Ep. 968: Rut Fresh Radio - Prime Time Whitetails! How Hunters Are Capitalizing Right Now
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Rut Fresh! This week we have Erik Barber recounting his public land buck, Thomas Mlsna of Unatmed Ambition's morning move on a Wisconsin big buck, Brett Smith of Whitetail Land Management Services gives us a report of activity and scouting strategy moving forward, and Jeff Thomas from NY gives us a deer activity report from New York!
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| 0:00.0 | Real hunts rarely go as planned. |
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| 0:42.3 | What's going on? Welcome back to another week of rut fresh my name's jay hofer and we have four great guests um we have a lot of coverage from wisconsin this week so |
| 0:47.7 | if you're from wisconsin you should be excited if you're in the area that'd be all right too but |
| 0:51.8 | we also have uh jeff thomas from new New York to give us his Rup Fresh report. |
| 0:57.0 | And so it is getting to be the time. |
| 0:59.6 | This is the main event. |
| 1:00.7 | This is the time we have officially been waiting for. |
| 1:03.7 | Sound the alarm. |
| 1:05.0 | We have some quick tips and strategies to hopefully help you maximize |
| 1:08.6 | anytime you're able to sneak out in the woods |
| 1:10.5 | or whether you have a vacation scheduled. This episode should help you maximize whatever time you have in the woods, whether it's scouting or hunting. And I'm going to kick it off with a little bit of a challenge. My challenge to you, so this every week, we're going to be doing a little challenge. My challenge is for you to text your hunting buddy. Maybe you haven't talked to him here for a little bit, but you know he's been hunting. |
| 1:30.1 | You know he's been trying his best. Just send a text of encouragement and say, hey, man, I know you're getting after it. It's a matter of time. Keep at it. Aim small and miss small. Whatever variation of that, send it to them. send a little word of encouragement because we do put too much pressure on ourselves |
| 1:44.1 | throughout this time period and just a little word of encouragement may go a long |
| 1:47.8 | way. And as you know, Roughresh is brought to you by land.com, the leading online real estate |
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