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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. It's the middle of September.

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Speaker 1: I know for many areas a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: been encountering some really tough conditions this elk season, mostly

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Speaker 1: due to wildfires around, low visibility, some hot weather, and

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Speaker 1: then there's also been the flip side, where depending on

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Speaker 1: where you're at, you've just run into some awesome hunting.

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Speaker 1: For me, it was a pretty slow start. First portion

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Speaker 1: was pretty smoky, pretty hot, not a lot of running activity.

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Speaker 1: But as soon as that pressure system changed man as

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Speaker 1: animals started firing up, we got some cooler weather in

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Speaker 1: and it turned out to be awesome. Actually, recently took

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Speaker 1: a bull with my longbow just this last weekend, and

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Speaker 1: it made me realize some of the calling techniques. Especially

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Speaker 1: when you're calling by yourself, it can be very difficult

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Speaker 1: to draw a bull into your location because what they'll

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Speaker 1: do is they'll hang up just out of range. So

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Speaker 1: this week I want to kind of go over some

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Speaker 1: of the tactics that I use and calling a bull

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Speaker 1: in when you're by yourself in ways that you can

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Speaker 1: use not necessarily call, but certain times you can use

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Speaker 1: silence to get that bull to come in a little

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Speaker 1: bit closer. This past weekend was just one of those

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Speaker 1: weekends where it goes from zero to a hundred. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if anybody else experienced this, but the start

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Speaker 1: of my oak season was a little bit rocky only

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Speaker 1: because or at least the start of my elk hunt,

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Speaker 1: because the smoke was so bad. It was hot temperatures,

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Speaker 1: and the animals just were not being active. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: even like I just couldn't buy a bugle. It felt

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Speaker 1: like I was going to some of my favorite spots,

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Speaker 1: some places that I knew well that generally hold elk

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Speaker 1: and just not turning anything up and I couldn't glass

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Speaker 1: to find him. So it just kind of felt a

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Speaker 1: little handicapped. But that all changed when the weather itself changed,

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Speaker 1: so it was kind of like hot, terrible conditions. But

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Speaker 1: the night before the weather shifted, I ended up going

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Speaker 1: to a spot and getting one bugle, so I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back into this spot, well, that pressure

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Speaker 1: system kind of changed up a little bit, and that

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Speaker 1: next morning, I started out early, just like most mornings,

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Speaker 1: throughout a locator bugle before daylight, and heard a bowl

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Speaker 1: kind of like back up on the ridge behind me.

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Speaker 1: So I figured, okay, I'm gonna work into that spot.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make any more noises now, because I

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Speaker 1: wanted to get close before I let out any more sounds,

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Speaker 1: and just wanted to also kind of wait until it

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Speaker 1: got closer to shooting light because I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: draw him in too early. So I get back in

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Speaker 1: the trees on this ridge is like burnt and there's

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Speaker 1: all these little pines around, and I'm in the trees

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Speaker 1: shooting light now, and so I let out just a

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Speaker 1: few cow calls, just testing the waters here, and then

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Speaker 1: I let out a bugle. Then it's almost like the

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Speaker 1: amphitheater starts a bugle across the valley, a bugle up

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Speaker 1: on the ridge to my right, and then I hear

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Speaker 1: not necessarily a bugle, but just like this heavy breathing

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Speaker 1: behind me and stuff breaking. So I turned around, give

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Speaker 1: a few little like chuckles back behind me. So I

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Speaker 1: dropped down, circle around get a view, and the bullet Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm in really close to me, maybe I would say

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Speaker 1: there's a small five by five and I thought, I've

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Speaker 1: got my long bow with me pretty much. If that

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season, thought I'm looking for a bull

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Speaker 1: that has at least six points on one side. I

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Speaker 1: figured I couldn't see these other bowls. So I bugle,

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Speaker 1: Decent looking animal, and she's pretty fired up. So I

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Speaker 1: I do that, and then he would bugle. So I

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Speaker 1: I can't draw like when you've got two people calling.

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Speaker 1: It's completely different scenario because one guy can go ahead,

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Speaker 1: the other guy can draw back. But because I'm by myself,

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Speaker 1: elk care, because man, these elk can just pinpoint your

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Speaker 1: come in the entire way. He drops down below me.

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Speaker 1: He's out of sight because I'm crouched down. Then I

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Speaker 1: as he gets out of sight. Then I know he's

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Speaker 1: he's working my way. I already trust that that bull

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Speaker 1: I don't make any more calls. What I want him

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Speaker 1: to do have to like search for me. Where's he's

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Speaker 1: actively looking. But I wanted him close enough to my position.

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Speaker 1: But I don't want to give away exactly where I

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Speaker 1: am when he's really close, because I don't want him

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Speaker 1: trying to film all this. So he pops down, and

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Speaker 1: now I see antler tips coming up the hill rise

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Speaker 1: Then I see him start to walk out, so I

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Speaker 1: start to draw my bow back and he whips his

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Speaker 1: head in my direction and I just freeze. I just wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: animal world. If you don't move, they don't see you.

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Speaker 1: So I wait. But now based on that movement, I know, okay,

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna jump. I've always had my call in

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Speaker 1: my mouth. When I'm ready. The bull then starts walking out.

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Speaker 1: He jumps. As I'm drawing back, I see him move

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Speaker 1: focusing on the spot. Release the arrow, hit the bull.

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Speaker 1: The bull runs off, goes over the ridge, and I

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Speaker 1: got an awesome bull. Essentially called it myself, filmed it myself,

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Speaker 1: essentially a really really cool bull. If you're anything like me,

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Speaker 1: you might be hunting on your own. Maybe you're hunting

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Speaker 1: with somebody that doesn't elk call or can't elk call.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things, you know, a lot of scenarios,

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Speaker 1: but these tips that I'm gonna give you, or not

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Speaker 1: just for calling alone, however, they do really increase your

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Speaker 1: opportunity of getting that bull within range. But also if

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Speaker 1: you're doing a set up. These are just some really

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Speaker 1: good ideas on ways to set up. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you my five best tips when you're calling elk

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Speaker 1: by yourself or how to set up on ELK. So

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Speaker 1: the first tip is going to be to set up

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Speaker 1: where they'll stop or where they can't see you. You've

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Speaker 1: got to understand, like when you're calling elk, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do a lot of things. They're they're calling, you're calling,

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Speaker 1: they're calling, but they're also looking out for i mean,

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Speaker 1: just at natural elk behaviors. The animals gonna go to

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Speaker 1: where he knows where that sound is coming from, and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna look. If he doesn't see anything, he's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna lose interest. That doesn't mean that he necessarily knows

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Speaker 1: that you're set up is fake, but he's going to

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Speaker 1: go to an area where he can look and say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: sounded thirty cows over here. It's fairly open, or I'm

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Speaker 1: within a potential distance that I think I could see

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go back over here. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go do my own thing. I'm gonna go do something else.

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Speaker 1: So making sure you can set up in a place

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Speaker 1: good way to set up. So when I'm hunting by myself,

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