1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance. Today's 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: episode will be the first year in twenty twenty five, 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: and I just wanted to take the time to kind 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: of recap my hunts from twenty twenty four, you know, 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: tell some stories and also talk about some of the 6 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: gear that we used on those and just kind of 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: how the hunts turned out. You know that we may 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: not have told those hunt recaps. So we're gonna start 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: like every podcast, and if you have questions for me 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: or our guests, feel free to email them to us 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: at CTD at phelpsgame Calls dot com and we'll do 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: our best to get them in here on the podcast. 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: But these are just some of the questions that I've received, 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: you know that that we get throughout the year. I 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: just got this one the other day. If you could 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: redo any of your hunts this year, which one would 17 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: it be? And I love every hunt this year. I 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: had had a great time, you know, from start to finish. 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: But if I had to go back and redo one 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: of my hunts here, it would probably be that New 21 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: Mexico archery out count with Luke Combs. For a couple 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: of reasons. Uh, you know, first, you know, he's he's 23 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: a blast to hang out with. You know, we're laughing 24 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: the whole time. But we had I would say, there's 25 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: some unfinished business on that one. You know, we had 26 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: lots of opportunities. You know, Luke passed on some bowls, 27 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: you know, some arrows were let loose, and uh, I 28 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: would really like a chance to get back there, and 29 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: you know the hunt was pretty short. Just kind of 30 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: redo that one and see if we couldn't, you know, 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: have have a different outcome. You know, found some different 32 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: areas there towards the end that that we're you know 33 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: producing you know, as far as beagles and had more 34 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 1: elk in the area. So that's probably the one man. 35 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: You know, the the Alaska doult sheep is is probably 36 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: a real close second, you know, one of my dream hunts, 37 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, if I could redo the 38 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Idaho Mountain lion hunt. Pretty pretty good hunts and wish 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: wish I could you know, redo those. But yeah, for 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: for unfinished business reasons. In the Mexico tri I'll count 41 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: with Luke would would be probably the highest on the list. 42 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: The next question we get, you know or just randomly 43 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: throughout the year is kind of what's your favorite new gear, 44 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: or they'll see a picture, you know, in a in 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: a new backpack or using a new knife. You know, 46 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 1: what was my favorite new gear for twenty twenty five? 47 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: And I didn't get a whole lot. I'm basically gonna 48 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: give you the list of what I tried new, but 49 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: it did perform and I was really, you know, kind 50 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: of excited about how it works. So first off is 51 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: one of our our you know, kind of a inside 52 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: of our own companies doing Montana Knife Company and Steve 53 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: worked together on a new stubhorn knife. Before that, I 54 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: was using a bench made S NINETYV. I don't know 55 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: exactly what the model was, what was kind of my 56 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: go to I'd been using it for the last four 57 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: or five years. Really liked it. But the stubhorn not 58 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: to not to get too far in the weeds, uses 59 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: a new Magna cut steel. It seemed like it held 60 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: an edge a lot longer, it was easier to sharpen, 61 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 1: and and it has some really really good, you know, 62 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: characteristics of a hunting knife for me. You know, I 63 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: think when I was in Kansas, I used the knife 64 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: on three white tails, never even touched it up. You 65 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: have through elk season. We used it on three elk. 66 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: I think I touched it up a couple of times. 67 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: The knife is for me. It's the right weight, it's 68 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: the right length, and you know these little things as 69 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: you're breaking down animals, you have the efficiency and the 70 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: ability to kind of to move a little faster. I 71 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: really liked that that new knife. And then you know, 72 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: we we just did an episode on the muzzloaders. I 73 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: can't say enough about that Remington seven hundred muzzleloader with 74 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: the arrowhead breach. And then you take the rules changed 75 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: here in Washington where we were allowed to use a 76 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: one x red dot, so I topped it with the 77 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: loophole freedom alreadys the red dot site and that thing. 78 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: You know, usually when I'm out with an older you know, 79 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: let's say five years ago, we were out with a 80 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: Northwest Addition or style Northwest legal muzzleoader, open sites. You know, 81 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: I was comfortable to one one hundred and fifty and 82 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: very perfect conditions. Yeah, it should be a primitive type weapon. 83 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: Maybe that's where we should be limited to, but the 84 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: rules are allowing us to, you know, with modern ignitions, 85 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: with the use of one x sites, stretch our range 86 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: out and just confidence at closer ranges. I was able 87 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: to loan the gun out to a couple other muzzloader 88 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: hunters and they just said the confidence they had on 89 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty to you know, one hundred and 90 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: twenty yard shot one hundred and forty yard shot and 91 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: to hit the elk exactly where they wanted, and you 92 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: kind of take some of that air out of what 93 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: I would say the older muzzloaders introduced h like I said, 94 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: the the the another I got a new boat, but 95 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: really just for the Kansas white tail hunt, I hunted 96 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: with my my boat from last year, a dart and 97 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: Verocity thirty five in New Mexico elk and you know, 98 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: I didn't hunt a lot on that hunt, but I 99 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: did get a new sequel thirty five ST two prior 100 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: to the Kansas white tail hunt, and I just I 101 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: love the boat at draws great. It's you know, got 102 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: some tunability to get my broad heads dialed in real 103 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: quick if they're not hitting perfect with my field points, 104 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: so there's not a bunch of chasing with my sight. 105 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: Really really liked that that bow set up with fairly 106 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: heavy arrows. I'm not a I'm not that guy that 107 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: wants to be crazy heavy. I carried my arrows over 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: from my old setup, and you know, I was shooting 109 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: two and seventy feet per second. But the bow just 110 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: shot really really well, was really easy to tune, and 111 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: really really consistent. So I really, you know, like that bow. 112 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, some people may say it's it's a 113 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: little long, thirty five inches out of a tree stand, 114 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: but for for a guy like myself, you know, I 115 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: like the stream angle at full draw. Everything just fits 116 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: me well and it's comfortable to shoot. And then really 117 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: the only the only other thing I used this year. 118 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: You know, in the past, I was always using a 119 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: duplex frame from Kafaro. I did use that same pack 120 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: on the Dull Sheep Hunt. But in between the Sheep 121 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: Hunt and starting my all content between August and September, 122 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: I was able to get my hands on one of 123 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: the new Kafaro ARC frames with a new Hoodlum bag, 124 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: and I really really like that setup. You know, I'm 125 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: six foot three, I am all torso, so the frame 126 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: was a little short, you know, I think it's only 127 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: twenty five inch frame. You know, I've been used to 128 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: twenty six is. And then my buddy Aaron Snyder used 129 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: to make me twenty eights kind of custom for my 130 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: longer torso so I can get some lyft. But the 131 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: ARC twenty five, even though it's maybe a little bit 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: short for a guy like myself, I would say it's 133 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: going to perform great for ninety five percent of the 134 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: people out there. It did a very good job, you 135 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: know on some heavy loads, both on the White River Uh, 136 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: I'm reading off my notes here, you know, my White 137 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: River Elk tag. And it also did really really well 138 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: on the Idaho Meal Deer tag, you know, where I 139 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: had some heavy loads for long trips and it performed 140 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,559 Speaker 1: as good as can be, you know, expected with heavy 141 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: loads that are going to be uncomfortable no matter what pack, 142 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: Yet you have on uh, performed really well. So I 143 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: was you know, those are really my only new pieces 144 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: of gear. It performed really really well. You know, I've 145 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: I did try some new crispies out, you know, the 146 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: Mountain bro in the brickstall line, you know, but I've 147 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: always the brick stalls have always fit my feet well. 148 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: On the sheep hunt, I've tried those. They they performed 149 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: really well. So it's not really new gear, but they 150 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: it was a kind of a new model, a taller 151 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: boot for me, and I really like the performance of 152 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: those as well. But that kind of wraps it up 153 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: as far as new stuff that I tried. I'm a 154 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: pretty simple guy. If it works, it works, I don't 155 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: need to be changing all the time. But but those were, 156 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: you know, kind of the standouts I do really like, 157 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: you know, from from first Light. I really liked that 158 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: three toh eight pant. I'm not just saying that because 159 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: they're a sister company in the know to Phelps game Calls. 160 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: I really do like that pant and I believe it's 161 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: a big improvement over what we've you know, what I've 162 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: had in the past from them. So like that. And 163 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: then if I had to pick a favorite hunt of 164 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: the year, what would it be. Man In this year 165 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, I got to check some of 166 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: my my dream hunts, my bucket list hunts off, and 167 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: I would say it's a tie. You know. I was 168 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: probably more excited about the doll sheep hunt just because 169 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: there was such a long build up. I had booked 170 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: that hunt back in twenty twenty and it was one 171 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: I really looked forward to. So I had four years 172 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: of waiting for it to get here and prepare for it, 173 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: and then the Idle Mountain lion hunt was kind of 174 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: a It kind of sprung on you real quick. You 175 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: had you know you'd be hunt within a month or two. 176 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: But it was a chance to finally hunt. You know, 177 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: big mature Tom's behind the dogs. So I would say 178 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of split the Idaho Mountain lion hunt and 179 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: then the Alaska doll sheep hunt, and then both of them. 180 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not one of those guys that the 181 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: experience is important, but I also look at a hunt 182 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: and like, for how did what we what were the results? 183 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: And unfortunately for me on both of those hunts, you know, 184 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: I was able to take very good representations of those 185 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: species on those hunts. And so yeah, I really like 186 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: those those two as they'll probably be the only time, 187 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: maybe the only time I ever get to do it. 188 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: So favorite hunts of the year Idaho Mountain lion and 189 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: Alaska doll sheep. You know, Mountain lion hunt. I loved it. 190 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: The people year around, great people. Alaska doll sheep, same thing. 191 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: You know. Matt Snyder was awesome to be around, and 192 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: just the country that you get to see on that 193 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: you know, those sheep hunts, and it is pretty dang cool. 194 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: So those are my favorite hunts of the year. And 195 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: once again, you have questions for me or my guests, 196 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: please feel free to email them to us at CTD 197 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: at phelpsgame Calls dot com, or get a hold of 198 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: us on social media, you know, any of our accounts, 199 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: you know, shoot the questions there, you know, personal social 200 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: media accounts, and that's typically where I grab these questions from. 201 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 1: So yeah, so now we're going to roll right into 202 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four hunt recap. You I just talked 203 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: about this hunt a little bit. I was fortunate enough 204 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: to be able to hunt you know, mountain lions in 205 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: Idaho behind behind hounds. That's that's great. So you're kind 206 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: of you know, you're he's got some clients in and 207 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: so you're trying to look at the schedule. How's it's 208 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: all going to work and when can you know, we 209 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: hunt whenever we're going to have the right weather. Well, 210 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: as luck would have it, it seems like at times 211 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: everything that I do doesn't seem to go to plan. 212 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: I know, had a horrible winner with a little bit 213 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: of early you know snow in early January when we 214 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: could have got hunting, but you know, had some other 215 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: clients booked. And then we get into show season consumer 216 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: show season for both myself and and my buddy Bradley, 217 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: and so we were trying to you know, match schedules. 218 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: And one of the mornings, I woke up, you know, 219 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: I get up around six o'clock, get usually, get my 220 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: my kids up for school, and you know, kind of 221 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: get my morning started. I had a text as soon 222 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: as I woke up from Bradley says, I think this 223 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: is our window. You need to get over here. So 224 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: bless my wife who's able to quickly you know, pivot 225 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: and and put some more on her plate. Within about 226 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: an hour, I was packed up completely and uh leaving 227 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: for Idaho to go you know, chase cats for for 228 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: a couple of days. You know, we we get there, 229 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: you know, Bradley's Bradley's doing a bunch of running around 230 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: trying to trying to just locate a cat. As we 231 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: as we're pulling into Idaho, Bradley calls me he's going 232 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: back to get his dogs. You'd cut a track and 233 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: to meet us at a certain spot. So we all 234 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: get there. Yeah, the we I bring. I want to 235 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: use my bow, which is you know sometimes I kind 236 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: of chuckle, like, what's it matter to that the cat's 237 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: in a tree? Why do you know, why does it 238 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: matter if you use your bow or a gun At 239 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: that point, it's just pulling the trigger. But I like 240 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: it to bring my bow down. And it was in 241 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: a very steep location and a very tall tree, and 242 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: so it created all kinds of issues with getting you know, 243 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: a decent shot angle. And as we climbed up the 244 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: hill so that we could start to look more level 245 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: with the cat, his vitals were blocked and we just 246 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: had some issues. And thankfully we had brought a thirty 247 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: thirty along just in case the cat, you know, was 248 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: able to get out of the tree wounded, it doesn't 249 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: get any dogs or we can finish it, you know, quickly. 250 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: So we're we're getting ready, we're kind of walking around, 251 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: you know, the tree, trying to find a shot angle, 252 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: and and you can see the cat start to back 253 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: down the tree and ultimately gets about twenty feet from 254 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: the ground and bales out over top of everybody's head 255 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: and we're chasing again. We had run up let the 256 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: dogs We had already had the dogs, you know, leashed 257 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: so that the you know, they don't try to chase 258 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: the cat when it's wounded and everything. So we let 259 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: him go. We're we're chasing again. Well, it was pretty 260 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: awesome a turn of events. The cat ran away and 261 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: then came right back on its backtrack and walked right 262 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: under us, and we were able to see from the 263 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: garment that the cat was gonna so we actually got 264 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: to watch the cat kind of sneak through and slithered through, 265 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: and the dogs were, you know, twenty thirty seconds behind 266 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: it at that point, and came up. And then the cat. 267 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: If some of you haven't seen the video on YouTube, 268 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: the cat ends up, you know, just baying up on 269 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: a rock. The cat had enough. He wasn't going back 270 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: up a tree. He's gonna sit there. And then the 271 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: pressure was on, so the bow was out of the picture. 272 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: We needed to kill the cat. You know, I can 273 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: brad these, you know, it's like, hey, you got to 274 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: make a good show. You know, you can kill my dogs. 275 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: And so now I've got this extra pressure. And then 276 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: they hand you a thirty thirty that you've never shot, 277 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: and I don't know, you know, I instantly went back 278 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: to my younger days when I'm out in the yard 279 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: with my BB gun, remembering, like, man, there's a lot 280 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: of ways to kind of site these open sites in. 281 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: You know, did they hold you know, did they sight 282 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: in with the front the front post like level? Did 283 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: they you know, some guys would sit in with like 284 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: front post halfway through so you can actually see over 285 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: your target because when you you know, you kind of 286 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: block the bottom side. And so I start to ask 287 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: a few questions, and then I didn't want to overcomplicate it. 288 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: And then me and Bradley are also talking a little 289 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: bit about on the animal, like where we need to 290 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: hit it to grab lung and spine and do all 291 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: of this stuff so that we don't get any dogs injured. 292 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: So now I'm I mean, it's thirty degrees out, but 293 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: I'm sweating to death because I've got to try to 294 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: make a perfect shot on this cat that doesn't harm 295 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: the harm the dogs. And you know, so thankfully, as 296 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: I as I squeeze the trigger on that thre thirty thirty, 297 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: kind of made sure to just walk myself through, you know, Squeeze, 298 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: squeeze squeeze, was fortunate to hit the cat perfect on 299 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: a pretty steep uphill shot. We went in about mid 300 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: body and kind of just clipped the spine as it 301 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: went out the other side and caught the other lung 302 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: and the cat was thankfully dead as it fell off, 303 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: you know, maybe a hundred foot rock on the other side. 304 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: No dogs were injured. Uh, you know, everything worked out 305 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: great and it was a great, great cat. So yeah, 306 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: those hunts. I love hunting with Idaho whitetail guides, you know, 307 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: you know, Bradley Dammerman and Amy to do a great 308 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: job there and and it's just it's a fun hunt. 309 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: It's a lot of hard work for him because of 310 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: the dogs and getting up early and running tracks. You know, 311 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: we get up early, but we don't have to do 312 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: hardly into the work. We just ride around on the 313 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: side by side or what what be, you know, what 314 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: whatever it may be, but for that day. But it's 315 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I really enjoy, you know, drinking 316 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: coffee and hanging out and talking about you know, stories 317 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: of past for the areas that we're in and you 318 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: know what he's chased and what canyons. Yeah, so that 319 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: was that was an awesome hunt. You just got an 320 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: update from Phil Souse over there in Libby, Montana. He's 321 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: actually mountain back cat for me this week. So we've 322 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: been working back and forth on you know, how it 323 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: needs to sit and be arranged. You're really excited to 324 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: see how that one turns out. Then we kind of 325 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: you know, for us, we change gears a little bit, 326 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: we go turkey hunting. You know, we were able to 327 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: go to Kansas and Washington this year. I do want 328 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: to share one thing I'm going to talk about on 329 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: It's not necessarily gear, but it's kind of a new 330 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: system I've found to keep ticks off of me and 331 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: then away from me at least on my legs, which 332 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: is where I would get ninety percent of them. So 333 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: you know we would always put gators on. Well, the 334 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: one thing is if you have any loose spots on 335 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: your gators when you're sitting down or have your foot bent, 336 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: if a tick, you know ninety percent of them are 337 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: going to come up off of your your feet or 338 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: your boots that are touching their ground anyways. They will 339 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: climb up, get under there, get under your pant and 340 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: the majority of them, you know you have where your 341 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: gators will typically be tight at your shin I was getting. 342 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: You know, anything that I had latched on was right 343 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 1: at that line, because they would be able to get 344 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: up under my gator and under my pant leg and 345 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: go up. So I got on Amazon and they have 346 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: just these stretchy vell crow things that are made for 347 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: guys that write, you know, guys or gals that ride bikes, 348 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: to keep your pants out of your sprockets and whatnot. 349 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: So what I do now is I pull my pants 350 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 1: down over my boot as far as I can and 351 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: tighten that thing and I use two on each leg, 352 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: basically bell crowing or elasticking my boot, you know, my 353 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: pant to my boot, or you could also use athletic 354 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: tape anything that you could get extremely tight and basically 355 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: not allow anything up above that. And then I put 356 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: my gator up and over as well. And I was 357 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: able to hunt Kansas and Washington this year with no ticks, 358 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: which is a new record for me. You know, I 359 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: had a couple of lone star ticks from Kansas a 360 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: couple of years agoing Thankfully I must have not got 361 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: the old Alpha gal because I'm still able to eat 362 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: red meat. But it's just it's very nerve wracking when 363 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: you know that one in fifty, you know, to one 364 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: in forty of those things could potentially give you, you know, 365 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: alpha gal which I do not want. I don't want 366 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 1: to deal with not being able to eat red meat. 367 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: So this system worked, and you combine that with promethrone. 368 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: I wasn't you know, I don't. I didn't get any 369 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: ticks on me this year. You know, tuck your shirt 370 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: in at least your first layer shirt, wear a very 371 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: tight belt, you know, as tight as you can handle it. 372 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: I spray my net gator in promethrone and seems to work. 373 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:52,239 Speaker 1: Didn't have any issues. The two states though, one thing. 374 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: You know, obviously you're hunting a different bird, and Kansas 375 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: were hunting Easterns and Washington were hunting Miriam's. Yeah. The 376 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: funny thing is is I enjoy them both, but they're 377 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: completely different hunts. And Kansas you will walk maybe two 378 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: hundred yards from wherever you park your buggy or your 379 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: side by side, whatever it may be. You know, I'm 380 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: joking a little bit. We will we will run and gun, 381 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: but a lot of times we're just you know, we're 382 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: we're setting up in the morning. Easterns are pretty stubborn, 383 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: so we'll sit and call, we'll maybe move ridge to ridge, 384 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: but we don't really want to bump these birds or 385 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,239 Speaker 1: you know, mess with them too much. So a lot 386 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: of times Kansas will be a long morning sit. You're 387 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 1: typically on you know, gobbling birds and and yeah, you 388 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: know you don't kill anything by ten you go in 389 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: for breakfast. Washington, you're hiking all day. There were days 390 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: in Washington where you know, we'd put twelve, fourteen, fifteen 391 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: miles on and I had to had to laugh because 392 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: our buddies from Kansas that we hunt with their Randy 393 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: coy Brock, James Harrison, those guys all came out and 394 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: they joked. They said that for the one bird that 395 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: they killed, they'd hike more on that bird than all 396 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: their other birds combined. And it's just it's just that 397 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: different reference of you know, hunting public timberland ground. We're 398 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to put miles on, you know, to 399 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 1: get into the good spots. Where in Kansas, you know, 400 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: hunting more ag ground, it's easier to get on the birds, 401 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: you have to move as much. And Washington, the time 402 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: we were hunting there, we were early in Kansas, which 403 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: seems to be better. And we were a little bit 404 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: later into May and Washington and so the hunting was 405 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: good all day, and so we kind of hunted all day, 406 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: put on a lot of ground and we're really trying 407 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: to strike those birds in the middle of the day. 408 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,479 Speaker 1: But I was fortunate on those two hunts. I'm mounting 409 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: my first trick he ever. I was able to kill 410 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: a great four year old in Kansas. And the Washington 411 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: bird that I killed was probably the biggest Marriam I'll 412 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: ever kill. But it was later in the season and 413 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: he was you know, his uh you know, chess was 414 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: all you know, all the feathers were had fallen out, 415 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: and he was pretty rough, had a lot of pitch 416 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: on him, and so I elected that he was a 417 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: very pretty bird though. But probably my two best representations 418 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: of those birds that i've i've you know, will ever 419 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: kill or maybe you know they were good birds. Now. 420 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: I always joke where it's like, yeah, they're a little smarter, 421 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: but I don't know when I'm shooting. When I'm shooting them, 422 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: you I just know that they're they're a long beard 423 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: and it could be a two year old and they 424 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: just happened to be four year old, so no great 425 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: great turkey hunts I really enjoy. You know, some people 426 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: don't like turkey hunting. That's fine, you don't have to like. 427 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: I like getting out in the spring. It's also a 428 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: good reminder on how bad out of shape I am 429 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: from from the Christmas carry over in the in the 430 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: show season. So it's a little it's a good little 431 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: reminder to get my butt back in the gym, back 432 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: on the stair climber, and get ready for for fall seasons. 433 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: We had a quick little stop next in spring bear 434 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: in Idaho. It was later, you know, in in June. 435 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: So I just love watching the dogs work. You know. 436 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: Bradley started to give me a little bit of grief 437 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: that every time I show up we have long races 438 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: on bears that bay up and won't tree. So my 439 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: very first time with Bradley, we let off on a 440 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: dog and I think we till two or three in 441 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 1: the afternoon trying to get all the dogs back off 442 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: a bear that just refused to go up with a tree. 443 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of his dogs were banged up. 444 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: So fast forward to this year, we let off on 445 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: the first bear we we get on and he takes 446 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 1: us into no man's land. There was no easy way 447 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: to get to this you know bear from any direction, 448 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: and he would never tree. He was just bouncing back 449 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth and roadless country. There 450 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: were roads on kind of each side, at least three 451 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: sides of them. Roads not so much on the other side. 452 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: And thankfully that bear cooperating didn't go out of the country. 453 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: But that you know, a bad bear ended up being 454 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: about a two hundred pound boar. And as I mentioned 455 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: on on the lion hunt, is there's some danger to 456 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: the dogs on wounded animals, and so me and Bradley, 457 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: we're able to get the fourlers close to these, you know, 458 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: to the dogs and the bear as we can. And 459 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: it was just a mad dash to some cliff country, 460 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: you know, sprint and running as fast seat can. And 461 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: we got down in there and Bradley, you know, I 462 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: was we were right behind him. But Bradley decided on 463 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: this one he was just gonna, you know, take the bear. 464 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: He doesn't like to as the guide, but he's always 465 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: got a tag and able to. The bear was so 466 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: beat he was just laying in a puddle in a 467 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: creak and the dogs were still being pretty aggressive on him, 468 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: and Bradley was able to kind of shoot down on 469 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: the bear and dispatch that one. And then you know, 470 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: for the next couple of days the dogs ran great, 471 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: but just long chases like some that took us way 472 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: out of the country and you know, just just long 473 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: chases with it, you know, hard on the dogs, you know, 474 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: moving a lot of ground. And then we were able 475 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: to treat a couple, but just some small, small, young bears. 476 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: But once again, you know, just getting to go over 477 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: there and watch the dog's work. I really really enjoy that. 478 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: Next up was the Alaska Doll sheep. Like I mentioned earlier, 479 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: booked it in twenty four I always kind of joke 480 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: I didn't think my wife would know how much the 481 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: hunt cost if I paid for it for you know, 482 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: over four years and just made installments and it wouldn't 483 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: seem as bad as that was my That was my joke, 484 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: and I wanted to selfishly be the first hunt of 485 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: the year with Matt. So the idea was, I'll book 486 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: far enough out that I'm the very first hunt of 487 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: the year. In my mind, it helps you with you know, 488 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: with a good summer scout and the sheep haven't been 489 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: bothered by every hunter that you know, the legal ram 490 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 1: has been pushed around. I was a little worried going 491 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: into the hunt because there was a time on the 492 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: third installment where they he said, just keep your money. 493 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: The sheep aren't looking good. We don't even know if 494 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a season. So now I start to 495 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: get worried, like, because you're gonna have to refund my money? 496 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: Am I even gonna get the hunt? But Matt was able. 497 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: You know, anybody that's got to hunt with Matt or 498 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: knows Matt like he's he's determined, he's a hard worker, 499 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: and he was still getting his clients all shot opportunities. 500 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: So the year before I went twenty twenty three, all 501 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 1: three hunters got shots to hit. One missed the three hundred. 502 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: I believe a three hundred dard shot or a doable shot. 503 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: So I was excited. I had looked forward to this 504 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: one for a long time, gotten you know, really good 505 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: shape and uh the logistics the Alaska or an additional 506 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: you know, in addition to the experience, you know you 507 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: fly up there. For us, we were able to just 508 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 1: do a turo rental, which is uh, you know kind 509 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: of cool. I was able to, you know, find a 510 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,239 Speaker 1: truck that had four drive, and you know, and then 511 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: it's a long drive in Alaska. You know, you've only 512 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: got a couple of airports, and you know, it was 513 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: a six hour drive from the airport. But then it 514 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: was time to sheep hunt. It was everything I could 515 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: dream of. It was the country you've seen, you know, 516 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 1: the steepness of the country, the ruggedness of the country. 517 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: The sheep are just absolutely you know, beautiful animals, and 518 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: I was I was stoked to get to hunt that way. 519 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: I also love the idea that it's a spike out hunt, 520 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: right I at times I missed those hunts, but you know, 521 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: I loved that we were going to load up food 522 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: for seven days and that was our hunt. Like we 523 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: were leaving with seven days and when that food was gone, 524 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,239 Speaker 1: we were either gonna have a sheep or not. We 525 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: were living on the side the mountain. We were going 526 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: to live with them. You know, Matt had a pretty 527 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: good plan. He was able to go into this country 528 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: and make sure there were some legal rams and then 529 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: we just had to figure out how to hunt right 530 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: off the bat. I was a little nervous though, and 531 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: you could tell Matt's and experienced guy. You know, he 532 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of felt us out and could see that we 533 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: could zip up through the rocks pretty well. But then 534 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: we got into these big screen fields and if you're 535 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: not from Alaska or haven't spent a lot of time 536 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 1: navigating that, when you looked across the canyon, then he 537 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: kind of showed us our route. I kind of questioned him. 538 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, are we we really going to be able 539 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: to or are we gonna you know? And so we 540 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: we get across there and from it's not as bad 541 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: when you get there, and you when you finally get 542 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: confident enough that the big steep screen fields that you're 543 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: in are eventually gonna stop rolling and you're you know, 544 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: you're only gonna drop a foot. And yeah, I mean 545 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: there were a couple of little cliffy areas to navigate, 546 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: which which had some you know, risk involved, but for 547 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: the most part, once you get over there, you're able 548 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: to do a lot more in the rocks. And you 549 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: could think just looking across at him and it's just man, 550 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: I know, it's it's you know, financial, you know, there's 551 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: some financial constraints on everybody being able to do that. 552 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: Hunt in Alaska. But man, I'm I'm ready to go back. 553 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily say I've got the Alaska bug, 554 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: but I'm definitely looking hard at doing a moose hunt 555 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 1: or something of that nature, just to get back to 556 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: Alaska and kind of an experience. It's it's wildness and 557 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: just how big it is, and it's just it's I 558 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: liked that. It seems like it's kind of it hasn't 559 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: been touched. It's it's still fifty sixty seventy years behind 560 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: where we're at down here, you know, in the in 561 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: the lower forty eight. And I really like that about Alaska. 562 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: Well White River Elk tag. So I killed an elk 563 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three that had hoof. I was put 564 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: into a incentive draw. I was one of the Lucky nineteen. 565 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: And then within that lucky nineteen, I was able to 566 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: get the tag that I wanted, which gave me an 567 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: incentive tag which I was I was stoked about, was 568 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: the unit I wanted to hunt. So you get all 569 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: of your your trail cams out and everything where you'd 570 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: seen elk, and just the report from the trail cams 571 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: was a little bit dismal. Nothing big was shown up, 572 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: or we thought it would. Nothing as big as in 573 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: past had shown up, so we kind of go on 574 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: a little scouting mission. My whole idea going into this 575 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: is we'll just go up there on September first, and 576 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: you know, quickly kill an elk when it's patternable before 577 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: the rut really gets going. Well, guess what, there were 578 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: no mature big bulls to kill, so we basically spent 579 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: six or seven days up there walking and hiking with 580 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: nothing really worth hunting. I had to leave for the 581 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: New Mexico archrailll Count, which I'll get to in a 582 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: little bit, and then I was able to come back. 583 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: And one of the conditions of this tag is you 584 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: can hunt with any weapon when there's no other seasons 585 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: in this unit. So you know, before archery between archery 586 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: and muzzleloader. But if it's archery season, you have toent 587 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: with your bow. If it's muzzloader season, you have to 588 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: switch to your muzzloader for that time, and then you know, 589 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: you can alternate back and forth. So I had a 590 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: couple of days left when I got home from New 591 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: Mexico to hunt with the rifle. I'm thinking, all right, 592 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: it's September. I don't remember what day, twenty fifth or 593 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: twenty six. I had a couple of days left, chasing 594 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: bugles everywhere, bagland bulls in all over, but nothing with 595 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: any size. Starting to get pretty frustrated. Well, we end 596 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: the you know, it's the night before muzzloader starts, and 597 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: we sit on what sounded like a big bowl turned 598 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: out not to be a very big bowl. And so 599 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: now I've got to switch over to my muzzloader and 600 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: make things a little more different. You know, you got 601 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: Now you've got a lot more people out in the 602 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: woods with you, albeit only I believe eight or ten 603 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: or something, I don't know how many, but you've got 604 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: people with new energy, maybe more willing to get into 605 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: the areas that you wanted to. Once again, still nothing 606 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: showing up on my trail cameras. And so it was 607 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: a We spent you know, a couple of days with 608 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: the muzzle order looking for for elk and just couldn't 609 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: find big ones or big enough ones. And then finally 610 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: we hiked back into where we had heard the big 611 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: bugle the last night of the rifle and was able 612 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: to there was a new bowl in the area, you know, 613 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: a mature six point and it was it allowed me 614 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: to hunt the way I wanted to. You know, we 615 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: were two and a half hours in on a trail, 616 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: you know, in there pretty deep, and I just I 617 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: didn't want to in this unit. You could kill smaller 618 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: bulls or even decent bulls off the road or near road, 619 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: and this was the way I wanted to do it. 620 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: And so I was able to take a great bull 621 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: in some beautiful country, some rugged country and get that 622 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: one out. So we talked about that new Mexico archery. 623 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: I'll count with Luke. So the probably the if I 624 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: had the most you know, my most requested question of 625 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: the year is probably how is Luke in real life? 626 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: And I think everybody's, oh, you know, he's awesome because 627 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: he might be listening to this, but you could convinced 628 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: me that he isn't a guy that grew up right 629 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: alongside me in my town. Super funny. We always cracking jokes, 630 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: keeping everything light, which I really appreciate. And he's just 631 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: I want to hesitate using the word, you know, redneck 632 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: or you know, he's just a country boy that loves 633 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: doing country things. He was very interested and wanted to 634 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: know a lot so I like people that don't just 635 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: want to you know, it could have been just real easy, 636 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: you know, him tag along with me and Jeremy, but 637 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: it was really a He was asked a lot of 638 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: good questions, like he was paying attention. He wanted to 639 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: know why they were doing this or why we were 640 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: doing that. So it made for a really fun hunt 641 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: with a new hunter. And I have a ton of 642 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: respect for Luke because we talked about it. He could 643 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: have hunted anywhere, anytime with any weapon, you know, with 644 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: with his ability and resources, and he elected to come 645 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: do it on public land a lot side of a 646 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: bunch of other hunters, and we made the most of it. 647 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: You know. He passed on a couple you know, chip 648 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: shots on some legal bulls. We've had some chances of 649 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: some bigger ones. You know. I just really enjoyed hanging 650 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: out with Luke and then you know his buddy Carl 651 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: that was there. It was it was a lot of fun, 652 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: and uh, I hope to get to do it again 653 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: this year. We've got some plans in the work. So yeah, 654 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: in the next to ourcher. It was tough though, you know, 655 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: to recap the hunt. People driving side by sides where 656 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: they shouldn't, you know, areas where we had spent the 657 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: time and energy and effort to hike into and then 658 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: to get you know, elk bumped by, side by sides, 659 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: just kind of a kind of a bum deal. There 660 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: are a lot of people in those units, you know, 661 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: the elk were all kind of congregated to the water. 662 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: So typical typical public land elk hunt. You got to 663 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: deal with people. Just unfortunate that some of them weren't 664 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: playing by the rules at times. Another strong runner up 665 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: for one of my favorite hunts. So after all of that, 666 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: we go to Idaho meal deer. It was a had 667 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: a strong runner up for one of my favorite hunts 668 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: because we lived off of our back for eight days 669 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: straight on this This Idaho meal deer elk hunt was 670 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: a collab that we're going to do with tall timber productions, 671 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: focus on elk and we can find deer when convenient 672 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: or when available. And I would say it flipped really 673 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: quick when we were seeing elk everywhere without mature bulls, 674 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: and the bulls we were here in Beagle were still spikes, 675 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: and we were seeing some pretty good deer. And so 676 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: the Idaho meal deer or the Idaho hunt turned into 677 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: a deer hunt really really quick, and I just I 678 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: love hunting and on hunts that the logistics are a 679 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: little difficult, like you might have to drive here and 680 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: side by side to here, and then hike to here, 681 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: and then every morning you've got to pick a different 682 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: mountain top to go glass from, and you know, you 683 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: after day one you start to learn, you know what faces, 684 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: their aspects or have deer on it, and then you 685 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: know where's the sunlight. You don't want to glass into 686 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: the wrong spots. The hunt was unseasonably warm, so we 687 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: we also knew that our morning glass and you know 688 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,479 Speaker 1: a little bit at night had to be we were 689 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: only going to see animals for for very short windows 690 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: in the morning and night. But I really really liked 691 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: that we were able to take two really good bucks 692 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: out of the area and just really enjoyed, you know, 693 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 1: hunt with my buddy Tyson and just meal deer in 694 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: the mountains where I feel like it's a real level 695 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: level field and uh, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Met 696 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: some great people in and around the area. Yeah, there 697 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: were a lot of people, but the deer hunting was 698 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: still pretty decent. If you worked for it. You know, 699 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: we we all took decent bucks on that hunt, and 700 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, the tall timber guys, and you ended up 701 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: with a with a couple of bowls there Towards the end, 702 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: we ended up you know, leaving, but really excited to 703 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: try to do that one again this year and then 704 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,760 Speaker 1: to finish up my season, uh, we'll go to Kansas 705 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: again and our white tail hunt that we do with 706 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: our buddy Randy and Brock and Koe every year. I've 707 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: really grown to like the white tail hunt for different reasons. 708 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: I said, I really like the Idaho Meal dear hunt 709 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 1: because we were backpacking in and then I really like 710 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: the white to hunt because it's the opposite. I sleep 711 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: in a bed warm house, you know, stoven of and 712 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: a barbecue, we got the you know, the the gas stations, 713 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: got pizza, we got breakfast when we want it. It's 714 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: the complete opposite. And it's really made by the people 715 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: in the place. Some of these areas of Kansas, the 716 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: people you deal with are just salt of the earth, 717 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: as good as they get. You know. Some of our 718 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: our friends that we get to hang out with are 719 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: just great people, great storytellers, and I really really like 720 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: it and you know, just being around them in the atmosphere. 721 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 1: And then there's just something about sitting in a tree stand, 722 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,839 Speaker 1: you know in the morning when it's dark and kind 723 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: of letting the world wake up around you. I really 724 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: enjoy that. And just you know, the rustling of the 725 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: leaves and you know, hearing a deer come from one 726 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: hundred yards away because you can hear them in the 727 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: oak leaves. Just everything about it, it's just, you know, 728 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: it kind of excites your different senses than then maybe 729 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: sitting behind binoculars or a spotter all day when you 730 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: finally spot the one you want, it's different. And so 731 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: I was very fortunate this year that one of my 732 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: favorite stands, my favorite areas I get to hunt on 733 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: the top is what we call it. I was very 734 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: fortunate within an hour to have you know, my best 735 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: white tail come in and put a perfect arrow in it. 736 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: Uh touch on the My favorite gear from that that 737 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: Dart and sequel thirty five st two and iron will. 738 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 1: You know a lot of white tail hunters, I would 739 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 1: say the majority of them are shooting expandables nowadays, and 740 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,840 Speaker 1: they they talk about you know, bigger entrance holes and 741 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: bigger exit holes and you know, quicker, quicker, you know, 742 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: the deer expires faster. I'm I'm gonna start hitting stop 743 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 1: watches or or go back and review some of this footage. 744 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: I ended up shooting three der on that hunt, you know, 745 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: one buck and two does, and uh, the iron Wheels 746 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 1: performed amazing, Like I yeah, I don't know if if 747 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: an expandable would have killed them any faster. You know, 748 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: the buck was dead within seven seconds, maybe seven to ten. 749 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: The dough I could, you know, within seven to ten 750 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,840 Speaker 1: on a dead sprint, made it one hundred fifty yards, 751 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 1: and then the one dough you know, died on arrival. 752 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 1: You know, hit it, hit it kind of a downwards 753 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: frontel through the shoulder, you know, was able to kind 754 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 1: of just plant it and anchor it right there. So 755 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: I really like that set up. Iron Wills do great. 756 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: The bow was super comfortable to draw. I mean, I 757 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: can imagine even if it was you know, cold, and 758 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: people have trouble drawing their normal draw away. Like just 759 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: really easy to to make work on that hunt out 760 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: of a tree. But that's kind of my wrap for 761 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: twenty four. I don't know what twenty five brings were 762 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 1: able to, you know, secure some tags already. Well, we'll 763 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,799 Speaker 1: see what Washington brings and then we've got I've got 764 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,319 Speaker 1: some really good odds of drawing the tags that I've 765 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: been waiting for, and Montana, Colorado and Utah. So I'm 766 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 1: gonna have to kind of figure out what i want 767 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,319 Speaker 1: to do. But I'm kind of you know, we're just 768 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,239 Speaker 1: getting over with twenty twenty four and I'm already in 769 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five planning mode. So if you have any questions, 770 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: is you know for us, you know, I kind of 771 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: nerd out on planning and I've got, you know, in 772 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: this state, I'm going to do this in this date, 773 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to do this. If you have any questions 774 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: on the draws or applications, we'll probably throw a podcast 775 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 1: out on that coming up, just on how we think 776 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 1: about it and how we manage all of the applications 777 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: and what we're looking for in each state, and you know, 778 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: we can give our opinion on what each state provides, 779 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,839 Speaker 1: but feel free to shoot those questions over to us. 780 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:38,720 Speaker 1: But we hope you all had a great twenty twenty 781 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,920 Speaker 1: four and here's do a great twenty twenty five. And 782 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 1: I can't thank you all enough for tuning into cutting 783 00:38:43,640 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 1: the distance, take care of the times wish