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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 980: Rut Fresh Radio - Thanksgiving Week: The Last Great Rut Window of the Year?

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rut Fresh, Jake is joined by KC Smith of The Element with fresh updates out of Kansas and Iowa, Clint Campbell from Truth From The Stand reporting from Pennsylvania, and Christopher Leppert of the Mobile Hunting Expo in Ohio. Tune in to hear what’s top of mind for deer hunters across the Midwest and beyond.

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

All right, folks, welcome back to the last edition of Refresh for the month of November.

0:41.8

I'm Jake Hooper, and we have a handful of different updates here across the country like Ohio,

0:47.0

Kansas, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.

0:49.5

So I hope you guys enjoy a little check-in and some strategy that might help you over the next seven days.

0:56.4

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1:09.2

I feel like we're entering a little bit of an awkward time of the year depending on what state you're in, depending on where the gun seasons are placed. You might have, you might be dealing with a new hand now than even just a couple weeks ago. And we're going to give you some intel, some insight on how to roll with the punches, move forward, and that is my challenge

1:27.9

for you guys this week. Just keep moving forward. Go out and scout, hang some cameras,

1:33.4

resrategize, brainstorm. That's all you can do. So without further ado, let's kick things

1:39.9

off with Casey Smith from the Element. Here we go.

1:54.9

All right, first up, we have Casey Smith from the Element who just shot his personal best buck in Kansas.

1:57.1

You're sitting in Iowa, and you're a guy I got to talk to because you're you were like in the cut

2:02.1

man yeah flying around it's a weird uh feeling when you have like a a big tag like an Iowa

2:09.4

tag is you kind of know right like you uh I want to sit there and like

2:14.3

absorb the feeling of of shooting a giant buck my biggest bug ever and then

2:20.9

it's like actually i got to spend about 12 hours taking that in and then it's time to roll on because

2:27.3

i need to do this tag justice so it's a strange feeling but you know first world problems as

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