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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to the podcast. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: Spring is almost in the air. I can feel it.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking outside. The sun is finally shining, even though

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Speaker 1: it was just horrible storm yesterday, and most of the

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Speaker 1: winter's hunting seasons have come and gone. But don't worry,

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Speaker 1: because there's plenty of great hunting adventures to still be had.

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Speaker 1: No matter where you live. I think there's probably a

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Speaker 1: few of these things you can hunt near you. So

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Speaker 1: this week we're going to be doing something a little different.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing a countdown of my top five

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Speaker 1: favorite spring hunts and give you some tips for finding

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Speaker 1: additional success. All also probably be sprinkling in a few

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Speaker 1: hunting stories along the way. So's that time. Bust out

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Speaker 1: your boots, get your ticks spray, and your bino is

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Speaker 1: ready because we're gonna be kicking this off with a

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Speaker 1: Spring top five countdown. So here's how this is gonna work.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be counting down these hunts or in

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Speaker 1: my order VH one style. So I suggest you place

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Speaker 1: your bets now on what I'm gonna say is number one,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see how close you get. So let's kick

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Speaker 1: it off with number five right here. Number five on

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Speaker 1: the cutting the distance countdown is turkeys. That's probably where

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Speaker 1: I just lost the audience. Everybody's turning it off. It's

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Speaker 1: not that I don't like to hunt turkeys, but I

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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of awesome things and other opportunities

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Speaker 1: out there as well. I will say, though, when most

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Speaker 1: people think about spring, hunting turkeys is a thing that

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Speaker 1: comes to my I I love hunting turkeys. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a very fun hunt, especially because it's something where

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Speaker 1: you can be vocal, you can call him in. It

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Speaker 1: is elk hunt esque in that way where you're calling

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Speaker 1: to an animal. They're responding to a call, possibly a decoy.

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Speaker 1: In many places across the country, they can be very

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Speaker 1: challenging to hunt, and I would say this is the

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Speaker 1: number one thing that most people chase in the spring

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Speaker 1: and out west. I think that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: hunt turkeys, but you don't find very many turkey hunters,

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Speaker 1: so it's just something you do. But there's also a

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Speaker 1: lot of other things that we like to chase over

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Speaker 1: the well. Last year, during some of my international travel

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Speaker 1: was obviously canceled because of the pandemic, so I got

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Speaker 1: back into turkey hunting and I realized, Wow, this is

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Speaker 1: a very fun, addicting, awesome hunt. I figured I would

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Speaker 1: give a couple of tips on some of the things.

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Speaker 1: Most my turkey hunting experiences is more big country, public

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Speaker 1: land type hunts, and primarily I generally get to chase Miriams,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think are the most challenging of turkeys,

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Speaker 1: but I've chased rios and and other turkeys as well.

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Speaker 1: I've yet to chase Easterns. I know, the guys that

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably a lot because they get hunted

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Speaker 1: a lot. But yeah, maybe they are a smarter bird

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Speaker 1: in the long run as well. You know, I know

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Speaker 1: I can tell the difference between a Miriam's and a

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Speaker 1: rio just in the way that they act, in the

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Speaker 1: way that they respond to calls, in the way that

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Speaker 1: cool thing about turkeys as man, their eyesight is so

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Speaker 1: keen that you really have to get that concealment. Really

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Speaker 1: practice keeping those movements limited, especially when they're coming in.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite ways to turkey hunt because most

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Speaker 1: of the places that I do turkey hunt are these

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Speaker 1: most big game hunts, you know, step one getting into

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Speaker 1: the field, doing my scouting and pay king out that

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Speaker 1: habitat where I think they're going to be. The thing

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Speaker 1: But I've also chased a few mountain birds as well,

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Speaker 1: and that's a lot of fun. The mountain birds are

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of looking for sign, looking for those

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Speaker 1: good roost trees. I found that in areas of pine,

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Speaker 1: And then I've been in like eastern Nevada and you

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Speaker 1: occasionally in a juniper tree. But they tend to like

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Speaker 1: those roost trees in the mountains. I found them more

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Speaker 1: because I use it as a locator gobble. But in

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Speaker 1: if you're gobbling, like it's dangerous. The places I'm at

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Speaker 1: I just do my standard turkey hunting thing like everybody else.

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Speaker 1: Try to call them in to my my setup after

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Speaker 1: the flydown, and that tends to work really well. But

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Speaker 1: you might not have to go as far there is

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Speaker 1: a lot of great opportunity for turkey hunters out west

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Speaker 1: because I think that they actually get hunted less because

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Speaker 1: there's other things to chase this time of year, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna jump into those other things as our countdown continues.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're at number four. I want everybody right

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Speaker 1: now to throw out a guess of what number four is.

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Speaker 1: And I promised you're probably gonna be wrong. If you

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Speaker 1: get this, you need to let me know. Kudos to you.

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Speaker 1: Number four in our Spring hunt Countdown is fish talking

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Speaker 1: about well, any kind of thing you can shoot with

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Speaker 1: your bow or spear. I know it. That one seems

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Speaker 1: pretty random. You're like, man, that's not what I was

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Speaker 1: thinking for Spring Hunting Countdown. And the turkey guys, the

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Speaker 1: dial to the next podcast. But wait, just wait, there's more. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think that uh, well, bow fishing is included in this,

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Speaker 1: so I kind of thought I'm gonna lump it all together,

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Speaker 1: spear fishing and bow fishing. If you're near an ocean.

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Speaker 1: I think spear fishing is a very cool experience. It's

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Speaker 1: underwater hunting, and it's that spring summertime when other things

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Speaker 1: start to slow down, that I can go away and

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Speaker 1: add some different kind of protein to my diet. For me,

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Speaker 1: I primarily live off of wild game. I never go

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Speaker 1: of course I'll eat um beef or pork or whatever.

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Speaker 1: kind of fresh fish. Spear fishing is a great way

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Speaker 1: the fact that you need some some gear spear gun.

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Speaker 1: and I'll shoot some smaller reef fish with that, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, the gun for some larger fish as well.

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Speaker 1: Spear Fishing is a great way to just kind of

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Speaker 1: add that fish to the diet, and the springtime is

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Speaker 1: a good time to do it. But another thing that's

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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit closer to more people. Is is

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Speaker 1: bow fishing. It's something that I like to do this

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Speaker 1: time of year for us. It's mostly carp where I live.

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Speaker 1: They start to spawn as that water temperature starts to

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Speaker 1: move up, and that gets them out of the deeper

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Speaker 1: because you can either do it from shore, from a

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Speaker 1: I like to use my recurve for bow fishing. It's

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Speaker 1: great for that instinctive practice, and it's a great way

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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about getting in to some form of

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Speaker 1: you can get lots of shots. You can practice settling

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Speaker 1: the pin in and taking a shot at something and

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Speaker 1: have fun doing it. A lot of the places that

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Speaker 1: doing a service to some of the waterways and some

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Speaker 1: of the fisheries in that area. I know the place

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to focus on this spring. It was

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Speaker 1: There's thousands of carp. It's stunted the growth of other

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Speaker 1: kind of meat that right there is it makes it

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00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: worth the trip in itself. Now. The other thing is

430
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 1: it's a species of deer that is extremely fun to hunt,

431
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 1: so it puts it up there high in the countdown.

432
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: But there's also a lot of other free range exotics,

433
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: including our Dad, which is becoming very popular. I would

434
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: always call that the poor man sheep hunt, but it's

435
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,360
Speaker 1: getting pretty freaking expensive now. Um. However, there are some

436
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: really good over the counter options in New Mexico to

437
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 1: chase out Dad. Uh. They're few and far between. It

438
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 1: can be a very difficult hunt in some ways, but

439
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: that over the counter our Dad tag is a is

440
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: a fun hunt and it's essentially like having any sheep

441
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 1: hunt that you can find anywhere else, but it's over

442
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: the counter. I highly suggest that that's a really good

443
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: hunt to look into. Texas has I would say if

444
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: you're thinking about like free range exotics, the mecca everybody

445
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 1: knows is Texas and US. There are a lot of

446
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 1: like high fenced places in Texas, but there's a lot

447
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: of animals that have either escaped from those high fence

448
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: places or been released or whatever that are roaming free

449
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: in Texas. One thing that I find funny is that

450
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: elk are considered a free range exotic that can be

451
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: hunted year round in the state of Texas. The unfortunate

452
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: party about Texas is most of it is locked up

453
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 1: as private, but there are places that you can find,

454
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, where maybe you can pay a trespass fee,

455
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: you could do a guided type thing, which is always

456
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: an option, And then there are a few draw hunts

457
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: that you'll see. I apply for some of these hunts

458
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 1: every year. Um that include some wildlife management areas where

459
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: you can hunt on uh you just gotta draw it. Now.

460
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: Another great state for some of these free range exotics

461
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: as the state of Hawaii. Various islands, Maui, molakail and

462
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: I all have access here. Maui's primarily private, and you know,

463
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions about hunting Hawaii where

464
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: to go. Lennai is primarily private or is all private,

465
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: but there are some hunting opportunities there, you know, for

466
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: fees and other things. And then Molakai has a lot

467
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: of private but also there's some other areas that you

468
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: can hunt on. Pretty much all the islands there's somewhere

469
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: that you can hunt. And then other islands like Kauai

470
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: have some goats and pigs and other things some other

471
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: free range exotics. The goats are one that in Hawaii

472
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: do a lot of damage to a lot of the

473
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: native plant species, to a lot of the native wildlife,

474
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: and they explode in populations. That's a really good one

475
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 1: to get in on a hunt on um. It's especially

476
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: great for bow hunting. I kind of think of it

477
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: as like a good way to get good archery stocks

478
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: practice in a scenario where there's a lot of opportunity,

479
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: and actually I think billies are pretty disgusting, but um

480
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: nannies or young goats actually really good eating. One of

481
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: my favorite ways to cook on my kind of marinate

482
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: them in guaviaectar and then cook them up into like

483
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: slow cookingto like tacos and stuff like that. Beer tacos

484
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: are always awesome. So free ranging autics takes the number

485
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 1: two spot, I would say one of my favorite tactics

486
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: for hunting anything in this like spring season or these exotics,

487
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: as you really just have to kind of figure out

488
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: the behavior of the species you're going after, whether it's

489
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: a out dad, whether it's a axis dear, whether it's

490
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: a feral goat um, understanding the types of habitat that

491
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: they like and then where to look for him. That's key,

492
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: you know. The access dear they do like that thicker cover.

493
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: They travel in in big groups, and they like that

494
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: more jungle terrain, whereas the ow dad like that more

495
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: sheep country that those rocky bluffs, those outcroppings. They're very

496
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: nomadic and they're necessarily tied to water. So picking your

497
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: tactics as well based on that species. If I'm going

498
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,239
Speaker 1: out dad, I'm gonna say that is a major That

499
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: is probably one of the number one optics intensive hunts

500
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: you could ever go on. It's gonna be sitting down

501
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: and looking for an animal that really blends in covering

502
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: a lot of country with your optics and your eyes.

503
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: And then on the flips. I the way that I

504
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: like to hunt access DearS. I like to still hunt.

505
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: I like to move through areas until I find the

506
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: concentrations in the areas that they're at. They can be

507
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: fairly patternable because they're a herd animal, they kind of

508
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: move with the herd for safety, So you can kind

509
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: of figure out where that sign is where they're at

510
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: by doing a lot of still hunting, a lot of

511
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: moving around, and then focusing in on those areas where

512
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 1: they're concentrated. All right, now we are down to the

513
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: number one spot, the king of spring, and this spot

514
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: is gonna go to drum roll, please spring bears. Um

515
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: there is I think for me or a lot of

516
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: people Western hunters, you know, when we think about spring,

517
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: the reason that turkeys hits number five on the list

518
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 1: is because we have other things to hunt, and that

519
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: number one primary thing that people get to chase would

520
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: be bears during the spring. There's spring seasons in quite

521
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: a few different states. Many offer over the counter tags.

522
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: There are some states out west and only offer a

523
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: fall hunt, but Idaho, Montana, Wyoming has some spring action,

524
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: Utah has some spring hunts. There's a few good spring

525
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: hunts out there where you can just pick up a

526
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: tag over the counter and head out and hunt. One

527
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: reason that I think bears kind of become the king

528
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: of spring is because, you know, spring bear hunting is

529
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 1: a very difficult endeavor to kind of really figure out,

530
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to spot and stock. There's lots

531
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: of different tactics for hunting bears, So let's just break

532
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: it down like this. Here are the three main hunting

533
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: tactics for bears. It would be spotting stock, it would

534
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: be with hounds, or be baiting. Not all states offer

535
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: all those options. So some states like Montana it's spotting

536
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: stock only. Idaho offers spot and stock, hounds and baiting,

537
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: and then there's you know, states with other combinations of whatever.

538
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: For most people, spring bear hunting generally tends to be

539
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: spotting stock. I did a two part series last season

540
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: you can go back and find about the spring bear

541
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: hunting tactics, and I know that those have helped a

542
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: lot of people kind of try to crack the code

543
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: on spring bears. One thing that makes bears kind of

544
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: at the top of the list for me is, you know,

545
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: actually hunting him in the fall can be a lot

546
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: more difficult than hunting him in the spring. Bears are

547
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: are concentrated on food sources, and so figuring out those

548
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: food sources and like planning your hunt around matt as

549
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: things progress throughout the spring is a good way to

550
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: hone now on bears. But another really cool thing about

551
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: spring bears is just the terrain in the country there,

552
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: and it can be a mountain type hunt. It can

553
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: be a very fun glass ng optics intensive hunt. I

554
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: kind of think of it very similar to like a

555
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: mountain goat hunt early in the spring, because I like

556
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: to get up in the high alpine and look for

557
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: those new shoots when they're coming out of emerging out

558
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: of their dens and hitting those first kind of bits

559
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: of grass. And then as the spring progresses, I kind

560
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: of change my tactics to the places I look and

561
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: kind of go more off those logging roads and those

562
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: other things. But it's also a great way to get

563
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: out at this time of year and get into some

564
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: areas where you might want to consider hunting in the fall.

565
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: I use a lot of my spring bear hunting as

566
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: scouting new areas. Every time I go on a spring

567
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: bear hunt, I just kind of think of an area

568
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: where like this this year, if I go out, I'm

569
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: gonna be picking a spot where it's like, oh, I

570
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: have never hunted elk in this spot, so I'm gonna

571
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: go scout it out for spring bears and then kind

572
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: of start to learn the area for other hunts later

573
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: on as well. I think in my mind as just

574
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: a Western hunter when it comes to thinking about hunts,

575
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: and the springtime bears is just at the top of

576
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: my mind, at the top of the list. It's an

577
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: awesome hunt, and to be honest, spring bear meat is excellent.

578
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: It's got a little bit of fat, but it's not

579
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: too fatty, not too greasy. They're generally eating that new

580
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 1: growth of grass and other things that for all intents

581
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: and purposes the beginning of the spring, they're primarily herbivores.

582
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll get in the rock sides and try to

583
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: get a little squirrels and stuff. I've seen a gobble

584
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: up moths on Avalanche slide, but for the most part,

585
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: they're really hammering dandylions really uh really nutrient buds of

586
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: pine and or sorry, um furs and other things just

587
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: like the first green, high nutrient growth. That's what they're

588
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: getting because they're trying to pack on weight after that hibernation.

589
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: So bear meat is really good in the spring. I've

590
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: never run across the spring bear that I didn't like.

591
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: I have had some fall bear that I thought was

592
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: a little bit like okay, But when it comes to

593
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: bear meat, springtime, in my opinion, is the best. So

594
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things going for it, and that's

595
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: why it hits my number one spot. I hope you

596
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: guys enjoyed that countdown. It was just kind of fun

597
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: to put together some some things that I was thinking

598
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: and thought it might be something fun switch up a

599
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: little bit and you know, kind of kind of get

600
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: people's minds shifted on some hunts coming up some things

601
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: in the near future. One thing I want to do

602
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: for the podcasts for the rest of this month is

603
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: I kind of got this idea of will make it

604
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: based on the idea of train. So this month's podcast,

605
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: I've got a great pack training program planned out where

606
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: you can train like you're hunting, and these weighted rucks

607
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: will get you ready for any hunt this fall. I

608
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: get a ton of questions of how do I get

609
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: ready or live in flat terrain or I just want

610
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm in elk shape prepared for

611
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: the pack out. What are things that I can do

612
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: to stay fit to be ready for that? So I've

613
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: got some ideas for you guys for that. And then

614
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that I'd like to train

615
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: when I think about a hunting hole and what what

616
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: makes success, being able to spot things is always high

617
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: up on that list. So We're gonna sharpen our eyes

618
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna lay out a way to obtain eagle

619
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: vision in the upcoming podcast. So feel free to tag

620
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: me reach out on social media. You know, if you're

621
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: listening today, if it's a Thursday, you're right in there

622
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: on the first people listening. As soon as it's uploaded.

623
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: It might be kind of fun just to make your

624
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: own list to day if you if you want, maybe

625
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: like put your top five spring hunts or fall hunts

626
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: or whatever and tag me in it. I'd love to

627
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: see where things right for you. You know, one thing

628
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: I didn't actually put on my top five list was

629
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: fishing because we generally talked about hunting, but fishing is

630
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: pretty high up on that list. When it comes fall.

631
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: Once that weather starts warming up, you know, I really

632
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: love to bust out the fly rod or or grab

633
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: a bass rod, had some water, some local lakes, some rivers,

634
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: a lot of rivers before they get blown out with

635
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: the runoff. But man, it's an awesome time a year

636
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: to just get out and recreate and do some fun stuff.

637
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: But feel free to tag me in those. I'd love

638
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: to see your guys top five lists and today if

639
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: you If you do that, I'll try to see those

640
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: and share some of my Insta story and then feel

641
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: free if if you completely disagree with my list, tell

642
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: me why turkeys should be at the top. I'm I'm

643
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: all ears um have. I hope you guys have a

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Speaker 1: all next week. M