Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back everybody to the
Speaker 1: Cutting the Distance Podcast. This is our first full podcast
Speaker 1: of the last one just eked in their last day.
Speaker 1: So this is our first podcast, and I figured what
Speaker 1: a better way to start it off than to head
Speaker 1: to the mail sack and answer your questions. I figure
Speaker 1: I like to make this podcast as much about the
Speaker 1: things you want to learn and to make everybody better.
Speaker 1: So I gather up all the questions, a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Some are very similar in nature, so I try to
Speaker 1: answer those ones first. Where I'm at today, I'm in
Speaker 1: my little podcasting cabin and the weather is just hillacious
Speaker 1: outside it is windy raining sideways. Um So if you
Speaker 1: hear a a light wind whistle or heavy driving rain,
Speaker 1: those are not sound effects. Those are real. But I'm
Speaker 1: not actually sure that it will translate through this microphone
Speaker 1: or not. But if those come through, it's not Your
Speaker 1: car isn't making sounds or they weren't added in, or
Speaker 1: maybe we should just add in some storm sound effects
Speaker 1: and you can get the whole male sack Room Cabin
Speaker 1: podcast vibe. But anyways, we're gonna start off here. The
Speaker 1: first podcast question comes from Cody. He says, hey, man,
Speaker 1: hoping you could cover locating, developing, planning for water, etcetera.
Speaker 1: On cutting the distance for instance, anyways, you've used to
Speaker 1: find water sources in Nevada, Arizona, where every drainage doesn't
Speaker 1: have a creek and some water holes are frequented by cattle.
Speaker 1: Plenty of hunters are hitting late season our train Arizona
Speaker 1: right now. Of course it's winter and there's some precipitation
Speaker 1: to help. I'm heading down in genuine wary to have
Speaker 1: to some where he's never been before. Using on X,
Speaker 1: Google Earth, etcetera. Looks pretty sparse when it comes to water,
Speaker 1: so she's trying to plan on not carrying much and
Speaker 1: spike camp location, etcetera. That's a great question. And this
Speaker 1: is why I love asking questions, because I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions this month about finding water sources in
Speaker 1: arid areas and it's not even something that maybe I
Speaker 1: would think about, but It's something that I encounter all
Speaker 1: the time. And it's a great question because if you're
Speaker 1: planning on spiking in or camping out, you need water.
Speaker 1: You need lots of water generally in those hotter areas
Speaker 1: to hunt well, to survive. And the animals, it depends
Speaker 1: on the type of animal or where you're at as well.
Speaker 1: Some areas and like the far South, where they have
Speaker 1: succulent plants like cactuses and other things, a lot of
Speaker 1: animals will get their water from the plants that are around,
Speaker 1: and they might not actually need to visit physical water
Speaker 1: sources as often as you might think. But us humans
Speaker 1: that are walking around, sweating and hiking and hunting hard,
Speaker 1: we need that. So how do you go about locating
Speaker 1: water sources? It can be very difficult. You can't always
Speaker 1: rely on, like he says, the map that shows a
Speaker 1: water source. One thing that I look for, Springs are
Speaker 1: generally a good thing to look for as far as
Speaker 1: something that might have water more year round. So I
Speaker 1: look at my map, I I locate springs that are
Speaker 1: located on the map. That's a good place to start.
Speaker 1: Other things to look for in area areas tanks, if
Speaker 1: there's cattle around, it's a man made water catchment system.
Speaker 1: And then creek areas, So there might be a drainage
Speaker 1: or an aurora or wash or whatever that shows a creek.
Speaker 1: Now to decipher whether that's going to have water the
Speaker 1: time of you're you're they're not. Really just depends on
Speaker 1: understanding how the kind of precipitation in areas received over
Speaker 1: the year. If they're in a drought, use very likely
Speaker 1: that some of those water sources will go underground. Really
Speaker 1: it sucks to say, but the only option is going
Speaker 1: to be to carry your water. Um. I've done that
Speaker 1: many times on many trips in many places. Uh. There's
Speaker 1: a place that I hunted for years in central Nevada,
Speaker 1: and when it's dry there's springs marked up high, so
Speaker 1: I hunted around ten thousand feet. Yet what happens is
Speaker 1: the springs sometimes will go underground in those higher locations
Speaker 1: till they pop out at a lower elevation. So down
Speaker 1: at eight thousand feet, waters running fine out of the
Speaker 1: same creek. Follow that creek up all the way to
Speaker 1: the head and there's no water. You get up there
Speaker 1: and you go, crap, there's no water up here. It's
Speaker 1: a two thousand vertical foot drop or more to get
Speaker 1: water every day, and it can be very physically strenuous
Speaker 1: and um and just kind of suck. You know, by
Speaker 1: the time you go down and get water, you hike
Speaker 1: back up and you've used your water. What I do
Speaker 1: is I plan on innerait areas, just adding extra water
Speaker 1: weight and carrying my water if there's I know there's
Speaker 1: an area that I'm going to be hunting. Um, what
Speaker 1: I like to do as well as I the first
Speaker 1: time in, I carry enough water to make sure that
Speaker 1: I've got two or three days where I can kind
Speaker 1: of scout it out and figure it out, maybe go
Speaker 1: back get some more water, and then pack water in
Speaker 1: if I'm going to be there a long time and
Speaker 1: find out that it's a good area. But what I
Speaker 1: like to do is all my maps locate first potential
Speaker 1: water sources and then I plan my route hiking in
Speaker 1: on ways that's like, Okay, I can scout out water
Speaker 1: while hunting, because in many places that don't have succulents
Speaker 1: or the animals might not get enough water from the
Speaker 1: food sources, They're gonna have to find water somewhere. They're
Speaker 1: getting it somewhere, So you know, what I like to
Speaker 1: do is I will follow a creek up and then
Speaker 1: potentially maybe along the way where it goes to other
Speaker 1: springs or things. So I look for that, and then
Speaker 1: I mark every water source that I find. So as
Speaker 1: I'm working my way into an area, I'll follow a
Speaker 1: creek bed. What you'll find is I look for low
Speaker 1: elevations in the creek, or maybe some dugout pockets other things.
Speaker 1: What you might notice is it will be dry, and
Speaker 1: then there'll be a little water puddle that's remained, and
Speaker 1: then keep going and it's dry or whatever. You will
Speaker 1: definitely want to have some form of water filtration in
Speaker 1: stagnant water in those kind of areas can be pretty poor,
Speaker 1: pretty bad quality, so you definitely want to have some
Speaker 1: kind of water filtration. I often use a UV filter
Speaker 1: to purify my water, but if I'm going in an
Speaker 1: area where i know I'm mostly going to run into
Speaker 1: stagnant water, I prefer the pump type filter because it
Speaker 1: just cleans out some of the sediments that muddy water.
Speaker 1: There's like bugs and weird stuff in it. It just
Speaker 1: looks gross. You can do that, and then you can
Speaker 1: also even add in some podible awk or or some
Speaker 1: iodine after that, just as is kind of a double filtration.
Speaker 1: So you've got filtration and purification. I kind of covered
Speaker 1: those two things in an earlier podcast. But what I'll
Speaker 1: do is I'll just recap. So filtration just means you're
Speaker 1: like filtering out sediments and other things. For the most part,
Speaker 1: you're taking out the stuff that's harmful. Purification purifies the
Speaker 1: water and essentially kills those smaller microbes. I prefer a purification,
Speaker 1: but sometimes if you've got really bad water, I'll do both.
Speaker 1: All I'll filter and then I'll purify with the UV filter.
Speaker 1: So it's a little bit extra weight to carry, but
Speaker 1: those are some options you have, especially if you're using
Speaker 1: things like cattle tanks and stagnant water pools and just
Speaker 1: weird stuff like that. Now UM packing in extra water,
Speaker 1: I like to use those collapsible dromedary type I guess
Speaker 1: like water. I don't even know whether they'd be like
Speaker 1: water bottles. It's just like a collapsible plastic water bottle.
Speaker 1: UM try to get the b p A free ones
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be sitting out in the sun and whatever,
Speaker 1: and the water starts to taste weird in some of those.
Speaker 1: If you don't get the right ones I've had. I've
Speaker 1: used the non b p A ones and you just
Speaker 1: get like that plastic e taste and it's really not
Speaker 1: healthy for you. So um, bring extra water, carry it up.
Speaker 1: It's a slog, but hey, you're getting into an area
Speaker 1: where maybe other people have avoided. As long as there's
Speaker 1: game animals there, you should find yourself in a good situation.
Speaker 1: Next question comes from Tony. He says, Hey, my brother
Speaker 1: recently turned me onto your podcast, and I just want
Speaker 1: to say thanks. I've been hunting for in years and
Speaker 1: I've only caught a glimpse of one buck. I've listened
Speaker 1: to each episode multiple times. I wish I could give
Speaker 1: it more than five stars. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take everything I've learned from your podcast
Speaker 1: and put it to work in the field this coming season.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for more Cutting the Distance episodes. I guess
Speaker 1: that was more of a testimonial than a question, but
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate all the I get a
Speaker 1: ton of great feedback like that, and I just thank
Speaker 1: you guys for sending that in. I say it every
Speaker 1: episode because it's it's true. I really do appreciate the
Speaker 1: questions and the time you guys take to send that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff to me. Now this question comes from
Speaker 1: Matthew says, I'm new to your podcast and just listen
Speaker 1: to episode number thirteen. I appreciate a lot of your
Speaker 1: ideas and planned to play with them on the range.
Speaker 1: For the last decade or so, I've carried around the
Speaker 1: longest bipod Harrison makes. It's heavy but worth it, and
Speaker 1: I have also worked with my daughter to shoot off
Speaker 1: of it. The day after Christmas, we got close to
Speaker 1: some cow elk. It was late season so lower elevation
Speaker 1: stage flat age is about waist high, so we opted
Speaker 1: for her to shoot seated with the bipod fully extended.
Speaker 1: She had a hard time getting steady. Luckily the cows
Speaker 1: were betted so she had time. Ultimately she made the
Speaker 1: shot three enter in sixty yards. He actually attached the photo.
Speaker 1: Awesome work, and he said, any other ideas on how
Speaker 1: to make that set up more stable for her and
Speaker 1: or me. That's a great question, and that's the plus
Speaker 1: and minus of having a bipod. Bipod can be super
Speaker 1: steady when you're laying down or seated, but if you
Speaker 1: need to get a little bit higher, it kind of
Speaker 1: hits its limitations. Now for those aren't familiar, Harris bipod
Speaker 1: is essentially one that's permanently not permanently, but it hooks
Speaker 1: into the sling stud of your rifle. It's kind of
Speaker 1: spring loaded in a way. Um, it folds down and
Speaker 1: then it's got two legs that come out. If I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, the longest version as H has essentially three
Speaker 1: segments where it the bottom part comes out in like increments.
Speaker 1: Then it's got kind of a dial one that kind
Speaker 1: of shoots back up into it, and so it's extends
Speaker 1: out what I would consider sitting. Um. For those hunts
Speaker 1: where you might have to be seated or a little
Speaker 1: bit higher. You know, the bipod has its limitations, especially
Speaker 1: if you're talking waste high stage. What I prefer in
Speaker 1: those would be a more of a shooting stick. Um,
Speaker 1: So that would be I generally just use my trekking poles,
Speaker 1: crossing the two straps together and making a pretty solid
Speaker 1: rest out of that. Then you can be fully seated,
Speaker 1: or you could go up to kneeling if you had to.
Speaker 1: I think the best way to get stable quick would
Speaker 1: be to also brace the back end or the butt
Speaker 1: end of the rifle, and I do that mostly with
Speaker 1: my pack. So I arrange my pack in with such
Speaker 1: a way that the front end can be rested on
Speaker 1: the stick in either my elbow or even um the
Speaker 1: butt of the rifle could be rested on the pack,
Speaker 1: So I've got multiple points of contact that way, and
Speaker 1: it's easy. One way that you can think about doing
Speaker 1: it is sitting down, throwing your pack around ound the
Speaker 1: front of you, like in your lap, setting the rifle
Speaker 1: on that, and then steadying it so you're kind of
Speaker 1: like hugging the rifle, like wearing the pack backwards and
Speaker 1: then firming it up in both the shooting stick and
Speaker 1: the pack. I see a lot of people try to
Speaker 1: use the bipod in a way where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: they gotta get higher up. It's a little too ye,
Speaker 1: so they set the bipod on the pack so that
Speaker 1: like the legs of a bipod would be on the backpack.
Speaker 1: It's really not that stable, and I can see it
Speaker 1: like taking a little bit longer to get steady. So
Speaker 1: having uh more of a shooting stick or using chekking
Speaker 1: pulls or something as those cross style shooting sticks. It's
Speaker 1: lightweight on something like that where you might encounter those
Speaker 1: kind of situations. It doesn't hurt to have both, especially
Speaker 1: if there's two people. One person is carrying the gun
Speaker 1: with the bipod on it for laying down shots or
Speaker 1: maybe more sitting shots, and then you've got those collapsible
Speaker 1: shooting sticks for maybe a little bit higher type shot. Um.
Speaker 1: It never hurts to have something to shoot off of
Speaker 1: to get steady, because a steady shot is a good shot,
Speaker 1: so having you know, multiple options might just make it
Speaker 1: a little bit easier. The reason that those those cross
Speaker 1: type sticks are good is because it's easier to move.
Speaker 1: So I just used I put one hand so if
Speaker 1: I'm shooting right hand in my right hands, you know,
Speaker 1: would be on the trigger and holding the rifle in
Speaker 1: my left hand. I put on one leg of the stick,
Speaker 1: so I lifted up and moved the legs closer to
Speaker 1: go higher, and lift it up and move it out
Speaker 1: to go lower. It's really fast, it's really efficient, and
Speaker 1: it helps you get on target quickly, So that might
Speaker 1: be something to think about next time. Next question comes
Speaker 1: from c J. He says, hey, big fan of years,
Speaker 1: I'm new hunter, and to be honest, not sure where
Speaker 1: to start. I just bought a Winchester SX four and
Speaker 1: was looking into the rifle game. He was looking for
Speaker 1: a three o eight weather be or Winchester, but he's
Speaker 1: been reading a lot about the six point five cream
Speaker 1: More and a two seventy. He says, I'd like to
Speaker 1: hunt deer and would like to have option to do
Speaker 1: bigger game in the future. I'm not sure percent where
Speaker 1: to go. Do you have any recommendations. I hope you
Speaker 1: have a great holiday and a happy new Year. I
Speaker 1: love being able to follow you and your wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 1: Hope to meet you some day. Cheers. Thanks c J.
Speaker 1: So honestly, you know, there's probably some more in here
Speaker 1: that I will answer. But questions about rifles calibers, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's got to be one of the number one questions
Speaker 1: that I've been getting recently, and and it's a great
Speaker 1: question because there's so much information out there, there's so
Speaker 1: many options. Everybody's got their own favorites, their own ideas.
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you're starting out, I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. My favorite all around caliber is a
Speaker 1: three D short mag because I think it's very versatile.
Speaker 1: I hunt a lot of larger game like elk. Um.
Speaker 1: You can go up to moose with it, bis and whatever, um,
Speaker 1: but you can also kind of hunt down with it
Speaker 1: white tails, mule deer. Some people think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit over kill for deer, but um, no kill like
Speaker 1: over killed, I guess h Now, I will say there's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people really jumping on
Speaker 1: the six five train, the six five cream More or
Speaker 1: six five PRC, And I've recently this this whole season,
Speaker 1: I essentially hunted with a six five cream More. I
Speaker 1: hunted deer tails, a cow elk this year with a
Speaker 1: six five crea More and with the right shot placement
Speaker 1: in the right ammunition, it can definitely handle larger game.
Speaker 1: There has been thousands of elk that have been shot
Speaker 1: with the two seventy um, antelope, deer, everything, So in
Speaker 1: this particular instance, somebody knew getting into it, I would
Speaker 1: probably recommend one of these smaller calibers, or lighter calibers
Speaker 1: than the three short because one thing you definitely want
Speaker 1: don't want to get is a little bit too much
Speaker 1: recoil to manage. So even with these lighter what would
Speaker 1: I do in air quotes of your lighter caliber six
Speaker 1: five or two seventy UM. I I really highly recommend
Speaker 1: some form of muzzle brake, even though you know you've
Speaker 1: got your sound, it's gonna be louder, but it just
Speaker 1: kills the kick, let's you stay on target a little
Speaker 1: bit better and just makes you a better shot overall.
Speaker 1: UM six five cream More I've been very happy with.
Speaker 1: But you know, the two seventies just a great caliber
Speaker 1: as well. Six five is good because recently it's become very,
Speaker 1: very very popular, so you know that there's also always
Speaker 1: going to be AMMO for it. And I found even
Speaker 1: within this AMMO shortage, I can find six five hunting
Speaker 1: rounds because they're a little bit more expensive as far
Speaker 1: as just you know, some of the more high end
Speaker 1: six five rounds, which is good if you're kind of
Speaker 1: worried about not being able to pick up AMMO. But
Speaker 1: I think you know, in time that will kind of
Speaker 1: start to slow down, hopefully, you know. I've I've been
Speaker 1: enjoying the six five cream More So that's a great round.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that are stoked on it.
Speaker 1: I do not think it's the best caliber for every
Speaker 1: species of animal out there. It's not a long range
Speaker 1: elk gun in my opinion, it's a little light for
Speaker 1: shooting long range. But I shot a cow elk one
Speaker 1: shot stone dropped her at right around four hundred yards
Speaker 1: this year, and that I would say it would be
Speaker 1: the maximum that I'd want to shoot an elk with
Speaker 1: a six five um. But you know, it's perfect shot placement,
Speaker 1: it was steady, rest, everything was perfect and it worked
Speaker 1: out good. So I would say my recommendation just thrown
Speaker 1: out there. I think I go with the six five.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of cool. It's a good caliber. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are stoked on it right now,
Speaker 1: and you can just jump on that train and hopefully
Speaker 1: find some AMMO for it. Alright. This next question comes
Speaker 1: from Eric says, I've been using a crossbow for the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but I'm now looking to start
Speaker 1: actually bow hunting, mainly for white tails. I found a
Speaker 1: Browning timberwolf for sale, is in great shape, but was
Speaker 1: made any reason I should avoid this old bow as
Speaker 1: a starter. That's a good question, and I think there's
Speaker 1: probably a lot of people that fall into this category.
Speaker 1: And I actually have personal experience with the Browning Timberwolf
Speaker 1: because I shot that bow back in the day. Here's
Speaker 1: my thought on it. You should absolutely find a newer
Speaker 1: bow if you can, because not that there's anything wrong
Speaker 1: with that bow, but I remember shooting that bow, and
Speaker 1: what it is is the technology is advanced so much
Speaker 1: over the last I mean even the last twenty years,
Speaker 1: ten years, whatever, really just outperforms those older bows, and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna be able to quickly advance, shoot better groups.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be less string jumping. It actually throws the
Speaker 1: more modern carbon arrows, you know, like faster um with
Speaker 1: the newer bows, the whole setup is just going to
Speaker 1: be I would say, more accurate and better. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna be starting out it a lot better place than
Speaker 1: using an old bow from just because the technologies advanced
Speaker 1: so much. I remember, so I had the Browning Timberwolf,
Speaker 1: and then I really wanted to get a new bow,
Speaker 1: and and I upgraded to the mat was Matthews LX.
Speaker 1: This is in I guess two thousand to two thousand three.
Speaker 1: I could shoot my Browning fine, like out to thirty yards.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like that pie plate grouping you
Speaker 1: know at forty yards or whatever. So not saying that
Speaker 1: you'll end up needing to shoot that far. But my
Speaker 1: groups were mediocre best. I would say a three four
Speaker 1: inch group at twenty yards something like that. I got
Speaker 1: that newer Matthews bow, which was you know, new at
Speaker 1: the time, and my first two arrows out of that
Speaker 1: bow I robin Hood at twenty yards, So I shot
Speaker 1: the target aimed at the same place and my two
Speaker 1: arrows stuck in the back of each other. That's the
Speaker 1: difference in accuracy from a bow that was just made
Speaker 1: essentially ten years later, you know. And now you think
Speaker 1: about the type of technology and all the accessories and
Speaker 1: everything that's out there, you can definitely advance. I would
Speaker 1: say the cheapest bottom line entry level bow that you
Speaker 1: can get now would be light years ahead of that
Speaker 1: bow from So you might as well start out giving
Speaker 1: yourself just a little bit of an edge where the
Speaker 1: bow is that much more accurate that you're gonna personally
Speaker 1: progress faster, be more lethal, and make better shots than
Speaker 1: if you take an old boat. Now, the caveat to
Speaker 1: that is, I mean, I I've loved shooting traditional bows
Speaker 1: as well, and those are going to be as accurate
Speaker 1: as they are for you know, hundreds of thousands of years,
Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of thousands years, but for for a
Speaker 1: very very long time, traditional equipment really hasn't changed and
Speaker 1: you can still be a lethal, successful hunter with it.
Speaker 1: I was saying, if you're gonna get into just bow
Speaker 1: hunting with a compound bow, you might as well just
Speaker 1: start with even just the basic starter bow from any
Speaker 1: company manufacturer is probably gonna be a lot better than that. Now,
Speaker 1: the price might be a little bit more, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can find something at a good deal. Also,
Speaker 1: the bows today are a lot more quiet, so they
Speaker 1: don't animals don't tend to jump the string as much.
Speaker 1: She's just gonna be more successful and just make more
Speaker 1: ethical shots, I would say. Next question comes from Sharon's
Speaker 1: She's She says, I'm thinking about buying my husband a
Speaker 1: Soko S twenty he hunts ELK. I would appreciate your
Speaker 1: opinion on this gun. Also, does the suppressor significantly reduced
Speaker 1: the kickback of firing? Appreciate your time and thoughts. That's
Speaker 1: a great question. Um, yeah, I've I've shot the S
Speaker 1: twenty actually having S twenty. Uh So the S twenties
Speaker 1: kind of a modular system for the rifle. So what
Speaker 1: it is is you can kind of go from a
Speaker 1: bench rest rifle to then putting like a sport orized
Speaker 1: stock on that same action and um use it for
Speaker 1: hunting without really changing the impact site impact. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a really really great gun for guys that
Speaker 1: like to go between precision long range shooting and then
Speaker 1: hunting as well. So it's the guy that spends a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the summer shooting bench rest shooting,
Speaker 1: maybe even doing some long range shooting competitions or not
Speaker 1: necessarily like professionally, but just for fun. Um, that's a
Speaker 1: it's a great because it's so customizable. You can. Uh.
Speaker 1: The thing about precision shooting is everything needs to be
Speaker 1: the same your your head needs to be in the
Speaker 1: same place, So you want the same cheek, well, do
Speaker 1: you want the same grip on the rifle? Where you
Speaker 1: even place your thumb on the stock makes a big difference,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't realize that. So when
Speaker 1: you are able to take a gun that you can
Speaker 1: kind of customize to really your body, the angle that
Speaker 1: the butt plate goes in and everything. If you're really
Speaker 1: talking about shooting long range and being very accurate at
Speaker 1: the range for longer range shooting sake, having a bench
Speaker 1: rest style rifle is nice. They're heavier though, um they're
Speaker 1: heavy because they shoot well heavy, and they also help
Speaker 1: you kind of maintain your position and target. So when
Speaker 1: that gun fires off, the recoil comes back. If it's
Speaker 1: real light gun, the recoil might mess up how you're
Speaker 1: holding the rifle for that grouping, so it might be
Speaker 1: a little bit off. If you change things so less recoil,
Speaker 1: heavier rifle stays on target better. Is better? Now that
Speaker 1: guns cool because it's a little bit module. You can
Speaker 1: then kind of take that bench rest style set up,
Speaker 1: feel everything gun that you've been shooting a lot, and
Speaker 1: then put a more sportiorized hunting stock on it and
Speaker 1: go out. So yeah, I mean, it depends on what
Speaker 1: he likes to do, but it definitely is a cool gun.
Speaker 1: Now the suppressor. I got a lot of questions about suppressors.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of suppressor shooting um suppressor. Some
Speaker 1: people call them silencers and silencers. I've talked about them
Speaker 1: before on the podcast. But yes, it it severely reduces
Speaker 1: the recoil, it reduces the muzzle jump, and it also
Speaker 1: reduces the noise output, so it's just a smoother shooting.
Speaker 1: You're gonna shoot better because you don't have that muzzle jump.
Speaker 1: I like it because if I'm shooting by myself or hunting,
Speaker 1: I can stay on target. I can watch the impact
Speaker 1: of the bullet. There's been many times that I've shot
Speaker 1: my suppressed rifle and I've been zoomed in fairly well
Speaker 1: with the scope. The sun has been in my back
Speaker 1: and i can actually see the bullet like you see
Speaker 1: the impact. It's pretty cool to be able to just
Speaker 1: not blink, not lose your site picture, and just be
Speaker 1: able to shoot better that way. It really does make
Speaker 1: you shoot better. So there are some things you have
Speaker 1: to do to get the suppressor, but I would highly
Speaker 1: suggest that if you can for people looking into it.
Speaker 1: The next question says Rebby. I've been hunting my entire
Speaker 1: life and turned fifty eight this year. It never fails
Speaker 1: to amaze me where I still learned tricks and tips.
Speaker 1: Your podcast is a solid source for that for sure.
Speaker 1: I listened to the latest one on Getting Ready for
Speaker 1: One this morning. It was all pretty much a refresher
Speaker 1: for me, but as I started my training for next year,
Speaker 1: it sure was nice to re visit the basics. Thanks
Speaker 1: for doing what you do, and lifelong hunters arelike, oh,
Speaker 1: and don't get eaten, Russ. Thanks, thanks for us. I
Speaker 1: will try not to get eaten. And I appreciate that anytime,
Speaker 1: you know, even myself included. One of the things that
Speaker 1: I really enjoy is just seeing how people took some
Speaker 1: of these tactics or kind of refreshed to them on
Speaker 1: getting serious about certain things. Um. One thing that I
Speaker 1: also really enjoys kind of seeing ways that people took
Speaker 1: a tactic and then how it applied to a certain
Speaker 1: situation and then something that might be a little bit
Speaker 1: different because I constantly learned. I mean I was, uh.
Speaker 1: This year, my wife went on her first archery hunt,
Speaker 1: and you know, just watching her go through the process
Speaker 1: really made me remember some of the things that I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about, like Okay, this is something or
Speaker 1: made explain some of the things that I do, and
Speaker 1: I go, wow, that's actually something that I do and
Speaker 1: I don't even think about doing. Um, she hunted twelve days.
Speaker 1: She's four months pregnant, hunted twelve straight days, including Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: and so I'm like, man, she really understands now. The
Speaker 1: perseverance that goes into bow hunting, and that's something that
Speaker 1: I don't really talk about enough. I think, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about the tactics and the other things,
Speaker 1: and and we forget that there's a lot of struggle
Speaker 1: in between success, especially when starting out. And then I
Speaker 1: struggled for a few more days and and you and
Speaker 1: I ended up not getting a buck. You know, I
Speaker 1: was mostly helping her, but I had a few days
Speaker 1: at the end there to chase there and and things
Speaker 1: didn't work out for me. But you know, really, when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, I thought to myself, one
Speaker 1: thing that I learned this year is just the perseverance
Speaker 1: of bow hunting and how important that is to success.
Speaker 1: I think we should actually make that a podcast here
Speaker 1: pretty soon. So um, thanks for that, Russ. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All right, this uh, this next question comes from Will.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, remy great podcast. All the professional advice
Speaker 1: you're giving out for free is awesome. I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like it's unfair that we get to learn so
Speaker 1: much without going through the failures to learn, But it
Speaker 1: just gets me closer to tagging out, so I'll keep listening.
Speaker 1: I had a quick question on boots for a five
Speaker 1: day September elk hunt in Colorado? Do you opt for
Speaker 1: leather boots, slash synthetic, lug out soul logger type boots,
Speaker 1: low profile out souls. Not really focusing on specific brand,
Speaker 1: just to help clarify, say maybe between Danner prong horns
Speaker 1: or Vital the powder horn. Um. Also, what would be
Speaker 1: the best all around boot if I want to go
Speaker 1: chase multiple species? And what do you look for in
Speaker 1: a good pair of boots? Thanks to keep up the
Speaker 1: great work, will. Okay, so that's a great question, and
Speaker 1: I got a lot a lot of boot questions. Um,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to say. You know, everybody says,
Speaker 1: well what boots should I get? For everything? And for
Speaker 1: me personally, I have a lot of different boots for
Speaker 1: a lot of different applications. And if you've got fifteen
Speaker 1: people in a room together, everybody has different preferences, different
Speaker 1: types of feet, different things that they like. I'll go
Speaker 1: over what I like and kind of how I think
Speaker 1: about boots. There's two schools of thought. One is boots
Speaker 1: need to protect your feet, they need to be durable,
Speaker 1: and they need to help you motor up the mountain,
Speaker 1: so that the object of boots is to make it
Speaker 1: comfortable doing something uncomfortable hiking in the mountains. Now, the
Speaker 1: most comfortable hiking in boots and durable and protecting boots
Speaker 1: are going to be heavy. So you've got this like
Speaker 1: ratio of weight and utility. Also, boots that are stiffer
Speaker 1: souls last longer, they're easier in big mountains, but they
Speaker 1: also aren't very quiet for certain stocking situations other things.
Speaker 1: So if I was going off of this, when you
Speaker 1: say five days September Elk hunt in Colorado, there's two extremes.
Speaker 1: So you've got the full leather six nine inch tall
Speaker 1: boot you know, goes halfway up your calf, and then
Speaker 1: you've got I would say, like the trail runner, it's
Speaker 1: more of a tennis shoe. Um, I've used both. I
Speaker 1: use both, and it just depends on the hunt. So
Speaker 1: early season, I tend to like a lightweight boot, anything
Speaker 1: that's lightweight, more of a trail runner type. I've got
Speaker 1: some under arming boots that I use that are real lightweight,
Speaker 1: and I mean I've used solemn trail runners anything. Now,
Speaker 1: the trouble with that is they aren't super waterproof. The
Speaker 1: traction is pretty poor, but they're light and you can
Speaker 1: go fast and be more sneaky. I read it before
Speaker 1: a study. It's like a pound on your foot is
Speaker 1: like eight pounds on your back, So you want to
Speaker 1: take that into consideration how far you're going and other things. Now,
Speaker 1: my standard preference for most hunting that's um later season,
Speaker 1: mid season whatever. I prefer a taller, full leather boot
Speaker 1: with a semi stiff soul. So if I guess, um,
Speaker 1: some souls are rated on numbers, it's like one through five,
Speaker 1: and I like a number three. Um, so five would
Speaker 1: be just like pure mountaineering, super stiff, and why that
Speaker 1: would be good? That would be used for like sheep hunting, climbing,
Speaker 1: super steep rocks. We've gotta dig your toes in. You
Speaker 1: really aren't flexing your foot much. You don't want a
Speaker 1: lot of foot flex country where it's super rocky and hard.
Speaker 1: Actually having that stiff sole keeps your feet protected. It
Speaker 1: also kind of keeps your feet from getting what i'd
Speaker 1: call stone bruised or war out moving too much. And
Speaker 1: they've got good traction. I like somewhere in the middle
Speaker 1: where it flexes a little bit. Um, you've got a
Speaker 1: little bit more give, but it's also stiff enough where
Speaker 1: you can hit that mountain more alpine type terrain if
Speaker 1: you're going Colorado early season, but more aggressive backpack style hunting.
Speaker 1: The taller boots gonna be great for giving you a
Speaker 1: little bit added stability with weight. Also, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: good for climbing steep and rocks. I know that doesn't help,
Speaker 1: but those are the two options. Now, what you might
Speaker 1: want to do is just get a pair of trail
Speaker 1: runner type shoes. Those could be your I mean travel
Speaker 1: tennis shoes type thing, and if the terrain and country
Speaker 1: and whatever and the weather is going to be good,
Speaker 1: throw those on. If it's not, then throw the more
Speaker 1: leather type full boot on. And then there's like kind
Speaker 1: of like those mid boots to try to match both,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned here, maybe a dan or pronghorn. I
Speaker 1: used to use something similar long time ago. The trouble
Speaker 1: with those they don't necessarily like last a real long time,
Speaker 1: but they are lighter, so it's a really good kind
Speaker 1: of balance. You've got your mountaineering boot, you've got your
Speaker 1: trail runner, and then you've got something in between. The
Speaker 1: key is find something that really fits your foot. But
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of hunting and essentially a trail
Speaker 1: running tennis shoe, and I still do for most of
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's not super slippery, super snowy, or super steep.
Speaker 1: This question comes from Greg. He says Aramy, I'm just
Speaker 1: a white tail hunter from Iowa, but have been trying
Speaker 1: to make the stars aligned to get out west. Either
Speaker 1: meal there l hunting, preferably elk because I can only
Speaker 1: get three tags where I live. White tails aren't that
Speaker 1: much meat and I have a family of five. My
Speaker 1: question is I've tossed around the idea of using a
Speaker 1: new style hammock instead of a tent, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think I need to pack a sleeping pad, and it
Speaker 1: seems like I can buy a ham I at lighter
Speaker 1: weight for cheaper. Would love to hear your thoughts on
Speaker 1: the podcast or if you've tested any that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I have tested some um backcountry style hammocks. I don't
Speaker 1: like them, and he here's the reason you're talking l hunting.
Speaker 1: The weather can be very unpredictable. UM, it can be cold,
Speaker 1: and one of the main purposes of sleeping pad is
Speaker 1: insulation from the ground and the cold, but also comfort
Speaker 1: as well. Um, I personally didn't like the hammock because
Speaker 1: you just seem to freeze your rast is off in it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's August season, like real early season, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be great. When it's hot out and you
Speaker 1: know you're maybe in a drier climate. Perfect, but then
Speaker 1: in that case there's often not a lot of trees,
Speaker 1: but there you know, they're probably enough for a hammock. Um.
Speaker 1: They can be comfortable at first, but you can also
Speaker 1: without the right setup. Personally, my back kind of felt
Speaker 1: a little kinked with it. You know. Some other options
Speaker 1: lightweight would be like a more of a bivysack type thing.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the time of year that you're going.
Speaker 1: If you're going real early season, I wouldn't mind the
Speaker 1: hammock option. It's a great option. It's super lightweight, and
Speaker 1: then you could kind of throw a tarp in to
Speaker 1: kind of cover yourself up in case any rain does
Speaker 1: keep you up off the ground. And there are definitely
Speaker 1: some benefits to using it. I can see guys that
Speaker 1: maybe are really into it, especially early season, really enjoy them.
Speaker 1: I just find that many of the places that I
Speaker 1: hunt really aren't conducive to getting like the hammock set
Speaker 1: up right. You're you're limited on the types of places
Speaker 1: that you could use the hammock and the type of
Speaker 1: weather patterns and things. It's just a little too unpredictable
Speaker 1: for me. Whereas I know, if I've got a tent
Speaker 1: and a sleeping pad, I know that I can insulate
Speaker 1: myself from the cold air that comes up off the
Speaker 1: ground or would get underneath me. And then I also
Speaker 1: know that, you know, if I run into some weather
Speaker 1: and some other things, I can kind of hunker in
Speaker 1: and feel a little bit more protected from the elements.
Speaker 1: So that's my personal thought on those, not to necessarily
Speaker 1: discourage it. There is a time and a place that
Speaker 1: probably works really well for him, but me personally never
Speaker 1: found them useful as it sounded. This question comes from
Speaker 1: Jess says, Hey, remmy love your podcasts very informative. I'm
Speaker 1: slow to change, but let my friends talk me into
Speaker 1: a single pin adjustable site. It's really made me a
Speaker 1: better shooter for stationary targets, but mostly we hunt in
Speaker 1: Nebraska for turkeys, white tail, million antelope. Most a single
Speaker 1: pin is feasible, but like decoin goats, the rapid distance
Speaker 1: change is impossible to do just for on the fly.
Speaker 1: My son and I wanted to go l hunting and
Speaker 1: assumed it would be a similar situation. I thought maybe
Speaker 1: that would be an idea to talk about on your podcast.
Speaker 1: To young already, thanks for the info. Keep up the
Speaker 1: good work, Jess. That's a good question I do. I've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. Shoot essentially a single pin slider site.
Speaker 1: Mine has two pins on it, so you could here's
Speaker 1: my suggestion for it for rapidly moving things like you know,
Speaker 1: it might be anywhere from twenty yards to fifty yards.
Speaker 1: I actually the way that I set my pin up
Speaker 1: when I'm just I call walking, when I'm just walking
Speaker 1: around or when I'm getting into situations, as I set
Speaker 1: my pin for my bow speed, it's like thirty six
Speaker 1: yards um. And then what I've done is I've kind
Speaker 1: of on a target. So I've got a target and
Speaker 1: I just kind of make like a twelve inch circle
Speaker 1: and I shoot. There's you can probably do this with
Speaker 1: like some I actually know you could do this with
Speaker 1: like some formulas and some bullet like archery ballistic software
Speaker 1: type stuff. But I just do it just shooting out there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know you you've got your vital zone, and I
Speaker 1: know that essentially with my pin set there, With that
Speaker 1: one pin, I can shoot out to fifty five yards
Speaker 1: for me on a definitely on an olk sized target,
Speaker 1: or even sixty yards. I just know where to hold. Um.
Speaker 1: Some people do it where it's like they can put
Speaker 1: it on the animal and hit within the vitals so close.
Speaker 1: I just aim low like heart shot, and then further
Speaker 1: I aim center or high, So I aim high. One
Speaker 1: thing that I think people kind of forget about is
Speaker 1: shooting holdover. And the more you shoot hold over, the
Speaker 1: better you're gonna be. It just shooting. What that is
Speaker 1: is just knowing that if my pins set here thirty
Speaker 1: yards and then animals at fifty, I just know where
Speaker 1: to hold. Essentially, It's like for my setup, it's like
Speaker 1: high in the body and then I can shoot to
Speaker 1: sixty by just top of the back and that works
Speaker 1: really well. Like I know where it's set, I know
Speaker 1: how to shoot, and I know that where my arrow
Speaker 1: hits it all those ranges out to sixty yards without
Speaker 1: even adjusting my pin. You might be really surprised at
Speaker 1: how well your brain can adapt and adjust. And it's
Speaker 1: kind of more like shooting a traditional bow where you
Speaker 1: aren't worried about the range so much. It's just drawing back,
Speaker 1: getting settled and making a good shot and you're in
Speaker 1: the zone. So that's the way I set my bow up.
Speaker 1: It's just get out there and shoot it a bunch
Speaker 1: at different ranges. So set your pin at thirty yards,
Speaker 1: thirty three yard whatever. Just know where it's set, and
Speaker 1: then know where it hits at different yardages, and then
Speaker 1: kind of figure out how much the drop is. So
Speaker 1: if it's uh, four inches, fight whatever, No, And then
Speaker 1: now calculate that in to the size or vital zone
Speaker 1: of whatever you're hunting. So you know, dear, you got
Speaker 1: an eight inch vital zone, right, a little bigger, little
Speaker 1: smaller whatever, elk, maybe a twelve inch vital zone. I
Speaker 1: like to kind of keep it at the eight and twelve,
Speaker 1: just kind of tightened the groups up and then kind
Speaker 1: of nowhere on that body you're holding for those different distances,
Speaker 1: you should be able to shoot out to fifty yards
Speaker 1: without moving that pin. And that's good practice. And then
Speaker 1: if you've got the time, adjust the pin. Now where
Speaker 1: it's really difficult is if so you've got an elk
Speaker 1: out there at fifty and he's coming in. You set
Speaker 1: your pin to fifty, and now he's closer. Shooting lower
Speaker 1: is really hard I've had When I first started with
Speaker 1: a single pin, I made that mistake. Um So now
Speaker 1: what I always do is I underset my pin if
Speaker 1: something's moving my direction. So it's like if I see
Speaker 1: it actually happened to me on a Fallowed Heroes set up,
Speaker 1: I'm like, range him. He's like fifty yards. I sent
Speaker 1: my fifty yard pin, and he like is moving in,
Speaker 1: moving and moving in. I don't have time to adjust.
Speaker 1: He's like thirty yards now and I draw back, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh crap. You know, now how low do
Speaker 1: I hold? Because I know my hold over, but I
Speaker 1: don't know my hold under. So actually practicing some hold
Speaker 1: under is not a bad idea either. But from that
Speaker 1: point on, what I always would do is that I
Speaker 1: would underset for those longer. So it's like fifty yards
Speaker 1: but he's kind of come in this direction. I sent
Speaker 1: my pin to thirty and know that if he stopped
Speaker 1: anywhere before that or got to that range, then I
Speaker 1: can hold over. And it was just easier for me
Speaker 1: to my brain to compute. Um, I actually made a
Speaker 1: great shot on that bucket your end twenty yards and
Speaker 1: fell over. But uh, it freaked me out mentally a
Speaker 1: little bit like, oh crap, I've never had to hold
Speaker 1: under something it's intentionally, so uh that that's something to
Speaker 1: think about. And then you could also make like a
Speaker 1: mark on your pin. Um, I've done that before where
Speaker 1: it's just my buddy uses like nail polish on his
Speaker 1: and he just marks another mark on his pins. So
Speaker 1: when it's set at your walk around fixed distance nowhere,
Speaker 1: that mark hits as well, so you can kind of
Speaker 1: go single pin, Okay, that's thirty and then that mark,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe his four be five, so you can
Speaker 1: kind of use that as a gauge as well. Um,
Speaker 1: if things change fast and give that a try. All right.
Speaker 1: We'll just kind of end here with a little testimonial.
Speaker 1: This one comes from Alex. He says, Hey, Rammy, I
Speaker 1: just want to thank you for those off season archery drills,
Speaker 1: especially in this case the one to two minute hole drills,
Speaker 1: which allowed me to put down my biggest white tail yet.
Speaker 1: I love the podcast and your content. You've got an awesome,
Speaker 1: just giant white tail buck and that's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that I like to see. That's what the podcast
Speaker 1: is about, just helping people be more successful. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what episode it was, but some offseason drills I
Speaker 1: think it was during the summer. Did the spring Ways
Speaker 1: to make you better hunting shooting And we kind of
Speaker 1: did a little bit of that kind of stuff in
Speaker 1: the last podcast. So we're gonna be going into this
Speaker 1: year just giving you more and more content to hopefully
Speaker 1: get more and more pictures and testimonials like that. I
Speaker 1: appreciate all the questions that came in as always, feel
Speaker 1: free to reach out to me social media, mostly on
Speaker 1: Instagram at me Warren or Remy at the meatia Deer
Speaker 1: dot com. You can send us in questions, uh, success photos,
Speaker 1: topics that you'd like to suggest, and we try to
Speaker 1: hit as many of those as possible through our Q
Speaker 1: and A s and then just like a lot of
Speaker 1: the topics that we got over the course of the
Speaker 1: year kind of become podcast topics. Try to make them
Speaker 1: topical and timely as far as what's going on now
Speaker 1: and some of the hunts that are going on. So
Speaker 1: if you have any suggestions or things you'd like to hear,
Speaker 1: in the podcast. Please feel free to shoot me those
Speaker 1: until next week. You know, next week, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of ideas and topics from a
Speaker 1: lot of suggestions, So I'm gonna be kind of sitting
Speaker 1: down this week and really hashing out some of the
Speaker 1: things that I want to cover and some of the the
Speaker 1: things you guys want me to cover. So feel free
Speaker 1: to just infiltrate the mail bag the mail sack, send
Speaker 1: me in your questions and the things that you guys like,
Speaker 1: and we'll try to get to as much of that
Speaker 1: as possible. Looking forward to more success in the future
Speaker 1: and hearing from everyone out there. I appreciate it, you know,
Speaker 1: as always. UM, if you think about it, feel free
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Speaker 1: like to do. Um, but I appreciate you all. So
Speaker 1: until next week, keep those questions coming in. Talk to
Speaker 1: you guys later about it.