Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back everyone to another
Speaker 1: episode of Cutting the Distance podcast. This week is our
Speaker 1: Q and A So the topics come from you guys,
Speaker 1: and man, this is one I actually one of my
Speaker 1: favorite portions of the podcast when we get to do
Speaker 1: this answer some of the questions. Because I've said it
Speaker 1: a million times, I'll probably say it a million and
Speaker 1: one more. I really want this podcast to be about
Speaker 1: making everybody more successful in the field and making it
Speaker 1: tailored to the things that you want to know. So
Speaker 1: the Q and A s really helped me outline well,
Speaker 1: I mean, answer specific questions, but also kind of I
Speaker 1: take some of those responses that I get and build
Speaker 1: out other episodes of the podcast because I wanted to
Speaker 1: be tailored towards the things that you guys want to
Speaker 1: know and into these Q and A s. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe I might be reading one question, but most of
Speaker 1: them I've gotten a pile of questions on the similar topic,
Speaker 1: similar veins. Some tend to be more popular than others.
Speaker 1: So those are the things that I try to key
Speaker 1: in on, and it really helps me identify the stuff
Speaker 1: that people want to learn about, because some of the
Speaker 1: stuff might just go over my head, stuff that I
Speaker 1: not go over my head, but as things that I
Speaker 1: might not think about or deem important, but people are
Speaker 1: interested in in understanding some things that I take for
Speaker 1: granted because it's maybe something that I've just done forever
Speaker 1: and don't even think, oh yeah, that might be something
Speaker 1: that somebody wants to know. So I really appreciate all
Speaker 1: the input and things that we've got. I pull a
Speaker 1: lot of the questions from Instagram at Remy Warren as
Speaker 1: well as the email that I throw out at the
Speaker 1: end of most of the body guests, So appreciate we
Speaker 1: got a lot for this one, Like I can't get
Speaker 1: through all of them, but maybe someone will continue on.
Speaker 1: Probably because I was kind of promoting the Q and
Speaker 1: A for about three weeks, but I kind of got
Speaker 1: into some of the stuff. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about scouting from home, how to pick spots from home,
Speaker 1: like figuring out areas to apply for and then a
Speaker 1: little bit jumping into in the field scouting. I like
Speaker 1: to jumping into those topics because it's just a little
Speaker 1: timely for a lot of people being quarantined. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: thinking a lot about future hunts and planning and prepping
Speaker 1: and maybe having a little extra time to do a
Speaker 1: little bit extra research and maybe try to figure something out.
Speaker 1: So I know these are crazy times for everyone. I
Speaker 1: really hope everybody's doing well, and you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that some people's hunt plans have changed. Things are a
Speaker 1: little bit crazy right now, but hopefully these podcasts help
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, prep you and get you excited
Speaker 1: for the future and what's what's in the store. So
Speaker 1: let's jump into a couple questions here. This first one
Speaker 1: was one of the ones that I'm like, I would
Speaker 1: have never thought to talk about that, but I got
Speaker 1: so many questions, and we're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about snakes. So Brady says, I appreciate all the content
Speaker 1: you're putting out there. I try not to miss any
Speaker 1: of it. This is a question probably for your podcast
Speaker 1: along the lines of the Tike podcast. This time of year,
Speaker 1: I have an area I've run into multiple rattle snakes
Speaker 1: and glassing points in the mornings. I've done some research
Speaker 1: on what to do to avoid them and how to
Speaker 1: respond when bitten, but thought maybe this would be another
Speaker 1: bit of info for your podcast. Thanks and good luck
Speaker 1: this spring. Okay, so if I'm going to talk about snakes,
Speaker 1: I have to at least talk about my strange love
Speaker 1: of snakes. It's maybe, like, I don't know, if it's
Speaker 1: a hobby, something that I'm into, maybe something that people
Speaker 1: don't really know about me, don't really discuss. But I
Speaker 1: love reptiles. I mean, I think reptiles are some of
Speaker 1: the coolest animals on the planet, and it's just been
Speaker 1: one something that I've always been fascinated with them. So snakes, lizards,
Speaker 1: even some man phobians and stuff, turtles whatever. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I would go out. I loved going out and just
Speaker 1: like trying to find different reptiles. I'd catch all kinds
Speaker 1: of different lizards, snakes, whatever, keep them as pets. And
Speaker 1: then as an adult, one of the things that I
Speaker 1: like to do in the spring is whether i'm shed
Speaker 1: you know, like in combination with shed hunting, or even
Speaker 1: just going out I call it herping around. I'm just
Speaker 1: going out looking for various reptiles. I just catch them
Speaker 1: and let them go. But it's cool to just see
Speaker 1: the different types of reptiles. I kind of it's like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a strange in that strange bird
Speaker 1: watcher category. I probably don't talk about it too much
Speaker 1: because everyone's like, what a weirdo likes to go out
Speaker 1: and catch reptiles. But it's just fun to be able
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out what reptiles live where, you know,
Speaker 1: identify different habitats, and see if you can kind of
Speaker 1: catch them, like grab them. It's kind of cool. It's difficult.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's my thing whatever. It's a hobby um.
Speaker 1: And I've seen some really cool just like different species
Speaker 1: of snakes and other things around while doing that. So
Speaker 1: I do really enjoy looking for reptiles and rals. Makes
Speaker 1: is the one that I actually enjoy looking for now.
Speaker 1: I think it probably runs in my family though, because
Speaker 1: my grandpa. I've talked about him quite a bit on
Speaker 1: this podcast and some others. But he was just like
Speaker 1: a wild man. And uh, I don't know if I've
Speaker 1: told this story here or not. I can't remember, but
Speaker 1: I've told it other places. It's just worth talking about
Speaker 1: he used to be a professional fighter, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what he would He just liked he would catch rattlesnakes,
Speaker 1: which I mean, I get it's kind of cool, but
Speaker 1: I don't suggest doing that. And he's been bitten. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times he's been. I think he
Speaker 1: was bitten at least four times by rattlesnakes. Most of them,
Speaker 1: I would say three of them were him just dicking
Speaker 1: around with them, and then one of them was just
Speaker 1: a pure accident. He was the kind of guy that
Speaker 1: would wear cowboy boots, cowboy hat, and jeans every day
Speaker 1: of his life. And then I don't know, is he's
Speaker 1: a little bit older. Someone bought him some like sandals.
Speaker 1: They might even been birkin stocks, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: So he's out mowing his lawn in Montana and he
Speaker 1: felt something thing. He's like, oh crap, and looks down
Speaker 1: and sees us coiled up rattlesnake. He's like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: I got bit. So he walks into the house, gets
Speaker 1: his wife, and they call the ambulance and started driving
Speaker 1: to the hospital. He gets to the hospital, they give
Speaker 1: him the anti venom, and you know, clearly a snake
Speaker 1: bite there, he's he's not really reacting right to it,
Speaker 1: and he's just like having trouble breathing and it's just
Speaker 1: getting worse. So they inspect a bite and they see
Speaker 1: inside the snake bite is a beasting and he's actually
Speaker 1: really allergic to bees, like deathly allergic to bees as well.
Speaker 1: So now they have to like stabilize the beast thing.
Speaker 1: They give him epinephrin, like an EpiPen shot kind of things.
Speaker 1: It's like epinephrin and I think adrenaline goes with it,
Speaker 1: kind of pump it through your system. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how they did it with a snake bite, because you
Speaker 1: don't want to pump the venom through your system faster. Um.
Speaker 1: But he ended they ended up being all right from it.
Speaker 1: But it was just like a random, crazy coincidence. They
Speaker 1: stung by a beat and bit by a snake at
Speaker 1: the exact same time. That might have been the first
Speaker 1: day where ever warre Sandals, and I think it was
Speaker 1: the last day every war Sandals in his life. Pretty funny, um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, another time he got bit. This is just
Speaker 1: like the kind of crazy things that he would do.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing. I think he was.
Speaker 1: I've heard many stories from different people, but he was
Speaker 1: probably just like showing everybody how fast he was when
Speaker 1: he was boxing, like, I'm faster than a rattlesnake kind
Speaker 1: of thing. And he was outside of town and ways,
Speaker 1: I think on a job site or on on a
Speaker 1: military base, and he was kind of messing with the
Speaker 1: snake that he caught and had in a bucket and rattlesnake,
Speaker 1: and so he gets bit by the thing and he's like,
Speaker 1: he's gonna drive himself to the hospital. So as he's
Speaker 1: driving into the hospital, he's not feeling so good. He
Speaker 1: gets into town and I think it was just not
Speaker 1: like things weren't going right. So he was going to
Speaker 1: pull into this gas station, convenience station to get help,
Speaker 1: but on the way in to go into the community,
Speaker 1: so blacks out and drives his truck through the front
Speaker 1: of a convenience store and then the owner runs out.
Speaker 1: Who have I've actually heard the story from him? He
Speaker 1: runs out, he says, he opened the door and my
Speaker 1: grandpa falls out of the vehicle whole like clutching alive
Speaker 1: rattlesnake in his hand. So they knew what bid him.
Speaker 1: Um and he survived. He survived that one as well.
Speaker 1: So I just say that to say, most people you
Speaker 1: get bit by snakes are actually messing with them. So
Speaker 1: I highly, highly highly suggest nobody try picking up or
Speaker 1: or messing with rattlesnake. Most venomus snakes. You gotta understand,
Speaker 1: like a way venomous snakes their venom is for acquiring food.
Speaker 1: So you've got constrictors, which you know, the grab whatever
Speaker 1: their prey is, they wrap around it, suffocated and then
Speaker 1: swallow it. Rattlesnakes don't do that. They don't have that
Speaker 1: hunting skill, so they when something comes by, they bite it,
Speaker 1: they inject it with poison venom, and then as that
Speaker 1: animal will then die expire and then they slither over
Speaker 1: and swallow it need it. So for rattlesnake, you know
Speaker 1: it needs its venom for survival to eat, and it
Speaker 1: generally does not want to use its venom on something
Speaker 1: very large in a defensive way. So in a defensive
Speaker 1: man or rattlesnake, they've got their rattles they're warning you.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, dude, I'm right here, getaway now. It
Speaker 1: seems aggressive and menacing and kind of scary, but think
Speaker 1: about other there's way more dangerous snake species in the
Speaker 1: world that do not give warning and are a lot
Speaker 1: more aggressive. So I kind of see like the rattlesnake
Speaker 1: is the mountain lion of the snake world. Like they're
Speaker 1: very timid, they don't want to attack. They aren't like
Speaker 1: a leopard of the cat world, where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you mess with a leopard, you're probably gonna die. Um.
Speaker 1: Rattlesnakes are are a little bit different. They warn you.
Speaker 1: They give this audible really loud, like, dude, I'm right here,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to bite you, but don't
Speaker 1: mess with me. I'm gonna look real mean and piste
Speaker 1: off and try to scare you before I have to strike.
Speaker 1: And even when I do strike, they might just bite
Speaker 1: defensively and not inject venom. Smaller, younger snakes don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have the same control as older snakes, but that's just
Speaker 1: what they're going on. So if one's rattling seriously, just stop,
Speaker 1: identify where it is, and then just slowly walk away
Speaker 1: get out of its striking zone. They can strike about
Speaker 1: half their body lengths, so you just want to get
Speaker 1: away from them and move. And also identify areas that
Speaker 1: they like, you know, springtime they're gonna be coming out
Speaker 1: sunning a little bit more. And you know, you say
Speaker 1: you might find them in the mornings and these rock
Speaker 1: piles and other things. So just identify and be aware
Speaker 1: where they might be and try to avoid the snakes themselves.
Speaker 1: Avoiding things is always the best method. Now, if you
Speaker 1: do get bit there's so much information and misinformation and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing out there. So I'll just
Speaker 1: tell you some of the things that I've been taught
Speaker 1: a lot of it, you know, being in hunting in
Speaker 1: places in Australia where it's super remote and there's I mean,
Speaker 1: I've I've seen brown snakes, coastal type hands. Actually almost
Speaker 1: stepped on a coastal type hand last year. It's like,
Speaker 1: you get bit by one of those, you're probably dead.
Speaker 1: But there are things that you can do because you're
Speaker 1: just so remote, so far away. You know, one thing
Speaker 1: you never want to do on a snake bite and
Speaker 1: you hear this, and I think there's enough information out
Speaker 1: that people don't try this anymore. But you don't suck
Speaker 1: the venom out, And if you think about it, most
Speaker 1: snake bites one they're probably it's most of them are
Speaker 1: on your legs or on your hands. People get bit
Speaker 1: in the hands are generally like messing with them, or
Speaker 1: maybe reaching into a bush for something or whatever, sitting down,
Speaker 1: putting your hand down and get struck there. So it's
Speaker 1: normally on your appendages somewhere, arms and legs. One thing
Speaker 1: you got to realize is so the venom it's kind
Speaker 1: of got like these. I would almost refer to it
Speaker 1: as like a half life, where, uh as time goes on,
Speaker 1: the venom gets less strong. But what you don't want
Speaker 1: to do is you don't want that venom to reach
Speaker 1: your heart or your your brain, your central nervous system.
Speaker 1: And so by trying to suck the venom out, you're
Speaker 1: just getting in your mouth and getting in your bloodstream fast.
Speaker 1: It's very dangerous. There are snake bite kits which have
Speaker 1: like some form of suction. You don't want to cut
Speaker 1: the bite um. That can cause complications and infections and
Speaker 1: other things. But uh, you know, sucking the venom out
Speaker 1: with a snake bite kit, I don't know. I've never
Speaker 1: used one. I used to carry one and then I
Speaker 1: just I don't really know how well they work or
Speaker 1: what that is. But one thing you do want to do,
Speaker 1: I know, is slow the venom to your heart. So
Speaker 1: the key is like, let's say you got bit by
Speaker 1: rattlesnake or a more deadly snake somewhere else. The first
Speaker 1: thing you want to do, and it just might as
Speaker 1: hard as it might be, well, first identify the type
Speaker 1: of snake that it is, because that's gonna make a
Speaker 1: big difference if you can, you know, maybe real fast,
Speaker 1: and if I where the snake is, and try not
Speaker 1: to get bit again because there's a good likelihood that
Speaker 1: the first strike might not have injected any venom as well,
Speaker 1: but you don't know. You treat every venom snake bite
Speaker 1: like it like it has. Then what you'll do is
Speaker 1: you'll wrap, like whether you use like a bandage or
Speaker 1: a cut t shirt or something or about you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start wrapping around and tying off not so
Speaker 1: tight like not I'm not talking to turn a kits
Speaker 1: that you still want your blood to flow. You don't
Speaker 1: want to cause any more damage than necessary, So you're
Speaker 1: just gonna kind of slow the blood almost like where
Speaker 1: would be I don't know how tight, like a good snug,
Speaker 1: not necessarily make your footfall asleep, but maybe in that
Speaker 1: footfall asleep zone. Definitely don't get it real tight. So
Speaker 1: your wrap going down and then you can wrap going
Speaker 1: back up to kind of double rabbits. So starting or
Speaker 1: even starting down around the bite low and then coming
Speaker 1: up around your leg all the way up your leg
Speaker 1: or up your arm, whatever you can do, and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to keep that bite lower than your
Speaker 1: heart and you relax, calm down, don't run to the truck.
Speaker 1: I've heard stories of aboriginals that in Australia to be
Speaker 1: bitten by things like a brown stinker type in and
Speaker 1: they'll do that and then they just you slow your
Speaker 1: heart rate, they'll lay down, take a nap by a tree.
Speaker 1: They'll either wake up or they won't, and it's just
Speaker 1: allowing that venom the time to break down and not
Speaker 1: be as potent. Now. I've heard of people getting bitten
Speaker 1: by some of very poisonous snakes and doing that similar thing,
Speaker 1: learning the heart rate, getting to the hospital and then
Speaker 1: at that point they have time to administer the n
Speaker 1: a venom they undo it. Once those ties get undone,
Speaker 1: then that that blood can rush to your heart and
Speaker 1: it can be very fast acting. So you don't want
Speaker 1: to run, you don't want to freak out, you don't
Speaker 1: want to sprint, you don't want to stab yourself with
Speaker 1: an EpiPen which has adrenaline. It's gonna pump it through
Speaker 1: your heart and some people have done that and hasn't
Speaker 1: turned out so well. So you just gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: keep your heart rate down, and then if you've got
Speaker 1: some way of notifying medical maybe in reach or a
Speaker 1: phone call, and get get medical help from there, that's
Speaker 1: the best method. And if you've got to hike out
Speaker 1: or get out or whatever, you know, don't get your
Speaker 1: heart rate up, don't exert yourself an extreme manner of
Speaker 1: a way that will pump that venom through your blood
Speaker 1: right away. The worst thing you could do is get
Speaker 1: hammered and then just like try sprinting back to the car,
Speaker 1: because you probably will die halfway between there in the car.
Speaker 1: Not rattlesnakes meant necessarily, but there are a lot of
Speaker 1: snakes that are a lot more poisonous in the world,
Speaker 1: and if you get bit by one of those, um
Speaker 1: could be bad. Anyways, let's jump to the next question,
Speaker 1: a little turkey hunting question. Here we go, it says
Speaker 1: actually from Idaho says, I'm hoping you might have some
Speaker 1: advice from me. I shot a turkey this weekend and
Speaker 1: want to do a tail mount, and my husband is
Speaker 1: planning on keeping the wings for fletchings. The only problem
Speaker 1: is that turkey has fleas. We live in an apartment,
Speaker 1: so I'm a bit nervous about bringing the feathers inside
Speaker 1: and spreading the fleas and hatcht eggs into pets in
Speaker 1: the carpet. Any advice on how to kill the eggs
Speaker 1: and fleas still on the feathers. So I would suggest
Speaker 1: doing the same thing that a lot of people do
Speaker 1: if they hunt coyotes and collect the pelts or furs.
Speaker 1: Coyotes have a lot of fleas. So take a black
Speaker 1: trash bag and I use I use like the raid spray,
Speaker 1: So I just call it like a flea bomb. You
Speaker 1: put whatever you have, the fleas in the bag, the
Speaker 1: feathers in the bag, and you just spray that raid
Speaker 1: flea spray that will kill any live ticks, any eggs, everything.
Speaker 1: You tie it off and just let it sit for
Speaker 1: a while. That that should work. Now there are other
Speaker 1: things you can do. There's like flea powders and other stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think that that raid spray works pretty well.
Speaker 1: Do that and you shouldn't have any problems, and you
Speaker 1: can bring the feathers inside. They're still all workable. Won't
Speaker 1: won't affect the feathers. You can do the turkey fan mount.
Speaker 1: When you do that mount, you know, lay it out
Speaker 1: on a piece of cardboard. I used twenty meal team
Speaker 1: borax to try to take out all the meat and everything,
Speaker 1: and then just use borax to preserve the meaty part
Speaker 1: of the tail before I do that. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: other things you can use. I've just used borax forever,
Speaker 1: so that works really well. And then um, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm actually fletching samarrows with the turkey I got, so
Speaker 1: it'd be cool. It's good, it's fun thing to do,
Speaker 1: and you should be flee free using that method. Andrew Hermanett,
Speaker 1: strangest thing you've encountered in the woods, the most scared
Speaker 1: you've been, the coolest thing you've seen, something along those lines. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, this isn't I wasn't scared or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but it's just kind of like a really
Speaker 1: cool encounter. I was hunting in Arizona accused the archery season,
Speaker 1: and I'm walking through this wash back It's like a
Speaker 1: few miles back into this area, and I'm walking back
Speaker 1: out the middle of the day and i see this
Speaker 1: drag mark across the wash and I'm like, look at it.
Speaker 1: Analyze the tracks, and I'm like, oh sweet, a mountain
Speaker 1: lion had just killed something. It looked pretty large. So
Speaker 1: there's some cattle around, so I was assuming that it
Speaker 1: was a beef calf. And I see the line tracks
Speaker 1: were drugged. So I'm bent over in my backpack, like
Speaker 1: getting out my camera because I'm gonna just film the
Speaker 1: tracks and the drag mark and everything, and this is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So I'm bent down, like getting into my
Speaker 1: backpack and I look up and literally five ft away
Speaker 1: in the tall grass, this catch just crouch staring at
Speaker 1: me like whole crap. So then I instead of taking
Speaker 1: my camera to take my pistol out just in case
Speaker 1: and slowly start backing away. And as I'm backing away,
Speaker 1: the catch kind of like SLINKs out and then it
Speaker 1: gets about ten yards or so looks back at me.
Speaker 1: I'm just like cool, and I grabbed my camera now
Speaker 1: and get some video of it. And then just like
Speaker 1: slips off into the bushes. I'm like, well, that was crazy.
Speaker 1: So now I started investigating and it actually there was
Speaker 1: like this log over um, like a fallen I can't
Speaker 1: emeram what kind of like maybe like a cotton wood
Speaker 1: and some tall grass, and it had drug that calf
Speaker 1: that it killed up underneath that and buried it with dirt,
Speaker 1: and it had already taken the liver out of the calf,
Speaker 1: and it was just sitting there crouched like had I
Speaker 1: not stopped to get my camera, I probably would have
Speaker 1: just walked right past it. I mean, it's just like armed.
Speaker 1: I could have just slapped the thing in the face
Speaker 1: if I had won lunge and slapped it. It's just
Speaker 1: crazy how well it blended in and I just had
Speaker 1: no clue it was there, and even when it walked
Speaker 1: away that closer just so quiet. Pretty crazy, pretty cool encounter.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a mountain lion tig or anything at
Speaker 1: the time, so I just watched it and got some
Speaker 1: video of it and stuff, and it was pretty crazy encounter,
Speaker 1: all right. This question comes from Adam. He says, altitude sickness,
Speaker 1: how do you prevent it or recover quickly so it
Speaker 1: doesn't ruin your hunt. It seems like every time I
Speaker 1: get over thirteen thousand, thirteen five, I'll get flu like symptoms.
Speaker 1: He's self diagnosed it as altitude sickness. As soon as
Speaker 1: he gets blow ten or eleven thousand feet, it just
Speaker 1: kind of goes away, magically goes away. He says, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a bad food situation. I'm not a marathoner,
Speaker 1: but I'm in pretty decent shape. What can I do
Speaker 1: to prevent That's a great question, and it's actually a
Speaker 1: question that I get asked a lot, and one thing
Speaker 1: that I do consider. I do quite a few hunts
Speaker 1: that are really high elevations, and it's something that you
Speaker 1: have to take seriously and honestly think. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: actually a really good topic that I could probably do
Speaker 1: a whole podcast on and might in the future, maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, if if more people want to send in
Speaker 1: some stuff. But I'll just give you a preliminary thing
Speaker 1: of some of the things that I do. It's really
Speaker 1: important to kind of understand altitude sickness. So what happens
Speaker 1: is as you go up in altitude, there's less oxygen
Speaker 1: pre density, so it's like if you if you started
Speaker 1: see level and grab a bag of chips and take
Speaker 1: it up to thirteen thousand feet, that bag is just
Speaker 1: going to be super expanded, rock hard. Well, there's the
Speaker 1: same amount of oxygen in that bag, but it's taking
Speaker 1: up more space, so each breath takes in less oxygen. Now,
Speaker 1: as you're exerting yourself in the mountains, your muscles need
Speaker 1: oxygen to work, so your body as it acclimates, So
Speaker 1: the acclimation process does some crazy things with red blood
Speaker 1: cells and deliveries. It's like a transport system of oxygen
Speaker 1: to your muscles, and that takes weeks of time sometimes
Speaker 1: at certain elevations, depending on where you live and other
Speaker 1: things to get acclimated. So it's not necessarily something you
Speaker 1: can do at home, but there are I found some
Speaker 1: some kind of cheat codes if you will, to that
Speaker 1: altitude sickness. There's a few factors I would say, and
Speaker 1: I really keep The more I talk about this, the
Speaker 1: more I'm like, yeah, this needs to be a full,
Speaker 1: full podcast. But one product that I use have found regularly,
Speaker 1: like between using it and not using it, that works
Speaker 1: well for me is a willerness athlete outtitude advantage I
Speaker 1: think I've talked about it before on here, but I
Speaker 1: take it like a week or two beforehand, and then
Speaker 1: I bring it into the field with me on those
Speaker 1: high alpine hunts, and honestly, like just as personal use
Speaker 1: using it, I feel the effects of altitude way less.
Speaker 1: I just think it helps the blood flow to the
Speaker 1: muscles to help transport that oxygen in a way. There's
Speaker 1: other things that you can do as well. One thing
Speaker 1: that altitude does to people is as you go up
Speaker 1: in elevation, it can actually increase your metabolism, but in
Speaker 1: some ways it decreases your your appetite. So making sure
Speaker 1: that while you're at these altitudes you're eating and properly
Speaker 1: feeling your body if you I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: times where you'll pack in. Is you get up in
Speaker 1: that altitude, you're like, you eat a granola bar, you're full,
Speaker 1: and then you don't really think about eating anymore. Um,
Speaker 1: But trying to just force that food of knowing you're
Speaker 1: burning a lot of calories you need to keep your
Speaker 1: body functioning at it its peak and its prime. Another
Speaker 1: thing is as huge as that dehydration and factor. As
Speaker 1: you go up in altitude, you know you can get
Speaker 1: that dehydration and you aren't drinking. So I I always
Speaker 1: bring a drink mixed from I'm replenishing fluids. I make
Speaker 1: sure to drink extra water at altitude. I had some
Speaker 1: friends come over from a sea level last year hunt
Speaker 1: in one of the areas that I hunt, dear a lot.
Speaker 1: It's it's twelve thousand eleven twelve thousand type feet, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, you guys just just no matter what,
Speaker 1: just constantly be drinking water. If their water is available, drink, drink, drink.
Speaker 1: And they're surprised how much water they went through and
Speaker 1: still felt dehydrated. But keeping hydrated and minimizing some of
Speaker 1: the other problems can really help you just stay functioning. Um.
Speaker 1: And then it's just some some factors of if you
Speaker 1: it might be hard to acclimate for you, or you
Speaker 1: might be slow at acclimating, so you might just get
Speaker 1: it even with some of that stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: using those measures. I've used those measures and seeing a
Speaker 1: lot better results in the mountains at altitude, so it's
Speaker 1: worth looking at. Now. There are some like altitudes you
Speaker 1: can actually die from certain types of altitude sickness. Brain
Speaker 1: swelling can up in pulmonary a demo or your lungs
Speaker 1: fill with liquid and some of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's super dangerous if you do get altitude sickness. Uh,
Speaker 1: some things you can take while you've got it, because
Speaker 1: you might you start get a headache, fatigue, Take some aspirin,
Speaker 1: some ivy proof, and keep that stuff in your pack
Speaker 1: with you. Super important. And then yeah, if you get it,
Speaker 1: you gotta go back down to elevation. Another thing is
Speaker 1: if you get into an area you know you could
Speaker 1: try to start acclimating a little bit um, maybe get
Speaker 1: in and not just go straight up, but start hunting
Speaker 1: some of the lower stuff. Your body a little used
Speaker 1: to it. I know it takes longer to create those
Speaker 1: red blood cells, but within combination of some of the
Speaker 1: other things, you might not overdo it as much right away.
Speaker 1: I've found that it can happen to anybody. Sometimes. I've
Speaker 1: been on trips with the guys in the best shape
Speaker 1: got altitude sickness, and the guys that were a little
Speaker 1: bit overweight and whatever, they didn't get it. So you think, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in the best shape ever, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get it. And that's those are the guys that it hits,
Speaker 1: probably because they keep pushing, whereas the other guys kind
Speaker 1: of slow down, react to their body. They don't just
Speaker 1: force it. Those are some things to think about. There
Speaker 1: are some drugs like diamox that you can get prescriptions
Speaker 1: for that are are made for altitude sickness. But honestly,
Speaker 1: I've used that altitude advantage stuff for a long time,
Speaker 1: and I kind of you can start to feel the effects.
Speaker 1: I think about eight thousand feet. I luckily live at
Speaker 1: six thousand feet. So whatever elevation you live, if you
Speaker 1: live at sea level and you're going to thirteen foot hunt,
Speaker 1: you really want to factor in the altitude. Um doing
Speaker 1: everything you can. Something like that makes you sure you're hydrated.
Speaker 1: Food And then another thing that I have done in
Speaker 1: the past, I got one of those we'll shoot. Everybody's
Speaker 1: got face masks now, like go for um. They've got those.
Speaker 1: They call them, like the training masks or limits the
Speaker 1: amount of oxygen as you're training. You know, try some
Speaker 1: of that. It kind of helps your lungs get used
Speaker 1: a little bit less oxygen. I don't know how long
Speaker 1: you'd have to use it. I know that, like it's
Speaker 1: not feasible for everybody to sleep in one of those
Speaker 1: altitude chambers. So it's just something you can kind of
Speaker 1: think about. If you want to wear a mask and
Speaker 1: try to workout, be careful, don't overdo it the first time,
Speaker 1: don't black out. But um, that's all a few things
Speaker 1: that just off the top of my head that I
Speaker 1: think will help you out. And then, like I say,
Speaker 1: if you get it, you know, go down elevation, drop
Speaker 1: down to a level where you start feeling better. Maybe
Speaker 1: just have to continue hunting there. But altitude sickness is serious.
Speaker 1: It's ruined a lot of l counts for a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. At first time L counts, they get out,
Speaker 1: they get a high altitude, and yeah, it sucks. You
Speaker 1: don't want that, Okay, Danny said, I'm a longtime listener
Speaker 1: of your podcast. Me and a hunting buddy are in
Speaker 1: college paying off student debt. We're using all the end
Speaker 1: quote spare money. We have to apply for tags out
Speaker 1: west and make progress. After listening to your episode on
Speaker 1: the topic, to get to the question, is there any
Speaker 1: good place to look for budget equipment? Where is the
Speaker 1: best place to find use slash budget gear? Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: I've been there, and I like your plan. You know,
Speaker 1: using some of that money to put in for tags.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember going through college and just being
Speaker 1: like pretty much not going out, not eating anything but
Speaker 1: Top Roman for the however long and whatever game meat
Speaker 1: I have, and then you know, saving all my money
Speaker 1: to apply for tags and then needing some gear as well.
Speaker 1: So you know this this is not an endorsement of
Speaker 1: any type, just some places that I've found some stuff,
Speaker 1: and some of this stuff, you know, it's just from
Speaker 1: back in the day, so I don't know how relevant
Speaker 1: it is now. But one of the places that I
Speaker 1: probably bought most of my hunting gear was Sierra Trading Post.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a what would it be like
Speaker 1: a marshals for like outdoor equipment where they kind of
Speaker 1: get overstock stuff, last year's stuff, and just like super
Speaker 1: good discounts. We actually had when where I live an outpost,
Speaker 1: but they kind of went online quite a few years back.
Speaker 1: Finding some of those online discount places. I always had
Speaker 1: a lot of friends get some sweet deals on camel Fire.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that's still around. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That was like they would do like daily deals and
Speaker 1: it's just like overstocked stuff. Um, and you could get
Speaker 1: some really good stuff, but like, yes, your training post,
Speaker 1: I probably pretty much bought almost sleeping bags, tents, some backpacks,
Speaker 1: like some hunting gears. Shoot, I even see like optics
Speaker 1: pop up in there every once in a while. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of sites, you know, the Internet. It makes it
Speaker 1: so much easier. A lot of that stuff was like
Speaker 1: not a lot of information out there. You know. I'd
Speaker 1: get that Sportsman's cat Guide catalog every once in a while,
Speaker 1: find some good deals on stuff there. But you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing too is if you can find a
Speaker 1: good deal on high quality equipment, that's great. I mean Craigslist,
Speaker 1: you could always go that route or eBay. I sometimes
Speaker 1: I just maybe I'm just too distrusting for some of that.
Speaker 1: But even just you know, knowing friends and you'll run
Speaker 1: into guys that um on message boards and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that maybe there there's a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: like to buy new bows every year, so equipment like
Speaker 1: that you can sometimes get good deals on. Just find
Speaker 1: stuff that fits you. Look online. I think that's a
Speaker 1: great place to start. And then I was always of
Speaker 1: the fact that it's like, all right, if I find
Speaker 1: a good deal on something or whatever, that's great, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna try to find and gear that that
Speaker 1: I don't have to buy a bunch of times. I
Speaker 1: would rather just you know, maybe buy one thing and
Speaker 1: have it for quite a few years. You're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of save and then each year plan some a new
Speaker 1: piece of kit that you can add in there and
Speaker 1: not try to do it all at once. But those
Speaker 1: are some of my suggestions, and good luck on some
Speaker 1: of those tags. Guys. Joe Asks. Always enjoyed watching you
Speaker 1: on TV and now really really like your podcasts. I'd
Speaker 1: like to hear your take on filming and self filming Hunt,
Speaker 1: more specifically on camera gear. And this is actually you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of questions on this as well,
Speaker 1: probably will be um the self filming thing might be
Speaker 1: a full podcast in the future, but I think it's
Speaker 1: good to just talk about a little bit of camera gear.
Speaker 1: You know, at least Q and a S I would say,
Speaker 1: of the questions are all about gear, So it's good
Speaker 1: to take a little bit of time to talk about gear.
Speaker 1: What I use and what I recommend are two completely
Speaker 1: different things for self filming, because when I film solo Hunter,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a television type show. I've been
Speaker 1: doing it for years. I'm very comfortable with cameras and equipment.
Speaker 1: The camera that I use, I would never suggest anyone
Speaker 1: else try to sell film with it because it's a
Speaker 1: very difficult camera to use. But I chose it off
Speaker 1: of quality and a little bit of like the highest
Speaker 1: quality with the lighter weight. But I also carry a
Speaker 1: lot of extra lens and things, so I use a
Speaker 1: Sony A seven S two, which my own personal stuff.
Speaker 1: I upgrade every couple of years to try to keep
Speaker 1: up with it. What I suggest if you want to
Speaker 1: get into filming is find a handicam. Like a handicam
Speaker 1: would just be like that cam quarter style camera. So
Speaker 1: I use a DSLR camera, which is because I take
Speaker 1: a lot of photos as well. It fits into my style.
Speaker 1: There there are some great DSL cameras. Cannon Redbells are
Speaker 1: great ones that get into Sony makes some like smaller,
Speaker 1: lighter weight DSLR or merrorless type cameras. My camera is
Speaker 1: actually mirroral lists, but a handicam would be like more
Speaker 1: of that cam quarter style. If you're purely interested in filming,
Speaker 1: go that route. It's got great zoom, it's got ease
Speaker 1: of use, some auto focus features. Get yourself amount for
Speaker 1: your tripods the same. Try iPod you user spotting scipe
Speaker 1: on and you can throw that on or you're filming
Speaker 1: someone else or yourself. That tripod helps out a lot.
Speaker 1: And my thing is when you buy a camera, you
Speaker 1: don't have to get the best camera in the world.
Speaker 1: What you need is you need a camera that you
Speaker 1: can afford and don't mind keeping out all the time.
Speaker 1: So we're starting out, I was like, Okay, I need
Speaker 1: the best camera I can get, and I was on
Speaker 1: a budget, and I bought this expensive camera, and because
Speaker 1: I didn't want the camera to get damaged, it would
Speaker 1: just always be in my backpack and I never got anything.
Speaker 1: And then I went and got this cheap little handicam
Speaker 1: thing and I filmed way more like if you watch
Speaker 1: Solo Hunter whatever. I keep my camera strapped on the
Speaker 1: outside of me all the time. I'm either carrying it
Speaker 1: in my hand on a tripod or carrying it around
Speaker 1: my body. So the best camera is a camera that
Speaker 1: you don't mind keeping out pretty much all the time
Speaker 1: because the footage that you capture the ease of use
Speaker 1: of pulling something out of your pocket uh, something around
Speaker 1: your neck is just right there to use. That's the
Speaker 1: best footage, the foot that you actually get. If you
Speaker 1: have to stop and get into your pack and film,
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen. I've tried it. It's not good.
Speaker 1: So the best camera is one that is a decent
Speaker 1: price that you don't mind getting dirty, beaten up, dragging
Speaker 1: through the mud, tromping around the mountains with, and the
Speaker 1: one that's easy to use. Because if it's easy to use,
Speaker 1: you can always progress from there. But you're going to
Speaker 1: capture some cool stuff. It'll be handy, you'll get some
Speaker 1: really awesome content. And that's the way that I suggest starting.
Speaker 1: So I like Sony stuff right now. I think they
Speaker 1: make some great stuff. Um I have a Sony for
Speaker 1: like four K handicam. I think it's the A X series.
Speaker 1: Those are great. There's three different versions of it. You know,
Speaker 1: some other things to look about. It's just like a
Speaker 1: digital camera that does some good filming and has just
Speaker 1: like a lens built in zooms. Those can be awesome.
Speaker 1: I know some guys have really good zooms on those
Speaker 1: handicaps and they'll use them in the back country and
Speaker 1: replace of a spotting scope in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: where they can just take that get a good enough
Speaker 1: view of where it might got to sixty x zoom
Speaker 1: and they can zoom in on something and just getting
Speaker 1: an idea of what they're looking for. And they don't
Speaker 1: even need to carry a spotting scope. So that's something
Speaker 1: to think about. Closing it out here pretty soon. Dave
Speaker 1: from Michigan says, I'm looking at getting into bow hunting.
Speaker 1: I'm right handed, but left eye dominant. What bow should
Speaker 1: I get? I got that question a lot in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways, and actually address some of it
Speaker 1: on social media, but I think it's worth talking about here.
Speaker 1: Is you need to shoot to your dominant eye. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that we should start a movement right now
Speaker 1: to change the name of shotguns and bows from left
Speaker 1: handed and right handed to left eye and right eye.
Speaker 1: You really want to shoot with your dominant eye. So
Speaker 1: if you don't know what that is, you need to
Speaker 1: put your hands in like a triangle where you've got
Speaker 1: a hole in the middle, and look at an object
Speaker 1: in the distance. Then close your left eye. If the
Speaker 1: object is still there, then you're right eye dominant. Close
Speaker 1: your left eye and it moves. Then your left eye dominant,
Speaker 1: so you want to shoot towards your and I that
Speaker 1: that's the eye that's sending the most accurate picture in
Speaker 1: line to your brain. You know, because we have binocular vision.
Speaker 1: In order for our brains not to get confused by
Speaker 1: looking at both eyes, we meld the picture into one.
Speaker 1: So one eye is taking over and showing you all
Speaker 1: your depth perception where things are. That's your dominant eye.
Speaker 1: That's the eye that you want to be aiming with.
Speaker 1: Now a rifle, you know, it's just better to just
Speaker 1: switch to everything. But a rifle you're probably closing one
Speaker 1: eye and looking through scope, so it's not as important.
Speaker 1: But I actually shoot rifle with both eyes open. I
Speaker 1: think if you learned to shoot with both eyes open,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a much better shot in the long run,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to archery, because you're you're focusing
Speaker 1: on a site, the archery site, and then you've got
Speaker 1: the targets. So you want to be using your dominant
Speaker 1: eye and let your non dominant I kind of pick
Speaker 1: up some things on the side, so that way you're
Speaker 1: lighting up your site picture with what's in the distance,
Speaker 1: and you can focus on the right thing without racking
Speaker 1: this weird focus and getting this weird view or having
Speaker 1: to close one eye. What I'm saying is, if you're
Speaker 1: starting out, especially with a bow, get a bow that
Speaker 1: goes to your dominant where you're drawing to your dominant
Speaker 1: I mean, especially if you're starting what's it matter what
Speaker 1: hand you're drawing within, what hand you're playing with. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird that if you're right handed you
Speaker 1: would pull the bow back with your your right hand.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's more strength or anything. You can
Speaker 1: push and pull at the same time. You can draw
Speaker 1: the same with whatever muscles you build. I mean, it
Speaker 1: might actually be better to be crossed dominant, where you're
Speaker 1: holding the bow with your dominant hand and drawing to
Speaker 1: your dominant eye. So it's kind of a win win
Speaker 1: in some instances. You shouldn't think of it as left
Speaker 1: handed right handed, but just left eye right eye, and
Speaker 1: that will really help you out, especially when you're getting started.
Speaker 1: If you've already started down the wrong path and it's
Speaker 1: time to get a new bow, it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to switch over, but it might just be worth it.
Speaker 1: Take the time. I've shot left handed bows plenty um
Speaker 1: sighting in my dad's bow, and he got started helping
Speaker 1: him out. He's left handed and left eye dominant, so
Speaker 1: you know it can be done. You can get used
Speaker 1: to it. A lot of bow shop guys shoot both ways,
Speaker 1: so it's it's definitely you can get used to it
Speaker 1: and overcome the awkwardness. Have you already started wrong? All right,
Speaker 1: we'll do this last question here, kind of running out
Speaker 1: of time. So many and more I wanted to get to.
Speaker 1: But there will be more Q and a's in the future,
Speaker 1: so says he Remy. I've been binge listening to your
Speaker 1: podcast all week at work. I have already learned a ton.
Speaker 1: In one of your early podcasts, you mentioned Cashmir by
Speaker 1: led Zeppelin was your killing song. You ordered it a
Speaker 1: little better than that, and I think that people want
Speaker 1: to know what else is on Remy's killer playlist. Keep
Speaker 1: up the great work, Rocky. Okay, So in an earlier podcast,
Speaker 1: I was talking about me and my buddies kind of
Speaker 1: have this song that comes on It's just like a
Speaker 1: good luck song if it randomly comes on the radio.
Speaker 1: We Kashmir by led Zeppelin. That was There's a whole
Speaker 1: backstory to it of the fact that. I know, one
Speaker 1: of the first hunting videos I made from my outfitting business,
Speaker 1: that song was on there that my buddy happened to
Speaker 1: hear it on the way to his hunt one time
Speaker 1: and he got something good and then I shot the
Speaker 1: best buck of my life before hearing that song. So
Speaker 1: it's just this thing that we've got. Great song by
Speaker 1: the way too. So if you got that on your
Speaker 1: going hunting playlist, I'll give you my top five. Now.
Speaker 1: I like all kinds of music, but these are just
Speaker 1: happened to be maybe my top five going out hunting
Speaker 1: good luck songs. Let's start with number five. We'll go
Speaker 1: Hank Williams Junior Country Boy Can Survive. I mean that's
Speaker 1: just that's just a classic outdoorsman anthem. I mean that
Speaker 1: just gets you pumped up right there. If you haven't
Speaker 1: listened to it, do yourself favorite go for it. Number four.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Stepan Wolf Born to Be Wild.
Speaker 1: I had a hunting video that I made a long
Speaker 1: time ago, and I put that song on there just
Speaker 1: I felt like that song just embodies I mean, half
Speaker 1: the time when I'm walking through the woods, that song
Speaker 1: just is is blaring as an anthem. Number three, This
Speaker 1: is a this is a good song to send your buddies.
Speaker 1: Me and my hunting friends we do this. It's like
Speaker 1: there's times when you know you've got a friend out
Speaker 1: on a hunt, or you're on a hunt and it's
Speaker 1: coming down to the wire. We've all been there. Five
Speaker 1: day hunt, ten day hunt, whatever, it's getting close to
Speaker 1: the end of the season, maybe a couple of days left,
Speaker 1: maybe it's the last day, last evening of the hunt.
Speaker 1: A little pick me up, a little pet me up,
Speaker 1: Final Countdown by Europe. You just you gotta have that
Speaker 1: saved on your download Spotify. On that last day, just
Speaker 1: blast that as your anthem. Last year meal deer hunting
Speaker 1: Um came down to the wire. Was had a Nevada
Speaker 1: archery tag. And it's like four in the morning and
Speaker 1: I just take that song and crank it volume up
Speaker 1: in my tent. The final countdown, this is it. Got
Speaker 1: to give it your all today. Number two it's got
Speaker 1: to be Kashmir, the good luck song. And then number
Speaker 1: one this might surprise you, but the Indiana Jones theme song.
Speaker 1: Now that one you don't have to download that one.
Speaker 1: You can just hum. That is my theme song to life.
Speaker 1: So ever since I was a youngster out by myself,
Speaker 1: anytime I get into a hairy situation, anytime I was
Speaker 1: just feeling like I was really getting after it. I
Speaker 1: think probably of the time while I'm hiking, I'm humming
Speaker 1: or thinking about the Indiana Jones theme song. So that's
Speaker 1: something to leave you with until next week. Donna, no no, nonna,
Speaker 1: no no no no no. Probably get super copyright infringement,
Speaker 1: but that's all right. See you guys.