Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal, success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back everybody. It's that
Speaker 1: time in the podcast where I'm introducing your questions, those
Speaker 1: burning questions that you've had. I might be talking about
Speaker 1: something you're like, wait, but what about this? How does
Speaker 1: this relate to where I hunt? All those great questions
Speaker 1: will soon be answered as we dip into the mail sack.
Speaker 1: I know the last couple of podcasts, if you missed them, um,
Speaker 1: you should go back and listen, because we covered how
Speaker 1: to get a tag. We covered a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: about the draw process, where to apply, how to apply,
Speaker 1: and then did kind of a state I state breakdown.
Speaker 1: And I think that that was very helpful for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I know here at the Cutting the
Speaker 1: Distance mail room, I just made that up. We don't
Speaker 1: have a mail room, but I got a lot of
Speaker 1: questions regarding that topic. Um, and that's great. That's awesome
Speaker 1: because a lot of people are interested. They're starting to
Speaker 1: plan things out and they want a little more knowledge,
Speaker 1: so we'll cover a lot of that today. I also
Speaker 1: got a lot of questions on archery stuff from the
Speaker 1: archery series we did prior to that, and then, as always,
Speaker 1: a lot of general hunt knowledge stuff. So let's dive
Speaker 1: into it and we'll head to the mail sack and
Speaker 1: start firing through a lot of these questions. The first
Speaker 1: question comes from Nelson. He says, hey, mmy, thank you
Speaker 1: for the wealth of information you provide each week. Ben
Speaker 1: a fan of the show since episode one. As hunters,
Speaker 1: we put hours and miles when scouting and hunting year round. Recently,
Speaker 1: I had a spot on public land completely advertised by
Speaker 1: an outdoors media page. Not only did they throw the
Speaker 1: name and location of the area, uh like the trailhead,
Speaker 1: but went as far as putting the GPS coordinates. I
Speaker 1: understand it's public land, but surely this has to be
Speaker 1: too much info to just give out. No, I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear your opinion on this. I don't believe I've
Speaker 1: heard the topic of spot burning discussed on this level
Speaker 1: of detail in your podcast. Thanks again, keep up the
Speaker 1: great work. That is a great question, Nelson. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good one to start with two, especially after
Speaker 1: we did um a little tag draw episode, and I
Speaker 1: think that, UM, I'm with you. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of not only necessarily giving people's spots, but large
Speaker 1: I mean, so much information is out there. UM. I
Speaker 1: think some information needs but I think there's there's too
Speaker 1: much information given out. Nothing worse than having your spot burned.
Speaker 1: I've had my spot burned by magazines many times. UM.
Speaker 1: And I've kind of always been the type that as
Speaker 1: a hunter, I feel like I put in a lot
Speaker 1: of effort to figure out where I want to hunt,
Speaker 1: or not even necessarily for me, but just for other
Speaker 1: people that might hunt the areas that I like to hunt.
Speaker 1: I'd hate to blow it up. I know many years back,
Speaker 1: one spot in particular I had. It was just a
Speaker 1: place that I deer hunted and it was incredible deer hunting.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think some of the bestest mule deer
Speaker 1: hunting you could ever encounter. And a friend of mine
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, this spot is really good. There's lots
Speaker 1: of there's lots of bucks. Why is this spot not
Speaker 1: in the certain At the time of the Hunting Fool
Speaker 1: magazine as like one of their spots so we called
Speaker 1: them talk to him about the area, and then of
Speaker 1: course the next year that area was the number one
Speaker 1: pick um in hunting fool. And since that point we
Speaker 1: used to be able to draw that tag every year,
Speaker 1: and since that point it's become a point zero percent
Speaker 1: chance of drawing. Now, is that particularly the sole reason
Speaker 1: that it was that absolutely not More people started figuring
Speaker 1: out about the area, and over time it just becomes
Speaker 1: more popular. That happened, but also you kind of feel like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: something that I really enjoyed, or an area that was
Speaker 1: kind of under the radar got put on blast. And
Speaker 1: those things happen all the time. I know. Actually, when
Speaker 1: I put last week's podcast out, I promised giving away
Speaker 1: a great elk hunting spot and somebody said, oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna piss a lot of people off that you didn't
Speaker 1: actually give a spot, and I and my thought was,
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna get props from a lot of people saying, oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't blow up a spot, because you know, that's
Speaker 1: the thing about hunting. One place in particular isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: better than others. It's just it's a place that maybe
Speaker 1: people overlook, maybe it doesn't have all the focus on it,
Speaker 1: so it ends up being a place that you enjoy
Speaker 1: hunting or whatever. When you start to really pinpoint one place,
Speaker 1: I think it just misguides people into saying, oh, here's
Speaker 1: a good place to hunt. More people show up there,
Speaker 1: and it actually decreases the hunting experience and becomes not
Speaker 1: a very good place to hunt. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a catch twenty two. You put something out there like
Speaker 1: that and then uh, you see a wrap a rapid
Speaker 1: decline in the quality and the type of hunt that
Speaker 1: that can be. So I absolutely don't like when somebody
Speaker 1: burns a spot. I don't like when somebody burns my
Speaker 1: own spots. I try to never burn spots. I know
Speaker 1: there's there's states that I hunt, um or places that
Speaker 1: I hunt. Many times, I won't even share the state
Speaker 1: of the hunt place that I'm hunting or uh you know.
Speaker 1: I tried to keep out like exact locations on things
Speaker 1: that I think are kind of sensitive and and could
Speaker 1: really blow up real fast. But that's part of it too.
Speaker 1: I think that there's got to be a balance between
Speaker 1: sharing but not giving super specific things. So that's too
Speaker 1: bad they did that. Um, it's very unfortunate. I don't
Speaker 1: know where it is, and I don't really um probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to draw attention to it anyways. Also, when
Speaker 1: people send in their questions, I try to keep places
Speaker 1: that people say, like oh, I live here or I
Speaker 1: hunt this particular area, actually keep that out of the
Speaker 1: questions intentionally even though people put them in the questions,
Speaker 1: because I don't want somebody else to get their spot
Speaker 1: burned or just have a lot of traffic just because
Speaker 1: it seems to get a lot of attention. And honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, doing what I do the podcast and helping
Speaker 1: people get out there, I feel in some ways responsible
Speaker 1: for additional hunters in places where people hunt, and that
Speaker 1: weighs on me in many ways though. You know, It's
Speaker 1: one of those things where I kind of think, like
Speaker 1: drawing attention to certain types of hunts over the counter
Speaker 1: l hunting, mule deer hunting, even just like hunting certain
Speaker 1: seasons and other things that I show on my videos
Speaker 1: a lot or on social media, and I see those
Speaker 1: become more and more popular. Things like hunting access to
Speaker 1: here I've seen become more popular. D I y New
Speaker 1: Zealand hunts until things got shut down with COVID becoming
Speaker 1: more popular. All those things becoming more popular, you know,
Speaker 1: in some ways is a good thing. In some ways
Speaker 1: it's a bad thing. So I think that that's my
Speaker 1: stance on it. You know. I think that it's nice
Speaker 1: to be able to share things for people to be
Speaker 1: able to get out and feel like they can they
Speaker 1: can do it. And I think that there's you know,
Speaker 1: a balance between sharing enough information but not seraly giving
Speaker 1: away an exact location. That's in my opinion, not good,
Speaker 1: not cool man, not cool. That that was a long
Speaker 1: answer for something, but I care. I care about that
Speaker 1: a lot. So I thought that was a good question
Speaker 1: because yeah, all right, let's go to the next question.
Speaker 1: The question says, Hey, I'm looking at getting a South
Speaker 1: Dakota archery deer tag with the season not starting until
Speaker 1: October one, what would be your tactics for spot and
Speaker 1: stock comule dear in that October time frame? On the
Speaker 1: Great Planes. Thanks Ryan, Okay, that's a great question, and
Speaker 1: I would say that that is um a good question,
Speaker 1: not just for wherever South Dakota or whatever, but it's
Speaker 1: a good question for a lot of deer seasons because
Speaker 1: as October dear seasons are going to be the hardest
Speaker 1: time to find meal dear. There's a reason that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different over the counter tags that time
Speaker 1: of year, um and it's because dear are hard to find.
Speaker 1: So what I like to do is I like to
Speaker 1: focus on, well, where are the deer? They they were
Speaker 1: out earlier, now they've kind of disappeared, they're gearing up
Speaker 1: before the rut. Where are they? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Let's just start in the mountains. And for the most part,
Speaker 1: in the mountains, those deer I feel like they move
Speaker 1: about feet in elevation lower than where they were before.
Speaker 1: Now this is not necessarily particular to this question, but
Speaker 1: the reason they do that is most of the time,
Speaker 1: if they're living in the alpine in the summer, they're
Speaker 1: bachelord up. They've kind of got their scraped their velvet,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna start dropping down into more timbered country,
Speaker 1: thicker country. It doesn't necessarily matter if they're in the
Speaker 1: mountains or in the plains. What those deer doing is
Speaker 1: there they're being more nocturnal, they're saving up a lot
Speaker 1: of energy, and they're kind of holding to the brush.
Speaker 1: They're in thick areas and they're going to kind of
Speaker 1: concentrate in those areas to save up that energy for
Speaker 1: the rut. Then the ret hits and you see just
Speaker 1: bucks everywhere. So what I like to do is I
Speaker 1: like to focus on those safety zones, those sanctuaries. UM.
Speaker 1: Like I say, in the mountains oftentimes where you see
Speaker 1: them in the summer, it's it's about fred feet in
Speaker 1: elevation lower if they're in the alp line, if they're
Speaker 1: already in that thicker cover, they might just be picking
Speaker 1: those draws or those slopes where they've got food, water,
Speaker 1: and cover all in a in a small micro area
Speaker 1: where they don't necessarily have to travel a lot, but
Speaker 1: they can also stay fairly well hidden. You know. You
Speaker 1: kind of think of mule deer as this animal that
Speaker 1: enjoys being out in the open, and they do, but
Speaker 1: that October time frame, they get brushed up, they get
Speaker 1: timbered up, and they can be very difficult to find.
Speaker 1: So I would focus first on you know, draws, thicker
Speaker 1: draws areas especially, um, you know, if you're in eastern Colorado,
Speaker 1: eastern Montana, anywhere where any type of planes area. UM.
Speaker 1: A lot of places in Wyoming, Dakota's whatever, Um you're
Speaker 1: gonna kind of focus on those like draws that will
Speaker 1: have that cover in those kind of micro habitats in there,
Speaker 1: and that's where they're gonna be hanging out. That's when
Speaker 1: they're going to be hiding out. You might start seeing
Speaker 1: some younger deer around dose. So if you find pockets
Speaker 1: of dosy and you aren't really specific on like I
Speaker 1: don't really care what size buck I get, I just
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a buck, then you can focus on
Speaker 1: those dough groups because you will get younger deer kind
Speaker 1: of bumping into them early. But for the bigger, more
Speaker 1: mature bucks, you're gonna want to find those spots where
Speaker 1: they're gonna be off on their own, probably rolland solo.
Speaker 1: Right now. Those bucks will be by themselves in areas
Speaker 1: where they might be moving real early in the morning
Speaker 1: and right before dark at night and then kind of
Speaker 1: timbered up or brushed up and just secluded during the daytime,
Speaker 1: so they aren't gonna be very visible. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to hunt those areas. I do a lot of
Speaker 1: still hunting, glassing into pockets and then just finding anywhere
Speaker 1: where it has that where you can kind of focus
Speaker 1: on those good areas. Look for sign and you'll start
Speaker 1: picking out more bucks more dear. This question says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Remy Mike from Long Island, New York. Here, thanks for
Speaker 1: the great archery shows. I'm wondering how I could determine
Speaker 1: my effective rage At thirty yards, I could shoot ten
Speaker 1: arrows and all will be within the size of a
Speaker 1: salad plate. Six or seven will be closer to the center,
Speaker 1: but there is usually a couple on the outer circle.
Speaker 1: At forty yards, I only get a bit better than
Speaker 1: fifty into the dinner plate sized circle. I had turkeys
Speaker 1: and white tails. I feel like forty yards is out
Speaker 1: of my range? Would you agree, thanks, Mike, Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 1: I definitely think. You know, when when you're talking about
Speaker 1: your effective range, I like to think of it as
Speaker 1: at what range am I a hundred percent confident that
Speaker 1: era will hit where I'm aiming? And I like to
Speaker 1: say I don't know, Like it within rifle shooting, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got kind of like this minute of angle idea
Speaker 1: where it's one inch at a hundred yards and that's
Speaker 1: like a sufficient group. I think with archery, I kind
Speaker 1: of keep that like three inch circle as my primary
Speaker 1: Like this is what I'm aiming for within that three
Speaker 1: inch circle. It's most of those block targets, Ryanhart targets,
Speaker 1: whatever those circles or what I try to keep my
Speaker 1: arrow in. But you know, you gotta you gotta understand, well,
Speaker 1: what am I hunting and what's the size of the
Speaker 1: vital and how am I going to know that when
Speaker 1: I release that arrow, I'm gonna make an ethical clean shot.
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: at forty yards, if you're only getting in what would
Speaker 1: be that vital zone, that that's too far. Um So
Speaker 1: what you want to do is you want to start
Speaker 1: practicing if you want to get out to that forty yards,
Speaker 1: you know, start tightening that group up at thirty where
Speaker 1: you can get you know, I think I'm assuming like
Speaker 1: a salad plates like six inches that's still within the
Speaker 1: kill zone of a deer, you know, for shooting traditional gear,
Speaker 1: and like that's a great group. If you're shooting like
Speaker 1: a modern compound, you could definitely tighten that up a bit.
Speaker 1: And that might just be with some tweaks in your form,
Speaker 1: some tweaks in your grip, maybe just some tweaks and
Speaker 1: just practicing a little bit more. But I think that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the forty yards, I would say, is a little far
Speaker 1: out of your range, just based on the type of
Speaker 1: groupings that you're getting. So that's just something to keep
Speaker 1: in mind. And I think that's that's a great question
Speaker 1: for anybody getting into it. You're like, hey, how far
Speaker 1: can I shoot? And a lot of it has to
Speaker 1: depend two on oh the how comfortable is the animal
Speaker 1: you're shooting at? How comfortable are you when you're drawn back?
Speaker 1: I mean there might be that instance where a deer
Speaker 1: walks out at third yards and you you're shaking like crazy,
Speaker 1: it's freezing out, and now you go, Okay, there's no
Speaker 1: way I can make this shot practice all throughout the
Speaker 1: year in different times, different temperatures, and just really understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are my groups looking like? And I can I
Speaker 1: effectively hit exactly what I'm aiming at? Will it be
Speaker 1: an ethical lethal kill? And go from there and when?
Speaker 1: And that's all on you when you're out in the field.
Speaker 1: So that's a great question. I like that. Okay, it
Speaker 1: was a little bit longer question, but I like the
Speaker 1: content of it here. So it says, hello, Remy, I
Speaker 1: recently listened to your applications season Part one podcast, and
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the state breakdowns as well as what your
Speaker 1: thoughts were on how one could look at each state
Speaker 1: depending on what they are looking for in a hunt.
Speaker 1: My question is about how someone who is coming from
Speaker 1: back east and only having ten days to hunt, but
Speaker 1: also would like to hunt two species if possible, how
Speaker 1: should one go about applying for such a hunt and
Speaker 1: then executing a plan for said hunt. For example, I
Speaker 1: have been wanting to do wyoming mule deer and pronghorn
Speaker 1: combo rifle hunt for a couple of years. Now by
Speaker 1: the time that I will apply, I would have three
Speaker 1: points for each species. I'm aware that deer's by region
Speaker 1: and pronghorn is by unit. Should I get a region
Speaker 1: tag as close to my prong horn unit as possible?
Speaker 1: And two in the second question would be would it
Speaker 1: to be best to hunt pronghorn first and get camp
Speaker 1: meat or hunt hard for deer then used the last
Speaker 1: couple of days to hunt for the prong horn just
Speaker 1: to make sure I have meat to take home. Three
Speaker 1: is the most units that he would draw, and he says,
Speaker 1: at my point level, I have less than thirty percent
Speaker 1: public land or checkerboard with BLM private. How would I
Speaker 1: e scout that as well as access it when I
Speaker 1: get there? Thanks? Always enjoy your podcasts, including so much
Speaker 1: useful information and tactics from them. Happy hunting. That question
Speaker 1: came from Andrew. That's a great question, Andrew. Um, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna gonna break it down from the start here.
Speaker 1: So he's wondering about adding a combo hunt. You're coming
Speaker 1: a long ways. You've got ten days to hunt, and
Speaker 1: make sense to hunt two animals, and I highly suggested
Speaker 1: a lot of trips that I take. It's awesome to
Speaker 1: be able to do a couple of different species or
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of different tags all in one. Before
Speaker 1: I get into the logistics of it, I will say this,
Speaker 1: I've noticed that, um, if you focus on hunting two
Speaker 1: different things, then you're sometimes strapping yourself and you kind
Speaker 1: of end up with nothing. I kind of. I wrote
Speaker 1: an article quite a few years back about the art
Speaker 1: of the combo hunt. One of my lines in there
Speaker 1: was put first things first. So whatever you are more
Speaker 1: interested in hunting, I would spend the majority of the
Speaker 1: time hunting that what I like to do on any
Speaker 1: kind of combo hunt. And sometimes people go okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I've got an elk and a deer tag,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go hunt where I can find elk
Speaker 1: and deer. I think you're gonna be a lot more
Speaker 1: successful finding a spot where you can find elk and
Speaker 1: then going like, hunt the best spot for elk and
Speaker 1: then hunt the best spot for deer. So the same
Speaker 1: is gonna go for here. You're going a long ways.
Speaker 1: I would say, pick a good spot for deer and
Speaker 1: pick a good spot for antelope. If they are right
Speaker 1: next to each other, that's gonna make it a little easier,
Speaker 1: especially pong horn and deer, because prong horn are kind
Speaker 1: of out all the time in the middle of the day,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of hunt them in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day, but you might be cutting your deer hunt,
Speaker 1: like not doing your deer hunt enough justice by doing that.
Speaker 1: So I would definitely separate them out if it were
Speaker 1: up to me, because prong horn can be an easier hunt.
Speaker 1: I would pick an area where it's like, hey, good
Speaker 1: numbers of public land, good numbers of access, good numbers
Speaker 1: of antelope, and then I would just dedicate, like you say,
Speaker 1: a few days to that. I would probably do that.
Speaker 1: Um maybe at the beginning of the trip or at
Speaker 1: the end of the trip, it doesn't really matter. One
Speaker 1: thing you got to think of is if you get
Speaker 1: an antelope, you're probably gonna get an antelope, so you
Speaker 1: can get it early. You know, you've got to deal
Speaker 1: with the meat throughout that time, but you will have
Speaker 1: some camp meat to eat while you're there. If it
Speaker 1: was me, I think I would probably go after the
Speaker 1: antalope first and then uh and then hunt the deer,
Speaker 1: only because I know that I would kind of be
Speaker 1: in that mindset that I'm going to be successful, and
Speaker 1: then that way you can spend the rest of the
Speaker 1: time looking for a good deer or taking that harder
Speaker 1: hunt and then putting it till the very end. I
Speaker 1: think that I would probably get into that position where
Speaker 1: I was hunting deer, hunting deer, hunting deer and thinking
Speaker 1: about the antelope, like, oh, maybe I should go hunt
Speaker 1: antelope and kind of be distracted, or maybe go cruise
Speaker 1: over and look for antalope and then go back and
Speaker 1: hunt deer, or get down to the wire. Maybe need
Speaker 1: some more days hunting deer. You feel like you just
Speaker 1: gotta figured out and then have this conundrum was like, well,
Speaker 1: should I go antelope hunting and start over from zero?
Speaker 1: So personally, I would just go, um, find a good
Speaker 1: area for antalope, find a good area for deer. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if it's a four or five hour drive apart,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. If you've got more publicly and
Speaker 1: more access and going to have more opportunity. If you
Speaker 1: can find a unit where they're together or very close together,
Speaker 1: bonus to you. But I would probably hunt the antalope
Speaker 1: first and then to spend the rest of my time
Speaker 1: on deer. You know, have a couple of days. I
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna go home successful, have a great hunt.
Speaker 1: And honestly, pronghorn hunting is extremely fun and a very
Speaker 1: fun hunt. So um, you might get out there and
Speaker 1: be like, well this is I want to do more
Speaker 1: of this and look for a bigger buck or whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: But that's what I would do. So the second part
Speaker 1: to that question, how would I e scout um the access?
Speaker 1: What I do is I go on my onyx maps
Speaker 1: and I turn on the layer. There's a layer for
Speaker 1: if it's national forest. It sounds like this is checkerboarded
Speaker 1: with a bunch of private and other things. But UM,
Speaker 1: you can check the road access especially on the national forest.
Speaker 1: Some things you might have to do is change the
Speaker 1: layers to like a forest map, or there's like different
Speaker 1: layers for roads. There's also different layers for maps. You
Speaker 1: can see some of the accesses on those roads. UM.
Speaker 1: Other ways would be like contacting the Bureau of Land
Speaker 1: Management in the area saying like, hey, do you have
Speaker 1: a map or a recommended map that will show me
Speaker 1: legal road accesses because not all roads that go through
Speaker 1: private or or public access as public easements to that
Speaker 1: public land unfortunately, so uh, you know. One way to
Speaker 1: do it obviously look on your you know I used
Speaker 1: on X A lot shows you which roads you can use.
Speaker 1: In most instances, it shows it really well with Forest service,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily show it really well with BLM.
Speaker 1: It'll have like a highlighted layer where you can see, Okay,
Speaker 1: this road goes all the way from a public road
Speaker 1: and this is clearly a public road. But if it
Speaker 1: shows it where it's private and then starts beyond it,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have access. So the best way would
Speaker 1: be to contact like the land agency in that area
Speaker 1: of the field office and ask them about certain accesses.
Speaker 1: Or just like which maps show the accesses and a
Speaker 1: lot of that you can also find online through like
Speaker 1: BLM website or the Forest Service website. So that's a
Speaker 1: great question, and it can be some of that's just
Speaker 1: you know, knowledge of boots on the ground, where the
Speaker 1: accesses are, where it's gated off, where it's not. But
Speaker 1: that's one way to kind of figure out where can
Speaker 1: I access and get access When I'm so far away
Speaker 1: looking at it on a map, you may not be
Speaker 1: able to tell right away, so you might have to
Speaker 1: just kind of find those areas and then dig a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper. This question comes from Brandon. He says, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: big fan of your podcast, I have a question on
Speaker 1: elevation for elk. I live in Montana and was wondering
Speaker 1: what elevations do you find most of your elk in
Speaker 1: each season? Uh, if you got time, be sweet to
Speaker 1: see what your experiences. Thanks, that's a that's a good question. Um,
Speaker 1: if that's it just really depends it depends on the
Speaker 1: time of year, depends on the type of herd um,
Speaker 1: depends on the temperature, the weather, what the previous winter did. Honestly,
Speaker 1: at any time of year, elk can be from the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain to the valley floor. Generally you
Speaker 1: find them in those two spots to the top or
Speaker 1: the bottom, but you know, as the season progresses. I
Speaker 1: mean the top third for any animal, really the top
Speaker 1: third of the mountain. If you broke a mountain into thirds,
Speaker 1: the top third is generally where most animals live. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's because they have of like, good access
Speaker 1: to water cover, there's good habitat, and it's also generally
Speaker 1: harder to get to for hunters. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to do some uphill climbing. There might not be roads
Speaker 1: and other things. So if I was just to give
Speaker 1: a blanket statement of what elevation, I generally cut the
Speaker 1: mountain into thirds and that like if I so, yeah,
Speaker 1: like looking at a mountain making into thirds, that third
Speaker 1: below the top is generally where I find most big
Speaker 1: game animals. And that's kind of like where I start.
Speaker 1: But it also depends on the time of year. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, I start up higher, later in the
Speaker 1: year I start lower. Um, if the snows are really high,
Speaker 1: you know they're getting pushed out of that higher country.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be a lot lower. Now. Big bulls will
Speaker 1: stay the longest. So if you want a tough hunt,
Speaker 1: but a good option to hunt big bulls, you will
Speaker 1: go find them in chest deep snow for an elk um,
Speaker 1: sometimes still up high until they're just forced out of
Speaker 1: that stuff. They just plow through and finally come down.
Speaker 1: Last last winter, on a late season deer hunt, I
Speaker 1: found a lot of big deer just up in snow
Speaker 1: that you're like, how are they even surviving there? And
Speaker 1: they're just there by themselves, hanging out and then plowing
Speaker 1: down and going down with the larger groups kind of
Speaker 1: like the last ones in. But I would say generally early,
Speaker 1: look high, late, look lower, and you know, like if
Speaker 1: you're late season hunt, you're probably looking at the bottom
Speaker 1: third of the mountain. That's where the best winter ranges.
Speaker 1: And then just like anything, find where that good habitat,
Speaker 1: that prime habitat is going to be in focus in
Speaker 1: on that. Hey, I'm listening to your latest podcasts and
Speaker 1: something that I've tried to search for. He recently sent
Speaker 1: Montana Fishing Game for information on is where can a
Speaker 1: Canadian resident put in the draw for sheep and is
Speaker 1: there any states that this is a thing. Being a
Speaker 1: Saskatchewan resident, my chances of hunting sheep are based on
Speaker 1: me winning the lottery, which is slim to none. Nathan. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got good news and bad news, Nathan. So the
Speaker 1: good news is as a Canadian resident, we are very
Speaker 1: nice to Canadians when Canadians are not very nice to us.
Speaker 1: I know Canadians like to think that they're very nice,
Speaker 1: but they don't allow um non resident non alien hunters. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you're from the US, hunting in Canada alone without
Speaker 1: a guide UM generally is not Uh, you aren't able
Speaker 1: to do that. Fortunately for you guys, we let Canadian.
Speaker 1: Almost every state allows Canadians to hunt on their own
Speaker 1: without the use of a guide as far as I know.
Speaker 1: Outside of Alaska, the fee is a little bit higher,
Speaker 1: but yes, you can apply for sheep in pretty much
Speaker 1: every state. You just do the same thing as a
Speaker 1: nonresident would do that lives in the states. UM. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, getting a firearm and all that stuff. That's
Speaker 1: all I know, none of that because I've never um
Speaker 1: traveled from Canada to the US and being uh non
Speaker 1: resident aliens, so UM, I don't know the rules and
Speaker 1: specifics on that. I know with a bow you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have any problems, but I'm not sure about a fire
Speaker 1: in the US. I don't think it's too hard, just
Speaker 1: kind of fill out some forms. From what I've had
Speaker 1: other people do from other parts of the world coming
Speaker 1: into the U s it's fairly easy for them to
Speaker 1: bring in a firearm, just like any other travel You
Speaker 1: just gotta fill out some forms and and find those
Speaker 1: kind of things. But the application process to draw sheep tag, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you're in the same boat as the rest of us,
Speaker 1: which is it's going to be like winning the lottery,
Speaker 1: maybe even more so here than up there. Unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's you're in the same pool as me applying
Speaker 1: in Montana as a nonresident, as if you live in
Speaker 1: Canada or anywhere. Um. Same with like if you apply
Speaker 1: for sheep and Nevada, you would be just considered a
Speaker 1: nonresident and you can apply and draw a tag and whatever.
Speaker 1: But the odds are very slim, so you just got
Speaker 1: to do the same thing the rest of us do
Speaker 1: play that point game and hope that you get lucky. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say other options for drawing sheep tags would
Speaker 1: be raffle type tags. There's those available. It's just it
Speaker 1: is at some point kind of feels like a lottery,
Speaker 1: but you know if you don't if you don't enter,
Speaker 1: you can't win. Um, I've drawn multiple sheep tags. It
Speaker 1: seems like long odds, and I think, well, the chances
Speaker 1: of me drawing sheep tag in my lifetime are very slim.
Speaker 1: But hey, I mean multiple states and multiple draws, they've
Speaker 1: got steep odds. But I keep applying and keep trying
Speaker 1: to increase the odds in my favor over time, and
Speaker 1: sooner or later I'm gonna hit the jackpot and get
Speaker 1: the tag that I want. So it might be something
Speaker 1: to think about just applying, like the rest of us,
Speaker 1: in more places where it's not just where you live.
Speaker 1: You know, you can kind of spread that out over
Speaker 1: other states in the US and hopefully give you a
Speaker 1: good opportunity to one day hunt sheep. That's the dream.
Speaker 1: The next question says, I just got into archery, and
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your podcasts and your archery one on
Speaker 1: one to two oh two. I really appreciate all your
Speaker 1: help and knowledge. So anyway, I've seemed to be really
Speaker 1: shaky when shooting a gun or bow. I'm not great
Speaker 1: at off hands shooting, and i'd really try hard to
Speaker 1: not shoot an animal off hand unless I'm bird hunting.
Speaker 1: So anyways, when I'm shooting my bow, I draw back,
Speaker 1: level the bow and slowly dropped to the target and
Speaker 1: release when I get on target. Is there anything I
Speaker 1: can do to help this? I'm practicing every day rain
Speaker 1: or shineun til archery deer starts here in Washington State.
Speaker 1: Thanks for everything, Mike. That's a good question, Mike. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess the question we first have say like why
Speaker 1: are you shaky? Um? And I mean I think that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, some people naturally, it might be nerves, it
Speaker 1: might be another reason. But one thing you got to
Speaker 1: think about is you can't focus on the movement. Um.
Speaker 1: I think too many people get wrapped up on that,
Speaker 1: like I'm so unsteady. It's moving, it's moving, it's moving,
Speaker 1: and then that kind of creates a form of target
Speaker 1: panic in a lot of ways. Um. One thing that
Speaker 1: I think you should try to do, based on, you know,
Speaker 1: just this brief description of the shot, I think what
Speaker 1: you should try to do is just focus on putting
Speaker 1: that pin and holding that pin on the bulls eye
Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time. I mean maybe it's
Speaker 1: five seconds, maybe it's ten seconds. Hold back, stare down
Speaker 1: that pin and just stare down that target and just
Speaker 1: like look at it, put the thing on it and
Speaker 1: shoot and don't fake focus so much on the wobble,
Speaker 1: focus on the target. You will be surprised how many
Speaker 1: of those arrows go in the bull's eye. You know,
Speaker 1: your brain is a supercomputer, and what you're doing is
Speaker 1: you're focusing on the input that doesn't really necessarily make
Speaker 1: any sense to performing that operation when you're at full draw,
Speaker 1: focusing on that target. Let your pin hover over that
Speaker 1: target and just let it be on that target for
Speaker 1: as long as you can. Let your shot go off,
Speaker 1: and you're probably gonna find that that arrow is very
Speaker 1: close to where you want it. Um, I would just
Speaker 1: say focus less on the shaking and more on the target.
Speaker 1: Everybody moves. Shooting with movement is great, but I think
Speaker 1: based on the way you're describing your shooting, your drawing
Speaker 1: back your anchor and you're pulling it down and then
Speaker 1: you're letting it go off, and what that doing is
Speaker 1: you're anticipating and trying to shoot faster than holding it
Speaker 1: on the target because you're afraid that the shake is
Speaker 1: going to affect the shot where what's actually gonna happen
Speaker 1: is you're going to develop a bad habit and you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna um, you know, that anticipatory shot is going
Speaker 1: to in the long run probably play against you in
Speaker 1: many ways. So what I would do is not worry
Speaker 1: about being shaky, but just like focus in on the target.
Speaker 1: Practice building up that strength to hold back on target,
Speaker 1: and practice holding on target, and not worry about the movement,
Speaker 1: but just focus in and let that shot go off,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna find that you're probably extremely accurate. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like if you hunt birds, you know, shooting
Speaker 1: birds flying. I know, for me, when I think about
Speaker 1: shooting a bird and I'm aiming and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do all this stuff, I generally missed the target. But
Speaker 1: when I throw the gun up and shoot and let
Speaker 1: my brain just do the rest of it, um, I'm
Speaker 1: not thinking about the lead and calcul leading all the
Speaker 1: things that essentially slow me down. I'm just letting that
Speaker 1: shot process go through. The gun go off, and the
Speaker 1: bird always falls. And so to make it more natural,
Speaker 1: I would just say kind of focus on that and
Speaker 1: not the shake, and you'll be solid. And that's great info.
Speaker 1: For pretty much anybody, any any facet of hunting being
Speaker 1: a better shot. Thanks, question says good morning, Roomy. First,
Speaker 1: I appreciate all info and insight you take from being
Speaker 1: out on all your hunts. It helps a lot. As
Speaker 1: a US Coast Guard member, I'm going to be stationed
Speaker 1: and anchorage starting in July, and I'm only going to
Speaker 1: have the next three years to make any dream hunt happen.
Speaker 1: I should be able to fly into remote, inaccessible locations.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you would recommend as a research for
Speaker 1: future hunts. Cariboan sheep are high on the list, but
Speaker 1: definitely not too educated on what game are the best
Speaker 1: for eating and open to hear what you prefer. Any
Speaker 1: info you can provide will be greatly appreciated. I'll keep
Speaker 1: using you as a character in hunter Call of the
Speaker 1: Wild while hunting in Yukon. That's from Brandon. That's a
Speaker 1: great question, Brandon. You know, I think anything like that.
Speaker 1: Alaska is an awesome place for hunting. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunity. Um, there's a lot of different species to hunt,
Speaker 1: you know. I would say between caribou and sheep, both
Speaker 1: are are good tasting. Cariboo a lot better early once
Speaker 1: they get kind of on the rut. I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: like the meat as much. I think cariboos. Cariboo kind
Speaker 1: of has its own taste. It's like, I think of
Speaker 1: it as like the lamb of the North. It's got
Speaker 1: like this lamb esque quality to it. UM where sheep
Speaker 1: is actually more I think actually between the two, probably
Speaker 1: sheep is better tasting. Sheep hunting, obviously, is is a
Speaker 1: lot about a lot about the the the journey. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult. You have to get a legal ram, which
Speaker 1: can be you know, difficult to find. It's gotta be
Speaker 1: full curl. In Alaska almost almost all areas. UM. I
Speaker 1: would say if you're if you're just looking for a
Speaker 1: really good tasting um animal black tails are good in
Speaker 1: the southeast. UM. You can hunt them from Prince of
Speaker 1: Wales on the southeast coast all the way up through Kodiak,
Speaker 1: Sitka Um all over. So that that's a really good hunt.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a fun hunt. If you just kind
Speaker 1: of like want to get your feet wet a little
Speaker 1: bit without having a lot of that cost involved with
Speaker 1: flying in and other things, that's something to look into. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, outside of that moose hunting is also awesome.
Speaker 1: Moose meat is great. It's a lot to carry, but
Speaker 1: finding maybe some areas where you could hunt a cow
Speaker 1: or even a bull if you if you're just looking
Speaker 1: for some great meat. And then but if it's up
Speaker 1: to me, if I live in Alaska, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: for the sheep hunt and go for broke because it's
Speaker 1: not a hunt that you can do everywhere just on
Speaker 1: it over the counter tag, So take advantage of that
Speaker 1: as a resident, and I think that'll be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Good luck and let me know how you do. Oh
Speaker 1: and thanks for playing my character. For those that don't know,
Speaker 1: I've I've got a character on The Hunter called the
Speaker 1: Wild video game, So if you want to play as
Speaker 1: Remy Warren, you can go there and do that. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Thank you guys. This question says, Hey, I
Speaker 1: mean David from Michigan here the last two podcasts. It
Speaker 1: is super helpful. Thanks for all that you've shared. I'm
Speaker 1: eighteen and looking to build up some points for some
Speaker 1: Western hunts in the future, and I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: about twenty years late. I'm hoping to do a sheep
Speaker 1: or goat hunt down the road with point creep hunter
Speaker 1: demand and limited tag ability? Am I wasting my money
Speaker 1: applying for those type of hunts? Thanks and love the podcast.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Um, you know, I think anybody
Speaker 1: looking at it, you go, I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: points in a lot of states, and still the odds
Speaker 1: are very low for those very limited tags for sheep
Speaker 1: and goats, moose, things like that, or even top end
Speaker 1: elk and deer hunts. Um, you know, just getting started
Speaker 1: in it. There are strategies that I would take to apply,
Speaker 1: and I would say that you wouldn't be wasting your
Speaker 1: money because you be kind of on the same plane
Speaker 1: as everyone else. States that don't have points, like um,
Speaker 1: New Mexico or Idaho would be great places to look
Speaker 1: into all so I would stay away from preference point states.
Speaker 1: But any state that has bonus points, you know, you
Speaker 1: actually have an opportunity to draw a while the odds
Speaker 1: may say that you would never draw in your lifetime,
Speaker 1: if you apply, there's a chance. Another thought to think
Speaker 1: about is like raffles for those type of hunts. I know,
Speaker 1: Wild Cheap Foundation always has a few, the Less than
Speaker 1: One Club, the Wild Chief Foundation, It's probably got better
Speaker 1: odds than almost every state draw and it's only available
Speaker 1: for people that are members of the Wild Chief Foundation,
Speaker 1: have never shot a wild cheap and go to some
Speaker 1: of those you have to be present to win. Some
Speaker 1: you don't. But like, actually just doing that, you probably
Speaker 1: have the better odds than some of these other things. Um.
Speaker 1: Also there's just you know, you see some other raffles
Speaker 1: through organizations. I mean, it's it's a crapshoot, but you
Speaker 1: actually have a chance, and it's a lot cheaper than
Speaker 1: some states where you have to put up a lot
Speaker 1: of money. Now Montana, on the other hand, applying for
Speaker 1: sheep and goat, it's a lot cheaper than other places.
Speaker 1: But the odds are so slim that it's statistically improbable
Speaker 1: with that anyone will draw, but people do. Somebody has
Speaker 1: to draw the tags. I say that to also say
Speaker 1: it really depends on how much you're willing to spend,
Speaker 1: how much you want to wait. I have friends that
Speaker 1: have taken the approach and and I've kind of done
Speaker 1: a combo of this approach, and I started this about
Speaker 1: when I was your age eighteen. I've always been a
Speaker 1: person that's really good at saving money, especially for things
Speaker 1: that I want or whatever I like to save up.
Speaker 1: I like to plan. Anytime i'd get a paycheck, I
Speaker 1: pull a lot of it out, some of it out
Speaker 1: and immediately put it into a savings account that I
Speaker 1: just never see. Um. I mean, this is just good
Speaker 1: life advice. I started saving for retirement when I was eighteen,
Speaker 1: but I also simultaneously started saving for awesome hunts and
Speaker 1: kind of like a hunt budget. Um, those dream hunts,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, you put a little bit away
Speaker 1: every month, every year or whatever, and over time you're
Speaker 1: gonna have enough to buy a doll sheep hunt or
Speaker 1: possibly a mountain goat hunt. In places like Alaska, Canada,
Speaker 1: the price of those are definitely going up, and it
Speaker 1: might take twenty or thirty years, but you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: at least that route you're guaranteed, and it might be
Speaker 1: the same price as applying in some of these states.
Speaker 1: I've got friends that are like, hey, this application thing
Speaker 1: is getting expensive. I'm just gonna take the money that
Speaker 1: I would apply, put it in an account, and after
Speaker 1: X amount of years, go buy a hunt somewhere where
Speaker 1: I know I'll be guaranteed a deer tag, or maybe
Speaker 1: save up for a land owner tag or some kind
Speaker 1: of tag where um, yeah, the price tag is gonna
Speaker 1: be big on it, but I've saved up over twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty years and I know that I'll be able
Speaker 1: to go on it. You know, that's another option as well,
Speaker 1: Or you could do that simultaneously to applying I like,
Speaker 1: I like the luck route as well. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: I've personally drawn four sheep tags, two in a raffle
Speaker 1: and two through state draws. It is pawle. It seems impossible.
Speaker 1: The more you do it, You're like, wow, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: But I've been on the lucky end of a lot
Speaker 1: of those things. But I also know that in order
Speaker 1: to win, you have to play, and so I think that, um,
Speaker 1: you really can't go wrong in some of those where
Speaker 1: everybody's playing that game and that's pretty much the only
Speaker 1: way to get it. So I hope that that helps
Speaker 1: and maybe gives a little insight into that. So I
Speaker 1: don't think it's too late, but I think that if
Speaker 1: it's something you want to do, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to think about it, think about other options as well,
Speaker 1: or join the coast Guard, moved to Alaska and get
Speaker 1: a sheep tag. Like our last question, that's a that's
Speaker 1: another option as well. Okay, this question says remy just
Speaker 1: getting interested in archery and have a pass down forty
Speaker 1: pound longbow from the nineteen fifties. It's a York woulden bow.
Speaker 1: The question is knocking the arrow. I see recommendations to
Speaker 1: have the white vein vertical when you knock. This makes
Speaker 1: one of the colored veins hit the bow and causes
Speaker 1: the arrow to wobble a bit before it straightens out.
Speaker 1: Do you knock a long bow differently than a compound
Speaker 1: If so, why? Um, that's a good question. Yeah, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: you do knock traad bow arrow a little bit different. Um.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons why people might knock them.
Speaker 1: I always put the it's called like the cock vein,
Speaker 1: the off vein out, so what would be the bottom
Speaker 1: vein would touch the shelf, but there's none touching the riser. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of the positioning of that arrow might just
Speaker 1: be a tuning factor of having the wrong kind of
Speaker 1: flex in your arrow, so you're your bow. That bow
Speaker 1: may not be in tune some people. I've actually got
Speaker 1: one bow where the arrows I'm currently shooting. If I
Speaker 1: put the cock vein out and I shoot that it
Speaker 1: hits a little left even with I'm canted, so I
Speaker 1: turned it and put it like in more And for
Speaker 1: some reason with that spine of arrow, I think so like,
Speaker 1: I think it's actually a little overspined. That arrow now
Speaker 1: like hits right. Um. So it might be something about
Speaker 1: tuning it, or some people have problems with the veins
Speaker 1: hitting their hands or whatever because of their grip. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, I think it's pretty standard to
Speaker 1: put that that vein out and then you know, with
Speaker 1: a compound bow, you don't want it touching anything, um
Speaker 1: because you have a rest on there. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you've got a stationary rest, not a drop away
Speaker 1: the rest, then you're you want those veins to go
Speaker 1: through the rest and not hit the rest. UM. So
Speaker 1: that would be yes. I mean most of the time
Speaker 1: your vein would either be up or down on a
Speaker 1: compound bow, so you're off colored one would be either
Speaker 1: up or down on a compound bow just for the
Speaker 1: use of the rest. But a lot of dropaway rests,
Speaker 1: like you got clearance up or down, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily make a difference on that um. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, yeah, you would knock you're a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Next one comes from Drake. A sent in a picture
Speaker 1: of a giant bowl elk and you said, killed my
Speaker 1: first elk this season. It's a big six Bay six.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the great show. It's the best part of
Speaker 1: my week. That is a great testimonial. Thanks for setting
Speaker 1: that in love getting those that's always that always keeps
Speaker 1: me pumped up. Now. The last question comes from Ian.
Speaker 1: He says, Amy, I have a question for your podcast.
Speaker 1: We're going on our first d I Y public Land
Speaker 1: I'll come this fall and are not sure what camp
Speaker 1: style is right for us. Should we make a base
Speaker 1: camp and hike in five plus miles every day, or
Speaker 1: should we camp in the back country every night, or
Speaker 1: a mixture of both. We will either be going to
Speaker 1: Montana or Colorado, depending on the Montana draw. Thank you
Speaker 1: Ian from Tomo, Wisconsin. That's a good question, Ian, Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it just depends on the type of unit
Speaker 1: and you know where you're at. I mean, if I
Speaker 1: was to just like make a generalization, I would probably
Speaker 1: say a combination of both, Um, and depends how many
Speaker 1: days you have. But I think the nice thing about
Speaker 1: the base camp and then going in multiple distances is
Speaker 1: if you go back there and you don't see what
Speaker 1: you're looking for. You're like, man, there's no elk back here.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any elk um and went back here
Speaker 1: two days in a row and didn't really see anything.
Speaker 1: Now you can easily move without being super invested. Another
Speaker 1: option is, you know, you could you could go back
Speaker 1: for a few days if you aren't seeing anything, say okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go find a new spot. I like the
Speaker 1: idea of being mobile, but I also like the idea,
Speaker 1: especially in a lot of those places, of getting away
Speaker 1: from people. So um, you know it is it is
Speaker 1: kind of a a toss up, a combination of you know,
Speaker 1: making a plan to hike in, but then saying, hey,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, we can go check out
Speaker 1: another spot is a good idea as well. Um you know,
Speaker 1: it's really fun. A back country hunt is the way
Speaker 1: that I love to hunt. Getting in past people is great.
Speaker 1: But I also know that kind of day hunting or
Speaker 1: back country day hunting you can cover you actually cover
Speaker 1: probably a lot more ground than just purely hiking in
Speaker 1: and setting up camp. Because you're light your mobile, you
Speaker 1: can cover more country um in in and out and whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you find those areas back there where hey,
Speaker 1: this is a good spot, then you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: your pack in, set up your camp, and then hunt
Speaker 1: it from there, because you're gonna be more effective hunting
Speaker 1: that kind of area once you've honed in on where
Speaker 1: the animals are at. So I think a combination of
Speaker 1: both is great. But it also just depends on the
Speaker 1: type of unit you're in, um how much you know
Speaker 1: pressure it might receive. Where if there's like good wilderness
Speaker 1: and trails, if there's good places to get away from people,
Speaker 1: or if it's an area where, hey, those elk might
Speaker 1: be a little more migratory, it might be more seasonal
Speaker 1: seasonality of the unit where the elk are going to be,
Speaker 1: you might need a few days to figure out where
Speaker 1: the heck are these things. Try a couple of different
Speaker 1: spots and then kind of hone in and then target
Speaker 1: in on those animals, pack in and make your hunt.
Speaker 1: I just want to thank everybody again for all the
Speaker 1: questions that came in. There's a lot that I didn't
Speaker 1: get to you. I I try to kind of pick
Speaker 1: and I've probably got twenty of them here that I
Speaker 1: didn't hit. But you know, feel free to keep writing
Speaker 1: in the best way is always um at remy warrant
Speaker 1: on Instagram send me a direct message on there. I
Speaker 1: mean I get a lot of messages, so and I
Speaker 1: see good ones, I kind of like screenshot and put
Speaker 1: them in a special folder. Unfortunately we don't have a
Speaker 1: real mail bag or a real mail room, but I
Speaker 1: like to visualize like a fake mail room similar to
Speaker 1: the scene from elf UM. I think that would be
Speaker 1: like an awesome mail room situation. But other than that,
Speaker 1: keeps sending those in. So the next couple of episodes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be going on kind of this theme of train.
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about two of the best
Speaker 1: things that you can prepare, and i'd be getting your
Speaker 1: body ready for any kind of grueling mountain hunt or
Speaker 1: western hunt. And then another thing you can train is
Speaker 1: your eyes and glassing. So I'm going to cover those
Speaker 1: and then and then I want to do kind of
Speaker 1: like this countdown of some of my favorite spring hunts
Speaker 1: as we start to get into that spring season. So
Speaker 1: maybe some stuff you thought about, maybe some stuff you didn't.
Speaker 1: I'll sprinkle in a few little hunting tips and tactics
Speaker 1: as well, so you won't want to miss those, make
Speaker 1: sure you keep circling back each Thursday and until then,
Speaker 1: hunt hard and keep the questions coming. Catch you guys later.
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