1 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back everyone to another 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,959 Speaker 1: episode of Cutting the Distance podcast. This week is our 7 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: Q and A So the topics come from you guys, 8 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: and man, this is one I actually one of my 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: favorite portions of the podcast when we get to do 10 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: this answer some of the questions. Because I've said it 11 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: a million times, I'll probably say it a million and 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: one more. I really want this podcast to be about 13 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: making everybody more successful in the field and making it 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: tailored to the things that you want to know. So 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: the Q and A s really helped me outline well, 16 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: I mean, answer specific questions, but also kind of I 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: take some of those responses that I get and build 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: out other episodes of the podcast because I wanted to 19 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: be tailored towards the things that you guys want to 20 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: know and into these Q and A s. I mean, 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: maybe I might be reading one question, but most of 22 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: them I've gotten a pile of questions on the similar topic, 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: similar veins. Some tend to be more popular than others. 24 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: So those are the things that I try to key 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: in on, and it really helps me identify the stuff 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: that people want to learn about, because some of the 27 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: stuff might just go over my head, stuff that I 28 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: not go over my head, but as things that I 29 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: might not think about or deem important, but people are 30 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: interested in in understanding some things that I take for 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: granted because it's maybe something that I've just done forever 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: and don't even think, oh yeah, that might be something 33 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: that somebody wants to know. So I really appreciate all 34 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: the input and things that we've got. I pull a 35 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: lot of the questions from Instagram at Remy Warren as 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: well as the email that I throw out at the 37 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: end of most of the body guests, So appreciate we 38 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: got a lot for this one, Like I can't get 39 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: through all of them, but maybe someone will continue on. 40 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: Probably because I was kind of promoting the Q and 41 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: A for about three weeks, but I kind of got 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: into some of the stuff. We talked a little bit 43 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 1: about scouting from home, how to pick spots from home, 44 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: like figuring out areas to apply for and then a 45 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: little bit jumping into in the field scouting. I like 46 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: to jumping into those topics because it's just a little 47 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: timely for a lot of people being quarantined. Maybe you're 48 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: thinking a lot about future hunts and planning and prepping 49 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: and maybe having a little extra time to do a 50 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: little bit extra research and maybe try to figure something out. 51 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: So I know these are crazy times for everyone. I 52 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: really hope everybody's doing well, and you know, I'm sure 53 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: that some people's hunt plans have changed. Things are a 54 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: little bit crazy right now, but hopefully these podcasts help 55 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: kind of, you know, prep you and get you excited 56 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: for the future and what's what's in the store. So 57 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: let's jump into a couple questions here. This first one 58 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: was one of the ones that I'm like, I would 59 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: have never thought to talk about that, but I got 60 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: so many questions, and we're gonna talk a little bit 61 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: about snakes. So Brady says, I appreciate all the content 62 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: you're putting out there. I try not to miss any 63 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: of it. This is a question probably for your podcast 64 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 1: along the lines of the Tike podcast. This time of year, 65 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: I have an area I've run into multiple rattle snakes 66 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: and glassing points in the mornings. I've done some research 67 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: on what to do to avoid them and how to 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: respond when bitten, but thought maybe this would be another 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: bit of info for your podcast. Thanks and good luck 70 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: this spring. Okay, so if I'm going to talk about snakes, 71 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: I have to at least talk about my strange love 72 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: of snakes. It's maybe, like, I don't know, if it's 73 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: a hobby, something that I'm into, maybe something that people 74 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: don't really know about me, don't really discuss. But I 75 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: love reptiles. I mean, I think reptiles are some of 76 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: the coolest animals on the planet, and it's just been 77 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: one something that I've always been fascinated with them. So snakes, lizards, 78 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: even some man phobians and stuff, turtles whatever. As a kid, 79 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: I would go out. I loved going out and just 80 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: like trying to find different reptiles. I'd catch all kinds 81 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: of different lizards, snakes, whatever, keep them as pets. And 82 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: then as an adult, one of the things that I 83 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: like to do in the spring is whether i'm shed 84 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: you know, like in combination with shed hunting, or even 85 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: just going out I call it herping around. I'm just 86 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: going out looking for various reptiles. I just catch them 87 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: and let them go. But it's cool to just see 88 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: the different types of reptiles. I kind of it's like, 89 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a strange in that strange bird 90 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: watcher category. I probably don't talk about it too much 91 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: because everyone's like, what a weirdo likes to go out 92 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: and catch reptiles. But it's just fun to be able 93 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: to kind of figure out what reptiles live where, you know, 94 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: identify different habitats, and see if you can kind of 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: catch them, like grab them. It's kind of cool. It's difficult. 96 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, it's my thing whatever. It's a hobby um. 97 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: And I've seen some really cool just like different species 98 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: of snakes and other things around while doing that. So 99 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: I do really enjoy looking for reptiles and rals. Makes 100 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: is the one that I actually enjoy looking for now. 101 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: I think it probably runs in my family though, because 102 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: my grandpa. I've talked about him quite a bit on 103 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: this podcast and some others. But he was just like 104 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: a wild man. And uh, I don't know if I've 105 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: told this story here or not. I can't remember, but 106 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: I've told it other places. It's just worth talking about 107 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: he used to be a professional fighter, and I don't 108 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: know what he would He just liked he would catch rattlesnakes, 109 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: which I mean, I get it's kind of cool, but 110 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: I don't suggest doing that. And he's been bitten. I 111 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: don't know how many times he's been. I think he 112 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: was bitten at least four times by rattlesnakes. Most of them, 113 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: I would say three of them were him just dicking 114 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: around with them, and then one of them was just 115 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: a pure accident. He was the kind of guy that 116 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: would wear cowboy boots, cowboy hat, and jeans every day 117 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: of his life. And then I don't know, is he's 118 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: a little bit older. Someone bought him some like sandals. 119 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: They might even been birkin stocks, I'm not really sure. 120 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: So he's out mowing his lawn in Montana and he 121 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: felt something thing. He's like, oh crap, and looks down 122 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: and sees us coiled up rattlesnake. He's like, oh shit, 123 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 1: I got bit. So he walks into the house, gets 124 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: his wife, and they call the ambulance and started driving 125 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: to the hospital. He gets to the hospital, they give 126 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: him the anti venom, and you know, clearly a snake 127 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: bite there, he's he's not really reacting right to it, 128 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 1: and he's just like having trouble breathing and it's just 129 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: getting worse. So they inspect a bite and they see 130 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: inside the snake bite is a beasting and he's actually 131 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: really allergic to bees, like deathly allergic to bees as well. 132 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: So now they have to like stabilize the beast thing. 133 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: They give him epinephrin, like an EpiPen shot kind of things. 134 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: It's like epinephrin and I think adrenaline goes with it, 135 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: kind of pump it through your system. I'm not sure 136 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: how they did it with a snake bite, because you 137 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: don't want to pump the venom through your system faster. Um. 138 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: But he ended they ended up being all right from it. 139 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: But it was just like a random, crazy coincidence. They 140 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: stung by a beat and bit by a snake at 141 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: the exact same time. That might have been the first 142 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: day where ever warre Sandals, and I think it was 143 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: the last day every war Sandals in his life. Pretty funny, um, 144 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, another time he got bit. This is just 145 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: like the kind of crazy things that he would do. 146 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing. I think he was. 147 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: I've heard many stories from different people, but he was 148 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: probably just like showing everybody how fast he was when 149 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: he was boxing, like, I'm faster than a rattlesnake kind 150 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,119 Speaker 1: of thing. And he was outside of town and ways, 151 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: I think on a job site or on on a 152 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: military base, and he was kind of messing with the 153 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: snake that he caught and had in a bucket and rattlesnake, 154 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: and so he gets bit by the thing and he's like, 155 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: he's gonna drive himself to the hospital. So as he's 156 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: driving into the hospital, he's not feeling so good. He 157 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: gets into town and I think it was just not 158 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: like things weren't going right. So he was going to 159 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: pull into this gas station, convenience station to get help, 160 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: but on the way in to go into the community, 161 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: so blacks out and drives his truck through the front 162 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: of a convenience store and then the owner runs out. 163 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: Who have I've actually heard the story from him? He 164 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: runs out, he says, he opened the door and my 165 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: grandpa falls out of the vehicle whole like clutching alive 166 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: rattlesnake in his hand. So they knew what bid him. 167 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: Um and he survived. He survived that one as well. 168 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: So I just say that to say, most people you 169 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: get bit by snakes are actually messing with them. So 170 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: I highly, highly highly suggest nobody try picking up or 171 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: or messing with rattlesnake. Most venomus snakes. You gotta understand, 172 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: like a way venomous snakes their venom is for acquiring food. 173 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: So you've got constrictors, which you know, the grab whatever 174 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: their prey is, they wrap around it, suffocated and then 175 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: swallow it. Rattlesnakes don't do that. They don't have that 176 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: hunting skill, so they when something comes by, they bite it, 177 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: they inject it with poison venom, and then as that 178 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: animal will then die expire and then they slither over 179 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: and swallow it need it. So for rattlesnake, you know 180 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: it needs its venom for survival to eat, and it 181 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: generally does not want to use its venom on something 182 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: very large in a defensive way. So in a defensive 183 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: man or rattlesnake, they've got their rattles they're warning you. 184 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: They're like, hey, dude, I'm right here, getaway now. It 185 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: seems aggressive and menacing and kind of scary, but think 186 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: about other there's way more dangerous snake species in the 187 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: world that do not give warning and are a lot 188 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: more aggressive. So I kind of see like the rattlesnake 189 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: is the mountain lion of the snake world. Like they're 190 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: very timid, they don't want to attack. They aren't like 191 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: a leopard of the cat world, where it's like, yeah, 192 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: you mess with a leopard, you're probably gonna die. Um. 193 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: Rattlesnakes are are a little bit different. They warn you. 194 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: They give this audible really loud, like, dude, I'm right here, 195 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to bite you, but don't 196 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: mess with me. I'm gonna look real mean and piste 197 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: off and try to scare you before I have to strike. 198 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 1: And even when I do strike, they might just bite 199 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: defensively and not inject venom. Smaller, younger snakes don't necessarily 200 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: have the same control as older snakes, but that's just 201 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: what they're going on. So if one's rattling seriously, just stop, 202 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: identify where it is, and then just slowly walk away 203 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: get out of its striking zone. They can strike about 204 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: half their body lengths, so you just want to get 205 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: away from them and move. And also identify areas that 206 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: they like, you know, springtime they're gonna be coming out 207 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: sunning a little bit more. And you know, you say 208 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: you might find them in the mornings and these rock 209 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: piles and other things. So just identify and be aware 210 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: where they might be and try to avoid the snakes themselves. 211 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: Avoiding things is always the best method. Now, if you 212 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: do get bit there's so much information and misinformation and this, 213 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: that and the other thing out there. So I'll just 214 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: tell you some of the things that I've been taught 215 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: a lot of it, you know, being in hunting in 216 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: places in Australia where it's super remote and there's I mean, 217 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: I've I've seen brown snakes, coastal type hands. Actually almost 218 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: stepped on a coastal type hand last year. It's like, 219 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: you get bit by one of those, you're probably dead. 220 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: But there are things that you can do because you're 221 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 1: just so remote, so far away. You know, one thing 222 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: you never want to do on a snake bite and 223 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: you hear this, and I think there's enough information out 224 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: that people don't try this anymore. But you don't suck 225 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: the venom out, And if you think about it, most 226 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: snake bites one they're probably it's most of them are 227 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: on your legs or on your hands. People get bit 228 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: in the hands are generally like messing with them, or 229 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: maybe reaching into a bush for something or whatever, sitting down, 230 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 1: putting your hand down and get struck there. So it's 231 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: normally on your appendages somewhere, arms and legs. One thing 232 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: you got to realize is so the venom it's kind 233 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: of got like these. I would almost refer to it 234 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: as like a half life, where, uh as time goes on, 235 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: the venom gets less strong. But what you don't want 236 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: to do is you don't want that venom to reach 237 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: your heart or your your brain, your central nervous system. 238 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: And so by trying to suck the venom out, you're 239 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: just getting in your mouth and getting in your bloodstream fast. 240 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: It's very dangerous. There are snake bite kits which have 241 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: like some form of suction. You don't want to cut 242 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: the bite um. That can cause complications and infections and 243 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: other things. But uh, you know, sucking the venom out 244 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: with a snake bite kit, I don't know. I've never 245 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: used one. I used to carry one and then I 246 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: just I don't really know how well they work or 247 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: what that is. But one thing you do want to do, 248 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 1: I know, is slow the venom to your heart. So 249 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: the key is like, let's say you got bit by 250 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: rattlesnake or a more deadly snake somewhere else. The first 251 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: thing you want to do, and it just might as 252 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: hard as it might be, well, first identify the type 253 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: of snake that it is, because that's gonna make a 254 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: big difference if you can, you know, maybe real fast, 255 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: and if I where the snake is, and try not 256 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: to get bit again because there's a good likelihood that 257 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: the first strike might not have injected any venom as well, 258 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: but you don't know. You treat every venom snake bite 259 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: like it like it has. Then what you'll do is 260 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: you'll wrap, like whether you use like a bandage or 261 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: a cut t shirt or something or about you know, 262 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna start wrapping around and tying off not so 263 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: tight like not I'm not talking to turn a kits 264 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: that you still want your blood to flow. You don't 265 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: want to cause any more damage than necessary, So you're 266 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: just gonna kind of slow the blood almost like where 267 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: would be I don't know how tight, like a good snug, 268 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: not necessarily make your footfall asleep, but maybe in that 269 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: footfall asleep zone. Definitely don't get it real tight. So 270 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: your wrap going down and then you can wrap going 271 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: back up to kind of double rabbits. So starting or 272 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: even starting down around the bite low and then coming 273 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 1: up around your leg all the way up your leg 274 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: or up your arm, whatever you can do, and then 275 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna try to keep that bite lower than your 276 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: heart and you relax, calm down, don't run to the truck. 277 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: I've heard stories of aboriginals that in Australia to be 278 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: bitten by things like a brown stinker type in and 279 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: they'll do that and then they just you slow your 280 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: heart rate, they'll lay down, take a nap by a tree. 281 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: They'll either wake up or they won't, and it's just 282 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: allowing that venom the time to break down and not 283 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: be as potent. Now. I've heard of people getting bitten 284 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: by some of very poisonous snakes and doing that similar thing, 285 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: learning the heart rate, getting to the hospital and then 286 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: at that point they have time to administer the n 287 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: a venom they undo it. Once those ties get undone, 288 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: then that that blood can rush to your heart and 289 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: it can be very fast acting. So you don't want 290 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: to run, you don't want to freak out, you don't 291 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: want to sprint, you don't want to stab yourself with 292 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: an EpiPen which has adrenaline. It's gonna pump it through 293 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: your heart and some people have done that and hasn't 294 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: turned out so well. So you just gotta you gotta 295 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: keep your heart rate down, and then if you've got 296 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: some way of notifying medical maybe in reach or a 297 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: phone call, and get get medical help from there, that's 298 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: the best method. And if you've got to hike out 299 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: or get out or whatever, you know, don't get your 300 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: heart rate up, don't exert yourself an extreme manner of 301 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: a way that will pump that venom through your blood 302 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: right away. The worst thing you could do is get 303 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: hammered and then just like try sprinting back to the car, 304 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: because you probably will die halfway between there in the car. 305 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: Not rattlesnakes meant necessarily, but there are a lot of 306 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: snakes that are a lot more poisonous in the world, 307 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: and if you get bit by one of those, um 308 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: could be bad. Anyways, let's jump to the next question, 309 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: a little turkey hunting question. Here we go, it says 310 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: actually from Idaho says, I'm hoping you might have some 311 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: advice from me. I shot a turkey this weekend and 312 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: want to do a tail mount, and my husband is 313 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: planning on keeping the wings for fletchings. The only problem 314 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: is that turkey has fleas. We live in an apartment, 315 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: so I'm a bit nervous about bringing the feathers inside 316 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: and spreading the fleas and hatcht eggs into pets in 317 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: the carpet. Any advice on how to kill the eggs 318 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: and fleas still on the feathers. So I would suggest 319 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: doing the same thing that a lot of people do 320 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: if they hunt coyotes and collect the pelts or furs. 321 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: Coyotes have a lot of fleas. So take a black 322 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: trash bag and I use I use like the raid spray, 323 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: So I just call it like a flea bomb. You 324 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: put whatever you have, the fleas in the bag, the 325 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: feathers in the bag, and you just spray that raid 326 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: flea spray that will kill any live ticks, any eggs, everything. 327 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: You tie it off and just let it sit for 328 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: a while. That that should work. Now there are other 329 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: things you can do. There's like flea powders and other stuff. 330 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: But I think that that raid spray works pretty well. 331 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: Do that and you shouldn't have any problems, and you 332 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: can bring the feathers inside. They're still all workable. Won't 333 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: won't affect the feathers. You can do the turkey fan mount. 334 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: When you do that mount, you know, lay it out 335 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: on a piece of cardboard. I used twenty meal team 336 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: borax to try to take out all the meat and everything, 337 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: and then just use borax to preserve the meaty part 338 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: of the tail before I do that. I'm sure there's 339 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: other things you can use. I've just used borax forever, 340 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: so that works really well. And then um, yeah, and 341 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: I'm actually fletching samarrows with the turkey I got, so 342 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: it'd be cool. It's good, it's fun thing to do, 343 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: and you should be flee free using that method. Andrew Hermanett, 344 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: strangest thing you've encountered in the woods, the most scared 345 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: you've been, the coolest thing you've seen, something along those lines. Yeah, 346 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, okay, this isn't I wasn't scared or anything 347 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: like that, but it's just kind of like a really 348 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: cool encounter. I was hunting in Arizona accused the archery season, 349 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: and I'm walking through this wash back It's like a 350 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: few miles back into this area, and I'm walking back 351 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: out the middle of the day and i see this 352 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: drag mark across the wash and I'm like, look at it. 353 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: Analyze the tracks, and I'm like, oh sweet, a mountain 354 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: lion had just killed something. It looked pretty large. So 355 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: there's some cattle around, so I was assuming that it 356 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: was a beef calf. And I see the line tracks 357 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: were drugged. So I'm bent over in my backpack, like 358 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: getting out my camera because I'm gonna just film the 359 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: tracks and the drag mark and everything, and this is 360 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: pretty cool. So I'm bent down, like getting into my 361 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: backpack and I look up and literally five ft away 362 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: in the tall grass, this catch just crouch staring at 363 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: me like whole crap. So then I instead of taking 364 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: my camera to take my pistol out just in case 365 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: and slowly start backing away. And as I'm backing away, 366 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,679 Speaker 1: the catch kind of like SLINKs out and then it 367 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: gets about ten yards or so looks back at me. 368 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: I'm just like cool, and I grabbed my camera now 369 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: and get some video of it. And then just like 370 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: slips off into the bushes. I'm like, well, that was crazy. 371 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: So now I started investigating and it actually there was 372 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: like this log over um, like a fallen I can't 373 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: emeram what kind of like maybe like a cotton wood 374 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: and some tall grass, and it had drug that calf 375 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: that it killed up underneath that and buried it with dirt, 376 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: and it had already taken the liver out of the calf, 377 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: and it was just sitting there crouched like had I 378 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: not stopped to get my camera, I probably would have 379 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: just walked right past it. I mean, it's just like armed. 380 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: I could have just slapped the thing in the face 381 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,959 Speaker 1: if I had won lunge and slapped it. It's just 382 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: crazy how well it blended in and I just had 383 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: no clue it was there, and even when it walked 384 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: away that closer just so quiet. Pretty crazy, pretty cool encounter. 385 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: I didn't have a mountain lion tig or anything at 386 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: the time, so I just watched it and got some 387 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: video of it and stuff, and it was pretty crazy encounter, 388 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: all right. This question comes from Adam. He says, altitude sickness, 389 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: how do you prevent it or recover quickly so it 390 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: doesn't ruin your hunt. It seems like every time I 391 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: get over thirteen thousand, thirteen five, I'll get flu like symptoms. 392 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: He's self diagnosed it as altitude sickness. As soon as 393 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: he gets blow ten or eleven thousand feet, it just 394 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: kind of goes away, magically goes away. He says, I 395 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: don't think it's a bad food situation. I'm not a marathoner, 396 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: but I'm in pretty decent shape. What can I do 397 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: to prevent That's a great question, and it's actually a 398 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: question that I get asked a lot, and one thing 399 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: that I do consider. I do quite a few hunts 400 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: that are really high elevations, and it's something that you 401 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: have to take seriously and honestly think. Maybe this is 402 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: actually a really good topic that I could probably do 403 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: a whole podcast on and might in the future, maybe, 404 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: you know, if if more people want to send in 405 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: some stuff. But I'll just give you a preliminary thing 406 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: of some of the things that I do. It's really 407 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: important to kind of understand altitude sickness. So what happens 408 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: is as you go up in altitude, there's less oxygen 409 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,719 Speaker 1: pre density, so it's like if you if you started 410 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: see level and grab a bag of chips and take 411 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: it up to thirteen thousand feet, that bag is just 412 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: going to be super expanded, rock hard. Well, there's the 413 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: same amount of oxygen in that bag, but it's taking 414 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: up more space, so each breath takes in less oxygen. Now, 415 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: as you're exerting yourself in the mountains, your muscles need 416 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: oxygen to work, so your body as it acclimates, So 417 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: the acclimation process does some crazy things with red blood 418 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: cells and deliveries. It's like a transport system of oxygen 419 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: to your muscles, and that takes weeks of time sometimes 420 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: at certain elevations, depending on where you live and other 421 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: things to get acclimated. So it's not necessarily something you 422 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: can do at home, but there are I found some 423 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: some kind of cheat codes if you will, to that 424 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: altitude sickness. There's a few factors I would say, and 425 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: I really keep The more I talk about this, the 426 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: more I'm like, yeah, this needs to be a full, 427 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: full podcast. But one product that I use have found regularly, 428 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: like between using it and not using it, that works 429 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: well for me is a willerness athlete outtitude advantage I 430 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: think I've talked about it before on here, but I 431 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 1: take it like a week or two beforehand, and then 432 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: I bring it into the field with me on those 433 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: high alpine hunts, and honestly, like just as personal use 434 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: using it, I feel the effects of altitude way less. 435 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: I just think it helps the blood flow to the 436 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: muscles to help transport that oxygen in a way. There's 437 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: other things that you can do as well. One thing 438 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: that altitude does to people is as you go up 439 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: in elevation, it can actually increase your metabolism, but in 440 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: some ways it decreases your your appetite. So making sure 441 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: that while you're at these altitudes you're eating and properly 442 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: feeling your body if you I mean, there's so many 443 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: times where you'll pack in. Is you get up in 444 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 1: that altitude, you're like, you eat a granola bar, you're full, 445 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: and then you don't really think about eating anymore. Um, 446 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: But trying to just force that food of knowing you're 447 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: burning a lot of calories you need to keep your 448 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: body functioning at it its peak and its prime. Another 449 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: thing is as huge as that dehydration and factor. As 450 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: you go up in altitude, you know you can get 451 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: that dehydration and you aren't drinking. So I I always 452 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: bring a drink mixed from I'm replenishing fluids. I make 453 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: sure to drink extra water at altitude. I had some 454 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: friends come over from a sea level last year hunt 455 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: in one of the areas that I hunt, dear a lot. 456 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: It's it's twelve thousand eleven twelve thousand type feet, and 457 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 1: I was like, man, you guys just just no matter what, 458 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: just constantly be drinking water. If their water is available, drink, drink, drink. 459 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: And they're surprised how much water they went through and 460 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: still felt dehydrated. But keeping hydrated and minimizing some of 461 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: the other problems can really help you just stay functioning. Um. 462 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: And then it's just some some factors of if you 463 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: it might be hard to acclimate for you, or you 464 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: might be slow at acclimating, so you might just get 465 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: it even with some of that stuff. So I think 466 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: using those measures. I've used those measures and seeing a 467 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: lot better results in the mountains at altitude, so it's 468 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: worth looking at. Now. There are some like altitudes you 469 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 1: can actually die from certain types of altitude sickness. Brain 470 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: swelling can up in pulmonary a demo or your lungs 471 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: fill with liquid and some of that kind of stuff. 472 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: It's super dangerous if you do get altitude sickness. Uh, 473 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: some things you can take while you've got it, because 474 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: you might you start get a headache, fatigue, Take some aspirin, 475 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: some ivy proof, and keep that stuff in your pack 476 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: with you. Super important. And then yeah, if you get it, 477 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: you gotta go back down to elevation. Another thing is 478 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: if you get into an area you know you could 479 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: try to start acclimating a little bit um, maybe get 480 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: in and not just go straight up, but start hunting 481 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: some of the lower stuff. Your body a little used 482 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: to it. I know it takes longer to create those 483 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: red blood cells, but within combination of some of the 484 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: other things, you might not overdo it as much right away. 485 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: I've found that it can happen to anybody. Sometimes. I've 486 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: been on trips with the guys in the best shape 487 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 1: got altitude sickness, and the guys that were a little 488 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: bit overweight and whatever, they didn't get it. So you think, oh, 489 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: I'm in the best shape ever, I'm not going to 490 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: get it. And that's those are the guys that it hits, 491 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: probably because they keep pushing, whereas the other guys kind 492 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: of slow down, react to their body. They don't just 493 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: force it. Those are some things to think about. There 494 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: are some drugs like diamox that you can get prescriptions 495 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: for that are are made for altitude sickness. But honestly, 496 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: I've used that altitude advantage stuff for a long time, 497 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: and I kind of you can start to feel the effects. 498 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: I think about eight thousand feet. I luckily live at 499 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: six thousand feet. So whatever elevation you live, if you 500 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: live at sea level and you're going to thirteen foot hunt, 501 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: you really want to factor in the altitude. Um doing 502 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: everything you can. Something like that makes you sure you're hydrated. 503 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: Food And then another thing that I have done in 504 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: the past, I got one of those we'll shoot. Everybody's 505 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: got face masks now, like go for um. They've got those. 506 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: They call them, like the training masks or limits the 507 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: amount of oxygen as you're training. You know, try some 508 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: of that. It kind of helps your lungs get used 509 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: a little bit less oxygen. I don't know how long 510 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: you'd have to use it. I know that, like it's 511 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: not feasible for everybody to sleep in one of those 512 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: altitude chambers. So it's just something you can kind of 513 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: think about. If you want to wear a mask and 514 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: try to workout, be careful, don't overdo it the first time, 515 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: don't black out. But um, that's all a few things 516 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: that just off the top of my head that I 517 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: think will help you out. And then, like I say, 518 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: if you get it, you know, go down elevation, drop 519 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: down to a level where you start feeling better. Maybe 520 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: just have to continue hunting there. But altitude sickness is serious. 521 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: It's ruined a lot of l counts for a lot 522 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: of guys. At first time L counts, they get out, 523 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: they get a high altitude, and yeah, it sucks. You 524 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: don't want that, Okay, Danny said, I'm a longtime listener 525 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: of your podcast. Me and a hunting buddy are in 526 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: college paying off student debt. We're using all the end 527 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: quote spare money. We have to apply for tags out 528 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: west and make progress. After listening to your episode on 529 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: the topic, to get to the question, is there any 530 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: good place to look for budget equipment? Where is the 531 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: best place to find use slash budget gear? Yeah, I've 532 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: I've been there, and I like your plan. You know, 533 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: using some of that money to put in for tags. 534 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I remember going through college and just being 535 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: like pretty much not going out, not eating anything but 536 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: Top Roman for the however long and whatever game meat 537 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: I have, and then you know, saving all my money 538 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: to apply for tags and then needing some gear as well. 539 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: So you know this this is not an endorsement of 540 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: any type, just some places that I've found some stuff, 541 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: and some of this stuff, you know, it's just from 542 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 1: back in the day, so I don't know how relevant 543 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: it is now. But one of the places that I 544 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: probably bought most of my hunting gear was Sierra Trading Post. 545 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: It's kind of like a what would it be like 546 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: a marshals for like outdoor equipment where they kind of 547 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: get overstock stuff, last year's stuff, and just like super 548 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: good discounts. We actually had when where I live an outpost, 549 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 1: but they kind of went online quite a few years back. 550 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: Finding some of those online discount places. I always had 551 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: a lot of friends get some sweet deals on camel Fire. 552 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that's still around. I don't know. 553 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 1: That was like they would do like daily deals and 554 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: it's just like overstocked stuff. Um, and you could get 555 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 1: some really good stuff, but like, yes, your training post, 556 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: I probably pretty much bought almost sleeping bags, tents, some backpacks, 557 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: like some hunting gears. Shoot, I even see like optics 558 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: pop up in there every once in a while. There's 559 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: plenty of sites, you know, the Internet. It makes it 560 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 1: so much easier. A lot of that stuff was like 561 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: not a lot of information out there. You know. I'd 562 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: get that Sportsman's cat Guide catalog every once in a while, 563 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,719 Speaker 1: find some good deals on stuff there. But you know, 564 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: the one thing too is if you can find a 565 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: good deal on high quality equipment, that's great. I mean Craigslist, 566 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: you could always go that route or eBay. I sometimes 567 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: I just maybe I'm just too distrusting for some of that. 568 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: But even just you know, knowing friends and you'll run 569 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,239 Speaker 1: into guys that um on message boards and stuff like 570 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: that that maybe there there's a lot of guys that 571 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: like to buy new bows every year, so equipment like 572 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: that you can sometimes get good deals on. Just find 573 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: stuff that fits you. Look online. I think that's a 574 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: great place to start. And then I was always of 575 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: the fact that it's like, all right, if I find 576 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: a good deal on something or whatever, that's great, and 577 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: then I'm gonna try to find and gear that that 578 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: I don't have to buy a bunch of times. I 579 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: would rather just you know, maybe buy one thing and 580 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: have it for quite a few years. You're gonna kind 581 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: of save and then each year plan some a new 582 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: piece of kit that you can add in there and 583 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: not try to do it all at once. But those 584 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 1: are some of my suggestions, and good luck on some 585 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: of those tags. Guys. Joe Asks. Always enjoyed watching you 586 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: on TV and now really really like your podcasts. I'd 587 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: like to hear your take on filming and self filming Hunt, 588 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: more specifically on camera gear. And this is actually you know, 589 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: I've got a lot of questions on this as well, 590 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: probably will be um the self filming thing might be 591 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: a full podcast in the future, but I think it's 592 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: good to just talk about a little bit of camera gear. 593 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: You know, at least Q and a S I would say, 594 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: of the questions are all about gear, So it's good 595 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: to take a little bit of time to talk about gear. 596 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: What I use and what I recommend are two completely 597 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: different things for self filming, because when I film solo Hunter, 598 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a television type show. I've been 599 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: doing it for years. I'm very comfortable with cameras and equipment. 600 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: The camera that I use, I would never suggest anyone 601 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: else try to sell film with it because it's a 602 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: very difficult camera to use. But I chose it off 603 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: of quality and a little bit of like the highest 604 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: quality with the lighter weight. But I also carry a 605 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: lot of extra lens and things, so I use a 606 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: Sony A seven S two, which my own personal stuff. 607 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: I upgrade every couple of years to try to keep 608 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: up with it. What I suggest if you want to 609 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: get into filming is find a handicam. Like a handicam 610 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: would just be like that cam quarter style camera. So 611 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: I use a DSLR camera, which is because I take 612 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: a lot of photos as well. It fits into my style. 613 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: There there are some great DSL cameras. Cannon Redbells are 614 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: great ones that get into Sony makes some like smaller, 615 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: lighter weight DSLR or merrorless type cameras. My camera is 616 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: actually mirroral lists, but a handicam would be like more 617 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: of that cam quarter style. If you're purely interested in filming, 618 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: go that route. It's got great zoom, it's got ease 619 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: of use, some auto focus features. Get yourself amount for 620 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: your tripods the same. Try iPod you user spotting scipe 621 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: on and you can throw that on or you're filming 622 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: someone else or yourself. That tripod helps out a lot. 623 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: And my thing is when you buy a camera, you 624 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: don't have to get the best camera in the world. 625 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: What you need is you need a camera that you 626 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: can afford and don't mind keeping out all the time. 627 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: So we're starting out, I was like, Okay, I need 628 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: the best camera I can get, and I was on 629 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: a budget, and I bought this expensive camera, and because 630 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: I didn't want the camera to get damaged, it would 631 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: just always be in my backpack and I never got anything. 632 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: And then I went and got this cheap little handicam 633 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: thing and I filmed way more like if you watch 634 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: Solo Hunter whatever. I keep my camera strapped on the 635 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: outside of me all the time. I'm either carrying it 636 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: in my hand on a tripod or carrying it around 637 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: my body. So the best camera is a camera that 638 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: you don't mind keeping out pretty much all the time 639 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: because the footage that you capture the ease of use 640 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: of pulling something out of your pocket uh, something around 641 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: your neck is just right there to use. That's the 642 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: best footage, the foot that you actually get. If you 643 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: have to stop and get into your pack and film, 644 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen. I've tried it. It's not good. 645 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: So the best camera is one that is a decent 646 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: price that you don't mind getting dirty, beaten up, dragging 647 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: through the mud, tromping around the mountains with, and the 648 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: one that's easy to use. Because if it's easy to use, 649 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: you can always progress from there. But you're going to 650 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: capture some cool stuff. It'll be handy, you'll get some 651 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: really awesome content. And that's the way that I suggest starting. 652 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,239 Speaker 1: So I like Sony stuff right now. I think they 653 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: make some great stuff. Um I have a Sony for 654 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: like four K handicam. I think it's the A X series. 655 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: Those are great. There's three different versions of it. You know, 656 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: some other things to look about. It's just like a 657 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: digital camera that does some good filming and has just 658 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: like a lens built in zooms. Those can be awesome. 659 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: I know some guys have really good zooms on those 660 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: handicaps and they'll use them in the back country and 661 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: replace of a spotting scope in a lot of ways 662 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: where they can just take that get a good enough 663 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: view of where it might got to sixty x zoom 664 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: and they can zoom in on something and just getting 665 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: an idea of what they're looking for. And they don't 666 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: even need to carry a spotting scope. So that's something 667 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: to think about. Closing it out here pretty soon. Dave 668 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: from Michigan says, I'm looking at getting into bow hunting. 669 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm right handed, but left eye dominant. What bow should 670 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: I get? I got that question a lot in a 671 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: lot of different ways, and actually address some of it 672 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: on social media, but I think it's worth talking about here. 673 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: Is you need to shoot to your dominant eye. Honestly, 674 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: I think that we should start a movement right now 675 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: to change the name of shotguns and bows from left 676 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: handed and right handed to left eye and right eye. 677 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: You really want to shoot with your dominant eye. So 678 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: if you don't know what that is, you need to 679 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: put your hands in like a triangle where you've got 680 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: a hole in the middle, and look at an object 681 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: in the distance. Then close your left eye. If the 682 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: object is still there, then you're right eye dominant. Close 683 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: your left eye and it moves. Then your left eye dominant, 684 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,719 Speaker 1: so you want to shoot towards your and I that 685 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: that's the eye that's sending the most accurate picture in 686 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: line to your brain. You know, because we have binocular vision. 687 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: In order for our brains not to get confused by 688 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: looking at both eyes, we meld the picture into one. 689 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: So one eye is taking over and showing you all 690 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: your depth perception where things are. That's your dominant eye. 691 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: That's the eye that you want to be aiming with. 692 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: Now a rifle, you know, it's just better to just 693 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,239 Speaker 1: switch to everything. But a rifle you're probably closing one 694 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: eye and looking through scope, so it's not as important. 695 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: But I actually shoot rifle with both eyes open. I 696 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: think if you learned to shoot with both eyes open, 697 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: you're gonna be a much better shot in the long run, 698 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to archery, because you're you're focusing 699 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: on a site, the archery site, and then you've got 700 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: the targets. So you want to be using your dominant 701 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: eye and let your non dominant I kind of pick 702 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: up some things on the side, so that way you're 703 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: lighting up your site picture with what's in the distance, 704 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: and you can focus on the right thing without racking 705 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: this weird focus and getting this weird view or having 706 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: to close one eye. What I'm saying is, if you're 707 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 1: starting out, especially with a bow, get a bow that 708 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: goes to your dominant where you're drawing to your dominant 709 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: I mean, especially if you're starting what's it matter what 710 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: hand you're drawing within, what hand you're playing with. I mean, 711 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: it's kind of weird that if you're right handed you 712 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: would pull the bow back with your your right hand. 713 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: It's not like it's more strength or anything. You can 714 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 1: push and pull at the same time. You can draw 715 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 1: the same with whatever muscles you build. I mean, it 716 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: might actually be better to be crossed dominant, where you're 717 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: holding the bow with your dominant hand and drawing to 718 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: your dominant eye. So it's kind of a win win 719 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: in some instances. You shouldn't think of it as left 720 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: handed right handed, but just left eye right eye, and 721 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: that will really help you out, especially when you're getting started. 722 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: If you've already started down the wrong path and it's 723 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: time to get a new bow, it's gonna be hard 724 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: to switch over, but it might just be worth it. 725 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,279 Speaker 1: Take the time. I've shot left handed bows plenty um 726 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,439 Speaker 1: sighting in my dad's bow, and he got started helping 727 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: him out. He's left handed and left eye dominant, so 728 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: you know it can be done. You can get used 729 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: to it. A lot of bow shop guys shoot both ways, 730 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: so it's it's definitely you can get used to it 731 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 1: and overcome the awkwardness. Have you already started wrong? All right, 732 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: we'll do this last question here, kind of running out 733 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: of time. So many and more I wanted to get to. 734 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: But there will be more Q and a's in the future, 735 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 1: so says he Remy. I've been binge listening to your 736 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 1: podcast all week at work. I have already learned a ton. 737 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: In one of your early podcasts, you mentioned Cashmir by 738 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin was your killing song. You ordered it a 739 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,879 Speaker 1: little better than that, and I think that people want 740 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: to know what else is on Remy's killer playlist. Keep 741 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: up the great work, Rocky. Okay, So in an earlier podcast, 742 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: I was talking about me and my buddies kind of 743 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: have this song that comes on It's just like a 744 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: good luck song if it randomly comes on the radio. 745 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: We Kashmir by led Zeppelin. That was There's a whole 746 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: backstory to it of the fact that. I know, one 747 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: of the first hunting videos I made from my outfitting business, 748 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: that song was on there that my buddy happened to 749 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: hear it on the way to his hunt one time 750 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: and he got something good and then I shot the 751 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,759 Speaker 1: best buck of my life before hearing that song. So 752 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,920 Speaker 1: it's just this thing that we've got. Great song by 753 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,399 Speaker 1: the way too. So if you got that on your 754 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: going hunting playlist, I'll give you my top five. Now. 755 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: I like all kinds of music, but these are just 756 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: happened to be maybe my top five going out hunting 757 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,919 Speaker 1: good luck songs. Let's start with number five. We'll go 758 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: Hank Williams Junior Country Boy Can Survive. I mean that's 759 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 1: just that's just a classic outdoorsman anthem. I mean that 760 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: just gets you pumped up right there. If you haven't 761 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,479 Speaker 1: listened to it, do yourself favorite go for it. Number four. 762 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Stepan Wolf Born to Be Wild. 763 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: I had a hunting video that I made a long 764 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: time ago, and I put that song on there just 765 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,919 Speaker 1: I felt like that song just embodies I mean, half 766 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: the time when I'm walking through the woods, that song 767 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: just is is blaring as an anthem. Number three, This 768 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 1: is a this is a good song to send your buddies. 769 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: Me and my hunting friends we do this. It's like 770 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,919 Speaker 1: there's times when you know you've got a friend out 771 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: on a hunt, or you're on a hunt and it's 772 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,839 Speaker 1: coming down to the wire. We've all been there. Five 773 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: day hunt, ten day hunt, whatever, it's getting close to 774 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: the end of the season, maybe a couple of days left, 775 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: maybe it's the last day, last evening of the hunt. 776 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: A little pick me up, a little pet me up, 777 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 1: Final Countdown by Europe. You just you gotta have that 778 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: saved on your download Spotify. On that last day, just 779 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 1: blast that as your anthem. Last year meal deer hunting 780 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,360 Speaker 1: Um came down to the wire. Was had a Nevada 781 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: archery tag. And it's like four in the morning and 782 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: I just take that song and crank it volume up 783 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 1: in my tent. The final countdown, this is it. Got 784 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,439 Speaker 1: to give it your all today. Number two it's got 785 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: to be Kashmir, the good luck song. And then number 786 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: one this might surprise you, but the Indiana Jones theme song. 787 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: Now that one you don't have to download that one. 788 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,320 Speaker 1: You can just hum. That is my theme song to life. 789 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,240 Speaker 1: So ever since I was a youngster out by myself, 790 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: anytime I get into a hairy situation, anytime I was 791 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: just feeling like I was really getting after it. I 792 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,240 Speaker 1: think probably of the time while I'm hiking, I'm humming 793 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,359 Speaker 1: or thinking about the Indiana Jones theme song. So that's 794 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 1: something to leave you with until next week. Donna, no no, nonna, 795 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: no no no no no. Probably get super copyright infringement, 796 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: but that's all right. See you guys.