in you know, the wash and just make your stuff smell really good and some noses. Yeah, I think that that would be a great idea in certain parts of the country. Maybe not, maybe not some of these spots. Yeah, well

that's good man. I I'm glad to know you're a very careful guy in grizzly country. Actually have a guy goes to my church that has ah. He lived in Alaska for some time, and I was talking to him yesterday about things and a greater Yellowstone trip and uh we um he he was like kind of a little bit making fun of our um, you know, strategies there with how careful we were. He's like, I guess we just get used to him. It's probably better safe than sorry,

you know. So he's like, I'm gonna let you borrow a gun next time, though, because nine millimeter is not enough. So I don't know until you've tested it on a grizzly Can you really say that though? Yeah, that's true. It's it's all just hypothetical, hoping and wishing until the that's the real stuff. It's yeah, yeah, for real. So, Ksey, you are down south or southwest out in Arizona. Are you still in Arizona right now? I'm still in Arizona. Yeah.

Flag Staff is where we stayed to night if we left the mountains, And uh, it's a it's pretty place here, man. I very much enjoy getting to hunt ill Can not Ingriasly country, so I not do that as much as I can. Mark Casey used to say that black bear is just an oversized cannon man, So I agree with that. You just kick him in the nose and not go on. Yeah, that they're pretty darn harmless once you uh spend a

little time around it. But I think I was telling you Tyler the other day that growing up in Michigan, black bears were kind of uh exotic, I guess. And so when we would go up north and black bears started showing the back up around like our deer camp and stuff, my family was like very on edge about it, Like if you were going to go to the bathroom like fifty yards away from the cabin or something, they'd

make sure you bring your gun. And now I looked back on that and think it's hilarious because we were so on edge about black beards. But yeah, now they're just they're just big raccoons, and uh, we're like a black like a black lab almost in my eyes in many cases, so they're uh, they're much less intimidating than their cousins. L West the first time I ever went, or not the first time, I probably the third time only l cutting. My dad would pull me out of school when I was a kid and we'd go and

it was pretty awesome. But um, that's probably ten and I was pretty prete got about bears kind of like that, just because you know, Texan, I ain't never seen a bear, you know. And so somehow another I end up at camp midday by myself. I think they want to go get water or something, and I heard something outside the camp outside of the tent, and dude, I was freaking out.

And finally, like after a fifteen minutes, I had the courage to stick my head out the window and it was just a trash bag who's flopping in the breeze. Some serious tricks that can. Man, it's cool being here though, and like there's a lot of the you know, the oaks. I don't think Monterey oaks. I don't really know what it is that there are these you know, mountain wide oaks over here. But um, you'd be walking around and

you'll see like trees with busted branches and stuff. You know, you can tell like a black bear probably fell out that tree trying to get oh man, I was just gonna say, Um, speaking of being out there hunting elk, there's been some elk hunting success within the Wired hunt family this past week. Because I think you got an update Casey and Tony Peterson killed bull last week too. I don't think that's been shared on here yet, so hopefully Tony will share that story with us one of

these days. Um, but that was pretty sweet. He killed a bull in Colorado, So that's one one bit of good news Casey, You've got more. Yeah. So I actually shot a cow yesterday, which was pretty awesome. First cow I shot. I shot a few bulls, but I, um, just where are the wise out there? Um? When you go to do tag applications in certain states, pay attention to what you're doing. Don't do it hastily, don't do

it on a phone. Uh So, A long story short, I ended up with a cow tag cow only tag in Arizona, and for about three or four hours I was real sad, and then after that I got hot and by the time we got here, I was stoked about it. And it was actually pretty cool because it was a challenging hunt because I had to hunt differently than I ever have. I'm a pretty aggressive bugler, just chase them down, tope guy when it comes to elk hunting,

And um, that doesn't work too good with cows. So I had to work on my stalking, had to work on a lot more strategy as opposed to just like going in there and blowing them up kind of thing, you know. And uh, it was fun and UH got to Uh it was the third day of season, but the second full day of hunting that we had, and uh, I was blessed to shoot a cow about three cords of mile from the road, all downhill, pack out and

had uh four guys including me. We didn't even have to go back in, just grabbed all the meat, fluttered up on packs and hit the road man. So we've got coolers full of delicious elk meat ready to start the season. You couldn't write it up much better than that, I know, dude, I'm telling you, like, uh, it was

pretty sick. I we actually called these cows in with cow calls and uh, I'll try to not make this too long, but this ow came in and gave me like a thirty yard frontal and I was looking at her and I was like, you know, not like that ain't as big as a bull. I don't know about taking a thirty yard frontal woman's cow right here. So I decided elected to pass because there was more elpra behind your kind of pushing her was like, well, she's gonna keep moving. So she uh goes to a ninety

to the left and I draw. When she goes behind a tree, she still freaks out. It's super quiet. I guess she heard me moving her. Maybe the other cow saw me or something. I don't know. But then she like did a half moon out to an unknown range and I was like, m perfect quarter away. Stopped her with a cow call, and I knew about how far she was. I knew she was somewhere around forty. So I put my thirty at a twenty and thirty pin and I put my thirty at her spine and let

it fly in. I couldn't have put a dot on the cow better as to where I hit her, and uh like Sidney five yard track job, and she piled up. It was. It was awesome, man. I just it's so great because I've had some blood trails not go super great. You know, if you hunt enough, that's gonna happen right in this past summer shot a hog that would just absolutely smoke city, and I was experimenting with some broadhead stuff.

I was using a smaller single bevel um just because I feel like if we talk about things, I should use them as opposed to just make inferences and trash things that when I you know, I have never put it to use, you know what I mean? So and uh, that didn't work out well. I had pretty pretty good blood trail and lost the pig. So ever since then, if the blood, you know, if I don't see the

animal fall, I'm pretty nervous. And uh had some guys with me who are kind of uplifting and saying, oh, it's gonna be good man, everything's fine, And sure enough it was great. That's that's terrific. Correct, Thanks man. I'll save you some steaks from whenever you come down and hunting. Laughs. We cast some milkstakes. I like that. I do, hate does, but he does. And last night at like twelve thirty,

I am, which for us at home, it's two thirty. Uh, Arizona's weird time zones, so like we're two hours behind Central. We're like on you know, Pacific time. Right now or whatever. So we uh, we've been very pacific. Yeah, very very pacific. Whenever we talk about our times around here, the horrible joke. Okay, let's give back to some serious talk. Mark, Uh what is me lasting? So? Uh? Mark? The forecast for Idaho is it? Have you pumped or you just kind of

like ho hum about it? Yeah? Man, it's it's good. Um. We we are thankful that we change the dates from what we usually do because in the past past couple of years we've been hunting up there, Me and Hilliard have been going and hunting that first week of the season, and this year, that first week out there was like ninety nine hundred degrees hundred one degrees, like screaming hot. Um.

But that weather changed over the last few days. Cold front has moved through and it looks like there's gonna be some some rain actually hitting while we're traveling out there, and then right when we get there that day, the rain is gonna be kind of petering out and then stopping. And so it's kind of a at least if I could write it up, that's about as good of a

situation as I could ask for. The cold front comes through a bunch of rain, and then it's raining like the day you get there, so I can do a little scouting, or I can slip into where I want to hunt silently and perfect that first day and then it stops. And I think any time you get that first day or two after a several day rain event, they just seem to really really get after as far as movement. So so I'm feeling good. I'm feeling great.

It's gonna be the highest are only going to be in the lowest sixties, um, and then the mornings are gonna be down to the like thirties and forties. So I think it's gonna be it's gonna feel a fall, you know all, and uh, we're we're pretty stoked about it. I don't know, you know, there's a bunch of moving parts as far as um, you know, how the hunting is going to be. Outside of that, there's there's been some other new details come to light from some folks. I've no down there as far as far as some

weird things going on. There was like some new hunting pressure that I heard from another person. And there is a house I guess that was built right on the edge of some of the public land that we've been hunting. Uh, that I guess is right where the deer usually going feed. And now there's gonna be a house there. So you know, I don't know if our plan a is gonna work out there, um, but weather will be good and we'll be you know, staying on our toes and get that

grizzly spray out frisky with that. That's right, man, they were gonna be hungry for Michigan. But I'm still feeling good. I'm still gonna say, like my my, uh my predictions for the upcoming week in the Western United States. I think should be pretty decent with that weather. We've hunted. The opener and some of those you know early so September one top openers quite a bit, and it's just

like a popular thing to do. But I'm always cute used because it's like people just don't watch it on for the next three weeks and all of a sudden, everybody's pumped about October, right uh. And I've always kind of thought that maybe there's like a really nice little cushion right in there where the lids are kind of empty.

There's some seasons that are open more acrons are falling depending on where you're at, you know, like do you feel like it's actually just advantageous to be hunting mid September as opposed to trying to hunt opener and you know outside of weather conditions. Well, you know that that's exactly why we're doing this. That's that's the exact theory that we're testing. So we've had problems the last couple

of years. Was like tons of guys, lots and lots and lots of people out there that first week, um, and we decide, you know what, let's just you know, let's just see if later in the month, if that pressure goes down, because you know, the opening day excitements faded off and people that were traveling from out of town or off doing other things. They're chasing elk or something.

So we're hoping that these deer will be um, not quite as boogered up as they wore those first couple of times, and and we'll find out, you know, maybe maybe that will there will still be this like residual pressure that's impacting the deer and you know, there's still gonna be way back deep in the cover and not moving in daylight. And maybe we'll just be bummed out because we didn't get that first night of good hunting

like you get on opening day. Or maybe we'll get there and these deer kind of comfortable again and it's cooler, and there's not nineteen other Yahoo's driving around, Um, so I don't know the other in there, so you're meitting to being in Yahoo yourself and then you're all self. Oh and you know, I think the cold weather is is definitely going to be a key factor that helps you guys have a good hunt if you do which I think you guys it looks like are setting up

to do that. Um, we've seen within our guests this week. Um, and you guys will see that there are there's definitely a motif of cold weather and good success and those play out A lot of them are A couple of these are kind of Western type states too, So if that helps you kind of hype Mark, We've got Ron Stoddard in Nebraska. We've got Parker McDonald who was actually in Kentucky and slopped a couple of those, if you

can imagine that. Uh yeah. Eric Alba's from Milk River Outfitters up in Montana, which is pretty close there to Idaho, uh, and then Brandon Nating from the breaking point UH there in North Dakota. All of them saw really really good movement with colder weather patterns or cold fronts in the first couple of weeks here and in September. So hopefully that plays out in the second their third week here coming up for you guys, and UH, I'll be checking

in with you and Mr Hilliard as we go. Man, I'm excited to listen to these because it'll be it sounds like very relevant intel for us as we kick out our hunt. And uh, and I gotta say, even here in Michigan, we we had a front hit over the last couple of days and it just blew up the movement to you know, just just so you would expect it to. UM, cameras lit on fire the field that I can see from my house and from driving around, lots and lots of deer out feeding as soon as

the rain passed through. UM. One of the bucks, like the Number one buck. I'm really hoping to get a crack at Michigan. He was daylight the last two days on a camera of mine. So they're they're out and about and UM, you know, I was gonna say hunting season on open, but we actually just had a youth season open the last the last two days, and and

I was seeing a whole lot of successful hunters. So I think, um, if your season is open just about anywhere, if you've got that system coming through or has just passed through, it's uh, it's good news absolutely all right now on the phone, we've got Brannan nating from the breaking point. You guys have been breaking some records out in North Dakota right now. You guys are tearing it up, man, what's going on. We've had an exceptional start to the season.

Were kicked it off up in North Dakota. Of the season opened last Friday there, Labor Day weekend, and we were blessed with great weather for for opening weekend. Um, some stantial cold front Kempter dropped when switched out of the northwest, and we just we had great deer movements and we had a lot of guys in camp and and just took advantage of the the cold front. And we're blessed the Knox and deer down sure thing. Man.

So when you talk about a cold front um and a great cod front, that is what what kind of tempts are we looking at, like what is the change in temperature from what it was to what it ended up being. Yeah, So the week prior to season up in North Dakota, UH, temperatures were pretty steady in the mid to upper eighties. UM, nighttime mos in the mid sixties and UH opening day and actually the first three days of the season, I don't think the highs even

hits seventies. So we were talking daytime highs were you know, probably fifteen fifteen twenty degrees cooler and over time or overnight lows were you know, from sixty five down into the forty so you know, twenty degree temperature drop. Um, and it was it was huge the deal or the deer we're loving it. Yeah, So is that when you say the deer were loving it or do you mean like the bucks were coming out in daylight or they were coming out earlier, or they were just moving more

period or what do you think? So, Yeah, we run a lot of all cameras up there to monitor deer movement. And that week prior to season, when the temperatures were in the eighties, like I mentioned, um, it was it

was a lot of last light movement. The deer. They obviously still move and feed and do all that stuff, but you know they didn't tend to do it a little bit later when it's that warm out and when those temperatures dropped, we were seeing similar movement you know, an hour or even after almost two hours before uh dark, and uh it just makes it a lot easier obviously

in morning. Um, we do not out there. This is uh, this is my eleventh season hunting up in North Dakota, and I think we've probably hunted mornings less than a handful of times, simply because just how the land lays out out there. Uh, it's flat and the deer can see forever, and if they're out in the fields, it's near impossible to get in on them and get into a tree. So we we just sad not to hunt mornings. I feel like it gives us better success rates in

the afternoons. So yeah, we we sleep in and hunt the afternoon going early season. Yeah do you so do you feel like that? Um you kind of have a handle on where the deer betting or like, do you ever I guess do you ever get um, does it ever get weird to you when a good cold front

comes in? Do you ever feel like when you're going in in the evening you might uh walk in somewhere that the buck is up on his feet at the time you're walking in, or do they are they pretty much shut down and bedded until the last couple of hours of daylight. I wouldn't say that. I feel like deer get up throughout the day, you know, four or five times and just kind of feed close by to

where they're betting. Um. Most of the country that we're hunt in North Dakota's cattail country, So these deer are living in the slews um by the cover of the cat tails, and I mean, it's it's insane. I don't know if you've ever been into the cattail marches in North Dakota, but piece these cat tails are twelve the fifteen feet tall, Like it's it's a jungle in there, and uh, those deer just absolutely disappear in there. And it's it's no question why they live in there and

feel safe in there. Nothing can get to them. Uh So I'm not necessarily worried about, you know, walking in. Obviously, when a cold front hits, we like to be in the tree, you know, maybe an hour or two earlier than we would if a cold front head and it um you know, if it's warmer, whether we won't get in the tree until, you know, two hours before sunset. If a cold front HiT's, we might you know, get in there an hour or two earlier than that, just

because we're expecting and hoping for early movements. So I'm assuming they're just betting in those cattail marshes, And so are you, like, are you hunting betting? What do you consider it that you're hunting betting or that you're hunting those deer as they're moving out to agg fields. We so in the part of North Dakota that we hunt, it is legal to feet deer, So we are when we're looking at an area, we are trying to find bedding and we're trying to find a good food source.

Early season, typically we're looking for soybeans, alfalfa, or sunflowers. Um corns get too, but corn typically doesn't seem to be as effective until the countar gets closer to October. Um the early season, we're kind of targeting beans, alfalfa, and sunflowers, and we we dump food in between. You know, where we're expecting deer to bed in slews and head out to these datallite fields, you know, these big food sources,

and we're trying to intercept them. We're trying to get them to come past us before they head out, you know, to the main food source. Sure, that's cool, man, that's a I'm from Texas, so that that is not an abnormal or an alien thing to me at all, to feed dear. I know there's a lot of people I know, even Mark you know, is from Michigan, and it's it's weird, I'm sure for him and many other people that listen.

But it's a good on you man that you're you're very transparent and admit that, because that is something that sometimes people I like to rage about that never have any experience in that. So it's not as easy as one might think to kill a deer, even though you've got food on the ground that you've put. No, Absolutely, there's a lot there's a lot more to it than

just you know, dumping food on the ground. It's a lot of it is is location, you know, putting those in the right spots where you got you know, where a mature deer is gonna feel safe coming there in the daylight, and you know, just putting it between you know, it's it's pretty methodical, you know when you come down and think about it, trying to get it close enough to his bed, but far enough you know from the food. So so he's got to get up and move and

you know, show himself in the daylight. It's really no different than you know, somebody putting in a water hole. It's the same draw. I mean, they got water everywhere they look out in North Dakota, and you know in these in these lose so I mean it's no different than somebody in Iowa or Kansas or Ohio or something, you know, installing a water hole, and they're probably that's essentially what we're doing. We're just putting something to make those deer swing past us in wide open country on

their way to opig food sures. That's right, man. I'm not like necessarily a big ted Nugent fan, but I heard him say one time. So you're telling me I can't take the corn from this field and put it over here to kill a deer. That is like legally within my means and uh, you know bag limits. So

it is a good point, man. It's like you know what we were created as a supreme being here and uh we we get, uh, we get as long as we stay within the bag limits, you know, then that's that's what the bag limits are created for, is to keep us from over harvesting. So anyway, cool deal. Uh, I appreciate you you're admitting that and and not admitting that, but talking about it because it's something that doesn't get talked about enough. Now you talked about how uh the

cold fronts bringing in a northwest wind? Is that important too? Is that just something to say? Is that explains that is the cold front for you? Or are you saying that you guys prepare for cold fronts and that you try to be in areas where co fronts are therefore your stand locations and that kind of thing are picked

out due to those northwest winds. Yeah. So when we're scouting and uh kind of picking out standing locations and whatnot and where we're running our cameras, we try to uh we try to have you know, pretty much options for every wind direction, um, whether it's north or southeast or west. And predominantly when those cold fronts hit the

first day or two is usually a northwest. UM. So most of our spots um we try to set up for a northwest, but on the other side of that usually and it was perfect example is opening weekend we had. So the season opened on Friday, and we had northwest Friday night, Saturday night, and then Sunday night the wind switched to the south. And I'm kind of a Mark dury nerd and that guy is insane, And I listened to a lot of stuff. You know that he puts out in the knowledge that he shares is just through

the roof. If you're not paying attention to him, you're missing out. But he says, you know, those northwest winds are great, he goes, but the first south wind after a few days in north winds is just as good. And on day three of the the season, sure enough, that wind switched to south where we had spots that we've been sitting on the first two days because we couldn't

get in them on the northwest. Went in there on the south and and kill one of the biggest day that we shot all week up there on that first

south wind. And I've noticed that a wind switch after you know, a few days of you know, if it's a north wind for three days and then a south or if it's a south wind for a whole week and then it switches to north like it's it seems when that that wind does a three switch, that's when those deer off because you know, they just where they're betting and where they're feeding, like everything's new to them for that day there, you know, trying to figure stuff

out a little bit earlier what it is. Well, it seems like when that win degree switch, it just gets those deer on their freeze. Yeah, yeah, man, I agree. That's uh, you know, I think it's it's a changing condition thing. You know, anytime you can see some sort of a changing condition, there's a chance that something changes in that that deer's life for in his daily habits.

You know, it's kind of like, uh, you know, you may working nine to five and you go to work every day for six weeks or six months or whatever, and then uh, you're like, oh, now it's time for me to go to vacation and things are different, and like you just have more excitement and you're and you're ready to go and you're packing. You're doing different things

in your life. And I think it's similar to a deer where it's like, you know, you get a bunch of days of South's and fairly warm weather, and all of a sudden, the north comes in. More than anything, it's just a change, you know what I mean. I mean, I'm sure the cold weather and everything helps too, but you know, it's like it's just something that that makes things different in his world. So, um, dude, I appreciate

you hopping on. Now, as far as the deer movement goes in the last week for North Dakota, what do you rate that as on scale of one to ten? Opening weekend? The first three days I would have rated it, I mean, damn near a nine. I mean it was it was good. It could have been better, but it was. It was damn good. And then after the first three days it dropped. It was we we stuck it out. We had, you know, the guys that tagged out. We had three guys taging out the first three days that

first weekend of the season. I would damn near rated a nine. It was about as much as you could ask for for early season. Um. You know, getting that cold front and the wind switches were just ideal. So that was the nine. And then after that, I would it dropped significantly. Um. Most of the guys tagged out and headed out for work, but being Aaron continued to hunt. But the temperatures climbed back into the eighties and deer, the deer movement just dropped back off again, and we

we grinded for the next four days. I think it was four or five days, and then we finally got another cold front and Aaron ended up killing on the second cold front. Um, so it went from a nine down to probably a three or four and right back up to you know, in that eighth to nine range when another cool front came through. So very weather depending, it seems like, um okay, so going forward here, um

and the next week. I don't know if you've looked at weather or anything like that, but assuming that weather is very important, how do you rank from a scale of one to ten, the deer movement and what you

assume it will be in the next week. Well, I'm kind of I'm sitting on hold right now, kind of piste off, to be honest, because Aaron, the guy that runs around in films with me all fall um, he got some in the jury duty back home in Wisconsin, and so we had to come back to Wisconsin last night and he was supposed to have jury duty this morning. While he found out late last night that the jury duty was resolved, the case was closed. So now we're stuck and there is another cold front hitting in North

Dakota tomorrow and we're gonna miss it. Um, but we're gonna we got we got some other plans this week. We kind of gotta make a big loop um and get a bunch of cameras out in a few other states to get ready for later in the fall. But if you're in North Dakota, uh, tomorrow to yeah, Tuesday is gonna be a good day. And then it looks like another cold front is gonna hit um Friday. UM, not as big as cold front, but I think it's

gonna be a good one. And I know a lot of a lot of states are coming into season here. I know Kansas um early muzzloader, and I believe archery just came in today, and I know Wisconsin opens uh this weekend. Uh. It looks like so the weekend back in like the Midwest is gonna be on a little bit on the warmer side. But I'm noticing in the long term forecast around like there's gonna be a really good drop coming, So that second week this season might might be pretty good. You might want to burn a

day of vacation. It's awesome, dude. Let me tell you this. In Texas, it's pretty much always hot this time of year, So I mean, anywhere is better than here this time of year usually. But to be honest, we did have a we had my my kids had dropped off of school this morning and they were like, it's freezing outside. It was sixty one this morning and they were freezing cold. So uh, I guess you could call that a cold front. Man.

We'll take it, you know, or whatever it. Man, Brennan, I appreciate you hopping on and doing this, man, And and you guys had m a killer year so far. Um, you know, I hope the best for you going forward. What's the what's the best way for somebody to connect?

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And then you're actually doing a live series this fall where during the rut for six weeks, once a week we're gonna have live units in the field and uh, every Saturday, we're gonna do a broadcast where we've got three or four live units in the field across the Midwest and actually have live streaming hunting action from the tree. That's awesome, man, Well, busy, busy. I appreciate what you

guys do and how hard you guys work at it. Man, you guys put on a great, great show, and uh, hopefully we'll talk to you again soon this year with some more big Buck news downs. Good Man, I appreciate you reaching out to me. All right on the phone right now, I've got Eric Albas He's from Milk River Outfitters up in Montana. Man, you guys have a pretty uh I guess you could say famous outfit up There's been a lot of TV show hosts and that kind of thing that have been in and out over the years,

and that's kind of how I knew about you guys. Um, Eric, how's everything going? First of all, Man, Hey, everything's going great. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Sure, no big deal, man, thanks for coming on. Um. I wanted to talk a little bit about white tails. I think this is something you guys are uh know a lot about. You get to you get to see a lot of white tails up there in that country from what I understand, and um, I just kind of wanted to see this

time of year what you guys are focusing on. It looks like to me that you're looking at al fal fa fields and stuff like that a lot. But is there any other is are there any of their pieces of the puzzle that you're thinking about this time of year when you go out to hunt white tails? Yeah, there are a few, you know, we we were very fortunate and blessed to live in a place where the white tail deer actually moved from. We can watch moving

from the first of September into November. We see deer and watch deer watch bucks every day, and we're one of the few places in the country that you can actually see buck movement in that mid the late September to early October time. We still seabucks moving today that edward mainly concentrating on feet patterns. Uh. Alfalfa is great. If you have to get lucky and have a barley field nearby, they're hitting barley green as well, and it just it makes it for a fairly easy hunt because

the deer paturnable and predictable enough. Sometimes the big deer are a little more sporadic in their movements. They'll be they'll be moving field field at times, just checking things out, getting ready for the rut to start, even this early really, so they're kind of as soon as the velvet comes off there thinking about it. Huh, they're starting to think

about it. We see someone the bigger deer as soon as the velvet comes off, we'll go no nocturnal for several days and then they'll show up on a different field, maybe a half mile away, and then to send a work on a rotation, the two to three day rotations. So as far as like in a if you're thinking, I'm going to go out for an evening to hunt white tails and there's been a buck coming in the last two nights here, would you expect that that buck would show up if he did early in the in

the in the evening, or typically later. Because for me, growing up at least, I always think of the big buck coming out at last light or whatever. But is that the case with you? With where you're at there, here's a little different, you know, you can I try to get everybody on stand by two o'clock in the afternoon because you just you never know. We've had we've had big deer show up here this week, even out

of the blue. I mean like at three thirty four o'clock, come out and feel, eat a little bit, go back and then come out again closer to dark and eat it more more time. M hmm. Do you ever see like just straight up midday movement, uh to come out and eat um this time of year. I've seen the deer this time year, even just laid down in the alpha alpha fields because our deer don't get pressured ray and that makes them really difficult willing to go back

into the brush bay down. Yeah, oh yeah. Patterns are are part of what makes it easier. I love going in in the evenings normally because for me, especially if I'm hunting public or something like that, I I don't see, you know, any deer. If I walking in the field, I know, I'm pretty good until I get you know, set up usually because this dear gonna hang back and

so I I totally understand what you're saying there. Um, now, as far as uh, as far as like your weather patterns lately, have you have you guys experienced any drought, any cooler temps, any hotter temps. What's it been like there? We've been We've been in another severe drought up here in northeast. Wantta, I'm the groundshoppers, correct, they say. Um, the first week of season, we experienced some temperatures in the hunters and triple digits. Um. Now it's cooled off

a little bit for us. Um we're looking at the daytime the last days and mid the upper seven these lower eighties and now Monday we're gonna be nineties again. But the guys have still been seeing good deer movement and and sporadically seeing those good bucks show up. Mm hmmmm. Okay. So as far as have you guys had any any success on what til this year so far? Yeah, we've we've taken we've taken a couple and we've had a

couple of misses. And we've had a couple of deer that had blood drawn on him that it wasn't fatal. So the guys were still hunting. So we still got three or four hunters out here for the next couple of it, and everything seems to be going well. They're seeing enough buck when to keep everybody happy. Sure, sure, Okay, So as far as deer movement goes the last week, what would you rank it on a scale of one to ten, I'd puttered about a six or seven. Okay.

I've had guys seeing you know, anywhere from six deer to night. M hm wow, man, that's awesome. So going forward, is there a way to beat sixty to a hundred deer a night or is it gonna be about the same next week it's gonna be It's gonna stay pretty consistent. Even through this full moon. They were seeing good numbers of a mature box and uh, those bonds. It was just the mature box that we're a little more sporadic.

You know. They'd see one, see one of the good ones to night, and then they'd be two nights later before they see him again. Hm. Well, awesome man, Eric. I appreciate you a lot coming on the show and doing this with us. Um, give me a quick plug. Where where's the best place to find out what you guys are doing? The best place to track us out is www dot Melk River Outfitters dot com. Awesome man, Well, I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. All right, Thank you and have a good day. M Now on

the phone. Parker McDonald from Southern Ground Hunting. Some of you guys are probably pretty familiar with him. He is a doe slocking full dude. What's been going on? Man? That's right, dude, those are not safe around you. I will say that for sure. No man, especially early season, well I mean early season, middle season, in late season. I could all come up with a good excuse. Yeah, oh, but early season. I just like to me, there's like

not a better practice on a light target. Yeah, dude, I mean the only time they're safe is out of season, right mostly, Yeah, depending on what what vehicle you're driving and how distracted you are, right yeah, I mean I've been known to swerve to try to hit them. Dude. That's the thing like down here, and uh, you're from You're actually from Texas, right, You're from the my hood, right yeah? So, um, the like down in the hill country, man,

there's so many deer and they're little. They're like tiny little deer, you know, and uh, everybody down there has like a ranch hand, which if people don't know what that is, it's like a girl guard, big, you know, heavy duty one because like it's not like it's not at all like when like if you'll hit a deer. It's when you'll hit a deer and they just the grand they're like they're the ranch hands. Don't even get

bent because it's deer so small. You know. It's but just reminded me of that you're you're kind of one of those boys, you know, Like some of them guys down there, i'd say probably high school to college age. Uh, they kind of use that ranch hand as an excuse to swerve to hit a deer, like you said. So, Uh, dude, you've been in Kentucky for like a week straight, right, Yeah, yeah, we were here. I'm actually driving home right now, back to Alabama. Are you sad? What's that? Are you sad

to be driving home? Oh? Man, I've actually I'm really excited to be going home. It was a it was a fun week. Uh it was you know, the weather was good. Usually I just get my butt beat down the whole time. It's hot as mosquitoes and ticks and poison ivy and I just my my motto for this week was hunt dumb, because it always seems like that's the guys who kills buck kill bucks. Yeah, man, and see what you're saying about me? Yeah, no, Um, definitely not.

I've been out here. I've been hunting this early season UM opener in Kentucky several years. And I I mean I I you know, like a lot of people that probably listen to this podcast, and and like you are, Tyler, you and Casey. I'm very analytical about how I set up and going in by water and doing all this stuff. And then you come back to camp and the guys who have ducks are the guys that said, yeah, we just went in and set over beans next to the

parking area. I'm telling you, dude, that's the truth. And so I thought. My dad came this time and and I told him. I was like, we're just gonna hunt dumb. We're gonna have fun. We're gonna hunt dumb and just enjoy it. And and so that's what we did. I'm going home actually feeling kind of like kind of refreshed, you know, not up, which is good. That's a good way to start to see it. Yeah, for sure, man, that's you know, that's a good actually a pretty interesting

thought there. It's just if you hunt dumb, in other words, you don't think too hard about where you're going and just go and hunt and get out in the woods. You're kind of doing like you're taking pressure off, right because now the way that the hunt goes is not doesn't make you feel like, um, that you're a bad hunter because you didn't put a whole lot of effort into it, and at the same time, like you're you're that lack of pressure just allows you to have more fun.

And of course, I know, especially October, late October comes around, I know you're gonna be just like we we are and all these people that listen is like, will be analyzing and trying to figure out exactly where those deer are. But in an early season situation with your dad around me, and like, that's a that's a great idea, man. So with that though, you had a couple of chances at bucks right that, Uh, you know, I guess we're dumb

enough to be in the spot that you were in. Well, so when I say I hunt dumb, like, I still used the water. I bought a boat this year. I'll always use the kayak. That'll where you about a boat this year? And um, a couple of the hunts, you know, for a few of the hunts, I took the boat out and went and hunted the same spots I normally

do that I kind of historically have opportunity in. And I'll be honest with you, man, we had some of the best weather that I could possibly ask for us for early September hunt, but the deer just weren't do and what they normally do. Um, for whatever reason, I don't know, if the bucks were shedding velvet early and the kind of get them off of that summer pattern. Um, but the opening day is the only uh, the only shooter buck opportunities that I had. I had. I saw

one in the in the morning. First thing, Um, I had some squirrel hunters kind of spooking in my direction. I just didn't have a shot. And then that evening, I think it was the same buck, but I had him at Corenty Yards and I was fiddle hearting with my camera. I should be hardcorn on opening day, so you know, they kind of start splitting up and going into those their their fall range, um, getting off of the beans and out of their bachelor groups and all

that stuff. And so it was just a tough week, man. And it was typically like last year on this particular place, this this w m A, there was twelve bucks that were killed on opening day and here put out a report that there was only one buck that was killed from Saturday through through Monday. Wow, one buck in three days with a ton of people there, and so you know, that was pretty clear to me that the deer were

just not doing what they normally do. And I don't know if it was because it was unseasonably cool, Um, it could have been something with the moon phase. You know, I don't put a whole lot of stuff that most of the time. But I mean my mind could be changed after what Sure, Yeah, that's part man, that's part of being a good deer hunter. Two. You're right, there is that. But your mind can be changed. I think you know to to to be able to go. These are the things I believe in when it comes to

deer hunting. But but if you, you know, plead your case and it's plausible and it's logical, like, then I'm willing to listen to it and potentially try it and if it works for me, then maybe be a believer, you know. So yeah, so what's ahead? Um, like where I'm at in Alabama and and probably very similar to what the public areas that you guys hunt in Texas. Um, you have to be analytical, man, you have to be

like hardcore. You've got to find the unpressured are unpressured areas and um, and and think about things the thing about Kentucky and and these kind of more Midwestern type states where you have a lot of farmland, the deer just doing completely different things. And so, um, that's why I like hunting, this opener is because I mean I have some of the best opportunities I've ever gotten in my life hunting the Kentucky opener, because the velvet bucks

are just kind of doing there. Like I said, people are who are killing them are hunting two yards from the parking area in a in a bean field that you can see from the road, you know, and like, um can actually have those opportunities at mature deer uh in that scenario. And and in fact, most of the people I talked to this week that saw bucks, we're seeing them in the bean fields. And I saw I saw a pile of small bucks, you know, year and

a half old deer. Um. But as far as just like you know, the only buck that I saw that actually had like an eight point or better rack was that opening day. Yeah, So what are they usually doing? What what patterns were you hunting them on starting out that you thought they would be using. Well, usually there's a lot of pressure on the place. And so what I find is is these deers, it's part of the

reason why I use water accesses. They'll go back to the ridge, the ridges in the back of the property close to the water and and it really funnels the deer that are getting pressure. Do you have dove hunters and squirrel hunters and deer hunters out there all at the same time and been all these deer back to

the back corners. And so if you have a boat, you know that's part of That's really where I spend most of my time is in those very far back corners using the boat, and I literally might walk, you know, a hundred yards from my boat and it just I always seem to get it and and then corresponding, um, finding those funnels that kind of lead to two beans has always been pretty productive. Mm hmm. But the beans this yere, we're very green, so you would think the

deer would still be hitting them pretty hard. Uh, But I set over being several times and I I didn't see much. I really didn't see a whole lot of deer. Does does that be betted in there? Um in those bean fields? And that can make it pretty tough to even get a shot when the deer are all betted in the beans kind of bed out in the middle of the bean field, so you can even you set up and you know, get up high and you see them, but there untouchable. You can't get out there with them.

Um hm. I typically try to out hunt honestly, rut funnels kind of seems to be where I have the most opportunity at um in these early season hunts, just because of the pressure, the deer are running back to those using those same funnels and running back to that security cover. Yeah, are you are you seeing um? Do you feel like you see more of deer movement this time of year in a pressure situation like this in

the morning or the evening. Um this trip, this trip, by far, I saw more deer activity in the mornings. And the changing point for me right then was or for this one was I was getting in the middle of the betting, like right smack dab in the middle of one of the dose that I shot was about to lay down when I shot her. UM, which is gonna be the thick, thick cover around those bean fields.

And a lot of times out here like Kentucky, a lot of places in Kentucky, a lot of places in the Midwest are gonna have like crp with like sycamore sapling type blocks that are right next to the beans are like it's almost like a buffer strip between the woods in the in the bean fields. And I was finding that if I would get as close to those that CRP sycamore junks. That was where I was gonna see deer, and your shot opportunities weren't weren't gonna be

uh plentiful because it's so thick in there. But you're at least gonna have a chance. Uh, I see here. And And in fact, most of the deer that I uh most most mornings going in at four thirty in the morning, Almost every morning I walked up on bedded deer. They were just already bedded down before the sun came up. Hm. And so I think that was kind of what was going on. And the bucks, you know, I I just I think they were bedded down. I don't think they

were getting up at all during the daylight. Not much. Do you do you if you're in that situation, do you ever take a morning off or do you always try to find a place to hunt in the morning. Um, we took. We took one morning off this trip. I typically do not. Uh. The only reason I took a morning off is because most of the time in the mornings is when I'm going out and I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go and hunt a spot where I feel

confident I could shoot a dough. Um. And in the evenings, these evenings is where I kind of go and try to try to hunt for a buck. But um, after I shot the first dough, I took off that next morning was like, I mean, the only thing I'd be going to hunt right now is a dough more than likely. Um. But every once in a while, man, I actually got my two years ago, I got my opportunity and I missed uh there that probably would have went close to one fifty um. And it was a morning hunt at

like ten thirty in the morning. But I find on these early season hunts, if you'll, if you will really watch that wind direction, because the wind can be so variable this time of year. Um. A lot of times if you can be up in a tree when the wind direction changes or when it forecasted to change, a lot of times you'll find those bucks adjusting to their adjusting their bed to another spot that's more favorable for

that wind. Um. You know. So like that particular morning, Uh, the wind changed that like ten o'clock, and sure enough I was set up to where I thought a buck would be coming through to go to a different bedding area for that wind. And that's what happened. It happened almost like two a t in it. It doesn't happen like like that a lot, Like usually your ideas suck. But it just kind of happened to work. And maybe it didn't work. Maybe I just maybe it was just

you know, a coincidence. But um, that's those are of times when I think that you can start getting like putting the puzzle pieces together for these early season hunts, um, to give yourself the highest odds of of getting a shot opportunity at buck mm hmm. Man, it sounds uh, it sounds like there's a lot of variables this time of year. I know that. And um, and so with that, Um, the one thing that a guy can always look forward to is basically better weather, new week, new moon, all

that kind of stuff. Um, different variables, right that that can potentially help in a situation where he's struggling to find bucks currently. So with that, on a scale of one to ten, and tell me, why what do you expect dear movement to be like in the next week. Well, there's the one variable that I think changes a lot in farm country is when they start cutting the corn.

And last night, uh, yesterday afternoon and they started cutting corn on this w m A. And I think for anybody who is going to be hunting this coming week, they're cutting corn. A lot of those deer I think are living in those corn fields, and um, when they're standing and they're cutting it right now, and if you can get close to some fresh cut corn, I think a lot of bucks are gonna die this week because

of that one factor. Um, it forces them to get up and move from the place they've been, the places that they've been living and having security cover and kind of being untouchable out in the middle of those corn fields. And I have a lot of friends who are coming up this week, and when I sent them, when I sent them a picture of the combines out in the corn field, everybody got excited because that's a that's that can be like a game changing factor on this farm

country stuff. M hm, cool man, that's exciting. That's definitely something a good variable to look forward to. Man, it's something that takes a big swath of cover out of the equation and puts a bunch of food in front

of you know, where deer normally eat. So I think if I had to put a number on it, I think it's gonna go from about a one or two that we experienced this week too, probably a six or seven because it's happened before where they've cut it really really early while we've been there for the opener, and as soon as they cut it, man, you start seeing deer just piling into that corn field, and part of it feels like it should be a crime because there's just piles of corn out there in front of Hey,

Texas bro, we know all about it. Yeah, yeah, it feels normal to me. That's right. That's right, man. Yeah, it's it's all about it's all relative. Man. So that's cool, dude. Well, um, so I guess with that, that's exciting. Um. You know, people can watch your stuff on you too. I can hear your podcasts. Give me a quick rundown of where they can find this kind of stuff, man, Yeah, so YouTube,

it's a southern ground hunting. Just search that. Um. If you see a chubby bearded guy with a bunch of tattoos and uh, he's in a kayak or a boat, that's probably me. We're gonna see the dose being slocked from this hunt, absolutely yes, sir. And then uh and then you go to the podcast. It's a part of the Sportsman's Empire podcast network. Uh and just you know, you can search Southern Ground Hunting and you'll find it

there as well. Cool man. Um, there's some other more associated stuff that you're gonna be doing coming out soon. I think I don't know how much I can reveal about that, but I'm excited to see that. Um. And then also, Um, Parker is a dose slacker, but he kills a lot of bucks too, so I don't want that too. I don't want that to be a diss by any means. He just shoots a lot of deer.

So it's definitely worth going checking out. Thanks for coming on the show giving us run down to Kentucky, Man, and I'm sure we will be talking to you later on this year. Absolutely, Thanks Tyler for having me on. All right now, on the phone, we've got Ron Stoddard. He's from Nebraska. Ron. What's happening, dude? What's up man? How's it going? It's going great, dude. I Um, we

got some pretty good weather coming in here. We've got like a lot lower lows and we're hitting the dew point a lot more often, which is good for us because we've been kind of dry and um, you know, helps keep some moisture around the ground. So that's good and then just feels like deer season, which I know, uh feels the same for you right now, because uh, you shot a pretty good buck recently. Man is the eight point? It's a ten point ten point? Yeah, I

saw pictures uh last night of it. Man, it looked like he was he had come out of elvit just recently, right. Yeah, he uh was probably just coming out of elvet that day when I shot him. Um, he was bedded down in a CRP field on off the edge of a bean field, and it actually was the first year I saw that night. And he came into about eight yards and I shot him, and he went about thirty yards and I was able to recover him. Dude, I love making shots like under fifteen yards. It's like you almost

don't even have to aim, you know. No, it was definitely pretty cut and dry, and yeah that's cool. Man. He was actually right off the edge of a bean field, and I had the perfect lend and had a twenty twenty degree temperature drop that day, so it was almost like he read the script, you know, sure was that? So that what that deer was like his destination that

night was the beans. Yeah, so he was. So it's just a really tiny piece of property, like maybe ten acres and it's right in between a big CRP field and a bean field and it comes right down into a funnel. And I've always seen deer in there, and this deer actually I've had him on camera for five years so and he's never really been like a huge deer, huge deer, but he kind of meant a lot to me and it was super fun hunt dude. I had a similar deer like that in Kansas a few years back.

Like when I shot that deeries seven, I assumed he was seven and a half when we picked him up. Uh, I thought he was three. So I had about five years of time with him. And it's the same way like he was like a I don't know when I when I shot him, he's probably like upper one forties type deer. And he was never he was like always probably one thirty to upper one forties. He never he never like grew much. It always looked the same every year as a ten point every single year mainframe, you know.

And but it's just cool like that, um when you can grow history with a deer like that and really just kind of like more than anything, kind of grow more massive and just look older every year, and you're just finally like, man, you know what, that's a cool deer right there, you know. And the really important thing about this deer was he was kind of named after

an old boss. He was a goofy deer when he was really young, and uh, named after my boss, joking around and but come to come to fruition, Uh my boss. That boss actually ended up passing away like a year later from a heart attack. And I've hunted that property ever since. And so it's kind of kind of bitter sweet when I was able to end the chapter with

that deer. Sure do to understand that the sentiment that we have in white tails, in white tail hunting sometimes it's just like the best part of it, you know that it was almost like the Lord was watching over that day, because, like I said, it was perfect. The wind was coming right on the funnel of this and that was literally the first dear I saw on the only deer I saw the whole day. Mm hmmmm, Man, that's cool. And it was like I feel that way too. Man.

It was like seven o'clock when he came out. Man, So it's such I don't know those moments, man, Like we get to shoot maybe a couple of deer years sometimes and it's just like when that happens, man, it's just like you said, it just feels like such a blessing. Man. It's a cool thing. But anyway, let's let's talk a little bit about how, um like, why you decided to hunt that deer, because I'm kind of interested. You talked about a temperature drop there. Is that what brought you

out into the woods? Um? Do you normally wait for a temperature drop this time of year? Are you just hunting hard no matter what, trying to find a place to scratch one out? Um right now? Like this year, I would hunt pretty hard on betting areas and stuff, but it's been so dry this year that most of our dear movement has been after dark. So yeah, that's

exactly what brought me out of the woods. I've actually been chasing mule deer for that reason because the white tail has been predominantly nocturnal, and I uh had or that twenty degree temperature drop and I just said, heck, might as well go sit in this to day and and it I'll just kind of kind of unfolded perfectly. So we were you on a like a field edge,

on the edge of the beans when you shot him. Yeah, So there's just this little teeny strip of timber that's it's literally a triangle like a funnel that brings all the deer through it right to the beans out of the c r P and yep, and they all end up in the beans. They either come back in there through there in the morning and then back out there through the night. Cool. Well, let let me ask you this, dude. Can those deer Can those deer see a road or people on a road from from where they end up

in the field there. Yeah, they actually have to cross a road in between the trees and the being field to get there, and there's only about three yards away. Man. So basically those those deer will still come out in daylight this time of year, despite having to cross the road and or being like a visual uh spot towards a road. Ninety per cent of the time they won't, man.

And that's why it was kind of almost bitter sweet, because I didn't expect anything to happen and run, I just you know, I knew that there was a good chance because of the temperature, job then maybe it would get him up on his feet, And I sure did. Man,

that's awesome, dude, that's it's so cool. So as far as like betting areas go, uh that if you're you know, say, on a normal year, you said you would probably be hunting closer to betting areas and stuff this time of year, Can you talk about that a little bit, like what you're set up usually looks like, and what you kind of prefer and how how to get in there and when you know, all the different kind of tactical things

involved around that. Yeah, so usually earlier in the year were only predominantly hunting evening hunts, just because all the betting areas are like off open fields, like little teeny thickets that are maybe one two acres at the most, and you can't really get into them in the mornings because all the year out in the egg fields of course, so you get you gotta sneak in there and the evenings while they're sitting on their bed and I just kind of hope they come out at last light or

whatever because you and yeah, okay, mostly on the edge of the soybean fields this time of year until that last green soybean field, uh turns over, and then they'll be headed towards the corn. But and then and that's kind of a whole another ball game, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, um, would you say that you seem to think that this was kind of a providential experience where this buck walked by you that day. It kind of seemed like you weren't expecting much.

What would you say the deer activity has been like in the past week or so, Scaling one to ten, I would say probably a four during daylight, three, three or four during daylight, just because I mean we've had highs and three the last four days. So but coming up it's probably gonna be you know, six or seven because we're gonna have a thirty degree temperature drop this evening into some rain, into some real foggy morning tomorrow morning,

and more rain tomorrow morning. All Right, dude, that's what I'm talking about. Cool weather this time of year. My next starts swelling. I'm not like a scrape, I'm telling you, dude. Yeah, starting to feel like your season. It's getting the blood boiling. Man. Yeah, that's cool. Hey, lets let me ask one more question. Um, how do you feel about runs is? That is an odd question, But I do not like runsas really I'm not. I'm not a Midwestern born boy. Actually, I'm raised in

saw Lake City, Utah. So really, do you ever do any fly fishing out there? I've done a little bit. I moved out of there when I was fourteen fifteen. Yeah, it wasn't really the best situation, so I was never really got to do all the lot of that stuff till I moved out to Nebraska. So sure, well, I, um, I've had a few runs is in there. They are fast food type runs is. I don't know if like the the homemade ones are better or not, but I'm

sure they are. Um, but yeah, the the fast food ones, I did the Southwestern flavor, and I gotta say I liked it pretty good. Man. It's it's it's a treat because we get pretty bogged down with burgers and fries on the road, you know. So uh, I'll definitely take something like that when I get it. But I'm I'm actually a little bit surprised to hear you just don't like the runs of man. I think it's more just living in a little town. I've eaten everything that's here

so many times. You know what I mean. I guess well, I like to cook my own meals and me too, me too, man. Well, I appreciate the information. Man. I'm looking forward to uh being in Nebraska at some point myself, especially with your report here of it, to being in a pretty good dear movement coming up. So uh, thanks for taking the time, run, and we'll be talking to you sometime soon. Man, Thank you, man. Big congrats to these fellows that were able to punch tags this week.

I hope any of you listening out there are able to use the info from them to make some success of your own this week. Like was mentioned last week, Hunter's velvet buck video from Tennessee has released on the Element YouTube channel, and Mark's first episode of his new Deer Country series has released on the meat eat channel

as well. Also, early teal seasons have begun to open across the states, So if you're needing to make some room in the freezer with last year's waterfowl, the Meat Eater website has a new goose stew recipe that will help you turn tough, dark meat into pass me more of that gravy. Lastly, remember stay fresh. This has been rot Fresh Radio