September 21, 2025 • 54 mins
Archery season has officially opened in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Virginia, with the Boondocks Hunting team celebrating six does and one buck harvested in the first week of action.
• Ryan shares his thrilling success story of taking a mature buck with his recurve bow at 15 yards
• Brief discussion about the tragic loss of two hunters during an elk hunt in Colorado
• Story about a black bear entering a dollar store in Vernon, NJ and biting a woman
• Craig details his Wisconsin hunting strategy around a neighboring cornfield that won't be harvested until gun season
• Debate about "earn-a-buck" programs and a proposal for earning buck tags by harvesting does in previous seasons
• Update on the team's archery competition with 15 deer, one bear, and one raccoon harvested so far
• Tips for finding white oak acorns that are starting to drop and attracting deer
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Garden State Outdoors and
Podcast presented by Boonecom.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
That's why your tagline, JCL, known perfect.
You don't know what that man isgoing to bring.
You don't know what that man isgoing to bring.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I accidentally drifted my canoe between a sow
and a cub and she charged andhit the back of the canoe.
His head hit the ground beforehis ass did.
Begging, begging and crying togo with my grandfather go with
my father on these gear drives.
You know, the last trip over Ishot a great Cape Buffalo with
(00:33):
my bow, charging the bluegrassand then the whooping.
And then you hear All right,guys, we are back.
Field Notes, episode three.
New Jersey season opener is oneweek past us now.
We are back.
Field Notes, episode 3.
New Jersey season opener is oneweek past us now.
We have Wisconsin's opener wasone week ago and then also, I
(00:54):
believe, zach down in Virginia.
I know he hunts a lot of timesthe border, but I believe
Virginia opened up andeverything like that.
So the Boondocks Henning teamwe've been hitting it hard this
last week.
We have six does down with thisweek.
And then we also have ourspecial guest, ryan.
(01:17):
He's been on before.
Always love having him on, andlast night yeah, last night he
shot his buck and he is taggedout in New Jersey with also
having two does, I believe aswell One doe right now One doe.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
One doe.
Maybe Sunday I'll get out ortomorrow I'll get out and try
and get one.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We'll see All right one doe, All right, but still, I
mean still, that's pretty great.
You know it feels good to beback and you know going like.
So for us, for for me, zach andPeyton, like our season started
September 1st on Delaware,which you know a lot of, a lot
(01:58):
of you guys know who followsalong, know that, but it's
different, like it's, it's's,it's weird because like you're
the only ones hunting and theneveryone you know on instagram
and and all these things they're, they're sitting at home,
they're doing, or you knowthey're getting, they're, you
know they're doing all theirwork and you know all the these
(02:18):
different things that they needto get done for the season.
It's like, yeah, it's huntingseason and that's why I keep
using it as like it's pre-season, like it's not like pre-season,
like these are pre-season hunts, but the minute saturday first
light you get up into, it's likewhoa now you go on instagram
(02:39):
and then everyone like it's like, oh, happy, opening day's out.
Then you see the first dough getknocked and you see the bloody
arrows and then all the groupchats start blowing up and it's
like, okay, yeah, now, it's like, now it's really fully here,
you know.
So I, I mean it's been anincredible week and the weather
(03:02):
has taken quite of a.
You know, we were having allthat cold weather, which was
great down in Delaware.
It was really nice and and andchilly, and then, yeah, we've
just been going up and down.
The mornings have beenbeautiful, but the uh, the
evening hunt's been a little, alittle warm and a little stormy.
For for Craig over there inWisconsin, yeah, it was bad.
(03:23):
It was bad for for craig overthere in wisconsin, but yeah, it
was bad.
It was bad.
Um, you know so.
But before we get, you know,really going, you know, one
thing I I definitely want towant to talk on real quick is,
you know, unfortunately, thosetwo, uh, those two boys, uh, the
two 25 year olds out and, um, Ibelieve it was it was colorado
I don't want to yeah, doing,doing the elk hunt.
(03:44):
Um, you know where it's veryunfortunate um.
You know prayers to, to theirfamilies and and everything like
that, and that's, you know, oneof the thing as, as outdoorsmen
of of what we do, it's listen,thunder you.
You just never know, um, and itcould be a simple hunt.
You know, just like craig saidcraig said earlier like he was
out in the tree and you knowlightning is not the thing to
(04:07):
mess with.
Mother nature is a, is a bitchand it's um, it's very
unfortunate, it happened, um,you know.
So our condolences to thefamilies and everything like
that.
Um, yeah, tough, tough to seeUm, and yeah, it's been a that.
That was a, that was definitelya tough one.
(04:30):
And you know we're all herehoping that there was going to
be good news and everything likethat.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Not totally.
I mean, we saw that firstannouncement about it and
everybody was kind of likeposting about it and everybody's
hoping for the best.
But that's you know, it's nevera good scenario.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
All right no, no, and that's like the like.
I can't wait to go to alaskaone day.
Or, you know, I do eventuallywant to go to colorado or some
state to do like an elk hunt andeverything like that.
But the more you hunt in theseremote areas, yeah, it's
different.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's not hunting in new jersey where you can like,
you can hear a road, you knowyou can hear a road where you're
sitting right, you're miles out, no service.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's different it's, it's it's it's crazy to think of
.
You know, for me, you know, myexperience is main and
everything like that.
That is always something likein the back of my mind being out
in, like the middle of nowhere,maine, with no cell service,
then like you're just on backroads of like I think the
closest like hospital is an hour45 minutes away on dirt road.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Like it's like like shit really hits the fan.
What are you gonna do?
I mean here you go right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
um, so you know, uh, with that being said, you know
let's get into some happy.
Well, actually there's one morenews coming out in New Jersey.
I want to go over it real quick.
Frank texted in the group chatthe other day Ryan, did you see
that bear, that bit, that womanin the oh up in Vernon or
(06:02):
whatever it was in the dollarstore walking around, and I
think some of the boys that arenot from jersey and I'm like
that is the most jersey thingyou can like vernon and like
nowhere.
Yeah, that's, that's 100 countythrough and through yeah, like
you know, craig, well, I thinkwe were talking about last week,
like I kid you, not West Jersey, especially that Sussex area.
(06:27):
You could be hunting and youcould throw a rock and your odds
of hitting a bear is just likeit's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So seeing, one in a it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah.
Hearing a story about a beargoing in the convenience store
and then biting a woman on thehand, that is like that's not
surprising at all.
These bears.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They're smart man I'm .
He knew what he was doing,walking in there looking for
something to eat.
I was in uh gatlinburg,tennessee, last year two years
ago for a bachelor party andwe're in like the smoky
mountains there and we'resitting on the balcony at like
the airbnb and for whateverreason, I walk out.
I look down at my truck.
There's a bear inside my truck.
I walk down there, smack on thewindow on the other side, takes
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off, running out and just stopslike 15 feet away.
I'm like all right, run over,shut my door.
He walks to the next car, pullson the handle locked.
Walks to the next car, pulls onthe handle Third car, finds
another open one and goes inside.
Went around the entire parkinglot.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's insane.
Yeah, black bears, they arevery, they're, very intelligent
and when they and you know,that's it, that's a thing I
always see on social media ispeople who go to these, these
places are camping or you know,to airbnb or whatever.
They're trained, they're I meanyeah yeah, it's, it's, it's
just one of those things, and Iguarantee you how many people
(07:46):
probably feed them, and that'sthat's the big problem exactly
yep, one of the biggest problemsthere is you know, and it's
funny you say that because, um,I was, like two years ago, the
wife and I and our daughter, wewent on to seaverville,
tennessee, and we also had.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We had a wedding out there, yep and um.
We stayed in the cabins and thesmoking mountains there,
whatever, yeah like we didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I personally didn't see no bears out there, but, um,
the people that are in thecondos, like next to us, they
were literally dumping like theleftover foods out into the
driveways and then and Ipersonally I was just curious,
you know, like whatever, yeah,what's going on?
Yeah, like, um, do you?
I mean I'll eat I'll eat theleg over, because that looks
pretty fucking good, I'm not,don't.
Don't waste leftovers so thenthey're like oh no, no, we heard
(08:29):
there's a lot of bears out here.
We want to get me coming close.
I go, oh, jesus, like okay,that's great, I'm gonna sleep
with my eyes open because we'regonna get mauled tonight by
bears.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, but that's the person who's gonna get bit most
of the time, well, exactly yeah,100 no, I, I definitely agree,
and we're not too far away outfrom from the bear season,
everything like that.
But that will be on a laterepisode, a couple weeks.
But we're here.
How's it?
How's it feel, boys?
Like how, how'd you feelopening day?
(08:57):
How how was it?
Like the weather was real nice,um, especially that morning,
like, like we said, you know,did you guys get some of those
kinks out and everything likethat, like I always swear.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Like we said, you know, did you guys get some of
those kinks out and everythinglike that, like I always swear,
like opening morning, it's likeyou always have that kink of
just like you're a little slower, you forget something, your
setup isn't, it isn't as nice aslike you, you know, you're,
you're rusty and you guys feelthat way, oh yeah 100% like that
opening, opening morning I went, I was go sit at the cornfield
(09:26):
stand and I literally, like twoweeks prior to that, put the
stand up, like I know right, Ihaven't pinned on Onyx man, like
I know right where it is, and Igot up and I was so amped up to
go sit, I freaking walked rightby it 100 yards.
I'm like, oh fuck.
So I turn around and there's mystand.
If I had a hundred yards.
I'm like, oh, so I turn aroundand there's my statement, like I
was just so amped up to get inthe stand and get out there to
(09:47):
see the sunrise and I walkedright by my set like I just
spaced out.
But it feels good.
Like I honestly like I love it.
Like it's even like tonightsitting tonight I thought
tonight was gonna be the night.
I mean we had deer on camerainsanely and then all of a
sudden that thunder came and itdidn't rain at all, it was just
thunder and all of a sudden thefreaking two lady bulls hit.
(10:09):
I'm like, yeah, I'm good, I'llsit tomorrow morning, but I'm
jacked up.
I love it.
Like wisconsin that's here nowand there's some big deer in
that, in that property that I'mon, so just a matter of time
that game.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, I totally agree, the season's here got to be
fired up and that, like you'resaying, before that group chat
that we got going with like alittle competition man just
seeing everybody out and likethe banter in it just gets you
going big oh yeah 100.
But yeah, to the other question,quick.
I don't ever expect my firsthit of the season to even go
like half planned.
(10:43):
What it could be like, justthrow your stuff together, get
out there and like after acouple hunts I'm like, all right
, I'll get in a groove, I'llhave all my pieces where I need
it.
I won't forget this and forgetthat in the truck you can.
I mean, personally, I neverexpect my first time to go how,
how?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I wanted to right, right, um, you know, and it
started like, I feel like it wasa little slow, like instagram,
wise, like, because usually,like you see, does just drop and
then you know if you guys gotit.
Um, I think, ryan, I think youdid you get one opening morning?
Uh, no, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I didn't shoot, I had .
I had a heck of a morning.
I had people walking around thewoods and the foxhounds and all
the horses came riding throughand yeah, I mean that happens
down where we're at.
It's pretty popular thing.
Like I could have probablyworked around it, but sometimes
it helps to my favor too.
So I just don't.
But yeah, not my first morningSuck.
(11:38):
The second night, sunday, Iwent out sucked too, I think.
Monday morning I shot Monday orTuesday morning out suck too, I
think monday morning I shot.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Monday or tuesday morning I shot that one.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
Um, yeah, it was, I'll tell you.
So I I got in and I don't knowwhat it was like in here, and
you know, obviously, craig, youbeing from from wisconsin, and
you know ryan, I mean you're,you're much closer, but I got in
and the moon was so bright andI didn't realize it was going to
be like that and so, like, whenI got up, I got in and I told
(12:10):
myself like I'm going to get inextra early, like I was in like
at least an hour before shootinglight.
Um, just because of how close,like I knew, walking in, there
was a lot of oaks dropping earlyand I had a huge feeling like
the deer were in the right there, but it was too close, I
couldn't hunt it because it'stoo close to to the road.
(12:31):
Um, so I get in and maybe five,like 10, 15 minutes of me being
in the tree, I just hear a deer, like you know, in the back of
me, just just must have gottenup from bed and started walking
and everything like that, and Ithink was eating on some acorns.
And I heard another deer andlike I had deer and I didn't
(12:53):
want to move because themoonlight was shining bright
like I could see perfectly infront of me.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I knew like I was like you're good to go I'm like
what the hell?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
like I was like I never, like it's never.
Usually it's like pitch black,like yeah, I feel like the last
couple years it's been cloudy orrainy and and all these things
and it was a perfect clear, likenight and everything like that,
and then the moon would getcovered real quick by the cloud
and like, oh shit, like it gotdark and then it would get light
again.
So for the whole whole timelike I couldn't move, of course,
(13:27):
when shooting light came.
Not a damn thing.
No, not not a damn thing.
Opening day so, oh yeah, openingday, and then you start seeing
some people shoot some stuff.
You got the group chat.
It's like all right, like yourblood is starting to like all
right, you're getting that itcheven more now.
And then I I went to a wholedifferent spot just because so
(13:50):
where I was hunting was a wma.
Where I was going is no huntingon on sunday.
So I was like I want to get ita hunt, a hunt in there.
I kind of knew leaving I waslike I guarantee there's going
to be does at this spot later.
But I was like you know, I canhunt it all day tomorrow.
Get there another thing,nothing like I'm like I was so
confident like I had deer allover that you know I was like,
(14:12):
oh, I'm gonna get nothing.
I'm like I go out to one of thefields because I'm I'm getting
antsy.
Now I got into the field to gosee if I can go stalk something.
Not a thing in the field, mindyou, the same field.
I went out on Monday during, uh,the storm, and I saw like 40
plus deer.
So like I don't know what thehell it was.
There was no pressure.
(14:32):
No, no, nothing.
I just one of those things.
I goes at the spot I was at.
So I was like, all right, letme go out in the morning again.
It it's Sunday, like it's great, nothing against Sunday.
And I'm like what is going on?
So I'm like, all right, I go,I'm not going to change my
(14:53):
approach.
I told myself I'm going to huntthis spot the whole day, like
there's going to be a doe here.
There has to be a doe, like Iknow, there's a doe here, doe's
here, no-transcript.
And I'm just chilling there andall of a sudden this doe comes
out and she had me.
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I was using my Matthews bow,which is set at 70 pounds, but
my arrows are lighter than myHoyt.
So she gave me a frontal shotand I was like, if it was with
the Hoyt I probably would havedone it.
But she took 15 minutes tofinally give me a broadside shot
(15:34):
and it pulled back, let it go.
And I absolutely just smokedher and she ran.
I heard her crash.
I was like all right, like thisis, I haven't shaked that bad
for a doe in years, years.
You would have thought I shotlike the biggest buck, like I
(15:54):
was.
The minute I shot that thing Iwas like let's go, like I'm so
pumped.
I'm like I'm like what's like,I don't know what it like.
Usually I get pumped, but notthat pumped like I was.
It felt just so good like I wasjust was itching to do it shot.
It went to go track it.
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This girl ran through.
I was on my hands and knees atone point to get through, like
she ran through the thickeststuff but then died Literally.
She went straight and thencurved this way.
If I would have just went frommy stand around Right on the
edge, I would have found it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I had to right on the edge, I would.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I would have found it , no I had to go through the
most difficult thing in theworld finally got her.
She was much bigger than than Ithought and everything like
that got her, got her home, andI'm like I've missed this so
much, like there's nothing elsebetter than than hunting.
I don't care what anyone says.
Uh, I've I'll say it again likeI've played hockey at a super
(16:56):
high level where I've had 20 000people watching a game.
It doesn't, it doesn't compareto to hunting.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, there's that adrenaline rush when you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
There's nothing like it no, no, not, not at all.
Um, but you know, for for you,ryan, you know you got it done.
I mean, and you're doing itwith the recurve and everything
like that, um, yeah, it's prettybig that's first buck with the
recurve too.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I know it's last year we talked last year.
I shot a good one last year,but I hit him right in the
shoulder and just didn't get thepreparation I needed.
And I mean I, but it was acouple of months later after the
season, like he, went down, butjust left a bad taste.
And to get it done in September.
I mean, this is only the secondbuck in 20 something years that
I've been hunting that I'vetagged out in September, so that
(17:46):
that feels good too.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, it's gotta, you know, so kind of go over and
and that's something I wouldlike to start with actually,
because you know we did talklast year you know you should do
that that buck and everythinglike that.
You know, and doing something,I feel like you know the recurve
and everything like that nowyou're, you're completely just
(18:12):
doing the stick.
It was like how did you go fromfrom that the preparation into
the offseason and then, when youhave that buck in front of you,
this time like what's goingthrough your mind?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
practice, practice, practice.
I mean I think I shot almostevery day since April, like even
if it was a dozen arrows, threearrows, like, and then the last
couple weeks it's been onearrow at a time.
Any chance I get, I'll just goout, shoot an arrow and then put
it down for a half hour,because that's really the only
shot that counts is your first,your first one.
(18:44):
But uh, yeah, a lot of practice, a lot of.
I mean, I was doing like deepbreathing exercise the whole
time I was in the stand like Iknew a good buck was gonna show
up.
I had a couple good ones in thearea and like I was in the stand
probably four o'clock and I waslike shaking, sweating, I mean
it was 80 degrees.
I'm like, come on, like myheart's going.
I'm like there's not even adeer here, like nothing's.
(19:06):
I'm like just the anticipationof like the trail cam set up
over the last like couple ofweeks.
I was like Jesus Christ, what'sgoing on?
But yeah, I mean my one buddywho I've told you about before.
He's gotten me into the recurvestuff.
He's like goes over his kind ofgameplay and strategy and he
just aim, anchor, shoot and hejust like replays that in his
head.
So I kind of started going overthat and I tried to zone out
(19:30):
and put it where I needed.
Yeah, perfect shot.
Like the whole setup of thehunt was yeah, it's beautiful.
I watched he came out of theedge of the field on the other
side, probably I don't know, 80,85 yards on the side of the
hill, a little like clear cut.
As soon as he steps out, I hearlike a little crunching behind
me and I just like my heart sunkand I see a doe and a fawn like
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25 yards back and like themugwort behind me, straight
downwind, straight behind me.
But this is like first sit inthat stand, so my scent hasn't
really been in there.
I like showered, wiped down,sprayed down, had the ozonics
out like tiptoed, had mugwortand plants in my bin with my
clothes, like I went OCD as muchas I could and these does came
(20:13):
in, in, got out to the pilebefore the buck, but they walked
right under me, didn't flinch,didn't bat an eye, so like that
made me feel great.
As soon as I saw that and thisbuck, he just single file that
pretty much straight across,right at me soon.
And then I had a lot of cover.
I was in a big hickory tree soI really only had like two I
don't know, maybe five footcircles that I was shooting out
of cover.
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I was in a big hickory tree soI really only had like two I
don't know, maybe five footcircles that I was shooting out
of, like I was.
I was buried in there so Ididn't think they were gonna see
me at all either.
He came in and as soon as he gotclose he pushed that doe and
fallen off the pile and itwasn't.
I mean, he was in by the timehe was in range.
He was only there a minute ortwo before I let that arrow fly
and 15 yard, just slight,quartering away shot and a best
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shot I think I've ever made on adeer, to be honest.
Like double lung blew the topof the heart out.
Uh, it didn't quite passthrough but the like.
When he ran off he took likethat second step and just saw
blood pouring out the entranceand then the arrow snapped when
he ran into the woods.
But when I got to him I foundprobably like I don't know, six,
eight inches of the.
The knock and the fletching endof the arrow was still in him
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but it was like in his heart andin his lungs, like just had to
been rattling around.
He only went maybe 40, 50 yardsand just piled up.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's so, and, and you had got it on trail camera
too.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, dude the video.
I videoed it on trail cam.
Like I sat there, I slowed itdown, like after I shot, I like
pulled my phone out and likesent the video.
I'm like download, download,download and like replayed it
and as soon as I saw the shot Iwas like, yes, that was awesome
it was so sick watching, Likethat's great and the story is
100 times better, Like that'sincredible.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
How far was that shot ?
I mean, I know with you, knowit's 15.
I mean, 15 yards.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's like my sweet spot with the recurve, like the
way you aim or the way I aim,how I shoot without sights.
I'm kind of using the end of myarrow as like a point of
reference and then you're kindof shooting instinctually after.
You kind of get your point ofaim, so that 15 yards I'm my
arrow point is just underneathwhere I want to hit, so it's
(22:25):
like I can see my vitals, I cansee everything and it's an
easier shot.
Once I get past like 25, I'mhaving to aim like over that
deer and it's hard to see mysight playing.
So I start getting a littleweary after that.
But like anything, 15 to 20,like pull and shoot with my
recurve that's the sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh, I love it.
Yeah, it gets me, gets me firedup.
Um, yeah, definitely maturedeer.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I mean I saw him last year.
He's basic mainframe eight.
I thought he was three, maybefour last year but his like main
beams almost touched.
He only maybe had like inch anda half, two inch gap and I'm
like, oh, this year it's gonnacome around and wrap and like
full, like close off, fullbasket.
But something must havehappened to him.
His back left foot had like abig club foot and his nose had
(23:12):
like a big gash, like split init.
So that's why his right sidehad like just main beam and that
kicker just went straight out.
He was kind of messed up on theone side.
But I like those funky lookingdeer.
He's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, that's legit.
Yeah, no, he's the stud of adeer for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Thanks, very much.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And then you know, we , we go all the way to wisconsin
, craig, kind of run us throughyour, your whole opening week
and everything like that.
And I know you know we talked alittle bit before and
everything like that.
But this is a prime example for, like, this is just hunting.
As as it is, I didn't kill myfirst deer last year until
october, something, yeah, um,right before bear season, um,
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you know, and I didn't take abuck last year until till the
rut, um, so you know it's, it'sone of those things where you
know, I've I've had situationswhere the off-season prep is
like, even even me right now,yeah, yeah, I shot my doe, but
I'm like, oh, the doe's going tobe done opening morning, I'm
going to get the doe out the wayand then, you know, I'm going
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to shoot a big buck, you know,that evening which, if it wasn't
for Jersey's, you know, earn abuck.
I probably could have done itthat morning and everything like
that.
But like for us, it's you neverknow Once, everything like that
.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
But like for us, it's you never know once you step
foot in those woods, you justnever know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, um, yeah, I mean, like I said, it reopened
up last weekend.
Um, we saw deer.
I saw deer every night.
Um, I did have a couple youngdoes come through and I I'm not
gonna lie, I I know we're in thetournament, you know something
like that, but like I, just Icouldn't do it, like I I'm if
I'm gonna shoot a doe, it'sgonna be a mature doe.
Like I'm, I'm gonna wait outfor one, whatever.
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Um, the biggest, the biggest doeI've shot out here was, uh,
three years ago and I didn'tshoot her until the youth hunt.
Actually I didn't.
You know, obviously I wearorange and stuff like that, but
I strictly just use my bowl,like I, and she came walking in
at like 15 yards to the foodplot and I drilled her.
She literally ran 12 yards andpiled up and that's the biggest
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doe I've ever shot.
Like she feels, dressed out atlike 137 pounds.
She was a big, big mama.
Um, I honestly, like I, in allthe years since I started dating
now my wife and now all of myin-laws house hunting their
property the earliest I've shota doe is probably early to
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mid-October.
I mean it's, it's not that it'stough, it's just that, I guess
I don't know.
I guess it's just my preference, like I'm just very, very picky
and like now, like mybrother-in-law and sister-in-law
are hunting with me on here nowtoo, and I told them that this
is your first time hunting likeI want you to get a deer under
your belt.
Like get it under your belt soyou have that buck fever out of
you.
Well, for one, that buck fevernever leaves you, because I
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still have it like I get it.
I mean, for christ s, I freakingsee a doe and I freaking start
shaking like a little schoolgirl, like I don't know how to
control it.
But that's, I guess that's thepoint of hunting, you know what
I mean?
That's, if I'm not going to.
I always told myself too I'mnot going to shake when I see a
doe, or I get jacked up and Ishoot one or whatever.
I'm done doing it then.
But I don't think deer down yet.
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But it feels different.
Last year our neighbor Frank,his field was just all hay field
, like the whole entire fieldwas just hay.
He ended up retiring, retiring,and now he just basically does
whatever he wants.
Well, now they have a farmer,now that he that rents out his
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property, that does his cropswhatever.
This year they put all corn inand it's just a, it's a massive
cornfield property yeah, and Itext frank I got a good
connection with our neighbor,which is a good thing to have,
you know, and I text frank okay,how long is this guy gonna
leave this corner?
For he goes, the guy's a verybig hunter and he's actually
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gonna hunt my property becauseI'm allowing him to like, which
is perfect.
And then, um, the guy goes umbecause I'm, I'm able to hunt
your property.
This is, this is crazy.
Because, like, when he said,yes, you don't have the property
, the guy goes, okay, well, thiscorn is just basically for
whatever, so this will not comeoff until four, three days
before gun season.
I'm like, when I heard that, Iwas just like, thank god,
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because this property that Ihunt if you look like on an onyx
map of like where I'm at, I'mnot in a, I'm not in a like a 40
, 80 or 120 acre like piece ofproperty it's basically like you
got the massive cornfield here,my mother-in-law's mom's um top
soybean field which is alreadybrowned out, and then all it is
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is just a big stretch of woodsrunning along the river, the
pisaki river, so it's more of awoods funnel than it is actual
an acreage of like land to hunt.
So I'm not saying it's tougherto hunt it, but it's more of a
travel core than anything.
Um, but I what I've noticed inthe past like three years now
that I've been, you know, reallystudying stuff like that that
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come that halloween week, thattravel core is used literally
every single day.
It's stupid how much we see inthat travel core.
It's just it's ridiculous.
So it's like makes sense, makessense, yeah and I guess, like
right now, like me being very,very, very patient, it's like
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grandson, second weekend here inwisconsin.
But I mean, do I want to getdoor right away?
Absolutely, because I'm justhaving venison.
I'm out of venison, so I dowant to shoot one.
But like, and now for the past,well, I want to say, like, out
of the, let's say, the sevendays we've had that big one come
on camera five out of sevendays and he's daylighted four,
four times.
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And I thought tonight, like Ijust had that weird feeling.
Okay, tonight's the night, hecame in at 2 30 this morning,
hit my mock scrape.
He came back through at 4 30,hit the mock scrape, but then it
started down for me all thismorning.
So then I was like god damn it.
You know, it's like I fuck.
So I went to my food plot standinstead and then, um, he didn't
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come back through at all.
I had a, I had a basket eightcome up to the bean field this
morning, um, but there's a,there's just a lot of deer in
there.
And I like, like you said, likethat cornfield is this year's
game changer, 100 game changer,because for one.
There's bedding right there foryou now, like they can hang it
up exactly and some of thosestands that we have on this
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property are tucked up againstthe river, right off the ridge
to that cornfield, which is likethe ground blind that we had
that small little buck comingtonight.
They take that cornfield cutdown to that low.
I mean, the river is so lowright now I can walk through
there on top of the rocks withcrocs on and my feet aren't
going to get wet.
Well, they cross that river offa main trail and they're using
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that every single day and night.
It's like I just need to bepatient, sit the right wings and
just let it all basically fallinto place.
As much as I want to sit everysingle day now that my daughter
has her license, you know, andstuff like that, I don't have to
worry about school pickups andstuff like that.
Like yeah, I want to sit everyday, like when I'm done, when I
don't work at one o'clock.
That was I want to go but I'mgetting better, as I guess an
(30:38):
individual of like looking atthe winds and stuff like that,
and I just don't want to screwup what I know.
I how I say like I don't wantto screw up what I know, the
future of positive is going tobe come right now, you know, and
I don't you know, and I look atit this year, you know, I don't
shoot no this year.
(30:58):
Hey, that's it's becauseprobably because I'm being too
picky.
But I know that if I do thisright, like I am now, I will.
I'm a believer that I'm goingto shoot the biggest buck that
I've ever shot in my life.
I know I can because we havesome bucks on there this year
that are they're.
They're big, they're, they'regood deer.
You know, and I, I guess youknow, everyone has their own
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preference of big deer.
You know, obviously you knowsocial media world, they'll let
you know that too.
Um, but like to me, it's a bigdeer.
When I have the shoulder mounton the wall, I ain't gonna sit
here sugarcoat.
That deer ain't even 100 inches.
But that deer had something thathad a meaning to me.
Like I first started dating mywife and I asked my
mother-in-law and father-in-lawhey, can I have the property?
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They're like, yeah, I sat at itOctober 27th.
I grunted come across thefreaking river and I shot him
and like, hey, it's my firstyear on my girlfriend's family's
land, I'm going to put it onthe wall.
And I mean, I mean, and thething is funny, cause, like I, I
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got a lot of heat from somefriends Like, oh, I can't
believe you put that, I can'tbelieve you wasted that money on
them and put that on the wall,blah, blah, blah.
And I, you know what it is,what it is.
But I tell you what these newphones, and you put that in 0.5.
You, you can make that deer 90inches.
You make them look 180 inches,you know, but it's like it's
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just, I'm just, I'm justenjoying it and I guess, like
the biggest thing of it is isthat I brought along matt,
assistant law courtney, now thatthey have joined me in the bow
hunting, you know, and stufflike that.
It's just, I don't know, it'sjust, it's more fun and we're
creating more memories now, youknow, and deep down, yeah, I
want to be successful.
100.
I want to shoot a big buck thisyear, but I think I want to see
either my brother-in-law, mattor courtney shoot a buck this
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year, because it's going to beon video, it's going to be, you
know, it's.
I want that.
I want that the most out ofeverything this year is for one
of those two to shoot a big buckthis year, and I have more, way
more time than they do so.
I'm not in no hurry to shootone like I.
I really just not, because Ithink this is so crazy too and I
know it gets in the guys headslike this and I shouldn't let it
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get into my head.
But last last year, november 9th, but last last year, november
9th, my brother-in-law, matt,was sitting in the ground blind
and he was.
I gotta go home, I gotta get upto the house, take a shit.
I'm like, okay, do it, but,dude, pop a spot on the freaking
river, let it fall down theriver.
Man, you gotta be in thatfreaking ground blind because
those deer are moving all daylong.
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He goes, oh I know, but I'll beright back out there, all right
.
Man sure shitets up to thehouse.
He's doing his things.
All of a sudden you hear himyelling in the ground blind.
Mike, the camera went off so Iknew something came through
there at 1230 in the afternoon.
He goes you got to be effingshitting me right now.
I go well, how's that poofeeling now?
A buck came through, a buckthat came.
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A buck came through.
We have never had the summerall fall, never had him on
camera.
I told him it's the rut thisdeer could have been how many
miles away.
And now he's hot on a dough,whatever.
And it was this buck, you guys,it was, um, yeah, it was
freaking huge, um it's.
I told him that's what happens,like you don't know.
When it comes to halloween weekand up until gun season, if you
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can sit all day long, you needto be sitting all day long but
no, I, I definitely agree withthat.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I mean, I especially a property like that, where you
know you're you're gonna getthose transitions and those deer
just cruising through.
Yeah, that's a property you gotto hunt all day long because
they're going to be using it allday long.
And yeah, you know what, if Ihad a property like that, I
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would 100% probably be doing thesame exact thing.
There's no reason to rush stuffwhen you have a property like
that.
For us here in new jersey, wehave no choice but to shoot a
toe, you know, um you gotta doyour part and step down.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We're kind of out of luck and that's what they like.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What you guys said too, like wisconsin used to be
that, wisconsin used to be earna buck yep, it used to be that.
And wisconsin they they changedtheir the rules, which I'm
actually happy they did.
Um, but yeah, they changed therules.
I think I don't know, maybe,like I think it was like five,
six years ago maybe.
But now it's just, we get gobuy our tag in the county that
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we're in.
If it's private or public land,you get your tags and go out
there and hunt so now, ryan here, because I I think craig heard
this, uh, on the last show.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If, if you're on, I can't remember if you were or
not days are going going by now,um, so one of our guys, zach,
um, he was telling me about astate, um that does their earn a
buck, where you earn it thisseason before.
Yes, so basically, to get tounlock your, your buck tag for
(36:02):
the next year, for you know, say, for us in New Jersey the first
, you know, whatever you wouldhave to shoot a certain amount
of does the year before.
I would love and I know it'sprobably never going to happen,
but I would love for even if itwas five, even if New Jersey did
something ridiculous, you haveto shoot five does a year.
(36:23):
I one would every, I thinkalmost every hunter, especially
serious, like a serious, seriousbow hunter, would love the
minute they kill their buck.
That's the only thing that theywould be doing is going out and
shooting does, right, and youget people that probably shoot
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one, and I do it too.
I shoot one to two becausethat's usually what I need.
Um, you know, including, youknow, including a buck and
everything like that.
But then I, I, yeah, I wouldshoot five, no, no problem.
And I would go donate like adough or two, like here, take it
to the donation, go feed thehungry, and there you go.
If it was five, if it was three, that's even easier to get.
(37:08):
But like you understand, likethat's a pretty cool principle.
I'm going to have to ask Zachagain what state does it?
But yeah, it's like, come on,like I mean that changes.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Like the buck I shot this year, I wouldn't even go to
that stand, like to even thinkabout shooting my doe there, and
I had plenty of them.
But like you, end up trying tolike pick different stands.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But yeah, I can't blow these two out yeah, I, I
think that's the most, I thinkthat's one of the most
frustrating things for me.
Um, you know, and talking to alot of guys in new jersey and
stuff like that, like you haveto like, so for craig, like you
know, for you you get to go tothat property and like you get
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to hunt a buck, so you get toactually sit that property where
, like our spots, where we haveour mature deer on, or you know,
you don't even want to thinkabout going there, like you
don't, you don't want to doanything.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
What good is seeing that deer going to do me if I
can't shoot it Exactly?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
And it does happen Like it's.
It has happened, it's happenedto me, it's happened to other
guys, where that opening morningyou're, you're up there and
you're there is your hit listbuck right in front of you, 20
yards.
You know, I had once a hit listbuck stand out there for a good
like probably 30 to 45 minuteslike and give me a.
I could have shot him athousand times over right and
(38:35):
it's like, uh, like what?
What do I do?
And I didn't know like.
This was years ago, so like Iwasn't you know how I hunt.
Now wasn't how I was doing.
I was kind of putting up astand and boom that was, that
was my stand, and I would huntthat thing, didn't know the
winds, didn't know like any, andI would just, I would just go
out.
This was the glory, glory daysof just being dumb and just like
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not overthinking things.
Now it's like I have to knowthe way I got to do it yourself.
Yeah Right, but man, I wouldlove I told, I told one of my
buddies who's a warden, he'sbeen letting me park at his
house to go hunt, um, andeverything like that.
I I told me he goes that's areally good idea and it's like,
(39:21):
yeah, like I think that wouldthat would help them want to,
because yet again we're a statewhere it's unlimited does.
You can do this, you can dothat, like you would really put
an emphasis on shooting does ifyou could unlock your buck tag
the year before?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
yeah, that would.
That would definitely change upthe population dynamics a bit,
if you because, like you said,who wouldn't want to do that?
If you could walk out first dayof the season when you could
shoot a buck, then yeah, I'llput it in those days in january
and february, no problem andthen here's even more wishful
thinking.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Then you knock the buck, buck numbers out of how
many weeks you shoot.
You're like, if you, if you, ifyou, to get your butt like have
to shoot, just say yet again,five does, yeah, you're not
going to.
Then go shoot.
I think what is it?
Five to seven does that we canshoot?
I think I know, I think it'sfive with the bow for sure, for
sure that we're allowed to kill.
(40:18):
And then I think, however itworks, you have your
muzzleloader, you have your shot.
I don't really know the whole.
Yeah, so I think it's any.
It's like six to seven bucksthat we can kill in new jersey
if you hunt throughout the wholeentire year with, with every
weapon.
Right, that's insane, that isjust absolutely insane.
Knock that down to even three,three bucks, any weapon.
(40:41):
Five does unlock your unlock,your unlock, your buck tag.
That would, that would make.
But you know, never have we can, um, but yeah, I mean it's,
it's been a real good start forthe season.
So for for everyone um, curious, and I, and I have it right
(41:05):
here um, we, we've been doing a,a archery competition.
We've been doing it for thelast couple years, um, and I've
kind of opened it up a littlemore, um to to some other people
and just to grow it a littlebit.
I yet again don't want thisthing to get crazy big everybody
.
So you know, I I trust the guysthat are that are in in that.
(41:28):
So, like there are a couple ofrules that we have.
Like if you shoot a deer andyou don't recover it, you know I
can't just trust a randomperson from you know, whatever
that they're gonna hold whereeveryone in here, you know,
pretty truthful, we're all onsocial media, we do all these
things.
So it's like all right, likewell, this is what we're gonna
do.
But, um, we got 10 teams ofthree, um, and I think let's see
(41:53):
we have.
We even had a bear kill too,which was pretty cool, but the
earliest we've had a bear killedtoo, which was pretty cool, but
the earliest we've had a bear.
So we have 15 deer killedalready.
That's crazy 15.
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One bear, one raccoon.
So we are our earliest we'veever had a bear killed and the
first raccoon to ever be killedwith a bow.
It's an Archie.
Only competition, everyone else.
So Instagram, I'll probably beputting the teams and everything
like that up on as you guys arelistening, it would be today,
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you know, and in first place,you know, we got um the diehard
team here, with our very ownryan over here, um, and just
absolutely killing it with twodeer.
And then so how we do it is, adeer is five points and then the
buck is whatever the antlersare are each point.
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So he was, uh, what we say, itwas an eight pointer, I think.
We said yep, so I think, justoff that, that deer alone, I
think what?
Um, it was 13 points, right,yeah, yeah, 13, that's 13 points
, um, you know.
So his, his team is in firstplace.
Then we have the second placeteam is the Tagout Tribe, which
(43:23):
would consist of our guys,echoes of the Hunt.
Then we have Craig here, andthen we have your buddy too as
well, right, craig?
Is that your buddy or is that?
No, that's, but that's um thatwas exactly that's yeah that's
the thing.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I don't even need to shoot gear.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It was still in second place yeah, well, you got
, you got zach.
Zach is three, what yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
down there yeah, he knows already so I if I could
have been right, if I'm wronghere, but but are turkeys on
there?
Speaker 2 (43:58):
I think so yeah, Turkeys are on here.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yes, and we have yet to have a turkey killed, because
I haven't come out with aturkey hunting competition yet
for the next part of the season,but I tried shooting one last
year.
If you would have popped oneyou would get on the floor.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Now I'm thinking about something like this
morning I had 13 of those damnthings around me.
Then I'm sitting in my groundsitting my hang on stand.
You know, wife was texting me,hey, how's it going?
And I was the next thing.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
All I hear is what the?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I look back and I'm like candy, I'm like shit, and
then I went, I went on my gowild.
I'm like I don't even have afreaking fault.
What am I doing?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
What am I doing?
Can you get one still or no?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I can still buy one right now, if I want.
Which I probably after thispodcast.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I'm probably going to go on my app and buy a buy one
You'll never see a turkey again.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
That's why I'm not buying one.
Here's the thing with Wisconsin, which I don't agree with it,
but whatever, but like the onlything, wisconsin there is a rule
that so if you don't buy yourarchery tape before season, you
have to legally wait three daysto hunt.
But now I can sit here in myfreaking bow stand and go buy a
(45:14):
fall tag.
Oh, I got birds coming in bybefore day.
She went two minutes later andit's fine, so it's.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I don't understand, I don't get it, but that's weird,
it doesn't make sense, itdoesn't make.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
no, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
No, Trust me guys, you guys come up here for a year
to stay in Wisconsin, and you,I, actually the whole my
mother's, whole side of thefamily's out there.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Oh, okay, so I'm right now.
I'm out in O'Connell County, inCrockwell, wisconsin, right now
, but what?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
What about, like Northwest, Southeast?
What corner are?
Speaker 3 (45:45):
you North, maybe Northeast.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, so then I, my wife and I like 10 minutes from
Lambeau Field.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Okay, I got you.
So they were on the other side,like southwest of Madison, like
Blackberry, Prairie du Chienarea, Yep yep.
Yeah, I remember going out as alittle kid and seeing like my
grandpa's box or some of thedeer my cousins shot like 180s
190s.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Just crazy.
It's stupid dude.
And it's funny that you saythat, because I have one of my
coworkers, his father-in-law,and then, um, his, then his
brother-in-law.
They actually have property onbuffalo county, which is, that's
the matter.
Yeah, it's stupid dude, becausehere's the thing last year
james came to me at work.
He goes dude, look at, myfather-in-law just shot.
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He showed me the picture of thedeer.
I swear it on my life, I'm likethere I.
This is not real I go, there isnot any fucking mule deer in
wisconsin?
Where the hell did he evenshoot this thing?
The fucking ears on this thingwas like this the horn is I.
I'm like you know what good forthem, like it must be nice to
build that you all have thewhatever they have in the water
(46:53):
out there, because those yearsare.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
It's not the water, it's the dirt, it's the soil,
dirt there you go dude.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
It's stupid how big those deer are out there.
It's crazy, it's stupid.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
I mean it, I don't know, it's just I mean, hey,
next year we're going, we'regoing to wisconsin next year.
Um, you know, I I already toldthe fiancee about.
I was on the phone with her theother day.
I was like, oh, just to let youknow, like there's a huge, I
mean high, chance that we go toWisconsin.
Now we got two guys from teamguys that are from Wisconsin, so
(47:24):
like Zach, zach and I um, he'sbasically like my now like
traveling buddy, he's down to goanywhere to go hunt, you know.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
If you guys are coming to Wisconsin, I I will be
flat out honest with you rightnow.
We will get a hotel in BuffaloCounty and we are going to go on
public land out there, Withouta doubt.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Not even a question.
I could imagine regionally, inthe state as you go from east to
west, where the deer changesjust because the soil and the
content like different species.
It's stupid, it's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Oh yeah, Then it's game on.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
They're like your northern Michigan deer up there
as opposed to like your reindeerdown.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah, it's just dumb, it's just dumb, it's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
And then I'll finish this and then we can get going.
In third place right now wehave Mountain Titans Media.
A big part is because they shotthat damn bear.
I did not look at the exactpoint total that they had, but
they shot a bear.
I think it came in weighing 216pounds dressed.
(48:46):
So I think that's like 10points for a bear.
And then fifth so I think thatwas 12 points, I think 14,
whatever it is and then infourth place your truly own.
You know, we got our two doeson the ground.
And then in third place isKyle's team, which actually I
(49:11):
think Kyle is actually ahead ofluck because I think I messed up
and forgot to put Travis hisdough and everything like that.
So actually they're in fourthplace and we'd be in fifth place
, but we're gonna get there.
Um, the I love doing this, likeI.
You know, before the seasonit's always like, oh, like it's
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a lot of work, like organizingit, everything like that.
Um, but then once it actuallystarts, it's like all right,
this is what's so fun about it.
Like that group chat is, whensomebody gets something, it just
it just blows up where, likethat's what I like so much about
the camaraderie, everythinglike that.
It's like you're at camp.
It's like you're at camp.
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It really is virtual deer, youknow, um, and it's a lot of fun,
um, you know, I think next yearwe're gonna change.
We're gonna change some stuffaround.
I think I'm gonna take away afew of the bonus points and
everything like that, keep it alittle simpler, um.
But also, I think the big gameplan is to actually take the
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winnings and just do donationsand donate it to you know any,
whoever wins, they'll get todecide, kind of where the winner
chooses yeah that's cool.
Yeah, winner chooses and we'lldo that.
I think, do it for a greatcause and everything like that.
I just want to brag.
Yeah, that's all I want to sayI'm in, works we all, if we all
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chip, which I'm going to bringup if we all chip in $'m going
to bring up, uh, something, ifwe all chip in five dollars I am
down to get a whole trophy andI'll shoot every time somebody
wins or whatever we should getthe or the belt, we ship it out
and everything like that.
Or when you guys come to thegame, dinner and everything like
that.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Well, yeah, add a name to the belt every year.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yeah, yeah I love that you said bragging rights,
because my ultimate goal everyyear because he trash talks me
so fucking much every year andhonestly it gets under my skin
once in a while but I know thatI would beat his ass so I don't
care.
But bragging rights 100%,because when I do shoot a bigger
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buck in a season than Quinton,he will never hear the end of it
until the next year of fuckingopening day.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
I tell you that right now.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
Mark my fucking words .
I love the guy to death.
He's one of my close friends.
How far are you?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
from Quinton how far?
Speaker 3 (51:27):
do you?
Speaker 1 (51:27):
guys live from each other.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
He now lives in Milwaukee, so about an hour and
a half away now.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay, yeah, I love the guy to death.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Like I said, he has my back.
I always have his back.
I see his, his stir up onsocial media once in a while,
but I tell you what?
The day I shoot a bigger buckthan him, he ain't gonna fucking
.
It ain't just gonna be a weektrash talk, it's gonna be a
whole fucking year until openingweekend.
I tell you that right now, forthe, for the whole year he will.
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Every day he wakes up and thething is he knows, oh yeah, I'll
make sure he puts my name, myface, my buck, on his freaking
damn backdrop of his phone, andhe knows it's coming to him.
He knows it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
I love it.
Hey, hey.
Maybe next year we come up withstipulation whoever has the
least amount of points?
Speaker 3 (52:19):
they're freaking like we kind of yeah, like like we
should do something a fearfactor rather than the bragging
rights.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Yeah, here we shoot.
Then you're right, that'sawesome, um, but guys, um,
everybody, you know it, it's.
It's been a hell of a week forfor week one here and you know,
in in our areas and everythinglike that, I know the rest of
the states are going to beopening up in the next coming
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week, I think.
I think pa is open today I Ithink pa is open today, or
certain zones of PA open today.
I know New York is the October1st and then after that every,
everywhere should be open andeverything like like that.
Now, but really looking forwardto really things are really
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going to start heating up.
You know, as as time goes onthe leaves already in my area
are in some of my areas arealready starting to change
everything like that acorns aredropping like crazy people.
Um, white oats, get on them,find, find those white oats and
it.
It's tough being in western uh,like the west jersey, because
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the the oak flats are so damnbig and they're just all
dropping all at the same time.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
They'll be dropping like 50 reds to like two white
oats and then, if I know,everywhere I found, I found I
found some whites.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Um, finally found some whites the other day and,
yeah, it's literally one whiteand then it's like everything
else is like reds around it.
But if you can find it, peopleget, get on it.
And yeah, like we're, we'resuper excited for the, for the
season and you know, can't,can't wait to see what what else
brings in.
And, ryan, it was an absolutepleasure.
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Yet again, congratulations onthat.
Speaker 2 (54:16):
Yeah, thanks guys, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Oh, I know what I'm doing tonight I'm buying my
turkey steak.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Get on it.
Hey, listen, if you kill onethis week, we are clipping what
we said and that is going to be,on your like.
We're going to be clipping thatFair enough, alright, boys,
there you go Everyone.
I hope you guys Enjoyed thisepisode and we'll literally See
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you guys next week.
Yeah Bye, See ya boys.
Welcome back to the Garden State Outdoors and
Podcast presented by Boonecom.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
That's why your tagline, JCL, known perfect.
You don't know what that man isgoing to bring.
You don't know what that man isgoing to bring.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I accidentally drifted my canoe between a sow
and a cub and she charged andhit the back of the canoe.
His head hit the ground beforehis ass did.
Begging, begging and crying togo with my grandfather go with
my father on these gear drives.
You know, the last trip over Ishot a great Cape Buffalo with
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my bow, charging the bluegrassand then the whooping.
And then you hear All right,guys, we are back.
Field Notes, episode three.
New Jersey season opener is oneweek past us now.
We are back.
Field Notes, episode 3.
New Jersey season opener is oneweek past us now.
We have Wisconsin's opener wasone week ago and then also, I
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believe, zach down in Virginia.
I know he hunts a lot of timesthe border, but I believe
Virginia opened up andeverything like that.
So the Boondocks Henning teamwe've been hitting it hard this
last week.
We have six does down with thisweek.
And then we also have ourspecial guest, ryan.
(01:17):
He's been on before.
Always love having him on, andlast night yeah, last night he
shot his buck and he is taggedout in New Jersey with also
having two does, I believe aswell One doe right now One doe.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
One doe.
Maybe Sunday I'll get out ortomorrow I'll get out and try
and get one.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We'll see All right one doe, All right, but still, I
mean still, that's pretty great.
You know it feels good to beback and you know going like.
So for us, for for me, zach andPeyton, like our season started
September 1st on Delaware,which you know a lot of, a lot
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of you guys know who followsalong, know that, but it's
different, like it's, it's's,it's weird because like you're
the only ones hunting and theneveryone you know on instagram
and and all these things they're, they're sitting at home,
they're doing, or you knowthey're getting, they're, you
know they're doing all theirwork and you know all the these
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different things that they needto get done for the season.
It's like, yeah, it's huntingseason and that's why I keep
using it as like it's pre-season, like it's not like pre-season,
like these are pre-season hunts, but the minute saturday first
light you get up into, it's likewhoa now you go on instagram
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and then everyone like it's like, oh, happy, opening day's out.
Then you see the first dough getknocked and you see the bloody
arrows and then all the groupchats start blowing up and it's
like, okay, yeah, now, it's like, now it's really fully here,
you know.
So I, I mean it's been anincredible week and the weather
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has taken quite of a.
You know, we were having allthat cold weather, which was
great down in Delaware.
It was really nice and and andchilly, and then, yeah, we've
just been going up and down.
The mornings have beenbeautiful, but the uh, the
evening hunt's been a little, alittle warm and a little stormy.
For for Craig over there inWisconsin, yeah, it was bad.
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It was bad for for craig overthere in wisconsin, but yeah, it
was bad.
It was bad.
Um, you know so.
But before we get, you know,really going, you know, one
thing I I definitely want towant to talk on real quick is,
you know, unfortunately, thosetwo, uh, those two boys, uh, the
two 25 year olds out and, um, Ibelieve it was it was colorado
I don't want to yeah, doing,doing the elk hunt.
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Um, you know where it's veryunfortunate um.
You know prayers to, to theirfamilies and and everything like
that, and that's, you know, oneof the thing as, as outdoorsmen
of of what we do, it's listen,thunder you.
You just never know, um, and itcould be a simple hunt.
You know, just like craig saidcraig said earlier like he was
out in the tree and you knowlightning is not the thing to
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mess with.
Mother nature is a, is a bitchand it's um, it's very
unfortunate, it happened, um,you know.
So our condolences to thefamilies and everything like
that.
Um, yeah, tough, tough to seeUm, and yeah, it's been a that.
That was a, that was definitelya tough one.
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And you know we're all herehoping that there was going to
be good news and everything likethat.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Not totally.
I mean, we saw that firstannouncement about it and
everybody was kind of likeposting about it and everybody's
hoping for the best.
But that's you know, it's nevera good scenario.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
All right no, no, and that's like the like.
I can't wait to go to alaskaone day.
Or, you know, I do eventuallywant to go to colorado or some
state to do like an elk hunt andeverything like that.
But the more you hunt in theseremote areas, yeah, it's
different.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's not hunting in new jersey where you can like,
you can hear a road, you knowyou can hear a road where you're
sitting right, you're miles out, no service.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's different it's, it's it's it's crazy to think of
.
You know, for me, you know, myexperience is main and
everything like that.
That is always something likein the back of my mind being out
in, like the middle of nowhere,maine, with no cell service,
then like you're just on backroads of like I think the
closest like hospital is an hour45 minutes away on dirt road.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Like it's like like shit really hits the fan.
What are you gonna do?
I mean here you go right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
um, so you know, uh, with that being said, you know
let's get into some happy.
Well, actually there's one morenews coming out in New Jersey.
I want to go over it real quick.
Frank texted in the group chatthe other day Ryan, did you see
that bear, that bit, that womanin the oh up in Vernon or
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whatever it was in the dollarstore walking around, and I
think some of the boys that arenot from jersey and I'm like
that is the most jersey thingyou can like vernon and like
nowhere.
Yeah, that's, that's 100 countythrough and through yeah, like
you know, craig, well, I thinkwe were talking about last week,
like I kid you, not West Jersey, especially that Sussex area.
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You could be hunting and youcould throw a rock and your odds
of hitting a bear is just likeit's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So seeing, one in a it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah.
Hearing a story about a beargoing in the convenience store
and then biting a woman on thehand, that is like that's not
surprising at all.
These bears.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They're smart man I'm .
He knew what he was doing,walking in there looking for
something to eat.
I was in uh gatlinburg,tennessee, last year two years
ago for a bachelor party andwe're in like the smoky
mountains there and we'resitting on the balcony at like
the airbnb and for whateverreason, I walk out.
I look down at my truck.
There's a bear inside my truck.
I walk down there, smack on thewindow on the other side, takes
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off, running out and just stopslike 15 feet away.
I'm like all right, run over,shut my door.
He walks to the next car, pullson the handle locked.
Walks to the next car, pulls onthe handle Third car, finds
another open one and goes inside.
Went around the entire parkinglot.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's insane.
Yeah, black bears, they arevery, they're, very intelligent
and when they and you know,that's it, that's a thing I
always see on social media ispeople who go to these, these
places are camping or you know,to airbnb or whatever.
They're trained, they're I meanyeah yeah, it's, it's, it's
just one of those things, and Iguarantee you how many people
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probably feed them, and that'sthat's the big problem exactly
yep, one of the biggest problemsthere is you know, and it's
funny you say that because, um,I was, like two years ago, the
wife and I and our daughter, wewent on to seaverville,
tennessee, and we also had.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We had a wedding out there, yep and um.
We stayed in the cabins and thesmoking mountains there,
whatever, yeah like we didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I personally didn't see no bears out there, but, um,
the people that are in thecondos, like next to us, they
were literally dumping like theleftover foods out into the
driveways and then and Ipersonally I was just curious,
you know, like whatever, yeah,what's going on?
Yeah, like, um, do you?
I mean I'll eat I'll eat theleg over, because that looks
pretty fucking good, I'm not,don't.
Don't waste leftovers so thenthey're like oh no, no, we heard
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there's a lot of bears out here.
We want to get me coming close.
I go, oh, jesus, like okay,that's great, I'm gonna sleep
with my eyes open because we'regonna get mauled tonight by
bears.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, but that's the person who's gonna get bit most
of the time, well, exactly yeah,100 no, I, I definitely agree,
and we're not too far away outfrom from the bear season,
everything like that.
But that will be on a laterepisode, a couple weeks.
But we're here.
How's it?
How's it feel, boys?
Like how, how'd you feelopening day?
(08:57):
How how was it?
Like the weather was real nice,um, especially that morning,
like, like we said, you know,did you guys get some of those
kinks out and everything likethat, like I always swear.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Like we said, you know, did you guys get some of
those kinks out and everythinglike that, like I always swear,
like opening morning, it's likeyou always have that kink of
just like you're a little slower, you forget something, your
setup isn't, it isn't as nice aslike you, you know, you're,
you're rusty and you guys feelthat way, oh yeah 100% like that
opening, opening morning I went, I was go sit at the cornfield
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stand and I literally, like twoweeks prior to that, put the
stand up, like I know right, Ihaven't pinned on Onyx man, like
I know right where it is, and Igot up and I was so amped up to
go sit, I freaking walked rightby it 100 yards.
I'm like, oh fuck.
So I turn around and there's mystand.
If I had a hundred yards.
I'm like, oh, so I turn aroundand there's my statement, like I
was just so amped up to get inthe stand and get out there to
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see the sunrise and I walkedright by my set like I just
spaced out.
But it feels good.
Like I honestly like I love it.
Like it's even like tonightsitting tonight I thought
tonight was gonna be the night.
I mean we had deer on camerainsanely and then all of a
sudden that thunder came and itdidn't rain at all, it was just
thunder and all of a sudden thefreaking two lady bulls hit.
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I'm like, yeah, I'm good, I'llsit tomorrow morning, but I'm
jacked up.
I love it.
Like wisconsin that's here nowand there's some big deer in
that, in that property that I'mon, so just a matter of time
that game.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, I totally agree, the season's here got to be
fired up and that, like you'resaying, before that group chat
that we got going with like alittle competition man just
seeing everybody out and likethe banter in it just gets you
going big oh yeah 100.
But yeah, to the other question,quick.
I don't ever expect my firsthit of the season to even go
like half planned.
(10:43):
What it could be like, justthrow your stuff together, get
out there and like after acouple hunts I'm like, all right
, I'll get in a groove, I'llhave all my pieces where I need
it.
I won't forget this and forgetthat in the truck you can.
I mean, personally, I neverexpect my first time to go how,
how?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I wanted to right, right, um, you know, and it
started like, I feel like it wasa little slow, like instagram,
wise, like, because usually,like you see, does just drop and
then you know if you guys gotit.
Um, I think, ryan, I think youdid you get one opening morning?
Uh, no, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I didn't shoot, I had .
I had a heck of a morning.
I had people walking around thewoods and the foxhounds and all
the horses came riding throughand yeah, I mean that happens
down where we're at.
It's pretty popular thing.
Like I could have probablyworked around it, but sometimes
it helps to my favor too.
So I just don't.
But yeah, not my first morningSuck.
(11:38):
The second night, sunday, Iwent out sucked too, I think.
Monday morning I shot Monday orTuesday morning out suck too, I
think monday morning I shot.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Monday or tuesday morning I shot that one.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
Um, yeah, it was, I'll tell you.
So I I got in and I don't knowwhat it was like in here, and
you know, obviously, craig, youbeing from from wisconsin, and
you know ryan, I mean you're,you're much closer, but I got in
and the moon was so bright andI didn't realize it was going to
be like that and so, like, whenI got up, I got in and I told
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myself like I'm going to get inextra early, like I was in like
at least an hour before shootinglight.
Um, just because of how close,like I knew, walking in, there
was a lot of oaks dropping earlyand I had a huge feeling like
the deer were in the right there, but it was too close, I
couldn't hunt it because it'stoo close to to the road.
(12:31):
Um, so I get in and maybe five,like 10, 15 minutes of me being
in the tree, I just hear a deer, like you know, in the back of
me, just just must have gottenup from bed and started walking
and everything like that, and Ithink was eating on some acorns.
And I heard another deer andlike I had deer and I didn't
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want to move because themoonlight was shining bright
like I could see perfectly infront of me.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I knew like I was like you're good to go I'm like
what the hell?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
like I was like I never, like it's never.
Usually it's like pitch black,like yeah, I feel like the last
couple years it's been cloudy orrainy and and all these things
and it was a perfect clear, likenight and everything like that,
and then the moon would getcovered real quick by the cloud
and like, oh shit, like it gotdark and then it would get light
again.
So for the whole whole timelike I couldn't move, of course,
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when shooting light came.
Not a damn thing.
No, not not a damn thing.
Opening day so, oh yeah, openingday, and then you start seeing
some people shoot some stuff.
You got the group chat.
It's like all right, like yourblood is starting to like all
right, you're getting that itcheven more now.
And then I I went to a wholedifferent spot just because so
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where I was hunting was a wma.
Where I was going is no huntingon on sunday.
So I was like I want to get ita hunt, a hunt in there.
I kind of knew leaving I waslike I guarantee there's going
to be does at this spot later.
But I was like you know, I canhunt it all day tomorrow.
Get there another thing,nothing like I'm like I was so
confident like I had deer allover that you know I was like,
(14:12):
oh, I'm gonna get nothing.
I'm like I go out to one of thefields because I'm I'm getting
antsy.
Now I got into the field to gosee if I can go stalk something.
Not a thing in the field, mindyou, the same field.
I went out on Monday during, uh,the storm, and I saw like 40
plus deer.
So like I don't know what thehell it was.
There was no pressure.
(14:32):
No, no, nothing.
I just one of those things.
I goes at the spot I was at.
So I was like, all right, letme go out in the morning again.
It it's Sunday, like it's great, nothing against Sunday.
And I'm like what is going on?
So I'm like, all right, I go,I'm not going to change my
(14:53):
approach.
I told myself I'm going to huntthis spot the whole day, like
there's going to be a doe here.
There has to be a doe, like Iknow, there's a doe here, doe's
here, no-transcript.
And I'm just chilling there andall of a sudden this doe comes
out and she had me.
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I was using my Matthews bow,which is set at 70 pounds, but
my arrows are lighter than myHoyt.
So she gave me a frontal shotand I was like, if it was with
the Hoyt I probably would havedone it.
But she took 15 minutes tofinally give me a broadside shot
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and it pulled back, let it go.
And I absolutely just smokedher and she ran.
I heard her crash.
I was like all right, like thisis, I haven't shaked that bad
for a doe in years, years.
You would have thought I shotlike the biggest buck, like I
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was.
The minute I shot that thing Iwas like let's go, like I'm so
pumped.
I'm like I'm like what's like,I don't know what it like.
Usually I get pumped, but notthat pumped like I was.
It felt just so good like I wasjust was itching to do it shot.
It went to go track it.
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This girl ran through.
I was on my hands and knees atone point to get through, like
she ran through the thickeststuff but then died Literally.
She went straight and thencurved this way.
If I would have just went frommy stand around Right on the
edge, I would have found it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I had to right on the edge, I would.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I would have found it , no I had to go through the
most difficult thing in theworld finally got her.
She was much bigger than than Ithought and everything like
that got her, got her home, andI'm like I've missed this so
much, like there's nothing elsebetter than than hunting.
I don't care what anyone says.
Uh, I've I'll say it again likeI've played hockey at a super
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high level where I've had 20 000people watching a game.
It doesn't, it doesn't compareto to hunting.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, there's that adrenaline rush when you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
There's nothing like it no, no, not, not at all.
Um, but you know, for for you,ryan, you know you got it done.
I mean, and you're doing itwith the recurve and everything
like that, um, yeah, it's prettybig that's first buck with the
recurve too.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I know it's last year we talked last year.
I shot a good one last year,but I hit him right in the
shoulder and just didn't get thepreparation I needed.
And I mean I, but it was acouple of months later after the
season, like he, went down, butjust left a bad taste.
And to get it done in September.
I mean, this is only the secondbuck in 20 something years that
I've been hunting that I'vetagged out in September, so that
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that feels good too.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, it's gotta, you know, so kind of go over and
and that's something I wouldlike to start with actually,
because you know we did talklast year you know you should do
that that buck and everythinglike that.
You know, and doing something,I feel like you know the recurve
and everything like that nowyou're, you're completely just
(18:12):
doing the stick.
It was like how did you go fromfrom that the preparation into
the offseason and then, when youhave that buck in front of you,
this time like what's goingthrough your mind?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
practice, practice, practice.
I mean I think I shot almostevery day since April, like even
if it was a dozen arrows, threearrows, like, and then the last
couple weeks it's been onearrow at a time.
Any chance I get, I'll just goout, shoot an arrow and then put
it down for a half hour,because that's really the only
shot that counts is your first,your first one.
(18:44):
But uh, yeah, a lot of practice, a lot of.
I mean, I was doing like deepbreathing exercise the whole
time I was in the stand like Iknew a good buck was gonna show
up.
I had a couple good ones in thearea and like I was in the stand
probably four o'clock and I waslike shaking, sweating, I mean
it was 80 degrees.
I'm like, come on, like myheart's going.
I'm like there's not even adeer here, like nothing's.
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I'm like just the anticipationof like the trail cam set up
over the last like couple ofweeks.
I was like Jesus Christ, what'sgoing on?
But yeah, I mean my one buddywho I've told you about before.
He's gotten me into the recurvestuff.
He's like goes over his kind ofgameplay and strategy and he
just aim, anchor, shoot and hejust like replays that in his
head.
So I kind of started going overthat and I tried to zone out
(19:30):
and put it where I needed.
Yeah, perfect shot.
Like the whole setup of thehunt was yeah, it's beautiful.
I watched he came out of theedge of the field on the other
side, probably I don't know, 80,85 yards on the side of the
hill, a little like clear cut.
As soon as he steps out, I hearlike a little crunching behind
me and I just like my heart sunkand I see a doe and a fawn like
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25 yards back and like themugwort behind me, straight
downwind, straight behind me.
But this is like first sit inthat stand, so my scent hasn't
really been in there.
I like showered, wiped down,sprayed down, had the ozonics
out like tiptoed, had mugwortand plants in my bin with my
clothes, like I went OCD as muchas I could and these does came
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in, in, got out to the pilebefore the buck, but they walked
right under me, didn't flinch,didn't bat an eye, so like that
made me feel great.
As soon as I saw that and thisbuck, he just single file that
pretty much straight across,right at me soon.
And then I had a lot of cover.
I was in a big hickory tree soI really only had like two I
don't know, maybe five footcircles that I was shooting out
of cover.
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I was in a big hickory tree soI really only had like two I
don't know, maybe five footcircles that I was shooting out
of, like I was.
I was buried in there so Ididn't think they were gonna see
me at all either.
He came in and as soon as he gotclose he pushed that doe and
fallen off the pile and itwasn't.
I mean, he was in by the timehe was in range.
He was only there a minute ortwo before I let that arrow fly
and 15 yard, just slight,quartering away shot and a best
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shot I think I've ever made on adeer, to be honest.
Like double lung blew the topof the heart out.
Uh, it didn't quite passthrough but the like.
When he ran off he took likethat second step and just saw
blood pouring out the entranceand then the arrow snapped when
he ran into the woods.
But when I got to him I foundprobably like I don't know, six,
eight inches of the.
The knock and the fletching endof the arrow was still in him
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but it was like in his heart andin his lungs, like just had to
been rattling around.
He only went maybe 40, 50 yardsand just piled up.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's so, and, and you had got it on trail camera
too.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, dude the video.
I videoed it on trail cam.
Like I sat there, I slowed itdown, like after I shot, I like
pulled my phone out and likesent the video.
I'm like download, download,download and like replayed it
and as soon as I saw the shot Iwas like, yes, that was awesome
it was so sick watching, Likethat's great and the story is
100 times better, Like that'sincredible.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
How far was that shot ?
I mean, I know with you, knowit's 15.
I mean, 15 yards.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's like my sweet spot with the recurve, like the
way you aim or the way I aim,how I shoot without sights.
I'm kind of using the end of myarrow as like a point of
reference and then you're kindof shooting instinctually after.
You kind of get your point ofaim, so that 15 yards I'm my
arrow point is just underneathwhere I want to hit, so it's
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like I can see my vitals, I cansee everything and it's an
easier shot.
Once I get past like 25, I'mhaving to aim like over that
deer and it's hard to see mysight playing.
So I start getting a littleweary after that.
But like anything, 15 to 20,like pull and shoot with my
recurve that's the sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh, I love it.
Yeah, it gets me, gets me firedup.
Um, yeah, definitely maturedeer.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I mean I saw him last year.
He's basic mainframe eight.
I thought he was three, maybefour last year but his like main
beams almost touched.
He only maybe had like inch anda half, two inch gap and I'm
like, oh, this year it's gonnacome around and wrap and like
full, like close off, fullbasket.
But something must havehappened to him.
His back left foot had like abig club foot and his nose had
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like a big gash, like split init.
So that's why his right sidehad like just main beam and that
kicker just went straight out.
He was kind of messed up on theone side.
But I like those funky lookingdeer.
He's cool.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, that's legit.
Yeah, no, he's the stud of adeer for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Thanks, very much.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And then you know, we , we go all the way to wisconsin
, craig, kind of run us throughyour, your whole opening week
and everything like that.
And I know you know we talked alittle bit before and
everything like that.
But this is a prime example for, like, this is just hunting.
As as it is, I didn't kill myfirst deer last year until
october, something, yeah, um,right before bear season, um,
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you know, and I didn't take abuck last year until till the
rut, um, so you know it's, it'sone of those things where you
know, I've I've had situationswhere the off-season prep is
like, even even me right now,yeah, yeah, I shot my doe, but
I'm like, oh, the doe's going tobe done opening morning, I'm
going to get the doe out the wayand then, you know, I'm going
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to shoot a big buck, you know,that evening which, if it wasn't
for Jersey's, you know, earn abuck.
I probably could have done itthat morning and everything like
that.
But like for us, it's you neverknow Once, everything like that
.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
But like for us, it's you never know once you step
foot in those woods, you justnever know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, um, yeah, I mean, like I said, it reopened
up last weekend.
Um, we saw deer.
I saw deer every night.
Um, I did have a couple youngdoes come through and I I'm not
gonna lie, I I know we're in thetournament, you know something
like that, but like I, just Icouldn't do it, like I I'm if
I'm gonna shoot a doe, it'sgonna be a mature doe.
Like I'm, I'm gonna wait outfor one, whatever.
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Um, the biggest, the biggest doeI've shot out here was, uh,
three years ago and I didn'tshoot her until the youth hunt.
Actually I didn't.
You know, obviously I wearorange and stuff like that, but
I strictly just use my bowl,like I, and she came walking in
at like 15 yards to the foodplot and I drilled her.
She literally ran 12 yards andpiled up and that's the biggest
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doe I've ever shot.
Like she feels, dressed out atlike 137 pounds.
She was a big, big mama.
Um, I honestly, like I, in allthe years since I started dating
now my wife and now all of myin-laws house hunting their
property the earliest I've shota doe is probably early to
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mid-October.
I mean it's, it's not that it'stough, it's just that, I guess
I don't know.
I guess it's just my preference, like I'm just very, very picky
and like now, like mybrother-in-law and sister-in-law
are hunting with me on here nowtoo, and I told them that this
is your first time hunting likeI want you to get a deer under
your belt.
Like get it under your belt soyou have that buck fever out of
you.
Well, for one, that buck fevernever leaves you, because I
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still have it like I get it.
I mean, for christ s, I freakingsee a doe and I freaking start
shaking like a little schoolgirl, like I don't know how to
control it.
But that's, I guess that's thepoint of hunting, you know what
I mean?
That's, if I'm not going to.
I always told myself too I'mnot going to shake when I see a
doe, or I get jacked up and Ishoot one or whatever.
I'm done doing it then.
But I don't think deer down yet.
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But it feels different.
Last year our neighbor Frank,his field was just all hay field
, like the whole entire fieldwas just hay.
He ended up retiring, retiring,and now he just basically does
whatever he wants.
Well, now they have a farmer,now that he that rents out his
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property, that does his cropswhatever.
This year they put all corn inand it's just a, it's a massive
cornfield property yeah, and Itext frank I got a good
connection with our neighbor,which is a good thing to have,
you know, and I text frank okay,how long is this guy gonna
leave this corner?
For he goes, the guy's a verybig hunter and he's actually
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gonna hunt my property becauseI'm allowing him to like, which
is perfect.
And then, um, the guy goes umbecause I'm, I'm able to hunt
your property.
This is, this is crazy.
Because, like, when he said,yes, you don't have the property
, the guy goes, okay, well, thiscorn is just basically for
whatever, so this will not comeoff until four, three days
before gun season.
I'm like, when I heard that, Iwas just like, thank god,
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because this property that Ihunt if you look like on an onyx
map of like where I'm at, I'mnot in a, I'm not in a like a 40
, 80 or 120 acre like piece ofproperty it's basically like you
got the massive cornfield here,my mother-in-law's mom's um top
soybean field which is alreadybrowned out, and then all it is
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is just a big stretch of woodsrunning along the river, the
pisaki river, so it's more of awoods funnel than it is actual
an acreage of like land to hunt.
So I'm not saying it's tougherto hunt it, but it's more of a
travel core than anything.
Um, but I what I've noticed inthe past like three years now
that I've been, you know, reallystudying stuff like that that
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come that halloween week, thattravel core is used literally
every single day.
It's stupid how much we see inthat travel core.
It's just it's ridiculous.
So it's like makes sense, makessense, yeah and I guess, like
right now, like me being very,very, very patient, it's like
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grandson, second weekend here inwisconsin.
But I mean, do I want to getdoor right away?
Absolutely, because I'm justhaving venison.
I'm out of venison, so I dowant to shoot one.
But like, and now for the past,well, I want to say, like, out
of the, let's say, the sevendays we've had that big one come
on camera five out of sevendays and he's daylighted four,
four times.
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And I thought tonight, like Ijust had that weird feeling.
Okay, tonight's the night, hecame in at 2 30 this morning,
hit my mock scrape.
He came back through at 4 30,hit the mock scrape, but then it
started down for me all thismorning.
So then I was like god damn it.
You know, it's like I fuck.
So I went to my food plot standinstead and then, um, he didn't
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come back through at all.
I had a, I had a basket eightcome up to the bean field this
morning, um, but there's a,there's just a lot of deer in
there.
And I like, like you said, likethat cornfield is this year's
game changer, 100 game changer,because for one.
There's bedding right there foryou now, like they can hang it
up exactly and some of thosestands that we have on this
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property are tucked up againstthe river, right off the ridge
to that cornfield, which is likethe ground blind that we had
that small little buck comingtonight.
They take that cornfield cutdown to that low.
I mean, the river is so lowright now I can walk through
there on top of the rocks withcrocs on and my feet aren't
going to get wet.
Well, they cross that river offa main trail and they're using
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that every single day and night.
It's like I just need to bepatient, sit the right wings and
just let it all basically fallinto place.
As much as I want to sit everysingle day now that my daughter
has her license, you know, andstuff like that, I don't have to
worry about school pickups andstuff like that.
Like yeah, I want to sit everyday, like when I'm done, when I
don't work at one o'clock.
That was I want to go but I'mgetting better, as I guess an
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individual of like looking atthe winds and stuff like that,
and I just don't want to screwup what I know.
I how I say like I don't wantto screw up what I know, the
future of positive is going tobe come right now, you know, and
I don't you know, and I look atit this year, you know, I don't
shoot no this year.
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Hey, that's it's becauseprobably because I'm being too
picky.
But I know that if I do thisright, like I am now, I will.
I'm a believer that I'm goingto shoot the biggest buck that
I've ever shot in my life.
I know I can because we havesome bucks on there this year
that are they're.
They're big, they're, they'regood deer.
You know, and I, I guess youknow, everyone has their own
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preference of big deer.
You know, obviously you knowsocial media world, they'll let
you know that too.
Um, but like to me, it's a bigdeer.
When I have the shoulder mounton the wall, I ain't gonna sit
here sugarcoat.
That deer ain't even 100 inches.
But that deer had something thathad a meaning to me.
Like I first started dating mywife and I asked my
mother-in-law and father-in-lawhey, can I have the property?
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They're like, yeah, I sat at itOctober 27th.
I grunted come across thefreaking river and I shot him
and like, hey, it's my firstyear on my girlfriend's family's
land, I'm going to put it onthe wall.
And I mean, I mean, and thething is funny, cause, like I, I
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got a lot of heat from somefriends Like, oh, I can't
believe you put that, I can'tbelieve you wasted that money on
them and put that on the wall,blah, blah, blah.
And I, you know what it is,what it is.
But I tell you what these newphones, and you put that in 0.5.
You, you can make that deer 90inches.
You make them look 180 inches,you know, but it's like it's
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just, I'm just, I'm justenjoying it and I guess, like
the biggest thing of it is isthat I brought along matt,
assistant law courtney, now thatthey have joined me in the bow
hunting, you know, and stufflike that.
It's just, I don't know, it'sjust, it's more fun and we're
creating more memories now, youknow, and deep down, yeah, I
want to be successful.
100.
I want to shoot a big buck thisyear, but I think I want to see
either my brother-in-law, mattor courtney shoot a buck this
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year, because it's going to beon video, it's going to be, you
know, it's.
I want that.
I want that the most out ofeverything this year is for one
of those two to shoot a big buckthis year, and I have more, way
more time than they do so.
I'm not in no hurry to shootone like I.
I really just not, because Ithink this is so crazy too and I
know it gets in the guys headslike this and I shouldn't let it
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get into my head.
But last last year, november 9th, but last last year, november
9th, my brother-in-law, matt,was sitting in the ground blind
and he was.
I gotta go home, I gotta get upto the house, take a shit.
I'm like, okay, do it, but,dude, pop a spot on the freaking
river, let it fall down theriver.
Man, you gotta be in thatfreaking ground blind because
those deer are moving all daylong.
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He goes, oh I know, but I'll beright back out there, all right
.
Man sure shitets up to thehouse.
He's doing his things.
All of a sudden you hear himyelling in the ground blind.
Mike, the camera went off so Iknew something came through
there at 1230 in the afternoon.
He goes you got to be effingshitting me right now.
I go well, how's that poofeeling now?
A buck came through, a buckthat came.
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A buck came through.
We have never had the summerall fall, never had him on
camera.
I told him it's the rut thisdeer could have been how many
miles away.
And now he's hot on a dough,whatever.
And it was this buck, you guys,it was, um, yeah, it was
freaking huge, um it's.
I told him that's what happens,like you don't know.
When it comes to halloween weekand up until gun season, if you
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can sit all day long, you needto be sitting all day long but
no, I, I definitely agree withthat.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I mean, I especially a property like that, where you
know you're you're gonna getthose transitions and those deer
just cruising through.
Yeah, that's a property you gotto hunt all day long because
they're going to be using it allday long.
And yeah, you know what, if Ihad a property like that, I
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would 100% probably be doing thesame exact thing.
There's no reason to rush stuffwhen you have a property like
that.
For us here in new jersey, wehave no choice but to shoot a
toe, you know, um you gotta doyour part and step down.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We're kind of out of luck and that's what they like.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What you guys said too, like wisconsin used to be
that, wisconsin used to be earna buck yep, it used to be that.
And wisconsin they they changedtheir the rules, which I'm
actually happy they did.
Um, but yeah, they changed therules.
I think I don't know, maybe,like I think it was like five,
six years ago maybe.
But now it's just, we get gobuy our tag in the county that
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we're in.
If it's private or public land,you get your tags and go out
there and hunt so now, ryan here, because I I think craig heard
this, uh, on the last show.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If, if you're on, I can't remember if you were or
not days are going going by now,um, so one of our guys, zach,
um, he was telling me about astate, um that does their earn a
buck, where you earn it thisseason before.
Yes, so basically, to get tounlock your, your buck tag for
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the next year, for you know, say, for us in New Jersey the first
, you know, whatever you wouldhave to shoot a certain amount
of does the year before.
I would love and I know it'sprobably never going to happen,
but I would love for even if itwas five, even if New Jersey did
something ridiculous, you haveto shoot five does a year.
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I one would every, I thinkalmost every hunter, especially
serious, like a serious, seriousbow hunter, would love the
minute they kill their buck.
That's the only thing that theywould be doing is going out and
shooting does, right, and youget people that probably shoot
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one, and I do it too.
I shoot one to two becausethat's usually what I need.
Um, you know, including, youknow, including a buck and
everything like that.
But then I, I, yeah, I wouldshoot five, no, no problem.
And I would go donate like adough or two, like here, take it
to the donation, go feed thehungry, and there you go.
If it was five, if it was three, that's even easier to get.
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But like you understand, likethat's a pretty cool principle.
I'm going to have to ask Zachagain what state does it?
But yeah, it's like, come on,like I mean that changes.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Like the buck I shot this year, I wouldn't even go to
that stand, like to even thinkabout shooting my doe there, and
I had plenty of them.
But like you, end up trying tolike pick different stands.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But yeah, I can't blow these two out yeah, I, I
think that's the most, I thinkthat's one of the most
frustrating things for me.
Um, you know, and talking to alot of guys in new jersey and
stuff like that, like you haveto like, so for craig, like you
know, for you you get to go tothat property and like you get
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to hunt a buck, so you get toactually sit that property where
, like our spots, where we haveour mature deer on, or you know,
you don't even want to thinkabout going there, like you
don't, you don't want to doanything.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
What good is seeing that deer going to do me if I
can't shoot it Exactly?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
And it does happen Like it's.
It has happened, it's happenedto me, it's happened to other
guys, where that opening morningyou're, you're up there and
you're there is your hit listbuck right in front of you, 20
yards.
You know, I had once a hit listbuck stand out there for a good
like probably 30 to 45 minuteslike and give me a.
I could have shot him athousand times over right and
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it's like, uh, like what?
What do I do?
And I didn't know like.
This was years ago, so like Iwasn't you know how I hunt.
Now wasn't how I was doing.
I was kind of putting up astand and boom that was, that
was my stand, and I would huntthat thing, didn't know the
winds, didn't know like any, andI would just, I would just go
out.
This was the glory, glory daysof just being dumb and just like
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not overthinking things.
Now it's like I have to knowthe way I got to do it yourself.
Yeah Right, but man, I wouldlove I told, I told one of my
buddies who's a warden, he'sbeen letting me park at his
house to go hunt, um, andeverything like that.
I I told me he goes that's areally good idea and it's like,
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yeah, like I think that wouldthat would help them want to,
because yet again we're a statewhere it's unlimited does.
You can do this, you can dothat, like you would really put
an emphasis on shooting does ifyou could unlock your buck tag
the year before?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
yeah, that would.
That would definitely change upthe population dynamics a bit,
if you because, like you said,who wouldn't want to do that?
If you could walk out first dayof the season when you could
shoot a buck, then yeah, I'llput it in those days in january
and february, no problem andthen here's even more wishful
thinking.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Then you knock the buck, buck numbers out of how
many weeks you shoot.
You're like, if you, if you, ifyou, to get your butt like have
to shoot, just say yet again,five does, yeah, you're not
going to.
Then go shoot.
I think what is it?
Five to seven does that we canshoot?
I think I know, I think it'sfive with the bow for sure, for
sure that we're allowed to kill.
(40:18):
And then I think, however itworks, you have your
muzzleloader, you have your shot.
I don't really know the whole.
Yeah, so I think it's any.
It's like six to seven bucksthat we can kill in new jersey
if you hunt throughout the wholeentire year with, with every
weapon.
Right, that's insane, that isjust absolutely insane.
Knock that down to even three,three bucks, any weapon.
(40:41):
Five does unlock your unlock,your unlock, your buck tag.
That would, that would make.
But you know, never have we can, um, but yeah, I mean it's,
it's been a real good start forthe season.
So for for everyone um, curious, and I, and I have it right
(41:05):
here um, we, we've been doing a,a archery competition.
We've been doing it for thelast couple years, um, and I've
kind of opened it up a littlemore, um to to some other people
and just to grow it a littlebit.
I yet again don't want thisthing to get crazy big everybody
.
So you know, I I trust the guysthat are that are in in that.
(41:28):
So, like there are a couple ofrules that we have.
Like if you shoot a deer andyou don't recover it, you know I
can't just trust a randomperson from you know, whatever
that they're gonna hold whereeveryone in here, you know,
pretty truthful, we're all onsocial media, we do all these
things.
So it's like all right, likewell, this is what we're gonna
do.
But, um, we got 10 teams ofthree, um, and I think let's see
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we have.
We even had a bear kill too,which was pretty cool, but the
earliest we've had a bear killedtoo, which was pretty cool, but
the earliest we've had a bear.
So we have 15 deer killedalready.
That's crazy 15.
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One bear, one raccoon.
So we are our earliest we'veever had a bear killed and the
first raccoon to ever be killedwith a bow.
It's an Archie.
Only competition, everyone else.
So Instagram, I'll probably beputting the teams and everything
like that up on as you guys arelistening, it would be today,
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you know, and in first place,you know, we got um the diehard
team here, with our very ownryan over here, um, and just
absolutely killing it with twodeer.
And then so how we do it is, adeer is five points and then the
buck is whatever the antlersare are each point.
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So he was, uh, what we say, itwas an eight pointer, I think.
We said yep, so I think, justoff that, that deer alone, I
think what?
Um, it was 13 points, right,yeah, yeah, 13, that's 13 points
, um, you know.
So his, his team is in firstplace.
Then we have the second placeteam is the Tagout Tribe, which
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would consist of our guys,echoes of the Hunt.
Then we have Craig here, andthen we have your buddy too as
well, right, craig?
Is that your buddy or is that?
No, that's, but that's um thatwas exactly that's yeah that's
the thing.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I don't even need to shoot gear.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It was still in second place yeah, well, you got
, you got zach.
Zach is three, what yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
down there yeah, he knows already so I if I could
have been right, if I'm wronghere, but but are turkeys on
there?
Speaker 2 (43:58):
I think so yeah, Turkeys are on here.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yes, and we have yet to have a turkey killed, because
I haven't come out with aturkey hunting competition yet
for the next part of the season,but I tried shooting one last
year.
If you would have popped oneyou would get on the floor.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Now I'm thinking about something like this
morning I had 13 of those damnthings around me.
Then I'm sitting in my groundsitting my hang on stand.
You know, wife was texting me,hey, how's it going?
And I was the next thing.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
All I hear is what the?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I look back and I'm like candy, I'm like shit, and
then I went, I went on my gowild.
I'm like I don't even have afreaking fault.
What am I doing?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
What am I doing?
Can you get one still or no?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I can still buy one right now, if I want.
Which I probably after thispodcast.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
I'm probably going to go on my app and buy a buy one
You'll never see a turkey again.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
That's why I'm not buying one.
Here's the thing with Wisconsin, which I don't agree with it,
but whatever, but like the onlything, wisconsin there is a rule
that so if you don't buy yourarchery tape before season, you
have to legally wait three daysto hunt.
But now I can sit here in myfreaking bow stand and go buy a
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fall tag.
Oh, I got birds coming in bybefore day.
She went two minutes later andit's fine, so it's.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I don't understand, I don't get it, but that's weird,
it doesn't make sense, itdoesn't make.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
no, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
No, Trust me guys, you guys come up here for a year
to stay in Wisconsin, and you,I, actually the whole my
mother's, whole side of thefamily's out there.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Oh, okay, so I'm right now.
I'm out in O'Connell County, inCrockwell, wisconsin, right now
, but what?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
What about, like Northwest, Southeast?
What corner are?
Speaker 3 (45:45):
you North, maybe Northeast.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, so then I, my wife and I like 10 minutes from
Lambeau Field.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Okay, I got you.
So they were on the other side,like southwest of Madison, like
Blackberry, Prairie du Chienarea, Yep yep.
Yeah, I remember going out as alittle kid and seeing like my
grandpa's box or some of thedeer my cousins shot like 180s
190s.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Just crazy.
It's stupid dude.
And it's funny that you saythat, because I have one of my
coworkers, his father-in-law,and then, um, his, then his
brother-in-law.
They actually have property onbuffalo county, which is, that's
the matter.
Yeah, it's stupid dude, becausehere's the thing last year
james came to me at work.
He goes dude, look at, myfather-in-law just shot.
(46:33):
He showed me the picture of thedeer.
I swear it on my life, I'm likethere I.
This is not real I go, there isnot any fucking mule deer in
wisconsin?
Where the hell did he evenshoot this thing?
The fucking ears on this thingwas like this the horn is I.
I'm like you know what good forthem, like it must be nice to
build that you all have thewhatever they have in the water
(46:53):
out there, because those yearsare.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
It's not the water, it's the dirt, it's the soil,
dirt there you go dude.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
It's stupid how big those deer are out there.
It's crazy, it's stupid.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
I mean it, I don't know, it's just I mean, hey,
next year we're going, we'regoing to wisconsin next year.
Um, you know, I I already toldthe fiancee about.
I was on the phone with her theother day.
I was like, oh, just to let youknow, like there's a huge, I
mean high, chance that we go toWisconsin.
Now we got two guys from teamguys that are from Wisconsin, so
(47:24):
like Zach, zach and I um, he'sbasically like my now like
traveling buddy, he's down to goanywhere to go hunt, you know.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
If you guys are coming to Wisconsin, I I will be
flat out honest with you rightnow.
We will get a hotel in BuffaloCounty and we are going to go on
public land out there, Withouta doubt.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Not even a question.
I could imagine regionally, inthe state as you go from east to
west, where the deer changesjust because the soil and the
content like different species.
It's stupid, it's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Oh yeah, Then it's game on.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
They're like your northern Michigan deer up there
as opposed to like your reindeerdown.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah, it's just dumb, it's just dumb, it's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
And then I'll finish this and then we can get going.
In third place right now wehave Mountain Titans Media.
A big part is because they shotthat damn bear.
I did not look at the exactpoint total that they had, but
they shot a bear.
I think it came in weighing 216pounds dressed.
(48:46):
So I think that's like 10points for a bear.
And then fifth so I think thatwas 12 points, I think 14,
whatever it is and then infourth place your truly own.
You know, we got our two doeson the ground.
And then in third place isKyle's team, which actually I
(49:11):
think Kyle is actually ahead ofluck because I think I messed up
and forgot to put Travis hisdough and everything like that.
So actually they're in fourthplace and we'd be in fifth place
, but we're gonna get there.
Um, the I love doing this, likeI.
You know, before the seasonit's always like, oh, like it's
(49:32):
a lot of work, like organizingit, everything like that.
Um, but then once it actuallystarts, it's like all right,
this is what's so fun about it.
Like that group chat is, whensomebody gets something, it just
it just blows up where, likethat's what I like so much about
the camaraderie, everythinglike that.
It's like you're at camp.
It's like you're at camp.
(49:53):
It really is virtual deer, youknow, um, and it's a lot of fun,
um, you know, I think next yearwe're gonna change.
We're gonna change some stuffaround.
I think I'm gonna take away afew of the bonus points and
everything like that, keep it alittle simpler, um.
But also, I think the big gameplan is to actually take the
(50:13):
winnings and just do donationsand donate it to you know any,
whoever wins, they'll get todecide, kind of where the winner
chooses yeah that's cool.
Yeah, winner chooses and we'lldo that.
I think, do it for a greatcause and everything like that.
I just want to brag.
Yeah, that's all I want to sayI'm in, works we all, if we all
(50:35):
chip, which I'm going to bringup if we all chip in $'m going
to bring up, uh, something, ifwe all chip in five dollars I am
down to get a whole trophy andI'll shoot every time somebody
wins or whatever we should getthe or the belt, we ship it out
and everything like that.
Or when you guys come to thegame, dinner and everything like
that.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Well, yeah, add a name to the belt every year.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yeah, yeah I love that you said bragging rights,
because my ultimate goal everyyear because he trash talks me
so fucking much every year andhonestly it gets under my skin
once in a while but I know thatI would beat his ass so I don't
care.
But bragging rights 100%,because when I do shoot a bigger
(51:13):
buck in a season than Quinton,he will never hear the end of it
until the next year of fuckingopening day.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
I tell you that right now.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
Mark my fucking words .
I love the guy to death.
He's one of my close friends.
How far are you?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
from Quinton how far?
Speaker 3 (51:27):
do you?
Speaker 1 (51:27):
guys live from each other.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
He now lives in Milwaukee, so about an hour and
a half away now.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay, yeah, I love the guy to death.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Like I said, he has my back.
I always have his back.
I see his, his stir up onsocial media once in a while,
but I tell you what?
The day I shoot a bigger buckthan him, he ain't gonna fucking
.
It ain't just gonna be a weektrash talk, it's gonna be a
whole fucking year until openingweekend.
I tell you that right now, forthe, for the whole year he will.
(52:03):
Every day he wakes up and thething is he knows, oh yeah, I'll
make sure he puts my name, myface, my buck, on his freaking
damn backdrop of his phone, andhe knows it's coming to him.
He knows it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
I love it.
Hey, hey.
Maybe next year we come up withstipulation whoever has the
least amount of points?
Speaker 3 (52:19):
they're freaking like we kind of yeah, like like we
should do something a fearfactor rather than the bragging
rights.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Yeah, here we shoot.
Then you're right, that'sawesome, um, but guys, um,
everybody, you know it, it's.
It's been a hell of a week forfor week one here and you know,
in in our areas and everythinglike that, I know the rest of
the states are going to beopening up in the next coming
(52:50):
week, I think.
I think pa is open today I Ithink pa is open today, or
certain zones of PA open today.
I know New York is the October1st and then after that every,
everywhere should be open andeverything like like that.
Now, but really looking forwardto really things are really
(53:14):
going to start heating up.
You know, as as time goes onthe leaves already in my area
are in some of my areas arealready starting to change
everything like that acorns aredropping like crazy people.
Um, white oats, get on them,find, find those white oats and
it.
It's tough being in western uh,like the west jersey, because
(53:36):
the the oak flats are so damnbig and they're just all
dropping all at the same time.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
They'll be dropping like 50 reds to like two white
oats and then, if I know,everywhere I found, I found I
found some whites.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Um, finally found some whites the other day and,
yeah, it's literally one whiteand then it's like everything
else is like reds around it.
But if you can find it, peopleget, get on it.
And yeah, like we're, we'resuper excited for the, for the
season and you know, can't,can't wait to see what what else
brings in.
And, ryan, it was an absolutepleasure.
(54:12):
Yet again, congratulations onthat.
Speaker 2 (54:16):
Yeah, thanks guys, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Oh, I know what I'm doing tonight I'm buying my
turkey steak.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Get on it.
Hey, listen, if you kill onethis week, we are clipping what
we said and that is going to be,on your like.
We're going to be clipping thatFair enough, alright, boys,
there you go Everyone.
I hope you guys Enjoyed thisepisode and we'll literally See
(54:44):
you guys next week.
Yeah Bye, See ya boys.
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