Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to what I
Speaker 1: like to call the mail Sack. This week we're gonna
Speaker 1: be answering all of your guys questions or as many
Speaker 1: as that I can get to within the time allotted. Um,
Speaker 1: thank you guys all so much for sending in. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of questions, also a ton of great feedback.
Speaker 1: Last week we did a podcast on packs, how to
Speaker 1: pack a pack, how to pick a pack, different pack features,
Speaker 1: different types of packs, everything packs. I got a ton
Speaker 1: of great response on it, a lot of people saying
Speaker 1: like they learned stuff they didn't know they didn't know.
Speaker 1: So anytime I can do that, I think that that's
Speaker 1: a win. I think there's a lot of great information.
Speaker 1: So if you missed that one, that's definitely I would say, uh, now,
Speaker 1: having done that and heard the response, I would put
Speaker 1: that in the top. Must have listened to you podcasts
Speaker 1: of some of the ones that we've done there's a
Speaker 1: lot that are very specific to certain species, certain times
Speaker 1: a year's certain type of tactic, but man packs are
Speaker 1: just very all encompassing for this type of hunt, especially
Speaker 1: if you've never done a Western type hunt, mountain type hunter.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've done it your whole life and just realized, Wow,
Speaker 1: I've been loading things wrong. I didn't realize that I
Speaker 1: need to adjust the pack to myself. It's a great
Speaker 1: one to go back and listen to. So thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much too. I've I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: awesome comments come through. Um, thank you guys. I appreciate
Speaker 1: those ratings in those comments and just sharing it. I
Speaker 1: had a few people new time people listening, so welcome
Speaker 1: to the podcast. I like to do some Q and
Speaker 1: a s UM try to as as often as possible
Speaker 1: because I really do want everybody's questions to be answered,
Speaker 1: and I know I can't get to all of them,
Speaker 1: but also feel free to kind of keep updating those
Speaker 1: questions if I didn't get tears once. Some I try
Speaker 1: to group things into their very similar to other questions,
Speaker 1: and then there's always some questions that I think, oh,
Speaker 1: nobody's really asked that, but I'm intrigued to buy it,
Speaker 1: so keep those coming. Uh. This week, I was actually
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to actually be hunting in Hawaii right now
Speaker 1: for access to here, which I was pretty excited about.
Speaker 1: Had some friends and planned a trip and we're gonna
Speaker 1: do some filming stuff. Um. But that trip got delayed,
Speaker 1: unfortunately because the random times that we live in. I
Speaker 1: took my COVID tests and my test actually got lost,
Speaker 1: and you have to do it within a certain window
Speaker 1: of time, within a certain it's like within three days
Speaker 1: of your departure whatever, and so I'm waiting for the
Speaker 1: results and they're like, oh wait, we don't have those.
Speaker 1: So I missed my flight, but I was able to
Speaker 1: go get another test which already came back negative. Was
Speaker 1: able to change my flights, and now I will be
Speaker 1: hunting in Hawaii soon. I've been kind of jones ng
Speaker 1: to get out and get some hunting in. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's been a while, um, especially when I'm used
Speaker 1: to being like in the South Pacific this time of year,
Speaker 1: hunting or doing whatever in New Zealand or Australia. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I got some spring bear hunt stuff planned
Speaker 1: for a little bit later on in the season. I
Speaker 1: like to go a little bit later. I kind of
Speaker 1: like that spread it out. I don't wanna I don't
Speaker 1: want to burn out all my hunting options right at once,
Speaker 1: so spread it out towards the end of the tail
Speaker 1: end of the hunting season for spring bear. But pretty
Speaker 1: stoked to get out. And I love spring hunting because
Speaker 1: you get you get to mess with like some gear,
Speaker 1: tweak with your gear. Like this time of year. I
Speaker 1: always think of it as like testing stuff out for
Speaker 1: the fall. Whatever it is, just getting out, whether it's
Speaker 1: like looking for sheds and going on a hike and
Speaker 1: breaking in my boots and doing all that stuff. This
Speaker 1: time of year is just a lot of fun because
Speaker 1: I just got my mind focused on like fall season,
Speaker 1: and I'm very fortunate I get to go out and
Speaker 1: do a couple uh some really awesome hunts this time
Speaker 1: of year as well. So it's fun to just play
Speaker 1: with some stuff. I've actually ordered a bunch of just
Speaker 1: you know, you see like other things, things that you
Speaker 1: haven't tried before, and you're like, maybe I should maybe
Speaker 1: I should mess with this new release, Maybe I should
Speaker 1: do that, Maybe I should do this. Messed with different broadheads,
Speaker 1: messed with different arrows, So it's a fun time of
Speaker 1: year for me to just kind of mess with some stuff.
Speaker 1: And there's actually quite a few questions on some gears,
Speaker 1: some bear hunting stuff. So let's get into that and
Speaker 1: dive into our first question. The first question comes from Ed.
Speaker 1: He says new hunter tackled wings shooting for upland and
Speaker 1: waterfowl this year, moving on to big game this fall.
Speaker 1: I live in Washington, but plan on moving to South
Speaker 1: Carolina next year. I want to buy a well rounded
Speaker 1: rifle for a big game, like a six five creed more.
Speaker 1: Is it productive slash ethical to use a multi species
Speaker 1: gun for open Western style hunting big game and thicker
Speaker 1: brushy Eastern big game or do I need to buy
Speaker 1: two different calibers hoping I can just buy one rifle
Speaker 1: and invest in two different optics. Question is getting along,
Speaker 1: but I think listeners would also like to hear a
Speaker 1: recommendation for optimal hundred yard range for TEX scope. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, especially if you're you're just kind
Speaker 1: of getting into hunting. I am a firm believer in
Speaker 1: the one gun philosophy. Um. Now, the one gun philosophy
Speaker 1: does not mean you shouldn't. I guess that's a double
Speaker 1: edged sword because I'm also a firm believer in owning
Speaker 1: as many guns as possible. That's like my four oh
Speaker 1: one k just buy more guns, right, Um. But I
Speaker 1: would say, like when it comes to hunting, I really
Speaker 1: like to just have my hunting rifle and I use
Speaker 1: it for everything for a very long time. I mean
Speaker 1: I hunted everything. I'm talking everything with a three short meg.
Speaker 1: I have shot um some of the smallest antelope in
Speaker 1: the world with a three short meag steam buck in Africa,
Speaker 1: and then gone all the way up to like moose
Speaker 1: size animals, um, elk whatever with the that same rifle.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can you can swap loads, you
Speaker 1: can do whatever. You can always load a bullet like
Speaker 1: a heavier bullet in it. I generally just pick one
Speaker 1: bullet that shoots well, they can handle a range of
Speaker 1: game and hunt with it. The cool thing about having
Speaker 1: that one rifle that you hunt kind of everything with
Speaker 1: is the more you use that rifle, the more comfortable
Speaker 1: you're gonna be with it. And you know, you can't
Speaker 1: really name a rifle until it's got a lot of
Speaker 1: time under the belt. Had some great adventures. So you know,
Speaker 1: a rifle really has to earn its name. So I suggest, yeah,
Speaker 1: just get get one rifle, um that you think you
Speaker 1: can use for whatever. A six five works great. I
Speaker 1: mean it's you can kill up with it. Um, you
Speaker 1: can shoot deer with it. You know, it's not too
Speaker 1: much gun, it's not too little gun. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good caliber. I mean you could honestly pick really
Speaker 1: whatever suits you. You could go from to seventy up
Speaker 1: to mag and I think you'll be fine for me. Now,
Speaker 1: I kind of like I've got some other rifles. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to hunt with this rifle. And that's
Speaker 1: pretty much you know. Yeah, you can specifically tailor a
Speaker 1: certain rifle or a certain caliber to a certain type
Speaker 1: of hunt, and that's fun too. Um. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: absolutely by the one gun. Especially just getting into it
Speaker 1: by a six five is a great I mean it's there,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are stoked on it. It's a
Speaker 1: great caliber. Go for it. And yeah, you can absolutely
Speaker 1: hunt kind of anywhere with it. One thing I would
Speaker 1: just look into, I don't know, um, South Carolina rules
Speaker 1: some a lot of states maybe don't have rifle seasons
Speaker 1: they've got shotgun, muzzleloader or archery. You could even use
Speaker 1: your shotgun with slugs and a scope topped with that.
Speaker 1: If you're hunting real thick brush country, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you've been wings shooting, So that's another option to think.
Speaker 1: Don't think that deer hunting has to be just with
Speaker 1: a rifle, a slug, door, buckshot shotgun with um. You know,
Speaker 1: depending on if your tree stand hunting or maybe brush
Speaker 1: hunting something that's fast target acquisition, you could even probably
Speaker 1: top that shotgun with like a red dot type scope
Speaker 1: or a real low power scope. If you're in the brush,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I know in some of those places,
Speaker 1: you know, deer drives are popular, it's kind of not
Speaker 1: becoming as popular that that style hunting is kind of
Speaker 1: going I feel like it's kind of going away, but
Speaker 1: it's it's actually a cool driven hunter, actual pretty fun
Speaker 1: um kind of a different, different way of hunting. But um, honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I would swap scopes around.
Speaker 1: I just get one that you can go down to
Speaker 1: like one and a half for three power. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of variable scopes and just use one set up
Speaker 1: for everything. I mean, I like the idea of it,
Speaker 1: But I maybe just think of getting a scope for
Speaker 1: my shotgun and then a scope for my rifle, and
Speaker 1: get a scope that you can kind of do that
Speaker 1: Western long range type thing, but it'll be perfectly fine
Speaker 1: for uh, any other kind of hunting. And honestly, the
Speaker 1: type of scope you know, it just depends how much
Speaker 1: you want to spend currently. I I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the best scope that Vortex makes right now is probably
Speaker 1: the LHT, the Razor LHT like Hunter Tactical. It's fairly expensive,
Speaker 1: but it's got like a viewer serious about shooting far
Speaker 1: and having some really good sweet lightweight set up. I
Speaker 1: like it. It's got everything that I like. Um, But honestly,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot. I mean, do you could just
Speaker 1: pretty much just go through pick up a price range
Speaker 1: that you want to spend, and you can definitely got
Speaker 1: enough product breath to pretty much pick something for whatever
Speaker 1: you like. So I would just probably top that thing
Speaker 1: with a good Western hunting scope that has a good
Speaker 1: variable zoom and you can zoom it out enough to
Speaker 1: hunt wherever you want with it, and then maybe even
Speaker 1: think about just getting like something like a red dot
Speaker 1: or a lower magnification for your shotgun um or even
Speaker 1: just like you know, I think for the shotgun close range,
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need anything crazy, just something that's like
Speaker 1: gathering quick low magnification. I actually like even on shotguns,
Speaker 1: or I put it on a large board rifle. Again,
Speaker 1: it's like some of the guns scopes designed for like
Speaker 1: a r platform rifles, real big ocular, smaller objective. It
Speaker 1: doesn't let in as much light, but when you throw
Speaker 1: it up it just like it's easy to see through clear.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty sweet on shotguns or even you know,
Speaker 1: on a rifle whatever. There's a lot of different options
Speaker 1: out there, but hope that helps all right. Next question
Speaker 1: comes from Dustin. He says, first of all, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for all the great content and Knowlogy share.
Speaker 1: It's so motivating, entertaining and educational. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. My question is on a typical back country hunt,
Speaker 1: what is the max amount of people you take with you?
Speaker 1: I know you're known for being a solo hunter, but
Speaker 1: as a professional guide, how many people do you have
Speaker 1: in your group. I'm a father of four kids, ages
Speaker 1: six to fourteen, who all love hunting and love being
Speaker 1: outdoors with the four kids and wife and makes six
Speaker 1: of us crashing through the trees hard to be stealthy.
Speaker 1: Because of this, we tend to stick to the roads
Speaker 1: and avoid spot and stock and definitely avoid all back
Speaker 1: country hunting. Any help or strategy for bringing a larger
Speaker 1: group into the back country, again, thanks for everything. That's
Speaker 1: a really good question and actually kind of uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't actually seen this question posed this way, but
Speaker 1: I definitely think there's probably a lot of people that
Speaker 1: could benefit from an answer to this type of question.
Speaker 1: When I'm guiding, you know, most of the time it's
Speaker 1: probably three people, so myself and two others. But I've
Speaker 1: had I mean I've banning groups of when we're filming, Um,
Speaker 1: we might have like if it's two hunters, there's probably
Speaker 1: two camera men plus another guy doing other stuff. So
Speaker 1: I've been on hunts with as many as five or
Speaker 1: six people in tow um and six people whatever. Like
Speaker 1: there's I've definitely been on hunts where there's quite a
Speaker 1: few people. I've been on hunts with my family whereas me,
Speaker 1: my three brothers, my mom, five of us out there
Speaker 1: and it's definitely doable. Um, you know, I think six
Speaker 1: people on a stock it's like, well, it depends what
Speaker 1: kind of stock you're doing. If your rifle hunting or whatever,
Speaker 1: it's definitely possible. I would just say, you know, get
Speaker 1: out and and give it a go. A lot of it, too,
Speaker 1: is just for the fun for being all together, camping
Speaker 1: set up, everybody's got their little backpacks on. I remember.
Speaker 1: I mean, we did a lot of backpacking trips with
Speaker 1: my family. Do a couple of backpacking trips in the
Speaker 1: um or just some fishing lakes, get work the kinks out.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to hunting, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: absolutely doable. You know, for the most part, if you're
Speaker 1: planning a correct stock, uh, you could have one person
Speaker 1: or ten people and it shouldn't make a difference. You
Speaker 1: should plan the stock where you can all kind of
Speaker 1: get within range. Another good option is without many people,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe having a couple of people hold back,
Speaker 1: do some hands signals guide you in, and maybe you
Speaker 1: and one other person go on a stock um There's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good options, and it's a really
Speaker 1: fun way to just get out and enjoy the outdoors
Speaker 1: as a family. I definitely wouldn't let the number of
Speaker 1: people hold me back. I think that there's um still
Speaker 1: a lot of success to be had, and I think
Speaker 1: you guys will have some of your most exciting memorable
Speaker 1: times and memories as a family doing something like that too,
Speaker 1: or at least giving it a try, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: And also I think it's one of those things you
Speaker 1: could be flexible too if you've got I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people that have big families, they like to
Speaker 1: go out and hunt together. You know, I might set
Speaker 1: up a nice base camp and kind of drive and
Speaker 1: hike and out from there. I think that you shouldn't
Speaker 1: necessarily think that it needs to be regulated to one
Speaker 1: type of hunting. There's definitely a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of spot and stock a lot. I mean, getting everybody
Speaker 1: up on a glassing knob and you've got a lot
Speaker 1: more eyes, you're gonna find some success and it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun. So I definitely
Speaker 1: say it's doable. It's absolutely doable, and you should give
Speaker 1: it a try and then report back. I'd love to
Speaker 1: see some photos because I bet you you're gonna have
Speaker 1: some uh some pretty big smiles in those pictures, So
Speaker 1: keep me posted on that for sure. That sounds awesome. Alright.
Speaker 1: The next question comes from Ryan from Texas. He actually
Speaker 1: got two questions here, one that I missed before. But
Speaker 1: I get a lot of these questions through the messages
Speaker 1: on Instagram. So when you resent this new question, the
Speaker 1: other one popped up, and I'm gonna answer them both
Speaker 1: right here because I think they're really great questions. Uh.
Speaker 1: The first question says, can you explain the wet aging
Speaker 1: on your podcast? Never heard of it? And that question
Speaker 1: came when I shared some stuff about wet aging some
Speaker 1: axis de here. So aging meat is essentially like letting
Speaker 1: the rig of mortists break down. What it does is
Speaker 1: it creates um a more tender, more tender steaks. So
Speaker 1: if you just shot a deer or whatever right off
Speaker 1: the bat kind of steak off. If you do it
Speaker 1: right away, it's actually a pretty tender. If you wait
Speaker 1: an hour or two, um it starts to starts to
Speaker 1: get really tough. So like camp camp meat, I generally
Speaker 1: eat the heart because of the rigor kind of affects
Speaker 1: it less than um, like a backstrap, which might be
Speaker 1: super tough that first day or first couple of days.
Speaker 1: So the aging process allows that rigor to break down.
Speaker 1: Knows A lot of people have heard about dry aging,
Speaker 1: so that's you know, you get a dry age steak.
Speaker 1: What essentially aging is like a controlled rotting process, So
Speaker 1: it's it's allowing that muscle to break down. When you
Speaker 1: dry age, you're keeping it under refrigeration, you're moving and
Speaker 1: circulating air around it, and it's it's drying out. People
Speaker 1: go from who knows you could age it for a
Speaker 1: few days up to I mean thirty days. Um, I personally,
Speaker 1: like you know, you see on a menu at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: dry age thirty day dry age steak not my thing.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really like it that much for
Speaker 1: a few reasons. Um, I do dry age meat too.
Speaker 1: I kind of do a little bit of everything. Um,
Speaker 1: but I like a red, juicy, kind of fresh tasting steak,
Speaker 1: not like a juiceless, mushroom me tasting steak. I love mushrooms,
Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily like my steak to taste kind
Speaker 1: of moldy. Um and really long dry aging process does that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tender, but I don't ME personally don't like the flavor.
Speaker 1: Some people love that, and uh, it demands a high
Speaker 1: price tag, so that's cool. But one thing I've realized
Speaker 1: too with with wild game something that drying process, you
Speaker 1: do get some waste the outside kind of creates this
Speaker 1: crust and then it starts to get black on the
Speaker 1: outside and you do have to trim away um to
Speaker 1: get that that more tender steak inside. What I prefer
Speaker 1: is a more of a wet age process, or I
Speaker 1: will kind of like hang for less time. So I
Speaker 1: mean I'll go up to a week. Um, I think
Speaker 1: ten days is a little starts to push it on
Speaker 1: my end for what I personally like, But what I
Speaker 1: really like is a wet age process which involves sucking
Speaker 1: the air out using a vacuum sealer. I have a
Speaker 1: chamber vack sealer, but you can use any vacuum sealer.
Speaker 1: You just want to make sure you get all the
Speaker 1: air out. And what you're doing is you're you're taking
Speaker 1: out the airs, and that air is what causes the
Speaker 1: meat to sour. So if you just put that steak
Speaker 1: in like a zip block, like let's say you cut
Speaker 1: off a piece of backstrap whatever, put it in a
Speaker 1: zip block and put it in the fridge, It's gonna
Speaker 1: soak in with the air that's in there. The blood
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna I mean, if you get a
Speaker 1: week out of it in that condition, that's pushing it.
Speaker 1: You know you're I mean food safety wise, they probably
Speaker 1: say four or five days, like, um, it's gonna start
Speaker 1: growing back to your instart spoiling when you suck all
Speaker 1: the air out of it under vacuum. You could actually
Speaker 1: leave that meat into the fridge for I've heard as
Speaker 1: much as like three months that's like in the frigerator.
Speaker 1: And what it's doing is it's not spoiling because it
Speaker 1: doesn't go and the air doesn't affect it. But it's
Speaker 1: also breaking down in the rear process. But the cool
Speaker 1: thing opposed to dry age and you don't have as
Speaker 1: much uh meat loss by like the crust and when
Speaker 1: you cut into it, it's still like a red, juicy steak.
Speaker 1: All generally like wet age. Mind for two weeks, maybe
Speaker 1: a month. If I'm traveling, I always bring a little
Speaker 1: vacuum sealer with me and it's a good way. Like
Speaker 1: I know people that maybe have like they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I live in an apartment. It's hardy to butcher, Like
Speaker 1: where do I put Like I don't have fridge space
Speaker 1: for the hold big pieces of what do I do.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I'll be in the field, I always bring
Speaker 1: like like a foldable filet knife whatever I will butcher
Speaker 1: my stuff up. I've got my little vacuum sealer there
Speaker 1: one that actually I can run off my car and
Speaker 1: I don't use the chamber of back for that, but
Speaker 1: all vacuum seal and then put it in the cool
Speaker 1: like butcher it right then. And there the trouble with
Speaker 1: butchering it right then and there is you can't let
Speaker 1: it hang for as long um. And then what I
Speaker 1: could do is I can take some of those and
Speaker 1: put him in the fridge, uh, as long as you
Speaker 1: don't like cold shortened where it's like got rigger, and
Speaker 1: then you freeze it. You let it sit for a
Speaker 1: few days at least maybe five seven days, and then
Speaker 1: put the freezer. And then when you pull it out
Speaker 1: of the freezer, you could also continue the aging process
Speaker 1: um like before you cook it. So you can pull
Speaker 1: it out, let's sit for a week and whatever. Or
Speaker 1: you could just leave it in the back bags in
Speaker 1: your fridge for weeks a month, whatever you want. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just make sure that you know I would
Speaker 1: check them, make sure like open one up every so often,
Speaker 1: just make sure, okay, you've got a good seal, no
Speaker 1: oxygen is getting to it, it's not going off, it's
Speaker 1: not spoiling. I learned this kind of technique when I
Speaker 1: was living in New Zealand and a lot of Butcher's
Speaker 1: and a lot of friends down there did this similar thing,
Speaker 1: and man, the results were like so much better. And
Speaker 1: I've I've done it. Uh. That's kind of my primary
Speaker 1: way of aging stuff that I can. But also, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe just hanging stuff for a little while and then
Speaker 1: you can do it. I like to do it the
Speaker 1: fresher the better, and then like Butcher right away, vacuum
Speaker 1: seal and then set in fridge and let age. So
Speaker 1: that's a good way to do that. Might even have
Speaker 1: to do a full podcast on some of the other
Speaker 1: aging techniques, but I feel like it was pretty thorough
Speaker 1: the other questions. So for the Q and A, just
Speaker 1: listen to the newest episode on Spring Bear Hunting. For
Speaker 1: those of us living in the South where there aren't
Speaker 1: any bears, can you talk about public land bear hunt options,
Speaker 1: success rates, ease of access, tag options. I love the podcast.
Speaker 1: It's one that I never missed an episode. Thanks that's
Speaker 1: a great question, and that's something that I really didn't
Speaker 1: cover that I think a lot of people have questions for.
Speaker 1: So I was spring bear tags are very accessible. I
Speaker 1: don't there's hardly any. I mean, there are a few
Speaker 1: draw bear tags, but almost every state out west has
Speaker 1: some form of over the counter bear tag. I'm like,
Speaker 1: literally almost every state, Um, Montana, Idaho, I'm pretty sure Wyoming,
Speaker 1: Utah doesn't really but um, there's some in Oregon. California
Speaker 1: even has over the counter bear tags, and honestly, California
Speaker 1: is probably I know people would be like what I
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't say this out loud, but hey, maybe if
Speaker 1: more people go out there and support it, then it
Speaker 1: will have less chance of going away. The best state
Speaker 1: in outside of Alaska for large bears and bear hunting
Speaker 1: is the state of California. People probably don't know that,
Speaker 1: don't realize that, but there are some giant bears there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bears there. Um, there is no
Speaker 1: spring season. Unfortunately, if they opened up a spring season,
Speaker 1: I would say that that would probably be the best
Speaker 1: state in the US for bear hunting if they had
Speaker 1: a spring season for California bears. But um, literally almost
Speaker 1: every Nevada does not has a draw, but in Colorado,
Speaker 1: I think you can get over the counter bear tags.
Speaker 1: Um So, almost everywhere has some bear tag at some
Speaker 1: point of the year. Over the counter most bear tags
Speaker 1: are available for statewide. There's a lot of area, a
Speaker 1: lot of public land. It's probably the easiest thing to
Speaker 1: have access to hunt. New Mexico has over the counter
Speaker 1: bear tags for the I mean, just like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity to hunt bears in different states over
Speaker 1: the counter public land. Um So, you just gotta really
Speaker 1: just pick a state, somewhere you want to go to,
Speaker 1: somewhere you want to check out, pick up a tag,
Speaker 1: you know, research what what tags there are. But really
Speaker 1: you can pretty much find a lot of different places.
Speaker 1: And then as far as success rates, I would say
Speaker 1: spot in stock bear hunting probably has some of the
Speaker 1: lower success rates for uh any species outside of like
Speaker 1: it probably hovers around kind of like twelve ten to
Speaker 1: twelve percent, maybe less, But there's guys that, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guys that understand how to spot in stock bear
Speaker 1: hunt are probably close to that percent. It's just like
Speaker 1: anything else. Um I think that one of the struggles
Speaker 1: is like a lot of the stuff that I've talked
Speaker 1: about in the podcast people don't know. And I think
Speaker 1: that six if you were just to look at state
Speaker 1: success rates for bear hunting, whether it's spring, whether it's fall, whatever,
Speaker 1: they're very very inaccurate as far as like effort and success.
Speaker 1: So I think if you went out for a week
Speaker 1: of bear hunting, I would say, and you had like
Speaker 1: you're in a good zone and you had the skills,
Speaker 1: I would say, it's like probably, I don't know, twenty success.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably success, right, I bet you. If
Speaker 1: like you looked at published success rates for bear tags,
Speaker 1: it's probably like two. And the reason is because most
Speaker 1: people that live there or whatever, they just buy a
Speaker 1: bear tag and if they see a bear, they shoot it.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those species that, like, you may
Speaker 1: encounter them randomly and maybe you encounter it and see
Speaker 1: it and you're like, um, way back here, I don't
Speaker 1: want to pack it out. If you specifically go to
Speaker 1: target bears, you will find more bears. It's just the
Speaker 1: nature of the beast. Yeah, you bump into them, but
Speaker 1: I rarely bump into bears when I'm hunting other things.
Speaker 1: When I'm specifically targeting bears. I see quite a few bears,
Speaker 1: so I think that that's one of the factors um
Speaker 1: in the success. So you know, if you look at
Speaker 1: his area and you're like, oh, whoa ten thousand people
Speaker 1: bought tags and bears were shot, that's really bad success.
Speaker 1: But it's just people use it as an incidental tag
Speaker 1: to other things. And once you recognize that, then um,
Speaker 1: I think that you will kind of get a better
Speaker 1: picture of how the success looks. And picking an area
Speaker 1: with good bare densities will always help. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: go to places with lower bare densities and there's just
Speaker 1: fewer hunters. So you can balance that yourself. I would say,
Speaker 1: just starting out, almost all bears have to be checked in.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of data on bear harvest areas where
Speaker 1: there's lots of bears. Um. Most of the data comes
Speaker 1: from hunter harvest reports, so you can kind of look
Speaker 1: that up on state websites and figure out where you
Speaker 1: want to go from there. All right, This question comes
Speaker 1: from John. He says your podcast has truly made me
Speaker 1: a better hunter. I owe your great experiences and success
Speaker 1: to the knowledge I know. I have a question. Can
Speaker 1: I use elk die from mouth calls to locate moose.
Speaker 1: I hunt in eastern Ontario, so we aren't privileged to
Speaker 1: hunt elk and I've lost hope in the way. Uh
Speaker 1: my camp hunts moose. Hopefully you can help me think
Speaker 1: of ideas to help uh the success cheers. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a question, John so. Um. As far as a
Speaker 1: diet using like a diaphragm type call or whatever from moose,
Speaker 1: I would say, I don't really know of any, um,
Speaker 1: but that does not mean that you cannot call moose.
Speaker 1: Calling moose is very fun when I guide have hunted.
Speaker 1: I have never had a tag myself, but I've been
Speaker 1: the guy calling him in for many people. For Shiris moose,
Speaker 1: I've had the opportunity to hunt Alaska Yukon moose. I've
Speaker 1: never had the opportunity to hunt Canadian moose, but they're
Speaker 1: still moose and they can be called. Most moose calling
Speaker 1: is done by voice calling, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: a fairly easy call to make. I think it's the easiest.
Speaker 1: I think moose are like one of the easiest animals
Speaker 1: to call in. Um, So what I'll do, Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a few calls that you should know, and I think
Speaker 1: that these these are just fun. Like, not a lot
Speaker 1: of people get the opportunity to moose hunt, but I
Speaker 1: get enough moose hunting questions that I probably should just
Speaker 1: do a moose hunting podcast. But for now, I'll just
Speaker 1: do a little rundown of different kinds of calls that
Speaker 1: I use. Uh, one of the honestly, one of the
Speaker 1: more effective calls for moose is not even a sound
Speaker 1: that moose make, but just that raking sound all use
Speaker 1: um sometimes like a paddle, like literally like a boat
Speaker 1: or have you even like walked around with one until
Speaker 1: I found this like really good fiberglass um moose tube
Speaker 1: that I is. Gosh, I don't even know the name
Speaker 1: of it. I hope maybe somebody can, um try to
Speaker 1: look it up at some point, but um, it's like
Speaker 1: this fiberglass moose tube that I got someplace in Alaska.
Speaker 1: They saw a lot of them in Alaska. It's good
Speaker 1: because you can make the moose sounds through it, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of just like a fiberglass megaphone if you will,
Speaker 1: like non electronic obviously, but it's just like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it makes a really good moose antler sound when
Speaker 1: you rake it. Up against bushes. Um So, I think
Speaker 1: that that's that's you know, something like that works really good.
Speaker 1: I mean some people just use their hands. I I
Speaker 1: use my hands a lot when I'm calling. Um So,
Speaker 1: the first sound be like a cow sound, and that's
Speaker 1: more of like a nasally wine. Let's actually let's just
Speaker 1: go with the easier sound. Let's go with the bull sound.
Speaker 1: So bulls make kind of a grunt sound. I'll do
Speaker 1: it through the tube or whatever. I like to plug
Speaker 1: my nose when I make moose sounds. I'm just set
Speaker 1: my headphones headset off real quick, and we'll try this.
Speaker 1: I'll try to get close enough for I can still
Speaker 1: make the sound. Give you a little demo of how
Speaker 1: to do it, and everyone, whether you're get a moose
Speaker 1: hunt or not, this is a fun time to just
Speaker 1: make some animal noises. Okay, So the first sound is
Speaker 1: just going to be like a bowl sound. This is
Speaker 1: during the rut a lot of places like September, beginning
Speaker 1: of October, good red time, like for Shire. The lower
Speaker 1: the lower down your I say, like the sooner uh
Speaker 1: moose rut further north, you guy. I think they start
Speaker 1: writing a little bit later, but it's kind of in
Speaker 1: that same time. I kind of think of it as
Speaker 1: like the same time frame as ELK, but a little
Speaker 1: bit later. Um. So let's let's start with the bull sound.
Speaker 1: It's just a like a sound. So I plug my
Speaker 1: nose and I get I try to make call from
Speaker 1: like down in my stomach, and so it's a sound
Speaker 1: I was just start by going or wawa and then
Speaker 1: get it deeper and deeper, so it starts like from
Speaker 1: your stomach like a little bit of an exhale. After that,
Speaker 1: if you plug your nose, I feel like you get
Speaker 1: a vibration the back of your throat to make it
Speaker 1: a little more realistic. And obviously I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: doing this hunched over a small microphone on my desk
Speaker 1: that was on my head as a headset, so I
Speaker 1: don't know, well it's gonna translate, but that that's the
Speaker 1: first sound, and then the second sound. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like this, um, I like during when they're running this
Speaker 1: like cow wine, and I've used this sound for moose,
Speaker 1: Like moose can be actually pretty curious too calls. They're
Speaker 1: very solitary animal like, they're very solitary, but they don't
Speaker 1: mind like running into other moose I've actually like called
Speaker 1: moose that aren't running, but just out of curiosity. It's
Speaker 1: a good way. Like if you're walking around you spook
Speaker 1: a moose or whatever. Make these moose sounds. A lot
Speaker 1: of times it'll stop, swirl around kind of like bull
Speaker 1: elk do when you're it's outside the up you blow
Speaker 1: an alcohol um, so this is a cow sound. More
Speaker 1: easily plug my nose. You could do this through the
Speaker 1: the moose call tube or whatever, and it's just more
Speaker 1: of like a wine sound. So you're just uh wah
Speaker 1: wah wine sound. I plug my nose and you can
Speaker 1: even like almost like shake your hand on your nose.
Speaker 1: You get more like vibration in it. That's a good
Speaker 1: sound to kind of uh interest bowls and whatever you
Speaker 1: got going on, um and and calling moose is really fun.
Speaker 1: One thing you want to think about when you're calling moose,
Speaker 1: get into an area where you see sign and then
Speaker 1: like start your calling. I like to start I start
Speaker 1: by uh grunting. Put the microphone back on, so I
Speaker 1: start by grunting like and then because what I want
Speaker 1: to do is I want just in case there's like
Speaker 1: a bowl that he might step out or he might
Speaker 1: immediately grunt back. Um, then I mix in some raking
Speaker 1: and I throw up those those longer cow calls. Those
Speaker 1: cal calls travel a lot further. So if you know
Speaker 1: that they're running it's that right time of year, you
Speaker 1: can draw them in from a longer distance. When you
Speaker 1: when you're in a good spot, call like it takes
Speaker 1: them forever to come in, honestly, So find a good
Speaker 1: spot where there's like, let's say you've got good moose
Speaker 1: habitat a good a good meadow, maybe a good feeding area,
Speaker 1: maybe some sign, but you're like, I'm not seeing any
Speaker 1: moose and calling the same place every day, Like I
Speaker 1: know people that, um, they kind of set up like stands.
Speaker 1: Like if you've got an area thick timber and overlooking meadow,
Speaker 1: maybe build like a little platform and call from that
Speaker 1: platform and see around and sometimes like it might take
Speaker 1: them a day. But if you like, if you call
Speaker 1: from that same place regularly, they might hear it from
Speaker 1: a long ways off and it just takes them a
Speaker 1: long time to come in and check it out. And
Speaker 1: they oftentimes come quiet, like they aren't real loud callers
Speaker 1: to response on like bugling or bugle bogle back, But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of keep calling in those same areas
Speaker 1: and kind of make like a call circuit and give
Speaker 1: the bulls enough time to to get into your call.
Speaker 1: And I think that you'll find some success doing that.
Speaker 1: And I'd love to shoot me a picture when you
Speaker 1: get a good bull or any bowl be stoked. All right?
Speaker 1: This question comes from James. He says, Hey, just listen
Speaker 1: to the spring Bear podcast. So much good info in there.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. Unfortunately, for
Speaker 1: me where I live, spring bears isn't an option. Could
Speaker 1: you do in depth podcast about fall bear hunting? Most
Speaker 1: info out there on bear hunting is spring Bear. I'm
Speaker 1: sure the tactics are different from April to August. Thanks,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I think that that definitely could be.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of questions about fall bear hunting,
Speaker 1: and like I mentioned earlier, there are some places that
Speaker 1: do not have spring seasons. One thing I will say
Speaker 1: that is true for spring bears is like, think about
Speaker 1: it in the opposite fashion, but the primary thing is
Speaker 1: finding that food source. So the food sources is definitely
Speaker 1: gonna change. But there's a lot of good for there's
Speaker 1: actually sometimes better and more targetable food sources in the fall. Um.
Speaker 1: And it just just depends on water, the type of year,
Speaker 1: the type of terrain you're at. Things you can look
Speaker 1: out for berries, um, like acorns, like mass crop type stuff.
Speaker 1: Real like the fall actually has some real high protein.
Speaker 1: If you're in an area by the ocean or whatever,
Speaker 1: you've got running fish and running salmon and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff obviously makes a big difference. But um,
Speaker 1: focusing in on food sources rose hips in the desert
Speaker 1: country like anything that's different where you're like, hey, you're
Speaker 1: looking at it, like where I hunt like more desert
Speaker 1: type train. Um, I'm looking for things like pine nuts,
Speaker 1: rose hips. Water sources another thing that works in the
Speaker 1: fall too. If it's hot like August, those wallows, those
Speaker 1: water sources. Um. But find the food, find the bears.
Speaker 1: Find the food, find the sign, find the bears. It's
Speaker 1: it's similar now in the opposite fashion. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't find bears in the fall because
Speaker 1: they think, like, oh, they're spread out, whatever they're they're
Speaker 1: more like the season timing can be shorter. But I
Speaker 1: also think that people don't think about like the right
Speaker 1: type of terrain for spring or fall bear hunting as
Speaker 1: it gets later in the fall, as you get into
Speaker 1: like you're like, okay, well what are they eating in October? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe the acorns are gone, maybe everything's gone. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: like okay almost that hibernation time. Well, hunt where they're going.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be going flipping high. So you want to
Speaker 1: get up there. You want to be up where that
Speaker 1: snow line is, like up in that open and start
Speaker 1: looking for bears moving off to where they're going to
Speaker 1: spend the winter. And that's a really a place to
Speaker 1: start thinking. If you got let's say you've got a
Speaker 1: mountain range that is uh, three thousand foot valley and
Speaker 1: eleven thousand foot peak. Look in that seven thousand foot range,
Speaker 1: like in the in those big canyons, in those openings
Speaker 1: where they might be those um south faced slopes that
Speaker 1: are gonna pack in with snow, and start glassing those.
Speaker 1: Maybe you start glassing some of that snow. Maybe you'll
Speaker 1: get lucky and get some snow in there and they're
Speaker 1: gonna stand out pretty good. Uh. That's a little I
Speaker 1: should probably should have given people that secret. But that's
Speaker 1: a good secret to think about. It is like the
Speaker 1: first place they come out of is the first place
Speaker 1: they're going back to. So I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't hunt high for bears in the fall. You
Speaker 1: will be kind of above the pack if you're hunt
Speaker 1: if you got later hunt and then earlier. UM, I
Speaker 1: think earlier fall. If you're hunting fall, the earlier you
Speaker 1: can hunt, the better. I mean, their hides might not
Speaker 1: be as good or whatever. But August September is probably
Speaker 1: the best time for seeing bears out just willy nilly
Speaker 1: hitting food sources. Um. I see a lot more bears
Speaker 1: hitting water and in being around those wet spots in
Speaker 1: like September time frame August September, so those are really
Speaker 1: good places to concentrate fall bear effort. This questions is
Speaker 1: from Eric. He says, Hey, Remy, I'm new to archery
Speaker 1: and wanted to know how you choose arrows you shoot.
Speaker 1: Any advice would be greatly appreciated and helpful. That's a
Speaker 1: great question. Um. Obviously, I first matched the arrow spine
Speaker 1: and then I see what's available. I really like I'm
Speaker 1: particular about everything, so I like things that are super accurate.
Speaker 1: I shoot day six arrows. Um. I know the owner
Speaker 1: really well, and I just like, actually, I know if
Speaker 1: you probably message him on whatever and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: what arrow should I shoot? I mean that's literally what
Speaker 1: I'm like, Hey, I mean, he knows arrows better than
Speaker 1: anyone I know, so I always ask for his recommendation
Speaker 1: first of like what arrow should I shoot? But he
Speaker 1: knows my like setup style. I really like a heavy arrow,
Speaker 1: um my current arrow. I just that's one thing I've
Speaker 1: kind of I was talking about, just like this time
Speaker 1: you're messed around with different stuff. I right now I
Speaker 1: am shooting a little bit lighter, just kind of a
Speaker 1: different spined arrow than I've been shooting, but one that
Speaker 1: I could get a little bit more weight out of
Speaker 1: the arrow, and then I'm just adding a little bit
Speaker 1: more weight in the tip to kind of rebalance that
Speaker 1: spine for tuning. I think right now I weighed this
Speaker 1: new arrow that I'm trying at, uh just a little
Speaker 1: over its six something grains for the whole arrow, which
Speaker 1: um is fairly heavy. I mean hunting arrows can range
Speaker 1: from four to three I mean I've seen it just
Speaker 1: depends on your draw length and how much weight you're
Speaker 1: shooting whatever. Um one thing with the heavier So I
Speaker 1: like a heavier setup because I feel like you get well,
Speaker 1: you're get You're gonna have a little more kinetic energy,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a little bit more weight, maybe get
Speaker 1: deeper penetration because I like, I mean a hunt elk um.
Speaker 1: I like to be able to not worry about hitting
Speaker 1: something as shoulder, and I like a pretty solid set up.
Speaker 1: The downside of shooting heavier or is your pin gap
Speaker 1: is a lot greater, so you know your margin of
Speaker 1: error and exactly estimating the range of that animal. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's honestly personal preference. So I think anything in
Speaker 1: that like five thirty range is a pretty good eight
Speaker 1: like total arrow, broadhead everything where your pin gaps not
Speaker 1: super big, but also you've got enough weight. And then um,
Speaker 1: one thing I did notice, I just started shooting like
Speaker 1: a this much heavier arrow. I think it's uh man,
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact grain sprints uner like eleven something, um,
Speaker 1: and I shoot a pretty long arrow, but I've got
Speaker 1: a pretty long draw length, so um. One thing I
Speaker 1: have noticed is the heavier arrow is affected by wind
Speaker 1: a lot less A lot of the places I hunt,
Speaker 1: like where I practice shooting, it's windy every freaking day.
Speaker 1: So that heavier arrow I've noticed it's just more accurate
Speaker 1: during my practice sessions in that wind because I actually
Speaker 1: don't even have to adjust for it. A lot more
Speaker 1: mass traveling through the air. It's a little bit harder
Speaker 1: for that cross wind to move it, but it is
Speaker 1: moving a little bit slower than my previous era, which
Speaker 1: was probably around five grains total arrow weight. So UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really like the day six erroos.
Speaker 1: I've been shooting them for about a year now, and
Speaker 1: just like Sue, per accurate. Um I switched to one
Speaker 1: of the other things I was trying. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is just me kind of talking about my setup and
Speaker 1: a little bit of the things that I mean, I
Speaker 1: mess with stuff a lot. I actually have a bunch
Speaker 1: of different arrows, a bunch of different tips, and I
Speaker 1: just get like a sample That's what. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody sells it, but a sample pack of arrows
Speaker 1: would be awesome, like just different, Like maybe you could
Speaker 1: get six of one type of arrow, just different spines
Speaker 1: and different weights and other stuff, and you can mess
Speaker 1: around with it with different weight tips. I got. I
Speaker 1: just bought a bunch of different weight tips to just
Speaker 1: try to find like the best tune, the best flight,
Speaker 1: what works best with my bow. UM, But I did
Speaker 1: switch to four veins. UH. Just this on this arrow,
Speaker 1: I've really liked it. It stabilizes the arrow faster for
Speaker 1: fixed blades or from what I've heard, and I find.
Speaker 1: I found that I was shooting UM fixed blades even
Speaker 1: out of like an arrow a bow before I even
Speaker 1: tuned it. They were flying fairly similar to my UH
Speaker 1: field tips, which I thought was pretty sweet. So, UM,
Speaker 1: that's something to think about maybe trying a little bit
Speaker 1: of fur vein action. But that's that's just kind of
Speaker 1: my thoughts on arrows. I know people want so much
Speaker 1: details on arrows, but I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you gotta go with what you like. Some
Speaker 1: people like a faster arrow, some people like more weight.
Speaker 1: I prefer more weight. If I'm gonna error on one side,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with more weight. And I think that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's just the way I like to go. Question comes
Speaker 1: from Joshuay says Remy was curious what kind of hearing
Speaker 1: protection you use while hunting. UM. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: Currently I'm using a suppressor that's the best kind of
Speaker 1: hearing protection. I've got a surefire so calm I pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, I just I don't even know
Speaker 1: who makes them. Um. I like the kind that are
Speaker 1: like the hard plastic to go around my neck, so
Speaker 1: I've always got them there. You might see like solo
Speaker 1: hunter videos or whatever. You see me wearing those. Find
Speaker 1: him on Amazon, find him wherever. I should probably just
Speaker 1: like find someone the celmon on the website, because I do.
Speaker 1: I do use those a lot. I like that kind.
Speaker 1: I've bought many different brands. Um. I don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: if the particular brand matters. It's just I like having
Speaker 1: them handy and they're comfortable and you can wear them
Speaker 1: all day, especially when I'm like bird hunting or whatever.
Speaker 1: I've looked at. I see these like if I for
Speaker 1: wing shooting. Man, those like molded ones that go in
Speaker 1: your ear. You see them at the sports show all
Speaker 1: the time, and I was like always thinking, man, I'd
Speaker 1: really like that. I'd really like that, and they're kind
Speaker 1: of expensive, but what's the price of your hearing? I
Speaker 1: think I might look into that next time the sport
Speaker 1: shows ramped back up. I don't know if there's probably
Speaker 1: a way that you can do it at home now.
Speaker 1: But um, if you're like serious about it, those seem
Speaker 1: pretty good. Any kind where you can kind of hear
Speaker 1: a little bit through it too, um, but also cuts
Speaker 1: off the high decibel levels. Sweet, But I just gotta
Speaker 1: be something that, honestly, in my opinion, has to be
Speaker 1: handy that you can grab and you aren't fumbling for.
Speaker 1: And the kind that I wear around my neck pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: I'll just keep in my pocket and then if I'm
Speaker 1: getting into action or whatever, I can put them around
Speaker 1: my neck. Sometimes I just leave them around my neck
Speaker 1: all the time. Sometimes forget they're there and take a
Speaker 1: bunch of pictures with them on and then go why
Speaker 1: was I wearing those? It's the goofy picture with my
Speaker 1: head headphones on. But um, that's what I used while hunting.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go a couple more questions. Here is
Speaker 1: when it comes from William. He says, how do you
Speaker 1: remy like to hear your thoughts on multi purpose trips
Speaker 1: examples spring bearer turkey trips and scouting for fall deer
Speaker 1: elk trips at the same time shed hunting to help
Speaker 1: out with late season spots, et cetera. Thanks for all
Speaker 1: you do keep rocking will Pee from Texas. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of my spring trips, especially in the
Speaker 1: mountains um, are really primarily designed it thinking about spots
Speaker 1: for the fall. One thing that you'll notice, especially when
Speaker 1: it comes to like what I wanna do, is I
Speaker 1: want to find the I like to go out the
Speaker 1: times where the spring mimics the mirror of the fall.
Speaker 1: So if you think about our seasons, right, you've got
Speaker 1: like summer opposite winter, spring opposite fall. Um. Now, while
Speaker 1: summer and winter, I would say our polar opposite. I
Speaker 1: think spring and fall are the same thing in reverse,
Speaker 1: you know. So, uh, spring is is everything is coming
Speaker 1: up and the snow is going away, and fall is
Speaker 1: the exact I guess it is opposite, like everything is
Speaker 1: dying and some snow is coming down. But if you
Speaker 1: were to split spring and fall out and look at
Speaker 1: it like, Okay, what's the snow doing, what's the grass doing,
Speaker 1: what's everything doing? At the very early part of spring,
Speaker 1: in the very end of fall, there's very little vegetation um.
Speaker 1: And then like you know, as you go closer to
Speaker 1: the other side, it's the exact opposite. A lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of vegetation a lot of vegetation. So what
Speaker 1: I like to do is I like to put spring
Speaker 1: and fall in a mirror in in a way, like
Speaker 1: a theoretical mirror, and I like to see, like in
Speaker 1: my areas, where is the snow level in the spring
Speaker 1: that kind of matches the fall, and like what time
Speaker 1: and find those like those spots where spring and fall
Speaker 1: like that that perfect timing where they mirror each other,
Speaker 1: where the fall season is open. And then and that's
Speaker 1: this is I should probably should just stop talking now
Speaker 1: because this is like a secret that I probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: give out. Um it's two. It's two in depth. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm losing all my money telling people too many secrets.
Speaker 1: But anyways, and then I like to use that springtime
Speaker 1: to like find that mirror of the fall and scout.
Speaker 1: Then and that might be I and I can do
Speaker 1: other things at the same time. Maybe I'll bear hunt
Speaker 1: that particular area that time of year and see, like
Speaker 1: what deer around. And I noticed that in that kind
Speaker 1: of mirror of the fall, when the snow and whatever
Speaker 1: is kind of similar the plant growth and everything, you
Speaker 1: start to find animals in the same type of places,
Speaker 1: like especially in migratory areas. Like, let's say whatever California deer,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big migrating deer herd, and where
Speaker 1: the deer are in the reverse going back up is
Speaker 1: where you can kind of find them in the fall
Speaker 1: going back down. So try to find those mirror spots
Speaker 1: could be for elk, could be for meal deer, could
Speaker 1: be for whatever. And yeah, maybe looking for sheds in
Speaker 1: an area I find sometimes like where I find a
Speaker 1: lot of sheds is only good if you're hunting like
Speaker 1: a late season winter range hunt. I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: that it really translates to the fall super well, but
Speaker 1: it is a good idea to know what kind of
Speaker 1: deer in your area. Now, if you're talking about places
Speaker 1: where there's not a big transient herd or it's all
Speaker 1: local stuff, then yeah, I mean you can kind of
Speaker 1: use those spring activities to really showcase what that area
Speaker 1: has and and get you out and get you moving
Speaker 1: around and get you learning and exploring new areas. But
Speaker 1: finding that mirror in the spring and fall by doing
Speaker 1: other and doing other activities at that time super secret,
Speaker 1: awesome way to be more successful and spread your scouting
Speaker 1: out throughout the year and get other stuff in all right,
Speaker 1: last question here comes from Matthew. He says, where to
Speaker 1: set up camp for elk in September? How far from
Speaker 1: where the elk lives should I set up camp? I
Speaker 1: get this question. I think that this is probably one
Speaker 1: of the most asked questions I get, kind of one
Speaker 1: that I always think about, like, I'm like, put it
Speaker 1: on the back burner, but I think that this question
Speaker 1: is going to be a great podcast topic. So Matthew
Speaker 1: is not the only person to ask this question. Many many, many,
Speaker 1: many questions have come in like this, and it's one
Speaker 1: that I think kind of like some of the pack
Speaker 1: stuff I take for granted. I and as I think
Speaker 1: about it, I think that it's one that needs addressed.
Speaker 1: So the answer to that question will be next week's podcast.
Speaker 1: If you've made it this far, uh and you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: I want to hear next week next Thursday, same bad time,
Speaker 1: same bat channel. I will be breaking down the whole
Speaker 1: camping process, where you set up, how I set up,
Speaker 1: what I think about camping, how close to the animals,
Speaker 1: what's like a good place to camp, was not a
Speaker 1: good place to camp. I'm going to answer all those
Speaker 1: burning questions, which based on the amount of questions that
Speaker 1: I get from that, I should just write a book
Speaker 1: on it, and I'd sell a lot of those books.
Speaker 1: So I thank you guys for all your questions. I
Speaker 1: thank you guys for all the comments, and I hope
Speaker 1: to see you back here next week to get the
Speaker 1: answer to the burning question of where to set up
Speaker 1: camp when you're hunting? All right, catch you guys later, Yeah,