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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, Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I hope you've been starting to plan

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Speaker 1: and think about some of your spring hunts. Last week

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Speaker 1: I did a countdown of my top five favorite spring hunts.

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Speaker 1: I got some interaction and some people debating what the

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Speaker 1: top five were. I know, I keep thinking about that

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Speaker 1: list and it constantly changes in my mind. But maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe it's inspired you to maybe plan out a spring

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Speaker 1: hunt for yourself. Now. For me, I'm completely aware that

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Speaker 1: it's only spring for half the world south of the Equator,

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Speaker 1: just coming into fall. As a guy who's chased the

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Speaker 1: fall the majority of his life. Normally this time of year,

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Speaker 1: I find myself in the South Pacific getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the red deer roar, getting ready to maybe chase some

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Speaker 1: tar or the croak of the fallow. Uh. It's it's

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Speaker 1: one thing that I really am passionate about. And obviously

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Speaker 1: borders being closed and things what they are. It's the

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Speaker 1: first time in a long time last year and this

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Speaker 1: year that I've had to sit out that season. But

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking about you guys

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Speaker 1: down there and not thinking about some incredible hunts that

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Speaker 1: I've had in the other fall. So this week I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be doing a top five countdown of my favorite

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Speaker 1: South Pacific or March through June fall hunting season. But

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Speaker 1: before we go there, I really want to share the

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Speaker 1: story of what ended up being my best fallow buck

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Speaker 1: with a bow. This week. I actually just got back

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Speaker 1: um the amount of my best fallow dear thus far.

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Speaker 1: I took it with my bow a couple of years

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand nineteen, and it was just before

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Speaker 1: everything shut down, before the world shut down for the

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Speaker 1: whole epidemic. So I got this mount back and it's

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Speaker 1: just been like I've been kind of looking back at pictures,

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Speaker 1: watching some video of the hunt, and reliving that memory

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Speaker 1: of what I think is one of my top and

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Speaker 1: favorite hunting memories. You know, you go through and you

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Speaker 1: have all these hunts and there's just some that stand

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Speaker 1: out for various reasons. I think as a hunter, that's

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Speaker 1: one of those things that's so cool about having antlers.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm looking where I'm recording here, I've got like

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Speaker 1: this little dog kennel that I've converted into a podcast studio.

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Speaker 1: Not little dog kennel, not like the kind you put

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Speaker 1: in the back of your car, but it was a

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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of my antlers here, and it's

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Speaker 1: just something you know as a hunter, A lot of

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Speaker 1: hunters can associate with this. It's like, it's cool to

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Speaker 1: and just relive, relive that memory. And so when I

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Speaker 1: of that hunt flashed back for me. Fallow Deers just

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Speaker 1: like they're so freaking cool to hunt. I've hunted them

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Speaker 1: quite a few different places, but some of my favorite

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Speaker 1: places that Chase himmer in New Zealand and Australia one

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Speaker 1: of the places that I like to hunt. It's kind

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Speaker 1: it's got just like very similar terrain to what I

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Speaker 1: Because of that, it's very reminiscent to me of mule

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Speaker 1: deer hunting and the ultimate spot and stock game. When

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Speaker 1: So I spotted him, watched him bed stocked in. That

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go around, get right

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Speaker 1: But um, it's essentially like if you have never hunted

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Speaker 1: this fallow deer is an absolute tank. Quite a few

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Speaker 1: is quite a bit different, but it's really favoring cemetery,

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Speaker 1: very similar to our Boone and Crockett or Pope and

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Speaker 1: like a good mature stag, and I think the best

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Speaker 1: stags that I've ever taken were always earlier late Um,

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Speaker 1: but probably some of the most fun times I have

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Speaker 1: would be actually peak roar. So I gotta give the

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00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 1: third spot to the red deer. Number one and number

432
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 1: two really are interchangeable in my mind, and it's just

433
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Speaker 1: it just depends. I would say number two is because

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Speaker 1: of the animal and number one is because of the location.

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00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,479
Speaker 1: So the number two spot I'm giving to the fallow.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love chasing fallow deer. Um. I don't know

437
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: what it is about him. I think that they just

438
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: seem to be this this animal that is is so tough.

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Speaker 1: They rut so hard during the croak. I mean, they're

440
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: very vocal. They they've got a little bit of everything.

441
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: I love. They're very reminiscent to me of hunting meal deer,

442
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: and I like that, especially if you can find them

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00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: in more open country. There's a few places that I

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Speaker 1: hunt them in in the open, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of places that I've hunted them in that thicker bush

446
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: and it's really fun during the rut when they're rutting,

447
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: where they're they're croaking, they're on their paths, they can

448
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: be super super aggressive and you can kind of use

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00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: all hunting tactics for them. You can use ambush tactics,

450
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: you can use calling tactics, rattle, I mean, rattling for

451
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: fallow is a lot of fun, especially in some thicker stuff.

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00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: I love to croak um. That's one way that during

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Speaker 1: the rut that I've taken probably my best fallow bucks.

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Speaker 1: But I think that that, like, there's just something about

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Speaker 1: chasing fallow deer. There's such a cool the way their

456
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,479
Speaker 1: antlers grow. Everything about them I just love and I'm

457
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 1: addicted to hunting, so it's something that's always on my list.

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00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: Whenever I'm in the South Pacific or anywhere where there's

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Speaker 1: fallow deer, I just get fallow on the brain and

460
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: I go full bore into chasing them. So they're they're

461
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,479
Speaker 1: coming in right there at our number two spots. All right,

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Speaker 1: drum roll the very final number one spot. I gotta

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Speaker 1: give to the Himalayan Tar. I'm Tar or just badass.

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Speaker 1: They've got. It's a mountain goat with a lion's mane.

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Speaker 1: They've got like this guerrilla striped back. The way that

466
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: they walk around and just stomp around, especially when they're running,

467
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: is just so cool. But aside from that, it's to

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00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: the location. There's there's just something about where the tar

469
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: live up by the glaciers, in the real tough mountains.

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Speaker 1: Every tar trip, in my opinion, has always been an adventure.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's just a day trip where

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Speaker 1: I drive up and hike into a spot of a

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Speaker 1: river valley or somewhere where we get dropped for a

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00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: week from a chopper, like just a real remote backcountry spot,

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00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: or just you know, spending a week going up a

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00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: river valley during the rut and just trying to pick

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00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: out a big boltar. There's just something about him that

478
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: is just it's awesome. It's the epitome of mountain hunting.

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00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: You've got to be part mountaineer, part that's just like

480
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: in that alpine, in that very dangerous terrain, there's just

481
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: some real form of adventure with it. And I love

482
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: that about tar hunting. And that's the reason the tar

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00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: comes in at our number one South of the Equator

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00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: fall hunting season spot. Well, that concludes my top five

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Speaker 1: South Pacific or South of the Equator fall hunts. If

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00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: you're right now coming into fall, please share your hunting

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00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: videos with me, you're hunting pictures, your stories, because I'm

488
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: just gonna have to live vicariously through you guys. It's

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00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: something that I'm I'm missing. I never thought if you

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00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: were like, hey, there's gonna be a couple of years

491
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: span where you aren't gonna get down there and get

492
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: to chase some animal is around, I'd be like, yeah, right, yeah,

493
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: we'll see when that happens. Um. So, so I'm really

494
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: missing that. I've been just like watching a bunch of

495
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: videos and just kind of dreaming about the next time

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00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: I get get back down there. So yeah, keep keep

497
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: me uh frothing by sharing all whatever you've got if

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00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: you're if you're a guy that's like, hey, I hunt

499
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,479
Speaker 1: the US. I've never hunted that, you know, it's always

500
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,479
Speaker 1: it's always a dream. I remember I was probably fourteen

501
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: years ago, um bowltar Like it was one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I just thought, like, I really want to

503
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: hunt these and knew nothing about it. Um it was

504
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: back before there was any information on doing it yourself.

505
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: I kind of just bought a one way ticket and

506
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: um got over there, bought a small vehicle I called

507
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: the tar car, and really learned to like just learned

508
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: how to hunt those areas and just kind of cut

509
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: my teeth on figuring it out, hunting different places and

510
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: just kind of like going from hut to hut and

511
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: back country zone to back country zone and and fell

512
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: in love I I And from that point on, I

513
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: pretty much spent all of the fall season, southern fall season,

514
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: chasing animals around, um, you know, kind of doing some

515
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: guiding and some other things. And uh, it's just something

516
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: that I'm really missing right now. So I would be

517
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: down there probably right now, um, if it weren't for

518
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: borders being shut down. So I think you guys, for

519
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: everybody that shares stuff with me, it's always fun to

520
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: see everybody's adventures and people getting out, and it's always

521
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: cool to be able to kind of if you haven't

522
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: done those things, dream about those things. I like to

523
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: be able to think about hunts that I want to

524
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: go on plan and execute and make make a plan

525
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: for some time in the future, whether it's next year,

526
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: whether it's when it opens, or whether it's ten years

527
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: from now. And I think you guys in the South

528
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: Pacific there wherever that you're listening, you know, I think

529
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of good information for you guys

530
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: to come here. And I think there's a lot of

531
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: cool opportunities for people from all over the world to

532
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: kind of use social media and other things to to

533
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: share info, to learn about the way other people hunt,

534
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: and to potentially experience those hunts. And I think that

535
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: that's really cool. I've got a lot of friends down

536
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: there that have come and hunted up here, and I

537
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: see more and more people from other parts of the

538
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: world kind of reaching out globally. Once when we could

539
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: travel across borders and trying new hunts and and going

540
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: different places and sharing information with the people that they meet,

541
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: and that's that's just the cool thing that I love

542
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,479
Speaker 1: about the hunting community is no matter where you are

543
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: in the world, we share something in common, and it's

544
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: our passion for the outdoors, hunting, providing for ourselves, harvesting

545
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: our own food, and having some awesome outdoor adventures. So

546
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: that's something that I like, I like to see next week,

547
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I kind of teased it last week,

548
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure that I covered some stuff,

549
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: continued the countdown to say, so I got the pack

550
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: um or just kind of like a way that you

551
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: can stay in shape for the hunting season. I'm gonna

552
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: get you ready physically, and then we're gonna go into

553
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: some other ways that we can prep for the season.

554
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: But I think next week we're gonna we're gonna jump

555
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,239
Speaker 1: into I've I've kind of got this whole system of

556
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: the way that I've been training, especially because some of

557
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: these big things that I would do, I would normally

558
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: be rocking around the Tar Mountains right now and wouldn't

559
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: even have to worry about fitness or nutrition. But because

560
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, I really and I've got a

561
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: lot of hunts coming up this this uh September, October,

562
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: even August that I need to be in top physical

563
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: shape for. I'm just gonna kind of share my training

564
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: plan with you guys and ways that you can, no

565
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: matter where you're at, flat landers, mountain guys, whatever can

566
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: kind of simulate what you need for those long backpack

567
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: type hunts or those rough country mountains style hunts. So

568
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: that's coming up. Remember feel free to to shoot me

569
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: messages or whatever at Remy War on Instagram or Remy

570
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: at the mediator dot com. I appreciate you all. Until

571
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: next week, wherever you're at, find some fall or spring

572
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: or something done. I've had way better endings. Will work

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Speaker 1: on it and see you guys. H