SPEAKER_07 0:00

Oh, you got another? There's there's two. Both sides.

SPEAKER_04 0:04

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_06 0:10

There's two. It looks like a reindeer. I don't even know if we know if well, my dad, obviously. I don't think he knows that we found that. That looks like your buck's toes that you found.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

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SPEAKER_07 0:42

I think it's episode 30 of the Time Talk Podcast. We're back at the cabin. Dirty 30. You can see Johnny's buck up there. I might as well intro it with laying right over by Fletcher over there.

SPEAKER_06 0:55

Starting off hot. Got one side the year before that I shot him. The land that I shot him came up. It's like open NFL, MFL now. And a guy was out there shed hunting one day, and he said he told me the whole story. He said, You know what? I found it one day and I talked to my co-workers. He's like, What do you think? Should should I give it to him? Or what should I do? And luckily the final consensus was, yeah, I think you should give it to him.

SPEAKER_07 1:24

So I get a random call like a Monday night or something. And he's like, Hey, uh Mitch, right? I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:32

He's like, I'm pretty sure I just found the shed to the buck you shot back in 22. I'm like, no fucking way.

SPEAKER_07 1:40

The one shed that's missing. Yeah. Yeah, literally. Because we have one two-year-old side, both three and a half, and now both four and a half year old sides. And yeah, can't believe it. I mean, he still looks like he's in really good condition yet, too. Oh, for sure. It was like right on the edge of the woods and some grassy stuff. He sent me a picture of kind of how he how it laid. But yeah, you can tell it's been laying in there for a while on the bottom of the beam and everything, and squirrels got out of him a little bit, but for how long it laid there? It's four years. Four years ago. It's way bigger than what it was in that picture you showed us, too. Oh yeah. I mean, with all this on here, he's gotta be like damn near 80 inch. Yeah. And the guy said too when he found it, he measured it, and it was right at like 68 or so with all the tines missing and everything like that. Yeah. And you can kind of see Johnny's buck up there, and he has the same characteristics, got that that one tine that just leans forward on that beam like that. Just super cool. Man, what a I can't I can't believe Monday night just get a random phone call, random number.

SPEAKER_06 2:47

He's like, Yeah, I'm pretty sure I found that shit. I'm like, what? So I went over to his house and I talked to him forever, and he's really a nice guy. He's got kids that are into hunting and stuff too.

SPEAKER_07 2:57

And actually, this one right here, too, I found over on Johnny's this year, and they were after that buck too. Oh, really? And I think they had he said they had an encounter with him this year, and they're just his son was all ate up after seeing him too. So that'd be cool if either us or one of them can shoot him next year and return the favor and give the shed back. Yeah, I'd appreciate that. I'm sure no kidding. And then we got, I guess we'll round out here the biggest sheds. This one was over at the home farm this year. Actually, had two different encounters with him. My nephew would have shot him if he could have maintained composure, but he got a little buck fever and couldn't keep her steady. I'm sitting there feeling like whenever you're ready, just I'm on him. Squeeze the trigger. Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_06 3:44

But he got away that day and he made it till gun season, and we do our Whopper Wednesday every year. And as soon as I think as soon as they got over and crested the hill, one of my buddies saw him right away, just bedded down, and he like got up and just ran past like four different guys.

SPEAKER_07 4:01

Then he made it all the way around, through the saddle, came around, dime on me, and he's probably ran 15 yards away from me. Oh, he was all in ass. I'm like, that fucker's never coming back here. I'm not gonna see that guy again. What do you know? That was a late find, too. My dad just found him a couple weeks ago. Right. Last week. Yeah, last week. Playing in the beans, right? Yeah, and the beans that they said they covered. Yeah, I remember that day. We were over in that one spot, kitting your uh your new corn planter. Oh, really? I showed up late to go. Oh, and they had blocked that. Oh, they okay. Yeah, I mean they had a couple side by sides and they were going back and forth in the fields, I guess. Huh. I've missed them before in the field and then come found them come planting season in the beans. Yeah, you know, it's crazy too.

SPEAKER_06 4:49

Once you get a little green under it, how much more they pop out, and obviously they've been sitting in the sun forever, getting white and white and white, just soaked.

SPEAKER_03 4:56

I couldn't even see the one on the side by side when we were driving at Golden. The one I seen? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:02

Oh, yeah, that was a great spot.

SPEAKER_07 5:04

I was looking way out. We drive for an 80-inch side.

SPEAKER_05 5:08

It's a big one. Yeah, there's a big one. We're like, where?

SPEAKER_07 5:11

Yeah, they always like to call me blind bat Brody, but I'm the was the one picking them all. He's the one driving. He's like, oh, there's a shed, looks like a good one.

SPEAKER_06 5:19

I'm like, yeah. Oh, yeah, there it is. Go left.

SPEAKER_07 5:25

How many did we find that day on Golden? I don't know, eight, nine, ten, maybe. Yeah. I know everybody found one for sure. Yeah. Last find one that day?

SPEAKER_06 5:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

First one. First one. Oh, first one.

SPEAKER_07 5:38

Oh, yeah, yep. As soon as we stepped in the woods. I found that little bitty spike laying out in the hayfield. The butter roadie side.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

That was tough.

SPEAKER_07 5:47

Right? Tough either.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

We found I mean it doesn't look tough here.

SPEAKER_07 5:53

We had found what five down there previously. Yeah. We mo probably wouldn't have picked up ten, ten or twelve on that farm. I think total we're probably under thirty. It's over thirty. Is it? For the ones we've been picking up cutting timbers. Oh, after the last few you found. Yeah.

unknown 6:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:13

It's probably closer to 50. Really? And that's like, I don't even know if we've really walked any at the house. Just for the ones you're cutting timba. Clip that.

SPEAKER_07 6:26

Just the ones that you're kicking walking by the next tree, the next tree. Honestly. There wasn't hardly any deer on there anyway. I mean, we found one side of splits and then one side off that five-year-old A point and all. No. That splits block should be freaking awesome. I hope so. Yeah. Be nice. I was gonna let him go. Next year. You guys have a group meeting about that one. Maybe Luke too. Yeah. He's right over the hill. Everyone draws blood. Yeah. It wasn't the best shed year, but it is what it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

How about you, Luke? Find many bucks. Maybe 30, 35. That's a good year though. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing crazy. None of the bucks that we wanted to find. Right. Um walked a lot too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:14

I try to keep a tracker every year, but I forgot this year. Just would one day be like, oh, I'm gonna go walk.

SPEAKER_07 7:20

Don't turn it on, or cell phone batteries too low to turn it on like that, too. I like the onyx tracker.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Yeah. It just eats your phone. Oh yeah. Then it's kind of nice to like look at it and like, oh, I kind of missed this pocket. So the next time you walk, you're like, oh yeah, they're in here. You are like, gosh. Feeling sheddy out there. But no, it was good. Um kind of the same here. Ran out of food early, like right after Christmas. What are you gonna do? You know.

SPEAKER_07 7:49

We left more beans this year than we ever have, and honestly, helped. I don't even know if we found ten over at the farm where I shot the two-footer this year. Really? Yeah. We found six laying in the fields, and we well, we were gonna do that group walk that one day, and then we got what, two feet of snow? Right. That kind of and then we yeah, barely even made it out again. Like I went out, probably walked five miles after that and found one shed. Oh Jesus. Yeah, I'm gonna have to. I know I didn't cover a lot of ground over there. Right. And there's a couple that I'd like to find yet, but oh well. Found one side to a buck that we call misfire. He's gonna be seven this year. Oh boy. Yeah. Oh, is that that six by five looking one? Yeah, the one my dad let go the same night you shot dagger. Oh yeah. He came to the water hole so early, too, and I'm like, he's he's old enough. Like you can shoot him. And he's just sitting there drinking. I'm like, fuck it. I'd shoot him right now. But that we had that other one around that he was kind of saving for, which I don't blame him at all. It'd been hard to shoot. Yeah. Yeah. Like if that was dagger in the plot and I had one of those running around, yeah, dagger would just get a fuck out of here. Shoot. But then we got this guy over here, too. I seen him one random day after I shot two-footer, I went out trying to shoot a doe.

SPEAKER_06 9:12

Actually hopped up in a blind, and there's fucking mice running around everywhere in it. Bees everywhere. I'm like, yep, not doing this. Didn't didn't have my uh camera arm. So I'm like, well, I can't go sit in a tree. Went and sat on the ground, on the ground on a log somewhere, right on the edge of the field. And this fucking doe came out and she saw me, and she got all nosy and just came right into range.

SPEAKER_07 9:37

And I shot at her at like 30 yards and she ducked so bad, and I hit her and she turned. I think I hit her a little too low. Never found her. Oh boy. But I was tracking her and I was on blood, and I don't know if she was just coming into heat too, because it was like mid-October probably.

SPEAKER_06 9:51

But he just kept popping out of the ditch and like looking up and like following me. I'm like, what the fuck is this guy? Might have to name him nosy or something like that. There you go.

SPEAKER_07 10:01

Like Peekaboo. Yep, there's Peekaboo again. He's kind of a ditch dweller though, too. Is he? Likes running the ditches. Didn't have him at all on our that spot on top where I shot the two-footer this year. That's I feel like that's that spot always catches like every buck sometime in the year, but never got him on camera over there. It's kind of a hub up there, isn't it? Yeah. Just a lot of good betting. We walked through there too, didn't find any sheds. That's when my niece was with. We saved a bunch for her to pick up this year. It's gotta be fun. She got out of the ranger, and I think she walked like 50 yards.

SPEAKER_06 10:39

She's like, I'm tired. I don't like let's go back. And my dad's going over the side and walking apart that's just straight up and down, slipping and falling on his ass. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:53

Like, yeah, you can get back in the rangers.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

I've never found sheds on like a super steep.

SPEAKER_07 10:59

No. Never. You just pretty much avoid them. They're not gonna be there. I yeah, I don't know. Like sometimes, like uh down a golden, like right behind the shed, right up at the top. I'll find a few.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

It looks good far away. You're like, oh, they're gonna be up there, and then you get there, it's like maybe drop them when they're running down the hill, you know.

SPEAKER_06 11:21

Stay on a trail. After uh shed season, what do you guys what else you guys been up to? Been getting plots ready?

SPEAKER_07 11:28

Cutting timber? I've been cutting timber. Lots of timber. We should talk about the new plot you created. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What are we gonna call that one? Yeah, what's the new one? What should we call that one, Luke? Which one? The one where I dozed in on where you're giving where Brody was giving me hell again.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

What is a good name for that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 11:47

Well, we always used to call it Three Corners or whatever back in the day because it's just like up where three ridges meet. But there's this there's like pretty much just one buck at home that made it. Only reason why I know he made it is because Luke had pictures of it. Yeah. Christmas Eve. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

Christmas Eve morning.

SPEAKER_07 12:04

I thought it was dead. Last picture I had of it was like Halloween wading around in the pond, and he just looked sick. And then you sent the picture when he was still alive, so it made it told us that he made it. But when he was so he was four last year, it was that big four G4 buck, you know, the big fours buck. I was just looking at uh old videos of him on our app. Really? And the reveal app, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yeah, so he's probably what really nice, clean, typical eight inch G4s, but thin. Probably like what rate like 160, maybe high 50s.

SPEAKER_05 12:39

I would say like high fifties. Right. I'd get I'd call him like a peak 160. So he made it. So he's gonna be five. And I had we seen him a bunch at our place when he was three, like a bunch.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

I mean, he'd walk up to the house.

SPEAKER_07 12:53

I seen him uh breed a dough with big fifty out in the field, uh, you know, and stuff when he was three, but he just didn't hang around much when he was last year when he was four. Like if when he finally showed up, it was like after I never got any velvet picks. You you always had the velvet picks. Yep. And then seen him a little bit, you know, he'd be daylight a couple he daylighted like once or twice on the cameras, like around October 24th. So I don't know what the hell the deal was where he wasn't hanging around so much this year. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

I know it's not like you've seen him a bunch though either. I think the last pictures I got was like in the teens of October. Yeah. The 17th is just drawing my attention, but you know, and then after that you saw him and then just gone. Gone. Rolled him off. Right. Thought he was dead.

SPEAKER_07 13:37

I thought I'd find him shed season, but then you made it. So I got a Harry uh what do you call it? Spark up my ass one day. And I figured I'll take that to it. Well, there's this spot we always used to call three corners, and we've kind of just like neglected it the past like few years, that side of the farm.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

And I got like a food plot and water hole down on the down on the one side behind the shed.

SPEAKER_07 14:04

And that's where I'd get like the most pictures of them. And so I've been doing all this TSI though, like down around the valleys of like this is up top, so I've been all down and around the valley. So and I was walking up there, and we're supposed to cut a little bit up there too, and it's just a bunch of like scrubby junk, like prickly ash, buckthorn, scrubby stuff. So I'm just like, god damn, I should just like open this up and there's a water hole up there already. Line the water hole and just get everything just all juiced up. Maybe this is maybe that's gonna entice him to stay, or maybe when he does come, I'll have a better chance of shooting him. Yeah, maybe he's living on the one neighbor there, you know, and on Tommy's there or something, you know. Maybe he's living more over that way. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 14:46

So I don't know. I got it up there and I just started pushing with the uh skid steer one day, and holy balls, I got her cleaned out good.

SPEAKER_07 14:54

Yeah, you know, really good. Yeah, like two and a half acres.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_07 14:59

I mean, I don't, it's for sure an acre.

SPEAKER_04 15:01

It's all of an acre. Acre and a half, easy to save. You get up there and it I push it all the way out to like a bald knob, even too, like where they come up out of back valley where I got all the TS. It feels just it feels like home. Got the thing lined, and I uh frost seated it all with rye and stuff.

SPEAKER_07 15:18

I just drove up there last week or something after we got one warm day and it was just starting to sprout poking. Yep, and the water hole was full. I bet it's it looks real nice already now.

SPEAKER_03 15:27

So you know did you tarp that or beton I'd it tarped it? Tarp it.

SPEAKER_07 15:31

Yep. Cool. So I got her just all pre-moded up right now. All we gotta do is I fucked up the stand that was there. I got her, caught her with one of the grapples, and I yanked her. So that one might just be there for good old looks now. I don't know if we'll be able to climb up there, but uh to get a millennium up.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

Yeah, you got a millennium in the barn.

SPEAKER_04 15:49

So yeah, pretty much just been that's been one big job I've been on. Got her finished in a few days, and then I've been uh I cleaned off a couple other clover plots with the leaf blower, and I blew all I went around the whole thing, and it was when there it was there when it was really dry. I blew all the leaves around the around the edge, blew them into a big pile, and I just started on fire.

SPEAKER_05 16:11

And I sent a picture of Norby and I'm like, ah, almost fucked up.

SPEAKER_07 16:16

And he goes, I would recommend not doing that. I would recommend not doing that. But it all got her all burnt down nice. I can see she's all green and up really good right now. There's actually like quite a few deer in there eating every night. So turkeys, turkeys probably coming in there too. Yeah. Look out. So I got a couple of the home farm uh kill plots all ready, juiced up, ready to go. Kind of just want to get some stuff done early so I don't gotta worry about them later. Yeah. And then that's the time to do all the clearing and get that plot. It's nice right now because it's established. It's nice right now because it's warm and there's no foliage out yet. Yeah, you know. Right. So my plan is hopefully that clover comes up with that rye, and I'll just go up there whatever time come time comes and I'll mold it rye, and there's still a bunch of like going out on that bald knobs. There's just like a bunch of like prickly ash and shit. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna take that brush cutter and just like just start carving paths out there for them, you know. So they just walk down or like lay down out there.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:15

It's actually you get up there, it's like, oh god, this is primo. We gotta do a force tour. I took all the brush and I pushed it along the side so they like have to come in on this side, you know, and they have to come in on this side. A little mark jury, what do they call that? Poopot architecture. You know, I pushed it all up nice.

SPEAKER_06 17:32

So easy to hunt a wind when you know what direction they're coming in.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

The no tree stand tree, I want to put the stand in. Dad has actually has an old old stand in it right now.

SPEAKER_07 17:42

That's like it's still got the tree pegs in it. So sweet. It's actually in a perfect spot if you got like a northwest wind or north wind. You could still hunt it on a cell too, because then it'll blow right over the other side of the ridge, too. So it's like perfect. Yeah. But although this buck still has to show up for me and we're gonna hunt it. So it's just a lot of work for a hope and a prayer, but yeah, at least I'm ready. Yep. Extra trick to add to the arsenal for them. No kidding. So that's what I've been up to. Yeah. That's a sweet. I want to check it out. Or not you should see after our TSI cut, you're gonna have to come see that too, dude. Oh man. Yeah, this week, and what you're gonna do is a little stand of popple. Yeah. A little.

SPEAKER_04 18:28

Little I'd you know boom, you know, boom, you know, boom. That's what it's like.

SPEAKER_07 18:32

I'm down at we're left the skid steer up there because I was he was laughing over the road and then I'd push him off.

SPEAKER_04 18:39

Should we back up? We're only we're down to one chainsaw right now because we had mine last week. No, had a tree to land drain on her, throttle.

SPEAKER_07 18:49

Yeah, anyways, yeah. So Brody's back. I got the stall stuck once, so Brody had to push it on with the skid steer to get her pinched. Yeah, and then we've only got one. Well, yeah, then he got it pinched once way up in the woods, and then we got a little bitty, how big is the bar on that one? 12 inches? Yeah, we got a little like 13, 14-inch bar, you know, eat uh toy. We got a toy, you know, and it's got one bolt holding the bar on because Butcher stole it to put it on his chainsaw, you know. Dude, I've been going hard. It's chains every night. Rigma rolls is what it is, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

I go down, I go down to eat, eat some lunch, I come back out, all I hear is like probably 20.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

I look up on the hill, it's just whump.

SPEAKER_07 19:41

What they're just falling. You guys pull in by the you look to the right of the mailbox up there, clear line of sight all the way to the top of the ridge. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:50

We'll be able to pound oh next year on our drives.

SPEAKER_07 19:53

Drive them to the clinging bullets. No kidding. Just all run there and stop. Yeah, I just was watching the canopy open up. Well, yeah, we're good. Getting shit done back inside. More food for them next year. You know, stick around a little bit longer. Yeah. Been putting a lot of time and effort to at the home place this year. So hopefully she pays off. Hopefully, there's a buck to hunt. We'll see. You know, would we say no call bucks this year until it comes comes time? No call bucks, prices are so high. Yeah, prices are so high. Fertilizer price so high. No call bucks. What did I say? I said, hell with that. That that means every tag's getting filled. Shit happened last year. I know. Do it again, run it back. You get back-to-back booners, you get back-to-back healthy tags. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Probably should go. We should probably run over to the Minnesota farm, check that out. Hopefully, there's clover coming up. I have I had planted clover in each one of those fields, so hopefully clover is like established or something for them to chew on until the planting time comes. Yeah. So we were over there. We stopped by after the Deer Classic. Yeah. A little walk in there too.

SPEAKER_05 21:11

Oh, Iowa tour.

SPEAKER_07 21:12

Yeah, Iowa tour. We got down and saw some ground down there too. Yeah. That was pretty fun. That was fun. Cool to experience a little new uh topography. Yeah, literally. Holy shit. Yeah. A lot different than around here. So the big old bluffs. Like we went to Iowa, seen that, then we stopped at Minnesota. Still different. Then you come back home and it's just like, ah, for home. Used to the bluffs. Yeah, you know. How many did we find that day? Like five or six? I thought there was like I they were still in the back of my truck. There's like eight more. There's like eight or nine or something in there. Nothing crazy. Yeah. Found two, I think. Yeah, right in that plot where you shot your buck last year. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Two little guys. There's there should be like yeah, there's like three bucks Over there, that should be five plus. One'll one's gonna be a minimum of seven. Uh the one that you picked up that old match set to, he's gonna be five. He's like a great big war horse body, you know, tight rack ten point. And then uh there's like a scrubbier eight-point looking thing that's that'll be five. Any of them 12 pointers make it? Uh don't uh touchy subject. Yeah. Twelve pointers will sound intriguing too.

SPEAKER_05 22:33

How about you guys? You guys been up to?

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Just a little bit of the same, but not quite the login. Not the same operation. No, just a little bit of hinge cutting, a little bit of buckthorn cutting. A little frost feeding. I don't know. Just kind of spinning my wheels right now, like thinking like I'm gonna go for like a lot of beans this year. Yeah. I'm gonna leave like my clover plots. I'm not gonna add any any more like chicory, or I'm gonna add like the chicory where it was and stuff, but I'm gonna really hammer beans this year. You know?

SPEAKER_05 23:08

Frick yeah. Fuck yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Like, I like the corn, right? And it's like I'm in the mentality right now where there's a couple deer I want to kill. And I think like beans will do it. I gotta kill them in the beans. Like later, earlier? Probably later. It's gonna be in the beans. It'll be in the beans. Yeah. I don't know. I just got it like stuck in my head where I'm like, you know, I love corn. Corn's like the shed hunting. And I like, you know, picking up sheds and I want there, I'm gonna plant enough corn, you know, to keep them long as whatever, but my mentality this year is I just really want to kill over like beans. I want to get a bunch of deer out the beans. I want them to feel like safe. Pack that muzzle odor. Yeah. Right. I just want them to be like just a big open bean field, socialized, kind of feel safe. With that new redneck that you're buying? Yep. Oh, paid in full. Sponsor us. Sponsor us redneck. Come on. Yeah, yeah. I'm excited about that. That new plot or whatever. Um, we walked it, kind of got some ideas. It's not uh ton of potential. Yeah, that's that's where we're at with that. Huge potential. The the new one? Yep, ton of potential. Five-year program on that thing, night and day. Right. Nice. So nice. First step was getting the redneck in that field that we're gonna put the redneck in, anticipating the wind's gonna be out of the north. So that's kind of why I pulled the pin on a redneck. A lot of beans out front. I got it in my head that I'm gonna plant like corn. That redneck's gonna kind of sit like four rows into the corn. Oh, yeah. Clover, chicory out front, water tank out there, rub post. Playground. Dino might. Then I'm gonna plant like corn on the that would be the east side of the field. Yep. And then uh I got two-year-old um Alpha Alpha seated. So it's just gonna be a whole smorgash magnet. Whole magnet.

SPEAKER_07 25:12

Charcuterie boy.

SPEAKER_06 25:13

Was that breaking news on the pod? Just got a new spot to hunt.

SPEAKER_07 25:16

Yep. That's right. Let's go. Getting them off my line, baby.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

That's what I was saying. You're talking about that plot for G4, and I'm like, brother, I'm gonna be 100 yards away. My odds are just as good as yours.

SPEAKER_05 25:33

We're gonna walk past him first before he's on his way to me.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Haven't even broken already in the game.

SPEAKER_07 25:38

Hoping those does don't blow at your early season. I'm gonna I no shooting does around that side of the farm.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

You gotta leave them alone.

SPEAKER_07 25:46

That's strictly business. Yeah, those girls know what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

How big of a bean plot are you gonna you're thinking about? So that whole field is gonna be like just shy of 10 acres. So like the law, it'll be like that pond, the whole thing's 10?

SPEAKER_07 26:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

So like uh pictures I sent you guys where it's like dead, like so that got sprayed last fall, so it's plant ready right now. So it'll be it's gonna be a big plot. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:10

I mean, it's never been that before though, either, right?

SPEAKER_03 26:12

There's never been so really any food left there. A little bit of some help in the neighborhood, yeah. A little bit of beans left, but not or like there was last year a little bit of beans on like that east side. So we cleaned up that fence line and just planted them in there, you know. But yeah, they had them licked off and nothing. I mean, it was probably not even an acre. Half acre. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:32

So be really curious to see because usually like the bucks that you'd have over there eventually seem to end up at our place because we're the guys with the food, right? Right. Just like we're sitting there with the gun. Here come that red man guy. I mean, never seen him before he come over for the food. Right. It's cold out. So be kind of curious to see it. Those you know, they're gonna really stay home this year, you know what I mean? Which they should.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

I don't know why they would. I mean, why they wouldn't leave. Yeah, you know. Kind of like what I'm leaning into right now is getting it doctored up like as early as I can. So if I do get like a bachelor group of bucks, like maybe it'll stick in their head, like, hey, hey, here's what's going on. So I know I got a lot of L Falf over there, but if I can get like a little bit of clover, heavy chicory, and then I'm gonna save a spot and do like Nebraska plot. Yeah, you know, and I'll probably end up broadcasting brassica in the beans and they're gonna chew a bunch down and it gets decent sunlight, except for where it's tight to the woods, so even better for beans. Yeah. And then uh got a little bit of logging planned for next year, so that'll that should really spruce things up, I think. In my opinion, I think it's gonna kind of change the way it's gonna hunt, you know. But even better with that redneck, you know, can move it anywhere. Um access is still really good to hunt that when it's good access for it. Yeah, that'll be good access. Up and feels like over or whatever.

SPEAKER_07 27:52

Pretty much drive your truck and just sneak down the fence line type of deal, you know, sneak in.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

But I think I'm gonna be kind of what it is.

SPEAKER_07 27:57

Like you sent that one picture of that truck on the you pretty much walk the road and get up.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

Yeah, you just pull into it, take the farm road all the way up, kind of where I was parked there, and then it kind of dips down by the pond, then it comes up to a little bit of shelf, and that'll all be standing corn, and I'm gonna leave like a trail through the corn to get right to the steps. Oh yeah. And I bought a five-foot platform too. Just I like sitting out of that one, your guys in the backfield, and then I was like, well, I get ten foot, but I'm glad I got the five foot because I'm thinking I'm gonna leave it in the corn a little bit. So like those corn tassels are gonna be like just up and I can reach out there and snip a couple. It's gonna be just that's gonna be awesome. You can climb out, you know, and nobody's gonna see you then.

SPEAKER_07 28:38

That's what I'm hoping for. All right. Yeah, we should go check it out for sure. Yeah, we gotta do some farm tours, get some ideas. Then you got that nice secluded top field too, you know, that you'll be able to work with.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

If you know that's where the plots gotta go in the future.

SPEAKER_07 28:51

It's like a backfield plot down the golden is what it feels like. A little bit bigger, just like comparables that you guys have seen.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

Right on the top of a ridge. Oh, so like damn the ridge finger like busts down into it.

SPEAKER_04 29:03

Yeah, I mean, right here. Come here, dear.

SPEAKER_03 29:07

That's all fresh seeded last year, alfalfa. So gonna leave that for a little bit, make some bales off of it. But you know they're gonna be up there chewing around. Oh, yeah. Yep. Um, even though I got that big pond there, I need a just a tank or like an earth pond or whatever, right in front of that redneck just to kind of scoot them in. Yep. Bring them in range a little bit. Kill spots.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

A little kill, yeah. Juice box. We don't need a juice box. Yeah, juice box.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

Yeah. But no, super excited about that. Um, just gotta get it in motion on getting it planted. Yep. It's almost yeah, I'm planting it all. It's gonna be like a little 40-20. No, cab tractor. Finally, but no, I I like get anxiety like thinking and talking about it because like trying to get it done. Yeah, and it's like finally, like you finally get to do it. Yeah, it feels good, right? You know, like it feels like now I'm gonna get like some forward progress on like holding deer on that farm. Because like when we were filming for Addy, you know, Red Man was over there, and he's respectable. Oh, dude, he was nice.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Like, if you walked out and Addie wanted to shoot it, I'd have been like, take the gun. Norby would have been trying to hold her down, you know. I just took the bullet whimpering like a dog.

SPEAKER_07 30:20

But no, super. Um there's the like Y9, you know, that lives over that way, it seems like. Yeah. I mean, there's like a couple studs that should be like studs, you know.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

I just really want like a I want to get it out of the way early, like what you did. Like it doesn't have to be opening weekends.

SPEAKER_07 30:38

Luke Belke and I were just talking about this today. If we could shoot one in the first hour and be done, I'd give my left nut to do it. To shoot your target buck in the first hour. I didn't have a heavy D there.

SPEAKER_04 30:50

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know what I mean? If it's the one you want, why wouldn't you want to just shoot it right away? Be done. Ah, dude. You don't have to go stay up all night.

SPEAKER_07 30:58

Oh, no. You'll never get another chance. Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

That's the thing.

SPEAKER_07 31:02

That's why I've been way more aggressive early season two. I am too. Like they seem more killable in in September. Yeah. You know, September, first week of October than they do, you know, on the rut. On that path.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

It's kind of like good luck. It's kind of luck of the draw a little bit. And I'm excited too, like at the home farm, if you want to call it. Um I picked up that six acres. And so that's why I'm gonna go heavy beans there too. And I'm gonna plant a lot of corn like in that six acres. Probably majority of it's gonna be corn. A little bit of sorghum and some other stuff. I'm gonna try out. I'm gonna try like sorghum millet and then be a little bit of beans, and then I'm actually gonna do like some rye right down the middle because it washes so bad too. So yeah, it's gonna just kind of be fun like a food pantry.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

We're gonna we're going to uh what do you call what do you call it? Uh the lazy Susan. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:03

Lazy Susan.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

It's not, yeah. Lazy Susan and the juice box. That's there we go. Yeah. No, I'm gonna plant a lot of brassica in that plot that we're uh paid shut her buck out of a lot of beans. So I'm gonna I'm leaning toward like greens this year. Greens and beans, greens and beans, greens and beans, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, you name tomatoes and put some pumpkins in there too.

SPEAKER_07 32:31

God damn it. What do you guys think about Milo? You've ever we've tried it, but we planted it way too late. Yeah, it sounds like so chance to be he's gonna try a bunch of it.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

I might be getting Milo. I thought it was called millet. Maybe it's Milo. There's millet too, yeah. Yeah, I'm getting like sorghum, and it started with an M. I was calling it millet. Maybe it's Milo, but uh I'm gonna try it. They actually eat that seed.

SPEAKER_07 32:56

But it sounds like they eat the seed or the crap on it, right? But they won't touch it when it's growing or whatever, you know what I mean? Like yeah, they only eat it when it's finished. Yeah, like corn and beans. Yeah, yeah, because they'll just chew on them all the time.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

Yeah, and that's not the whole reason why, but I'm gonna try it in that new six-acre plot to see if it takes some pressure off of like you know, like corn when it's in the wintertime, you know, just to like stretch it out a little bit. Yeah, it seems like you hit that cold snap and everything's just pigging out on your standing corn.

SPEAKER_07 33:27

And yeah, when you get when you got an X amount of deer coming out every night, shit don't take long to get rid of, you know.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

And it's not even at night when it's colder and beans out, they're out there all day long. Yeah, just chomping. It's like so. I'm gonna try it. It might not work, it might work, it might be great. And I think that sorghum's gonna be like sweet screening too. Oh, yeah. Right, you know, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 33:48

Gosh, I like this. I like talking about it. Just something different.

SPEAKER_04 33:53

Dude, we got that new six-year-old planner, dude.

SPEAKER_07 33:55

We're so back.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

You freaking wait, dude.

SPEAKER_06 34:00

Like how you describe with the corn putting the redneck like in the corner or whatever. Yeah. We have a well, we rotate corn and beans every year, but spot we call four mile.

SPEAKER_07 34:08

It's where my dad shot Jerry this year. It was all beans around there, and we had like a little green plot tucked in right next right by the blind. That's gonna be all like corn up in like on the right side where he shot Adam. And then he's gonna make one pass right next to the blind again so you can have a screen walking in and everything. It's yeah. I love I love that spot when it's corn, but when it's beans too, there's man, it's money. It's on a north-facing hillside, but we still see deer everywhere. Yeah. There's a lot of good, a lot of good thick cover up there. They logged it probably ten years ago or so, and they got like just trails that they cut in to get to bring the logs out that just land on those log and road trails all the time.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

I've never had good luck planting corn tight to the woods. Yeah. As like they like feel skittish. Yeah. You know, you either gotta have like a soft edge or like don't really do it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, a lot of our plots are a lot smaller, you know, they're not like big destination plots, and every time we plant corn tight to the woods, it's like they just don't like it. And then when they're eating in the beans, they just kind of like when they whip their head up fast, yeah. Yeah, oh you just feel that energy coming off them. I'm like, I don't like that at all.

SPEAKER_07 35:20

I was just down to a guy's farm this weekend, and his soft edges that he's got all the way around the field, it's like it's like uh what do you want to call it? Goddamn like airplane. Fuck. Oh, what do you call it? Like laying strips. Oh, it's just beautiful. So nice all the way around the field. You know what I mean? All cleaned up so nice, you know, and everything. And he says the deer just love it. They have to come out, they have to stand on here, have to lay down on here, everything.

SPEAKER_04 35:46

You know, and he's probably got it, you know, 10-15 feet wide. Yeah, that's freaking awesome.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

We did that on like the birch farm. We kept it probably 20 feet from the woods all the way around. And there's so many like more obviously like scrapes going around that.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

And then when I borrowed you guys' drill, I did those buck forge olts too, just drilled around it. I seem to calm them down, so I'm gonna keep running it. I'm gonna lose a little bit for corn there, but it doesn't grow where the shit anyways next to the tree. Yeah, it never does down to golden up against like that north in front of the redneck there, right up against that north facing side.

SPEAKER_07 36:20

So it's always have to drill in, just take the drill and just run her over.

SPEAKER_03 36:24

One of our top plots one year we did corn on each side of the trees and then beans in the middle. You want to talk about spooky? Yeah, they just walk in there, just might make the beans last long, might make the food last long. Like, this isn't for us. We're going to the neighbors.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

No.

SPEAKER_07 36:44

Every time this time of year, I just reminds me how much I love clover because it's the first thing that and rye just popping out of the ground.

SPEAKER_05 36:51

It's just green and everything else is dead, and yeah, it's just like perfect green.

SPEAKER_07 36:55

Then you see 20 deer out in the field, and you're like, yep. Uh-huh. Yeah. You like that? I tried to kind of break it up like that and have like clover in different parts of the farm so they have something to eat like all year round, and then put in a little kill plot if you want eventually too, and leave all that food for 'em.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

I was thinking one night about like your guys' farm, the home farm. If you like planted a really good strip of alfalfa all the way across the field, all the way across the field to those pines by the dam. And then all the way to like the mailbox.

SPEAKER_07 37:29

We've done that before. We used to have a strip in there that the neighbor would come over and just we just let him to to to keep up on it, we just let him take hay bales off it. Yeah. Yeah. And it was really nice. It was really nice hay.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

Found a lot of sheds in it one year. That's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. But the d I mean, we can't hardly compete with the everyone else has hay fields.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

I know, but I mean, look at how many were over on R in the hay. Right. You know, if you just had a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 37:54

Imagine if I had if I'd had kept my six roll though, and I just had as much corn and stuff. That's right. We should bring up the numbers that we crunched on. I've always said that maybe yeah, maybe it doesn't have to be as big as it used to be, but maybe a strip or something. Just like a big oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

I'm not saying like eight, but yeah, if like two passes, three passes. We used to have like a five to eight acre sized A field there.

SPEAKER_07 38:18

Yeah. It's hard to it's hard to give up being a corn ground, dude. Hard to do. I'm dozing woods to put more in. Yeah, he's dozing woods, grabbing every square inch of you know our trails we've got, you know, just to plant. Come on, right here.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

I've been I've been when he goes to bed at night, I've been up in the file cabinet pulling out the MFL plot MFL plots, making sure this ain't in it. Just goat time, come on.

SPEAKER_05 38:59

That 40 ain't in it. That dude's kicked up. No, it's more like just going to beat hell.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

Man, you should almost do a little content day when I'm cutting saw. There's probably about six times where my pants almost get cut off, you know, I'm sure. But man, I have fun.

SPEAKER_06 39:20

What are you all wearing out there when you were sawing all day?

SPEAKER_05 39:23

Um yeah. Steel toe boots. Some glasses, steel toe boots, and some earplugs are pretty much the basics of PPE.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 39:35

I should probably wear some uh glasses. I do get some stuff in my eye, and I wear my gloves, and then they're just caps wouldn't hurt. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:43

I tell the huzz to buy some for Christmas. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

You know, a pair of caps wouldn't hurt. Yeah. You kind of hurt my feelings last weekend when you're like, you always hinge cut that high? I'm like, I never thought of it. How high were you cutting?

SPEAKER_05 39:58

It had to be above his head. I swear to God, he's up there like a rag and tag trying to pull it down on the swear to God.

SPEAKER_06 40:07

That's why I needed that habitat.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

I thought it was high. Some of them I have about eyebrow.

SPEAKER_05 40:19

The deal is when where you hinge cut it off at, that's where all that sprouts off. I know.

SPEAKER_07 40:25

Yeah. I was thinking I'm gonna eat it off you know the back of the earth.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

It's ingrained in my head. A deer lives five feet down, so I'm like, oh, I ain't real tall, so it's gotta be five feet. I'd nod into a little one, shut this off, set it behind me, and would grab onto it and start bouncing, so I'd just lightly tip over.

SPEAKER_06 40:43

I would pay to see a video of you just jumping up and grabbing it and just hanging in. Just ringing wet at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_03 40:50

But it's all like box elder, so it's just yeah, stringy and slow. Deer actually love that. Those box elders. Yeah, it's whatever everything else can be.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

They browse the heck out of them.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

They yeah, box elders are so hard to kill, they're just sprout and grow hard to kill. No, in the on the I think on the last pod we had that's what I was doing, like around all of our field, that's just so much box elder. I was just laying them in the plot, and you wouldn't believe all the deer browsing on those buds. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 41:16

I mean it's junk tree, but I've been cutting every junk in the woods, dude.

SPEAKER_07 41:23

I can I could walk around and show you about every little basswood, maple tree, elm tree.

SPEAKER_03 41:30

I get some thick mofos, too. I know. When I'm at work, I feel like when I'm thinking about cutting trees, I'm like, oh, I should cut like a bunch of these. I get like myself talked into it, and then I get up there and look at the size of them. I'm like, damn, nah. I'm like, where's these three inches at? I'm like, this one will be blade better. Really?

SPEAKER_06 41:48

I got that saw that the guy uses in the video.

SPEAKER_04 41:54

Fuck boys, how do you cutting some timba?

SPEAKER_03 41:56

I just like look up at the top and they're like kind of intertwine them.

SPEAKER_04 41:59

Like, oh you get so much more done when you come to that.

SPEAKER_07 42:03

Yeah, no, we got a couple of them. Part of the reason we gotta do all this TSI is we got all these so super old oak that are 80 plus, 80, 90. Some might even be pushing 100. All rotten on the inside. Yeah, a lot of them are hollow, like wicked trees to cut down, but they're all tell me about them. They're good. Yeah, I call them roostries, good turkey roostries. That's what they are. But we ain't gonna have any bird roosting nests around anymore with what I just did. I mean, yeah, the problem is they're all right on the crown of every hill, right? You know, it's all it was old, old pasture, and it's they they've gotta go. There's no value, they're never gonna have value, and there's nothing else growing around them. So you just we gotta hit the restart button. For sure, you know. So I'm up there. Fletcher, Fletcher goes in there and cuts everything like you said, about this big round. Bullshit, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Yeah, and then I go up there and saw it one night button.

SPEAKER_07 42:56

No, I didn't. And then I go up there around the crown, I'm just laughing these. I'm like, I think it's leaning that way.

SPEAKER_03 43:02

Put a notch in her, you know, but they never lay down fully because there's like a big bush. You know, I don't even like if one looks a little hairy, it's got like a nice lean to it. I don't even notch it. I just saw a little bit, starts popping. I just run. What's your 40 time when a tree's gonna go? Oh, it's good. And they just I just hear turn around. I should do another one.

SPEAKER_07 43:24

Yeah, dude, them couple big elm trees or whatever. I'm like, I gotta get it to go like this way because I already had a bunch of trees laying a different way. Yeah. Oh man. Oh, come on. And I I had to cut like a few in front of it, but I just do it enough so when this one started tipping, they all just start tipping like dominoes.

SPEAKER_05 43:41

So that's satisfying. Oh, it's called uh Bucking Billy on TikTok. Bucking Billy.

SPEAKER_04 43:49

He's got a like a 42 inch bar and a husk of arna. That's my next purchase.

SPEAKER_07 43:55

42 New Bo? No, no, no. But yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:01

But I suppose you boys are all getting all wound up for turkey season here, huh? Opening day tomorrow. Opening day.

SPEAKER_06 44:07

Damn right. I was out scouting this afternoon. On my way down here, I had to check a couple farms out and see if there was any birds out there. Couple farms.

SPEAKER_07 44:16

Just feels out there full screen. Feels right to get out and do a little bit of hunting, you know. Hearing them gobbling the back of when I was shooting bow tonight, too. Man. It's freaking awesome. My dad's in Montana right now, too. He's taking out Larry Becker. They're going out trying to shoot one in the morning. Hopefully we can double down. Yeah. Me and Dustin gonna give her a try in the morning for a couple hours. That's what's nice about turkey hunting.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

You can go out for a couple hours and still eight o'clock. All right, yep. Time to go. Right. Yeah, you don't really gotta commit to it all day if you don't want to.

SPEAKER_07 44:47

That those all day hunts turkey hunting fucking wear.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

God damn.

SPEAKER_06 44:53

Get up at four o'clock, then I mean you're on them for a while, then all of a sudden it goes quiet, and then you're going to different spots, trying it out, and all of a sudden, oh shit, there's one worked up.

SPEAKER_07 45:02

Yep. Won't come in. Go back to the house. Oh fuck. No, it feels good.

SPEAKER_03 45:07

I'm ready for it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. You just got one? How many tags? I got three. Three? Which seasons? I got first, third for zone one, and then I picked up a fifth for zone four. Okay. Potentially Minnesota.

SPEAKER_07 45:23

What zone for first? Four?

SPEAKER_03 45:24

Four. Yep. Um, I don't think I'm gonna make Minnesota this year. I'm gonna start planting corn probably like end of the month. Yeah. Last week of the month I'm gonna start if weather permitting. And then that'll carry into you know first week of May.

SPEAKER_07 45:40

So it's always nice. It's during corn planting season. My dad's out there planting corn, it'll just give me the updates for the turkeys of NH. He could give a shit less about hunting them, but he's like, Yeah, I've seen a shit ton of turkeys out here. Where? All right, yeah. It'll be good. How many tags you got? Three. Three. So second through fourth season. That'll be nice. One for each farm. Yep. Hell yeah. Can't wait. Oh yeah. Hopefully, smack one in the morning. I kind of wanted to bring my bow out this year again, but I was just thinking that too. Yeah. I mean, my fucking my sight on my shotgun, like the the first part of the red dot.

SPEAKER_06 46:19

I had it on my strap last year, and all of a sudden I look back and it's fucking pointed straight up like this. I used a zip tie last year to shut her down so you can see down through it. I still shot one. Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Just spray and pray. Just get them close enough. I've never like shot my shotgun at paper. Yeah. So I was doing it the other night. I really spoiled myself with like the$30 XR. No, DSF. No. No. And I was like, oh yeah, these gotta be way better than what I was shooting. Three and a half? Yep. Oh yeah. Dude, it's just high left. Like it don't even hit the bird. Like, oh my god. So I put my old shells back in it, like some Winchester cheapies, and it's like decent, but it's not like great. Why'd I even do that? No, I'm all like messed up in the head. So I was like, oh maybe I'll take my bow. No kidding.

SPEAKER_07 47:13

Just threw it back in the case after you shot Toro, probably, huh? Oh yeah. Got the cow abs off it. I hope she's still there, but I think tonight was the first time I've shot since like November probably last year. This weather makes me want to get out and shoot a little bit though. I shot last Sunday. Yeah. Easter Sunday. Yeah. Still shooting good.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

I was better at 100 than I was at 60.

SPEAKER_03 47:37

Damn. So it's the only time I shoot at 100 is at your guys' place. Yeah. Oh god. When you get a big target to shoot at. Good practice. Two sheds and a vehicle.

SPEAKER_07 47:49

I'm just waiting for the day someone puts one right to the window of the shed. I'm sure it's coming. Yeah. We should talk about the nine-pointer you found. That's probably one of the main targets over at the Golden's. Yeah. You guys seen up you guys filmed them whatever one morning. Yep. Right? Yep. Yeah, a couple days before I take doubt, right? Or a week before or something. We've seen him quite a bit. We seen him that night we went gun hunting. He'd come out in the field. Yeah. I seen him that morning. I shot that one with the gun. Seen him all the time.

SPEAKER_06 48:18

Kind of like the homeboy of homeboys on the phone. Yeah. Actually stays that way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 48:23

He's kind of like that heavy D buck Brody shot down there, whatever. A couple uh 23, you said 23. Just yeah, we let him get to six, left him go at five, and he was what, 160? Heavy D was. This one surprised us. Big nine. Oh yeah. Found his sheds way heavier than I thought. You know, and stuff. Figured he's like right out of 150, you know. 150, 151. Yeah. Thought he was like 140, you know, with short beams, but his beams. Six inch brow tines. You know, one side was like 69 inches, the other one or 70, 69 and some change, and 62 and change. So yeah. He's like your stereotypical. If he puts on a four on the other side, he's like your stereotypical ten pointer. Boxy 10. You know, yeah. Just good brow, taller two than the three, tall three, nice four square. If he grows, if he grows ten inches, better kill him. Because what are we gonna do? Let him go to six, let him be a heavy D, let him go to six, and for him to stay the same, and then ah, fuck it. Now we'll shoot him. Maybe we'll see what happens, I guess. But I don't know. I like finding horns. If he stays home, boy.

SPEAKER_03 49:34

Kind of a good sign you found his horns, too. All right, kind of the tall tail sign.

SPEAKER_07 49:39

I went out well originally I was leaving that farm alone for the shed trip. Oh yeah, right? But he had to go up there.

SPEAKER_04 49:48

I could tell, I could tell you guys weren't too fond of it, but I'm like, dude, we get this fucking two feet of snow.

SPEAKER_07 49:53

Like you said, you just run out of time. You know what I mean? I don't blame you. So I'm just like screw it, just gonna go after work real fast. And I knew, like he was on camera a bunch on top of that hill, and you could tell, like, one day he walked out there with both sheds, next day he came back, you know, and he didn't have any seed, like knew they were somewhat close. And sure shit, I damn near walked right up to the top of the hill. God damn it, there's one. I'm sure if you sit watch the video, like I'm walking up to the other one. Yeah, walking up to one, and I'm like, God damn it, there's the other side. Just how you draw it. Yeah, yeah, really nice, really pretty. Just hopefully he straightens out a little bit. Yeah, we got some sweet footage of him at that scrape tree right below the apple tree or something, yeah. Yeah, it's an apple tree. It's growing all weird and wonky like that. Best scrape tree on the farm. It is, yeah. Everybody comes with it. A little rope on it, too. And an oak tree or oak limbs to it. But yeah, hopefully he sticks around. See what happens, I guess. Yeah, I'd I'd love to get another nice, just homebody buck that hardly leaves. Like if we had a porky, but was a really nice buck. Yeah, like that porky buck that I shot, never left. Yeah, didn't seem like well, or if he did, nobody wanted to shoot it because it was so small. Scrub. 120 inch or he was it was yeah, if we get he'd be our second, he'd be our whatever next bus. So he's he's gonna be that buck where he's just gonna have just like I could see him having a six-inch base next year, you know. Six inch base is that's a big base.

SPEAKER_04 51:23

So he could I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 51:26

If he blocks, seem like the kind of buck that would that's gonna pop 40 below, put on it doesn't feel that way. I don't know if you guys have ever noticed that when you pick up certain sheds, like you've you can I don't know how to say it. This one, uh you know, I don't know, he's he's really dense, you know, really heavy, dense dense horned, and uh just I never it never seems like some of them bucks really ever just for him. The four less door that he was breeding, so maybe that's gonna help.

SPEAKER_06 51:56

This guy's cool too, because he broke this off, but he had two different points coming out right here.

SPEAKER_07 52:01

I saw that's like my favorite genetic. Yeah. The double side side by sides. Yeah, he should be really cool this year too.

SPEAKER_06 52:08

He was a he's a ditch dweller too. Loves them ditches. Then then we got this guy who's been I think he's gonna be six years. Yeah, he's gonna grow. Look at that too.

SPEAKER_07 52:17

Got a nice little spike in his antler. Yeah, I'm sure he's gonna grow all messed up again. Yeah, but a big nine grows and he's like a good, like you know for a fact he's like 165. It'd be hard not to go shoot him because you could you could tell you could you could go sit up on top of a hill, get good footy, and you know he'd probably just like kind of meander in. Yeah, or you know, who knows? You might be able to shoot him opening night. Yeah, you know, coming out to LFL fields. That'd be cool. Yeah, I'm very curious to see what comes out the LFL field. This year, second year from far away. Right. You know, yeah. Stuff that would use we would usually never see because maybe they're to our south up on top of the ridge, you know, almost a mile away. We'd have started seeing a couple of those this last year. They'd come into the edge and maybe you know, that one that would cross the road there that had the big frame, you know, like looked like Parrish Jr. kind of calling them. And he busted off after his two then. You know which one I'm talking about? I mean, be a hammer. I'm pretty sure he made it too. So but we'd only see him when we only seen him this year because of Alpha Alpha, like the real early. You guys never had that one on camera that your neighbor said he had like a three-year-old 160 or whatever? No, he just texted today and he found one of his sheds. Really? Was he close to figured he'd be like 166 after measuring up his shed. He thinks he's only three and a half. Damn. That's when he knows. Sent a couple of trail cam picks. It's like, yeah, I could see it at three and a half. I mean, stud three and a half, whether he's four three or four, still going into next year. Probably got eight inch G4 on him, ten point with triple brows on both sides.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

I think that hay is gonna take so much pressure off your guys' corn too. Should hopefully, I really do. Hopefully, it's gonna be like wet and sticky when the dew comes out, a lot of moisture. I know that's why they're hammering your corn. Right.

SPEAKER_07 54:10

You know, like what's the plan back there in that backfield? What do you call it now? The Tiffany field? Tiffany plot. Yeah, I don't know. It's it probably realistically, oh, it was all corn last year, so it'd have to be all beans this year. I'd love to see it all corn.

SPEAKER_04 54:25

Yeah, no, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 54:27

Yeah, it was all I drew a nice map for him to follow, and he didn't follow it.

SPEAKER_04 54:33

Yeah, we could probably plant it however we want, to be honest, because it was it's been two years, it's been two years of like straight rye, the whole field, you know.

SPEAKER_07 54:41

That'll be good too. It didn't turn out anyway last year. Should put one side, one side corn, one side half it up, so there's always both back there. Then a green strip right down the middle in your blind and like that waterway leading, and I'll always put like from the what where the waterway ends, I'd always go green to the deal and then green around. Yeah, like a baseball field, right? Hell yeah. The diamond. The diamond diamond chip stuff. See a booner walking down already. Yeah, that's exciting. Yeah, it's always exciting this time of year, figuring out how you want to plant your shit, where you want stuff to grow, you know. Yeah, we were just talking about I know. We're just talking on the way down here about how we're gonna take. I was telling Brody that we gotta take out clover here, put clover there, plant more beans here. Yep. So that plot up top where I shot two-footer, the clover is looking phenomenal. Juicy. Did you uh blow leaf leaf blow that off or anything? Just left it alone and well, I went up there and planted it with the rye last year when we went in and had to do it again. Man, I went up there and still seated over top of it just in case too, but she's fucking thick up there already. Really? There's like not too many leaves over it. It still pops up to that stuff. Yeah, really? Yeah. Christ had that one plot up there, you know, like the food pot at top. Right, it was burning the leaves. She was mad and thick. We got some, yeah, we got some plots like that over in Modena that we have a couple top plots that are just literally a leaf litter all over. Does that help with like kind of like fertilizer, you burn that stuff and turn it that ash organic, supposed to? Funny stories. Want to hear a funny story? Hit me. Really like this. Hit me. Because yeah, you burnt the woods, woods down last year. Yeah. Well, so I'd what I didn't wait on long enough time when I was leaf blowing off the because there were so many leaves after I was burning, and I'd I'd I have to blow the ex access off, you know, and the coals are still hot. And I know I know that. So I just blow it off to the side. So I'm going through spraying. Next thing you know, I can see it over there on the side. She starts smoking, and all of a sudden she's smoking more.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

I'm like, ah, I'll I'll just go stomp it out when I'm done.

SPEAKER_05 56:46

Next thing you know, flames. I'm like, shit. I mean, we're talking this is in the woods where it's solid leaves, you know. I'm I'm like, uh, it's gonna rain tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 56:58

But I caught her in time.

SPEAKER_07 57:00

I was batting her out with a shovel, but we got her.

SPEAKER_06 57:05

You guys doing much more for like fertilizer then with like your new plots this year, you're gonna juice them up even more than you probably would.

SPEAKER_03 57:12

I'd have got my fertilizer ordered. Yeah so um got a cart, got a cart ring out there and everything and a rat one? A lot of my small stuff, I just um borrow from my dad like a little pull behind one for like the four-wheeler and stuff. Um I don't even know what the number is on the bag, like 17, 17 or something. Yeah, that's just like a generic. I like throwing in like the clovers and stuff, and especially like Nebraska's, but yeah. Um that shit. It goes fast too. Oh, yeah. It's like when you buy like food plot seed, it's like just buy extra. You know, you're gonna sit on a little bit, but all it takes is one wash and you're gonna use it. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 57:50

Speaking of wash last night, like cully washer.

SPEAKER_06 57:53

You see the beef river on the way over here? Fuck dude. I seen it's a couple four-wheel drive, you get up your driveway.

SPEAKER_04 58:01

It didn't rain that bad at home, to be honest.

SPEAKER_07 58:03

Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 58:05

I don't know what the deal is with your where you live. You snow, you get more. Rain, you get more. You're only like 10 miles away.

SPEAKER_07 58:13

Yeah, in a straight luxe beggar. Yeah, beggar. Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Ditches bigger.

SPEAKER_04 58:20

Timber beggar.

SPEAKER_03 58:22

I know, and I I just cross-sheeted that, like the Toro plot, too. You know where that's at. I know, yeah. Fucking swamp. See it next to the road, just clover everywhere. Yeah. But no, I got fertilizer lined up, but just waiting on seed on like what I'm gonna do. You know, it does help though. Like, I've been drawing out my plots lately. Yeah, and then it's kind of like just like sit on it for a little bit and look at it. Yeah, then you can like uh then you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 58:53

And we were talking, we got a bunch of that old corn, you know. We're gonna plant that backfield down there at Golden, just throw it in there. I might just plant it right with the grain drill because it's easy to get back in there. Right. If it's just something for them to chew on, you know. I'm not really necessarily looking to make a cob, something to keep the weeds out, you know. If I go back there and mow it all down and plant brassica or whatever, you know. Brasca plot back there would be sweet. Yeah, imagine has it ever been. I can't get it to grow. The one year that it did make make bulbs, they were that was one of the best years ever. Yeah, yeah. It was that one point there in 2014. I shot that square. 2017. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 59:32

Because I shot framey eight. I was hunting framey eight, and then dad shot the big one. 190 back there.

SPEAKER_07 59:39

Yep, that year. Because they they'd be back there and then they'd pull the the bulbs, only got about you know, size of a tennis ball. Kind of perfect. You know, they could fit them in their mouth and stuff. It was like the size of an apple, you know, they'd fit it in their mouth, and then they're gonna be able to do that. Was that one of the first years you had the plats back there? The plot back there? Third or third, third. Probably what 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Yeah, yeah. It was awesome. They go in there, you could just watch them all night, flick bulbs up, peel them up, and eat them. Yeah. That field's just gotta be green though. Like that field has to be green. It couldn't be grain. It doesn't matter. No, well, it wouldn't make it, and uh it wouldn't be nearly as good. Uh-uh. They would just all bypass if it was grain and just go to the bigger one. Yeah. Because they already like just walk through it, get a few bites, you know, pretty much the way it is. Maybe come check out the scrape posts, you know, or something. Head out to the destination. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:34

So yeah, but we got it figured out. We got a bunch.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:37

Brody says no wasting money this year. So we got a bunch of extra shitty old seed that we're just gonna throw down and hopefully buy us some time, you know, and keep the weeds out of everything. And who knows? Give them something to chew on. Yep. It's nice to kind of throw out their the weeds are a big thing too, especially. Yeah, just throw out some extra food for them. So I mean, anything to keep the weeds out of your pot. Yeah, those weeds get like your little kill pots from now, if they don't have clover in it or rye, like from now until a month from now, you know, when you go to plant it in July or August, you know, like you're if you go to plant brasska, it's just try to if you haven't been mowing it or spraying it, oh my god, it's just a freaking disaster.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:19

You got water hemp bad, like that shit is disgusting for the birds. Yeah, can't kill it. Oh, like who brought that shit here? Dude, you gotta like walk sometimes and just pull them out by hand and carry them out with you. Like, it does no good to pull it out and throw it in the field. Uh uh. No. All it does is reseed itself. Yeah, and then it's like if you spray too heavy, then it curls the leaves on your beans, and your beans are stunned, and it's like, oh my god. I don't get it. But no, looking forward to it. Lot of plots that gotta get done. I haven't leaf blowed any of my clover. First year ever I've even done that.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:01

Yeah, yeah. You know, I did think of a fucking rake one time. Oh dude, I need a more powerful blower.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:07

Yeah, we need we need one of them either the pull behind deals a big back deal. That's what I have that pull behind one for like the turbine golf course, yeah. Yeah, and that thing, you take your tip her straight up, you take your hat and throw it 50 feet in the air. I mean, I'm not kidding you. Oh, that's what we need. That's what I did in the Toro plot. It brought it down to dirt, yeah. Dirt, dirt. You know, see, that's what we need. And it's just nice, like you can just like tool around with like a golf cart, whatever, and got a remote blow it off and four-wheeler. Yeah, and then it comes up nice, but a lot of my stuff that's in the woods has got to get redone. Yeah. So I'm not even pissing with it. That's what I gotta do a lot of this year, too.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:43

A lot of the woods stuff always seems like a one one-term deal. One shot wonder. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:48

Every year you can just kind of unless you can get some good clover growing, it's gonna be sunny enough. What about uh out west? Anybody pulling tags? I don't think I'm pulling anything this year, just points.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:01

I'm staying home. Hopefully, early season archery out in Montana this year. That'd be sweet. That's yeah. But you got a Kansas tag too? Hopefully. Oh, I thought that was uh you applied for it.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:14

I sent in to get my tag, so and I had a point already, so I should, but should draw. Yeah, I got a lease already that I put a down payment on, so I'll be paying for release and not hunting this year if I can.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:27

But oh well, hopefully I have a spot next year too. Right. Yeah. I still gotta get my Kansas point. Yeah. Yep, I think that opens here pretty soon.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:36

Yeah, it hasn't yet. Two weeks or so. I think Iowa to June 1st. Yep. Yeah. Well what's your guys' plan for Iowa? Are you gonna save it for archery? Just keep building points for the meantime. I really don't have a spot to unless there's someone just had a screaming spot and it's like, yo, you gotta come down here. You gotta come down. Twist my arm, dude. Yeah, all the way to the bottom. I mean save save it for the archery hunt and then and then um find a spot. I don't think I'm waiting six years again. Yeah, get a muzzy tag. Yep, fine next year.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:10

It's hard, like you walk the fine line of like you want to hunt, but it's like I'd love to have my bow down there. Yeah, take some time down there. I'm gonna hold off probably and at least once. I would definitely do it the first time. Oh, yeah, for sure. At least I mean I'm already halfway there. I just want to like see it. I want to see Iowa like in the rut. See where this is all talked up to be. Yeah, you know. I kind of got an opportunity to hunt Illinois this year on the door. So what part? That's over the counter, yeah. Right? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna be honest, I don't even know what part it is right now, but but it's Illinois and it's over the over the counter.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:46

Right next to Don Higgins.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:48

Watch it be like northern Wisconsin. No, it kind of presented itself and sent me a bunch of his farms on Onyx and stuff, and he's like, hey, check them out and stuff if you're interested. So hell yeah. Yeah. Shoot a buck early and then that's the plan. I'm not gonna leave the yeah to chase that, you know, unless there's something crazy. Especially when he got the history of some bigger bucks.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:12

Yeah, yeah. G4. Yeah. You can have him if he's under 160. Well, you'd be five, right? I we should probably let him see six. I would love to see more six-year-olds around, you know. I don't know. I feel like they just turn out better at six. Some of them bucks that we were killing at five, you know. I you know, just what I've been thinking. I just like to see him get a little older. I would rather shoot a seven year old that went a little bit downhill from six versus shoot him at five. Yeah, not knowing what it was. Right. Yeah, yeah, everyone would. But I know the the chances of them getting there is very, very slim. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah, if we had a thousand acres locked down in one chunk, I'd like, yeah, I wouldn't touch. One, you know, but I mean, even like at the house there, I mean, you think you can hold them. It's tough. Yeah, it's tough anywhere you go. It's just hunting.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:10

Like we say, you start with 20 and you're down to five. Yeah. Every year. Every year, style. All the animals.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:16

I got we got boom, boom, boom, boom. Going in this year. Bang, bang before the rush.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:22

Before November.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:27

I mean, half of them die of natural causes. Yeah. Shooting dozes, son. Some some that live, some that live don't even grow. Some that you think are gonna grow, don't. Ones that you don't think are gonna grow sometimes turn out.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:41

I just gotta get my foot in the door with you guys and get over that 180 hump.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:45

So the next 180, I don't care if he's two. I shot a 180 motherfucker. Yeah, goddamn.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:54

I gotta get that's kind of out of the blue, ain't it? Sick of this 170 shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:04

Oh. I hope that's a good one. That's this year, baby.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:08

This year, baby. I think if this guy grew grow like grows quite a bit this year, I'm sure my dad's gonna be locked in on him. Dude, if that thing grew like 20 inches, you know what 20 inches would look like on that frame? Oh man. Look like a moose. That looks like a toothbrush buck right there. Right? He's got a G5 like kind of popping. Yeah, exactly. Got that little hungry. Big typical looking stuff. That's what I'm gonna sucker for. I think we're gonna set up a kill plot for this sucker too. Right in front of the blind where my nephew almost got a crack at him. It's all gonna be corn out there too. So we have nice little. What's that? What do you call that box? I call them DW, Death Wish. DW. You just plant all corn and then like go in with the mower and just mow out what you want. Yeah. That's like the most fun ever. Like, I'm always like, oh, one more pass. I'm like, God, it's such good corn. I know. Like, one more pass. That's too fun. I always tell my dad, because like we'll have a certain spot I want to leave, and he can easily just go past it and put the planter back down. He's like, too much work. Just mow it off later. Then we get there to start mowing it down, and I'm like, You sure about this? Yeah. He's like, Alright, whatever.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:18

He's like, I didn't know you wanted it to be that big of a plot. I'm like, I showed you what it looked like on the map I wanted to make. Damn.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:25

I love that tiller you guys have. Oh, the Valentini? Yeah. Yeah, that thing works slick. Because it's like just enough to like rougher up. And it packs it on the back even. It's different than I forget what you call it. Rotary. Rotary. It's a rotary. Lily. A lily rotor, a rototiller, I think they call it. A rototiller goes this way. Okay. Maybe I got my terms mixed up. One's rotary, one's rototillery. I don't know which is which. Yeah, it's like it's knives that go on the ground spin. I think it's to kind of help your soil profile from getting all the time. It only works like that. It's only supposed to work like this much. Yeah, yeah. Oh she's nice, dude. It doesn't it doesn't dig too deep, but enough to give you a nice seed bed. Enough to give you the juice. You're gonna plant a lot of brasska this year? Yeah. Well, with all that corn this year, that's gonna be a lot of the goals to go in there and plant kill plots like that, too. But I got on that farm that I shot the two-footer, I bet we got four or five acres of clover already too, which helps a lot. And I'm a like the woods plots, and just we got a three-acre clover field back there too, that they're just hammering right now, too. A three-acre clover field, that's a good size. Yeah, I was just gonna say that. Like I love me a nice big green field. I know. You know, like it's cool to like sit like on a nice little kill pot, like in the woods, you know, that's kind of cool. But you get like a out in solid green.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:53

Just a lush clover field, no weeds in it at all.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:58

I took my nephew Chase out there one time. Fantastic cold front. Went out there, sat in the blind.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:05

There's like 25, 30 deer out in the clover field. He's like, holy fuck. I'm like, yep. Hill yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:12

Then a couple like I think it was like a four or five year old came out. It was a shitty buck. I'm like, I really wanted to shoot him. I'm like, Chase, that guy, you can shoot him if you want. He's like, he's not that big. Like my guy, yeah. All right. Yeah. We've had some good luck over there, but this was last year on the youth hunt.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:32

Gonna have to find someone else to take, maybe. But it's always fun to get out there and especially if there's a decent weather. For sure. Get someone introduced to this work.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:42

I think we should do more of that, is like, like, especially down to golden, like that big shed that you found when we were sitting in the ranger, you know? Yeah. I'm pretty sure that was for sure a three-year-old buck. See that? Like, we should just shoot him. Just get like down there, you know, like a little cousin, they want to come shoot you.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:01

See, this is our problem.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:03

Wait a little bit. There goes our nice, there goes our 150-inch three-year-old over to the neighbor because this because old scrub ass is running him off.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:12

Don Higgins.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:13

Don Higgins mentality. Don Higgins.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:15

Well, I'm not saying shoot him at, you know, like a nice looking one.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:20

The thing is, so it's hard to tell what a call buck is until he's old. Okay. But he'll be four, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:25

It's gonna be a four me a hundred inch, uh, hundred-inch three-year-old with no brow, with barely any brow tines, any G3s is gonna be your 180-incher.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:34

Oh, you're backwards. Those are probably the ones that I'm that's what Brody wants. He's got it.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:43

He's only three and a half. You don't know what he's gonna do at five.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:47

You might have the wildest rack we've ever seen in a couple years.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:50

Hey, he's pretty cool. You don't know what he's gonna do at five. It's not like an auction. Might throw some junk.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:59

Might throw some junk at five or six. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:04

Oh man, that's fucking awesome. Call that one Caesar salad. That's like a salad. That thing looks like elf toes, like you're talking about.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:11

Call them elfie. Freaking elfie. You gotta get these up. Put these in the dishwasher. So somebody so yeah. Dude, those things should be mounted. Saladong.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:20

Dude, mount those chats on that plaque. You're just trying to hang it up.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:26

God damn.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:27

Yeah, give that to the Deer Society. Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:29

Look at what we do.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:32

That's probably the most unique one I found. Never know what he's gonna be. Never know your next move.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:38

Could you imagine shooting a Texas Longhorn six? Oh, could you imagine him at? Oh my god. Poor deer. And get your no huzz. Yeah, get your huzz up here to shoot some of these bucks. I'll gladly let her hammer some of them.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:57

Let me come with and you guys go hunting though, because I'll tell her which one she can and can't shoot.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:04

Oh boy. No, you never let me do that. So oh man.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:11

It was good to get back on the podcast. It's been a minute. Gotta pound some turkeys here. Yeah, for sure. Get some content coming in. We actually just sent all the Deer Society clips, like all the footage from this year. Sent that to them this week. So probably talk to them and see if they want to make a couple hunt breakdowns from our film from last year. There you go. Cool to get out there, get some more food in there. No, I thought I was like, oh. You guys are killing on the birds, dude. Those PLVs that you had last year were sweet though. They worked out.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:43

You know what Luke Funky said to me? He's like, dude, is Norbury ever gonna buy a camera where I can fucking see something? I'm literally watching YouTube reel, and that's I'm watching your reel. And he doesn't know it yet. And he just pipes up to me. Like, hey.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:03

Appreciate it, Luke. Thank you. Oh god, it's funny as shit. Oh boy. Man, this is fun again. Yeah. That's the thing. It's been so long, like we're not going any direction. We're just kind of all over the place.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:17

Bouncing around. We gotta get a guest on next time, too. Yeah, straighten me out a little bit. We got some big announcements to come here in the future, too.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:26

I don't know if you can see my sweatshirt kind of been hiding it a little bit, but we got a name change in the works, and we got a couple potential sponsorships coming too. So if you see anything throughout the window or the videos or the podcast or anything. Yeah, and if you're anyone out there that wants to throw a little sponsor our way, a little bone or something. Yeah, come on. Feel free. Hit us up. Gladly talk about you. Show you off. Or have you on the pod. Do one of both. Anything you want. See what happens. Alrighty, boys. We're about to call our on this one. See you next time.