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Speaker 1: So episode number three, you talked about hot weather meatcare,
Speaker 1: and that's a hot topic. You know. I'm a four
Speaker 1: or yetti man myself as far as an employment goes,
Speaker 1: and a current YETI man as far as my cooler
Speaker 1: use goes. And this question came from Jason in Arizona.
Speaker 1: He lives in a hot state pretty close to your
Speaker 1: home state of Nevada, and he is asking, he wrote
Speaker 1: in you know, a long email, but essentially boiling down
Speaker 1: to asking, when you're transporting meat, do you if you're
Speaker 1: putting it in a cooler, would you allow it to
Speaker 1: be saturated in water? And is there any point during
Speaker 1: your the meat process from field to butcher to whatever,
Speaker 1: that you would would feel as appropriate to leave, say
Speaker 1: at elk quarter or a meal to your quarter, or
Speaker 1: any any good cut of meat soaking in water for
Speaker 1: any amount of time at all. He specifically asked about leaving,
Speaker 1: you know, coming back, throwing a quarter and your cooler
Speaker 1: and driving home and having all the ice melt and
Speaker 1: now you've got, you know, a pretty fresh chunk of
Speaker 1: meat for sure that's submerged. Yeah. So here's the here's
Speaker 1: the thing about that, Like I was saying before, is
Speaker 1: you know you want your you want to keep me
Speaker 1: cool and dry, now Elk core elk or a special breed,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times they're just the size makes
Speaker 1: it cumbersome. Now, I think if it's you want to
Speaker 1: avoid it being in water. However, that's not always possibly.
Speaker 1: You know, like you got to relive in the real world.
Speaker 1: If you can keep it out of the water, great,
Speaker 1: But I just knowing from experience traveling home or whatever,
Speaker 1: a lot of times that quarter does get soaked. Is
Speaker 1: it going to go off between you driving home and
Speaker 1: sitting in the cooler water. No, it's not. But one
Speaker 1: thing that I do when I get home is the
Speaker 1: first thing I do I And I've done this like
Speaker 1: with ladders in the garage, like I create some form
Speaker 1: to hang it somewhere when I get home. I've done
Speaker 1: this in the garage with like a closet dowl between
Speaker 1: two ladders because I just didn't have a good set
Speaker 1: up for it. And then what I do is I
Speaker 1: take a fan because the best way to cool it
Speaker 1: down and keep it dry. It's to is to dry
Speaker 1: it out. Now, if you live in Arizona, it's even
Speaker 1: hot pretty much all the time, so the garage is
Speaker 1: shaded somewhere it's cool. If you don't have a c
Speaker 1: in your garage, run a fan on it, get that
Speaker 1: air circulation, and you'll develop that crust again and then
Speaker 1: it's time to put back in the fridge or whatever. Now.
Speaker 1: I recently had a buddy have the same problem. He's like, Man,
Speaker 1: I got back everything was water logged. I don't I
Speaker 1: gotta go back to work on Monday. What do I
Speaker 1: do with this freaking elk until I can? I'm butcher
Speaker 1: in it all week, but I don't. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be one day. I've got other things I gotta do,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta do pieces of time. How do I
Speaker 1: store it? What do I do? So? I think there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things you can do. First, refrigerator is
Speaker 1: a great place to store it as much as you can.
Speaker 1: And when you store it in the fridge, if you
Speaker 1: just put it all in one tub like, that's not
Speaker 1: getting that's not keeping it dry either. The blood and
Speaker 1: everything soaks to the bottom so you need to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to separate everything out or continually move
Speaker 1: it in the fridge until you get those pieces. And
Speaker 1: you would flow a lot of times if you're if
Speaker 1: you if your fridge has like a glass shell for
Speaker 1: something that want a lot of air circulations, just you
Speaker 1: can flip that quarter over every want in a while
Speaker 1: to make sure that there's always air circulation. Get that
Speaker 1: air circule. You gotta have it. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: like how long can you leave something in the fridge, Well,
Speaker 1: it depends on the state. Like if it's in the
Speaker 1: fridge with air circulating around it completely, you can leave
Speaker 1: it in for a month almost, um, twenty days. I
Speaker 1: don't really like aged meat personally like dry age that much.
Speaker 1: But I've left stuff in my chiller for you know,
Speaker 1: a week or two and it's great. It's fine. You've
Speaker 1: probably done man age all the time I've aged, I've
Speaker 1: aged up to in the of days and it's it's
Speaker 1: you just it's a science that you have to really
Speaker 1: take time on. So we were talking about when we
Speaker 1: were recording that podcast. I remember talking about we're sitting
Speaker 1: in trying to just determine how you're going to go
Speaker 1: through the thirty minutes of the show, and we're just
Speaker 1: talking about a lot of times a guy like you said,
Speaker 1: is going to shoot an elk on a Saturday or
Speaker 1: a Sunday, spend all this time getting at home, and
Speaker 1: then Monday comes, it's time to go to work. Yep,
Speaker 1: and you don't have you know, say you don't have
Speaker 1: an area that you can hang it, say it's too
Speaker 1: hot to hang it outside and your fridges and big
Speaker 1: enough for a hundred plus pounds of meat to be
Speaker 1: stuffed in it. Here's another option, you can you get
Speaker 1: the water out of the cooler. And then I've I
Speaker 1: learned this trick from some friends in in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Is you get a big animal well cut off. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of time to butcher it
Speaker 1: the way you want, so you you for that downtime
Speaker 1: in between the butchering, cut off large chunks in in
Speaker 1: big muscle groups and get large vacuum sealed eggs and
Speaker 1: vacuum seal those pre butcher because then when when there's
Speaker 1: no air going to them, they won't go bad in
Speaker 1: the fridge. And so you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: the air circulation. So you can pack it into the
Speaker 1: fridge that way and then take those packets out and
Speaker 1: butcher it. You could also repack the cooler full of ice,
Speaker 1: put those vacuum sealed things in the cooler on top
Speaker 1: of the ice to keep them cold. But by stopping
Speaker 1: the air, you're gonna stop them from going off, like
Speaker 1: from spoiling. So just by vacuum seeling them, you can
Speaker 1: leave them. I've I've got friends that it. When they
Speaker 1: shoot something, they just vacuum seal and leave it in
Speaker 1: their fridge for two or three weeks because they won't
Speaker 1: spoil if they can't get air. Now, it has to
Speaker 1: be a tight vacuum seal, so you really got to
Speaker 1: make sure you know nothing's around the edges of that bag.
Speaker 1: And you get those bigger bags and you can put
Speaker 1: those big chunks, and it's just an easier way to
Speaker 1: organize it until you have time to butcher it. Then
Speaker 1: as you come home, you might have one quarter that
Speaker 1: is free hand free drying in the fridge and then
Speaker 1: the other stuff stacked in the cooler. You can kind
Speaker 1: of work your space and then as you butcher, you're
Speaker 1: getting more space and you can rotate things through. That's
Speaker 1: the way that I do it. I'm sure you would
Speaker 1: agree that, Like you have to have that process though,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't just leave it in my garage soaking
Speaker 1: in cooler water for five days. That's not cool when
Speaker 1: you're when you're out hunting on a weekend, even if
Speaker 1: you're even if that's kind of your game, if you're
Speaker 1: just a weekend guy. I just feel like, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you agree that you gotta have a process. I killable
Speaker 1: no matter what it is. This is how I'm going
Speaker 1: to make sure that the meat doesn't get ruined from
Speaker 1: from field to truck to cooler, the freezer to butcher paper.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to have this thought out, and
Speaker 1: you can't run into a situation where all I gotta
Speaker 1: go to work and I I have no idea what to
Speaker 1: do with this meat. I got it all the way
Speaker 1: here not you know, in those in those instances, maybe
Speaker 1: it's I like to do my own butchering. But dude,
Speaker 1: maybe you just gotta you gotta bite the bullet, drop
Speaker 1: it off somewhere they can handle it and have that
Speaker 1: placed down before you do it. That's just it sucks
Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't wan to butcher it. Myself.
Speaker 1: But if that's your situation, you can't. You don't have
Speaker 1: the ability to take care of it. There are places
Speaker 1: that have so that you've got to keep that as
Speaker 1: a backup plan too. That's an option, but really there's
Speaker 1: there's workarounds. However, back to the original question, soaking in water,
Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't leave it soaking in water. The
Speaker 1: next one Adam see he's from Virginia. He was talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, in your first episode you were talking about
Speaker 1: shooting an angle's horizontal distance versus linear distance. He is
Speaker 1: just telling a story of trying to understand site picture
Speaker 1: and and shooting an angles. And the question that he
Speaker 1: leveled in here that I thought was good was just
Speaker 1: basically at the at the end, he says, my bubble level,
Speaker 1: I feel like my bubble level is a distraction. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get my pain in the right spot, make
Speaker 1: sure I've got good footing and do everything right. Why
Speaker 1: the hell does my bubble level matter? And what does
Speaker 1: it mean when shooting at angles? Okay, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: That's that's a there's a lot of technical answer involved
Speaker 1: in that simple question, but I will give an abbreviated
Speaker 1: version of it. So first answer why the level. The
Speaker 1: level is really important because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: you got let's say, we'll just go with a multipensite
Speaker 1: night even a slider site, just multipinsite. You've got your
Speaker 1: first pin at twenty and your last pin at fifty.
Speaker 1: Let's say, okay, so you draw back and your bow
Speaker 1: is not level to the ground. Well, what the level
Speaker 1: is is it's making sure that all the pins are
Speaker 1: in line with the horizontal plane of the ground. So
Speaker 1: therefore your left and right of the of your point
Speaker 1: of aim is the same. So if your bubble is
Speaker 1: cocked way to the left, say that means that the
Speaker 1: top limb would be angling far right. Now, think about
Speaker 1: your bottom pin, your fifty yard pin. Not that you're
Speaker 1: even shooting fifty yards, but where is that putting that
Speaker 1: fifty yard pin. Well, that's putting that the pins further down,
Speaker 1: further left than where it should be. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: shooting just really close, it makes a smaller difference. But
Speaker 1: as you even move out five ten yards, you're really
Speaker 1: pushing your point of aim in in a direction left
Speaker 1: or right. If your bow isn't level. Now, when you
Speaker 1: talk about you know shooting an angles and using your
Speaker 1: level it's even more important. But one thing you have
Speaker 1: to factor is what we call the third axis. So
Speaker 1: that's as you move your bow down, is your level
Speaker 1: still level? And then you can the second access you
Speaker 1: would do to level your bow. Make sure you can
Speaker 1: put your bow in a vice or use it up
Speaker 1: against the door jam, something that's plumb, like a plumb line,
Speaker 1: running say a weighted string down so you know that
Speaker 1: something's level. Then you draw back at full draw. Do
Speaker 1: this outside summer safe, don't dry fire it. You can
Speaker 1: do it with an arrow, but make sure obviously use
Speaker 1: common sense. Be safe. Now are all your pins lined
Speaker 1: up on that plumb line when you're flat, and then
Speaker 1: your bubble should be level. Then you know that your
Speaker 1: bubble is level four level ground. If it's not there,
Speaker 1: almost every bone now has a way to adjust that,
Speaker 1: so you're just the level itself that way. Then that
Speaker 1: that would be I guess the second access. Then the
Speaker 1: third axis would be canting it out. So as you
Speaker 1: go down at a fort up or down, does that
Speaker 1: level stay level? Is it true? And so I I
Speaker 1: like to use a plumb line to figure that out.
Speaker 1: I also and a full draw you want to do
Speaker 1: it at full draw because it changes your grip and
Speaker 1: everything changes, so that does make a difference. I found
Speaker 1: this vice to ice. I think it's like it's like
Speaker 1: a vice that PSC makes. I don't even know the
Speaker 1: name of it, but you can find it that you
Speaker 1: can clamp it on you level. It's got levels on it.
Speaker 1: Then you level yours and then you can drop that
Speaker 1: vice to forty five degrees. That's a good place to start.
Speaker 1: The other access. You would actually you push the housing
Speaker 1: away or towards you to adjust well. And if you're
Speaker 1: if you really want a quick way to learn this too,
Speaker 1: you and your next time you're at your pro shop
Speaker 1: and they're setting your bow up, just ask them because
Speaker 1: they're if they're doing it right there checking your third access,
Speaker 1: ask them how do you do that? And just watch
Speaker 1: them do it. They'll they likely will have a tool
Speaker 1: if they don't see how they freehand it. And then
Speaker 1: there's um, there's another good device for full draw third
Speaker 1: access is Hamski makes it. That's a good one. But
Speaker 1: long story short, Heck yeah, that bubble makes a big difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And and and that's you gotta like when
Speaker 1: you're checking your side picture. That's just gotta be again
Speaker 1: part of your process. Check this, check this, check this,
Speaker 1: and arrow at the air of line, you can't skip
Speaker 1: that bubble level or like you said, at distances it's
Speaker 1: tough well and if you just think, oh it feels
Speaker 1: level on angle, it always feels level. What's not level,
Speaker 1: So it makes a big difference. This is one that
Speaker 1: you and I were both thinking when we were recording
Speaker 1: episode number two, which is the bear attack on the
Speaker 1: fog neck being safer in bear country. We were both
Speaker 1: thinking of this and when we were talking about um
Speaker 1: putting the episode together, whether it should be multiple bear
Speaker 1: attacks or multiple bear encounters that you've had that kind
Speaker 1: of informed the tips, But we turned it just we
Speaker 1: felt it was smoother just to have just the falkneck attack.
Speaker 1: But you have a lot of other bear encounters, you know,
Speaker 1: that are informative, And this question came in a bunch
Speaker 1: um it came I probably I probably read twenty of them,
Speaker 1: I bet. In regards to black bear country as we'll
Speaker 1: call it, which is most of the United States, but
Speaker 1: in in country where you're hunting or you're around black bears,
Speaker 1: do you the same precautions as you do in grizz
Speaker 1: a brown bearer country, and you know, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you how did your mind think about that
Speaker 1: that scenario. Yeah, So I generally don't take the same precautions,
Speaker 1: but I take precautions because statistically, I think there's more
Speaker 1: black bear attacks than there are brown bear attacks, and
Speaker 1: it's just based on you encounter him more there. They
Speaker 1: are more places, and they're close, they do things closer people.
Speaker 1: One day, my brother was on a fall bear hunt,
Speaker 1: packed into the mission mountains, hunted bears hard for seven days,
Speaker 1: got back unpacking his stuff. He texted me that he
Speaker 1: was home. So I'm like sweet. So I rolled back
Speaker 1: into the driveway and here's a big old black bear
Speaker 1: trying to get an empty diesel can in our you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I'm like, here, he was
Speaker 1: out in grizz country and black bear country and had
Speaker 1: zero encounters, and yet right in the driveway, here's this
Speaker 1: big old bear that's like getting honorary about an empty
Speaker 1: diesel can. And I think that that right there is
Speaker 1: a because you just don't know where you're going to
Speaker 1: encounter black bears. Um, so you need to take precautions.
Speaker 1: When I'm in areas like Prince of Wales, or due
Speaker 1: to a place that there's a lot of high densities
Speaker 1: of black bears California. People that hunt in California, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of freaking bears there. And so in those
Speaker 1: places where there's a lot of bear, black bears, I
Speaker 1: do take the precautions. If I don't keep food in
Speaker 1: my tent, I take the precaution. And you know, it
Speaker 1: never hurts to have some form of protection from any
Speaker 1: sort of prayer. If you're bow hunting in California, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a bad idea to have have some kind
Speaker 1: of something on you. I always I'll never forget. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, well, I reading what was it? There was
Speaker 1: actually Cam Haynes book on back country bow hunting, and
Speaker 1: he has a story in there about a guy named
Speaker 1: South Cox. They got tore up by a bear in California.
Speaker 1: Every time I'm hunting California, I think that as a
Speaker 1: black bear. You know, I've heard other stories of just
Speaker 1: people that have sent me, oh I got look at this.
Speaker 1: This is from black bear. And my buddy's cousin got
Speaker 1: taken out of her tent well River guiding by a
Speaker 1: black beard. So yeah, when you're in black bear country,
Speaker 1: you really need to just also be aware of your
Speaker 1: surroundings at all times. But I do not personally. I
Speaker 1: think there is serious of a threat. Is grizzly bears,
Speaker 1: Like you have to be a hundred percent on it
Speaker 1: in grizzly country black bear country, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've had However, though I've had bad encounters with black bears. Well,
Speaker 1: there's roughitely, there's roughly I don't know. It depends on
Speaker 1: the population, but there's ten times the amount of black
Speaker 1: bears in this country as there are grizzly bears. I
Speaker 1: have encountered more aggressive black bears than browns. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I've had my I've had one follow me. Um,
Speaker 1: these are I've got some. Yeah, a lot of encounters
Speaker 1: with black bears. One of them I had one tear
Speaker 1: up my brand new four wheeler, had to one steal
Speaker 1: some packs from some hunters follow me. I had to
Speaker 1: put the pistol in one's face and charged me. It
Speaker 1: charged like I should. I thought about shoot. I had
Speaker 1: a tag too and I but I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to deal with it. Spit. While speaking of camaigns, I
Speaker 1: have hunted with cam before where you know, hunting with
Speaker 1: a with a bow all on the ground in Alberta
Speaker 1: when there's fifteen eighteen black bears walking around you and
Speaker 1: they're all within ten yards complete on a bait side.
Speaker 1: And the way that they express describe it up there
Speaker 1: is that if a grizzly comes into the bait, you
Speaker 1: stand up and you get your shotgun, or you stand
Speaker 1: up in a defensive position because the grizzly bears not
Speaker 1: coming into lick the honey. He's coming into mess with
Speaker 1: anything that's in his territory. And that's how they described it.
Speaker 1: And so I've never I didn't run into a bait
Speaker 1: that had both carriers and black bears on it. But
Speaker 1: that's that's how they describe it up there. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but if you're in just black bear country,
Speaker 1: camping whatever, you should be cautious. You should take precautions.
Speaker 1: It never hurts to be cautious. So do yourself favor.
Speaker 1: Don't just don't just go into a situation thinking if
Speaker 1: if it, if it freaks you out, if you think, oh,
Speaker 1: there's black bears in this and I'm nervous, bring some
Speaker 1: bear spray, bring something. Follow bear safety tips, like what's
Speaker 1: it gonna hurt. Who cares? You'll be more comfortable that way,
Speaker 1: especially family camping and stuff too. Oh yeah, gotta be
Speaker 1: on the ball. Okay, Well, can I tell a funny
Speaker 1: family camping bear story? Okay? So I was just divert
Speaker 1: from the questionable quick. So my grandpa always had this
Speaker 1: story that he had he had he has white hair,
Speaker 1: so when we were little kids, like real little, he
Speaker 1: would tell us this story that a bear pete on
Speaker 1: his head and that's how his hair turned white, and
Speaker 1: so in order for him to get his hair back,
Speaker 1: we needed to pee on a bear's head for him. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're like on a family camping trip. I don't
Speaker 1: even know I was probably I was old enough to
Speaker 1: know better. I was probably like six years seven years old,
Speaker 1: six years old. And then my little brothers are there
Speaker 1: and we're camping in northern California, somewhere in the Humble area,
Speaker 1: I don't know, campground style camping on the coast, and
Speaker 1: this big old black bear walks into camp, just checking
Speaker 1: people's coolers, and me and my brothers get together and
Speaker 1: we're like, wouldn't it be cool if we pete on
Speaker 1: this bear's head for grandpa? So it's like getting into
Speaker 1: our cooler and we think, okay, we're gonna jump up
Speaker 1: on the picnic table and pee on this bear's head.
Speaker 1: So we jump up on the table ready to be
Speaker 1: on this bear's head, and the very season starts running
Speaker 1: and now we're like chasing the bear pants half down
Speaker 1: through the campground. These three little kids chasing this bear
Speaker 1: with their pants half down through a campground. People are
Speaker 1: looking like, oh bear, And then here come these like
Speaker 1: screaming kids running by trying to pee on this bear's head.
Speaker 1: That had it been successful, that would have been great.
Speaker 1: That would have been counter an entire podcast. But yeah,
Speaker 1: how many people you think actually pete on a bear?
Speaker 1: I think anybody's ever made it happen like Luis and
Speaker 1: Clark maybe probably probably pete on a bear sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's my campground bear story to a unique story.
Speaker 1: So why we love your podcast. These stories you gotta get. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we may make that into a whole episode that should
Speaker 1: someone should animate that, like, okay, that would be a
Speaker 1: great little animation. You're listening to this, you're an animator,
Speaker 1: Please let us know what it costs or just do
Speaker 1: it for free. We'd prefer that what else we gotta here?
Speaker 1: What else? What else? What else? We did three episodes
Speaker 1: on elk, so so as you can imagine, lots and
Speaker 1: lots of questions, questions, and we're still we're not out
Speaker 1: of the elk season yet now, so some of these
Speaker 1: I think can be helpful. Um here's one, well, let's see.
Speaker 1: It was from Brian in Minnesota. He said he's traveling
Speaker 1: out west to Colorado to do some elk cutting this
Speaker 1: year by himself, and was asking that a lot of
Speaker 1: year in in episodes four or five six, where you
Speaker 1: talked about dogging, el can coaxing and loan bulls and
Speaker 1: non non vocal sounds, he says that a lot of
Speaker 1: that you were describing guiding another person or calling for
Speaker 1: another person. You're on a show called solo Hunter. He's
Speaker 1: asking what do I do if I'm by myself and
Speaker 1: all these situations occurred, I've got to both draw my
Speaker 1: bow and break a tree or draw my bow and
Speaker 1: make you know, cow sounds and bugles in different directions.
Speaker 1: He's just asking for, like, how do you execute those things? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It is more difficult, but most almost all the elk
Speaker 1: I've taken have been by myself. You know. I One
Speaker 1: thing I do is I like to change the direction
Speaker 1: that I'm calling to make it appear that I'm further back.
Speaker 1: Another thing is don't be afraid to move around. UM.
Speaker 1: A lot of the call like elk are expecting to
Speaker 1: see movement. You can get away with a lot of movement,
Speaker 1: especially when you're in a calling position. You just have
Speaker 1: to stay vigilant, keep your eye open, make sure that
Speaker 1: the elk is not going to see you first. But
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to do what you need to do
Speaker 1: to get that bowl to come to you. Now when
Speaker 1: it's really bearing down. I prefer to use a diaphragm
Speaker 1: style call um because it's hands free. Al's got some
Speaker 1: elk calls. I always have calls I never UM, you know,
Speaker 1: but I I know that some people have trouble even
Speaker 1: using these calls, or don't practice with them, or can't
Speaker 1: use them. So if out as you practice making the
Speaker 1: cow like the basic cow call with your voice, I
Speaker 1: use that a lot to stop the bull or to
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got to draw back and in
Speaker 1: bad timing, use just a that's no call, that's just
Speaker 1: my voice going practice that because that is key just
Speaker 1: to stop the elk sometimes you'll need that. Another good
Speaker 1: call if you don't have is like the kind that
Speaker 1: you bite, the biting call um, because you can keep
Speaker 1: it in the corner of your mouth. The name the
Speaker 1: pre must makes everyone makes one. There's a lot of those.
Speaker 1: I've used quite a few of those in the past.
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, a lot out of the tactics that
Speaker 1: I've done the best too for being by yourself, the
Speaker 1: dogging elk and the calling to a loan bull, that's great.
Speaker 1: They're great setups if you're by yourself, So hopefully those
Speaker 1: situations arise. Yeah, that's just everything up hunting. Where you're
Speaker 1: by yourself and you're calling, it's more difficult, it's how
Speaker 1: it is, but it is doable. Yeah, it's tougher to
Speaker 1: close the distance because you're closer the animal. You have
Speaker 1: to draw, you have to be ready. It's just tougher.
Speaker 1: But also think about calling further back and then sneaking up,
Speaker 1: like stalking to where it is, because when they're hold up,
Speaker 1: when you're by yourself, you make the moves, and so
Speaker 1: you can get away with a lot more just getting
Speaker 1: into position than moving crawling, closing the gap, closing the distance.
Speaker 1: He said it. He said the name of the podcast,
Speaker 1: it's cutting the Distance. We started just as, um, just
Speaker 1: as this is a little bit of behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: We started out as closing the Distance. That was the
Speaker 1: show name. I didn't like that sounds like I'm in
Speaker 1: a bar because like trying to pick up chicks at
Speaker 1: a bar. I'm like, then cutting, that's not a good name. Cutting,
Speaker 1: but cutting cutting is better, Yeah, because if you're at
Speaker 1: a bar, you wouldn't you would close the distance, not
Speaker 1: cut it right too, that's too brash to brash. What
Speaker 1: else we got? Oh, um man, there's a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot. I should make shorter answers and we can
Speaker 1: we have time for I think we have probably have
Speaker 1: time for two more. Two more. Um here's a good one.
Speaker 1: And this came in a lot. People love the shoes
Speaker 1: off situation. I think we might have to make a
Speaker 1: T shirt that says s OSS situations off situation. This
Speaker 1: was an episode ago where we talked about a Remy
Speaker 1: talked about Honey Mule Deer without your Shoes on, and
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys rode in to ask uh
Speaker 1: specifics about it. But one of the things that came
Speaker 1: in the most was what's the craziest place you've ever done?
Speaker 1: An s os uh in the Chewcatch Mountains of Alaska,
Speaker 1: stalking some bedded doll sheep. It was closing in. It
Speaker 1: was steep, it was shelley. All sheep generally don't mind noise.
Speaker 1: But I was bow hunting and I was so close
Speaker 1: and in order to get a shot, I had to
Speaker 1: get closer because shoes off situation. It was wet ground,
Speaker 1: it was rocky. That was That was a major shoes
Speaker 1: off situation. And then probably the second craziest shoes off situation,
Speaker 1: um bow hunting in Mexico, a little cactus country. But
Speaker 1: I did the sandal. I did what I liked, my
Speaker 1: my modified shoes off sitch, the sandal with sock over Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that helped with the old not a fashion statement,
Speaker 1: but effective. Well you don't see the sandal because the
Speaker 1: socks over the top. Yeah, you can wear socks under
Speaker 1: your sandals. If you wear socks over your sandals as well,
Speaker 1: neither of what's very fashion. Yeah, what else we got here?
Speaker 1: People like the shoes off sitch though, I and the
Speaker 1: only reason I started talking about that that was one
Speaker 1: of the things that I just get a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about and think, uh huh huh. I mean every
Speaker 1: thing about every mule dear archery article you've ever read
Speaker 1: talks about that, and then people are surprised about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's probably something that those
Speaker 1: of us who do a lot of stock and understand,
Speaker 1: but maybe those that that just see this that are
Speaker 1: either casual hunters that just don't do a lot of
Speaker 1: Western spot and stock. You know, you're stocking the thing
Speaker 1: I see all the time, big mistakes, guys wearing mountaineering
Speaker 1: style boots and like, I'm going to sneak up on
Speaker 1: this mule there in dry country in my uh full
Speaker 1: shank boots. Good luck son. I would say the first
Speaker 1: time that we ever went to Lunai to stalk access here,
Speaker 1: I probably I probably bought brought a pair like crispy
Speaker 1: mountain boots that were probably and you notice that that
Speaker 1: first time, I just hunted like damn near barefoot the
Speaker 1: entire time, and I did pretty darn good and it
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, I was just walking. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's flat, it's not bad. This one spot as well,
Speaker 1: just hunting my stocking socks. All that we we ended
Speaker 1: up by the second or third trip we went over there,
Speaker 1: and you and me and everyone else didn't even bring
Speaker 1: put boots in your pack and just have them in
Speaker 1: case you had to walk on the road or something.
Speaker 1: But you just didn't even wear them, didn't even need them.
Speaker 1: So it depends on where you are. But and the
Speaker 1: funny thing is a lot of you guys that wrote in,
Speaker 1: you know, Remy does a lot of hunting out west,
Speaker 1: and that's what this podcast really about. It's cool that
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys wrote in you're from all
Speaker 1: over the country and you're coming west to hunt. There's
Speaker 1: so much you know, there's such a divide regionally, but
Speaker 1: it just seems like there's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are traveling from a long ways from the home place
Speaker 1: to go do these things. So it's important that you
Speaker 1: get it right. So I'm glad that those things are
Speaker 1: coming together now. Probably the biggest question that I have
Speaker 1: this is uh episode four, it was called the Story
Speaker 1: of Stubby mcnubbon mcnubban's Stubby mcnubbins and um, a couple
Speaker 1: of people ask it in is Stubby mcne ubbens still
Speaker 1: roaming the hills of Montana? So yes, and no the
Speaker 1: o g Stubby mcnubbans. I think he's gone. However, his
Speaker 1: genes moved on. There's I mean it's one of the
Speaker 1: it's like bigfoot sightings in this area because there's multiple
Speaker 1: places where we're like we saw Stubby. I think it's
Speaker 1: just Stubbies offspring. Dude. He was. He was the boss hog,
Speaker 1: he had his harem and he ruled the roost. It's
Speaker 1: his Jenes definitely got passed on the memory and the
Speaker 1: legacy of Stubby mcnubbans shallingder. God bless you, Stubby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: God bless you. Do you have any like what's in
Speaker 1: the future. You know, we're we've we've we want to
Speaker 1: do this. We're gonna do this, um you know, is
Speaker 1: as frequently as we can. Rebby be out in the
Speaker 1: field a lot this fallen as well. I'm doing other things,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna try to make sure we do this
Speaker 1: at least once every couple of months where we gather
Speaker 1: all your questions and we answer them on the show.
Speaker 1: So look out for that. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: other things is coming up as far as topics, so
Speaker 1: hopefully stick around what's what's what's burning for you? There, Renny. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think there's some good stuff as far as we're
Speaker 1: coming into. I like to make it topical and seasonal.
Speaker 1: So and let's talk about a little spotting stuff, some
Speaker 1: rifle season LK hunting tactics, deer hunting tactics, then just
Speaker 1: some you know, some all around just good hunting skills. Man.
Speaker 1: We've been we've been hamming pretty hard on glassing tips,
Speaker 1: which we haven't covered yet on the show. So you
Speaker 1: think that's coming up, right? Yeah? Glassing. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the number one tactic for Western hunting. And that's the
Speaker 1: question I've been getting a lot. I just uh, someone
Speaker 1: just wrote actually right before we start recording this. So Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got good optics, but I'm having I'm only seeing
Speaker 1: stuff that's moving around. What the hell am I doing wrong?
Speaker 1: What should I be looking for? Yeah, and then I'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. But and I want to get into
Speaker 1: some advanced stuff too. For the guys that you know,
Speaker 1: I want you, you know what, I want you to
Speaker 1: be the best spotter that you know. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: written down as an episode title spot bucks before your friends.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Make a competitive So we will
Speaker 1: keep working on this but thank you for all writing
Speaker 1: in from from my desk and the whole Mediator crew
Speaker 1: and especially Remy who's the man. Oh yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: I uh and then maybe some you know what, shoot
Speaker 1: me some comments on good endings. How should I end
Speaker 1: the podcast? That's the hardest part. Like what's a good
Speaker 1: sign off? Like stay frosty, stay stealthy, Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: your broccoli. I mean, he's all died. Wasn't one of them? Like,
Speaker 1: don't get died, don't get I don't know the sign off.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the variety. I want one that's
Speaker 1: like kind of me where it's subtle yet cool yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, Like if I'm in a group
Speaker 1: of people, like I'm just like when you're leaving the
Speaker 1: bar and everybody else will stay like you're leaving early
Speaker 1: to go home and get some rest. You say like
Speaker 1: all right, guys, stay frosty. No see. I just if
Speaker 1: I'm around a group of people, I do the Irish.
Speaker 1: I just sleep nobody. If you say I'm leaving, then
Speaker 1: I was like, why are you leaving? You just like
Speaker 1: let's slip out. That's that's on our new podcast called
Speaker 1: Closing the Distance. That's on the bar. Tips, yes, being
Speaker 1: at the bar. How to? I don't know. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of hunting tips. Not so good for social situations.
Speaker 1: All right, let me close it out. Give us your ender. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for the comments. I wish we could get to
Speaker 1: all of them. I try my damnedest to answer as
Speaker 1: many questions as I can. The shorter the answer, the
Speaker 1: more likely I am to respond to it via message
Speaker 1: before my thumbs wear out. However, some of the longer
Speaker 1: form ones I like to this is great, talk it
Speaker 1: out here and until next week. Um, eat your protein,
Speaker 1: eat that, cook your elk medium rare, keep a medium rare. Goodbye,
Speaker 1: h