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 everyone we are
Speaker 1: it's that time of the podcast, so we are jumping
Speaker 1: to the fabled mail sack and answering your burning questions.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate all the responses we got this week.
Speaker 1: We just finished up if you missed it, kind of
Speaker 1: a little series on becoming a bow hunter. A lot
Speaker 1: of great stuff in there. It's four parts everything you
Speaker 1: need to know from getting set up to being out
Speaker 1: in the field and being consistently successful. And I will
Speaker 1: say I got a ton of response of people that
Speaker 1: are getting into archery. Um, the next step would be,
Speaker 1: obviously go back if you haven't into all the podcasts,
Speaker 1: start finding some of these podcast tips that really relate
Speaker 1: to what you're getting into, get a little bit more
Speaker 1: advanced information, and then obviously there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: more info to come. This podcast is focused on all
Speaker 1: sorts of hunting, primarily Western big game hunting, but archery
Speaker 1: is a trending topic that seems to pop up a lot,
Speaker 1: so keep tuning in. And a lot of the questions
Speaker 1: this week were archery based. A lot of new people
Speaker 1: getting into it and a lot of people that listen
Speaker 1: to this that maybe started last year and had some
Speaker 1: questions about things that they'd encounter that maybe wasn't covered.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate all these questions. Let's let's get into
Speaker 1: it right here. We'll start it off with Aidan Sharon
Speaker 1: from Bayfield, Wisconsin. He says, I love your podcast and
Speaker 1: your YouTube. A couple of questions. First, I need some
Speaker 1: help on bow hunting. I had three chances on some
Speaker 1: white tails, but they always spook at half draw. What
Speaker 1: should I do? And then the second question is when
Speaker 1: I'm shooting in the backyard, I could not get a
Speaker 1: good group. I went through all the steps of draw, anchor, breathe, squeeze, slash, release,
Speaker 1: What should I do? Those are great questions. So one
Speaker 1: thing with archery, and I think in the last series,
Speaker 1: I really just tried to cover the fundamentals of the
Speaker 1: things you can do with your bow, maybe not necessarily
Speaker 1: the hunting tactics per se, and we do cover a
Speaker 1: lot of hunting tactics, but one that needs to be
Speaker 1: noted is drawing at the right time. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: getting busted on white tails when you're at half draw,
Speaker 1: you need to think about, Okay, what is it that's
Speaker 1: catching them? If you're in a tree stand you start
Speaker 1: to draw and they look up at you, it might
Speaker 1: be extensive amount of movement. So you're doing that draw
Speaker 1: that I talk about where you're you're struggling sky drawing,
Speaker 1: making a lot of movement, and then that's catching their
Speaker 1: eye and then they're running. Or there's a point in
Speaker 1: your draw cycle that's making some noise. It might be
Speaker 1: the arrow bouncing off the shelf. It might be maybe
Speaker 1: you've got to drop away rest and as it picks
Speaker 1: up the arrow it inks or something like that. So
Speaker 1: it's not a smooth draw and it's making noise. Pay
Speaker 1: attention to those things before you go out hunting and
Speaker 1: see is there something in this setup that's alerting the
Speaker 1: animals to my presence. Another thing is it's super imperative
Speaker 1: that you draw when the animals are not looking. So
Speaker 1: when it's head is behind, Let's say a deer is
Speaker 1: coming in and its head passes behind a tree. That's
Speaker 1: when I draw, you know, hopefully it doesn't make a
Speaker 1: noise where then they stop behind an obstruction. But you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they're drawing when they're unaware.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you might have to let the animal come in,
Speaker 1: calm down, just let yourself sit and kind of I
Speaker 1: almost think of it like acclimating to the environment. You
Speaker 1: want to make sure like the longer sometimes you can
Speaker 1: sit there, the more unnoticed you go. So that calms
Speaker 1: you down, let the deer get settled. It depends like
Speaker 1: where they're at, why they're there, you know, maybe if
Speaker 1: they're moving into drink or something. They're always on age
Speaker 1: at first, so letting them get acclimated, maybe start feeding around,
Speaker 1: looking in a different direction, then make your draw. Those
Speaker 1: those would be the things that I would suggest, because
Speaker 1: if they start to spook half draw, that's no good,
Speaker 1: so something's obviously going wrong. Now to the second question,
Speaker 1: when you're shooting in your backyard, you're having trouble getting
Speaker 1: a good group, you know, you have to eliminate the factors.
Speaker 1: I think of it like this, like if I have
Speaker 1: a problem with my computer, right, like let's say my
Speaker 1: screen on my computer isn't working well, the first thing
Speaker 1: I would do is I would plug in a new
Speaker 1: screen to see if it's the screen itself it's not working,
Speaker 1: or the computer itself is not working. Okay, and then
Speaker 1: maybe that computer works, and I would try the cord. Okay,
Speaker 1: is it can and you can start taking away the
Speaker 1: things that it might not be to figure out what
Speaker 1: the problem is. And I think the same thing would
Speaker 1: happen in archery or shooting. So we need to decide
Speaker 1: whether it's you or the bow. It's generally always you,
Speaker 1: but sometimes it is the bow. So we need to decide, Okay,
Speaker 1: is the bow set up? So we gotta remember is
Speaker 1: our bow and tune? Are we shooting level? Or maybe
Speaker 1: we canting the bow left or right? In the last podcast,
Speaker 1: we talked about that lean and how it affects your
Speaker 1: left and right movement. So decide, how are these groups
Speaker 1: are you? Is it like what I would call spray
Speaker 1: and prey where they're just all over the place, like
Speaker 1: no precision and no accuracy. Um, if that's the case,
Speaker 1: and your bow everything's in tune, everything's right with the bow.
Speaker 1: Let's start eliminating the first thing, which should be the shooter.
Speaker 1: So what I want you to do. I want you
Speaker 1: to go out and maybe have someone that lives with you,
Speaker 1: your friend or whatever kind of help you. So what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, You're gonna draw back safely. You're gonna anchor,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna just focus on the target. And if
Speaker 1: you have a trigger release, all I want you to
Speaker 1: do is continue to keep it on the target. You're
Speaker 1: gonna communicate with the person once you're on target. Okay,
Speaker 1: you just keep holding it there, and then I want
Speaker 1: the person behind you to just reach up and tap
Speaker 1: the trigger set the bow off. This really only works
Speaker 1: with a wrist release. Um it could work with a
Speaker 1: thumb button release where they could push the thing on
Speaker 1: the thumb. So you're gonna be focused on there. You know,
Speaker 1: you're obviously be in a safe direction and do this safely.
Speaker 1: But what we're what we're trying to get there is
Speaker 1: you're just going to focus on the trigger, and I
Speaker 1: don't want you to be able to know when that
Speaker 1: bows going to go off. So you're there, and then
Speaker 1: they're just going to kind of hit a surprise release
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, did that arrow go where you were aiming?
Speaker 1: If you do that three to five times, right, and
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, okay, I'm shooting pretty good. When I
Speaker 1: don't know the bow is going off, then we can
Speaker 1: pretty much figure out that you have some form of
Speaker 1: target panic, and that's highly likely. It happens to a
Speaker 1: lot of people. It's essentially what's happening is your brain
Speaker 1: is telling yourself to jerk your arm in a certain
Speaker 1: direction right before that shot goes off. So if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then you're gonna have to start considering it's
Speaker 1: really hard to break, so you're gonna have to start
Speaker 1: to think about ways that you can fix that. That
Speaker 1: might be changing the type of release, changing the type
Speaker 1: of site um, and maybe just kind of calming yourself
Speaker 1: down and going through that shot process a little better,
Speaker 1: the pulling through and and not moving. Now, let's say
Speaker 1: you do that and it doesn't help, then maybe it
Speaker 1: might be the bow and you know, or maybe you
Speaker 1: aren't holding in the right spot as well. So another
Speaker 1: thing to think about is kind of changing your your
Speaker 1: dis stance as well. So start shooting really close and
Speaker 1: just see like, all right, when you're really really close,
Speaker 1: are those groups where they should be? Are you? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, go five ft from the target and just
Speaker 1: shoot at the bulls, eye bowls, eye bowls, eye bowls,
Speaker 1: eye bowls. You should be able to get them all
Speaker 1: really close together. I mean so close that you probably
Speaker 1: don't even want to shoot multiples at the same spot
Speaker 1: for fear of breaking an arrow. If you're really close
Speaker 1: to the target and it's not hitting where you want
Speaker 1: it to, then it's probably not the bow. Because even
Speaker 1: bows that are not tuned properly or whatever it very
Speaker 1: close ranges, they're gonna pretty much stack arrows and they're
Speaker 1: fairly similar. So you'll know that that's another way to
Speaker 1: eliminate whether it's the bow or you. Now let's say
Speaker 1: that it's the bow. Then you can kind of go
Speaker 1: through and make sure everything's right with the bow. Start
Speaker 1: with paper tuning, see if that tunes right on the bow,
Speaker 1: Double check your level, make sure your sites level. Re
Speaker 1: go through everything that we talked about, and maybe you
Speaker 1: could even you know, I don't know, if you know
Speaker 1: somebody that's got a bow the similar size, try shooting
Speaker 1: that um replace the oh with you shooting. If you
Speaker 1: can find one that's set up similar to the it
Speaker 1: that's really hard to do, but you know it might
Speaker 1: be possible. So those are some options, and I say,
Speaker 1: once you get that figured out, you'll be well on
Speaker 1: your way to shooting better groups. Alright. This next question
Speaker 1: comes from Paul Swan Valley, Montana. He says, Remy loved
Speaker 1: the podcast, especially when you include a personal story to
Speaker 1: illustrate your point. On a recent podcast, you said you
Speaker 1: shoot your bow with both eyes open. His question is
Speaker 1: do you shoot your rifle this way? And if so,
Speaker 1: could you give pointers for both? Yeah, so that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great question, and I actually had quite a
Speaker 1: few questions referring to the both eyes open and left
Speaker 1: or right hand. Yes. I I do shoot my rifle
Speaker 1: with both eyes open a scope rifle as well as
Speaker 1: open sights or anything. Everything I shoot, I try to
Speaker 1: shoot both eyes open. Shotgun, rifle, pistol, bows, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: It might take it a little bit of practice, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a better shot that way. I think.
Speaker 1: Now some people think, well, why with a rifle scope
Speaker 1: would it matter. I've found that when I shoot with
Speaker 1: both eyes open through the rifle scope, I actually kind
Speaker 1: of take a more calm approach than the squinting and
Speaker 1: the focusing in so hard. Um. It allows me to
Speaker 1: kind of focus on the cross hair and the target.
Speaker 1: I kind of it's it's a way of me just
Speaker 1: calming down and focusing on putting the cross air where
Speaker 1: I want without so much a strain. So I definitely
Speaker 1: think it's good. Now. If you're especially like muzzleloader open sites,
Speaker 1: anything open sites, you absolutely want to shoot with both
Speaker 1: eyes open because you're gonna be able to see the
Speaker 1: target in your site at the same time. So it
Speaker 1: is good to get in the habit of doing. For
Speaker 1: everything obviously have to be using your dominant eye, so
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work for you, you need to use
Speaker 1: your other eye. If you're already ingrained and shooting a
Speaker 1: scoped your rifle with your non dominant eye, it's not
Speaker 1: worth switching at this point. It's not worth getting a
Speaker 1: left hand and trying to figure that out because I
Speaker 1: think that that muscle memory is just gonna be too
Speaker 1: hard to overcome. And you can shoot a rifle with
Speaker 1: your non dominant eye because of the looking through the scope,
Speaker 1: So I think that you'll be fine with that. But
Speaker 1: I would say if you're just if you're shooting with
Speaker 1: your dominant I you want to start learning shoot both
Speaker 1: eyes open. Do an approach where you kind of get steady,
Speaker 1: you look through with one eye closed, then you kind
Speaker 1: of open that eye and kind of start to squint
Speaker 1: your other eye, and over time you're gonna train your
Speaker 1: dominant eye to take over and look at that site picture.
Speaker 1: And I think by training yourself to do that, in
Speaker 1: the long run, you're gonna be better off and and
Speaker 1: take better shots. And also, I do believe that shooting
Speaker 1: rifle with both eyes open helps control target panic in
Speaker 1: many ways, so flinching, and that's a problem that happens,
Speaker 1: and I think it happens when you're so focused in
Speaker 1: you're so hyper focused on everything that's going on that
Speaker 1: your brain reacts in a negative way to the anticipated
Speaker 1: kick when you have both eyes open. What I like
Speaker 1: to do and when I'm shooting a rifle, I think
Speaker 1: of this all the time, and I think of the
Speaker 1: thought don't blink, So I you know, you think about it,
Speaker 1: but you instinctively blink, and that's the first step in
Speaker 1: making a flinches, your eyes closing. So what I've done
Speaker 1: in the past, I try to film myself taking a
Speaker 1: shot and see if I can shoot through the entire
Speaker 1: shot without blinking, where I'm focused on the target and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the shot as it happens. By doing that,
Speaker 1: you actually be surprised that, you know, if you aren't
Speaker 1: fully zoomed in, you can see the impact, You can
Speaker 1: see everything because you aren't missing that. And it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of training, but it's a way that I've
Speaker 1: found to kind of calm myself down, make a better
Speaker 1: shot and not necessarily lose sight acquisition or target picture
Speaker 1: while I'm shooting. So keeping both eyes open helps with
Speaker 1: that for sure for me personally. So the next question says, Hey, Remy,
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear your thoughts on arrowweight and four
Speaker 1: foc so front of center. I used to be big
Speaker 1: into bow hunting as a teenager, and I'm currently trying
Speaker 1: to get back into it at forty two years old.
Speaker 1: Things have changed since then. I'm mostly whitetail hunt, but
Speaker 1: also about once a year ago on an elk hunt
Speaker 1: out west, so I'm looking to build a do it
Speaker 1: all arrow. Thank you for all the grade infot Tommy Vance, Radford, Virginia.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, Tommy. Um, a lot of people
Speaker 1: will talk arrows to death, in my opinion, So if
Speaker 1: you don't even understand what front of center. Is what
Speaker 1: that is is just if you take an arrow and
Speaker 1: you balance it, where is the weight of that arrow?
Speaker 1: So if you for just ease of math, you've got
Speaker 1: a twenty in charro, which most people don't have, but
Speaker 1: a twenty incharrow, half of that would be at ten inches.
Speaker 1: You know, if you were to put that on a point,
Speaker 1: is that arrow going to balance at the center? Is
Speaker 1: that arrow going to balance a little more forward of
Speaker 1: center or backup center? So you have to think of
Speaker 1: it in many different ways. I think that there's a
Speaker 1: certain percentage, and I would say it would be ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen percent weight forward, where it flies really good
Speaker 1: but has a little bit more energy at the tip. Now,
Speaker 1: if you put too much weight forward, think of it
Speaker 1: like this, You've got like a noodle spaghetti noodle pushing
Speaker 1: like a brick. And you don't want that because what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen is you'll actually, you know, you're gonna start
Speaker 1: diving off with your trajectory. So you want kind of
Speaker 1: a good balance where you've got a flat trajectory but
Speaker 1: a very stable arrow in the air. And the stability
Speaker 1: just refers to the fact of like how it's spinning
Speaker 1: and where that arrow is going Is it going straight
Speaker 1: where it should? And that's what you want, um. But
Speaker 1: also you know, you want that kinetic energy and that
Speaker 1: hard hitting. When you've got a little bit more weight
Speaker 1: in the whole arrow itself, you're gonna have more energy,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have probably deeper penetration. Actually, one thought
Speaker 1: to think about is a heavier arrow actually quiets down
Speaker 1: your bow set up. So if you've got a real
Speaker 1: loud bow, maybe think about using a heavier arrow because
Speaker 1: it will quiet down that bow a little bit. I
Speaker 1: definitely notice it on like extremes when I've got an
Speaker 1: arrow from my bow I shoot. I primarily shoot the
Speaker 1: same arrow all the time, So I've got day six arrow,
Speaker 1: I shoot three veins, but I'm kind of thinking about
Speaker 1: maybe trying the four veins out here this year. I
Speaker 1: like to lay around. I've got a little bit more
Speaker 1: weight forward, so I definitely shoot a front of center arrow,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's pretty standard. Um. But I
Speaker 1: also think, like if you're really freaking out about exactly
Speaker 1: how much weight in your arrows or whatever, you're just
Speaker 1: kind of missing the point. You don't necessarily have to
Speaker 1: get too specific with it, you know. One thing I
Speaker 1: would do is it's pretty easy to figure out. If
Speaker 1: you're shooting front of center. You can just kind of
Speaker 1: put the arrow on your finger balance it, and then
Speaker 1: you can try different tips in different weights to get
Speaker 1: that balance where you want. Um, it's pretty easy to do.
Speaker 1: I would say, definitely you want something a little bit
Speaker 1: front of center. I found that it flies more accurately.
Speaker 1: But it also if you get too much weight out there,
Speaker 1: you start to get a lot more drop in your trajectory.
Speaker 1: And you don't necessarily want that either because you know
Speaker 1: you might be a yard or two off on the
Speaker 1: range or something like that, and you don't want to
Speaker 1: make a bad shot or miss because of it. So
Speaker 1: I think that there's a good balance. I think that
Speaker 1: the best to be like that ten to front of
Speaker 1: center for what I found for hunting purpose is the
Speaker 1: next question, says Remy. I've listened to a bunch of
Speaker 1: podcasts you've been on and just recently started listening to
Speaker 1: Cutting to the Distance and your bow hunting series. I'm
Speaker 1: gearing up for my first archery l hunt. This fault
Speaker 1: most likely solo. I've been shooting the same boat for
Speaker 1: sixteen years. I've had it since I was fifteen, it
Speaker 1: was my first hoy and thinking I'll stick with a white.
Speaker 1: In your opinion, what should I be looking for in
Speaker 1: a new bow, really hoping to get another fifteen plus
Speaker 1: years out of a new one, Zach, Western New York.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, Zach. I mean there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that I mean, I probably myself
Speaker 1: if I didn't, if I didn't work with bow companies
Speaker 1: that probably just shoot the same bow forever because you
Speaker 1: get used to it. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: you like about it. But there's also so many great
Speaker 1: advances in technology of bows, so it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna stick with the same company
Speaker 1: or whatever, that's great. You know there's Bose that you like. Um,
Speaker 1: they've probably changed a lot since that bow that you have.
Speaker 1: So I would say one thing that I like to
Speaker 1: do is I kind of like to if possible, And
Speaker 1: I know this might be hard now in the state
Speaker 1: of everything, but if you can shoot a few different bows,
Speaker 1: feel what feels good to you. And if you have
Speaker 1: the same bow for a very long time, a bow
Speaker 1: that is the same axle to axle length is probably
Speaker 1: going to feel the best that's just because you're used
Speaker 1: to that string angle. You're used to that bow so
Speaker 1: much so that something else might be uncomfortable. I I
Speaker 1: know when I started shooting a smaller axled axle bow,
Speaker 1: it felt really terrible and I didn't shoot it well.
Speaker 1: You also want a bow that kind of feels similar
Speaker 1: or something that feels comfortable. Now there's a couple of considerations,
Speaker 1: something like you know, whether you have a deeper shallow valley,
Speaker 1: so when you get to full draw, whether that thing
Speaker 1: kind of wants to jump forward, or whether it's got
Speaker 1: a lot of play in there where you can be
Speaker 1: a little bit more loosey goosey with it. And that
Speaker 1: might just depend on what you're used to shooting and
Speaker 1: the new bow out there. Maybe look forward, the latest
Speaker 1: and greatest model. I think that that's a great way
Speaker 1: to go. Like the newest bows are generally the most advanced.
Speaker 1: There are always every company has got good years like
Speaker 1: boom and bust years of like where they just figured out.
Speaker 1: Then they make some tweaks the next year and it's
Speaker 1: not as good, but the next year they kind of
Speaker 1: go a different direction, and there you're always chasing that.
Speaker 1: So I think that you just find a bow that
Speaker 1: feels comfortable for you, and then obviously one that fits you.
Speaker 1: You may won't even just remeasure your draw length again.
Speaker 1: You know, in fifteen years you might have grown a
Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe you're shooting a bow that's a little
Speaker 1: short for you at this point as far as draw
Speaker 1: length goes. So make sure everything's right and going to
Speaker 1: be really good, because probably the next fifteen years you'll
Speaker 1: you'll grow less and have less changes in everything than
Speaker 1: than your previous boat. So definitely think about getting a
Speaker 1: bow that kind of feels good to you and go
Speaker 1: from there. I hope that helps. Next question says Hey, Amy,
Speaker 1: huge fan, been with cutting the distance from the start.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the free knowledge that I know has
Speaker 1: really increased my odds of success. He says, I have
Speaker 1: a New Mexico barbary sheep tag and I'm really considering
Speaker 1: giving a shot with my bow. Any advice for putting
Speaker 1: a stock on these particular animals to get within bow range?
Speaker 1: Thinks keep up the great work on the podcast, Lorenzo
Speaker 1: from New Mexico. Yeah, that's that's a good question. Uh.
Speaker 1: Barbary sheep are are one of those animals that I
Speaker 1: think is really cool that you can actually hunt those
Speaker 1: on free range, over the counter, or even just draw
Speaker 1: units in New Mexico. Any kind of sheep hunt, any
Speaker 1: kind of goat hunts, I think one of the things,
Speaker 1: and one of the secrets to getting close is getting
Speaker 1: above them. They are alpine type animals and they One
Speaker 1: thing you'll notice about mountain goats, about big horn sheep,
Speaker 1: about other goats is that they generally are looking down
Speaker 1: for danger because they're used to being at the top
Speaker 1: of the mountains, so their main vulnerability is going to
Speaker 1: be from above them. It's really handy to have a
Speaker 1: spotter because you know, if you have somebody help directing
Speaker 1: you into where you're going, that's always good. It's it's
Speaker 1: very difficult sometimes if the animals move to get into
Speaker 1: position them above, because you're approaching it a place that
Speaker 1: they you can't really see what's below you and they
Speaker 1: can't see what's above them. Another good tactic is kind
Speaker 1: of waiting until they get below a cliff band. That's
Speaker 1: the easiest way to get close. Now. Oftentimes they go
Speaker 1: below bands where the wind is not in your favorite
Speaker 1: it's going downhill. They kind of pick the side, but
Speaker 1: the rougher terrain and then getting in from above is
Speaker 1: going to be your best chance at getting a close shot.
Speaker 1: And I think that by doing that, you're going to
Speaker 1: really trick many of their senses and you should be
Speaker 1: able to get within bow range. It's you know, it's
Speaker 1: obviously gonna be a little bit tougher, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: know a rifle hunt where you're you're planning on shooting
Speaker 1: across the canyon, you stop your hunt when you get
Speaker 1: to that point. If you only have the option of
Speaker 1: taking your bow along, it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: more challenging, but you probably will be able to do
Speaker 1: it because you're doing it. I will say, on a
Speaker 1: hunt like that, where you could take a rifle or
Speaker 1: a bow, you always think, oh, I'll take both. I've
Speaker 1: found in the past I've taken both, and I always
Speaker 1: end up using the rifle if that opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 1: So on that tag, because you can hunt so long
Speaker 1: in the season, I would say, try it with a
Speaker 1: bow for a few weekends or however, you know, take it.
Speaker 1: Just go with the bow, and as long as you're
Speaker 1: okay with going home without something, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: really really good time. Enjoy yourself. So good luck on
Speaker 1: that and keep me posted. Love to hear how it goes.
Speaker 1: Question says, Hey, Remy love the podcast and many shows
Speaker 1: and videos you've done. Also as just this is me
Speaker 1: saying this. Um, you know a lot of people talk
Speaker 1: about the podcast and the videos. If you guys want
Speaker 1: more videos, please find me on YouTube. UM. I'd love
Speaker 1: for you guys to follow me there on my own
Speaker 1: channel as well as solo channel, but searched Remy Warren
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. I should come up, you should find me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be putting a lot more videos there in
Speaker 1: the future, so some of the stuff that I talked
Speaker 1: about here you might see some cool stuff and tactics
Speaker 1: and just some entertaining stuff on there. So make sure
Speaker 1: to subscribe. Little plug for myself. Okay, back to the question,
Speaker 1: your podcast has taught me more in a year and
Speaker 1: a half than my twenty years of hunting previously. I've
Speaker 1: got a question for the mail sack. He says. I've
Speaker 1: gotten out of state spring bear hunt this year and
Speaker 1: plan on backpacking with a couple of buddies. If one
Speaker 1: of us is successful on the first day, that could
Speaker 1: mean we'd have meat on the mountain. For about six days.
Speaker 1: Tempts are supposed to be between thirty and fifty degrees
Speaker 1: with elk, deer, et cetera. I wouldn't worry about it,
Speaker 1: but I know that you aren't typically supposed to here bear.
Speaker 1: Do you think it would be okay to hang that long?
Speaker 1: Obviously well shaded, etcetera. With all the other tips you've
Speaker 1: given in the past. Thanks a ton and keep up
Speaker 1: the great work. Brandon from Nevada. That's a good question, Brandon.
Speaker 1: You know, it really depends on how the temperatures are
Speaker 1: out there. I will say bear meat tends to spoil
Speaker 1: faster than other meat, particularly in the fall, because of
Speaker 1: the fat. Now, if you're hunting early in the spring,
Speaker 1: you probably will encounter those cooler temperatures, and I think
Speaker 1: that it would be okay. You know, and probably spring bears,
Speaker 1: you gotta realize, are not going to be very fatty.
Speaker 1: I think that that's that fat traps the heating and
Speaker 1: that's what makes it so. I would say one thing
Speaker 1: you do if you get a bear that's real fatty,
Speaker 1: I would take the fat off the meat so it
Speaker 1: allows it to cool better. I would make sure that
Speaker 1: it's hanging obviously. Uh, in game bags separated out, and
Speaker 1: you know at night you've got it clearly hanging, and
Speaker 1: then you know in the daytime the sun's not hitting
Speaker 1: it and baking it. You know, you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that it's got good air circulation, all those things
Speaker 1: with everything else, and you'll be fine. I put a
Speaker 1: spring bear that I shot last year in I've got
Speaker 1: like an upright fridge thing. I actually let it kind
Speaker 1: of dry age for about seven days and it was great.
Speaker 1: It was still all good, nothing wrong, but that was
Speaker 1: in a controlled frigerated environment. Six days is about the
Speaker 1: max that you want. I really wouldn't want to go
Speaker 1: further than that. You know, you might want to think
Speaker 1: about the possibility, you know, if it's if it's warm,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe send a guy out where you can
Speaker 1: get in and kind of have somewhere that you can
Speaker 1: get it to frigeration. But outside of that, I think
Speaker 1: that you guys will be fine. Those fifty degree temperatures
Speaker 1: I would start to worry about, but you know it
Speaker 1: might not be. That might be the ambient temperature in
Speaker 1: the sun and you've got more shade and whatever, then
Speaker 1: it's gonna stay cool. Something to think about, you know,
Speaker 1: make sure that you've got something some form of actually
Speaker 1: checking the temperature. And you can even take a meat
Speaker 1: thermometer with you because if you're gonna eat I do
Speaker 1: this one on spring bear hunts when I backpack in,
Speaker 1: I just bring a little meat thermometer because I actually
Speaker 1: temperature gauge the meat that I'm cooking over the fire.
Speaker 1: Like if I'm gonna cook up some bear steak for
Speaker 1: dinner or whatever, especially over a fire, I actually will
Speaker 1: thermometer it and make sure that I hit that over
Speaker 1: that hundred and sixty degrees, so I know that I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get trick gnosis. But I've used it
Speaker 1: before to probe meat as well and to say, okay,
Speaker 1: is that meat staying under that forty degree threshold? Like
Speaker 1: is it staying cool? Is it? Is it cool enough?
Speaker 1: And that's something to think about as well. But honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that you'll be fine with the kind of
Speaker 1: what you've laid out here. But the six days is
Speaker 1: kind of getting close to it, but would also mean
Speaker 1: that you got successful in your first day, So you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think you'll be fine. This next one
Speaker 1: is just more of a testimonial, says Kevin from British Columbia.
Speaker 1: He says, I love the podcast. I just started watching
Speaker 1: Solo Hunter. Just listening to the first thirty eight podcast
Speaker 1: has inspired me to be a better outdoorsman. Stay well,
Speaker 1: keV appreciate that. I I really enjoy all the feedback
Speaker 1: that I get from everybody like that. So thank you
Speaker 1: guys all everybody that sent in something. Next question comes
Speaker 1: from Jimmy. He says, I've been following your archery startup
Speaker 1: series often not just you referred to finding your shot
Speaker 1: with a rifle at fifty to heaven forbid five yards.
Speaker 1: I know where I can shoot and not hit the
Speaker 1: gut or just wounded animal. If a deer's facing me,
Speaker 1: it's seventy five yards head on and I'm about level
Speaker 1: with him, I'm not scared to take the next shot
Speaker 1: and snap the spine with And so his question is
Speaker 1: with archery, can I do the same if the deer's
Speaker 1: milling around under me in a tree stand? Is there
Speaker 1: a safe shot straight down? And then he asked can
Speaker 1: I get a broad head to penetrate or even clip
Speaker 1: a shoulder blade and still take both lungs? So he
Speaker 1: says he's been into archery for years, never hunted though,
Speaker 1: just started putting together his bow and tackle and training
Speaker 1: for the next bow season. Those are good questions if
Speaker 1: you're primarily a rifle hunter, can you make shots that
Speaker 1: are you know, maybe not the vital area and be
Speaker 1: successful at taking down that animal? Uh, the answer is
Speaker 1: yes and no. So here's here's the truth of the matter.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of areas on a deer or other
Speaker 1: animal that an arrow will stick into and not penetrate
Speaker 1: and not kill um. It will wound, it will do whatever.
Speaker 1: Now whether it will be lether lethal or not, I
Speaker 1: mean that remains to be seen. I have shot deer
Speaker 1: under write circumstances in the neck with a bow and
Speaker 1: find them and killed them immediately. But it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to do because it's something that moves. It often happens
Speaker 1: sometimes accidentally where you clip the spine or something else.
Speaker 1: But I would not recommend it as a shot on
Speaker 1: a deer. A better shot would be like if you're
Speaker 1: on level ground in the chest. That shot gets taken
Speaker 1: a lot by archers on both meal dear but primarily elk.
Speaker 1: Just understanding where that kill zone is is a little
Speaker 1: higher than most people think. I mean, that's not a
Speaker 1: bad shot to take. I take quartering two shots often
Speaker 1: in water hole or especially an antelope, they tend to
Speaker 1: come into the water hole kind of facing the blind,
Speaker 1: but I definitely try to shy on the inside if
Speaker 1: it's like facing me on the inside of the shoulder blade.
Speaker 1: The shoulder blade is tricky because if you've got a
Speaker 1: really powerful setup, you'll probably get through it enough to
Speaker 1: get one lung. But most those setups, a lot of
Speaker 1: guys hit that shoulder blade and that arrow stops and
Speaker 1: that's the end of it, and there's a big blood
Speaker 1: trail and they think that they should be getting something
Speaker 1: and they don't. So if you can be more patient
Speaker 1: and wait for a better shot, do it now. Shooting
Speaker 1: straight down, you know, you can't aim for right. I
Speaker 1: mean like it have to be straight straight down, like
Speaker 1: something where it's right below your tree stand. At that point,
Speaker 1: it's so close, I mean you would be like ten yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could definitely shoot between the shoulder blades straight down,
Speaker 1: and that's not a bad shot. You're gonna be hitting
Speaker 1: the vitals and probably spine the animal. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you clip the shoulder, you just want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're a close ranger, you've got enough penetration.
Speaker 1: I actually, I mean, I know my setup will hammer
Speaker 1: through the shoulder of most game animals out to a
Speaker 1: decent distance, So I actually kind of put it on
Speaker 1: the shoulder in some instances, like in that pocket of
Speaker 1: the shoulder, but I'm not afraid of the shoulder blade
Speaker 1: itself with my personal bow set up. If you know
Speaker 1: that you've got a lot of penetrating power, a lot
Speaker 1: of energy going through there, and it's going to break
Speaker 1: through the shoulder, yeah you'll be fine. But I definitely
Speaker 1: would err on the side of staying away from the
Speaker 1: shoulder if possible and making that vital shot. So I
Speaker 1: hope that helps this question. Says, Hey, Remy, this is
Speaker 1: Mike from Texas. I'm loving your podcast, brother, and have
Speaker 1: been keeping up with you for a few years now.
Speaker 1: I do have question for you about bow hunting. He
Speaker 1: says he hunts in East Texas with a traditional bow
Speaker 1: from a tree stand and wanted to know if there
Speaker 1: are some things that I could go over for that
Speaker 1: style of hunting since almost everything I do is by
Speaker 1: stock only, you know, honestly, and this is good for
Speaker 1: everyone like getting into it to hear I think one
Speaker 1: of the best ways to start out bow hunting is
Speaker 1: from a standard blind and because you have a little
Speaker 1: bit closer shots in a little bit more controlled environment,
Speaker 1: the animals coming in unaware of you, and so you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about so many other things. You
Speaker 1: can really focus on taking your shot. I know, with
Speaker 1: traditional gear, I I don't hunt from tree stands often,
Speaker 1: but I have and um I found that it's a
Speaker 1: It's a great way to be successful and get close
Speaker 1: and get that shot. And one thing that I will
Speaker 1: say with any bow for me, maybe especially with traditional gear,
Speaker 1: is to practice shooting from that elevated position. If you
Speaker 1: wherever you practice, if you have the room to practice
Speaker 1: shooting from a tree stand or whatever, I think that
Speaker 1: that is gonna really help you make a good shot.
Speaker 1: And another thing to think about is just kind of
Speaker 1: like being at that angle where you're bending at the
Speaker 1: waist first and then drawing to your anchor point and
Speaker 1: releasing some things that you know you might not think
Speaker 1: about shooting at that angle, or when you're just getting
Speaker 1: started into bow hunting, you're practicing a lot on flat ground,
Speaker 1: but that should translate to the same as shooting from
Speaker 1: a tree and The nice thing about shooting at a tree.
Speaker 1: You know you're you're shooting it at the animal at
Speaker 1: an angle, So you want to kind of practice that
Speaker 1: on a three D target or whatever you have. But
Speaker 1: it's a great way to get close and get some
Speaker 1: good ethical shots and some good action, especially starting out.
Speaker 1: This question is kind of in that same vein, but
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's worth reading here. It says, Hey, Remy,
Speaker 1: I'm Robbed from Montana, a new bow hunter. With podcast question.
Speaker 1: He says, I want to start by hunting white tailed
Speaker 1: does in units around this place in Montana. Uh that
Speaker 1: has long seasons and over the counter tags. It's actually
Speaker 1: a place that I know well. He says. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of country in that zone, and I'm finding it
Speaker 1: difficult to narrow down what type of train to hunting.
Speaker 1: I prefer spot and stock with a rifle, but I
Speaker 1: feel like the best place to start with the bow
Speaker 1: is ambush style hunting in a standard blind, specifically in
Speaker 1: the river bottoms. Do you agree that this is sensible
Speaker 1: way to start bow hunting or is there something else
Speaker 1: I should be thinking about? Thanks? Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I absolutely think that starting out stand or blind is
Speaker 1: a great way to go. Um, I get those these
Speaker 1: same over the counter archery dough tags that this person gets.
Speaker 1: I often try to do a little bit of spot
Speaker 1: and stock on them because I just think it's it's
Speaker 1: fun for me. But if I was just starting out,
Speaker 1: definitely doing a ground blinder stand has its advantages. One
Speaker 1: thing that I look for is well two things that
Speaker 1: I look for. I like to focus in on betting
Speaker 1: areas as well as travel routes. So you gotta figure
Speaker 1: out oka where are they feeding, where are they betting off,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna betted and really thick stuff. And I
Speaker 1: found a lot of success doing this where I kind
Speaker 1: of go in on almost like a scouting mission where
Speaker 1: I I move and I okay, I bumped deer in
Speaker 1: the middle of the day. You know, this is like
Speaker 1: big country type stuff. If you've got a small plot
Speaker 1: of land, you probably don't want to do this, But
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out where they're betting, and they often
Speaker 1: will bet in the same kind of thick areas, So
Speaker 1: the middle of the day when they should be betted,
Speaker 1: kind of start still hunting through these areas and you
Speaker 1: might blow a few deer out and you're gonna go, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's where they're betting. So what you're gonna do is
Speaker 1: you're gonna either figure out where they're getting to that
Speaker 1: area from or just setting up in that area where
Speaker 1: you've got good shooting lanes. You know they will filter
Speaker 1: back through their incoming days. So if it's somewhere that
Speaker 1: you can get into quiet without blowing them out, or
Speaker 1: get into in the morning while they're out feeding, and
Speaker 1: then wait for them as they move into these betting areas,
Speaker 1: that's a great tactic. Um It also works really well
Speaker 1: with ground blinds. I think tree stands are better in
Speaker 1: some ways because you have a little bit better view.
Speaker 1: You aren't just so narrowed in. You can kind of
Speaker 1: see around on you if possible. I know on late
Speaker 1: season hunts, you know, something to think about is maybe
Speaker 1: just more feeding areas, so where they come out and
Speaker 1: where they feed. It could be on the edge of
Speaker 1: your culture, but it also could be river bottom stuff.
Speaker 1: They tend to feed out in those open areas of
Speaker 1: the river bottom, especially late, so you'll see them even
Speaker 1: just traveling the river bottoms as well, So little creek,
Speaker 1: little creeks, little funnels, things that funnel and move the deer.
Speaker 1: Kind of focus on those, find trails, find areas that
Speaker 1: they're moving, sit and wait. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: great strategy for bow hunting, especially when you're just getting
Speaker 1: started because you want something. I mean, hunting does is
Speaker 1: a great way, like where you can have multiple tags
Speaker 1: and a lot of opportunity, anything where you get a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity to take those skills that you've learned
Speaker 1: and be successful with it, that is a great starting point.
Speaker 1: So I think kudas to you for for giving that
Speaker 1: a try, and I think anybody that has that opportunity,
Speaker 1: it's a great way to go. The question says, Hey, Remy,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the archery series. I just listened to the
Speaker 1: two O one and another podcast with Tom Clum For
Speaker 1: those of you that don't know, he's a really good
Speaker 1: um resource for traditional archery. So he says, it's been
Speaker 1: good to be reminded these tips. I've been successful this
Speaker 1: season with my bow by taking some grouse in Colorado
Speaker 1: and a few hogs in Florida. Today, I decided to
Speaker 1: put the rifle down and take my bow out for
Speaker 1: a late Alabama deer hunt and try to get a dough.
Speaker 1: Last night, three doughs came out at thirty yards easy.
Speaker 1: I thought I missed over her back. Can you talk
Speaker 1: about shooting in low light situations? Thanks Alex from Alabama. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Now. I think often I would
Speaker 1: say more animals, especially from an angle, get shot or
Speaker 1: missed over the back. There's two things that went wrong there. One,
Speaker 1: you know, you could have been aiming in the wrong spot.
Speaker 1: Um shooting down, you know it's it's easy, but also
Speaker 1: the animal could have jumped a little bit. So hit
Speaker 1: that range. Even though it's close, it's far enough that
Speaker 1: an animal can completely move out of the target. I
Speaker 1: like to aim for the heart when I'm shooting, especially
Speaker 1: down or in those evening situations, maybe they're coming out
Speaker 1: at the feed it's it's low light. They're more going
Speaker 1: to be apt to jump towards sound because their site
Speaker 1: is going to be slightly impaired, so they're gonna hear
Speaker 1: that bow go off and then they're gonna get out
Speaker 1: of the way of that arrow. So one thing you
Speaker 1: want to think about is, like we talked about in
Speaker 1: our two oh to make sure that bows quiet, and
Speaker 1: then picking an aim point that's a little bit lower
Speaker 1: that will help kind of from that over the back miss,
Speaker 1: which is probably the most commonplace that an arrow goes
Speaker 1: very rarely or things shot under, but it does happen. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as low light, you know, I guess there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things you can think about. I actually
Speaker 1: tend to shoot better in low light because the brightness
Speaker 1: of my sight is not you know, it just depends
Speaker 1: on on your site, because sometimes the brightness, like if
Speaker 1: you've got a light on your site or other things,
Speaker 1: it makes that pin too big and it makes it
Speaker 1: too hard to see the target. But you also need
Speaker 1: to be able to see your pin, So it depends
Speaker 1: on how low the light is, what are legal shooting
Speaker 1: hours in your area. Whatever, one thing you want to
Speaker 1: think about is not getting that pin too bright and
Speaker 1: not getting that pin too dark, being able to focus
Speaker 1: on the target. So you need to be able to
Speaker 1: shoot at something that you can see very clearly. Now,
Speaker 1: if it's too dark to do that, it might just
Speaker 1: be bad timing and you might want to have to
Speaker 1: wait for a different shot opportunity, or a closer shot opportunity,
Speaker 1: or just have to pass that opportunity up. In general,
Speaker 1: like if it's too dark to shoot. It's too dark
Speaker 1: to shoot, whether it's legal or not. There's been many
Speaker 1: times where I've been hunting or especially in a ground
Speaker 1: blind where it's it's not legal shooting. Lights still out
Speaker 1: and I draw back. I go it's too dark. I
Speaker 1: can't see my pins, the animals too dark. I just
Speaker 1: gotta wait and try to find a better opportunity next time.
Speaker 1: But I think if you kind of take those other
Speaker 1: things into consideration next time, maybe uh, you know, make
Speaker 1: sure everything's quiet, aim a little bit lower, anticipate a
Speaker 1: little bit of a jump, you might find success on
Speaker 1: that same shot in the future. I appreciate all the
Speaker 1: questions that came in. As always, feel free to reach
Speaker 1: out to me via social media. You can find me
Speaker 1: at remu Warrant on Instagram. You can check out some
Speaker 1: YouTube videos by just searching my user name Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: You should be able to find some some cool stuff there.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for tuning into the podcast week
Speaker 1: after week. I really appreciate that. Next week, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna start talking about some of the We're gonna
Speaker 1: break down a few of the states and application things,
Speaker 1: and that way we can kind of get everybody ready
Speaker 1: and in the mindset of if you're thinking about applying
Speaker 1: for tags, kind of the type of things you need
Speaker 1: to consider, some prime dates, all that good stuff, so
Speaker 1: you're ready for your hunt this fall, whether it be
Speaker 1: with a bow, whether it be with a rifle, whether
Speaker 1: it be something new, something old, elk, mule, dear antelope,
Speaker 1: white tails, whatever you got spring bears. Um. We want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you get all the information you
Speaker 1: need to be successful and get that starting point of Okay,
Speaker 1: how do I get started, how do I get in
Speaker 1: the field, And that first step is getting those tags.
Speaker 1: So until next week, keep those questions coming and we
Speaker 1: will catch you all later