Speaker 1: Hey, hey everyone, Hopefully you're all doing well. You might
Speaker 1: be getting a little stir crazy at the moment, but hey,
Speaker 1: we'll all get through this, and hopefully some of these
Speaker 1: podcasts will help. If you missed the last couple episodes,
Speaker 1: we did a two part series on spring bear hunting,
Speaker 1: so some spring bear hunts seasons are coming up, and
Speaker 1: I got a ton of requests on bear hunting information.
Speaker 1: So we did that two part and got a ton
Speaker 1: of great response. This week, we're doing our Q and
Speaker 1: A and we've got a lot of topics, a lot
Speaker 1: of questions came in. I think we'll touch a little
Speaker 1: bit on some of the bear questions that came in.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk a little bit about gear, We'll go
Speaker 1: into a little bit of fitness stuff, some general questions,
Speaker 1: and then uh finish it up with a little bit
Speaker 1: of life advice. So yeah, let's get started. And also,
Speaker 1: I really want to thank everybody before we get too
Speaker 1: deep into this for for just the the action and
Speaker 1: the response and the questions and the the email and
Speaker 1: through social media, a ton of great stuff. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and I wish I could answer all of them.
Speaker 1: But we'll just get going and I think some of
Speaker 1: these had a few of similar topics, So I would
Speaker 1: say this first question I got, I probably saw no
Speaker 1: less than fifty variations of this this exact question, which
Speaker 1: happens to do with hunting bears. In the false we'll
Speaker 1: start off with a little bit of bear stuff and
Speaker 1: then jump to some other topics. This one says, Hey, Remmy,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed your most recent episode of cutting the Distance.
Speaker 1: I drew a false spot in stock bear tag for
Speaker 1: unit in Utah. It will be my first time hunting bears.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to absorb as much information that will be
Speaker 1: useful for me this fall. Any show information on top
Speaker 1: of the already great tips you've shared would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Speaker 1: And that's from Garrett. Now, that's a great question, and
Speaker 1: fall bear hunting can be a really good time to
Speaker 1: chase them as well. Now I don't know when this
Speaker 1: particular season is, but if I was to choose season
Speaker 1: dates in the fall, I would look toward the month
Speaker 1: of September. Early September through mid to late September can
Speaker 1: be the best. Once you get past that, it gets
Speaker 1: really hard to find specific food sources. Bears disperse. They
Speaker 1: get into more timber, and I find it hard to
Speaker 1: regularly find bears. But early fall or even some states
Speaker 1: have a season that starts in August. While their their
Speaker 1: coats aren't ideal, then they can be easily pinpointed on
Speaker 1: food sources. So early fall, if we're talking September, what
Speaker 1: I really look for is and it depends your region,
Speaker 1: but barry berry crop production um, whether it be you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in the Mountain West, you've got huckleberries, uh.
Speaker 1: In the Pacific Northwest you've got more of like raspberries,
Speaker 1: blueberries uh in Alaska blueberries. So like berries can be
Speaker 1: extremely good food sources to concentrate on. Now outside of
Speaker 1: like Alaska fall salmon runs and stuff like that, I
Speaker 1: would say some other food sources in some drier areas
Speaker 1: to think about, I know, like Nevada, California, and also
Speaker 1: Utah rose hips or a great food source in the
Speaker 1: fall to focus on, as well as things like pine nuts, um,
Speaker 1: pinion pines, ponderosa pines even sometimes but pine nuts depending
Speaker 1: on the time of year. Now, fall food sources can
Speaker 1: be a little bit tricky to pinpoint. So if you
Speaker 1: were to just think, okay, well, what food sources I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find. Uh, it really depends on the type of summer.
Speaker 1: If there's a lot of water, not a lot of water.
Speaker 1: A lot depends on what's growing where. So in lean years,
Speaker 1: lean water years where berry productions bad, I focus more
Speaker 1: on watered canyons choked with maybe more rose hip and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, as well as in the fall is
Speaker 1: a great time to focus on water sources. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of food around more wet areas if it was drier,
Speaker 1: and on hot days, you can even focus on maybe
Speaker 1: like elk wallows and other water sources, so you'll find
Speaker 1: them interacting with the food sources, but you also find
Speaker 1: bears hitting up those water sources, especially when it's hot.
Speaker 1: I mentioned in one of the earlier podcasts about what
Speaker 1: I learned, you know, seeing a trail camera in an
Speaker 1: elk wall and how many bears were actually using that
Speaker 1: and it was just shocking and surprising. But I do
Speaker 1: find consistently a lot of bears in those wetter areas
Speaker 1: on dry years, and then I focus on in more
Speaker 1: wet years where the berries are good. Try to find
Speaker 1: really good berry patches close to thicker cover and possibly
Speaker 1: in areas where they might move up to um Den,
Speaker 1: so looking you know, later in the season, maybe moving
Speaker 1: towards some of those areas that you focus on early
Speaker 1: in the spring, and so you can kind of play
Speaker 1: it that way. But the fall can be a great
Speaker 1: time to hunt bears. Is just the same scenario, focusing
Speaker 1: on the food sources that time year. It's mostly berries.
Speaker 1: You've also got in the Southwest, acorn production can be
Speaker 1: good some years, and just really figuring out, Okay, what
Speaker 1: what food sources are popping off right now, and how
Speaker 1: do I focus on those and find the places where
Speaker 1: it's good bear habitat. But it's got a high density
Speaker 1: of food. If you do that, you'll be successful. Another
Speaker 1: thing before I get off the topic, one other thing
Speaker 1: to think about in the fall is bears will will
Speaker 1: tend to eat more like carry on dead animals that
Speaker 1: they find um hunter harvest, like if a hunter is
Speaker 1: shot and left a gut pile of an elk, you know.
Speaker 1: Even checking back in those areas and seeing if something's
Speaker 1: it a carcass that you find or whatever is also
Speaker 1: another way to find bears in the fall. Alright, let's
Speaker 1: move on to the next the next bear question. This
Speaker 1: question comes from Mark in Nevada. He says, listening to
Speaker 1: your latest bear hunting podcasts, questions for you for next
Speaker 1: week's Q and A other than cooking bear meat to
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty five degrees, do you treat it
Speaker 1: any different from deer, elk or other game meat. I
Speaker 1: know some people send the whole thing through the grinder.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. Bear meat can be awesome if
Speaker 1: prepared right. I think some people might find it more
Speaker 1: off putting because they say it's greasy, and that's probably
Speaker 1: lends to why it gets put into sausage and other things.
Speaker 1: Another factor he mentioned, now, if you aren't familiar with
Speaker 1: the hundred and sixty five degrees, it is because bears
Speaker 1: can contain trick gnosis, and so if you don't cook
Speaker 1: the meat to the right temperature, you yourself can contract
Speaker 1: trick gnosis. So it's super important. Now, Yes, I treat
Speaker 1: it different and deer or cook it, cook it different
Speaker 1: than deer and other game meat because you do have
Speaker 1: to hit that high temperature. When I'm cooking elk steak
Speaker 1: or deer steak, I'm normally pulling it off the grill
Speaker 1: at I really like it medium, where I don't want
Speaker 1: to overcook it. So when I do cook bear meat,
Speaker 1: I always tend to use recipes that I know I'm
Speaker 1: going to hit that high temperature, but also where it
Speaker 1: still tastes good. So for me, a lot of bear
Speaker 1: cooking is more. I don't do a lot of steaks.
Speaker 1: I do a lot more slow cooking. I'll do like, um,
Speaker 1: some of my favorite bear recipes are slow cooked, like
Speaker 1: pulled pork style. Um, I'll throw it in a crock pot.
Speaker 1: I'll first season it with some seasoning, all brown it
Speaker 1: in a pan. Then I'll throw it in a crock
Speaker 1: pot with a little bit of oil in the bottom
Speaker 1: and maybe an onion or something. Let it go on
Speaker 1: high for about five hours to where it's easily pulled
Speaker 1: apart with a fork. Then I'll shred it, mix it
Speaker 1: with some barbecue sauce, make like pulled pulled pork sandwiches. Also,
Speaker 1: slow cooked roasts is a great way uh slow cooking.
Speaker 1: You know, it tends to dry other game meat out,
Speaker 1: but bear meat, it does have that extra fat, and
Speaker 1: that extra fat isn't bad. It doesn't taste bad, especially
Speaker 1: once it's cooked down. So you slow cook it in
Speaker 1: a recipe like that and you've got a really tender,
Speaker 1: great meat that has hit that temperature, clearly killed trick,
Speaker 1: gnosis and safety, eat and taste good. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's what I like to do. I also will
Speaker 1: use like the smoker do almost like a beef brisket
Speaker 1: style recipe on the barbecue. Anything where it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of low and slow but then gets that temperature over.
Speaker 1: That one is a great way to go. Some other
Speaker 1: options include, like I do a lot of like tacos
Speaker 1: or enchiladas, stuff like that, where I can slow roast
Speaker 1: the meat and some enchilada sauce for five six hours,
Speaker 1: get it super hot to where its shreds, and then
Speaker 1: go with it from there. All right, we've got one
Speaker 1: more bear question, then we'll move on to some other topics.
Speaker 1: So this one comes from Lauren in Texas. She's a
Speaker 1: huge fan of your podcast. My boyfriend and I are
Speaker 1: going on a spring bear hunt in Idaho this year
Speaker 1: and love listening to the last episode together. So I've
Speaker 1: got a question, and it might seem extremely elementary, how
Speaker 1: do you guys find your way through the woods to
Speaker 1: a hunting spot and back to camp. I didn't grow
Speaker 1: up hunting or in the woods. But when I'm out
Speaker 1: in the forest or in the woods, everyone always seems
Speaker 1: to have a grasp on where we are, but me
Speaker 1: any tips on directional intelligence or how to navigate through
Speaker 1: the field when hunting, especially spot and stock. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that that's actually a great question, Lauren, because it's
Speaker 1: not super elementary being really good navigating in the mountains
Speaker 1: in the woods, it takes there. There's a portion of
Speaker 1: it that that kind of becomes innate, but it can
Speaker 1: also be trained. So here's some of the things that
Speaker 1: I always tell people that are just getting into it.
Speaker 1: The first one is it depends on whether you're leading
Speaker 1: or following how much attention you're paying to where you're going.
Speaker 1: And so if you're by yourself or leading, you're looking around,
Speaker 1: you're you're analyzing where you're going. When you're following someone else,
Speaker 1: and and this is just starting out. When you're if
Speaker 1: you're following someone else, you know you're you're mostly just
Speaker 1: going where they go. So what you have to do
Speaker 1: whether you're following someone else or leading, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people like when I'm even when I'm guiding
Speaker 1: of people following me, and when we get somewhere, they
Speaker 1: have no clue where they're at. Well, it's because they
Speaker 1: aren't actively looking around and actively bringing into remembrance where
Speaker 1: they're going, what's going on. So these tips can be translated.
Speaker 1: It's like, if I'm just walking in the woods by myself,
Speaker 1: is something important to do and there's something important for
Speaker 1: everyone to think about doing when you're in the woods
Speaker 1: with someone else or by yourself. Using some of these
Speaker 1: tips if you have if you're a little bit directionally challenged,
Speaker 1: So the first thing is kind of knowing your cardinal
Speaker 1: directions is huge. Now where the sun is and how
Speaker 1: you got into an area, and understanding the area that
Speaker 1: you're out by looking at a map ahead of time
Speaker 1: really helps you kind of picture the layout of the area.
Speaker 1: So always before I go in, I'll pull out my
Speaker 1: maps and I'll look over the area and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's where I'm at, here's where I'm going. Now, kind
Speaker 1: of think about the road that you drove in on. Now,
Speaker 1: which direction on the map is that going north, south,
Speaker 1: east west. Now, when you're sitting at the trailhead or
Speaker 1: wherever you are, Okay, which way is the road that
Speaker 1: I drove in on? Which way does the canyon go?
Speaker 1: Does the canyon go north south? Does it go east west?
Speaker 1: Then also understanding directions based on the sun, So the
Speaker 1: sun always rises in the east and sets in the west. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, it might be hard
Speaker 1: to tell which direction. But as you're going into an area, Okay,
Speaker 1: did the sun rise on this side of where I am?
Speaker 1: Did the sunrise on that side of where I am?
Speaker 1: Direction finding where you're at can be easy in really
Speaker 1: open areas because you'll use landmarks as a very visual
Speaker 1: visual process looking around, using peaks and identifying peaks and
Speaker 1: other things around you. The easiest way to get lost
Speaker 1: is in flat places that are thick and and hard
Speaker 1: to kind of pick out a definitive landmark. So what
Speaker 1: I have always been told, and this I know works
Speaker 1: really well, is as you're walking around, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to walk with your head up, you want to
Speaker 1: be looking around, and as you see things, you kind
Speaker 1: of create a story of what you see. Now, what
Speaker 1: this is doing is it's just using memorization techniques of
Speaker 1: creating what I would call a memory palace, or making
Speaker 1: something that you might not notice into something that's familiar
Speaker 1: by telling yourself a story I'd heard that this was
Speaker 1: a way that Native Americans had traveled over long distances
Speaker 1: and learned navigation techniques by just like creating stories about
Speaker 1: things that they saw, and then they could relay some
Speaker 1: of these stories to help other people find their direction.
Speaker 1: Now how true that is or what, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it does make a lot of sense. If you're
Speaker 1: walking around you see a certain tree or a creek,
Speaker 1: create a story in a narrative that's easy to remember,
Speaker 1: that helps you kind of associate where you are with
Speaker 1: what's going around. The other thing that this does is
Speaker 1: it gets your head up, gets you paying attention to
Speaker 1: what's around you and really critically thinking about it. So
Speaker 1: when you then come back and see these landmarks or
Speaker 1: features in the hills or creeks, depressions, trees, strange rocks,
Speaker 1: just different stuff, it gives you a good idea of
Speaker 1: knowing that, Okay, I'm on my way back, I'm here
Speaker 1: there whatever. Over time, you just your your brain kind
Speaker 1: of starts to remember where you are and you start
Speaker 1: to learn based on directional feeling. It's funny because for
Speaker 1: a very very very long time, I never relied on
Speaker 1: gps IS and I never had problems finding my way back.
Speaker 1: But it was just doing it time and time again,
Speaker 1: and it would just even a place that I've never been,
Speaker 1: could find my way back every time, even walking back
Speaker 1: almost on the same routes over long distances, just based
Speaker 1: on the way that it feels and the direction that
Speaker 1: I'm going. Your body does over time learn how to navigate.
Speaker 1: But when you're starting out, it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: paying attention, getting your mind critically thinking, always looking up,
Speaker 1: and then never forget to look behind you where you
Speaker 1: came from, because as you're walking out of somewhere, you're
Speaker 1: always looking at a different view. So I'm constantly scanning
Speaker 1: around and never forgetting to look behind and understanding what
Speaker 1: it looks like on my way back. And then use
Speaker 1: your mapping and GPS software, but don't rely on it.
Speaker 1: Use it as a instrument to help you. But also,
Speaker 1: you know, get good at directional sense and just navigation
Speaker 1: without those electronics, but have it so you can kind
Speaker 1: of understand as you're going. Looking at a map while
Speaker 1: you're walking is a great way to understand your direction
Speaker 1: and where you're going as well. I might have spend
Speaker 1: a little too much time on that, but I I
Speaker 1: really think that that's a skill that a lot of
Speaker 1: people struggle with and probably don't admit to, or a
Speaker 1: lot of people admit to it, but they just don't
Speaker 1: know how to fix it. They just think, oh, people
Speaker 1: that are good at finding their way or just naturally
Speaker 1: good at it, and it comes with practice and time.
Speaker 1: But those are some tricks that you can use to
Speaker 1: get way better at it. So I really like that question.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go into some gear right now. UM,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of gear questions. Actually I'll read
Speaker 1: this question, then I'll jump on one that I just
Speaker 1: saw a lot. This one says my name is Dan,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about getting started on elk hunts that
Speaker 1: will be camping, backpacking into the mountains for a week
Speaker 1: or so at a time. What size backpack do you
Speaker 1: recommend when starting out to have enough room for supplies
Speaker 1: and to carry out meat when an elk is harvested.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. So if we're talking backpacks, it's
Speaker 1: got to first have a frame of some kind, either
Speaker 1: internal or external. I think that should just be obvious,
Speaker 1: but it may not be to some people. So you
Speaker 1: want a good sturdy pack with an internal external frame. Uh,
Speaker 1: you want straps they're adjustable, and then a waist belt
Speaker 1: the fits. Having the right pack is a pack that
Speaker 1: you can adjust to your specific torso length. Now, outside
Speaker 1: of that, I really like packs for week long trips.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look for something in the six thousand
Speaker 1: cubic range. The pack that I use is actually a
Speaker 1: stone Glacier pack. They have all kinds of different frames
Speaker 1: and bags and and whatever. The larger the six any
Speaker 1: bags and that six thousand range seemed to work really good,
Speaker 1: but I've even gone with bags in the three to
Speaker 1: four thousand cubic range. It's just that the stone Glacier
Speaker 1: pack that I use happens to have like a pull
Speaker 1: away shelf, so you can actually pull the bag away
Speaker 1: from the frame itself and slide say a quarter or
Speaker 1: whatever in between the pack frame and the bag. Having
Speaker 1: some kind of expandability is huge as far as taking
Speaker 1: in your gear and then packing stuff out. Now, you've
Speaker 1: got to realize, if you're going in for a week,
Speaker 1: most of your weight and bulk going in is going
Speaker 1: to be food that you're taking in. So if I
Speaker 1: run out a room, if I have a smaller pack bag,
Speaker 1: having something that pulls away from the framework and stuff
Speaker 1: it in the load shelf. Um, I'll kind of use
Speaker 1: that to bring my food in, and then on the
Speaker 1: way out, you know, you don't have as much food,
Speaker 1: and in that kind of stuff, that's pretty much you've
Speaker 1: eaten it along the way, so you can use that
Speaker 1: space then to pack stuff out. Now you might be
Speaker 1: making multiple trips, but having a little bit extra room
Speaker 1: is always nice. So once you go in you can
Speaker 1: have your camp all your set up, and then on
Speaker 1: the way out you can at least take some meat,
Speaker 1: and then you might have to go make another trip
Speaker 1: once you drop off either your camp stuff or some
Speaker 1: of the meat, and then make multiple trips packing out.
Speaker 1: But anything in that cubic range is about is what
Speaker 1: I would consider a large pack and a pretty good
Speaker 1: size for any kind of hunt week long where you
Speaker 1: you're gonna be packing meat as well. Alright, So let's
Speaker 1: get into fitness type prep questions. And I think these
Speaker 1: are great because so much Western hunting can be physical,
Speaker 1: and a lot of your success is just gonna depend
Speaker 1: on whether you can go that next ridge, whether you
Speaker 1: can get up to that spot in time. So I
Speaker 1: think that this is just a huge part of it
Speaker 1: that maybe doesn't get talked about enough, So this question reads,
Speaker 1: thanks for producing some of the best hunting content out there.
Speaker 1: I find your content informative, inspiring, hard earned, and accurate.
Speaker 1: This person works full time and they're hunting times a
Speaker 1: little bit short, but they've identified some productive areas, you know,
Speaker 1: using some of the scouting techniques, found some places with
Speaker 1: some good elevation gains that they're hoping will have less pressure.
Speaker 1: So to take advantage of those I'm kind of paraphrasing her,
Speaker 1: but to take advantage of those off road hunting opportunities
Speaker 1: in more steep country. They're trying to get into better shape,
Speaker 1: and so they've got two routes in town that they
Speaker 1: can walk with a pack, and he does it three
Speaker 1: times per week. He says. The first route is four
Speaker 1: miles nearly two miles uphill and then the same distance downhill,
Speaker 1: with a very short distance on the flats. The elevation
Speaker 1: gain is moderate. His second route is three quarters of
Speaker 1: a mile total round trip, and his leg burning steep.
Speaker 1: He repeats that six times and then he's got his
Speaker 1: four miles. In my experience, which one of those routes
Speaker 1: is more effective training steady elevation gain over distance or
Speaker 1: short but steep gain repeated multiple times. That is a
Speaker 1: great question. That question is from Scott from Idaho, and
Speaker 1: that's that's a great question, Scott. So in the past,
Speaker 1: I think that one of the ways that I kind
Speaker 1: of trained to get in really good shape to keep going,
Speaker 1: especially before guiding season or whatever, is I would pick
Speaker 1: a really steep hill and and work that hill where
Speaker 1: you get that leg burn. I'm not an exercise physiologist
Speaker 1: by any mean, but what I have found is that
Speaker 1: once you get that lactic acid building up, working through
Speaker 1: that really builds up your endurance that you kind of
Speaker 1: need for the hunt. So I found just starting out
Speaker 1: there was a steep hill and the first time I'd
Speaker 1: have a pack on, I'd walk up it and it
Speaker 1: was it was a pretty it was probably longer than
Speaker 1: some of your hills sounds like, but it was one
Speaker 1: of those hills where I'd start walking and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my legs are burning. I need to stop.
Speaker 1: And then I would stop and see how long it's
Speaker 1: taking me recover, and then keep walking. So what I
Speaker 1: found was I started one day just had this idea
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna walk up this steep hill, and no
Speaker 1: matter what, I'm not going to stop. So I would
Speaker 1: walk up it and it's like my legs would be
Speaker 1: burning and almost want to stop, and I would just
Speaker 1: kind of like start walking different any way to keep
Speaker 1: moving and not stop, just keep that leg burning, burning, burning,
Speaker 1: and I would actually like go walking normal and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I have to I can't walk, And
Speaker 1: then I would turn around and start walking up the
Speaker 1: hill backwards. Were like sidestepping anything I had to do
Speaker 1: to keep going, just not stop. It's like as long
Speaker 1: as I kept some kind of forward motion and just
Speaker 1: press onto the top. The next day do the same thing,
Speaker 1: and over time I then became where it was just
Speaker 1: like walking up that hill was just like walking on
Speaker 1: flat ground. What it did was it built and strengthened
Speaker 1: the muscles and my legs, but also taught my legs
Speaker 1: like how to It just gave me a little bit
Speaker 1: more endurance space, and that steep hill did it in
Speaker 1: a lot shorter time. It also helped build up my
Speaker 1: lungs and train the way that I controlled my breathing.
Speaker 1: So as I was going huffing and puffing, I would
Speaker 1: intentionally try to slow my heart rate and slow my
Speaker 1: breathing while my legs were burning. By doing that, over time,
Speaker 1: I just got better at going uphill, doing it fast,
Speaker 1: doing it efficiently, and really using my oxygen better. So
Speaker 1: that's just one way that I've trained, and I think
Speaker 1: that doing that made me so much better at hiking,
Speaker 1: where to be honest, I almost prefer to go uphill
Speaker 1: in many instances than downhill or side hill or even
Speaker 1: on flat ground because I just have done that training
Speaker 1: for that steep uphill, which seems to be the stuff
Speaker 1: that I encounter elk and deer hunting. Now, I think
Speaker 1: that because you have both options, I would do the
Speaker 1: steep uphill twice and then the long gradual once a week.
Speaker 1: If I was doing it three times a week, that
Speaker 1: way gives you a little bit of everything. And if
Speaker 1: you can find a longer, steeper hill, find that something
Speaker 1: where you can go up, up, up, and it's like
Speaker 1: you feel like you have to stop, and then kind
Speaker 1: of measure your progression based on how far you can
Speaker 1: get without stopping. And at some point it's gonna become
Speaker 1: easy to go up that one hill, and at some
Speaker 1: point you're gonna now be able to work on your breathing,
Speaker 1: work on your lung capacity, and that's just gonna translate
Speaker 1: into being able to do that all day long. I
Speaker 1: think so that I would give a try if you can. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're the type of person that lives somewhere where
Speaker 1: you don't have access to hills, I mean even I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean like treadmills on inclines and kind
Speaker 1: of trying to do that maybe a little bit faster
Speaker 1: pace in a jog or I've never really used one,
Speaker 1: but those like stair masters, I know some people have
Speaker 1: used that in the same like stair climb or climbing
Speaker 1: up sets of stairs through stairwells and other stuff that
Speaker 1: can really help. So just building that endurance for being
Speaker 1: able to push your body when it wants to stop,
Speaker 1: just saying okay, keep going, keep moving, and just it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be fast, but just don't stop. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the best way to train and keep
Speaker 1: yourself going. I asked UH last week for a little
Speaker 1: bit of life advice if anybody had some or wanted
Speaker 1: some stuff that just you know, anything, And this one
Speaker 1: I think is really timely for what's going on right
Speaker 1: now with a little COVID thing. He says, Hey, Manny,
Speaker 1: big fan of the podcast. Question for you. I've been
Speaker 1: hunting a small farm for wild turkeys for the past
Speaker 1: two seasons. Obtained permission by cold emailing the owner, and
Speaker 1: it's been a good successful spot so far. I've had
Speaker 1: some text exchanges with the owner when the season was going,
Speaker 1: mainly saying when I'd be there when I was gone,
Speaker 1: and I haven't corresponded with him since fall season. My
Speaker 1: question is this, with this coronavirus madness going on, is
Speaker 1: it weird or insensitive to text him after a few
Speaker 1: months to ask about the spring season. I'm trying not
Speaker 1: to be a dick, but i also want to turkey hunt.
Speaker 1: Thanks a Prentice. That is a great question because it
Speaker 1: really takes into consideration a lot of things, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in a situation where we've never been. Here's my
Speaker 1: thought on it. I think that it's never a bad thing,
Speaker 1: especially in this time, to reach out to people. You know,
Speaker 1: you may not have actually ever even met this person,
Speaker 1: just through emails or texts or whatever, but you know,
Speaker 1: keeping those relationships up is is always a good thing.
Speaker 1: And with what's going on right now, if you have uh,
Speaker 1: you've had permission in the past. You know, if this
Speaker 1: wasn't going on, you would probably feel free to reach out.
Speaker 1: But I say reach out with a genuine, um pretense
Speaker 1: of how are they doing? You know, say, hey, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about you. You know, I just want to
Speaker 1: check in on you and your family. Hope all is
Speaker 1: going well, you know, say, you know, with whatever is
Speaker 1: going on, you know, all this craziness, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting out and was wondering if you wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: if I hunted this spring season there, you know, say,
Speaker 1: you know, with whatever is going on, I understand either way. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: if there's anything you need or I can help you with,
Speaker 1: please let me know. Because it's a great it's a
Speaker 1: great time to reach out. I think it's probably the
Speaker 1: best time and and a better opportunity to reach out.
Speaker 1: I think if you just said, hey, can I go hunting?
Speaker 1: Am I in h what's the deal kind of thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that might be taken wrong. It's like everybody's got their
Speaker 1: own stuff to think about, but you know, reach out
Speaker 1: to them, Uh, see how they're doing. You know, mentioned
Speaker 1: the fact that obviously it would be great to get
Speaker 1: out and go from there and see if they need anything. Um,
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of things that they could do
Speaker 1: or whatever that might help them out as well. So
Speaker 1: you never know, you might build a better relationship. And
Speaker 1: if they say no, hey, that's cool and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe reach out at different time. Maybe now is not
Speaker 1: the time, but I think that there's never a bad
Speaker 1: time to check in on someone to um be cordial,
Speaker 1: and I think that they'll probably uh respond well to that.
Speaker 1: I thank everybody for tuning in. Gosh, it was a
Speaker 1: lot of great questions. I try. I'll try to answer
Speaker 1: some more of them, the ones that have come in
Speaker 1: through social media and stuff. I'll send you guys messages
Speaker 1: on some of that. But I tried to pick some
Speaker 1: of the questions that really hit topics that I saw
Speaker 1: asked a lot as always, feel free if this brings
Speaker 1: up more questions, or you have more questions of your
Speaker 1: question wasn't answered, feel free to shoot me a message
Speaker 1: because I like to try to read a few of
Speaker 1: them in the closings after every every week, just maybe
Speaker 1: touch on a couple that I didn't get to. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the interaction because it gives me
Speaker 1: an opportunity to understand what people want to hear about
Speaker 1: the kind of topics that people want to hear, and
Speaker 1: it gives me an idea of what to talk about
Speaker 1: that I think will benefit the most people. Um next week,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not actually set on what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about next week, but I'm thinking there was
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about thermals and wind and I
Speaker 1: did actually touch on that a little bit in a
Speaker 1: previous Q and A, but it would be cool to
Speaker 1: just go a little bit deeper into that. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. I've got some other topics that i'd
Speaker 1: love I like to talk about, persistence being one of them.
Speaker 1: You know, some more scouting from home ideas, especially with
Speaker 1: a little bit of downtime and applications going on, some
Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. So if there's some other
Speaker 1: things you guys want to hear about, shootout. I've also
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff planned for the future as
Speaker 1: far as a lot of the stions that come in
Speaker 1: or about elk and mule deer. So that's why I
Speaker 1: try to talk about those a lot um and we
Speaker 1: will before this fall kind of hit on some some
Speaker 1: serious Elk tactics because I love talking about that, and
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: probably one of the things that everybody's dreaming about or
Speaker 1: thinking about right now fall seasons. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of you are gonna be turkey hunting. If you've got
Speaker 1: if you use some of these tips, or you've got
Speaker 1: hunts planned, reach out. Let's let's make this a two
Speaker 1: way communication. You can always get me on at remy
Speaker 1: warrant at Instagram if you're looking for some stuff to do,
Speaker 1: you're a little bit bored, maybe you're home quarantined. You've
Speaker 1: listened to all these podcasts four times. I think I
Speaker 1: got a few comments of people that have already listened
Speaker 1: to about every Cutting the Distance episode for the fourth time.
Speaker 1: Now we've got the solo Hunter TV show that I do.
Speaker 1: We've got we put all our episodes that we have
Speaker 1: so far on both YouTube and Amazon Prime. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen those, you can check those out, or
Speaker 1: if you have seen him, you can go rewatch them.
Speaker 1: There's some there's some cool hunts on there. Maybe get
Speaker 1: get stoked up for something that you're gonna do this fall.
Speaker 1: I know I've personally been kind of checking out different videos.
Speaker 1: I've watched a few Spring Bear hunting videos. I've seen
Speaker 1: some cool stuff. Man, I'm missing the rower in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: and so are many of the kiwi's because the public
Speaker 1: lands were pretty have pretty much been shut down for
Speaker 1: hunting right now until all this blows over. So although
Speaker 1: I missed the roarer this year, I think everybody did,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of a combined ouch. Actually right now
Speaker 1: is supposed to be in Argentina filming a Sacco Great
Speaker 1: Hunt Series video for red Deer down in Argentina, and
Speaker 1: I just like super excited about it, and obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: plans change. But what I'm really looking forward to now
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna do some additional turkey hunting this year.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that I kind of always
Speaker 1: put on the back burner, but it is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. A lot of you out there, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about it, pumped on it. So I'm kind of
Speaker 1: getting pumped up for that. Been watching some turkey stuff
Speaker 1: and and a lot of spring bear stuff. Kind of
Speaker 1: getting excited about that because normally I'm gone this time
Speaker 1: of year in the South Pacific somewhere hunting tar red deer,
Speaker 1: fali deer or something like that. So uh, to get
Speaker 1: back and do some a little bit earlier season spring
Speaker 1: bear hunting, all those tips that I talked about, that's
Speaker 1: the way I'm gonna be hunting. And I'm pretty excited
Speaker 1: about that. So feel free to reach out communicate with me,
Speaker 1: and yeah, well we'll get through this. I'm I'm excited
Speaker 1: for some of the future episodes, and I just really
Speaker 1: appreciate everybody's comments, ratings, you know, he definitely um. If
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