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Speaker 1: As a guide an hunter. I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal, success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. You're on a glassy knob.

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Speaker 1: The sun's just about to crack. You and your buddy

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Speaker 1: are getting ready for the day. You're excited. You geared

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Speaker 1: up for this hunt. Now out west. There's this rule.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the rule of the land, and it

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Speaker 1: goes like this. He who spots it stocks it, or

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Speaker 1: at least gets the first rider refusal. Well, what's that

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Speaker 1: mean for you? That means that you want to spot

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Speaker 1: something before the guy next to you. How do you

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Speaker 1: do that? This week, I want to teach you how

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Speaker 1: to spot animals fast with hypercentage scanning, where to look,

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Speaker 1: when to look, and how to focus in and pick

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Speaker 1: apart the landscape. I think the best way to go

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Speaker 1: about it is to tell you a story about a

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Speaker 1: trip I took with four friends down to southern Arizona

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Speaker 1: to hunt cous deer. This hunt takes place down in

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Speaker 1: Arizona right on the Mexico border. It's the Southwest Desert.

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Speaker 1: We're hunting an area where we got these over the counter,

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Speaker 1: pretty much tags leftover rifle tags for cou's deer, which

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Speaker 1: can be some of the hardest deer to spot, especially

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Speaker 1: in early October. The reason is they're really, really well

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Speaker 1: adapted to their environment. You gotta picture it. It's a

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Speaker 1: big cactus country. There's a lot of these bushes we

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Speaker 1: call oka tillo, which is is essentially a spiny pile

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Speaker 1: of branches that almost looks like you can look through,

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Speaker 1: yet everything behind it can hide the cou's deers coat.

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Speaker 1: I would consider it very close to digital camo. It

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Speaker 1: blends in it's gray. They call him the gray ghosts

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Speaker 1: moving around much. They aren't running. They're just sitting in

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Speaker 1: making them very difficult to find. You might have a

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Speaker 1: out on a lasting I'm there with three of my

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Speaker 1: best friends. We got John, Mike, and Joe. Now my

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Speaker 1: buddy John moved down to Arizona, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what spurred our whole CU's deer or my cuse dear fascination,

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Speaker 1: pretty much all of ours, because we figured out we

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Speaker 1: don't get a hunt much anymore, so we'll make a trip,

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Speaker 1: a pilgrimage down to Arizona, will go hunt the cous deer,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it would be a great camp, great trip.

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Speaker 1: So John had yet to shoot a couse buck, but

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Speaker 1: he've been living down there for a little while. So

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Speaker 1: I really wanted John to get a buck, almost more

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Speaker 1: my bow. So we're all out there, we're starting the

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Speaker 1: morning out and the rule is simple. It's the same

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Speaker 1: rule we have lived by when other people have a tag.

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Speaker 1: If you spot it, you stock it, or you at

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Speaker 1: least get the first right refusal. And why is that, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's because you're the one that found it. Once you

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Speaker 1: all four of us. We've got our tripods out, we've

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Speaker 1: It's got a good basin and background. The sun is

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Speaker 1: So we're sitting there, the sun's coming up. We start

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Speaker 1: It wasn't me, but you know what, I wasn't looking

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Speaker 1: Now you might think that's a coincidence, but I think

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Speaker 1: The key to spotting things before other people is reading

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Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to talk about. To outglass

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Speaker 1: Now there's this also this other term shotgun glassing. That's

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you well, I won't give you

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Speaker 1: darn good place to start. So until next week, outspot

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