Ep. 977: Rut Fresh Radio - Still Have a Tag? Don't Panic - It's Still November!
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rut Fresh, Jake is joined by Anthony Warren fresh off his biggest Kansas buck yet, Lane Housner of In the Presence breaking down what he’s been across the country, and Shane Albert of Illinois with a boots-on-the-ground report from farm country. Together they dive into current deer movement, what patterns are emerging, and the key intel you need to stay confident heading into the coming week.
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| 0:34.1 | All right, welcome back to another episode of Roughresh. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Jake Hofer, and we have three |
| 0:38.2 | big buck stories and updates from Kansas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. And we're getting deeper |
| 0:44.4 | into the month of November. Thanksgiving is just right around the corner. And I think this is one |
| 0:49.9 | thing for everyone to consider. When the calendar switches to December, we're going to be wishing |
| 0:55.2 | it was November again. So a lot of the advice and updates here throughout this episode is to |
| 1:00.7 | remember it's November. Remember this is the time we've been waiting for and to keep at it |
| 1:04.4 | and keep this plugging away. Just keep plugging away. And I hope there's some great intel |
| 1:09.4 | here for you folks in this episode. |
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| 1:23.1 | My challenge for you guys this week is just to keep positive mindset, keep out there working hard, keep scouting. Don't be afraid to call an audible on your game plan and just give November everything you got on what you can do. I know for myself personally, it's getting to the point of the year where I'm starting to feel little guilty for hunting really hard. Responsibilities are falling on the wayside, but we're going to be missing |
| 1:44.6 | this time period. So do what you can. If you can walk, walk. If you can crawl, crawl. And let's kick |
| 1:49.5 | this off with Anthony Warren in Kansas who just shot his personal best buck. Here we go. |
| 1:59.6 | All right, first up on the line, we have Anthony Warren who just shot a personal best. |
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