Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. Today I've got my friend Phil Kramer

Kramer hunts on Instagram. Phil how you doing? I'm doing good Jay just trying to

survive this heat wave we got going on in Arizona.

A heat wave. I think you're overcooking it a little bit.

Says a guy that's sitting in Colorado enjoying the nice weather, right?

With my toes in this 55 degree water exactly yeah

it sounds like Arizona's had just a hot kind of a hot last week I think it hit one 17 1 16 couple days in a

row there in Phoenix yeah we've set a lot of records on a number of days over 110 and I think we've reached actually

118 twice now this summer so it's definitely cooking things out there.

I read that July was actually the hottest month on

average of the record and in the temperature on average taking the nighttime

and the daytime just taking the full average was 99. I believe it it's been just miserably hot. You go from

AC to AC as fast as you can. Yeah for sure. Let's talk a little bit of a report. I know you've been up in Northern Arizona in unit 10 as well as you've been down in southern Arizona running your cams and such.

What has the monsoona moisture look like down in

southern Arizona and some of the Cooster units you've been to? You know it's been

real spotty. There's been some pretty good monsoon activity in the

southeastern part of the state especially. It was kind of interesting from June, no sorry no, sorry, excuse me, July 14th until just yesterday, the first of August,

they actually have had over three inches of rain in the southeastern part of the state and in that short period of time.

And it was definitely needed.

Unfortunately, that has been fairly spotty, but it seems to be hitting in some really good area for deer.

When you were down there freshening up your cams and your salt licks and all that stuff,

how did the conditions look? I guess when did you go first and how did the conditions

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