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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: worn 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. I want you to just

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Speaker 1: picture this. It's opening morning, pre light, it's dark. You

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Speaker 1: just spent hours hiking into this nice alpine basin. You

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time scouting, and you know that

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Speaker 1: there's elk in here. You saw him just a couple

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Speaker 1: of days before, and you're pretty sure that at sunrise

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Speaker 1: this canyon is going to be filled with some bulls.

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Speaker 1: You saw a nice bull. You're in a general area

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Speaker 1: and you're just excited with anticipation. As the sun comes

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Speaker 1: what do you see. Well, in actuality, you're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: see blaze orange everywhere around you, just dudes galore, blaze

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Speaker 1: orange on the trail, blaze orange up at the head

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Speaker 1: of the base, and blaze orange popping out of the trees.

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Speaker 1: Why Because you're in a general unit and that's just

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Speaker 1: how Opening day is. Welcome to the pumpkin patch now,

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Speaker 1: While opening day can be the busiest day in the woods,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a few tactics that you can take

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Speaker 1: with you to be very successful. It might not seem

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Speaker 1: like a good day to hunt, but there are is

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Speaker 1: a lot of success that first day because it's the

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Speaker 1: first crack at these animals with a rifle. So I've

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Speaker 1: developed a fourth step plan to help you be successful

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Speaker 1: on the busiest day and hunting season. That includes scouting, planning, adapting,

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Speaker 1: and intercepting. But before we get there, I want to

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Speaker 1: tell you a story of an opening day where we

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Speaker 1: got a double by following the specific plan. Now, for me,

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Speaker 1: opening day general rifles season, I've had a pretty good

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Speaker 1: track record. I'm always guiding those opening days because it

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Speaker 1: is a good day. It's it's the day that we

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Speaker 1: get to chase all these elk that we've been chasing

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Speaker 1: archery season, first time with a rifle. The very downside

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Speaker 1: of it is there is a lot of people out

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Speaker 1: that first day. Everybody's excited, everybody wants to get out.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's got their spot that they want to go to,

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Speaker 1: and so it's not necessarily about figuring out where the

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Speaker 1: elk are, but it's also figuring out, what are these

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Speaker 1: elk gonna do once they get highly pressured. So I

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Speaker 1: found this herd of elk that I've been watching earlier

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Speaker 1: of maybe three or four bulls in there, a couple

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Speaker 1: all right, this is where I'm gonna go tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: I put them to bed the night before and figured,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna get up there. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: in early. This will be great. So me and my

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Speaker 1: two hunters get up well before daylight. We park of

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Speaker 1: the trailhead. We're like, sweet, there's actually a couple of

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Speaker 1: were going to go in here, but let's just go

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Speaker 1: up and we'll plan on kind of going where once

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Speaker 1: those get spooked, where they're gonna end up going. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the top of the mountain. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hike in a little bit further. But we got

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Speaker 1: They were just in there camping, but I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to walk in on anyone. So we went up highre

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Speaker 1: So we're sitting there waiting. I'm trying to listen in

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Speaker 1: Fairly cold, We're just tucked into this little timber pocket

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Speaker 1: and I just kind of whistle, you know, just to

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I tell my guys, we're

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like we're outing the marsh duck hunting.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're letting, you're blowing off your duck call,

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Speaker 1: and it was just like, all right, there's people in

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Speaker 1: We decided we're gonna drop down. I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 1: a little bit later. If not, then they'll actually be

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Speaker 1: glassing around through the valleys, different locations, and there's definitely

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Speaker 1: We moved down and we're just standing there above and

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Speaker 1: just by adapting a little bit, changing our plan and

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Speaker 1: podcast of the the Accidental Double or how to Get

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Speaker 1: a double. This double was one of the first elk

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Speaker 1: doubles where the elk dropped close enough to each other

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Speaker 1: which for me, having been on a lot of hunts

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons that I love being out the

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Speaker 1: first day of the season because you just really never

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Scout plan, adapt intercept full

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Speaker 1: proof method for opening day hunting success. Now, when I'm

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Speaker 1: you first have to catch your eyes opening day into

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Speaker 1: two things general tag limited entry tags, because my approach

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Speaker 1: is completely different on those. This is the reason limited

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Speaker 1: entry tags. You are granted limited entry. There's very few tags,

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Speaker 1: there's a limited number of people, and because of that,

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Speaker 1: you can hunt differently. While there will be pressure, it

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Speaker 1: might be pressure for specific animals, but there's often a

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Speaker 1: lot less pressure so you can target the animal that

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Speaker 1: you're hunting. There's a lot more scouting involved and pre planning,

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Speaker 1: but there's not as much of this having to intercept

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Speaker 1: or running into so many people. While it does happen,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of one of the nice things about having

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Speaker 1: one of those limited entry tags, or maybe hunting private land.

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Speaker 1: Now what I'm going to break down today would be

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Speaker 1: a general type tag hunt. Although I'm kind of talking

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Speaker 1: about elk hunting or deer hunting out west. This works

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Speaker 1: really well with pretty much any form of hunting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you think about Eastern US, midwestern U S there's

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people that are maybe hunting

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Speaker 1: smaller tracks of private and getting those animals moving around

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Speaker 1: causes a lot of action on those particular pieces. Most

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Speaker 1: animals and a lot of states are shot on opening Day,

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Speaker 1: but it also has to do with that's when most

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Speaker 1: lot of general areas, opening day is going to be

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Speaker 1: There are other ways to hunt them and it can

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Speaker 1: coming up. I really appreciate so many messages. Just a

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Speaker 1: So when you got that feedback, shoot me messages on

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Remy Warren. Please feel free to tag me

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Speaker 1: in any stories where you get success. What I want

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Speaker 1: to start doing is kind of like sharing a lot

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Speaker 1: I'll try to get on there and reshare those so

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Speaker 1: everybody else can see everyone's success. Kind of create a

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Speaker 1: what tactics have been working, whether it was just earlier

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Speaker 1: So if you do that, that would be sweet. Also,

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Speaker 1: So until next week, make sure to outfox the fox.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if that makes sense. What I'm

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