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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, Welcome back to Cutting the Distance. Now.

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Speaker 1: Over the last eight or so episodes at the end,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying, if you've got questions, if this happened,

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Speaker 1: uh emails at Remy at the mediator dot com, all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So now we're gonna do something a little

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Speaker 1: bit different on this one. I feel like it's a

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Speaker 1: good point to maybe answer a few questions that we've

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Speaker 1: got from past episodes and kind of just just reply,

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Speaker 1: about or new stuff. So Been here has prepared a

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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's either secret question question I haven't

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes behind it. I'm way behind. So I've

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Speaker 1: been reading a lot of your your stuff at Remy

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Speaker 1: at the metator dot com and I've been following along

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Speaker 1: so you're ready, Remy warm. Well, first, I want to

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Speaker 1: thank everybody. Sure I like to throw up gratitudes and platitudes,

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Speaker 1: you've guys done, it's some great successes. Yeah, and and

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Speaker 1: those are the best triumphs. The funny part is that

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Speaker 1: because it's we're hunters. Man. We like to Remy, I know,

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Speaker 1: likes to listen to and read stories. I do too,

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Speaker 1: so for sure, And so the idea of this podcast

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Speaker 1: there's no better person to kind of translate all this.

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Speaker 1: So I've been very happy with all of your emails

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Speaker 1: So episode number three, you talked about hot weather meatcare,

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Speaker 1: and that's a hot topic. You know. I'm a four

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Speaker 1: in you know, a long email, but essentially boiling down

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Speaker 1: to asking, when you're transporting meat, do you if you're

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Speaker 1: screaming kids running by trying to pee on this bear's head.

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Speaker 1: That had it been successful, that would have been great.

429
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: That would have been counter an entire podcast. But yeah,

430
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: how many people you think actually pete on a bear?

431
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: I think anybody's ever made it happen like Luis and

432
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: Clark maybe probably probably pete on a bear sometimes. Yeah,

433
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: but that's my campground bear story to a unique story.

434
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: So why we love your podcast. These stories you gotta get. Yeah, yeah,

435
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: we may make that into a whole episode that should

436
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: someone should animate that, like, okay, that would be a

437
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: great little animation. You're listening to this, you're an animator,

438
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: Please let us know what it costs or just do

439
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,199
Speaker 1: it for free. We'd prefer that what else we gotta here?

440
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: What else? What else? What else? We did three episodes

441
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: on elk, so so as you can imagine, lots and

442
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: lots of questions, questions, and we're still we're not out

443
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: of the elk season yet now, so some of these

444
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: I think can be helpful. Um here's one, well, let's see.

445
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: It was from Brian in Minnesota. He said he's traveling

446
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: out west to Colorado to do some elk cutting this

447
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: year by himself, and was asking that a lot of

448
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: year in in episodes four or five six, where you

449
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: talked about dogging, el can coaxing and loan bulls and

450
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: non non vocal sounds, he says that a lot of

451
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: that you were describing guiding another person or calling for

452
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Speaker 1: another person. You're on a show called solo Hunter. He's

453
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: asking what do I do if I'm by myself and

454
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Speaker 1: all these situations occurred, I've got to both draw my

455
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: bow and break a tree or draw my bow and

456
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: make you know, cow sounds and bugles in different directions.

457
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: He's just asking for, like, how do you execute those things? Yeah?

458
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: It is more difficult, but most almost all the elk

459
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: I've taken have been by myself. You know. I One

460
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: thing I do is I like to change the direction

461
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: that I'm calling to make it appear that I'm further back.

462
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: Another thing is don't be afraid to move around. UM.

463
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: A lot of the call like elk are expecting to

464
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: see movement. You can get away with a lot of movement,

465
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: especially when you're in a calling position. You just have

466
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: to stay vigilant, keep your eye open, make sure that

467
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: the elk is not going to see you first. But

468
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to do what you need to do

469
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: to get that bowl to come to you. Now when

470
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: it's really bearing down. I prefer to use a diaphragm

471
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Speaker 1: style call um because it's hands free. Al's got some

472
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Speaker 1: elk calls. I always have calls I never UM, you know,

473
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Speaker 1: but I I know that some people have trouble even

474
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Speaker 1: using these calls, or don't practice with them, or can't

475
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Speaker 1: use them. So if out as you practice making the

476
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: cow like the basic cow call with your voice, I

477
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: use that a lot to stop the bull or to

478
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got to draw back and in

479
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: bad timing, use just a that's no call, that's just

480
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: my voice going practice that because that is key just

481
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: to stop the elk sometimes you'll need that. Another good

482
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: call if you don't have is like the kind that

483
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: you bite, the biting call um, because you can keep

484
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Speaker 1: it in the corner of your mouth. The name the

485
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: pre must makes everyone makes one. There's a lot of those.

486
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: I've used quite a few of those in the past.

487
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, a lot out of the tactics that

488
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: I've done the best too for being by yourself, the

489
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: dogging elk and the calling to a loan bull, that's great.

490
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: They're great setups if you're by yourself, So hopefully those

491
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: situations arise. Yeah, that's just everything up hunting. Where you're

492
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: by yourself and you're calling, it's more difficult, it's how

493
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: it is, but it is doable. Yeah, it's tougher to

494
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: close the distance because you're closer the animal. You have

495
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: to draw, you have to be ready. It's just tougher.

496
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: But also think about calling further back and then sneaking up,

497
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: like stalking to where it is, because when they're hold up,

498
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: when you're by yourself, you make the moves, and so

499
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: you can get away with a lot more just getting

500
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: into position than moving crawling, closing the gap, closing the distance.

501
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: He said it. He said the name of the podcast,

502
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: it's cutting the Distance. We started just as, um, just

503
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: as this is a little bit of behind the scenes.

504
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: We started out as closing the Distance. That was the

505
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: show name. I didn't like that sounds like I'm in

506
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: a bar because like trying to pick up chicks at

507
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: a bar. I'm like, then cutting, that's not a good name. Cutting,

508
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 1: but cutting cutting is better, Yeah, because if you're at

509
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: a bar, you wouldn't you would close the distance, not

510
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: cut it right too, that's too brash to brash. What

511
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: else we got? Oh, um man, there's a lot. There's

512
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: a lot. I should make shorter answers and we can

513
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 1: we have time for I think we have probably have

514
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: time for two more. Two more. Um here's a good one.

515
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: And this came in a lot. People love the shoes

516
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: off situation. I think we might have to make a

517
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: T shirt that says s OSS situations off situation. This

518
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: was an episode ago where we talked about a Remy

519
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: talked about Honey Mule Deer without your Shoes on, and

520
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys rode in to ask uh

521
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: specifics about it. But one of the things that came

522
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: in the most was what's the craziest place you've ever done?

523
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: An s os uh in the Chewcatch Mountains of Alaska,

524
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: stalking some bedded doll sheep. It was closing in. It

525
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: was steep, it was shelley. All sheep generally don't mind noise.

526
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: But I was bow hunting and I was so close

527
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: and in order to get a shot, I had to

528
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: get closer because shoes off situation. It was wet ground,

529
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: it was rocky. That was That was a major shoes

530
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: off situation. And then probably the second craziest shoes off situation,

531
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: um bow hunting in Mexico, a little cactus country. But

532
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: I did the sandal. I did what I liked, my

533
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: my modified shoes off sitch, the sandal with sock over Yeah.

534
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: That that helped with the old not a fashion statement,

535
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: but effective. Well you don't see the sandal because the

536
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: socks over the top. Yeah, you can wear socks under

537
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: your sandals. If you wear socks over your sandals as well,

538
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: neither of what's very fashion. Yeah, what else we got here?

539
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: People like the shoes off sitch though, I and the

540
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: only reason I started talking about that that was one

541
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: of the things that I just get a lot of

542
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: questions about and think, uh huh huh. I mean every

543
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: thing about every mule dear archery article you've ever read

544
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: talks about that, and then people are surprised about it. Yeah,

545
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's probably something that those

546
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: of us who do a lot of stock and understand,

547
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: but maybe those that that just see this that are

548
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: either casual hunters that just don't do a lot of

549
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Western spot and stock. You know, you're stocking the thing

550
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: I see all the time, big mistakes, guys wearing mountaineering

551
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: style boots and like, I'm going to sneak up on

552
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: this mule there in dry country in my uh full

553
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: shank boots. Good luck son. I would say the first

554
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: time that we ever went to Lunai to stalk access here,

555
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: I probably I probably bought brought a pair like crispy

556
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: mountain boots that were probably and you notice that that

557
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: first time, I just hunted like damn near barefoot the

558
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: entire time, and I did pretty darn good and it

559
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, I was just walking. I was like,

560
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 1: it's flat, it's not bad. This one spot as well,

561
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: just hunting my stocking socks. All that we we ended

562
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: up by the second or third trip we went over there,

563
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: and you and me and everyone else didn't even bring

564
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: put boots in your pack and just have them in

565
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: case you had to walk on the road or something.

566
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: But you just didn't even wear them, didn't even need them.

567
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: So it depends on where you are. But and the

568
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: funny thing is a lot of you guys that wrote in,

569
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: you know, Remy does a lot of hunting out west,

570
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: and that's what this podcast really about. It's cool that

571
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys wrote in you're from all

572
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: over the country and you're coming west to hunt. There's

573
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: so much you know, there's such a divide regionally, but

574
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: it just seems like there's a lot of people that

575
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: are traveling from a long ways from the home place

576
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: to go do these things. So it's important that you

577
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: get it right. So I'm glad that those things are

578
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: coming together now. Probably the biggest question that I have

579
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: this is uh episode four, it was called the Story

580
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: of Stubby mcnubbon mcnubban's Stubby mcnubbins and um, a couple

581
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: of people ask it in is Stubby mcne ubbens still

582
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: roaming the hills of Montana? So yes, and no the

583
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: o g Stubby mcnubbans. I think he's gone. However, his

584
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: genes moved on. There's I mean it's one of the

585
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: it's like bigfoot sightings in this area because there's multiple

586
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: places where we're like we saw Stubby. I think it's

587
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: just Stubbies offspring. Dude. He was. He was the boss hog,

588
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: he had his harem and he ruled the roost. It's

589
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: his Jenes definitely got passed on the memory and the

590
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: legacy of Stubby mcnubbans shallingder. God bless you, Stubby, Yeah,

591
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: God bless you. Do you have any like what's in

592
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: the future. You know, we're we've we've we want to

593
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: do this. We're gonna do this, um you know, is

594
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: as frequently as we can. Rebby be out in the

595
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: field a lot this fallen as well. I'm doing other things,

596
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: but we're gonna try to make sure we do this

597
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: at least once every couple of months where we gather

598
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: all your questions and we answer them on the show.

599
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: So look out for that. But there's a lot of

600
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: other things is coming up as far as topics, so

601
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: hopefully stick around what's what's what's burning for you? There, Renny. Oh,

602
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: I think there's some good stuff as far as we're

603
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: coming into. I like to make it topical and seasonal.

604
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: So and let's talk about a little spotting stuff, some

605
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: rifle season LK hunting tactics, deer hunting tactics, then just

606
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: some you know, some all around just good hunting skills. Man.

607
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: We've been we've been hamming pretty hard on glassing tips,

608
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: which we haven't covered yet on the show. So you

609
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: think that's coming up, right? Yeah? Glassing. I mean that's

610
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: the number one tactic for Western hunting. And that's the

611
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: question I've been getting a lot. I just uh, someone

612
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: just wrote actually right before we start recording this. So Okay,

613
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: I've got good optics, but I'm having I'm only seeing

614
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: stuff that's moving around. What the hell am I doing wrong?

615
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: What should I be looking for? Yeah, and then I'll

616
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: talk about that. But and I want to get into

617
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: some advanced stuff too. For the guys that you know,

618
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: I want you, you know what, I want you to

619
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: be the best spotter that you know. Yeah, I haven't

620
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: written down as an episode title spot bucks before your friends.

621
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Make a competitive So we will

622
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: keep working on this but thank you for all writing

623
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: in from from my desk and the whole Mediator crew

624
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: and especially Remy who's the man. Oh yeah, thank you guys.

625
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: I uh and then maybe some you know what, shoot

626
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: me some comments on good endings. How should I end

627
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: the podcast? That's the hardest part. Like what's a good

628
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: sign off? Like stay frosty, stay stealthy, Yeah, you got

629
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: your broccoli. I mean, he's all died. Wasn't one of them? Like,

630
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: don't get died, don't get I don't know the sign off.

631
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: I kind of like the variety. I want one that's

632
00:34:52,400 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: like kind of me where it's subtle yet cool yourself.

633
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, Like if I'm in a group

634
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: of people, like I'm just like when you're leaving the

635
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: bar and everybody else will stay like you're leaving early

636
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: to go home and get some rest. You say like

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Speaker 1: all right, guys, stay frosty. No see. I just if

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Speaker 1: I'm around a group of people, I do the Irish.

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Speaker 1: I just sleep nobody. If you say I'm leaving, then

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Speaker 1: I was like, why are you leaving? You just like

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Speaker 1: let's slip out. That's that's on our new podcast called

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Speaker 1: Closing the Distance. That's on the bar. Tips, yes, being

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Speaker 1: at the bar. How to? I don't know. Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: lot of hunting tips. Not so good for social situations.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me close it out. Give us your ender. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the comments. I wish we could get to

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Speaker 1: all of them. I try my damnedest to answer as

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Speaker 1: many questions as I can. The shorter the answer, the

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Speaker 1: more likely I am to respond to it via message

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Speaker 1: before my thumbs wear out. However, some of the longer

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Speaker 1: form ones I like to this is great, talk it

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Speaker 1: out here and until next week. Um, eat your protein,

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Speaker 1: eat that, cook your elk medium rare, keep a medium rare. Goodbye,

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