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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone.

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Speaker 1: Last week we talked about October phase mule deer. This

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Speaker 1: week we're gonna be jumping forward and covering rut phase mulis.

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Speaker 1: There's a few states out there that offer tags that

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Speaker 1: go into the rut, and we're gonna be covering good

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Speaker 1: tactics by exploring what deer doing and how to suss

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Speaker 1: out big mature bucks at this most vulnerable time of

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Speaker 1: the year by looking first at rut behavior, then focusing

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Speaker 1: in on the places to concentrate your efforts and the

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Speaker 1: tactics to employ. Before we do that, I want to

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Speaker 1: share the story of the One Eyed Jack, one of

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Speaker 1: my best rut raged yal deer. Right now, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: in my cabin and I'm looking up on the wall

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Speaker 1: here and I'm looking at one of my probably one

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Speaker 1: of my best bucks that I've taken during the rut um.

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Speaker 1: This happened to be a season where I could hunt

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Speaker 1: through the archery season, So starting in September hunt archery,

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Speaker 1: and then it went all the way through pretty much

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Speaker 1: the end of November. This particular year, I was wanting

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Speaker 1: to find the best dear that I could. I had

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Speaker 1: scouted really hard during the summer. I mean I put

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Speaker 1: all my time into chasing big meal dere from essentially,

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Speaker 1: I think I started probably scouting in June or July

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Speaker 1: and found some really really big bucks, and a couple

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Speaker 1: had a couple of target bucks that I was looking for,

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Speaker 1: and my dad had a meal deer tag, a friend

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Speaker 1: kind of like dedicating this season to finding a big

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Speaker 1: meal deer. So I hunted all of archery season. I

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Speaker 1: mean I put some stocks on some great deer, um

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Speaker 1: got in within range and just passed because it wasn't

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Speaker 1: the caliber of buck that I was looking for. I

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Speaker 1: really wanted to take a buck that was over eight inches,

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Speaker 1: and up until that point that would have been my

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Speaker 1: my biggest year. So I mean I I snuck in

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Speaker 1: with a bow within thirty yards of some mid one

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Speaker 1: seventy bucks. I mean I passed up. Probably I don't

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Speaker 1: even know a hundred and fifty what I would consider

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Speaker 1: like good solid one seventy type were once not on seventy,

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Speaker 1: but like one to one seventy type bucks. And so

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Speaker 1: the season continued on. UM I was also guiding during

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Speaker 1: this time, so I was like, I hunted a lot

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Speaker 1: of the archery season for myself. I did a lot

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Speaker 1: of pre scouting and other things, and then I had

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Speaker 1: a few weeks during the rifle season to hunt. I

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Speaker 1: was during general rifle season, so I UM I was

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Speaker 1: still bow hunting the first part of the season, but

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Speaker 1: as it winded down. It was during that last week

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Speaker 1: of this season, I think we had three or four

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Speaker 1: days left to hunt, and I thought that myself, Man,

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Speaker 1: I put in so much time. I've been super diligent.

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Speaker 1: Um I just hadn't found the book that I was

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Speaker 1: looking for, and there's only a couple of days left.

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Speaker 1: I'd seen some really nice dear but just nothing that

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Speaker 1: really was like that that buck. So as the rut

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Speaker 1: bucks kind of really corralling the does and then a

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Speaker 1: keep cruising going through these these different pockets. Well, this

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Speaker 1: one particular pocket I probably checked daily, maybe multiple times

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Speaker 1: So I'd seen a lot of the deer that i'd

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Speaker 1: I'm standing there. My dad was with me, and this

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Speaker 1: I thought, man, if I see the deer that I'm

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Speaker 1: Like okay, and then I start hearing just like some

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, And then I see the

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Speaker 1: if you're a white tail hunter, would that be six

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Speaker 1: per side? Times to doing math, that would be twelve.

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Speaker 1: It's a Texas twelve pointer. I would call it a

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Speaker 1: it's it's this buck. So I'm being super cautious. I'm like, all,

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Speaker 1: It's like he's actually pretty close the way the hills sloped,

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Speaker 1: just see like antler tips start coming my way and

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Speaker 1: like I'm pretty sure he won that fight, and I

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Speaker 1: I mean he is full on beast mode, just stocky

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Speaker 1: like cruising and I don't have a shot. The way

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Speaker 1: this point, and he's going up over the ridge. So

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh crap. So I I throw up my

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Speaker 1: he like worked right below me. I could just see

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Speaker 1: the top of his rack. He never stopped. I kind

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Speaker 1: looks like I was like, man Like, it looked like

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Speaker 1: I could see blood, and I'm like, okay, well, he's

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Speaker 1: see below that pocket. So I start working down. Now

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Speaker 1: go and I I'm moving down and I hear it grunt.

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Speaker 1: That's gotta be him, you know. I'm like, okay, So

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Speaker 1: what happened. He's the bigger deer, but must have just

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Speaker 1: I start moving in. I mean, he's like, I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: nothing like stalking a blind deer, you know. So I'm

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Speaker 1: good shot. I just gotta keep stalking in. So he stops.

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Speaker 1: I grunt and I can tell like I'm on his

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Speaker 1: blind side. Now. I'm just using this to my advantage.

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Speaker 1: Although he's a d percent alert, He's got his other eye,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's got his nose, he's got his ears,

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Speaker 1: so I start moving down, keep creeping down. He's so

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Speaker 1: rut rage, like every little stick snap you can just

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Speaker 1: And I get to a point where I finally get

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Speaker 1: like he's slowed down enough and stopped, and now I

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Speaker 1: can get into position. Of course, the day that I

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Speaker 1: take my rifle this deer, I'm stalking a one idea

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Speaker 1: called one eyed jack and I'm like it probably thirty

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Speaker 1: yards broadside, pull up, the rifle off and boom, shoot,

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Speaker 1: buck goes down. And I was still pretty stoked, because,

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Speaker 1: of course, my first thought was like, damn it, the

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Speaker 1: bow range of the kind of buck you're looking for

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Speaker 1: after pretty much ninety days of chasing deer. But on

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Speaker 1: the flip side, I was pretty excited to take my

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Speaker 1: biggest buck today to that point. Um, whether with a

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Speaker 1: a rut raged warrior for sure, And it was a

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Speaker 1: pretty cool deer, one that I still look at and

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Speaker 1: have the memory of that hunt. When we're talking about

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Speaker 1: rut tactics, when it comes to meal deer, we first

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Speaker 1: The rut is really probably the best time, one of

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Speaker 1: goal of those boxes the same. It's to breed. Bucks

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Speaker 1: That's their whole focus that time of year. Now, of

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Speaker 1: Even during that October phase. See does, it doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like two different species because what's happening

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Speaker 1: They are moving from pocketed dough to pocketed dough. What

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Speaker 1: Oftentimes they're gonna be clustered up and they'll be in

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Speaker 1: they're they're safe, but they're in these kind of like

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Speaker 1: Because they're they're the constant. They know that the more

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Speaker 1: So the does are kind of going to pick these

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Speaker 1: but not like the bucks will. I've seen I've seen

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Speaker 1: checking multiple pockets repeatedly. Uh, there is there is an

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Speaker 1: Once I've got an area where I think, okay, here's

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Speaker 1: then I spend my time. I do two different tactics.

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Speaker 1: of keep watching them because there might be bucks that were,

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Speaker 1: and then they're going to move in and try to

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Speaker 1: what I'll do is like I'll pull out my maps

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Speaker 1: and I'll just try to find other areas that have

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Speaker 1: that similar type habitat. Whether it's you know, depends on

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Speaker 1: like kind of pay attention to that habitat, pay attention

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Speaker 1: and then find other places like that, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: start seeing a pattern where it's like, hey, now I'm

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Speaker 1: finding more pockets of does, and it gives me more

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Speaker 1: places the check to try to find the place that's

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Speaker 1: going to draw in those mature bocks. I appreciate everybody

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Speaker 1: that's been sending me messages. Man, some really good October

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Speaker 1: season bucks have been coming in Mule Dere. I've been

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Speaker 1: getting some awesome pictures from people using a couple of

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Speaker 1: the tactics from last week already. It's like, hey, caught

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Speaker 1: that before I went out this weekend. Look what I got.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, heck, yeah, man. Uh. You know, if

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Speaker 1: you've got a rut mule, der tag or whatever and

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Speaker 1: you find some success, make sure to keep me posted.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it so many awesome messages coming in. Don't

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Speaker 1: forget to send in your questions because we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: doing a Q and A here pretty quick. Next week.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into a little bit of fun gear stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've got some like just I just kind of thinking

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Speaker 1: about some of the fun things that I say when

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Speaker 1: I'm out hunting. Um, I'm gonna get a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a teaser one of my gear mantras protect the

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Speaker 1: puffy at all costs, you guys will understand. Next week, Um,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to talk about a little bit of

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Speaker 1: some of the gear stuff, just some of the fun

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Speaker 1: stuff that I've got tried this year, some of the

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Speaker 1: other stuff. So I got a little bit of gear

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Speaker 1: stuff coming up next week, and then of course some

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Speaker 1: Q and A s and make sure to share your

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Speaker 1: of help, you know, maybe maybe things you already know,

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Speaker 1: but it just resonates like, oh, I'm doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm finding those pockets of does and this time of year,

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Speaker 1: this is what we're looking for, So I think that

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of good success had this season.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to start doing some serious meal deer hunting.

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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of late season elk hunting stuff.

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Speaker 1: My guide season starts kicks off rifle this weekend, So

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Speaker 1: it gets to that time of year for me where

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Speaker 1: I'm just like uncent going after elk and then we

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Speaker 1: get a little bit of a break in that and

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Speaker 1: have some guided meal your hunts and some other stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've got a couple muleder tags myself, which man, I

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Speaker 1: feel like, if you're gonna pick two species out west,

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Speaker 1: it's like mule deer and elk are the kings of

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Speaker 1: the country. Of course you've got the sheep tags and

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Speaker 1: the other stuff sprinkled in here there, but it's what

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Speaker 1: most people hunt, and it's just, um, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: there's something about mule there. Like if you're ask me

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Speaker 1: what what animal antlers just kind of like make you

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Speaker 1: the most excited. It's it's a big mulder, absolutely hands down. Now,

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Speaker 1: giant elker or rad any elk is rad They're the

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Speaker 1: most delicious creature on the planet. But when it comes

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Speaker 1: it's just something so cool about mule deer. Actually, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know it's funny man. This podcast is where it

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Speaker 1: like episode what one sixteen or something like that. It's

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Speaker 1: that's nuts. Uh. It just seems like yesterday I was

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Speaker 1: talking about rattling in mule Deer and I was like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I was trying to scroll back and like

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Speaker 1: find the episode and like what this episode seventeen? Um.

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Speaker 1: But today I'm going to release a video. I found

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Speaker 1: all the like footage that I was looking for and

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Speaker 1: did just kind of like a little throwback video. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: becall you can watch me rattle a mule deer off

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Speaker 1: of private land to where we could shoot it. That's

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Speaker 1: on my YouTube today, remy war on YouTube channel. Go

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Speaker 1: check that out. And yeah, excited to keep leaving the

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Speaker 1: comments and keep reaching out. I appreciate you all. Until

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Speaker 1: next week, Find the does Find the Bucks