1 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics. They'll get you closer 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Hey, what's up everyone, Hope 6 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: you're all doing well. It's that time of year. It's October. 7 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: We are in the middle of our hunting season. If 8 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: it's that September October November time frame, all the stuff 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: that we've been talking about up until this point has 10 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: just been talking. Now it's time to gear up and 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: get into some action. I really like this time of 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: year because there's a lot of new seasons starting. Maybe 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: it's a muzzleloader season, a lot of general rifle seasons, 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff to be add especially out 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: west here. And as you load up, maybe you're gonna 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: head out for a hunting adventure this fall. I think 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: there's a few items that you're gonna want to consider 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: adding to your kit. Really, if I think about it, 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: one thing people often forget to talk about, or at 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: least hunters forget to talk about when it comes to 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: remote hunts, is the fact that you're probably gonna be 22 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: traveling a long distance off road in some pret remote 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: areas with no services. So maybe you're a guy that's 24 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: coming out west for the first time, or maybe you 25 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: live out here, and you know, these are just some 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: things that you're gonna want to think about. Because what 27 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna give you a 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: rundown for getting your vehicle Western hunt ready so you 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: can be self sufficient no matter what the weather or 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: trail throws your way. I'm gonna give you a rundown 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: of the twenty things that never leave my truck and 32 00:01:47,480 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: how to use them. Growing up in the state of Nevada, 33 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: I really learned pretty young how to travel off road, 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: and I think so much of that is something that 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: I often take for granted, because I mean, I remember 36 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: I was out deer hunting in the middle of nowhere 37 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: one time, and it's just there's a lot of remote areas, 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: a lot of really rough roads, and I was down 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: this road that took me probably half a day to 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: get down that I end up setting up a base 41 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: camp and hiking out from there, just nobody around, not 42 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: bothered coming back out that road, and here come like 43 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: a couple of jeeps and some other I don't know, 44 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: maybe a land cruiser or for runner or whatever. I'm like, 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: what are these guys doing out here? They did not 46 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: look like they had any hunting stuff with them, so 47 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: I kind of pull over and talk with them, and 48 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, we're overlanding. Overlanding. I've never heard 49 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: of that. What the heck is overlanding. I didn't even realize, 50 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: like that's a pretty big thing. It's like people go 51 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: out and off road and camp and whatever. That's just 52 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: what I did all the time, going hunting. I didn't 53 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: even know that that was its own subset of essentially 54 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: what I'm doing all the time. And when I came 55 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: to think about it, I was like, oh, man, I've 56 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: been over landing pretty much around the world. I mean 57 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: I've done those same things in Africa, the top end 58 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: of Australia, New Zealand, all across the Western US. I 59 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: mean my actually, my older truck, I put over a 60 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand off road miles, like some pretty 61 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: rough miles on that vehicle through all my guiding and 62 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: just traveling and and all that stuff. So over the years, 63 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: I've put in a lot of this time off roading, 64 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: and it's just something that I kind of always assumed 65 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: people did or whatever, and didn't even realize that it 66 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: was such a thing to travel these remote roads, and 67 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: it was just part of what we did, especially growing 68 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: up in Nevada. It's like I would say, in the 69 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: lower forty eight, it's definitely I would say the least 70 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: populated or has the most remote areas. There's a lot 71 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: of places that, you know, when I was growing up, 72 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: it might be hundreds of miles between services and pretty 73 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: rough dirt roads that you could get on. You might 74 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: draw a deer tag in an area that there's nothing around, 75 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: and then you've got to get yourself, your vehicle whatever 76 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: there and back and if something goes wrong, you've got 77 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: to be able to take care of it and get 78 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: back to where you're going. So I figured today I 79 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: might as well tell a good story about quote unquote 80 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: an overlanding adventure, which is essentially me just going hunting 81 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: and then parking. But you know, I think of those 82 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: places that I've been, There's been so many types of 83 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: recoveries and situations that I've got in. I like to 84 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: think of myself as pretty good, like I'll pat myself 85 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: on the back a little bit, but I don't think 86 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: there's anything that I can get stuck in and not 87 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: get unstuck so long as I have a couple of 88 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: tools that I like to always have. So I figured 89 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: might as well tell a good recovery story this one. 90 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: While you might think is going to come from somewhere 91 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: out west, let's just travel down to the South Pacific, 92 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: the South Island of New Zealand. We've got a ton 93 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: of people that love to listen to this podcast from there, 94 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: so we might as well throw some stories, some sprinkle 95 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: some stories in there, some awesome New Zealand stories. This 96 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: story takes place the first year I actually went down 97 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: to New Zealand. I don't even know the first time 98 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: I went down there actually trying to think about it, 99 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: but it was a while ago, and I essentially booked 100 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: like a three month long stay. It was like the 101 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: maximum amount of time before I could had to get 102 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: a different kind of visa, which I ended up actually 103 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: getting after that, but I figured I would go down there, 104 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: and I just really wanted to like explore hunt on 105 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: my own. Hunting Tar was like a dream of mine, 106 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: and I just realized on my guide salary. It was 107 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: not going to be. I mean, the price tag on 108 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,119 Speaker 1: those hunts was just astronomical for me at the time. 109 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: So I figured, well, I'm going to go down there 110 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: and see if this is something I can do on 111 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: my own. I'd never heard of at that point, never 112 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: heard of an American going down there and d I 113 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: y hunting. But it was a dream of mine to 114 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: chase tars specifically, and Shammy as well, and read deer 115 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: if I came across them. So I did months of 116 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: research and loaded up my stuff and just headed down there. 117 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: When I got down there, I ended up buying a 118 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: little Toyota High Luck Surf, which is just like essentially 119 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: it's for Americans. It's a Forerunner, but it's a deesel. 120 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: The mine was a diesel for Runner, and uh, this 121 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: one had a little bit of like aftermarket stuff, but 122 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,239 Speaker 1: it was I got it from a guy in town 123 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: that pretty much put some cool stuff on it, but 124 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: never really never really gave it a test run, you know, 125 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: which was perfect and it was a great deal. So 126 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: I bought that. I called it the Tar Car, and 127 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: traveled around for a while down there, and that we 128 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: just go to different places, hunting, camping, doing whatever. So 129 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: you know, through the course of the time, I've met 130 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: a lot of good people, and one of the guys, 131 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: a guide with me here in the US, ended up 132 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: going down there as well. So we decided we're going 133 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: to go out and do a little bit of tar 134 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: hunting up this one drainage that I've been hunting quite 135 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: a bit, and so we're taking the vehicle out and 136 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: we got kind of like a late start. We're a 137 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: little bit further north and we're traveling down to this 138 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: I like to I just wanted to explore as many 139 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: places as I could, so it was exploring somewhere a 140 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: little bit further north earlier, and figured, oh, let's go 141 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: back down to the canyon where I had done pretty 142 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: good on tar a few weeks earlier. So we get down, 143 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: We're going to drive up the river valley, and there 144 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: was this hut at the head of the river that 145 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: I had parked maybe two huts before and hiked up there. 146 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: But the hunting was really good once we got up there, 147 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: so I figured I kind of like GPS away out, 148 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: but I didn't have any mapping software or anything. I 149 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: just have like a little handheld GPS that kind of worked, 150 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: and then it ran out of batteries well, and then 151 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: I just it's like probably the first time I'd used it, 152 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: but I was hoping to try to find a good 153 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: track to get up to this hut. And there's maybe 154 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: I don't even know how many river crossings, so you 155 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: gotta picture. You're just driving up. You get to the road. 156 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: The road ends in this big wide river valley, and hey, 157 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: I got a snorkel on the vehicle suite. We're just 158 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: gonna drive across the river and pick our way through 159 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: the rocks all the way up the head of this thing, 160 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: and then just base out of there and do our 161 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: big hunts from there, because it seemed like a pretty 162 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: good spot where It's like, by the time I got 163 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: there and whatever, it was like, Man, it'd be nice 164 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: to be able to just base out of this hut 165 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: with all our stuff and then hike from there because 166 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: we could get into some rougher country and some bigger bulls. 167 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: So we got a little bit of a late start 168 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: out and we've got like this, I can't remember. We 169 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: stopped at a service station. There was like one of 170 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: those It was almost like a cocktail napkin map of 171 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: Actually we're like, oh, this is the river drainage we're 172 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: going into. And I didn't have any maps of anything, 173 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: but they have like this little I don't even what 174 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: it would be, like an advertisement for something where has 175 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: all these ads around it. And then the map was 176 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: kind of like just something to look at. So it 177 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: had a couple of different drainages and shewed some huts 178 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: on it, so I'm like, okay, cool. It was like 179 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: not to scale at least I didn't think or whatever, 180 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: but I figured it was based on something, and I 181 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: didn't know that there was other huts across the river. 182 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: So we get a late start out and we're like, hey, 183 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: maybe we'll just try staying at one of these huts 184 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: halfway up so we don't have to go all the 185 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: way because there's no way we're gonna make it up 186 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: this river valley at night. So we start driving. We 187 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: get to the first river crossing kind of where the 188 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: road ends across the river, go up, kind of picking 189 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: our way through the rocks, and it's starting to get dark, 190 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: so we just keep driving, driving, and finally kind of 191 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: get to this point where it's like, man, I can't 192 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: really figure out where somebody had been. There's some kirn's 193 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: where people had driven before, and some tire you can 194 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 1: kind of see tire tracks, but it's just like there's 195 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: no good route. And I'm and I'm assuming that most 196 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: of these routes changed constantly, just as the river blows out, 197 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: maybe even every time it rains. That changes. So I thought. 198 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: I pull out my little cocktail napkin map and I'm 199 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: like looking, I'm like, oh, hey, there's a hut over here. 200 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: Maybe we should just check that out for tonight. Go 201 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: stay there, maybe hunt around in the morning. We'll keep 202 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: heading up the river valley the next day. So Bart's like, sweet, 203 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: that sounds good. We're kind of like in the dark. 204 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: I'm like having him walk ahead a little bit with 205 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: flashlight and we're taking turns, driving and picking our way 206 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: across the river. Across the river get up on this 207 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: little bench and I'm like, man, this looks kind of wet. 208 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: I was like, you wait here, I'm gonna go check 209 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: it out and make sure something we can drive on. 210 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it sounds good. So I like walk 211 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: up and he's as I'm walking, he's like driving behind me, 212 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: and I'm like hold on, Like I give him a 213 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: sign like stop, stop, stop. He kind of stops and 214 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: I walk ahead and it's just marshy and I'm like okay, no, 215 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm like shaking my head. No, We're gonna turn around. 216 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: And I start walking back and he starts coming towards me, 217 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: and I'm like waving my arms like no, don't come 218 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: this way, don't come this way. I don't know if 219 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: he thought he could just like power through it or what, 220 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: but he gets in the boggy part and just buries 221 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: to the truck. Instead of just like letting off a 222 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: little bit, he just floors it more and just sinks 223 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: the vehicle right up to the floorboards. So I'm like, ship, 224 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: this sucks. And now I was starting to rain. I'm like, 225 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: oh man, well whatever, okay, we'll just camp here. So 226 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: we grab some stuff hike to the hut. I've actually 227 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: been stuck somewhere in like a very similar situation, so 228 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: that's why I was out. And I was by myself 229 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: the last time, so I was like, that's why I 230 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: was out walking at first. So he didn't get buried, 231 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: but we got buried. So then it started to rain 232 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: and just start downpouring. I'm like, oh man, this is 233 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: gonna be bad. So in the hut all night, just 234 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: like waiting out the storm, and go back the next morning, 235 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: and the truck just like sank because everything just the 236 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: water got deeper. Now it's like running water over it, 237 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: and it pretty much sunk up to the doors, just 238 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: completely buried. I'm like, man, this sucks, and this is 239 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 1: the place. You are not gonna nobody's coming to help you. 240 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: You're not. This is way before satellite messengers. This is 241 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: I don't even know if I mean, I owned a 242 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: cell phone, but I don't think I had a cell 243 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: phone that worked. Like, this is not nobody's coming from me, 244 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: this is this is not good. So we're like, all right, 245 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: well we'll just figure this out. So we decided to 246 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: We've got the high lift jack and we just start 247 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: trying to jack the truck up, but it just wouldn't 248 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: bite because it was so so soupy, so swampy. So 249 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: we start walking to the river, loading up our backpacks 250 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: with rocks, and then carrying our rocks up to the truck. 251 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: I would have tried to winch it out with the 252 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: high lift jack, but there was nothing to Winch two 253 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: and I couldn't get the spare tire out because we 254 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: were just bogged so deep. So we start taking rocks 255 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: and we're just trying to jack the end up, put 256 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: rocks underneath the tires, cutting branches and the trees, but 257 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: right in the middle of between the forest and the river, 258 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: so it's like a quarter mile of the river and 259 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: a quarter mile of the forest. So getting materials to 260 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: this particular spot was pretty rough. So we've got our backpacks, 261 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: we've got our rocks. We're just loading up the pack 262 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: with rocks, hiking them to the vehicle, putting the rocks down. 263 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: I think it took about a pack load of rocks 264 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: every time to just jack the vehicle up to go 265 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: to The rocks would sink, sink, sink, and you just 266 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: keep jacking the vehicle up and they would just keep sinking, sinking, sinking. 267 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: Maybe eleven or twelve rocks stacked on each other by 268 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: the time would actually bite and you can lift it up. 269 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: Then we'd stack rocks under the tires and then back 270 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: out a little bit and it would sink again. We 271 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: do it over, carry rocks, jack the truck up. It 272 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: took us I think three day days to get the 273 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: vehicle out. And as we calculated, you know, we go 274 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: to the river quarter mile, come back quarter mile about 275 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: a hundred pound pack because we just had I had 276 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: the big actually think I had a one of those 277 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 1: old like either Keelty freighter packs or like the Barney 278 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: style pack frame packs, and you could load that thing 279 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: with some serious rocks. We come back and I think 280 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: we figured out we carried like two tons of rock 281 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: or something over the course of those three or three 282 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: and a half days just to get the vehicle out. 283 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: And we kept having to do that, and we cut 284 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: down big sticks or whatever, put them under the tires 285 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: and build like ramps, jack the vehicle up, get stuff underneath. 286 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: We had to jack the back end up, in front 287 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: end up separately, keep stacking stones, and essentially build a 288 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: road out of this thing that was now flooded and 289 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: bogging the vehicle. However, the bright side to the story 290 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: is once we got the vehicle out, we did make 291 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: it to that final hut. Instead of going home, we 292 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: pushed forward. We made it to the hut that we 293 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: wanted to get to originally. Now we only had one 294 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: day left essentially to hunt, so we hiked up to 295 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: the head of the glacier and we both shot some 296 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: pretty good bulls. Are we packed him back. I actually 297 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: think I ran into a red deer on the way 298 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: down like a young stag. I roared him right in, 299 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: but I ended up passing him up because I figured 300 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: out maybe I'll find him a couple of years from now, 301 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: who knows. And uh, we we got our two big bulls, Are, 302 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: got back to the truck and made it out successful. 303 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: While most of our hunt was spent recovering the vehicle, 304 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: it was definitely an adventure to remember, whether you're new 305 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: to Western hunting or maybe you live out west, this 306 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: is what you do. This is your life. I think 307 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: that there's certain things that you should have in your 308 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: vehicle that can make you self sufficient, that can get 309 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: you out of pretty much any situation, and are some 310 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: things that can really prevent i would say, bad things 311 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: from happening. Mostly it's a safety thing, but it's also 312 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: just being self reliant a little bit. As a guide 313 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: and outfitter, every single year I run into people that 314 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: are from somewhere else, or even people that are from 315 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: nearby that are definitely under prepared in the terms of 316 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: what happens. If something happens. For example, just a few 317 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: weeks ago, I ran into a guy that had driven 318 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: up a road that you know, not very many people 319 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: probably drive up, and there was a windstorm and a tree, 320 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: giant tree blew across the road. This guy was just 321 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: sitting there waiting and hoping and praying that somebody with 322 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: the chainsaw would come by so he could actually get 323 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: his vehicle out. These kind of things, I mean, I 324 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: find in the desert in Nevada people that don't have 325 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: the right supplies or tools for their vehicles. Now, I'm 326 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: not saying that you have to be a master mechanic. 327 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: In fact, I am very mechanically uninclined, and I will 328 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: admit that, Like, I'm not the type of guy that 329 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna call to come fix your truck. But I 330 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: can get you out of pretty much any situation. It's 331 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: just a few things. Now, I've had to improvise my 332 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: kits so many times that now there's just things I 333 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: leave in my truck year round, so I don't even 334 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: have to worry about it. But this list of things 335 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: is things that you should definitely consider. And I'll give 336 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: you a few ways that I've used some of this stuff, 337 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: some out of the box tips. I mean, I've had 338 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: to mcgiver my way out of many, many situations, some 339 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: almost life threatening in vehicles on icy roads where you 340 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: almost go off the road, and I'm look in the 341 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: back and here's what I've got. I've got a set 342 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: of toast traps, and like, uh, that's it. You know, 343 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: some ratchet straps and toast traps and and some chains. 344 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: So you know, you can get by with very little. 345 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: But I think that there's a few of these items 346 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: that you're just definitely gonna want to consider or maybe 347 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: start to think about. So I'll run through this list 348 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: and maybe give some ideas and some of the ways 349 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: that you can use all this. So the top of 350 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: the list of twenty items that should just be in 351 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: every hunter's truck when you go out. First one, we're 352 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: gonna go with a shovel. It might seem simple, but 353 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: that shovel is going to come in in so many 354 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: different ways, not only for your base camp digging a hole, 355 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: just for your bathroom. As you've probably heard me say 356 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: other places before, don't leave your toilet and stuff above 357 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: the groundwork and blow around at a trailhead for everybody 358 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 1: else and just be disgusting like that bary your ship. 359 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: But the shovels for more than that. Growing up in 360 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: the desert, the shovels mandatory because you know, if you 361 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: happen to start a brush fire or something, you need 362 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: something to put it out. I have actually put out 363 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: another person's fire with my shovel, which who knows how 364 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: big that fire would have got if I didn't have 365 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: that shovel with me. But it's also good for later 366 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: in the season when you need to dig out of things. 367 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: Maybe you got high centered, maybe you got you need 368 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: to dig out underneath your tires. Maybe you're stuck in 369 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: snow and you've got to dig your way in or 370 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: out to assist yourself in a recovery. The shovel is 371 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: just a key piece that you can use essentially year 372 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: round for so many different things. So shovel one of 373 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: the things. Must have another item Number two, we're going 374 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: to say as a toast strap. Toast strap just a 375 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: big nylon strap that you can tow somebody with. I 376 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: have had many instances, and well, this one happened to 377 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: happen in New Zealand as well, where a vehicle broke 378 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: down and we had to tow our way out for many, 379 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: many miles. If you don't have that, it's going to 380 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: be very hard to get that vehicle out now. I've 381 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 1: also used a toast strap for other things like pulling 382 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: a tree out of the way. Toast trap I've used 383 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: to secure my truck to essentially the high side of 384 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: a mountain to keep it from sliding off a cliff, 385 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: you know. So there's there's just a lot of different 386 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: uses for this. Toast trap. Number three, we're gonna go 387 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: with a jumper box. I don't know how many times 388 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: I've got back to the truck and maybe a door 389 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: was left a little bit of jar. I remember one 390 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: time I was guiding. This was before I had one 391 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: of these little jumper box things. So by a jumper box, 392 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: what I mean is something that can jump your truck 393 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: without having to need another vehicle. The one I actually 394 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: have Line X, the spraying Bedliner company. I got it 395 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: from them. It's like this power bar. It's awesome because 396 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: I can charge my cell phone, my cameras, everything off 397 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: of it. So I actually it's kind of heavy, but 398 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: because I do so much filming and all that stuff, 399 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: I carry it with me in my backpack when I'm 400 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 1: packed in. It's like, instead of carrying a bunch of batteries, 401 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: I'll bring Matt charge up everything. But it also has 402 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: these attachments where I can jump my truck off of it. 403 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: And it's pretty small, pretty awesome little piece of kit. 404 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: But having something like that, I mean, you can get 405 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: something at Walmart wherever, just something that you can jump 406 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: your battery with in case you get back and you've 407 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: got a dead battery. Nothing worse than being out of service, 408 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: being miles from the road, getting back to your vehicle 409 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: and the battery being dead. I used to actually just 410 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: disconnect my battery at the trailhead all the time. I 411 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: figured out it's a good way to not have people 412 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: steal my truck and not worry about the battery dying. 413 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: But you know, having that jumper kit is really really good. 414 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: I know there's one time I was guiding. We just 415 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: got back to the trailhead. It's like one of those 416 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,719 Speaker 1: days was just like a long, long day. She's just like, 417 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: oh man, we're finally back to the truck. Yes, we 418 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 1: get to go. One of the guys that left his 419 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 1: door slightly open, and I have the keys inside. His 420 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: door was slightly open. Somehow the doors were locked. He goes, oh, man, 421 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: the door was left open, and then shuts it and 422 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: then the doors now locks. So now we've got a 423 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: dead battery because I have the keypad thing that's right, 424 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: So I could have got into the truck to get 425 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: the keys out, but the battery was dead. So not 426 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: only do we have a dead battery, but we now 427 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: have we're locked out of the truck, and I'm like, 428 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: gosh it, it's like twenty miles back to the road, 429 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 1: like the main road. I'm like, oh gosh, it's now 430 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: at this point, like I don't even know what time 431 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: it is, but we'd seen some elk in a different 432 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: spot from a long ways away. It's like tomorrow. We 433 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: want to get there. Otherwise we probably were just you know, 434 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: slept there. But all of our stuff is now eat 435 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: locked in the truck, like our backpacks and everything. Somehow 436 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: he's got locked in dead battery. It was a terrible, 437 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: terrible coincidence of events. I ended up breaking into the well, 438 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: I end up breaking my knife as well trying to 439 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 1: break into my truck, and then I decided to say 440 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 1: screw it and walk out so I'm starting to walk 441 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: out and I get about eight miles in, I get 442 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: one bar service. This is back when you got flip phones, 443 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: and just like one little bar. I'm like, oh yeah, cool, 444 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: this is crazy. Yeah awesome. So I called my buddy. 445 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, we're up at the trailhead. Can 446 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: you come get us. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, bring 447 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: some jumper cables and something to probably my door open with. 448 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: He's like, all right, cool, And we ended up just 449 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: hooking the jumper cables to the body and one of 450 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,199 Speaker 1: the lead wires and and I was able to use 451 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: my code, so I didn't have to pry open my 452 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: back window and jump the truck. But if I had 453 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: one of those jumper boxes, I probably would have been 454 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: a lot better off in that particular scenario, or actually 455 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 1: many other scenarios. Okay, so number four that was just 456 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 1: like a super tangent whatever, it's my podcast. Number four. 457 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: Oh tire plugs. Yeah, I'm always amazed at how few 458 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: people carry tire plugs with them, you know, off roading 459 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: like rocks. I mean, as long as you don't damage 460 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: the sidewall, I've you shouldn't do it. But I've repaired sidewall. 461 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: I've like put ten plugs in one sidewall thing and 462 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: just to get me out, especially in like a ranger 463 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: a TV. So if you aren't familiar with them, like, 464 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: this is stuff that I just always thought everybody knew about. 465 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: And then I realized like, oh, somebody's got a flat 466 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: they gotta stick in their tire or whatever, and like, oh, 467 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: I'll just plug it. So a tire plug is essentially 468 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: how it just is like a I don't know, a 469 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: piece of kind of like rope. You put some rubber 470 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: glue on it. You've got a rasp so you can 471 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: make the whole little bit bigger, rough it up a 472 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: little bit, and you stuff the plug in, you pull 473 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: it out, and it seals the hole in your tire. 474 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: They are super handied. Half they're like five bucks I think, 475 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: or you could get some pretty cool kits now on Amazon. 476 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: I showed this year's spring bear hunting ran into a 477 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: guy flat tire. He's like, oh, man, you know, is 478 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: there anywhere around I was like, Oh, we'll just fix 479 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: it right now, pull out my plugs, fix his tire. 480 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: He's like, oh crap. Then he immediately got on his phone. 481 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: Amazon Tire plugs and found some pretty awesome kits for 482 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: him for like twenty bucks on Amazon. So I probably 483 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: should buy one of those or maybe put them on 484 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: my website to sell. But they're pretty solid, So that's 485 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,239 Speaker 1: something that you should probably think about having and know 486 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: how to use them. It's so easy, like anybody can 487 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: do it, and it sounds difficult maybe if you've never 488 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: done it, but should just be something that you have 489 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: in your kid, because if you get a nail, it's 490 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: a long ways. I mean even if you're just road 491 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: driving from wherever. I mean I've been driving from Nevada 492 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: to a hunt in Wyoming, picked up a nail along 493 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: the way on a Saturday in the middle of the night. 494 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: Instead of having to go into a tire shop, I 495 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: just pull over, find the whole, plug the tire, and 496 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: keep on going my on my merry way. Now, if 497 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: you are going to use tire plugs, one thing you're 498 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: gonna need, and I suggest this, this would be what 499 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: number five? Maybe a tire pump. I got one. I 500 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 1: literally just picked it up it. I don't know, maybe Walmart, 501 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: Harbor Freight, not really sure. I think it's Slime company 502 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: makes it. It's just plugs into my cigarette lighter goes. 503 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: My dad has one that's like a it looks like 504 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: a cordless drill. It works with his cordless drill batteries 505 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: hooks up, you set the pressure and hit go. Yeah, 506 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: I guess his Milwaukee Like, you can set the tire 507 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: pressure you want and just pumps it up til it 508 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: gets to that. Those are super handy to have, not 509 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: just for recovering flat tires, but in the wintertime, if 510 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: you're on snow and ice, especially if you've got like 511 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: a really good short wheelbase and bigger, wider tires, go 512 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: out there and just let a little bit of air 513 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: out of your tires. Get those tires a little bit flatter, 514 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: makes them more like tracks, so you're running them like 515 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: low pressure, and man, you've got a lot better traction 516 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: over the snow and ice. You can get a lot 517 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: more places, or get out of a lot more places. 518 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: Then when you get back, pull your vehicle over, plug 519 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: in your air pump, pump those tires back up. That 520 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: pump is coming so handy for so many other people 521 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: as well. Like, I mean, I've run into people just 522 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: oh tires low whatever, Maybe just fill up along the way. 523 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many uses for that tire pump. 524 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: I end up having to buy one every couple of 525 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: years because I just use them and abuse them. But 526 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: for the price of it, they aren't very expensive, and 527 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: it's probably one of the best things in my truck 528 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: that I use more than anything, um and doesn't have 529 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: to just be used when you run into a flat 530 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: tire situation, like I said, using it in the wintertime. 531 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: I use it almost daily. Number six is going to 532 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: just be a jack now. I just carry like a 533 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: standard bottle jack or whatever kind jack. I mean, this 534 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: is something that every vehicle should have. I mean, I 535 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: think it goes without saying, but we're gonna go to 536 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: number seven now, which would be a high lift jack. 537 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: I always have a high lift jack in my truck. 538 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: And if you aren't familiar with a high lift jack, 539 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,719 Speaker 1: the best way to describe this just look it up. 540 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: It's it's super handy though. So the high lift jack 541 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: is just a really good thing to have for so 542 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: many reasons. So yeah, it's just like having a jack 543 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,959 Speaker 1: where you can jack things up, but it lifts the 544 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: body of the vehicle so you can get a lot higher. 545 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: It's really good if you're stuck, you can kind of 546 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: like maybe push yourself off of the jack, off of 547 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: whatever you're stuck on. Maybe got high centered on a 548 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: big rock or dirt bound. Maybe there's a scenario where 549 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: you're stuck and you need to put stuff under the 550 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: tire as well. You can jack up the whole back 551 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: end and stuff things underneath the tires a lot more efficiently. Now, 552 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: one thing you want to think about is if you 553 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: aren't familiar with the high lift, it essentially you can 554 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: lift the body the whole half of the vehicle. So 555 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: what will happen is that your suspension will keep the 556 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: tire and acts down, so you all you have to 557 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: do is just strap your axle to the body and 558 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: then jack it up stuff stuff underneath. It's also really 559 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: convenient as a winch. It's kind of hard to explain 560 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: how to do it, but what it is is there's 561 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: like a big handle that actually like a full grum 562 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: that pushes the jack up, so you can actually use 563 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: your toe strap which was up there and item to 564 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: hook that to the vehicle, and then maybe the next 565 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: item on the list chains to something further away, and 566 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: then you can actually use it as a winching device 567 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: to winch your vehicle out sometimes to get unstuck. What 568 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: I found is all you need is just a little push, 569 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: a little bit of some kind of pull in the 570 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: right direction to get you out from wherever you're stuck at. 571 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: And it doesn't always take like a winch to do it. 572 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: And if you've got a winch on your vehicle, that's great, 573 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: but sometimes that takes a lot extra wiring a bumper 574 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,239 Speaker 1: or some things that are expensive, even though they've been 575 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: getting cheaper lately. But you can use your high lift 576 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: to winch yourself out. I've done it so many times. 577 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: One of the ways that I normally do it because 578 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: if I'm stuck somewhere, it's probably I'm bogged in something 579 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 1: where there's not many trees around. So what I would 580 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,719 Speaker 1: do is I'd use my spare tire or bury something, 581 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: so I'd go out, I take my shovel, which I 582 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: always have, I dig a hole, I bury that spare 583 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I've even actually winched my truck off of 584 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: my tire iron like burying it and then putting some 585 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: rocks on top. You'd be surprised how much strength you 586 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: can get by just burying something and running some rope 587 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: or whatever through it, then using the high lift to 588 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: just winch myself out on whatever I've buried. I've even 589 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: taken logs, buried logs in a boggy area or in 590 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: sand like in snow. I mean, it happens in snow 591 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: so much. Sometimes all you need is just a little 592 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: bit of pull out of the ruts you buried yourself into, 593 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: and you can quickly pull yourself out and readjust so 594 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: the high lift is like, I think that every truck 595 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: should have one or vehicle. Okay, so we're gonna jump 596 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: on to number eight, and I said chains, and I 597 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: forgot that I made some notes here. What I meant 598 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: was tire chains on this one. Number eight. You definitely 599 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: need to have a set of tire chains in your vehicle. 600 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: It surprises me. I get asked the question a lot, like, hey, 601 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: when do we put chains on? When should I use chains? 602 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: Last week in the Q and A, I think this 603 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: question kind of spurred this whole thought of we should 604 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: definitely talk about stuff that should go in your vehicle 605 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: for people that might not encounter snow, a lot for 606 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: people that might not off road, a lot for people 607 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: that might not just know this stuff so tire chains. 608 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: I go chains for all four. But I'm doing this 609 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: a lot. You have to realize, like out west, there's 610 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: so many roads, say Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, where it's a 611 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: logging road, it was made to log timber. In the summer, 612 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: they're great roads for driving on. You could drive pretty 613 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: much a sedan up them most time of year. But 614 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: what happens is in the wintertime you get the snow 615 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: that turns to ice. That ice now makes it a 616 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: very very slippery road. And these roads are carved out 617 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: of a mountain. There essentially one lane roads carved out 618 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: of a mountain that if you slip going up or down, 619 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: you're probably gonna go off a cliff and it's not 620 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: gonna end well for you. That's why I carry chains. 621 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: And you will encounter these kind of situations if you're 622 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: hunting it a lot of places out west, especially in 623 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: that October to November or later time frame. One of 624 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: the places that I absolutely changed were necessary to keep 625 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: me on the road. There wasn't much snow. It was 626 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: a New Mexico hunt in area. To be that I drew, 627 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: those roads got so muddy I had to chain up 628 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: just to stay on the road to get out of 629 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: where I was originally at. If I didn't have four chains, 630 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: I think I would have just been stuck on the 631 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: side of the road like a couple other vehicles that 632 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: we saw during that trip. So tire chains are must. 633 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: The question last week was how do you know when 634 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: to put tire chains on? And why chains over four 635 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: wheel drive or more than just four high four low. 636 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: When do you throw chains on? I throw chains on 637 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: when it's icy and you're slipping around, when you think 638 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: that they can do asians warrant you that you could 639 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: lose control and go off the road. Four wheel drive 640 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: can't keep you on the road because you need the 641 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: traction first off, so it's whenever you lose traction. Two 642 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: years ago, I drove up a road in Montana, had 643 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: a couple of guys with me. Drove up in the morning. 644 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: It's like, it wasn't bad whatever. It's a normal day, 645 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: a little bit icy, little bit snowy, but before wheel 646 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: drive going up come back down, the roads weren't bad. 647 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: But there's one shaded side and it was pretty late. 648 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: What had happened was it had melted during the day 649 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: and then turned to ice. I kind of thought about 650 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: it in the back of my head, maybe I should 651 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: chain up, but man, it's been so good. So you're 652 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: driving down and I've got it in four low the vehicle, 653 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: and now it's like the back end starts to go 654 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: the road slanted the wrong way. It's a big cliff, 655 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: and my back end starts to pass me. I'm about 656 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: to go off the road. I bury the nose in 657 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: the right side and the back of the truck slide sideways. 658 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: And my truck stops perfectly sideways on the road with 659 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: the tires just a little bit off, like I didn't 660 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: fall down the other side, but the tires were definitely 661 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: over the threshold of the road. And now we're just 662 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: sitting in the middle of the road sideways. I'm like, okay, 663 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: I opened up my door, put my feet on the ground, 664 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: and voom, I go right underneath the door and just 665 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: start sliding down the road. Oh, this is black ice. 666 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: This is bad. This is should have been chained up, 667 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: you know, it would have definitely helped. I probably would 668 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: not have even slipped sideways. So I ended up getting 669 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: out hooking my toast strap and like a ratchet strap, 670 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: one underneath the vehicle, one to the tire. It's kind 671 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: of hard to explain, but to a tree up on 672 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: the hill it was super mcgivrad. But I end up 673 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: running on my tire in a way where I could 674 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: somebody could slightly gas it and use it to winch 675 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: the back end over using the tire as the winch 676 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: because I didn't have a winch or anything, and I 677 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: didn't have my high lift with me either, so it 678 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: ended up working. I ended up sliding the truck down 679 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: and having anchored up pire so actually didn't go off 680 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: the road. Then I chained up and then I drove 681 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: out fine. So those kind of things where it's slippery, whatever, 682 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: that's when you want those chains. As a side note, 683 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: I think this is probably one of the biggest takeaways 684 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: of this whole trucks chains question. I don't know if 685 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: other people do this, let me know if you have 686 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: a lot of experience. There's a good portion of our 687 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: season where we have to chain up a lot. I 688 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: always chain up the fronts first, and I think people 689 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: don't really realize that. They think I'll put them on 690 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: the back tires because that pushes you. I think, like 691 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: you're in four wheel drive, you need to be able 692 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: to steer yourself out of anything. It doesn't matter what 693 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: the back end does, as long as you have control, 694 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,239 Speaker 1: and it kind of helps you stop a little bit 695 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: going downhill. If you only got two sets of chains 696 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: and you're driving in the mountains. I'm not saying like 697 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: roads or anything like that. That's completely different, like paved 698 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: roads whatever, I'd put them on the back. If I'm 699 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: driving in off road mountains, I chain up the fronts 700 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: first if it's in four wheel drive. So that's just 701 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: what I do, and I've had a lot of success 702 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: with it. Number nine, we got a wood block. I 703 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 1: always have a wood block, especially later in the year. 704 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: I use it for a lot of things. I use 705 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: it to chalk the tires if I have to. I 706 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: use it as protection against my vehicle for the high lift, 707 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: because the way that high lift jack works, you either 708 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: need like metal side steps or a big bumper. I 709 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: don't have that on my new truck, so mostly I 710 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: winch from my um tow ball, but I put that 711 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: wood block against the truck and the high lift to 712 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: keep it from going forward and smashing a hole into 713 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,880 Speaker 1: my vehicle. If you're new to high lifts, you'll realize 714 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,240 Speaker 1: that the first time you try it and falls forward 715 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,919 Speaker 1: and you just damage the crap out of your side 716 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: panneling or whatever. But I also use it in the wintertime. 717 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: I don't drive over my chains when I put them on. 718 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: I go over the top, hook them from the back first, 719 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: and then finish hooking him in the front from underneath. Um, 720 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: you do not have to drive over chains to put 721 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: them on and off, So practice that before you get 722 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: out here putting chains on. A lot of people that 723 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: have never been in snow conditions haven't had a lot 724 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 1: of practice with it, so do that. I have found though, 725 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,479 Speaker 1: that if I've got those woodblocks, I'll drive up onto 726 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: the wood block and then I can get those chains 727 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: on super tight because I've got that gap off the 728 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: ground where I can work a little bit easier and 729 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: it's just a little bit faster. So I keep that 730 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: wood block at my truck, especially later season, for just 731 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: throwing chains on and off real quick. Alright. The next 732 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 1: one on the list a gas can that goes without saying. 733 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 1: If you're gonna be hunting along ways away from other things, 734 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: it's always good to have a little bit of extra 735 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: gas with you. And that kind of rolls into the 736 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: next item on our list, which I highly suggest, a 737 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,760 Speaker 1: chainsaw and all the fixing, so bar oil, oil, gas whatever. 738 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: Chainsaw is really good if you're in timbered areas, but 739 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: it's also good. I mean, I've used a chainsaw to 740 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: get us unstuck in the floodplains of Australia because we 741 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: were able to cut boards that we could use as levers, 742 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: as well as things to stuff under the tires when 743 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 1: we got bogged in like a buffalo wallow wasn't driving 744 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: somebody else wasn't, we got stuck in it. So like 745 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: the chainsaw was really good for that, cutting things, I mean, 746 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: it's also good for other camp stuff, cutting fire it. 747 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: It also just makes you feel awesome when somebody needs 748 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,839 Speaker 1: something cut and you have a chainsaw. Nothing feels more 749 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: manly than owning a chainsaw. There's so many times where 750 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: I have found I've literally been driving down a road 751 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: coming up that I just drove up a big tree 752 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: across it. One time last spring, I thought I drove 753 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: in one way, a tree fell. I went. I didn't 754 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: want to spend the time to cut it away, so 755 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 1: I turned around to go because I could get back 756 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: out the other way. A tree had fallen that way 757 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: as well, so I was stuck between two trees. Every 758 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:32,839 Speaker 1: year I have to cut a tree out for someone 759 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: that doesn't have a chainsaw, and some of those people 760 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: have been waiting a long time. So if you're hunting, 761 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: I would say Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, maybe even someplace in Colorado. 762 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: It's probably not a bad idea to have a chainsaw 763 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: in the vehicle or a saw of some kind. If 764 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,359 Speaker 1: you want a hand saw at hand saw it. I mean, 765 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: there's plenty of times where I just use a handsaw 766 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: or have some kind of saw. If you're a guy 767 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: that's flying and renting a car, have some kind of 768 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 1: wood saw with you. I mean, something to saw your 769 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: way out worst case scenario number twelve, some form of 770 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: large ratchet strap. It's really good for securing things. Maybe 771 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: you've got your big LK crack in the back. I mean, 772 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: this podcast is getting along because I keep just going 773 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: off of tangents. But I have had a caribou rack 774 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 1: sitting in the bed of a truck driving down the road. 775 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: Semi passed too close. The air from that semi through 776 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 1: the entire caribou rac out of the truck. I'm secure 777 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: it guy for sure. In the group of guys, they're like, 778 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: all let it ride, or throw a strap on it. 779 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: I'm surprisingly throw a strap it on the guy in 780 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: a family of guys that just let it ride. The 781 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: one time I didn't strap something down, my caribou flew 782 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,760 Speaker 1: out of the back of the truck and started skidding 783 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 1: down the highway we were on. We stopped and the 784 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: carriboo skidded past us. Fortunately nothing was broken except the 785 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: back times lost about six inches each. But outside of that, 786 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's good to have those straps to secure 787 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: whatever you've got, but it can also be good to 788 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,080 Speaker 1: help you in recovery. Like I said, I used it 789 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 1: to keep my truck from falling off the side of 790 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: a hill. Probably not ideal, but that's what I had 791 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: at the time. Number fourteen should make sure you got 792 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,239 Speaker 1: jumper cables in your vehicle. Nothing worse than having a 793 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: dead battery asking for a jump and nobody having jumper cables. 794 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: Number fifteen a toolkit, just a basic toolkit if something's loose, 795 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 1: if something needs fixed, being self sufficient having what you 796 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: need to get something simple fixed. It doesn't mean you 797 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,680 Speaker 1: need to be a mechanic, but I mean I've had 798 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 1: the connections on my battery go off, and it's like, 799 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: oh man, all you need is a ratchet of some 800 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,320 Speaker 1: kind just to fix it, just to get the vehicle started. 801 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,959 Speaker 1: Little things. I mean, maybe your air filter at an 802 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: aftermarket air filter that fell off one time, and just 803 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: like sucking air uphill that wouldn't work. So I just 804 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 1: a little bit of a toolkit, a little couple of 805 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: little things here and there, something to fix something with 806 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 1: Number sixteen. So you, especially if you're in hot summer 807 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: hunt or desert type area, extra water. It's actually mandatory, 808 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 1: I would say in a lot of places because you 809 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,960 Speaker 1: want to have water with you. You've got it your 810 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: base camp or whatever. If you get stuck, you've got water. 811 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: But it's also really good if your vehicle starts to overheat, 812 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: or if God forbid you start a fire of some kind, 813 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: you've got that, or something starts to fire, you've got 814 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,319 Speaker 1: that to pour on in combination with your shovel as 815 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: fire suppressant. And a lot of areas I would say 816 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 1: should make that mandatory, or it already is mandatory, because 817 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: as you've seen, man, fires can start pretty easy, especially 818 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: in September, even in October. So being fire conscious, not 819 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,840 Speaker 1: driving off road in tall grass if something does happen, 820 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: having tools to put that fire out. Number seventeen. Your 821 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 1: truck is going to be your base camp, but you 822 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: should always have something more a minute, whether you're just 823 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,240 Speaker 1: driving across the country or whatever, if you get stuck. 824 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,239 Speaker 1: I mean, I've been stuck driving through Wyoming on a 825 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,239 Speaker 1: highway that was closed on both ends and it's like, 826 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: nowhere to go, there's a drift here, We're stuck. I 827 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 1: gotta sleep in my truck and it's twenty below Having that, 828 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: like something warm, just in case that happens. Oh, I 829 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 1: mean it seems like common sense, but you know you 830 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:10,120 Speaker 1: hear stories all the time of people being underprepared. Number eighteen. 831 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 1: I always keep some kind of fire starter in my truck, 832 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 1: a lighter and some firestarter, just because if you are 833 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: stuck and you got to spend the night having that. Now, 834 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: obviously you might think, well I should have all my 835 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,959 Speaker 1: camping stuff, but you know, you go do a day hunt, 836 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: you don't think about it. These are just things that 837 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: I leave in my truck so I don't have to 838 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: think about it. I know it's there. I have extra 839 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 1: stuff for when i'm packing in or whatever. This is 840 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: just stuff that I leave in my vehicle, so it's 841 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: always ready. Number nineteen solid solid piece of equipment. Leather 842 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,439 Speaker 1: gloves for doing all the things like putting chains on, 843 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,880 Speaker 1: getting your vehicle and stuck, jacking your vehicle up, cutting wood, 844 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,439 Speaker 1: having gloves moving trees, and having a set of leather 845 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,080 Speaker 1: gloves that always stay in the vehicles awesome. And then 846 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,280 Speaker 1: finally number twenty, a good first aid kit. It's always 847 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: good to have it at a base camp somewhere. Something 848 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: that has a little bit extra than what you hack in. 849 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,799 Speaker 1: You know, it might be one of those scenarios where 850 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,759 Speaker 1: if something did happen, or you're in a vehicle, in 851 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,959 Speaker 1: the vehicle roles, you're gonna want to have a good 852 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,839 Speaker 1: first aid kit or a good trauma type kit and 853 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: know how to use it. I've done quite a few 854 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,359 Speaker 1: online courses and some other things with some of these 855 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 1: really good trauma packs. I'll try to find it and 856 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: maybe put it on my story some of the ones 857 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,600 Speaker 1: that I've seen recently. Having those those better, like trauma 858 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 1: first aid kits. You never know, I've heard stories, things happen. 859 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want it to have to happen 860 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 1: to you, but if you have it nearby, that could 861 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,040 Speaker 1: be a lifesaver or just definitely making things more comfortable. 862 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,359 Speaker 1: And it might be something that you have to just 863 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: get into randomly rarely, hopefully rarely, hopefully never, but having 864 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: that good first aid kit at your vehicle is always 865 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,400 Speaker 1: a plus, you know. And then one one last note 866 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: on all this truck stuff, it's just good to keep 867 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,279 Speaker 1: it organized, know where it's at. When I've got like 868 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,000 Speaker 1: a deck system where I can just keep I keep 869 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,920 Speaker 1: all my recovery stuff in the left drawer and it 870 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: doesn't look pretty, but I just throw everything in there 871 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,440 Speaker 1: so it's always in there and I don't have to 872 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,720 Speaker 1: think about it. Chains, the oil and all that crap, 873 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,239 Speaker 1: I just put in one and just keep it. There's 874 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 1: the bed of my trucks a little bit more organized, 875 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 1: and then some of the other stuff in a box. 876 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: But it's good to just have it organized. Nowhere your 877 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 1: stuffs at so if something does happen you need to 878 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: get out, you're quick efficient and you've thought about it 879 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: before you head out west and are relying on some 880 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,120 Speaker 1: random outfitter or guide or another hunter to drive down 881 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: the road and save you that's my public service announcement 882 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 1: for the week. I hope everybody found some of that 883 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,000 Speaker 1: stuff useful and helpful. I know it kind of went long, 884 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: I guess in my mind when I'm planning these out, 885 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: you know, I think like these list things will fly 886 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,359 Speaker 1: by and then you kind of just like adds up. 887 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,399 Speaker 1: But I think it's fun stuff to talk about through 888 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: in a little a few extra stories there, just a 889 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,520 Speaker 1: little bit of rabbit hole action, but that happens every 890 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 1: once in a while, and go off on some tangents. 891 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,719 Speaker 1: Next week, I'm gonna gear you up for Opening Day 892 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,240 Speaker 1: of rifle seasons. That can be one of the busiest 893 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,719 Speaker 1: days on the mountain, but it can also be very successful. 894 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you some of my favorite tactics 895 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,200 Speaker 1: for opening day success. How to plan your hunt, how 896 00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,200 Speaker 1: to find some areas ahead of time, and how to 897 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,200 Speaker 1: be the guy that's tagged out on day one because 898 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,799 Speaker 1: it can be a great data hunt. So make sure 899 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,840 Speaker 1: you check that out come back here next Thursday. I 900 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,680 Speaker 1: really appreciate you all listening, and until next week, don't 901 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: get stuck, and if you do, know how to get out.