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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back, everybody. Hope that

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Speaker 1: you've really been enjoying this four part series on becoming

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Speaker 1: a bow hunter. We've so far covered what you need

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Speaker 1: to know, like getting into equipment, as well as the

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Speaker 1: fundamentals of making a good shot and what it takes

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Speaker 1: to put arrows on the target. But now we're going

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Speaker 1: to take that a step further and translate it into

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Speaker 1: the basics of shooting on game. So I think that

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Speaker 1: we've all graduated from that hundred level, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: going into the two oh one level of this archery instruction.

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Speaker 1: It will be all about what's needed to make that

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Speaker 1: shot that counts. So if you're a new bow hunter,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now that shooting it

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Speaker 1: a deer is absolutely nothing like shooting at a target

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Speaker 1: in the backyard. There's no bulls eye, there's rarely a

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Speaker 1: perfect setup, and you don't get to go shoot a

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Speaker 1: big group and then take the best arrow. So this

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Speaker 1: week we're gonna go through the basics of a field

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Speaker 1: shot on game, including how and when did draw back

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Speaker 1: and anchor at the right time, as well as picking

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Speaker 1: a spot when aiming and executing a perfect shot when

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Speaker 1: really excited. But before we go there, I want to

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Speaker 1: share a story of a hunt we're picking a spot

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Speaker 1: was more literal than figurative. This hunt takes place on

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Speaker 1: one of the islands of Hawaii, and it was my

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Speaker 1: first hunt for access to here. Now, if you aren't

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Speaker 1: familiar with access to hear there a species of deer.

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Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of white spots against this really

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Speaker 1: red coat. They grow about three times, so they've got

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Speaker 1: brow times and they come up and split at the

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Speaker 1: top with their splits kind of inside their main beam,

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Speaker 1: So they look sort of like a miniature elk, I

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Speaker 1: would say in the antler department, growing straight up out

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Speaker 1: of their head. They can be as tall as thirty

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Speaker 1: inches long or longer in the main beam length of

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Speaker 1: their antlers. They're an incredible looking deer, but they're also

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Speaker 1: an extremely delicious tasting deer. Now they're non native to

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Speaker 1: why so they're introduced in eighteen sixty seven. I think

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Speaker 1: it was as a gift to King Kamehameha, and they've

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Speaker 1: really started to expand across the island. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: hunt access dear for a long time, seeing pictures and

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Speaker 1: photos of them and hearing stories and just how cool

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Speaker 1: of an animal they were. And then I finally got

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Speaker 1: an opportunity and found a place that I can hunt

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Speaker 1: through a connection with some friends and decided to go

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Speaker 1: out and give it a try with my bow. I've

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Speaker 1: heard a lot of stories of how difficult they are

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Speaker 1: and how spooky they are, so I knew that it

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Speaker 1: forward to this challenge. So so as my first morning

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Speaker 1: As the sun started to come up and I was

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Speaker 1: A couple of doughs had popped out in this green opening,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, these are really cool deer.

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Speaker 1: I really hope I find a buck, so I keep

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Speaker 1: glass and glass ng sure enough, a buck comes out

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Speaker 1: pretty excited at this point. I'm gonna go get in

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Speaker 1: If I can cut them off, I actually might be

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Speaker 1: I take off, I start moving and I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: mule deer moving to an advantageous position. The wind was good,

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Speaker 1: stuff below. So I figured they'd feed for a while

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Speaker 1: It's like big marbles. I planted my foot over, My

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Speaker 1: My body went one way and having no hands to

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Speaker 1: didn't want to stop hunting, so I did not take

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Speaker 1: mean it was it's I just like to go because

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Speaker 1: I knew the second that I undid that boot to

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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, now it's time to hunt. So

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Speaker 1: at this point I'm not going to make it there

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Speaker 1: like all right. I was thinking to myself, I might

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Speaker 1: So I get set and I just go through my thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting, waiting and just being like quiet patient thinking

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Speaker 1: I just go through my same process. It calms me.

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Speaker 1: nice buck from what I can tell. So he's there.

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Speaker 1: He stands up, and I think to myself as I

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Speaker 1: draw back, as he puts his head back down, I'm

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Speaker 1: in position. I aim and focus in and I always

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Speaker 1: tell myself pick a spot, pick a spot, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't really think of it at the time, but the

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Speaker 1: access do your have spots? So there's a white spot

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Speaker 1: looks perfect in the zone. He's thirty three yards away.

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Speaker 1: I'm set up. I aim on that spot, shot breaks

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh sweet, I got him. So I was

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Speaker 1: just like replaying the whole experience in my head and

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Speaker 1: just like it was so cool to be able to

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Speaker 1: just find one white spot right behind the shoulder where

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Speaker 1: I wanted to hit him on that spot and shoot.

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Speaker 1: And I get up to the buck and I look

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, there's the three broadhead blades right through

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Speaker 1: that exact spot. Whereas aiming and I thought that was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool to be hunting my entire life telling myself

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Speaker 1: first access to here in Hawaii. I think that target

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Speaker 1: archery and bow hunting are two completely different things, but

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Speaker 1: you can't really have bow hunting without that target portion.

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Speaker 1: In many aspects. You have to be able to have

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Speaker 1: because you can't be hunting every single day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're very few people can be. So with that said,

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Speaker 1: I think that it bears noting that with your new

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Speaker 1: getting into it, shooting at targets, shooting in the backyard,

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Speaker 1: practicing a lot. Being a good bowshot on paper is

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Speaker 1: still completely different than being a good shot while hunting.

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Speaker 1: And there's there's people who are great shots on paper,

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Speaker 1: but it really can fall apart fast when it comes

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Speaker 1: gonna cover the key steps to a bowshot on game

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Speaker 1: by breaking it down into the same things that we

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Speaker 1: did in that backyard process, the draw, the aim in

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Speaker 1: the shot. Now, let's start first with the draw. You know,

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Speaker 1: bow hunting is really about going unnoticed, and it takes

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Speaker 1: a lot to get close. Now, once you finally get close,

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Speaker 1: you get within range and you're able to present yourself

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Speaker 1: to make that shot. I think that that's where a

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Speaker 1: lot of people actually fall apart. You know, the difference

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Speaker 1: between target archery and or backyard shooting, just shooting a

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Speaker 1: bow and shooting a bow at an animal is there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of real life things happening that aren't happening

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Speaker 1: in your backyard. Your your heart is beating out of

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Speaker 1: your chest. It may have taken you days and a

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Speaker 1: lot of time and a lot of physical effort and

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Speaker 1: stealth and a lot of things to get to that

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Speaker 1: you're generally in a very strange position. You've got limited time,

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Speaker 1: and what you're shooting at doesn't stay in place, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a center bulls eye. It's a very different experience.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes down to it, we can definitely

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Speaker 1: break it down into these three kind of portions of

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Speaker 1: the process. So let's let's start with the draw cycle.

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Speaker 1: And I think that, like I said before, this is

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Speaker 1: you really just have to calm down. Focus. Sometimes I

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Speaker 1: And I get this thought in my mind like good enough,

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Speaker 1: not good enough. Focus and you really have to kind

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Speaker 1: of talk yourself through it. But not necessarily. I don't

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Speaker 1: to go through your shot process and let your brain

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Speaker 1: and it's that excitement level. It's a lot of other things,

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Speaker 1: thing that you might want to do is just like

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Speaker 1: and hold that pin there and think to yourself, Okay,

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Speaker 1: before you you go to shoot, just tell yourself, look,

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Speaker 1: I would rather have the animal run away than rush

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Speaker 1: because I'm messing up this shot because I'm already here.

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Speaker 1: I just need to take the fraction of a second

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Speaker 1: it's a big buck. I really got to focus in.

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Speaker 1: I'll just pick my spot. I'll focus on that spot

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Speaker 1: and I'll say hold the pin there for two seconds,

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Speaker 1: one in some or three seconds, and somewhere in there,

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Speaker 1: my brain knows that that pins on there, and that

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Speaker 1: I need to get it and that's good enough, I

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Speaker 1: just focused on the things that I needed to make

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Speaker 1: would do it in the backyard, but on an animal,

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Speaker 1: making my own point of aim, and then going through

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Speaker 1: that entire shot sequence in a way that calms me

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Speaker 1: that arrow at least fly to where I intended to go.

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Speaker 1: To be consistently successful. There are so many variables with

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Speaker 1: got things like the wind angles, alertness of the animal,

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Speaker 1: noise that you're making or your bows making, and then

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Speaker 1: anticipation of what the animal may do based on all

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Speaker 1: animal so really in getting it done time and time again,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we need to consider.

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Speaker 1: This is a more advanced level of bow hunting, but

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Speaker 1: something that I think whether you're getting just started or

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Speaker 1: have been doing this your entire life, if you want

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Speaker 1: to be consistently success uful, these are things you need

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Speaker 1: to account for. So next week we're gonna be going

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Speaker 1: into level two O two and we've been covering all

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Speaker 1: the things of becoming a bow hunter that are very technical,

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Speaker 1: very specific, but something very important that you should kind

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Speaker 1: of consider in taking these shots and getting close to game.

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Speaker 1: So that will be next week. Also, guys, don't forget

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Speaker 1: to send in your questions. We're gonna be doing some

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Speaker 1: q and a's and I've I've been getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions, so you can send those Remy at the

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Speaker 1: meat Eator dot com or preferred would be at Remy

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Speaker 1: Warren on Instagram. Send me a direct message, Please include

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Speaker 1: your name maybe if you want what the information that

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind me saying, so like name, maybe where

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Speaker 1: you're from, because sometimes it's just like you know, a

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Speaker 1: And then what I do is I as those come in,

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Speaker 1: I screen shot a lot of the ones that I like,

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Speaker 1: and then I try to pick the ones that you know,

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Speaker 1: answer broad questions of some things that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are asking, but also you know, some very specific questions.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's a great time that we get

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Speaker 1: to converse back and forth. So please send those in.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate everybody that's sending questions, and if you

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Speaker 1: send a question in the past and it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: answered or asked or whatever on a podcast, feel free

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Speaker 1: to send them again because sometimes I get a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff coming through and I, you know, I can't

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Speaker 1: keep track of everything, so it never hurts to just

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Speaker 1: refresh that in that in that mailbox. Once again, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for checking out the podcast, sharing it

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Speaker 1: with friends, and giving us some great ratings and comments.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that if wherever you listen, you know, feel

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Speaker 1: free to boost the star level up, drop a good

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Speaker 1: comment in there, share it, uh, tag me. And I've

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Speaker 1: been appreciating that when you guys are listening and enjoying it,

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Speaker 1: tagging me on social media on Thursdays, I want to

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Speaker 1: try to share a few more of those just things

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Speaker 1: that people are saying and stuff if it works out.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm out of service a lot. I'm out of

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Speaker 1: service a lot, but um, I try to get to

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Speaker 1: that when I can. And so until next week, don't

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Speaker 1: forget to pick a spot. Catch you guys later there,

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