Speaker 1: As a guide an 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. Welcome back to the podcast everybody. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just gonna start off with a little
Speaker 1: bit of podcast news for those of you that haven't
Speaker 1: heard yet. This is going to be the last podcast. Um.
Speaker 1: The government's gonna be shutting us down because there's reports
Speaker 1: of people listening to the podcast and being too successful outdoors,
Speaker 1: too successful hunting, so they want those success numbers to
Speaker 1: go down. Um, so we're just gonna have to close
Speaker 1: the podcast up. April fools. That is I think of
Speaker 1: a few hopefully your heart drops if your heart didn't
Speaker 1: d up and come on, man, that's happy April fools everyone.
Speaker 1: I had to just throw that out there. That would
Speaker 1: be funny though, right, get shut down like state agency
Speaker 1: calling me up. Hey, Um, you know, in our models
Speaker 1: of success, we don't factor in that that many people
Speaker 1: are successful. We need those success rates to stay around
Speaker 1: five to ten percent. Max. You know you're doing too
Speaker 1: good of a job teaching people how to be successful.
Speaker 1: But that's the goal here, That's that's what I'm all
Speaker 1: about sharing in that success. On this week's podcast, Uh,
Speaker 1: the rest will not be April Fools jokes. I will
Speaker 1: answer things seriously and be truthful and honest in my
Speaker 1: opinion as I head to the mail sack where your
Speaker 1: burning questions are answered. This is the part where I
Speaker 1: get interact with you guys, where you send me the
Speaker 1: things that you want. I I try to say it
Speaker 1: nearly every time, but I really want this podcast to
Speaker 1: be about helping everybody be successful and also kind of
Speaker 1: make it a thing where, um, it's focused on the
Speaker 1: things that you guys to learn. So all the input
Speaker 1: that I get, um goes into kind of helping me
Speaker 1: build out what I talk about. And then also I
Speaker 1: like these kind of once once a month check ins
Speaker 1: with the listener questions because you know, there's a few
Speaker 1: things maybe in podcasts in the past, or kind of
Speaker 1: a sharing of success, things that people are interested in,
Speaker 1: and it allows me to kind of really tailored to
Speaker 1: those of you that listen. So I appreciate everybody that
Speaker 1: has sent in their questions. Let's right now just dive
Speaker 1: into the questions and start with UM, got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a testimonial here, so let's jump into it.
Speaker 1: First letter, actually, UH is more of a testimonial, and
Speaker 1: I think this is pretty cool. It comes from Justin Jensen.
Speaker 1: He says, my wife teaches a pe archery class for
Speaker 1: the University of Idaho and she has used your Archery
Speaker 1: one O one and Archery one on two podcasts as
Speaker 1: part of her lessons for new students. Just thought i'd
Speaker 1: let you know we both enjoy listening to your podcast. Thanks.
Speaker 1: That is awesome to hear. UM. I really enjoyed doing
Speaker 1: those archery podcasts. If getting into bow hunting something that
Speaker 1: you're thinking about, go back check those out. I know
Speaker 1: those have been some of the ones that have gotten
Speaker 1: a ton of response on and the reason I get
Speaker 1: a ton of responses because I had a ton of
Speaker 1: questions come in about that, and so I made the
Speaker 1: podcast for those of you that wanted that, and so
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the feedback on that. That's awesome to
Speaker 1: UM see people getting into archery, and kudos to your
Speaker 1: wife for that archery class. UM. It's it's awesome to
Speaker 1: see people out in their community doing things to bring
Speaker 1: people into the sport of archery, whether it's and that's
Speaker 1: the cool thing about archery too. I can be a
Speaker 1: bow hunter, but there's a lot of other people out
Speaker 1: there that could just be getting into archery for the
Speaker 1: sake of archery. And that's what I love about it
Speaker 1: because it's so fun to shoot your bow. And as
Speaker 1: we go into spring, as we go into summer, that's
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, there's no better time. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm looking out at a beautiful day and you better
Speaker 1: believe that on my list is going to be shooting
Speaker 1: that bow. I like to shoot rain in snow, sleet, shine,
Speaker 1: but it's just a lot more fun when the sun
Speaker 1: shining and it's just that like nice weather. So thanks
Speaker 1: for that feedback, and I'm pretty stoked on it. And
Speaker 1: for those of you that haven't caught those episodes, feel
Speaker 1: free to go back through a little library here. Nice
Speaker 1: thing about cutting the distances. There's no such thing as
Speaker 1: an old episode. There's just episodes that we've posted. Um,
Speaker 1: go back and find stuff that's topical to to what
Speaker 1: you're looking for, what you want to get into you
Speaker 1: because we're building out a pretty extensive library. This next
Speaker 1: one comes from Eric Inness. It says pronghorn one oh one. Hi, Remy.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love the podcast and because of your tips,
Speaker 1: I had several close encounters of the elk kind last year.
Speaker 1: After spending multiple years wandering around cluelessly in the woods,
Speaker 1: I decided to spend my pronghorn preference points this year
Speaker 1: and go hunting only. I have no idea how to
Speaker 1: hunt pronghorn, what should I look for? When the Scouting
Speaker 1: one oh one episode would be awesome? I really like that.
Speaker 1: I think, UM definitely see a full pronghorn one o
Speaker 1: one episode in the future, but I think that it's
Speaker 1: it would be cool to just jump on and answer
Speaker 1: a little bit of this right now as well. Um,
Speaker 1: when I think about any kind of scouting, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what whether it's elk, whether it's meal, they or whatever,
Speaker 1: the first thing I think about is the type of
Speaker 1: habitat and terrain that those animals need and what makes
Speaker 1: that animal very specific to that hunting style. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to pronghorn, their main major defense is their eyesight. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have incredible eyesight. It's like I've heard it compared
Speaker 1: to looking through a pair of eight power binoculars. So
Speaker 1: when you think of that. If your main defense mechanism
Speaker 1: is your eyes, well, what kind of habitats you need
Speaker 1: for that? The answer is open country. Now you can
Speaker 1: find open country based on a map, like pronghorn country
Speaker 1: is relatively flat because in the flat stuff they can
Speaker 1: see further and open without a lot of timber, because
Speaker 1: then they can also see further. Um. The way that
Speaker 1: they rut, the way that they interact, the way that
Speaker 1: they survive is using their eyes and their speed. There
Speaker 1: are the fastest undulant land mammal in the world, second
Speaker 1: fastest land animal only to a cheetah, and I actually
Speaker 1: think that their endurance would far surpass a cheetah. So
Speaker 1: I bet you if you put a race over a
Speaker 1: certain amount of distance, um, I would I would be
Speaker 1: willing to bet that the prong horn antelope would actually
Speaker 1: outpace that cheetah. I've seen cheetah's hunt. I've seen them
Speaker 1: their massive bursts of speed, but I've also seen them
Speaker 1: right after that burst of speed, they just lay down
Speaker 1: like panting and trying to catch their breath, which, of
Speaker 1: course they've been running at the speed of most automobiles.
Speaker 1: So of course it makes sense that they build up
Speaker 1: lactic acid and need to cool down and take a break.
Speaker 1: But prong horn man, I have seen them run for
Speaker 1: miles at like a truck pace, just cruising across the flats.
Speaker 1: So one thing you want to think about is like
Speaker 1: looking on whatever you're e scouting with, uh, looking for
Speaker 1: that that flat terrain. So what I'll do, like I
Speaker 1: can look at the different topo lines and then I
Speaker 1: can switch between like a view of like a Google
Speaker 1: Earth style image, a three D image, and just see like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the vegetation look like? Mostly through aerial images, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be looking for that brown, that grass, that stuff
Speaker 1: that antelope like planes type stuff, and most antalope areas
Speaker 1: have that. And then you know you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: cross reference that with public land unless you've got a
Speaker 1: place where you can hunt private. So depending on where
Speaker 1: you cast your points in, you're gonna now say, okay,
Speaker 1: where in this area has this antelope habitat because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of areas that don't hold antalope habitat. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: I look at a lot of the areas that I've
Speaker 1: hunted antelope, and there's mountains, but you know those antelope
Speaker 1: are gonna be at that bottom end of the mountain,
Speaker 1: in the flat in the valleys, and then you might
Speaker 1: find some antalope up in the hills too. Like it's
Speaker 1: not that they avoid those places, um, but it's got
Speaker 1: to be like less timbered, more open, and you should
Speaker 1: be right there zooming in and finding some solid places
Speaker 1: to check out when you get into there. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing is like, when you get into antelope country,
Speaker 1: do it smart. Check out as many places you can
Speaker 1: on the first day you get in there, drive around
Speaker 1: and look around. You should see antelope all day long.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about antelope is they live out in
Speaker 1: the open. They don't necessarily go down into like thick
Speaker 1: cover to bed, so you can find antelope all day long.
Speaker 1: Now they will bed down and be out of sight,
Speaker 1: but they do move around a lot during the day.
Speaker 1: And it's probably one of the in my opinion, one
Speaker 1: of the most fun hunts out west because you're seeing
Speaker 1: stuff all day, You've got multiple opportunities. Um. It's just
Speaker 1: if you if you aren't having a lot of fun
Speaker 1: antelope hunting, your antelope hunting wrong. And that's that's just
Speaker 1: the best way to put it. So give that a try.
Speaker 1: Check that out. And that should gets you started, and
Speaker 1: we'll go into some more antelope tips and tactics a
Speaker 1: little later on in the season as it gets a
Speaker 1: little closer. So thanks for your question, Eric. Alright, this
Speaker 1: next question comes from Alec Alec Robbie. He says, I
Speaker 1: listened to your thoughts and situations on calling out, most
Speaker 1: of which take place during the rut September me through October.
Speaker 1: My question is, have you had success calling in the
Speaker 1: later season November through December, when the behavior has changed
Speaker 1: from rhet to post red. How would you go about
Speaker 1: calling during those later months compared to traditional rep months.
Speaker 1: Um And he says, if you've talked about this in
Speaker 1: the past episodes of your podcast, I'd love to track
Speaker 1: it down and listen to it. Thanks. Um, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Now. I actually have answered this
Speaker 1: question multiple times on the Q and A S. But
Speaker 1: I honestly think it like bears repeating, because it's maybe
Speaker 1: I probably should just do a whole podcast on it.
Speaker 1: To be honest, elk or not super receptive to calls
Speaker 1: later in the season. What I mean is like calling
Speaker 1: an ELK in may not be it's it's not really
Speaker 1: going to happen in those November December time frames, but
Speaker 1: it depends on the area. I'm not out there in
Speaker 1: November December ripping bugles. Um. However, there I say that,
Speaker 1: and I've actually called like only once in all my
Speaker 1: time of hunting. I think that I can remember I
Speaker 1: had a bowl like bugle at me Um November. I
Speaker 1: hear a bugle up on the hill and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's weird, so I just like bugle back. He bug
Speaker 1: goes back. I'm like, Okay, this is weird. And then
Speaker 1: a few seconds later like it's getting closer, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is going on? Hebu goes like throughout some cow calls,
Speaker 1: and ended up calling this bull right into like thirty
Speaker 1: yards and shot it with my rifle in November. But
Speaker 1: that's happened one time out of I don't even know
Speaker 1: how many probably days of elk hunting, so it's like
Speaker 1: one in a thousand chances. You know, It's it's pretty low. UM.
Speaker 1: I will say though that I still always have a
Speaker 1: call throughout the end of the season, but what I'm
Speaker 1: using it for is cow calls, UM, And I use
Speaker 1: it in three ways. So the first, the number one
Speaker 1: reason that I use a cow call all times a
Speaker 1: year is to stop an animal. Um if I if
Speaker 1: say I spook something where they didn't win to me,
Speaker 1: or I shoot it an elk and either hit it
Speaker 1: or need a follow up shot. It doesn't matter when
Speaker 1: I get into elk, I hit that cow call, like
Speaker 1: if they're starting to spook or start to get easy.
Speaker 1: It puts them back at ease, It makes them curious,
Speaker 1: it makes them stick around, and that could be the
Speaker 1: difference between getting a shot and not. The next way
Speaker 1: that I use a cow call is as I'm like
Speaker 1: hunting or still hunting through timber to possibly locate cows,
Speaker 1: like as a locator. UM, I'll use that cow call
Speaker 1: as like throwing up like cow chatter where they think, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just another elk talking. I have in some instances
Speaker 1: had cows call back, especially later on in the season
Speaker 1: when it's like maybe they're grouping up from migration. The
Speaker 1: elk will start piling in areas and start creating these
Speaker 1: big groups. It's like a safety and numbers thing, and
Speaker 1: new elk keep moving in. You will hear elk talking
Speaker 1: later in the season, mostly cows, but it's a good
Speaker 1: way to maybe identify elk in an area that's like
Speaker 1: thicker timber. And then the third way I use it
Speaker 1: is just kind of the same thing when I'm still hunting.
Speaker 1: But if I am making noise, like let's say I
Speaker 1: crash and crack a stick and I'm going into an
Speaker 1: area that I think might be a betting area, it's
Speaker 1: just to put animals at ease. Now I won't necessarily
Speaker 1: expect to hear something called back, but maybe things will
Speaker 1: come in and investigate, or it's just giving like them
Speaker 1: an idea that that noise that they hear walking around
Speaker 1: is another elk and not a hunter. So kind of
Speaker 1: the same as the last one, but I use it
Speaker 1: that way a lot um now, depending on the area,
Speaker 1: if you're hunting an area that has a lot of
Speaker 1: hunting pressure, I try to lay off the elk calls
Speaker 1: later in the rifle season, I don't really want other
Speaker 1: hunters knowing where I'm at, so pretty much for me,
Speaker 1: like when I'm hunting general areas, that cow calls just
Speaker 1: to stop or slow down or calm down elk that
Speaker 1: I've already encountered, And that's a good way to think
Speaker 1: about it. Alright, this next question, I actually uh a
Speaker 1: lot of these questions will actually pull from multiple places,
Speaker 1: uh ones Remy at the meat Eater dot com. But
Speaker 1: I would say that probably the more popular one that
Speaker 1: I pull from is just my at remy war on
Speaker 1: Instagram page. So if you don't follow me on Instagram,
Speaker 1: if you got Instagram, UH, please over there, check it out,
Speaker 1: give it a follow. Um you'll see a lot of
Speaker 1: cool Like you know, I try to share most of
Speaker 1: my hunts on there. A lot of the stuff I
Speaker 1: talked about on the podcast is on there. You know.
Speaker 1: People send in questions through that, and I just I
Speaker 1: screenshot the ones, Like if a question comes in, I
Speaker 1: screenshot it and then just kind of go through and
Speaker 1: pick some that are like other ones or or ones
Speaker 1: that I like. This one came from Instagram. Actually don't
Speaker 1: have the person's name on here, but rough country restoration.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Remy, looking for some advice. You may
Speaker 1: be able to help me with myself and three buddies
Speaker 1: are looking to go on in a complete d I
Speaker 1: y in the back was l hunt this fall with
Speaker 1: our bows. But we are in a pent on An area.
Speaker 1: We should try to put ourselves into uh to do
Speaker 1: it as we all live in Maryland and West Virginia.
Speaker 1: Any advice at all or suggestions is much appreciated now.
Speaker 1: I mean in many ways that could be just a
Speaker 1: question of hey, where should I go? But I think
Speaker 1: you know right now, first you gotta say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: what what's even available? Um, at this point in the game,
Speaker 1: your best it's gonna be Colorado. Uh, You're there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some over the counter tags and that's pretty much
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be focused. If you want to just go,
Speaker 1: make sure that you got a tag and can hunt. Now,
Speaker 1: I would definitely go back and check out the tag
Speaker 1: application series that I did recently and kind of give
Speaker 1: you an idea of Okay, maybe some states to think
Speaker 1: about in the future. Wyoming is another great state that
Speaker 1: you can kind of build preference points to and plan
Speaker 1: two or three years out. If you want to go
Speaker 1: this year, anybody listening, I think Colorado is going to
Speaker 1: be your best bet, maybe your only bet, because pretty
Speaker 1: much all the other draws are ending Montana's deadlines today
Speaker 1: the first um, everything else kind of wrapping up now,
Speaker 1: that's just you know, if you want to guarantee that
Speaker 1: you can make a plan and the other thing. The
Speaker 1: cool thing about that is finding an area where you
Speaker 1: know I would look at it like this, how many
Speaker 1: times do you think you guys could go? I really
Speaker 1: suggest if you're gonna do it, do it with a
Speaker 1: couple of buddies where you can kind of share expenses
Speaker 1: of going out getting yourself out there, and then um,
Speaker 1: you know, think of us bought. Maybe you could do
Speaker 1: it two years, three years, whatever and find a place
Speaker 1: that you could reasonably get that tag multiple times. Because
Speaker 1: just like anything, that first year is gonna be a
Speaker 1: major learning curve. You should kind of think of it
Speaker 1: like this. The first year you do it, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: want to be successful, but it's really gonna be like
Speaker 1: figuring things out. And I guarantee you that the second
Speaker 1: time you do it is going to be a lot
Speaker 1: more successful. But you kind of look at that first
Speaker 1: trip is like, hey, where can I go where I
Speaker 1: could do this maybe twice or three times or like
Speaker 1: reasonably within a five year period, do it again because
Speaker 1: you're gonna learn so much on that first trip that
Speaker 1: your second trip is gonna be a lot more successful.
Speaker 1: And hopefully you know in there you guys will have
Speaker 1: found some success. I mean that does happen, but just knowing,
Speaker 1: like if it was me and I'm like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: a long way to go, I'm gonna pick somewhere that
Speaker 1: I think I could go. Maybe if I planned out
Speaker 1: within five years, Let's do this twice kind of thought.
Speaker 1: And I know that is a big ask, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna be probably the best for success. So finding an
Speaker 1: area that's easy to get into a couple of times
Speaker 1: would be my suggestion. In Okay, this question, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of these questions right here. This is a
Speaker 1: good question. Comes from Griffin Uh. He says, Remy, love
Speaker 1: the podcast. It really helped me last archery elk season.
Speaker 1: My question is about side arms to carry while hunting.
Speaker 1: I carry bear spray, but I'm looking to buy a
Speaker 1: side arm as well. Any advice on why handguns, what
Speaker 1: to get and what caliber has enough stopping power but
Speaker 1: isn't going to add unnecessary bulk. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: good question. I actually literally the very next question that
Speaker 1: came up after this was from Ryan uh. He says, Remy,
Speaker 1: just curious if you carry a backup handgun when hunting
Speaker 1: in bear country and if so, what is your preferred caliber.
Speaker 1: I know people have their opinions forty four mag, ten
Speaker 1: millimeter three fifty seven, whatever you train with, et cetera.
Speaker 1: He says, I live in California, but planned to hunt
Speaker 1: as many Western states as I can. Any information is
Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. So that was two of probably like more
Speaker 1: than a dozen questions that I got since the last
Speaker 1: Q and A about handguns. I mean, I've I've tried
Speaker 1: a little bit everything and had to use very little,
Speaker 1: which is good. When I'm in big bear country. I
Speaker 1: personally like to carry uh forty four mag. So one
Speaker 1: one of my favorite bear protection side arms is the
Speaker 1: Model three p D Smith and Wesson. It's like an
Speaker 1: air light super light frame forty four mag. I like
Speaker 1: it because it's light. I also like it because it's
Speaker 1: a revolver. I will say this it came with a
Speaker 1: wood grip handle. First thing I did was get rid
Speaker 1: of that because the wood started to swell with water
Speaker 1: and everything like that. The other thing I did have
Speaker 1: a major problem with it after one trip. They actually
Speaker 1: have a lock on the cylinder of the gun. Is
Speaker 1: like a safety feature that's in there. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I had no clue that that happened. On a trip
Speaker 1: in Alaska, Luckily it happened right after I unloaded it,
Speaker 1: so I was in the field. I had it loaded
Speaker 1: up everything, I unload it, I close the revolver, and
Speaker 1: then I can not get it open again, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the heck. Thankfully I had happened to unload it
Speaker 1: was leaving and I had to actually take it to
Speaker 1: a gunsmith. I'm like, yeah, there's a lock on here.
Speaker 1: I didn't there's no key that I knew of um
Speaker 1: to open it up, and so I actually had a
Speaker 1: gunsmith just removed that safety mechanism because I thought, man,
Speaker 1: if if they like completely in operates the firearm and
Speaker 1: if it's something that I need to pull out and
Speaker 1: shoot a bear with and it's locked up for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: that would suck. I don't know if anybody else has
Speaker 1: had that problem with it, but if that would be
Speaker 1: my suggestions first thing, to like take it to smith
Speaker 1: and have them removed that, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's something that's commonly goes wrong. But I did have
Speaker 1: it that happened to me, and then I thought, man,
Speaker 1: what if I wasn't able to open it and it
Speaker 1: was still loaded, I wouldn't be able to fly with
Speaker 1: it or anything like that. But I have I have
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that pistol. I shoot it really well as well. Um,
Speaker 1: it's got a little bit of kick. And some people
Speaker 1: like the more semi automatic pistols for bear defense because
Speaker 1: they're quite accurate, but also you can fire off a
Speaker 1: few more rounds and get a few more rounds down range.
Speaker 1: I can fletely understand that as well. So I've got
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that started carrying ten millimeters. There's
Speaker 1: been many trips in big bear country where I also
Speaker 1: carried a ten millimeter. Unfortunately, I think I got the
Speaker 1: The ten millimeter I have isn't as light as my
Speaker 1: forty four, so I don't carry it as often, but
Speaker 1: I would. I'm kind of looking at I think the
Speaker 1: next gun that I would get would be a maybe
Speaker 1: a glock ten millimeter. Um. I think that ten millimeter
Speaker 1: would work on big bears. Um, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: evidence that says it suggests that it does. Plus you
Speaker 1: can put a few more rounds into a tight area
Speaker 1: pretty quick. I think, like Ryan said, you know, anything
Speaker 1: that you're trained with, anything that you can shoot well,
Speaker 1: is going to be key. Um that the larger ten
Speaker 1: millimeter have. It's a sig Hunter ten. It's pretty dang heavy,
Speaker 1: but man, do I shoot that really well? Um, it's
Speaker 1: like a full frame, big pistol. It's heavy, but I
Speaker 1: mean I can put every round into where I want
Speaker 1: real fast without having to think, and that I've got
Speaker 1: to ACTU like a fiber optic site on my which
Speaker 1: is nice. Like it's got a little bit of high
Speaker 1: high visibility and you just kind of intuitively throw up
Speaker 1: and and go. Um. You can definitely empty a clip
Speaker 1: pretty fast, and in some ways that's good. Some ways
Speaker 1: that's bad. Um, But in in most situations, you know,
Speaker 1: you you want to have it the gun ready. I
Speaker 1: think in any situation where I've ever needed a pistol,
Speaker 1: if I didn't have one in the chamber, it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be enough time to actually defend with it. So
Speaker 1: that's I like the Revolver for that reason. I like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, semi auto is good for that too. I
Speaker 1: just think some summer feel a little safer than others.
Speaker 1: And then I would say, the number one that I
Speaker 1: actually carry is a nine millimeter. I know it's it's
Speaker 1: a little under kill for a lot of things, but
Speaker 1: a lot of places that I hunt where I know
Speaker 1: there's not real large bears, but I do want some
Speaker 1: kind of additional predator protection or whatever. UM. I carry
Speaker 1: my nine millimeter a little bit more. That's all so
Speaker 1: I think it's a Smith and Wesson MP nine. It's
Speaker 1: it's a smaller frames like could be, and b a
Speaker 1: little more of a concealed carry type firearm. I like
Speaker 1: it because I shoot it super well. I know that
Speaker 1: anything you know, like black bear, Mountain lion, even the
Speaker 1: occasional place where it's like, hey, the odds of actually
Speaker 1: running into a grizz or low, but I could pretty
Speaker 1: much shoot where I'm aiming pretty quick, and it's light.
Speaker 1: It's a lot lighter than my ten UM. I like
Speaker 1: that too. I don't know. This is a lot of
Speaker 1: rambling on just personal preference, to be honest, I think
Speaker 1: for big bears, pick a big caliber UT is even good. UM,
Speaker 1: but ten millimeter and forty four I think would be
Speaker 1: my top two choices for going into big bear country.
Speaker 1: I think that, uh, if you like that idea, if
Speaker 1: you're familiar shooting a semi auto, you think that you
Speaker 1: know it'll hold up in weather and other things, then
Speaker 1: I would go with the ten if you like, you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of a revolver and maybe just a little
Speaker 1: less moving parts. I would go with the forty four.
Speaker 1: That's my personal preference on that and that's what I carry,
Speaker 1: So UM, take that as you will. But I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot. I mean, there's no right or
Speaker 1: wrong answer. I would say the rightest answer would be,
Speaker 1: make sure you get pretty solid ammo if you're shooting
Speaker 1: for bare defense, some pretty heavy bullets, some solid lead bullets,
Speaker 1: and you should be good to go. You definitely do
Speaker 1: not want to And I've seen it all the time,
Speaker 1: people putting like cheap plinking ammo in their bare defense pistol.
Speaker 1: That's a bad idea. UM. I know because I've actually
Speaker 1: had cheap plinking ammo in my bare defense pistol and
Speaker 1: had to use it on a bear um one that
Speaker 1: had been shot. I didn't shoot it, but the client
Speaker 1: of mine shot at and he was going in and
Speaker 1: I said, here, he used this. You know, he didn't
Speaker 1: want to destroy the hid or whatever. So I handed
Speaker 1: my pistol. But I didn't realize that I had like,
Speaker 1: not very good rounds in it. And we realized real
Speaker 1: fast that those rounds didn't work very well. Uh So
Speaker 1: you ended up having to use his rifle again, which
Speaker 1: is fine, but we're trying not to damage so much meat.
Speaker 1: Um So that that's my suggestion on all that This
Speaker 1: question comes from Eric. He says, Hey, Remy, love the
Speaker 1: podcast and all information you provide to make everyone a
Speaker 1: better hunter and help more people to enjoy the outdoors.
Speaker 1: I'll be going on my first caribou hunt in Alaska
Speaker 1: in early August. I have previously listened to your podcast
Speaker 1: on proper meatcare since I'll be bringing home the meat
Speaker 1: if successful. But one thing I haven't heard anything on
Speaker 1: is bringing back the antlers and head. Will I need
Speaker 1: to ship this separately or will the airlines accept these
Speaker 1: as a check item along with the meat. Also, what
Speaker 1: is a good way to prep these items for travel?
Speaker 1: Any info would be greatly appreciated. Again, love the podcast,
Speaker 1: keep up the great work. Thanks Eric. That's a great question, Eric.
Speaker 1: Um So, you know, when when you're thinking about you know,
Speaker 1: obvious sleep, the meat care is very important, but when
Speaker 1: you're talking about bring home antlers on a trip where
Speaker 1: you're flying, there is some special things that I do.
Speaker 1: Uh So, first of all, August, you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: be um hunting carib especially early August. So the first
Speaker 1: step would be you got to think about you've got
Speaker 1: velvet on the antlers, and in velvet has to be
Speaker 1: treated like meat, and it's gonna have to be treated.
Speaker 1: So I found a product recently called velvet Lock, so
Speaker 1: it's like a antler preservative and you spray it on.
Speaker 1: I would absolutely bring a bottle of that. I had
Speaker 1: some antlers in the freezer that I just did the
Speaker 1: other day actually um this week, so uh, it works
Speaker 1: really well, and you've got to think, like, man, if
Speaker 1: you want to keep that preserved, that velvet on that
Speaker 1: caribou early August, you're definitely gonna need something for the velvet.
Speaker 1: So you can get a bottle of this and you
Speaker 1: just spray it on super easy. I mean, like way
Speaker 1: better than injecting in my opinion, because it's more practical
Speaker 1: and you can do it right away. So it's a
Speaker 1: velvet antler preservative that's like the rety bucks for a bottle.
Speaker 1: You should definitely have that in your kit. If you're
Speaker 1: hunting velvet, you know there is the option to strip it.
Speaker 1: I hate stripping velvet, not because I mean velvet can
Speaker 1: be a pain in the butt. But when you strip it,
Speaker 1: the antlers haven't been polished up, and they aren't. They're
Speaker 1: like super porous, so they'll never color. They just don't
Speaker 1: stain up right. Especially early August, they just don't look right.
Speaker 1: You really want to try to preserve that velvet the
Speaker 1: best you can, and it's super hard to do. Now. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: my last caribou bull that I had, it was like
Speaker 1: all the bulls should have been stripped, and there was
Speaker 1: like maybe, you know, I think in the whole trip,
Speaker 1: we saw five bowls that were still in velvet, and
Speaker 1: I did not want to have to shoot a velvet
Speaker 1: bowl out late, like it was just already ready. It
Speaker 1: was probably gonna come off in a day or two.
Speaker 1: And pretty much within the first three yards of packing
Speaker 1: out the bull, I could smell like the velvet underneath
Speaker 1: was rotten and it just like fell off. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't able to keep the velvet on last one. Even
Speaker 1: if I had preserved, it wouldn't mattered. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: actually planning on running into any caribou that had velvet
Speaker 1: on their antlers still. But that's just something to think
Speaker 1: about that maybe would get overlooked, so you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to first take care of the velvet. Now we get
Speaker 1: into the situation of the airlines, So there's a couple
Speaker 1: of rules. When you're flying with antlers. Doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: there's a caribou in Alaska, a mule deer from Colorado,
Speaker 1: and elk whatever, there are certain regulations that you have
Speaker 1: to follow. And those regulations include all the points must
Speaker 1: be wrapped and taped over. So one thing you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to bring with you is some cardboard, some duct tape,
Speaker 1: and I bring saran wrap, um, just like plastic wrap.
Speaker 1: So what I do my system is you cardboard the
Speaker 1: tips or pretty much the entire antler. If anything is exposed,
Speaker 1: any type of point, doesn't matter whether it's in a box, whatever.
Speaker 1: If anything is exposed, they're immediately going to flag it,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be the guy in the airport that
Speaker 1: they're like kicking out a line and it's like trying
Speaker 1: to fix it and doesn't have all the materials. I
Speaker 1: pack extra pieces of cardboard and then I pack um
Speaker 1: some tape and some serandap. So what I do is
Speaker 1: I fold the cardboard over, I tape it and then
Speaker 1: I wrap everything in the cell of thane and that
Speaker 1: keeps it like nice and tight. I also split the
Speaker 1: antlers on my um because you gotta have a it's
Speaker 1: got to be in a box. So you gotta have
Speaker 1: some kind of box that you can build to fly
Speaker 1: back home. And you know, maybe ahead of time, wherever
Speaker 1: you're at, if it's gonna be something big, plan on
Speaker 1: fighting somewhere where you'll be able to buy a box.
Speaker 1: And then um, I split the antlers on my skull.
Speaker 1: So the best way to split the antlers is gonna
Speaker 1: be skull capping it. And then what I do is
Speaker 1: I do a little bit of a saw mark in
Speaker 1: the back, a little bit in the front, and then
Speaker 1: I use pressure to snap them, like to break the
Speaker 1: plate along that line, because if you just run the
Speaker 1: straight saw, you're gonna have a quarter inch gap that
Speaker 1: it won't necessarily fit back right. So I like that
Speaker 1: natural brake line where I can then later on reattach
Speaker 1: them if you're using a tax it or misst amount
Speaker 1: or whatever. They're really good at that. If you're doing
Speaker 1: it at home, that's the best way that I've found. Now,
Speaker 1: if you just want to do like a year pan
Speaker 1: mount on the skull. What sometimes would all do is
Speaker 1: I will actually saw one of the antlers off of
Speaker 1: the pedicle and then I'll reattach it later using like
Speaker 1: a drilling method and posts and epoxies and um bondo.
Speaker 1: But the other concern that you have to have when
Speaker 1: you're shipping at home is you probably have to have
Speaker 1: the brains removed. School has to be it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be boiled out, but it has to be somewhere
Speaker 1: where it can't drip. So what I use is I
Speaker 1: use the saran wrap. I'll put like a garbage bag
Speaker 1: over the skull, tie it real tight, and then I
Speaker 1: will just wrap the crap out of it with that
Speaker 1: saran wrap, that cellophane and get it super tight into
Speaker 1: this like nice little tight package. Because if there's anything
Speaker 1: that can leak, they're gonna throw it out. And the
Speaker 1: last thing you want is your skull or your antlers
Speaker 1: to get tossed. So if everything is clean and kind
Speaker 1: of dry, wrapped up and doesn't stink, you're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: So those are the considerations you want to think about
Speaker 1: with your flying with anything. And even if you're like
Speaker 1: on a deer hunt, you get a deer and you
Speaker 1: just you could Like a lot of times, I'll just
Speaker 1: throw it in my luggage if it'll fit, Like I
Speaker 1: usually carry an extra duffel bag, and then I put
Speaker 1: the antlers in that. But the antlers inside of it
Speaker 1: need to have the tips wrapped and then the skull
Speaker 1: plate or whatever else wrapped really well so it won't drip.
Speaker 1: And so it doesn't isn't showing really anything because if
Speaker 1: they look at it and inspect it, and there's like
Speaker 1: a time that could potentially poke out of a bag,
Speaker 1: which probably will never happen. Um, it's just in their
Speaker 1: rules and regulations that it has to be covered by something,
Speaker 1: and that covered something would be UM the cardboard that's
Speaker 1: for caribou. For things with like other points mule deer,
Speaker 1: I always carry like I've got an old garden hose,
Speaker 1: and I cut sections out of that garden hose and
Speaker 1: I put them in a zip block baggie and I
Speaker 1: travel to my hunting destination with that if I'm flying,
Speaker 1: because then what I'll do is I'll throw that garden
Speaker 1: hose over the tips of the points and then wrap
Speaker 1: electrical tape around that to secure it. That's a really
Speaker 1: easy way to cover the tips is just with that
Speaker 1: garden hose, and then you can also fold it over
Speaker 1: and then tape it around again. And you gotta make
Speaker 1: sure you do every point. And that's a really solid
Speaker 1: way to UH to transport antlers through the airlines. Next
Speaker 1: question he comes from Brian. He asked about spring bear
Speaker 1: hunting and he says, I've seen or read some conflicting
Speaker 1: information on hunting bears in the morning. Is it largely
Speaker 1: a waste of time? Or should we be on the
Speaker 1: mountain before the sun comes up every morning? Thanks again
Speaker 1: for all you do. Appreciate the tips. Brian from Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Now here's my thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: I feel like three different things. A lot of time
Speaker 1: bear movement in the spring when it comes to spot
Speaker 1: in stock the hardest part is because bears can be nocturnal,
Speaker 1: they can be very solitary, finding the right timing where
Speaker 1: you're catching them out in the open. Now, the funny
Speaker 1: thing about bears is I've seen them in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day. Some some years it's like the middle
Speaker 1: of the day and that's when you see them, and
Speaker 1: other times it's the mornings or evenings. I have found
Speaker 1: like over the years, I used to hunt from sun
Speaker 1: up until dark and in the springtime, if you're at
Speaker 1: a far northern latitude, those are really really long days.
Speaker 1: If you're going in ahead like for light, and then
Speaker 1: you wake up and you're glassing in the morning, it's
Speaker 1: like essentially you get two hours of sleep and you're
Speaker 1: just hunting and looking and it's just mentally draining. My
Speaker 1: clients just could not handle it, and they're like, this
Speaker 1: is just it's too tiring, and I'm like, okay. So
Speaker 1: then I kind of switched to this, like I'll just
Speaker 1: hunt like not necessarily half day, but like go in yeah,
Speaker 1: like I have day going around noon and then huntil
Speaker 1: midnight kind of thing. You know, like you're hunting until
Speaker 1: dark and then hike out and by the time you
Speaker 1: get to the truck and drive back out, it's about midnight.
Speaker 1: And we realized we see just as many bears. But
Speaker 1: that's not because I think it's an evening thing. What
Speaker 1: I do oftentimes is like the first part of the trip,
Speaker 1: or like if I'm going somewhere, I'll hunt kind of
Speaker 1: like i'll glass in the mornings. I'll spend a couple
Speaker 1: of days kind of hunting all day, which is the
Speaker 1: best if you got like the energy, you know, and
Speaker 1: you can always take a nap whatever. Um, I'll hunt
Speaker 1: the morning and the even because I have seen a
Speaker 1: lot of bears in the morning. Because the other thing
Speaker 1: I realized is like if I just hunted the morning.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I'm just like I'm hunting for myself and
Speaker 1: it's like I gotta work or whatever, I'll go out
Speaker 1: and like hunt the morning and then go to work
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I still see bears. So it's
Speaker 1: not that they aren't out in the mornings. I think
Speaker 1: it's just maybe where you're at and when you're concentrating.
Speaker 1: There are times too where it's you see more bears
Speaker 1: in the morning than the evening. So the first couple
Speaker 1: of days figure out the bears pattern, what are they doing?
Speaker 1: And a lot of it, honestly, I think, is based
Speaker 1: on the moon phase that you're currently in. So are
Speaker 1: the bears like more nocturnal? Um, is that moon coming
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and then staying
Speaker 1: through the morning than in which case I would maybe
Speaker 1: consider like hunting mornings longer. The nice thing about mornings
Speaker 1: is they tend to stay out longer in the morning
Speaker 1: if it's cold. It's also kind of a temperature thing.
Speaker 1: If it's real hot out um and it's hot in
Speaker 1: the evenings, they're probably gonna be moving around more in
Speaker 1: the morning when it's you've got that like cool temperature
Speaker 1: than the evenings when it's hot. So honestly, if you
Speaker 1: can hunt as much as you can do both, I
Speaker 1: mean logistically, it can be exhausting and you might not
Speaker 1: be as mentally focused to go, you know, all day
Speaker 1: just like glassing and looking, and there's times where it's
Speaker 1: like you won't see anything and it kind of puts
Speaker 1: you off to paying attention at the peak times. Then
Speaker 1: you kind of got to gauge it based on the weather,
Speaker 1: the moon, and kind of the little bit of the
Speaker 1: activity that's going on um in that area. I know
Speaker 1: that's it's kind of like convoluted, and some of that
Speaker 1: is just going to take a little bit of experience
Speaker 1: to know when is going to be the right time
Speaker 1: for me. You know, it's been years of kind of
Speaker 1: like understanding and being around him and kind of doing
Speaker 1: both to know, oh, this is gonna be a morning
Speaker 1: hunt or this is gonna be an evening hunt. But
Speaker 1: I think generally bears tend to be a little more
Speaker 1: active in the evening, So if you had to pick one,
Speaker 1: I'd probably just go with the evenings. That was a
Speaker 1: long way to get to the answer of it's very
Speaker 1: dependent on many things. So this question says, hey, remy
Speaker 1: question for your last white Taiale rifle season. I had
Speaker 1: a pretty rough steep hill country here in Kansas and
Speaker 1: mostly publicly, and it's on multiple shooter bucks. Is they're
Speaker 1: running over the hill. I have very little to no
Speaker 1: access to being able to scout this place out throughout
Speaker 1: the year. Do you have any tips on how to
Speaker 1: get on loan bucks after the rut? So that's a
Speaker 1: great question, and I think it's probably one that a
Speaker 1: lot of people encounter. Um, you know, you might not
Speaker 1: be able to to go check out these areas ahead
Speaker 1: of time. And honestly, most of my hunts are this way.
Speaker 1: I go into an area and maybe it's the first
Speaker 1: time I've been there, or maybe you get to go
Speaker 1: back to the same spot, but you don't have a
Speaker 1: chance to to scout it out ahead of time. Now
Speaker 1: I'm assuming and this really makes sense just based on
Speaker 1: the little bit of information in here. You're hunting public land.
Speaker 1: But you're seeing these good bucks and it's like they're
Speaker 1: running away because you're blowing them out a thicker cover,
Speaker 1: or you're blowing them out of areas where they're kind
Speaker 1: of recuperating after the rut. What happens is after the rut,
Speaker 1: these bucks, these especially these mature bucks, they've they've kind
Speaker 1: of they've bred their doughs, they've spent all their energy.
Speaker 1: Now they've got to bulk back up. So what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do is they're gonna pull into these pockets and
Speaker 1: almost go like what people would call nocturnal, but I
Speaker 1: almost think they aren't really moving much in the night either.
Speaker 1: What they're doing is that they're recuperating. Um, they will feed,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them might just be like regaining energy,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna go start going into this feeding pattern
Speaker 1: and they're going to be moving around the least amount.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be stuff that's thick, where they've got
Speaker 1: good cover, where they probably aren't going to be bothered,
Speaker 1: and then where they can have quick access to food
Speaker 1: and other things right there without having to move. A lot.
Speaker 1: I see this happen, especially even with our like big
Speaker 1: mountain white tails. I've I've found this to be the case.
Speaker 1: It's like you see deer, you see deer, and then
Speaker 1: they just disappear, and it's like the big bucks are
Speaker 1: off by themselves somewhere. Um. One thing that I kind
Speaker 1: of find is there's a couple there's a couple of things.
Speaker 1: The first thing is what time of day did you
Speaker 1: blow this deer out? If if you blew the deer
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the day, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: that this is probably that deer's preferred betting area. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look around, say where did that deer go?
Speaker 1: And is there anything else like this where you can go?
Speaker 1: If there's not, I would be even focus in on
Speaker 1: that area and um and plan on hunting that other
Speaker 1: times and just being in that area to glass and
Speaker 1: check out that area, like in those crepuscular times when
Speaker 1: those loan bucks might start to move right at first light,
Speaker 1: right before dark. Um. Now, another thought too, is like
Speaker 1: just being a little more cautious as you still hunt,
Speaker 1: taking a little slower in these areas where hey, you
Speaker 1: know you're blowing out bucks, Maybe say like what's in
Speaker 1: this particular spot? Why am I blowing out this deer.
Speaker 1: Where could I be where I might see this deer earlier?
Speaker 1: That might even be just like as you're still hunting,
Speaker 1: throwing up that glass and just using your binoculars constantly,
Speaker 1: even in thicker country, to pick out the pieces of
Speaker 1: that deer before he sees you. Another thing is looking
Speaker 1: for sign and looking for those areas where it's like
Speaker 1: there's those places where you know, you probably know you're
Speaker 1: you're like walking whatever, especially like maybe somewhere where's a
Speaker 1: little more open, like Kansas, and you're like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: bottom definitely is gonna hold some deer, and you know it,
Speaker 1: the deer know it. You know there's deer in there.
Speaker 1: Maybe figuring out ways where it's like, okay, where would
Speaker 1: these deer be feeding at? How can I kind of
Speaker 1: hunt this strategically, Like I already know there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a deer in there. If I walk in there, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow it out. So maybe I don't walk
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe I just kind of hunt the fringes
Speaker 1: and try to figure out a way make sure my
Speaker 1: winds always right, and try to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to outsmart the deer that are in there without blowing
Speaker 1: them out. Just hunting a little bit slower and hunting
Speaker 1: a little bit more methodically, and that should be a
Speaker 1: way that you can kind of find a little more
Speaker 1: success than that. I've had to do that many times,
Speaker 1: especially late season in some in Montana and some other places.
Speaker 1: And that translates white tail, mule deer, whatever of very
Speaker 1: similar tactics because that's what the big bucks do. And
Speaker 1: in order to find those big bucks after the rut,
Speaker 1: you kind of have to figure out where are they
Speaker 1: going to be? And that could just be I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, when you see it in many ways, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a deer hiding in here. Um. I've
Speaker 1: hunted places in South Dakota where it's pretty open and
Speaker 1: you're like, during the right you see deer everywhere, and
Speaker 1: then afterwards you're like where these deer go? And you
Speaker 1: go into this one draw and you're like, well, there,
Speaker 1: that's a really brushy little spot in this draw, and
Speaker 1: sure enough you walk through it and your buddy across
Speaker 1: the way says, yeah, twenty deer ran out of there.
Speaker 1: You like, I didn't see any of them. They're all
Speaker 1: running away from me. I couldn't get a shot. Um,
Speaker 1: just knowing that those areas do hold dear, they will
Speaker 1: hold dear, and kind of focusing in maybe picking it
Speaker 1: apart a little bit harder and seeing seeing what you
Speaker 1: can turn up. All right, we got our last question here,
Speaker 1: um comes from Jeffrey. Uh. It's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a life advice question. Love these kind of questions, says
Speaker 1: Aramy've been catching up on your podcast while painting our
Speaker 1: baby room and putting together baby furniture. Our babies due
Speaker 1: June is our first. From what I understand, you and
Speaker 1: your wife are also expecting. Just curious what your plans
Speaker 1: are for getting out hunting after the baby is born.
Speaker 1: Do you plan to take the baby with you within
Speaker 1: the first year? Has your wife expressed any concerns if
Speaker 1: you plan on being away for about a week or
Speaker 1: more hunting, he says. He goes on to say, my
Speaker 1: wife is not as outdoor active as yours. Despite a
Speaker 1: few years of trying now, I have only been able
Speaker 1: to get her out fishing, but not hunting. So any
Speaker 1: advice on getting your partner more involved in hunting is
Speaker 1: also appreciated that Thanks Jeff from Calgary, Alberta. This is
Speaker 1: a great question and actually, um, I actually wrote an
Speaker 1: article a few issues back on in Western Hunter magazine
Speaker 1: about kind of getting your family and getting new people
Speaker 1: into hunting, especially your spouse. I'm expecting a baby in
Speaker 1: June as well, and it's also my first. Now everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: things are going to change this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1: But also people say a lot of things that they
Speaker 1: may not. You know, people said that when I would
Speaker 1: get married and other things. So we at least have
Speaker 1: like this philosophy, like we're gonna do things the way
Speaker 1: that we do things. Obviously, a baby is going to
Speaker 1: change many things, but I think it won't change a
Speaker 1: lot of things for me. I'm planning on taking the baby.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like babies do in June, and I'm
Speaker 1: taking her bow hunting in September, hopefully. Got a little
Speaker 1: backpack thing and you know, I'm gonna have all the stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna you know, take it easy and maybe
Speaker 1: cruise around a little bit and and look around and
Speaker 1: just play it by year. But um, I'm hoping that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely she's definitely gonna go out with us in
Speaker 1: the first year of life and that first fall, uh there,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be quite a few hunts. Now it's it's
Speaker 1: awesome that my wife goes along with me and really
Speaker 1: enjoys hunting as well. Um, but you know, it was
Speaker 1: something that she never not I would say, like her
Speaker 1: dad hunted but never took her and um, and it
Speaker 1: was something that like she's kind of got into later
Speaker 1: in life, and it's something that she kind of like
Speaker 1: I never really pushed it. She was the one that
Speaker 1: kind of initiated it, but I also like provided a
Speaker 1: series of positive hunting experiences. And those positive hunting experiences
Speaker 1: first started for our family in the kitchen. It was
Speaker 1: you know, preparing like we live off wild game, but
Speaker 1: you know, that was my lifestyle before meeting her, and
Speaker 1: then really like including her in the thing of like
Speaker 1: we're making really good food and her under standing where
Speaker 1: that food came from, and that is like really the
Speaker 1: basis of her really being interested in hunting. Now, this
Speaker 1: could be different for a lot of people, but I
Speaker 1: also know a lot of other hunters that kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, their wives really got into it based on
Speaker 1: like seeing the way that I cared for what I
Speaker 1: ate and then also understanding that being a part of
Speaker 1: that process means something to me and then my wife,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like got into it through fishing
Speaker 1: as well. She loves fishing. She's probably a much better
Speaker 1: fisher person than me. When it comes to like lucky
Speaker 1: style fishing, you put a fly rod in my hand,
Speaker 1: I will dominate the water every time. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to anything else, any other strategy, whether it's ice fishing, trolling,
Speaker 1: bait fishing, don't it doesn't even matter. She just has
Speaker 1: the knack for catching the fish, which is really fun.
Speaker 1: She will always catch the bigger fish. And now, I
Speaker 1: think one thing to think about is, so as you
Speaker 1: progress and like maybe move into bringing someone on a
Speaker 1: hunt or whatever, So let's say they decide they want
Speaker 1: to do it, uh, you know, really tailoring that that
Speaker 1: experience to them, not putting your own expectations on that trip,
Speaker 1: on that whatever. My wife came along on a lot
Speaker 1: of hunts with me before she decided to hunt. Now,
Speaker 1: I've seen people ruined family members, kids, their wife, whatever
Speaker 1: on a hunt where they just went and it was
Speaker 1: just all hardcore, all whatever. Trust me, there's I guarantee
Speaker 1: you would be hard pressed to find another person out
Speaker 1: there that hunts as hardcore as I do. And I
Speaker 1: recognize that in myself, and I knew when I took
Speaker 1: my wife on her first trip it was not about me.
Speaker 1: It was not about me being successful. It was about
Speaker 1: me showing her a positive hunting experience. And we ended
Speaker 1: up being successful, and that it was a backpack hunt.
Speaker 1: In the first day, it was like we were in
Speaker 1: New Zealand and I'm like, okay, we're gonna go chase
Speaker 1: tar and me I would have climbed to the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain and just like war, everybody out and
Speaker 1: probably killed the bullet oar on the first day or
Speaker 1: whatever we packed in. I brought more food than I
Speaker 1: needed to carry. I set up a bigger camp and
Speaker 1: a nicer set up than I needed to do. Um.
Speaker 1: I made it really about like her experience and not
Speaker 1: in like in many ways catering to her comfort level,
Speaker 1: but also like explaining things like going slow and I
Speaker 1: needed to And it was like in my mind, I
Speaker 1: didn't care if I got anything, if I got something
Speaker 1: or didn't, it was just like having a good hunting experience,
Speaker 1: and that to me was one of my most memorable hunts.
Speaker 1: I ended up shooting a young red deer like a
Speaker 1: free range red stag um and packed it out, and
Speaker 1: then you know, we went back and uh, let her
Speaker 1: be part of the process and and kind of you know,
Speaker 1: explaining the kind of like kill portion, and you know,
Speaker 1: she was sad and I'm like, that's you know, completely normal.
Speaker 1: And then you know we have like we made like
Speaker 1: an awesome meal and just kind of like bringing in
Speaker 1: that whole experience. But also there was like the point
Speaker 1: of during the day was like we packed in, we
Speaker 1: got to the spot and me I was like, I
Speaker 1: spotted some deer. It was like, oh, okay, we could
Speaker 1: totally go after those and I'm ready to roll. Most
Speaker 1: of you would just be like, oh, let's go up
Speaker 1: there and shoot him, you know, and then instead of
Speaker 1: like I could tell that she was a little bit
Speaker 1: tired or whatever, so it was like, now let's just
Speaker 1: set up camp, let's have a big lunch, let's take
Speaker 1: an app you know. The kind of things is like
Speaker 1: progressing along whereas like that deer will be there or
Speaker 1: won't be will make it a hunt, but also kind
Speaker 1: of cater to the person that's with you, and that's
Speaker 1: that's huge and like building those first outdoor experiences because
Speaker 1: until someone really understands it um and is into it.
Speaker 1: You know, they might not value the same things that
Speaker 1: we value, so kind of catering to the person that's
Speaker 1: with you. Now it's like my wife drew a archery
Speaker 1: deer tag and hunted a candar or was it like
Speaker 1: sixteen consecutive days? I mean I was war out by
Speaker 1: the time it was over. And now those those hardcore
Speaker 1: experiences are just part of the things that we do
Speaker 1: that she loves because now she understands it as a hunter.
Speaker 1: But those first steps that you take, whether it's a kid,
Speaker 1: whether it's your wife, whether it's anyone, building it out slow,
Speaker 1: progressively and maybe starting out with something that's like a
Speaker 1: small game hunt, uh, something where you can go along
Speaker 1: and just make it like a family, a family thing, um,
Speaker 1: cater to your wife, catered towards the baby, cater towards
Speaker 1: your family, and make it an outing that you guys
Speaker 1: get to do together. And I think that that will
Speaker 1: kind of bring in the hunting and the family aspect. Now,
Speaker 1: there are some people that just maybe we'll never understand it,
Speaker 1: maybe never want to do it, and also you know,
Speaker 1: don't push it. It's something that you kind of have
Speaker 1: to want to do and really take upon yourself, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you need to learn,
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you need to do to
Speaker 1: become a hunter, and it's very hard to do if
Speaker 1: you aren't really interested in it. So that's my life
Speaker 1: advice take on that. It's kind of funny because my
Speaker 1: buddy Chris Denham, who's the editor of Western Hunter Magazine,
Speaker 1: They've also got a podcast and some other things, and
Speaker 1: he was talking to me one day and he was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want I want to do a podcast. And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'll do a podcast. And he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you. He's like, I
Speaker 1: want to talk to your wife. He's like, I want
Speaker 1: to know what your wife thinks when you go on
Speaker 1: these long hunts and other things. And I actually think
Speaker 1: it would be kind of I I kind of want
Speaker 1: to know what she would say untethered the like what
Speaker 1: her perspective is on a lot of this and and
Speaker 1: where where she's coming from. Maybe that would be kind
Speaker 1: of a fun podcast in the future, but until then,
Speaker 1: until I've tried to figure that one out. Um, that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of my advice, and I hope that that
Speaker 1: helps some people out there. And I think it's fun
Speaker 1: if you can make it a family event and um,
Speaker 1: whether it's fishing, whether it's any kind of outdoor thing,
Speaker 1: you know, cater to the people that are with you,
Speaker 1: and soon they'll kind of catch up to your level
Speaker 1: and you you'll be UM, you know, you'll have an
Speaker 1: awesome hunting partner, outdoor partner for life. Well, that concludes
Speaker 1: our mail bag section for this week. I think I
Speaker 1: want to focus on a few things to prepare in
Speaker 1: some upcoming podcast this month, and then maybe spend a
Speaker 1: little bit of time on a spring bear tactics. In
Speaker 1: some upcoming podcasts, I think we're gonna cover some gear choices.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I didn't read a lot
Speaker 1: of the questions of We're very similar in asking about
Speaker 1: gear stuff, and it always comes out this time of
Speaker 1: year where guys are kind of getting their mind around
Speaker 1: maybe updating their kit, maybe things to look for, and
Speaker 1: I kind of like when I do gear stuff, I
Speaker 1: really like to get to the kind of my thought
Speaker 1: process us behind things. Um, it's it's really easy to say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a good product, this is a good thing,
Speaker 1: this is what I use in which you know, I'll
Speaker 1: definitely include the things that I use, but also my
Speaker 1: thought process on gear selection. I like to get kind
Speaker 1: of like behind the just the superficial stuff of there's
Speaker 1: a reason that I pick all these certain products and items,
Speaker 1: and maybe you can You could always just pick the
Speaker 1: same thing that I've got, but you could also understand
Speaker 1: why I picked that and find something that works for
Speaker 1: your hunting style or what you're looking for. I would
Speaker 1: say the top few things that I got like consistently,
Speaker 1: especially right now was boots and pack selection, and then
Speaker 1: what to look for in optics. So I want to
Speaker 1: break those out. Maybe the next couple of podcasts will
Speaker 1: be on that. I've got some really good ideas on
Speaker 1: the way that I want to structure that and kind
Speaker 1: of make it beneficial to everyone thinking about how to
Speaker 1: match something to their hunting type or how to match
Speaker 1: something to the hunting type that they're gonna do, and
Speaker 1: the most efficient use of gear and things to get.
Speaker 1: So that'll be coming up, and then we'll maybe jump
Speaker 1: into a little bit of spring Bear tactics in the
Speaker 1: near future. These are just some ideas that I'm thrown
Speaker 1: around based on the kind of input that I got.
Speaker 1: If you've got any more input or more questions. As always,
Speaker 1: feel free to shoot over those uh via social media
Speaker 1: at Remy Warren. So until next week, UH, keep the
Speaker 1: questions coming and I'll catch you guys all later