Here's what you can learn from a 150 trail camera study done over multiple years.

I'll probably run somewhere between 150 and 200 cameras.

Two years ago, and we had a good white oak acorn crop, I think I started out with maybe like 170 cameras.

What are the best dates?

If I was to go back through all my data, through all the years, I'm going to just tell you that I would say October 28th Halloween.

Are cold fronts overhyped or maybe not hyped up enough?

When I've done Moonphase, even barometric pressure and all that stuff, I don't see it anywhere near having the same effect as temperature.

We have Steve's shirt and you're

going to hear it all right now. This was the first year ever and I don't want to get too far ahead,

but I'll just say this quickly where the first year ever in this in my study were the top two days

were the middle of October. Like I've never seen that ever. Steve, how been great how are you and I'm great I look

forward to this this episode every single year and now that we've done it for a handful of

years now we're to look back in previous years but I want to focus on 2024 that's the most

recent of your memory and we haven't covered it yet.

But aside from that, how excited are you going into this season based off your summer scouting?

I've got to get a benchmark from you.

Yeah, no, I'm really excited.

I always get excited when we have a good acorn crop here.

I don't know if it's just me, but I know some hunters might complain sometimes when there's too many acorns. But the one thing I like about when we have a good acorn crop,

like I'm seeing this year, is we always have a lot better deer activity. The rut seems to be better.

So I'm just excited for, you know, for a good year where I think our deer numbers are kind

of increasing. Definitely a lot of good deer out there. I'm getting on camera and then given the

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