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. One tactic to rule them all. Now,
Speaker 1: if I were to think of a specific tactic that
Speaker 1: led to more success, no matter the species, no matter
Speaker 1: the place, no matter the terrain, population densities, hot weather,
Speaker 1: cold weather, whatever comes against you, I would think that
Speaker 1: the one tactic that has made me so successful over
Speaker 1: the years would be persistence. If I were to think
Speaker 1: about it, I've believe that I'm probably one of the
Speaker 1: most persistent hunters on the planet. I've actually spent as
Speaker 1: many as three d days in a single season out
Speaker 1: in the field hunting, and over those thousands of days
Speaker 1: over the years actually in the field pursuing game animals.
Speaker 1: I have been lucky very few times, but what I
Speaker 1: have been is persistent. So this week we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about what being persistent looks like and how to prepare,
Speaker 1: as well as how to keep your head in the game.
Speaker 1: Nearly every story I have about hunting involves some elements
Speaker 1: of persistence. But I want to share a story from
Speaker 1: last season when a hunter that I was guiding gave
Speaker 1: it there all. There are so many times hunting when
Speaker 1: just things don't go as planned. This particular week happened
Speaker 1: to be the opening week of general elk season in Montana.
Speaker 1: We were in western Montana and my dad and Jason
Speaker 1: had cow tags and we're hunting for most of the week,
Speaker 1: just looking to fill their cow tags. Now, I was
Speaker 1: off guiding some other hunters, but it happened to be
Speaker 1: Jas's last day to hunt. It wasn't that they weren't
Speaker 1: in the right places, they just had bad luck and
Speaker 1: bad timing. Every time they went somewhere, it was like
Speaker 1: they were just a few steps behind the elk. I
Speaker 1: happened to tag my clients out that I was guiding
Speaker 1: early that week, and so I figured I had a
Speaker 1: little bit of time off. I said, I'll go out
Speaker 1: with you guys this this last day and see if
Speaker 1: I can give you a hand trying to get a
Speaker 1: cow for the freezer. So we started out first thing
Speaker 1: in the morning. I went to one of my favorite
Speaker 1: glass and knobs. We were there well before daylight and
Speaker 1: just as it starts to get light. I spotted some
Speaker 1: shapes of elk out in this meadow across the valley.
Speaker 1: Now this particular meadow was like fairly close to a road,
Speaker 1: so I thought, oh, this is gonna be perfect. We
Speaker 1: just have to get over there. We've got good access.
Speaker 1: We just gotta hurry up and just moved. So we
Speaker 1: went back to the truck, got in the truck started
Speaker 1: driving over to that new spot, because it's maybe two
Speaker 1: or three miles away from where I was glassing. We
Speaker 1: drive over and as we're going up, there's happens to
Speaker 1: be a truck in front of us, and we're like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this sucks. Like it looked like such a
Speaker 1: good sure deal, and now the odds were not in
Speaker 1: our favor. The truck ended up stopping pretty much where
Speaker 1: we were going to stop, and the elk were actually
Speaker 1: had somehow moved down and we're pretty much right by
Speaker 1: this dirt two track, so we stopped him and they
Speaker 1: were actually just looking for a bull. So we were like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you mind if we go hunt these cows? They're like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big deal. So we parked our truck
Speaker 1: and climb up the mountain A little ways get into position.
Speaker 1: But at this point the elk had seen the vehicles,
Speaker 1: and if there's nobody else up there, we would have
Speaker 1: parked way before that, hiked up, been in position. It
Speaker 1: would have worked out perfect. It would It was such
Speaker 1: a sure deal from across the canyon. And now this
Speaker 1: group of cows is on edge. They're starting to move off.
Speaker 1: Jace gets set up. The elk are starting to get spooked,
Speaker 1: and they start moving off. He takes a shot. The
Speaker 1: shots just high, kind of a rushed shot in the
Speaker 1: elk run over the mountain gone. It's like, dang it.
Speaker 1: They hunted for most of the week, didn't get any opportunities.
Speaker 1: Here's an opportunity, and it's just kind of got messed up.
Speaker 1: And it was pretty much just the same scenarios they
Speaker 1: kept happening all week, just one step behind the elk
Speaker 1: every time, or something looks right, but they just didn't
Speaker 1: go as planned. So we said, well, all right, that's
Speaker 1: all right, you know, came close. Let's go, let's regroup.
Speaker 1: We'll get out of here. We'll go around the mountain
Speaker 1: and see if we can't just respot these elks. So
Speaker 1: we leave that area, park it at a trailhead and
Speaker 1: start hiking up in the rail get back there, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe two and a half three miles something
Speaker 1: like that, and started glassing and just are not picking
Speaker 1: anything up. So I climb up this really steep hill
Speaker 1: to get to this glassing knob while my dad and
Speaker 1: Jason down below. And uh, sure enough, as soon as
Speaker 1: I get up to my glassy knob, I spot some
Speaker 1: elk bedded on the ridge across the valley. So I
Speaker 1: see them down below, So I walked down get him,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, let's go back the way we came.
Speaker 1: There's some elk bedded on this ridge up above. Like sweet,
Speaker 1: So we start walking back down the trail and we
Speaker 1: are trying to it's it's kind of a weird position
Speaker 1: because the elk are now starting to feed over kind
Speaker 1: of where we came up from, and so we don't
Speaker 1: want to get into where they can see us, so
Speaker 1: we kind of have to side hill through this really steep, nasty,
Speaker 1: rocky country to get into position where I think we
Speaker 1: might be able to get a shot. As soon as
Speaker 1: we get there, the elk just start moving back over
Speaker 1: the top of this ridge and it's like, ah, man,
Speaker 1: this is not good. So we wait for a little bit.
Speaker 1: The elk don't come back out. We decided, all right,
Speaker 1: make the executive decision. We're going to go up there
Speaker 1: and try to see if we can relocate them. The
Speaker 1: trouble is this is more like flat top ridge and
Speaker 1: it can be very difficult to find the elk in there.
Speaker 1: But there is a light dusting of snow, so you think, okay,
Speaker 1: this is awesome, this will work. So we start our
Speaker 1: stock up and we start climbing up the hill. And
Speaker 1: at this point now we're we're quite a few miles
Speaker 1: into the day. It's been a fairly up and down day.
Speaker 1: It's like we keep seeing the elk, but then they
Speaker 1: keep just giving us the slip. So we get up
Speaker 1: to the top. Now it's midday and we just start
Speaker 1: working into the wind. There's some tracks, but then it
Speaker 1: burns off and I just keep following the tracks and
Speaker 1: glassing up ahead, walking, stopping, glassing up ahead into the timber,
Speaker 1: just really still hunting through the timber, trying to keep
Speaker 1: the wind right and follow the tracks the best we can.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, there's some fresh wolf tracks right in the snow.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, man, this is this is not good. Here's
Speaker 1: fresh elk tracks, fresh dog tracks. These are gonna get
Speaker 1: blown out. But I just figured, well, we'll keep on them.
Speaker 1: We've got no other real good options right now, so
Speaker 1: we keep working into the wind. And as I start
Speaker 1: to come up over this last little bend where I've
Speaker 1: seen them bed before, it's just like fairly thick timber,
Speaker 1: a few openings and a glass and pick the ear
Speaker 1: of a bedded elk, and they're fairly close. So we
Speaker 1: get down and we scoot into position, and now we're
Speaker 1: just taking our time, crawling and trying not to be seen.
Speaker 1: The trouble is the sun's beating down on us, and
Speaker 1: they're in this real thick patch of timber, maybe a
Speaker 1: hundred yards away, some probably less because we can't see
Speaker 1: because it drops down. So I know there might be
Speaker 1: elk between me and the elk that we see. We
Speaker 1: don't know where all the other elk aret. It was
Speaker 1: a fairly large herd, yet I only see one or
Speaker 1: two animals at this point, So we crawled the trees
Speaker 1: in front of us to try to just get a
Speaker 1: better angle and see if we can see in there.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of though on the ground and
Speaker 1: Jays gets set up and we start glassing in there,
Speaker 1: and I start looking and they're they're bedded, but there's
Speaker 1: just no shots. We just keep watching him, and I
Speaker 1: know at some point the wind is going to shift
Speaker 1: as the day progresses, the thermals are going to take
Speaker 1: that wind down to these elk, and we just need
Speaker 1: to kind of make a move in order to to
Speaker 1: kind of force a shot, because if we wait too long,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get winded or we're gonna get busted. So
Speaker 1: about an hour of just crawling around, looking in and
Speaker 1: trying to find a good position, we pick one cow that,
Speaker 1: if it stands upright, might give us a shot, and
Speaker 1: just wait. We're waiting. We've waited now about an hour
Speaker 1: or longer, sitting in the snow, just at the ready.
Speaker 1: The elk gets up, moves, but just does not offer
Speaker 1: a shot. So like, dang it, Okay, we we spent
Speaker 1: most of our time waiting this one, but there's other
Speaker 1: elk in here. Hopefully now that they're starting to mill around,
Speaker 1: we might get a shot. We readjust Jason gets the
Speaker 1: shooting sticks set up, it's like, okay, everything looks good,
Speaker 1: and then it happens the wind swirls and the elk
Speaker 1: blow out. We now run down the ridge and reposition,
Speaker 1: hoping to get a shot at the elk as they're
Speaker 1: funneling across this one opening. The elker moving through. Jason's
Speaker 1: on them, but it's just they will not stop. I
Speaker 1: take my cow out, call out, throw out some calls.
Speaker 1: I even throw out a short loud bugle that'll reach
Speaker 1: the distance, and few of the elks stop. But when
Speaker 1: they stopped, they're just too far, too out of range,
Speaker 1: and they move off. It's like, dang it, it's now
Speaker 1: almost no fairly close to the end of the day,
Speaker 1: and it's his last day to hunt, and we've had
Speaker 1: so many close opportunities. We should have got an elk.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, all right, let's just sit tight here
Speaker 1: for a few minutes and see what happens. We sit there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know. They definitely blew out
Speaker 1: of there pretty hard. So I'm just trying to think
Speaker 1: of what's the next move, what's the next game plan.
Speaker 1: By this point, we've hiked up and down quite a
Speaker 1: few ranges, go up one side, down the other. It
Speaker 1: took you know, it was an all day get into
Speaker 1: this spot. It was a long physical day for anyone.
Speaker 1: We had some pretty close encounters, but it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out. So we're sitting here. I'm kind of reassessing
Speaker 1: what our game plan is going to be, and alone
Speaker 1: cow pops out, looking kind of lost. So I tell them,
Speaker 1: all right, get set up. I guarantee I can call
Speaker 1: that cow in. Normally, later in the season, it's fairly
Speaker 1: hard to call elkin, but there's certain scenarios that you
Speaker 1: can identify where it's just like, all right this, I
Speaker 1: guarantee I can call that cow. And I make some
Speaker 1: cow sounds and I see its ears perk up, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like looking for us. I think I
Speaker 1: arranged it like eight hundred yards. So I call, I
Speaker 1: do some muse, some more like trying to sound like
Speaker 1: a herd of elk like this cow. Clearly everybody else
Speaker 1: ran off and it was confused what happened, and just
Speaker 1: don't know where the other elk car So I keep
Speaker 1: calling with my cow call, and now the elks coming
Speaker 1: toward us, like this elk is coming in. So we
Speaker 1: get set up and wait, wait, and it disappears in
Speaker 1: the timber drop below us. I'm like, all right, be ready,
Speaker 1: turn your scope down. This is gonna happen. This is
Speaker 1: our opportunity. It looked like it was blown, but now
Speaker 1: we're gonna get another chance. So we're sitting there waiting,
Speaker 1: and then I hear some crashing of some brush right
Speaker 1: in front of us, and sure enough that elk came
Speaker 1: and ran into I don't even know ten ft. Maybe
Speaker 1: Jayson throws the gun up to shoot at elk wheels
Speaker 1: around and it's gone as fast as it came in.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just came in on a dead run,
Speaker 1: right to where I made that call saw us. The
Speaker 1: trouble was, there's like all this brush right in front
Speaker 1: of us and a fairly steep drop off, so as
Speaker 1: it popped up, it just wasn't even fast enough to
Speaker 1: take the safety off and shoot it. He had to
Speaker 1: move pretty fast to the left, and at that point
Speaker 1: the elk was already wheeled around, gone out of there.
Speaker 1: It was fairly disappointing, to say the least. We we
Speaker 1: hiked our butts off. We'd put in a lot of time.
Speaker 1: It's getting down to the wire and it looks as
Speaker 1: if the day is done. Then I decided, all right, well,
Speaker 1: let's start working our way back to the truck. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's going to be a little while until
Speaker 1: we get back, and I don't know, maybe we can
Speaker 1: regroup and try to figure something out and we'll glast
Speaker 1: along the way. So we start working our way back
Speaker 1: and I look up at one of the higher meadows
Speaker 1: on the mountain across the valley and I see a
Speaker 1: group of cows come out and start feeding. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, all right now, at this point, we've
Speaker 1: already had a pretty long day. So I'd say to Jason, like, man,
Speaker 1: we got some elk up there. We've got I don't
Speaker 1: know a little well. I mean, I can't even remember
Speaker 1: how much time was left before sundown, maybe an hour
Speaker 1: before shooting light ended or something like that, to that effect,
Speaker 1: Like it's a long ways up there now. Jason, he's
Speaker 1: hunted with us before, and I wouldn't say he's the
Speaker 1: most in shape guy, but he's been getting in better
Speaker 1: and better shape every year because of hunting. Like he
Speaker 1: started elk hunting maybe five or six years ago, and
Speaker 1: it's really just pushed him to get better and better
Speaker 1: at it. But I mean, honestly, we had a really
Speaker 1: long day this day. We climbed a lot of elevation.
Speaker 1: We went a lot of miles, and now it's the
Speaker 1: end of the day. There's some elk at the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain and it's one of those where he goes,
Speaker 1: how long do you think it will take you to
Speaker 1: get there? And I said me forty minutes. You an
Speaker 1: hour and a half and we've got an hour. He's like,
Speaker 1: all right, can we make it in fifty minutes. I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, but we have to push. He's like,
Speaker 1: all right, So now it's a race against the clock
Speaker 1: and just giving it everything he has to get to
Speaker 1: the top of the mountain. We work our way up,
Speaker 1: get into position, and we get on the ridge and
Speaker 1: we've got about fifteen to twenty any minutes before shooting
Speaker 1: time ends. I look and I don't see the elks.
Speaker 1: So we start crawling up over the rise and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of glassing up above where the snow is, and
Speaker 1: there's no tracks going up, so I'm thinking, all right,
Speaker 1: they definitely are down. We start crawling up over this
Speaker 1: bear ridge and sure enough I catch the back of
Speaker 1: a cow feeding like maybe seventy five yards in front
Speaker 1: of us. Set up some shooting sticks. Jace gets into position,
Speaker 1: Cow picks her head up, walks out a little bit,
Speaker 1: He shoots cow, runs down the hill and is done.
Speaker 1: And it was just like really cool. Although it wasn't
Speaker 1: a big bull, it wasn't a giant mule, dear. The
Speaker 1: story was just all about giving it that last effort,
Speaker 1: that last push, and that was on the very last day,
Speaker 1: giving it as all and being successful. I'm complete be
Speaker 1: aware of that every hunt in situation is different. The
Speaker 1: reason for hunting in many instances can be different as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, some hunts are about just going out with friends,
Speaker 1: kicking back, enjoying the experience. Other ones maybe just you know,
Speaker 1: taking some time to get away from everything else you're doing.
Speaker 1: But then there's those hunts that you want to be
Speaker 1: more successful, those hunts where you go out and you say,
Speaker 1: I want to come home with an elk or a deer.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the best ways to be successful,
Speaker 1: or the key to being successful, is persistence. Now, if
Speaker 1: you've followed me for any amount of time, I think
Speaker 1: the way that I hunt, you'll really understand this. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm the extreme case of what persistence means to me
Speaker 1: because there's been years like through guiding and other things.
Speaker 1: Where I've hunted a hundred and twenty three consecutive days.
Speaker 1: I think that was my most consecutive days without a break.
Speaker 1: There's times where I would be in one area, hunt
Speaker 1: or guide and then drive all night to the next place,
Speaker 1: get up in the morning, start scouting, start hunting whatever.
Speaker 1: That's the extreme, and I understand that, But persistence is
Speaker 1: not always really a matter of time. It's not oh,
Speaker 1: who can be out there the longest, because you can
Speaker 1: be persistent while hunting with whatever time you've got, whether
Speaker 1: it's a half day, a full day, a week of hunting,
Speaker 1: ten days of hunting, maybe a season worth of hunting.
Speaker 1: It really comes down to a continued course of action,
Speaker 1: no matter the difficulty or opposition. So what I want
Speaker 1: to do is I just want to break down persistence
Speaker 1: as well as what it might mean and look like
Speaker 1: on a hunt. You know, there's things like physical persistence.
Speaker 1: Say the elk went over the ridge and you were
Speaker 1: just a little bit too late, now what or like
Speaker 1: in that story, you you might be on one spot,
Speaker 1: it's getting near the end of the day, and now
Speaker 1: you see something off in the distance. What's your move?
Speaker 1: Do you push it? What do you do? There's also
Speaker 1: even just persistence and glassing. Maybe you aren't seeing anything,
Speaker 1: well do you keep glassing? How how do you proceed
Speaker 1: from there? Or if your tree stand hunter, sitting in
Speaker 1: your tree stand on a cold day, you know something's
Speaker 1: coming against you, it's cold, it's tough, but persistence to
Speaker 1: just sit it out and see what happens. Or maybe
Speaker 1: you blow a stock on a hunt, and then just
Speaker 1: that that ability to continue when things aren't going right,
Speaker 1: when everything might be difficult, or you face some sort
Speaker 1: of opposition. Especially in Western hunting, there's a lot of opposition,
Speaker 1: from whether to terrain, to animal densities, to going into
Speaker 1: a new area. There's so many things that are stacked
Speaker 1: against you. And while it might seem like some kind
Speaker 1: of motivational speech or what's this have to do with hunting,
Speaker 1: I truly believe that a lot of my success has
Speaker 1: to do with my persistent attitude and my approach towards
Speaker 1: at hunt in many ways, so I've identified what I
Speaker 1: would call say four types of persistence aids. Things that
Speaker 1: help you be persistent in the field, things that help
Speaker 1: you go over that next ridge, help you get your
Speaker 1: head in the game when things aren't looking good. Maybe
Speaker 1: I've been on solo hunts that are a week long
Speaker 1: and everything has gone wrong, but I'm just looking for
Speaker 1: that one thing to go right. So if I break
Speaker 1: it down, I think that there's physical aids, there's preparedness aids,
Speaker 1: there's an element of a comfort aid, and then a
Speaker 1: mental game. So I'm gonna I'm gonna break each one
Speaker 1: of those down in ways to just make you look
Speaker 1: at the hunt possibly a little different, as well as
Speaker 1: give you some tips and tactics to staying persistent, to
Speaker 1: being out there and overcoming the things that might hinder
Speaker 1: your success. I really feel like for me success in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, I'm not necessarily that lucky. What
Speaker 1: I am is persistent, and for me persistence it's like
Speaker 1: I find success when persistence just happens to intersect with luck.
Speaker 1: I'm just creating more opportunities for luck to happen. As hunter,
Speaker 1: as we always say, oh hey, good luck out there today.
Speaker 1: What that means to me is like, don't quit, just
Speaker 1: keep going till you end up until it ends up
Speaker 1: working out. But there's a lot of things you can
Speaker 1: do for yourself to stack the deck in your favorite
Speaker 1: to give you better odds by just being able to
Speaker 1: get out there and hunt hard. I know, if you
Speaker 1: follow any of my social media stuff or whatever I
Speaker 1: have my I use this hashtag that I started a
Speaker 1: long time ago call It's like live wild, hunt hard. Well,
Speaker 1: those are two key elements in the way that I
Speaker 1: approach a lot of things, but for me, the majority
Speaker 1: of it comes down to hunting hard. So let's take
Speaker 1: a look at what that looks like and how to
Speaker 1: prepare for it and how to turn that into success. Now,
Speaker 1: let's break it down with the physic a gala aspect.
Speaker 1: I know that there's so many well, I'll just put
Speaker 1: it like this. I I've seen people quit that I
Speaker 1: know can make it. Now as a guide, somebody will
Speaker 1: show up and they have something in their mind of Okay,
Speaker 1: this is how hard it's going to be, this is
Speaker 1: how easy it's gonna be. Whatever. I don't know what
Speaker 1: their expectations are coming in, but I really have developed
Speaker 1: a knack of knowing what people are capable of and
Speaker 1: knowing what people hinder themselves from. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: I've seen people quit that I know can make it,
Speaker 1: and others make it that are probably in worse shape.
Speaker 1: Than the next guy, maybe have less skills or abilities,
Speaker 1: but the deciding factor in their success is their perseverance
Speaker 1: as a guide. I've had guys where there's a guy
Speaker 1: with me that does works out every day, lifts all
Speaker 1: the time, a person that would be in your mind
Speaker 1: or in anybody's mind, in great physical condition. And on
Speaker 1: this same particular hunt had a guy that was overweight,
Speaker 1: definitely not as fit, but just came in to the
Speaker 1: hunt with the mindset of, Yeah, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty hard, but I'll just keep going. And the person
Speaker 1: that was in really good shape came with the mindset of,
Speaker 1: I work out every day, this is gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: I'm in great shape, this will be no problem. After
Speaker 1: about the first day, the person that was in really
Speaker 1: good shape, you know, they've lifted, they'd been in the
Speaker 1: gym a lot. They just were not in what I
Speaker 1: would consider mountain shape. They're physically in excellent shape, but
Speaker 1: in their mind before they came, they thought, oh, I
Speaker 1: work out every day, I'll be fine. Now. This person
Speaker 1: that was with him, they were related. Um, there was
Speaker 1: actually this guy's dad was just an older guy, farmer.
Speaker 1: He grew up to drink his beer and eat his
Speaker 1: bacon and was not in great shape, but he came
Speaker 1: out with the mindset of this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: really difficult thing, but I'm just gonna do it. As
Speaker 1: the hunt went on, the guy that was in really
Speaker 1: good shape almost like it was just this weird thing
Speaker 1: of he pretty much gave up and the guy that
Speaker 1: was in not so good shape was just powering through,
Speaker 1: going keeping up the best he could and not slowing down.
Speaker 1: And it was just a weird thing to see where
Speaker 1: somebody in great physical condition was being beat by a
Speaker 1: guy that was had no right to beat this person,
Speaker 1: but just had a different mentality, different mindset and was
Speaker 1: just persistent. And so to see that play out in
Speaker 1: real life was pretty crazy. Now, I do think that
Speaker 1: there is a huge element for for Western hunting success
Speaker 1: that comes down to your physical ability, your ability to
Speaker 1: go the extra mile to go to that next ridge.
Speaker 1: When the elk or deer go over one valley, you're
Speaker 1: able to go and pursue them. And that comes down
Speaker 1: to physical ability as well as some other things that
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about, like in that particular scenario,
Speaker 1: mental toughness us as well. Now, before any Western hunt,
Speaker 1: big game hunt, out West or like Mountain style hunt.
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to be in shape before you get there,
Speaker 1: and that comes down to the persistence out of the field.
Speaker 1: It's the lifestyle that you choose that's going to cause
Speaker 1: more success later. It's going to allow you to push
Speaker 1: to that next valley, or when you're completely tired and
Speaker 1: gassed and you see a good opportunity, take advantage of
Speaker 1: the opportunity. You have to have the physical ability to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the opportunities presented. I wouldn't necessarily compare
Speaker 1: myself to someone else or compare to people to each other.
Speaker 1: It's whatever is your best and putting in the best
Speaker 1: that you can do. So if you can only go
Speaker 1: so far, maybe age limits you, maybe you've had medical
Speaker 1: conditions that limit you. Just being at the best that
Speaker 1: you can personally be because you'll be able to push
Speaker 1: yourself further, harder and longer through guiding. I've taken guys
Speaker 1: that are in terrible shape or whatever, and over the
Speaker 1: years that they've come back, they've gradually gotten better shape
Speaker 1: and seen success sooner faster. It's just the more you're
Speaker 1: able to keep going, the more enjoyable it will be,
Speaker 1: and the easier. It's going to be in the mental game,
Speaker 1: the comfort game, and all that later on. If you
Speaker 1: think about going on a hunt, think about being in shape, well,
Speaker 1: you've got to be willing to just not say no
Speaker 1: when there's an opportunity in front of you. You just
Speaker 1: have to have that physical endurance to say, Okay, there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity over here, I'm going to do it. Because
Speaker 1: what happens is as a hunt goes on, you get lazy.
Speaker 1: And now you might get lucky, but if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be lazy in a lot of ways, it's just relying
Speaker 1: on luck. So what persistence does is it allows you
Speaker 1: to take that physical ability and push yourself into intentional
Speaker 1: situations where you can kind of encounter luck. A lot
Speaker 1: of the physical ability is just working through the pain,
Speaker 1: kind of pushing through and push yourself. It's very hard
Speaker 1: for people that haven't done it a lot to understand
Speaker 1: what's that look like, what's that mean? You know, the
Speaker 1: human body is capable of so many things. I've definitely
Speaker 1: put my own body to the test many times where
Speaker 1: there's there's times where I feel like I want to
Speaker 1: give up. Yet I've pushed and pushed and pushed. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying pushed to a point that is dangerous.
Speaker 1: Understand what's dangerous and what's not. But a lot of
Speaker 1: it comes down to I feel tired, so then you
Speaker 1: act tired. I would say nine of my successful hunts,
Speaker 1: I've pushed past that point of being well, I feel tired,
Speaker 1: to that point of I felt tired, But look, I'm
Speaker 1: still doing it, and I'm capable of getting there and
Speaker 1: going over that next ridge. I'm capable of taking advantage
Speaker 1: of that opportunity at that animal there while it's there now,
Speaker 1: Because instead of giving up and saying that that's too far,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, I just get in
Speaker 1: the mindset of knowing, yes, I can do it. I've
Speaker 1: done things that are similar. I can push myself to
Speaker 1: keep going further and that's gonna lead to a hunt
Speaker 1: of success. Now let's jump on preparedness. Preparedness happens. It's
Speaker 1: in combination with that physical ability of training. Um, whether
Speaker 1: it's whatever you can do. I know earlier in the
Speaker 1: year when I had my we did the New Year's resolutions,
Speaker 1: and I gave some things of some goals to set.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's this summer hiking a hundred miles or with
Speaker 1: a pack on over the course of from January till
Speaker 1: hunting season, or just setting some kind of goals. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's even maybe you don't work out now, but you
Speaker 1: can get one or two workouts a week of running
Speaker 1: or hiking, some kind of uphill training, maybe some kind
Speaker 1: of training with a pack training like you're hunting. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's every other weekend you go for a prolonged period
Speaker 1: of hike. Whatever you can do do now. Some people
Speaker 1: can do more and take it to that next level.
Speaker 1: I suggest it. But even preparedness in thinking about your
Speaker 1: gear choices, what you're going to bring on the hunt,
Speaker 1: and then practicing with whatever you're hunting with, whether it
Speaker 1: be a bow, whether it be a rifle. I can
Speaker 1: never stress practice enough, like yesterday, um now that we're
Speaker 1: all a lot of us are in this quarantine mode,
Speaker 1: or maybe you'll listen to this podcast a year from
Speaker 1: now and this is the thing of the past. I mean,
Speaker 1: I go out and try to shoot my bow as
Speaker 1: often as possible every day if I can. If I'm
Speaker 1: a bow hunter, I feel like it's my obligation duty
Speaker 1: to the animals that I'm hunting to continue to practice
Speaker 1: with it, and I know that you know, not everybody
Speaker 1: has the time or whatever, but you can make the
Speaker 1: time for the things that are important if your rifle hunter,
Speaker 1: getting out on the range, practicing, shooting, not just being
Speaker 1: the guy that says I'm going to go out. Make
Speaker 1: sure my rifle sighted in in camp the day before
Speaker 1: I go hunting, because I shot a milk with it
Speaker 1: four years ago and it should still be sited in.
Speaker 1: But I'll shoot it at a rock and see if
Speaker 1: it's good. Getting out and practicing and knowing, okay at
Speaker 1: different distances, how your rifle reacts in different elements, or
Speaker 1: whether it's your rifle, your bow, whatever you're hunting with,
Speaker 1: Knowing how it the wind affects it, Knowing how the
Speaker 1: rain and affects it, knowing how distance affects it, and
Speaker 1: shooting up hill and downhill, and getting that practice, that
Speaker 1: preparedness and that perseverance in the off season is gonna
Speaker 1: when you get that one chance, that one opportunity, making
Speaker 1: good on that opportunity. There are so many hunts that
Speaker 1: I've been on where I know that going into it,
Speaker 1: I might be hunting for a week for one opportunity,
Speaker 1: and so in my mind. I feel like I'm very
Speaker 1: successful when I go out hunting because I have that
Speaker 1: don't give up attitude. I have a physical ability to
Speaker 1: do the hunt. Then I also practice and prepare so
Speaker 1: when I get my one opportunity, my one chance, I
Speaker 1: make good on it. I can't stress enough how much
Speaker 1: that preparedness in the off season lends to success in
Speaker 1: the future. And right now is a great time. If
Speaker 1: you're in some kind of quarantine, if you're locked down,
Speaker 1: but you can get out and do those kind of things,
Speaker 1: shoot a little bit whatever, you're gonna find a lot
Speaker 1: more success in the future. So let's just think about
Speaker 1: and maybe I mentioned this earlier in a previous podcast,
Speaker 1: but if you are in lockdown, maybe some things to
Speaker 1: think about. Say you're a bow hunter and you have
Speaker 1: a short distance. I know, not everybody has access to mountains,
Speaker 1: not everybody has access to shooting long distances. You know,
Speaker 1: practice things that you might encounter in a hunting scenario.
Speaker 1: So what I like to do, say it's with my
Speaker 1: bow when I'm practicing. If you only have say maybe
Speaker 1: you've got twenty years, maybe have less than twenty years
Speaker 1: to practice, practice things that kind of will help with
Speaker 1: the skills that you might need while in the field.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that I do is I'll
Speaker 1: draw my bow back and I'll hold it for as
Speaker 1: long as I can and then shoot. So I try
Speaker 1: to get that fatigued to set in. I try to
Speaker 1: get some more erratic type shot where it might be
Speaker 1: something similar to and elks coming in. It steps behind
Speaker 1: a tree. I draw back, Now I hold, I hold,
Speaker 1: I hold. Maybe I hold for a minute and then
Speaker 1: it steps out and I get my shot and I
Speaker 1: take that shot. I also try to practice a lot
Speaker 1: of shooting from kneeling position a squatting position. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the artist shots I found the time that
Speaker 1: I missed the most is if I've got something, I
Speaker 1: draw out of cover and then I raise up. But
Speaker 1: it's not where I can raise up to my knees.
Speaker 1: But if I stand fully up, then I might be
Speaker 1: skylined or whatever. So this kind of shot where you're
Speaker 1: not fully standing and not fully kneeling, it's more of
Speaker 1: like a power squat or a chair squat bow shot.
Speaker 1: Practicing those things that I've encountered that I have a
Speaker 1: struggle within the field. Now that don't necessarily mean taking
Speaker 1: longer shots like just things that you can practice and
Speaker 1: then practice if you if you've got short amount of range,
Speaker 1: something like precision, you know, making sure that your close
Speaker 1: shots count so when you're further out you you really
Speaker 1: hammer home that precision. Same thing with a rifle. Go
Speaker 1: out to the range. Practice in real life scenarios with
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna use. Shooting sticks, shoot off your pack,
Speaker 1: shoot uphill, shoot downhill. Just practice real life scenarios when
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to, even if you just go
Speaker 1: to a local range. You know, don't just shoot off
Speaker 1: the bench. Shoot on the ground from your pack, shoot kneeling,
Speaker 1: shoot without arrests. Shoot different ways to practice and understand
Speaker 1: and build those skills that will help you later on.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the third item that I've outlined as
Speaker 1: a persistence aid, and that's comfort. Now it's comfort and
Speaker 1: not oh, I'm comfortable in my couch at home, everything's great.
Speaker 1: It's not saying that there isn't some form of discomfort,
Speaker 1: because I've found that a lot of my well, if
Speaker 1: I'm if we're going to talk about back country hunting,
Speaker 1: a lot of backcountry hunting success comes in the form
Speaker 1: of being comfortable, being uncomfortable, but there are a few
Speaker 1: things that I do to make sure that certain things
Speaker 1: don't hinder me. You know, we'll bring it back again
Speaker 1: to persistence or just like a continued course of action,
Speaker 1: no matter the difficulty or opposition. But think about sticking
Speaker 1: it to murphy as well. And that's where this comfort
Speaker 1: thing comes in. What are things that really make it
Speaker 1: difficult to continue your course of action that you can prevent.
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things is foot care.
Speaker 1: You know, if if you go out with a brand
Speaker 1: new pair of boots into the mountains and get blisters,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to do what's necessary to be successful.
Speaker 1: If you've hunted enough and you've done that, you've probably
Speaker 1: run into this where you start getting blisters, your feet
Speaker 1: start hurting, You see an animal a long ways away
Speaker 1: that normally you would get to no problem, and now
Speaker 1: you're like, maybe we'll just go after it tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take an advantage of this opportunity because
Speaker 1: I've got something slowing me down, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: be stupid. If you go back to one of our
Speaker 1: earlier episodes, might even be like I would say in
Speaker 1: the first ten, I can't remember which one off the
Speaker 1: top of my head right now. We talked about foot
Speaker 1: care and there was a story of a guy that
Speaker 1: got gang green because you just ignored foot care. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about doing that. That's not Persistance is not
Speaker 1: just beating your head against the rock and being stupid.
Speaker 1: It's about taking the precautions as well so you can
Speaker 1: continue to hunt hard and take advantage of situations when
Speaker 1: you have them. Like I said earlier, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a matter of time. It's just taking advantage of the
Speaker 1: time that you do have and putting everything you have
Speaker 1: into that time. Now, if you only have a data
Speaker 1: hunt or whatever, you don't want to be hindering yourself
Speaker 1: by doing something stupid and not taking care of things
Speaker 1: that you can prevent from going wrong. So that's where
Speaker 1: this comfort idea comes in of you know, take care
Speaker 1: of your feet early and often have boots that fit
Speaker 1: and are well broken in. Even things like you know,
Speaker 1: getting good sleep and having the right fuel and food
Speaker 1: for your body. Uh. A few weeks ago, I guess
Speaker 1: maybe a month ago, we talked about back country food
Speaker 1: and back country food ideas, you know, picking the right
Speaker 1: foods to fuel your body so you have that extra
Speaker 1: bit of energy so you can physically go further and
Speaker 1: stronger and hunt longer. A lot of it just has
Speaker 1: to do with getting yourself what you need to go
Speaker 1: out and hunt, how you to hunt now, to take
Speaker 1: even comfort a little bit further. There's there's been hunts
Speaker 1: where you know, if you don't sleep good. I know
Speaker 1: my dad. I used to make fun of him for
Speaker 1: packing in one of those just like inflatable pillow, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's a blow up pillow, and well that helped
Speaker 1: him sleep better, so then he had more energy to
Speaker 1: get up and hunt hard every day. So a few
Speaker 1: ounces that he's sacrificing of carrying this pillow when I
Speaker 1: was always like, oh, just sleep on a rock. It's
Speaker 1: and not a big deal. You know, those little things
Speaker 1: that help you. Yeah, great, bring him think about that
Speaker 1: comfort level of I'm not saying go overboard. You also
Speaker 1: have to understand that you've got to be comfortable being uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that is is going to come
Speaker 1: into our fourth and probably most important aspect, the mental game.
Speaker 1: But there are things that you can do to increase
Speaker 1: your comfort where you have that extra energy level where
Speaker 1: it gives you a positive mental attitude. Where you can
Speaker 1: keep going out and hunting harder for a prolonged period
Speaker 1: of time. I can even think of. There's a sheep
Speaker 1: hunt that I went on a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: A friend had a tag, and it wasn't a back
Speaker 1: country hunt, so I wasn't necessarily too worried about weight.
Speaker 1: And I carry a lot of weight anyways with all
Speaker 1: my camera gear for the solo hunting and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I threw in this collapsible chair almost there's a
Speaker 1: back country chair. I thought like, this is in a
Speaker 1: glassing intensive hunt. It's like a lot of cactus and
Speaker 1: sharp rock and other things. And if I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: be glassing for the majority of the day, I hiked
Speaker 1: my way up to this glassing knob, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: sitting there. This is backpacking chair. I wish I remember
Speaker 1: the type of it, but it's just like almost like
Speaker 1: tent poles that come out and then you just made
Speaker 1: this chair out of it. And it was one of
Speaker 1: the best tools that I brought because I was able
Speaker 1: to glass more persistently. I was able to just sit
Speaker 1: there comfortably and focus on the task at hand, as
Speaker 1: opposed to, you know, all my back starting to hurt,
Speaker 1: so I get up and move around and not really
Speaker 1: pay attention, and then she started to get uncomfortable when
Speaker 1: you start to think of other things. But I could
Speaker 1: just sit there, have my bonos on the tripod glass
Speaker 1: and I turned out to be the one that spotted
Speaker 1: the rams that we ended up harvesting, which was ended
Speaker 1: up being a Boone and Crockett rams. So to have
Speaker 1: that comfort and just that little extra sacrifice there something
Speaker 1: like a persistence aid, something that helps me be more persistent.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the fourth thing. The fourth thing would
Speaker 1: be the mental aspect. Now it's hard to talk about
Speaker 1: persistence without also understanding patients. Hunting is one of those
Speaker 1: things that I feel like it gives me a lot
Speaker 1: of life lessons outside of hunting, But patients is a
Speaker 1: thing that I constantly work on. But I do believe
Speaker 1: that I am very patient because you can't be persistent
Speaker 1: and not patient, And patients is just that ability to
Speaker 1: kind of tolerate trouble and suffering without getting upset. As
Speaker 1: soon as you start to get upset at the challenge
Speaker 1: and the way things are going, that's when you put
Speaker 1: yourself in a bad positive mental state. And when that happens.
Speaker 1: It's hard to be persistent. I've seen so many hunts
Speaker 1: be foiled by people's mental attitudes. That earlier example of
Speaker 1: the fit guy and the unfit guy, and the unfit
Speaker 1: guy just out hunting the fit guy was all down
Speaker 1: to a mental attitude. Essentially, it was that ability of
Speaker 1: something didn't go right, it was a little bit harder
Speaker 1: than expected, and so instead of continuing on, it was
Speaker 1: more of an attitude of giving up. Whether you're hunting
Speaker 1: the back country, whether you're hunting out of a motel
Speaker 1: near whatever, it doesn't matter. Things go wrong, and in
Speaker 1: nearly every hunt that's just part of it. But the
Speaker 1: successful hunters, the guys that I look up to and say,
Speaker 1: this guy is a really good hunter, what sets them
Speaker 1: apart is their ability to take the situation, flip it around,
Speaker 1: and keep going. You know, yeah, you know, a stock
Speaker 1: got blown on the last day, But instead of sulking
Speaker 1: and slowing down and getting lazy, they're the type of
Speaker 1: person that just says, now, that's all part of it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push forward, I'm gonna keep hunting, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it happen. I think one of my best attributes
Speaker 1: in the field is my mindset when I go into
Speaker 1: every hunt, and this mindset is just an embracing mindset.
Speaker 1: I I've got this because I've done a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of my hunting. My personal hunting has been
Speaker 1: like very tough solo hunts in what I would consider
Speaker 1: tough units, hard hunts. Like I have this weird love
Speaker 1: for very difficult hunts, and I think that that can
Speaker 1: translate well to every type of hunt, whether it's a
Speaker 1: three day mule your hunt close to a road system,
Speaker 1: or whether it's a grueling two week back country alpine
Speaker 1: hunt for say elker deer in an area that has
Speaker 1: very few animals. My embrace it mentalities when I go
Speaker 1: into every hunt, every journey, every adventure, I kind of
Speaker 1: take this idea of I'm just gonna embrace the suck,
Speaker 1: like that's the part of the story that I will tell.
Speaker 1: That's the part of the adventure that kind of keeps
Speaker 1: me coming back. So when these things go wrong, when
Speaker 1: I when I do a stock on a giant deer
Speaker 1: and the wind shifts and I blow it, that's part
Speaker 1: of the story. Like embracing that part of the story
Speaker 1: helps me keep a really positive mental attitude keeping that
Speaker 1: positive attitude honestly keeps me more focused at the task
Speaker 1: at hand and pushing forward and continuing to hunt hard.
Speaker 1: I have personally been on hunts where things go wrong,
Speaker 1: like I I can remember quite a few hunts where
Speaker 1: I'm out there by myself. Um, like remember this Nevada
Speaker 1: melder hunt in particular. I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 1: so frustrated. You know, I was just hunting after one buck.
Speaker 1: Things kept going wrong, people would blow the stock. I
Speaker 1: went into a different area, and then you stalk the
Speaker 1: deer missed, and it's just like everything was pissing me off.
Speaker 1: And it was this attitude of I just started then
Speaker 1: it was like hot, it was bad conditions, and I
Speaker 1: just got this bad attitude. And I noticed that because
Speaker 1: of that attitude, I was sitting there hunting and I
Speaker 1: wasn't hunting how I normally hunt. I wasn't focused. I
Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't. I would see something way away and like, oh,
Speaker 1: why would I go over there? That's not going to
Speaker 1: even happen anyways, that's a really and normally I would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a good opportunity. Yeah, it's gonna cost me a
Speaker 1: lot of physical exertion, but you know what, let's go
Speaker 1: for it. Let's see if I can make that happen.
Speaker 1: So instead of taking that attitude, I was taking the opposite,
Speaker 1: and it just became more unsuccessful, more unsuccessful, and at
Speaker 1: the end of that hunt, I felt beat up. And
Speaker 1: that was just a really good eye opener of keeping
Speaker 1: that embrace it mentality that embraced the suck and just
Speaker 1: really taking each and every opportunity, whether it's good or bad,
Speaker 1: as a learning experience to push forward and to keep
Speaker 1: persevering until I'm successful. I really hope that this episode
Speaker 1: was helpful because I honestly believe that perseverance makes the
Speaker 1: best hunters, and and it's one of those things mental toughness,
Speaker 1: just being physically prepared and just being prepared in the
Speaker 1: off season to take the best advantage of the opportunities
Speaker 1: you're given. Doesn't necessarily get talked about as often as
Speaker 1: it should. I think some of the best hunters I
Speaker 1: know are mentally tough, They're persistent, and they really understand
Speaker 1: what it means to just keep after it. I think
Speaker 1: if you can latch onto that. While it might seem
Speaker 1: as more of a motivational speech than hunting tactics maybe,
Speaker 1: but it is, in my opinion, one of the best
Speaker 1: tactics you can have in your toolbox. So as we're
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people just like some of
Speaker 1: these lockdowns of shutdown hunting seasons, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: one of those things. Here's a good time if you're
Speaker 1: gonna are gonna practice mental toughness. Um A, pandemics are
Speaker 1: great time to do it, you know, as as seasons
Speaker 1: come start getting shut down, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of things that have affected everybody's lives.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people that are affected
Speaker 1: right now. You know, practice some of that mental toughness,
Speaker 1: practice on the positive ways to look at it, tough situations,
Speaker 1: if you can do it in any way, you know,
Speaker 1: just practice it in daily life as well. And I
Speaker 1: know right now, you know, some a season that I
Speaker 1: was planning on going and hunting has been temporarily suspended,
Speaker 1: and you start doing like, oh my gosh, this is
Speaker 1: ever gonna end. Yes, it's gonna end. We'll we'll get
Speaker 1: through it. So good time to just practice that mental
Speaker 1: toughness from home. But also I'll answer quick question here.
Speaker 1: I know some I did tuck a little. I was
Speaker 1: a little long winded today, but I think people have
Speaker 1: got more time now anyways, So I think it's fine
Speaker 1: this question says, and I, to be honest, I got
Speaker 1: I don't even know, probably a dozen questions similar to
Speaker 1: this vein recently, so I figured might as well talk
Speaker 1: about this, and it goes great into mental toughness. So, hey, Remy,
Speaker 1: I was wondering if there are any tricks you use
Speaker 1: on solo hunts when your mind starts wandering at night.
Speaker 1: It seems like I keep thinking something is out there
Speaker 1: to get me. Do you ever get scared when you're
Speaker 1: out alone in the wild? This And they go on
Speaker 1: and say that they've kind of started doing some of
Speaker 1: their own solo hunting and they've been successful, but they
Speaker 1: also struggle sometimes with the mental aspect of it. CADE
Speaker 1: from Michigan, So yeah, thanks for that question. I think
Speaker 1: that's a great question. And you know, I've been I've
Speaker 1: been hunting solo so long. I think some of these
Speaker 1: things that I started out doing I don't necessarily do anymore.
Speaker 1: But there are those times where I've been in in
Speaker 1: weird places or had hard days or tough situations. And yeah,
Speaker 1: your mind starts wandering at night. I did uh solo
Speaker 1: trip in Africa, and I could hear just crazy animals
Speaker 1: roaring and making noise around my tent, my camp, and
Speaker 1: I just I know a few specific times that I've
Speaker 1: felt uncomfortable at night, and I think, one, there's a
Speaker 1: few tricks that I do have that I have done
Speaker 1: and still continue to do this day to help comfort myself.
Speaker 1: It's all part of keeping that positive mental attitude and
Speaker 1: just staying comfortable and staying focused. You know, if you
Speaker 1: start to get lonely or you start to get scared,
Speaker 1: it can be scary. So I mean there's been plenty
Speaker 1: of times where I've been completely scared by myself, times
Speaker 1: where I thought I was almost gonna die. And those
Speaker 1: are just some of those things that I've I've got
Speaker 1: through and say, Okay, I can push through this. And
Speaker 1: I man, I've got so many stories. I could go
Speaker 1: down a million rabbit trails on this, but a few
Speaker 1: specific tricks that I use. One, if it's safe and legal,
Speaker 1: start a fire at night. A fire is just there's
Speaker 1: this there's this thing between man and fire, and it
Speaker 1: is a very comforting factor. It is something that When
Speaker 1: you stare into that flame, you feel safe, you feel calm.
Speaker 1: It kind of has this allure of scaring everything else away.
Speaker 1: Whether it's mental or actually does I'm not percent sure,
Speaker 1: but there have been times where I've been on the
Speaker 1: mountain just like getting in my own head and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I start a little fire and it's just calming. I
Speaker 1: watched the fire. Then I go to sleep, and it's
Speaker 1: a great it's a great tool. You know, obviously use
Speaker 1: it with safety, but that's one thing. There's other times.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done some really long solo trips and
Speaker 1: I used to have like I'm not even good with harmonica,
Speaker 1: but like a harmonica or sing yourself some kind of
Speaker 1: song that you like, or maybe you have enough battery
Speaker 1: juice whatever, listen to some music like those are great
Speaker 1: ways to just take your mind off what's going on, um,
Speaker 1: relax a little bit and enjoy the experience. And then again,
Speaker 1: you know, just embrace it. Like the part of being alone.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you do get lonely. And if you've got some
Speaker 1: kind of satellite messengers whatever, those are great for safety,
Speaker 1: and it's great to just throw out a message every
Speaker 1: once and I will say you know, talk to you know,
Speaker 1: someone close. You'd be like, oh man, I'm having a
Speaker 1: tough day. Whatever, this is what's and have some encourage
Speaker 1: people that can send you some encouragement too. That's always great.
Speaker 1: I know there's been a few hunts that I've been
Speaker 1: on where I've just like literally felt like I gave
Speaker 1: it my all and just defeated. And I texted my
Speaker 1: brother via Garment in Reach and he's like, dude, you've
Speaker 1: been on You've done way crazier stuff than this, like
Speaker 1: get after it. And You're like, heck, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: all right, let's do this. So those are all things
Speaker 1: that I've used in those in those scenarios where just
Speaker 1: things that aren't going right or you just getting your
Speaker 1: own head. Great stuff to think about. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I am excited for for next week. I had a
Speaker 1: list of topics that I want to talk about and
Speaker 1: then it just popped in my head today and I thought,
Speaker 1: this is as timely as it gets. Next week, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about my full proof anti tick procedures because
Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be going off turkey hunting,
Speaker 1: bear hunting as soon as these restrictions get lifted and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be out in the field springtime. Ticks are dangerous, man.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about the tactics that I used
Speaker 1: to keep ticks at bay and they work really well
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to share that. So I think you'll
Speaker 1: enjoy that. And then if you've got any suggestions or
Speaker 1: questions or comments, you can email me Remy at the
Speaker 1: mediator dot com or Instagram at Remy Warren. I'm on there.
Speaker 1: I'm answering as many questions as I can. I'm also
Speaker 1: doing a lot of live events via social media, so
Speaker 1: if you jump on there you can you can catch
Speaker 1: me live and answer ask questions there. If you listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast, I really appreciate it. I appreciate all
Speaker 1: the support you guys have given me, the comments, the following,
Speaker 1: the subscriptions, all of it. I appreciate it. And so
Speaker 1: I want to continue making everyone better, whether it's through
Speaker 1: this podcast or everywhere else. So feel free to reach
Speaker 1: out and we'll catch you guys later. Until next time,
Speaker 1: stay persistent.