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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cutting the Distance Field Reports, breaking news from

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Speaker 1: the Elk Woods and now your host, Jason Phelps. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to another edition of Cutting the Distance Field Reports.

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Speaker 1: I'm here in Oregon with Charlie Smith, just finishing up

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Speaker 1: our elk hunt. We were on um pretty limited tag

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Speaker 1: uh in this unit, and we're just gonna kind of

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Speaker 1: go over what we saw red action wise, what worked,

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Speaker 1: what didn't um, we'll probably spend more time on what

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Speaker 1: didn't work. UM, since we you know, got got a

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Speaker 1: good education on some of these bulls and they really

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Speaker 1: reacted a lot different than what I'd say we're used

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Speaker 1: to um one hunting, So what what would you say?

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Speaker 1: The overall action was here this week as far as

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Speaker 1: we're hearing bighicles where we you know, find an elk

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Speaker 1: that wanted to cooperate, we were able to locate fairly easily.

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Speaker 1: That was that was good. UM yeah, so I think

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Speaker 1: for the most part, these elk were running the right game.

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Speaker 1: We we could get to a high point like we

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Speaker 1: normally would, we could locate and if there were bowls there,

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Speaker 1: especially um on that first bugle, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: show up to an area, that first bugle usually gets

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Speaker 1: them going and then we would kind of struggle right

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Speaker 1: and then maybe getting to answer a second or third time.

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Speaker 1: So you really had to listen very very closely for

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Speaker 1: that first bugle, um to make sure you picked it up,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times you could sit there bugle

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Speaker 1: again in five minutes, ten minutes, they wouldn't veigle. But

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's it's one of those things and I don't

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Speaker 1: know why they do it, but if you maybe wait

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Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes, you can probably get them to

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Speaker 1: bugle again. It's just it's almost like they don't want

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Speaker 1: to answer you too many times in a row. Um.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we we were able to locate and had

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Speaker 1: no problem locating bulls. So that part of our system,

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Speaker 1: our program we were running, our program was working just fine.

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Speaker 1: But where we started to run into a little bit

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Speaker 1: of different a difference here and our system kind of

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Speaker 1: ran into some trouble was you know, getting close cal

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Speaker 1: calling biggling um, let's kind of give give a little

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Speaker 1: rundown on a typical scenario. You know, we located a

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Speaker 1: herd bowl. We we didn't give them what we do

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Speaker 1: from there, located herd bowl. We always try and cut

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Speaker 1: the distance once we cut the distance to a safe

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Speaker 1: distance from the herd where we don't think we're a

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Speaker 1: scaring We might have to locate again. Usually with cal calls,

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Speaker 1: hopefully they respond, check the distance, figure out where they're at,

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Speaker 1: move closer, and start putting pressure on them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much our our thing, you know. And on

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Speaker 1: this hunt, a lot of times we would cut the distance.

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Speaker 1: We try not to veagle, but we would he I mean,

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Speaker 1: we need to do a little squeal bveagle, just something

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Speaker 1: that never get an answer back. Um, if you got

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Speaker 1: too close, you know, under two yards, you typically they

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Speaker 1: would take their cows and leave. They would give us

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Speaker 1: a couple of beagles, round up their cows and they'd

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Speaker 1: be out of there, and they'd keep a safe distance. Well.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times on this hunt we learned early

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Speaker 1: on that all right, biggling isn't working. So you're first

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Speaker 1: instant because let's switch it up to cal calls. So

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Speaker 1: we're moving very tight, get the wind right, do everything

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to. And know I'm talking tight on cow calls.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking most of the time we were under a

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Speaker 1: hundred yards hundred twenty. We we we did, we did

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Speaker 1: get very close to a lot of cows, didn't really

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Speaker 1: bump them, but we you know, obviously would spot them

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Speaker 1: in the timber, and we had switched the cow calls

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Speaker 1: and and those didn't seem to work. You know, they

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Speaker 1: worked at times, but not very well, not even on

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Speaker 1: the satellite bowls that are around, which really kind of

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Speaker 1: has me scratch my head. And we've got some theories

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Speaker 1: and we might dive into it here in a little

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Speaker 1: bit on on why these bulls were just not responding

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Speaker 1: to cal calls either. Yeah, that was tough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: usually when your cal calling near heard, you always get

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Speaker 1: a satellite come in to three little fives, little sixes, whatever,

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Speaker 1: and it just kind of keeps the momentum going with

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Speaker 1: especially in you know like this, with a lot of

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Speaker 1: a very high bowl of caw ratio, you would expect

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Speaker 1: for there to be a lot of you know, those

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Speaker 1: for any sort of cow. But our theory was maybe

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Speaker 1: they assumed that all the cows are already taken by

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Speaker 1: past and other units, and um, you know, I would

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Speaker 1: say we ran it ten plus times, right, we would.

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Speaker 1: Once we realized the biggling wasn't working on her bowls,

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Speaker 1: we'd get in cal call, maybe get a response or two.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't really interested in the need of the cows, would

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Speaker 1: just keeping their their pattern and hang out. Then the

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Speaker 1: next time they would respond, they'd be three yards out.

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Speaker 1: That just yeah. And one thing I want to talk

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Speaker 1: wolves in this unit kind of scattered out. We only

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Speaker 1: really found like a high concentration in one area that

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Speaker 1: was completely void. About for how pristine of lk Habitat

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Speaker 1: was the most perfect elk Habitat period and beautiful, no

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Speaker 1: no elk to be seen completely void. And I'm not exaggerating.

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Speaker 1: We probably walked two miles a road on the top end,

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Speaker 1: two miles of road on the bottom end, and no exaggeration.

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Speaker 1: There was a pile of wolf crap every ten to

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Speaker 1: never seen so much wolf. Yeah, the first day we

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Speaker 1: went through an area looked really good, just like everything

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Speaker 1: else we found in this entire time. UM went in,

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Speaker 1: we found a wallow so you could see what's been around, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the mud. And sure enough we've seen

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Speaker 1: more wolf and cougar tracks than we did elk. Which

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Speaker 1: that not I'm not saying that the rest of the

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Speaker 1: area wasn't good. It's just it's obvious that there are

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Speaker 1: some dead zones in here. And so there were some

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Speaker 1: days or times where we you know, we really wanted

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Speaker 1: which so the wolves had a little effective I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: blame you wolves on on you know, non vocal elk necessarily.

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Speaker 1: We do think one day maybe they had moved through

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Speaker 1: they were still there. And yeah, it was obviously I mean,

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Speaker 1: We were able to get him to talk, but it

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Speaker 1: seems like when you got closer is when they just

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Speaker 1: like our system I would say works time. It's not failproof, right,

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Speaker 1: set up enough times, eventually getting close close enough to

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Speaker 1: and challenging him work or if you know their satellites around,

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Speaker 1: you get close enough to heard, you know, potentially pulled

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Speaker 1: a very methodical system, and I think, uh, as we

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Speaker 1: but we always we would go into set ups right

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Speaker 1: it's eventually going to work, Like, yeah, maybe our odds

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Speaker 1: we like to do it the way we do it.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. We've been doing it for plus years

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Speaker 1: maybe more than that, and it's worked so well so

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Speaker 1: And this is where like my biggest takeaway, maybe we

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Speaker 1: should have just flat out like stuck to a different system. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we'll keep that in mind. And I'm more

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Speaker 1: the results we got here. My next hunt, I'm biggle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm they're gonna bogle in your face. So I don't

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Speaker 1: want to hunt these elk. Right, we want to find

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Speaker 1: We want stuff biggling in our face. We did get that,

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Speaker 1: this hunt, which archery hunting very very difficult rifle hunt.

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Speaker 1: Of course it would have been easier, rightfle but this

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Speaker 1: What this brush did was put us exposed time out

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Speaker 1: Number three, it gave you very very little possibility to

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Speaker 1: You know, we focused on a certain bowl for two

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, you gotta move with these elk

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Speaker 1: and this is where as an elk hunter, once again,

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Speaker 1: you're if you're going into these areas and you're hunting

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Speaker 1: to finally, we we looked at each other and we're like,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. We're never gonna kill

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Speaker 1: and he's betting in a burn with even taller brush

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Speaker 1: we cannot physically kill him. We just we didn't have

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Speaker 1: I'm heading Idaho, You're heading home, I'm heading out. I'm

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