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. Merry Christmas everyone, and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Cutting the Distance Christmas Special. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: Christmas really has always been just a special time, special
Speaker 1: time to spend with friends and family, A special time
Speaker 1: that I remember a lot of the hunts around this
Speaker 1: time because we get together, we get to go out,
Speaker 1: we share meals, and most of that's wild game meals. Um.
Speaker 1: Hunting and family and food and Christmas all kind of
Speaker 1: combined for me this time of year. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: even even in this weird year, I think Christmas can
Speaker 1: always kind of feels like a special time. You know,
Speaker 1: some people have experienced some really hard times this year,
Speaker 1: and and then there's been some good times mixed in,
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that maybe we just I
Speaker 1: thought it might be kind of fun to do this
Speaker 1: Christmas Special podcast, share a couple of cool tips on
Speaker 1: maybe some holiday hunting, some some ways you can cook
Speaker 1: up some game, and then and then give some stuff
Speaker 1: away as well. So there's that. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna just share a Christmas story from
Speaker 1: the Christmas Eve two thousand three in the most Christmas
Speaker 1: ee way I know how q magical walking music. It
Speaker 1: was the day before Christmas out in the marsh. Not
Speaker 1: a duck was flying. The game seems sparse. The decoys
Speaker 1: were set around the water in pairs with a hole
Speaker 1: in the middle, hoping the birds would land there. I
Speaker 1: was tucked in the toolies, sitting on my stool with
Speaker 1: thoughts of green head and sprig landing in this small pool.
Speaker 1: I and my waiters my gun camo clad. I was
Speaker 1: hunting for the duck feast we always had. Went through
Speaker 1: the air. Some teal wings hissed. I threw up my
Speaker 1: gun shot three times and missed. While disappointed there was
Speaker 1: no splash, I sat back down and let the time
Speaker 1: slowly pass. The skies were all empty, not a duck
Speaker 1: in sight. I got off my stool to call it
Speaker 1: a night. I packed up the decoys and the cold
Speaker 1: winter air. It looked like Christmas dinner. I would have
Speaker 1: nothing to share. As I walked towards the swim hole
Speaker 1: on the weight of the truck. I heard the quack
Speaker 1: of a single, lone duck, and what to my wondrous
Speaker 1: eyes did appear a hen mallard jumping out of the pond.
Speaker 1: Right here. I clicked off the safety and threw up
Speaker 1: the stock. I swung the bead and touched around. Off
Speaker 1: the flight of the bird immediately stalled in a puff
Speaker 1: of feathers. It fell in a ball. I quickly ran
Speaker 1: over to find my game. A jump shot hen was
Speaker 1: what I had claimed. Well, it was a lot shy
Speaker 1: of a Christmas feast, lacking the meat of a brace
Speaker 1: of geese. I have to admit I was glad for
Speaker 1: the luck I avoided being skunk when I hit this duck.
Speaker 1: Its feathers were brown. It's bill fairly bleak. There is
Speaker 1: no band nestled on its feet. But that didn't matter
Speaker 1: to me one bit. I had some meat and was
Speaker 1: proud of it. When I got back home, I spoke
Speaker 1: not a word. I went out back and plucked my bird.
Speaker 1: I heated the oven for a fine Christmas roast. The
Speaker 1: rest of the family wanted to toast. I had to
Speaker 1: explain as I got into sight, it will be a
Speaker 1: merry Christmas for all, but only one duck for dinner tonight.
Speaker 1: From my hunting Field Notes December two thousand three said
Speaker 1: Corey ducks duck shot one headed mallard. I jumped off
Speaker 1: the swim hoole. I remember that Christmas fairly well. I
Speaker 1: was a senior in high school and my family had
Speaker 1: spent Christmas actually that Christmas morning in a wall tent
Speaker 1: on the river in Montana. It was down the way
Speaker 1: from where my grandpa lived. We had this awesome fireplace
Speaker 1: roaring in there, and we actually made a nice wood
Speaker 1: mantle on the back of the wall tent by the
Speaker 1: stove where we hung our stockings. We decked it out
Speaker 1: and included a Christmas tree and lights. It was pretty
Speaker 1: pretty magical tent on the river there. Honestly, when I
Speaker 1: think back about it, is one of the most memorable
Speaker 1: Christmas mornings I think I've had. We woke up early
Speaker 1: and we celebrated. We exchange gifts too together in the tent.
Speaker 1: It was dark outside, still, the tent was all lit up,
Speaker 1: and we just listened to the river and Christmas music
Speaker 1: and just enjoy each other's company. And honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: remember any of the gifts exchange. But I do remember
Speaker 1: how much fun I had with my brothers and parents
Speaker 1: spending Christmas together, hanging out in the wall tent, and
Speaker 1: it was just one one definite Christmas to remember. One
Speaker 1: thing that I definitely take from it was the fact
Speaker 1: that I got to spend the time with with my family.
Speaker 1: And that's all that when it comes time this time
Speaker 1: of year, that's those are the things that I remember.
Speaker 1: Those are the things that I cherish. Speaking of family,
Speaker 1: you know this time of year, maybe you've got a
Speaker 1: few extra days off, Um, you've got a little bit
Speaker 1: of time. I think it's a great time to take friends,
Speaker 1: to take family, people that hunt and people that don't
Speaker 1: hunt out in the field with you. I know that
Speaker 1: some of my favorite memories are spent on small game trips,
Speaker 1: some hunts around this time of year when people have
Speaker 1: got time off, and you know, my brothers would go,
Speaker 1: my dad would go, even my mom would come. She
Speaker 1: wouldn't hunt, but she would just enjoy the experience of
Speaker 1: going out doing something that's not a full intensive have
Speaker 1: to pack in twenty miles half to pre plan, have
Speaker 1: to have all these tags, but just something that you
Speaker 1: can go out and do. It's fun. You know, you
Speaker 1: make it fun for the people around you that time
Speaker 1: of like, pack the yetie rambler full of hot chocolate,
Speaker 1: hit the trail, head out and enjoy the time with
Speaker 1: those close to you, whether they hunt or not. Maybe
Speaker 1: you'll create a new hunter or just somebody that enjoys
Speaker 1: getting out and going with you. So I decided to
Speaker 1: just break down my five top hunts I think you
Speaker 1: should try between Christmas and New Year. The first is
Speaker 1: gonna be ducks. Of course, my story was a duck
Speaker 1: hunt for me. I don't know, it's just duck hunting
Speaker 1: around Christmas time is something that I always do. But
Speaker 1: also I love roast duck around the holidays, So Christmas
Speaker 1: and New Year's it's something that we generally eat and
Speaker 1: it's also something it's It's one of those hunts where
Speaker 1: duck hunting tends to be a more successful hunt than
Speaker 1: some other hunts. Now, while it can be quite gear intensive.
Speaker 1: You've got to get the decoys, you might need a boat,
Speaker 1: you might need all this stuff. Not all duck hunting
Speaker 1: has to be that um intensive. If you if you
Speaker 1: aren't into it or you're thinking about going out trying,
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast and maybe don't hunt a lot or just
Speaker 1: getting into hunting. There's actually a lot of duck hunting
Speaker 1: to be had that isn't as Biggs gear intensive, and
Speaker 1: it's more jump shooting, pass shooting, picking spots. So I
Speaker 1: would suggest looking for ditches, slews, rivers, marshes um. The
Speaker 1: specialized gear that you're gonna need for this hunt would
Speaker 1: be a pair of waiters, which for the longest time
Speaker 1: I used my fishing waiters. I used just waiter shoes
Speaker 1: over the top. I wore clothes underneath them, and then
Speaker 1: I actually threw a pair of camouflaged like army surplus
Speaker 1: ants over the top of it. I actually wore That's
Speaker 1: what I did. I wore my tennis shoes underneath my
Speaker 1: like neoprene fishing waiters, and then just through a pair
Speaker 1: of army surplus cameo pants over the top. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: might look a little jankie, but hey, you're getting out,
Speaker 1: you're shooting some meat, you're having a good time. You
Speaker 1: need a shotgun with a plug in it, some steel shot. Obviously,
Speaker 1: all of the necessary duck stamps and licenses, but finding
Speaker 1: those slews, those river bottoms, those ditches, things where you
Speaker 1: can walk up and down, maybe see some birds. Use
Speaker 1: your binocular spot in Stockholm. It's a great way to
Speaker 1: get into duck hunting, to shoot some meat um to
Speaker 1: start learning and identifying birds. One thing about duck hunting
Speaker 1: is understanding how to identify birds that are in flight,
Speaker 1: because there's certain birds you can shoot certain ones you can't.
Speaker 1: If you're getting into it, if you're new to it,
Speaker 1: it's a great way to kind of get your bird
Speaker 1: identification down before their cruising. Buy in the marsh, watch them,
Speaker 1: stock them, look at them, understand bring a bird guide
Speaker 1: if you have to to understand what birds are what,
Speaker 1: understand the way that they fly when they fly, look
Speaker 1: at them through your binoculars while they're flying, sneak in,
Speaker 1: shoot a few and bring some home. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite ways to cook duck is to roast them. So
Speaker 1: I generally turn the oven on four degrees, a little
Speaker 1: bit of salt and pepper on top, and then I
Speaker 1: put them in a roasting pan. Sometimes I'll even go
Speaker 1: like four fifty or higher. What what you want? The
Speaker 1: key to cooking good duck is just medium rare. You
Speaker 1: want the if you poke it with a fork. It's
Speaker 1: done when those the juices start coming out like that
Speaker 1: rosy pink color. You don't want to overdo it. If
Speaker 1: you've got a thermometer, I try to keep it right
Speaker 1: around one. Um is when what I normally roast the
Speaker 1: duck to I love to pluck my ducks, so I'll
Speaker 1: pluck them um and then get them and cook them
Speaker 1: a whole. But if you breast them, sometimes you can.
Speaker 1: You can pluck the breast and then breast it out.
Speaker 1: That's where you just got to take the breast portion
Speaker 1: away from the rest of the body. Or if you've
Speaker 1: like to skin them, that's fine to skin it out
Speaker 1: and then roast the breasts. What I do, if I
Speaker 1: do it that way, just the rest or even the
Speaker 1: whole duck, I'll actually set it on top of an
Speaker 1: orange slice in the roasting pan. I salt and pepper
Speaker 1: the bird, maybe a little bit of other herbs, and
Speaker 1: then I'll, if I if I've got a whole, actually
Speaker 1: stuff it sometimes with I generally use rosemary, time and
Speaker 1: apple stuff it. Maybe a little bit of bacon to
Speaker 1: add some fat back in, but they're already pretty fatty
Speaker 1: most most ducks. And then I roast it and it
Speaker 1: doesn't take very long, maybe twenty minutes something like that.
Speaker 1: Keep checking it and then what I do when I'm
Speaker 1: done is I turn the oven on broil to crisp
Speaker 1: up the skin, and then I coat the tops with
Speaker 1: orange marmalade and then like underneath the broiler and get
Speaker 1: that kind of glazed over and make kind of a
Speaker 1: glaze with it. And that's I like, I love that
Speaker 1: sweet savory kind of mix of duck. And that's probably
Speaker 1: my traditional go to Christmas dinner or New Year's dinner
Speaker 1: is some kind of roast duck in that fashion. So
Speaker 1: that's a really good hunt to do, maybe you know
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. I actually do a lot of duck hunting
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. But get out if you've got a
Speaker 1: few days off between now and New Year's or on
Speaker 1: New Year's that's a great hunt. It's one that you
Speaker 1: can kind of take and take some people with. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I kind of find duck hunting one of those hunts
Speaker 1: where you generally go out and get something. Um, if
Speaker 1: you're just starting out hunting, if you're going to invest
Speaker 1: in one kind of hunting, duck hunting is a good
Speaker 1: one to invest in because it generally yields a lot
Speaker 1: of success for the time spent. Now, there are definitely
Speaker 1: slow days, days where you come home with that one
Speaker 1: hand mallard or no hand mallards. There's there's been a
Speaker 1: few days, have quite a few days whe haven't skunked.
Speaker 1: But as you start to get into it and kind
Speaker 1: of figure it out, you can find a lot of
Speaker 1: success hunting it. The next one, I would say it's
Speaker 1: great with family, with people that are just getting into hunting.
Speaker 1: Rabbit hunting. It's because it's it's pretty easy and it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to be successful. It doesn't take a lot
Speaker 1: of gear investment. You can use small caliber rifles, small
Speaker 1: caliber shotguns, four ten shotgun. I know as a kid
Speaker 1: it was fun to go out with twenty two or
Speaker 1: four ten uh hunt rabbits. One other thing is it's
Speaker 1: a great for new hunters, people that are just getting
Speaker 1: into it because you can kind of translate a few
Speaker 1: of the big game tactics, like if you've got snow
Speaker 1: on the ground, winter times great time to chase rabbits.
Speaker 1: Snow on the ground, you can find the tracks. It's
Speaker 1: I just look for like brushy areas. Rabbits love that
Speaker 1: kind of thick, brushy stuff. If you've got snow, you
Speaker 1: just cruise around, look for tracks, walk around, walk up
Speaker 1: and down creek bottoms and other areas where they tend
Speaker 1: to be. UM. If you live in more of an
Speaker 1: agricultural type area, check that the the brush lines and
Speaker 1: other things they tend to hide out in there. If
Speaker 1: you've got snow, you'll see their snow. Their tracks. It's
Speaker 1: like two little tracks followed by bigger tracks in the
Speaker 1: back of their front legs planting and their back legs
Speaker 1: coming up. Kind of looks almost like a deer track
Speaker 1: in some ways. But you'll see those trails where the
Speaker 1: rabbits go move a lot, and then just kind of
Speaker 1: work that brush. Sometimes you can have two people. It's
Speaker 1: always nice to have a couple of people. Actually you
Speaker 1: can kind of work the rush, create a line, work it,
Speaker 1: and get the rabbits to run out and get some shots.
Speaker 1: I would say that my my favorite way to prepare rabbit,
Speaker 1: especially around the holidays. I do two different things. So
Speaker 1: the backstraps of the rabbit, I generally will cut out
Speaker 1: fry like chicken strips. That's pretty good. UM, maybe pound
Speaker 1: it flat, just bread it like chicken strips. But um,
Speaker 1: one thing that my brother actually does a lot. If
Speaker 1: we get snowshoe hairs, or you know, if you're new
Speaker 1: into hunting and you live out west, or you're trying
Speaker 1: to get someone into hunting, go out shoot a couple
Speaker 1: of jack rabbits. You might think it's like they're plentiful.
Speaker 1: A lot of people see them as trash rabbit. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've cooked up plenty of jack rabbits and
Speaker 1: they taste great, and we generally do it in a
Speaker 1: rabbit stew, slow cooked. Braise it first, um, brown it
Speaker 1: in a pan, and then put it in with some
Speaker 1: like brown gravy mix or some beef stock, chickens ofk
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Make a nice stew with some potatoes,
Speaker 1: some carrots, some celery, some herbs. It's a great way
Speaker 1: to have rabbit, especially on a wintertime. It's like a
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a really warm, home cooked meal. Feelum.
Speaker 1: The next time I would suggest, and this one takes
Speaker 1: a little more doing, but it's a really I would
Speaker 1: say more bang for your buck is there's a lot
Speaker 1: of areas out west across the country anywhere they have
Speaker 1: late season dough hunts. Uh, they do the doe hunts
Speaker 1: after the buck season generally is a as a management
Speaker 1: tool to reduce dear populations. Picking up these dough tags
Speaker 1: as an incredible hunt is a great way to hone
Speaker 1: your skills. It's also great if you're getting into archery.
Speaker 1: I always suggest people it's like, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: get into archery, what should I hunt first? White tail does?
Speaker 1: They give you all the experience. They're very It can
Speaker 1: be difficult, but the a lot of opportunities, so I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of a perfect mix of there's a
Speaker 1: lot of them out there. You don't have to single
Speaker 1: it out and find one that's legal, which just has
Speaker 1: to be a doe. But they also are very wary
Speaker 1: there it could be hard to get close to. I
Speaker 1: love to spot in Stockholm. There's a lot of places
Speaker 1: that I hunt them where I can get a couple,
Speaker 1: like a I think I can get up to four
Speaker 1: or five dough tags, and I choose to like spot
Speaker 1: in Stockholm. There's public land places you can do it,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people that will give you
Speaker 1: permission to hunt does because if they're trying to manage numbers,
Speaker 1: some some places you know you need to They need
Speaker 1: to shoot a lot of dough and they might not
Speaker 1: have a lot of people that want to. So it's
Speaker 1: one of those things too. You can pull out your
Speaker 1: on X, maybe talk to some people, bring out your family. Um,
Speaker 1: that's always a good way to get permission sometimes, and
Speaker 1: then just don't disturb people during their holiday. But um,
Speaker 1: I think a dough hunt is a great way to
Speaker 1: kind of get some hunting in this time here. It's
Speaker 1: fun and it's also a great way to kind of
Speaker 1: get into maybe another form of hunting. I like to
Speaker 1: take out, uh, like I've got a muzzleloader or just
Speaker 1: you know, a new rifle. Whatever. It's just a it's
Speaker 1: a really fun hunt. So highly suggest that one of
Speaker 1: my favorite Christmas recipes is to take the loin like
Speaker 1: the backstrap, and I do a stuff to loin, so
Speaker 1: I actually cut I'll take like a filet knife. I'll
Speaker 1: cut into a large chunk, large section, maybe like a
Speaker 1: six to eight inch section of backstrap. I'll either open
Speaker 1: it up that's generally the easiest way, or you can
Speaker 1: just kind of stick your knife in there and cut it.
Speaker 1: But I generally make like a how would I describe it?
Speaker 1: If you're looking at the round of it. You make
Speaker 1: like an S cut where you kind of cut around
Speaker 1: or maybe more like a yeah kind of a top
Speaker 1: and then down and then back. So what you're doing
Speaker 1: is you're fileying it out so that whole backstrap can
Speaker 1: lay out bigger because you're gonna stuff it and then
Speaker 1: wrap it back up to its original shape. And what
Speaker 1: I stuff it with, UM, I generally like to make
Speaker 1: like make it easy on yourself, get like whatever. People
Speaker 1: freak out about this, but like some stovetop stuffing. I
Speaker 1: love it and it's super easy. And then I throw
Speaker 1: in some dried cranberries with it. And then what I'll
Speaker 1: do is I'll roll that loin back up and then
Speaker 1: I make a bacon lattice and I wrap it with that.
Speaker 1: Then I tie the whole thing up with twine and
Speaker 1: I'll either smoke it or cook it in the oven
Speaker 1: or on the barbecue. Just gotta be careful if you're
Speaker 1: cooking on the oven or the barbecue. You don't want
Speaker 1: to like flame up, so the best ways in the smoker.
Speaker 1: And then I will um, I actually like to I'll
Speaker 1: finish it by browning the bacon after smoking it. You
Speaker 1: can also not add the bacon it's up to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes it's holiday season, get decad and throw
Speaker 1: some bacon on it. Whatever. Try not to put bacon
Speaker 1: on everything, but why not. The next one I would
Speaker 1: suggest would be a quail hunt. Quail are pretty widely distributed.
Speaker 1: They are fairly easy to find. It's like, find some
Speaker 1: good brushy spots, some thicker stuff. You can hear them calling.
Speaker 1: They make like a I called the chiketa sound that quita. Sure,
Speaker 1: that was terrible. I can't whistle right now. There mouse
Speaker 1: tea drive from podcast then, But quail is a great
Speaker 1: A great hunt, like can be high action, high volume,
Speaker 1: especially for people just getting into it, taking some people out.
Speaker 1: Just don't shoot each other in the face. Dick Cheney. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's uh, you know, make sure you know where everyone's at.
Speaker 1: Make it fun, make it enjoyable. It's not super physical
Speaker 1: most of the time. If you're around agricultural areas, same
Speaker 1: kind of deal as the rabbits. And actually you can
Speaker 1: find coil and rabbits in very similar places, especially out west.
Speaker 1: So that's that's one to think about. Grilled quail is
Speaker 1: pretty hard to beat. I just I skin them out
Speaker 1: spatch cockum and then uh, you can marinate them. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll marinate them actually and like a little bit of
Speaker 1: just like a little bit of olive oil or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't doesn't have to be anything crazy,
Speaker 1: but I generally just grill them as is. They're they're
Speaker 1: pretty hard to beat, probably one of the best game
Speaker 1: birds out there. And then the last one, I would say,
Speaker 1: this is the one that we do is kind of
Speaker 1: a New Year's tradition, but a pheasant high. It's can
Speaker 1: be really fun because you know, if you can find
Speaker 1: some fields, get some permission to hunt pheasants. Uh, find
Speaker 1: somewhere like there's a lot of walk in areas where
Speaker 1: the state actually provides land for hunters, like leases land
Speaker 1: from private individuals. Access yes programs. Uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: someplace called block management. At someplaces. There's all different kinds
Speaker 1: of programs. Look on your on X, look on whatever.
Speaker 1: Research areas where there's these kind of places where you
Speaker 1: can hunt some of this there, you know, CRP type land. Uh.
Speaker 1: It can be really really fun. One thing that we
Speaker 1: do is tradition, is we kind of go out. We
Speaker 1: we do like a family kind of pheasant hunt. All
Speaker 1: the friends come out, they bring their wives and even
Speaker 1: people like everybody that people that maybe don't hunt or
Speaker 1: aren't really that interested in hunting, we have them get
Speaker 1: their hunters, hunting licenses, hunters safety whatever. And this is
Speaker 1: kind of a time where we make it about getting
Speaker 1: everybody else to try to get something. The nice thing
Speaker 1: about pheasants is they generally jump pretty close. It's a
Speaker 1: larger target, their beautiful bird. It's a it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It can be a really fun time. Make
Speaker 1: it an event. Make it we bring out the hot
Speaker 1: chocolate and the barbecues and just and just have a
Speaker 1: great time. And then I think one of the best,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite recipes, just doing kind of a
Speaker 1: beer canned chicken style with a pheasant later on. Or
Speaker 1: we take the breasts, we breast them out, use them
Speaker 1: out to pound of flat and make like chicken palm,
Speaker 1: like pheasant palm. Mixing in some bread crumbs, some parmesan,
Speaker 1: some whipping up, some eggs, so you dredge it in
Speaker 1: the bread crumbs and then you's in the egg breadcrumb.
Speaker 1: Do it about twice, stick it in the oven about
Speaker 1: I don't even know, maybe like three. Don't go too long,
Speaker 1: cook it, you know, cook it like you would chicken
Speaker 1: and then top it with some uh provolone is pretty good,
Speaker 1: and some some pasta sauce, whatever your favorite pasta sauces.
Speaker 1: That's a really good way to eat it. You can
Speaker 1: also do kind of the same thing and then fry
Speaker 1: it in oil. That's a good way to do it
Speaker 1: as well, in olive oil. So I say, between those things,
Speaker 1: you should find yourself something, some way to get out there,
Speaker 1: get some friends out there, get some family out there,
Speaker 1: and enjoy the outdoors, enjoy some hunting, and enjoy some
Speaker 1: awesome Christmas meals. Wouldn't be a Christmas special without uh,
Speaker 1: some kind of giveaway, just kind of. I just want
Speaker 1: to say, as like a thanks for listening. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you all tuning in. I mean, I know there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are new to listeners,
Speaker 1: but also the tried and true. I just want to
Speaker 1: say Merry Christmas to you and your families, and I
Speaker 1: just thank you very much for the support over the
Speaker 1: last year. I've really enjoyed doing this podcast mostly because
Speaker 1: of you guys. Um I would say, if I'm being
Speaker 1: a percent honest, I don't know if I necessarily enjoy
Speaker 1: sitting down and talking in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: after a long day hunting. But what I do really
Speaker 1: enjoy is the feedback that I get from you guys,
Speaker 1: the amazing comments that you've left on wherever you listen,
Speaker 1: you know, the sharing it and just sharing your experiences
Speaker 1: with me. That to me makes it worth it. And
Speaker 1: I really enjoy that aspect of it. That's that's why
Speaker 1: I do it. That's what I love about it. And
Speaker 1: so I think it's really cool that that we've created
Speaker 1: an awesome community of people that are trying through hardcore
Speaker 1: hunters all the way to the people just getting into it.
Speaker 1: So I thank you guys for listening. I thank you
Speaker 1: for your continued support. UM last year, I tried to
Speaker 1: figure out ways to do the giveaway because you know,
Speaker 1: it's like I kind of have to do it, and
Speaker 1: I'll do it in combination with social media. So if
Speaker 1: you don't have those things, I apologize. It just makes
Speaker 1: it easier for me to figure out ways to to
Speaker 1: get some stuff given away. So I've got some. I
Speaker 1: I did this last year as well, and I thought
Speaker 1: I thought it worked really well. And what I don't
Speaker 1: want to do because sometimes if I do just to
Speaker 1: giveaway on like Instagram, there's so many people that the
Speaker 1: odds are just terrible. So I wanted to be like,
Speaker 1: if you you put out a little effort, you listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast, then your odds will be a lot better.
Speaker 1: So the first giveaway, I've got some awesome YETI mugs
Speaker 1: for some people, some different ramblers, So I'll maybe I've
Speaker 1: got half a dozen of those, maybe a dozen of those.
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do. I'm gonna make a post,
Speaker 1: like a post about the podcast, and then as the
Speaker 1: secret to just the people that listen, uh in the comments,
Speaker 1: put some kind of mug emoji, whether it's the beer mug,
Speaker 1: whether it's the some form of cup emoji. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can find that figure that out. I looked there
Speaker 1: was like quite a few different ones. So you put
Speaker 1: some form of cup emoji, and then I will randomly
Speaker 1: select the winners out of those, uh, those people that
Speaker 1: do that, So that should help your odds. There won't
Speaker 1: be like thousands of people. That will just be the
Speaker 1: people that listen to the people that take the time
Speaker 1: to do it, and that's cool be rewarded for that.
Speaker 1: So um, that's that's one of the ways one of
Speaker 1: the secret podcast prizes. The next oh, I did this
Speaker 1: one last year with a different product, and um, the
Speaker 1: odds were super good. So the next one, I've got
Speaker 1: a custom Gerber knife, So you can actually go on
Speaker 1: design whatever you want on the knife ad. You choose
Speaker 1: exactly what knife you want. Um like, put your name
Speaker 1: on it, put images on it. Put I mean, just
Speaker 1: like crazy cool stuff. Um, so this one what I did,
Speaker 1: and I kind of like this because it kind of
Speaker 1: narrowed the amount of people and what they did. But
Speaker 1: so go on my Instagram page anywhere that you see
Speaker 1: a knife, just comment like it could be an old post,
Speaker 1: it could be a new post, it doesn't matter. Just
Speaker 1: scroll through a few of the pictures. If you see
Speaker 1: a knife or whatever in the thing in the post,
Speaker 1: just say something about the podcast it does. I'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. I think there's like dates on there, so
Speaker 1: I can kind of figure out. Then I'm going to
Speaker 1: randomly I've got I know which images have stuff, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna randomly pick the image and then the people
Speaker 1: that have commented on the image. I will randomly pick
Speaker 1: the person on that the person that one last year, um,
Speaker 1: the image that actually I got randomly drawn. There was
Speaker 1: like six comments on it, so it was like a
Speaker 1: one or it was actually three. It was like a
Speaker 1: one in three chance of winning the prize last year,
Speaker 1: so that was pretty sweet. Um, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a lot on some photos, but this, I don't you
Speaker 1: don't have to go like super deep, you know, just whatever,
Speaker 1: just the last you know, twenty photos or whatever. But um,
Speaker 1: most people just did it on the one, and a
Speaker 1: couple of people listened and did it on the other ones,
Speaker 1: and they did it on all the ones they saw
Speaker 1: that person one. So that's just something, uh, give that
Speaker 1: if you want to enter that. And then and then
Speaker 1: I did this last year as well. I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of fun, just kind of like a photo contest.
Speaker 1: I've got a pair of diamondback ten by I think
Speaker 1: of ten by forty two h d S Vortex's binoculars,
Speaker 1: So if you want to try to win those, just
Speaker 1: if you got an image, take a picture or you
Speaker 1: have an image that you've already done, tag me in
Speaker 1: it at Remy Warren and then add the hashtag hashtag
Speaker 1: glassing forward, because I'll search that hashtag and then it'll
Speaker 1: just be kind of a photo contest of sorts under
Speaker 1: that theme glassing forward last year's winner. I think his
Speaker 1: daughter was just like out there looking. It was kind
Speaker 1: of a cool like he had a cool concept of it. Um,
Speaker 1: that was the winner. I actually may just randomize him.
Speaker 1: But I'll take the maybe my top ten favorite photos
Speaker 1: and then I'll just do a random thing off of that.
Speaker 1: So that's how you can win your Christmas swag. Um,
Speaker 1: I will close all that. Let's say we'll give it
Speaker 1: five days from today, so before New Year's Um, actually
Speaker 1: let's just close it. Let's just close it by next
Speaker 1: week before the next podcast comes out, which is New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve. So best of luck to you all. And actually,
Speaker 1: you know some of the mugs I'm not gonna do today,
Speaker 1: So if anybody listens, those people will be rewarded. If
Speaker 1: you're listening to this on Christmas Eve, your hardcore, if
Speaker 1: you give me that cup thing, we'll just as you
Speaker 1: have a couple of those away, those ramblers away that way,
Speaker 1: it's it's my own giveaway. It's just loose, just like
Speaker 1: that's the way I like to do it. So until then,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. You have Filthy Animals next week, Oh before
Speaker 1: I forget next week I'm gonna do some just because
Speaker 1: it's New Year's and we got New Year's Eve coming up.
Speaker 1: Just some stuff to think about getting into next year,
Speaker 1: like an action plan to be more successful, some fitness stuff,
Speaker 1: some shooting stuff, some hunt planning stuff. Will get all
Speaker 1: that dialed then, so going into the next year, you
Speaker 1: can make your plan, you can be set, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for success. All right, Merry Christmas everyone,
Speaker 1: and to you all a good night.