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

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

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

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone.

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Speaker 1: This week, I'm gonna be going over when I think

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Speaker 1: are six pretty fun archery practice games to make you

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Speaker 1: a better hunter. Now, with archery season just around the corner,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of start dates coming up August September,

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Speaker 1: and now is the time to kind of get in

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Speaker 1: the repetitions, break the bow out, and get in some

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Speaker 1: practice because when it comes to bow hunting, you really

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Speaker 1: need to make that one shot count. If you think

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Speaker 1: within bow range, and if you don't hit what you're

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Speaker 1: aiming at then it's all for not. In real hunting situation,

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Speaker 1: you can encounter a ton of different obstacles, pressure, different

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Speaker 1: not going to be new. While shooting dots and ten

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Speaker 1: for scores. But I'm gonna mix it up on the

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Speaker 1: range with some of my favorite archery games. But before

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Speaker 1: a white tail hunt and an awkward shot. I really

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Speaker 1: I actually had an archery tag and a friend who

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Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you can come down and uh,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, sweet, I've actually this was like

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Speaker 1: the first time I ever hunted out of a tree stand. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just put the target out there, a little three

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Speaker 1: No matter how long I've been bow hunting, hunting, whatever,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, over the counter elk archery hunt,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be my hunt, and of course things

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Speaker 1: I don't have enough type. Something goes wrong and it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: it was maybe something that I could have fixed in

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Speaker 1: hunting scenarios. This year, I've got I actually got pretty

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Speaker 1: I got a deer tag in my home state in Nevada.

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Speaker 1: I also kind of picked up a couple of different

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Speaker 1: season is pretty full up. Now. If Canada opens its borders, man,

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Speaker 1: I might actually be on a sheep hunt of a lifetime,

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Speaker 1: kind of opportunity again. So time to put in the work,

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Speaker 1: just like get out there and have fun shoot my bow,

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Speaker 1: but also do a lot of training that's very similar

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Speaker 1: It's like one of those things that you can incorporate

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Speaker 1: It's a game of horse. I like to play this game,

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Speaker 1: especially when shooting with friends, because what it does is

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Speaker 1: have that knowledge and comfort with your bow and shooting

427
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,320
Speaker 1: consistently like that is good. But when you go into

428
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 1: the field, I like to practice like I'm gonna hunt.

429
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 1: So this game is it's fun. It's something really fun

430
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 1: to do. You can I picture it like grilling up

431
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: some elk burs in the backyard. We've got the target

432
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 1: and now we're playing a game of archery horse where

433
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,640
Speaker 1: you're getting some pretty crazy shots. It's like, hey, we're

434
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 1: our legs are here, we're leaning back out around this tree,

435
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 1: or you're shooting through these limbs, or you're doing something

436
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 1: and it's a really fun way to get in a

437
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 1: lot of realistic, real life practice. Alright, So the fourth

438
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 1: game I call this the perfect run game, and this

439
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 1: is a good one. Like if you just have you know,

440
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: spot target or whatever, a block a reinhardt, you know,

441
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 1: just like a bag target doesn't really matter. What this

442
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,679
Speaker 1: is is this game is designed to kind of put

443
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: emphasis on making every shot count and there's consequences if

444
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: you don't make that shot count. So the way that

445
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 1: I play, you can you can decide however many arrows

446
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: you want, and this is a really fun game to play,

447
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 1: Like if it's just in your backyard, You've got some

448
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 1: backyard practice to kind of spice it up a bit.

449
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,439
Speaker 1: So it's not just shooting groups, shooting groups shooting groups.

450
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: This is one that you can do alone, or you

451
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: can do against someone. I kind of like the little

452
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,640
Speaker 1: competition aspect of it as well. Or you guys, could

453
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, you can call a friend up and be like, hey,

454
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 1: uh you they can do it in their backyard, you

455
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: can do it in your backyard. You can see how

456
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: many tries it takes you to run it run the course.

457
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: So the way this works is you either start out

458
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: you can say three to five arrows. Five arrows is

459
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: going to be more difficult. Three arrows is going to

460
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 1: be a little bit easier. And what you do is

461
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: you start at a close range and you pick a

462
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: final distance. So let's say the final distance is gonna

463
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 1: be fifty yards, and I'm running it with three arrows.

464
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 1: So what I do is you start at your closest pin.

465
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: Let's say it's twenty yards. So I start twenty yards,

466
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: and you have to shoot the spots. So all three

467
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: arrows have to be in the circle of the target.

468
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: So like three different spots. I generally don't shoot at

469
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: the same one. So I picked three different um spots

470
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: on the target. Like imagine a block target. It's got

471
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: the side that's got I don't know whatever circles on it.

472
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: So I picked three circles top left, top, right, center,

473
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: and every arrow has to be within the circle. At

474
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 1: some point you can decide how you count it whatever

475
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,959
Speaker 1: I mean, I generally do it like scoring system. As

476
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,479
Speaker 1: long as it breaks the line, it's good. So if

477
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 1: you let's say you're running three arrows, boom boom boom,

478
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: perfect shot. Okay, now you run it back. So we

479
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: started twenty Now we're going. Now we're at thirty. We shoot, okay, perfect,

480
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 1: we go pick up our arrows. Now we go to

481
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: thirty five. Let's say we shot one, we shot two.

482
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: Now our third one is out of that that circle.

483
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: Now we got to start back over. We start back

484
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: at twenty yards and we try to walk our way

485
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 1: all the way out to fifty yards running that perfect run.

486
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes that can take you. I mean, you might run

487
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: it and your first chance try. And that's what you want.

488
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: You want to be able to just like make every

489
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: shot count and know that there's consequences. So when you

490
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: get out to forty five yards and you're like, okay,

491
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 1: I'm almost there, I've got three more arrows, and you

492
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 1: shoot and you miss one at forty five, Now you've

493
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: got to start that course over. Um, you gotta start

494
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: back at twenty. And you can do it in different increments,

495
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: you know, depending on how much time you have. You

496
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: can go every ten yards, you can go every five yards,

497
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: you can bust it out to further distances. And it's

498
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: a fun way to kind of age your progress and say, okay,

499
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: well it took me, I I messed up five times,

500
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: I had to redo it, or I got to this one.

501
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: And it gives you a good gauge but also kind

502
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: of gets you thinking of like there's that perfect run

503
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: and you're just trying for that really consistent shot after shot,

504
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: picking that spot and being able to make the shot.

505
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: And then it also kind of adds, even when you're

506
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: by yourself, a little bit of that angst of like man,

507
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: something that you can kind of get in your own head,

508
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: like man, I'm at fifty five yards, I've run this

509
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: thing perfect, I'm almost whatever, And you can kind of

510
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: start getting your own personal records and just it's a

511
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: good way to record your progress. And it's a fun

512
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: game to play, something that I play a lot when

513
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm shooting it, like spot targets or block targets, especially

514
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: if I've got like a good flat area where i

515
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: can go out to some distance or all I have

516
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: is flat, like you don't have like a lot of

517
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: other options. It's a really fun one to play. Now

518
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: if you don't have as much room, maybe you can

519
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: only shoot so far in your backyard. You can do

520
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: the same thing, but just increase the difficulty by increasing

521
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: the number arrows. Start closer and then keep moving back.

522
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily matter how far you're going. It's just

523
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: to try to build up consistency. And it's also a

524
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: really fun game to play to just kind of be like, okay,

525
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: you get so far, and you can kind of track

526
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: your progress. And there's also one that you can do

527
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,719
Speaker 1: with friends or with friends that are in different areas,

528
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: like your your buddy could live completely across the country.

529
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: But every day you can say, hey, al right, here's

530
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: how many here, here's how long it took me, or

531
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: here's how far I got. So you set yourself up

532
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: twenty minute time where I can shoot for twenty minutes. Okay,

533
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: here's how far I got to walk out running it perfect,

534
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: or that's my last one or whatever. Number five. This

535
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: is probably my least well, I don't know if it's

536
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 1: my least favorite game. It's a tough game, but it's

537
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: the no range finder game. It's like three D targets, uh,

538
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: without using the range finder. And I know a lot

539
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: of people are like, well, you have your range finder hunting,

540
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: and that is true, but a lot of stuff happens

541
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: when you're at full draw. Animals bounce out, or there's

542
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: times where a man I've I've raised up clicked on

543
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: the deer. I'm like, okay, it says it's twenty yards,

544
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 1: it looks further than that, and it was catching the

545
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: brush in between. So this is a really good game

546
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: to play because it's difficult and it puts a lot

547
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: of pressure on not only guessing but making a good shot.

548
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: The way that I can I'll do it is either

549
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: at like a league or a three D kind of

550
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: set up. Of course, you could just run that thing

551
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: with your friends or whatever without range finders. A lot

552
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: of competitions actually do it that way, but I think

553
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people now like they trust the range

554
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: finders so much that people just like, I'm just not

555
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: going to do that because it's a good way to

556
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 1: break arrows. Now, another way that I do this, if

557
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: I nodded a three D range or anything like that,

558
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: is I've got like a you can do it either

559
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: by roving, so you're just like walking through the woods

560
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: if you're in an area has some softer I get

561
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: like a plastic rubber blunt tip, screw that in and

562
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: shoot pine cones and other stuff. Or another way that

563
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: I found doing it, there's these little target balls that

564
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: you can throw, So I'll throw the ball. You can

565
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 1: throw the balls out, you can roll them down the hill,

566
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: rolling targets or whatever, pick them up, or you're like

567
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll roll the target down the hill, um or

568
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: throw it out, shoot it, pick up the arrow. Then

569
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 1: just kind of like try not to pay attention and

570
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: walk out a certain distance or pick a spot like

571
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: it's always better instead of walking to the target, like

572
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: pick three spots. You put the target out, then you've

573
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: got like, oh, I've got this spot over here up

574
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: on the hill. I've got the spot down here, So

575
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: you can go to the spots before you actually go

576
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: pick up your other arrows. That's another great way to

577
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: do it. Or just with any target, you set out

578
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: three D target and then just pick some spots ahead

579
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: of time, like Okay, I'm gonna go up there, there

580
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: and there, and then don't range it, don't count it,

581
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: do like a walk around so you don't know how

582
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: far it is, and then just let your eyes and

583
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 1: everything kind of adjust to this is how far it is,

584
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: guess it, shoot it and see if you're right. Um.

585
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: It's a really it's really good practice for those kind

586
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: of hunting scenarios where you're you might be moving through,

587
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: especially still hunting man. You're moving through and there's a deer,

588
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, how far is you? Because the difference

589
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: between may be putting an arrow on, ranging it, putting

590
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: the rangefinder down, drawing back, settling in that animals gone.

591
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: There's many times where I might be still hunting through

592
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: some timber, or I'm stalking in, I've got a narrow knocked,

593
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: I'm stalking in and that deer stands up and it's like, okay,

594
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: action time. I know that if I range it, I

595
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 1: got to decide what what would be better. Would I

596
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: rather not get a shot at this deer because I'm

597
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: messing around with my range finder, or would I'd rather

598
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: get a shot and potentially mis range. But the best

599
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: case scenario is I would rather have been well practiced,

600
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: not have to worry about it, draw back and shoot

601
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: the deer and be successful. And that's what happens most

602
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: of the time. So, um, that's a really that's a

603
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: really good game to play. I know I do that

604
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: a lot too, just just in the summertime for fun.

605
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: I take my trad bow out. It's a good way

606
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 1: to just kind of gauge, like build that confidence with

607
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: more instinctive shooting. But um, it's also I think by

608
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: doing that a lot more, it's helped with whatever bow

609
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: I have it doesn't really matter. It's just helped my

610
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: gauging the distance and letting my brain just decide, Okay,

611
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: that's how far it is. I've talked about that in

612
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: the past, but it's definitely a good tactic and a

613
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: good skill to have to be a competent archery hunter.

614
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: Um kind of picking up some of those old school

615
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: skills and practicing those things that I think people don't

616
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: really talk about as much anymore. So it's a it's

617
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: a really good game, and it's a difficult game, but

618
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: it's definitely beneficial in the long run. Now, this last game,

619
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: game number six. We're gonna call this game knockout, and

620
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: it's just like you might have played in Pe on

621
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: the basketball court. It's a good pressure game. It's a

622
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: fun one with friends, especially during the summer. Get some

623
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: friends together, get your bows out and play this knockout game.

624
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: It's a good game. You don't have to have a

625
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,719
Speaker 1: three D target, or you can't have a three D target.

626
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: You're pretty much center of the bulls eye or whatever.

627
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: The not center of the bulls eye, but just within

628
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: whatever your target is. So maybe it's hey kill zone

629
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: on a deer three D target. Maybe it's the white

630
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: spot on a block target. Maybe it's the spot on

631
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: a bag target. Whatever, you pick your range. You line up.

632
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: The guy behind has to outshoot the guy in front

633
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: of him. So it's a little bit different because you

634
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: can do it a couple different ways. You can line

635
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: up like side by side, and it's like, okay, maybe

636
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: you get two arrows, so the first guy can shoot

637
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: if he hits the bull, then the next guy shoots

638
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: hits the bull whatever, and once that person misses, the

639
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Speaker 1: person behind him has to shoot it before they shoot it.

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Speaker 1: So they've got two arrows. You line up side by side,

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Speaker 1: the first person shoots. After that first person shoots, the

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Speaker 1: next person can then immediately shoot if they missed the

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Speaker 1: center of the whatever needed to be to move on.

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Speaker 1: So let's just call it like, uh, four inch circle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're at thirty yards. We've got a four inch circle.

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Speaker 1: The first person shoots, hits the four inch circle. Next

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Speaker 1: person shoots, hits the four inch circle, third person shoots.

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Speaker 1: You know, you kind of start rotating in positions. Next

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Speaker 1: person shoots misses the four inch circle. The person that's

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Speaker 1: shooting after them has to shoot that four inch circle

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Speaker 1: before they get another arrow in it. Once that happens,

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Speaker 1: then they're knocked out, and then you go through until

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Speaker 1: there's only two guys going head to head, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like whoever can shoot the most consistent wins.

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Speaker 1: It's a really fun game to play. It's awesome because

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Speaker 1: it adds a little bit of pressure, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of excitement. It's a good game to just kind of

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Speaker 1: gather up some friends, enjoy the summer, talk about your tags,

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Speaker 1: talk about your hunt plans, and all prepare to be

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Speaker 1: successful and get better with your bows and build up

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Speaker 1: that pressure of like, yeah, when you're in a hunting scenario,

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Speaker 1: pressure happens. There's a lot more pressure obviously than backyard knockout.

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Speaker 1: But it's a good way to kind of have to

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Speaker 1: think fast, to kind of get under the pressure of

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Speaker 1: shooting around people and building that something similar where you've

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Speaker 1: got an excitement level, you're trying to do something and

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Speaker 1: you've got a bow in your hand and a target

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Speaker 1: that you need to be precise on. I hope this

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Speaker 1: gets some people excited, get them out with their bows.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe you've got an archery tag coming up.

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Speaker 1: Think about these ways of practicing that are a little

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Speaker 1: bit different that kind of play towards something you might encounter.

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Speaker 1: Just as kind of like a last thought, it's really

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Speaker 1: good to do these as well in inclement weather, in wind,

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Speaker 1: in rain, um, any of these times you can go

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Speaker 1: out and practice in some kind of elements. Man, that's

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00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: really good practice, and it's really good to kind of

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Speaker 1: add those same types of um, you know, precision ideas

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Speaker 1: and goals and whatever when there's kind of inclement weather, wind,

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Speaker 1: other things unfortunate. Where I practice, it's always windy, so like, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how to shoot when it's calm.

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Speaker 1: But um, it's really good ways to practice and get

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Speaker 1: you out there. Maybe you don't have an archery tag

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00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: and you're just thinking about getting into bow hunting or whatever.

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Speaker 1: These are fun games to play, good ways to kind

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Speaker 1: of keep archery fun and also kind of build up

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Speaker 1: those skills for when you do go out in the

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Speaker 1: field and hunt. I think one of the fun things

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Speaker 1: about archery about bow hunting is just the fact that

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Speaker 1: you can enjoy it and like go out and have

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Speaker 1: fun shooting. I mean, archery is a great on its own,

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Speaker 1: um it but doesn't even compare to bow hunting, but

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Speaker 1: it is really fun. So you can do these kind

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Speaker 1: of fun things in the summer when you're out camping,

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Speaker 1: when you're hanging out with friends, or even just throughout

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Speaker 1: your backyard every day or however often you can shoot

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Speaker 1: just different ways to mix it up and really try

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Speaker 1: to match some of the things that you might encounter

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Speaker 1: into the field. Speaking of archery hunting, I actually am

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Speaker 1: gonna be at the Pope and Young Club Convention. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in Reno, Nevada this year. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of like hunting shows and other things have been

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Speaker 1: canceled because of COVID, so it's been a while since

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Speaker 1: any of us have been to anything. But if you

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Speaker 1: want to check that out, I'll be there Wednesday, July

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Speaker 1: four at the Pint Night kick off, so you can

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Speaker 1: find me there. And then I've also got a live

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Speaker 1: Q and A Friday the sixteenth. I think it's um

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Speaker 1: it's tentative on the time, but I think it's like

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Speaker 1: around three pm something like that, so it will be

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Speaker 1: very similar to the Q and A S I do

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. If you enjoy that or have a

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Speaker 1: question and you can make it to Reno, sweet check

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Speaker 1: that out. I'll be there I'm not super tick, said be,

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Speaker 1: but it would be pretty cool if I could do

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Speaker 1: my podcast Q and A at that life event. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, that just popped in my head. Maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: see if I can make that happen. That'd be cool. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So I'd be stoked to talk with you guys, and uh,

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Speaker 1: if you see me there, come say hi. I'm pretty relatable.

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Speaker 1: Love just talking hunting and the Q and A is

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Speaker 1: a really good way to kind of talk about some

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Speaker 1: tactics and some other things if anybody has questions, So

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Speaker 1: if you can make it to that, sweet and then

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00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: on the vein of Q and A, uh start sending

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Speaker 1: your questions because we're gonna be having a Q and

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Speaker 1: A here coming up pretty soon. But next week I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be doing a podcast on this idea of butchering

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Speaker 1: with limited space. So it's like you've you've gone out,

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Speaker 1: you're successful, but maybe you who know, it's like maybe

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Speaker 1: you've got very limited space at your house. Maybe I've

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Speaker 1: talked to people it's like, hey man, I live in

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Speaker 1: an apartment, or I've got roommates and we don't really

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Speaker 1: have anywhere to hang ad or like what do I do?

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Speaker 1: So just an idea of how to kind of butcher

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Speaker 1: with limited space and what I do. There's been many

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Speaker 1: times where I've like legitimately butchered a couple of deer

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Speaker 1: in a hotel room. It's like, it sounds horrible, but

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Speaker 1: it's yeah. I mean, or like at camp or in

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Speaker 1: the back of my truck out and somewhere just like

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Speaker 1: because I didn't have time or I didn't have like

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Speaker 1: adequate space. So kind of this idea of butchering with

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Speaker 1: limited space and some really good tips and tactics to

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Speaker 1: help you out with that. So until next week, keep

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Speaker 1: shooting and hopefully by this fall you'll be cutting the distance.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's starting. It's starting to feel good, all right,

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Speaker 1: See you guys,