Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back everyone. I'm excited
Speaker 1: for another episode of Cutting the Distance, and once again
Speaker 1: we head to the mail sack. This is where I
Speaker 1: answer your guys as questions Q and A style, a
Speaker 1: little bit of rapid fire going through and kind of
Speaker 1: taking a bunch of the top questions that I see
Speaker 1: throughout between the last podcast or last Q and as
Speaker 1: and trying to answer those. And these q and as
Speaker 1: are always kind of what build out some of the
Speaker 1: future episodes as well. Things that get asked a lot.
Speaker 1: We kind of build out specific episodes on that, so
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody sending those in. This Q and A
Speaker 1: is a little different because this is the first Cutting
Speaker 1: the Distance Q and A that I have been doing
Speaker 1: as a father. I just had a baby this last weekend,
Speaker 1: our first child. My wife and I baby girl. Everybody's healthy,
Speaker 1: everybody's stoked. Um, it's it's a pretty awesome time and
Speaker 1: I'm uh, and I'm used to not getting very much
Speaker 1: sleep because I'm a hunter. I get up early, go
Speaker 1: to bed late, and I have long days. So um,
Speaker 1: it's not too bad. Adjustments pretty sweet. Um, But we'll
Speaker 1: jump here into the first question and get this thing rolling,
Speaker 1: all right. This first question comes from Tyson. He says,
Speaker 1: thanks for remy. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get time
Speaker 1: off to attend to the Pope and Young Live Q
Speaker 1: and A this year. But I wanted to ask if
Speaker 1: you believe in using cover sense in western big game.
Speaker 1: I live in Washington and hunt mostly on the northwestern
Speaker 1: side of the state. I haven't heard much about using
Speaker 1: them in your professional opinion. Are they worth the try
Speaker 1: for deer Bear or even ILK? If so, do you
Speaker 1: have any brands you trust or is it just better
Speaker 1: to go without? Thanks for your time. That's a really
Speaker 1: good question. Um, here's here's my thought on cover sense.
Speaker 1: I kind of have this Uh. I wouldn't even say
Speaker 1: I love hate relationship with him. I just essentially don't
Speaker 1: use them. But I say that with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a caveat because I do rub down or like
Speaker 1: use natural things just to kind of mask my odor.
Speaker 1: A little bit. If I know that I'm like hiking
Speaker 1: up a hill, I'm gonna be getting into the go zone,
Speaker 1: I'll grab something rub down with it, maybe like pine bows, sage, whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't think that it necessarily Maybe it's more of
Speaker 1: a mental thing like wow, I smell really bad. Maybe
Speaker 1: I can kind of mask that smell. Um, But there's
Speaker 1: all the different kinds of cover since there's elk deer.
Speaker 1: You know, I've I've hunted with people that they'll like
Speaker 1: be elk hunting and they'll put on like an elk
Speaker 1: cover sent which is it smells like in elk. Well,
Speaker 1: here's my thoughts on that. The first thought is, and
Speaker 1: here's what just like take it or leave it. Some
Speaker 1: people use them, they love them, they whereby them great.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you where the situations would work for
Speaker 1: a cover scent or probably be a little bit better
Speaker 1: hiking around. Um, let's say you're el hunting, You've got
Speaker 1: an elk cover scent. Maybe it's like an elk estra smell, right,
Speaker 1: So which is good? It is? It can be an
Speaker 1: attractive and maybe the thought is like, oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: mask my scent if the wind swirls or whatever. Here's
Speaker 1: my thought on it. I wouldn't walk around with it
Speaker 1: because I use my nose hunting as much as anything else.
Speaker 1: I Am constantly breathing through my nose. I'm sensing the
Speaker 1: world around me with my nose. When I'm elk hunting.
Speaker 1: There's been probably I don't even know, a very very
Speaker 1: large portion of elk they get killed. I smell before
Speaker 1: I see, before I hear, before anything else. It caused
Speaker 1: me to slow down. It causes me to make the
Speaker 1: right moves. And because of scenting that elk first, I
Speaker 1: find success. So to add in ascent where it's gonna
Speaker 1: inhibit me from doing that because I'm smelling it all
Speaker 1: the time, Um, one year, you become desensitized to it
Speaker 1: and to like you just keep getting these like false
Speaker 1: positives in your brain just slowly shuts it out. So
Speaker 1: for that reason, I'm I'm definitely against it for elk hunting. Also,
Speaker 1: my other thought is this, like, if you're thinking about
Speaker 1: a cover cent, well, you're just using elk scent to
Speaker 1: cover or some kind of scent to cover up your scent.
Speaker 1: But if I heard of elk comes in when the
Speaker 1: same theory happened, like the elk that's two feet away
Speaker 1: from the other elk block the scent of your scent,
Speaker 1: and that's just not how it works. So I haven't
Speaker 1: really found a lot of success with it. Um. I
Speaker 1: will say that there are some scent masking techniques, things
Speaker 1: that just like neutralized or killed the human odor that
Speaker 1: I think would be better, But as soon as you
Speaker 1: start walking around, those essentially become ineffective. So the only
Speaker 1: time that covers sense other sense maybe I would say
Speaker 1: would be effective is if you're sitting in a stand
Speaker 1: or um stationary in a blind, something like that. I
Speaker 1: know for sure, like I've seen it work hunting antelope
Speaker 1: prong horns from a from a ground blind over water hole.
Speaker 1: Guys back in the day used to just use like
Speaker 1: skunk scent for prong horns. Definitely like mask the scent.
Speaker 1: But the downside is like when a skunk sprays, it
Speaker 1: indicates danger and therefore the animals the pronghorn will already
Speaker 1: be alerted like, oh there might be some danger, So
Speaker 1: I prefer to just forego it. This last year, I
Speaker 1: was actually um last was it ye last season hunting
Speaker 1: prong horn, and in the I was kind of like
Speaker 1: stalking into this water hole and there was this skunk
Speaker 1: and this badger fighting. A skunk kept spraying and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, a natural cover scent. And the wind
Speaker 1: wasn't great, like it was blowing kind of in a
Speaker 1: bad direction, and I think it did mask my scent
Speaker 1: for the antelope. But I will also say that the
Speaker 1: antelope are super heightened all over because of that skunk spray,
Speaker 1: Like even a long ways away they were. They were
Speaker 1: definitely more keyed in and more cautious when coming in,
Speaker 1: and it may have even affected a closer opportunity. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a catch twenty two. But I would
Speaker 1: say if you did use a cover scent, the time
Speaker 1: to use it would be when you're stationary, maybe like
Speaker 1: more of an earth center, a pine or something like
Speaker 1: that would probably be better if I were to use something,
Speaker 1: But honestly, I couldn't recommend anything. And I did talk
Speaker 1: about this before on A Q and A. But just
Speaker 1: like covering up using um putting like we used to
Speaker 1: do this meal you're hunting, but like putting sage and
Speaker 1: other stuff in a bag with our hunting clothes before
Speaker 1: we went out, just to kind of get that whatever
Speaker 1: sense might be on it. And um kind of cover
Speaker 1: us up with natural scent. Oh. Also for those of
Speaker 1: you uh interested, he mentioned the Pope and Young Club
Speaker 1: Live Q and A so Rena in Reno, Nevada on July.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it's Friday. I gotta pull up my counter
Speaker 1: actually should have memories. Sorry. Friday July two pm, two
Speaker 1: to three I'll be doing a live Q and A
Speaker 1: at the Pope and Young Club convention in Reno, Nevada.
Speaker 1: So if you're around, you can make it swing out there.
Speaker 1: I love to see you guys, love to answer your questions.
Speaker 1: Say hey, um, I also uh for our solo Hunter
Speaker 1: bow shop we opened in Reno. We're gonna be having
Speaker 1: a little booth there. I don't know with the new
Speaker 1: baby how much I'll be in and out of the booth,
Speaker 1: but um, you might be able to catch me actually
Speaker 1: at the show as well, so check that out. Um sweet.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next question. This
Speaker 1: question comes from Carter. He lives in Minnesota. He says, Hey, Remy,
Speaker 1: just finished up listening to your Hunter podcast. I'm proud
Speaker 1: to say I've been listening since episode one. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Uh, he says, I can say it has
Speaker 1: helped me immensely in the woods. You spoke briefly about
Speaker 1: not wanting to overcall to ELK. What system or strategy
Speaker 1: do you use to not overcall for ELK besides taking
Speaker 1: your nap in the woods once every century. Thanks for
Speaker 1: making a great podcast, Carter. That's that's a good question.
Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to UM overcalling, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that term gets thrown around a lot.
Speaker 1: Like you read an Elcoming magazine. They're like, don't don't overcall,
Speaker 1: don't overcall, And I think that UM. For me personally,
Speaker 1: I do call a lot, but it is very situational,
Speaker 1: so it depends on the situation. In that particular situation,
Speaker 1: what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: quote unquote overcall, and what that would have been is UM,
Speaker 1: I'd like to match the tempo and the temperament of
Speaker 1: the calling to what's going on around me in that
Speaker 1: particular scenario, in that particular week. And this happens a lot.
Speaker 1: You'll encounter this all the time when you're out cutting.
Speaker 1: You might be out there and you're like, dude, these
Speaker 1: the woods are quiet and the mountains are not really
Speaker 1: on fire. So what I don't want to do is
Speaker 1: I don't want to do a lot of bugling, a
Speaker 1: lot of like estraus whining, a lot of like this
Speaker 1: fired up stuff when the rut hasn't actually escalated to
Speaker 1: that point yet, when the animals in that area just
Speaker 1: aren't to that particular stage. So when I do any
Speaker 1: calling sequences, I like to match the rut. Now, this
Speaker 1: particular week, it was like it was was fairly dead.
Speaker 1: I knew there was elk around, but it was mostly
Speaker 1: lone bulls kind of checking things out, not a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy activity. But what I did want to do
Speaker 1: is I wanted to say, hey to the bulls that
Speaker 1: are out there, there's some milk here. It's something you
Speaker 1: want to check out. And so I wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of match the tempo of this is just a normal
Speaker 1: word of elk maybe doing their thing, maybe feeding in
Speaker 1: the morning, So kind of like recreating what the elk
Speaker 1: there that are just out there doing their thing are doing.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's a group of cows, let's say a
Speaker 1: group of cows with five or six cows, some calfs
Speaker 1: and whatever, and what they're do, what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1: They get up in the morning, they go out into
Speaker 1: a meadow or a grassy area. They start feeding. Then
Speaker 1: they kind of as they feed, their heads are down,
Speaker 1: they're moving their spacing out, um, you know there they
Speaker 1: might be there's probably a lead cow that's kind of
Speaker 1: like giving them direction. They they kind of followed one
Speaker 1: elk out there, and then they're gonna follow that one
Speaker 1: elk back to bed and what are they gonna do
Speaker 1: in the meantime, We might be talking back and forth
Speaker 1: to each other, might a few muse, a few soft
Speaker 1: cow calls, a few calf calls, and just kind of
Speaker 1: something that's like, yeah, they're just communicating in that like
Speaker 1: easy going elk talk, and it's matching what the other
Speaker 1: elk are doing in that area at that time. But
Speaker 1: with the hopes in that scenario of drawing a bull
Speaker 1: into too checking out those cows, especially right around those
Speaker 1: like that. It was like an early morning kind of
Speaker 1: mid morning time frame when it's like they went out feeding.
Speaker 1: Now they might be moving to the bedding. So hey,
Speaker 1: here's an bowl that's cruising and he here's that key's
Speaker 1: in on it and moves in. But what I don't
Speaker 1: want to do is is do it too often. I
Speaker 1: don't want to blow the illusion. So one thing that
Speaker 1: I have done in the past, because I get a
Speaker 1: lancey as, I will just like use my watch, call
Speaker 1: me IMUMU, hit a little timer just to kind of
Speaker 1: get that like actual grasp of how long it's been,
Speaker 1: because I've there's been so many times where've I've let
Speaker 1: out a cow call like wow, okay, time to call again,
Speaker 1: you know, and I realized that I'm doing it every
Speaker 1: like minute, two minutes, you know, maybe something where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is you know, I might call every three, four
Speaker 1: or five minutes. Um, it's time. Just you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things like when you're sitting waiting for
Speaker 1: something to happen, it seems like like, wow, it's been
Speaker 1: thirty minutes since I called last thing. You look at
Speaker 1: your watch, it's been like two minutes and thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: So um. In those scenarios like I'll just you know,
Speaker 1: use my watch to kind of actually gauge how far
Speaker 1: apart I'm calling, and I don't of a set specific time,
Speaker 1: I just kind of whatever feels right in the moment
Speaker 1: and how active the elk are. Um. Also, I try
Speaker 1: to think about, okay, you know, if there's an elk
Speaker 1: with an earshot, how often do I need to call
Speaker 1: for him to potentially hear it? So it depends on
Speaker 1: the type of area that I'm in. If I'm in
Speaker 1: an area where that sounds traveling really well, I'll call
Speaker 1: more spaced out. If I'm in an area where it's
Speaker 1: like that sound I know is not going very far,
Speaker 1: maybe two yards, you can increase the frequency in which
Speaker 1: you're calling because the elk has to be within a
Speaker 1: certain radius to hear it. And that's something to think
Speaker 1: about as well. This question comes from Eric. He says,
Speaker 1: jumping the string? How do you accommodate for the deer
Speaker 1: jumping the string? My bow seems loud compared to others
Speaker 1: I've shot, but it's also the lightest and best shooting one.
Speaker 1: It seems that I can only quiet it down so much.
Speaker 1: At fifty yards, the deer has MT say point three
Speaker 1: seven seconds to react. They could be long gone by
Speaker 1: that time. I talked to a few guys last year
Speaker 1: that had the deer duck under the arrow. Is there
Speaker 1: a way to predict this? Do you ever anticipate this
Speaker 1: and shoot under the deer a certain amount? Thanks again
Speaker 1: for all the help you provided the hunting community. Congrats
Speaker 1: on your growing family. By the way, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a great question because when it comes to getting into
Speaker 1: bow range, you know, maybe everything's right. You you snuck in,
Speaker 1: you you did everything right. You draw back, you release
Speaker 1: that arrow, and that deer is not where it was
Speaker 1: when that arrow released. The animal jumps, it reacts to
Speaker 1: the sound of the bow going off her accident, sound
Speaker 1: of the arrow, it reacts to seeing your reacts to
Speaker 1: something and is long gone, or jumps in and creates
Speaker 1: a bad hit. I would say ninety five percent of
Speaker 1: the time that a stock or something doesn't work out
Speaker 1: where I release an arrow, I would say the excuse
Speaker 1: would be the animal move like it ducked the string
Speaker 1: and I was anticipating it wrong, or wasn't anticipating it
Speaker 1: and it didn't do something or did do something. So um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a serious problem. But I will say that
Speaker 1: it can be in many ways anticipated. So the first
Speaker 1: the first thing is, um, the type of animal. There's
Speaker 1: certain animals that are just super jumpy. I know, for
Speaker 1: like access to your one thing is like they tend
Speaker 1: to jump the string because they're just they're kind of
Speaker 1: they're really fast and they seem to be more reactive
Speaker 1: to that close range sound. So there's other animals like
Speaker 1: pronghorn antelope, which when they're kind of standing spot and
Speaker 1: stock style, they tend to not jump as much, but
Speaker 1: when they are drinking, they're more on edge um and
Speaker 1: they do tend to jump more. I used to hear
Speaker 1: when I first started hunting, I heard people say, oh,
Speaker 1: mule deer don't jump the string, and that I just
Speaker 1: have to call bullshit on because I think mule deer
Speaker 1: jumped the string more than anything. Elk don't necessarily jump
Speaker 1: the string um as often, but they will um. But
Speaker 1: I will say, like you know, white sales, they definitely
Speaker 1: jump the string. Uh. So you know, it's like definitely
Speaker 1: something that you can expect every animal has the capacity
Speaker 1: to do. Now, the first things I look for are
Speaker 1: like the alertness in the body position of the animal.
Speaker 1: Is that animal keyed into me or does it know
Speaker 1: that I'm there in any way? So that's that's the
Speaker 1: first thing. If it's like if let's say you stocked in,
Speaker 1: maybe you roll the rock, maybe you drew back and
Speaker 1: that animal whipped its head up, you know that animal
Speaker 1: knows your presence is there. And if you shoot, it's
Speaker 1: probably going to react. In that case, I would either
Speaker 1: aim low or even like forward and low um potentially
Speaker 1: anticipating like a duck and a jump, depending on how
Speaker 1: far I am. I've said this another podcast, but one
Speaker 1: way to combat bad string jumping is to try to
Speaker 1: get closer. You're like, okay, I think this animal is
Speaker 1: gonna jump the string. I'm at fifty yards. I need
Speaker 1: to get to thirty because there's a less time for
Speaker 1: reaction I have. I have shot at a deer meal here.
Speaker 1: It was like thirty something yards. Uh yeah, probably it
Speaker 1: was thirty three yards or no, is it twenty three yards?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Anyways, stocked in on this deer. It
Speaker 1: was like it was movie. I was sucking in. This
Speaker 1: buck was like working towards me, like I was trying
Speaker 1: to cut it off, doing like a moving ambush thing.
Speaker 1: He walks out. I see it. The anilor tips. I
Speaker 1: draw back. I stand up. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: like it must have caught me, like looked over at me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like too late to let the arrow go.
Speaker 1: And the deer runs off and I missed. I see
Speaker 1: my like arrow flight through the stage brush like behind it,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, damn it, dude, how the hell did
Speaker 1: I miss that? And I was I was self filming,
Speaker 1: and so I watched the video and I'm like, I missed,
Speaker 1: I missed, I miss I went I was back and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, okay, well, I want to see where
Speaker 1: my arrow hit, you know, just like how far I missed.
Speaker 1: So I put it in slow motion and I'm doing
Speaker 1: the slow motion and I'm watching like that, frame by
Speaker 1: frame by frame, just clicking through. I see the arrow.
Speaker 1: It's like exactly where I was aiming, and the deer
Speaker 1: is no longer there at twenty something yards, completely duck
Speaker 1: to the arrow, and it was so fast my naked
Speaker 1: eye could not perceive that the animal had jumped that much.
Speaker 1: So it does happen. One thing that I do is
Speaker 1: I generally aim a little bit lower. I kind of
Speaker 1: always aim for that heart shot, anticipating some kind of
Speaker 1: little bit of movement, and if I don't, then it's
Speaker 1: like it's a clean kill either way. Um. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people will aim center mass or whatever,
Speaker 1: but like the center of the lungs, which is gives
Speaker 1: you a little more margin of error. But I almost
Speaker 1: tend to aim a little bit lower, so it's like,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't jump, I hit the heart. If it does,
Speaker 1: then I probably catch the top of the lungs and
Speaker 1: we're good to go. Another thought on the reaction is
Speaker 1: one thing I've also noticed is in many ways, I
Speaker 1: kind of find you would think, like, okay, an animal feeding,
Speaker 1: so you're like, oh, I'll wait for them to feed.
Speaker 1: Their distracted, but dear, I feel like, well, many animals
Speaker 1: and this is I don't I haven't actually heard anybody
Speaker 1: else talking about this, but this is just like from
Speaker 1: my experience, I find that animals that are let's say,
Speaker 1: let's say it's like a deer that's feed and his
Speaker 1: heads down, you think, okay, that's the perfect time. I
Speaker 1: found that more animals when their heads are down end
Speaker 1: up jumping. And it makes a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: sense because if you think about it, when their heads down, right,
Speaker 1: they're kind of defenses are down. But they're only good
Speaker 1: defense is there ears. So if they hear that slightest movement,
Speaker 1: they aren't going to be able to react. They're just
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna be kind of like caught off guard
Speaker 1: in an in a bad position, and they're gonna jump.
Speaker 1: So generally what I'll do is like I'll do my
Speaker 1: I love to you know, you want to do all
Speaker 1: your movement and all that when their heads down, and
Speaker 1: then I kind of wait for them to just like
Speaker 1: in the natural position where their head lifts up and
Speaker 1: they look a different direction or something like that, because
Speaker 1: I found that instead of jumping often they'll swing their
Speaker 1: head to look. If their heads obstructed their heads down,
Speaker 1: they don't have that option to look. It's not like
Speaker 1: just picking their head up. They do it all at once.
Speaker 1: Where they duck down, they probably pick their head up,
Speaker 1: they jump, and then they would look. But by that
Speaker 1: point the arrow is on its way. You've made the motion,
Speaker 1: You've spooked him out. Um, So that's something you just
Speaker 1: think about. You wanna you want to shoot an animal
Speaker 1: that's super relaxed. But I'm just kind of a little
Speaker 1: food for thought that sometimes when their heads down, I
Speaker 1: find that they tend to jump more often. All right,
Speaker 1: This question comes from Freeman. He says, Remy, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: Love the podcast. Thanks for all the incredible info. He
Speaker 1: also says, if this message makes it onto your Q
Speaker 1: and A, you got to give a shout out. To
Speaker 1: my hunting partner Ryan, he loses marble. So Ryan, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. Uh, he says. So. I drew a great
Speaker 1: first season bull tag in my home state of Colorado
Speaker 1: this year, and I need to make sure I'm as
Speaker 1: dialed as possible for this hunt, which is why I'm
Speaker 1: asking this question. You talked a lot about doing your
Speaker 1: stock the right way, not the easy way. This can
Speaker 1: mean putting in some serious work trying to get to
Speaker 1: the creator that you glassed up. How long can you
Speaker 1: expect an unweary elk slash deer to hang around in
Speaker 1: an area if they aren't bedded but unaware of your presence?
Speaker 1: How close can we expect them to be to the
Speaker 1: last place we spotted them through the glass? Thanks for
Speaker 1: an info, man, I would love to grab you a
Speaker 1: beer if you come to through denver Um next time
Speaker 1: in Denver. Might take you up on that. Uh. Let's
Speaker 1: that's a really good question because when I do talk
Speaker 1: about it's like you want to go the right way,
Speaker 1: not the easy way. And one thing that I've found
Speaker 1: through guiding through my own personal hunts through other things,
Speaker 1: success can be so much a game of timing For
Speaker 1: me when I see something somewhere. You immediately have this
Speaker 1: thought like, if I were there right now, it would
Speaker 1: be successful. But I have to factor in the time
Speaker 1: that it takes to get there and kind of what
Speaker 1: those animals are doing. So let's say it's it's morning time, right,
Speaker 1: You're you're glass and you're on a glassing knob and
Speaker 1: you see this elk out in this it's like full timber,
Speaker 1: and you see this elk out in the meadow. It's
Speaker 1: the sun hasn't even cracked over the skyline yet, right,
Speaker 1: You got that elk in your glass, and you're like, sweet,
Speaker 1: that elk's there, But it's like three miles away, and
Speaker 1: you go, well, it's gonna take me. Let's say it's
Speaker 1: gonna take you an hour. Just make it easy. You
Speaker 1: kind of have to play this chess game of what's
Speaker 1: the next move, because that's gonna anticipate, like predicting how
Speaker 1: long that animal is going to be there, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense. So in the morning, when I see it,
Speaker 1: you might think, well, Okay, it's gonna take me an
Speaker 1: hour or maybe longer to get to this particular elk,
Speaker 1: but it's a big bull and I can get there.
Speaker 1: So you start hiking and then you get there and
Speaker 1: you don't see anything. You're like, well, where did he go?
Speaker 1: You start chomping through the timber, and then you blow
Speaker 1: it out right. But let's say now it's evening time.
Speaker 1: It's uh an hour before sunset. You're watching that same
Speaker 1: meadow and on the edge out pops an elk and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, i've got two hours till shooting time ends. Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take me an hour and a half to
Speaker 1: get there. Absolutely, go go right now, because you will
Speaker 1: make it there in time to shoot that bull. But
Speaker 1: in the morning you probably won't. And why is that
Speaker 1: Because in the morning that animals feeding and then going
Speaker 1: to bed. In the evening, that animals leaving from cover
Speaker 1: and coming out to feed and will probably feed till dark.
Speaker 1: So you kind of have to anticipate what that animals doing,
Speaker 1: and that's going to tell you how long you have
Speaker 1: or how long you can expect that animal to hang around. Now,
Speaker 1: another thing is like forethought thinking okay, what do they
Speaker 1: need next and where are they going? And also saying okay,
Speaker 1: if I see now it's the morning time and I
Speaker 1: see an elk out in the meadow, and I go, okay,
Speaker 1: I can I can hump it, I can sprint there,
Speaker 1: I can run, I can get there in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Then it's like, yeah, you're gonna do it. You're gonna
Speaker 1: take that chance, because um, you're gonna use the hard
Speaker 1: way might be also you gotta go fast. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily the further or a long way around, but
Speaker 1: you just go I see an animal here, now, I
Speaker 1: gotta make my move now, and I gotta beat it
Speaker 1: to that spot. There's been many times where I've mule
Speaker 1: your hunting, glassing across the ridge, the winds good, whatever.
Speaker 1: I see this deer pop up, and I see this
Speaker 1: band of rocks, and I say, if I can get
Speaker 1: to that rock where the animals going before it gets there,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be successful. And that might mean damn
Speaker 1: near sprinting up the mountain. And I've done that more
Speaker 1: times than not when I'm guiding, when I'm hunting, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of these times where it's like, I see
Speaker 1: the animals, We got to make a move, and the
Speaker 1: hard way is not. The easy way is going fast
Speaker 1: in some in many instances, but there's also that time
Speaker 1: of going like, hey, sometimes the hard way is just
Speaker 1: being patient saying, like, why am I going to go
Speaker 1: right now? When I know that I get over there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be gone when I could anticipate um and
Speaker 1: make a better play for another time. So I see
Speaker 1: the elk out in there, it's feeding, it's morning, and
Speaker 1: I'm too far away to get there within that amount
Speaker 1: of time that I think you're gonna stay there. So
Speaker 1: what should I do? Well, I can keep hunting around,
Speaker 1: looking around, and then tonight I'm just gonna go being
Speaker 1: a closer position where I can still glass that. But
Speaker 1: when it comes out, I'm gonna be able to make
Speaker 1: a move. And that's something to think about, or say,
Speaker 1: it's a meal here and you go, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just instead try to watch and wait until he beds
Speaker 1: or gets into a good place where I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna hang out long enough for me to get there
Speaker 1: and make my stock. This next sun comes from Nick.
Speaker 1: He says, Remy, during a fire band, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: way to cook trout out in the back country. That's
Speaker 1: a really good question. When you can't have an open fire, Uh,
Speaker 1: whether you've got like a stove or a jet boil
Speaker 1: or whatever. I like to bring a little packet of um,
Speaker 1: it's like coconut oil. It's like in a little single
Speaker 1: serve cocon oil pack, So I'll throw that in there.
Speaker 1: I used to this, This little recipe is grown over
Speaker 1: the years because they used to not have like single
Speaker 1: serve packs like that. What I used to do is
Speaker 1: I used to go to KFC and ask for a
Speaker 1: bunch of those butter packs, those like mayonnaise style butter packs,
Speaker 1: and then I would use that little butter pack that
Speaker 1: they gave with their biscuits for my back country trout.
Speaker 1: So I'd like save those up over the years, every
Speaker 1: time I go somewhere where there's like a KFC, like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I get a handful of the butter packs, And
Speaker 1: that's just like I'd save those for backcountry trout cooking.
Speaker 1: But um, use my stove. I'll often bring a little
Speaker 1: fry pan. Now, even if you let's say you're backpacking
Speaker 1: with a setup that's got you got like a jet boil, right,
Speaker 1: and you go like, well you've got the pot, I'll
Speaker 1: bring a little fry pan. Now, you can't set the
Speaker 1: fry pan on top of that jet boil or your
Speaker 1: your little stove thing if it's not designed for that
Speaker 1: so I'll build like a little rock shelf to hold
Speaker 1: the pan high enough above that so it doesn't sit
Speaker 1: right on it and melt my uh back country cooker.
Speaker 1: I figured that out because I've actually caught a jet
Speaker 1: boil on fire, and that was the last time I
Speaker 1: used a jet boil, and then I really understood why
Speaker 1: it happened. Um, that was kind of when they first
Speaker 1: came out. But um, just something to think about. So
Speaker 1: you use your stove, a little bit of oil in there,
Speaker 1: get it hot. I then use just a little bit
Speaker 1: of lemon, pepper, garlic, salt, season the fish, and then
Speaker 1: quick fry it in that oil. And that's an incredible
Speaker 1: way to have some back country treat some back country trout. Alright.
Speaker 1: This next question comes from Mitch says, Hey, Remmy, I
Speaker 1: was hoping you could take some time to answer a
Speaker 1: couple of questions I had about meat care and hide care,
Speaker 1: or point me in the direction of some content you
Speaker 1: might have discussing the topic. To set the scene, my
Speaker 1: brother and I are doing a two week float hunt
Speaker 1: for caribou in Inland, Alaska next year during August. We
Speaker 1: will each have pack rafts and dry bags, but no coolers.
Speaker 1: Or anything like that. For meat, how do you recommend
Speaker 1: preserving the meat in the cape if we kill one
Speaker 1: early in the trip. Please let me know your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your time. That's a really good question. When
Speaker 1: it comes to meet care and uh a long amount
Speaker 1: of time, you know you're you're gonna be playing this
Speaker 1: very delicate balancing game. And when you add in water
Speaker 1: and rafts, it kind of multiplies or or makes the
Speaker 1: problem more complex. So I would say there's a few
Speaker 1: things you have to worry about and consider when you're
Speaker 1: doing a float type hunt like this, even now, especially
Speaker 1: in August. So August it's gonna be a little bit warmer,
Speaker 1: you might get those lower temperatures, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of are gonna have to play it by
Speaker 1: your It might be a thing where if you shoot
Speaker 1: a caribou early in the trip, you might kind of
Speaker 1: have to You're gonna be up against the clock, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And that's just the realistic expectation of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can expect the to go shoot
Speaker 1: it on the first day of a two week trip
Speaker 1: and everything be kosher. By the end. The meat will
Speaker 1: probably taste a little rank and mainten spoil. But it
Speaker 1: depends on the temperatures out there. So if it's cool temperatures, um,
Speaker 1: everything is gonna be fine. You know. You you could
Speaker 1: definitely go those you could go ten days or whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: But I will say, you know, you might have to
Speaker 1: play things by your there. There's gonna be a point
Speaker 1: where you go, hey, it's getting hot. We gotta get
Speaker 1: this meat back. Um. We might just have to speed
Speaker 1: up the trip and get out sooner. That's the just
Speaker 1: the reality of it, um. But I will say there's
Speaker 1: also a few considerations when it comes to a float hunt.
Speaker 1: So remember the same with all you know. I've said
Speaker 1: this multiple times, but with meat, carrots, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: it cool, you gotta keep it dry, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: it clean. That can compound when you're in a raft
Speaker 1: because you're there's water everywhere. So what you want you
Speaker 1: got to do. Even if it's cool out, you have
Speaker 1: to constantly get air around that meat to cool down.
Speaker 1: So let's say you're you know, the temperatures are great,
Speaker 1: it's it's refrigerated temperatures out you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the meat getting too warm over a long period
Speaker 1: of time. But while you're floating, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: put the meat in a dry bag to kind of
Speaker 1: keep the water from soaking the meat because in those
Speaker 1: pack rafts or whatever, there's the potential for water to
Speaker 1: get in there. Now, when you stop or whatever, you're
Speaker 1: then going to have to take the meat out of
Speaker 1: those dry bags and hang to get air around it,
Speaker 1: circulate move the meat around in the game bags so
Speaker 1: it doesn't even if it's cold out, like even in
Speaker 1: the winter time. Um, this happens on trips where guys
Speaker 1: have a floating the river with a moose. They just
Speaker 1: put the meat in the in the raft. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's cold out, and then things go bad because it's
Speaker 1: getting wet and the meat is not being moved around
Speaker 1: and getting air circulation on it. So I will I'll say,
Speaker 1: it's just you've got to go through the work, and
Speaker 1: the work is gonna be you have to continually keep
Speaker 1: that meat clean, So I use dry bags. Um, once
Speaker 1: you stop every day or whatever, you'll hang that meat
Speaker 1: up in a tree. You're gonna want to keep it
Speaker 1: out of reach of bears, and you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: make sure that it can cool down. Now, if you
Speaker 1: don't have that. You know, maybe you gotta make a
Speaker 1: meat pull. If there's like it's just completely flat, tender
Speaker 1: and no trees or anything like that, you might have
Speaker 1: to make some form of meat pull to hang the
Speaker 1: meat where it gets off the ground. One way to
Speaker 1: do that, UM I've used like if you're using a
Speaker 1: paddle kayak paddle, I mean, if it's carbon fiber, you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they can hold all the weight. UM.
Speaker 1: Cut some sticks along the way, some boughs, make a
Speaker 1: tripod with some like a pair of cord or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then just make a meat rack where you can
Speaker 1: hang that meat so it gets off the ground. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hang it every night and during the day while
Speaker 1: you're not floating, and then the only time the meat
Speaker 1: should be in the bags and in the raft is
Speaker 1: when you're you're moving. UM. So that's something to think about,
Speaker 1: and then you know, you just got to kind of
Speaker 1: keep an on it. There are some areas where you
Speaker 1: can't actually debone the quarters, and I actually would I personally,
Speaker 1: like floating like this, I would probably keep the meat
Speaker 1: bone in because it's just gonna be easier to kind
Speaker 1: of manage and move because you're gonna be moving it
Speaker 1: a lot, and it's not gonna be stuffed down into
Speaker 1: a bag. Um, it'll kind of keep it easier for
Speaker 1: the air to get around everything. Um. Now, if it's starting,
Speaker 1: if it's like really warm, maybe you could think about
Speaker 1: de boning it, but I think that probably keeping it
Speaker 1: the quarter's whole will be the easiest way to handle everything.
Speaker 1: Keep it clean and move it easily, hang it, and
Speaker 1: keep the meat kind of spaced out and dry out. Now,
Speaker 1: something else to think about, the back straps or any
Speaker 1: loose meat, neck, meat, ribs, whatever. Bring a lot of
Speaker 1: game bags where you can kind of um separate everything
Speaker 1: out because even the meat and the bags, it's going
Speaker 1: to be hard to kind of keep uh that air
Speaker 1: circulation around it. So that's something else to think about.
Speaker 1: And then you know, you just have to play it
Speaker 1: by ear. If it's if it's warm temperatures and you go, man, uh,
Speaker 1: it's warm temperatures, We've got X amount of days to
Speaker 1: float out. You really got to just kind of take
Speaker 1: the responsibility of, Okay, well, when we get something, Um,
Speaker 1: we've got this many days, we've we set a time clock,
Speaker 1: and this is how long that meat is gonna last
Speaker 1: for us to get out and get everything um home
Speaker 1: without a spoiling And that's just something else to think about.
Speaker 1: But there's always a few extra considerations when you're doing
Speaker 1: a float hunt. It's a great way to hunt. It's
Speaker 1: an incredible experience and you guys are gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So uh, think about that. Think about
Speaker 1: when you stop, you know, building those meat rack. And
Speaker 1: this is whether you're floating in, flying in, hiking and
Speaker 1: horsing in, doesn't really matter. Getting that meat up off
Speaker 1: the ground, getting it cool and dry. And then also, um,
Speaker 1: you know, over course of time, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that can affect how well that meets stays. So
Speaker 1: one thing you're definitely gonna want to pack is a
Speaker 1: big tarp. So I build like, so you get your
Speaker 1: Caryboo down, I build some kind of meat rack to
Speaker 1: hang it, and then I tarp over it. The tarp
Speaker 1: works for two things. One, it keeps the rain off
Speaker 1: the meat, because in in two weeks of Alaska hunting,
Speaker 1: it's going to rain. And too, it keeps the sun
Speaker 1: off the meat because in August it's sunny a lot,
Speaker 1: so even if it's cool out, that sun will kind
Speaker 1: of keep meat shaded and that will help you too.
Speaker 1: So by doing all those little things, you're gonna extend
Speaker 1: to the time that you have to be able to
Speaker 1: get that meat back safely. The next question comes from Travis.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, man, I've been listening to your podcast.
Speaker 1: I think it's great you're kicking ask My wife has
Speaker 1: been wanting to get into hunting with me and I
Speaker 1: was just listening to how your wife got started. Would
Speaker 1: it be a good idea to take her on small
Speaker 1: game hunt before she jumps into the September LK hunt
Speaker 1: with me? Any of your suggestions would be great. Thank
Speaker 1: you and have a great rest of your day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great question, Travis and I and I always
Speaker 1: say this, um get any getting anybody into hunting. I
Speaker 1: think it's always good to start small. Uh. There's there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with starting with something. It's like, it's easier
Speaker 1: to manage. Is the day trip, it's it's getting out,
Speaker 1: it's the process of it, it's getting into hunting. Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of us that are avid, hardcore hunters today
Speaker 1: started with small game, and I think it's a really
Speaker 1: good way to kind of build that foundation for hunting.
Speaker 1: Take care of some of the things like safegun handling,
Speaker 1: take care of some of the things of like working
Speaker 1: on a few of the things that help make you
Speaker 1: a more successful hunter when it comes the big game,
Speaker 1: walking quietly, being observant, looking around, and also that like
Speaker 1: just getting into that excitement maybe a little bit quicker
Speaker 1: without these big expedition a giant hiking up the mountain
Speaker 1: not seeing anything for a week kind of deal. So um,
Speaker 1: with small game, it's a really good way to get
Speaker 1: people into hunting, and I definitely suggest kind of getting
Speaker 1: started and taking around on a few small game hunts
Speaker 1: before you go on that September hunt, if possible. This
Speaker 1: question comes from Brandon. He says, Hey, Remmy, my brother
Speaker 1: and I live in New York State and planning our
Speaker 1: first elk hunt colorade of this fall. We drew a
Speaker 1: muzzloator to agg on one point. From our scouting, it
Speaker 1: looks like it could be a pretty busy unit. One
Speaker 1: question I have is how do you tell a real
Speaker 1: elk bugle from another hunter? Or is that possible? It
Speaker 1: is possible, Um, there's a few ways that I kind
Speaker 1: of can tell. The first is I mean, to be honest,
Speaker 1: A lot of hunters don't sound that great employing a bugle,
Speaker 1: So a really really bad bugle, um one that sounds
Speaker 1: like flutes going off generally a hunter. I say generally
Speaker 1: because there I in my time hunting, there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of elk that I'm like, God, that sounds
Speaker 1: like a hunter and it's actually an elk. Another thing
Speaker 1: I would say is like the immediate responsiveness to like
Speaker 1: if everything is super quiet right and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like this elk bugles that every cow call I
Speaker 1: make and every bugle I make, and it's just like
Speaker 1: constantly and then you kind of hear that mix of
Speaker 1: cow calls bugles. Generally, it's like a call sequence that
Speaker 1: a hunter is doing. But you don't want to blow
Speaker 1: your chance at an elk by saying like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: a hunter. So what I do is I always simult
Speaker 1: like if I in question, I always simultaneously assume it's
Speaker 1: a elk and assume it's a hunter. So meaning I
Speaker 1: proceed with caution. I I think, okay, if this is
Speaker 1: a hunter, um, you know, am I Is there a
Speaker 1: way that I can look into there and maybe see
Speaker 1: the elk? Can I get down wind and smell the elk,
Speaker 1: but I also assume that it is an elk, so
Speaker 1: I don't blow it in case it is an elk
Speaker 1: um if and that's in those times where you might
Speaker 1: be questioning it. There will be a lot of times
Speaker 1: you're like, was that an elk? Was that a hunter?
Speaker 1: You just kind of have to go situationally, go off
Speaker 1: what you feel, and worst case scenario, chase down every
Speaker 1: lead because if you aren't hearing a lot of action
Speaker 1: or maybe there's um now maybe you're an area, it's
Speaker 1: like bugles all over the place and you chase the
Speaker 1: wrong one. That happens many times you'll hear a hunter
Speaker 1: and real elk um. I've had up where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're calling and elks calling and what you didn't know
Speaker 1: was a hunter is calling, and you all kind of
Speaker 1: converge the same spot. But if you kind of take
Speaker 1: that approach of simultaneously assuming like if if you're in question, okay,
Speaker 1: is that an elk or is that not an elk,
Speaker 1: assume that it is and it isn't. Simultaneously where you're
Speaker 1: like taking the necessary precaution that this might be a hunter,
Speaker 1: you kind of you try to glass in there and
Speaker 1: try to eliminate some possibilities, like if you just like,
Speaker 1: let's say you're at a trailhead and there's four other
Speaker 1: trucks parked there and whatever. You know, you can say
Speaker 1: well again kind of determine the size of the area
Speaker 1: and say, well, okay, this is one basin and I'm
Speaker 1: hearing these calls. Yeah, it's probably a hunter. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it might be a guy calling. There's kind of
Speaker 1: like this these cow calls that go with it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and the elk haven't been super active lately. Uh,
Speaker 1: then then yeah, the odds are that it might be hunter.
Speaker 1: So you kind of get to play, play the game
Speaker 1: and and figure it out. But once you're out there, um,
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're gonna be fool the few times,
Speaker 1: especially if you run into a guy that's a really
Speaker 1: good caller. And then you're also going to have somewhere
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's definitely a person. And then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have somewhere you're like, that's definitely a person and
Speaker 1: it turns out to be an elk. That's just how
Speaker 1: elk cunning is when they're bugling. All right. This next
Speaker 1: question comes from Dan. He says, Hey, Remy, I'm still
Speaker 1: a learning hunter and your podcast is a single most
Speaker 1: useful tool I found. Keep up the great work. He says,
Speaker 1: I first found a great water hole and got several
Speaker 1: photos of a shot worthy bull. The problem is there's
Speaker 1: a lot of other game in the same water hole,
Speaker 1: multiple moose, a dozen elk, other elk, deer, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Seems there's a lot of opportunities to get spotted by
Speaker 1: a lot of watchful eyes preparing for the worst. What's
Speaker 1: your plan B or c for a hole like this
Speaker 1: if your cover is blown, would you go elsewhere to
Speaker 1: relieve pressure if your target elk or other animals spots me?
Speaker 1: Or would you stick it out? So that's a great question.
Speaker 1: You know, hunting a water hole can be super effective,
Speaker 1: especially for many places right now that might be in
Speaker 1: drought or whatever. But if you've got a productive place
Speaker 1: where animals are watering, I'm assuming that you're you're getting
Speaker 1: like photos from a trail camera set up over this
Speaker 1: water hole. Um, you know, if you've you've got a
Speaker 1: productive place, then that's great. That's a great place to hunt,
Speaker 1: a great place to hone in on either target animal
Speaker 1: or you know, never know what what might stroll in there.
Speaker 1: I will say this, so when you're hunting, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're doing an ambush style hunt where you're waiting
Speaker 1: for the animals to come to you, whether it's a trail,
Speaker 1: whether it's a water hole, whether it's over a food source, whatever,
Speaker 1: the number one goal is to not be detected. So
Speaker 1: you want those animals should be coming into your setup
Speaker 1: unaware of your presence and whether it's the animal you're
Speaker 1: chasing or another animal, because if they're spooking away, then
Speaker 1: you've set up wrong. So the key is, no matter
Speaker 1: what comes in, it should come in water, do its
Speaker 1: thing ing, and then leave unaware whether you're gonna shoot
Speaker 1: at it or not. Because if it's if it's alert
Speaker 1: and you're in a position where you might spook it,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna run into some problems. So the
Speaker 1: things that I would do is, first, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of figure out a couple of strategies for um not
Speaker 1: going not getting detected. That could be a ground blind
Speaker 1: and setting that ground blind up early enough where you
Speaker 1: know you can sit in there. Um you're set up,
Speaker 1: you know, when an animal like say a moose or
Speaker 1: non target animal comes in you're just gonna be still.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be quiet. You're gonna let them do their
Speaker 1: thing and move on. When another animal comes in, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's one that you want to shoot. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know you should hopefully let it get comfortable enough and
Speaker 1: have and then get your opportunity and take your shots.
Speaker 1: So you shouldn't really be spooking anything. Another option maybe
Speaker 1: a tree stand, um, and when you when you set
Speaker 1: these up, obviously the thing you're gonna want to think
Speaker 1: about most is the wind direction for that day and
Speaker 1: where you're at. So you could even think about maybe
Speaker 1: the winds. If figure out the predominant wind direction in
Speaker 1: your area, and you could go a ground Like you
Speaker 1: said you want to sit on the ground, you could
Speaker 1: put a ground blind at one end and then maybe
Speaker 1: a tree stand on the other end if the winds
Speaker 1: are different, so you could kind of choose two different
Speaker 1: locations depending on the wind and maybe the direction that
Speaker 1: the animals come in from. Now that being said, yes
Speaker 1: things might wind you. You might spook something, um, but
Speaker 1: if it's that productive of a water hole, I would
Speaker 1: just stick it out, especially it sounds like maybe it's
Speaker 1: something if they're consistent, if it's in a water hole
Speaker 1: that they're going to consistently and they don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of other options. Absolutely stick it out now. If
Speaker 1: it's something where you sit it and um, the animals
Speaker 1: kind of like spooked off and change their pattern, you
Speaker 1: don't see them again. Then it's something where you can
Speaker 1: start finding maybe where else are they going, or kind
Speaker 1: of go to plan B, which might be maybe more
Speaker 1: spot and stock technique or tactic, or checking out other
Speaker 1: areas or other water holes. I will say, like patterning
Speaker 1: things on water, it seems super easy at first, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: these animals are coming in water, but you also have
Speaker 1: to factor out Okay, I have to cut out everything
Speaker 1: that's coming in at night. I need these animal is
Speaker 1: to come in during the daylight during hunting hours. And
Speaker 1: then as the seasons change, their water uses the amount
Speaker 1: of water in other places changes as well. So um,
Speaker 1: you have to be aware of those factors. Just because
Speaker 1: they're coming in and hitting water during the summer doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that when the season starts it's going to be
Speaker 1: that regular. So and a water hole that might be
Speaker 1: really productive in the summer comes September, maybe you'll get
Speaker 1: in early snow, maybe you'll get something that will change
Speaker 1: the patterns and the habits of those animals. So you
Speaker 1: want to kind of continually monitor the patterns and the
Speaker 1: habits and also maybe find some water in other areas.
Speaker 1: So you might have one or two productive waters where
Speaker 1: these animals are using. Like I say, you've got a
Speaker 1: target elk and it's like okay, he's watering here every
Speaker 1: three to five days, um, But you might have some
Speaker 1: other waters that they're hitting and going okay, well, this
Speaker 1: is why he's creating a circuit, and then you can
Speaker 1: kind of plan on hunting that animal based on that
Speaker 1: circuit that you're trying to decipher this pattern, So if
Speaker 1: something happens on the one spot, you can then go
Speaker 1: or check out another spot as well. Well. That concludes
Speaker 1: our Q and A. Don't forget that I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: doing that live question and answer in Reno, Nevada the
Speaker 1: Pope and Young Club Convention on the Friday, uh two pm.
Speaker 1: I think I might even add a second session in
Speaker 1: there right after so to get a few more questions,
Speaker 1: and then it'd be great to meet you guys. Anybody
Speaker 1: that that shows up, would be awesome to just say hey, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Also, Uh, that last question
Speaker 1: talking about the water kind of got me thinking about
Speaker 1: some of the first seasons to start off. Prong horn
Speaker 1: antelope an incredibly fun hunt. It can be a very
Speaker 1: challenging spot and stock archery hunt, but also just probably
Speaker 1: one of the more enjoyable hunts out west. I think
Speaker 1: it's a very underrated animal, and I've been getting a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about prong horn hunting, so I would
Speaker 1: like to add in a little bit of a series
Speaker 1: on some prong horn analytic techniques and tactics. So we'll
Speaker 1: look for that in the future. We'll have some of
Speaker 1: those live Q and A s running in some future podcasts,
Speaker 1: And if there's things that you guys want to know
Speaker 1: about as always, feel free to reach out to me
Speaker 1: via social media at Remy Warren on Instagram. Generally, I
Speaker 1: go through the messages. When I see a good question,
Speaker 1: I screenshot it and I keep it in a file,
Speaker 1: and when it's male sack time, I open those up
Speaker 1: and scroll through and start answering some of those questions.
Speaker 1: But I also try to keep track of the things
Speaker 1: that people are asking a lot of to build out
Speaker 1: some of our other episodes. I say that a lot,
Speaker 1: but I really appreciate all the feedback, all the ratings,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Also as a reminder, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to do a lot more videos on my YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: So I just put up some good stuff about three
Speaker 1: or four videos on processing big Game that I think
Speaker 1: will be really helpful for you guys. And then also
Speaker 1: like a full length caribou hunt with some that I
Speaker 1: did last season. We've got some other awesome huntsome. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've actually got like probably a hundred or more film
Speaker 1: hunts that I've never used, never shown anyone. So I
Speaker 1: guess start going through and editing some of those some
Speaker 1: really cool stuff, some record book desert sheeps, um, some
Speaker 1: awesome antelope footage, just some really cool hunts that have
Speaker 1: never I've never really used for anything that I just
Speaker 1: get got so busy. Uh well I'm are, yeah, still
Speaker 1: really busy. But I was like, man, I've got hundreds
Speaker 1: and hundreds of hunts that I've never shown anyone, never
Speaker 1: seen fully filmed that I'm like, man, we should do
Speaker 1: something with some of this old stuff. So a few
Speaker 1: like awesome flashback hunts as well coming up, So make
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