Speaker 1: As a guide an 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 to the podcast everyone.
Speaker 1: It is officially October for a lot of places, some seasons,
Speaker 1: some new seasons are kicking off, and that's exciting. All
Speaker 1: this all this knowledge that we get throughout the year,
Speaker 1: you get to put into action during hunting season. So
Speaker 1: that's what I get excited about. And I also get
Speaker 1: excited about checking the mail satchel. Normally I called the
Speaker 1: male Sack, but for some reason today Satchell just sounds
Speaker 1: seems fancier. So we're gonna go to the male satchel
Speaker 1: today and answer your questions. There's a lot of good
Speaker 1: questions about l hunting. There's I mean, just as many
Speaker 1: questions as I got. I got testimonials, people sending pictures
Speaker 1: of Well, here's one right here from Gerald Baker. He says, Remy,
Speaker 1: this is my first archery dear. This is all you
Speaker 1: learning the tactics, understanding how to practice with my boat,
Speaker 1: understanding the wind, understanding how animals think. Even skull Boil
Speaker 1: learned it from your podcast. Great picture of a really
Speaker 1: good white tail buck here. Congrats man. A lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff coming in from people using tactics to to
Speaker 1: harvest their first elk. It's pretty stoked on these. So
Speaker 1: we're going to head to the male satchel and start
Speaker 1: answering some of these questions. First question, this can be
Speaker 1: like rapid fire right here, comes from Tyler. He says,
Speaker 1: do you recommend ten by forty two or eight by
Speaker 1: forty two binoculars? I would say ten by forty two.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're a little bit more versatile, a
Speaker 1: little bit more magnification, especially for western hunting. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing that wasn't recommended in here or asked about in here.
Speaker 1: Ten by fifties are not bad. I actually just got
Speaker 1: a pair of um Vortex uh D ten by fifties
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be running those on this next hunt.
Speaker 1: The nice thing about the little bit wider field of
Speaker 1: view is you've got that magnification, but then you've got
Speaker 1: that wide field of view, so you can cover a
Speaker 1: little bit more with your eyes. At the same time,
Speaker 1: also a little bit more light gathering low light. The
Speaker 1: only downside when you start to get into the fifty
Speaker 1: mill objective is the whole set of binos becomes bigger, heavier.
Speaker 1: You need kind of like a different bino pack. Um.
Speaker 1: I would say that's really the only the downside. But
Speaker 1: my standard go to binocular would be ten by forty two,
Speaker 1: just it's universal, it's easy to recommend. Um, it's good
Speaker 1: for a lot of different scenarios, and then if you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily hunt like open stuff, you can still use
Speaker 1: them in timbered situations as well. Eight by forty twos though,
Speaker 1: can be really good if you like that. So that
Speaker 1: eight by four two is gonna give you a larger
Speaker 1: field of view, so you can actually see more in
Speaker 1: one glance. Um, it's really good, especially if you're hunting
Speaker 1: a little bit more timbered country, and then you do
Speaker 1: have those long spots as well. But I would say
Speaker 1: gold standard on by noses the ten by forty twos,
Speaker 1: and then you know, kind of newer into the world
Speaker 1: of binoculars is getting just a little bit bigger with
Speaker 1: the ten by fifties. I'm just I kind of like
Speaker 1: that option for a little bit. While wider field of
Speaker 1: view more like gathering. So those are my suggestions. Okay,
Speaker 1: this question comes from Kyle. He says, thanks for all
Speaker 1: your info, Remy. We just wrapped up my first elk hunt.
Speaker 1: Day one, got in real close to a bowl that
Speaker 1: we didn't know was there and he hissed at us.
Speaker 1: Day three ended up calling in a a moose in,
Speaker 1: but we didn't have a moose tag. Day five we
Speaker 1: had one fired up, got on him three times inside sixty.
Speaker 1: It was both are first times elk hunting, so I
Speaker 1: know we fouled it up. It was still amazing. Anyways,
Speaker 1: my question is about reading sign. How do you know
Speaker 1: how old it is? We had some snow a couple
Speaker 1: of days before our hunts, so tracks in the snow
Speaker 1: we knew were recent. But what else can we look at? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that I I key in
Speaker 1: on when it comes to sign. I was working in
Speaker 1: some places in Africa and got to spend some time
Speaker 1: with some people that are just incredible trackers. I actually
Speaker 1: got to to follow some actual bushman tracking one and
Speaker 1: it's like what they see and what they know is
Speaker 1: some incredible It's like just an incredible skill that I
Speaker 1: think is it takes a lifetime of learning. I think
Speaker 1: sometimes the idea of tracking for most hunters is kind
Speaker 1: of like this, like mystical art that never really gets
Speaker 1: talked about or or or I just don't think there's
Speaker 1: many people that are real good at it. But I
Speaker 1: think most people aren't really good at it because, um,
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of practice. And that's something that
Speaker 1: I've learned over the years is to be a good tracker,
Speaker 1: to to really be able to read sign well, you
Speaker 1: need to spend time analyzing it and and and understanding
Speaker 1: what it looks like. But a few just like basic
Speaker 1: things obviously scat how like when I come up on
Speaker 1: elk crap or deer crab or whatever, Um, I generally
Speaker 1: mush it. I generally will probably even touch it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, you can tell, like something really fresh is
Speaker 1: the color of it, the viscosity of it. Like if
Speaker 1: it looks wet and slimy and shiny, then it's probably
Speaker 1: pretty fresh. If you break into it, it's like kind
Speaker 1: of looks fresh on the outside, but then you can
Speaker 1: tell it's more dried out, then it's a little bit older. Um.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to use your boots, use a stick,
Speaker 1: but just prodding scat um actually tends to be something
Speaker 1: that I find myself doing a lot to see how
Speaker 1: fresh it is when it comes to tracks. You know,
Speaker 1: when there's no snow, a couple of the things you've
Speaker 1: got to kind of think about. So the first is
Speaker 1: whether it's snow or whatever. Kind of think about the
Speaker 1: time and day and the um and like what the
Speaker 1: weather had been doing throughout the day. So when I'm
Speaker 1: looking at like an elk track, right, let's say it's
Speaker 1: in the morning. Um, A couple of things you want
Speaker 1: to think about. Well, generally in the morning there is
Speaker 1: some moisture on the ground, so you can kind of
Speaker 1: look for the way that the shine changes the color
Speaker 1: of things. So like if the water has been moved,
Speaker 1: or if it's like the ground seems kind of dry,
Speaker 1: but there's in the toe area where the dirt's lifted
Speaker 1: up it's or sorry, the ground might seem kind of wet,
Speaker 1: but where the toe area is might be lifted up, um,
Speaker 1: and it's dryer underneath. That's you know, generally something that's
Speaker 1: pretty fresh. Uh deciphering Like, Okay, there's tracks in the ground,
Speaker 1: but they're they're really buried in the ground think Okay,
Speaker 1: well maybe that was the last time it rained when
Speaker 1: the ground was softer or when it was wet, and
Speaker 1: now they've dried out, they could be pretty old. One
Speaker 1: thing that I will do also is I'll feel the track,
Speaker 1: so like I like to feel the edge of the tracks.
Speaker 1: So if there's a track in dirt or mud or whatever,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel the edge and feel like, Let's
Speaker 1: say there's a track going through some fresh mud and
Speaker 1: I go, okay, how does it feel like and what
Speaker 1: time of day is that. If it's later in the day,
Speaker 1: then that track will have dried out a little bit.
Speaker 1: So if I hit the edge of it and it
Speaker 1: starts to crumble, then I know, okay, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit later. And what I like to do
Speaker 1: is I like to compare it to my track, like
Speaker 1: at that moment. So I make a track and I say,
Speaker 1: what are my footprint doing at this point? So that's
Speaker 1: like something that shows you here's a timestamp, this is
Speaker 1: right now, and then you can kind of tell like
Speaker 1: how was with this degrade over that time from now.
Speaker 1: So one thing that I've done in the past is
Speaker 1: like had tracks. Let's say I watched it an elk
Speaker 1: or something go through an area and then I see
Speaker 1: those tracks and I go analyze it, and then just
Speaker 1: I keep going back and looking at them over time.
Speaker 1: Where I've got a good indicator, it's a good way
Speaker 1: to teach yourself how to understand and read sign that's
Speaker 1: on the ground. Um like understanding how that track degrades
Speaker 1: or time how it breaks down. It can be a
Speaker 1: really good skill. Another another thing that I think, um
Speaker 1: kind of gets overlooked is like the sheen of what
Speaker 1: they might even call like a pock mark. So when
Speaker 1: when you're tracking something, this is just now I'm kind
Speaker 1: of going into tracking, which might not be the same
Speaker 1: as looking at sign but um, like what I'll do
Speaker 1: when i'm tracking something now I'm just taking a tangent,
Speaker 1: but I like it. It's fun. Um Sometimes what I'll do,
Speaker 1: like let's say we've got a wounded bowl and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm tracking it and you kind of like lose tracks.
Speaker 1: What I do is I get down on the ground
Speaker 1: and I put my head there and I look over
Speaker 1: the ground and you'll see like the pock mark where
Speaker 1: it's not even even actually a track, but it has
Speaker 1: a different shine because when you put pressure on dirt
Speaker 1: and other things. It actually changes the way that all
Speaker 1: that like the dirt is sitting in there, because now
Speaker 1: it's compressed and it has this like weird shine to
Speaker 1: it with the right light. And I've actually found bowls
Speaker 1: following these these like shiny pock marks. It takes a
Speaker 1: little while to kind of figure out what you're looking
Speaker 1: for and then knowing where it'll for a track. So
Speaker 1: what I'll do is, if I've got two good tracks,
Speaker 1: I'll get like a stick, I'll break it for that
Speaker 1: bull's stride right, and then I will or a trekking poll.
Speaker 1: I make it the length of the stride of the
Speaker 1: one side, and then from the last track, I put
Speaker 1: it in that track, and then I know if what
Speaker 1: distance should I expect to see that pock mark where
Speaker 1: the tracks have disappeared, And then I can keep doing
Speaker 1: that from area to area to kind of help until
Speaker 1: I can find tracks again. Completely a tangent, but I
Speaker 1: say that to say that sometimes figuring out the age
Speaker 1: of sign is just kind of experimenting and just like
Speaker 1: really spending a lot of time understanding it um and
Speaker 1: like how it's going to degrade over time. Now with ELK,
Speaker 1: this is the awesome thing with elk. A lot of
Speaker 1: the time you can actually smell their presence are where
Speaker 1: they've been. So one one really good indicator of when
Speaker 1: elk has been somewhere recently is using your nose. I
Speaker 1: even like will go to a rub or something. Now,
Speaker 1: a rub is a good way to a really easy
Speaker 1: way to tell like how fresh a rub is because
Speaker 1: you look at it, Oh, is it fresh? We can
Speaker 1: pull off the branches. You can say, okay, is this
Speaker 1: branch still like the other branches that are on the tree.
Speaker 1: Maybe this roub was really fresh. Is that sap really
Speaker 1: pitchy or has it dried out? Are the um the
Speaker 1: bark curls that have come off, are those super dry
Speaker 1: or are they still wet. Take your knife or a
Speaker 1: stick and rub it on a tree and make a
Speaker 1: comparison and say, this is just like that. This is
Speaker 1: fresh so within this amount of time. Now, if there's
Speaker 1: dried branches and you know, that's probably last week. If
Speaker 1: the whole thing is real dry, you go, huh, shoot,
Speaker 1: that could have been last season. Um. So that's a
Speaker 1: good way to kind of also decipher sign. And then
Speaker 1: when you get into elk, notice the sign that's around
Speaker 1: when you know that there's elk there, and it kind
Speaker 1: of helps you say, like, Okay, this is how fresh
Speaker 1: something might be. I hope that kind of explains it.
Speaker 1: That might just be like five podcasts of just like
Speaker 1: understanding tracks and signed but tried to do it to
Speaker 1: run down quick. This comes from Rourke. He says, Hey,
Speaker 1: remy new elk hunter here from Michigan, but just moved
Speaker 1: to Colorado and went on a week long o t C.
Speaker 1: Elk hunt definitely improved over the week by finding more
Speaker 1: slash fresher sign each day when moving areas, but couldn't
Speaker 1: seem to lay my eyes on elk. The main question
Speaker 1: is how do you plan a route through the area
Speaker 1: you want to check out. Do you stay on top
Speaker 1: of the ridge mainly on the trail once in a
Speaker 1: while checking off trail for sign, or do you just
Speaker 1: brush busts the whole day to stay away from hunters.
Speaker 1: Elk weren't vocal in Colorado the second week seems due
Speaker 1: to pressure and heat. The last day of hunting, we
Speaker 1: were finding fresh rubs and droppings and ended up within
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty yards of a bull. We were
Speaker 1: half a mile off trail in thick stuff. Once in
Speaker 1: a while doing cow party calling, my brother broke a
Speaker 1: stick and his bull started going crazy bugling at us,
Speaker 1: even cut off my bugle. But the second time I bugled,
Speaker 1: he seemed to shut up because I was too aggressive.
Speaker 1: Chuckle and rake definitely caught us off guard, laughing. That's
Speaker 1: that's a great question. So you know, it really depends. Like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing that trails are really good to access areas,
Speaker 1: and ridges are really good ways to cruise and cover country.
Speaker 1: So if I'm just like I just need to get
Speaker 1: somewhere and do something, I'd probably be on a trail.
Speaker 1: But generally when it goes to like, hey, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get in and try to find elk and I'm
Speaker 1: not finding them in these particular areas, I'd say majority
Speaker 1: of my time is spent off of a trail. Very
Speaker 1: rarely do I spend my time hunting on a trail. Now,
Speaker 1: ridges isn't That's a different story, Like I do travel
Speaker 1: those ridges because um, one of the things that is
Speaker 1: good about the ridges you can kind of cover both
Speaker 1: sides and broadcast your sound and it's also an area
Speaker 1: where elk will bed. But I have found like in
Speaker 1: those areas, like especially over the countertype areas where there
Speaker 1: might be a lot of hunters. I try to find
Speaker 1: the places that are difficult to get into, and that's
Speaker 1: generally some thick holes. I've killed some of my best
Speaker 1: bulls in those thick spots. It's it's tough sometimes to
Speaker 1: get shot, but it's also they do come in closer, tighter.
Speaker 1: That's what I like about hunting, that thick stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: I like bush stalking. So it's just a way that
Speaker 1: I like hunting. I think. Um, that's one thing I
Speaker 1: was going to mention on the podcast. I hate the
Speaker 1: words still hunting because it's so I talked about it before,
Speaker 1: but I think we're just gonna from now on call
Speaker 1: still hunting bush stalking because it just makes a lot
Speaker 1: more sense because you're you're stalking through the bush. Um.
Speaker 1: And so all my friends from New Zealand will be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what we call it, Like, yeah, that's that's what
Speaker 1: we should call it here. So I'm starting a revolution
Speaker 1: or changing it. I don't know what guy a guy
Speaker 1: hunts and a tree stands started to call it still hunting,
Speaker 1: where he's like, I don't know who started that that's
Speaker 1: another chance. But um so, I think getting getting off
Speaker 1: trail is good. Um Like, like you said, you you
Speaker 1: found that bull a half a mile off the trail
Speaker 1: and that thick stuff you were doing the cow calling
Speaker 1: party and you got a bull to bugle. So it
Speaker 1: could have If I was just guessing when that happened,
Speaker 1: it might have been the middle of the day kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Could have been that bedded bull scenario that
Speaker 1: I talked about a couple of weeks ago, or even
Speaker 1: just in the evening when they start to get up
Speaker 1: and move around again. Um So that's a good that's
Speaker 1: a good way to find elk. But if you need
Speaker 1: to cover country, you're like, hey, I don't know even
Speaker 1: where to start. Maybe getting on a trail and getting
Speaker 1: into accessing some spots and then going okay from here
Speaker 1: down I'm back here in little ways, the crowds have
Speaker 1: kind of calmed down. Now I can start cross country
Speaker 1: going over to the next canyon, up that next ridge
Speaker 1: and moving around off that trail, like away from the trail.
Speaker 1: It would be kind of the way that I would
Speaker 1: hunt it personally. Next question comes from Tony says, Hey, Remmy,
Speaker 1: I know you've touched based on taking kids out a
Speaker 1: few times, but I wanted to know if you had
Speaker 1: any good tips on taking older people out. I started
Speaker 1: getting my dad into Western hunting a few years ago.
Speaker 1: He hunted back in Wisconsin when he was younger, but
Speaker 1: he's not quite used to hunting the Big West. He's
Speaker 1: gone on a few of my deer hunts, but mostly
Speaker 1: hung back at camp because I hike a lot. He
Speaker 1: pulled his antelope last year and was able to get
Speaker 1: him a pretty decent buck, but I feel like I
Speaker 1: might have pushed him a little too hard getting on it.
Speaker 1: I love the podcast, looking forward to every Thursday. That's
Speaker 1: a great question, you know. Actually, as a professional elk guide,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of experience taking older gentlemen out.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things, man. It's like when I
Speaker 1: first started guiding, it seemed like it was all guys
Speaker 1: that were in their seventies. And they they show up
Speaker 1: at elk camp, They're like, Okay, I want you know,
Speaker 1: I've been waiting my whole life to go on an
Speaker 1: elk hunt. And they're like, but I can't walk or
Speaker 1: can't go very far, And just like, oh ship, what
Speaker 1: do I do now? You know? And I over the
Speaker 1: years kind of developed some ways to hunt effectively with
Speaker 1: people that might be older or have trouble getting around. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not that they can't do it, it's just that
Speaker 1: I kind of found, like I started hunting, when I
Speaker 1: first started guiding people like that, it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we just go. And then by day one I burned
Speaker 1: him out and I was like, well, now the rest
Speaker 1: of the week is shot. You can choose your tactic
Speaker 1: based on the ability of the person that's with you,
Speaker 1: And I say that when you're taking kids out, I
Speaker 1: say that when you're taking maybe somebody that's older out,
Speaker 1: I mean um, or maybe somebody that's not in great
Speaker 1: shape or whatever. You just gotta hunt to the tactic,
Speaker 1: like create a tactic that works and can be successful
Speaker 1: for the people that you're with. So let's say it's
Speaker 1: somebody that can't and it's like maybe older and can't
Speaker 1: really hike real far, but you know, they can get going,
Speaker 1: they can do it. But it's just like it's not
Speaker 1: a lot of it's not a lot. And then I
Speaker 1: change my tactic, like maybe I'm gonna glass a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Maybe I'm gonna pick glassing spots that are
Speaker 1: real close to a road where I can access, I
Speaker 1: can pull up, i can hike to this little knob
Speaker 1: that's like a hundred yards away, and I can glass,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna we're gonna spend our energy going after
Speaker 1: something like once we've identified something that we can go after.
Speaker 1: Whereas if I've got a guy that's in really good shape,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna bust country. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get back in there, and I'm gonna be in places
Speaker 1: you can't see from anywhere else. That's just the way
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Now, it's a guy that maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta take it a little bit slower,
Speaker 1: So you gotta kind of think, well, what tactics can
Speaker 1: we do Like you said, you know, I mean sitting
Speaker 1: and stand hunting, it can still be effective if it's elk.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's the opportunity to potentially hunt wallows.
Speaker 1: There's the opportunity to kind of go to travel areas
Speaker 1: or even just like walk flat logging roads that are
Speaker 1: really timbered and kind of still hunt those out. When
Speaker 1: it comes to elk, when it comes to antelope, you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of adjust your tactics being like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's get into a spot, let's set up a blind,
Speaker 1: let's sit in this water hole and wait or or whatever.
Speaker 1: So you've got to just adjust those tactics based on
Speaker 1: the people that are with you. And I think that
Speaker 1: in the long run, like they'll just have a more
Speaker 1: they'll just have a better experience about the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and they'll still find success. My buddy Mike, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, like, you know, drive around and hunt,
Speaker 1: but I am saying, like my buddy Mike always says
Speaker 1: this thing. He's like, we have this guy that had
Speaker 1: need like a permit to hunt from a vehicle, right,
Speaker 1: so he just was disabled enough that he couldn't walk
Speaker 1: around and that happens, and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: it's like, you should still be enjoying the outdoors, no
Speaker 1: matter your your level of activity. And he was kind
Speaker 1: of feeling bad. He's like, man, I just wish I
Speaker 1: could get out there and go hunt elk and climb
Speaker 1: the mountains and do all this. And my buddy Mike
Speaker 1: was guiding for me and he looks at me goes, look, man,
Speaker 1: He's like, you can't shoot him from the truck if
Speaker 1: you're out there walking around, and it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the joke of the week. Well, at the end of
Speaker 1: the week, this guy shot the biggest bull in camp
Speaker 1: and a giant meal that you're one of the biggest
Speaker 1: meal that we've ever killed. And it happened to be
Speaker 1: a mule there that I was watching like miles in
Speaker 1: the back country and ended up like hip, Like we
Speaker 1: were still even hunting this buck, you know, we parked
Speaker 1: and hiked in whatever, and this buck ended up like
Speaker 1: for the rut moving down lower country and Mike found
Speaker 1: him off of a road. So like, there is ways
Speaker 1: to hunt for the people the way that you cannot,
Speaker 1: Like you can't you aren't gonna kill a bull in
Speaker 1: an easy spot if you're always hiking to the hard spot.
Speaker 1: So that's something to kind of keep in mind when
Speaker 1: you've got somebody that maybe doesn't have the mobility or
Speaker 1: the energy to just keep hiking all day every day.
Speaker 1: Just something to think about. And it's fun to say, like,
Speaker 1: can't kill him from the truck if you're out there
Speaker 1: walking around, which is actually true because I think there's
Speaker 1: been many times I've complained, like, man, I've never had
Speaker 1: an easy elk I've never had milk that's like within
Speaker 1: even a mile of a road. And then yeah, when
Speaker 1: I think about it, I was like, well, I've never
Speaker 1: even hunted within a mile of the road, and like
Speaker 1: it's always they're always just elk back and I'm always
Speaker 1: back in those holes, those places, and that's where I
Speaker 1: kill elk because that's where I'm hunting. So something you
Speaker 1: think about food for thought. This is just another testimonial
Speaker 1: comes from Kevin. He says, Hey, Remmy, my brother had
Speaker 1: a Nevada bull tag and the bulls are pretty quiet
Speaker 1: accept at night. We heard your podcast about silent bulls.
Speaker 1: So he changed up our tactic and cow called a
Speaker 1: nice six by six into twenty two yards. He made
Speaker 1: a good shot. I wanted to say thank you for
Speaker 1: all the information to give us. It's an awesome bowl man, Congrats,
Speaker 1: Like that's what I like to hear. See some of
Speaker 1: these tactics working for people, and that's that's for me,
Speaker 1: is what it's all about, all right. This question comes
Speaker 1: from Kevin. He says, a Remy super big fan. Love
Speaker 1: all the meat eater and solo hunter stuff and all
Speaker 1: around Remy content that you put out, super informative and
Speaker 1: entertaining one like that. I was wondering if you might
Speaker 1: have the time to answer question. I know you've answered
Speaker 1: it before, but I can't remember which podcast it was,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to figure out what arrows you use.
Speaker 1: I've been playing around with some builds and I'm tossing
Speaker 1: up between six millimeter and five millimeter and the cost difference.
Speaker 1: Uh ps, I'm from Canada, so the micro's and fmj's
Speaker 1: around a little price here, unfortunately, But I want what's
Speaker 1: best in the end to be most effective in the field.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Kevin. That's a good question. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get a lot of questions about arrows. I have talked
Speaker 1: about them on you know, multiple podcast but I think
Speaker 1: sometimes like the gear stuff is always good for these
Speaker 1: Q and a's, it's a little bit just easier to
Speaker 1: kind of go through gear things when it's a specific question.
Speaker 1: I personally shoot, so I've shot a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything over the years. I now shoot day six arrows.
Speaker 1: Um you can pretty much only get them online and
Speaker 1: then through solo Hunter has their own version of them
Speaker 1: as well. But uh I shoot right now, I'm shooting
Speaker 1: the h D two seventy five and I shoot a
Speaker 1: four fledged um partially because I I just started. I
Speaker 1: just switched to a four fledge this year, and I've
Speaker 1: really liked it. I think I feel like it stabilizes
Speaker 1: my broadhead a little bit better, especially because I shoot
Speaker 1: all fixed blades. Um Now, the two seventy five that
Speaker 1: I'm shooting, you know, that's the spine is spine for
Speaker 1: my arrow, and it's heavy. It's the arrow I'm shooting
Speaker 1: right now is eleven point eight grains per inch. I
Speaker 1: do have a pretty long draw, so, um, I've got
Speaker 1: like a third draw right now. I think the bow
Speaker 1: machine is twenty nine and a half. Just depends on
Speaker 1: the bow. But um, so I've got a pretty long
Speaker 1: arrow I shoot. So that arrow is what I would
Speaker 1: consider like a micro diameter shaft. I really like the
Speaker 1: micro diameter shaft because it's like less surface area, so
Speaker 1: there's better returned, there's less resistance and then less wind deviation.
Speaker 1: So if you're shooting, and you know, you think about
Speaker 1: a thicker diameter arrow, the winds affecting it in a
Speaker 1: certain way. Less surface area means less wind drag, which
Speaker 1: just makes it move less in the wind. Everywhere I hunt,
Speaker 1: where I live, where I shoot, it's windy. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's something to think about. I do like that micro diameter.
Speaker 1: Now here's the downside to a lot of arrows that
Speaker 1: are those micro diameters is you know, your standard insert
Speaker 1: your broadhead has to fit in it. So some arrows
Speaker 1: have like a that deep six, which is just like
Speaker 1: a different threading pattern. I don't like that. I just
Speaker 1: it really limits the amount of broadheads and options you
Speaker 1: can do. And to me, it's just I just I
Speaker 1: had that once and I just got away from it.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. I don't know if many people
Speaker 1: still make that, but um, I didn't like it. But
Speaker 1: at the time, you know, there wasn't like a really good,
Speaker 1: like outsert insert kind of thing. So that's why I
Speaker 1: started shooting the day six ones because they have like
Speaker 1: a really good so it's like an insert with an
Speaker 1: outsert caller. Um, so it's kind of like a I
Speaker 1: guess it's a it's not really an outsert. It's not
Speaker 1: it's like over the arrow shaft. But then it is
Speaker 1: an outsert because it's got it goes. You know, you
Speaker 1: can put a standard size, you know, threading broadhead on
Speaker 1: a micro diameter aero and I found that the caller
Speaker 1: and everything is super strong. So I just have the
Speaker 1: aluminum ones. I have used the titanium ones as well.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, they aren't cheap. It's kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're super I mean they're super um accurate, they're super straight.
Speaker 1: I think they're to the thousand um straightness yeah and
Speaker 1: hundred thousand Yeah, exactly. Um, So that that's what I like.
Speaker 1: But I do, I would say, now I'm kind of moral.
Speaker 1: It's weird because I used to shoot with bigger arrows
Speaker 1: and but yeah, so now I do like, I do
Speaker 1: like the idea of a micro diameter arrow. I think
Speaker 1: that there's the benefits to it. Um. I've only seen
Speaker 1: increase in accuracy and I've had a lot of pastors
Speaker 1: and it's a real heavy arrow. Two So that's nice.
Speaker 1: You know, you may you can you can choose different
Speaker 1: weights based on your whole setup. You've got a short draw.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd shoot an eleven grain pringe arrow um,
Speaker 1: but maybe you know, you get that gives you a
Speaker 1: little bit more kinetic energy. You're just gonna have a
Speaker 1: little bit more drop. So there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different thoughts out there when it comes
Speaker 1: to arrows. But that's what I like, um, and I've
Speaker 1: been shooting. I just switched this year to two five
Speaker 1: grain broadhead just to kind of it gives it a
Speaker 1: little bit um for my setup. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: better and it adds a little bit of weight. So
Speaker 1: right now this overall arrow I was shooting about six
Speaker 1: hundred ten grains overall. Now it's about by I think
Speaker 1: it was at five eighty something like that. So it's
Speaker 1: a pretty solid set up. And man does it just
Speaker 1: like it just blows through elk and other things. So
Speaker 1: I've got a moose hunt coming up. It's just like
Speaker 1: a perfect combo for that perfect combo for elk, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't really it bucks the winding pretty well. So
Speaker 1: that's what I do. That's something to think about Heremy
Speaker 1: I'm new to archery hunting, and I have a question
Speaker 1: about calling for elk. I'm hunting in Pacific Northwest Oregon,
Speaker 1: where it can go wet to dry to really wet
Speaker 1: all the same day. My question is, what do you
Speaker 1: do if you really mess up a call? I asked
Speaker 1: because I let out a locator bagle the other day
Speaker 1: and I think there was moisture in my too, because
Speaker 1: it sounded awful and slobby. Is it best to just
Speaker 1: stop and be quiet, try it again or just move
Speaker 1: on when you feel like you just announced your there.
Speaker 1: Thanks in advance, and thanks for the podcast. I look
Speaker 1: forward to listening every Thursday. That's a good question, because
Speaker 1: it happens. Man, I've got you know, I might have
Speaker 1: a read that it's like a little bit war out
Speaker 1: and you just make a bad call. It just depends
Speaker 1: sometimes what I do. Like I'll throw out a couple
Speaker 1: of little cow calls, kind of recover and then let
Speaker 1: out another bugle. You know, to be honest, I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know that elk care as much as we might
Speaker 1: think they do. I mean, they do to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: but they also you know, it's like, you made one
Speaker 1: bad call. I don't think it elks and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run away now. They just hear it off
Speaker 1: in the distance and it sounds like whatever it sounds like,
Speaker 1: and then they hear another one. It's like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: Elk there. Cool. I will say, like, the better your
Speaker 1: calls sound, the easier it is to call bulls. And
Speaker 1: I found that over the years like, as I got
Speaker 1: better at calling, and maybe it's just maybe knowing how
Speaker 1: to call a little bit better, but as I got
Speaker 1: better at actual calling and making those really good elk
Speaker 1: sounds and changing the pitch in the tone and all that,
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to call elkin. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie about that. But also I have seen elk and
Speaker 1: have in the past called in elk, which just terrible calls.
Speaker 1: So it um I think that I would just kind
Speaker 1: of recover by just letting another one rip, maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of seconds later. Though. All right, this one comes
Speaker 1: from I don't I don't know no name, but it says, hey,
Speaker 1: remy love. The content had a question for you. In Saskatchewan,
Speaker 1: we don't have a huge abundance of elk, but numbers
Speaker 1: are good. I finally got into chasing elk about three
Speaker 1: years ago now and have yet to fill a tag,
Speaker 1: which isn't a problem. But I'm curious. What would your
Speaker 1: top three tips for elk hunting be to someone fairly
Speaker 1: new to elk coming from always focusing on mule deer hunting,
Speaker 1: It's hard to break some habits. Cheers, Here's the thing
Speaker 1: I would think about the top three tips for elk hunting.
Speaker 1: I would say if you're new to lk hunting, the
Speaker 1: first thing I would say is you really have to
Speaker 1: understand the elk behavior where you're hunting. So you kind
Speaker 1: of got to figure out what are these elk doing
Speaker 1: and why are they doing it? You know, everywhere's a
Speaker 1: little bit different. In the mountains of Montana or Wyoming,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like whatever that region is. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: like there, I've hunted places where it's more desert type country,
Speaker 1: and it's like those that elk are out in the
Speaker 1: stage and they're in different places than they are when
Speaker 1: you're up in like the high country of Colorado early
Speaker 1: season or even then same area late Like what are
Speaker 1: those elk doing? Understanding elk is the first step to
Speaker 1: being a really successful elk counter. So if you're in Saskatchewan,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, maybe you're in like agg country, it's like,
Speaker 1: just like anything you're hunting, what are these animals doing
Speaker 1: and why are they doing it? When you unlock that secret,
Speaker 1: you're going to be really successful. And the second thing
Speaker 1: would be just as a as a blanket statement for
Speaker 1: tips for hunting elk. I mean I think that it's
Speaker 1: you know, hunt to your strength as well. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that come out elk hunting
Speaker 1: and they're like, they got lkhunt, Like I lk hunt,
Speaker 1: which is is really good, you know, it's the way
Speaker 1: you lk hunt. But also it's like, well, what are
Speaker 1: you used to hunting and then kind of adapt those
Speaker 1: tactics to whatever new species you're gonna hunt. So there
Speaker 1: is a lot of things that are very specific to
Speaker 1: hunting elk. But I think that there's things that people
Speaker 1: kind of forget about. It's like if you're really I
Speaker 1: know a guy that he's a really good tree stand hunter,
Speaker 1: and he comes out and kills an elk every year
Speaker 1: from a tree stand, and it's like that, I've never
Speaker 1: killed an elk from a tree stand, you know. But
Speaker 1: that's also not the way that I hunt. So there
Speaker 1: are those things where you can take cross everythings of
Speaker 1: things that you already know. If you're like I, I'm
Speaker 1: really good at hunting mule deer, you know, it's all
Speaker 1: spot and stock. A lot of my friends is probably
Speaker 1: some of the bigger bulls every year taken by spot
Speaker 1: in stock. So adapting some of those tactics that you
Speaker 1: already know and are already good at two elk. So
Speaker 1: you've gotta understand elk in their habits and then you
Speaker 1: can use your own tactics to kind of like do
Speaker 1: the attack plan. So figure out what elk are doing,
Speaker 1: understand why they're doing it, and where they're at, and
Speaker 1: then use the tactics that work best for you, UM
Speaker 1: to go in and chase it. That's always like a
Speaker 1: good thing that I kind of think about when I'm
Speaker 1: hunting anything new. And then the third tip would be
Speaker 1: I don't know the third tip. I guess, like when
Speaker 1: I talk about anything, it's like the three steps there
Speaker 1: would be like find the animal, shoot the animal, bring
Speaker 1: pack the animal back to the truck. So the third tip,
Speaker 1: let's say it's before even getting packing it back to
Speaker 1: the truck. You know, practice you're shooting being proficient. You
Speaker 1: might only get one opportunity. You know, you gotta make
Speaker 1: that one opportunity count, So practice those infield shots and
Speaker 1: for when it comes to elk. I think that the
Speaker 1: infield shot that I find the most is like being
Speaker 1: able to thread the needle, understanding the arc of the
Speaker 1: arrow and being able to shoot through stuff, um and
Speaker 1: knowing whether you're gonna hit that branch in front of
Speaker 1: you or not knowing how to Like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: so many people will be standing up in an area
Speaker 1: where there's like a bunch of branches and when you
Speaker 1: could be down low and shooting below those branches, you know,
Speaker 1: so kind of just understanding the terrain and how to
Speaker 1: how to make a good shot, and then just being
Speaker 1: proficient with whatever you're hunting with. Those would be my
Speaker 1: three tips today off the top of my head. So
Speaker 1: when it comes from Raymond, he says, Hey there, my
Speaker 1: name is ray I'm a student in Northern Michigan University.
Speaker 1: I started listening to your podcast this summer while at
Speaker 1: work and love it. I have a question, not sure
Speaker 1: if you have answered it before, but what is the
Speaker 1: proper care for both such as string wax and what
Speaker 1: do you do if it gets wet? Is there a
Speaker 1: difference in shooting when it's cold or wet or both.
Speaker 1: I'm just getting into archery and bow hunting, just got
Speaker 1: a bare white tail legend and have been practicing indoors
Speaker 1: because my backyard isn't big enough to shoot. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if when it gets cold, like in late October, Michigan.
Speaker 1: Does that affect how my bow will shoot? Thanks for
Speaker 1: doing what you do. Keep up the great work. So
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good question. Yeah, the weather definitely
Speaker 1: affects all kinds of shooting, whether it's a bow or
Speaker 1: it's rifle or whatever. But I would say a bow
Speaker 1: is more affected. Um Now, it just depends on the
Speaker 1: distances that you're shooting. You know, maybe the effect is negligible.
Speaker 1: Um So in some ways you might not have to
Speaker 1: consider it so much, but in other ways, yeah, you
Speaker 1: definitely want to think about it. I would say, here's
Speaker 1: the things that I've I've come to realize. When it's cold,
Speaker 1: I generally find that the bow shoots higher. Um It, Well,
Speaker 1: everything shrinks when it's cold. You know, heat expands, cold
Speaker 1: contracts and contracts. The strings are tighter. Everything is a
Speaker 1: little bit tighter. So it shoots a little bit higher
Speaker 1: because it's generally shooting a little bit faster. When it's wet,
Speaker 1: the string slows down it and if it's driving rain,
Speaker 1: that can even actually uh increase the impact down as well.
Speaker 1: Um So then if it's wet and cold, then maybe
Speaker 1: it just equalizes out. I don't really know about that. Um.
Speaker 1: But another thing you want to think about isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: the effect of the flight of the air or anything,
Speaker 1: but also the effective the temperature on you. One thing
Speaker 1: that you want to think about it is like what's
Speaker 1: your effective range while you're shooting, But that's gonna change
Speaker 1: when you get cold, when you're shaking, when you're whatever.
Speaker 1: I know, a few years back, I was hunting white
Speaker 1: tails with a recurve and it was like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know, it was cold man, and I did not
Speaker 1: have sitting in cold weather clothes. I think I had
Speaker 1: just like a was it like a probably like can
Speaker 1: you jacket and like the lightweight guy jacket and pants
Speaker 1: and stick of pants or something. I don't know, and um,
Speaker 1: I had a miss a mixed match of everything. I
Speaker 1: think I had a pair of thermals and I had
Speaker 1: some like bootwarmers in my uninsulated boots. I had like
Speaker 1: a neck gator and a beanie. And it was twenty
Speaker 1: below zero, you know, and I was just freezing. I
Speaker 1: was like so cold, and I had sat there all day.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the first time I actually sat
Speaker 1: all day before getting impatient trying to stock something. And
Speaker 1: this buck came in and I was like sweet, And
Speaker 1: actually I used one like Montana decoy kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and then I think I was like I also brought
Speaker 1: my three dr tree target and I was getting bored
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. So I was shooting
Speaker 1: this target like from the tree stand like pretty regularly
Speaker 1: when I knew nothing was coming around because I had
Speaker 1: a pretty good sight, and I crawled down, pull my
Speaker 1: arrows to go back up and just trying to warm
Speaker 1: my feet back up. And when it was cold, you know,
Speaker 1: this buck came in and I was like, he was
Speaker 1: probably seventeen yards. I don't know, maybe I can't remember
Speaker 1: how far it was something like that, and I'm like sweet,
Speaker 1: but I was so it was the end of the
Speaker 1: day and I was just freezing, man, I was just
Speaker 1: shaking shivering, and I thought, oh, this is an easy shot.
Speaker 1: And when I pulled that bow back like, I shot
Speaker 1: and I made it. I mean, I killed the deer.
Speaker 1: It was just like a lucky I don't even know
Speaker 1: how it killed the deer. Um. I pretty much shot
Speaker 1: it like in the back hind quarter back leg and
Speaker 1: I think it went through enough hit the fomoral artery
Speaker 1: or something hit something must have been the form because
Speaker 1: it ran like a hundred and fifty yards and fell
Speaker 1: over dead and I was like whoops, But okay, um,
Speaker 1: you know, like a lucky break. But I think, like
Speaker 1: you know, when when I was warm and eever, that
Speaker 1: was not a hard shot for me. It was just
Speaker 1: a fact that like I was so cold, my hands
Speaker 1: couldn't feel the string, my body was shaking. I think
Speaker 1: that like that impulse of like being cold and just
Speaker 1: like let that arrow rip, you know, like you can't
Speaker 1: hold back because you just lost that strength and whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: it's something you think about, like it's it's definitely a factor.
Speaker 1: So I like to practice in the cold in the
Speaker 1: elements and say like, well, how how does that even
Speaker 1: affect my shooting? So if you can, you know, get
Speaker 1: out somewhere where you can practice and shoot in those
Speaker 1: cold temperature because it's gonna affect you. It's probably gonna
Speaker 1: affect you more than it's gonna affect the arrow, to
Speaker 1: be realistic, Like it's gonna affect the shooter as much
Speaker 1: as it does the flight and trajectory the arrow. Um,
Speaker 1: but it'll probably affect your performance more than anything. All Right.
Speaker 1: The question comes from John he says, Hey, I really
Speaker 1: enjoy your podcast. I've started at the beginning and worked
Speaker 1: my way through almost all the way, uh to the
Speaker 1: most recent ones. I appreciate the time and effort you
Speaker 1: put into that so much great info. I'd like to
Speaker 1: get your opinion on a quiet and I have dreams
Speaker 1: of sheep hunting in the future, specifically a rocky mountain
Speaker 1: big horn. I'm questioning what would be the best strategy
Speaker 1: to get a tag one day. I'm still in college
Speaker 1: and I live in Tennessee, so I'm not a resident
Speaker 1: of a sheep state. I have heard a lot of
Speaker 1: people say that it's impossible odds in many states for
Speaker 1: those who don't already have lots of points. So I've
Speaker 1: also heard many people say that you'd be better off
Speaker 1: putting money into an investment account rather than wasting it
Speaker 1: on applications and use that saved money to buy a
Speaker 1: tag later in life. What's the best strategy as a
Speaker 1: nonresident for year old to one day have a good
Speaker 1: chance of getting a tag in the future, preferably before
Speaker 1: I'm seventy. Thanks. Well, that's that's a really good question,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of answers. Um. I mean the
Speaker 1: first thing that kind of comes to mind is, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: playing the draw game is just it's it is a
Speaker 1: random thing of luck. And when you're talking about places
Speaker 1: with a lot of points, um, you're probably on the
Speaker 1: losing curve of that. You know. It's like, I mean, me,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on in many places twenty five points and
Speaker 1: probably will never draw some of those tags. But you
Speaker 1: know there's people who could apply their first year and
Speaker 1: maybe draw that tag. If you're talking about draws and applications,
Speaker 1: I would look towards the states that don't require points. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a few states out there that have points. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're looking to hunt Rocky Mountain Big Horn, I
Speaker 1: would also kind of say, like, okay, Rocky Mountain big
Speaker 1: Horn or California big Horn. California big Horn is like
Speaker 1: a subspecies of Rockies, but they're a little bit smaller
Speaker 1: in the horns. Um, but they're like organ has no
Speaker 1: points for that. So I'd kind of like look for
Speaker 1: places that have no points where it's like, hey, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you've been applying your entire life, you're
Speaker 1: going to be on equal footing is everyone else. Another
Speaker 1: thing to think about it is like if you want
Speaker 1: to go the draw route. UM, you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: things other than state draws. There's like raffles. I my
Speaker 1: dad just accomplished his Grand Slam, which is killing all
Speaker 1: four species of North American wild sheep, and he's not
Speaker 1: paid more than an application fee for it. He's drawn
Speaker 1: every tag. So he drew too as a resident in
Speaker 1: the state of Nevada, California big horn and then a
Speaker 1: rock and then a desert big horn. He won the
Speaker 1: um Doll sheep hunt at the Wild Sheep Foundation they
Speaker 1: had like a one more for they used to have
Speaker 1: a half slam drawing so everybody that had two sheep
Speaker 1: could get in for that, and then he uh won
Speaker 1: his fan in sheep hunt at the Grand Slam Cup
Speaker 1: Club over as gs c O. They do like a raffling.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways to get sheep tags
Speaker 1: that are not just state raffles, and some of those
Speaker 1: other ways are actually probably honestly statistically better odds UM. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to specifically big horns, you're in luck
Speaker 1: because there are other options as well. I mean, if
Speaker 1: if I was you and I was like, man, I
Speaker 1: want to go hunt big horns, I would go to
Speaker 1: an unlimited unit in Montana and just plan on hunting
Speaker 1: it for four or five years. Um, you're gonna learn
Speaker 1: it and you'll get a sheep or you know, you
Speaker 1: you'll be sheep hunting. Um. It's difficult. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not for everyone, but you know, if you've got the
Speaker 1: drive to do it, that's that's a good way to
Speaker 1: do it. That's one of the only sheep tags you
Speaker 1: can do that with. So, um, that's not a bad option.
Speaker 1: And then you know the other option of saving money
Speaker 1: and buying a tag. You know, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to like if you're like, hey, I want to hunt
Speaker 1: a doll sheep or something like that, that that would
Speaker 1: be the option that I would go with, um, because
Speaker 1: it's kind of more you're actually gonna get a go
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have a good hunt. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: like the money that you put away every year, it
Speaker 1: seems to be a lot is a chunk, but over
Speaker 1: the years it like it kind of goes fast. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. I saved up for um a long
Speaker 1: time and then night end up drawing a lot of
Speaker 1: the tags that all the sheep tags that I've hunted,
Speaker 1: So I go back and forth and you're like, oh, man, um,
Speaker 1: but I know I've got a lot of friends that
Speaker 1: have done that way, and man, it seems like, you
Speaker 1: know there's people that will we never draw tags, and
Speaker 1: and then you just like you're betting on yourself. You're
Speaker 1: just you're you're putting away and you're gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 1: this many years, I can save up this much. And
Speaker 1: that's a really good strategy. When it comes to Rocky
Speaker 1: Mountain Big Horns, though, it's tough because even when you
Speaker 1: buy that that hunt, it's a pretty tough hunt. So
Speaker 1: I would say for Rocky Mountain Big Horn, that's where
Speaker 1: it's kind of a little bit different. If you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to go on a doll sheep hunt, I'd say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just just put away or or do the draw thing.
Speaker 1: But I would say for this, you know, you've you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of options. Um. But you know, for
Speaker 1: for when it comes to sheep hunting now these days, man,
Speaker 1: putting away and just being able to in the future
Speaker 1: potentially you know, book a hunt somewhere is is a
Speaker 1: pretty good Uh, it's like way more guaranteed. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, I don't really know the
Speaker 1: right answer. I play the draw game and I've been
Speaker 1: fortunate in it, but I know that it you know,
Speaker 1: I've started a long time ago as well. The question says, Hey, remmy,
Speaker 1: my name is Brady. Just to actually started listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast maybe about two or three weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I've listened to nearly every episode now. I'd like to
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the awesome content. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: been informative. I'm heading out this weekend to do my
Speaker 1: first el khint, hoping the advice you have been giving
Speaker 1: will pay off. I live in BC, Canada, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure it will. Anyways, I did have one question, kind
Speaker 1: of a funny one, I guess, just kind of touching
Speaker 1: on the scent blocker stuff. I totally get what you're
Speaker 1: saying about clothing and how it won't really work when
Speaker 1: you're hiking around so to go Further, is there deodorant
Speaker 1: that you use for cover at least a bit of
Speaker 1: the body odor, especially going on long hikes in the backwoods.
Speaker 1: Is there a scent free deodorant that you use or
Speaker 1: do you just rock the smell? Thanks again for all
Speaker 1: the info and given out really appreciated. Cheers, Rady, that's
Speaker 1: a good question. Me. I'm I'm gonna make a lot
Speaker 1: of people mad. But this is the truth too. I
Speaker 1: rarely get winded, um, and I don't use anything. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I've just like maybe I've just adapted to be
Speaker 1: like an animal out there. I mean I was, I've
Speaker 1: walked like I've just had those winds swirl moments where
Speaker 1: I should get busted, And I don't know. When I'm
Speaker 1: with someone else, I always get busted. So I like
Speaker 1: to tell people like I never get winded, but the
Speaker 1: people i'm with two, So I don't really know what
Speaker 1: what that is or why that is. Um. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just like I think there's a few things that factor
Speaker 1: into animals winding you, and people are gonna just be like,
Speaker 1: now you're just making stuff up, and maybe I am,
Speaker 1: because like I think there's like this this I don't
Speaker 1: know if we just like release some hormone when you
Speaker 1: get real excited and you're like I can't mess this up.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're just you're kind of like releasing
Speaker 1: something that's that predator like excitement level, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the animals can sense that. I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just me. Um. But I will say this, here's
Speaker 1: what here's my scent control things like I wash my
Speaker 1: clothes and regular tide uh, laundry detergent. If I feel
Speaker 1: like I smell bad to myself, I just put on
Speaker 1: whatever right guard, deodorant, whatever. And honestly, like I do
Speaker 1: notice at the beginning of a hunt, like you generally
Speaker 1: get winded less when you're clean, and I don't use
Speaker 1: anything special. I just use regular soap and whatever. I
Speaker 1: mean I've put out like just to see I had
Speaker 1: a trail camera and I just put like a little
Speaker 1: thing of laundry detergent like on a stump and ELK,
Speaker 1: we're still like wallowing right there. They gave two craps
Speaker 1: about it, so they it's not the deodorant or the
Speaker 1: detergent that they're smelling that they freaks them out. It's
Speaker 1: like that animal human sense. It's like this is a
Speaker 1: human predator and he's trying to kill me. So when
Speaker 1: you start sweating, I think you're just like releasing that
Speaker 1: even more um. And it's hard to block. The key
Speaker 1: is in every scenario, just use you get the wind right,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be those times where that wind swirling.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that there's any amount of like
Speaker 1: crazy deodorant that you can use that's gonna help you.
Speaker 1: What I do do sometimes, like if I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's a hot day, gonna go to the top of
Speaker 1: the mountain where it's swirly, I'll just grab some like
Speaker 1: pine boughs and I just rubbed that all over my clothes.
Speaker 1: That it and I smell like pine and um or
Speaker 1: something natural like that. And you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like if I can smell my pits,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I stink um. I generally
Speaker 1: just grab some pine stuff and rub it, or I'll
Speaker 1: take some deodorant and and I just don't think about
Speaker 1: it too much. And to be honest, like I probably
Speaker 1: get winded a lot less than a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. It's just knowing how to play
Speaker 1: the wind, you know. No, I'd rather just spend my
Speaker 1: time understanding how the wind is going to change, how
Speaker 1: the thermals react, and in getting in there, and then
Speaker 1: if you can get a little bit of advantage, maybe
Speaker 1: you just like you just feel like it makes you
Speaker 1: feel more confident. Use whatever you feel good using Thanks
Speaker 1: everybody that sent in a question that concludes this week's
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