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Speaker 1: spent thousands of days in the field. This show is

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Speaker 1: Real quick. I just want you to picture yourself in

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Speaker 1: the final moments of a stock. Let's say it's on

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Speaker 1: the biggest mule here you've ever seen in your life.

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Speaker 1: You've closed the distance, You've got in. Now it's time

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Speaker 1: think that bow hunting and consistent success go hand in

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Speaker 1: is to chase small game when the big game seasons

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Speaker 1: have closed. A long time ago, I started chasing ducks, quail, rabbits,

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Speaker 1: It was closer access to the areas I could be

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Speaker 1: have more opportunities to take shots, make shots, or mess

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Speaker 1: when it comes to big game hunting. So this week

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Speaker 1: on Cutting the Distance podcast, I want to cover some

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'd already got two ducks, so it's time

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Speaker 1: to small game hunting, because when you're shooting with a bow,

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Speaker 1: little bit about shot placement. Because small game animals have

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Speaker 1: I do want to say is when you are small

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Speaker 1: game hunting, you're often shooting at targets on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Your arrow is gonna hit the ground, It's gonna hit

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Speaker 1: rocks and other things. So every time I shoot, I

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Speaker 1: grabbed that arrow and I flex it. I bend it

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Speaker 1: as hard as I can in multiple places and make

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Speaker 1: sure that it doesn't snap. That way, I know that

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Speaker 1: if the next shot I take, if there's a chip

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Speaker 1: or something in the carbon fiber of the arrow, then

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Speaker 1: by flexing it, if it snaps, then I know that

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't be shooting that. That saved me a lot

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Speaker 1: of times because what happens when you shoot your bow

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Speaker 1: that arrow is flexing, is all that energy transfers from

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Speaker 1: the full draw to throwing that arrow down range. And

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Speaker 1: as it flexes, if there's a chip or an imperfection

446
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Speaker 1: from hitting the ground and be damaged, you might not

447
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Speaker 1: be able to see it with your eye, but as

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Speaker 1: it flexes, that arrow can snap, and it can be

449
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Speaker 1: really dangerous to yourself because it might go through I've

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Speaker 1: seen pictures of them go through people's hands, from people's arms.

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Speaker 1: It's just a bad deal. So every time you shoot,

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Speaker 1: and that should go for target practice as well. When

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Speaker 1: I pull my arrows out of a target or if

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Speaker 1: I miss a target shooting three D s or whatever,

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Speaker 1: I always flex my arrows constantly. You'd be surprised how

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Speaker 1: many something happened to Especially when you shoot a tight

457
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Speaker 1: group at a target. Your arrow might nick the other arrow,

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Speaker 1: cause it to crack or fray in a certain way

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Speaker 1: that you don't even really notice, and then when you

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Speaker 1: go to flex it, it'll snap. So that's just something

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Speaker 1: to think about. Throwing your memory bank now, when it

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Speaker 1: comes to shot placement, you might be thinking, well, they're

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Speaker 1: already a small target. Yes, but a lot of depending

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Speaker 1: on what I'm hunting and what tip I have on

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Speaker 1: depends on where I aim. A lot of my shots,

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Speaker 1: I'm actually aiming for the head. They always say aims small,

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Speaker 1: miss small, But with a bird you also have have

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Speaker 1: to pick a shot. Their kill zone is actually a

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Speaker 1: lot smaller than a big game animals kill zone. Just

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Speaker 1: because you're hunting a mallard duck their whole body doesn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily mean that that's where you'll you'll make an ethical shot.

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Speaker 1: I've seen ducks shot in places that look fairly decent

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Speaker 1: and then fly off or swim off with an arrow

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Speaker 1: in them. So, just like anything, you want to make

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Speaker 1: a clean, ethical kill shot for most birds. For ducks

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Speaker 1: when they're swimming away, I am pretty much at the

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Speaker 1: base of the neck, try to get the spine and

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Speaker 1: the vitals, or on a lot of birds that aim

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Speaker 1: for the wing butts or the basis of the wings

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Speaker 1: because their breast hangs down a lot lower. You'd be

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Speaker 1: surprised where a lot of people they just aim for

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Speaker 1: the bird, they hit him in the breast and the

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Speaker 1: bird flies off or gets away. Even with broadheads. I've

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Speaker 1: seen some grouse. I've seen a lot of birds get

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Speaker 1: away where you think, how is that even possible? So

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Speaker 1: shot placement on small game is just as critical as

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Speaker 1: it is on all game animals. If you get used

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Speaker 1: to making a good shot and placing a good shot

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Speaker 1: on a small game animal, that translates when it's something larger.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how big your target is, whether you're

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Speaker 1: shooting in an elk or a jack rabbit. You want

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Speaker 1: to aim small every time. So getting that practice of

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Speaker 1: picking a spot on an animal is probably some of

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Speaker 1: the best practice you get When it comes to small

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Speaker 1: game hunting. With a rabbit, I always try to put

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Speaker 1: it either head or right behind the shoulder. With a bird,

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Speaker 1: I either shoot head or a wing, butts because I

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Speaker 1: like to pick that one small spot and you get

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Speaker 1: practice picking a spot on an animal. I think one

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Speaker 1: of the hardest things for new hunters is you go out.

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Speaker 1: You practice all the time shooting at a target, but

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Speaker 1: targets have spots on them. Block targets have a physical spot,

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Speaker 1: even three D targets. You start to pick something that

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Speaker 1: you might actually see. But when you go to small

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Speaker 1: game hunting or big game animals, they don't have spots

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Speaker 1: on them. You have to pick an end of dual hair,

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Speaker 1: an individual crease, one specific thing hone in and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot better shot. And I think that

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Speaker 1: that is often, I mean, everybody says it, but it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of practice to be able to pick

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Speaker 1: a spot in the moment fast when you've got a

512
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Speaker 1: lot of different things going on. Now, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: some tactics for small game hunting. I think one of

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Speaker 1: the first tactics is picking your spot. The bonus to

515
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Speaker 1: small game hunting with a bow in hand as opposed

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Speaker 1: to a shotgun or a small caliber rifle is the

517
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Speaker 1: fact that there might be some more areas that are

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Speaker 1: open to you in a closer proximity to where you live. Now,

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00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: there's a lot of areas that you definitely have to

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Speaker 1: check your local game laws. You have to check your

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Speaker 1: local whatever land use laws there are where you're at.

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Speaker 1: But there might be some public lands or some other

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Speaker 1: lands that are within a close proximity to where people

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Speaker 1: live that it's only legal to hunt with a bow,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people overlook hunting small game animals

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Speaker 1: with the bow. Other states I know, definitely California has

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Speaker 1: small game seasons that are concurrent with the archery seasons

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Speaker 1: in the state, so sometimes you can think about hunting

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Speaker 1: them in a season that's archery specific, where you might

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Speaker 1: not be able to hunt other things, but you can

531
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Speaker 1: hunt with your bow. So it really opens up a

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Speaker 1: lot of opportunity if you're willing to go chase small

533
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Speaker 1: game animals with your bow and arrow. Now, of course

534
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Speaker 1: you got to look into it. You gotta make sure

535
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Speaker 1: that it's all legal, but it's just something to think about.

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Speaker 1: One thing I would like to add to that is

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Speaker 1: I've had some really good hunts and close proximity to

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Speaker 1: town where it's legal to hunt with a bow, but

539
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: it might not be legal to shoot a rifle in

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Speaker 1: those zones or those fringe areas close to town or

541
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Speaker 1: close to where I live. But another thing you have

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Speaker 1: to think about is just because it's legal doesn't mean

543
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Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. And what I mean

544
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Speaker 1: by that is you have to play by a code

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Speaker 1: of ethics that won't taint the way people see hunting.

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Speaker 1: So if you're going to take your bow on a

547
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Speaker 1: really popular trail and decide to hunt birds and shoot birds.

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Speaker 1: You know, how are you acting around those people? Are

549
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: you going to run into a lot of people that

550
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Speaker 1: might not agree with what you're doing and kind of

551
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: give hunting a bad name. Are you gonna hunt a

552
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Speaker 1: pond that is close to where a lot of people recreate.

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00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: You know, you got to make sure that you make

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Speaker 1: an ethical shot because you don't want a goose running

555
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: around with an arrow in it where other people can

556
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Speaker 1: see that. You know, so you really have to look

557
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: out for what you're doing and where you're doing it.

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00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: Just because it's legal doesn't mean that it's always gonna

559
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: lend a good light hunting. You don't want to be

560
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: the guy that does something that's legal and then makes

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Speaker 1: it now illegal because enough people see it and and

562
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Speaker 1: don't like what's going on. So I just have to

563
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: throw that out there, you know, be cognizant of what

564
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Speaker 1: you're doing just because it's legal. You know, put a

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Speaker 1: good ethical lens on it, because you're an ambassador for

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Speaker 1: all hunters when you're out there. So the closer y

567
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: are to more people, the more you really have to

568
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: think about that stuff. That's just my two cents on that,

569
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Speaker 1: But there is some great hunting that is getting overlooked

570
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Speaker 1: by other hunters that don't even consider chasing small game

571
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: animals with their bow and arrow, that you can get

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Speaker 1: into good opportunity without having to go too far, as

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Speaker 1: well as have some great just high populations of animals

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Speaker 1: that might not be getting hunted otherwise. So that's just

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00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 1: something to think about now. I think one of the

576
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Speaker 1: best tactics for small game hunting is just translating those

577
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: those big game tactics to what you're doing. I do

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00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it spot and stock, so I pick

579
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Speaker 1: my areas based on, Okay, where can I get good stocks.

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Speaker 1: If I'm waterfowl hunting with my bow, I try to

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Speaker 1: go for creeks and streams, uh, smaller ponds where I

582
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: can get shots and creep up with cover and then

583
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: take my shot with birds on the water or meandering

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Speaker 1: creeks where I can peek out glass down spot the birds,

585
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: then go make a stock out of sight and move in.

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00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: One thing that you will want to do is know

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Speaker 1: your distances, because with bow hunting small game, you get

588
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: a lot less time with them than you might with

589
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: larger game animals. When you're within range, they're all lot

590
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: of times moving. If they see you draw, they're gonna

591
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: be gone and they aren't going to give you that opportunity.

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00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: They don't stop, they don't mess around for the most part,

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00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: So the real challenges focusing on their eyes and what

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Speaker 1: they can see. You'd be surprised how well and how

595
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: far birds can see, and trying to keep those animals

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Speaker 1: un alert. It's a really good practice as far as

597
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: drawing out of sight and then getting ready and moving

598
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: into position when they don't notice, when they aren't paying attention,

599
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: as well as using tactics of sitting still waiting for

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Speaker 1: the right shot and then drawing out of sight, getting

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Speaker 1: into position and taking your shot quick. And by taking

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00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: your shot quick, I mean acquiring the target, picking a

603
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Speaker 1: spot fast, and letting the arrow fly. The more you

604
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: make that instinctual and the less you really think about it,

605
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: the more successful you're gonna be. I know that that sounds.

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00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily a direct tactic where people ask me,

607
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: what's your shot process? What do you go through when

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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: you shoot an animal? Now, for me, there are certain

609
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: things that I think about, But what I like to

610
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: do is I like to just make it automatic, where

611
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,479
Speaker 1: all the things that I should think about are happening

612
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: in the background. I hate when you get into a

613
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: situation and you overthink it so much that you mess

614
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,479
Speaker 1: it up. It's paralysis by analysis, where you've got everything

615
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do in your mind, and the thing

616
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to do is make a perfect shot,

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00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: and you're thinking about all the ways to make a

618
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: perfect shot, and by thinking about all those ways to

619
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: make a perfect shot, you're impeding your natural instinct to

620
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: just pull back, aim where you're supposed to, and release

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Speaker 1: a perfect arrow. I think a lot of bow hunting

622
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: should be automatic, and the best way to do that

623
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Speaker 1: is to hunt automatic where you think about, yes you

624
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: have to aim, yes you need to draw back out

625
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: of sight, but you do all those things subconsciously. So

626
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: every time you get a shot opportunity, what you should

627
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: be thinking about is make a perfect shot, and all

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00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: that amounts to is picking a spot, settling right. Everything

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Speaker 1: else should be out max through practice in your backyard,

630
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: and when it comes to aiming at an animal, all

631
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: you should be focused on is aiming on that spot,

632
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: and if you do that, you're gonna be a lot

633
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: more successful in the future. Well, I hope you guys

634
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: really like to that small game with a bow idea.

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00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you've never tried it, maybe been

636
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: bow hunting for a long time. Hopefully that just gets

637
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: the wheels turning. You know, if you're a new bow

638
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: hunter as well, that's a great place to start. Get

639
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: yourself a bow, or even if you're just thinking about

640
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: getting into bow hunting, get yourself a bow and go

641
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: chase some small game animals and then, as always, let

642
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: me know how it goes. Social media a great way

643
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: to reach out and contact me via Instagram. I try

644
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: to get to as many messages as I can. I

645
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: love seeing the photos that you tag me in and

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Speaker 1: all that. That's awesome to just see your success. I

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Speaker 1: just thank you guys so much for all the great comments.

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Speaker 1: You can also email me at Remy at the meat

649
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Speaker 1: Eater dot com. Um you can ask your questions there.

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Speaker 1: I try to read a few or as many of

651
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Speaker 1: the questions as I can, and there's just so many

652
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: great testimonials of things that people have done to be successful,

653
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Speaker 1: things that they've tried from listening to the podcast. So

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Speaker 1: I say it every week, but thank you, that's that's

655
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Speaker 1: why we're doing it. This week. I want to read.

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Speaker 1: A question comes from Casey. He's stationed up in Alaska,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we had a Wild Sheep Foundation a

658
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. The National Convention called it Sheep Week.

659
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: I love sheep hunting. I've been on quite a few

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Speaker 1: different doll sheep hunts, so I figured this would just

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Speaker 1: be a fun one to answer. It might not pertain

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Speaker 1: to everyone, but I think that there's a lot that

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Speaker 1: can be said for I'm sure this this problem happens

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Speaker 1: with meal deer and elk and everything. So it's it's

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Speaker 1: fairly lengthy email, so I'm just gonna abbreviate what's going on.

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Speaker 1: So he moved up to Alaska. He's he's sounded some things,

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Speaker 1: but doll sheep seemed to keep evading him. Um, he

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00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: hasn't drawn in Texas. He's just general area. He's been

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Speaker 1: hiking into sheep country three to six days of glassing,

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Speaker 1: and and what he keeps finding is what he calls

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00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: the nursery of Alaska doll sheep. He set his eyes

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Speaker 1: on four hundred sheep or more and not really a

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Speaker 1: single legal ran, so lots of sheep, maybe twenty rams,

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Speaker 1: but the best about a three quarter curl ram. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this can apply to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: How many people have been out there, say, mule deer hunting,

677
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Speaker 1: and it's all you're finding is does and does and

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00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: fawns and does and those kind of areas, those areas

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Speaker 1: that you just call the nursery. I mean, that's happened

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Speaker 1: to me this last year on a mountain goat hunt.

681
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: We're just seeing nanny's and kids, nanni's and kids. So

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Speaker 1: I think specifically he asks here, what advice for getting

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Speaker 1: out of that nursery and finding the big daddy rams.

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Speaker 1: So you really have to assess the area and the

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Speaker 1: type of animals you're seeing in every area. So first

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Speaker 1: I like to break it down into time of year.

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Speaker 1: What time are you looking? Is it the middle of

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Speaker 1: summer or is it during the season. So let's pretend

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Speaker 1: that it's during the season in the areas where you're

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Speaker 1: finding the lambs and us or it could be anything.

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Speaker 1: If this is applying to you for mule deers, does

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Speaker 1: and fawns. Nursery tipe areas are there for a reason.

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00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: It's to p TechEd their young and they're grouped up

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Speaker 1: because it's safety in numbers as well, so they're trying

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Speaker 1: to avoid predators, and they're also in an area that's

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Speaker 1: very conducive to easy feed, water, all the things that

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Speaker 1: they need to feel safe as well as protect their young. Now,

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Speaker 1: outside of the running period, the rams or male animals

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Speaker 1: of most species, are going to be bachelored up somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: And based on kind of what I'm gathering from this,

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Speaker 1: you're probably seeing these nursery areas early August or maybe

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00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 1: even into the summer or just the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: What I suggest is go to the more what I

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Speaker 1: would think of as aggressive high terrain. So if it's

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Speaker 1: doll sheet, a lot of those bands of rams are

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Speaker 1: going to be up at the head basins, up into

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Speaker 1: the rocky stuff where there is some terrain that nothing

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Speaker 1: else can get to. Rams love that up at the

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Speaker 1: head of glaciers, off the head of glaciers when the

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Speaker 1: country starts to get really aggressive. So what I would

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Speaker 1: do if it was me, is I would get up

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Speaker 1: to that real aggressive country and I would hunt the

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Speaker 1: edges and the fringes of it where they might feed to. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that there is probably a lot of that

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Speaker 1: aggressive country, but just getting out of the river bottom

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00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: is key. I mean I've done that with tar and

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Speaker 1: other things. Where you start you hike a long ways

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Speaker 1: up say a river valley or whatever. But getting up

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Speaker 1: and over into those hidden basins they're along the more

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Speaker 1: cliffy stuff. Mountain animals, the more mature animals tend to

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Speaker 1: be in those areas because they can stay away from hunters.

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00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: They're out of reach, and it's a long haul, it's

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Speaker 1: a big slog, but for the most part, getting into

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Speaker 1: that type of country is a great way to get

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Speaker 1: into it. Now, also in Alaska, you have to consider

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00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: a lot of successful sheep hunters have access to airplanes

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Speaker 1: to getting into more remote country. So it might be

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Speaker 1: something that although it does cost money, you know, looking

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00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: into a cub flight into a remote air strip where

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Speaker 1: you can then hike and hunt from there. Just just

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Speaker 1: a thought for that now to translate that to where

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00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: that might answer a question for other people, you know,

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Speaker 1: try getting if it's early in the season, most of

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Speaker 1: the male animals are gonna be in isolated pockets further

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Speaker 1: away in what I would call deeper rougher country because

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Speaker 1: that well, it depends if it's meal dear, they're growing

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00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: out they're gonna be in the alpine. Same with other

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Speaker 1: animals like elk, they're gonna be up above that timberline

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Speaker 1: in the alpine, whereas does and fawns will be in

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Speaker 1: more of the lower lying basins. Not that they can't

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Speaker 1: be in both, but if you're seeing a lot of

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Speaker 1: does and fawns, generally I try to go to a

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Speaker 1: higher elevation and for I would say seventy of the

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Speaker 1: time that tends to hold true. Yeah, So I guess

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Speaker 1: that's all I have for this week before I go.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, I was at the wild

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Speaker 1: Sheet Foundation. People saw me like, why didn't you talk

748
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: about being here on your podcast? Would love to know

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Speaker 1: that you're here. So I'm going to get better at

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00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: doing that, at least letting people be aware of what

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Speaker 1: conservation organization events I'm gonna be at. So I've got

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Speaker 1: coming up on March the Open Young Club in Virginia,

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00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: so they're having their national convention. I'm the keynote speaker,

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Speaker 1: and I'm also gonna be doing a Q and A

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00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: type panel and walking around hanging out. There's an archery

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: course there. It's an awesome event to go to because

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00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: you can shoot your bow at the hotel pretty much.

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00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: They're doing a big three D target tournament around the hotel.

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00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: You can see all the largest animals ever taken with

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Speaker 1: a bow. There's a lot of bow hunters there and

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00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: I'll be there to answer some questions. So if you

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00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: see me there, say hey, think about going. I'm giving

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Speaker 1: everybody a lot of notice because it is in March

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Speaker 1: and it's in Virginia, so you might have to plan

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Speaker 1: on making the pilgrimage, so hopefully if you get a chance.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to let everybody know that I'll be

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Speaker 1: doing that, and then in future podcasts, I'll let people

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Speaker 1: know different events that i'll be out, So you can

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Speaker 1: kind of keep an eye out for me until next week.

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Speaker 1: Name Small, Miss Small. See you guys,