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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. When it comes to hunting

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Speaker 1: big country. You're hunting out west, maybe more open country.

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Speaker 1: I think the single most productive tactic is to be

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Speaker 1: a good glass or to be able to spot animals.

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Speaker 1: When you think about spot and stock hunting, you really

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Speaker 1: have to figure out the spot part before you can

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Speaker 1: get a lot of those stock parts in. So being

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Speaker 1: good at picking out animals is an extremely important skill

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Speaker 1: to have and leads to a lot of success. I

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Speaker 1: think that to be able to regularly spot game by

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Speaker 1: glassing is really two parts. The first includes where to look,

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Speaker 1: but after that it's what to look for and being

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Speaker 1: consistent means being able to pick out animals time after

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Speaker 1: time when you're in a good spot, knowing how to

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Speaker 1: find what's right in front of you that might be

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Speaker 1: fairly well hidden. This is done I believe by what

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Speaker 1: I consider my four maintenance of spotting. That would be size, shape, color,

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Speaker 1: and movement. Understanding those four things and how to incorporate

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Speaker 1: that into your glassing is going to overall make you

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Speaker 1: a more successful hunter. But before I break down those tactics,

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Speaker 1: let's jump into a story on an elk hunt where

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Speaker 1: I made an incredible spot on something fairly unexpected. And

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Speaker 1: when I'm l hunting, a lot of my success I

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Speaker 1: really attribute to being good at glassing, and so when

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Speaker 1: there's days that a little foggy or inclement weather where

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Speaker 1: I can't see very far, those are generally days that

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Speaker 1: success is fairly low. Now, on this particular hunt, I

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Speaker 1: had a good friend of mine come up elk hunting

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Speaker 1: with me, and he brought a friend to his. So

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Speaker 1: I was guiding them for the first week of the

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Speaker 1: rifle season, and we're focusing on getting some milk. I'd

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Speaker 1: spent the week ahead glassing and scouting and preparing where

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Speaker 1: we were going to go for that first morning, and

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Speaker 1: luckily I had spotted some elk, and I knew there

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Speaker 1: might be a little bit of weather moving in the

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Speaker 1: next day. So I spotted that evening, spotted some milk

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Speaker 1: off in the distance, maybe four or five miles away,

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Speaker 1: coming out into this opening, and thought, okay, let's be

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Speaker 1: there first light tomorrow because we might not be able

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Speaker 1: to glass. So the next morning we start out early.

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Speaker 1: We get into position. It's kind of like overcast, low cloud.

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Speaker 1: We get sort sort of a little bit of fog

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Speaker 1: and light rain before it gets too light and glassing

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Speaker 1: kind of where the elk were, and don't see anything.

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Speaker 1: But then I catch kind of just this shape in

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Speaker 1: the pre light about I don't know, eight hundred yards

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Speaker 1: out and I know, okay, those bushes just don't look right.

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Speaker 1: It's not light enough to know, but I decide we're

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Speaker 1: going to move over and get into position there just

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Speaker 1: in case. So we dropped down the canyon start working

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Speaker 1: out still in that dark kind of pre light. It's

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Speaker 1: not shooting light yet, and now as we're working over there,

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Speaker 1: it starts to get a little bit lighter. Now it's

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Speaker 1: legal shooting light. We pop up on the rise where

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Speaker 1: we're planning on going, and sure enough there's a herd

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Speaker 1: elk out there. We get set up and we're trying

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Speaker 1: the elk, and then Scott is buddies it's set up

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Speaker 1: as well, but we just couldn't coordinate it just right.

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Speaker 1: So Joe ends up shooting, drops the bull, and then

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Speaker 1: the other bull runs out, but he's obstructed by cows,

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Speaker 1: and so we end up getting the first bull. Like sweet,

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Speaker 1: you get that bowl, take care of that bowl, pack

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Speaker 1: him out, and it's it's raining, starting to snow nour

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Speaker 1: great morning and the plan came together. So now for

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Speaker 1: a bull for Scott. And we start going out and

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Speaker 1: checking out, you know, all the other places that we

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Speaker 1: then started to clear up the next day, and then

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Speaker 1: It's pretty remote. I think maybe there will be some

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Speaker 1: different things. And I'm glassing at this one spot and

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Speaker 1: my god, this rock just looks really weird because what

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Speaker 1: and like thinking in my head, I'll check that rock again. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's just a rock, but you might want to I

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Speaker 1: find this rock interesting. Just as I'm saying that the

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Speaker 1: rock moves, sure enough, it was a white wolf down

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Speaker 1: but the white one, which we don't really have very

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Speaker 1: they weren't doing anything, but something just looked off about

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Speaker 1: Once it stood up and was moving, then it was

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Speaker 1: fairly clear what it was. I ended up getting a

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Speaker 1: little bit of video and photo through the spotting scope,

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Speaker 1: and so we watched them for a little bit. They

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Speaker 1: But also, you know, I was able to find those

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Speaker 1: that I feel are very imperative to glassing. There was

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Speaker 1: looking back, and then caught the movement and verified, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's something there, And it was just kind of a

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Speaker 1: cool spot that I'll probably remember forever when it comes

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Speaker 1: to picking out animals, picking out things on the mountain,

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Speaker 1: I remember reading things in the past of Okay, you

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Speaker 1: for that. But when I'm out looking, there's a way

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Speaker 1: of a psychology experiment that I remember seeing I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like the guerrilla experiment where there's people passing a ball

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Speaker 1: Then they go and ask everybody who is counting the basketball, so, okay,

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Speaker 1: how many passes back and forth? Most people got it correct.

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Speaker 1: Then they said, who saw a gorilla? And half the

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Speaker 1: to them. I kind of think of glassing is that

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Speaker 1: same way where many people are looking for a deer,

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Speaker 1: looking for a deer, looking for a deer, and because

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Speaker 1: they're they've got something in their mind that they're looking for,

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Speaker 1: they miss everything else. And a lot of times the

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Speaker 1: other things are what clue you into finding an animal,

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Speaker 1: finding an elk, finding something. So I believe that there's

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Speaker 1: good search parameters to have, but there's also kind of

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Speaker 1: this overarching thing of what I'm looking for, And I

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Speaker 1: want to kind of describe this process, but I believe

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Speaker 1: it comes down to when you're looking for animals, understanding,

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Speaker 1: getting your brain to react to four of the major

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Speaker 1: I would say, tenants of noticeable things that trigger a

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Speaker 1: response of there's something there, and that would be understanding, size, reference,

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Speaker 1: picking out certain shapes, separating out different colors, and then

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Speaker 1: one of the big A factor's movement. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: break these down into those four parts, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with size. Now, when you're when you're glassing, so

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Speaker 1: many times I'll be glassing with a client, glassing with

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Speaker 1: I even talk about maybe looking for something that is

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Speaker 1: very hard to find, and you'll pick up things that

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Speaker 1: are easier. One thing is is shed antlers. I kind

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Speaker 1: of in my mind think find a shed, find an antler,

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Speaker 1: because what that will do is that triggers my mind

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Speaker 1: to start thinking of that off shape, that shape of

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Speaker 1: an antler. Sometimes I'll find sheds. Sometimes I'll find antlers

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Speaker 1: attached to an animal, and that might be something that

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Speaker 1: I pick up along the way while I'm sitting there

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Speaker 1: glassing at distance or in thick cover as I'm still hunting,

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Speaker 1: something that immediately tells my brain, Oh, there's an animal there,

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Speaker 1: this is what I'm looking for. And then again those

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Speaker 1: rounded shapes. There's a lot, especially if you're like spring

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Speaker 1: bear hunting. One thing I'm always trying to think of

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Speaker 1: when I'm spring bear hunting is is look for the round.

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Speaker 1: Look for that curve of the back, the bear feeding

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Speaker 1: that the round at any position, this kind of unnatural

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Speaker 1: round object that's in whatever I'm looking for, or a

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Speaker 1: piece of that round object, kind of thinking of breaking

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Speaker 1: it down into pieces legs, ears, back, neck, um hit, Like,

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Speaker 1: just think of the pieces of the animal and build

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Speaker 1: those mentally, even before your glassing. You know, it seems

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Speaker 1: very strange in a way where you're like, the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to find deers look for deer. People that just

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Speaker 1: look for deer don't spot as much as the people

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Speaker 1: that understand to look for pieces of what they're looking for,

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Speaker 1: and they've built out in their head these mental images

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Speaker 1: of the parameters that they're seeking. Because what happens is

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Speaker 1: as you look, I can throw my for me, I

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm very good at glass and very good

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Speaker 1: at picking out animals before other people because I throw

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Speaker 1: up my binoculars and I don't have to analyze everything.

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Speaker 1: I let my brain look at it and then it

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Speaker 1: just triggers there's something there, or then I focus in

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Speaker 1: on that. I can scan a hillside probably two or

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Speaker 1: three times faster than most hunters because I have these

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Speaker 1: search parameters, and obviously it happens by doing it a

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Speaker 1: lot and practicing. I mean, just like anything, it takes practice.

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Speaker 1: It sounds weird, but glassing practice, yes, it makes a

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Speaker 1: really big difference. Of people say, well, you know what

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Speaker 1: to look for, Yes, I know it to look or

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Speaker 1: but I've also trained myself to look for certain things

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Speaker 1: that trigger in and I can I can throw my

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Speaker 1: binoculars up, scan a hillside, or sit down and grab

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Speaker 1: out the spotty scale and know what to do when,

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Speaker 1: and it utilizes my time better in those especially those

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Speaker 1: times when it's gonna be easier to spot animals, or

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Speaker 1: in those times where it's very difficult to spot animals,

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Speaker 1: I'll generally spot them. There's very little that gets by

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Speaker 1: me because I have these search parameters always going. I'm

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Speaker 1: the type of person that I could be driving down

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Speaker 1: the highway sixty miles an hour and two miles away

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Speaker 1: spotted deer. It's just because I'm always looking. But my

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Speaker 1: brain triggers into those certain features. There's certain shapes, and

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Speaker 1: I understand the size reference of where I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: what distances. That comes with practice, and it comes with

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Speaker 1: kind of building out a mental picture in your mind. Now,

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Speaker 1: the next two I think are are very key, and

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Speaker 1: that would be color and movement. What I want to

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Speaker 1: do is I want to break those down in a

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Speaker 1: little more detail next week. So for this week we

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Speaker 1: just cover in size and shape. Next week we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the color and movement, and those are

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Speaker 1: probably two of the most important things the key in

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Speaker 1: on and the easiest to really get started. But I

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Speaker 1: want you to start building these mental pictures before we

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Speaker 1: build out coloring movement into our search parameters. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to glassing your homework for the week. On the

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Speaker 1: next hunt that you go on, I really want you

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Speaker 1: to start thinking about this size and shape reference. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you aren't hunting, maybe you're new to it, maybe

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Speaker 1: you're new to this whole spotting thing. Throw up images

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Speaker 1: like look through wildlife photos, look at different silhouettes, and

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Speaker 1: start thinking of like building out this idea and this

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Speaker 1: mental thing of what you're looking for. I mean, for me,

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Speaker 1: it's an exercise in it's something that just happens. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm always constantly, I think most hunters, I'm always thinking

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Speaker 1: about the animals that I'm chasing. I'm always thinking about

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Speaker 1: mule deer, but I'm also thinking about when I go out.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the terrain that I'm in, and I

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Speaker 1: just really try to picture what is reasonable that I

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Speaker 1: might see. I don't really try to picture this big

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Speaker 1: animal standing out there. The ones that I miss are

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Speaker 1: like the ones right in front of me, often because

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Speaker 1: I'm always looking further or thinking that they're more concealed.

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Speaker 1: So maybe I gotta add in my homework is just

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Speaker 1: gonna be adding more of that, like big animals standing there, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm right here kind of thing. Um. But what I

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Speaker 1: would suggest is just kind of start to think about

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Speaker 1: those shapes, like look at the photo, break it down

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Speaker 1: in your mind of little pieces, little parts, like what

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Speaker 1: does that look like? As I talk about it, I

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Speaker 1: just visualize it. And I think that there's a big

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Speaker 1: aspect of just visualizing these things before you ever go out,

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Speaker 1: before you ever get into the field. Maybe you're new

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00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: to it, this is something that you can do. Study

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Speaker 1: pictures of animals in those environments and not just clear

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Speaker 1: pictures animals, pictures of a hillside and what do you

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Speaker 1: see and what might it look like? And build those

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Speaker 1: search parameters in your head. You want these things to

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Speaker 1: be automatic. You want to be the guy that can

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Speaker 1: throw up the binoculat spot something that's very hard to spot.

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Speaker 1: And it's not because you have a Like, having a

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Speaker 1: better eye is really having a better mind. It's understanding

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Speaker 1: what you can see. Now, there is something to be

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Speaker 1: said for having good vision. You know. Obviously, if you've

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Speaker 1: got contacts and you'ren't wearing them, that you probably aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna see as much. But a good eye means understanding

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Speaker 1: what you're looking for. That takes practice. And if you

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Speaker 1: don't have all the time to practice understanding and looking

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Speaker 1: at those those references and and really building out that

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Speaker 1: mental picture you think about it, get your mind trained

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Speaker 1: to find things for you and let your eyes do

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Speaker 1: the looking, in your mind do the spotting. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's what's key to this whole process. So

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Speaker 1: that's your homework till next week, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: break down the other part of that tips the color

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Speaker 1: and the movement. And I think by the time you

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Speaker 1: combine all these things together and looking at at it

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Speaker 1: that way, I think you're gonna be a lot better

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Speaker 1: at spotting. So I really just wanted to break this

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Speaker 1: out for you. I think that it's a it's a

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00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: really good tip it's a really good tactic, and it's

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Speaker 1: me just trying to dissect the way that I do things.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing it my entire life. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: it profession only. I've gotten really good at it. But

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Speaker 1: I believe that it's very hard to explain sometimes how

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Speaker 1: you get better at certain things unless you kind of

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Speaker 1: talk in this way of like I really try to

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Speaker 1: dissect what I'm doing. So I hope it's helpful, and

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Speaker 1: I hope it's something that you can enact in your

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Speaker 1: next hunt or in any hunt. As always, you know,

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Speaker 1: feel free to make this a two way conversation. I

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Speaker 1: try to, you know, obviously it's like right in the

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Speaker 1: middle of hunting season, but honestly, if I get a

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Speaker 1: little bit of service or in the evenings in the mornings,

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Speaker 1: I love to, like look at those messages. I read

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Speaker 1: almost everything. I just maybe don't have time to respond

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Speaker 1: to whatever. So um, keep those messages coming because I

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Speaker 1: really it really like encourages me and gets me fired

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Speaker 1: up to hear so many success stories and other things.

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Speaker 1: So I just appreciate you all until next week, keep

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Speaker 1: a share by catch you guys later.