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, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the podcast. I hope you've been starting to plan
Speaker 1: and think about some of your spring hunts. Last week
Speaker 1: I did a countdown of my top five favorite spring hunts.
Speaker 1: I got some interaction and some people debating what the
Speaker 1: top five were. I know, I keep thinking about that
Speaker 1: list and it constantly changes in my mind. But maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it's inspired you to maybe plan out a spring
Speaker 1: hunt for yourself. Now. For me, I'm completely aware that
Speaker 1: it's only spring for half the world south of the Equator,
Speaker 1: just coming into fall. As a guy who's chased the
Speaker 1: fall the majority of his life. Normally this time of year,
Speaker 1: I find myself in the South Pacific getting ready for
Speaker 1: the red deer roar, getting ready to maybe chase some
Speaker 1: tar or the croak of the fallow. Uh. It's it's
Speaker 1: one thing that I really am passionate about. And obviously
Speaker 1: borders being closed and things what they are. It's the
Speaker 1: first time in a long time last year and this
Speaker 1: year that I've had to sit out that season. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking about you guys
Speaker 1: down there and not thinking about some incredible hunts that
Speaker 1: I've had in the other fall. So this week I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be doing a top five countdown of my favorite
Speaker 1: South Pacific or March through June fall hunting season. But
Speaker 1: before we go there, I really want to share the
Speaker 1: story of what ended up being my best fallow buck
Speaker 1: with a bow. This week. I actually just got back
Speaker 1: um the amount of my best fallow dear thus far.
Speaker 1: I took it with my bow a couple of years
Speaker 1: back in two thousand nineteen, and it was just before
Speaker 1: everything shut down, before the world shut down for the
Speaker 1: whole epidemic. So I got this mount back and it's
Speaker 1: just been like I've been kind of looking back at pictures,
Speaker 1: watching some video of the hunt, and reliving that memory
Speaker 1: of what I think is one of my top and
Speaker 1: favorite hunting memories. You know, you go through and you
Speaker 1: have all these hunts and there's just some that stand
Speaker 1: out for various reasons. I think as a hunter, that's
Speaker 1: one of those things that's so cool about having antlers.
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking where I'm recording here, I've got like
Speaker 1: this little dog kennel that I've converted into a podcast studio.
Speaker 1: Not little dog kennel, not like the kind you put
Speaker 1: in the back of your car, but it was a
Speaker 1: dog run for um uh a while, and now I've
Speaker 1: kind of converted it into a miniature office podcast place.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of my antlers here, and it's
Speaker 1: just something you know as a hunter, A lot of
Speaker 1: hunters can associate with this. It's like, it's cool to
Speaker 1: see that mount, to see that skull, to see those antlers,
Speaker 1: and just relive, relive that memory. And so when I
Speaker 1: got this mount back, it's just like all the memories
Speaker 1: of that hunt flashed back for me. Fallow Deers just
Speaker 1: like they're so freaking cool to hunt. I've hunted them
Speaker 1: quite a few different places, but some of my favorite
Speaker 1: places that Chase himmer in New Zealand and Australia one
Speaker 1: of the places that I like to hunt. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a more more central part of the country and
Speaker 1: it's got just like very similar terrain to what I
Speaker 1: experienced where I grew up hunting in Nevada. I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty much the same latitude longitude, just on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the world. But it's just got like
Speaker 1: this open field, big rocks um instead of sage, it's
Speaker 1: replaced with wild time. But it looks like if I
Speaker 1: was to take a picture of that and take a
Speaker 1: picture of the place I grew up hunting, you could
Speaker 1: almost stitch the two together, and it looks very similar.
Speaker 1: Because of that, it's very reminiscent to me of mule
Speaker 1: deer hunting and the ultimate spot and stock game. When
Speaker 1: you think about open country mule deer hunting, there's there's
Speaker 1: this inherent challenge because you really can't employ a lot
Speaker 1: of other tactics other than spot um exploit a weakness
Speaker 1: when you can and stock in. One of the things
Speaker 1: that I really enjoy about this particular place follow your
Speaker 1: hunting is it's got all those things. It's got that
Speaker 1: place where I can set up in glass, It's got,
Speaker 1: you know, some some rocky terrain and more mountainous type stuff.
Speaker 1: And then another good thing is that it happens to
Speaker 1: have some good bucks and some good rud action. On
Speaker 1: this particular hunt, I had been chasing it's a private station,
Speaker 1: so I've know the land and a really well. He's
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine, and I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to hunt this place multiple years in a row, and
Speaker 1: it just goes to kind of show like most of
Speaker 1: my hunting I love to do is on public land,
Speaker 1: but there are some incredible hunts that are completely free
Speaker 1: range where it's managed. You really start to see the
Speaker 1: trophy potential of some of these places, and just to
Speaker 1: be able to the opportunity to hunt something like that
Speaker 1: is incredible. So I don't discount the fact that I'm
Speaker 1: very fortunate to be able to hunt this area, but
Speaker 1: because of it, you know, it's really cool to be
Speaker 1: able to go back year after year and kind of
Speaker 1: start seeing like, Okay, what dear, what genetics? Where these
Speaker 1: deer coming from? Some of them kind of appeared during
Speaker 1: the rut from places I don't know where. And then
Speaker 1: there's one particular buck that I've been seen for three
Speaker 1: years in a row and had yet to get an
Speaker 1: arrow in. Um, he's probably gonna start regressing. He had
Speaker 1: kind of these awesome drop antlers and just just a
Speaker 1: giant buck. On this particular hunt, I found that buck
Speaker 1: again the uh for multiple years in a row, and thought, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm really going to focus in on getting this deer.
Speaker 1: So I spotted him, watched him bed stocked in. That
Speaker 1: stock didn't work. Then I ended up respotting him stocking
Speaker 1: in again, and the time I didn't blow it, he
Speaker 1: just moved off. So I ended up spending the rest
Speaker 1: of the day find like looking back into where I
Speaker 1: think he might have went, and caught him bedded. He's
Speaker 1: just like it was during the rut. But this buck,
Speaker 1: I think he's just that old age class where he's
Speaker 1: just kind of off on his own and then probably
Speaker 1: just rolls in, grabs a few does and takes charge
Speaker 1: of everything. He happened to be bedded below this cliff,
Speaker 1: like in this spot where I knew I could stalk in,
Speaker 1: I take off my shoes, I sneak in. I get
Speaker 1: within range, and all I can see there is antler tips.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go around, get right
Speaker 1: above him and get a shot on him. This is awesome,
Speaker 1: like the winds good everything. As I'm stalking around, he
Speaker 1: had somehow got up out of his bed unspooked, but
Speaker 1: just decided to do his thing. He's walking around the
Speaker 1: rock pile at the bottom. I look up and he
Speaker 1: looks over at me at the exact same time. It
Speaker 1: was just a matter of timing. I was paying it
Speaker 1: a lot of attention to where he was and being quiet,
Speaker 1: and normally I'm always scanning, always scanning, and I was scanning,
Speaker 1: but it just happened to catch him. I was looking.
Speaker 1: He popped out right. I look right, We're both looking
Speaker 1: at each other. He blows out. I try to stop him.
Speaker 1: It's no good. He runs off. I end up respotting
Speaker 1: the same buck later and getting a good stock in.
Speaker 1: I stock in. Everything's right, super windy, it's quiet, the
Speaker 1: sun's on me, but he's kind of down below feeding
Speaker 1: or he's bedded. And now I'm stalking in and I
Speaker 1: see the handler tips stick up and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's standing now, why stand up? And it's just the
Speaker 1: slope of the hill and the tall grass. It's really
Speaker 1: hard to like see exactly where he's at. I tried
Speaker 1: ranging him, but I can't get a good range. So
Speaker 1: I was trying to actually range the tops of his antlers.
Speaker 1: I could see that I could probably shoot through the grass.
Speaker 1: I get the range, I draw back, shoot and miss,
Speaker 1: just shoot right underneath him, and I think that I
Speaker 1: had misranged him. You know, it was probably ten yards
Speaker 1: further than I thought, but with the way the hill
Speaker 1: was in the brush that I was ranging through, I
Speaker 1: just didn't take enough. I didn't want to take any
Speaker 1: extra time because I thought he was going to get
Speaker 1: out of there. And I also thought that, all right,
Speaker 1: he's right here, this is this is your good man.
Speaker 1: Just draw back and shoot him, and unfortunately I missed.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh man, this sucks. That's a great buck.
Speaker 1: I continue hunting for that deer for quite a few
Speaker 1: days and never relocate him. So I'm kind of back
Speaker 1: in that same area a few days later and I
Speaker 1: hear some croaking and I'm checking this one canyon and
Speaker 1: this this bucks down there croaking, a smaller buck, and
Speaker 1: I hear up above me just this real deep That
Speaker 1: was me trying to do my croak without practicing first.
Speaker 1: But um, it's essentially like if you have never hunted
Speaker 1: fallow deer, it's this, it's this like grunt snort. I
Speaker 1: kind of think of it like a pig. So I
Speaker 1: go and it's like they do this croak. They get
Speaker 1: on these pads where they've dug out this dirt area,
Speaker 1: this rut pad where they've got their scent, very similar
Speaker 1: to like an elk walloh. And the bucks will get
Speaker 1: in that pad, they'll roll around, they'll lay, and they'll
Speaker 1: start croaking, and actually a lot it will start attracting
Speaker 1: the females. Then they'll build up this harem and they'll
Speaker 1: kind of take control of the does and potentially, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully a dough comes into heat and then they wrote
Speaker 1: that dough. While that happens, other bucks are in there
Speaker 1: trying to to steal his honey. And these these fallow
Speaker 1: deer fight so ferociously. I think that out of all
Speaker 1: dear species that I've encountered, I think between those and Russa,
Speaker 1: there's some of the most aggressive, like breeders fighters. They
Speaker 1: I've seen many many fallow bucks dead, fighting to the
Speaker 1: death when the ruts on. It's a very aggressive time
Speaker 1: of year. So this buck's croaking, I work my way in,
Speaker 1: pick up my binos and my jaw drops. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this fallow deer is an absolute tank. Quite a few
Speaker 1: years earlier i'd been guiding, and there's a couple of
Speaker 1: different score systems for international type games. So the one
Speaker 1: I like to use as a safari club system because
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily analyze you for what the animal grew.
Speaker 1: It's kind of it's a good way to compare apples
Speaker 1: to apples because you know you aren't discredited for maybe
Speaker 1: something that's a little bit different on one side or
Speaker 1: the other. And then there's the Douglas score system, which
Speaker 1: is quite a bit different, but it's really favoring cemetery,
Speaker 1: very similar to our Boone and Crockett or Pope and
Speaker 1: Young club system. So I'm looking at this buck through
Speaker 1: the buyos and I'm like, this thing is a beast.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen a buck as big
Speaker 1: as this one, even the one I was chasing before,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was this big. And this was
Speaker 1: a buck that I had not seen before. He was
Speaker 1: the King's Stag of the Hill. And a few years
Speaker 1: earlier I had actually guided to what was the been
Speaker 1: on the hunt with um the free range archery world
Speaker 1: record for s c I and I looked at this
Speaker 1: this stag and I'm like, this fellow buck is just
Speaker 1: he's bigger than that buck. I knew what I had
Speaker 1: in front of me and it was a giant, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, calm yourself, You've got to make this happen.
Speaker 1: So it's just here open and I'm behind this rock,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, he's got a ton of doze
Speaker 1: with him. He started like he's croaking, and then another
Speaker 1: buck kind of comes in and starts pushing this dough around.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like it. He gets up off his bed,
Speaker 1: out of his pad and starts going and starts pushing
Speaker 1: these deer. And I'm like, okay, I gotta stay on
Speaker 1: them because there's so many folds in the hills and everything.
Speaker 1: He could just disappear. So I dropped down and I
Speaker 1: get tried to I'm thinking I might be able to
Speaker 1: circle around and cut him off. I get in this wash,
Speaker 1: I'm like running trying to make sure I don't spook anything.
Speaker 1: There's other deer round getting into position at that time
Speaker 1: of days, like towards the end of the day. So
Speaker 1: I get up around and I see him once more
Speaker 1: going over the next rise, and they're just like running
Speaker 1: after these doughs, like pushing him around. He's running off
Speaker 1: bucks whatever. So they go down. I start following down.
Speaker 1: I'm just like so thankful the wind was good. I'm
Speaker 1: moving down and I see his his antlers, like his
Speaker 1: big palms up above the slope below me, and then
Speaker 1: I lose them again, so I start every time I
Speaker 1: see them, I'm making a play to stock in there,
Speaker 1: trying to get the wind right. So I hustle around
Speaker 1: the mountain. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna cut them off
Speaker 1: here and find them. I go. I'm moving quick. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make sure nothing's going wrong, but I also
Speaker 1: want to get to that spot before where I think
Speaker 1: they're going. I get there, no, dear, I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: did I lose them. It's almost that time of day
Speaker 1: where it's like all right, So I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about them, like where could they go? So I
Speaker 1: start working down and into this next pocket. I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: they didn't go this way either past me, or went
Speaker 1: the back of the way they went came from, sort of.
Speaker 1: So I start working this other way. I don't see anything,
Speaker 1: don't see anything. I'm working down this like kind of
Speaker 1: craggy rocky thing, and ACTUAL see a group of does
Speaker 1: and I'm like all right, So I throw my bones
Speaker 1: up glassing and then I hear this croaking echoing in
Speaker 1: the canyon. Blow me. Well, there's a lot of bucks around,
Speaker 1: but maybe this is it. So I get set up
Speaker 1: and sure enough I see us antler tips downblown sweet.
Speaker 1: So I was self filming. I set my camera up
Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, just wide shot, crawling. I
Speaker 1: crawling get to position. He's like sixty yards out range him,
Speaker 1: and he's now moving up and pushing the dose. He's
Speaker 1: like below me, fairly close, but I can't get a shot,
Speaker 1: and so he works up the hill across and starts
Speaker 1: pushing those doughs and he comes to this point where
Speaker 1: he's like broadside a drawback anchor in shoot. Arrow hits
Speaker 1: its mark and the buck like runs uphill. I'm thinking, oh, man,
Speaker 1: like what happened? But I could tell that he was
Speaker 1: so rudded up. I don't think he actually knew he
Speaker 1: got hit. It was windy enough. They didn't hear the
Speaker 1: bow go off. I think he just heard something. And
Speaker 1: then he sees the doz running. He follows the dose
Speaker 1: over the ridge and I decided to let him. Let
Speaker 1: him wait. The next morning I come back and uh,
Speaker 1: sure enough, go over to where I saw him disappear.
Speaker 1: There's this a little thicket there. Look in there, and
Speaker 1: there is the buck of a lifetime for somebody that's
Speaker 1: pretty stoked on fallow deer hunting. Just walking up on
Speaker 1: this and and knowing that this was one that I
Speaker 1: took with my bow, not bringing someone else to it
Speaker 1: was one of those moments that are few and far between.
Speaker 1: You know, I've hunted a lot of things. I've shot
Speaker 1: some really nice animals. I've looked for big animals and
Speaker 1: some some situations, but for the most part, like, I
Speaker 1: really enjoy being picky with fallow deer, and especially because
Speaker 1: I have an opportunity to hunt a good place and
Speaker 1: to be able to take a buck of this caliber
Speaker 1: was just incredible. Later on, I actually ended up having
Speaker 1: the buck scored for SCI and he was at the
Speaker 1: time the number one archery taken fallow deer free range,
Speaker 1: which it was just like it was cool because you're like, hey, cool,
Speaker 1: but it's just a testament to what an incredible buck
Speaker 1: he was. And I'll never forget the first time that
Speaker 1: I laid eyes on him, and now having him right
Speaker 1: here is I'm podcasting looking at just this awesome animal.
Speaker 1: It's a good memory. And just one of those things
Speaker 1: that I can't wait to get back out there and
Speaker 1: see if maybe one day there's one bigger. If I
Speaker 1: never see one even close, I'll still be as happy
Speaker 1: as I am right now. Now that we've gone through
Speaker 1: our list of of top five spring hunts, you know,
Speaker 1: am Italy, I have spent most of my life chasing
Speaker 1: the fall and honestly, the only thing that could keep
Speaker 1: me away from heading down to the Southern Hemisphere to
Speaker 1: to get into another fall season was a worldwide pandemic
Speaker 1: and cutting into the distance being listened all over the world,
Speaker 1: There's no way I can leave out my friends just
Speaker 1: coming into that fall season. So I'm going to do
Speaker 1: a countdown of my favorite South Pacific quarry. I know
Speaker 1: things are closed to get over there for North America,
Speaker 1: but there's maybe a good way about think about some
Speaker 1: hunts and adventures in the future. So this list was
Speaker 1: really tough for me. I had a tough time organizing
Speaker 1: it because if you ask me a week from now,
Speaker 1: it'll probably be different. There's so many things that I
Speaker 1: love to chase over there between Australia and New Zealand primarily,
Speaker 1: but there's also some great hunts and a lot of
Speaker 1: these species in Argentina and other places around the world.
Speaker 1: So let's just dive into the top five list. Oh
Speaker 1: and before I get into the top five lists, I
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that are gonna listen to this
Speaker 1: podcat a lot of my podcast listeners that are die
Speaker 1: hard Samber hunters, and I have not yet got to
Speaker 1: do that that Good Highlands Samber hunt I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be going last year, and I had plans to
Speaker 1: maybe go a couple of years in a row once
Speaker 1: I know undoubtedly I'll probably love it. However, I can't
Speaker 1: add it to the list. So that's the caveat to
Speaker 1: this list, because I know there's a lot of you
Speaker 1: out there, all right, So we're gonna jump into the
Speaker 1: list starting at number five. Number five, I went. This
Speaker 1: was tough, but I went with Russa. It's a really
Speaker 1: fun dear to chase. I like the aspect that they
Speaker 1: live in a variety of terrain, but I like that
Speaker 1: still hunting jungle type hunting. I also love how aggressive
Speaker 1: they rut and the way that the stags fight, but
Speaker 1: they can be like also quite solitary and fairly aggressive.
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a really fun hunt. They've
Speaker 1: got kind of that micro roar thing going on, and
Speaker 1: just the terrain itself really lends it to a really
Speaker 1: fun hunt. Um. The few places that I have got
Speaker 1: to hunt them, maybe three or four different places, has
Speaker 1: been all mostly that more jungle type terrain, and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that that more mountain, really thick cover, thick country,
Speaker 1: finding those trails and finding those those places where they're at.
Speaker 1: You know, it's fortunate to have an opportunity to chase
Speaker 1: some other roofs and in a more open terrain, and
Speaker 1: that was really cool being able to watch how aggressive
Speaker 1: they rut in and around that like more water aquatic
Speaker 1: type country. You know, russ Are it can be a
Speaker 1: very aquatic type deer. So if you get that opportunity
Speaker 1: to hunt that, that's pretty awesome seeing them go out
Speaker 1: and feed in the water and just like give you
Speaker 1: more option. Um, what I did find is they can
Speaker 1: be fairly patternable. I know there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that set up and do ambush hunts for him, but
Speaker 1: during when they're running, just calling is is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I love that opportunity to just call back
Speaker 1: and forth, and then they definitely made the list, coming
Speaker 1: in at number five. Number four, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: give to the shammy. Part of me is like wants
Speaker 1: to put it at the top, and part of me
Speaker 1: is like, okay, it's number four because one of the
Speaker 1: species that originally drew me to want to go to
Speaker 1: the South Pacific hunt was the shammy. After I hunted
Speaker 1: them for a while, you know, I started to see
Speaker 1: other species in a different light. They are a very
Speaker 1: beautiful species. I mean they are a very fun hunt
Speaker 1: in some aggressive mountain type terrain and that like right
Speaker 1: there is the adventure and is the fun. I think
Speaker 1: one of my favorite ways to hunt shammy um, especially
Speaker 1: when you kind of chase them with a bow. One
Speaker 1: thing that I've found like a weakness of theirs is
Speaker 1: not only their curiosity, but they're just determination. I like
Speaker 1: to figure out where they're going. If you watch them
Speaker 1: for a little bit, you'll see that they've got this
Speaker 1: route or wherever they want to go, and then just
Speaker 1: trying to get in front of them and cut them off.
Speaker 1: They are very hard to change their mind when they've
Speaker 1: got something that they want to do. There's been times
Speaker 1: where I've been hunting it's like, oh, they're going there,
Speaker 1: and we move and get into position and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: oh they saw me. No, they're gonna walk either right
Speaker 1: through me or right past me, which is actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But they can be very difficult to find, uh, you
Speaker 1: know in New Zealand there in the past there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of areas where their numbers have been declining,
Speaker 1: and that makes it tough when they're hard to find.
Speaker 1: It's actually more of a in many instance is when
Speaker 1: you actually when I actually see one, and especially in
Speaker 1: an area where I'm not expecting to see them, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, hunts on. I can't believe actually spotted shammy here.
Speaker 1: And I like to hunt them around that kind of
Speaker 1: like that fringe habitat where it's that cliffy stuff, but
Speaker 1: on the brush edge. Um, that's always a lot of
Speaker 1: fun to to catch him in those little brushy guts,
Speaker 1: those brushy gullies and then work up those little creek bottoms,
Speaker 1: especially in good shammy country. So coming in number four
Speaker 1: the shammy, Now we're gonna move on to number three.
Speaker 1: I'd say number three is gonna go to red deer.
Speaker 1: Of course, the roar is an unbelievable time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, just talking back and forth roaring up a
Speaker 1: good stag is fun. But if I was probably pick
Speaker 1: my favorite time to hunt reds, I would say either
Speaker 1: early or late. I just find that it's more consistent
Speaker 1: to get into the more mature, bigger stags, especially early
Speaker 1: when they're on that feed pattern bachelord up, maybe right
Speaker 1: after they stripped velvet um is a great time to locate.
Speaker 1: I'm just more up in the alpine early season, and
Speaker 1: then actually after the rut can be pretty decent hunting
Speaker 1: for red deer. In my opinion, I'm it's kind of
Speaker 1: strange in the way that I would always hunt red
Speaker 1: deer when everyone else wasn't, because I felt like during
Speaker 1: the roar it just got so much pressure a lot
Speaker 1: of people out hunting, roaring, you know, out and about,
Speaker 1: So I would go hunt something else while everyone else
Speaker 1: is hunting the roar. And then afterwards, or either before
Speaker 1: or after, I'd go in there and find the big
Speaker 1: stags after they're done running, when they kind of pull
Speaker 1: off into the speed pattern, they'd get in these little
Speaker 1: isolated pockets and they're just kind of staying tucked tight
Speaker 1: by themselves and just feeding and rebuilding and storing back
Speaker 1: up that energy that they lost during the roar, maybe
Speaker 1: just kind of in a little pocket, sulking by themselves
Speaker 1: because they had a tough season. But I find that
Speaker 1: that's uh, that for me has always been the best
Speaker 1: two times to find big stags. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: just something about hunting the roar, communicating with an animal.
Speaker 1: It's very similar to our elk right here, So of
Speaker 1: course I love that. But um, those early and late
Speaker 1: seasons can be really really good for for picking out
Speaker 1: like a good mature stag, and I think the best
Speaker 1: stags that I've ever taken were always earlier late Um,
Speaker 1: but probably some of the most fun times I have
Speaker 1: would be actually peak roar. So I gotta give the
Speaker 1: third spot to the red deer. Number one and number
Speaker 1: two really are interchangeable in my mind, and it's just
Speaker 1: it just depends. I would say number two is because
Speaker 1: of the animal and number one is because of the location.
Speaker 1: So the number two spot I'm giving to the fallow.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love chasing fallow deer. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is about him. I think that they just
Speaker 1: seem to be this this animal that is is so tough.
Speaker 1: They rut so hard during the croak. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: very vocal. They they've got a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: I love. They're very reminiscent to me of hunting meal deer,
Speaker 1: and I like that, especially if you can find them
Speaker 1: in more open country. There's a few places that I
Speaker 1: hunt them in in the open, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of places that I've hunted them in that thicker bush
Speaker 1: and it's really fun during the rut when they're rutting,
Speaker 1: where they're they're croaking, they're on their paths, they can
Speaker 1: be super super aggressive and you can kind of use
Speaker 1: all hunting tactics for them. You can use ambush tactics,
Speaker 1: you can use calling tactics, rattle, I mean, rattling for
Speaker 1: fallow is a lot of fun, especially in some thicker stuff.
Speaker 1: I love to croak um. That's one way that during
Speaker 1: the rut that I've taken probably my best fallow bucks.
Speaker 1: But I think that that, like, there's just something about
Speaker 1: chasing fallow deer. There's such a cool the way their
Speaker 1: antlers grow. Everything about them I just love and I'm
Speaker 1: addicted to hunting, so it's something that's always on my list.
Speaker 1: Whenever I'm in the South Pacific or anywhere where there's
Speaker 1: fallow deer, I just get fallow on the brain and
Speaker 1: I go full bore into chasing them. So they're they're
Speaker 1: coming in right there at our number two spots. All right,
Speaker 1: drum roll the very final number one spot. I gotta
Speaker 1: give to the Himalayan Tar. I'm Tar or just badass.
Speaker 1: They've got. It's a mountain goat with a lion's mane.
Speaker 1: They've got like this guerrilla striped back. The way that
Speaker 1: they walk around and just stomp around, especially when they're running,
Speaker 1: is just so cool. But aside from that, it's to
Speaker 1: the location. There's there's just something about where the tar
Speaker 1: live up by the glaciers, in the real tough mountains.
Speaker 1: Every tar trip, in my opinion, has always been an adventure.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's just a day trip where
Speaker 1: I drive up and hike into a spot of a
Speaker 1: river valley or somewhere where we get dropped for a
Speaker 1: week from a chopper, like just a real remote backcountry spot,
Speaker 1: or just you know, spending a week going up a
Speaker 1: river valley during the rut and just trying to pick
Speaker 1: out a big boltar. There's just something about him that
Speaker 1: is just it's awesome. It's the epitome of mountain hunting.
Speaker 1: You've got to be part mountaineer, part that's just like
Speaker 1: in that alpine, in that very dangerous terrain, there's just
Speaker 1: some real form of adventure with it. And I love
Speaker 1: that about tar hunting. And that's the reason the tar
Speaker 1: comes in at our number one South of the Equator
Speaker 1: fall hunting season spot. Well, that concludes my top five
Speaker 1: South Pacific or South of the Equator fall hunts. If
Speaker 1: you're right now coming into fall, please share your hunting
Speaker 1: videos with me, you're hunting pictures, your stories, because I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna have to live vicariously through you guys. It's
Speaker 1: something that I'm I'm missing. I never thought if you
Speaker 1: were like, hey, there's gonna be a couple of years
Speaker 1: span where you aren't gonna get down there and get
Speaker 1: to chase some animal is around, I'd be like, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see when that happens. Um. So, so I'm really
Speaker 1: missing that. I've been just like watching a bunch of
Speaker 1: videos and just kind of dreaming about the next time
Speaker 1: I get get back down there. So yeah, keep keep
Speaker 1: me uh frothing by sharing all whatever you've got if
Speaker 1: you're if you're a guy that's like, hey, I hunt
Speaker 1: the US. I've never hunted that, you know, it's always
Speaker 1: it's always a dream. I remember I was probably fourteen
Speaker 1: years ago, um bowltar Like it was one of the
Speaker 1: things that I just thought, like, I really want to
Speaker 1: hunt these and knew nothing about it. Um it was
Speaker 1: back before there was any information on doing it yourself.
Speaker 1: I kind of just bought a one way ticket and
Speaker 1: um got over there, bought a small vehicle I called
Speaker 1: the tar car, and really learned to like just learned
Speaker 1: how to hunt those areas and just kind of cut
Speaker 1: my teeth on figuring it out, hunting different places and
Speaker 1: just kind of like going from hut to hut and
Speaker 1: back country zone to back country zone and and fell
Speaker 1: in love I I And from that point on, I
Speaker 1: pretty much spent all of the fall season, southern fall season,
Speaker 1: chasing animals around, um, you know, kind of doing some
Speaker 1: guiding and some other things. And uh, it's just something
Speaker 1: that I'm really missing right now. So I would be
Speaker 1: down there probably right now, um, if it weren't for
Speaker 1: borders being shut down. So I think you guys, for
Speaker 1: everybody that shares stuff with me, it's always fun to
Speaker 1: see everybody's adventures and people getting out, and it's always
Speaker 1: cool to be able to kind of if you haven't
Speaker 1: done those things, dream about those things. I like to
Speaker 1: be able to think about hunts that I want to
Speaker 1: go on plan and execute and make make a plan
Speaker 1: for some time in the future, whether it's next year,
Speaker 1: whether it's when it opens, or whether it's ten years
Speaker 1: from now. And I think you guys in the South
Speaker 1: Pacific there wherever that you're listening, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of good information for you guys
Speaker 1: to come here. And I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: cool opportunities for people from all over the world to
Speaker 1: kind of use social media and other things to to
Speaker 1: share info, to learn about the way other people hunt,
Speaker 1: and to potentially experience those hunts. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's really cool. I've got a lot of friends down
Speaker 1: there that have come and hunted up here, and I
Speaker 1: see more and more people from other parts of the
Speaker 1: world kind of reaching out globally. Once when we could
Speaker 1: travel across borders and trying new hunts and and going
Speaker 1: different places and sharing information with the people that they meet,
Speaker 1: and that's that's just the cool thing that I love
Speaker 1: about the hunting community is no matter where you are
Speaker 1: in the world, we share something in common, and it's
Speaker 1: our passion for the outdoors, hunting, providing for ourselves, harvesting
Speaker 1: our own food, and having some awesome outdoor adventures. So
Speaker 1: that's something that I like, I like to see next week,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I kind of teased it last week,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure that I covered some stuff,
Speaker 1: continued the countdown to say, so I got the pack
Speaker 1: um or just kind of like a way that you
Speaker 1: can stay in shape for the hunting season. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you ready physically, and then we're gonna go into
Speaker 1: some other ways that we can prep for the season.
Speaker 1: But I think next week we're gonna we're gonna jump
Speaker 1: into I've I've kind of got this whole system of
Speaker 1: the way that I've been training, especially because some of
Speaker 1: these big things that I would do, I would normally
Speaker 1: be rocking around the Tar Mountains right now and wouldn't
Speaker 1: even have to worry about fitness or nutrition. But because
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, I really and I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of hunts coming up this this uh September, October,
Speaker 1: even August that I need to be in top physical
Speaker 1: shape for. I'm just gonna kind of share my training
Speaker 1: plan with you guys and ways that you can, no
Speaker 1: matter where you're at, flat landers, mountain guys, whatever can
Speaker 1: kind of simulate what you need for those long backpack
Speaker 1: type hunts or those rough country mountains style hunts. So
Speaker 1: that's coming up. Remember feel free to to shoot me
Speaker 1: messages or whatever at Remy War on Instagram or Remy
Speaker 1: at the mediator dot com. I appreciate you all. Until
Speaker 1: next week, wherever you're at, find some fall or spring
Speaker 1: or something done. I've had way better endings. Will work
Speaker 1: on it and see you guys. H