Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back, everybody. Hope that
Speaker 1: you've really been enjoying this four part series on becoming
Speaker 1: a bow hunter. We've so far covered what you need
Speaker 1: to know, like getting into equipment, as well as the
Speaker 1: fundamentals of making a good shot and what it takes
Speaker 1: to put arrows on the target. But now we're going
Speaker 1: to take that a step further and translate it into
Speaker 1: the basics of shooting on game. So I think that
Speaker 1: we've all graduated from that hundred level, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: going into the two oh one level of this archery instruction.
Speaker 1: It will be all about what's needed to make that
Speaker 1: shot that counts. So if you're a new bow hunter,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now that shooting it
Speaker 1: a deer is absolutely nothing like shooting at a target
Speaker 1: in the backyard. There's no bulls eye, there's rarely a
Speaker 1: perfect setup, and you don't get to go shoot a
Speaker 1: big group and then take the best arrow. So this
Speaker 1: week we're gonna go through the basics of a field
Speaker 1: shot on game, including how and when did draw back
Speaker 1: and anchor at the right time, as well as picking
Speaker 1: a spot when aiming and executing a perfect shot when
Speaker 1: really excited. But before we go there, I want to
Speaker 1: share a story of a hunt we're picking a spot
Speaker 1: was more literal than figurative. This hunt takes place on
Speaker 1: one of the islands of Hawaii, and it was my
Speaker 1: first hunt for access to here. Now, if you aren't
Speaker 1: familiar with access to hear there a species of deer.
Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of white spots against this really
Speaker 1: red coat. They grow about three times, so they've got
Speaker 1: brow times and they come up and split at the
Speaker 1: top with their splits kind of inside their main beam,
Speaker 1: So they look sort of like a miniature elk, I
Speaker 1: would say in the antler department, growing straight up out
Speaker 1: of their head. They can be as tall as thirty
Speaker 1: inches long or longer in the main beam length of
Speaker 1: their antlers. They're an incredible looking deer, but they're also
Speaker 1: an extremely delicious tasting deer. Now they're non native to
Speaker 1: why so they're introduced in eighteen sixty seven. I think
Speaker 1: it was as a gift to King Kamehameha, and they've
Speaker 1: really started to expand across the island. I wanted to
Speaker 1: hunt access dear for a long time, seeing pictures and
Speaker 1: photos of them and hearing stories and just how cool
Speaker 1: of an animal they were. And then I finally got
Speaker 1: an opportunity and found a place that I can hunt
Speaker 1: through a connection with some friends and decided to go
Speaker 1: out and give it a try with my bow. I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of stories of how difficult they are
Speaker 1: and how spooky they are, so I knew that it
Speaker 1: could be a challenging hunt, but I was definitely looking
Speaker 1: forward to this challenge. So so as my first morning
Speaker 1: started out, I left my tent I was camping up
Speaker 1: on this mountain. I kind of started walking through this
Speaker 1: this jungle bit to a place where I could glass.
Speaker 1: As the sun started to come up and I was
Speaker 1: glassing the ridges and I spotted my first access dear.
Speaker 1: A couple of doughs had popped out in this green opening,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, these are really cool deer.
Speaker 1: I really hope I find a buck, so I keep
Speaker 1: glass and glass ng sure enough, a buck comes out
Speaker 1: of the brush, and I'm like, yes, it's on. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty excited at this point. I'm gonna go get in
Speaker 1: there because it looks like they're moving up the hill.
Speaker 1: If I can cut them off, I actually might be
Speaker 1: able to get a shot on these right now. So
Speaker 1: I take off, I start moving and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: self film this. So I've got my bow in one hand,
Speaker 1: my camera and the other and I'm just doing like
Speaker 1: I would do if it was an elk or a
Speaker 1: mule deer moving to an advantageous position. The wind was good,
Speaker 1: they were a long ways away, and I needed to
Speaker 1: get there now before I lost them in the jungle
Speaker 1: stuff below. So I figured they'd feed for a while
Speaker 1: in the direction they're moving, I thought, okay, perfect set
Speaker 1: up for an ambush. So I am like hauling going
Speaker 1: down the hill. The grass is probably, i don't know,
Speaker 1: knee high in this pretty steep hill. And then I
Speaker 1: got my first taste of what people like to call
Speaker 1: the lava roll, the little lava rocks on the steep slope.
Speaker 1: It's like big marbles. I planted my foot over, My
Speaker 1: foot rolled over the rock, got caught in another rock.
Speaker 1: My body went one way and having no hands to
Speaker 1: catch myself, I heard a huge pop and just like crack,
Speaker 1: oh crap, and all the hiking, all the things that
Speaker 1: I do. I've been in many, many dangerous situations, some
Speaker 1: life threatening situations, but this is the first time that
Speaker 1: I've like seriously injured myself on a stock and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this sucks. I knew that it was not
Speaker 1: going to be good, but I also knew that I
Speaker 1: didn't want to stop hunting, so I did not take
Speaker 1: my boot off. I got my boot and I just
Speaker 1: tightened it as tight as I could possibly get it.
Speaker 1: I got some duct tape out and just duct taped
Speaker 1: around my boot so the laces wouldn't come out. I
Speaker 1: mean it was it's I just like to go because
Speaker 1: I knew the second that I undid that boot to
Speaker 1: look at it, my ankle was going to swell back up,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what was going to happen. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, now it's time to hunt. So
Speaker 1: I've got this jacktep ankle and those dear I knew
Speaker 1: at this point I'm not going to make it there
Speaker 1: far enough, so I continue to keep hiking and I'm
Speaker 1: like all right. I was thinking to myself, I might
Speaker 1: not be able to move around much tomorrow, but as
Speaker 1: of right now, it hurts, it sucks. I think I
Speaker 1: dug out a couple of ivy prof and something that
Speaker 1: kind of slow the swelling, and uh, and then you
Speaker 1: just keep hunting. And I didn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of water, so I was gonna be fairly dehydrated. That
Speaker 1: might have helped in like decreasing the swelling too, but
Speaker 1: it was pretty painful. So I continue to hike and
Speaker 1: there's a lot up to where I want to get
Speaker 1: and keep going checking these ridges. I'm seeing some does
Speaker 1: and some other things. That's These deer actually can be
Speaker 1: in velvet and hard horned at the same time. Like
Speaker 1: they aren't particularly cyclical, like they don't have a specific
Speaker 1: breeding season and shedding season growing season. But in in
Speaker 1: Hawaii they tend to kind of be in velvet in
Speaker 1: that March February March, and then they start to shed
Speaker 1: and they seem to run more in like June July.
Speaker 1: So I was fairly early in the season. A lot
Speaker 1: of velvet deer, mostly velvet deer. There's a few hard
Speaker 1: horning ones around, but so now it's getting later in
Speaker 1: the day and the deer are no longer out in
Speaker 1: the open, so I'm working through some thicker stands. I
Speaker 1: had seen a couple other deer, but just no plays,
Speaker 1: and so I worked my way over to this big
Speaker 1: lava field where I think, okay, I can probably find
Speaker 1: it's a little more open here and I might be
Speaker 1: able to find some bed And so I'm glassing into
Speaker 1: these lava shoots coming off the mountain, and I a
Speaker 1: distant see some antler tips on the ridge where nice
Speaker 1: breezes coming. Oh sweet, this is it, because there's a
Speaker 1: couple of bucks here. Perfect, So I planned my stock.
Speaker 1: I start creeping in and a buck actually stands up
Speaker 1: and starts moving like okay, is he gonna see me?
Speaker 1: So I just get down, wait, be patient, and then
Speaker 1: he goes in rebeds. But I only saw one leave,
Speaker 1: so I decided to just keep stalking to where I
Speaker 1: had seen the other bucks bedding. Sure enough, I get
Speaker 1: into position, I'm looking, I don't see him, and then
Speaker 1: I see antler tips stick up above the grass. He's bedded. Perfect.
Speaker 1: So I get set and I just go through my thing.
Speaker 1: I put an arrow on. I've actually got the camera rolling.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting, waiting and just being like quiet patient thinking
Speaker 1: about my shot. Every animal I sneak in with my bow,
Speaker 1: I just go through my same process. It calms me.
Speaker 1: It makes me focus on the task at hand. Like
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited because it's a new species, it's something
Speaker 1: that I wanted to get, and this is a pretty
Speaker 1: nice buck from what I can tell. So he's there.
Speaker 1: He stands up, and I think to myself as I
Speaker 1: draw back, as he puts his head back down, I'm
Speaker 1: in position. I aim and focus in and I always
Speaker 1: tell myself pick a spot, pick a spot, but I
Speaker 1: didn't really think of it at the time, but the
Speaker 1: access do your have spots? So there's a white spot
Speaker 1: looks perfect in the zone. He's thirty three yards away.
Speaker 1: I'm set up. I aim on that spot, shot breaks
Speaker 1: and goes off. The buck runs down the hill, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh sweet, I got him. So I was
Speaker 1: just like replaying the whole experience in my head and
Speaker 1: just like it was so cool to be able to
Speaker 1: just find one white spot right behind the shoulder where
Speaker 1: I wanted to hit him on that spot and shoot.
Speaker 1: And I get up to the buck and I look
Speaker 1: and I remember the spot that I was aiming at,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, there's the three broadhead blades right through
Speaker 1: that exact spot. Whereas aiming and I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool to be hunting my entire life telling myself
Speaker 1: to pick a spot and this one time I actually
Speaker 1: get to pick a real spot and center punch that
Speaker 1: real spot, and because of it, found success on my
Speaker 1: first access to here in Hawaii. I think that target
Speaker 1: archery and bow hunting are two completely different things, but
Speaker 1: you can't really have bow hunting without that target portion.
Speaker 1: In many aspects. You have to be able to have
Speaker 1: that shot and know the basics and have somewhere to practice,
Speaker 1: because you can't be hunting every single day. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're very few people can be. So with that said,
Speaker 1: I think that it bears noting that with your new
Speaker 1: getting into it, shooting at targets, shooting in the backyard,
Speaker 1: practicing a lot. Being a good bowshot on paper is
Speaker 1: still completely different than being a good shot while hunting.
Speaker 1: And there's there's people who are great shots on paper,
Speaker 1: but it really can fall apart fast when it comes
Speaker 1: to taking a shot in an animal. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna cover the key steps to a bowshot on game
Speaker 1: by breaking it down into the same things that we
Speaker 1: did in that backyard process, the draw, the aim in
Speaker 1: the shot. Now, let's start first with the draw. You know,
Speaker 1: bow hunting is really about going unnoticed, and it takes
Speaker 1: a lot to get close. Now, once you finally get close,
Speaker 1: you get within range and you're able to present yourself
Speaker 1: to make that shot. I think that that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of people actually fall apart. You know, the difference
Speaker 1: between target archery and or backyard shooting, just shooting a
Speaker 1: bow and shooting a bow at an animal is there's
Speaker 1: a lot of real life things happening that aren't happening
Speaker 1: in your backyard. Your your heart is beating out of
Speaker 1: your chest. It may have taken you days and a
Speaker 1: lot of time and a lot of physical effort and
Speaker 1: stealth and a lot of things to get to that
Speaker 1: point to even release that one arrow. In the field,
Speaker 1: you're generally in a very strange position. You've got limited time,
Speaker 1: and what you're shooting at doesn't stay in place, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have a center bulls eye. It's a very different experience.
Speaker 1: But when it comes down to it, we can definitely
Speaker 1: break it down into these three kind of portions of
Speaker 1: the process. So let's let's start with the draw cycle.
Speaker 1: And I think that, like I said before, this is
Speaker 1: where a lot of people um the for thing that
Speaker 1: falls apart, because what happens is they get within range,
Speaker 1: they're like, they see the animal, They're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: x amount of yards, say thirty yards, and then it's
Speaker 1: like this freak out portion where your brain doesn't even
Speaker 1: compute what happened. You were just being super quiet, super
Speaker 1: stealthy crawling in because as you're crawling, you're just thinking,
Speaker 1: be quiet, be quiet, don't get seen, don't spook them.
Speaker 1: Now you're in position. And I've seen it happen more
Speaker 1: times than I can count. People just like stand up,
Speaker 1: draw back and try to shoot. They just completely broke
Speaker 1: their whole essence of stealth by then going into that
Speaker 1: backyard shooting mentality of Okay, I'm gonna stand here, i'm
Speaker 1: gonna get comfortable, I'm gonna draw back, and they do
Speaker 1: this big drawing motion and they're standing up first and well,
Speaker 1: the hunt's over. They don't even get to take that shot,
Speaker 1: or the animals alerted to their position and now is
Speaker 1: going to jump the string gonna duck the arrow, gonna move,
Speaker 1: or put themselves in a bad position. Now, sometimes it
Speaker 1: works out, but I don't think that's a good way
Speaker 1: to start out. So let's talk about the draw when
Speaker 1: we're getting into game, and I'll just go through my
Speaker 1: process of when I get in I think to myself, Okay,
Speaker 1: draw unnoticed if I can. That's what I do. Now.
Speaker 1: Every scenario can be a little bit different, but I
Speaker 1: always like to draw unnoticed anchor get comfortable and then
Speaker 1: put myself in position for that shot. So what that
Speaker 1: means is maybe I'm I'm down. I'm gonna first go
Speaker 1: through my process of the same thing I would do
Speaker 1: in kind of like backyard practice, but doing it close,
Speaker 1: quiet and unseen. So I'm gonna figure out where my
Speaker 1: feet are going to go in position or if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna decide at this point how am I
Speaker 1: going to draw and where am I going to draw?
Speaker 1: You know, I have to have a clear shot, but
Speaker 1: I also don't want to stand up first make big movements.
Speaker 1: Maybe the animals looking at me. You know, you really
Speaker 1: have the time you're drawing, when you're gonna draw, and
Speaker 1: how you're gonna draw, So when I sneak in, I
Speaker 1: generally like to draw what I call in cover unseen,
Speaker 1: so behind something that I can easily step up or
Speaker 1: step out of, or draw low where I'm down below
Speaker 1: a rise. I then draw back quiet, not making a
Speaker 1: lot of motion or movement, hoping that, you know, looking
Speaker 1: at that animal, and hoping that animals looking away or
Speaker 1: not paying attention. And then at that point I'll anchor,
Speaker 1: I'll get my everything right where I'm looking through the
Speaker 1: peep I'm ready to shoot for the most part, without
Speaker 1: you know, having to aim yet. And then I slowly
Speaker 1: stand up and now I'm in position for that shot,
Speaker 1: but I've done everything to get ready for that before
Speaker 1: I'm in a view of the animal. Now there might
Speaker 1: be scenarios where that doesn't work, Like the deer is
Speaker 1: kind of maybe he's coming down a trail you've called
Speaker 1: there's something. I mean, there's a lot of different hunting scenarios,
Speaker 1: or maybe he's seen you, but he isn't sure what
Speaker 1: you are and you don't have a lot of time
Speaker 1: and you might have to draw back. So, like we
Speaker 1: talked about in that practice of drawing, I like to
Speaker 1: draw straight back, so my bow will already be up
Speaker 1: and pointed at that animal, very slow movements, not a
Speaker 1: lot of movement, hopefully when their eyes are obstructed or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then that's when I tied my draw to draw straight
Speaker 1: back into my anchor position. And anchor you have to
Speaker 1: do that, that draw cycle before you can start your aim.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's where a lot of people
Speaker 1: get freaked out, and that's where that anticipation, that panic
Speaker 1: starts to set in because there's an animal that they
Speaker 1: want to shoot, but you have to go through the
Speaker 1: process of drawing the bow back and getting settled before
Speaker 1: you can put your pin on it. And one of
Speaker 1: the mistakes I see, especially with new bow hunters, is
Speaker 1: they kind of rush that whole thought process of They
Speaker 1: don't have a thought that the draw is a process
Speaker 1: in getting close in making a good shot. They just
Speaker 1: think of it as I crawled in, put the pin
Speaker 1: on the animal, and I shoot, and they think they
Speaker 1: forget about kind of adding in this process of the draw,
Speaker 1: which is probably the most important point of that consistency,
Speaker 1: that finding that right anchor point, getting your body set right.
Speaker 1: The first thing I do when I sneak in is
Speaker 1: I go okay, like I don't draw with my body
Speaker 1: straight on facing the animal the way that I crawled in.
Speaker 1: I get my like I would if I was shooting
Speaker 1: at my target at home. I'm going to have my
Speaker 1: legs or my knees set in a way where I'm
Speaker 1: where if you were drawing a line from my tips
Speaker 1: of my toes, it would be perpendicular to the animal
Speaker 1: that I'm shooting. You know, you're you're setting your feet
Speaker 1: in that traditional boastance. I wouldn't be facing him square
Speaker 1: on and then trying to draw back. And I see
Speaker 1: so many people try to do that. They crawl in.
Speaker 1: You're crawling in. It's an easy position to call in.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, time to draw back. Now your body
Speaker 1: is at a very weird angle where your entire shot
Speaker 1: and everything else is going to be messed up because
Speaker 1: you didn't take the time to set your feet, to
Speaker 1: set your knees, to get your body in the right
Speaker 1: position to make the right shot. So we're gonna think
Speaker 1: about the draw process first. So we're gonna crawl in.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, what I like to do is
Speaker 1: draw under cover. So that might be um if there's
Speaker 1: like a tree that I'm by or a bush where
Speaker 1: I'm by where I got into position that I can
Speaker 1: now draw back and then slowly raise myself up. I
Speaker 1: set everything so it's like I draw, I anchor, I set,
Speaker 1: and all this can be unseen, so the animal doesn't
Speaker 1: know that I'm there, and then in one fluid slow
Speaker 1: motion I can raise up on my knees a little higher.
Speaker 1: I can, you know, go into a standing position. Everything
Speaker 1: set ahead of time, I'm in my anchor point, so
Speaker 1: when I get ready in view of that animal, everything's ready,
Speaker 1: everything is consistent, and the beginning process of making a
Speaker 1: good shot is already there. So now it's time to aim.
Speaker 1: And this is something that I was told or had
Speaker 1: heard when I got into bow hunting about shooting at
Speaker 1: an animal and somebody, you know, I was shooting at targets.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go and hunt. And I
Speaker 1: read somewhere that how different shooting at an animal is
Speaker 1: than a target. And I really didn't understand it until
Speaker 1: the first time I went to shoot at an animal
Speaker 1: and thought, yeah, it is different. It is. You really
Speaker 1: do have to pick a spot. And this is something
Speaker 1: that I tell myself pretty much every hunt I've ever
Speaker 1: been on, and men to tell myself to pick a spot,
Speaker 1: because what happens is your brain sees a deer, you
Speaker 1: feel really close, You've got this far. Now I'm going
Speaker 1: to shoot it. And you know what happens is you
Speaker 1: shoot at the deer and you know where you hit
Speaker 1: anywhere but the deer or the butt of the deer.
Speaker 1: I mean, just like you, you don't hit what you're
Speaker 1: aiming at because you aren't technically aiming at anything. You're
Speaker 1: looking at a deer, you're thinking you're close, You're thinking
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit it, and you kind of your brain
Speaker 1: just forgets to really focus in an aim. And what
Speaker 1: happens is that builds a lot more buck fever, a
Speaker 1: lot more excitement, a lot more panic, and that makes
Speaker 1: you shoot at the deer and not at a spot
Speaker 1: on the deer. So part of my process, when I
Speaker 1: get in, I do everything. I get the draw, I'm
Speaker 1: nestled in, I've got my anchor point. Now it's time
Speaker 1: to aim, and I tell myself pick a spot. I
Speaker 1: look at the animal, and I find where I want
Speaker 1: that arrow to go, and I only look at that
Speaker 1: place and I actually put my pen on the spat
Speaker 1: on the animal. Well, I mean, in the point of
Speaker 1: the access to here, it was a white spot. But
Speaker 1: anything else you're hunting, you're picking one hair and maybe
Speaker 1: there isn't an imperfection or anything in the animal, but
Speaker 1: you're picking that one hair on the animal where you
Speaker 1: want to hit. If you do that, that is where
Speaker 1: you will hit the whole saying aim small, miss small,
Speaker 1: you're picking one spot. You're picking a specific spot. And
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a really bad thing to get
Speaker 1: into the habit of uh. Someone says where do I
Speaker 1: shoot a deer? And you aim, and you say I
Speaker 1: aimed right behind the shoulder. Don't aim right behind the shoulder.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of right behind the shoulder. Pick a
Speaker 1: specific spot behind the shoulder that you want to hit,
Speaker 1: and by telling yourself pick a spot, you really will
Speaker 1: focus in on that tiny spot every time that I
Speaker 1: pick a spot, unless something like the animal jumps or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's where my arrow goes. And you will find more
Speaker 1: consistency and you will find success by doing that. If
Speaker 1: you're so used to all your practices in the backyard
Speaker 1: at a target, and I actually nine percent of my
Speaker 1: target practice is actually like a three D target that
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily have that defined white circle or that peg
Speaker 1: or that thing that I'm pointing at, because I've always
Speaker 1: been told deer don't have spots. Aside from the story
Speaker 1: that I told you know, but you know generally there
Speaker 1: isn't something definitive to aim at. But you need to
Speaker 1: create something where you can focus your eye and focus
Speaker 1: that that's where I'm going to shoot. And as the
Speaker 1: animal moves, that spot might move. That's the other thing
Speaker 1: you have to think about is that spot may not
Speaker 1: be if it takes a slight step where it's quartering away.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to move and adjusted. And now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shoot at that spot. Maybe moves and turns more broadside. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna shoot at the spot we started a
Speaker 1: quarter two. Now I'm going to shoot at that spot.
Speaker 1: But by getting specific, by aiming small, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot less likely to make a wild shot to
Speaker 1: shoot somewhere that you didn't intend because you're narrowing in
Speaker 1: your focus and you're picking the exact place you want
Speaker 1: to hit. Now, the third thing is gonna just be
Speaker 1: executing that shot, and that's really just going through the
Speaker 1: same shot process that you have in your backyard. So
Speaker 1: you've picked your spot, you know where you want to aim.
Speaker 1: You know you're picking small spot, and now we're going
Speaker 1: to go through that shot process of Okay, leveling the boat,
Speaker 1: make sure the bows level, think about the things that
Speaker 1: you need, and also focus on the shot. But don't
Speaker 1: rush the shot. I think one thing for pretty much
Speaker 1: most archers is is very very exciting. You're very very
Speaker 1: close and things are happening what seemed very fast. I
Speaker 1: know I've talked about it many times before in different
Speaker 1: podcasts about just being slow and smooth and that kind
Speaker 1: of becomes fast. Don't rush the shot because you're panicked.
Speaker 1: Tell yourself go through that same shot process. Level my boat.
Speaker 1: There's things you need to do to make that shot,
Speaker 1: and it might seem like you don't have the time,
Speaker 1: but you will. I'm not saying that these things need
Speaker 1: to take a long time, but you need to execute
Speaker 1: the shot just as you would in the back yard,
Speaker 1: just as you would to target anywhere else. You need
Speaker 1: to execute that same shot on an animal, and you
Speaker 1: need to just tell yourself in the moment, in the excitement,
Speaker 1: to calm those things down. In a good way to
Speaker 1: do that is to pick that spot to focus in
Speaker 1: on one thing and then go through that same shot process.
Speaker 1: Level all right, pull through my shot, focus on the spot,
Speaker 1: the bow goes off, and the arrow will go where
Speaker 1: it's intended to go. And then after that, that's when
Speaker 1: you can let all those emotions of excitement and freaking
Speaker 1: out and all that stuff to rush back in. You know.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of questions from people that I
Speaker 1: saw just asking how do you get over the nerves,
Speaker 1: And especially I think it's good to talk to new
Speaker 1: bow hunters about it, because those nerves and excitement are
Speaker 1: what makes bow hunting so fun, but they're also what
Speaker 1: make bow hunting more unsuccessful in many ways. So I
Speaker 1: think if you feel your nerves getting the best of you,
Speaker 1: you really just have to calm down. Focus. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: tell myself, like, I've had so many times where I've
Speaker 1: just my brain just starts thinking like the pin just
Speaker 1: does not want to go where I wanted to go,
Speaker 1: And I get this thought in my mind like good enough,
Speaker 1: good enough, and I have to say, no, remy, it's
Speaker 1: not good enough. Focus and you really have to kind
Speaker 1: of talk yourself through it. But not necessarily. I don't
Speaker 1: like that paralysis by analysis where you're you're thinking so
Speaker 1: much that you don't let your brain do the work
Speaker 1: that it needs to do. So you need to focus,
Speaker 1: to go through your shot process and let your brain
Speaker 1: take the shot without thinking about it. One thing that
Speaker 1: I've suggested to people in the past guys that have
Speaker 1: bow hunted before and say that every time they get
Speaker 1: to the point of shooting, it's like they break down
Speaker 1: and it's that excitement level. It's a lot of other things,
Speaker 1: but I think one thing that you could do maybe
Speaker 1: to help cure that, because it's exciting for sure, is
Speaker 1: to just tell yourself focus, stay calm, and then one
Speaker 1: thing that you might want to do is just like
Speaker 1: count on the target. So draw back, pick your spot
Speaker 1: and hold that pin there and think to yourself, Okay,
Speaker 1: before you you go to shoot, just tell yourself, look,
Speaker 1: I would rather have the animal run away than rush
Speaker 1: and make a bad shot. Like I'd rather have him
Speaker 1: run than me make a bad shot or him run
Speaker 1: because I'm messing up this shot because I'm already here.
Speaker 1: I just need to take the fraction of a second
Speaker 1: of a time. And I'm not saying that this is
Speaker 1: a minute in length, this is maybe one two seconds
Speaker 1: in time of thinking through and getting everything right. And
Speaker 1: one thing that I'll do sometimes like, Okay, I'm freaking out,
Speaker 1: it's a big buck. I really got to focus in.
Speaker 1: I'll just pick my spot. I'll focus on that spot
Speaker 1: and I'll say hold the pin there for two seconds,
Speaker 1: one in some or three seconds, and somewhere in there,
Speaker 1: my brain knows that that pins on there, and that
Speaker 1: bow goes off and I have a dead deer or
Speaker 1: dead elk or dead whatever at the end of the
Speaker 1: blood and trail, because instead of focusing on the panic
Speaker 1: and the things that can go wrong and rushing and
Speaker 1: I need to get it and that's good enough, I
Speaker 1: just focused on the things that I needed to make
Speaker 1: that shot right, very similar to the way that I
Speaker 1: would do it in the backyard, but on an animal,
Speaker 1: making my own point of aim, and then going through
Speaker 1: that entire shot sequence in a way that calms me
Speaker 1: down and makes me take a perfect shot, or let's
Speaker 1: that arrow at least fly to where I intended to go.
Speaker 1: To be consistently successful. There are so many variables with
Speaker 1: a boat that need to be expertly accounted for. You've
Speaker 1: got things like the wind angles, alertness of the animal,
Speaker 1: noise that you're making or your bows making, and then
Speaker 1: anticipation of what the animal may do based on all
Speaker 1: these other factors, how alert the animal is reading that
Speaker 1: animal so really in getting it done time and time again,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we need to consider.
Speaker 1: This is a more advanced level of bow hunting, but
Speaker 1: something that I think whether you're getting just started or
Speaker 1: have been doing this your entire life, if you want
Speaker 1: to be consistently success uful, these are things you need
Speaker 1: to account for. So next week we're gonna be going
Speaker 1: into level two O two and we've been covering all
Speaker 1: the things of becoming a bow hunter that are very technical,
Speaker 1: very specific, but something very important that you should kind
Speaker 1: of consider in taking these shots and getting close to game.
Speaker 1: So that will be next week. Also, guys, don't forget
Speaker 1: to send in your questions. We're gonna be doing some
Speaker 1: q and a's and I've I've been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of questions, so you can send those Remy at the
Speaker 1: meat Eator dot com or preferred would be at Remy
Speaker 1: Warren on Instagram. Send me a direct message, Please include
Speaker 1: your name maybe if you want what the information that
Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind me saying, so like name, maybe where
Speaker 1: you're from, because sometimes it's just like you know, a
Speaker 1: screen name or whatever, So add your name in there.
Speaker 1: And then what I do is I as those come in,
Speaker 1: I screen shot a lot of the ones that I like,
Speaker 1: and then I try to pick the ones that you know,
Speaker 1: answer broad questions of some things that a lot of
Speaker 1: people are asking, but also you know, some very specific questions.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a great time that we get
Speaker 1: to converse back and forth. So please send those in.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate everybody that's sending questions, and if you
Speaker 1: send a question in the past and it hasn't been
Speaker 1: answered or asked or whatever on a podcast, feel free
Speaker 1: to send them again because sometimes I get a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff coming through and I, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: keep track of everything, so it never hurts to just
Speaker 1: refresh that in that in that mailbox. Once again, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for checking out the podcast, sharing it
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that if wherever you listen, you know, feel
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Speaker 1: comment in there, share it, uh, tag me. And I've
Speaker 1: been appreciating that when you guys are listening and enjoying it,
Speaker 1: tagging me on social media on Thursdays, I want to
Speaker 1: try to share a few more of those just things
Speaker 1: that people are saying and stuff if it works out.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm out of service a lot. I'm out of
Speaker 1: service a lot, but um, I try to get to
Speaker 1: that when I can. And so until next week, don't
Speaker 1: forget to pick a spot. Catch you guys later there,
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