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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week on Rut Fresh, we’re breaking down how to hunt the first major cold front of the October and what it means for deer movement across the country. Jake is joined by Mark Kenyon, Javin Mullet of Whitetail Edge, Zac Keim from Ohio, and Aaron Hepler of the InCamp Podcast in Pennsylvania.
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| 0:42.7 | Welcome back to Rut Fresh. This is jake hofer and this week we are doing this a little bit from a mobile studio i'm just wrapping up a new mexico elk trip and we have a great |
| 0:47.9 | episode with a variety of guests ohio pennsylvania who's going to new jersey and we have |
| 0:53.6 | mark kenyon kicking off the episode. |
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| 1:05.8 | agricultural, or hunting properties here in the U.S. It's been hot. It's been a little bit |
| 1:10.4 | stagnant, but there's still been some big bucks |
| 1:12.2 | that have been shot, and we have a little bit of a front moving throughout the country this |
| 1:16.5 | week. And so if you're excited and you want to go out and make a play, you're going to get |
| 1:20.0 | some great intel from folks that either have already shot a buck or developing a plan |
| 1:24.3 | to hopefully connect with one. Let's go ahead and kick things off with Mark Kenyon. |
| 1:28.0 | Here we go. |
| 1:34.1 | All right. |
| 1:34.6 | First up on the line, we have Mark Kenyon. |
| 1:36.9 | I'm still in my mobile recording studio here. |
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