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: worn 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. I want you to just
Speaker 1: picture this. It's opening morning, pre light, it's dark. You
Speaker 1: just spent hours hiking into this nice alpine basin. You
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time scouting, and you know that
Speaker 1: there's elk in here. You saw him just a couple
Speaker 1: of days before, and you're pretty sure that at sunrise
Speaker 1: this canyon is going to be filled with some bulls.
Speaker 1: You saw a nice bull. You're in a general area
Speaker 1: and you're just excited with anticipation. As the sun comes
Speaker 1: up it starts to get light, you look around and
Speaker 1: what do you see. Well, in actuality, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: see blaze orange everywhere around you, just dudes galore, blaze
Speaker 1: orange on the trail, blaze orange up at the head
Speaker 1: of the base, and blaze orange popping out of the trees.
Speaker 1: Why Because you're in a general unit and that's just
Speaker 1: how Opening day is. Welcome to the pumpkin patch now,
Speaker 1: While opening day can be the busiest day in the woods,
Speaker 1: I think there's a few tactics that you can take
Speaker 1: with you to be very successful. It might not seem
Speaker 1: like a good day to hunt, but there are is
Speaker 1: a lot of success that first day because it's the
Speaker 1: first crack at these animals with a rifle. So I've
Speaker 1: developed a fourth step plan to help you be successful
Speaker 1: on the busiest day and hunting season. That includes scouting, planning, adapting,
Speaker 1: and intercepting. But before we get there, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you a story of an opening day where we
Speaker 1: got a double by following the specific plan. Now, for me,
Speaker 1: opening day general rifles season, I've had a pretty good
Speaker 1: track record. I'm always guiding those opening days because it
Speaker 1: is a good day. It's it's the day that we
Speaker 1: get to chase all these elk that we've been chasing
Speaker 1: archery season, first time with a rifle. The very downside
Speaker 1: of it is there is a lot of people out
Speaker 1: that first day. Everybody's excited, everybody wants to get out.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got their spot that they want to go to,
Speaker 1: and so it's not necessarily about figuring out where the
Speaker 1: elk are, but it's also figuring out, what are these
Speaker 1: elk gonna do once they get highly pressured. So I
Speaker 1: found this herd of elk that I've been watching earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, and I thought I saw a couple
Speaker 1: of maybe three or four bulls in there, a couple
Speaker 1: of nice ones and some smaller bulls, and I thought,
Speaker 1: all right, this is where I'm gonna go tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: I put them to bed the night before and figured,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna get up there. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: in early. This will be great. So me and my
Speaker 1: two hunters get up well before daylight. We park of
Speaker 1: the trailhead. We're like, sweet, there's actually a couple of
Speaker 1: trucks down lower in the canyon. But go, okay, we
Speaker 1: were going to go in here, but let's just go
Speaker 1: up and we'll plan on kind of going where once
Speaker 1: those get spooked, where they're gonna end up going. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the top of the mountain. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hike in a little bit further. But we got
Speaker 1: a lot of time. The trucks that were down lower
Speaker 1: were like actually camping at that trail, so I knew
Speaker 1: that they actually weren't even out of their vehicles or anything.
Speaker 1: They were just in there camping, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: to walk in on anyone. So we went up highre
Speaker 1: got parked, started hiking in. We hike up in the dark,
Speaker 1: gain a lot of elevation, get up into this nice base,
Speaker 1: and like, all right, now we've got a long time
Speaker 1: before daylight, but that's all right, rather just be up here.
Speaker 1: So we're sitting there waiting. I'm trying to listen in
Speaker 1: glass if I can, but obviously it's just dark, and
Speaker 1: I'm just anticipating daylight getting here so we can start hunting.
Speaker 1: Fairly cold, We're just tucked into this little timber pocket
Speaker 1: and I hear something behind us. I'm like, well, that
Speaker 1: is definitely a dude. So a guy. He's walking ridge
Speaker 1: and I just kind of whistle, you know, just to
Speaker 1: let him know, hey, we're here. Okay, cool, you know,
Speaker 1: he's far enough away, stops I can tell that he
Speaker 1: pretty much hears me, and then he just like walks
Speaker 1: around us and goes and gets set up like I
Speaker 1: don't even know, maybe five yards away from where we're at.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So now I'm like, well this is great.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's essentially going to try to be just
Speaker 1: ahead of where we are looking. Well, whatever that happens,
Speaker 1: let's just go to a completely different spot down the mountain.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I tell my guys, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna move down this. This is not I want
Speaker 1: to be further down when it starts to get light.
Speaker 1: So just I just I don't like being around people
Speaker 1: that close. And it was just kind of a weird move.
Speaker 1: So that's how it's gonna be. So we decided to
Speaker 1: walk down. We have to walk around, so you just
Speaker 1: take like a really wide track around, and we've got
Speaker 1: our headlights on and we're like walking down the ridge
Speaker 1: across from now, I mean a good good ways away,
Speaker 1: and the guy starts flashing his headlight at us head lamp.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like we're outing the marsh duck hunting.
Speaker 1: You know, you're letting, you're blowing off your duck call,
Speaker 1: letting everybody know where you're at, pre light, flashing your
Speaker 1: head lamp. Like, oh, this is how it's gonna be. Alright,
Speaker 1: got you, Well, let's just get down further. I mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long trudge up, but I know
Speaker 1: that the elk like to move, so I had a plan,
Speaker 1: and it was just like, all right, there's people in
Speaker 1: the first spot, not even out of the vehicles, but
Speaker 1: there camp there. Let's move up the mountain. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: some dude walk parks right behind our truck, clearly walks
Speaker 1: up right behind us. But hey, it's opening day. I
Speaker 1: expect that percent of the time. So we just adapt.
Speaker 1: We decided we're gonna drop down. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I know that the elk like to move up this direction.
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna get spooked by the guys coming up
Speaker 1: a little bit later. If not, then they'll actually be
Speaker 1: feeding up. Anyways, there's the guy at the top of
Speaker 1: the hill. We're just gonna get ourselves into a good
Speaker 1: position to intercept things that get bumped by other people
Speaker 1: when they mess up. I love to be the guy
Speaker 1: that gets the first crack, but if I can't, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to figure out a way to adapt my
Speaker 1: plan and just use what I know of elk behavior
Speaker 1: and their travel patterns to get into position where things
Speaker 1: are moving. We start getting down there and starts getting
Speaker 1: a little bit later. We haven't seen anything. It's actually
Speaker 1: a pretty slow morning. I thought we'd hear a few
Speaker 1: more shots. Heard a couple of shots off in the distance,
Speaker 1: but nothing like you'd normally hear war zone action. Opening day,
Speaker 1: glassing around through the valleys, different locations, and there's definitely
Speaker 1: a lot of people out, a lot of orange pumpkins
Speaker 1: out there. But the one thing that was good was
Speaker 1: we started to get some weather, some some snow, some
Speaker 1: bad visibility, which isn't great for glassing, but it's good
Speaker 1: for if you're kind of setting up an bush. So
Speaker 1: we're going down the mountain. I had spotted what looked
Speaker 1: like a deer and we kind of started moving down
Speaker 1: that direction. There's this one spot where I know it's
Speaker 1: just you can't really see it from anywhere. So we're
Speaker 1: moving down and we're like, nothing, nothing, nothing. I start
Speaker 1: working around the hill. I smell elk. I'm like elk.
Speaker 1: Start to creep, super steep, and it's just one little open.
Speaker 1: As we move, I feel the wind shift. Just as
Speaker 1: we spot a group of cows like maybe two hundred
Speaker 1: yards away, they run off. I'm like, oh no, that
Speaker 1: was our opportunity, kicking myself like damn, this sucks, but
Speaker 1: I get on the cow call. I start following those elk.
Speaker 1: We moved down and we're just standing there above and
Speaker 1: I can see like a guy off in the distance
Speaker 1: few ridges away. I'm like, man, I think you either
Speaker 1: bumped something or I don't know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: we should just I should just like look here and
Speaker 1: be patient. We're sitting there for a little bit. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I see this bull antler tips right
Speaker 1: below us, like boo boo boa. We get down. One
Speaker 1: of the hunters loads up, alright, sweet, he gets set up.
Speaker 1: The bull walks out, Boom shoots and just drops him.
Speaker 1: This bull ended up walking right to us at about
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I had to be less than
Speaker 1: a hundred yards very close. This was like an offhand
Speaker 1: shot because the pitch of the hill was pretty steep.
Speaker 1: I can't really remember if we got to a tree
Speaker 1: or if he just stood up and shot the thing.
Speaker 1: It was like fifty yards away. He shoots the bull,
Speaker 1: were like stoked, celebrating, and I looked down. There's another bull.
Speaker 1: I was like Joe, one of the other guys. There
Speaker 1: was something Joe, Joe another bull. Joe lignes up, gets
Speaker 1: the shot, Boom shoots drops. That bowl opening day, we
Speaker 1: just intercepted two bulls within the first I don't know,
Speaker 1: half a day, even though our plans were completely messed up,
Speaker 1: just by adapting a little bit, changing our plan and
Speaker 1: going to where we could intercept elk that other people
Speaker 1: had bumped, we were successful. The one really cool thing
Speaker 1: about this day was, although I've taken a lot of doubles,
Speaker 1: you can go back and you can listen to the
Speaker 1: podcast of the the Accidental Double or how to Get
Speaker 1: a double. This double was one of the first elk
Speaker 1: doubles where the elk dropped close enough to each other
Speaker 1: that we could get them both in the same picture,
Speaker 1: which for me, having been on a lot of hunts
Speaker 1: where we got doubles, that was pretty cool and it
Speaker 1: kind of broke the seal because later that season we
Speaker 1: also got another double where we could get both bulls
Speaker 1: in the same picture. Just a great opening day and
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that I love being out the
Speaker 1: first day of the season because you just really never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Scout plan, adapt intercept full
Speaker 1: proof method for opening day hunting success. Now, when I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this form of opening day tactics, I think
Speaker 1: you first have to catch your eyes opening day into
Speaker 1: two things general tag limited entry tags, because my approach
Speaker 1: is completely different on those. This is the reason limited
Speaker 1: entry tags. You are granted limited entry. There's very few tags,
Speaker 1: there's a limited number of people, and because of that,
Speaker 1: you can hunt differently. While there will be pressure, it
Speaker 1: might be pressure for specific animals, but there's often a
Speaker 1: lot less pressure so you can target the animal that
Speaker 1: you're hunting. There's a lot more scouting involved and pre planning,
Speaker 1: but there's not as much of this having to intercept
Speaker 1: or running into so many people. While it does happen,
Speaker 1: it's kind of one of the nice things about having
Speaker 1: one of those limited entry tags, or maybe hunting private land.
Speaker 1: Now what I'm going to break down today would be
Speaker 1: a general type tag hunt. Although I'm kind of talking
Speaker 1: about elk hunting or deer hunting out west. This works
Speaker 1: really well with pretty much any form of hunting. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you think about Eastern US, midwestern U S there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people and I touched a little bit
Speaker 1: about this on a Q and A earlier this season,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people that are maybe hunting
Speaker 1: smaller tracks of private and getting those animals moving around
Speaker 1: causes a lot of action on those particular pieces. Most
Speaker 1: animals and a lot of states are shot on opening Day,
Speaker 1: but it also has to do with that's when most
Speaker 1: hunters are out. I would say out West, in a
Speaker 1: lot of general areas, opening day is going to be
Speaker 1: hands down the busiest day of the season. Maybe that
Speaker 1: day in the Saturday of the last day of the
Speaker 1: season if it falls around a holiday, especially, but outside
Speaker 1: of that opening days because that's when everybody who lives
Speaker 1: around there has been itching to go out. Most people
Speaker 1: during general rifle seasons, a lot of people go out
Speaker 1: for different reasons. Some people are die hard hunters, some
Speaker 1: people just go out because it's family traditions. Some people
Speaker 1: just it's a fun weekend get away, something to do.
Speaker 1: Everybody takes things a little bit differently, but you have
Speaker 1: all those different types of user groups out there on
Speaker 1: the same day because the first day you can do it,
Speaker 1: it's a weekend generally, and it just sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Maybe we'll just go tryer luck, see
Speaker 1: if we can get into some animals, and it tends
Speaker 1: to be very successful because the amount of hunters that
Speaker 1: are out there often get the animals stirred up enough
Speaker 1: where they're bumping things back and forth. General tag. We
Speaker 1: call it the pumpkin patch a lot because many states
Speaker 1: require hunters orange, and it's just there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bunch of orange vests pumpkins everywhere, So you have to
Speaker 1: include this in your plan. Now, my fourth step plan,
Speaker 1: scout plan adapt intercept really takes root in creating an
Speaker 1: actionable plan that's going to help lend yourself to success.
Speaker 1: The first one, let's just jump into scouting. If you
Speaker 1: were to ask me, remy, if you had five days,
Speaker 1: would you rather go four days scouting, one day hunting,
Speaker 1: two days scouting, three days hunting, or just all five
Speaker 1: days hunting. I would pretty much hands down, say go
Speaker 1: all five days hunting. You're in the field, you've got
Speaker 1: a tag in your pocket, you have more chance for success.
Speaker 1: The have yacht to that would be if you're planning
Speaker 1: on hunting opening day, Because if you're planning on hunting
Speaker 1: opening day, you really get the first crack at these
Speaker 1: animals that haven't necessarily seen pressure, but things are going
Speaker 1: to change very very rapidly once the sun rises on
Speaker 1: that opening morning. They're going to get an immense amount
Speaker 1: of pressure and they're immediately going to know, oh, crap,
Speaker 1: it's hunting season. Things are going to change quickly. The
Speaker 1: reason that pre scouting comes into effect is because you
Speaker 1: can have an idea of where the animals are at
Speaker 1: in order to form your plan on that busy day. Now,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some things that are gonna happen that
Speaker 1: are gonna cause those animals to behave very differently. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: opening day you rarely get to hunt elk or deer
Speaker 1: or anything that are behaving like unpressured animals. That's what
Speaker 1: you want, but that's not often what you get, So
Speaker 1: the scouting portion is really important. What I'm looking for
Speaker 1: when I'm scouting is three things, and first looking for animals.
Speaker 1: I'm second looking for where those animals might go if
Speaker 1: they're pressured, what might be a good escape route, where's
Speaker 1: the nearest really good cover, where's a good corridor or
Speaker 1: trail that they seem to be using if they get pressured,
Speaker 1: And then try to make notes of where they might
Speaker 1: go when that pressure happens. Another thing I like to
Speaker 1: look for Number two would be looking for animals that
Speaker 1: other people might not know about. The ideal situation is
Speaker 1: getting into opening day where you don't run into other
Speaker 1: hunters or other pressure. So finding those little off the trail,
Speaker 1: off the map, kind of little pockets where maybe other
Speaker 1: people haven't found what you found, And that really comes
Speaker 1: with a lot of scouting. And then the third thing
Speaker 1: that I'm looking for with scouting is just gonna be
Speaker 1: backup plans where if something happens, I've got too many
Speaker 1: hunters at a particular trailhead, I've got multiple animals that
Speaker 1: I know about that I can then immediately change my plan.
Speaker 1: So now that rolls into step number two, the plan.
Speaker 1: When I'm planning for an opening day hunt, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about not only where are the animals at, but what's
Speaker 1: the way that other hunters are going to access this?
Speaker 1: I kind of anticipate, Okay, how are other hunters gonna
Speaker 1: hunt this? Should I get in there first? Should I
Speaker 1: get in there maybe try to be the first one
Speaker 1: to the elk, or should I try to intercept the
Speaker 1: elk or deer or whatever? Later? What am I going
Speaker 1: to do if I don't find them right away first
Speaker 1: thing in the morning, Where's a good area where maybe
Speaker 1: I can be far enough away from other people, or
Speaker 1: where are the animals going to go? Later on? Based
Speaker 1: on my scouting, so understanding those safety zones, those really
Speaker 1: thick pockets, maybe those patches of timber, or those travel corridors.
Speaker 1: Where are all these at? And then how am I
Speaker 1: going to plan out my day based on those things
Speaker 1: that I know? So generally, what I like to do
Speaker 1: I find elk or deer or whatever that I'm planning
Speaker 1: on going after. If I'm not the first one there,
Speaker 1: maybe some dudes camped right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: basin that I'm planning on hunting. That happens a lot,
Speaker 1: or maybe the night before you you pull up and
Speaker 1: there's seven trucks where you were thinking there was gonna
Speaker 1: be no one. Now I may not be the guy
Speaker 1: that's going to get to those up first, or maybe
Speaker 1: I am only the guy that gets those up first,
Speaker 1: but we don't get them. What's gonna happen after that? Well,
Speaker 1: what I like to do is just pick a place
Speaker 1: where okay, maybe other hunters I'm anticipating where other hunters
Speaker 1: are going to be, and then maybe just sit for
Speaker 1: a while, maybe see where the movements are at, see
Speaker 1: where shots are coming from, seeing where things are going on,
Speaker 1: and then maybe go hunt some more covered areas, maybe
Speaker 1: still hunt through an area that's okay, this would be
Speaker 1: a good place that the elk can get you, or
Speaker 1: picking a spot that is very difficult to get, maybe
Speaker 1: a lot of dead, full and just shitty conditions, places
Speaker 1: where animals can be very secure that most hunters will avoid.
Speaker 1: I like to make these plans and try to stay
Speaker 1: away from roads. A lot of hunters during opening season
Speaker 1: or just gonna be traveling roads. If I can just
Speaker 1: get a little bit further than the next guy, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna limit a lot of the competition. And the further
Speaker 1: I get, the more I limit this competition, honestly, the
Speaker 1: better I'm probably gonna do, but also more of a
Speaker 1: chance of intercepting or getting into animals that aren't under
Speaker 1: that super pressure. Number three. Adapt during the planning phase.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know that it's opening day and things are
Speaker 1: going to change. It's inevitable. Nothing ever goes to plan
Speaker 1: when you've got a lot of other people also making plans.
Speaker 1: So it's really important to be flexible, to adapt, and
Speaker 1: to have a bunch of backup plans in order to
Speaker 1: be successful. Just because you found elk doesn't mean hey,
Speaker 1: this is a sure deal. Just because you found the
Speaker 1: pocketed deer that you want to hunt. Hey, be willing
Speaker 1: to adapt. If you see a lot of people at
Speaker 1: one spot, maybe spend a little bit more time in
Speaker 1: the morning moving to a spot where there's not people.
Speaker 1: There's been times where I've hiked in first thing in
Speaker 1: the morning, hiked in three to five miles, get back
Speaker 1: there and there's people everywhere, don't find any animals, and
Speaker 1: I go ok let's hike back to the trail. Let's
Speaker 1: get on the road. Let's find a spot where there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of vehicles and not a lot of traffic. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna be a little late to the game,
Speaker 1: but let's find a spot where there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of people at and then hunt there. You're probably gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot better off adapting to a situation and
Speaker 1: trying to get away from people in some instances, then
Speaker 1: sticking it out where there's a lot of people. Now,
Speaker 1: another option of adapting is be patient and maybe just
Speaker 1: still hunt or sit in an area where you think
Speaker 1: that other people have a really likely chance of bumping
Speaker 1: things to you. There have been many opening mornings, opening
Speaker 1: weekends where I go, Okay, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: elk here, this is a good travel area. Hey, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna sit here because we're just gonna wait it out.
Speaker 1: And I'll see hunters walking past us, and then fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes later and elk or deer or something gets bumped
Speaker 1: back the other direction. There's so many times where I
Speaker 1: try to anticipate the movements of the animals and the
Speaker 1: movements of hunters more than actually where those animals are currently.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to step four intercept. If you
Speaker 1: think about most hunting scenarios, you're trying to match your
Speaker 1: wits against the animal at their own game. When you
Speaker 1: get into an opening day scenario, when the pumpkin patch army,
Speaker 1: when the Orange Army arrives on the crack of dawn
Speaker 1: on that first day of the season, those animals know
Speaker 1: they have on their calendars. Elk and deer have on
Speaker 1: their calendars when Opening Day starts. Yes they do. It's
Speaker 1: because it's no coincidence. Because they see an immense amount
Speaker 1: of traffic that first couple of days and they go, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: things are different yesterday. We could just hang out in
Speaker 1: the open a lot longer. That's no longer going to
Speaker 1: be the case. From now until all this traffic stops,
Speaker 1: you be surprised at how much more successful you'll be.
Speaker 1: I would, instead of planning on out smarting animals, planning
Speaker 1: on out smarting animals that are trying to be outsmarted
Speaker 1: by other hunters. What that means is thinking about the
Speaker 1: travel routes, the escape routes, where they like to go,
Speaker 1: where they're going to feel the most safe, and then
Speaker 1: putting yourself in those places. Let everybody else run around,
Speaker 1: let the animals run to you. While that still might
Speaker 1: involve a lot more legwork, like I wouldn't say that
Speaker 1: that's a lazy way of hunting. Many times I will
Speaker 1: go through the places that people don't want to go to.
Speaker 1: I'll go through that really bad deadfall, in that really
Speaker 1: steep canyon, in that fairly dark timber, knowing that I
Speaker 1: will probably be able to hear smell or sea elk
Speaker 1: that other people have pushed in there, have moved around,
Speaker 1: have bumped around, and then setting myself up on those trails,
Speaker 1: maybe those pinch points between saddles and other areas where
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, it's really easy hunting down here. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be people on the road, so that's gonna push
Speaker 1: the animals, I would say, a little bit away from
Speaker 1: the roads. They're ones that are there might get shot,
Speaker 1: but everything else might run a way. Then there's gonna
Speaker 1: be those hunters that walk a little bit of a
Speaker 1: distance from the road, but they're gonna be hunting the
Speaker 1: easier trails and other things. And then there's those places
Speaker 1: that people just don't like, and that's the places where
Speaker 1: the animals are probably gonna go, and that's where I
Speaker 1: would like to set up and intercept. This can really
Speaker 1: be done with a lot of different species in a
Speaker 1: lot of different places. I would say most people are
Speaker 1: fairly used to this type of hunting. Most of the
Speaker 1: people that I guide, or maybe from Midwest Minnesota, back
Speaker 1: east whatever, where they're hunting twenty two forty acres and
Speaker 1: opening days their day that they're probably gonna kill something
Speaker 1: because everybody's running stuff around, there's movement, there's people shooting,
Speaker 1: there's people missing. Things are are stirred up, and then
Speaker 1: there's this lull in the middle of the day and
Speaker 1: then things get stirred up again. Those animals that didn't
Speaker 1: really figure it out first thing in the morning are
Speaker 1: going to figure it out pretty quick. In the evening,
Speaker 1: that middle of the day part is a really good
Speaker 1: time to intercept the animals where they're hiding, where they're
Speaker 1: trying to avoid hunters, where they've maybe been pressured to
Speaker 1: and that's a really good time to still hunt, use
Speaker 1: still hunting tactics, or just using if it's more open country,
Speaker 1: using more glassing tactics, glassing into areas to try to
Speaker 1: find animals that might be bedded up, might be trying
Speaker 1: to avoid pressure, animals that maybe are understanding the pressure
Speaker 1: based on the amount of vehicle traffic, the amount of
Speaker 1: hiking traffic, maybe not even being shot at or particularly hunted,
Speaker 1: but just the noticeable increase of traffic during that day,
Speaker 1: and then intercepting those animals in those spots where they're
Speaker 1: most likely to be once that pressure goes. If you
Speaker 1: can understand animals escape routes, the places that are going
Speaker 1: to favor when they get pressured, in those places that
Speaker 1: other people don't really like to get into, having a
Speaker 1: little bit of time preseason to scout it out and
Speaker 1: make plans, backup plants, and adapt, you're gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot more successful. You'll be one of the guys punching
Speaker 1: your tag on that first day, as opposed to one
Speaker 1: of the guys wishing that you'd punched your tag on
Speaker 1: the first day and the spending the next you days
Speaker 1: struggling to find animals that have been highly pressured. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've got a tag coming up and you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna be out there opening day. I hope you kind
Speaker 1: of think about not only where you're gonna go, and
Speaker 1: maybe spending a little bit of time if you can't
Speaker 1: pre season, just scouting and figuring out what your plan
Speaker 1: is going to be, but also just understanding that there
Speaker 1: are going to be other hunters and maybe how to
Speaker 1: avoid those other hunters or use those other hunters to
Speaker 1: your benefit. I think next week what I really want
Speaker 1: to talk about is a little bit of open country
Speaker 1: spot in stock white tail hunting. I think that's one
Speaker 1: topic that really probably doesn't get talked about enough. But
Speaker 1: for me personally, a lot of my general tags that
Speaker 1: I end up using end up being spot in stock
Speaker 1: white tail hunting, public land style white tail hunting. It
Speaker 1: can be a really fun hunt, especially for a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that are into white tail hunting. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity for it out West, and I think
Speaker 1: it's a very underrated, under talked about topic. There are
Speaker 1: some really good white tail hunting spots in places from
Speaker 1: Wyoming through Colorado, Idaho, Montana. I mean, there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of good white tail hunting that many people don't
Speaker 1: talk about. Or it might even be something that you
Speaker 1: can do where you live. Maybe you don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of access to private white tail hunting, but there
Speaker 1: is some public land around where you're at. Maybe you
Speaker 1: live in some some hardwood countries, but there's some state
Speaker 1: forests around. So I want to just give you some
Speaker 1: tactics for those of you that might want to still
Speaker 1: hunt or open country hunt, a big mountain hunt white
Speaker 1: tails in a little bit different terrain. Maybe some pointers
Speaker 1: on that kind of stuff. I think it's a really
Speaker 1: fun way to hunt white tail deer. It can be
Speaker 1: a little bit more exciting, especially if you're like me
Speaker 1: and you just aren't super patient or you don't have
Speaker 1: the time to invest into setting up stands and other things. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a very very effective way to hunt white tails.
Speaker 1: There are other ways to hunt them and it can
Speaker 1: be just as exciting and maybe more exciting. So I
Speaker 1: say we cover that next week. Also, remember to send
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Speaker 1: coming up. I really appreciate so many messages. Just a
Speaker 1: lot of really great stuff from Elk season. People stoked
Speaker 1: about that. Also last week we talked about some truck
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Speaker 1: what tactics have been working, whether it was just earlier
Speaker 1: this year or something you're gonna try or whatever. I
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Speaker 1: So until next week, make sure to outfox the fox.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that makes sense. What I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say is outsmart the ones trying to outsmart
Speaker 1: the ones that will outsmart you. If everybody does that,
Speaker 1: that will allow smart each other. Crap