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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's now what I would consider the late season, and

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Speaker 1: while it took the longest to arrive, it very well

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Speaker 1: might be one of my favorite times a year to

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Speaker 1: chase mature animals. If you've got a tag in your pocket,

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Speaker 1: you're extremely lucky because if you can withstand the cold

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Speaker 1: temperatures and harsh weather that you might find yourself in,

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Speaker 1: I believe it's one of the best times to find

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Speaker 1: a mature animal. Now, some hunts are weather dependent, but

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Speaker 1: with the right weather, mature animals seem to come out

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Speaker 1: of the woodwork, finding those big bulls and big bucks

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Speaker 1: even in general units, it's the best time of year

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Speaker 1: to chase them. I've personally got a couple of muzzle

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Speaker 1: loader tags for mule deer elk that I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to going out after the next couple of weeks. So

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Speaker 1: this week I'm gonna be covering some of my favorite

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Speaker 1: late season tips, whether you've got an elk tag, whether

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Speaker 1: you've got a deer tag, covering a few of my

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Speaker 1: favorite tips, as well as adding a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a bonus at the end with a Christmas gear guide.

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Speaker 1: But before I do that, I want to share the

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Speaker 1: story of a giant late season mule deer in my

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Speaker 1: hundred yards stair down. This one took place quite a

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Speaker 1: few years back. I had drawn a late season migration

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Speaker 1: hunt meal your tag in western Nevada, and this particular

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Speaker 1: year is is an area where the deer kind of

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Speaker 1: migrated in from various different places, but you really needed

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Speaker 1: the weather to push him in, and if you got

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Speaker 1: the right weather, in the right conditions, you could find

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Speaker 1: a really good buck. The rut was pretty much over.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you get a little bit of uh maybe like

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Speaker 1: a little bit of second post direct kind of activity,

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Speaker 1: but for the most part, my tactic was finding pockets

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Speaker 1: of doze or pockets and deer rather and then waiting

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Speaker 1: because the deer would kind of start to group up

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Speaker 1: late in the year, so they would there be like

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Speaker 1: a pocketed deer, and then other deer would start moving in.

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Speaker 1: Is that migration hits, So you'd find an area where

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Speaker 1: there's maybe a few deer, and then as you started

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Speaker 1: watching it, it's like more deer would move in daily.

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Speaker 1: So I kind of had these different areas that I

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Speaker 1: was checking. They were holding deer. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: the area that didn't have any deer, and then a

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Speaker 1: few of these south facing pockets that didn't have snow,

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Speaker 1: good feed, and just focusing on those places that seemed

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Speaker 1: to be deer magnets. Is like those were the spots

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Speaker 1: where there's a lot of feed and it harbored a

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Speaker 1: lot of deer. So my dad actually had a tag

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Speaker 1: as well, and we found earlier in the season we

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Speaker 1: found a good buck that he ended up shooting, and

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Speaker 1: then it was just me and so I was out

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Speaker 1: hunting by myself and checking a few of the pockets,

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Speaker 1: and this one particular area right at last light, I

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a south facing area but still covered

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Speaker 1: I just see this giant buck, like big, non typical

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Speaker 1: probably two meal deer. I'm like, oh yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna try to sprint up there. I

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Speaker 1: So I lost the deer, and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't respot the deer. Um. I think I gave it

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Speaker 1: three days later, I'm looking at that same little pocket

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Speaker 1: So I get down, get set up, and they start

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Speaker 1: And it was across the canyon quite a ways away.

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Speaker 1: At the time, is my furtherest shot? But I was like,

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Speaker 1: I guess if you're like western, well, I mean I

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Speaker 1: I guards just give you a good picture. So typical

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Speaker 1: He was in there. He had never moved, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: with this other deer. Um. I didn't even think about,

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Speaker 1: you know. I was like, man, of course you shoot

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Speaker 1: one memory I'll never forget, just the sight of that

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Speaker 1: I I skin him up, quarter him, load him up

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Speaker 1: down this really steep canyon covered in snow, uh, straight

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't I just didn't feel like

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Speaker 1: it seemed pretty steep, but I thought, yeah, that'd be fine.

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Speaker 1: I wish I would have had some kind of cheking

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Speaker 1: it is like progressively getting steeper and steeper, and for me,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's like that kind of steep where you're

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Speaker 1: and I step over this little ledge and as I stepped,

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Speaker 1: like going endo down this mountain and I'm thinking, like

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Speaker 1: and quite a few tumbles down and then sliding down

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Speaker 1: I'm like laying there. I'm like, oh, that hurts so bad.

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Speaker 1: Definitely felt it along my ribs and spine and I

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Speaker 1: you've got an old maybe it's not inflatable, but like

429
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 1: an old sleeping pad, a piece of foam something. Something

430
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: I've used a little bit more recently is just like

431
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 1: using my dry bag. I've got like a little dry

432
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 1: bag in my pack that keep I might have mentioned

433
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,479
Speaker 1: this in a year episode before, but I'll just roll

434
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,880
Speaker 1: the top of it a little bit. It's a little

435
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: air in there. I've got maybe some spare clothes or

436
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 1: other things if I'm backcountry in it, or even just

437
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: late season, having a few extra clothes and then setting

438
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 1: that on the ground and sitting. Now if you're on snow, um,

439
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,199
Speaker 1: just keeping your body off the snow. Staying warm and

440
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: comfortable while you're glassing is a huge factor in being

441
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 1: able to find those animals. So just staying warm, staying dry,

442
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 1: having something as simple as something to sit on when

443
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: you're glassing, keeps you more focused at finding those animals.

444
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: Number nine goes along those lines. When I'm hunting late season,

445
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,959
Speaker 1: I like to stop and build a fire. If I'm

446
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 1: gonna glass for a little bit, build a fire, have

447
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 1: things ready to build a quick fire, whether it's some

448
00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 1: firestarter or lighter, whatever you've got. I mean, obviously if

449
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: there's a fire danger or whatever. I'm kind of thinking

450
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: late season, like a lot of snow, a lot of cold,

451
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: not a lot of fire danger. But you know, every

452
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: year is different. Sometimes it's dry and you might be

453
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: somewhere else. But if you're in the Mountain West, it's

454
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: a cold day, you've got some snow, build a fire

455
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 1: and pick your glassing spot where it's just you know,

456
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: obviously um up wind of it so the smoke doesn't

457
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: blow into where you're you're looking, because sometimes you'll get

458
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 1: those heat waves and messes it up. But I'll build

459
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,719
Speaker 1: that fire, I'll sit in front of it and on

460
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,159
Speaker 1: all glass, and then I put it out, and I

461
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: walked to my next glassing spot, and I build a fire.

462
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,239
Speaker 1: If I'm in an area where I'm waiting for an

463
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: elk to come out, late in the evening to feed.

464
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,639
Speaker 1: I'll get in there and I'll build a fire. I

465
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 1: found that the fires really don't affect the elk movement

466
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: or the animal movement. They're used to the smell of fire. Um.

467
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, like if you're sitting on a skyline

468
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: ridge with a big bonfire and they see that, they

469
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: probably see you anyways. But for the most part, it

470
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: doesn't really affect the animals late season. So I don't

471
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 1: get worried about building fires. When I'm at amp, I

472
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: build a fire. When I'm sitting and glassing, I build

473
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 1: a fire. I haven't really noticed it like affected them

474
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: in in a negative way, especially real late in the season.

475
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: So that's something to think about. That's one thing that

476
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people don't realize, like West,

477
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: if you aren't used to Western hunting. It's like, I'll

478
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: get down. I don't like being cold, and I'm generally

479
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: not wearing a lot of clothes if I'm hiking back

480
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: and forth, or I might have sweated up the mountain.

481
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: So it's just sit down and build a fire. Just remember,

482
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 1: don't get your stuff too close to the fire. You

483
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: don't want to burn any gear. Delaminate any boots. Tip

484
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 1: ten is what I like to call double down. Don't

485
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: be afraid on those really cold days to have two

486
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: pieces of down gear. I'll wear like a lighter down

487
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: jacket and then have a heavier down jacket for when

488
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: I glass. Down is an excellent way to stay insulated.

489
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: To stay warm thinking about you know, a lot of

490
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: these tips are how to stay warm late season, and

491
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: there's a reason for that because when you're warm and

492
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: you're comfortable, you're focused better, you're hunting harder, you aren't

493
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: worried about getting in that shelter. That survival mode doesn't

494
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: kick in, like oh, I'm shivering and freezing and I'm

495
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: looking around, but I'm not actively glassing. I'm not actively hunting.

496
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: So staying warm and then when you're walking also, don't

497
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 1: forget to kind of take those extra layers off, let

498
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: your body heat heat you up, and then when you

499
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: stop throw those extra layers on. There's many days when

500
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: those those really good days that I like to talk about,

501
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 1: when it's zero degrees are below zero and the animals

502
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: are out sunning themselves. You know, you might need to

503
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 1: be sitting and glassing for a long time. So doubling down,

504
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: throwing an extra set it down on. Maybe you've got

505
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: some down puffer pants that you can throw on underneath

506
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: your pants. When I stop in glass, I throw all

507
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: my warm stuff on, I got my gloves on, I

508
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: got my beanie on. I throw that extra down on

509
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: and when I walk, I take it off. I put

510
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 1: it in my backpack and I moved to the next spot,

511
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: so I don't get it all sweated up and wet.

512
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: And that's a really good way to kind of a

513
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: good system to have late season. Let's have those extra

514
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 1: clothes and downs, a good lightweight packable thing, because all

515
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: this stuff late season gets bulky, it's heavy. You got

516
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: extra gear and extra weight, so I generally use my

517
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: extra insulation is the form of down number eleven. When

518
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: it comes to backcountry camping, maybe you maybe you've got

519
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: into an area where you're you've got your tent out,

520
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: it's super cold. A little bit of a tip that

521
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: I picked up this last year is um One of

522
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 1: the guys I was hunting my started carried like this light,

523
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: like just a little carbon monoxide detector, and I was like,

524
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: that is genius, because I'm always afraid to run my

525
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: stove in my tent. But it's nice if you've got

526
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: like your stove and you bring an extra fuel canister

527
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: in the morning to just cut down a little bit

528
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: of the cold, warm things up. Just run that fuel

529
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: inside your tent. Obviously, beat safe, don't light yourself on

530
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: fire or whatever. Um running in the vestible and dry

531
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: things out, kind of just cut some of that that

532
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: moisture and whatever. And it's just sometimes nice. But you're

533
00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: also worried about suffocation. So uh, front, mine have little

534
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector. I went to home depot immediately picked

535
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: one up. It was like, this is a great idea,

536
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: you know. And now if you if you pack in

537
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: somewhere or maybe you've just got a car camp and

538
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: you can bring extra fuel, you know, you can run

539
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: your stuff. Maybe you got a bigger tent um, you

540
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: can run that stove and just at nighttime when you're

541
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: sitting in there making dinner or whatever, you've got that

542
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 1: you can run it so you sleep and you've got

543
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: the carbon monoxide detector to make sure that you stay

544
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: breathing and wake up in the morning. I was like,

545
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: that's a great idea because I always I never do

546
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: it because I'm always afraid of not waking up, So

547
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: having that is just a little bit added kind of

548
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: thing to think about. Um, And obviously still event properly

549
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: and whatever, but use common sense. But having that little

550
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector is not a bad idea. Number twelve

551
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: as far as late season hunts and camping go, one

552
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: thing that I found over the years. If I've got

553
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: a tent, let's say, got a car camp set up

554
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: or whatever with a wall tent, or maybe we packed

555
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: in somewhere or whatever, I've got a lightweight t be

556
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: set up with a stove. What I will do is

557
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: bring some of those Dirrolog sticks. It's a little bit

558
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: extra weight, but hey, you're gonna burn them. And I

559
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: kind of think on late season house, I just get

560
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: into my spot. I'll carry a little bit extra, but

561
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: have some stuff that keeps comfortable because sometimes you'll you've

562
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: got that fire going and you do it at night

563
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: and you got your sticks in there, and it's either

564
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: like super hot or super cold, and then it burns

565
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: out fast. Um. I found that just some of those

566
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: Dirrolog sticks, if you throw one in there at night,

567
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: and they burn a lot longer, especially once you damper

568
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: that stove down and they just seem to keep it

569
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: at the perfect temperature. Just a little bit of a

570
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: wall tense secret if you've got some of them. Obviously, Yeah,

571
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: the other times you'll burn sticks and things you find

572
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: around there, cut your firewood and what have you. Um,

573
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: But when just it's a it doesn't take a lot

574
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: to pack a few of those sticks and they burn.

575
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: I mean I've got them like going for like six

576
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: hours at the right Temperaturey you wake up, just slide

577
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: another stick in there, and you've got that eight season

578
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: comfortable camp just as an added kind of thing. I

579
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: picked that tip up from my buddy Jeremy Rusink in Alaska.

580
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: He was running that on his bison hunt way late

581
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: season in Alaska and snowmobiled in and then used those

582
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: a little bit durist sticks to just kind of keep

583
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: the right temperature and the tent all night long without

584
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: having to, you know, go through a lot of a

585
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: lot of fuel. So I thought that was pretty cool

586
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: with that was a good idea, and I started doing

587
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: that myself and it's it's worked really well. Late season.

588
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: Tip thirteen is dealing with crunchy snow. I think that

589
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,479
Speaker 1: one of the hardest times the stock an animal as

590
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: if you've got that crunchy snow, it's like the entire

591
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: ground makes way too much noise. Now, when it comes

592
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: to elk hunting, I treat crunchy snow like I do

593
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: loud going through anything. I have that call kind of handy,

594
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: and I'll also kind of like mix in a little

595
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: bit of calling as I am walking now if it

596
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: comes to deer and I'm like trying to stock. I

597
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: had a had a late season tagged down in northern

598
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: New Mexico one year, and it's just it's a good

599
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: area for big deer. But man, it was tough to

600
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: get close on that archery hunt because every time you

601
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: take a step, it's so One thing that I've kind

602
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: of found is you can kind of change the way

603
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: that you walk, especially on a stock where I would go,

604
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: you kind of kick out the snow a little bit

605
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: and and provide a place for something to land. Um,

606
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: So it's almost like a sweeping step where you're not

607
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: where you're dragging, but where you're like clearing out and

608
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: then pushing down. That sometimes helps. Another thing to think

609
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: about when it's really crunchy snow is planning your stocks

610
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: when the snow is the least crunchy, and that's generally

611
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: during the middle of the day, so that's when that

612
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: sun's hit it long enough, and then that snow kind

613
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: of starts to soften up. So the mornings it's really

614
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: crunchy because it's been cold all night, and the evenings

615
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: is like there's two times where it's the loudest, and

616
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: that's the morning and then I guess, I would say

617
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: in the evening once that shade started to hit and

618
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: starts to cool down again. But I like to plan

619
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: my stocks. If there's like snow super crunchy and I've

620
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: got some animals up here, I'll bet I'll watch and

621
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: I'll see you. Okay, Like the sun's hitting this particular area,

622
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: and I start to plan my route and plan it

623
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: where it's like it's got enough time to soften up

624
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 1: a little bit. I let that sun hit it, and

625
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: then I go in and make my make my play

626
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: and try to do it in the what would be

627
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 1: kind of like the middle of the day or like

628
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: mid afternoon before it starts to cool down again. So

629
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: the warmest part of the day, even if it's really

630
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: cold out sometimes will be enough to soften up that snow.

631
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: It might still be loud, but it might be less

632
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: loud than it is first thing in the morning or

633
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: first thing in the evening. Tip fourteen. We're gonna focus

634
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: on late season and meal there. And when it comes

635
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: to late season meal there kind of like I talked

636
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: about in that story, is one thing to think about

637
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: is thinking about what I call kind of grouping pockets.

638
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: So if it's a migration type area, the deer going

639
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: to be focused on food sources. And I kind of

640
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: look at late season meal they're hunting the same This

641
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: like it's a very strange way of thinking about it,

642
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: but I think of late season meal they're having very

643
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: similar to dear behavior early season meal. They're hunting like

644
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: in August. And what happens is the deer kind of

645
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: do the same thing. The bucks start to pull off

646
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: and bachelor back up again, and they'll be in these

647
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: like groups because it's kind of a safety and numbers

648
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 1: game where they start grouping up and they want to

649
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: be they need a few things. They need that safety

650
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: and they need that feed, so they need to cover

651
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: and they need the feed. It's generally not hard to

652
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: find water because it's with the snow and all the

653
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: stuff they can. They've got water around, but they need

654
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: those pockets where they've got that adequate winter range. And

655
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: during that late season they kind of start to group

656
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: up more, they find more safety. It makes it harder

657
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: for predators to sneak in on them because it's they

658
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: don't want to be running as much, they can't expend

659
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: as much energy. So if they're in that safety group,

660
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: they can use kind of that safety numbers technique where

661
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: they all scatter and potentially uh prevent getting killed by predators.

662
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: And also there's just more eyes and ears. So one

663
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: thing I started to find is as late season goes

664
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: on and those deer, those bucks start batcheling back up again,

665
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: I find those pockets where it's like, okay, here's a

666
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: pocket that has a deer habitat. There's clearly deer in it.

667
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: And then I keep watching those pockets because it keeps

668
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: It kind of creates this deer magnet where it's like

669
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: it's good habitat. Other deers start joining in. So you've

670
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: got doze moving in, you've got bucks moving in. Those

671
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: bucks might be in a bachelor group. And then if

672
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: I find a pocket that has bucks I keep an

673
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: eye on that pocket because the animals that are in

674
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: those pockets will change over time. And that's one kind

675
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: of my favorite late season meal deer tactic is finding

676
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: and focusing on those pockets. And that's in hunting in

677
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: areas that is cold weather. So for tip number fifteen,

678
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 1: let's go down a little bit south of the border,

679
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: or not south the border, but south close to the border,

680
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about some cou'se deer in

681
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: late season meal deer tactics in southern States, because that's

682
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: probably one of the hunts that I think a lot

683
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: of people are going to be getting on now is

684
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: those those over the counter type meal dear CU's deer

685
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: tags around Arizona. And one thing that's nice about heading

686
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: south for the winter is the rut kicks off late

687
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: um hunting those late season you start to get some

688
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: rutting activities, some rutting behavior when it comes to late

689
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: season cuse dear, late season mule dear. It's just like

690
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: any rut, I focus on the does. Focusing on the

691
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: doz is going to be where the bucks find themselves.

692
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: I also kind of find that, you know, getting in

693
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: those those areas where you've got good advantage to glass

694
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: and cover a lot of country. Cuse dear mule, dear

695
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: desert species. It's generally lower densities, not always, but generally

696
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,239
Speaker 1: lower densities, And so you want to cover a lot

697
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: of country, and I like to cover that country with

698
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: my eyes. You gotta look close, you gotta focus in.

699
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: But finding those pockets that hold, like even those those

700
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: thicker brushy pockets, was like, oh, here's some doze in here,

701
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: and then I start to really pick it apart and

702
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: and turn out a lot of bucks. I also have

703
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: found some good six tass on those type of hunts

704
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: cruising in that more broken country where it's like it's

705
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to glass some of it, But I

706
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: kind of go into those tight pockets, go in, pop over,

707
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: start glassing. If I see something great, if I don't

708
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: back out and go to the next pocket. One thing

709
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 1: that's nice about those little kind of broken country pockets

710
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: is when you see something, they're generally already already fairly

711
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: close and you can often kind of get a good

712
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: stock in it because it has multiple angles of terrain

713
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: to do your approach. So looking in that broken country

714
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: late season is a good way to kind of find

715
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: those pockets and does as well and find those those

716
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: hopefully redded up bucks. As promised, I wanted to do

717
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: a little this time. You always like to do a

718
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: little bit of a Christmas gear guide. I actually get

719
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: a lot of questions this time of year, like, hey,

720
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a gift for someone. You know, you

721
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: got any ideas, Like, well, I don't really know the person,

722
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard because I like to do

723
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: gifts that, you know, um, maybe something somebody needs. But

724
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: there are some things that I've found. I always try

725
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: of like make a list of things throughout the year

726
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: that I'm like, Okay, that's something maybe somebody doesn't know

727
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: about that I thought was pretty cool, um, or a

728
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: way that I use something, and I'm like, oh, yeah,

729
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: I can be one of those people. I could see

730
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: being very difficult to buy a gift for, um. But

731
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: then I find something that somebody gets to me and

732
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is super handy and I would

733
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: have never thought about this. Um. So I figured I'll

734
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: cover some of those things. And then I also like,

735
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: I'm pretty big on the homemade gift kind of things,

736
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: So give you some ideas of some things you can

737
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: do with some shed antlers and some maybe some stuff

738
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: that you've taken over the season, so some sharing in

739
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: the harvest. So I think one of the uh, let's

740
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: start with some of the homemade stuff. I think just

741
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: giving some ideas on this one thing that these are

742
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: just things that I do a lot, um and it's

743
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: I I like getting crafty though, you know, it's a

744
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: fun time. It's like this is kind of the only

745
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: time where I might even get a little bit of

746
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: time to make something for someone. So um. One of

747
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: the things that I make a lot with some shed

748
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: antlers is cribbage boards. If you don't play the game

749
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: of cribbage, you definitely should. It's a fun game. My

750
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: wife and I played all the time, or when we're

751
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: in a hunting camp, friends and whatever, we sit around

752
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: the the old fire at night and on especially late

753
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: season hunt you know, you're in the Walton short days

754
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: and play a little bit of crib that's fun. Um,

755
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy. No you need is a ship angler,

756
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: maybe a drill, something good to measure it with, and

757
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: you're on your way to making a cribbage board. Another

758
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: really good gift idea one thing that my wife and

759
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: idea is we slice up a lot of meat and

760
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: make a lot of jerky. I've got a couple of

761
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: those made with meat ten trade dehydrators. I went with

762
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: a big one because it's like, man, if you're making

763
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: a batch of jerky. I found the other day, well,

764
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: I shot a white tailed dope. Um, I had like

765
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: an extra b tag bow tag and UM shot a

766
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: dough and then just slice the entire thing into jerky

767
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: and then made the jerky and was like, wow, an

768
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: entire deer is like a one bag of jerky. And

769
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: that's that's way jerky is it? Uh? It goes fast,

770
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: so UM, I like to have a lot of room

771
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: to make big batches when we make it, which we

772
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: tend to save cuts every year from whatever we shoot

773
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: and make jerky. But it makes a great gift because

774
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: you can vacuum seal it up, um, you know, put

775
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: a nice little whatever on it. And even friends and

776
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: family that don't hunt or whatever, it's like something they enjoy.

777
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: Everybody loves a good jerky. And a side note, pay

778
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: attention to my website because pretty soon I will have

779
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: a pretty sweet jerky mix coming out. Um. But Unfortunately

780
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: packaging didn't make it in time for the holiday season.

781
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: So something I'm just a little bit of a tease,

782
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: keep an eye open. Another thing I've making this year

783
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: for some guys is I saved the leather off a

784
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: bunch of elk and stuff. I always do some stuff

785
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: with the leather, and uh, got it tanned, and then

786
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing just something super super easy to make, just

787
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: like a leather flask wrap. So I just bought some

788
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: flasks on Amazon. Pretty easy, just measure around it, cut

789
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 1: the leather to size two, and then you I poked

790
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: some holes and then do you just like a X

791
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: or just you know whatever, just with some needle and

792
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: send you kind of stuff on the back. Sew it

793
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: up and you've got yourself a leather flask cover. You

794
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: can whatever. If you get a wood burner, you can

795
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: burn something on it. I picked up you know those

796
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: those stupid ads where it's like an add on Instagram

797
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: or an add on whatever. I can't remember. I saw

798
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: some ad that popped up and I never and I

799
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's pretty cool. It was like a

800
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: forty dollar laser engraver. I was like, okay, for forty bucks,

801
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: it might be garbage. But if I can get a

802
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: couple of things on leather with it, that would be

803
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: pretty sweet. The one I got, um, yeah, it's kind

804
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: of it's it's not the greatest, like, but it's about

805
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: as good as I expected. But I did I am

806
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: able to burn like some cool like burn initials or

807
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: a couple of little designs. You can even supposedly take

808
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: a photo and upload it from your phone. And I

809
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 1: was like, it seems like I tried. It didn't work

810
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: super well. Um, but just for a simple design, it

811
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: was pretty sweet. So on the front of the flask,

812
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: just like you know, if you got if it's a

813
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: hunt where friends helped you out, um, something to think about.

814
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: Just kind of a fun thank you gift, like, oh,

815
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: these buddies came and helped me, maybe we had like

816
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: a funny saying during that hunt or something like that.

817
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: Burning that on the front kind of a good memory

818
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: and and something that they can keep saying and take

819
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: with them. Always fun. And then another good homemade gift

820
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: with antlers or wood or whatever is like I've just

821
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: got like a small lathe makes some pens. You can

822
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: get little pen making kits and pretty easy just turn

823
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: it down, make a make a round pen and drill

824
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: it out. It doesn't take very long. I'll do with

825
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: shed antlers. And also sometimes when I'm hiking around in

826
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: an area, find like a cool piece of wood, uh,

827
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: knotted up piece of whatever, and I'll use that to

828
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: make some pens for people Christmas time. It's just to

829
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: thank you, or it's just a cool gift, like a

830
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: little bit of homemade, a little bit of hand touch,

831
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: a little bit of story with it. That's always fun.

832
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: So if you're into that kind of thing, just a

833
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: few ideas to throw out there. You know, some of

834
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: those you might have to invest a little bit in

835
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: a small lathe or whatever, but uh, you know it's uh,

836
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: it's gifts, saving gift ideas for years to come. When

837
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: it comes to some other items that I think about,

838
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, there's always those like big ticket items whatever.

839
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: I mean, there's things guys need, bows and whatever, and

840
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, the holidays could be a great time to

841
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: get somebody something like that or get yourself something like that.

842
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: But I figured for this gear gift thing, just kind

843
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: of picking some smaller items that I find really useful

844
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: and maybe something, you know, just a couple of ideas

845
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: out there. One thing every if you're if you're if

846
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: you know a bow hunter, one thing that you know

847
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: they always need and it's always good and they're kind

848
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: of expensive but not too expensive, is a pack of broadheads.

849
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: Figure out what broadheads they use and show up at

850
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: a Christmas party with a pack of broadheads. I have

851
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: always been like, yep, I need and broadheads. It's a

852
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: good thing to have stockpiled. So broadheads are always a

853
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: pretty solid, pretty solid gift idea. Um, if you've got

854
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: somebody that hunts. One another piece of item that I find.

855
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: I use it all the time, and I'm like, I

856
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: think it just kind of seems I think it's probably

857
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: a piece of gear that's understated, is YETI It's called

858
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: YETI backflip. It's like that backpack cooler. If you know

859
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: somebody that travels and hunts or just does I I

860
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: find that to be probably one of my go to things.

861
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: I take it everywhere. I use it more than anything. Um,

862
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: when I'm going on a trip somewhere, I packed stuff

863
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: in it, carry it on like my camera gear and whatever.

864
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: Then when I'm there, I've got a cooler if I

865
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: need it. And then when I fly home, I can

866
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: put pretty much. I think I can put about fifty

867
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: pounds of meat in there, which is like a substantial

868
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: amount once you butchered it up and if it packs

869
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: nice and I'll freeze and stuff put it in there,

870
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: travel home with it, um, and then we use it,

871
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: like you know, around for and I was like, oh, hey,

872
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: we're running up to the lake for the weekend or whatever,

873
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's like we've got a cooler and a backpack.

874
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. I think that's probably one of my

875
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: favorite I don't know, that's one of my favorite things.

876
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: And I think every time somebody sees it, they're like,

877
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: whoa cooler backpack? I don't know. Um, it's like anytime

878
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: I travel with it or whatever, people are really interested

879
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: in it. And I think it's just kind of one

880
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: of the thing that probably doesn't maybe people don't even

881
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: know about them that much. I don't know, maybe people do,

882
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: but I find it super handy, Like it's one of

883
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: my favorite things that I owned as hunters a sportsman.

884
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 1: Processing animals is always like having your own butcher stuff.

885
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: I found is makes things like having good stuff makes

886
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: a big difference. I remember when I first started out,

887
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: was like I would always take stuff to the butcher

888
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: because I bought a crappy grinder um, and it just

889
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: was such a pain in the asks to grind anything,

890
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: such a pain in the ask to clean, such a

891
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: pain in the ask to use that. It was just

892
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: easier and cheaper to just drop it off how someone

893
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 1: do it it. I like being a part of that process.

894
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: And I've found out that a lot of butchers that

895
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: you drop stuff off at don't even give you your

896
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: meat back, like when it comes to grind and things

897
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: like that. They will mix it and then give you

898
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: like other people's meat, which I think is absolutely disgusting

899
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: and should never be done because you don't know how

900
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: somebody else took care of something. Um, You don't know

901
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: like what condition it was in. Maybe you shot a

902
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: younger animal that's like, and you took really good care

903
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: of it, and then you take it to a butcher

904
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: processor and you're expecting this really good meat and you

905
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: got something. I've been riding around someone's truck for four

906
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: days and got shot and just like not taking well

907
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: care of So I am a big fan of doing

908
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: stuff um yourself, unless you know of like a butcher

909
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: that does things the right way, which they should all

910
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 1: do things the right way, but they all don't. Um.

911
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: And so processing stuff I think is like one of

912
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: the it's something that definitely is super valuable and really

913
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: nice to have. I work with a company made with

914
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: meat and they make really good commerce grade stuff like

915
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: a pretty good price. So um, that's some of That's

916
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: some of my favorite stuff to recommend. And I get

917
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: a lot of questions on that stuff because man, the

918
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: difference between having a really good grinder, It's like, don't

919
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: invest in a bad grinder. It's just not worth it

920
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: because it makes the process hard and and sucks. But

921
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: if you have something that's like a high power grinder

922
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: M or really good grinder, that makes the job and

923
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: tasks so much easier. Just like every time I use it,

924
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, wow, this is way easier, because

925
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: I definitely knew the pains of having like the crappy

926
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: kitchen aid attachment and trying to grind stuff and it

927
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: just is not good. Um. I spent hours and then

928
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: like got it. Finally got a good grinder, and it's like, wow,

929
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: I did in five minutes what it used to take

930
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: me two hours. So good processing stuff is always great

931
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: gift if you can find Ammo. That's if somebody showed

932
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: out my house it was some Ammo, same kind I use.

933
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: I'd be like, that's the best gift ever this year.

934
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: But good luck, that's probably still the hardest thing to find.

935
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: I think that's like, uh, what was the what you know?

936
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: You every you hear you hear like some kind of

937
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: crazy toy that people, Um, I would wait in line

938
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: for and fight. What was that? There's an Arnold Schutznegger

939
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: movie with Jingle all the Way or something where they're

940
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: like fighting over a certain toy that's really hard to

941
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: get ammos that It's like, if you can find it

942
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: and it's the right stuff, man, that's the most thoughtful

943
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: gift you could give a hunter this season. Another cool

944
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: gift idea, UM Gerber has these custom knives so you

945
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: can go on and you can design, you can actually

946
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: upload like your own photo things. Um I've got like

947
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: a say, I've got one that's like got a picture

948
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: of a like a deer that I took, not um

949
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: just like a you know, like a wild like running around.

950
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: I didn't have a tag, but like I cut it

951
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: out and Photoshop and then just did it like black

952
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: and white, like the outline of the deer that I

953
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: saw um and then like chose the handle and all

954
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: the stuff. You can do different designs and things like that.

955
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Anything that's a little bit custom there's

956
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: always a sweet gift kind of along the lines of

957
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of homemade, but somebody made it

958
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: for you. You kind of customized it, picked it out yourself.

959
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: Another fun gift I found, uh it's it's a flip

960
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: flop sauce and uh so it's like this, it's just

961
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: for cooking, you know. It's like wild games sharing you

962
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: meat essentially cook a hole hind quarter, so it saves

963
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: on processing time and it's really fun to do. Um.

964
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: I do it over like I've got a Brio outdoor grill.

965
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: That's definitely what the way you want to do it

966
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 1: over some wood fire And actually one of those Brio

967
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: grill is pretty sweet. It's a cool like cool gifts,

968
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: something different that I think maybe a lot of people

969
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: don't think about. I've kind of, over the last couple

970
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: of years really fallen in love with cooking on it. Um.

971
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: It's fun. It's a fire pit. It's got the sere plate,

972
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: it's got you know, I've got the outpost thing, and

973
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: you could just do the outpost thing. It's just like

974
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,760
Speaker 1: a for camping, big mesh cooking unit over the fire.

975
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: It's fun to cook over the fire. And that's like

976
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: a cool way to do it, smokeless fire pit. But

977
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: the flip flop sauces you use, you make like a

978
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: mop with the ah rosemary and then you marinate a

979
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: little bit and then as you're cooking it, you just

980
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: keep swabbing the sauce on there, turning it and then slicing. Uh.

981
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: It's incredible how good it turns out. I just made

982
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: one the other day, and a lot of fun. It's

983
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: kind of a fun gathering thing, especially especially around the holidays.

984
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure you could just Google search

985
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: it and yeah, I think that. Oh, here's as somebody

986
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: that is very difficult to buy a gift for. Was

987
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: it last year? It's it's a terrible name, um, but

988
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: I got. I was like, every time I go use

989
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: this thing, I'm like, man, this was still one of

990
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: the best gifts I've ever got. And you're like, oh,

991
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: let me hear. Is it a new gun. Is it

992
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: a new bow? And I'm like, no, it's a stupid

993
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: thing called a battery daddy. Terrible name, right, But I

994
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: don't even know where it came from. I just I

995
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: was in there the other day and uh my, I

996
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: gave it to me. It's like a it's like a

997
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: toolbox that just holds batteries, so it's like battery organization.

998
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: And he gave it to me full of batteries. And

999
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: first I was like, oh, yeah, this is cool, and

1000
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: then I realized throughout the year, I'm like, oh, my

1001
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: head lamp needs batteries. I'm always looking for triple as.

1002
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: And it's like my battery organizations just in this box

1003
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: and the random it's got like a little battery tester

1004
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: in there, and and then just different things like I

1005
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: was running some trail cameras and I was like, I

1006
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: need some batteries. I was like, man, just go to

1007
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: this box and they're all in the same place. And

1008
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: I had batteries and random batteries that you might need

1009
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: for something. I had a buddy one to borrow a lantern.

1010
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, cool, I got one. I hadn't

1011
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,919
Speaker 1: used it for years, and I was like, oh, ship.

1012
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 1: I don't even have like D batteries, and I was like, oh, yeah,

1013
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: I've got those batteries. I don't know why, but that

1014
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: gift really just struck a chord to me. I was like,

1015
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: this thing is awesome. All my batteries in one place.

1016
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: I keep it in the same place, super organized, and Um,

1017
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: I didn't realize like how reliant I am batteries and

1018
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: would just generally have to be like I don't have

1019
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: those batteries, I go buy that battery, or my headlamp

1020
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: needs batteries whatever. I thought that was a pretty sweet gift.

1021
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: I actually just forgot the number one gift to give

1022
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: a Hunter this season one of my Lucky t shirts

1023
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: that you can find on my website Remy Warren dot com.

1024
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: I there are a very limited quantity left, and so

1025
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: if you want one of those, it would be a

1026
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: good gift. There are in low supply, hard to get in.

1027
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: Once they're gone, they're gone. They won't be uh this

1028
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: is the end of that run. So if you want

1029
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: one of those shirts or know somebody that does, you

1030
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: better head on there now because they're gonna be They're

1031
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: gonna be taken up pretty quick. Um. I found a

1032
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,919
Speaker 1: few more shirt blanks and we were able to get

1033
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: a few more printed up. So if you want one

1034
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: of those, they're pre lucked. I think everybody that's bought

1035
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: one shot a giant animal this year, as far as

1036
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: I from from the comments that I've got, that's all

1037
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: I know. You know, I can only go off the

1038
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: information I'm giving, so we'll just we'll say that that's true. Um. Yeah,

1039
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: So if you want one of those, you can go

1040
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: to my website remy Warren dot com and if you

1041
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: would like to sign up for my mailing list us

1042
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the page there go for it. Also,

1043
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: um YouTube channel got feel free to subscribe to that.

1044
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 1: That's my pitch for my stuff. Next week, I'm really excited,

1045
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: gonna tell a story, gonna share a fun story of

1046
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: a hunt that I did this season. Also got some

1047
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: news podcast news, and I'm gonna be launching a really

1048
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: big giveaway. I like to do an end of the

1049
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: year Christmas style giveaway. I've got what would be. I

1050
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: don't know. If you're like, hey, I need gear, then

1051
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: this the winner will get all the gear they need.

1052
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. It is an epic

1053
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,919
Speaker 1: giveaway of epic proportion. So that will be next week,

1054
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: and then we'll do my famous Christmas special, which is

1055
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: one of my favorite podcasts every year. That will be

1056
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: the week of Christmas, and then we will end on

1057
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: kind of a what I like to do the year

1058
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: end recap and some tips going forward. So I'm looking

1059
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: forward to the coming up podcasts the holiday season, in

1060
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: the Christmas season. Thank you guys so much for all

1061
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: your support, the comments, the likes, the whatever, the questions,

1062
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: the participation, and most importantly sharing your success stories with me.

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Speaker 1: I've got so many awesome ones. I'm really surprised some

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Speaker 1: of the best success Like I've got not best, but

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Speaker 1: I would say like the most success stories from one

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Speaker 1: particular podcast have come from the Rattling Tactics. A lot

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Speaker 1: of guys saying like I never thought to rattle, or

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Speaker 1: I just thought that was a Midwest thing. I just

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Speaker 1: thought it was this kind of thing, and guys saying like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I killed my this buck came running in, I shot

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Speaker 1: my best buck this year. You just rattling, never rattled before,

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Speaker 1: And to me, I was like, man, rattling tactics just

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Speaker 1: seemed like something every I thought that was just something

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Speaker 1: everybody did all the time. Um, maybe some people do,

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Speaker 1: but I think that got a lot of success stories

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Speaker 1: from that, So thank you guys so much for sending

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Speaker 1: that in. It always, uh it gets me pretty pumped

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Speaker 1: up to see some of this stuff and some guys, uh,

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Speaker 1: somebody sent me there first. I think it was the

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Speaker 1: first or second ELK General Unit, um, like a three

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Speaker 1: sixty type bowl, Like, hey, look what I found, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, man, that's pretty awesome. Um, maybe not

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Speaker 1: for your first one, you know, you might be completely tainted,

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Speaker 1: but you know, use these tactics found this bowl. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that that was that was exceptional. But yeah, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys all. Thanks so much for listening checking things out.

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Speaker 1: And until next week, let's uh, let's go late season

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Speaker 1: it up. I'll be out there, catch you guys later.