Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. This podcast is presented by
Speaker 1: Yedti Built for the Wild. Happy New Year, everyone, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the first Cutting the Distance podcast. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: actually weird to say. I just feel like seemed so
Speaker 1: far off. I feel like I should be doing some
Speaker 1: intergalactic space travel by now, but I'm still pretty happy
Speaker 1: with our current state of technology. It's crazy, though, that
Speaker 1: I could be talking from anywhere and giving hunting tips
Speaker 1: to a lot of people. So I'm pretty fortunate for
Speaker 1: the times that we live in and that there's still
Speaker 1: some extremely awesome wild places to hunt and explore now.
Speaker 1: The New year is for a lot of people kind
Speaker 1: of a time where you reset, you review last year
Speaker 1: and go forward for this year. A lot of resolutions
Speaker 1: get made, a lot of fitness goals are made and
Speaker 1: broken oftentimes, but you know, now is the time that
Speaker 1: you start thinking about what you want your next year
Speaker 1: to look like. So on this episode of Cutting the
Speaker 1: Distance podcast. As promised, what I want to do is
Speaker 1: I want to go over some of your guys questions.
Speaker 1: So people have written in they've got some questions. I
Speaker 1: want to do a Q and A today, but I
Speaker 1: also just want to talk a little bit about some
Speaker 1: resolutions as well as just something that was really inspiring
Speaker 1: to me that my dad did after a New Year's
Speaker 1: quite a few years ago. So I'll kind of give
Speaker 1: you the story of of his goal us to get
Speaker 1: in shape. We'll do a top ten resolutions list to
Speaker 1: make you a better hunter, and then we'll go into
Speaker 1: the Q and A. My dad is probably one of
Speaker 1: the most inspiring people in my life for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. He's done a lot of things. He got
Speaker 1: me into hunting, but I think that it was later
Speaker 1: on in life when I really realized the dedication he
Speaker 1: had and he came to a realization. It was actually
Speaker 1: around two thousand and eight, so eleven years ago. I
Speaker 1: would guide a lot and was out hunting all the time,
Speaker 1: in really good shape. All my brothers, we all stay
Speaker 1: in really good shape, and my dad would go out
Speaker 1: on these hunts with us. And he's the type of guy.
Speaker 1: He was always a little overweight, or in some stages
Speaker 1: quite a bit overweight. But there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: out there that you would consider overweight that just don't quit.
Speaker 1: They'll get to the top of the mountain no matter what.
Speaker 1: And he never had problem really keeping up as growing
Speaker 1: up as kids. He was always the guy that he
Speaker 1: just never gave up. So it didn't matter what kind
Speaker 1: of shape he was in. He was always what I
Speaker 1: would call mountain figures, able to throw a pack on
Speaker 1: and just trudge. He might not be as fast as
Speaker 1: everybody else, but he would always get there. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there like that. Like you
Speaker 1: might look at some guys, you know what, you're a
Speaker 1: doll sheep hunter. I've seen some guys that are that
Speaker 1: are bigger guys that can just move in the mountains.
Speaker 1: But a few years earlier, my dad had won a
Speaker 1: doll sheep hunt from the Wild Sheep Foundation and it
Speaker 1: was pretty awesome because they let me tag along on
Speaker 1: the hunt as well, and I actually got to shoot
Speaker 1: a sheep on that hunt. That was my first doll
Speaker 1: sheep hunt in Alaska. And on that hunt, my dad
Speaker 1: had kind of realized that he let his fitness level
Speaker 1: out of control. He felt very underprepared for the task
Speaker 1: at hand. We ended up both getting sheep, but it
Speaker 1: was difficult for him to make it happen. The following year,
Speaker 1: You're l hunting and deer inn a lot in Montana.
Speaker 1: He drew a special tag and there was just times
Speaker 1: where we needed to get over the next ridge and
Speaker 1: he felt like he was getting left behind. He came
Speaker 1: to this realization that he's getting older, the weight was
Speaker 1: weighing him down literally, and that he really enjoyed hunting
Speaker 1: with his kids, but he wasn't going to be able
Speaker 1: to do it like that forever. And he knew that
Speaker 1: looking forward into the future, he was going to miss
Speaker 1: out on a lot. He would slowly get left behind,
Speaker 1: and he didn't want that to happen. So in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, he made a New Year's resolution that
Speaker 1: he was gonna work out every day for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: We call it his thirty Minutes. Eleven years later, he
Speaker 1: has not missed a single day, and his life is
Speaker 1: drastically different now, all because he wanted to be in
Speaker 1: the best shape for hunting and enjoy his experience out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really an incredible story to see where
Speaker 1: he is now and where he used to be. I
Speaker 1: mean my dad. He was always tough in the mountains.
Speaker 1: He was always able to go. But I think he
Speaker 1: lost eighty or ninety pounds. He wears the same pant
Speaker 1: size as I do. And before he used to be
Speaker 1: to eighty or somewhere in there, to fifty to something
Speaker 1: like that. Now he's down to about a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty pounds hundred nine pounds. He's lean, he's in shape,
Speaker 1: and the guy can go. Because of that, He's able
Speaker 1: to do hunts that he probably never thought that he
Speaker 1: could do with ease. He's the guy that's on a
Speaker 1: trip that we want to take with us. I know
Speaker 1: guys half his age that can't carry what he can
Speaker 1: carry go as long as he can go. He just
Speaker 1: doesn't quit. He's the guy that's there with you no
Speaker 1: matter how hard it gets, he's lifting you up. He's
Speaker 1: always been my number one hunting partner, but because he
Speaker 1: dedicated to staying in shape just for hunting. Honestly, we
Speaker 1: can do any hunt in the world together, and I
Speaker 1: know that he will be physically able to do it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he has more energy than I do. I go
Speaker 1: out there. Most my fitness is just because I'm out
Speaker 1: there all the time, hiking, staying in shape just by doing.
Speaker 1: But he has that fitness regiment of every day getting
Speaker 1: some kind of workout in, and it wasn't immediate results.
Speaker 1: He started doing the thirty minutes, and then at some
Speaker 1: point he said, look, I've been working out for a
Speaker 1: year and really haven't lost any weight. He's like, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm in better shape, but the weight didn't really shed
Speaker 1: off like he was expecting. So then he added a
Speaker 1: little bit of a diet to it, counting his calories,
Speaker 1: doing a meal plan, and he started dropping weight. Like that,
Speaker 1: the combination of the workout and then the diet, he
Speaker 1: started losing weight and getting him better and better shape.
Speaker 1: He's so dedicated to it. Like say he's doing a
Speaker 1: road trip that's gonna take all day, he will pull
Speaker 1: off the road and go run for thirty minutes, get
Speaker 1: back in the truck and drive. No matter where he
Speaker 1: is in the world, he does not miss thirty minutes. Now,
Speaker 1: if he's out on a hunt, obviously he's getting his
Speaker 1: thirty minutes in by hiking. And they don't have to
Speaker 1: be crazy, easy, crazy workouts. Most of them are cardio based.
Speaker 1: A lot of it could be hiking with a pack.
Speaker 1: He does a lot of hiking uphill stuff that keeps
Speaker 1: him in shape for his goal to go hunting. It's
Speaker 1: his primary reason for doing it, and because he's committed
Speaker 1: to it now he's in the probably the best shape
Speaker 1: of his life. He's able to do hunts that ten
Speaker 1: years ago he would ever have dreamed of doing. And
Speaker 1: he's able to stay out there longer, be persistent, hunt
Speaker 1: with his kids who are much younger, and remained successful.
Speaker 1: And I truly believe that physical fitness has a lot
Speaker 1: to do with translating to success in the mountains, especially
Speaker 1: on big Western or back country hunts. Now it is
Speaker 1: New Year's and there's probably a lot of you that
Speaker 1: are thinking, well, I'm going to start some kind of
Speaker 1: New Year's resolution. So what I've done is I did
Speaker 1: at top ten resolutions to make you a better hunter? Countdown.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a mouthful. I want to list off
Speaker 1: ten things that I think you could do. It doesn't
Speaker 1: even have to be a big thing. Some of these
Speaker 1: are just small things, but they'll make you overall a
Speaker 1: better hunter. So I'm gonna run through this list and
Speaker 1: if you hear one you like, write it down. Maybe
Speaker 1: you try a multiple ones of these, But I truly
Speaker 1: believe that if you pick one of these off this list,
Speaker 1: or a few of these off your list, next hunting season,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a better season. So let's start this
Speaker 1: countdown number ten. Find a new spot. What that entails
Speaker 1: is do some e scouting, do some real scouting. And
Speaker 1: this doesn't matter what you hunt. If you're a turkey hunter,
Speaker 1: you're a duck hunter, you're a elk hunter, a white
Speaker 1: tail hunter, find a new spot, whether it's public land,
Speaker 1: private land. The act of investigating and picking a place
Speaker 1: that could potentially be successful builds up skills and finding
Speaker 1: things places that are unfamiliar when you get out of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone. No matter where you go, the skills
Speaker 1: that you make learning those spots are going to translate
Speaker 1: into success. There's a lot of hunters out there. They
Speaker 1: aren't find spot hunters there. Guys that go out with
Speaker 1: their friends who always have the spots, just pick a
Speaker 1: goal of finding one new spot. If you hunt new
Speaker 1: places all the time. Still every year I always try
Speaker 1: to find a new spot, a new honey hoole, even
Speaker 1: in places that I've hunted my entire life. Every year
Speaker 1: I dedicate to finding one new good spot, and because
Speaker 1: of it, I learned the area, I learned the animals,
Speaker 1: and I become a better hunter. Number nine, Pick a
Speaker 1: new species. The hunt that goes for anything. If there's
Speaker 1: something you haven't hunted, whether it be small game, large game, elk, dear,
Speaker 1: white tails, it doesn't matter. Picking a new species allows
Speaker 1: you to once again get out of that comfort zone
Speaker 1: and do something new. What's gonna do is it's gonna
Speaker 1: call up the skill sets that you might already have
Speaker 1: and challenge you and push you a little bit to
Speaker 1: do a hunt that you haven't done before. By doing that,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna get better at hunting other things. I
Speaker 1: really value the skills that I've learned by constantly trying
Speaker 1: to chase new species, because every time I hunt something new,
Speaker 1: I learned something new. I might go well. Actually, right
Speaker 1: now I'm hunting access dear in Hawaii, which is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite hunts a few years back, is something
Speaker 1: that I've never done. But yet hunting those animals, I've
Speaker 1: learned a lot of a lot of techniques as far
Speaker 1: as still hunting that I take when I go hunt
Speaker 1: mule deer or white tails spot in stock because you
Speaker 1: get a little bit more practice, or I pick up
Speaker 1: new nuances with that new species. That translates to a
Speaker 1: lot of different hunts. Number eight, learn to hunt with
Speaker 1: a new weapon choice. Now, if you're a rifle hunter
Speaker 1: this year, I want you to consider picking up a
Speaker 1: muzzleloader or a bow. If you're a bow hunter, consider
Speaker 1: maybe going on one rifle hunt or one muzzleloader hunt.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a shotgun hunt, trying a new weapon, it's
Speaker 1: twofold one. It extends your season, because some seasons might end.
Speaker 1: If you're just a rifle hunter. Once that rifle season
Speaker 1: is over, well that's your season. If you extend your
Speaker 1: season into archery, into muzzleloader, it gives you more time
Speaker 1: in the field, more excuse to get out. The other
Speaker 1: thing is you learn stuff from each different weapon choice.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys that are bow hunters thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm already at the pinnacle of hunting. I've done the
Speaker 1: hardest way to hunt. Yes, that's true, but a lot
Speaker 1: of general area of public land hunts, some of those
Speaker 1: rifle hunts can be a lot more difficult than the
Speaker 1: bow hunt. So when you have struggle to just find animals.
Speaker 1: What that's gonna do is gonna make you a better
Speaker 1: hunter when it comes down to going back to the
Speaker 1: next archery season when maybe the conditions aren't perfect. You're
Speaker 1: gonna pick up skills from hunting different weapon choices just
Speaker 1: by being in the field longer and having more opportunity
Speaker 1: to get out there and interact with the animals that
Speaker 1: you're hunting. Number seven, Take a new hunter out. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how long you've been hunting. If you've been
Speaker 1: out and you've you've done it. Take somebody else that hasn't.
Speaker 1: When you take out a new hunter. And I get
Speaker 1: this from guiding all the time, or especially when I
Speaker 1: take out new friends or my wife, I start verbalizing
Speaker 1: the knowledge that I do have. Even if you've just
Speaker 1: been hunting for a season or half a season, somebody
Speaker 1: took you out. Just by showing somebody how to do something,
Speaker 1: it teaches you. At the same time, it also potentially
Speaker 1: gives you a new hunting partner to go out with.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best things you can do to
Speaker 1: increase your skills is to take somebody that has less
Speaker 1: skills than you, because you're gonna have to kind of
Speaker 1: pay attention to what you do and then teach that
Speaker 1: to someone else. I always learned, whether it was like
Speaker 1: school or studying, to really know what you're doing means
Speaker 1: that you could take that and teach it to another person.
Speaker 1: I like to translate that to everything. How would I
Speaker 1: explain what I'm doing to someone else? Because when I
Speaker 1: go through the process of thinking of how I would
Speaker 1: explain it, I'm truly understanding the fundamentals and the mechanics
Speaker 1: of what I'm doing. Number six, hike a hundred miles
Speaker 1: before the season. Now, this is kind of fitness based.
Speaker 1: You might think, whoa hundred mile hike. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: even just saying a hundred mile hike. I'm saying between
Speaker 1: January and September one, or whenever your first fall season starts,
Speaker 1: make a goal of logging a hundred miles out hiking
Speaker 1: that's with a pack like you would in a hunting scenario. Really,
Speaker 1: if you break that down, that's twenty five mile hikes.
Speaker 1: That's a two and a half out two and a
Speaker 1: half back. It's very doable. But the reason I suggest
Speaker 1: that is it's really hard to train for something and
Speaker 1: be in the right shape for it. But by not
Speaker 1: doing it. What that means is you can spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the gym, but when you go
Speaker 1: out hunting, you're gonna be carrying a pack and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be hiking, and the best way to build muscle
Speaker 1: memory for that is to do it. So if you
Speaker 1: just set a small goal a hundred miles, it seems
Speaker 1: like a lot, but it's really not. It's a few
Speaker 1: weekends a year getting out, Maybe bring your family out,
Speaker 1: do some shed hikes, do some scouting, or just trail
Speaker 1: hikes in a local park or forest, whatever recorded on
Speaker 1: an app, and try to log a hundred miles before
Speaker 1: next season. It's just gonna train your body and just
Speaker 1: keep you doing it throughout the year, not just when
Speaker 1: hunting season comes around. Number five, Save up for a
Speaker 1: better pair optics. If you're looking at your kit and
Speaker 1: you need one piece of year to improve this year,
Speaker 1: I would say budget for good pair optics. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a good spotting scope, grab a good spotting scipe.
Speaker 1: If you don't have good binoculars, maybe this is the
Speaker 1: year to upgrade what you have. Western hunting, even if
Speaker 1: you're a tree stand hunter, having a good pair of
Speaker 1: binoculars really just increases your success for all kinds of hunting.
Speaker 1: I use it white I'm bird hunting, when I'm white
Speaker 1: tail hunting, it doesn't matter. Having a good pair of
Speaker 1: binoculars really ups your game and allows you to find
Speaker 1: animals that you may not pick up otherwise. You can
Speaker 1: go back and listen to a few of our glass
Speaker 1: NG episodes, but I highly suggest I think optics are
Speaker 1: a key piece of kit, especially for spot and stock
Speaker 1: hunting or Western hunting. So that's something that might be
Speaker 1: one of your goals. This is the year to upgrade
Speaker 1: your buyos number four. Pick one new out of state hunt.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you live. Just the idea of
Speaker 1: crossing a state line and going somewhere else. It causes
Speaker 1: you to really pull up the hunting skills that you
Speaker 1: have and creates, I would say, a system where you
Speaker 1: have to read a new set of regulations, you have
Speaker 1: to find a new spot, you have to go somewhere
Speaker 1: that's very unfamiliar and get out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 1: What that does is it increases the skills that you
Speaker 1: can take home because you're doing all the things and
Speaker 1: taking extra steps for each hunt that you might not
Speaker 1: take when you keep hunting the same place over and over.
Speaker 1: Even for myself, I constantly tried to go somewhere new.
Speaker 1: I pick a new out of state hunt, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that very same thing this year. So
Speaker 1: it's just something that expands your skills as a hunter.
Speaker 1: Even if you're a new hunter, think about planning a
Speaker 1: trip somewhere else. Maybe four something new back up in
Speaker 1: number nine, A new species. You could check two of
Speaker 1: those off the list at once. Pick a new species
Speaker 1: out of state. It's gonna allow you to try something
Speaker 1: different when you go out of state. Here's the other
Speaker 1: thing that I love about it. Sometimes when you hunt
Speaker 1: it home, you just you go out hunting. But when
Speaker 1: you go out of state, it's an adventure, it's a trip,
Speaker 1: and you're committed to hunting during that time that you're away.
Speaker 1: You specifically set a longer period of time to get
Speaker 1: out and by hunting a longer period of time, say
Speaker 1: it's a three day trip, a five day trip, hunting
Speaker 1: multiple days in a row, it really allows you to
Speaker 1: understand an area, to see something new, and really dive
Speaker 1: into that hunt. You've got nothing else going on, you
Speaker 1: can't go run into work the next day. You aren't
Speaker 1: dealing with other things. You're just in the hunt, focusing
Speaker 1: on the hunt, and it's a great way to expand
Speaker 1: your skills. Number Three, shoot more. If you are a
Speaker 1: bow hunter or want to get into bow hunting, make
Speaker 1: some goals on shooting. If you shoot a couple of
Speaker 1: times right before the season, bump it up, start shooting
Speaker 1: every week, Start shooting every day, Start shooting multiple times
Speaker 1: a week. The same goes for rifle hunters shotgun shooters.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what your weapon of choices, we can
Speaker 1: all be better. I constantly continue to practice with whatever
Speaker 1: weapons that I'm using. This year, I shoot hundreds of
Speaker 1: rounds with shotguns, hundreds of rounds with a rifle, thousands
Speaker 1: of bow shots a year because when I get into
Speaker 1: the field, I know that I might have one chance
Speaker 1: at that animal, and I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: I'm ready, confident, and can make a clean kill, because
Speaker 1: that's our responsibility as hunters. I know so many guys
Speaker 1: that get into bow hunting. They start out strong, they
Speaker 1: start practicing shooting, and they're like, oh, I know how
Speaker 1: to shoot my bow, and then they shoot it once
Speaker 1: or twice right before they go out, just to make
Speaker 1: sure it's sighted in. That's not the best way to
Speaker 1: do it. You want to remain proficient. You want muscle memory,
Speaker 1: so when something goes down, it's quick, it's easy, and
Speaker 1: you make an ethical shot. Number two, This one's super important.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it a little bit in the story.
Speaker 1: But get in shape and really commit to it. Everybody
Speaker 1: can do better in this aspect. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: kind of shape you're in. Maybe getting better shape if
Speaker 1: you lift a lot or whatever, get in good hiking shape,
Speaker 1: to do some cardio, wear a pack, get in hunting shape,
Speaker 1: get in mountain shape, get in the shape that you
Speaker 1: want for the field. And that might just mean thirty
Speaker 1: minutes a day, maybe thirty minutes every other day, maybe
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes a day. I don't even care. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: five minutes a day. Start somewhere that you know you
Speaker 1: can do it, and don't quit. When I'm working out
Speaker 1: or running, if I if I'm home for a little bit,
Speaker 1: I might go on a hike or whatever, just to
Speaker 1: keep my fitness levels up. What I like to do,
Speaker 1: and I've done this ever since I can remember, is
Speaker 1: that when I'm working out or doing something that I
Speaker 1: don't really like to do. I just picture chasing some
Speaker 1: animal up a mountain, like that last little push when
Speaker 1: I see an animal a long ways away. If I'm
Speaker 1: on a backpack hunt, nothing slows me down or stops
Speaker 1: me from getting over there. And I use that same
Speaker 1: motivation off season as well. Just visualize it, Pretend like
Speaker 1: you're on the hunt, and you keep that hunting goal
Speaker 1: in mind. If you're a hardcore hunter, it's really easy
Speaker 1: to visualize your success and use that as a motivator
Speaker 1: to stay in shape. At least for me it is.
Speaker 1: And now we're down to number one. The number one
Speaker 1: top thing you can do this season to increase your
Speaker 1: success is listen to the Cutting the Distance podcast once
Speaker 1: a week. Of course, I had to add that in,
Speaker 1: but I truly believe the reason I'm doing this podcast
Speaker 1: is to make you a better hunter. Now, I get
Speaker 1: so many messages from people that are white tail hunters
Speaker 1: or maybe maybe don't necessarily do the same kind of
Speaker 1: hunting that I do. It doesn't matter if you live
Speaker 1: in Australia, New Zealand, North America. The tactics that I
Speaker 1: generally use. Maybe you've never hunted out before, but you
Speaker 1: can glean tips from that species and translate it to
Speaker 1: so many other things. I've hunted a lot of places
Speaker 1: around the world, a lot of different species, and it's
Speaker 1: funny how many things you take from one thing and
Speaker 1: move it on to the next. And I love getting
Speaker 1: messages from that as well. I got some from a
Speaker 1: guy he's a white tail hunter, but that glassing tactic
Speaker 1: helped him be successful this year. Or the shoes off situation.
Speaker 1: Guys have been doing that creeping into their tree standard.
Speaker 1: It's like, use those tactics and modify it for what
Speaker 1: you do. And then as well, maybe you're gonna go
Speaker 1: out of state, maybe you're gonna hunt a new species.
Speaker 1: Just listening to these tips and logging them in your
Speaker 1: mental catalog, it's overall going to make you better. So
Speaker 1: listening to this podcasts, that's an easy one. You can
Speaker 1: just tune in on your way to work and share
Speaker 1: that with your friends too, because it's great to bounce
Speaker 1: ideas off of each other. You got a buddy, make
Speaker 1: sure he listens to it every week and then talk
Speaker 1: about it like, Hey, what did what did we learn
Speaker 1: this week? How can we translate that to what we're doing?
Speaker 1: Talk with your friends maybe it'll inspire you to try
Speaker 1: something new this year to plan a new hunt. It's
Speaker 1: always easier to get motivated when you've got somebody else
Speaker 1: that's pushing you along. Pushing each other is a great
Speaker 1: way to go further. So that sums up my top
Speaker 1: ten countdown for things to make you a better hunter.
Speaker 1: In my personal resolutions, I've always loved shooting my trad bow,
Speaker 1: my longbow, my recurve, but I know that I don't
Speaker 1: shoot them enough. So what I've been starting to do
Speaker 1: is just when I go out to shoot my compound bow,
Speaker 1: I've got my recurve and my longbow there. I really
Speaker 1: want to just continue honing my skills with that shooting.
Speaker 1: So this year, that's one of my resolutions, my goals.
Speaker 1: And then of course I'm gonna pick a new out
Speaker 1: of state hunt and if I can a new species
Speaker 1: to chase this year, you know what, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go that same list I'm checking off one through ten,
Speaker 1: So that'll be my goal, checking off one through ten.
Speaker 1: If anybody else does that, I would love to hear
Speaker 1: about it. So let's jump into the Q and A.
Speaker 1: We'll finish that up. Thank you guys so much, for
Speaker 1: sending in your questions. A lot of these questions come
Speaker 1: from emailing me Remy at the meat Eater dot com,
Speaker 1: as well as on my social media at Remy Warren
Speaker 1: generally on Instagram. That's where I'm the most active. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've sent in an email and you haven't got
Speaker 1: to reply, I apologize. There's quite a few of them
Speaker 1: that we just can't get to all of them, but
Speaker 1: I do try reading. I pretty much read everything, um
Speaker 1: so a lot of it's in my mind and I
Speaker 1: when I go to plan these episodes, some of those
Speaker 1: questions will hopefully get hit, and then some of them
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read right now. So I pulled out
Speaker 1: about five or so. The first question here comes from
Speaker 1: Austin O'Neil, fort Worth, Texas. He says, hey, there, Remy,
Speaker 1: love the podcast you have going right now. I've been
Speaker 1: hunting my entire life in both Texas and Louisiana. I've
Speaker 1: hunted nearly all these states have to offer, mostly on
Speaker 1: private land except for public land water failing. My dream
Speaker 1: is to go west on a backcountry meal. Dear rail cut,
Speaker 1: I haven't even the slightest clue where to start. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of folks are in the same camp.
Speaker 1: Any ideas would be lately appreciated. That's a great question,
Speaker 1: and it kind of ties into some of the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen resolutions and goals. Go out of state, hunt something new.
Speaker 1: It can be daunting. Where to start. Now, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things to consider. There's some general over the
Speaker 1: counter type tags, but there's also a draw system. So
Speaker 1: here's where I would start. I would pick a state.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter what state. Maybe it's based on
Speaker 1: the amount of tags, like Colorado has more ELK tags
Speaker 1: than everywhere Wyoming. It could be just based on that's
Speaker 1: an easy drive for me. Idaho could just be Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like a fun trip, Montana, wherever. Pick one
Speaker 1: or two states and then dive into that state. So
Speaker 1: here's how you dive in. Start first by ordering the
Speaker 1: regulations for the two states that you've picked. You can
Speaker 1: start by doing a little bit of research online where
Speaker 1: states so that I could get it over the counter
Speaker 1: tag Where states that have a good chance of drawing
Speaker 1: my first year. Okay, once you get that, read through
Speaker 1: those and identify areas that you could potentially get a
Speaker 1: tag or potentially start hunting. Once you've done that, now
Speaker 1: you jump into the research aspect. Honestly, the ONYX Hunt
Speaker 1: app is one of the best ways that I do
Speaker 1: hunt planning because what I'll do is, after reading through
Speaker 1: the regulations, I figure out where I can hunt, I
Speaker 1: go on that app and I go to that unit
Speaker 1: and I look for public land. Once you found the
Speaker 1: public land, you go, Okay, there's access here. I've got
Speaker 1: public land. I've got an area I can get a tag.
Speaker 1: This is where I'm going to start my research. Once
Speaker 1: you've narrowed down the area, it's way easier to pinpoint
Speaker 1: places to go or give yourself ideas on where to hunt.
Speaker 1: You can call local biologists, fish and game. You can
Speaker 1: do a lot of research online just even googling the
Speaker 1: area and maybe even get into a forum about people
Speaker 1: that have hunted that area. Create. What I do is
Speaker 1: I start a folder for every new area. I still
Speaker 1: do a lot of handwriting whatever. When I learned something
Speaker 1: or find something interesting on it, I write it down
Speaker 1: and that's gonna start narrowing your approach to that specific unit.
Speaker 1: And through that research, a lot of times you might
Speaker 1: even encounter some people that have been there. Um, you
Speaker 1: might get some numbers from some guys to talk to
Speaker 1: or through a forum, maybe just kind of get somebody's
Speaker 1: take on it. Then I'll go back to my maps. Now,
Speaker 1: go back to our one of our e scouting episodes
Speaker 1: we did early on, and maybe I gotta I'll probably
Speaker 1: do some more episodes in the future on tag draw
Speaker 1: systems as well as hunting new areas. There's all gonna
Speaker 1: be coming up, So that's where I would start, and
Speaker 1: I think that kind of answers it. And then just
Speaker 1: keep listening to the podcast because really you're going to
Speaker 1: glean a lot of tips on the how to hunt part.
Speaker 1: But I'm also I like that idea and maybe cover
Speaker 1: some more getting started in future episodes. Alright, this one,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna paraphrase from Ben. He says, most of my
Speaker 1: hunts are rather stationary in a blind in central Texas
Speaker 1: where it's usually hot but can get into the twenties.
Speaker 1: So he's planning his first elk hunt late in September
Speaker 1: in Idaho. He's purchased a lot of outdoor gear. He's
Speaker 1: got some gortex wind stopper jacket for extra warmth rain protection.
Speaker 1: He bought some Ridge Reaper pants. He bought gortex pants
Speaker 1: as well, so his his question is should he just
Speaker 1: throw on a base layer and go lighter pants or
Speaker 1: should he go heavier pants that are too hot for Texas,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't want to get too cold in Idaho.
Speaker 1: So late September in the mountains, it can be a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. I would say if you're if
Speaker 1: you're going on your first hiking type hunt, you dress
Speaker 1: completely different than you do when you're sitting. I actually
Speaker 1: did a sitting hunt in Oklahoma this year, and I froze.
Speaker 1: It's a completely different experienced sitting station. Or you need
Speaker 1: a lot of clothes is and you need a lot
Speaker 1: of warm stuff. When you're hunting the mountains, you're moving.
Speaker 1: You can never go to light. It could be thirty
Speaker 1: degrees out or freezing out. And I generally start off
Speaker 1: the day if if I know I'm hiking in a
Speaker 1: light pant and my shirt, I'll leave my jacket in
Speaker 1: my pack because I know that as soon as I
Speaker 1: start moving, I'm gonna heat up and I'm gonna start sweating.
Speaker 1: I would say that if I was the choose between
Speaker 1: one or the other for late September, I would go
Speaker 1: the lightest pant I could find, and then throw in
Speaker 1: a like a mid season base layer, because Western hunting
Speaker 1: and movement hunting is all based on layering. If you're stopped,
Speaker 1: you might cool down, So that's when you would throw
Speaker 1: on that rain jacket or a down puff or something
Speaker 1: like that to keep you warm, and then you can
Speaker 1: take it off and as soon as you start hiking again,
Speaker 1: go mobile, go lightweight, and let whatever you're wearing be breathing,
Speaker 1: because if you just bundle up and start hiking, you're
Speaker 1: just gonna overheat. Alright. This next one is from John
Speaker 1: kin Or. He says, first of all, huge fan. Second
Speaker 1: of all, I've been watching you on Solo Hunters and
Speaker 1: listening to your podcast for a couple of months now,
Speaker 1: and I've seen you make some very impressive shots in
Speaker 1: the field. Uh. He's his question comes down to mountain rifles.
Speaker 1: He also said, asks what guns scope I've had the
Speaker 1: most success with, and then he sees that I generally
Speaker 1: use a muzzle brake. He has a question about the
Speaker 1: muzzle brakes and whether he should get one, and then
Speaker 1: what type of caliber of rifle. That's a great question,
Speaker 1: and I get gun questions a lot. The number one
Speaker 1: gun question I get is what caliber and then what
Speaker 1: type of rifle. So if you want a mountain rifle,
Speaker 1: there's a ton of great lightweight mountain rifles out there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Currently I work with Soco. I'm actually sponsored by Sacco Firearms,
Speaker 1: the Finished Firearm Company. They do make some really good
Speaker 1: lightweight guns. The Carbon Light as well as the fin
Speaker 1: Light to that's those are probably two my favorites. But
Speaker 1: they also make what I would consider the best mid
Speaker 1: range light rifle, which is the Tika T three Light.
Speaker 1: For the price and the weight like that, that gun
Speaker 1: can't be beaten. I've probably recommended that gun to more
Speaker 1: people than others um In a lot of the solo
Speaker 1: hunters that I've done, I've shot a lot of Christians
Speaker 1: in arms. Those are great rifles as well, also lightweight,
Speaker 1: they've got the carbon fiber. I do suggest muzzle breaks
Speaker 1: on a rifle now. A lot of people go, oh,
Speaker 1: they damage your ears. Yes, here's my opinion. I wish
Speaker 1: that our suppressor laws in this country we're wide open,
Speaker 1: like you could just buy them. When I go to
Speaker 1: New Zealand, you can pretty much buy a suppressor anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's actually encouraged that you put a suppressor on your rifle.
Speaker 1: Because what it does is it acts as a muzzle break,
Speaker 1: taking a lot of the kick out of the rifle,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't blow your ear drums out and they
Speaker 1: aren't silenced. It just takes the crack out of the rifle,
Speaker 1: reduces the decibel level a little bit. Now, I think
Speaker 1: most suppressors. You probably still when I'm shooting, like at
Speaker 1: the range with a suppressor, I throw on my ear protection.
Speaker 1: But when I'm out in the field and I shoot
Speaker 1: with the suppressor, it just doesn't blast my ears. You'll
Speaker 1: see that in a lot of videos that I do.
Speaker 1: I always have those ear plugs around my neck or
Speaker 1: put ear plugs in before I shoot, and it is
Speaker 1: because I have a muzzle break. You might get one
Speaker 1: shot off, but damaging your ears. I just know too
Speaker 1: many guys and I've I've had it happened where my
Speaker 1: ears will ring for a week, and it's not worth
Speaker 1: your ears ringing for the rest of your life. I
Speaker 1: know if you guys that that's happened to. So the
Speaker 1: reason that I suggest a muzzle break, I believe that
Speaker 1: a lot of people overgunn themselves. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: tough you are, or how strong you are, or how
Speaker 1: manly you are. If you're repeatedly getting a sharp kick
Speaker 1: in the shoulder, eventually you're gonna develop some bad shooting habits.
Speaker 1: And I see this happen a lot, especially with young
Speaker 1: hunters where they might be fifteen, sixteen whatever and there
Speaker 1: just overgunned. In America, we tend to overgun really bad.
Speaker 1: Like we'll give a hundred and twenty pound person a
Speaker 1: three wind bag and say here, shoot this box of
Speaker 1: shells and then go out and shooting milk. What's gonna
Speaker 1: happen is you're gonna start flinching. And I see it
Speaker 1: happen nearly with everybody that shoots a large caliber rifle
Speaker 1: for prolonged period of time. And it might not happen
Speaker 1: right away, but eventually it will. It's just something that happens.
Speaker 1: It's super hard to get away from. So I suggest
Speaker 1: always airing on the side of less recoil. Recoil reduction
Speaker 1: muzzle break is the best way to do that. You're
Speaker 1: better off having a loud gun that you can shoot
Speaker 1: and not develop bad habits with. Also, I love the
Speaker 1: muzzle break because when I'm on target, if I'm by myself,
Speaker 1: the lower recoil allows me to oftentimes still maintain that
Speaker 1: animal in my scope as well as reacquire the target
Speaker 1: extremely quick even if you aren't by yourself. That is
Speaker 1: a great to have. My personal favorite caliber is a
Speaker 1: three short MAAG. I love it because I can hunt
Speaker 1: everything from moose and elk down to I've even taken
Speaker 1: it to Africa and hunted small steam buck, which is
Speaker 1: like a very tiny antelope. It's very versatile. It's also
Speaker 1: a short action, so that short action you can get
Speaker 1: built into a lighter rifle. If you're a mountain hunter,
Speaker 1: you're carrying your rifle all the time, shaving off some
Speaker 1: weight is huge. As far as scope, I think one
Speaker 1: of my favorite scopes is the Vortex. It's the Viper
Speaker 1: series and it's like an hsl R. There's a hunter
Speaker 1: version of it now brand new. I like having an
Speaker 1: adjustable turret on my scope, but you know, everybody's different.
Speaker 1: I like to be able to just dial up to
Speaker 1: where I'm exactly where that bullets gonna hit. I would say,
Speaker 1: if you don't do that, if you want to just
Speaker 1: keep it simple, stupid. I know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that just having a turret is just a little bit
Speaker 1: too much, So there's plenty of rifle scopes out there.
Speaker 1: I would say get one with BBC Radical Ballistic Stata LIGNS,
Speaker 1: something that translates to wear your bullets hitting at different ranges. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of those scopes aren't first vocal plane, meaning
Speaker 1: it's got to be at a certain magnification for those
Speaker 1: lines to represent. So you just have to get familiar
Speaker 1: with whatever scope you do. I like having a little
Speaker 1: bit more magnification on my scope, so I'll try to
Speaker 1: get something like a four to sixteen is a good
Speaker 1: range of scope that I like. I like that extra
Speaker 1: bit of zoom because I like to really be able
Speaker 1: to pick out what I'm shooting at. You know, I'd
Speaker 1: say growing up, the standard was the three to nine.
Speaker 1: I like to jump it up to the sixteen. I
Speaker 1: think when you get into the twenty range magnification, if
Speaker 1: you've got more of a tactical type setup, that's great.
Speaker 1: I like higher magnification, but I also want to make
Speaker 1: sure that I have the low range on it as well.
Speaker 1: Because my scope is of the time set on a
Speaker 1: low magnification. I only turn it up when I need
Speaker 1: it for those further shots because I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I take a more accurate shot now if I'm
Speaker 1: by myself, though I rarely ever go above nine power
Speaker 1: because I want to be able to retain the site
Speaker 1: picture and see what happens on that shot. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that answers the question that got deep, but
Speaker 1: I think some people will be able to pick some
Speaker 1: stuff out of that. All right, our next question, I
Speaker 1: might butcher your last name Maxim totally from Montana Um.
Speaker 1: Him and a buddy are going on a CU's deer
Speaker 1: hunt December one opener any advice for first time CUS
Speaker 1: deer hunters, and then they're gonna spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time glassing. It sounds like he's got a pretty good
Speaker 1: plan here. He really just wants any advice for spotting
Speaker 1: stalking the CU's deer. Now. The CUS deer hunt in
Speaker 1: Arizona is awesome because there's an over the counter archery
Speaker 1: tag down there. It's pretty much through December through January.
Speaker 1: I will say I've hunted almost I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've punted every open unit, but I've
Speaker 1: over the years make it a point to just keep
Speaker 1: hunting new units down there, and I've got some of
Speaker 1: my favorites that I keep going back to. But I
Speaker 1: would say the best advice I could give you is
Speaker 1: get good glass and find glassing knobs, so you you'll
Speaker 1: find a good knob with the sun at your back
Speaker 1: and glass the mountain range, I would say most of
Speaker 1: the deer are gonna tend to be at the top
Speaker 1: third of the hill. Cou'se deer I kind of refer
Speaker 1: them as a mountain white tail, whereas in Arizona the
Speaker 1: mule deer at the bottoms and the valleys, and the
Speaker 1: cou'se deer up on the mountains. It's the exact opposite
Speaker 1: where hut in Idaho or in Montana, where the white
Speaker 1: tails are in the bottom of the mule deer up
Speaker 1: on the mountains. I like hunting the mountains, so I
Speaker 1: go with what species live in the mountains Arizona, it's
Speaker 1: CU's deer. Now, when you're hunting in December, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more pre rut, and then
Speaker 1: when you get into the January season, I think it's
Speaker 1: more main red. I personally prefer to hunt later in January,
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for an out of state hunt,
Speaker 1: you could jump on that one right now. The later
Speaker 1: in January hunt. You can still translate a lot of
Speaker 1: just standard white tail tactics or rut tactics, so you
Speaker 1: do little bit of glassing, but also think about these
Speaker 1: deer running. They're gonna be moving more. Look toward areas
Speaker 1: where bucks will travel. I like to start out looking
Speaker 1: first thing on the ridges, finger ridges in the mornings
Speaker 1: or at the top third of the mountain. As that
Speaker 1: thermal changes, it's gonna be drifting the wind up. Well,
Speaker 1: the bucks are gonna be cruising looking for does. So
Speaker 1: what they're gonna be doing is they're gonna be moving
Speaker 1: in places where they can cover a lot of ground
Speaker 1: and hopefully catch the scent of a dough. That tends
Speaker 1: to be ridges in the mornings as the thermals arising,
Speaker 1: because they'll catch the wind on either side as well
Speaker 1: as like the top part of the mountain. That's why
Speaker 1: I say it's glass the top third of the hill,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be catching the scent of does down below. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the stocking portion, that is the
Speaker 1: hardest part because as they're running, they might get up
Speaker 1: and run off. So if you've got two guys, two
Speaker 1: guys is preferred, leave one guy on point. If you
Speaker 1: can hunt in pairs, you're gonna be a lot more successful,
Speaker 1: just because when you go on a stock, having somebody
Speaker 1: watch that animal and know whether they're gone or not
Speaker 1: is huge. But what I like to do is I
Speaker 1: like to watch the deer. I like to watch to
Speaker 1: where they bed down, and then I play in my
Speaker 1: stock from there, leave one guy on point. If the
Speaker 1: animal moves or whatever, have hands signals worked out, like, hey,
Speaker 1: that deer just decided to get up and run off
Speaker 1: and chase a dough for no reason, or he's still
Speaker 1: in that position. A lot of the CU's deer hunts
Speaker 1: stocks that get blown. They get blown by sneaking in
Speaker 1: and just assuming that they're gone because you don't see them,
Speaker 1: and then they blow out right at your feet. They
Speaker 1: will hold very tight. But I'd say most of the
Speaker 1: time when I'm stocking CU's Dear, the plan is to
Speaker 1: come in from the top. It's mountainous. Most mountain stocks
Speaker 1: are best performed sneaking down on top of the animal
Speaker 1: because they're bedded looking down. If you can get the
Speaker 1: wind right, you'll probably get into position for a shot.
Speaker 1: And then when you get into that position for a shot,
Speaker 1: be quiet, be patient, and make sure that you have
Speaker 1: good shooting lanes for when they happen to stand up.
Speaker 1: I think that's the simplest way I could walk you
Speaker 1: through that at and I you know, I love cuse
Speaker 1: deer hunting. So maybe a little bit later that's a
Speaker 1: good topic for an actual podcast in the future. If
Speaker 1: that's something that you guys would like to hear about,
Speaker 1: let me know. I mean, also, you can always continually
Speaker 1: send me, you know, ideas on what what you want
Speaker 1: to hear about. This question comes from Luke. It's about
Speaker 1: shop placement. First, he says, I wanted to thank you
Speaker 1: for the glass and tips and tricks. Your advice to
Speaker 1: glass even more in the trees led to my personal
Speaker 1: best white tail this season. He eyed a small bedded
Speaker 1: buck just the sliver hair gave him away, and then
Speaker 1: his much larger buddy, and he sent a picture actually
Speaker 1: a great buck, Max, congrats. So his question is I
Speaker 1: ran into a next shot predicament this season, A large
Speaker 1: five by five white tail buck twenty seven yards standing
Speaker 1: a broadside looking at me. The only thing I could
Speaker 1: clearly see was the deer's head and neck through the brush.
Speaker 1: I opted for him to walk forward and hopefully I
Speaker 1: have a vital shot. But the deer bounded off. I
Speaker 1: wasn't rushed. He stood there for what felt like a minute.
Speaker 1: My third yard groups are good, but I've heard with
Speaker 1: a bow these neck shots are frowned upon. Would you
Speaker 1: have taken this deer? I think after reading this, you
Speaker 1: did the right thing. If there's a deer standing broadside,
Speaker 1: I would never attempt that neck shot, especially at thirty
Speaker 1: yards with a bow. An animal at the sound of
Speaker 1: that string, even if they aren't super keyed in, has
Speaker 1: the tendency to jump. What that could do is there's
Speaker 1: very little vital in the neck for a bowshot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot more chance that you would wound that deer,
Speaker 1: hit that dear bad, or miss that deer than actually
Speaker 1: killing the deer. You made the right decision. That's the
Speaker 1: whole part about bow hunting. That's the whole part about hunting.
Speaker 1: That's the frustrating part. You can have them so close
Speaker 1: yet so far away, thirty yards and no shot. That's
Speaker 1: just classic what happens when you start bow hunting or
Speaker 1: bow hunt long enough, you're going to have something that
Speaker 1: was almost an opportunity. But to be an ethical hunter,
Speaker 1: meaning patient and waiting for the opportunity when you can
Speaker 1: make a clean, ethical shot is key. It's what separates
Speaker 1: us from the other animals out there. Chasing wolves don't
Speaker 1: have those same ethics, but as humans and as hunters,
Speaker 1: we value those ethics because we want to make sure
Speaker 1: that when we take an animal, it's clean, it's fast,
Speaker 1: and we did everything in our power to make sure
Speaker 1: that we secured them. So if I have a deer
Speaker 1: this broadside and I don't have a clean shot, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait for that clean shot. If that clean shot
Speaker 1: doesn't present itself, that was just how that opportunity worked out,
Speaker 1: and you keep remaining persistent and hoping for a better
Speaker 1: opportunity next time. So good work, you did the right thing.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't beat myself up over that. I would actually
Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back because that's the move you
Speaker 1: should have made, all right. So our final question comes
Speaker 1: from Brett Cokes. He says, thanks for all your tips.
Speaker 1: It just feel my mule der tag yesterday in my socks,
Speaker 1: So thanks for that stealthy tidbit. Shoes of situation man.
Speaker 1: Good work. I'm hunting elk for the first time over
Speaker 1: in Western Washington, pretty unfamiliar with the area besides online
Speaker 1: doing some on X scouting, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: forums are saying, you know, hunt the wet side and
Speaker 1: camera waiters. He's not really into that idea. It seems
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, so he wanted just a few tips
Speaker 1: on hunting wet areas, as well as maybe something for
Speaker 1: rain gear options. He also goes on to say, really
Speaker 1: appreciate the tips of cutting the distance. I think this
Speaker 1: is what young hunters are, inexperienced centers have really needed
Speaker 1: for a long time. Someone who's willing to spread the
Speaker 1: knowledge of those of us who didn't grow up hunting
Speaker 1: or may just need some more confidence. Thanks again, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and I love hearing about that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff as well, because otherwise why do I take the
Speaker 1: time to do this. I love knowing that these podcasts
Speaker 1: are actually helping people. So here's my philosophy on hunting
Speaker 1: really wet areas. And I'll just break down rain gear
Speaker 1: because a lot of people ask about it real wet stuff.
Speaker 1: I've tried a lot of different types of rain gear,
Speaker 1: and I think that for the really wet places that
Speaker 1: I hunt, say like um, the West coast of New Zealand,
Speaker 1: or even down south and New Zealand, Southeast Alaska, Kodiak Island,
Speaker 1: or pretty much anywhere in Alaska coastal areas as well.
Speaker 1: It can be just wet. The grass is wet, it's
Speaker 1: always wet, it's raining, it's always wet. You're crossing a
Speaker 1: lot of streams and creeks that's always wet. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of options for rain gear. The most expensive
Speaker 1: stuff is generally the best stuff. The gore pro I
Speaker 1: find is probably the best stuff to keep you actually dry,
Speaker 1: but it's also stiff and loud, so if you're hunting
Speaker 1: more thick cover where it's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: still hunting, it's not necessarily the best option for that.
Speaker 1: Now you have to weigh in the type of wet
Speaker 1: that it is. Is it cold wet? Are you going
Speaker 1: to be cold and you could get hypothermia? In that case,
Speaker 1: you definitely want the rain gear. If it's just hey,
Speaker 1: I'm day hunting, it's I'm gonna be wet, but I've
Speaker 1: got placed to dry out every night. Sometimes you might
Speaker 1: just go find a water resistant pant. You know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get soaked, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you can go dry out. It's a lot more quiet,
Speaker 1: a lot more stealthy. I would say for real wet
Speaker 1: hunts where I want to make sure I remain dry,
Speaker 1: I actually just hunt in my rain here all day,
Speaker 1: and I start out that way. I see a lot
Speaker 1: of guys have their hunting pants on, then they throw
Speaker 1: their rain here over the top of your hunting pants. Look,
Speaker 1: you're just when you put rain gear on, you got
Speaker 1: to know that you're still gonna get wet. You're either
Speaker 1: gonna get wet from the inside out sweating it's raining
Speaker 1: on the inside your ring gear, or you're gonna not
Speaker 1: wear rain gear and you're gonna get wet from the
Speaker 1: outside in. So what I do is I start light.
Speaker 1: I just wear my rain gear over a really light
Speaker 1: thermal so that kind of creates an extra layer that
Speaker 1: allows my sweat to evaporate and then go through my
Speaker 1: gortex layer. Then when I'm hiking or moving a lot
Speaker 1: of times I will try to vent if I can,
Speaker 1: but also think about the places where water seeps in
Speaker 1: tear clothes. When I'm hunting really wet areas, I see
Speaker 1: people all the time just walking around with their hoods down,
Speaker 1: and then water is just pouring down your back and
Speaker 1: soaking you either way. So if I'm using my rain
Speaker 1: gear a lot of times, I seal up the cuffs,
Speaker 1: I put gloves over the top, I use gators to
Speaker 1: prevent water from soaking down into my boots, and then
Speaker 1: I wear very little underneath that rain gear, maybe just
Speaker 1: a light shirt, light thermals, and just hunt in the
Speaker 1: rain gear for that day. That's the best way to
Speaker 1: do it. If you start hunting waiters or other stuff,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be thick, bulky, you're gonna sweat even more.
Speaker 1: But just doing rain gear with a light layer underneath,
Speaker 1: that's the best way to hunt super wet areas. I
Speaker 1: think we covered so much this week. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about this new year. I'm excited about that top ten resolutions.
Speaker 1: Pick some of those, let me know how it goes.
Speaker 1: I love to hear those kind of success stories, even
Speaker 1: if you just do one of those things. Make some
Speaker 1: kind of goal, make a hunting goal. I'm big on
Speaker 1: goals my whole life. I've set goals and tried to
Speaker 1: achieve those goals. And when you set a goal, write
Speaker 1: it down. Don't just pick one of these and make
Speaker 1: it a mental note, write it down, put it somewhere
Speaker 1: where you can see it every day. Put it on
Speaker 1: your mirror in your bathroom. Put it when your phone
Speaker 1: turns on as a screen saver. Put your goals there.
Speaker 1: Make it something that you see every day that hits
Speaker 1: you in the face and says, that's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this year. That's what I'm gonna do for myself,
Speaker 1: to make myself a better hunter. That's the whole goal
Speaker 1: here is to be better in the field, to optimize
Speaker 1: our time, so when we go out, we're more successful
Speaker 1: more often. And I think if you pick a few
Speaker 1: of those things and stick to them, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: some serious success. And if you don't find success, I
Speaker 1: think that you're going to find a better quality of
Speaker 1: life and maybe an adventure too along the way. So
Speaker 1: until next week, stay thirsty and keep cutting the distance. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the first time I've used that as a sign off.
Speaker 1: The title. I like it, will change it