Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics. They'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Hey, what's up everyone, Hope
Speaker 1: you're all doing well. It's that time of year. It's October.
Speaker 1: We are in the middle of our hunting season. If
Speaker 1: it's that September October November time frame, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that we've been talking about up until this point has
Speaker 1: just been talking. Now it's time to gear up and
Speaker 1: get into some action. I really like this time of
Speaker 1: year because there's a lot of new seasons starting. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a muzzleloader season, a lot of general rifle seasons,
Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff to be add especially out
Speaker 1: west here. And as you load up, maybe you're gonna
Speaker 1: head out for a hunting adventure this fall. I think
Speaker 1: there's a few items that you're gonna want to consider
Speaker 1: adding to your kit. Really, if I think about it,
Speaker 1: one thing people often forget to talk about, or at
Speaker 1: least hunters forget to talk about when it comes to
Speaker 1: remote hunts, is the fact that you're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: traveling a long distance off road in some pret remote
Speaker 1: areas with no services. So maybe you're a guy that's
Speaker 1: coming out west for the first time, or maybe you
Speaker 1: live out here, and you know, these are just some
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna want to think about. Because what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: rundown for getting your vehicle Western hunt ready so you
Speaker 1: can be self sufficient no matter what the weather or
Speaker 1: trail throws your way. I'm gonna give you a rundown
Speaker 1: of the twenty things that never leave my truck and
Speaker 1: how to use them. Growing up in the state of Nevada,
Speaker 1: I really learned pretty young how to travel off road,
Speaker 1: and I think so much of that is something that
Speaker 1: I often take for granted, because I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: I was out deer hunting in the middle of nowhere
Speaker 1: one time, and it's just there's a lot of remote areas,
Speaker 1: a lot of really rough roads, and I was down
Speaker 1: this road that took me probably half a day to
Speaker 1: get down that I end up setting up a base
Speaker 1: camp and hiking out from there, just nobody around, not
Speaker 1: bothered coming back out that road, and here come like
Speaker 1: a couple of jeeps and some other I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe a land cruiser or for runner or whatever. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are these guys doing out here? They did not
Speaker 1: look like they had any hunting stuff with them, so
Speaker 1: I kind of pull over and talk with them, and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, we're overlanding. Overlanding. I've never heard
Speaker 1: of that. What the heck is overlanding. I didn't even realize,
Speaker 1: like that's a pretty big thing. It's like people go
Speaker 1: out and off road and camp and whatever. That's just
Speaker 1: what I did all the time, going hunting. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that that was its own subset of essentially
Speaker 1: what I'm doing all the time. And when I came
Speaker 1: to think about it, I was like, oh, man, I've
Speaker 1: been over landing pretty much around the world. I mean
Speaker 1: I've done those same things in Africa, the top end
Speaker 1: of Australia, New Zealand, all across the Western US. I
Speaker 1: mean my actually, my older truck, I put over a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand off road miles, like some pretty
Speaker 1: rough miles on that vehicle through all my guiding and
Speaker 1: just traveling and and all that stuff. So over the years,
Speaker 1: I've put in a lot of this time off roading,
Speaker 1: and it's just something that I kind of always assumed
Speaker 1: people did or whatever, and didn't even realize that it
Speaker 1: was such a thing to travel these remote roads, and
Speaker 1: it was just part of what we did, especially growing
Speaker 1: up in Nevada. It's like I would say, in the
Speaker 1: lower forty eight, it's definitely I would say the least
Speaker 1: populated or has the most remote areas. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of places that, you know, when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: it might be hundreds of miles between services and pretty
Speaker 1: rough dirt roads that you could get on. You might
Speaker 1: draw a deer tag in an area that there's nothing around,
Speaker 1: and then you've got to get yourself, your vehicle whatever
Speaker 1: there and back and if something goes wrong, you've got
Speaker 1: to be able to take care of it and get
Speaker 1: back to where you're going. So I figured today I
Speaker 1: might as well tell a good story about quote unquote
Speaker 1: an overlanding adventure, which is essentially me just going hunting
Speaker 1: and then parking. But you know, I think of those
Speaker 1: places that I've been, There's been so many types of
Speaker 1: recoveries and situations that I've got in. I like to
Speaker 1: think of myself as pretty good, like I'll pat myself
Speaker 1: on the back a little bit, but I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything that I can get stuck in and not
Speaker 1: get unstuck so long as I have a couple of
Speaker 1: tools that I like to always have. So I figured
Speaker 1: might as well tell a good recovery story this one.
Speaker 1: While you might think is going to come from somewhere
Speaker 1: out west, let's just travel down to the South Pacific,
Speaker 1: the South Island of New Zealand. We've got a ton
Speaker 1: of people that love to listen to this podcast from there,
Speaker 1: so we might as well throw some stories, some sprinkle
Speaker 1: some stories in there, some awesome New Zealand stories. This
Speaker 1: story takes place the first year I actually went down
Speaker 1: to New Zealand. I don't even know the first time
Speaker 1: I went down there actually trying to think about it,
Speaker 1: but it was a while ago, and I essentially booked
Speaker 1: like a three month long stay. It was like the
Speaker 1: maximum amount of time before I could had to get
Speaker 1: a different kind of visa, which I ended up actually
Speaker 1: getting after that, but I figured I would go down there,
Speaker 1: and I just really wanted to like explore hunt on
Speaker 1: my own. Hunting Tar was like a dream of mine,
Speaker 1: and I just realized on my guide salary. It was
Speaker 1: not going to be. I mean, the price tag on
Speaker 1: those hunts was just astronomical for me at the time.
Speaker 1: So I figured, well, I'm going to go down there
Speaker 1: and see if this is something I can do on
Speaker 1: my own. I'd never heard of at that point, never
Speaker 1: heard of an American going down there and d I
Speaker 1: y hunting. But it was a dream of mine to
Speaker 1: chase tars specifically, and Shammy as well, and read deer
Speaker 1: if I came across them. So I did months of
Speaker 1: research and loaded up my stuff and just headed down there.
Speaker 1: When I got down there, I ended up buying a
Speaker 1: little Toyota High Luck Surf, which is just like essentially
Speaker 1: it's for Americans. It's a Forerunner, but it's a deesel.
Speaker 1: The mine was a diesel for Runner, and uh, this
Speaker 1: one had a little bit of like aftermarket stuff, but
Speaker 1: it was I got it from a guy in town
Speaker 1: that pretty much put some cool stuff on it, but
Speaker 1: never really never really gave it a test run, you know,
Speaker 1: which was perfect and it was a great deal. So
Speaker 1: I bought that. I called it the Tar Car, and
Speaker 1: traveled around for a while down there, and that we
Speaker 1: just go to different places, hunting, camping, doing whatever. So
Speaker 1: you know, through the course of the time, I've met
Speaker 1: a lot of good people, and one of the guys,
Speaker 1: a guide with me here in the US, ended up
Speaker 1: going down there as well. So we decided we're going
Speaker 1: to go out and do a little bit of tar
Speaker 1: hunting up this one drainage that I've been hunting quite
Speaker 1: a bit, and so we're taking the vehicle out and
Speaker 1: we got kind of like a late start. We're a
Speaker 1: little bit further north and we're traveling down to this
Speaker 1: I like to I just wanted to explore as many
Speaker 1: places as I could, so it was exploring somewhere a
Speaker 1: little bit further north earlier, and figured, oh, let's go
Speaker 1: back down to the canyon where I had done pretty
Speaker 1: good on tar a few weeks earlier. So we get down,
Speaker 1: We're going to drive up the river valley, and there
Speaker 1: was this hut at the head of the river that
Speaker 1: I had parked maybe two huts before and hiked up there.
Speaker 1: But the hunting was really good once we got up there,
Speaker 1: so I figured I kind of like GPS away out,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have any mapping software or anything. I
Speaker 1: just have like a little handheld GPS that kind of worked,
Speaker 1: and then it ran out of batteries well, and then
Speaker 1: I just it's like probably the first time I'd used it,
Speaker 1: but I was hoping to try to find a good
Speaker 1: track to get up to this hut. And there's maybe
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many river crossings, so you
Speaker 1: gotta picture. You're just driving up. You get to the road.
Speaker 1: The road ends in this big wide river valley, and hey,
Speaker 1: I got a snorkel on the vehicle suite. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna drive across the river and pick our way through
Speaker 1: the rocks all the way up the head of this thing,
Speaker 1: and then just base out of there and do our
Speaker 1: big hunts from there, because it seemed like a pretty
Speaker 1: good spot where It's like, by the time I got
Speaker 1: there and whatever, it was like, Man, it'd be nice
Speaker 1: to be able to just base out of this hut
Speaker 1: with all our stuff and then hike from there because
Speaker 1: we could get into some rougher country and some bigger bulls.
Speaker 1: So we got a little bit of a late start
Speaker 1: out and we've got like this, I can't remember. We
Speaker 1: stopped at a service station. There was like one of
Speaker 1: those It was almost like a cocktail napkin map of
Speaker 1: Actually we're like, oh, this is the river drainage we're
Speaker 1: going into. And I didn't have any maps of anything,
Speaker 1: but they have like this little I don't even what
Speaker 1: it would be, like an advertisement for something where has
Speaker 1: all these ads around it. And then the map was
Speaker 1: kind of like just something to look at. So it
Speaker 1: had a couple of different drainages and shewed some huts
Speaker 1: on it, so I'm like, okay, cool. It was like
Speaker 1: not to scale at least I didn't think or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I figured it was based on something, and I
Speaker 1: didn't know that there was other huts across the river.
Speaker 1: So we get a late start out and we're like, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll just try staying at one of these huts
Speaker 1: halfway up so we don't have to go all the
Speaker 1: way because there's no way we're gonna make it up
Speaker 1: this river valley at night. So we start driving. We
Speaker 1: get to the first river crossing kind of where the
Speaker 1: road ends across the river, go up, kind of picking
Speaker 1: our way through the rocks, and it's starting to get dark,
Speaker 1: so we just keep driving, driving, and finally kind of
Speaker 1: get to this point where it's like, man, I can't
Speaker 1: really figure out where somebody had been. There's some kirn's
Speaker 1: where people had driven before, and some tire you can
Speaker 1: kind of see tire tracks, but it's just like there's
Speaker 1: no good route. And I'm and I'm assuming that most
Speaker 1: of these routes changed constantly, just as the river blows out,
Speaker 1: maybe even every time it rains. That changes. So I thought.
Speaker 1: I pull out my little cocktail napkin map and I'm
Speaker 1: like looking, I'm like, oh, hey, there's a hut over here.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should just check that out for tonight. Go
Speaker 1: stay there, maybe hunt around in the morning. We'll keep
Speaker 1: heading up the river valley the next day. So Bart's like, sweet,
Speaker 1: that sounds good. We're kind of like in the dark.
Speaker 1: I'm like having him walk ahead a little bit with
Speaker 1: flashlight and we're taking turns, driving and picking our way
Speaker 1: across the river. Across the river get up on this
Speaker 1: little bench and I'm like, man, this looks kind of wet.
Speaker 1: I was like, you wait here, I'm gonna go check
Speaker 1: it out and make sure something we can drive on.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it sounds good. So I like walk
Speaker 1: up and he's as I'm walking, he's like driving behind me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like hold on, Like I give him a
Speaker 1: sign like stop, stop, stop. He kind of stops and
Speaker 1: I walk ahead and it's just marshy and I'm like okay, no,
Speaker 1: I'm like shaking my head. No, We're gonna turn around.
Speaker 1: And I start walking back and he starts coming towards me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like waving my arms like no, don't come
Speaker 1: this way, don't come this way. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he thought he could just like power through it or what,
Speaker 1: but he gets in the boggy part and just buries
Speaker 1: to the truck. Instead of just like letting off a
Speaker 1: little bit, he just floors it more and just sinks
Speaker 1: the vehicle right up to the floorboards. So I'm like, ship,
Speaker 1: this sucks. And now I was starting to rain. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, well whatever, okay, we'll just camp here. So
Speaker 1: we grab some stuff hike to the hut. I've actually
Speaker 1: been stuck somewhere in like a very similar situation, so
Speaker 1: that's why I was out. And I was by myself
Speaker 1: the last time, so I was like, that's why I
Speaker 1: was out walking at first. So he didn't get buried,
Speaker 1: but we got buried. So then it started to rain
Speaker 1: and just start downpouring. I'm like, oh man, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. So in the hut all night, just
Speaker 1: like waiting out the storm, and go back the next morning,
Speaker 1: and the truck just like sank because everything just the
Speaker 1: water got deeper. Now it's like running water over it,
Speaker 1: and it pretty much sunk up to the doors, just
Speaker 1: completely buried. I'm like, man, this sucks, and this is
Speaker 1: the place. You are not gonna nobody's coming to help you.
Speaker 1: You're not. This is way before satellite messengers. This is
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I mean, I owned a
Speaker 1: cell phone, but I don't think I had a cell
Speaker 1: phone that worked. Like, this is not nobody's coming from me,
Speaker 1: this is this is not good. So we're like, all right,
Speaker 1: well we'll just figure this out. So we decided to
Speaker 1: We've got the high lift jack and we just start
Speaker 1: trying to jack the truck up, but it just wouldn't
Speaker 1: bite because it was so so soupy, so swampy. So
Speaker 1: we start walking to the river, loading up our backpacks
Speaker 1: with rocks, and then carrying our rocks up to the truck.
Speaker 1: I would have tried to winch it out with the
Speaker 1: high lift jack, but there was nothing to Winch two
Speaker 1: and I couldn't get the spare tire out because we
Speaker 1: were just bogged so deep. So we start taking rocks
Speaker 1: and we're just trying to jack the end up, put
Speaker 1: rocks underneath the tires, cutting branches and the trees, but
Speaker 1: right in the middle of between the forest and the river,
Speaker 1: so it's like a quarter mile of the river and
Speaker 1: a quarter mile of the forest. So getting materials to
Speaker 1: this particular spot was pretty rough. So we've got our backpacks,
Speaker 1: we've got our rocks. We're just loading up the pack
Speaker 1: with rocks, hiking them to the vehicle, putting the rocks down.
Speaker 1: I think it took about a pack load of rocks
Speaker 1: every time to just jack the vehicle up to go
Speaker 1: to The rocks would sink, sink, sink, and you just
Speaker 1: keep jacking the vehicle up and they would just keep sinking, sinking, sinking.
Speaker 1: Maybe eleven or twelve rocks stacked on each other by
Speaker 1: the time would actually bite and you can lift it up.
Speaker 1: Then we'd stack rocks under the tires and then back
Speaker 1: out a little bit and it would sink again. We
Speaker 1: do it over, carry rocks, jack the truck up. It
Speaker 1: took us I think three day days to get the
Speaker 1: vehicle out. And as we calculated, you know, we go
Speaker 1: to the river quarter mile, come back quarter mile about
Speaker 1: a hundred pound pack because we just had I had
Speaker 1: the big actually think I had a one of those
Speaker 1: old like either Keelty freighter packs or like the Barney
Speaker 1: style pack frame packs, and you could load that thing
Speaker 1: with some serious rocks. We come back and I think
Speaker 1: we figured out we carried like two tons of rock
Speaker 1: or something over the course of those three or three
Speaker 1: and a half days just to get the vehicle out.
Speaker 1: And we kept having to do that, and we cut
Speaker 1: down big sticks or whatever, put them under the tires
Speaker 1: and build like ramps, jack the vehicle up, get stuff underneath.
Speaker 1: We had to jack the back end up, in front
Speaker 1: end up separately, keep stacking stones, and essentially build a
Speaker 1: road out of this thing that was now flooded and
Speaker 1: bogging the vehicle. However, the bright side to the story
Speaker 1: is once we got the vehicle out, we did make
Speaker 1: it to that final hut. Instead of going home, we
Speaker 1: pushed forward. We made it to the hut that we
Speaker 1: wanted to get to originally. Now we only had one
Speaker 1: day left essentially to hunt, so we hiked up to
Speaker 1: the head of the glacier and we both shot some
Speaker 1: pretty good bulls. Are we packed him back. I actually
Speaker 1: think I ran into a red deer on the way
Speaker 1: down like a young stag. I roared him right in,
Speaker 1: but I ended up passing him up because I figured
Speaker 1: out maybe I'll find him a couple of years from now,
Speaker 1: who knows. And uh, we we got our two big bulls, Are,
Speaker 1: got back to the truck and made it out successful.
Speaker 1: While most of our hunt was spent recovering the vehicle,
Speaker 1: it was definitely an adventure to remember, whether you're new
Speaker 1: to Western hunting or maybe you live out west, this
Speaker 1: is what you do. This is your life. I think
Speaker 1: that there's certain things that you should have in your
Speaker 1: vehicle that can make you self sufficient, that can get
Speaker 1: you out of pretty much any situation, and are some
Speaker 1: things that can really prevent i would say, bad things
Speaker 1: from happening. Mostly it's a safety thing, but it's also
Speaker 1: just being self reliant a little bit. As a guide
Speaker 1: and outfitter, every single year I run into people that
Speaker 1: are from somewhere else, or even people that are from
Speaker 1: nearby that are definitely under prepared in the terms of
Speaker 1: what happens. If something happens. For example, just a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I ran into a guy that had driven
Speaker 1: up a road that you know, not very many people
Speaker 1: probably drive up, and there was a windstorm and a tree,
Speaker 1: giant tree blew across the road. This guy was just
Speaker 1: sitting there waiting and hoping and praying that somebody with
Speaker 1: the chainsaw would come by so he could actually get
Speaker 1: his vehicle out. These kind of things, I mean, I
Speaker 1: find in the desert in Nevada people that don't have
Speaker 1: the right supplies or tools for their vehicles. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that you have to be a master mechanic.
Speaker 1: In fact, I am very mechanically uninclined, and I will
Speaker 1: admit that, Like, I'm not the type of guy that
Speaker 1: you're gonna call to come fix your truck. But I
Speaker 1: can get you out of pretty much any situation. It's
Speaker 1: just a few things. Now, I've had to improvise my
Speaker 1: kits so many times that now there's just things I
Speaker 1: leave in my truck year round, so I don't even
Speaker 1: have to worry about it. But this list of things
Speaker 1: is things that you should definitely consider. And I'll give
Speaker 1: you a few ways that I've used some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: some out of the box tips. I mean, I've had
Speaker 1: to mcgiver my way out of many, many situations, some
Speaker 1: almost life threatening in vehicles on icy roads where you
Speaker 1: almost go off the road, and I'm look in the
Speaker 1: back and here's what I've got. I've got a set
Speaker 1: of toast traps, and like, uh, that's it. You know,
Speaker 1: some ratchet straps and toast traps and and some chains.
Speaker 1: So you know, you can get by with very little.
Speaker 1: But I think that there's a few of these items
Speaker 1: that you're just definitely gonna want to consider or maybe
Speaker 1: start to think about. So I'll run through this list
Speaker 1: and maybe give some ideas and some of the ways
Speaker 1: that you can use all this. So the top of
Speaker 1: the list of twenty items that should just be in
Speaker 1: every hunter's truck when you go out. First one, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go with a shovel. It might seem simple, but
Speaker 1: that shovel is going to come in in so many
Speaker 1: different ways, not only for your base camp digging a hole,
Speaker 1: just for your bathroom. As you've probably heard me say
Speaker 1: other places before, don't leave your toilet and stuff above
Speaker 1: the groundwork and blow around at a trailhead for everybody
Speaker 1: else and just be disgusting like that bary your ship.
Speaker 1: But the shovels for more than that. Growing up in
Speaker 1: the desert, the shovels mandatory because you know, if you
Speaker 1: happen to start a brush fire or something, you need
Speaker 1: something to put it out. I have actually put out
Speaker 1: another person's fire with my shovel, which who knows how
Speaker 1: big that fire would have got if I didn't have
Speaker 1: that shovel with me. But it's also good for later
Speaker 1: in the season when you need to dig out of things.
Speaker 1: Maybe you got high centered, maybe you got you need
Speaker 1: to dig out underneath your tires. Maybe you're stuck in
Speaker 1: snow and you've got to dig your way in or
Speaker 1: out to assist yourself in a recovery. The shovel is
Speaker 1: just a key piece that you can use essentially year
Speaker 1: round for so many different things. So shovel one of
Speaker 1: the things. Must have another item Number two, we're going
Speaker 1: to say as a toast strap. Toast strap just a
Speaker 1: big nylon strap that you can tow somebody with. I
Speaker 1: have had many instances, and well, this one happened to
Speaker 1: happen in New Zealand as well, where a vehicle broke
Speaker 1: down and we had to tow our way out for many,
Speaker 1: many miles. If you don't have that, it's going to
Speaker 1: be very hard to get that vehicle out now. I've
Speaker 1: also used a toast strap for other things like pulling
Speaker 1: a tree out of the way. Toast trap I've used
Speaker 1: to secure my truck to essentially the high side of
Speaker 1: a mountain to keep it from sliding off a cliff,
Speaker 1: you know. So there's there's just a lot of different
Speaker 1: uses for this. Toast trap. Number three, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with a jumper box. I don't know how many times
Speaker 1: I've got back to the truck and maybe a door
Speaker 1: was left a little bit of jar. I remember one
Speaker 1: time I was guiding. This was before I had one
Speaker 1: of these little jumper box things. So by a jumper box,
Speaker 1: what I mean is something that can jump your truck
Speaker 1: without having to need another vehicle. The one I actually
Speaker 1: have Line X, the spraying Bedliner company. I got it
Speaker 1: from them. It's like this power bar. It's awesome because
Speaker 1: I can charge my cell phone, my cameras, everything off
Speaker 1: of it. So I actually it's kind of heavy, but
Speaker 1: because I do so much filming and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: I carry it with me in my backpack when I'm
Speaker 1: packed in. It's like, instead of carrying a bunch of batteries,
Speaker 1: I'll bring Matt charge up everything. But it also has
Speaker 1: these attachments where I can jump my truck off of it.
Speaker 1: And it's pretty small, pretty awesome little piece of kit.
Speaker 1: But having something like that, I mean, you can get
Speaker 1: something at Walmart wherever, just something that you can jump
Speaker 1: your battery with in case you get back and you've
Speaker 1: got a dead battery. Nothing worse than being out of service,
Speaker 1: being miles from the road, getting back to your vehicle
Speaker 1: and the battery being dead. I used to actually just
Speaker 1: disconnect my battery at the trailhead all the time. I
Speaker 1: figured out it's a good way to not have people
Speaker 1: steal my truck and not worry about the battery dying.
Speaker 1: But you know, having that jumper kit is really really good.
Speaker 1: I know there's one time I was guiding. We just
Speaker 1: got back to the trailhead. It's like one of those
Speaker 1: days was just like a long, long day. She's just like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we're finally back to the truck. Yes, we
Speaker 1: get to go. One of the guys that left his
Speaker 1: door slightly open, and I have the keys inside. His
Speaker 1: door was slightly open. Somehow the doors were locked. He goes, oh, man,
Speaker 1: the door was left open, and then shuts it and
Speaker 1: then the doors now locks. So now we've got a
Speaker 1: dead battery because I have the keypad thing that's right,
Speaker 1: So I could have got into the truck to get
Speaker 1: the keys out, but the battery was dead. So not
Speaker 1: only do we have a dead battery, but we now
Speaker 1: have we're locked out of the truck, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: gosh it, it's like twenty miles back to the road,
Speaker 1: like the main road. I'm like, oh gosh, it's now
Speaker 1: at this point, like I don't even know what time
Speaker 1: it is, but we'd seen some elk in a different
Speaker 1: spot from a long ways away. It's like tomorrow. We
Speaker 1: want to get there. Otherwise we probably were just you know,
Speaker 1: slept there. But all of our stuff is now eat
Speaker 1: locked in the truck, like our backpacks and everything. Somehow
Speaker 1: he's got locked in dead battery. It was a terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible coincidence of events. I ended up breaking into the well,
Speaker 1: I end up breaking my knife as well trying to
Speaker 1: break into my truck, and then I decided to say
Speaker 1: screw it and walk out so I'm starting to walk
Speaker 1: out and I get about eight miles in, I get
Speaker 1: one bar service. This is back when you got flip phones,
Speaker 1: and just like one little bar. I'm like, oh yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Yeah awesome. So I called my buddy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, we're up at the trailhead. Can
Speaker 1: you come get us. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, bring
Speaker 1: some jumper cables and something to probably my door open with.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, cool, And we ended up just
Speaker 1: hooking the jumper cables to the body and one of
Speaker 1: the lead wires and and I was able to use
Speaker 1: my code, so I didn't have to pry open my
Speaker 1: back window and jump the truck. But if I had
Speaker 1: one of those jumper boxes, I probably would have been
Speaker 1: a lot better off in that particular scenario, or actually
Speaker 1: many other scenarios. Okay, so number four that was just
Speaker 1: like a super tangent whatever, it's my podcast. Number four.
Speaker 1: Oh tire plugs. Yeah, I'm always amazed at how few
Speaker 1: people carry tire plugs with them, you know, off roading
Speaker 1: like rocks. I mean, as long as you don't damage
Speaker 1: the sidewall, I've you shouldn't do it. But I've repaired sidewall.
Speaker 1: I've like put ten plugs in one sidewall thing and
Speaker 1: just to get me out, especially in like a ranger
Speaker 1: a TV. So if you aren't familiar with them, like,
Speaker 1: this is stuff that I just always thought everybody knew about.
Speaker 1: And then I realized like, oh, somebody's got a flat
Speaker 1: they gotta stick in their tire or whatever, and like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just plug it. So a tire plug is essentially
Speaker 1: how it just is like a I don't know, a
Speaker 1: piece of kind of like rope. You put some rubber
Speaker 1: glue on it. You've got a rasp so you can
Speaker 1: make the whole little bit bigger, rough it up a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you stuff the plug in, you pull
Speaker 1: it out, and it seals the hole in your tire.
Speaker 1: They are super handied. Half they're like five bucks I think,
Speaker 1: or you could get some pretty cool kits now on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I showed this year's spring bear hunting ran into a
Speaker 1: guy flat tire. He's like, oh, man, you know, is
Speaker 1: there anywhere around I was like, Oh, we'll just fix
Speaker 1: it right now, pull out my plugs, fix his tire.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh crap. Then he immediately got on his phone.
Speaker 1: Amazon Tire plugs and found some pretty awesome kits for
Speaker 1: him for like twenty bucks on Amazon. So I probably
Speaker 1: should buy one of those or maybe put them on
Speaker 1: my website to sell. But they're pretty solid, So that's
Speaker 1: something that you should probably think about having and know
Speaker 1: how to use them. It's so easy, like anybody can
Speaker 1: do it, and it sounds difficult maybe if you've never
Speaker 1: done it, but should just be something that you have
Speaker 1: in your kid, because if you get a nail, it's
Speaker 1: a long ways. I mean even if you're just road
Speaker 1: driving from wherever. I mean I've been driving from Nevada
Speaker 1: to a hunt in Wyoming, picked up a nail along
Speaker 1: the way on a Saturday in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Instead of having to go into a tire shop, I
Speaker 1: just pull over, find the whole, plug the tire, and
Speaker 1: keep on going my on my merry way. Now, if
Speaker 1: you are going to use tire plugs, one thing you're
Speaker 1: gonna need, and I suggest this, this would be what
Speaker 1: number five? Maybe a tire pump. I got one. I
Speaker 1: literally just picked it up it. I don't know, maybe Walmart,
Speaker 1: Harbor Freight, not really sure. I think it's Slime company
Speaker 1: makes it. It's just plugs into my cigarette lighter goes.
Speaker 1: My dad has one that's like a it looks like
Speaker 1: a cordless drill. It works with his cordless drill batteries
Speaker 1: hooks up, you set the pressure and hit go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess his Milwaukee Like, you can set the tire
Speaker 1: pressure you want and just pumps it up til it
Speaker 1: gets to that. Those are super handy to have, not
Speaker 1: just for recovering flat tires, but in the wintertime, if
Speaker 1: you're on snow and ice, especially if you've got like
Speaker 1: a really good short wheelbase and bigger, wider tires, go
Speaker 1: out there and just let a little bit of air
Speaker 1: out of your tires. Get those tires a little bit flatter,
Speaker 1: makes them more like tracks, so you're running them like
Speaker 1: low pressure, and man, you've got a lot better traction
Speaker 1: over the snow and ice. You can get a lot
Speaker 1: more places, or get out of a lot more places.
Speaker 1: Then when you get back, pull your vehicle over, plug
Speaker 1: in your air pump, pump those tires back up. That
Speaker 1: pump is coming so handy for so many other people
Speaker 1: as well. Like, I mean, I've run into people just
Speaker 1: oh tires low whatever, Maybe just fill up along the way.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many uses for that tire pump.
Speaker 1: I end up having to buy one every couple of
Speaker 1: years because I just use them and abuse them. But
Speaker 1: for the price of it, they aren't very expensive, and
Speaker 1: it's probably one of the best things in my truck
Speaker 1: that I use more than anything, um and doesn't have
Speaker 1: to just be used when you run into a flat
Speaker 1: tire situation, like I said, using it in the wintertime.
Speaker 1: I use it almost daily. Number six is going to
Speaker 1: just be a jack now. I just carry like a
Speaker 1: standard bottle jack or whatever kind jack. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is something that every vehicle should have. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it goes without saying, but we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: number seven now, which would be a high lift jack.
Speaker 1: I always have a high lift jack in my truck.
Speaker 1: And if you aren't familiar with a high lift jack,
Speaker 1: the best way to describe this just look it up.
Speaker 1: It's it's super handy though. So the high lift jack
Speaker 1: is just a really good thing to have for so
Speaker 1: many reasons. So yeah, it's just like having a jack
Speaker 1: where you can jack things up, but it lifts the
Speaker 1: body of the vehicle so you can get a lot higher.
Speaker 1: It's really good if you're stuck, you can kind of
Speaker 1: like maybe push yourself off of the jack, off of
Speaker 1: whatever you're stuck on. Maybe got high centered on a
Speaker 1: big rock or dirt bound. Maybe there's a scenario where
Speaker 1: you're stuck and you need to put stuff under the
Speaker 1: tire as well. You can jack up the whole back
Speaker 1: end and stuff things underneath the tires a lot more efficiently. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing you want to think about is if you
Speaker 1: aren't familiar with the high lift, it essentially you can
Speaker 1: lift the body the whole half of the vehicle. So
Speaker 1: what will happen is that your suspension will keep the
Speaker 1: tire and acts down, so you all you have to
Speaker 1: do is just strap your axle to the body and
Speaker 1: then jack it up stuff stuff underneath. It's also really
Speaker 1: convenient as a winch. It's kind of hard to explain
Speaker 1: how to do it, but what it is is there's
Speaker 1: like a big handle that actually like a full grum
Speaker 1: that pushes the jack up, so you can actually use
Speaker 1: your toe strap which was up there and item to
Speaker 1: hook that to the vehicle, and then maybe the next
Speaker 1: item on the list chains to something further away, and
Speaker 1: then you can actually use it as a winching device
Speaker 1: to winch your vehicle out sometimes to get unstuck. What
Speaker 1: I found is all you need is just a little push,
Speaker 1: a little bit of some kind of pull in the
Speaker 1: right direction to get you out from wherever you're stuck at.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't always take like a winch to do it.
Speaker 1: And if you've got a winch on your vehicle, that's great,
Speaker 1: but sometimes that takes a lot extra wiring a bumper
Speaker 1: or some things that are expensive, even though they've been
Speaker 1: getting cheaper lately. But you can use your high lift
Speaker 1: to winch yourself out. I've done it so many times.
Speaker 1: One of the ways that I normally do it because
Speaker 1: if I'm stuck somewhere, it's probably I'm bogged in something
Speaker 1: where there's not many trees around. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is I'd use my spare tire or bury something,
Speaker 1: so I'd go out, I take my shovel, which I
Speaker 1: always have, I dig a hole, I bury that spare
Speaker 1: I mean, I've even actually winched my truck off of
Speaker 1: my tire iron like burying it and then putting some
Speaker 1: rocks on top. You'd be surprised how much strength you
Speaker 1: can get by just burying something and running some rope
Speaker 1: or whatever through it, then using the high lift to
Speaker 1: just winch myself out on whatever I've buried. I've even
Speaker 1: taken logs, buried logs in a boggy area or in
Speaker 1: sand like in snow. I mean, it happens in snow
Speaker 1: so much. Sometimes all you need is just a little
Speaker 1: bit of pull out of the ruts you buried yourself into,
Speaker 1: and you can quickly pull yourself out and readjust so
Speaker 1: the high lift is like, I think that every truck
Speaker 1: should have one or vehicle. Okay, so we're gonna jump
Speaker 1: on to number eight, and I said chains, and I
Speaker 1: forgot that I made some notes here. What I meant
Speaker 1: was tire chains on this one. Number eight. You definitely
Speaker 1: need to have a set of tire chains in your vehicle.
Speaker 1: It surprises me. I get asked the question a lot, like, hey,
Speaker 1: when do we put chains on? When should I use chains?
Speaker 1: Last week in the Q and A, I think this
Speaker 1: question kind of spurred this whole thought of we should
Speaker 1: definitely talk about stuff that should go in your vehicle
Speaker 1: for people that might not encounter snow, a lot for
Speaker 1: people that might not off road, a lot for people
Speaker 1: that might not just know this stuff so tire chains.
Speaker 1: I go chains for all four. But I'm doing this
Speaker 1: a lot. You have to realize, like out west, there's
Speaker 1: so many roads, say Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, where it's a
Speaker 1: logging road, it was made to log timber. In the summer,
Speaker 1: they're great roads for driving on. You could drive pretty
Speaker 1: much a sedan up them most time of year. But
Speaker 1: what happens is in the wintertime you get the snow
Speaker 1: that turns to ice. That ice now makes it a
Speaker 1: very very slippery road. And these roads are carved out
Speaker 1: of a mountain. There essentially one lane roads carved out
Speaker 1: of a mountain that if you slip going up or down,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna go off a cliff and it's not
Speaker 1: gonna end well for you. That's why I carry chains.
Speaker 1: And you will encounter these kind of situations if you're
Speaker 1: hunting it a lot of places out west, especially in
Speaker 1: that October to November or later time frame. One of
Speaker 1: the places that I absolutely changed were necessary to keep
Speaker 1: me on the road. There wasn't much snow. It was
Speaker 1: a New Mexico hunt in area. To be that I drew,
Speaker 1: those roads got so muddy I had to chain up
Speaker 1: just to stay on the road to get out of
Speaker 1: where I was originally at. If I didn't have four chains,
Speaker 1: I think I would have just been stuck on the
Speaker 1: side of the road like a couple other vehicles that
Speaker 1: we saw during that trip. So tire chains are must.
Speaker 1: The question last week was how do you know when
Speaker 1: to put tire chains on? And why chains over four
Speaker 1: wheel drive or more than just four high four low.
Speaker 1: When do you throw chains on? I throw chains on
Speaker 1: when it's icy and you're slipping around, when you think
Speaker 1: that they can do asians warrant you that you could
Speaker 1: lose control and go off the road. Four wheel drive
Speaker 1: can't keep you on the road because you need the
Speaker 1: traction first off, so it's whenever you lose traction. Two
Speaker 1: years ago, I drove up a road in Montana, had
Speaker 1: a couple of guys with me. Drove up in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's like, it wasn't bad whatever. It's a normal day,
Speaker 1: a little bit icy, little bit snowy, but before wheel
Speaker 1: drive going up come back down, the roads weren't bad.
Speaker 1: But there's one shaded side and it was pretty late.
Speaker 1: What had happened was it had melted during the day
Speaker 1: and then turned to ice. I kind of thought about
Speaker 1: it in the back of my head, maybe I should
Speaker 1: chain up, but man, it's been so good. So you're
Speaker 1: driving down and I've got it in four low the vehicle,
Speaker 1: and now it's like the back end starts to go
Speaker 1: the road slanted the wrong way. It's a big cliff,
Speaker 1: and my back end starts to pass me. I'm about
Speaker 1: to go off the road. I bury the nose in
Speaker 1: the right side and the back of the truck slide sideways.
Speaker 1: And my truck stops perfectly sideways on the road with
Speaker 1: the tires just a little bit off, like I didn't
Speaker 1: fall down the other side, but the tires were definitely
Speaker 1: over the threshold of the road. And now we're just
Speaker 1: sitting in the middle of the road sideways. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I opened up my door, put my feet on the ground,
Speaker 1: and voom, I go right underneath the door and just
Speaker 1: start sliding down the road. Oh, this is black ice.
Speaker 1: This is bad. This is should have been chained up,
Speaker 1: you know, it would have definitely helped. I probably would
Speaker 1: not have even slipped sideways. So I ended up getting
Speaker 1: out hooking my toast strap and like a ratchet strap,
Speaker 1: one underneath the vehicle, one to the tire. It's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to explain, but to a tree up on
Speaker 1: the hill it was super mcgivrad. But I end up
Speaker 1: running on my tire in a way where I could
Speaker 1: somebody could slightly gas it and use it to winch
Speaker 1: the back end over using the tire as the winch
Speaker 1: because I didn't have a winch or anything, and I
Speaker 1: didn't have my high lift with me either, so it
Speaker 1: ended up working. I ended up sliding the truck down
Speaker 1: and having anchored up pire so actually didn't go off
Speaker 1: the road. Then I chained up and then I drove
Speaker 1: out fine. So those kind of things where it's slippery, whatever,
Speaker 1: that's when you want those chains. As a side note,
Speaker 1: I think this is probably one of the biggest takeaways
Speaker 1: of this whole trucks chains question. I don't know if
Speaker 1: other people do this, let me know if you have
Speaker 1: a lot of experience. There's a good portion of our
Speaker 1: season where we have to chain up a lot. I
Speaker 1: always chain up the fronts first, and I think people
Speaker 1: don't really realize that. They think I'll put them on
Speaker 1: the back tires because that pushes you. I think, like
Speaker 1: you're in four wheel drive, you need to be able
Speaker 1: to steer yourself out of anything. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: the back end does, as long as you have control,
Speaker 1: and it kind of helps you stop a little bit
Speaker 1: going downhill. If you only got two sets of chains
Speaker 1: and you're driving in the mountains. I'm not saying like
Speaker 1: roads or anything like that. That's completely different, like paved
Speaker 1: roads whatever, I'd put them on the back. If I'm
Speaker 1: driving in off road mountains, I chain up the fronts
Speaker 1: first if it's in four wheel drive. So that's just
Speaker 1: what I do, and I've had a lot of success
Speaker 1: with it. Number nine, we got a wood block. I
Speaker 1: always have a wood block, especially later in the year.
Speaker 1: I use it for a lot of things. I use
Speaker 1: it to chalk the tires if I have to. I
Speaker 1: use it as protection against my vehicle for the high lift,
Speaker 1: because the way that high lift jack works, you either
Speaker 1: need like metal side steps or a big bumper. I
Speaker 1: don't have that on my new truck, so mostly I
Speaker 1: winch from my um tow ball, but I put that
Speaker 1: wood block against the truck and the high lift to
Speaker 1: keep it from going forward and smashing a hole into
Speaker 1: my vehicle. If you're new to high lifts, you'll realize
Speaker 1: that the first time you try it and falls forward
Speaker 1: and you just damage the crap out of your side
Speaker 1: panneling or whatever. But I also use it in the wintertime.
Speaker 1: I don't drive over my chains when I put them on.
Speaker 1: I go over the top, hook them from the back first,
Speaker 1: and then finish hooking him in the front from underneath. Um,
Speaker 1: you do not have to drive over chains to put
Speaker 1: them on and off, So practice that before you get
Speaker 1: out here putting chains on. A lot of people that
Speaker 1: have never been in snow conditions haven't had a lot
Speaker 1: of practice with it, so do that. I have found though,
Speaker 1: that if I've got those woodblocks, I'll drive up onto
Speaker 1: the wood block and then I can get those chains
Speaker 1: on super tight because I've got that gap off the
Speaker 1: ground where I can work a little bit easier and
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit faster. So I keep that
Speaker 1: wood block at my truck, especially later season, for just
Speaker 1: throwing chains on and off real quick. Alright. The next
Speaker 1: one on the list a gas can that goes without saying.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna be hunting along ways away from other things,
Speaker 1: it's always good to have a little bit of extra
Speaker 1: gas with you. And that kind of rolls into the
Speaker 1: next item on our list, which I highly suggest, a
Speaker 1: chainsaw and all the fixing, so bar oil, oil, gas whatever.
Speaker 1: Chainsaw is really good if you're in timbered areas, but
Speaker 1: it's also good. I mean, I've used a chainsaw to
Speaker 1: get us unstuck in the floodplains of Australia because we
Speaker 1: were able to cut boards that we could use as levers,
Speaker 1: as well as things to stuff under the tires when
Speaker 1: we got bogged in like a buffalo wallow wasn't driving
Speaker 1: somebody else wasn't, we got stuck in it. So like
Speaker 1: the chainsaw was really good for that, cutting things, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's also good for other camp stuff, cutting fire it.
Speaker 1: It also just makes you feel awesome when somebody needs
Speaker 1: something cut and you have a chainsaw. Nothing feels more
Speaker 1: manly than owning a chainsaw. There's so many times where
Speaker 1: I have found I've literally been driving down a road
Speaker 1: coming up that I just drove up a big tree
Speaker 1: across it. One time last spring, I thought I drove
Speaker 1: in one way, a tree fell. I went. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to spend the time to cut it away, so
Speaker 1: I turned around to go because I could get back
Speaker 1: out the other way. A tree had fallen that way
Speaker 1: as well, so I was stuck between two trees. Every
Speaker 1: year I have to cut a tree out for someone
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a chainsaw, and some of those people
Speaker 1: have been waiting a long time. So if you're hunting,
Speaker 1: I would say Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, maybe even someplace in Colorado.
Speaker 1: It's probably not a bad idea to have a chainsaw
Speaker 1: in the vehicle or a saw of some kind. If
Speaker 1: you want a hand saw at hand saw it. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of times where I just use a handsaw
Speaker 1: or have some kind of saw. If you're a guy
Speaker 1: that's flying and renting a car, have some kind of
Speaker 1: wood saw with you. I mean, something to saw your
Speaker 1: way out worst case scenario number twelve, some form of
Speaker 1: large ratchet strap. It's really good for securing things. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've got your big LK crack in the back. I mean,
Speaker 1: this podcast is getting along because I keep just going
Speaker 1: off of tangents. But I have had a caribou rack
Speaker 1: sitting in the bed of a truck driving down the road.
Speaker 1: Semi passed too close. The air from that semi through
Speaker 1: the entire caribou rac out of the truck. I'm secure
Speaker 1: it guy for sure. In the group of guys, they're like,
Speaker 1: all let it ride, or throw a strap on it.
Speaker 1: I'm surprisingly throw a strap it on the guy in
Speaker 1: a family of guys that just let it ride. The
Speaker 1: one time I didn't strap something down, my caribou flew
Speaker 1: out of the back of the truck and started skidding
Speaker 1: down the highway we were on. We stopped and the
Speaker 1: carriboo skidded past us. Fortunately nothing was broken except the
Speaker 1: back times lost about six inches each. But outside of that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's good to have those straps to secure
Speaker 1: whatever you've got, but it can also be good to
Speaker 1: help you in recovery. Like I said, I used it
Speaker 1: to keep my truck from falling off the side of
Speaker 1: a hill. Probably not ideal, but that's what I had
Speaker 1: at the time. Number fourteen should make sure you got
Speaker 1: jumper cables in your vehicle. Nothing worse than having a
Speaker 1: dead battery asking for a jump and nobody having jumper cables.
Speaker 1: Number fifteen a toolkit, just a basic toolkit if something's loose,
Speaker 1: if something needs fixed, being self sufficient having what you
Speaker 1: need to get something simple fixed. It doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: need to be a mechanic, but I mean I've had
Speaker 1: the connections on my battery go off, and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, all you need is a ratchet of some
Speaker 1: kind just to fix it, just to get the vehicle started.
Speaker 1: Little things. I mean, maybe your air filter at an
Speaker 1: aftermarket air filter that fell off one time, and just
Speaker 1: like sucking air uphill that wouldn't work. So I just
Speaker 1: a little bit of a toolkit, a little couple of
Speaker 1: little things here and there, something to fix something with
Speaker 1: Number sixteen. So you, especially if you're in hot summer
Speaker 1: hunt or desert type area, extra water. It's actually mandatory,
Speaker 1: I would say in a lot of places because you
Speaker 1: want to have water with you. You've got it your
Speaker 1: base camp or whatever. If you get stuck, you've got water.
Speaker 1: But it's also really good if your vehicle starts to overheat,
Speaker 1: or if God forbid you start a fire of some kind,
Speaker 1: you've got that, or something starts to fire, you've got
Speaker 1: that to pour on in combination with your shovel as
Speaker 1: fire suppressant. And a lot of areas I would say
Speaker 1: should make that mandatory, or it already is mandatory, because
Speaker 1: as you've seen, man, fires can start pretty easy, especially
Speaker 1: in September, even in October. So being fire conscious, not
Speaker 1: driving off road in tall grass if something does happen,
Speaker 1: having tools to put that fire out. Number seventeen. Your
Speaker 1: truck is going to be your base camp, but you
Speaker 1: should always have something more a minute, whether you're just
Speaker 1: driving across the country or whatever, if you get stuck.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been stuck driving through Wyoming on a
Speaker 1: highway that was closed on both ends and it's like,
Speaker 1: nowhere to go, there's a drift here, We're stuck. I
Speaker 1: gotta sleep in my truck and it's twenty below Having that,
Speaker 1: like something warm, just in case that happens. Oh, I
Speaker 1: mean it seems like common sense, but you know you
Speaker 1: hear stories all the time of people being underprepared. Number eighteen.
Speaker 1: I always keep some kind of fire starter in my truck,
Speaker 1: a lighter and some firestarter, just because if you are
Speaker 1: stuck and you got to spend the night having that. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously you might think, well I should have all my
Speaker 1: camping stuff, but you know, you go do a day hunt,
Speaker 1: you don't think about it. These are just things that
Speaker 1: I leave in my truck so I don't have to
Speaker 1: think about it. I know it's there. I have extra
Speaker 1: stuff for when i'm packing in or whatever. This is
Speaker 1: just stuff that I leave in my vehicle, so it's
Speaker 1: always ready. Number nineteen solid solid piece of equipment. Leather
Speaker 1: gloves for doing all the things like putting chains on,
Speaker 1: getting your vehicle and stuck, jacking your vehicle up, cutting wood,
Speaker 1: having gloves moving trees, and having a set of leather
Speaker 1: gloves that always stay in the vehicles awesome. And then
Speaker 1: finally number twenty, a good first aid kit. It's always
Speaker 1: good to have it at a base camp somewhere. Something
Speaker 1: that has a little bit extra than what you hack in.
Speaker 1: You know, it might be one of those scenarios where
Speaker 1: if something did happen, or you're in a vehicle, in
Speaker 1: the vehicle roles, you're gonna want to have a good
Speaker 1: first aid kit or a good trauma type kit and
Speaker 1: know how to use it. I've done quite a few
Speaker 1: online courses and some other things with some of these
Speaker 1: really good trauma packs. I'll try to find it and
Speaker 1: maybe put it on my story some of the ones
Speaker 1: that I've seen recently. Having those those better, like trauma
Speaker 1: first aid kits. You never know, I've heard stories, things happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want it to have to happen
Speaker 1: to you, but if you have it nearby, that could
Speaker 1: be a lifesaver or just definitely making things more comfortable.
Speaker 1: And it might be something that you have to just
Speaker 1: get into randomly rarely, hopefully rarely, hopefully never, but having
Speaker 1: that good first aid kit at your vehicle is always
Speaker 1: a plus, you know. And then one one last note
Speaker 1: on all this truck stuff, it's just good to keep
Speaker 1: it organized, know where it's at. When I've got like
Speaker 1: a deck system where I can just keep I keep
Speaker 1: all my recovery stuff in the left drawer and it
Speaker 1: doesn't look pretty, but I just throw everything in there
Speaker 1: so it's always in there and I don't have to
Speaker 1: think about it. Chains, the oil and all that crap,
Speaker 1: I just put in one and just keep it. There's
Speaker 1: the bed of my trucks a little bit more organized,
Speaker 1: and then some of the other stuff in a box.
Speaker 1: But it's good to just have it organized. Nowhere your
Speaker 1: stuffs at so if something does happen you need to
Speaker 1: get out, you're quick efficient and you've thought about it
Speaker 1: before you head out west and are relying on some
Speaker 1: random outfitter or guide or another hunter to drive down
Speaker 1: the road and save you that's my public service announcement
Speaker 1: for the week. I hope everybody found some of that
Speaker 1: stuff useful and helpful. I know it kind of went long,
Speaker 1: I guess in my mind when I'm planning these out,
Speaker 1: you know, I think like these list things will fly
Speaker 1: by and then you kind of just like adds up.
Speaker 1: But I think it's fun stuff to talk about through
Speaker 1: in a little a few extra stories there, just a
Speaker 1: little bit of rabbit hole action, but that happens every
Speaker 1: once in a while, and go off on some tangents.
Speaker 1: Next week, I'm gonna gear you up for Opening Day
Speaker 1: of rifle seasons. That can be one of the busiest
Speaker 1: days on the mountain, but it can also be very successful.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you some of my favorite tactics
Speaker 1: for opening day success. How to plan your hunt, how
Speaker 1: to find some areas ahead of time, and how to
Speaker 1: be the guy that's tagged out on day one because
Speaker 1: it can be a great data hunt. So make sure
Speaker 1: you check that out come back here next Thursday. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you all listening, and until next week, don't
Speaker 1: get stuck, and if you do, know how to get out.