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

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Speaker 1: the podcast up. April fools. That is I think of

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Speaker 1: I think it's a Smith and Wesson MP nine. It's

429
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 1: it's a smaller frames like could be, and b a

430
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: little more of a concealed carry type firearm. I like

431
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,919
Speaker 1: it because I shoot it super well. I know that

432
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,719
Speaker 1: anything you know, like black bear, Mountain lion, even the

433
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 1: occasional place where it's like, hey, the odds of actually

434
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 1: running into a grizz or low, but I could pretty

435
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 1: much shoot where I'm aiming pretty quick, and it's light.

436
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 1: It's a lot lighter than my ten UM. I like

437
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 1: that too. I don't know. This is a lot of

438
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: rambling on just personal preference, to be honest, I think

439
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:38,640
Speaker 1: for big bears, pick a big caliber UT is even good. UM,

440
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 1: but ten millimeter and forty four I think would be

441
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: my top two choices for going into big bear country.

442
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: I think that, uh, if you like that idea, if

443
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: you're familiar shooting a semi auto, you think that you

444
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 1: know it'll hold up in weather and other things, then

445
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 1: I would go with the ten if you like, you know,

446
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 1: the idea of a revolver and maybe just a little

447
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 1: less moving parts. I would go with the forty four.

448
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: That's my personal preference on that and that's what I carry,

449
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: So UM, take that as you will. But I think

450
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: that there's a lot. I mean, there's no right or

451
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 1: wrong answer. I would say the rightest answer would be,

452
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 1: make sure you get pretty solid ammo if you're shooting

453
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: for bare defense, some pretty heavy bullets, some solid lead bullets,

454
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: and you should be good to go. You definitely do

455
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: not want to And I've seen it all the time,

456
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 1: people putting like cheap plinking ammo in their bare defense pistol.

457
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: That's a bad idea. UM. I know because I've actually

458
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: had cheap plinking ammo in my bare defense pistol and

459
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: had to use it on a bear um one that

460
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: had been shot. I didn't shoot it, but the client

461
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: of mine shot at and he was going in and

462
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: I said, here, he used this. You know, he didn't

463
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: want to destroy the hid or whatever. So I handed

464
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 1: my pistol. But I didn't realize that I had like,

465
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: not very good rounds in it. And we realized real

466
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,239
Speaker 1: fast that those rounds didn't work very well. Uh So

467
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 1: you ended up having to use his rifle again, which

468
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: is fine, but we're trying not to damage so much meat.

469
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: Um So that that's my suggestion on all that This

470
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: question comes from Eric. He says, Hey, Remy, love the

471
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: podcast and all information you provide to make everyone a

472
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 1: better hunter and help more people to enjoy the outdoors.

473
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: I'll be going on my first caribou hunt in Alaska

474
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: in early August. I have previously listened to your podcast

475
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: on proper meatcare since I'll be bringing home the meat

476
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 1: if successful. But one thing I haven't heard anything on

477
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: is bringing back the antlers and head. Will I need

478
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: to ship this separately or will the airlines accept these

479
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: as a check item along with the meat. Also, what

480
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: is a good way to prep these items for travel?

481
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: Any info would be greatly appreciated. Again, love the podcast,

482
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: keep up the great work. Thanks Eric. That's a great question, Eric.

483
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 1: Um So, you know, when when you're thinking about you know,

484
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: obvious sleep, the meat care is very important, but when

485
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: you're talking about bring home antlers on a trip where

486
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: you're flying, there is some special things that I do.

487
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: Uh So, first of all, August, you know you're gonna

488
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: be um hunting carib especially early August. So the first

489
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: step would be you got to think about you've got

490
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: velvet on the antlers, and in velvet has to be

491
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: treated like meat, and it's gonna have to be treated.

492
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: So I found a product recently called velvet Lock, so

493
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: it's like a antler preservative and you spray it on.

494
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: I would absolutely bring a bottle of that. I had

495
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: some antlers in the freezer that I just did the

496
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: other day actually um this week, so uh, it works

497
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: really well, and you've got to think, like, man, if

498
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: you want to keep that preserved, that velvet on that

499
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: caribou early August, you're definitely gonna need something for the velvet.

500
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: So you can get a bottle of this and you

501
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: just spray it on super easy. I mean, like way

502
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: better than injecting in my opinion, because it's more practical

503
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: and you can do it right away. So it's a

504
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: velvet antler preservative that's like the rety bucks for a bottle.

505
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: You should definitely have that in your kit. If you're

506
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: hunting velvet, you know there is the option to strip it.

507
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: I hate stripping velvet, not because I mean velvet can

508
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: be a pain in the butt. But when you strip it,

509
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: the antlers haven't been polished up, and they aren't. They're

510
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: like super porous, so they'll never color. They just don't

511
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: stain up right. Especially early August, they just don't look right.

512
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: You really want to try to preserve that velvet the

513
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: best you can, and it's super hard to do. Now. Unfortunately,

514
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: my last caribou bull that I had, it was like

515
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: all the bulls should have been stripped, and there was

516
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: like maybe, you know, I think in the whole trip,

517
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: we saw five bowls that were still in velvet, and

518
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: I did not want to have to shoot a velvet

519
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: bowl out late, like it was just already ready. It

520
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: was probably gonna come off in a day or two.

521
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: And pretty much within the first three yards of packing

522
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: out the bull, I could smell like the velvet underneath

523
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: was rotten and it just like fell off. So I

524
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: wasn't able to keep the velvet on last one. Even

525
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: if I had preserved, it wouldn't mattered. But I wasn't

526
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,959
Speaker 1: actually planning on running into any caribou that had velvet

527
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: on their antlers still. But that's just something to think

528
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: about that maybe would get overlooked, so you're gonna have

529
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: to first take care of the velvet. Now we get

530
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: into the situation of the airlines, So there's a couple

531
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: of rules. When you're flying with antlers. Doesn't matter whether

532
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: there's a caribou in Alaska, a mule deer from Colorado,

533
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: and elk whatever, there are certain regulations that you have

534
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: to follow. And those regulations include all the points must

535
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: be wrapped and taped over. So one thing you're gonna

536
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: want to bring with you is some cardboard, some duct tape,

537
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: and I bring saran wrap, um, just like plastic wrap.

538
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: So what I do my system is you cardboard the

539
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: tips or pretty much the entire antler. If anything is exposed,

540
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 1: any type of point, doesn't matter whether it's in a box, whatever.

541
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: If anything is exposed, they're immediately going to flag it,

542
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be the guy in the airport that

543
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: they're like kicking out a line and it's like trying

544
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: to fix it and doesn't have all the materials. I

545
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: pack extra pieces of cardboard and then I pack um

546
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: some tape and some serandap. So what I do is

547
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: I fold the cardboard over, I tape it and then

548
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: I wrap everything in the cell of thane and that

549
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: keeps it like nice and tight. I also split the

550
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: antlers on my um because you gotta have a it's

551
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: got to be in a box. So you gotta have

552
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: some kind of box that you can build to fly

553
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: back home. And you know, maybe ahead of time, wherever

554
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: you're at, if it's gonna be something big, plan on

555
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: fighting somewhere where you'll be able to buy a box.

556
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: And then um, I split the antlers on my skull.

557
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: So the best way to split the antlers is gonna

558
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: be skull capping it. And then what I do is

559
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: I do a little bit of a saw mark in

560
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: the back, a little bit in the front, and then

561
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: I use pressure to snap them, like to break the

562
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: plate along that line, because if you just run the

563
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: straight saw, you're gonna have a quarter inch gap that

564
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: it won't necessarily fit back right. So I like that

565
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: natural brake line where I can then later on reattach

566
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: them if you're using a tax it or misst amount

567
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: or whatever. They're really good at that. If you're doing

568
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: it at home, that's the best way that I've found. Now,

569
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: if you just want to do like a year pan

570
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: mount on the skull. What sometimes would all do is

571
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: I will actually saw one of the antlers off of

572
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: the pedicle and then I'll reattach it later using like

573
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: a drilling method and posts and epoxies and um bondo.

574
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: But the other concern that you have to have when

575
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: you're shipping at home is you probably have to have

576
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: the brains removed. School has to be it doesn't have

577
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: to be boiled out, but it has to be somewhere

578
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: where it can't drip. So what I use is I

579
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: use the saran wrap. I'll put like a garbage bag

580
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: over the skull, tie it real tight, and then I

581
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: will just wrap the crap out of it with that

582
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: saran wrap, that cellophane and get it super tight into

583
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: this like nice little tight package. Because if there's anything

584
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: that can leak, they're gonna throw it out. And the

585
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: last thing you want is your skull or your antlers

586
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: to get tossed. So if everything is clean and kind

587
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: of dry, wrapped up and doesn't stink, you're gonna be good.

588
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: So those are the considerations you want to think about

589
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: with your flying with anything. And even if you're like

590
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: on a deer hunt, you get a deer and you

591
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: just you could Like a lot of times, I'll just

592
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: throw it in my luggage if it'll fit, Like I

593
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: usually carry an extra duffel bag, and then I put

594
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: the antlers in that. But the antlers inside of it

595
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: need to have the tips wrapped and then the skull

596
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: plate or whatever else wrapped really well so it won't drip.

597
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: And so it doesn't isn't showing really anything because if

598
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: they look at it and inspect it, and there's like

599
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: a time that could potentially poke out of a bag,

600
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: which probably will never happen. Um, it's just in their

601
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: rules and regulations that it has to be covered by something,

602
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: and that covered something would be UM the cardboard that's

603
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: for caribou. For things with like other points mule deer,

604
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: I always carry like I've got an old garden hose,

605
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: and I cut sections out of that garden hose and

606
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: I put them in a zip block baggie and I

607
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: travel to my hunting destination with that if I'm flying,

608
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: because then what I'll do is I'll throw that garden

609
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: hose over the tips of the points and then wrap

610
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: electrical tape around that to secure it. That's a really

611
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: easy way to cover the tips is just with that

612
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: garden hose, and then you can also fold it over

613
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: and then tape it around again. And you gotta make

614
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: sure you do every point. And that's a really solid

615
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: way to UH to transport antlers through the airlines. Next

616
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: question he comes from Brian. He asked about spring bear

617
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: hunting and he says, I've seen or read some conflicting

618
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: information on hunting bears in the morning. Is it largely

619
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: a waste of time? Or should we be on the

620
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: mountain before the sun comes up every morning? Thanks again

621
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: for all you do. Appreciate the tips. Brian from Fort Worth, Texas.

622
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Now here's my thoughts on it.

623
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: I feel like three different things. A lot of time

624
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: bear movement in the spring when it comes to spot

625
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: in stock the hardest part is because bears can be nocturnal,

626
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: they can be very solitary, finding the right timing where

627
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,959
Speaker 1: you're catching them out in the open. Now, the funny

628
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: thing about bears is I've seen them in the middle

629
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: of the day. Some some years it's like the middle

630
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: of the day and that's when you see them, and

631
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: other times it's the mornings or evenings. I have found

632
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: like over the years, I used to hunt from sun

633
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: up until dark and in the springtime, if you're at

634
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: a far northern latitude, those are really really long days.

635
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: If you're going in ahead like for light, and then

636
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: you wake up and you're glassing in the morning, it's

637
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: like essentially you get two hours of sleep and you're

638
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: just hunting and looking and it's just mentally draining. My

639
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: clients just could not handle it, and they're like, this

640
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: is just it's too tiring, and I'm like, okay. So

641
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: then I kind of switched to this, like I'll just

642
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: hunt like not necessarily half day, but like go in yeah,

643
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: like I have day going around noon and then huntil

644
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: midnight kind of thing. You know, like you're hunting until

645
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: dark and then hike out and by the time you

646
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: get to the truck and drive back out, it's about midnight.

647
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: And we realized we see just as many bears. But

648
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: that's not because I think it's an evening thing. What

649
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: I do oftentimes is like the first part of the trip,

650
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: or like if I'm going somewhere, I'll hunt kind of

651
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: like i'll glass in the mornings. I'll spend a couple

652
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: of days kind of hunting all day, which is the

653
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: best if you got like the energy, you know, and

654
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: you can always take a nap whatever. Um, I'll hunt

655
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: the morning and the even because I have seen a

656
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: lot of bears in the morning. Because the other thing

657
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: I realized is like if I just hunted the morning.

658
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I'm just like I'm hunting for myself and

659
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: it's like I gotta work or whatever, I'll go out

660
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: and like hunt the morning and then go to work

661
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I still see bears. So it's

662
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: not that they aren't out in the mornings. I think

663
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: it's just maybe where you're at and when you're concentrating.

664
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: There are times too where it's you see more bears

665
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: in the morning than the evening. So the first couple

666
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: of days figure out the bears pattern, what are they doing?

667
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: And a lot of it, honestly, I think, is based

668
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: on the moon phase that you're currently in. So are

669
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: the bears like more nocturnal? Um, is that moon coming

670
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and then staying

671
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: through the morning than in which case I would maybe

672
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: consider like hunting mornings longer. The nice thing about mornings

673
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: is they tend to stay out longer in the morning

674
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: if it's cold. It's also kind of a temperature thing.

675
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: If it's real hot out um and it's hot in

676
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: the evenings, they're probably gonna be moving around more in

677
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: the morning when it's you've got that like cool temperature

678
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: than the evenings when it's hot. So honestly, if you

679
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: can hunt as much as you can do both, I

680
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: mean logistically, it can be exhausting and you might not

681
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: be as mentally focused to go, you know, all day

682
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: just like glassing and looking, and there's times where it's

683
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: like you won't see anything and it kind of puts

684
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: you off to paying attention at the peak times. Then

685
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: you kind of got to gauge it based on the weather,

686
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: the moon, and kind of the little bit of the

687
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: activity that's going on um in that area. I know

688
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: that's it's kind of like convoluted, and some of that

689
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: is just going to take a little bit of experience

690
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: to know when is going to be the right time

691
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: for me. You know, it's been years of kind of

692
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: like understanding and being around him and kind of doing

693
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: both to know, oh, this is gonna be a morning

694
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: hunt or this is gonna be an evening hunt. But

695
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I think generally bears tend to be a little more

696
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: active in the evening, So if you had to pick one,

697
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: I'd probably just go with the evenings. That was a

698
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: long way to get to the answer of it's very

699
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: dependent on many things. So this question says, hey, remy

700
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: question for your last white Taiale rifle season. I had

701
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: a pretty rough steep hill country here in Kansas and

702
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: mostly publicly, and it's on multiple shooter bucks. Is they're

703
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: running over the hill. I have very little to no

704
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: access to being able to scout this place out throughout

705
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: the year. Do you have any tips on how to

706
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: get on loan bucks after the rut? So that's a

707
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: great question, and I think it's probably one that a

708
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: lot of people encounter. Um, you know, you might not

709
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: be able to to go check out these areas ahead

710
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: of time. And honestly, most of my hunts are this way.

711
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: I go into an area and maybe it's the first

712
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: time I've been there, or maybe you get to go

713
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: back to the same spot, but you don't have a

714
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: chance to to scout it out ahead of time. Now

715
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: I'm assuming and this really makes sense just based on

716
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: the little bit of information in here. You're hunting public land.

717
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: But you're seeing these good bucks and it's like they're

718
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 1: running away because you're blowing them out a thicker cover,

719
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: or you're blowing them out of areas where they're kind

720
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: of recuperating after the rut. What happens is after the rut,

721
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: these bucks, these especially these mature bucks, they've they've kind

722
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: of they've bred their doughs, they've spent all their energy.

723
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: Now they've got to bulk back up. So what they're

724
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: gonna do is they're gonna pull into these pockets and

725
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: almost go like what people would call nocturnal, but I

726
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: almost think they aren't really moving much in the night either.

727
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: What they're doing is that they're recuperating. Um, they will feed,

728
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: but a lot of them might just be like regaining energy,

729
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: because they're gonna go start going into this feeding pattern

730
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: and they're going to be moving around the least amount.

731
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be stuff that's thick, where they've got

732
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: good cover, where they probably aren't going to be bothered,

733
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: and then where they can have quick access to food

734
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 1: and other things right there without having to move. A lot.

735
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: I see this happen, especially even with our like big

736
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: mountain white tails. I've I've found this to be the case.

737
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: It's like you see deer, you see deer, and then

738
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: they just disappear, and it's like the big bucks are

739
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: off by themselves somewhere. Um. One thing that I kind

740
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: of find is there's a couple there's a couple of things.

741
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: The first thing is what time of day did you

742
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: blow this deer out? If if you blew the deer

743
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the day, I'm gonna say

744
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: that this is probably that deer's preferred betting area. And

745
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look around, say where did that deer go?

746
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: And is there anything else like this where you can go?

747
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: If there's not, I would be even focus in on

748
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: that area and um and plan on hunting that other

749
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: times and just being in that area to glass and

750
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: check out that area, like in those crepuscular times when

751
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: those loan bucks might start to move right at first light,

752
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: right before dark. Um. Now, another thought too, is like

753
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: just being a little more cautious as you still hunt,

754
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: taking a little slower in these areas where hey, you

755
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: know you're blowing out bucks, Maybe say like what's in

756
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: this particular spot? Why am I blowing out this deer.

757
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: Where could I be where I might see this deer earlier?

758
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: That might even be just like as you're still hunting,

759
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: throwing up that glass and just using your binoculars constantly,

760
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: even in thicker country, to pick out the pieces of

761
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: that deer before he sees you. Another thing is looking

762
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: for sign and looking for those areas where it's like

763
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: there's those places where you know, you probably know you're

764
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: you're like walking whatever, especially like maybe somewhere where's a

765
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: little more open, like Kansas, and you're like, Okay, this

766
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: bottom definitely is gonna hold some deer, and you know it,

767
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: the deer know it. You know there's deer in there.

768
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: Maybe figuring out ways where it's like, okay, where would

769
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: these deer be feeding at? How can I kind of

770
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 1: hunt this strategically, Like I already know there's gonna be

771
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: a deer in there. If I walk in there, yeah,

772
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow it out. So maybe I don't walk

773
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe I just kind of hunt the fringes

774
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: and try to figure out a way make sure my

775
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: winds always right, and try to figure out a way

776
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: to outsmart the deer that are in there without blowing

777
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: them out. Just hunting a little bit slower and hunting

778
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more methodically, and that should be a

779
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: way that you can kind of find a little more

780
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: success than that. I've had to do that many times,

781
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: especially late season in some in Montana and some other places.

782
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: And that translates white tail, mule deer, whatever of very

783
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: similar tactics because that's what the big bucks do. And

784
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: in order to find those big bucks after the rut,

785
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: you kind of have to figure out where are they

786
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: going to be? And that could just be I mean,

787
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: you know, when you see it in many ways, it's like, yeah,

788
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a deer hiding in here. Um. I've

789
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: hunted places in South Dakota where it's pretty open and

790
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: you're like, during the right you see deer everywhere, and

791
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: then afterwards you're like where these deer go? And you

792
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: go into this one draw and you're like, well, there,

793
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: that's a really brushy little spot in this draw, and

794
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: sure enough you walk through it and your buddy across

795
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: the way says, yeah, twenty deer ran out of there.

796
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: You like, I didn't see any of them. They're all

797
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: running away from me. I couldn't get a shot. Um,

798
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: just knowing that those areas do hold dear, they will

799
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: hold dear, and kind of focusing in maybe picking it

800
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: apart a little bit harder and seeing seeing what you

801
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: can turn up. All right, we got our last question here,

802
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: um comes from Jeffrey. Uh. It's a little bit of

803
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: a life advice question. Love these kind of questions, says

804
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: Aramy've been catching up on your podcast while painting our

805
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: baby room and putting together baby furniture. Our babies due

806
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: June is our first. From what I understand, you and

807
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: your wife are also expecting. Just curious what your plans

808
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: are for getting out hunting after the baby is born.

809
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: Do you plan to take the baby with you within

810
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: the first year? Has your wife expressed any concerns if

811
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: you plan on being away for about a week or

812
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: more hunting, he says. He goes on to say, my

813
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: wife is not as outdoor active as yours. Despite a

814
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 1: few years of trying now, I have only been able

815
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: to get her out fishing, but not hunting. So any

816
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: advice on getting your partner more involved in hunting is

817
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: also appreciated that Thanks Jeff from Calgary, Alberta. This is

818
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: a great question and actually, um, I actually wrote an

819
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: article a few issues back on in Western Hunter magazine

820
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: about kind of getting your family and getting new people

821
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: into hunting, especially your spouse. I'm expecting a baby in

822
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: June as well, and it's also my first. Now everybody's like, oh,

823
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: things are going to change this, that and the other thing.

824
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: But also people say a lot of things that they

825
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: may not. You know, people said that when I would

826
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: get married and other things. So we at least have

827
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: like this philosophy, like we're gonna do things the way

828
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: that we do things. Obviously, a baby is going to

829
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: change many things, but I think it won't change a

830
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: lot of things for me. I'm planning on taking the baby.

831
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like babies do in June, and I'm

832
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: taking her bow hunting in September, hopefully. Got a little

833
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 1: backpack thing and you know, I'm gonna have all the stuff,

834
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna you know, take it easy and maybe

835
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: cruise around a little bit and and look around and

836
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: just play it by year. But um, I'm hoping that. Yeah,

837
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm definitely she's definitely gonna go out with us in

838
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: the first year of life and that first fall, uh there,

839
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: there's gonna be quite a few hunts. Now it's it's

840
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: awesome that my wife goes along with me and really

841
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: enjoys hunting as well. Um, but you know, it was

842
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: something that she never not I would say, like her

843
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: dad hunted but never took her and um, and it

844
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: was something that like she's kind of got into later

845
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: in life, and it's something that she kind of like

846
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: I never really pushed it. She was the one that

847
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: kind of initiated it, but I also like provided a

848
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: series of positive hunting experiences. And those positive hunting experiences

849
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: first started for our family in the kitchen. It was

850
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, preparing like we live off wild game, but

851
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, that was my lifestyle before meeting her, and

852
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: then really like including her in the thing of like

853
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: we're making really good food and her under standing where

854
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: that food came from, and that is like really the

855
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: basis of her really being interested in hunting. Now, this

856
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: could be different for a lot of people, but I

857
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: also know a lot of other hunters that kind of,

858
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, their wives really got into it based on

859
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: like seeing the way that I cared for what I

860
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: ate and then also understanding that being a part of

861
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: that process means something to me and then my wife,

862
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like got into it through fishing

863
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 1: as well. She loves fishing. She's probably a much better

864
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: fisher person than me. When it comes to like lucky

865
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: style fishing, you put a fly rod in my hand,

866
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: I will dominate the water every time. But when it

867
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: comes to anything else, any other strategy, whether it's ice fishing, trolling,

868
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: bait fishing, don't it doesn't even matter. She just has

869
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 1: the knack for catching the fish, which is really fun.

870
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: She will always catch the bigger fish. And now, I

871
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: think one thing to think about is, so as you

872
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: progress and like maybe move into bringing someone on a

873
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: hunt or whatever, So let's say they decide they want

874
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: to do it, uh, you know, really tailoring that that

875
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: experience to them, not putting your own expectations on that trip,

876
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: on that whatever. My wife came along on a lot

877
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: of hunts with me before she decided to hunt. Now,

878
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: I've seen people ruined family members, kids, their wife, whatever

879
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: on a hunt where they just went and it was

880
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: just all hardcore, all whatever. Trust me, there's I guarantee

881
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: you would be hard pressed to find another person out

882
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: there that hunts as hardcore as I do. And I

883
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: recognize that in myself, and I knew when I took

884
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: my wife on her first trip it was not about me.

885
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: It was not about me being successful. It was about

886
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: me showing her a positive hunting experience. And we ended

887
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: up being successful, and that it was a backpack hunt.

888
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: In the first day, it was like we were in

889
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: New Zealand and I'm like, okay, we're gonna go chase

890
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: tar and me I would have climbed to the top

891
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: of the mountain and just like war, everybody out and

892
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: probably killed the bullet oar on the first day or

893
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: whatever we packed in. I brought more food than I

894
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: needed to carry. I set up a bigger camp and

895
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: a nicer set up than I needed to do. Um.

896
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: I made it really about like her experience and not

897
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: in like in many ways catering to her comfort level,

898
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: but also like explaining things like going slow and I

899
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: needed to And it was like in my mind, I

900
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: didn't care if I got anything, if I got something

901
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: or didn't, it was just like having a good hunting experience,

902
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: and that to me was one of my most memorable hunts.

903
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: I ended up shooting a young red deer like a

904
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: free range red stag um and packed it out, and

905
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: then you know, we went back and uh, let her

906
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: be part of the process and and kind of you know,

907
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: explaining the kind of like kill portion, and you know,

908
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: she was sad and I'm like, that's you know, completely normal.

909
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: And then you know we have like we made like

910
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: an awesome meal and just kind of like bringing in

911
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: that whole experience. But also there was like the point

912
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: of during the day was like we packed in, we

913
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: got to the spot and me I was like, I

914
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: spotted some deer. It was like, oh, okay, we could

915
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: totally go after those and I'm ready to roll. Most

916
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: of you would just be like, oh, let's go up

917
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: there and shoot him, you know, and then instead of

918
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: like I could tell that she was a little bit

919
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: tired or whatever, so it was like, now let's just

920
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: set up camp, let's have a big lunch, let's take

921
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: an app you know. The kind of things is like

922
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: progressing along whereas like that deer will be there or

923
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 1: won't be will make it a hunt, but also kind

924
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: of cater to the person that's with you, and that's

925
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: that's huge and like building those first outdoor experiences because

926
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: until someone really understands it um and is into it.

927
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: You know, they might not value the same things that

928
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: we value, so kind of catering to the person that's

929
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: with you. Now it's like my wife drew a archery

930
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: deer tag and hunted a candar or was it like

931
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: sixteen consecutive days? I mean I was war out by

932
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: the time it was over. And now those those hardcore

933
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: experiences are just part of the things that we do

934
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: that she loves because now she understands it as a hunter.

935
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: But those first steps that you take, whether it's a kid,

936
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: whether it's your wife, whether it's anyone, building it out slow,

937
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: progressively and maybe starting out with something that's like a

938
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: small game hunt, uh, something where you can go along

939
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: and just make it like a family, a family thing, um,

940
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: cater to your wife, catered towards the baby, cater towards

941
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: your family, and make it an outing that you guys

942
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: get to do together. And I think that that will

943
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: kind of bring in the hunting and the family aspect. Now,

944
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: there are some people that just maybe we'll never understand it,

945
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: maybe never want to do it, and also you know,

946
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: don't push it. It's something that you kind of have

947
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: to want to do and really take upon yourself, because

948
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you need to learn,

949
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you need to do to

950
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: become a hunter, and it's very hard to do if

951
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: you aren't really interested in it. So that's my life

952
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: advice take on that. It's kind of funny because my

953
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: buddy Chris Denham, who's the editor of Western Hunter Magazine,

954
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: They've also got a podcast and some other things, and

955
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: he was talking to me one day and he was like, oh, yeah,

956
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: I want I want to do a podcast. And I

957
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'll do a podcast. And he's like, no,

958
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you. He's like, I

959
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: want to talk to your wife. He's like, I want

960
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: to know what your wife thinks when you go on

961
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: these long hunts and other things. And I actually think

962
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: it would be kind of I I kind of want

963
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: to know what she would say untethered the like what

964
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: her perspective is on a lot of this and and

965
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: where where she's coming from. Maybe that would be kind

966
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: of a fun podcast in the future, but until then,

967
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 1: until I've tried to figure that one out. Um, that's

968
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: that's kind of my advice, and I hope that that

969
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: helps some people out there. And I think it's fun

970
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: if you can make it a family event and um,

971
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 1: whether it's fishing, whether it's any kind of outdoor thing,

972
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: you know, cater to the people that are with you,

973
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: and soon they'll kind of catch up to your level

974
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: and you you'll be UM, you know, you'll have an

975
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:28,320
Speaker 1: awesome hunting partner, outdoor partner for life. Well, that concludes

976
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: our mail bag section for this week. I think I

977
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: want to focus on a few things to prepare in

978
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: some upcoming podcast this month, and then maybe spend a

979
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: little bit of time on a spring bear tactics. In

980
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: some upcoming podcasts, I think we're gonna cover some gear choices.

981
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: One of the things that I didn't read a lot

982
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: of the questions of We're very similar in asking about

983
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: gear stuff, and it always comes out this time of

984
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: year where guys are kind of getting their mind around

985
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: maybe updating their kit, maybe things to look for, and

986
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: I kind of like when I do gear stuff, I

987
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: really like to get to the kind of my thought

988
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: process us behind things. Um, it's it's really easy to say, oh,

989
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: this is a good product, this is a good thing,

990
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: this is what I use in which you know, I'll

991
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: definitely include the things that I use, but also my

992
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: thought process on gear selection. I like to get kind

993
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: of like behind the just the superficial stuff of there's

994
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: a reason that I pick all these certain products and items,

995
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: and maybe you can You could always just pick the

996
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 1: same thing that I've got, but you could also understand

997
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: why I picked that and find something that works for

998
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 1: your hunting style or what you're looking for. I would

999
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: say the top few things that I got like consistently,

1000
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: especially right now was boots and pack selection, and then

1001
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: what to look for in optics. So I want to

1002
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: break those out. Maybe the next couple of podcasts will

1003
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: be on that. I've got some really good ideas on

1004
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: the way that I want to structure that and kind

1005
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: of make it beneficial to everyone thinking about how to

1006
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: match something to their hunting type or how to match

1007
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: something to the hunting type that they're gonna do, and

1008
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: the most efficient use of gear and things to get.

1009
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,919
Speaker 1: So that'll be coming up, and then we'll maybe jump

1010
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: into a little bit of spring Bear tactics in the

1011
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: near future. These are just some ideas that I'm thrown

1012
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: around based on the kind of input that I got.

1013
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: If you've got any more input or more questions. As always,

1014
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: feel free to shoot over those uh via social media

1015
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 1: at Remy Warren. So until next week, UH, keep the

1016
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: questions coming and I'll catch you guys all later