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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another Cutting the Distance podcast. I had
Speaker 1: such great response on the Q and A on the
Speaker 1: last one I did, so I've decided to up the
Speaker 1: amount of Q and A s that we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: and just figured now is a good time. The hunting
Speaker 1: season is upon us, and I just thought i'd be
Speaker 1: cool to answer a few of the questions that I've gotten,
Speaker 1: so I had Ben O'Brien come help me. He's going
Speaker 1: to read a few of the questions. We've gotten a
Speaker 1: ton of emails. I've responded to as many things on
Speaker 1: social as I can. However, the emails, I just can't
Speaker 1: even get to all of them, especially during hunting seasons,
Speaker 1: but they do get read, and then I'm pulling out
Speaker 1: a few bits and pieces here and there and putting
Speaker 1: those into this Q and A as well as I'm
Speaker 1: taking a lot of the input and building out future
Speaker 1: podcasts things to talk about. UM. I think that that's
Speaker 1: extremely helpful because I want it to be about what
Speaker 1: you guys want to learn as well, so I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I think you need to know. But then
Speaker 1: there's some stuff I'm not even thinking of that people
Speaker 1: need to know as well. So I really appreciate all
Speaker 1: the interaction. I think that that's the best part about
Speaker 1: doing this podcast. That's what's keeping me going is just
Speaker 1: the awesome response that we've gotten so far, as well
Speaker 1: as you know, the interaction between everybody. So many awesome
Speaker 1: success stories that I've seen so far. That's my favorite part,
Speaker 1: just seeing seeing the success. So thank you very much.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I brought Ben in today to just give
Speaker 1: me a hand read the questions. I like the questions
Speaker 1: to be fresh, so I'm not scrolling through. I'm letting
Speaker 1: him pick the questions. Then I will read the questions
Speaker 1: or I will answer the questions. He will read the questions.
Speaker 1: And as he said, and as Remy said, like, we're
Speaker 1: reading all your email. So if you send an email
Speaker 1: in a ramy at the media dot Com, we're reading
Speaker 1: them all. Um. If you don't get a reply, we apologize.
Speaker 1: This is our reply, which we are reading all these
Speaker 1: things and crafting the content um based on this. So
Speaker 1: we got some good would ready to Remy? I'm ready? Yeah? Okay? Blaine?
Speaker 1: Was that Blaine Anderson wrote in He said, stoked for you.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear about advice and tactics on
Speaker 1: reading wind and how exactly it affects your decisions, as
Speaker 1: well as how and when exactly thermals work. So I
Speaker 1: think the headline there is like tell us about thermals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: covered it a little bit in the Mule Deer podcasts
Speaker 1: or the spot stock just planning a stock as far
Speaker 1: as you gotta consider wind. But I wasn't able to
Speaker 1: really dive into wind, and I think that I'll answer
Speaker 1: it as the question, but I'll also gotta would be
Speaker 1: a great podcast in the future is just really deep
Speaker 1: diving into the way wind works. So if you think
Speaker 1: about fluid dynamics, wind is actually counted like when you're
Speaker 1: when they calculate the air flow, the flow of air,
Speaker 1: it's the same as water. It's a fluid dynamic. So
Speaker 1: you also when you're looking at the landscape have to
Speaker 1: think of wind acting like water. If you were to
Speaker 1: pour a bucket of water at the mountain, how would
Speaker 1: it flow? Think about the way a river flows when
Speaker 1: it hits a rock. What does it do? Well? If
Speaker 1: it hits a rock over the top, it creates what's
Speaker 1: a bed where it goes over the top and then
Speaker 1: jets smooth or it hit makes it eddy when it
Speaker 1: hits something and swirls as it goes around the rocks
Speaker 1: on the edges. Water does the exact same motions as air.
Speaker 1: So when you're thinking about the mountain and the way
Speaker 1: the air is flowing, think of it like the direction
Speaker 1: of the air is pouring water, and how that water
Speaker 1: would react on the features is how the wind will
Speaker 1: react as well. That's the best way to think about it. Now.
Speaker 1: Thermals are interesting because they can be consistent, but they
Speaker 1: can also really mess you up when you're planning stock
Speaker 1: or trying to get in close. So I'll just tell
Speaker 1: you the way that I think about thermals. There's a
Speaker 1: ton of You could go on Wikipedia and probably get
Speaker 1: the most scientific explanation of exactly what a thermal is.
Speaker 1: But think of a thermal the way I think of
Speaker 1: it is like a hot air balloon. Hot air rises,
Speaker 1: so in the mountains, it's particularly consistent in most places
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of temperature swings between night and day.
Speaker 1: So in the morning, when the sun comes up, it
Speaker 1: starts to heat the ground. That hot air then rises,
Speaker 1: so the thermals rise in the morning. What that does
Speaker 1: is that pushes the air or the current up into
Speaker 1: the air as well as when you put a hill
Speaker 1: in there, it pushes it up a hill. So in
Speaker 1: the morning, the thermals rise up a hill. Now in
Speaker 1: the evening it's the exact opposite effect the cooling. The
Speaker 1: cool air then drops below the warm air, causing the
Speaker 1: current or the thermal to go down hill. Now here's
Speaker 1: a couple of little tips that they don't tell you
Speaker 1: in the thermal textbook and things that I always think
Speaker 1: of is that first part of the morning when the
Speaker 1: thermals first start going. That's when they seem to be
Speaker 1: the fastest but the most inconsistent. Now, you also have
Speaker 1: to remember when you're in mountains, the thermal might be
Speaker 1: rising on the sunny side of a hill, but it's
Speaker 1: drawing down the shaded side. So there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of times where I've planned my stock the wind where
Speaker 1: I'm standing, where the thermals are going up toward the animal. Well,
Speaker 1: I know if I get into the shaded side, it
Speaker 1: will be drawing down that other side of the canyon.
Speaker 1: So I play it a lot where yes, it's rising
Speaker 1: in the morning, but you get in that shaded spot
Speaker 1: and you can. You can actually get around animals and
Speaker 1: make a better stock by trying to stay into the
Speaker 1: shade where they're gonna bed. It'll be drawing or dropping down,
Speaker 1: so it is consistent of thermal's rise in the morning
Speaker 1: and fall in the evenings. But you also have to
Speaker 1: there's that timing issue where you can play the shade
Speaker 1: on the north faces to get the wind right or
Speaker 1: the thermal right now in the evening. That's the hard
Speaker 1: one because when the sun's out you might be stalking
Speaker 1: from above, which is generally the best, and then it
Speaker 1: switches once that sun starts to go down. At some
Speaker 1: point that thermal is going to drop, so you've got
Speaker 1: a time clock ticking. What I like to do is
Speaker 1: I like to try to anticipate what that thermal is
Speaker 1: gonna do and then stalk into a place where either
Speaker 1: way I'll be okay. And that's hard to do sometimes,
Speaker 1: but it's something to consider that. I love it. Man,
Speaker 1: that's it's clear and concises. I've heard you know, wind
Speaker 1: and thermal's explained. I mean it is. I mean standing
Speaker 1: wind is the most important because wind is what gets
Speaker 1: you busted. A lot of people ask, well, what about
Speaker 1: sent a limit in the when you're hiking and hunting,
Speaker 1: None of that stuff works. You just need to play
Speaker 1: the wind. And just by understanding the wind, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that the wind swirls or
Speaker 1: is finicky and is unpredictable, But by spending a lot
Speaker 1: of time out there, I've really understood that it's not
Speaker 1: as unpredictable as you think if you know what it's
Speaker 1: doing where you're at, and a lot of that is
Speaker 1: maybe it takes a couple of days to understand what
Speaker 1: the winds like to do in that area. And you know,
Speaker 1: certain times of the day, midday when it's hot out
Speaker 1: and there is no win like, the thermals are still
Speaker 1: your scent will keep going uphill and that's always good too,
Speaker 1: because the thermals are going throughout the day. And then
Speaker 1: you just kind of got to anticipate what's going to
Speaker 1: happen as things change, as the sun moves, and start
Speaker 1: thinking about it critically. Yeah. I mean, in the white
Speaker 1: tail world, everybody's always sent control, send control sad control,
Speaker 1: But having the knowledge of where you're sent is traveling
Speaker 1: at Alice, traveling through landscapes is as if not more important,
Speaker 1: as important than those things, alright, what else we got? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Donovan Billings, He said, Um, and I know you were saying,
Speaker 1: and then my readings too, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: asking about solo hunting. D I y hunting always, but
Speaker 1: solo hunting being he said. Donovan said, I would like
Speaker 1: to hear some stuff for the first time, d Y
Speaker 1: solo public land hunters out there. I'm planning my first
Speaker 1: out of state hunt this year. I'll be camping in
Speaker 1: a tent and most likely going at it alone. I
Speaker 1: could just use some tips on gear and anything else
Speaker 1: that may come to mind. Yeah, So I have a
Speaker 1: lot of experienced solo hunting and there and there was
Speaker 1: a lot of questions that I noticed as well about
Speaker 1: hunting alone. Um, for those that maybe maybe they found
Speaker 1: this podcast through some other means, who knows. I have
Speaker 1: done a show for the last this or and just
Speaker 1: finish our tenth season will be eleven years now, called
Speaker 1: Solo Hunters. You can find it on Amazon Prime the
Speaker 1: newest seasons and then older seasons on YouTube. Still So
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen those and this has just happened
Speaker 1: to be a random solo hunting question, start by binge
Speaker 1: watching those seasons because there's just you're gonna pick up
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff watching, especially on What amazes me
Speaker 1: about this isn't exactly what Donovan's asking, but how you
Speaker 1: film those things, like how you specifically captured I know
Speaker 1: it's hard to get it done without a camera, but
Speaker 1: the best thing about solo hunter is seeing how you
Speaker 1: guys capture these hunts by yourself. Yeah, because it's very
Speaker 1: frustrating for the most part, but we try to leave
Speaker 1: the frustration in there the challenge of it. Um. But
Speaker 1: back to Donovan's question, some of the gear, now we
Speaker 1: have such good When I started hunting alone, there was
Speaker 1: no satellite text messaging. There was sat phones that were
Speaker 1: way too expensive for anything that I could afford. Um, there,
Speaker 1: I don't even think we had cell phones when I
Speaker 1: started hunting alone. So I think that there's a couple
Speaker 1: items that you can take with you. But then I
Speaker 1: think there's a few things that you just have to
Speaker 1: do old school. Um, you should always let somebody know
Speaker 1: where you're going and give a I'm going to be
Speaker 1: back by this date time. This is where I am,
Speaker 1: This is what my truck looks like. This is the
Speaker 1: kind of boots I'm wearing. Just in case God forbid
Speaker 1: something happened. Now with so much technology, I also highly
Speaker 1: recommend some kind of SAT messaging system like worst case scenario. Um,
Speaker 1: they've got I call them delrms because mine is ancient.
Speaker 1: But I think it's garment now reach. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Um. The spot ones are really good. I
Speaker 1: always thought the Garment was because that one can connect
Speaker 1: your phone, and then my buddy had that one on
Speaker 1: his Nevada deer hunt this year and broke his phone,
Speaker 1: so then to send a message took him years and
Speaker 1: it was just like old school texting. So that I
Speaker 1: think the spot one has its own keyboard. The in
Speaker 1: reach can out your phone. They've got the Mini or
Speaker 1: another one. That's a that's a great piece of equipment. UM,
Speaker 1: and you can start and stop the service whenever. But UM,
Speaker 1: definitely a good investment. Now. The other thing, when you're
Speaker 1: by yourself, you gotta carry all your own stuff, You
Speaker 1: gotta rely on yourself. I think that the best tool
Speaker 1: you can have hunting alone is being self reliant, and
Speaker 1: what that means is just having the knowledge, being a
Speaker 1: little bit bushy, having the knowledge of if a situation arrived, arises,
Speaker 1: how to get out of that situation. And also, you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have less ability to carry a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff if you if you've got another guy with you,
Speaker 1: you can split up tent and wait and other things.
Speaker 1: So everything in my pack I critically think about and
Speaker 1: I make sure that everything has multiple uses. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: if I've got a let's see some I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of some stuff that's in my pack. Always. I
Speaker 1: just try to every trip take out the things that
Speaker 1: I didn't use the trip before until it's about bare bones. Um.
Speaker 1: But I try not to double up on anything, Like
Speaker 1: I know some guys will have a multitool and then
Speaker 1: a skinning knife and then all this extra stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: really cut down the weight of the extra things you take.
Speaker 1: Make sure everything has a purpose, and it's like this
Speaker 1: is what this is for, this is what that's for,
Speaker 1: and and bring those kind of a few items if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. That jumped around a little bit there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean the end reach is a huge
Speaker 1: and I've I've used that all over the place, so
Speaker 1: I don't I don't go anywhere if I don't have
Speaker 1: service without it. I clip it to the the shoulder
Speaker 1: shop of my pack and just leave it there and
Speaker 1: it's always there, it's always charged. It's then on leave
Speaker 1: one without it. Yeah, And if you're by yourself to
Speaker 1: like just being self reliant, you need a little bit
Speaker 1: of extra Like I always have some duct tape wrapped
Speaker 1: around my water bottle. Um, that's always good for patching
Speaker 1: yourself up. Have some knowledge and what's in your first
Speaker 1: aid kit? Go through your first aid kit and no,
Speaker 1: it's in there because you know, the difference between a
Speaker 1: bad situation and whatever I mean I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: dark side of solo hunting is just no one's there
Speaker 1: to help you if if stuff goes bad. But that's
Speaker 1: everything else is just hunting, you know. But as far
Speaker 1: as gear goes, you just need something that can get
Speaker 1: you back safely. Really, that's the only difference. I would say.
Speaker 1: This one came the email. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: Just one major question. I haven't harvested deer or bear yet,
Speaker 1: and my success is only in bird hunting. How do
Speaker 1: you deal with disappointment in the field, not allowed to
Speaker 1: carry into other hunts. It's seriously hoping to be successful
Speaker 1: this year. And that's from Aaron Pearson, just asking about
Speaker 1: disappointment how to deal with it? I thought that was
Speaker 1: an interesting kind of off the wall question. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's there's a huge mental aspect to hunting. Um. You know.
Speaker 1: I I've said it a million times to people that
Speaker 1: I've been guiding or friends that are on a hunt
Speaker 1: calling me, tell me how the hunt good. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the best things you can take on a
Speaker 1: hunt is a positive mental attitude. And the way that
Speaker 1: I approach a hunt, especially really hard hunts, Like I've
Speaker 1: got a hunt coming up that I know is just
Speaker 1: going to be grueling, So before I go, I set
Speaker 1: my mindset of I'm here to have a good time. Now.
Speaker 1: I think you just have to anticipate that things are
Speaker 1: gonna go wrong and set your mindset that when those
Speaker 1: things go wrong, how you deal with them really determines
Speaker 1: how long, how hard, because once you start getting down
Speaker 1: and you start you start getting frustrated, you start making mistakes,
Speaker 1: you stop thinking clearly you want to go home, and
Speaker 1: you start carrying that into other hunts. Instead of saying
Speaker 1: it as I'm unsuccessful, see it as what today I
Speaker 1: learn this trip, look at it as I'm going out
Speaker 1: for the experience of the hunt, and then take those experiences,
Speaker 1: keep your attitude positive and learn every time like it's
Speaker 1: a learning experience. You go out, you aren't successful, Well,
Speaker 1: what did you do that time that cause you not
Speaker 1: to be successful? You should be thankful that you learned
Speaker 1: that this time. You know, you should be constantly getting
Speaker 1: better and and that should be your mindset. So it's
Speaker 1: really just a shifting of the way you're thinking of
Speaker 1: looking at things. I know, there's so many hunts that
Speaker 1: I've been on that have just been especially when I'm
Speaker 1: by myself, grueling, and every day things go wrong. It's
Speaker 1: just part of it. But yeah, it's how you react
Speaker 1: to the things that go wrong. Is it something that
Speaker 1: pushes you forward or is it something that kind of
Speaker 1: drags you down? And that honestly, like your mindset is
Speaker 1: a decision that you make when you get up every day,
Speaker 1: and that can be taken into daily life, and I
Speaker 1: think you decide your attitude. That's why hunting, especially the
Speaker 1: kind of hunting you do most the back country hunting,
Speaker 1: is the most rewarding, at least to me, because it's
Speaker 1: it's constant challenge and you're always left with even if
Speaker 1: you're successful, you're always left with something you didn't do
Speaker 1: right or something you could have done better every single time.
Speaker 1: And that's if you're not out there for the challenge,
Speaker 1: then you got the wrong, wrong mindset in the first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I get it. I've had those tough hunts. You're like,
Speaker 1: nothing's going right. Is this ever gonna work? This sucks?
Speaker 1: But you just have to kind of take it and say, well,
Speaker 1: this is what I learned, this is what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do different. And you might do it different and
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, but at least you just I mean,
Speaker 1: I almost wake up every morning on a tough funt
Speaker 1: and think this is freaking awesome. Look where I am?
Speaker 1: How cool is this? Like? Be stoked, keep the stoke,
Speaker 1: Embrace the challenge, be intrinsically motivated. I don't like the situation.
Speaker 1: Motivate you like that. Um here's the one from Dan.
Speaker 1: It just says Dan. Um. A lot of people are
Speaker 1: asking these questions. There are a lot of people writing
Speaker 1: and asking very specific questions that I don't know that
Speaker 1: we can answer. But this is a good example of
Speaker 1: what it looks like. Um. He said, I'm a white
Speaker 1: tailed bow hunter from Georgia who has decided on a
Speaker 1: d I y mule deer hunt in southeast Idaho or
Speaker 1: at least putting in for general tax. Any advice you
Speaker 1: want to throw my way would be greatly appreciated. To
Speaker 1: keep up the great work and continued success from Dan. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I think well. First off, the drive from Georgia, Idaho
Speaker 1: is very long. Download every podcast because that by that
Speaker 1: time it will be like fifty two of them, and
Speaker 1: then stunted, start from the beginning and listen through again
Speaker 1: on your way out there, because I think the whole
Speaker 1: point of the podcast is to answer those kind of questions.
Speaker 1: I hope that when you listen to the tips and
Speaker 1: the other things, some of them might seem kind of
Speaker 1: random or maybe not in your wheelhouse. But overall, what
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it does is give you a database of
Speaker 1: things to think about when you're out there. Honestly, a
Speaker 1: lot of this hunting isn't based on the spot and
Speaker 1: go oh where should I go? Where did you hunt?
Speaker 1: I want to hunt? Where you hunt? Like that doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter because most of the hunts I go on
Speaker 1: it's the first time I've ever been there. The place,
Speaker 1: honestly is the least important thing. It's the little tactics
Speaker 1: of just pick a spot. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: hunts I've just picked a spot. I mean you could
Speaker 1: say people could be going, oh, Idaho is going great
Speaker 1: right now, but I mean find any spot. A lot
Speaker 1: of time. Most of the hunts I look for places
Speaker 1: that people aren't talking about. But you just take the
Speaker 1: things that I've talked about, the little bits of scouting,
Speaker 1: some things from the stories, and just kind of formulate
Speaker 1: a plan in your head, create a picture of what
Speaker 1: you should be looking for, and then just pick a
Speaker 1: random place where it's legal to hunt and you can
Speaker 1: get a tag. And then employees started employing those tactics.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if you're asking where should I go?
Speaker 1: I think you're already at a loss. You should be
Speaker 1: asking like, what are things that I should know that
Speaker 1: are gonna make me better? And those are all the
Speaker 1: things that I'm talking about in my mind that will
Speaker 1: make you better. So I think that that's going to
Speaker 1: be the best thing. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: work on this podcast. I work here in mediator, but
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of of I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 1: learning how to dog and elk. I mean that's like
Speaker 1: four oh four class level elk hunting learning. But you
Speaker 1: can you can know even if you're a one oh
Speaker 1: one guy, you can listen to this podcast and and
Speaker 1: understand where you need to get to or understand like
Speaker 1: the movement of an animal. You may not be able
Speaker 1: to call like remy, but you can understand the movement
Speaker 1: of an elk or what that elk is thinking, so
Speaker 1: you can. It'll fast track your calling to get you
Speaker 1: to that next level if you understand those things. So
Speaker 1: that's just one example, but they're, in my opinion at
Speaker 1: least are tons of examples of that. Yeah, get you there,
Speaker 1: all right? You got Well, we got one more dialed
Speaker 1: up here. It's from Matt Middleton. He said, I'm new
Speaker 1: to hunting and I'm preparing for my first archery elk
Speaker 1: season here in eastern British Columbia. That's great country over there.
Speaker 1: Having trouble finding hunting partners, so it will be solo.
Speaker 1: I'm curious you have some tips or pointers to help
Speaker 1: a rookie adult onset hunter be successful. I've been scouting
Speaker 1: and spotted a few cows, but not a lot past
Speaker 1: a rut sign. I'm a little lost on what elevations
Speaker 1: I should really be targeting. I'm in the Columbia Valley region,
Speaker 1: which is very steep and rugged for the most part,
Speaker 1: with quite a bit of open and grassy wetlands in
Speaker 1: the valley bottom. Again, great podcast, huge fan, thanks for
Speaker 1: the help. And he's l hunting correct, he's elk hunting.
Speaker 1: He's really I think asking kind of the elevation he
Speaker 1: should be hunting a lot of questions, but the specific
Speaker 1: question is if you're in this situation, how do you
Speaker 1: target elevations or do you target elevations? So I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily target elevations, but I target the type of habitat
Speaker 1: that i'd be looking for. So we're talking elk um.
Speaker 1: It sounds like archery, you know, maybe that's a September
Speaker 1: type thing. It doesn't really matter the time of year
Speaker 1: as much um. I would say look for so elk
Speaker 1: are grazers. So let's just break it down. Anytime I'm
Speaker 1: I'm talking out hunt, first, break it down on your
Speaker 1: knowledge of the species. So, and this can go for
Speaker 1: anything like let's say you've got you're gonna go mule,
Speaker 1: you're hunting for the first time. Your best bet is
Speaker 1: to understand the animal that you're going after. And then
Speaker 1: once you understand that, then understand the type of area
Speaker 1: you're in and then break it down after the type
Speaker 1: of area in Okay, how does this animal interact in
Speaker 1: this area? So based on my limited knowledge of that region,
Speaker 1: but just based on what he said, it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's probably fairly timbered. UM. There's open meadows in the
Speaker 1: in the valleys, fairly steep kind of country. So elker
Speaker 1: elker herd animal and they're a grazer. UM. What that
Speaker 1: means is they prefer grass, whereas like deer like brows,
Speaker 1: the lead the bushes, whereas the grass the elk eat
Speaker 1: the grass. So first thing i'd be looking for is
Speaker 1: feeding areas. UM. Now, if it's super timbered, i'd be
Speaker 1: looking for those maybe north slopes maybe more gentle north
Speaker 1: slope UM, but maybe those valleys maybe not necessarily an
Speaker 1: elevation thing, so you might have above timberline and then
Speaker 1: open in the valley and then maybe some little openings
Speaker 1: in the north slopes UM in that country, So I'd
Speaker 1: be looking at first for the food. Then I'd be
Speaker 1: looking for areas that contain water. In that country, there's
Speaker 1: probably water everywhere, so that could just be you could
Speaker 1: almost dismiss that, UM and then cover well, is it
Speaker 1: all open or is there some places where they can
Speaker 1: go from food to water to cover in a short area. UM,
Speaker 1: focus on those areas that have that elk habitat. Now,
Speaker 1: every area is different. I'd say a lot of elk
Speaker 1: like that top third of the mountain though, but in
Speaker 1: your area, who knows. Maybe maybe hunting those meadows is
Speaker 1: the way to go a good way to check it
Speaker 1: out and be to scout some of that look for sign.
Speaker 1: If you don't see any sign in those lower meadows,
Speaker 1: then yeah, the key is maybe get up higher. Also
Speaker 1: look for some of those benches and some of those
Speaker 1: finger ridges is coming off the main ridge. UM. Elk
Speaker 1: live in some steep stuff, but they like to bed
Speaker 1: in less steep stuff. So anytime you can find a
Speaker 1: flat spot or a bench in steep country, you're going
Speaker 1: to find elk there, whether it's timbered or not. And
Speaker 1: using your topo map is a great way to do that. Yep.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's a good. So the answer really
Speaker 1: is understand the terrain, and hell, he'll accuse it you don't.
Speaker 1: You're not picking numbers when you're looking at elevation you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: the elk wive eight thousand feet. No, but once you
Speaker 1: start finding them, um, God, this year I had a
Speaker 1: mule your hunt in his early season. It's like I
Speaker 1: was up high and I saw it, no bucks, And
Speaker 1: then I get to six thousand feet and start seeing
Speaker 1: bucks and everywhere I went, they just happened to be
Speaker 1: at that elevation that time here. So if you start
Speaker 1: seeing elk at a certain elevation, you're probably on the
Speaker 1: right track. Try to replicate that other places or deer
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean, it's not a bad theory of Okay,
Speaker 1: they like this elevation, but also really investigate what else
Speaker 1: is here that time of year, because now if you're
Speaker 1: hunting that same area later, the elk will be lower
Speaker 1: snow and other things Like winter range is a lower country,
Speaker 1: more mild country, has a lot more north slopes and
Speaker 1: a lot more grass. That's what they need that time
Speaker 1: of year. So yeah, I hope that helps. Well that's
Speaker 1: all we got. There's there's hundreds of emails here that
Speaker 1: we're reading and answering, um, And so I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: do more of these, won't we Yeah, definitely, And like
Speaker 1: I say them, you know, I try to respond to
Speaker 1: as many on my Instagram or whatever that I get
Speaker 1: as I can. I pulled a few those questions from there,
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Speaker 1: you're reading a lot from Remy at the metator dot com,
Speaker 1: where those last couple came from. And there's there's many,
Speaker 1: you know, the good thing or or convenient things. There's
Speaker 1: many that are similar to the ones we're reading. So
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Speaker 1: next week we'll get back into more stories and more
Speaker 1: tips and more tactics. But yeah, thanks for all the
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