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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan is episode number two D and

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Speaker 1: nineties six and to Dan the show. Dan and I

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Speaker 1: are breaking down our final plans, gear lists, and last

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Speaker 1: minute advice for the first hunts of the two thousand

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Speaker 1: nineteen hunting season. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Onyx. It is me and the

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Speaker 1: nine Fingered Wonder from down Under. Dan Johnson, good eye

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Speaker 1: might yeah. I wish you talked this whole episode in

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Speaker 1: Australian accent. Can you do that? I don't like, I

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Speaker 1: don't even know like the terminologies down there. I would

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Speaker 1: just have to say good night. Just used up my

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Speaker 1: whole inventory of Australian phrases to uh what about BlimE me,

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Speaker 1: BlimE me? Or is that English? Like he was he

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Speaker 1: was being a real bugga? I don't know. So, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what I'm hoping we can talk about today, Dan is

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Speaker 1: hunting season eve, like everything that happens just before your

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Speaker 1: first hunt of the year, Because I leave today for

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Speaker 1: North Dakota and I will start hunting in two days.

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Speaker 1: My first white tail hunt of the year is in

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Speaker 1: two days now when this airs, it'll be I'll be

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that hunt when this actually goes out,

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Speaker 1: But when we're recording, it's two days before my hunt starts.

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Speaker 1: And you krim if I'm wrong, But I think your

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Speaker 1: first hunt of the year will start the day after

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Speaker 1: this airs. That's right, I'll be driving to Colorado. Perfect,

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Speaker 1: So I've got the North Dakota white tail hunt. You've

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Speaker 1: got a Colorado elk hunt. I thought we could walk through,

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Speaker 1: you know what that week or a couple of days

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Speaker 1: before you leave for that trip. Looks like all the

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Speaker 1: things you're trying to get in order, all things you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about. Excuse me, I'm burping over here from mine.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had one of these? Uh bubblis bubbly

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Speaker 1: like a white claw, kind of like a white claw,

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Speaker 1: but it's a non alcoholic. It's like lacroix, but it's

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Speaker 1: probably like those are carbond of water. Very I drink.

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Speaker 1: I drink coffee before noon, I have like two glasses

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Speaker 1: of water, and then I switched to hard liquor. I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding. In the afternoon, you're not kidding. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're kidding all. No, I'm kidding. Like I do

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Speaker 1: drink a lot of coffee, but then like at noon,

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Speaker 1: I shut it off and I drink I drink water,

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Speaker 1: and then at night I'll have a beer or a

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Speaker 1: nice glass of whiskey. There you go. Since having Everett,

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Speaker 1: I've started drinking coffee later into the day. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: now drinking like dinner coffee, which I always i was

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Speaker 1: a weird thing when old people did that, and now

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Speaker 1: I totally get it. You gotta stay awake to watch

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Speaker 1: the six o'clock news, fall asleep after that. Yeah, get

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Speaker 1: that six o'clock news. So so I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about what we drink in the evenings. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about the gear we're bringing for these trips. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about like our final archery prep before

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Speaker 1: the first time of the year. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about the strategies that we each have going into that

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Speaker 1: first hunt um and kind of lining out our plan,

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Speaker 1: our contingency plans, Plan A, plan B, plans C. Kind

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Speaker 1: of line everything up so number one, everyone will kind

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Speaker 1: of know what we personally are getting into so you

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Speaker 1: can foul along with that. Story, see what we thought

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Speaker 1: before the hunt, and then we'll have to go come

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Speaker 1: back and do a podcast after our hunts and recap

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Speaker 1: how it ended up going, if we are right or

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Speaker 1: wrong with our ideas what we learned, um, And then

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Speaker 1: I'm also thinking probably people can learn some things from

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Speaker 1: our process as we talked through the things we're trying

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Speaker 1: that might help other people get set for their first time. Yep,

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Speaker 1: So you are about one week from your first time.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling well from a physical standpoint, Man, I've

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Speaker 1: been I've been killing the trails. Um. You know this

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Speaker 1: Some of it's probably eight years in a office chair,

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Speaker 1: So I've transitioned into a hike routine now to where

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Speaker 1: still gonna get you well prepped for season, no doubt

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Speaker 1: that was a bummer. But I'm hoping it's like, excuse, dude.

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Speaker 1: shake my head and myself. Everything sounds like an excuse though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, because the other day, man, I went like,

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to shoot at least every day of

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Speaker 1: what the hell is going on. The month of July

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Speaker 1: we went on a little vacation. Uh. And then August

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Speaker 1: what has happened, but my accuracy. I cannot get my

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Speaker 1: And I don't, dude, I don't know it it is

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Speaker 1: messing with me mentally, and so you know, I draw back,

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Speaker 1: then and then because you're not settling well and it's

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Speaker 1: like straps. Right. Um, So I'll use that to sit

427
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: out there in glass. Um you know, I'm using that

428
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: back tension release the silver back. Um some bringing that

429
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: um my bow arrows. What's the tamps supposed to be

430
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: like up there? As far as the gear that you're

431
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: the clothing you're gonna be wearing. Yeah, so it's gonna vary. Um,

432
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: the hottest day looks like could be up in the

433
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: upper eighties and the coldest you can get in the mornings,

434
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: um in the upper forties. So it's gonna arrange from

435
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: upper forties upper eighties. Um, there's gonna be some days

436
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: with like highs in the high sixties, So I'm I'm

437
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to those high sixty low seventy temperatures for

438
00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: the highs. There's will be some good days, but there's

439
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: like our two reel hot ones, but mostly I'm wearing

440
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: like a wool pant or a light um just like

441
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: a light wool pant. You know this is gonna be

442
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: pretty warm weather. So first light it's got it's called

443
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: the obsidian. I rock that, and then UM and then

444
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: up top just a single light basse layer wool base layer,

445
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: long sleeve just to be camouflaged but but lightweight. And

446
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: then I'll have like a little lightweight UM vest just

447
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: in case it gets cool in the mornings. But overall

448
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,959
Speaker 1: planning for hot weather. I've got rain garon bringing um.

449
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: I got a warm hat just in case a freak

450
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: cold front moves through and it's cooler in the mornings

451
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: and it looks like right now. But overall pretty pretty

452
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: minimal stuff. Just a handful base layers, a couple of

453
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: light pairs of pants, one warmer jacket just in case,

454
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: y um, and man like that's it. I mean, and

455
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: I guess I got one big cooler. So I'm bringing

456
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,199
Speaker 1: out food and drinks and stuff. And then if I

457
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: kill something, I've got a cooler bringing me back. And

458
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: I am bringing out a little generator because I'm trying

459
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: to work out there and trying to keep my computer charged,

460
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: trying to keep like Azonics batteries charge that stuff. So

461
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring a little generator, um, but all that

462
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: can fit, all that's gonna fit in my drawers except

463
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: for the cooler and the generator. Um. And then I've

464
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: got the whole rest of the back of my truck

465
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: to sleep in to be there. Um. And then just

466
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: like my basic clothes, a little defeld clothes, Um, it's

467
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna yeah. I mean Andy May was

468
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: possible going to go, and then he couldn't, and then

469
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: Spencer was gonna go, and then he bailed last week.

470
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: So now I'm going solo. Yeah. Um. You know an

471
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: interesting thing I just just popped on my sticks. I'm

472
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: bringing my lone Wolf sticks out here, and um Tethered,

473
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: the same company that makes the saddles that I'm rocking, Um,

474
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: they just released the thing called their Versus strap, which

475
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: is basically a strap that you can use on your

476
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: sticks or something like that. UM that replaces the strap

477
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: with the big buckle on him. So this way, it's

478
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: a it's a buckle list strap basically, it's it's a

479
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what kind of fabric this is, man,

480
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: but it was incredibly high strength, high tensile strength strap

481
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: fabric that then has loops, different loops at all these

482
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: different like every inch is another loop, another loop, another loop,

483
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: another loop. And so what you just basically do is

484
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: you put your stick up against the tree, you wrap

485
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: the verse of strap, what you put one side of

486
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: the verse strap over that button on your long will stick.

487
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking about where the strap with you

488
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: should go, and then you just wrap it around the

489
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: tree and you're keeping it, you know, perfectly a straight

490
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: up and down, and then you just pick the loop

491
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: that it would be the tightest on. You pop the

492
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: loop over the button again as tight as you can go,

493
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: and then just crank your stick down and then it's

494
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: on their super tight and you don't need to have

495
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: a buckle that you have to tighten down and crank

496
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: and always work about banging around because that's like the

497
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: one thing I hate with my sticks. Even though I

498
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: try to tape them, you still can get those little

499
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: metallic clinks and clanks, you know. And so these little

500
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: straps I just popped on today, I'm buckless. So I

501
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: just tightened down all the steps of my lone Wolf

502
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: sticks to make sure, everything's real quiet and since down

503
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: real good, and I threw the versus strap songs, so

504
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: I've got no buckles now, so I'm feeling pretty stealthy.

505
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: I gonna slip out there with my sticks. I've got

506
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: got my saddle. We'll slip into a tree, real quiet,

507
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: real quick and be hunting without you know, needing to

508
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: tote around a bunch of stuff. So I'm I'm excited

509
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: from that perspective, and then you know, that's all there

510
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: is to it. I did bring some game bags and

511
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: one of my bigger backpacks stuff I do kill one

512
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: out there. I'm just gonna quarter it out and hike

513
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: it out because this this I'm probably gonna be hiking

514
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: in a minimum of a mile, if not a couple

515
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: of miles in for these these hunts, and a lot

516
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: of times you have to climb some pretty serious bluffs

517
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: and cliffs to get out of the river bottom. Um,

518
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: so I don't want to try dragon one out of that.

519
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: So that's what's in my truck right now. Cool, dude,

520
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: it's just a it's this a place that you've hunt

521
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: before or yeah, this is the show right all right?

522
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: So saddle, now, I mean you're not. You're not going

523
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: the land of the tree stand anymore. Yep. The only

524
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: time I'm using tree stands is like where I where

525
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: I already have like a semi permanent setup, you know,

526
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,239
Speaker 1: so on a couple of properties that I've always had

527
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: stands up, those are still there. That's easy, um, But

528
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: for my new running guns, it's just a lot easier

529
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: just running the saddle so and so, like in five years,

530
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: are you gonna say, dude, I was hunting with the

531
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: saddle before it was cool. I think I'm too late

532
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: even to say that the party. I think I think

533
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: you could say I started saddle hunting when it when

534
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: it became cool. Maybe Okay, I think I hit it

535
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: just as it was becoming. But but you need you

536
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: need to give it a try. I've got I can

537
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: get you an extra one if you want to give

538
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: a shot. I don't know, man, I I just can't

539
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: like number one first, you know, like kind of going

540
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: back to what you said about the straps and the

541
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: mods that a lot of people do and you know,

542
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: trying to go ultra light and you know, like for me, man,

543
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: even if I'm walking two miles into a tree into

544
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: a set which I never do, because my farms are

545
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: just laid out different in the public ground that I

546
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: go and I hunt on, doesn't I don't need necessarily

547
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: to walk Let's say, like two miles. I can see

548
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: where a real light set up would be awesome. Let's

549
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: say in Virginia, where these guys are basically climbing a

550
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: thousand up and down to try to get a couple

551
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: of miles into their you know, to their tree stands.

552
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: But for me, like the added weight just doesn't bother

553
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: me that much. I mean, I used to be the

554
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: guy who was carrying camera equipment with me all the time, right,

555
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: and all this other extra gear, and it's just like

556
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: one or two pounds and stuff like that never bothered me.

557
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: On top of that, all these mods that people are doing,

558
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: that's cool, I get it, you know, it's awesome. I

559
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: love that you that people are excited about that. But

560
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: for me, like, I guess I've never been the kind

561
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: of guy who made a crap ton of noise setting

562
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: up a tree stand. Don't get me wrong, there's times

563
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: where a little dink might happen, But I feel like

564
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: I'm fairly observant and about the noise that I'm making.

565
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: And I don't need like all the straps and the

566
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: tape and the stuff. The second that the accessories or

567
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: the secondary market type things on my on my stand.

568
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I I don't personally do that stuff,

569
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: but I can I understand why people do. Yeah, fair enough, man,

570
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: I uh, I hear what you're saying. And there's definitely

571
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: like something we said about you've got to come a

572
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: level of your setup and if it ain't broke, don't

573
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: fix it. I get that too. So and me, like

574
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: a strong wind and a saddle, I'd probably just be

575
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: like wrapped around that tree like a tether ball. I

576
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: think I'm trying to convince you try saddle, just because

577
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: I want to see your big gass up swinging in

578
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: a tree like that. Fur about so, I'm like it

579
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: would be something. So, So that's my setup. That's what

580
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm bringing out there. Um, you know, relatively simple. What

581
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: about you? What do you? What do you bringing on

582
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: your hunt? And so I have the luxury of hunting.

583
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm this elkin. I'm hunting out of an actual cabin right,

584
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: there's no electricity, there's no running water or anything like that,

585
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: just a uh four square walls and a roof in

586
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: four walls and a roof up in the mountains. Right,

587
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: So that's where I get to come home to every night.

588
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm I'm bringing everything for this, right,

589
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: I just in case. Right, I don't have to worry

590
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: about Wait, I don't have to worry about only being

591
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: able to carry this much stuff or whatnot. So I

592
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: have the luxury of bringing all my gear with me.

593
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: I have a big it's called a bronch box. Have

594
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: you ever heard of them? So it's this big, almost

595
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: like a giant YETI cooler, But it's just a box

596
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: that you can keep your gear in. There's some dividers

597
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: in it and whatnot. So I'm I I load one

598
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,719
Speaker 1: of those all the way up. I have my bowcase,

599
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: uh that I put all my archery equipment in, and

600
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: then a couple of extra duffel bags for let's say,

601
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: clothes around camp, you know, some additional tennis shoes, like

602
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: my hygiene products, toothbrush and contact solution and stuff like that.

603
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: So I'm able to get away with bringing everything. Um now,

604
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: when I actually load up and head into the mountains,

605
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: I mean, did you want me to get into detail

606
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: about that? Sure what's in your pack when you head

607
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: in the mountains. So it's that's pretty simplified because I

608
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: do get to come home every night to a place

609
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: like not necessarily a drop camp. I have everything I

610
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: need for the day. So in my pack is my raincoat,

611
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: uh my basically bars and apple for the day. Um,

612
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: I'm usually running about five leaders of water. I have

613
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: two bladders that I that I run. You're carrying five

614
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: leaders in these day? Yeah, d of water. I drink

615
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: all of it. That's a lot of draft. And that's

616
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: just for for a day like that's your day hunt

617
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: every morning. So you have five nail Jane bottles with you,

618
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: no bladders, but I mean the equivalent of five nail

619
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: Geane bottles. That's five leaders. Yeah, I guess so. But

620
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you for you man, I am. I

621
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: do not want to get sick. And you don't care

622
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: about weight. Now now I really understand you don't care

623
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: about extra weight. Well I do, right, But like water

624
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: is important, so I'm not bringing in a ton of

625
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: other stuff. I have game bags that I have in there.

626
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: I have a raincoat, and I have my food for

627
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: the day. Um, I have on my pack, right and

628
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: that's that's really it. That's in my pack, right. I

629
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: have a binocular case that holds my release. Um, I'm

630
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: taking two trekking polls. I have my Vortex range finder.

631
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: I have my Vortex binoculars. Are you running? Oh man,

632
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: I got him. I got him like five years ago.

633
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: Uh razor h d S or something like that. Okay, yeah,

634
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: so those and then um, I have a cow call

635
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: and that's all kind of packed into my bino case.

636
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: They have a little pocket on the side of him.

637
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: And what kind of cow call are you is? And

638
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: you using a read? Are you using a like a

639
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: big hand call? I'm using It's not a big hand call.

640
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: It fits in my hand. Uh. And it's it has

641
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: a read in it, but it's not a diaphragm, That's

642
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, So I'm using one of those.

643
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: And then this year I bought a bugle tube, which

644
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 1: you want to see a lot of neighbors come outside

645
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: of their door and I the front yard. I was

646
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: sitting in my garage practicing my bugles the other night

647
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: and like five neighbors all came out to see what

648
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: the hell is going on? So I got my bugle tube. Um,

649
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be kind of wrapped around my waist

650
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: or around my shoulders so I can easily get to

651
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: it if I need it. And then my bow right,

652
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: I got my prime with my day six arrows so

653
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 1: real heavy arrow um, my wasp broad heads and fixed

654
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: mechanical fixed fixed, dude, I got it. I'm sticking with

655
00:35:52,800 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: fixed for a while and the grains under now. But

656
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: my total arrowweight is fi this year. Um. Other than that,

657
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: just like my boots are crispy, I'm I invested in

658
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: some gators this year, so because one thing that I

659
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: was walking through the grass and even one crick that

660
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: runs down the mountain, and my boots didn't my socks

661
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: didn't get wet, but my pants would get wet, and

662
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: once they get wet, they kind of went up and

663
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: it would They still dried out throughout the day, but

664
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: it was still a little uncomfortable, you know, having the

665
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: you know, from the boot to the bottom of your

666
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: calf just like that six inches wet. So I bought

667
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: some gators hopefully to alleviate that problem. And then I'm

668
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: running some alpaca and wool socks. I'm running, uh, you know,

669
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: some sick apex hoodie I'm running a then the Sick

670
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: of Mountain pants, the Sick of Mountain jacket, I have

671
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: uh an insulation. My installation layer is the Calvin Lightweight

672
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: vest and then just a regular hat. And that's really it. Man.

673
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: What game bags do you use? Okay, so I have

674
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: a I have some that I wore, but some dudes

675
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: actually sent me some in the mail and it's called

676
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: crack SHAWL g R A K K S A W.

677
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: And they're reusable, so they're actually made from the same

678
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: material that your tent tarp or the cover of your

679
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: tent would be the rain tarp, so it's really lightweight.

680
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: They all have toggles on them so you can zip

681
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: it shut and um so I'm gonna be bringing those

682
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: with me. And then I also have some just like

683
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: those cloth game bags that are pretty much disposable as well,

684
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: but these game bags look pretty sweet, so I'll be

685
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: and I guess yeah, those game bags will be in

686
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: there with me too. So, so you guys have like

687
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: beds and sheets and like really nice sleeping accommodations as Kevin.

688
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: No no sheets, but there is a mattress um that

689
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: has like when we get there, we gotta it's in

690
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: like a this latext it almost looks like it's a

691
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: condom for a bed for a mattress. So then we

692
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: take that off and then we just put our sleeping

693
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: bags on top of that. So yes, we get a

694
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: lay on a mattress every night, which is awesome. That

695
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: is nice. I U I rock. That just made me

696
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: think of like my camping gear. The mattress I'm using

697
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: is much different than that. I've got a little therm

698
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: arrest neo light and um, just a small like the

699
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: little backpacking inflatable one. Um, and then you bring them

700
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: back sleeping bag. Yep, what's your bag these days? So? Um,

701
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: I got it right here. Let me check it is

702
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: a alps. It's an ALP's negative negative or no way,

703
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: it's either negative twenty or zero. You'll be toasty. Yeah.

704
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: So but I'm telling you, man, it gets cold up there.

705
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: What I expected temperature range out there. So let's see,

706
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: the last day that we were there last year was

707
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: it was like eight the day we left a mountain.

708
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: But every morning walking up it was like thirty five

709
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: degrees in the mornings. Uh, and then it would you

710
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: would you get up to about the fifties so there's

711
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: parts where when you're in the shade, you're doing a

712
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: lot of getting dressed and undressing. Right, So I can

713
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: remember the one day, the one of the like the

714
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: third day of the hunt, we hike in, right, so

715
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: all I'm doing is wearing my base layer top and

716
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: my pants, and then we get there and I instantly

717
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: start to get cold, right, so I gotta put on

718
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: my insulation, like to put on my shell and that

719
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: that keeps you warm. But then you start moving again,

720
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: then you're too hot, so you gotta take all that off,

721
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: put it back into your pack, and you're just doing

722
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: that whenever you stop. You need because that I remember

723
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: one time we set up and I didn't put I

724
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: was really hot and I didn't put my insulation layer

725
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 1: back on, and I got at the end of the

726
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: calling sequence. I was almost shaken because I was so cold.

727
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: And that happened in that was like high forties and

728
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: for that by by the time that was all happening

729
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: for that morning hunt. And it kind of makes you realize,

730
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: like that's why layering is so important, because you have

731
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 1: to control you have to control it. If I didn't

732
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: have anything up there, man, I would have had to

733
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: go back down to the to the cabin. Yeah, when

734
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: you're way out there more important. And you're, like you said,

735
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: such a variable activity levels and that kind of hunt

736
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: got to be be able just with it, no doubt

737
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: about that. So, speaking of varying activity levels and stuff

738
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: and going down with the cabin or heading out in

739
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: the morning, do you have, like now is your second

740
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: year hunting this place, do you guys have like a

741
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: very specific game plan going into day one? Like do

742
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna do? Are you showing up

743
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: and just gonna stand outside the cabin and figure it out? Yeah?

744
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: So I think there there's like there's one big area

745
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: that has multiple spots in it, and then there is

746
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: another area that has two big area that has two

747
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: other spots. And what I mean spots, I mean these

748
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: meadows at the top of the at the almost the

749
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: top of these mountains, right we're talking. We start off

750
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: at about ten thousand two feet is where the cabin is,

751
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: and then we're getting up to about eleven three I

752
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: think was the highest we got last year. So, um,

753
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: we know what we're doing. It's just a matter of

754
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: where we're going, if that makes sense. So we'll we'll

755
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: either go to Spot A or we'll go to Spot B,

756
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: and then we'll work these meadows throughout this face of

757
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: this mountain. So you so you know of a handful

758
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: of these meadows, tell me, like what you're doing. Let's

759
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: say it's early morning, first day, you decide we're to

760
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: go to Meadow A. What does that actually mean? What

761
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: does your morning hunt look like working your way to A?

762
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: Or do you do you hike in before daylight and

763
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: get to a daylight? And then like, what are you

764
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: actually doing that? First? Okay, so we're leaving. Let's let's

765
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna walk you through what we did the

766
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: most last year. So wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed.

767
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 1: Telling how how long before daylight is this? We're talking

768
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: about an hour before daylight. We're leaving. We're leaving an

769
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: hour before daylight. It takes us roughly forty minutes to

770
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: an hour to get to our first stop. Where it's

771
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: now we can start seeing things, right, it's it's gray light.

772
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: And just you know, first, it's so loud in the

773
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: correct when we're walking in it, you can't hear anything

774
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: else except the creek you get up off on the

775
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: first Uh, this first plateau kind of this bench, then

776
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: you can start the crick noise goes away, then you

777
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: can start listening right that's when we start to call

778
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: right up, right away, and we're not to the first

779
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: meadow yet. We're calling on our way into the meadow

780
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: or setting up for the first listening, watching, and then

781
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: moving our way up to this first meadow, and then

782
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: we'll set up another calling sequence, work our way up

783
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: the meadow, do another calling sequence. Because these meadows are

784
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: real long, they're basically avalanche shoots that UM and either

785
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: an avalanche has destroyed all the trees coming on the

786
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: way down and that's where the grass has grown up,

787
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: or just over time maybe a mud slide or a

788
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: rock slide or or straight up trees just didn't grow

789
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: there and that's where the grass grows. So that's where

790
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: these these elk are feeding throughout the night and morning

791
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: and evenings. And then we just do that to all

792
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: the different meadow right bounce, bounce throughout and if we

793
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: hear a bugle, let's say, we just drop what we're

794
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,439
Speaker 1: doing and we go straight for it. Nice And how

795
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: do you feel this year coming into year two of

796
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: this spot again? UM confidence level? Like, how likely do

797
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: you think you're are you going to this? Like I'm

798
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:24,919
Speaker 1: gonna get one. So here's what I'll say. I'm gonna

799
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: take my archery skills out of the equation right now,

800
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm a little shook for that. But

801
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: from a from a strategy standpoint and getting there, man,

802
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: I feel like last year we had I'm gonna say

803
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: three encounters. One of them I screwed up on and

804
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: I think I moved and whatever was coming in saw me.

805
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: The other one took a s by surprise, and then

806
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: the other encounter that we had, my buddy Ryan the

807
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: broadhead hit the shoulder and there was zero almost zero penetration.

808
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: So so we're going to week later now, that's one

809
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: week closer to the rut. So I think we're gonna

810
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear a lot more bugles, We're gonna be

811
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: able to make a lot more moves and a lot

812
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: more adjustments and kind of know where the Elk are

813
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: at because of it just being one week closer to

814
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: their rut. We're we're gonna be there from the six

815
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: or the or the seventh, and we're leaving on the

816
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: fifth morning of the fifteen. So However, many days that

817
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: is of being able to try to locate where these

818
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: animals are at, and just that with knowing how the

819
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: terrain lays and knowing what we did last year, I

820
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: feel confident the group that I'm with will have another

821
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: crack at a a llegal bowl. Are you ready for

822
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: the suffer fest? The suffer fest that if someone kills

823
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: one getting it off the mountain? Right, So here's the

824
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: cool part. Now, it's still gonna suck, But we go

825
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: up from the cabin. Means that wherever we shoot, we're

826
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: only going down for the for the most part. So

827
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm gonna have to shoot it in

828
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: this big gorge and then hike at five or eight

829
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: hundred feet straight up. Now, I don't know where this

830
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: animal is gonna die, But for the most part, everywhere

831
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: that we were last year is a descent down to

832
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: the camp. Yeah, that's nice. So it's not even like

833
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: where we're in Idaho, where even when you're coming back,

834
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: the still ups and downs all the way. Dude, I

835
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: have nightmares about that place. Really. Oh dude, I just remember,

836
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: like a grown man like you had been out there

837
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: all summer and you were walking and you got those

838
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: long ass legs and you were making it look easy,

839
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: and here I was just like I was whining like

840
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: a baby. Oh rus start, but you get there? Yeah,

841
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: uh but yeah, I mean, I hope I'm going with

842
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: two other guys, and I just man, I'd love to

843
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: kill three elk. I'm gonna probably shoot for I think

844
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: that's what I like. That moderate expectations. Yeah, no, man,

845
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, first elk that steps out in

846
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: front of me that's legal is going to get shot.

847
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: So can you shoot a cow? Yep? So even if

848
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: there's bugling around you and a cow steps out twenty

849
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: yards and it's like a gimme and I don't know,

850
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: it just depends on what kind of conversation I want

851
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: to have with the wife. She's like, you went to

852
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: Colorado and to bring anything back again. So it's like

853
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: I can't share the whole story of how a cow

854
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: was standing broadside at twenty yards, but you know, like

855
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: fifty yards into the timber was was a bulb bugling

856
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: right behind her, but he decided to never come out.

857
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 1: You know, Like, I don't know, I guess I guess

858
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: my answer to that question is I'll just probably play

859
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: it by ear. Yeah, fair enough. So what's your North

860
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: Dakota deal? Like, are you only shooting booners or what? Yeah,

861
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: that's always do now jehuh, Dan's just hold out for booters. No,

862
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: I'd say, um, I have I would love to shoot

863
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: a four year old or older, right, But if I

864
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: get it, it's gonna be a lot depending on Like

865
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kind of take I don't want to say inventory,

866
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: but kind of take inventory of the situation when I

867
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: get there the first few days, if I'm seeing like

868
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: some really nice bucks, like I do believe there are

869
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: mature bucks there that could be like really nice mature bucks.

870
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: And if I'm seeing dear like that, I feel like

871
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: I have enough time that I could work them and

872
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 1: I could get a shot at you know, uh fifty

873
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: type four or five year old buck. Um is what

874
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: I would you know, that'd be over the moon, super

875
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: duper happy if something like that happened. But if the

876
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: first couple of days I'm not seeing anything like that

877
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: at all, If I'm just seeing you know, three year olds,

878
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: If basically I want to shoot at the top, you know,

879
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: five percent of what's out there, the top two percent

880
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: of one out there. So if it's the best year

881
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm seeing or like three year olds or one twenty

882
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: or something, and I'm hunting, I have six days and

883
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: that's all I've seen, then I'd be pretty happy shooting

884
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: a nice three year old. Um. But that's that's like

885
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: the lowest. That's my floor. UM, Like a really good

886
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: three year old would be the floor. And I might not.

887
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like even that might it

888
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: will be like in the moment situation, I'm not sure. Um.

889
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: More and more, it's like I just want that big bodied,

890
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: obviously old buck. Um. But at the same time, sometimes

891
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: you know buck's coming in and you get excited and

892
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: you're like, that's a good one and you take the

893
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: shot and then maybe he was three, but who cares?

894
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: Is a cool experience. Well that's the thing. This is

895
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: your first time ever hunting in North Dakota, right, Well, no,

896
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: I hunted like two days last year. So you know,

897
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: last year I killed that buck in Montana and then

898
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: I made I met up with Josh at this same

899
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: place and then for one night and one morning I glassed.

900
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: We didn't see anything we wanted to hunt, and so

901
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: then after that we pulled the plug, drove like an

902
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,280
Speaker 1: hour and a half or two hours to another spot,

903
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: and then we hunt did another glass to night in

904
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: the morning, and then we hunted a night in the morning. Um,

905
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: and it came close on a couple of bucks at

906
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: that new spot. But this, this original place is just

907
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: it's a really cool area. I know they're there. It's

908
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 1: like a thorn in my side that we didn't figure

909
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: it out last year. So I've got one too. I've

910
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: got two different glassing knobs that I've been to that

911
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: I like as far as places where I can set

912
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: up with a spotting scope and binoculars and glass like

913
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: miles of river bottom and try to see something if

914
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: if nothing's happening there. I've got another area that I

915
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: found on on X that is within hiking distance of

916
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: one of those points. So I was set up camp

917
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: but one glassing knob and then hike in a cross

918
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: the river, hike about two miles to get to this

919
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: other area. And it just looks excuse me, it looks dying.

920
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: In my last year, I drove around. There were some

921
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: roads um that you leave some public lane you get

922
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: into private and there was some like alf offa fields

923
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: and this private land, and this stretch of public land

924
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: is on the other side of the river from that,

925
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: so it's really hard to get to. But if I

926
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: were to start in the public hike two miles, I

927
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: can get behind that private land where that alfalfa is,

928
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: and I would just be shocked if there's not a

929
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: whole bunch of deer in and around that. So that

930
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: would be kind of brutal to hike in, you know,

931
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: two plus miles every day, in and out, in and out.

932
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: But um, that would be option C if A and

933
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: B if the easier spots don't work out, And then

934
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: if that doesn't work out, I've got I've got probably

935
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: seven or eight more places just marked on the map

936
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: that I've never been but that looks similar to these spots.

937
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: So you know, basically, I'm looking for places where there's

938
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: public land that meets the river and then there's some

939
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: good cover down along the river, which usually looks like

940
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: cottonwood trees and cedars and like some willow brush and

941
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: stuff like that. If you've got enough like that along

942
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: these river bottoms, um usually have some white tails in there.

943
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: So I'll just bounce between every one of those and

944
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: basically the game plan is find a high spot, sit

945
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: up there for a morning, you know, and I won't

946
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: I won't hunt the mornings until I know there's actually

947
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: a buck. I won't hunt otherwise I'll spend mornings glassing

948
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: trying to find one. And this is that kind of

949
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: location where you can just see long distances. Um. So

950
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to get there the night before opening day.

951
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna glass the night before in my first

952
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: like idea location, glass the next morning, and then hopefully

953
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,439
Speaker 1: after those two scouting sessions, I'll know where to move

954
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: into with the saddle for that first night's hunt. Um.

955
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna keep on doing that, but I'm not

956
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: going to be I'm not gonna be afraid to also

957
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: like push in there, you know, like if the first

958
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: couple of nights from my glassing knob off the road,

959
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: I can't see anything. I also think it's worth one

960
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: of the things. I talked to a friend of mine

961
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: who's hunting in this general area before, and he had

962
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: talked about how a lot of the bucks he'd seen

963
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: in the past it's stuck closer to the river right

964
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: in like this willow brush more than you might spect um.

965
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: So part of me wonders if when I was hunting

966
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: their last year or glassing their last year, I was

967
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: just missing these deer that are right in the edge

968
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: of the river working in that thick stuff. Like I'm

969
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: talking like maybe it's ten yards on either side of

970
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: the river, but it's thick, and so they might have

971
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: been just working parallel to the river and you wouldn't

972
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: see them unless you were actually down in the river bottom.

973
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: And uh, I want to explore that idea too, and

974
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: not right stuff off too quickly. But that's it. It's

975
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: gonna be spotting. Then I see something, I'm gonna move

976
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: in for the kill. Um and then if that doesn't

977
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: work out, it for day or two, then I'll probably

978
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: retreat back, try to spot another area, try to locate

979
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: something moving a lot of observation sits, and then moving

980
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: for the kill, observation ship moving for the kill, and

981
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: do that for seven days and hopefully get close enough

982
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: to one eventually. Is this a tag that you can

983
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: if you run into a mule deer buck you can

984
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: shoot one of those two? No, this is white tail only, okay,

985
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: but that's fine with me. Yeah, that's awesome. And I'm

986
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: a sucker for the white tails. Yeah, yeah, it's it's

987
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: just a fun it's a fun way to hunt. So

988
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: they're so visible. There's a big, wide open landscapes and

989
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: just the prettiest country you could ever ask for. So yeah,

990
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: and in solo. I mean I've done a hand for

991
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: quite a few of these solo trips. Now it's it's

992
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:19,959
Speaker 1: at times it seems like it's lonely, but other times

993
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: like I really like, you know, you just hike in hunt,

994
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: hike back to the truck. It's dark. You get back

995
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 1: to the truck, I just crack a beer or drink

996
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: or something sitting the tailgate. It's dark, there's nothing but

997
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: the stars out. Just kind of be able to sit

998
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: there with your thoughts and sleeping, sleeping back, wake up

999
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: early the next morning, get perched up on a ledge

1000
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: with some coffee and glass whole valley and do that

1001
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: for a week. You kind of refine yourself. I think

1002
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: kind of brings you back down to to your center.

1003
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you one of that was one of

1004
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: my favorite things about hunting um in Nebraska, when I

1005
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: went out there in the sand hills and I assuming

1006
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit like this with South

1007
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: Dakota is just the vastness and being able to see

1008
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: a long ways with no manmade structures. It makes you

1009
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: kind of realize how small and insignificant that we are

1010
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: in this whole grand scheme of things, right, how small?

1011
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: Like in Iowa, there's trees everywhere right hunt you can't

1012
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: you can't necessarily see a long ways unless you get

1013
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,760
Speaker 1: out west of the state or to a high point.

1014
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: But like out there, you can see until you can't

1015
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,240
Speaker 1: see any anymore, if that makes sense. Like your eyes,

1016
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: your eyes don't have the ability to see further than

1017
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: what they're seeing. And that makes me feel small and

1018
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: I love that feeling. I'm absolutely right there with you,

1019
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: definitely definitely love those wide open vistas and uh and

1020
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: kind of feeling insignificant in the bigger scheme of things.

1021
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: So with that said, let's wrap this up with one

1022
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 1: alreading word of advice to all of our fellow hunters listening.

1023
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: There's seasons. Everyone's seasons are kicking off here soon. So

1024
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: this is our our parting words to take into your

1025
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: first huns of the year. Dan, what do you want

1026
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: to leave folks with? It's it's dude, It's easy, have fun,

1027
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: like we think about this all the time, like all

1028
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: the time, and I've kind of realized over the past

1029
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: couple of years, is if you're if you are putting

1030
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: any additional pressure on yourself to do anything that has

1031
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 1: to do with killing this an animal. Sometimes pressure is good.

1032
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need that little kick in the butt to

1033
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: go accomplish something like movie tree standard whatnot. But overall,

1034
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: it's got to be fun like. And for me, I

1035
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 1: just love doing this from my fun standpoint that I

1036
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: just want everybody to like take a deep breath and

1037
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: just realize why we do this. And I think that

1038
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: the older I get and the more I do it,

1039
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: it's not about inches and it's not about even age class.

1040
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: Those are things that I look for, but it's not

1041
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: why I do it. And if you can, if you

1042
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: can just embrace that that feeling, I think you're going

1043
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: to have a lot more fun in the woods. Very

1044
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: very wise words. I will jump off of that with

1045
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: the kind of the opposite advice, but but but no, no,

1046
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: what I would say is definitely have fun, but realize

1047
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: that it's not always going to be fun like. Stuff

1048
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: will go wrong. So my advice will be when the

1049
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: ship hits the fan, when something inevitably goes wrong, when

1050
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: you missed that buck of a lifetime, when you get

1051
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: your tree stand stolen, when someone trespasses and blows up

1052
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: the farm. Just remember that everyone has that stuff happen,

1053
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: the best hunters out there, It happens to them all.

1054
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: It's the people that push through it that eventually reach

1055
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: their goal. So just know, like, all right, that happened.

1056
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: As quickly as you can, let that water pass under

1057
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: the bridge, and you move on and take that next

1058
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: step more quickly, you can get to having fun again.

1059
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: Do not let that stuff break you. It's so easy

1060
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: for that stuff to stress you out and take the

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00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: fun out of it. I've been there. I think you

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00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: have two damn where something goes wrong and your plans

1063
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: get screwed up and you're not reaching your goals and

1064
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: you're not seeing the bucks and you've hunted seven days

1065
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: straight and you're miserable and like, man, screw this ship,

1066
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: and then you want to give up. Try to as

1067
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: quickly as possible when that crappy stuff happens, like recognize that,

1068
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: all right, that sucked. That was a huge bummer, But

1069
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let that impact me from this

1070
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: point forward. At that point, then you gotta let go.

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00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: You gotta stop pointing back to you gotta stop blaming it,

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00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: you gotta stop letting that thing hang over you. And

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00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: instead it's okay, Now, what can I do next? What's

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00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: the next step I can take to move back towards

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00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: that fun thing, to move back towards that goal had

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Speaker 1: And I think that that will lead to type too. Fun.

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00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: So in the moment, you're pushing through some crap, but

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00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: if you push through it and you make it to

1079
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,479
Speaker 1: the other side, it will be really fun looking back

1080
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: and knowing that you were able to get through it

1081
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 1: and you maybe you accomplish your goal, maybe you killed

1082
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: that deer or whatever it is you're trying to do.

1083
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: Maybe it didn't, but it will still be fun to

1084
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: be able to look back and say, dang it, I

1085
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: left it all on the field, I gave it my best,

1086
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: and that was a pretty cool thing too. So that

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00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: would be that would be my suggestion. Keep keep all

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00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: that in mind, get after it, and have a damn

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00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: good time. Amen. Amen, Well, good luck on your North

1090
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Speaker 1: Dakota hunt. Man Um keep me posted. Thank you, Dan,

1091
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: good luck on your Elk hunt. I will probably not

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Speaker 1: be home before you leave, so this is goodbye for

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00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:56,479
Speaker 1: both of us. I hope we returned safely, and let's

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00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: record a podcast after each of our hunts and share

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01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: our wild success stories. Right, Hey, I like that fingers crossed? Hey,

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01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: I take that? Uh what, I can't do that, buddy, Okay,

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01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: let's try toes crossed to cross? Dan, you just imagine

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01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: if you could cross your toes, you'd have some long

1099
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: ass toes. Man, you can't cross your toes. I'm crossing

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01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: my toes right now. Must have some I do have

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01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: long time. My wife says I have finger toes. That's gross.

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01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: I just imagine how long you're okay, shut it down

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01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: and that's a rap? How long? My what is? And

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Speaker 1: that is a rap? Hope you enjoyed this one. Um.

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Speaker 1: Both Dan and I obviously are very excited for the

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01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: first hunts of the year, and as you're listening to this,

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01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: my hunts actually in the middle or possibly wrapping up

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01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: here very soon, so I will have reports for you

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Speaker 1: very shortly. Um, if you haven't been already following on

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Speaker 1: on wire Hunt's Instagram account, and definitely check that out

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01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: because I'm hosting daily updates there as I go along,

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Speaker 1: letting you know everything that's happening. So until next time,

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Speaker 1: best of luck if you are out there hunting too,

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Speaker 1: and until next time, stay wired to hunt.