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. Hey everyone, welcome back. Hope
Speaker 1: everybody's doing well. This week, we're going to be continuing
Speaker 1: what I kind of dubbed our summer Prep series, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be about fitness. You know, hunting in
Speaker 1: the mountains is extremely physical, and I've found that over
Speaker 1: the years, whether it's guiding, hunting, myself, whatever, Having consistent
Speaker 1: success and the ability to just go that extra mile
Speaker 1: really go hand in hand. And with everything that's been
Speaker 1: going on, you know, the quarantines, the restrictions, there's probably
Speaker 1: some people out there that are not as ready as
Speaker 1: they want to be, and I myself am included. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be giving you some out of the box
Speaker 1: and actionable training tips to help you push up the
Speaker 1: mountain this season. But first we're gonna take a hike
Speaker 1: up a little place I call Puke Ridge. Puke Ridge
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite places the hunts, but it
Speaker 1: got its name for a reason now over the years
Speaker 1: has a guide. I've hunted this particular spot many times,
Speaker 1: and just to lay out the topography, it's essentially a
Speaker 1: mountain you start at the bottom of that goes straight up. Now,
Speaker 1: of course it'd be nice to start at the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain, which you can do, but you lose
Speaker 1: your visibility of where the animals are at. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of fingers in this particular spot, so depending on
Speaker 1: where the elk are, like the spot from the bottom
Speaker 1: and then work my way up. Many years ago, I
Speaker 1: when I started guiding, I was working for this outfitter
Speaker 1: and um, you know it's opening day and before this,
Speaker 1: this was just an area that I hunt myself a
Speaker 1: lot as well, and I'd hunted it during the archery season.
Speaker 1: There was a pretty nice meal dere in there. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I decided to pass the buck up
Speaker 1: with my bow and then decided later on in the
Speaker 1: season I really wanted to get that buck and ended
Speaker 1: up not finding him again. So as I was scouting
Speaker 1: between the archery and the rifle season, I relocated this
Speaker 1: buck that i'd lost in September. Now it's like mid October,
Speaker 1: and this is before opening day, so the outfitter that
Speaker 1: it worked for happened to there are two on one hunt,
Speaker 1: so I had two clients and myself as the guide,
Speaker 1: and I figured, okay, I've been watching this deer for
Speaker 1: the kind of the week before the season. I thought
Speaker 1: that I'd be a really it's a really nice buck
Speaker 1: for a general area. We should probably trying go get
Speaker 1: that buck. Because most of the people that showed up
Speaker 1: came hunting. We're really looking for elk, but they had
Speaker 1: combo tags elk and deer tags, so it's just kind
Speaker 1: of a cool opportunity to get a nicer buck than average.
Speaker 1: And as I'm watching him right before the season, this
Speaker 1: group of elk actually moved down off the mountain into
Speaker 1: this pocket where the buck had been hanging out, and
Speaker 1: in that group was like two little rag horn bulls.
Speaker 1: So it's the night before the opener. The hunters come
Speaker 1: in and I'm talking to the two guys that I'm
Speaker 1: going with. One of them was a little bit older,
Speaker 1: well quite a bit older than the other guy. He
Speaker 1: was like in his late sixties, maybe even seventy, but
Speaker 1: he was in pretty decent shape. This is his first
Speaker 1: elk hunt. He'd been kind of like hiking and preparing
Speaker 1: and doing all this stuff. And then the other guy
Speaker 1: was like in his mid thirties but overweight. It really
Speaker 1: hadn't done much. And so both of them they this
Speaker 1: was their first elk hunt, first trip out west, didn't
Speaker 1: really know what to expect. We're just looking for any bowl,
Speaker 1: any legal bowl, so they just had to have brow teins,
Speaker 1: you know, as a general elk area, so you know,
Speaker 1: kind of just getting a bull was the hard part.
Speaker 1: So just like brow tein bull if we found that,
Speaker 1: gonna be down. And then they had deer tags, which
Speaker 1: if they got elk, we would hunt deer. So I'm like, sweet, okay,
Speaker 1: I've got the setup. We've got some bulls in this canyon,
Speaker 1: and I know that there's a couple of good deer
Speaker 1: that have been living in there because I've been watching
Speaker 1: them all archery season and now before rifle season. So
Speaker 1: our plan is we're gonna start heading up. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to a glassing spot because I can't I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly where, like you know, the elk are going
Speaker 1: to be moving in the night. It happened to be
Speaker 1: a full moon too, so I figured the elk aren't
Speaker 1: gonna be where I last saw him. The deer probably
Speaker 1: won't be where I last saw him, So we're just
Speaker 1: gonna get into a glassing position at first light, figure
Speaker 1: out where they are, and then try to get close.
Speaker 1: We get in, and also, like opening day, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other hunters around, so it's just kind of
Speaker 1: one of those things you got to spot them and
Speaker 1: make your move fast before they get really blown out
Speaker 1: of there spooked. So we're sitting there before daylight, just
Speaker 1: as it starts to get light, like a glass around
Speaker 1: where I think they might be. Sure enough, I spot
Speaker 1: that group of elk. There's maybe twenty cows and a
Speaker 1: couple of bulls in there, and they're moving up the mountains.
Speaker 1: So these tend to just like be down lower in
Speaker 1: the more like feed down in the evening, and then
Speaker 1: they feed back up in the morning. The trouble is
Speaker 1: is I know that we're gonna have to be chasing
Speaker 1: him because once they get into this timber patch at
Speaker 1: the top, it's really hard to get on them. They
Speaker 1: bed up in there, and with other people moving around,
Speaker 1: they're probably just gonna get deeper into the timber and
Speaker 1: it's so it's just like this first in the morning.
Speaker 1: We gotta get on these elk, And I explained this
Speaker 1: to them ahead of time, like, okay, cool. So I
Speaker 1: spot the elk moving up. I mean, it's just like
Speaker 1: in the dark almost, and I can see them moving
Speaker 1: up one of the guts, and I know exactly where
Speaker 1: they're going. So I'm like, all right, guys, we gotta
Speaker 1: go up this ridge and try to cut these elk off.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna keep moving until they get to the top.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't sure. You know, there's a couple of
Speaker 1: different ways they could go. So once I saw the
Speaker 1: direction they're going, like, all right, we just gotta keep going.
Speaker 1: So we start hiking, hiking. I'm like, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a matter of timing. If we can get there
Speaker 1: in time, we will probably get both those elk. Otherwise
Speaker 1: we don't, we might not get any. So we start
Speaker 1: going up the mountain, going up the mountain, and the
Speaker 1: older guy is keeping up pretty good, and I just
Speaker 1: tell him, look, I'm gonna put us at a pace
Speaker 1: that I know we can get there in time, and
Speaker 1: just try to keep up if you can. I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough, but this is gonna be our chance.
Speaker 1: So we're we're cruising up there. The older guy, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's obviously like I'm keeping a pace far enough forward
Speaker 1: where I can just keep pushing him a little bit
Speaker 1: because I know how long it's gonna take to get
Speaker 1: up there. And we're pushing, pushing, and then the other guy,
Speaker 1: let's say quite a bit out of shape, was started
Speaker 1: falling behind, falling behind. He was giving it as all
Speaker 1: he could see those elk now, and he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: we just got to get up to that ridge. They
Speaker 1: started feeding, and we just got to get up there
Speaker 1: where we can get into position for a shot. And
Speaker 1: he's fallen behind. I look back and he just he
Speaker 1: looks like he's hurting. I'm like, all right, So I
Speaker 1: tell the other guy. I'm like, hey, just keep on
Speaker 1: this course. I'm gonna go check with the other dude
Speaker 1: and make sure he's alive, make sure he's okay, and
Speaker 1: I'll catch up. Just keep working towards that rock up
Speaker 1: at the top of the region, all right. I was like,
Speaker 1: just you know, keep going, keep a nice easy pace
Speaker 1: and just keep moving. Okay. I go back, and as
Speaker 1: I get back to the other guy, I mean he
Speaker 1: is like hunched over just calling dinosaurs, just puking like crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had exerted himself to a point where
Speaker 1: he is now just like throwing up and not in
Speaker 1: good position. And I come down. He looks, he just
Speaker 1: like looks like this is not for me. He's like,
Speaker 1: why don't you two go up there and try to,
Speaker 1: you know, get those elk. And I'm like, okay, He's like,
Speaker 1: I'll just keep I was like, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: normally I don't like to leave somebody, but this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen if we can get up there. So I
Speaker 1: tell him, look, take your time, get up to that rock.
Speaker 1: However long it takes you, we'll meet you back there
Speaker 1: at some point. He's like, perfect, sounds good. So I
Speaker 1: catch up to the other guy. We get up to
Speaker 1: the ridge. Sure enough, the elk are feeding in this
Speaker 1: little basin right before the timber patch. He lines up
Speaker 1: a shot, boom, shoots the bull like sweet, So we
Speaker 1: go over. We tag the elk, like, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: check on the other guy. Go over the ridge, but
Speaker 1: I take a little bit different route down to where
Speaker 1: I can glass and see if I can find him.
Speaker 1: And as I'm going on the opposite ridge of where
Speaker 1: we were. I look down and sure enough there's that
Speaker 1: good meal dear buck. So I go back to the
Speaker 1: guy that just shot the elk, and I'm like, hey man,
Speaker 1: let's let's get over here. There. That buck is just
Speaker 1: right below this other ridge. We get over there, sneak over,
Speaker 1: and the buck is now just bedded in like this
Speaker 1: little bit of a burn area. So we get into
Speaker 1: position right across the canyon, bucks bedded there yards takes
Speaker 1: the shot. Boom, he just filled both his elk and
Speaker 1: his deer tag. Meanwhile, the guy that wasn't in very
Speaker 1: good shape is struggling up the hill and at this
Speaker 1: point had heard the shot. I think he now got
Speaker 1: to the rock where we're going to meet. So we
Speaker 1: go down. We tagged the deer, got that one, just
Speaker 1: because I'm like, all right now we've got two animals,
Speaker 1: we've got a process. But let this one cool down.
Speaker 1: It's on the nice shady side. We'll go back up,
Speaker 1: grab the other guy, take care of the alcohol. I'll
Speaker 1: hang it up in the tree, and then we'll come
Speaker 1: back and take care of this deer and pack it out.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy that was not in very good shape,
Speaker 1: you know, we meet up with him, and it was
Speaker 1: just one of those deals where had he been there
Speaker 1: and able to just push up to that ridge, he
Speaker 1: probably would have shot an elk with the other elk,
Speaker 1: because once we shot that one bull, the other bull
Speaker 1: just kind of stayed there for a while, and with
Speaker 1: the buck that the other guy shot, there were two bucks.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, look, man, you know, now we've got
Speaker 1: four more days to hunt, when we could have tagged
Speaker 1: out if he was in just a little bit better
Speaker 1: shape and it didn't have to be in marathon shape,
Speaker 1: but just better shape, good enough shape to push up
Speaker 1: the ridge and get into position in time before those
Speaker 1: elk moved over. Actually, you know, we continued to hunt
Speaker 1: for the rest of the week, and uh, after that
Speaker 1: first day he really had an eye opening awakening of like, man,
Speaker 1: this is pretty tough stuff. But he got his head
Speaker 1: around it, and we ended up finding like a small
Speaker 1: five point bull on the last evening of the last day,
Speaker 1: got into position and he took a shot. I actually
Speaker 1: think he missed the first shot and then the elk
Speaker 1: just ran into the timber. But that really opened his
Speaker 1: eyes to wow, this is very difficult, you know, and
Speaker 1: he was like, man, I'm really sorry. I was in
Speaker 1: bad shape. I wasn't prepared for this. He's like, I promised,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back, I'm gonna get an elk, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in better shape. The second year he
Speaker 1: came back, he's like, man, that first trip really changed
Speaker 1: his life. He lost like ninety pounds. He was in
Speaker 1: a lot better shape. He knew what to expect. The
Speaker 1: first day, he's like, are we going up Puke Ridge again?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, We're going up Puke Ridge again.
Speaker 1: I actually I can't remember if you picked that second
Speaker 1: year or not, but either way, maybe I was pushing
Speaker 1: him too hard. Either way, he ended up getting an
Speaker 1: elk on like the second day of the trip and
Speaker 1: a mule here on the fourth day, and just had
Speaker 1: an overall way better experience because he was in better
Speaker 1: shape to enjoy what was going on as well as
Speaker 1: push himself to be successful. If you know me, that
Speaker 1: you probably have understood by now that my style of
Speaker 1: hunting is mountain type hunting. I think that I put
Speaker 1: a lot of importance on being physically fit and able
Speaker 1: to do the task at hand. Now, I will preface
Speaker 1: this that I am definitely not a personal trainer of
Speaker 1: any source. Like, the things that I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about this week are just things that I do, things
Speaker 1: that I've found, and it's very just specific to hunting
Speaker 1: in the mountains. Everybody is at a different place, and
Speaker 1: my goal here is just wherever you're at, whether you're
Speaker 1: somebody that's in extremely good shape or somebody that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on my first Western hunt. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to expect and I haven't worked out in
Speaker 1: twenty years. I just want to make you a little
Speaker 1: bit better, because the difference between being prepared and being unprepared,
Speaker 1: that ability to say I see an elk over there
Speaker 1: and going oh, that's too far, or saying like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over there and get it, and if
Speaker 1: you don't get it, getting up the next day and
Speaker 1: being able to do the same thing. I just want
Speaker 1: to be able to get you in a mindset and
Speaker 1: a place where you can do that. And I think
Speaker 1: the summer is a great time to prepare. Now. There
Speaker 1: is no replication for just doing carrying a pack through
Speaker 1: the mountains, hiking all a for days on end. I
Speaker 1: do this full time for a living. I'm out there
Speaker 1: all the time, and so I don't really have to
Speaker 1: train outside of that because I just trained by doing.
Speaker 1: I completely understand that that is definitely not possible for everyone.
Speaker 1: So what I've done is is thought of things that
Speaker 1: I do or have done on years that I'm not
Speaker 1: out there as much, as well as things that I've
Speaker 1: recommended to people that come on hunts with me that
Speaker 1: maybe you're coming from somewhere that don't have mountains, you
Speaker 1: other stuff. So I want this to be something that
Speaker 1: can pertain to your lives wherever you're at, and try
Speaker 1: to build up mountain strength and mountain endurance from home
Speaker 1: before you come out here or before you start your
Speaker 1: hunt this season, and that can really be done during
Speaker 1: the summer. Now. I've talked a lot about this in
Speaker 1: the Q and A S, but I really wanted to
Speaker 1: form just like some actionable plans and and maybe some
Speaker 1: things that I just think are important for Western style hunting.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of things that are a little
Speaker 1: bit different, So I just want to key in on
Speaker 1: those things, you know, as hunters. If I were to
Speaker 1: break it down into the four key components of just
Speaker 1: like going further and hunting harder, I would say that
Speaker 1: it's endurance, your wind, like your breathing, carrying weight, and
Speaker 1: climbing strength. So if you just think about, like your
Speaker 1: standard Western hunt, especially elk and and elks seem to
Speaker 1: be the thing that people want to chase the most,
Speaker 1: and I think it's one of the more physical Western
Speaker 1: hunts out there. So you just think about, like if
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about fitness, I'm gonna break down
Speaker 1: the hunt and the things, the parts that are physical.
Speaker 1: You know, nearly every Western hunt involves something along these lines.
Speaker 1: Like you you spot an animal, I would say ninetent
Speaker 1: of the time, it's gonna be an uphill climb to it.
Speaker 1: Wherever you're at, the animals normally involved an uphill climb,
Speaker 1: whether it's an uphill climb to them or an uphill
Speaker 1: climb out. You know you're gonna start pursuing them, so
Speaker 1: you throw on a pack. You know you're gonna start
Speaker 1: going up the mountain whatever. You probably get there or
Speaker 1: close to and they've moved, so you gotta keep going
Speaker 1: a little bit further. So you gotta just you know,
Speaker 1: push onto the next ridge, get into position. Then let's
Speaker 1: say you get into position, you make that shot awesome
Speaker 1: great job, pat yourself on the back. What's next The
Speaker 1: real work begins. Now you gotta pack that animal back
Speaker 1: out and that's maybe, in the case of an elk,
Speaker 1: a few hundred pounds of meat on your back that
Speaker 1: you have to carry who knows how far. So we
Speaker 1: need to figure out ways that really focus on preparing
Speaker 1: us for that style of hunting. What we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna just start talking about stuff that translates
Speaker 1: to the hunting experience. So we're gonna break it down.
Speaker 1: The first one, let's talk about leg strength. Like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, Western or mountain hunting, or wherever you're at.
Speaker 1: I mean, I call it Western hunting. But just like
Speaker 1: spot and stock style hunting, big country hunting, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of uphill climbing and if you aren't used to that,
Speaker 1: that right there can be the hardest thing to be
Speaker 1: ready for. And really it comes down to the strength
Speaker 1: of your legs. Your legs are your engine in the mountains,
Speaker 1: they are your quad, and they are going to get
Speaker 1: you to where you need to go. And really, I
Speaker 1: think that building up that leg strength comes through pushing
Speaker 1: through that burn. If you talk about anybody that I've
Speaker 1: taken out, whether on a trip or whatever. It's these
Speaker 1: complaints that the things that you run into the problems,
Speaker 1: like your legs are burning as you're going up the hill,
Speaker 1: So you need something that can build your legs. And
Speaker 1: then you have to also realize, you know, we aren't
Speaker 1: talking about like sprinting. We weren't talking about short bursts
Speaker 1: of strength. We're talking about prolonged, day in, day out
Speaker 1: strength and movement. So you really need to do something
Speaker 1: that replicates that uphill. Honestly, if you have some form
Speaker 1: of hill, that is going to be the best. Like
Speaker 1: I like to replicate what I'm doing by doing what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I hike all the time with a
Speaker 1: pack and hunting guide in whatever. When I jump on
Speaker 1: a bike, I get sore entired really fast because my
Speaker 1: muscles are trained to do one specific task really well.
Speaker 1: And so what we're trying to do is trying to
Speaker 1: find things that help build that leg strength in a
Speaker 1: way that works for hiking, carrying a pack and hunting.
Speaker 1: And really, you know, if you don't have a hill,
Speaker 1: what you want to do is you want to replicate
Speaker 1: that uphill climb. So if you've got a hill, use
Speaker 1: a hill, no hill, use stairs, real or fake stairs.
Speaker 1: If you don't have real or fake stairs, then even
Speaker 1: though I said, you know, it's a little bit different muscles,
Speaker 1: but it builds it in the same way. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe jump on a bike and use it on a
Speaker 1: harder setting. Because what we're gonna try to do is
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to build up your leg strength. But
Speaker 1: leg strength that works really well with lots of movement,
Speaker 1: you know, prolonged period of time. So if you got
Speaker 1: a hill, and I've said this on some of the
Speaker 1: Q and A S and other things, but I just
Speaker 1: want to elaborate a little bit on it. One of
Speaker 1: the things when I was starting out, realized, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta get in better shape for these mountains. Like I
Speaker 1: would start hiking up the hill at the beginning and
Speaker 1: then kind of get tired. You know, it's just it's normal.
Speaker 1: But one thing that I started to do was the
Speaker 1: idea of just like being able to keep moving kind
Speaker 1: of push through that burn. And my whole philosophy was
Speaker 1: like I just don't want to feel it burned when
Speaker 1: I walk uphill, Like I just want to see something
Speaker 1: and just not even think about it. And now I've
Speaker 1: gotten to a point over the years where honestly I'd
Speaker 1: prefer to walk uphill. Like I've developed it enough to
Speaker 1: where it really doesn't make a difference where I'm going uphill, downhill,
Speaker 1: flat land. I get bored walking out flat. I think
Speaker 1: I'd rather just walk up hill most time. So to
Speaker 1: do that kind of start out with this idea of
Speaker 1: like constantly moving where I tricked my muscles in to
Speaker 1: keep working even after I'm completely tired. And you can
Speaker 1: do this at home. You can do this on stairs
Speaker 1: like I said, or or if you've got a hill, whatever.
Speaker 1: What you want to do is pick a steep hill
Speaker 1: if you've got one, and just like try to be
Speaker 1: able to walk up it without stopping. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how long it takes you. It doesn't matter if you
Speaker 1: have to start side stepping is walking backwards. Whatever, you
Speaker 1: want to be able to move up it without stopping.
Speaker 1: Because the ability to push through getting tired is actually,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I'm no expert, but what I've noticed
Speaker 1: in my life is it allows me to continue to
Speaker 1: push through those times when I start to get tired.
Speaker 1: My body starts to readjust and understand that, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can push through it in this way, and that's just
Speaker 1: through that constant movement and doing that helps build that
Speaker 1: leg strength. So I'll do like whatever it takes to
Speaker 1: keep going. Now when you're starting out, here's the way
Speaker 1: that I suggest to do it. And you're gonna just
Speaker 1: like set a baseline. So let's say it's a day one,
Speaker 1: whether you've got a flight of tall stairs, you've got
Speaker 1: a StairMaster, you've got uh stationary bike, set it on
Speaker 1: like maybe a hard setting, and give yourself, say a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time or distance if you can track
Speaker 1: it on that, or you've got just like a natural
Speaker 1: hill it's uphill. You know, it should be something that
Speaker 1: you could not do without stopping. So whatever that is.
Speaker 1: So like if you just crush it the first time,
Speaker 1: you have to find that balance of where it's going
Speaker 1: to push you a little bit. And like I said,
Speaker 1: these I want these tips to be just like some
Speaker 1: out of the box tips that if you go to
Speaker 1: a personal trainer, maybe they aren't thinking of these kind
Speaker 1: of things. These are things that have helped me for
Speaker 1: hunting and mountain hiking. So you're gonna set that baseline.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be something that at this point you
Speaker 1: cannot do without stopping or maybe taking a while. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna do that. That's gonna be your mountain.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be your training center. That's gonna be where
Speaker 1: you're going to keep on working because you want to
Speaker 1: be able to see the progress over time, and that's
Speaker 1: how you're really going to build that strength and be
Speaker 1: able to learn to push through things. So you set
Speaker 1: that baseline, and I'm talking like you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how good to shape your in. You just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're gonna be pushed throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the summer doing this every time you you
Speaker 1: do it, whether it's every other day, however often once
Speaker 1: or whatever, it doesn't really matter. And you know, the
Speaker 1: more the better you're you know, the more you do it,
Speaker 1: the better you're gonna get at it. But you're just
Speaker 1: gonna also record that and track your progress. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna go and you're just gonna see how long it
Speaker 1: takes you to do it. If you have to stop, great,
Speaker 1: if you have to take a break, great, but just
Speaker 1: keep going until you get to the top of whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Then you're gonna keep doing it and record
Speaker 1: that progress. There's gonna come a point where you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's difficult, but you've pretty much like got it to
Speaker 1: a place where you're gonna start trying to make it
Speaker 1: without stopping. And that might mean you are going at
Speaker 1: a snails pace in that point where you need to
Speaker 1: slow down, but your goal is going to be to
Speaker 1: make it up the thing that you couldn't go up
Speaker 1: without stopping, to like constantly keep moving without stopping, even
Speaker 1: if it's the slowest step. The like I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, but it's like where I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: know I can't keep going, but I almost like I
Speaker 1: turn around and start walking backwards because the muscles used
Speaker 1: to go forwards are no longer walking around like sidestep
Speaker 1: real slow or I'm just like just whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: keep moving to the top. And at some point you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that. And then that's where
Speaker 1: now you're gonna record this and say, like when I
Speaker 1: do record things, I'm like, all right, here's how long
Speaker 1: it took me. Here's how I felt. I was breathing
Speaker 1: super heavy, it was super hard I had to do
Speaker 1: this to get up. At at this point, my legs
Speaker 1: started to burn, and like really start to record that,
Speaker 1: because the cool part is you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: see that progress every time. Then you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to a point where you're just like one day
Speaker 1: you're just gonna Okay, I can get up at without moving,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna kind of work on making that
Speaker 1: time a little bit better, a little bit better, and
Speaker 1: by the end of the summer, you're gonna have built
Speaker 1: that leg strength and you're have kind of taught your
Speaker 1: legs like how to start pushing through things. And what
Speaker 1: that's gonna help with is your recovery times, the ability
Speaker 1: to when you see an animal need to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: that's the times that you're gonna have to push through that.
Speaker 1: And it's as much training and building your leg strength
Speaker 1: as training your mind and your body to say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is what it feels like when I'm tired, but
Speaker 1: I know that I can get over that hump. I
Speaker 1: can get past that. And so building that strength, I
Speaker 1: found really helps with that mountain endurance and that uphill climbing.
Speaker 1: Now we also have to think, you know, what goes
Speaker 1: up must come down, and if you're so focused entirely
Speaker 1: on going uphill you're gonna lose a lot of energy
Speaker 1: when you go downhill. And I really think that in
Speaker 1: the mountains, you know, as much uphill as you do,
Speaker 1: you do is just as much downhill. And often the
Speaker 1: downhill is when you've got the heavier packs and other things.
Speaker 1: That kind of strength doesn't necessarily come from your legs,
Speaker 1: but more your core. So you want to do two
Speaker 1: things in your whatever your exercise regiment's gonna be add
Speaker 1: in abdominal exercises, I do like a little circuit of
Speaker 1: laying down sit ups in different forms, like try to
Speaker 1: get all apps. I'll do like leg lifts or like
Speaker 1: lay on my back, hold my legs up. Then do
Speaker 1: you know fifty sit ups on one side, fifty crunches
Speaker 1: side crunches left and right, turn around my stomach and
Speaker 1: lift my torso. So I try to get like all
Speaker 1: the areas of my abdominal area to strengthen. But also
Speaker 1: when I'm doing those uphill climbs, there's two ways you
Speaker 1: can walk downhill. You can just bumble downhill and let
Speaker 1: gravity take you. That tends to be very hard on
Speaker 1: your joints and very dangerous when you have a lot
Speaker 1: of weight, and if you don't practice like controlling your
Speaker 1: descent when it actually comes to hunting time, You're gonna
Speaker 1: get used to just walking like that. Your body is
Speaker 1: gonna hurt, your knees are gonna hurt. You're gonna complain
Speaker 1: about that. After I do my uphill, I'm now like
Speaker 1: controlling my descent, isolating my core, trying to stabilize my
Speaker 1: body and really use my muscles and legs as shock
Speaker 1: absorbers as I walk. It's almost like my knees are
Speaker 1: bent and I'm using my muscles downhill as much as
Speaker 1: I am uphill, and getting used to using controlling your
Speaker 1: muscles as you go downhill is going to help build
Speaker 1: that endurance as well. So you aren't trying to take
Speaker 1: it easy on the downhill, but you're you're building that
Speaker 1: strength and the muscles for balance and downhill walking. So
Speaker 1: when you throw that heavy pack on when you're in
Speaker 1: the mountains all day, you know you've got the leg
Speaker 1: strength for the uphill, but then you've got that core
Speaker 1: strength and stability for the downhill. Now we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about endurance, So I just like picking exercises that promote
Speaker 1: endurance for me. If I if I could hike all day,
Speaker 1: you know, on weekends or whatever. That's the one that
Speaker 1: I'm going to pick, But obviously that may not it
Speaker 1: into all kinds of schedules. So any kind of repetitive
Speaker 1: longhold to get your muscles to be able to work
Speaker 1: for longer periods of time, you know, for more home
Speaker 1: gym type stuff, I pick things like jogging, cycling, just
Speaker 1: anything where you're constantly working. Like I said, this is
Speaker 1: trying to get you fit, mountain fit for a specific task,
Speaker 1: and that specific task is just being able to move
Speaker 1: for long periods of time. So anything like holding a chair, squad,
Speaker 1: lots of lunges, lightweight, but just a lot of repetitions
Speaker 1: over longer period of time. You know. Building your leg
Speaker 1: strength is great with heavy heavier weights. I don't do
Speaker 1: a lot of weight training type stuff only because one
Speaker 1: night it just bores me too. It's just not my thing.
Speaker 1: In three I just find that I want to keep
Speaker 1: that repetition of long, long repetition, so when I'm out
Speaker 1: there hiking, I don't get tired. And that's just what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, you know. So if I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: some kind of exercise, I go with the three RS.
Speaker 1: It's repetition, repetition, repetition, that's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: You know, hunting is hiking all day at hiking speed.
Speaker 1: But in that hiking speed, you're throwing in mountains, you're
Speaker 1: throwing in a lot of deadfall and things you've got
Speaker 1: to step up and over and all this. So you're
Speaker 1: constantly working, you're constantly moving, and you want something at
Speaker 1: home that kind of compliments that. And doing something like
Speaker 1: a little bit each day is really good. And then
Speaker 1: if you have time on the weekends, you know, do
Speaker 1: something a little bit longer. It's gonna help build that insurance.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a slow like jog for an hour, a
Speaker 1: weekend hike. Maybe go do some shed antler hunting or
Speaker 1: something that's very like throw on that pack, go in
Speaker 1: the mountains or the woods or whatever and do that
Speaker 1: hiking and do those movements in an activity that's going
Speaker 1: to keep you occupied that very well mimics what you've
Speaker 1: been training during the week days. For now, we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on to one thing that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people forget about. They might be prepared, they're working out,
Speaker 1: they're doing all this stuff, then they get into the
Speaker 1: mountains or on their hunt, they throw their backpack on,
Speaker 1: they start walking, and they go this pack sucks is
Speaker 1: because they aren't prepared to carry weight even before the
Speaker 1: pack out. Wearing a backpack and having some weight in
Speaker 1: it is really something that you need to be training for.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I suggested doing it with the backpack that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be hunting with. You also have to think
Speaker 1: about the other forms of weight you're carrying on your body.
Speaker 1: A lot of people train, they jog, they do all
Speaker 1: their stuff, and then when they go out hunting, they
Speaker 1: throw on their hunting boots, which are a couple of
Speaker 1: pounds apiece, and they throw on their pack and they're
Speaker 1: immediately gassed and feel unprepared, and mentally they're like, man,
Speaker 1: I worked out a lot, and then they get in
Speaker 1: on the hunt and they realize like that extra bit
Speaker 1: of weight slows them down, and mentally it kind of
Speaker 1: beats you down. So I suggest you know, adding into
Speaker 1: your training something that incorporates that packway as well as
Speaker 1: that boot weight. Obviously, you need to break those boots in.
Speaker 1: So if you can wear your boots on some of
Speaker 1: this stuff great. If you're doing stairs, put those boots on,
Speaker 1: put your pack on and get used to wearing that
Speaker 1: and wearing that weight, or if you're just doing a jog,
Speaker 1: maybe it's your your normal jog. It might sound super
Speaker 1: eighties whatever, some ankle weights or some kind of weight
Speaker 1: on your feet so you can you still got that
Speaker 1: comfort of the shoe, but your legs are used to
Speaker 1: lifting a little bit more weight. So when you go
Speaker 1: out into the field, you know, it's not a surprise.
Speaker 1: Your body is like, yep, I'm used to lifting a
Speaker 1: little bit more weight down there. Great. One thing that
Speaker 1: I've found, one thing that I do a lot, is
Speaker 1: I just start carrying a weighted pack around on all
Speaker 1: my hikes or all my stuff. I found, like I
Speaker 1: use those forty pound more in salt bags. They just
Speaker 1: fit in like my pack. Real well, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to prevent injury and other things, but having like
Speaker 1: a good amount of weight where you're used to it
Speaker 1: and it's not going to kill your back is good
Speaker 1: to do. You know, start out with lighter weight. If
Speaker 1: this is new for you, just start wearing that pack
Speaker 1: and maybe put some waters in it that you're gonna take,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a full full two leader, analogen or
Speaker 1: something like that. It's not a lot of weight, but
Speaker 1: you just start out at one spot and start working
Speaker 1: up to something else. Also, I mean I learned this
Speaker 1: from my dad, was you know, I mean there's guys
Speaker 1: that are bigger guys that can just kill it in
Speaker 1: the mountains. You know, you don't have to be the
Speaker 1: leanest men is dude out there to be successful, but
Speaker 1: you also have to have that attitude and mentality of
Speaker 1: keep going, and you also have to be able to
Speaker 1: carry some stuff. And you're just gonna make your your
Speaker 1: whole experience more enjoyable when it's easier for you. You know,
Speaker 1: my dad was like fairly overweight and then decide four hunting.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm gonna get in shape. And he has
Speaker 1: worked out every day for the last I don't even
Speaker 1: know eleven years, maybe something like that. But you know
Speaker 1: he realized when he lost that weight on his body.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about carrying a forty pound pack
Speaker 1: seems heavy, but if you have forty pounds to lose,
Speaker 1: you know, you can lose that and replace it with
Speaker 1: that packway and you're just gonna have a much more
Speaker 1: enjoyable experience on the hunt in the mountains. Now, this
Speaker 1: last one. Not many people talk about this, or at
Speaker 1: least I don't think, and this is something that I
Speaker 1: find I think is one of the more important factors
Speaker 1: when it comes to hunting shape. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: call it your wind like just your breathing if you
Speaker 1: think about going uphill or whatever. People that hunt with
Speaker 1: me when I'm guiding, even guys that have been training
Speaker 1: a long time or whatever, they walk behind and I'll
Speaker 1: be stopped and I'm like, man, you aren't even breathing hard.
Speaker 1: And the thing is like the fact of getting winded. Yes,
Speaker 1: I still get winded. But I don't know if other
Speaker 1: people do this or what, but this is just what
Speaker 1: I do. I've I've got a way that I breathe
Speaker 1: to help control my heart rate and really slow my
Speaker 1: breathing and use the oxygen that I'm taking in. It's
Speaker 1: so easy to just start going up the mountain and
Speaker 1: start breathing hard and v and I do that same thing.
Speaker 1: And a long time ago, I just decided I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna try to control my breathing, so try to keep
Speaker 1: my breathing the same. When I'm like hitting that max
Speaker 1: heart rate, when my heart rates getting higher, I breathe
Speaker 1: in slow and breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, and
Speaker 1: use my controlled breathing to control my heart rate. And
Speaker 1: over the years of doing that, I have found that
Speaker 1: I use my oxygen better than a lot of other people.
Speaker 1: And it's taken a long time to be able to
Speaker 1: control my heart rate like that and control my breathing
Speaker 1: like that, but it's something that I've used in many
Speaker 1: different places, many different ways of just like using breath
Speaker 1: holds and controlling my breath to make me use oxygen better.
Speaker 1: It's like tricking my body to use the oxygen that's
Speaker 1: available and to slow my heart rate down. And because
Speaker 1: of that, I have faster recovery time. So when I
Speaker 1: walk up a steep hill, I can stop for a
Speaker 1: few seconds, get my breath back under me, and keep going.
Speaker 1: And it helps me with my endurance and with just
Speaker 1: going in hard stuff longer. One of the exercises that
Speaker 1: you can do at home that I really enjoy doing.
Speaker 1: This is something I do a lot like if I
Speaker 1: can't get out and get on the mountain or whatever,
Speaker 1: especially if I don't have a lot of time, is
Speaker 1: just practice this recovery breathing and heart rate, so it
Speaker 1: could be like a treadmill or just outside. And what
Speaker 1: I'll do is I'll do any exercise that I can
Speaker 1: do to just get that heart rate like maxed out,
Speaker 1: get that heart rate high. So like jump on the
Speaker 1: treadmill on the fastest speed that I can run and
Speaker 1: run it until you know, maybe it's like thirty seconds
Speaker 1: or whatever, doing like wind sprints in the yard. So
Speaker 1: I'm breathing hard, fast, heavy, and then i try to
Speaker 1: control my breathing during that recovery period. So it's just
Speaker 1: like deep breath in, sold slow breath out, and just
Speaker 1: like keep that controlled breathing. Then I jump back on
Speaker 1: do that sprinter whatever, and then have that rest period.
Speaker 1: So I have like a set workout period where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bump that heart rate up, and then a set
Speaker 1: rest period, and during that rest period, I'm working on
Speaker 1: controlling my breathing. One thing that I also do. I've
Speaker 1: done this for like spear fishing and other things, but
Speaker 1: just like practicing breath holds when I'm not working out,
Speaker 1: breathing in, holding my breath for a little while, breathing out,
Speaker 1: and then like recuperating. But it's just kind of trained
Speaker 1: my body to lower my heart rate and utilize those breasts.
Speaker 1: So while I'm hiking, when I'm feeling out of breath
Speaker 1: and feeling tired, I can just stop, I can breathe,
Speaker 1: I can try to slow my heart rate and then
Speaker 1: keep going. And that plays into hunting really well. When
Speaker 1: those times where you're climbing up the mountain and you know,
Speaker 1: as soon as I get over this mountain, I need
Speaker 1: to maybe make a shot, I need to make a
Speaker 1: good shot, or I'm getting into that zone where I
Speaker 1: gotta start stalking. But I had to get here fast.
Speaker 1: So being able to control your heart rate, control your breathing,
Speaker 1: and slow everything back down and recover really fast is
Speaker 1: key into that, as well as helping you recover and
Speaker 1: just keep going further, harder, longer. Now, I think one
Speaker 1: of the last things that I believe gets overlooked. It
Speaker 1: was just this idea of balance exercise. If you're thinking
Speaker 1: about walking in the mountains, everything is unstable, your sidehilling,
Speaker 1: You're using all these little muscles while trying to balance
Speaker 1: a heavy pack a lot of weight and stay upright
Speaker 1: and keep going for a long time. You know. Working
Speaker 1: on stability and balance I've found over the years has
Speaker 1: really helped me in the mountains not get fatigued as easily.
Speaker 1: It's all those little muscles that start to go out first,
Speaker 1: the ones that you feel like you don't use doing
Speaker 1: anything else. You know, you get stronger by doing what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, but really isolating the things that you
Speaker 1: use in the mountains. Building that up before you ever
Speaker 1: get there is going to help in the long run.
Speaker 1: I mean, I say this and it's not really my thing,
Speaker 1: but I've noticed that when I do like yoga type exercises,
Speaker 1: I actually build up a lot more endurance and flexibility.
Speaker 1: And I've seen it working and like helping me during
Speaker 1: a hunt or in the mountains, and I completely understand.
Speaker 1: You know, most dudes are like, I'm not that flexible
Speaker 1: just from hiking uphill a lot. I never really thought
Speaker 1: about flexibility and being able to you know, do exercises
Speaker 1: that involve balance. So some tips as far as like
Speaker 1: balance exercise, you know, like if you can do a
Speaker 1: pistol squad, that's great. Stuff like that, or just like
Speaker 1: one foot exercises, balance boards. Doing things where you're working
Speaker 1: little muscles to stabilize yourself while working out is awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to give it a try.
Speaker 1: The whole yoga thing works really well, and I constantly
Speaker 1: say like, I need to do more yoga, you know, personally,
Speaker 1: and this might I don't know, maybe you're on the
Speaker 1: same boat as me. Maybe not. There's like stuff about
Speaker 1: the yoga I'm like, Okay, I don't want to hear about,
Speaker 1: you know, like visualize this, focus on your intention. I
Speaker 1: just do it for the workout portion. When they say, like,
Speaker 1: what focus internally on your intentions? All my intention is
Speaker 1: like I am doing this to go shoot a big
Speaker 1: bull elk in a couple of months. But honestly, that
Speaker 1: is one thing that I've decided I wanted to do
Speaker 1: a little bit more of now, especially because I feel like,
Speaker 1: having not been out as much with COVID and everything,
Speaker 1: I personally need to work on a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff myself. So I've been instituting these all these things
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about. You know, some of this I've
Speaker 1: took for granted over the years of just because I'm
Speaker 1: always out guiding and hiking and doing all this, and
Speaker 1: then having this time where I haven't done it and
Speaker 1: go out on a hike and I'm like, dang man,
Speaker 1: I'm getting winded, my legs are getting tired, and so
Speaker 1: I'm just reinstating all this stuff. This is all stuff
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be doing to make me better
Speaker 1: for this false season. I have personally some awesome hunts
Speaker 1: coming up, so long as things open up. But I've
Speaker 1: got a sheep tag in my pocket that starts in August,
Speaker 1: and it's like i might be hunting that for twenty
Speaker 1: days and any year that I think, I feel probably
Speaker 1: the most out of shape. So I've got some time
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be really hammering home all these things
Speaker 1: that I just talked about. So when I get out
Speaker 1: there on that mountain, that first ton of the year
Speaker 1: is always the hardest for me, and especially maybe on
Speaker 1: this time where I'm not as prepared as I have
Speaker 1: been in years past, where I haven't had to think
Speaker 1: about it. This year, I'm really thinking about it. So
Speaker 1: along with you guys, I'm gonna be doing this exact
Speaker 1: same stuff as a person that has always done it
Speaker 1: just by doing it, just by going out hunting. Like
Speaker 1: the best way of saying hunting shape is hunting. But
Speaker 1: I am the type of person that needs those motivations,
Speaker 1: those goals, and like I'm not. I'm not a gym
Speaker 1: guy really, so I like to do the things that
Speaker 1: build that strength by doing something that keeps my mind
Speaker 1: active or something that's you know, fun for me, and
Speaker 1: that's something to think about. You know. I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: bad at Jim's but I'm really good at activities. So
Speaker 1: I pick activities that can also build these strengths as well.
Speaker 1: Things that I've done in the past. I love rock
Speaker 1: climbing gyms and other things to help build some of
Speaker 1: that endurance and leg strength, you know, shed hunting, hiking
Speaker 1: on the weekends, like really doing activities that are fun
Speaker 1: and parallel what my goals are four hunting. And then
Speaker 1: another thing that I found is a really good motivator
Speaker 1: right now. Actually this just happens to coincide with this
Speaker 1: fitness talk because I didn't realize this until I checked
Speaker 1: my email yesterday and I was like, oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: that started again. The back Country Hunters and Anglers has
Speaker 1: a hike to Hunt challenge. This has been something that
Speaker 1: I've done like every year, and it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun because it gives me motivation to get out there.
Speaker 1: We kind of have like this little thing between my family,
Speaker 1: my mom and my dad, my brothers, my wife, we
Speaker 1: all did it like a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: was actually in the last place of as like to
Speaker 1: hunt challenge out of my family, like my I think
Speaker 1: both my parents did five hundred miles over the summer.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang man, that's that's dedication. I wish that
Speaker 1: I did those five miles. But you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a pretty sweet deal and it's a good little
Speaker 1: motivation because you can win prizes. I just do it
Speaker 1: as like a personal personal goals and try to you know,
Speaker 1: meet certain levels. But they use it as a fundraising
Speaker 1: so it uses uh the map my fitness app and
Speaker 1: you can go on there, you can log in, and
Speaker 1: then it's just like it's essentially a hiking fund run.
Speaker 1: And then they've got other challenges as well, like social
Speaker 1: media challenges where it's like who hikes the most creative
Speaker 1: pattern and you like draw something as you're hiking and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But for me, I'm the type of
Speaker 1: person that is really motivated by having little goals and
Speaker 1: little tasks and can see that progress. That's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why I said, you know, track those uphill
Speaker 1: hikes in the leg strength and other things because I
Speaker 1: like to be able to see that progress and that
Speaker 1: gives me those those little goals. You know, the big
Speaker 1: goal is being ready for the season, but having something
Speaker 1: that kind of occupies your mind is fun to do
Speaker 1: and kind of pushes you in the same way is awesome.
Speaker 1: And I think that. I mean, I like talking about
Speaker 1: this one because there's a fundraising aspect to it. You
Speaker 1: and kind of do like a fun run style thing
Speaker 1: with it where you like raise money based on the
Speaker 1: miles that you hike and other stuff. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if that interests you, I think it's pretty sweet something
Speaker 1: to check out. I Google search hike to Hunt Challenge
Speaker 1: b h A that should come up. So stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Thinking about ways to you know, really get motivated for
Speaker 1: the hunting season and things that you can do that
Speaker 1: that attack endurance, leg strength, you're breathing and carrying weight
Speaker 1: while being fun and entertaining and really motivate you. I
Speaker 1: think that a combination of those things is really going
Speaker 1: to help you get into that place where when the
Speaker 1: season rolls around, maybe you've got one hunt, one tag,
Speaker 1: whatever you can make the most out of it. I
Speaker 1: always get questions people asking like, well, how far is
Speaker 1: too far? Is that the other thing? You know? For me,
Speaker 1: I like to think of it as like when I
Speaker 1: go hunting, I don't think about how far I'm going,
Speaker 1: how far I'm gonna have to pack something out. I
Speaker 1: just like to be in a place where I can
Speaker 1: just give it my all on every trip. And because
Speaker 1: of that have found I think that in many many instances,
Speaker 1: that alone has been my success factor. Back in one
Speaker 1: of the Christmas actually New Year's episode, I was talking
Speaker 1: about fitness, and this is I think it should be
Speaker 1: a theme that comes up a lot. You know, I
Speaker 1: would say I'm not a fitness guru, but I am
Speaker 1: a person that uses physical fitness for hunting, and I
Speaker 1: think that it is extremely important. When I talked about
Speaker 1: it back around New Year's, you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: setting some goals, and I think one of them was like,
Speaker 1: just plan on hiking or walking or whatever a hundred
Speaker 1: miles before the season, and that's not a lot spread
Speaker 1: out over time, and if you haven't started that or
Speaker 1: missed that or whatever, do that over the summer. You know,
Speaker 1: build out that plan and really just make something that's
Speaker 1: actionable and and go for it. I truly believe that
Speaker 1: you're going to have a better experience. It's It's funny
Speaker 1: because last week I was taking a guy out hunting
Speaker 1: that I've hunted with in the past, and over the years,
Speaker 1: he's seen a lot of changes in his physical ability,
Speaker 1: and you know, on this last time we went out,
Speaker 1: he's like, man, that hike. I actually enjoyed it, like
Speaker 1: he's like I was looking around. I was enjoying and
Speaker 1: noticing things as opposed to just in my head struggling,
Speaker 1: just trying to get through it. And that is one
Speaker 1: of like the awesome things about being in better shape
Speaker 1: wherever you're at, just helping yourself get in better shape.
Speaker 1: And I think that over the summer, now is the
Speaker 1: time to prep to make you more successful in the fall.
Speaker 1: Now next week. Last week we talked about rifle shooting.
Speaker 1: This week we talked about fitness. Next week, I want
Speaker 1: to cover some bow practice archery for the bow hunters
Speaker 1: out there are the people getting into bow hunting. You
Speaker 1: can go out and shoot at a target all you want.
Speaker 1: I think that that's awesome, and being accurate is great,
Speaker 1: but I think that there's things that people or get
Speaker 1: to practice that happened in hunting scenarios. So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the kind of practice of like practicing
Speaker 1: certain types of things for hunting scenarios. That means maybe
Speaker 1: shooting an inclement weather like wind, uh, stuff like obstructions
Speaker 1: and other things. I've been doing some of these little
Speaker 1: how twous on that kind of stuff over on my
Speaker 1: Instagram and people have loved it. It's been going over
Speaker 1: really well. So really what I'm gonna be doing is
Speaker 1: talking about that kind of stuff, and then I'll definitely
Speaker 1: be showing some more of that throughout the summer on
Speaker 1: my at remy war and Instagram as well. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: start sending in your questions. I'm getting a lot of questions,
Speaker 1: lots of feedback. We're gonna after that probably be doing
Speaker 1: a Q and A again, so I like to kind
Speaker 1: of prep them out a couple of weeks ahead of time.
Speaker 1: So if you've got those questions about anything we've talked
Speaker 1: about in the summer prep stuff, please shoot me those
Speaker 1: messages either Instagram or Remy at the meat Eater dot com.
Speaker 1: So until next week, keep grinding m Mount the candle
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