1 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days 2 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics. They'll get you closer 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back everyone. We are 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: jumping into part two of the Glassing Spectacular. I just 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: I dubbed it that, and so that's what it's going 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: to be. Probably not on the label, but it will 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: be in your minds now. Last week we talked about 10 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: understanding size, reference and shape. This week, as promised, we're 11 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: gonna talk about changing those search parameters to color and 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: adjusting your varying view looking for movement. By combining that 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: in with the other two items we talked about last week, 14 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: you for sure we'll be able to spot more animals 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: faster and train yourself to have a sharper eye through 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: having a sharper mind. But before we do that, let's 17 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: head way north to the island of Kodiak and search 18 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: for blacktailed deer. Right now, I'm actually sitting in my 19 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: little cabin. It's raining outside. I'm hoping to go out 20 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: and hunt some deer this afternoon. But I would need 21 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: to record a few podcasts, and I'm I'm thinking about 22 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: what we talked about last week, glass NG, and I 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: was just trying to, you know, kind of rack my 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: brain of some some good hunting stories. And then I 25 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: look over and I see my brothers Sitka blacktail deer 26 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: mounted here on the cabin wall, and I'm like, that 27 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: was an amazing spot. And so this story takes place 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: on Kodiak, Alaska, and it was in early October, which 29 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: if you're familiar with blacktailed deer hunting, that's not the 30 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: best time to hunt. It's pre rut, post alpine like 31 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: bucks out in the summer range. It's just kind of 32 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: an interesting time where well, actually, for many dear species, 33 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: that October time frame can be really difficult because the 34 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: bucks break off there by themselves. They're just in these 35 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: thickets kind of preparing for the rut, saving up, conserving energy, 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: and they can be very little movement, very hard to find. 37 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: This week was definitely that we had trouble just turning 38 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: up any dear. Not only that, but it was just 39 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: kind of an off year for Kodiak, where experienced a 40 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: little bit of a die off and there wasn't a 41 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: lot of year round, but you know, you you had 42 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: a good opportunity maybe finding a good buck. This was 43 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: Jason's first blacktail hunt, and we're out there and we're 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: just like, it's like the last day of our hunt 45 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: and he hasn't got a buck yet. I shot a buck. 46 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: A friend of mine shot a buck that we were 47 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: hunting with, and Jason's just like, he's always that guy 48 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: that's willing to just help everybody and then puts himself 49 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the list. He's you know, he's 50 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: just one of those guys that is a great guy 51 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: to hunt with. And he's not only really fun to 52 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: hunt with, but he always loves to just help other 53 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: people get their animals and he always ends up doing 54 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: pretty good even though he sends it down to the wire. 55 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: And actually it's a fitting story because he's actually hunting 56 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: blacktails right now with some other friends. So I figure, 57 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: what a great, great story to tell this week. But 58 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: it was just one of those weeks where it was 59 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: very tough, very difficult hunting, and we weren't seeing much. 60 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: It's the last day and so me and Jay are like, 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: all right, we're just gonna give it her all. We're 62 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: gonna go on a major mission. We hiked up from 63 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: the beach. We're gonna hike up to the alpine. We're 64 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: gonna work this ridge the entire length of this ridge 65 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: and just glass in all the spots that look good. 66 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: We get up there, we're glass and we aren't seeing much. Um. 67 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: As we're halfway up the mountain, I look and I 68 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: spot a dough and like a fawn in this little 69 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: there's like this this ridge. As we start to near 70 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: the alpine, these little tiny pine trees and they crossed 71 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: from this like thick stuff like almost like, um, I 72 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: guess it'd be like alders and Devil's Club on this 73 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: on the one face over into these like subalpine little 74 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: furs or a little short, little Christmas tree looking things 75 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: and disappear like, oh, deer up on that ridge, let's go. 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: They were does we're hunting bucks, But hey, dear, that's 77 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: maybe a good sign. So we bust through a ton 78 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: of brush to get up there, just like really thick 79 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: alders growing in that. I would say they're like twelve 80 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: foot tall alders and baseball batsize just like we were 81 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: just battling to get up to this spot. We break 82 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: through into the alpine and we just got this really 83 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: great view. We're glass and we don't actually see the 84 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: same deer, but we work around the face. The winds 85 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: blowing up from the bottom, so it's good wind. And 86 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: we're like, okay, you know, it's mid day, is our 87 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: last day. The leaves have started to fall off this 88 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: one like pocket, and we're just looking at this pocket, 89 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 1: going okay, dear, we're in here. This pocket looks incredible. 90 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: We've got a really goodvantage. We're just gonna sit here 91 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: in glass until we find a book. So we're sitting 92 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: there glass and glass and glassing. I've got the binoculars, 93 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: and I'm like, we cannot turn up a deer. So 94 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: I just started thinking to myself. I'm like just trying 95 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: to picture it. I'm just thinking to myself, Okay, what 96 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: am I going to look for? Everything. I'm kind of 97 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: looking and like the colors, there's all the colors of 98 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: the deer. They don't have a lot. I just started 99 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: to think, okay, just look for something white. Maybe I'll 100 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: get lucky and spot you know, it's tail or whatever. 101 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: So I'm just thinking, find something white, find something white, 102 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: and I'm glassing. I've got my binoculars out on top 103 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: of actually had my spotting scope, and I set my 104 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: binoculars on top of them. So I'm glassing on the 105 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,239 Speaker 1: tripod and just thinking, white, white, white, Let's find something. 106 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, my eye catches something. Okay, 107 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: that looks good. I go down, get the spotting scope 108 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: on it, kind of lose it because it's just so 109 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: much I'm like looking through all this crap. It's just 110 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: so many sticks and twigs and everything, and it's ways 111 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: off on the other side of the canyon. Look back 112 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: through the binocular and spotted again. I'm like, ja, okay, 113 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: I think there's a deer here. Let's and so get 114 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: the spotting scope out and I start focusing and there's 115 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: all this stuff in the way in between me and 116 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: this white spot, and so I'm rolling the focus and 117 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: finally get it focused. I'm like, oh, buck, big buck, 118 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: there's this nice what i'd call three point three by 119 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: three with eye guards like past these years, just a 120 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: solid hundred type black tail on a week that we 121 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: hadn't been seeing very many black tails. So like, this 122 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: is the best buck of the trip, last day of 123 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: the hunt. Heck yeah, And he's just bedded in the 124 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: thicket kind of by himself. So like, dang, Okay, well 125 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: he's too far to shoot from here, and there's just 126 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: like way too much stuff and he's bedded. So we're like, okay, 127 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna devise a plan because we gotta get this 128 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: buck is a good buck. So we decide if he 129 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: stands up, there's like a log right in front of him. 130 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: Picture it almost like it's on the side of a mountain, 131 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: but it's just it's kind of thick. There's all there's 132 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: there's like this falling log, and he's kind of like 133 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: in this real wet spot kind of hiding out where 134 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: I mean, there's like some dead fault in this little 135 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: open and that's how we spotted him, and there's enough 136 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: clearing above him. We just need him to stand, but 137 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: he's very well hidden and you've got to get into 138 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: the right position. So I think I arranged it. I 139 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: was like seven hundred yards away, so Jason is gonna 140 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: We kind of picked a spot where we thought there's 141 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: this intermediate ridge. Jason could get three hundred yards and 142 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: have a shot. But we're now racing against the clock 143 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: because we're on a time crunch. It's the last day. 144 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: We spotted him in the kind of late afternoon and 145 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: it's gonna get dark. We still have to make our 146 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: way back to camp because we're getting a boat right out, 147 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: so we need to get We're kind of like racing 148 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: against the clock to get to the boat. But also 149 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: we've got this big buck and we're gonna get him. 150 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: But Jason hasked to get a position, so we make 151 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: this plan. Jason is going to sneak in and I'm 152 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: gonna watch him. I'm gonna give him hands signals if 153 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: the buck gets up or does anything crazy, because if 154 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: he moves in that and we're both stalking in, we'll 155 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: never know where he went. So if he moves, I'm 156 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: gonna guide him into where the deer is gone. Now 157 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: we have this contingency plan. I'm gonna stay up on 158 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: point and just watch the deer, and then I'm gonna 159 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: guide Jason in with hand signals. So the way we 160 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: do our hands signals, like I like to take my 161 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: hat off and point in the direction that the deer 162 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: is going. If I'm close enough, I've got like I'll 163 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: turn my hat backwards or like wave my arms if 164 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: the deer's like gone. If it's blown, you know, wave 165 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: my arms, and I was gonna move positions. So we 166 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: have a couple of different positions. So if the deer 167 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: is still where it was, I'm gonna be sitting right 168 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: where I am. If the deer's up, I'll probably stand up. 169 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: And then if it's like still betted, you know, I'll 170 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: be sitting there where I was. And then there was 171 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: this other rock over to our side. So if I 172 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: go to the rock, that means it's blown, it's over, 173 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: and then I'll guide him in if the deer moves, 174 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: so it's close enough where we can kind of see 175 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: each other. So Jason creeps down. He has to lose 176 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: sight of the buck to go around. He drops down, 177 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 1: he pops up to the right spot. I kind of 178 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: guide him to the spot that I thought he'd probably 179 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: get a view. So, you guys, he's glassing back at me. 180 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: I'm glassing back at him. The bucks betted, So Jason 181 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: set up. He's I can see he's on the gun. 182 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: I'm just watching the buck. Okay, nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. 183 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,839 Speaker 1: I'm kind of in line where I can see both 184 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: of them at the same time. So Jason turns around. 185 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: It's like getting late, and I'm like, man, this deer 186 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: is not going to stand up. So he looks at 187 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: me and he kind of like taps his wrist like 188 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: he's like times running out, and I'm like I'm thinking, 189 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: I know, I know. And then we've got this like 190 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: buddy that has this is kind of a joke but 191 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: kind of serious. He calls it the warning shot. It 192 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: came about on accous deer hunt. We call it the 193 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: Mike Markasy warning shot, where somebody you shoot to get 194 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: the animal to stand up, then you can get a shot. 195 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: So we're running out of time and I see Jason 196 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: and he's looking at me and he's like giving me 197 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: the like pointing at me and then like aiming and 198 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,599 Speaker 1: like shoot. And I'm thinking we're just we're kind of 199 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: joking because before he went down, I was like, hey, 200 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: if the buck doesn't stand up in time, give him 201 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: the old warning shop. So he's like pointing at me 202 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: and like trigger. Okay. He wants me to try to 203 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: get the buck to stand up, and I'm far enough away. 204 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: I'm like that's not a bad idea. There's a tree 205 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: close by. I've got my rifle, I'm like, all right, 206 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna try this because we're almost we're just cutting 207 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: it close. By the time we butcher it, hike out 208 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: of there, get back. You know, somebody's meeting us with 209 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: a boat that night, like it's their last night. We're 210 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 1: going out of there after this. We don't have any 211 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: communication devices, so we really need to figure this out, 212 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: get that deer, and hopefully make it back within a 213 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: reasonable hour before you know, boat leaves. So I decided, 214 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna do the warning shot from my 215 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: position and then hopefully that we'll get the deer to 216 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: stand up. So I pick a tree that's near me 217 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: in like a safe direction. I load up around. Boom, 218 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: fire right into the tree. Why am? The sound goes out. 219 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: I look through the scope. I'm like, oh yeah, let's 220 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: get nothing happened, Absolutely nothing happened. All right, let's do 221 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: it again. Boom, who am, hammer that close tree. Look 222 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: back through the scope. Nothing happened. Jason just ready, all right, 223 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: one more boom, wham. I see the buck kind of 224 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: like shake his head, look up, and then just slowly 225 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: stand up. Looking through the scope. Boom, one shot. Jason 226 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: drops the buck. Buck down and the patented warning shot 227 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: in this particular instance paid off. It was a really 228 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: crazy spot like the last day and just a lucky 229 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: I would almost say a lucky spot, but just a 230 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: spot where we were trying to use everything we could. 231 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: Defined one last year and turned out to be a 232 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: great buck and his first black tail deer. Last week 233 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: we started on part one talking about glassing, and my 234 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: four tenants of glassing were size, shape, color, and movement. 235 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: We already covered size and shape, so just as a 236 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: little bit of a recap, we kind of talked about 237 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: understanding what you're looking at the distances and how much 238 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: time you need to spend, but also what's the size 239 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: of the animal you're looking at compared to things that 240 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: are already on that hill. And then shape, not just 241 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: looking for the shape of the animal, but looking for 242 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: certain shapes that identify that there's animals there or things 243 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: that your eye picks up faster unless your brain process. 244 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: What we've been building out is kind of letting your 245 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: brain be the computer of the glassing and letting your 246 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: eyes do the looking. It'll save you time and will 247 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: allow you to pick out things that a lot of 248 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: other people don't pick out. You know, I mentioned last 249 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: week about the gorilla on the stage and people not 250 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: recognizing it. Now, I think color is one of those 251 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: things that it's something that's easy to identify and think about. 252 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: It's something easy to look for, and it is often 253 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: what gets animals spotted. But I think what the trouble 254 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: is is people just have an idea of a color 255 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: and then they end up missing a lot of other things. 256 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: When I talk about color, what I do is I 257 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: actually start thinking about what am I hunting, and then 258 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: what are the colors associated with that animal. I know 259 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: when I think thought about times in the past spring 260 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: bear guiding, people that like think about black bears being 261 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: only black tend to spot only black black bears. There's 262 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: been many times where I've been looking at a single hill, 263 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: had someone with me, I spot a bear, you know, whatever, 264 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: Hey there's a bear over there. There's actually a couple 265 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: of bears over there, and they look and they immediately 266 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: see the one that their brain was thinking of, the 267 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: black black bear. And yet you know, there's two brown 268 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: or cinnamon colored bears also on the same hill, and 269 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: those just get glanced over like, oh, I didn't even 270 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: you know, didn't even recognize that because they had in 271 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: their head. I'm looking for something that's black, the same 272 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: ghost filk. You know, people think, oh, I'm looking for 273 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: something brown or mule the or that white butt, and 274 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: he goes looking for that white butt. Well, they miss 275 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: a lot of the deer that are broadside or facing them, 276 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: and they only spot the deer that are facing away. 277 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: What I like to do is I like to think 278 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: of all the colors that are associated with that animal 279 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm hunting, plus one color that kind of is universal 280 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: for all animals. So let's say we we think elk 281 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: a couple of the colors that I like to think about. 282 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: As I'm glassing, I say, okay, look for this color, 283 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: and that color would be that caramel brown, white and 284 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: then black, that black of the bulls, the white of 285 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: their blonde bodies, the kramel color of the cows, and 286 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: then that brown of their neck. So I try to 287 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: break down all those colors that I'm looking for, and 288 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: by doing that, it kind of weeds out many of 289 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: the colors that don't make sense, green, some of the grays, 290 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: some of the other things, and I start focusing on 291 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: colors that makes sense, so I can scan a little 292 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: bit faster. And I've got the search parameter of looking 293 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: for colors that don't make sense in the same way. 294 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: It's kind of the reverse effect of that grill experiment 295 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: where people didn't notice the gorilla, but they're focused on 296 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: one thing. When you're focused on that one thing, you're 297 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: very good at seeing that and thing. So what I 298 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: try to do is I try to pick a few 299 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: things that I know will stand out and focus on 300 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: those and let those pop out at me. So, just 301 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, you know, off the distance 302 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: I'm glassing, it's it's fairly kind of like overcast, dark forests, 303 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: um meadows and other things, and I just start scanning. 304 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: I'm looking along ways away, but I've got this mental 305 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: picture of certain colors I'm looking for. Really, I'm looking 306 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: for bull elk and that blonde body is a dead giveaway. 307 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: It's the largest portion of them. Glass and glassing, okay, 308 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: And so my eyes are keying in on those things. 309 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: White rock, get the spotter out. Nope, that's a white rock. 310 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: Keep glassing that same color. Spotter out. Boom, two bowls 311 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: right there, in a matter of minutes, instead of taking 312 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: a lot of time to really analyze every little piece 313 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: going slow, I can throw up my binoculars. I can 314 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: do a quick preview and overview of the area, just 315 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: running those those color scenarios in my head, thinking find 316 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: this color, find this color, find these colors, and then 317 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: I do a quick initial glass on those colors, and 318 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: generally I turn it out. Now let's talk about another animal, 319 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: Say mule deer, what are some of the colors? Gray? White, brown, black? 320 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: The bucks get that black back, they get that black tail, 321 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: they get that white. So I start running those colors 322 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: through and you'll you'll notice you'll start picking out the 323 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: things that are those colors. What I also do is 324 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: I try to weed out certain colors depending on what's 325 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: If there's snow on the ground, I don't want to 326 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: look for the white. I start to think, look for gray, 327 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: look for blacks. As as things get lighter, the color 328 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: of those animals kind of changes based on you've got 329 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: a more monochromatic view. You've got snow and everything looks white, 330 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: but also everything looks dark. So now I'm looking more 331 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: for the grays and the browns, and I also start 332 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: to think think orange. If I'm looking for mule deer 333 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: in the snow, because their antlers look a lot more orange. 334 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: Their coats starts to look a lot more orange. You 335 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: start to pick those orange colors out a lot faster, 336 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: even over distances. Now, I would say for a lot 337 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: of animals, also understanding that as you get further away 338 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: you know the environment and contrast. But think about light 339 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: and dark contrast. If everything around is dark, I look 340 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: for the things that are light. If everything around is light, 341 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: I look for the things that are dark. If I'm 342 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: glassing a big lots of open, big grassy meadows, maybe 343 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: that gray sage, I'm gonna it's like light background. Now 344 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start looking for the shadows of the animal, 345 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: or the necessarily shadows of the animal, but the way 346 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: the animal looks shadowed in what it's at. Think about 347 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: seeing a you know, you talk about camouflage, and you've 348 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: got a person up close, the camo blends in, and 349 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: then they go a mile away and they just look 350 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: like this human object that's really dark walking around the 351 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: same goes for animals. Yes, their coats blend in, but 352 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: also you know, getting your mind to picture the differences 353 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: in contrast the lights and the darks. If I'm glass, 354 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 1: like I said, if I'm glassing big open grassy meadows 355 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: for elk. Everything's light, everything's that kind of elk color. 356 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: So now I just start to think dark, that dark brown, 357 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: that dark, that black. Maybe that's around the back end 358 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: of a bull or that like mane of a bull. 359 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: So a certain thing dark, and you start picking out 360 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: those pieces. If everything around is dark, maybe it's a 361 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 1: more forced area, maybe more I don't know, like a 362 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: little bit more brush and other things that I start 363 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: to think the light, start to think out, okay, pick 364 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: out the whites of the bodies and and and start 365 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: to kind of narrow in what I'm looking for, or 366 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: the the white off the mule there as opposed to 367 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: the gray in the lot of sage, or maybe some 368 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: more of those brown colors, and combine that with the size, 369 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: the shape, and then as we go into it, movement. 370 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: Movement is the first thing that most people look for, 371 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: but movement is honestly the easiest way to spot animals. 372 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: I would say most animals that get spotted are based 373 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: on movement. Their movement looking at something that everything should 374 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: be still and something moves through it that catches your 375 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: eye allows you to focus in. One thing. I like 376 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: to do whether I'm quick glassing or just previewing an area. 377 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: When I sit down and glass, I like to think 378 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: of looking for that movement. And how I do that 379 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: is I generally want to find a movement based on 380 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: a wide view. That means getting using my binoculars more 381 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: than my spotting scope. It would be looking at the 382 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: mountain or the hill and this really wide view and 383 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: this is kind of more panoramic, and just letting my 384 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: eye stare at the picture and then catch movement in between. 385 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: There's many times where the movement might just be the 386 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: tree swaying back and forth, but you're keen in on 387 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: the movement. When you add movement into your search parameters, 388 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: you start to pick up a lot of other things 389 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: that aren't just what you're looking for. It's crazy because 390 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: you'll be looking out there and you'll be like, huh, 391 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: there's a magpie. I just spotted a magpie from a 392 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: mile two miles, five miles away. You're like, WHOA, Okay, 393 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: because you caught the movement, your eye was drawn to it, 394 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: and now you can also use those other things that 395 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: you see moving to go back to your size, reference 396 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: your shape, and and just test the fact that you're 397 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: actually seeing what you're looking for. Movement is one of 398 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: the best ways to verify that something is what you 399 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: think it is. You know, you you these other search 400 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: parameters go off. You focus in on something that looks 401 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: like it might be a deer, and then you watch it. 402 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 1: You stare at it, and you see if it moves. 403 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,479 Speaker 1: That's like the tried and true test of is that 404 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 1: what I'm looking for? How does it move? Is it moving? 405 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: Many times, what I'll do is I'll go between not 406 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: only glassing but also using when I talk about movement, 407 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: using my naked eye or without glass, I'll do a 408 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: lot of glassing through the binoculars, through the optics, and 409 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: that wide you have been zooming it out, sitting there 410 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: and just staring at the hill and just looking for 411 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: things that move, things that look different, things that change, 412 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: not necessarily trying to look for the animal, but just 413 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: looking for things that are moving. In that really wide view. 414 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: You'll be surprised that you start to catch movements of 415 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: different things, and you start to notice a lot more 416 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: so things that you might not notice ahead of time. 417 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: When you're looking for an animal. You go to this 418 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: really wide view and you just stare and you go, oh, 419 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: there's movement. Then you throw your binoculars up. It turns 420 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: out to be a deer. It turns out to be this, 421 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: It turns out to be that. If you've got decent vision, 422 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: it's a really good way to kind of back that view. 423 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: Like I like to back the view in and out, 424 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: So I'll go from really wide eyes, two binoculars back 425 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: to eyes too, maybe spotting scope at a distance to 426 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: binoculars at a distance. And what I'm doing is I'm 427 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: just looking and observing and waiting for that movement because 428 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 1: there might be especially in the times of morning and 429 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: evening when you're expecting movement, but even in the middle 430 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: of the day when you aren't expecting movement, could be 431 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: the best time to really hone in. One caveat to 432 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: movement is what about those times a day when there 433 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: isn't any movement, like the middle of the day, heat 434 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: of the day. How do you find animals when it's 435 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: a really good area, You know there should be something here, 436 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: but they're probably bedded up. What I do in that 437 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: scenario is I more zoomed in and try to catch 438 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: little movements. There's so many times that the deer that 439 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: I've spotted were bedded deer in the shade, and I 440 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: caught the flick of an ear. There's always something moving, 441 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: the flick of a tail, the step of a leg. 442 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: Zoomed in on those bedding areas, trying to look for 443 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: small movements, not necessarily large movements, and you might get 444 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: a little wind and branches are moving, but at least 445 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: you know you're you're keying in on things that are moving, 446 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: so you're you're using your brain to kind of go 447 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: from this just looking for the animal to looking for 448 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: pieces of the animal, shapes of the animal, colors of 449 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: the animal, and then certain movements that will trigger you 450 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: into spotting more animals. If you think of it broken 451 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: down into those pieces and then start giving your brain 452 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: queues to look for all these things at once, I 453 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: guarantee you you're gonna start spotting a lot more animals, 454 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: a lot faster, with a lot less effort than most 455 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: of the other people looking. You're gonna find things that 456 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: other people don't notice, and it's just gonna come natural. 457 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: At some point. It's going to be something where you 458 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: just throw up the binocular and oh, there's this, there's that, 459 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: and it might just be a piece of it you saw, 460 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: but something in your brain triggered the effect that Okay, 461 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: now I gotta look a little closer there, focus in, 462 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: focus in Yes, that's what I'm looking for. And that 463 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: really is the essence of you know where to look, 464 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,239 Speaker 1: you found the good spot. How do you find what 465 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: you're looking for fairly quickly, fairly easily, or knowing that 466 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: you didn't miss anything. And honestly, I think that's the 467 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: best way to do it is having those kind of 468 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: search parameters, by using by utilizing and understanding the size 469 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: reference of how things are looking for different shapes, understanding 470 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: that you can turn on and off this thought of 471 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: color to help you eliminate a lot of the things 472 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: that don't matter and bring in some of the things 473 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: that do. And then using this difference in zoom where 474 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 1: you're looking wide and then moving wider checking for movement. 475 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: By combining all those things, you will be way, way, 476 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: way more proficient. Well that concludes our glass NG strategy 477 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: are two part glassing what to look for. I think 478 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: if you can put all those things into practice, as 479 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: I said last week, you know, understanding all those things 480 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: in the way that they work together, what you're doing 481 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: is you're you're letting your eyes do the looking, in 482 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: your mind doing the sorting, and you can turn those 483 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: filters and those layers on and off. If you think 484 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: about your eyes are just the window to your brain 485 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: processing everything, and you say, Okay, now I'm gonna pick 486 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: those colors. I'm gonna boom, throw those search parameters out 487 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: there and do that fast, and then you're you're also 488 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: constantly looking for that shape and that size and understanding 489 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: and trying to catch that movement. By doing all that 490 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: all the time, there's gonna be very little that you 491 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: don't catch. You can be the guy. There. There people 492 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: that are really good at it, and hopefully I know 493 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that listen to this podcast 494 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: that are these people that not very much gets by you, 495 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: not much gets spotted before you, and they probably, if 496 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: they really thought about it, have this similar process going. 497 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: When I talk to other people that I know that, 498 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: I say, these guys are good at picking out animals, 499 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 1: these guys are good glasses, they're good at spotting game. 500 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: These are some of the things that it's hard to verbalize, 501 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: but it's actions that happen that we might not even realize. 502 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: So I think it's something that when you go out 503 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: there and you you put um a label on it 504 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: and say this is how you do it, and you 505 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: start to pay attention to it, and you start to 506 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: home that skill and you start to get better. I 507 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: think it's just something fun because when you've you've got 508 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: limited maybe've got limited time, You're you're gonna go out 509 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: on the weekend and hunt, and you've got a good spot, 510 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: you're looking at the right times in the right areas. 511 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: You want to be able to find what you're looking for. 512 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: One of the main complaints or like I think struggles 513 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: I get from people is them saying, how do I 514 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: know that I've seen everything? I don't know if I'm 515 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: looking in the right areas? Did I what did I miss? 516 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: And you know, building this out being better at picking 517 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: out the things that are there. Yes, you will probably 518 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: still miss stuff, but you can train your brain to 519 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: help you find what you're looking for by understanding you know, 520 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: those four basic things, the size, reference, the shape, choosing 521 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: the colors, and then looking for movement, and you're going 522 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: to be a lot more successful in the field. So 523 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: as always, thank you guys for listening. I think you 524 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: appreciate the support and all the great messages of success 525 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: that have come in. If you get a chance you 526 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 1: like the podcast, feel free to just share it with 527 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: your friends, family, co workers, hunting buddies. Make them as 528 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: good outdoors as you are, and then you would just 529 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: have be unstoppable. It would just be meet filled freezers 530 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: for life. And that's the whole goal here, right, So 531 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: keep filling those freezers. I will catch you all next week.