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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This episode number two and thirty three,

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Speaker 1: and today Dan and I are back together again and

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Speaker 1: we're discussing his life changing elk hunt in Colorado in

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Speaker 1: my downright disappointing trip to North Dakota. Before we kick

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Speaker 1: things off, though, we want to thank our friends at

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Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx,

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Speaker 1: and for the first time in a pretty decent while,

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Speaker 1: we are here for just a good old fashioned Mark

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Speaker 1: and Dan bs session. And it feels so good to

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Speaker 1: say that no plans, no expectations. I love that because

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Speaker 1: the thing for me is I'm always really good at

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Speaker 1: under promising and then occasionally over delivering. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's that's the game plan for today. So basically what

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Speaker 1: you're telling everyone now is you're gonna tell them it's

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Speaker 1: a good podcast, but we're gonna weigh under deliver. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like for this probably just jinks the whole thing, but whatever, dude,

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Speaker 1: I've been in just a just a tizzy of chaos

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days. So I literally ran this

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Speaker 1: this is the truth. I literally ran into my house

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Speaker 1: just before starting to record this. I ran over to

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Speaker 1: my son and kissed him goodnight, hurried over into my

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Speaker 1: office and took off my pants. Um, that's it, that's it, yea.

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Speaker 1: And it was a prerequisite to take off my pants

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Speaker 1: before recording this podcast. So you're sitting there and just

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Speaker 1: And I did that for a reason. Though's because I

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Speaker 1: for poison ivy precautions. Uh. So that's that's my state

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Speaker 1: of mind right now. Um, it's a perfect, perfect way

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Speaker 1: to start this podcast. Um, what I what I do?

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Speaker 1: There are a few things that I did have on

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Speaker 1: my list of things I want to make sure we

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Speaker 1: number one, we gotta talk about your elk hunt. And

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Speaker 1: number two, we got to talk about my North Dakota

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Speaker 1: hunt with Further because last week's podcast, you were out

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Speaker 1: don't make any decisions. You're the one in charge, right.

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Speaker 1: You live on the edge, Dan, you are the wild card.

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Speaker 1: And then then I'll throw this one at you then,

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Speaker 1: they haven't been following along in other places. If you

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Speaker 1: we did not kill an elk. But shots were fired,

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Speaker 1: we just came from. And Adam goes, I bet you

426
00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: anything that bowl bugled in his bed. So we bugle

427
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: again and he he responds. Again, We bugle again, he responds.

428
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: So we're now we're trying to locate him and if

429
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: he's coming from the exact same spot, right, and he's like,

430
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: let's go, this one's closer, let's go get him. Go

431
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 1: back up the mountain. We get into and as we're

432
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: as we're getting closer, so like every hundred yards every

433
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: two yards we bugle, and it's coming from the same

434
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: exact spot, and this dark timber is so thick and

435
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: nasty you can't see. You can't even see fifty yards

436
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: in front of you, right, So we're getting really aggressive

437
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: and we're going right straight towards this bugle. And the

438
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: good thing about how this all played out was with

439
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: the cloud cover and a slight drizzle the afternoon, thermals

440
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: were coming down. They weren't going up because it was cooler,

441
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: and the rain kind of was pushing the thermals down. Uh,

442
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: it was kind of it wasn't raining, but it was

443
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: kind of sprinkling. Thermals were going down, and and we

444
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: were getting closer, and we're getting closer, and now now

445
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: we're so close that when he bugles, you can feel it,

446
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: like I'm like, you could feel it in your skin.

447
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: When that high pitch part of the bugle goes, your

448
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: ears just kind of tickle a little bit, like that's

449
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: how close we were. Right. So we get up to

450
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: this spot, and by the grace of God, there is

451
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: an opening right there, right there in the um in

452
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: this dark, thick, dead fall timber, and it's offering a

453
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: shooting lane of like twenty to thirty yards and uh,

454
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: and Adam goes, okay, you set up here, Dan, you

455
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: flank over here, and um, I'm gonna drop back and

456
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: start calling. So Ryan got first shot until he actually

457
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: let an arrow go? Or were you guys eating on

458
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: every setup? Not every setup? First shot? Just like the

459
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: first shot. So we're gonna we're gonna get into position,

460
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: and um the first every time we put Ryan in

461
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: like the first until he got a shot. It was

462
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: Ryan's shot. That was a high stakes game of rock

463
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: paper scissors. I know that could have been the whole trip.

464
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: You might have had him leading off. Yeah, it could

465
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: have been. So did you have any strategy when he

466
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: went into that rock paper sciss or just go with

467
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: your gut? I just I just threw. I didn't even

468
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: think about it, because you think about it and then

469
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: you start messing up. Yeah, but in retrospect, now that

470
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: you lost, do you think you should have approached it

471
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: with any different ideas or tactics? Probably? I don't know.

472
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: I really wasn't thinking about I just I was like, Okay,

473
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,719
Speaker 1: I don't have a quarter in my pocket. Let's think

474
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: of a fairway. A fair way to do this. So

475
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: paper rock scissors one out of one. That's all it was.

476
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: That's that's high stakes. Okay, Yeah, so Ryan's up to bat.

477
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: Ryan's up to bat. I dropped down a little bit lower,

478
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: and I come around to another little clearing that's about

479
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: the size of a small bedroom. I mean, if the

480
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: elk was gonna come my way, it would have, he

481
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,719
Speaker 1: would have I would have shot him at ten yards

482
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: type of deal. So Adam drops back behind Ryan down

483
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: the down the mountain and he starts taking sticks and

484
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: branches and ship and just cracking him and throwing logs

485
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: and beating him and bugling and cow calling, and so

486
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: what he was doing is sounding like he was running

487
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: around gathering up some cows. That's what if I had

488
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: to guess, that's what it sounded like. And every time

489
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: he bugled, and now you know, we've pushed into about

490
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: fifty yards of this elk, right, I can't see him yet.

491
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: We know he's above us, but we can't see him yet.

492
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: And he's hammering these bugles and everyone is just like

493
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: a you know, like just crazy. And I'm telling you man,

494
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: to all the listeners out there, if you ever get

495
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: the opportunity to go on at elk hunt. It's gonna

496
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: be brutal. That just depends on where you go. But

497
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: it's like what we did. It's brutal, it's physical, it's

498
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: it's a mental game. But if you get the opportunity

499
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: to hear an elk bugle as close as we did,

500
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: you will think about it every single day for the

501
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Dude, I'm telling you, it was

502
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: a life changing event. It's it's so awesome, and right there,

503
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: right in the middle of dance story, I'm gonna stop

504
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,560
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506
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508
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509
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510
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511
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512
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513
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Speaker 1: in Montana. I'll be using it two weeks after that

514
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516
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517
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518
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520
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521
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522
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523
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524
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526
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528
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536
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: some cracking, like so like he's up on his feet

537
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: now or something. So I dropped. I kind of dropped

538
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: down a little bit. So I'm way low and I'm

539
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: trying to look under this dead fall, so I can't

540
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: see Ryan anymore. But every time, every time Adam bugles

541
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: or calls, this bowl is responding and he's bugling again,

542
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: and like I said, it's a glorious thing. So so

543
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: as Adams calling the next bugle sounded like it was

544
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: further away, maybe he stood up or turned around, so

545
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: I thought, oh my god, this you know, there's a

546
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: herd of cows or something and he's heading heading off

547
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: with the cows or whatever. And just as I thought that,

548
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: Adam did one hell of a calling sequence, like break

549
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: some sticks and break the tree and made a bugle

550
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: and some cow calls, and he turned around and now

551
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: I could look up and I could see the tops

552
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: of his antlers. He was really close, still still responding

553
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: with every bugle that h Ryan or excuse me that

554
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: to Adam set out and I can see his the

555
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: tops of his antlers. I could see part of his head,

556
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: but that was it. And he's like he swaying them

557
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: back and forth, almost like a moose does. It was weird.

558
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 1: He just like really really uh, I don't know, like

559
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: he was showing off to somebody almost yeah. Um, from

560
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: what I could see, like every elk is huge to me,

561
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's and and plus it

562
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: was really thick and nasty, so it's not like I

563
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: had a perfect clear shot at him. So and then

564
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: I could hear him stomping and pollen, so it was

565
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: almost like he was freaking pissed, really really piste off.

566
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: And something happened and all of a sudden, he just

567
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: committed and it sounded like a car being pushed through

568
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: the woods through the timber, just cracking and coming through.

569
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't even like he was trying to go around

570
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: anything but straight through it. And then there was this

571
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: moment of silence and I heard and I I knew

572
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: that what that sound was, and that was Ryan uh

573
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: letting an arrow go. Yeah, And so I put my

574
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: arrow back quick in my quiver. I run up and

575
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: there I see Ryan like looking back at me like

576
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: he just seen a ghost type of deal, you know,

577
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: like because he killed he killed an elk before, like

578
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: six years ago with a rifle on a private ranch

579
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: something you know, almost like shooting fishing a barrel type

580
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: of thing, and he and Ryan was like, I hit him.

581
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: I hit him. I'm like, did you hit him? Did

582
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: you like I hit him? I hit him? And so

583
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: we we we just kind of wait for Adam to

584
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: come up, because Adam didn't know what happened. And I said,

585
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: what which way did he run? He's like, he ran

586
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: that way. But then I lost him. And remember this

587
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: is some of the thickest, nastiest ship that I've ever witnessed, right,

588
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: and so if you walk fifty yards ahead of someone,

589
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: you're lost. So we I start whistling for Adam. Adam

590
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: comes up, We kind of gather ourselves. We say, okay,

591
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: where did you Where do you think you hit him?

592
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: And Ryan goes, I think I hit him a little

593
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: forward but high um to where I think I got

594
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: high long. And I'm like, dude, if you got high long, man,

595
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: we're in business, man, We're in business. And so we

596
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: wait just like two minutes, three minutes, and then we

597
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: start making our way to the impact where and this

598
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: this was inside twenty yards where he had this shot,

599
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: so probably closer to fifteen if I had to guess.

600
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: But he hit him just a little bit high, he

601
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: thought because I didn't I wasn't able to see the

602
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: shot or the impact. Um. At once this once this

603
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: elk came down the side of the mountain towards Ryan.

604
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: I lost all all side of him and it was

605
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: just my hearing from then on. And so we we

606
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: kind of looking. We're looking on the ground. Nothing, We're

607
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: looking on, you know, for some stumps. Nothing, and then

608
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: Ryan finds a zero and it's broken off and total penetration.

609
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: And this is generous, probably about four inches maybe less.

610
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: So what we're thinking is we hit the shoulder and

611
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: he was shooting a mechanical broadhead and it it hit

612
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: it and it just stopped basically through the meat of

613
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: the front shoulder, hit the hit the bone and just

614
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: stopped right there. But we did our due diligence and

615
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: we we we grid searched for minutes. No blood, no

616
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: unturned like upturned soil or anything from where we could

617
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: see him running. And long story short, that was the uh.

618
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: That was Ryan's first archery shot at a at an elk.

619
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: And um, there's nothing you say to a guy after that.

620
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: You know, I could have sat there and be like, hey, sport,

621
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. You know, keep your head up

622
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: ship like that. It's like you had an opportunity like

623
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: that and he you just it didn't it didn't happen, right, So,

624
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: so so we're talking about We're like, Ryan, what do

625
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: you think this? What do you think this bowl? How

626
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: big was he? And Ryan goes, I don't. I don't

627
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: know too much about ELK, but I'm staying somewhere between

628
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: two fifty and three. And then he starts to describe

629
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: the characteristics and he said, all I know is I

630
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: saw the end of one of his and they I

631
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: guess they call him a whale tail. The whale tail,

632
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: so I guess the whale tail is something that's predominant

633
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: on six by six is so Adam thinks it was

634
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: bigger than that. Um so maybe I don't know between

635
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: three class bowl. So and from what I saw it

636
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: it was it wasn't like hugely wide, but they were

637
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: really tall from what I can see, or well kind

638
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: of they flare back, I don't know. So from what

639
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: I could see, so it was it was a good

640
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: decent bowl and it just didn't happen. Sounds like a

641
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: very exciting day, but that is that is the ultimate bummer. Yeah, absolutely.

642
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: Now here's something that I was I knew I wasn't

643
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: necessarily a shooter, but there was a chance that if

644
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: this elp came around the other way, I would have

645
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: had a shot on him. And for some reason, I

646
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: was not fire it up like I would have been

647
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: if I was deer hunting for some reason, like when

648
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: that when that deer shows up and and you're I

649
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: don't know, you're already you're you get buck fever, I guess,

650
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: or you get that huge adrenaline dump like I know

651
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, and I know I'm drawn back. I

652
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: didn't get that. I was really clear, and that was

653
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: strange to me. Do you think that was more because

654
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: of the scenario, you know, outcutting different species, different place,

655
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: or was it more because you knew that you were

656
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: runner up? Well? I think a lot. I think a

657
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: lot of it has has to do with I think

658
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: for for deer hunting, you have a real low heart

659
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: rate and then it goes to a real high heart rate.

660
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: My heart rate was already up right from climbing up

661
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: the mountain, so it's not like if I had an

662
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: adrenaline rushed my heart was gonna do anything more than

663
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: what it was already doing, you know what I mean.

664
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just I was clear, I

665
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: was ready, and I was focused. So that's nuts. I

666
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be like losing my ship. Yeah,

667
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: now that doesn't mean you couldn't lose your ship litter

668
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: in the trip, possibly, right right right, So tell me

669
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: what happens next. I'm gonna fast forward today three alright,

670
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: So day two we go back to the same area.

671
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: We hear two bugles, We chase them, nothing happens. We

672
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: have an encounter with a calf. Uh, nobody takes a

673
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: shot at it, just because you know, I mean, in

674
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: in light of what just happened the day before, we

675
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: felt like we had hit something right right, and then

676
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: Adam had to head back into town, uh, to his

677
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: house to meet someone for get internet set up in

678
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: his new house. So me and Ryan were kind of

679
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: on our own. We had our on X maps, we were,

680
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: you know, looking at where we needed to go. Oh

681
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,959
Speaker 1: my god. We had a hike that went from ten

682
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: to eleven one and it was straight up and it

683
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: was literally one of the most punishing things and growing

684
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: things I have ever physically done in my entire life. Period.

685
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: I I don't know how many calories reburned, but it

686
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: was I mean, I was losing my mind, climbing this

687
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: like mental failure, getting mad, getting angry because we were

688
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: going up the same dead fall, but we were up

689
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: the same deadfall, but we were going at like a

690
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: forty degree angle. Do you think this this one sucked?

691
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: This watch that Ryan had that told you your exact elevation,

692
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: do you think that was a blessing or curse? Because

693
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: I could see it being a little scary or a

694
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh. Every time you actually look at that number, like,

695
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: oh god, we've gone seven, we've gonet that much. Did

696
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: that make misery more exaggerated? Uh? Not necessarily, because I

697
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't ask him until we were done with the punishment, right,

698
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: I ever asked before, because whenever Adam said, hey, we

699
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: just gotta pop up this ridge, like that's what someone

700
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: who lives out there says. Uh. If I was up

701
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: there and I was going to tell somebody what we

702
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: had to do, I would look at him straight in

703
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: the face and I would say, I'm going to try

704
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: to kill you right now. So that's what that punishment

705
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: was like. And we um, you know, we went back

706
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: down the mountain. Uh we he went, he went home.

707
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: We went kind of up a little bit up to

708
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: a different drainage, worked our way down and uh man,

709
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: I was beat after that day. Got up the next morning,

710
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: got into the truck and we went to a completely

711
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: different part of the mountain and we walked into this

712
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: little secluded drainage slash meadow and it was one of

713
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: the most beautiful things. Like the sun's coming up over

714
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: the mountains and it's just beautiful, a light, there's some

715
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: clouds the air, no bugles, but and this is a

716
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: learning experience for me, and it's something that I made

717
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: a mistake one time during this trip, and I didn't

718
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: make it again. So you hike in and just your

719
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: bass layers because you're sweating balls by the time you

720
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: get to where you went. And I felt, hey, I'm

721
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: still gonna be hot in twenty minutes or ten minutes.

722
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit here in my bass layers. And

723
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: while Adams drops back, you know, drops back and calls,

724
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: and I'm so now I'm up to bat first, right,

725
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: So I get the I guess what you would call

726
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: the favor favorable position, and we're looking across this drainage

727
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, thirty yards from where I'm sitting

728
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: to the opposite side, so it was kind of steep

729
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: on both sides, so if something came out, you could

730
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: you could shoot across the drainage at it. And I

731
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: set up and I started getting cold, and my backpacks

732
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: behind a tree, so I get out, and as I

733
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: stand up and turn around, I hear something on the

734
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: other side take off and run away. And I'm just like,

735
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: I just screwed up, like a potential opportunity, because you know,

736
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: we could hear elk across the drainage, like just working

737
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: around in there, walking back and forth and stuff. And

738
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: then I started shivering because I was cold, so I

739
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: needed to go get some more layers on. So I

740
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: stood up and walked around the tree and there must

741
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: have been something close on the other side that busted

742
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: me and it took off running fast. Forward about twenty

743
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: more minutes and we all meet up back behind these trees,

744
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we hear something run off

745
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: and we look and it's a cow had stuck up

746
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: behind us. So our bows are all down on the

747
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: ground and Ryan goes, oh, man, there's another there's another

748
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: cow coming right at us. And it wasn't a cow,

749
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: it was a bull. And if I thought that the

750
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: bull on day one was huge, you could have put

751
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: that bowls rack into this bulls rack. It was. And

752
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: I feel I don't know shit about scoring, and I

753
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: don't know anything, so I'm not going to try to

754
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: say a score. But I've watched in my day a

755
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: lot of YouTube videos and stuff, and I would put

756
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: this elk up there with any other elk I've seen

757
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: on TV. Uh. Just gigantic. And it it came in

758
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: silent behind us, and we looked and I grabbed my

759
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: bow and knock an arrow and I'm getting ready to

760
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: draw and it runs away. It wasn't like I had

761
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: a shot anyway, but it was one of those things

762
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: where it's just like I got to see it. It's

763
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: like it made eye contact with me. Was it was

764
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: mind blowing lee huge. And again I'm from Iowa. I've

765
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: seen now at this point in my life, I've seen

766
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: two bowl elk somewhat close right in real life. So

767
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: it could have been a three inch and the other

768
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: one could have been a you know, a two fifty,

769
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: but I know it was big and I was just

770
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: jacked up about it, and like, so if that, if

771
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: if it ended right there, I would call that a

772
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: successful trip. But we had we had five more days

773
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: to go. Unfortunately, this is where everything slows down, not

774
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: another bugle. It got warm and the weather turned nice,

775
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: and we bounced around every day and every day was

776
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: just basically hiking and setting up on fresh sign and

777
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 1: doing our due diligence and grinding and grinding and grinding,

778
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: and unfortunately nothing happened. Yeah, it sounds like a pretty

779
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: awesome trip though, those first few days, like you just said,

780
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: makes for them for success, right right. I'm telling you,

781
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I will go elk hunting

782
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: every year for the rest of my life. Yeah. It

783
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: gets in your blood. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's fun. And

784
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: it was not only the hardest thing I've ever had

785
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: to do physically, but like I was better prepared mentally

786
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: for this time because I remembered what that punishment breathing

787
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: was like. So it was like I had time to

788
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: prepare for So it's like I knew what I was

789
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: getting into. Yeah. That helps that helps a lot. So

790
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: long story short, dude, that's my that's my Colorado trip

791
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. It was long, but I'm glad that

792
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: you've got that experience, though I felt so bad after

793
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: our trip. I've been talking it up so much and

794
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: telling me about how the year before was nuts and

795
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,959
Speaker 1: having those moments like you described, and it obviously didn't

796
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: pan out for us on that one, but now you know, yeah,

797
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: now you know it was nuts, dude. And I just

798
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I've said it before

799
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. I wish everybody has the

800
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: opportunity to experience something like that, because white tail hunting

801
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: is one thing, but when you have eight hundred pound animal,

802
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: nine pound animal running around making the loudest noises you've

803
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: ever heard, it's an experience in itself. Dude. Yeah, I'm

804
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: glad we're having this conversation because I leave for an

805
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: elk hunt next week. And I mean, I wasn't I'm

806
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: not even really, at least not until now. I haven't

807
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: been the extcited about it. I've been looking forward to

808
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: whitetail stuff in October. I'm like playing all this stuff

809
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: out and and I'm kind of overtraveled a little bit,

810
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 1: so just kind of burnt out and kind of just

811
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: wanted to spend some family time. You know, I was

812
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: gone for the last eleven days and I'm home for

813
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: like six, and I've just been thinking, Man, I wish

814
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: I didn't schedule this trip right after that. I really

815
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: would just like, you know, two, three, four weeks at

816
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: home instead of six days. But um, all that aside,

817
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: you did give me a new bump of excitement for

818
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: that that bugle and that bugle and fest that hopefully

819
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: I'll be experiencing here next week. So thank you for that.

820
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you though, it was tough. You know, I

821
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: hadn't been on a big, big trip like this, Like

822
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: I've been to the A T a show that's like

823
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: basically a three day event. But I was gone a

824
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: total of let's see, I left on the thirty first

825
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: and I got back on the it would have been

826
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: the eight So I was gone eight days from my family,

827
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: and it's it sucked. I mean, I'm not gonna lie

828
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: at man. I didn't. I wouldn't say I got homesick,

829
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: but I missed my kids and I missed my wife.

830
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: So being able to come home and see them again

831
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: was that's very enjoyable. Yeah, yeah, I could definitely relate

832
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: to you more on that now on this trip, and

833
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: definitely was feeling that it was different knowing that Everett

834
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: was back home and not, you know, just not being

835
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: a part of the daily life with him. And I

836
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: loved getting pictures and videos and stuff that my wife

837
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: was sending. But then that also is just like I

838
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: just want to be there. Um. So it's definitely different,

839
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: and and like I said, I'm not looking forward to

840
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: leaving again right away. But but that's my elk hunt.

841
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: I want to know a little bit about this North

842
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: Dakota trip because you were obviously your successful in Montana

843
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: and you crossed the border. What happened? Yeah, so I

844
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: had that great hunt in Montana. And sorry that we're

845
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: not getting to talk about it at all, um, but

846
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: you know we already talked about with further and Spencer.

847
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: Anything you need to know that you don't know about

848
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: that that we should cover in two minutes. Here, are

849
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: you good? Well, I'll just ask you for the coordinates

850
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: after recording. Yeah, how much you got in your savings account, dance.

851
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: We might be able to negotiate something, okay, we will

852
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: not be able to negotiate something, okay. So I killed

853
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: my Blucome Montana. Um, I'm driving towards North Dakota on

854
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: that first day and I actually get kind of sick

855
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: in the car. Or maybe maybe it was more that

856
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: was really exhausted. Um, I think at that point I

857
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: was just not feeling great. He end I had to

858
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: get a podcast up and do all this kind of

859
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: stuff and long story shore, I'm like, you know what,

860
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to camp tonight. I'm just gonna

861
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: get in a hotel room. I'm gonna get this work done.

862
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shower. You know, it's all bloody and gross

863
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: after having gutted and recovered that deer that day. So yeah,

864
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: I get to the hotel room, ended up like getting

865
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: like nauseous and horrible headache and like pass out like

866
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: eight thirty that night in the hotel. Next day, get up,

867
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: get some more work done, start driving in North Dakota.

868
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: I don't end up getting to our spot in North

869
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: Dakota util that evening at like six o'clock in the evening,

870
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: so I can't hunt that night. Um, Josh is out hunting.

871
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: So I decided I'm just gonna get out there and

872
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: get up on one of these big bluffs that overlooks

873
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: this river bottom that we're hunting, and see what I

874
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: could see, just try to get eyes on something. Because

875
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: Josh had been there hunting for three days and up

876
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: to this point he had not seen hardly anything. He

877
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: had seen I think one year and a half old

878
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: buck and a handful of dose every day. And he

879
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: then had been he had been up on the on

880
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: the hills glassing in them warnings, trying to see, like

881
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: we're all these deer and was not seeing the number

882
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: of deer that we were expecting. But he was seeing

883
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: some other hunters. Um, there was there wasn't any other

884
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: white tail hunters, but there was guys out there chasing

885
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, other western species, mules whatever. Um. Now, Charlie interrupt,

886
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: but this is the same area that you guys went

887
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: shed hunting at the spring. Yes, we found we found

888
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: a good number of sheds in there, and we scouted

889
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: it and we saw a good sign um. So it

890
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: looked really good, like we had really high hopes for

891
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: the spot. Um. But Josh's time there was not showing

892
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: anything good. I show up, I sit in this butte

893
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: I started glassing. I don't see crap. I just see

894
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: a couple of does, and I can see like a

895
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: mile in either direction. I mean, I can cover a

896
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: big chunk of ground that there. You should be seeing

897
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: deer coming out crossing this river, coming out into some

898
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: of these openings, moving in around the Cottonwood groves. Nothing,

899
00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: so that's concerning. That night, we regrouped. Josh hardly saw

900
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: anything again that night. The next morning I'm like, all right, well,

901
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna go sit blindly in an area

902
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: where we're not seeing anything. We need to we need

903
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: to keep learning, we need to find these deers. So

904
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: the next morning again I go to another spot, try

905
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: to glass that again, don't see anything. So after like

906
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: an hour, I screwed out of there and I start

907
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: driving rhads trying to see are there any deer in

908
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: any these Are there some private land fields that are

909
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: pulling all the deer? What's going on? Drive around, drive around,

910
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: hardly anything at all. So we get back to camp.

911
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: Now this is like Josh's day four, I think, and

912
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, we're kind of at a loss. He's not

913
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: seeing a deer. These two scouting sessions are showing really

914
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: really poor numbers. Still haven't seen a single mature buck

915
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: and we're down to two days left too, and hap

916
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: days left or whatever. Um So, finally that you know,

917
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: we're sitting there midday and I kind of had this

918
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: idea pop in my head. You know, why, what are

919
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: we doing in this kind of area. It's not like

920
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: hunting in Michigan or Aisole where there's tons of cover

921
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: and you obviously wouldn't see these but sucks if there

922
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: were deer in this area. I was pretty confident that

923
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 1: we should see some side of them, like there should

924
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: be deer moving. There's not down on the river bottoms.

925
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: There weren't a bunch of hunters, so I didn't think

926
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: these deer were crazy over pressured if they were in there.

927
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: Um So I throughout the ideas. Okay, we instead of

928
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: wasting our time here where we've not gotten a single

929
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: indication of there being a deer we actually want to

930
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: hunt and shoot. Over the last four or five days

931
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: or whatever however long Josh had been there, plus since

932
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: I was there, what if we relocate, What if we

933
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: spend Yeah, we're sacrificing some sits, but what if we

934
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: just keep looking until we actually find a deer we

935
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: want to shoot and then make a move on those deer.

936
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: Right now, we're not seeing anything that there really is

937
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: indicative of of worthwhile time spend the treats, you know,

938
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: actually trying to fill tagg at least. So I had

939
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: seen some other public land a couple hours north of here.

940
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: Then it looked really good in the maps in the past.

941
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 1: I've never been there, but it looked good, and there

942
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: was a lot of food. It looked like food sources

943
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: fields that was on the public land. Or jay us

944
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: into that public land. I thought, you know, that's that's

945
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that's kind of give me this

946
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: time year. At least it is like a much more

947
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: sure sign um than what we had here. There was

948
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: no food by where we're hunting in this spot. Um,

949
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: So I thought, let's go back to the well. I know,

950
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: this is like a tried and true strategy that's worked

951
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 1: for me. It worked for me in Montana. Find public

952
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: land betting that's close to private land food, get up

953
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: in there, um and and try to get eyes on

954
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: something that says, yes, there are deer here, and then

955
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: hunt the public behind him. So so, after mulling it

956
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: over for a little bit, we finally decided, you know,

957
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:35,800
Speaker 1: let's swing for the fences. Let's try it, and we

958
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: would only have we were going to drive up there

959
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: that night and have that night and the next morning

960
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: to do some scouting, and then we would hunt the

961
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: next night and next morning, and then we had to go. Yeah,

962
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: so we do the drive, We get up there, we

963
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: have an hour to drive around that night, drive around

964
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: the back roads around this public land. It looks really good,

965
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: and I end up finding a field with a whole

966
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: bunch of deer in it that's on public land. And

967
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: I get my spotting scope out and I see a

968
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: couple pretty bus that possibly would be a shooter for me,

969
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: for sure be a shooter for josh Um. So I'm like,

970
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: all right, bingo, this is exactly what I wanted to see.

971
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: We've got a huntable area with huntable deer um, and

972
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we've actually got something to work

973
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: with here versus what we had before. So I felt

974
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: great about that. The next day we went in, scouted

975
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 1: another area in the morning, and hung stands midday for

976
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: the next morning. Really cool stuff. But the most interesting

977
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: and important stuff happened that night. We go and sneak

978
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: into that spot where I saw those bucks. We had

979
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: a pretty good wind, what looked like it's gonna be

980
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: pretty good wind for this spot. I had seen most

981
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: of this deer come out of kind of this inside

982
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: corner of this field, and and they're feeding out within

983
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: sight of a road in daylight, which was interesting. I mean,

984
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: it told me that they weren't getting hunted. So I

985
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: felt pretty good about our chances going into the next day.

986
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,240
Speaker 1: They probably do something pretty similar, since they didn't seem

987
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: like they were, you know, particularly worried about hunters, and

988
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 1: this was almost a weekend to the season there. Um,

989
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: So I put Josh. I told Josh, you know, if

990
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: you want, I'd probably recommend the best spout would be

991
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: the inside corner whemost those deer came out, so he

992
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: snuck in there with a stand. I went to another

993
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: area farther down the field where I had seen some

994
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: of these deer feeding. There weren't any trees, there's grass

995
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: and brush. Um, but I thought, I'll just tuck in

996
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: that brush, sit in the ground, and hopefully watch Josh

997
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: you a deer if something gets past him, or if

998
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: something pops on a different spot, I'll back clean up

999
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: down here. And the basically gist of that night is

1000
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: that it went almost exactly like I thought it was

1001
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: going to. These deer started popping out in that field

1002
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: really early, like two or three hours before dark. They

1003
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: were very comfortable. Um. It seemed like the main thing

1004
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: they were feeding in this field there's some kind of

1005
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: weed that I'm not familiar with, though it was, but

1006
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,399
Speaker 1: it looks like they had also just planted some kind

1007
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: of cover crop, maybe turnips or radishes or something that

1008
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: were just starting to come out of the ground. And um,

1009
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: I think that was probably what they're feeding on, because

1010
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: I know, you know, those those fresh turnip greens or

1011
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: ratis screens or whatever, that stuff sometimes can be really

1012
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: attractive right now, Um, so I think that's what they're

1013
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: keying in on. These deers start piling out. We've seen

1014
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of does. I have a buck come out

1015
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: close to me that it's like a nice two year old.

1016
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: He's feeding around, and then that wind shifts completely around

1017
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: like on a dime, spins around, blows right back into

1018
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: the cover that we're thinking all these deer better than

1019
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: all these deers start spooking. I'm here deer blowing behind me.

1020
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: There was a buck that circled around me. He disappears.

1021
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: The deer that were out in the field near Josh

1022
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: went and go taken off, and we're sitting there with

1023
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: like an hour of daylight left, just defeated, Like, man,

1024
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: this was setting up perfect. We had made this, you know,

1025
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: we took this risk, we got to this new spot.

1026
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: It was working out perfectly. I was thinking like, oh man,

1027
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: this is amazing. It's gonna work out. And the wind

1028
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: kind of ruined it. But as daylight continues, somehow more

1029
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: deer start showing up now with the new wind even

1030
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: and here comes a buck. Here comes a buck. Here

1031
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: comes six does, here comes eight does? Here comes another buck.

1032
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: And while there's this like decent ish buck kind of

1033
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: near me that I'm watching, I get a text from

1034
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: Josh saying, I gotta shoot her. It sixty yards or

1035
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: something I can't get a shot at, you know, really nice.

1036
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: What was at least a three year old maybe older

1037
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 1: buck had come out just out of range from fifty

1038
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: yards out in front of him, but you know, passing

1039
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: through some thick stuff and then moved out into the

1040
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 1: field at like sixty or seventy. I think it was

1041
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: a big eight pointer, but a split brow time I think,

1042
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: is what he said. And so he had that big

1043
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: buck up in front of like sixty yards for a

1044
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: long time, never came any closer. He started moving off

1045
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: than another nice buck came popping out, but at seventy um,

1046
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: so we found this little honey hoole spot Josh was

1047
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: just you know, ten fifteen yards off where you know

1048
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 1: it would have worked out. He got some serious buck fever.

1049
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,439
Speaker 1: He had a you know, like an awesome and adrenalin rush.

1050
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: He was telling me about it afterwards that you know

1051
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: that that's an awesome feeling to get that first buck

1052
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: fever of the year. Um. So it made the trip

1053
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: all worth it, I think, just with that, like just

1054
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: to have a fun encounter, just so you could see

1055
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: some deer, because it had been really slow going from

1056
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: up to that point. So I felt really good about

1057
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: it because you know, I just wanted him to have

1058
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: a good time. At this point, I was feeling, you know,

1059
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: it was all gravy for me. Society already filled my tag.

1060
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: But that was a fun night close encounters. Next morning,

1061
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: we went into this spot that we had hunted, that

1062
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: we had set up the day before, and this was

1063
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 1: again this was like a we're just swinging for the fences.

1064
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: We knew it's early season, we've never been here before,

1065
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: but we decided we we would almost try like a

1066
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: bumping dump type thing. We're just gonna plow right into

1067
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 1: the thickest best looking like betting, knowing that we're gonna

1068
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: blow anything out of there as we go into there,

1069
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: set the stand and just pray that maybe we could

1070
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: catch them coming back the very next morning, the one

1071
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: time they come back in before getting all you know,

1072
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: boogered out of there. Um. It did not work, but

1073
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: there weren't many better options for that morning set, so

1074
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: we tried that. That That didn't working, and that was it.

1075
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: That was the North Dakota trip. It was, you know,

1076
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: a day of it was me recovering, a day of

1077
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: it was almost two days it was scouting around trying

1078
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: to find here, and then a day and a half

1079
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,479
Speaker 1: of it was actually hunting. But I'm glad we I'm

1080
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: glad that we spent more time to find those deer

1081
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: versus sitting in a tree and seeing a dough and

1082
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: night in the same spot where we were before, just

1083
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: because we didn't want to try something new. So it

1084
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: was cool, you know, it was cool. Just to be

1085
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: out there, and that was that first kind of trip

1086
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: for for further um. So I think he learned a

1087
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: lot from it, and I think it was just a

1088
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: good experience for him too. And wait, a good time.

1089
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: So that was North Dakota and I got back here

1090
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: to Michigan and just trying to get a bunch of

1091
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: stuff done here in my six days. I've got before

1092
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: the elk hunt, um that archery yep archery Montana, and

1093
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: before I continue discussing my last few things I've been

1094
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: up to here in Michigan before that Montana trip, I

1095
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: want to quit break for our last break of this episode,

1096
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: to hear from our friends at White Tail Properties. This week.

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01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: With white Tail Properties, we are drawn by Jeff Probes

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01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: and lands Specialists out of Missouri, and Jeff is going

1099
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: to be talking to us about getting started filming your

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01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: own hunts. Well, I've filmed personally, my son and I

1101
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: did for a long time. I was involved in it

1102
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: for over twenty years. My son and I filmed together

1103
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: for about fifteen years and uh pretty much retired from

1104
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: it now. But I guess the first thing is is

1105
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: don't skimp, skimp on your equipment. If you're wanting to,

1106
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: particularly if you're wanting to try to do something on

1107
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: a professional level, get good quality equipment, obviously high definition cameras.

1108
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: The cameras have changed so much since we were in it.

1109
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: I mean they've got these small little handheld cameras now

1110
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: that take just about as good a quality footage as

1111
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: the old big cameras we used to carry. And um,

1112
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, get good quality footage and get a good mike.

1113
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: Don't go with an onboard mic on this on the

1114
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: cameras that come with the buy a shotgun mike of

1115
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: good quality. Spend the money, do it right. Use a

1116
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: tree arm when you're in a tree to get nice, smooth,

1117
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,919
Speaker 1: steady pans. And when you're on the ground if it's

1118
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: if it's feasibly, use a tripod. Just keep your footage

1119
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: nice and steady, whether you're in a tree or on

1120
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: the ground. But the big thing is to don't skimp

1121
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: on equipment. By good stuff and it'll show with your footage.

1122
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,919
Speaker 1: The quality will show through. If you'd like to learn

1123
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: more and to see the properties that Jeff currently has

1124
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: listed for sale, visit white tail properties dot com. Backslash

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01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: propes that's p r O p s t um and Uh.

1126
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: I went to that new property I've got permission on

1127
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: the west side of the state today and hung four stands. Um.

1128
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: It's very last minute, much later than I usually like to.

1129
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 1: But the guy that's out there, um, that's aweso on

1130
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: this property. He is kind of putsing around a lot

1131
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 1: of time, checking it out on a on like a

1132
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: gator or like a UTV kind of deal. So he,

1133
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of believes that these deer are

1134
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable with his presence on that as often as

1135
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: he goes through there, so we kind of use that

1136
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: to mask us, you know, getting a tree stand hunk.

1137
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: So we went in there with that thing just like

1138
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: he usually does. Left that going hung the stands, got

1139
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: out of there, so, you know, not that much, rarely

1140
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: be getting it done a month ago, but it is

1141
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: what it is. Better to have something going than not. Um,

1142
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: So it's good to get that work done. And you know,

1143
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: back here on the on the main spot, the holy

1144
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: field spot, I've got no good news. There no pictures

1145
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: of him. Um. I checked one camera and that back

1146
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: food plot where that camera was. The plot is like

1147
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: a dirt field. I don't know what happened, but Braskas

1148
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: aren't coming in like they usually do, so that was

1149
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: a bust and that's kind of where I'm at. Yeah, Yeah,

1150
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: I got October One's a Sunday this year, so I

1151
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm gonna hunt or not, but um,

1152
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to. Whether it's gonna be around

1153
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: home or back back at the main farm, it's uh,

1154
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a firm believer of stay out of

1155
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: the timber in September. So I got trail cameras that

1156
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: I've only checked one time this entire summer, and it

1157
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: pisses me off just a little bit that I haven't

1158
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: had the time to go do it. But hopefully that

1159
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: translates into just less pressure on the farm. So we

1160
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: will see. I probably won't check my you know, unless

1161
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: I maybe go down there at some time at some point.

1162
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna be checking my trail cameras

1163
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: until that first week of first week of October. Yeah, probably,

1164
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,959
Speaker 1: like you said, probably a good thing. I've definitely laid

1165
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: off checking summer cameras significantly. Um. I think I checked

1166
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: cameras once I put cameras out beIN of August. Check

1167
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: him once. Just but just like the deer shift, man,

1168
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: I always try to get like the last week in August,

1169
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: take my trail cameras off of my mineral stations and

1170
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:13,479
Speaker 1: put them in pinch points and put them in fence

1171
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: crossings and you know, historically good places where maybe a

1172
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: scrape or two might pop up. But I haven't done that,

1173
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,919
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be a little bit behind. I should

1174
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:25,959
Speaker 1: still be able to go do it before the rut hits,

1175
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't know. Man. Yeah, that's a

1176
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: good point, and I'm not necessarily worried about it. It's

1177
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: just the fact that I won't have like my typical

1178
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: September data that I like to have, you know, once

1179
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: that once the deer go hard horn, they have that shift,

1180
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: and I like to catch that shift on trail camera. However,

1181
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: this year I seems like I won't. I won't have that. Yeah,

1182
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: I got more bad news for you. Oh, October one

1183
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: is on a Monday. It's on a Monday. It's on

1184
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: a Monday. I love my calendar. Well, son of a gun,

1185
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: H want to take the day off? No, dude, here's

1186
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: the thing, here's the just the green light way to

1187
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,919
Speaker 1: get out of a day at work. You call in

1188
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: and you tell your boss diarrhea, you have explosive diarrhea.

1189
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: They will they will not question it. They will just

1190
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: try to get off the phone as quickly as possible

1191
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: and you'll be golden. Yeah, summon that up. Eat some

1192
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 1: chili the night before, so you don't need to lie

1193
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: about it. Boss listens to this. Dude, I wish no

1194
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: he does. Really, Yeah, your boss is a deer hunt. Yeah, dude,

1195
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: he he has. He bought this, uh farm out in

1196
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: the country. This is just a real short story. He

1197
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: bought this farm out in the country and every year

1198
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: he's had a boot and crockett on it. And his

1199
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: first buck he's ever shot with a bow is like

1200
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,439
Speaker 1: a one high one fifties did you Iowa, guys, it's

1201
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: not even right. Yep, Wow, this is amazing. So wow

1202
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: something like that. So so he hears all the stuff

1203
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: you talk about and he still keeps you hired. Well,

1204
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: it's not like a trash trash anybody you know, Uh,

1205
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: the cubical life. It can get to a guy. Yeah, yeah,

1206
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: I can. Well, hello to Dan's boss. Thanks for being

1207
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: a fan. Okay, Well, we've kind of ramble on about

1208
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: our hunts. I've got one listener question that I want

1209
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: us to tackle here before we wrap up to his

1210
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: quick show. YEP, this comes from Jake in Arlington, Virginia.

1211
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: He says that he uh, I'll just quote I went

1212
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: to a Washington Nationals game yesterday with my wife and

1213
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: got into conversation about walk up songs before the batter

1214
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: goes up to hit. I'd love to hear what you

1215
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,479
Speaker 1: and Dan talk about, or what you would talk about

1216
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: as far as walk up songs to when you're going hunting,

1217
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: and if that would change throughout the year, Like would

1218
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: you have a different walkout song for the early season,

1219
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: for the rut versus the late season, um et cetera.

1220
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 1: So if you could have a walkout song as your

1221
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: head into the stand, what would that be? Dan? Alright,

1222
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: So first I gotta say something. Fred Bear by Ted Nugent.

1223
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it's not a good let's get ready

1224
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: for hunting song. Sorry, I probably pissed a lot of

1225
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: people off. I don't care. Second, it's a classic though

1226
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: many I don't care if it's a classic. Yeah, yeah,

1227
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: it's a classic. Because what it's the only song that

1228
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: we're like they talk about hunting and it's called fred Bear.

1229
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not. I don't feel it. I don't

1230
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 1: feel it. So anyway, so what's your better alternative? So

1231
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not the guy who's like, you know,

1232
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: like metal is out for me, Country Western it mostly

1233
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: is out. I want some like really mel Low Tiptoe

1234
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:05,720
Speaker 1: and type stuff. So this, this isn't what you listen to.

1235
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 1: This is the song that would play as you triumphantly

1236
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: head to your stand, as if you were walking to

1237
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: the plate. Yes. Yes, And when I'm heading to the

1238
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: plate to the tree stand, I'm not looking at headbang.

1239
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: I'm not looking to get crazy fired up. I'm what

1240
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get focused, all right. So one song

1241
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: that comes to mind Neil Young Cortez The Killer. I

1242
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:32,600
Speaker 1: don't know if I know that one off top of

1243
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: my head. Yeah, because it was made probably before your

1244
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 1: dad was born. Okay, So Neil Young Cortez The Killer

1245
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: for there um anything off the album? What what album is?

1246
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:54,679
Speaker 1: It's the Black Keys, uh, and it's the album Um Brothers.

1247
01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: So I like that whole album. So those are just

1248
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 1: two examples of just something like some bam bam bam

1249
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: dada Da Da Da, Bum Bump Bob and then the

1250
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 1: most inspiring music ever, just like some real laid back

1251
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 1: chill music. You know, it's not let me guess you're

1252
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: gonna be like blow sticks and ship on the way

1253
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 1: to stand. Now, that's like my everyday life, man, I

1254
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,640
Speaker 1: got yeah, I gotta, I gotta change it up for

1255
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: the tree stand. But basically my walk up song to

1256
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: my office every day would be UM. But yes you

1257
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: as you know, and as many people past listeners know,

1258
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: I like some good e d M, dance and techno music.

1259
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 1: That's like my pre hunt truck drive music that I

1260
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: listen to. UM. But I think for my walkout song,

1261
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,200
Speaker 1: I would have to steal a page out of the

1262
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,680
Speaker 1: book of my alma mater and play the song that

1263
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: they play when the football team runs out into the field,

1264
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: because like just that moment for me in college, like

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Speaker 1: every time that happened, when the players come out and

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Speaker 1: they play this song, it just gets me so amped up.

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Speaker 1: And that is thunderstruck by a C. D. C um

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Speaker 1: That song headed walking up to the walking up to

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Speaker 1: the plate would get me fired up and ready for

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Speaker 1: a cold front on November four, So I think that

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Speaker 1: would have to be my pick, but I'll try Cortez

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Speaker 1: the Killer, Quartets the Cornado or whatever things calling me

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Speaker 1: Neil Young and the song is Cortez the Killer. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll give that a try and when we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that works for me. Well, good luck with that, um,

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Speaker 1: thanks man. Um. All right, well, uh dude, awesome elk hunt.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy it was fun, um, And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we'll be if I'm gonna be able to record one,

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Speaker 1: let's try to record one before my elk hunt next week. Um,

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Speaker 1: but if not, hopefully have a story on that soon.

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Speaker 1: So that's it for me, buddy, and that's it for

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Speaker 1: the show too, So thank you for listening. Um. My

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Speaker 1: usual couple of reminders, make sure you're subscribe to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you are subscribed to the wire Unting YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: I got the video of my last day hunting in

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Speaker 1: Montana up on there, so you can see that whole hunt.

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Speaker 1: Check that out, get a leg it would subscribe. I

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Speaker 1: would appreciate that so much. And otherwise, you know, the

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Speaker 1: one other thing I mean to mention is that Dan

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Speaker 1: actually did a full three part series about his elk hunt,

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Speaker 1: and I believe it was it was with Adam and Ryan,

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Speaker 1: the guys he hunted with. He did that over on

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Speaker 1: the nine Fingure Chronicles podcast, so if you want more

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Speaker 1: details about that, be sure check out his podcast there. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: stay tuned for more. It's gonna be exciting a few

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Speaker 1: weeks coming up here with ELK and the Michigan season

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Speaker 1: kicking off the Iowa season kicking off for Dan, so

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have some good stories for you on that

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Speaker 1: front as well. Until next time, I guess I will

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Speaker 1: just leave you by saying thank you again, good luck

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Speaker 1: on your seasons as well, and stay Wired to Hunt.

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