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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. One tactic to rule them all. Now,

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Speaker 1: if I were to think of a specific tactic that

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Speaker 1: led to more success, no matter the species, no matter

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Speaker 1: the place, no matter the terrain, population densities, hot weather,

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Speaker 1: cold weather, whatever comes against you, I would think that

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Speaker 1: the one tactic that has made me so successful over

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Speaker 1: the years would be persistence. If I were to think

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Speaker 1: about it, I've believe that I'm probably one of the

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Speaker 1: most persistent hunters on the planet. I've actually spent as

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Speaker 1: many as three d days in a single season out

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Speaker 1: in the field hunting, and over those thousands of days

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Speaker 1: over the years actually in the field pursuing game animals.

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Speaker 1: I have been lucky very few times, but what I

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Speaker 1: have been is persistent. So this week we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about what being persistent looks like and how to prepare,

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Speaker 1: as well as how to keep your head in the game.

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Speaker 1: Nearly every story I have about hunting involves some elements

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Speaker 1: of persistence. But I want to share a story from

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Speaker 1: last season when a hunter that I was guiding gave

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Speaker 1: it there all. There are so many times hunting when

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Speaker 1: just things don't go as planned. This particular week happened

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Speaker 1: to be the opening week of general elk season in Montana.

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Speaker 1: We were in western Montana and my dad and Jason

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Speaker 1: had cow tags and we're hunting for most of the week,

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Speaker 1: just looking to fill their cow tags. Now, I was

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Speaker 1: off guiding some other hunters, but it happened to be

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Speaker 1: Jas's last day to hunt. It wasn't that they weren't

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Speaker 1: in the right places, they just had bad luck and

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Speaker 1: bad timing. Every time they went somewhere, it was like

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Speaker 1: they were just a few steps behind the elk. I

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Speaker 1: happened to tag my clients out that I was guiding

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Speaker 1: early that week, and so I figured I had a

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Speaker 1: little bit of time off. I said, I'll go out

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Speaker 1: with you guys this this last day and see if

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Speaker 1: I can give you a hand trying to get a

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Speaker 1: cow for the freezer. So we started out first thing

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Speaker 1: in the morning. I went to one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: glass and knobs. We were there well before daylight and

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Speaker 1: just as it starts to get light. I spotted some

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Speaker 1: shapes of elk out in this meadow across the valley.

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Speaker 1: Now this particular meadow was like fairly close to a road,

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Speaker 1: so I thought, oh, this is gonna be perfect. We

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Speaker 1: We just gotta hurry up and just moved. So we

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Speaker 1: went back to the truck, got in the truck started

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Speaker 1: driving over to that new spot, because it's maybe two

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Speaker 1: or three miles away from where I was glassing. We

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Speaker 1: drive over and as we're going up, there's happens to

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Speaker 1: be a truck in front of us, and we're like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, this sucks. Like it looked like such a

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Speaker 1: good sure deal, and now the odds were not in

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Speaker 1: our favor. The truck ended up stopping pretty much where

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Speaker 1: we were going to stop, and the elk were actually

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Speaker 1: had somehow moved down and we're pretty much right by

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Speaker 1: this dirt two track, so we stopped him and they

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Speaker 1: were actually just looking for a bull. So we were like, hey,

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Speaker 1: do you mind if we go hunt these cows? They're like, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big deal. So we parked our truck

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Speaker 1: But at this point the elk had seen the vehicles,

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Speaker 1: and if there's nobody else up there, we would have

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Speaker 1: would have worked out perfect. It would It was such

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Speaker 1: a sure deal from across the canyon. And now this

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Speaker 1: Jace gets set up. The elk are starting to get spooked,

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Speaker 1: They hunted for most of the week, didn't get any opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Here's an opportunity, and it's just kind of got messed up.

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Speaker 1: And it was pretty much just the same scenarios they

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Speaker 1: go as planned. So we said, well, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: all right, you know, came close. Let's go, let's regroup.

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Speaker 1: We'll get out of here. We'll go around the mountain

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Speaker 1: There's some elk bedded on this ridge up above. Like sweet,

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Speaker 1: So we start walking back down the trail and we

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Speaker 1: this is not good. So we wait for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: The elk don't come back out. We decided, all right,

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Speaker 1: it can be very difficult to find the elk in there.

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Speaker 1: But there is a light dusting of snow, so you think, okay,

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Speaker 1: this is awesome, this will work. So we start our

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Speaker 1: at this point now we're we're quite a few miles

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Speaker 1: into the day. It's been a fairly up and down day.

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Speaker 1: It's like we keep seeing the elk, but then they

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Speaker 1: Sure enough, there's some fresh wolf tracks right in the snow.

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Speaker 1: The trouble is the sun's beating down on us, and

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Speaker 1: they're in this real thick patch of timber, maybe a

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Speaker 1: because it drops down. So I know there might be

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Speaker 1: don't know where all the other elk aret. It was

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Speaker 1: There's a little bit of though on the ground and

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Speaker 1: as the day progresses, the thermals are going to take

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get winded or we're gonna get busted. So

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Speaker 1: about an hour of just crawling around, looking in and

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Speaker 1: just wait. We're waiting. We've waited now about an hour

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Speaker 1: or longer, sitting in the snow, just at the ready.

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Speaker 1: The elk gets up, moves, but just does not offer

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Speaker 1: most of our time waiting this one, but there's other

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Speaker 1: elk in here. Hopefully now that they're starting to mill around,

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Speaker 1: funneling across this one opening. The elker moving through. Jason's

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Speaker 1: on them, but it's just they will not stop. I

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Speaker 1: take my cow out, call out, throw out some calls.

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Speaker 1: I even throw out a short loud bugle that'll reach

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Speaker 1: the distance, and few of the elks stop. But when

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Speaker 1: so many close opportunities. We should have got an elk.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, all right, let's just sit tight here

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know. They definitely blew out

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Speaker 1: of there pretty hard. So I'm just trying to think

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Speaker 1: By this point, we've hiked up and down quite a

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Speaker 1: took you know, it was an all day get into

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Speaker 1: this spot. It was a long physical day for anyone.

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Speaker 1: We had some pretty close encounters, but it just didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. So we're sitting here. I'm kind of reassessing

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Speaker 1: what our game plan is going to be, and alone

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Speaker 1: cow pops out, looking kind of lost. So I tell them,

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Speaker 1: all right, get set up. I guarantee I can call

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Speaker 1: that cow in. Normally, later in the season, it's fairly

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Speaker 1: hard to call elkin, but there's certain scenarios that you

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Speaker 1: can identify where it's just like, all right this, I

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Speaker 1: guarantee I can call that cow. And I make some

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Speaker 1: arranged it like eight hundred yards. So I call, I

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Speaker 1: do some muse, some more like trying to sound like

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Speaker 1: a herd of elk like this cow. Clearly everybody else

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Speaker 1: get set up and wait, wait, and it disappears in

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Speaker 1: to that next valley, or when you're completely tired and

428
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: gassed and you see a good opportunity, take advantage of

429
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: the opportunity. You have to have the physical ability to

430
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 1: take advantage of the opportunities presented. I wouldn't necessarily compare

431
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 1: myself to someone else or compare to people to each other.

432
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: It's whatever is your best and putting in the best

433
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: that you can do. So if you can only go

434
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: so far, maybe age limits you, maybe you've had medical

435
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: conditions that limit you. Just being at the best that

436
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: you can personally be because you'll be able to push

437
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: yourself further, harder and longer through guiding. I've taken guys

438
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: that are in terrible shape or whatever, and over the

439
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 1: years that they've come back, they've gradually gotten better shape

440
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: and seen success sooner faster. It's just the more you're

441
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: able to keep going, the more enjoyable it will be,

442
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: and the easier. It's going to be in the mental game,

443
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: the comfort game, and all that later on. If you

444
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: think about going on a hunt, think about being in shape, well,

445
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 1: you've got to be willing to just not say no

446
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: when there's an opportunity in front of you. You just

447
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: have to have that physical endurance to say, Okay, there's

448
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: an opportunity over here, I'm going to do it. Because

449
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: what happens is as a hunt goes on, you get lazy.

450
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: And now you might get lucky, but if you're gonna

451
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: be lazy in a lot of ways, it's just relying

452
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: on luck. So what persistence does is it allows you

453
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: to take that physical ability and push yourself into intentional

454
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 1: situations where you can kind of encounter luck. A lot

455
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: of the physical ability is just working through the pain,

456
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: kind of pushing through and push yourself. It's very hard

457
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: for people that haven't done it a lot to understand

458
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: what's that look like, what's that mean? You know, the

459
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: human body is capable of so many things. I've definitely

460
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: put my own body to the test many times where

461
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: there's there's times where I feel like I want to

462
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: give up. Yet I've pushed and pushed and pushed. And

463
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: I'm not saying pushed to a point that is dangerous.

464
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: Understand what's dangerous and what's not. But a lot of

465
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: it comes down to I feel tired, so then you

466
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 1: act tired. I would say nine of my successful hunts,

467
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: I've pushed past that point of being well, I feel tired,

468
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: to that point of I felt tired, But look, I'm

469
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: still doing it, and I'm capable of getting there and

470
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: going over that next ridge. I'm capable of taking advantage

471
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: of that opportunity at that animal there while it's there now,

472
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: Because instead of giving up and saying that that's too far,

473
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, I just get in

474
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: the mindset of knowing, yes, I can do it. I've

475
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: done things that are similar. I can push myself to

476
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Speaker 1: keep going further and that's gonna lead to a hunt

477
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: of success. Now let's jump on preparedness. Preparedness happens. It's

478
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: in combination with that physical ability of training. Um, whether

479
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: it's whatever you can do. I know earlier in the

480
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: year when I had my we did the New Year's resolutions,

481
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: and I gave some things of some goals to set.

482
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: Maybe it's this summer hiking a hundred miles or with

483
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: a pack on over the course of from January till

484
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: hunting season, or just setting some kind of goals. Maybe

485
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: it's even maybe you don't work out now, but you

486
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: can get one or two workouts a week of running

487
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: or hiking, some kind of uphill training, maybe some kind

488
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: of training with a pack training like you're hunting. Maybe

489
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: it's every other weekend you go for a prolonged period

490
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: of hike. Whatever you can do do now. Some people

491
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: can do more and take it to that next level.

492
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: I suggest it. But even preparedness in thinking about your

493
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: gear choices, what you're going to bring on the hunt,

494
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: and then practicing with whatever you're hunting with, whether it

495
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: be a bow, whether it be a rifle. I can

496
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: never stress practice enough, like yesterday, um now that we're

497
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: all a lot of us are in this quarantine mode,

498
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: or maybe you'll listen to this podcast a year from

499
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: now and this is the thing of the past. I mean,

500
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: I go out and try to shoot my bow as

501
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: often as possible every day if I can. If I'm

502
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: a bow hunter, I feel like it's my obligation duty

503
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: to the animals that I'm hunting to continue to practice

504
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: with it, and I know that you know, not everybody

505
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: has the time or whatever, but you can make the

506
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: time for the things that are important if your rifle hunter,

507
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: getting out on the range, practicing, shooting, not just being

508
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: the guy that says I'm going to go out. Make

509
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: sure my rifle sighted in in camp the day before

510
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: I go hunting, because I shot a milk with it

511
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: four years ago and it should still be sited in.

512
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,239
Speaker 1: But I'll shoot it at a rock and see if

513
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: it's good. Getting out and practicing and knowing, okay at

514
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: different distances, how your rifle reacts in different elements, or

515
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: whether it's your rifle, your bow, whatever you're hunting with,

516
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: Knowing how it the wind affects it, Knowing how the

517
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: rain and affects it, knowing how distance affects it, and

518
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: shooting up hill and downhill, and getting that practice, that

519
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: preparedness and that perseverance in the off season is gonna

520
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: when you get that one chance, that one opportunity, making

521
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: good on that opportunity. There are so many hunts that

522
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: I've been on where I know that going into it,

523
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: I might be hunting for a week for one opportunity,

524
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: and so in my mind. I feel like I'm very

525
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: successful when I go out hunting because I have that

526
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,239
Speaker 1: don't give up attitude. I have a physical ability to

527
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: do the hunt. Then I also practice and prepare so

528
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: when I get my one opportunity, my one chance, I

529
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: make good on it. I can't stress enough how much

530
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: that preparedness in the off season lends to success in

531
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: the future. And right now is a great time. If

532
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: you're in some kind of quarantine, if you're locked down,

533
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: but you can get out and do those kind of things,

534
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: shoot a little bit whatever, you're gonna find a lot

535
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: more success in the future. So let's just think about

536
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: and maybe I mentioned this earlier in a previous podcast,

537
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: but if you are in lockdown, maybe some things to

538
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: think about. Say you're a bow hunter and you have

539
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: a short distance. I know, not everybody has access to mountains,

540
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: not everybody has access to shooting long distances. You know,

541
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: practice things that you might encounter in a hunting scenario.

542
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: So what I like to do, say it's with my

543
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: bow when I'm practicing. If you only have say maybe

544
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: you've got twenty years, maybe have less than twenty years

545
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: to practice, practice things that kind of will help with

546
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: the skills that you might need while in the field.

547
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: So one of the things that I do is I'll

548
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: draw my bow back and I'll hold it for as

549
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: long as I can and then shoot. So I try

550
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: to get that fatigued to set in. I try to

551
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: get some more erratic type shot where it might be

552
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: something similar to and elks coming in. It steps behind

553
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: a tree. I draw back, Now I hold, I hold,

554
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: I hold. Maybe I hold for a minute and then

555
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: it steps out and I get my shot and I

556
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: take that shot. I also try to practice a lot

557
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: of shooting from kneeling position a squatting position. I mean,

558
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: one of the artist shots I found the time that

559
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: I missed the most is if I've got something, I

560
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: draw out of cover and then I raise up. But

561
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: it's not where I can raise up to my knees.

562
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,719
Speaker 1: But if I stand fully up, then I might be

563
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: skylined or whatever. So this kind of shot where you're

564
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: not fully standing and not fully kneeling, it's more of

565
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: like a power squat or a chair squat bow shot.

566
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: Practicing those things that I've encountered that I have a

567
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: struggle within the field. Now that don't necessarily mean taking

568
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: longer shots like just things that you can practice and

569
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: then practice if you if you've got short amount of range,

570
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: something like precision, you know, making sure that your close

571
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: shots count so when you're further out you you really

572
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: hammer home that precision. Same thing with a rifle. Go

573
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: out to the range. Practice in real life scenarios with

574
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna use. Shooting sticks, shoot off your pack,

575
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: shoot uphill, shoot downhill. Just practice real life scenarios when

576
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to, even if you just go

577
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: to a local range. You know, don't just shoot off

578
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: the bench. Shoot on the ground from your pack, shoot kneeling,

579
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: shoot without arrests. Shoot different ways to practice and understand

580
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: and build those skills that will help you later on.

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00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the third item that I've outlined as

582
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: a persistence aid, and that's comfort. Now it's comfort and

583
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: not oh, I'm comfortable in my couch at home, everything's great.

584
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: It's not saying that there isn't some form of discomfort,

585
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: because I've found that a lot of my well, if

586
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm if we're going to talk about back country hunting,

587
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: a lot of backcountry hunting success comes in the form

588
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: of being comfortable, being uncomfortable, but there are a few

589
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: things that I do to make sure that certain things

590
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: don't hinder me. You know, we'll bring it back again

591
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: to persistence or just like a continued course of action,

592
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: no matter the difficulty or opposition. But think about sticking

593
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: it to murphy as well. And that's where this comfort

594
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: thing comes in. What are things that really make it

595
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: difficult to continue your course of action that you can prevent.

596
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things is foot care.

597
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: You know, if if you go out with a brand

598
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: new pair of boots into the mountains and get blisters,

599
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: it's really hard to do what's necessary to be successful.

600
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: If you've hunted enough and you've done that, you've probably

601
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: run into this where you start getting blisters, your feet

602
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: start hurting, You see an animal a long ways away

603
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: that normally you would get to no problem, and now

604
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: you're like, maybe we'll just go after it tomorrow. I'm

605
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: not going to take an advantage of this opportunity because

606
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: I've got something slowing me down, and I'm not saying

607
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: be stupid. If you go back to one of our

608
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: earlier episodes, might even be like I would say in

609
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: the first ten, I can't remember which one off the

610
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: top of my head right now. We talked about foot

611
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: care and there was a story of a guy that

612
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: got gang green because you just ignored foot care. I'm

613
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: not talking about doing that. That's not Persistance is not

614
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: just beating your head against the rock and being stupid.

615
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: It's about taking the precautions as well so you can

616
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: continue to hunt hard and take advantage of situations when

617
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: you have them. Like I said earlier, it's not necessarily

618
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: a matter of time. It's just taking advantage of the

619
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: time that you do have and putting everything you have

620
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: into that time. Now, if you only have a data

621
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: hunt or whatever, you don't want to be hindering yourself

622
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: by doing something stupid and not taking care of things

623
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: that you can prevent from going wrong. So that's where

624
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: this comfort idea comes in of you know, take care

625
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: of your feet early and often have boots that fit

626
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,479
Speaker 1: and are well broken in. Even things like you know,

627
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: getting good sleep and having the right fuel and food

628
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: for your body. Uh. A few weeks ago, I guess

629
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: maybe a month ago, we talked about back country food

630
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: and back country food ideas, you know, picking the right

631
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: foods to fuel your body so you have that extra

632
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: bit of energy so you can physically go further and

633
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: stronger and hunt longer. A lot of it just has

634
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: to do with getting yourself what you need to go

635
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: out and hunt, how you to hunt now, to take

636
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: even comfort a little bit further. There's there's been hunts

637
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: where you know, if you don't sleep good. I know

638
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: my dad. I used to make fun of him for

639
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: packing in one of those just like inflatable pillow, you know,

640
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: like it's a blow up pillow, and well that helped

641
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: him sleep better, so then he had more energy to

642
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: get up and hunt hard every day. So a few

643
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: ounces that he's sacrificing of carrying this pillow when I

644
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: was always like, oh, just sleep on a rock. It's

645
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: and not a big deal. You know, those little things

646
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: that help you. Yeah, great, bring him think about that

647
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: comfort level of I'm not saying go overboard. You also

648
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: have to understand that you've got to be comfortable being uncomfortable,

649
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of that is is going to come

650
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: into our fourth and probably most important aspect, the mental game.

651
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: But there are things that you can do to increase

652
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: your comfort where you have that extra energy level where

653
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: it gives you a positive mental attitude. Where you can

654
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: keep going out and hunting harder for a prolonged period

655
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: of time. I can even think of. There's a sheep

656
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: hunt that I went on a couple of years ago.

657
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: A friend had a tag, and it wasn't a back

658
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: country hunt, so I wasn't necessarily too worried about weight.

659
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: And I carry a lot of weight anyways with all

660
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: my camera gear for the solo hunting and all that stuff.

661
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: But I threw in this collapsible chair almost there's a

662
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: back country chair. I thought like, this is in a

663
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: glassing intensive hunt. It's like a lot of cactus and

664
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: sharp rock and other things. And if I'm just gonna

665
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: be glassing for the majority of the day, I hiked

666
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: my way up to this glassing knob, I'm gonna be

667
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: sitting there. This is backpacking chair. I wish I remember

668
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: the type of it, but it's just like almost like

669
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: tent poles that come out and then you just made

670
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: this chair out of it. And it was one of

671
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: the best tools that I brought because I was able

672
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: to glass more persistently. I was able to just sit

673
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: there comfortably and focus on the task at hand, as

674
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: opposed to, you know, all my back starting to hurt,

675
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,959
Speaker 1: so I get up and move around and not really

676
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: pay attention, and then she started to get uncomfortable when

677
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: you start to think of other things. But I could

678
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: just sit there, have my bonos on the tripod glass

679
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: and I turned out to be the one that spotted

680
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: the rams that we ended up harvesting, which was ended

681
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: up being a Boone and Crockett rams. So to have

682
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 1: that comfort and just that little extra sacrifice there something

683
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: like a persistence aid, something that helps me be more persistent.

684
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the fourth thing. The fourth thing would

685
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: be the mental aspect. Now it's hard to talk about

686
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: persistence without also understanding patients. Hunting is one of those

687
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: things that I feel like it gives me a lot

688
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: of life lessons outside of hunting, But patients is a

689
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: thing that I constantly work on. But I do believe

690
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: that I am very patient because you can't be persistent

691
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: and not patient, And patients is just that ability to

692
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: kind of tolerate trouble and suffering without getting upset. As

693
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: soon as you start to get upset at the challenge

694
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: and the way things are going, that's when you put

695
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: yourself in a bad positive mental state. And when that happens.

696
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: It's hard to be persistent. I've seen so many hunts

697
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: be foiled by people's mental attitudes. That earlier example of

698
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: the fit guy and the unfit guy, and the unfit

699
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: guy just out hunting the fit guy was all down

700
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: to a mental attitude. Essentially, it was that ability of

701
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: something didn't go right, it was a little bit harder

702
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: than expected, and so instead of continuing on, it was

703
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: more of an attitude of giving up. Whether you're hunting

704
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: the back country, whether you're hunting out of a motel

705
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: near whatever, it doesn't matter. Things go wrong, and in

706
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: nearly every hunt that's just part of it. But the

707
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: successful hunters, the guys that I look up to and say,

708
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: this guy is a really good hunter, what sets them

709
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 1: apart is their ability to take the situation, flip it around,

710
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: and keep going. You know, yeah, you know, a stock

711
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: got blown on the last day, But instead of sulking

712
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: and slowing down and getting lazy, they're the type of

713
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: person that just says, now, that's all part of it.

714
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push forward, I'm gonna keep hunting, I'm gonna

715
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: make it happen. I think one of my best attributes

716
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: in the field is my mindset when I go into

717
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: every hunt, and this mindset is just an embracing mindset.

718
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: I I've got this because I've done a lot of

719
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: a lot of my hunting. My personal hunting has been

720
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: like very tough solo hunts in what I would consider

721
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: tough units, hard hunts. Like I have this weird love

722
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: for very difficult hunts, and I think that that can

723
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: translate well to every type of hunt, whether it's a

724
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,280
Speaker 1: three day mule your hunt close to a road system,

725
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: or whether it's a grueling two week back country alpine

726
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: hunt for say elker deer in an area that has

727
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: very few animals. My embrace it mentalities when I go

728
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: into every hunt, every journey, every adventure, I kind of

729
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: take this idea of I'm just gonna embrace the suck,

730
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: like that's the part of the story that I will tell.

731
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: That's the part of the adventure that kind of keeps

732
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: me coming back. So when these things go wrong, when

733
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: I when I do a stock on a giant deer

734
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: and the wind shifts and I blow it, that's part

735
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: of the story. Like embracing that part of the story

736
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: helps me keep a really positive mental attitude keeping that

737
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: positive attitude honestly keeps me more focused at the task

738
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: at hand and pushing forward and continuing to hunt hard.

739
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: I have personally been on hunts where things go wrong,

740
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: like I I can remember quite a few hunts where

741
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm out there by myself. Um, like remember this Nevada

742
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: melder hunt in particular. I don't think I've ever been

743
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: so frustrated. You know, I was just hunting after one buck.

744
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: Things kept going wrong, people would blow the stock. I

745
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: went into a different area, and then you stalk the

746
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: deer missed, and it's just like everything was pissing me off.

747
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: And it was this attitude of I just started then

748
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: it was like hot, it was bad conditions, and I

749
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: just got this bad attitude. And I noticed that because

750
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: of that attitude, I was sitting there hunting and I

751
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: wasn't hunting how I normally hunt. I wasn't focused. I

752
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't. I would see something way away and like, oh,

753
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: why would I go over there? That's not going to

754
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: even happen anyways, that's a really and normally I would say, Okay,

755
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: there's a good opportunity. Yeah, it's gonna cost me a

756
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: lot of physical exertion, but you know what, let's go

757
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: for it. Let's see if I can make that happen.

758
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: So instead of taking that attitude, I was taking the opposite,

759
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: and it just became more unsuccessful, more unsuccessful, and at

760
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: the end of that hunt, I felt beat up. And

761
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: that was just a really good eye opener of keeping

762
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: that embrace it mentality that embraced the suck and just

763
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: really taking each and every opportunity, whether it's good or bad,

764
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: as a learning experience to push forward and to keep

765
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: persevering until I'm successful. I really hope that this episode

766
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: was helpful because I honestly believe that perseverance makes the

767
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: best hunters, and and it's one of those things mental toughness,

768
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 1: just being physically prepared and just being prepared in the

769
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: off season to take the best advantage of the opportunities

770
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: you're given. Doesn't necessarily get talked about as often as

771
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: it should. I think some of the best hunters I

772
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: know are mentally tough, They're persistent, and they really understand

773
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: what it means to just keep after it. I think

774
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,479
Speaker 1: if you can latch onto that. While it might seem

775
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: as more of a motivational speech than hunting tactics maybe,

776
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: but it is, in my opinion, one of the best

777
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: tactics you can have in your toolbox. So as we're

778
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people just like some of

779
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: these lockdowns of shutdown hunting seasons, and it's just it's

780
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: one of those things. Here's a good time if you're

781
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: gonna are gonna practice mental toughness. Um A, pandemics are

782
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: great time to do it, you know, as as seasons

783
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: come start getting shut down, and I don't know, I

784
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of things that have affected everybody's lives.

785
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people that are affected

786
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: right now. You know, practice some of that mental toughness,

787
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: practice on the positive ways to look at it, tough situations,

788
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: if you can do it in any way, you know,

789
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: just practice it in daily life as well. And I

790
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: know right now, you know, some a season that I

791
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: was planning on going and hunting has been temporarily suspended,

792
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: and you start doing like, oh my gosh, this is

793
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: ever gonna end. Yes, it's gonna end. We'll we'll get

794
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: through it. So good time to just practice that mental

795
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: toughness from home. But also I'll answer quick question here.

796
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: I know some I did tuck a little. I was

797
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: a little long winded today, but I think people have

798
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: got more time now anyways, So I think it's fine

799
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: this question says, and I, to be honest, I got

800
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: I don't even know, probably a dozen questions similar to

801
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: this vein recently, so I figured might as well talk

802
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: about this, and it goes great into mental toughness. So, hey, Remy,

803
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: I was wondering if there are any tricks you use

804
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: on solo hunts when your mind starts wandering at night.

805
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: It seems like I keep thinking something is out there

806
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: to get me. Do you ever get scared when you're

807
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: out alone in the wild? This And they go on

808
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: and say that they've kind of started doing some of

809
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: their own solo hunting and they've been successful, but they

810
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: also struggle sometimes with the mental aspect of it. CADE

811
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: from Michigan, So yeah, thanks for that question. I think

812
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: that's a great question. And you know, I've been I've

813
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: been hunting solo so long. I think some of these

814
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: things that I started out doing I don't necessarily do anymore.

815
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: But there are those times where I've been in in

816
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: weird places or had hard days or tough situations. And yeah,

817
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: your mind starts wandering at night. I did uh solo

818
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: trip in Africa, and I could hear just crazy animals

819
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: roaring and making noise around my tent, my camp, and

820
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: I just I know a few specific times that I've

821
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: felt uncomfortable at night, and I think, one, there's a

822
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: few tricks that I do have that I have done

823
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: and still continue to do this day to help comfort myself.

824
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: It's all part of keeping that positive mental attitude and

825
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: just staying comfortable and staying focused. You know, if you

826
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: start to get lonely or you start to get scared,

827
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: it can be scary. So I mean there's been plenty

828
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: of times where I've been completely scared by myself, times

829
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: where I thought I was almost gonna die. And those

830
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: are just some of those things that I've I've got

831
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: through and say, Okay, I can push through this. And

832
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: I man, I've got so many stories. I could go

833
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: down a million rabbit trails on this, but a few

834
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: specific tricks that I use. One, if it's safe and legal,

835
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: start a fire at night. A fire is just there's

836
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: this there's this thing between man and fire, and it

837
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: is a very comforting factor. It is something that When

838
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: you stare into that flame, you feel safe, you feel calm.

839
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: It kind of has this allure of scaring everything else away.

840
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: Whether it's mental or actually does I'm not percent sure,

841
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: but there have been times where I've been on the

842
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 1: mountain just like getting in my own head and it's like, Okay,

843
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: I start a little fire and it's just calming. I

844
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: watched the fire. Then I go to sleep, and it's

845
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: a great it's a great tool. You know, obviously use

846
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: it with safety, but that's one thing. There's other times.

847
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done some really long solo trips and

848
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: I used to have like I'm not even good with harmonica,

849
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 1: but like a harmonica or sing yourself some kind of

850
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: song that you like, or maybe you have enough battery

851
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: juice whatever, listen to some music like those are great

852
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: ways to just take your mind off what's going on, um,

853
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: relax a little bit and enjoy the experience. And then again,

854
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Speaker 1: you know, just embrace it. Like the part of being alone.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you do get lonely. And if you've got some

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Speaker 1: kind of satellite messengers whatever, those are great for safety,

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Speaker 1: and it's great to just throw out a message every

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Speaker 1: once and I will say you know, talk to you know,

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Speaker 1: someone close. You'd be like, oh man, I'm having a

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Speaker 1: tough day. Whatever, this is what's and have some encourage

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Speaker 1: people that can send you some encouragement too. That's always great.

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Speaker 1: I know there's been a few hunts that I've been

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Speaker 1: on where I've just like literally felt like I gave

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Speaker 1: it my all and just defeated. And I texted my

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Speaker 1: brother via Garment in Reach and he's like, dude, you've

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Speaker 1: been on You've done way crazier stuff than this, like

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Speaker 1: get after it. And You're like, heck, yeah, I have

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Speaker 1: all right, let's do this. So those are all things

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Speaker 1: that I've used in those in those scenarios where just

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Speaker 1: things that aren't going right or you just getting your

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Speaker 1: own head. Great stuff to think about. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I am excited for for next week. I had a

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Speaker 1: list of topics that I want to talk about and

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Speaker 1: then it just popped in my head today and I thought,

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Speaker 1: this is as timely as it gets. Next week, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about my full proof anti tick procedures because

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be going off turkey hunting,

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Speaker 1: bear hunting as soon as these restrictions get lifted and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be out in the field springtime. Ticks are dangerous, man.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about the tactics that I used

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Speaker 1: to keep ticks at bay and they work really well

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to share that. So I think you'll

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Speaker 1: enjoy that. And then if you've got any suggestions or

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Speaker 1: questions or comments, you can email me Remy at the

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Speaker 1: mediator dot com or Instagram at Remy Warren. I'm on there.

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Speaker 1: I'm answering as many questions as I can. I'm also

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of live events via social media, so

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Speaker 1: if you jump on there you can you can catch

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Speaker 1: me live and answer ask questions there. If you listen

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, I really appreciate it. I appreciate all

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Speaker 1: the support you guys have given me, the comments, the following,

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Speaker 1: the subscriptions, all of it. I appreciate it. And so

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Speaker 1: I want to continue making everyone better, whether it's through

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Speaker 1: this podcast or everywhere else. So feel free to reach

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Speaker 1: out and we'll catch you guys later. Until next time,

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Speaker 1: stay persistent.