Ep. 122: Answering Your Questions, Part 24

We had five hundred and twenty seven questions so far, so I'm gonna be I think a lot of these. Uh. Normally, sometimes i'll get a question, I'll go real in depth, but it might be fun to just kind of run through as many as I and because there's so many, hopefully some of you can get your questions answered and just kind of like rapid fire. There's a few that I'll take a little bit more time on and some of these I'll be reading for the first time. As

I see them and read them to you. I'll try to find people's names, but some of them I might not be able to find the name. Just the way that this we did it this week. So we did it. I did a post and then if you missed it, and then people on Instagram and then people put their questions in there, and then I was gonna go scroll through. I just kind of hit the top comments thing and going to scroll through and read some of these questions,

the ones that I like and stuff like that. So we are going to get down to business and start answering your burning questions on cutting the Distance Mail Sack edition. Here we go. First question comes from Jesse. He says, what's the biggest challenge you find to filming and documenting a hunt? I think that from me personally. You know, I've done a lot of solo filming. I've also done filming with crews and other things, and I think that for me at the it's the end product that when

the video comes out. The one thing I find the most challenging is how do you tell an entire hunt story in a short amount of time Because there's so many things that go into a hunt, whether it's you know, the journey getting there, the the hiking, it's like all the stuff. I feel like the thing that makes the

hunt is all the stuff in between. You don't see or don't have the time to show, So it's like, how do you portray uh, Just as an example, the BC Stone hunt that I just recently went on, it is like, you know, almost over two weeks of backcountry hunting and not really seeing much as far as sheep

and and being unsuccessful. But also it's like, how do you tell the story of like this time passage, this like struggle and make it seem like where the person watching it can understand like, oh man, these guys are really grinding it out. How do you make the end video actually feel like you're on a hunt? And I

think that that's the biggest struggle. So it's it's like understanding how to capture that and making sure to get those points, but also being creative in a way that it's like people are gonna watch it and it's entertaining. And I think that that's probably the hardest part. When it comes to between self filming or having people film me, At this point, I've actually almost feel like I prefer filming myself because I know what I'm doing, what's going on.

You know, if something spooks, it's on me, and I don't have to feel like, oh, somebody else messed it up. Um, but I'm getting used to, you know, having somebody else around, and I find when somebody else is filming is actually more like when I'm guiding or it's like, Okay, you gotta factor in all the uncontrollable things for everyone with you, and that actually is kind of a new challenge and it and it's fun for me as well. So that's what I think on that. Next question comes from j

Allen Smith. He says, if money was no object, what hunt would you go on? Oh, that's a very very good question, and it would definitely be some kind of sheep hunt. I think one thing that I've always wanted to do would be blue sheep in Nepal, but still after an unsuccessful attempt, stone sheep is pretty high at the top of my list. And uh, it would be sheep somewhere anywhere. I just love the idea of sheep hunting or even just going to some exotic place like

Nepal or uh, somewhere in Mid Asia, Jajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. Again, Uh, some pretty cool spots in there. So something along those lines would would definitely be at the very top of my list. Joe Dibblast how can the world combat all the bugling sheep field photo poses? That's a great question. I've been seeing more and more like sheep photos where, uh, the sheep's nose is straight up in the air, and I just I haven't really fully grasped why that poses the pose. If it shows off the curl better, I

don't really know. I don't think it does. Um. So I'm not really sure where that came from or how that came about. I see a lot more and more lately it's like sheep knows up in the air. Um. I just like I like field photos that really display the animal. Um. You know. I think sometimes people are like, oh, that guy's way far back and whatever. It's like when I take a photo of something that I've harvested, it's like, I don't really care to me being in it. I

just want to really showcase the animal. So any photo that really showcases that animal and just really says like, oh, this is a really cool animal just kind of like pay homage to whatever we've hunted. I know, like non hunters really don't understand that aspect. But for me, it's like when I take a photo of field photo, in many ways, it's like that's that's a memory that is it's gonna last forever. I look at those photos all the time. I go back and look through those photos,

and I really remember the hunt. Same with like the European mount or the even a full mount of whatever I've hunted. It's like some it's a way to remember the hunt in a way, like once the meat is gone, the memory of that animal journey, the whole experience is easily accessible through the photos and through having the antlers or horns around. And so I always like to do

the best I can with those photos. I think that you know, when it comes to sheep, they're one of the coolest, prettiest animals out there, one of the funnest species. To be able to have the cool opportunity to hunt. Um, however you like to remember that experience is cool. Uh, But I feel like there's better ways to showcase the animal than the bugling sheep photo as well. I don't know where that came from. Maybe on some sheep, though, you know you can kind of tell like okay, this

is like maybe it's a good book. At how far it curls? I I don't really know. Um, And like, man, it doesn't make it look bigger or smaller or tell too much about it. But I like one is a natural angle, so I can see the drop, see the girls, see the see the sheep. Personally, Aaron here asks what is your idea of the perfect client when guiding? That's a great question. Actually a couple of people are really really wanted to know the answer to that. So okay, as a just as a as a hunting guy, there's

a couple a couple of things. First off, uh, you know somebody that's just willing to enjoy the experience. You know that shows up is like, man, I'm here to enjoy the hunt. If it's somebody who's like, all I want to do is kill something, it makes it very difficult because there's a lot of days in between being successful and and actually going on the hunt. You know, when you hire a guide, the guides there to provide

a hunting experience, not to kill. I mean, the goal, the end goal is to be successful and kill an animal. But sometimes you're limited by the person you're hunting with. So when somebody shows up in shape, has been practicing shooting, that is huge. Those are the two biggest factors and being successful when you're on a guide for like Western

type hunting, mountain hunting, anything like that. So if you if you can do those two things, you're gonna be in a lot better position than just having a good

positive attitude. You know, picking a hunting buddy is a very very difficult thing because you want somebody that you enjoy being around, and so just being somebody that's that takes the experience in is like, man, you know, we hiked up this mountain and we didn't see anything that day, but we struggled for it and we put in the effort, but you know, something works out, something didn't work out,

just like enjoying the experience of the hunt. And generally those are the people that that find success because they're willing to go day and day out hunt hard. But

also they're just more enjoyable to be around. And then to be honest, you know, if if you're a professional guide, I'll just say this for all the guides out there, you know, to your guide, well, like, I mean, I've lived off of tips for a very long time from clients, and I have like this this like it's a double edged sword because I'm kind of like, man, the whole idea of tipping is kind of stupid. But then also I've like had to live, like if without the tips,

I wouldn't survive. So, um, you know a guy that's like very appreciative of the experience, very appreciative of the work put in. But it also, I mean it's it's double edged you because you know, you've got to have a good guide. You know, a guy that really, like you can tell, is working his ass off. And you know, if you've got a lazy guide and you know, then it just it makes the whole experience bad too. So I think part of that is just dependent on like

the guide that you have. And um, you know, you can't be a perfect client if you have a bad guide in many ways. But if you've got a good guide and he's he's working his butt off and doing everything in his power to find success for you, um, you know, enjoy the experience. Enjoy like pay attention to learn, listen because you know he's an expert in what he's

doing or should be. And uh, you know if if you if you just take in the things that he's saying and follow along and whatever, that I think you'll be a lot more successful and you'll have a great trip. So that's my thought on that. Kenny says, how many pairs of underwear do you pack? Oh, depends on how long underwear I would if I had to. If I had to say, let's say I've got a limited amount of space and wait, I would take more socks than underwear. I can tell you that. Much like if I'm on

a week long trip, I'd maybe bringing one change of underwear. UM, but I would take more pairs of socks because it's nice to like, if your socks get wet, then your feet kind of get messed up. I'd like to protect my feet. UM, and I just use like a parasynthetic um generally under armour. What are they fairly popular underwear? I guess um like synthetic material that doesn't really it's like anti microbial. You can you can, like literally as long as you've got another pair, you can wash it

off in a stream, hang it out to dry. It dries super fast if there's sun and you can kind of swap those around. It's hard to kind of wash socks out because they don't dry is easily. So I would say a couple one generally, maybe more if it's like a really long trip, but for the most part, I put my weight in socks. Drew says, I want to hear about that new bow. Yeah, so I'm shooting

now Matthew's V three X. That's certain most version of it. Um, you know a lot of I got a lot of questions about the new bow and why this bow, and in particular and kind of my whole bow set up. I think out of the five and something questions, four hundred of them or about my bows. So I think what I'm gonna do, I'll do How about I'll do this.

I'll make a YouTube video, put it up on my Rimy war on YouTube account, going through all the features of just my bow set up, arrows, broadheads, thoughts on all the things, just to kind of do that a little bit more in depth. It might be kind of cool. I've never done anything like that on there, but it's a good place to do it. So we'll do that. So you can go cruise over um to my YouTube channel and see if you want to, like check out

my entire bow set up. But I think you know, for for me personally, when it comes to a hunting bow, there's a lot of features that I really want. I want something that holds the tune really well. Um, because it's like I'm traveling around a lot or whatever, and I want that bow to be shooting where it was shooting when I was practicing, So fewer moving parts, fewer

things to go wrong with it. Um. I like simplicity in it, and I like something that's very quiet when you when you have you know, my thought is this, like if I go and let's see a couple of years ago, I was just like I was on a you know, it's had a tag, traveled a long ways. I only had a short amount of time to hunt hyped. I don't even know, like in the three days fifty

miles got on a deer. It was sleeping and it like my setup at the time was super loud, and the buck jumped the string and my arrow was sitting in the bed where the deer should have been. It should have been the difference between a dead deer and a deer that ran away was the noise of my setup, you know. So I was like, the thing I really like about this new Matthews boat, it's so quiet. I have yet to I mean knock on wood. I mean, it's not that it can't happen. But I've yet to

have anything jumped the string. Just last week I shot an access deer, like a pretty good arrange that I probably would never shoot an access deer up because you know, they generally jumped the string and like, no string jump, perfect shot, Like that's what I want. I want to put the arrow where it should go and not have anything here. And I've got a pretty heavy set up too, So you can check more out about that on the video. Um.

But yeah, well, so far love that bow. Everything's streamline, everything's all together, Uh, quivers real tight up against it, so not you know, bucks the wind really well, like in windy conditions, mountain hunting spot and stock everything's really tight in there. And I really like that. I really like that about it. Next question comes from Justin. He says, Hey, Remy love the podcast. I'm a new hunter and wonder if you have any tips on navigating heavily hunted public

lands without messing up other people's hunts. Yeah. That that's a really good question, and it got a lot of people were curious about the same thing. Um, So here's the thing. You know, when you're on public land and there's other hunters around people are gonna be bumping into people. It's just it's just a it's just a factor of it. It's almost something you gotta actor in at the beginning. But I will say, don't do stupid stuff, like if you hear someone like, let's say you're in an area

and you're it's a trailhead. Okay, well you don't know exactly where those people are gonna hunt, so yeah, cars are gonna maybe stack up at certain trailheads or whatever. Um. One thing I would do is like if you look at an area and you're like, okay, this is enough room for one person or two people to hunt, and you're the fifth car in there, you know, maybe just trying to find somewhere else. You don't need to be

walking in on people. If it's an archery elk season and you're like you see a you know, you're you're like in there a little bit later and there's a bugle going on, and it's like, man, you're probably gonna walk in on somebody bugle. Like if you hear somebody bugling an elk and an elk bugling, like, don't don't go interfere with someone else's hunt intentionally. There's gonna be those times where you just randomly bump into people. But what I like to do is like figure out where

people are at and then go somewhere else. Um, that's kind of my strategy. Or just get up early and be there first, and people are gonna bump into you. People are gonna probably mess up some things. But I kind of hunt planning and knowing that I'm going to be bumping into people. I can see if it's your first time or whatever, just kind of feeling uncomfortable, like oh, here's this one trailhead to access a bunch of area and there's already vehicles there. I don't want to walk anywhere,

and it feels like there's nowhere to hunt. I've I've run into those situations too, in like new spots where I'm like, Okay, this place is full, this place is full. All my plans kind of got full, and then I just try to look for those places in between where it's like, well, maybe you know, maybe here's a spot where it's not as full, and maybe there's not as many elk here, deer here, but it's a place where

I can kind of get away from people. And then there's the other thought of like sometimes you get to this place and there might be vehicles and you are like, well, I'm going way back here, and you get back there and you don't see anyone. So I think it's just being like literally the Golden rule applies everywhere. Just treat other hunters how you want to be treated. If you were working an animal or doing something and you think that that might mess up or interview you're with someone else,

don't do it. But also, you know, take the opportunities that you see and and don't worry about like being messed up or whatever. Just hunt and then if something happens, it happens. So I think that goes for like that pretty much the way that I look at it. Cameron says, what's the best way to close the distance on elk through oak brush? It's super loud, hard to see through, very hard to sneak into archery range. Any tips, And there was actually a really good comment in here which

is the same thing that I would describe. He says, keep a diaphragm in the mouth and if you make some noise, you make out some use some muse When I'm hunting elk in loud country, I've got that call like in my mouth, ready to go. I might be walking around cracking sticks and whatever, and just every now and then a lot of time elk. I mean they're

noisy animals. They hear noise. It's that unnatural noise. So anything that might be on the outside of your pack, like if you've got your spotting scope tripod on the outside of your pack or what have you, and it's scraping and hitting the brush, it's going to make an unnatural noise. But then so I just move everything in trying to make as little noise as possible. You know, you don't want your pack like scraping up against the brush.

Soft clothing works really nice. Um if it sounds like natural moving, natural cracking, and just like walking stopping, walking, stopping, not just pure snappage the whole way, throwing out some cow calls, making some sounds like elk. A lot A lot of the time, you might get an elk right there to either come in make noise or just kind of like stand up, look and then go back to their thing after you kind of quiet down and stay still.

So there's a lot of things you can do to kind of trick the ears of an elk and by kind of trying to sound like an elk yourself. All right, Jack asked, how do you keep your head in the game when being solo for multiple day hunts. That's a great question, you know. I think for the most part, I kind of like look at it as it's it's an adventure, and I can't really get down on the times that things go bad. There's many It's super easy

to get your head in this negative space. I've fallen into it before, um on solo hunts, on hunts with people, you know, kind of getting this like, oh man, it's not gonna happen. Oh this mistake happened. But you really

just have to keep positive. Anything can happen around the corner you're I like to always say, like you're literally the difference between the best day and the worst day hunting is a split second, and so it's two or three seconds, and so you're just looking for those good two or three seconds, staying optimistic, pumping yourself up, giving yourself a little bit of a pep talks like all right, man, you're tired, but today could be the day just around

that next corner. Like I always keep the super positive attitude even when things aren't looking great. It's like, oh yeah, I've got um torrential winds and I drink bad water and I feel like crap and I'm not seeing anything, and yeah, it's miserable. But if you focus on the things that are bad, that's where your intentions gonna go. That's where things are gonna go, and your head isn't gonna be in the game. I always think on the positive side. I always think about the next one. I

visualized that next outcome. I'm gonna spot. I visualize how I'm going to do that stock. I visualize all the positive things that could be those outcomes, and it keeps me focused longer. You know, when you've got that positive attitude, when you're like it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen, even if it doesn't look like it's gonna happen. I mean, I've been on Huntter it's like five days. I haven't seen a single animal, and I'm thinking it's gonna happen.

I just gotta find that one spot. I need those few seconds that like I find the animal and I can make it happen. And just playing that over and over keeps me in the game, Like, it keeps my mind thinking it's gonna happen, so I keep looking harder. If I think it's not gonna happen, then I get lazy glass and I get lazy hiking. And to be honest, like I find a lot of success just using that positive attitude to just keep you going to hunting longer,

to going further, to hunting harder. So just keeping that glass half full mentality is a huge key factor when you're whether you're by yourself, if you're on a hunt with other people, it doesn't really matter. Just keeping that positive mental attitude is as much a part of the hunt as anything else, and in a huge factor in success in my opinion. Hunter asked, how do you introduce more people to hunting. I think that there's a lot

of ways to introduce people to hunting. I think one of the primary ways is just like the people that you're around. I introduced my wife to hunting through food and quite a few people. It's like, here's this this awesome thing that hunters get as a It's like we get to go out, we get to harvest our own meat. It's delicious, and then we get to cook it at home in a way that people enjoy it, and by kind of through the food aspect. I think a lot

of people are very interested in hunting. Um. I also think to get more people introduced to it is just taking somebody out that wants to do it. There's a lot of people out there that are really interested in going out and hunting, but it's the barrier to entry is very difficult. You need a lot of specialized gear, there's a lot of knowledge. It takes a lot to

be successful. Um. There's obviously all these podcasts, you know, YouTube videos, all these other things, but you can probably learn a lot with somebody that has done it and has experienced just taking you out in the field for a day. Um, there's a lot to be said for just that hands on like getting you through, getting someone over the hump of like, hey, let's go out hunting.

I know a lot of the friends that I have that maybe didn't hunt a lot or kind of new to it are people that I've I've met and taken out is like that initial Hey let's go, let's go hunt chucker, let's go hunt quail. Let's let's go. I'll kind of show you the ropes, you know, kind of go over like this is how you do it. And I think just that getting someone over that hump of like taking them out makes them feel confident that they could do it, or even maybe just like gets their

their foot in the door. So you know, as hunters, if you if there's somebody that you know that's interested in it, take them out. Um. And also you know, kind of show them the ropes. I think that that's the best way as well, just like take somebody out into the field hunting. Robert asked here Amy, how much prep shooting do you put into your bow before a hunt? Cheers, Uh, that's a good question, Rob. I mean, I let's say,

like every waking moment that I'm not doing something else. Um, if I'm not hunting, I'm h every day pretty much shoot my bow. Um. But I also just really love shooting my bow. And I like to get a bow, especially when I get a new bow. Um, I like to really get it set up, get it dial. Like I like to know every little nuance about the bow. Sometimes I might get a bow that I'm like, here's a bow to test or whatever. And I don't have

a lot of time between hunts. But on those times I shoot my bow like more, I would say, like just getting it set up all day, um shooting it.

You know, I start getting a bow set up through paper and then just a lot of time in the field, UM just doing like you know, shooting three D or um just targets outside and just kind of really she's really getting to know how that bow shoots, how how I shoot it, UM, what I can get away with, what I can't, you know, try I try to do like a lot of things where it's like, hey, I'm I'm at a weird angle, and Okay, how much torque am I? How much hand to work am I putting

in this bone? Really just analyzing and saying, okay, like this is the perfect setup. And then once I get that set up, I'd like to just kind of keep it, like maintain it and don't really um, I don't necessarily need to shoot it as much because I might be out in the field hunting. But even when I'm hunting, like let's say I'm on a backpack trip, I shoot even like in the middle of the day at stumps

and other things. I use just those bludge in saunders bludge in tips or whatever, bring a couple of field tips or whatever, have a little target and camp, um, or maybe just shoot my broadheads at a target and camp, have a couple for practice. If I'm like you know, newr vehicle or a cabin or whatever. Um, I'm always shooting my bow like I like to be shooting, and even in the field, like I say, you know, making sure when when that opportunity arises. I want to know.

I don't want to be like, oh, maybe I'll get it. I want to say, when I released that arrow, I know in my head a percent that it's going to be a perfect shot. Now, obviously, the animal can move, things can happen, you can hit things that you didn't see, like sticks and things in the way. But when I released that raw, I want to say, Yep, that's gonna be a percent. And the only way for me personally to do that is by practicing enough to know that when I released that arrow is gonna go where it's

supposed to. I guess what makes you love hunting as much as you do. That's a good question, because I definitely love hunting. Um, It's it's like, I don't know, I never get tired of it. I can hunt you know I've founded, uh forehead a family. Um Like, my most days in the field was three and twenty three days in a single season. That's a that's a lot, you know, I was. That's a lot of guiding, a lot of being out scouting. You know. I think probably I counted some fishing days in there as well. I

also love to go fishing. But um, I think that the reason that I love it so much, and one thing that keeps me is just like it's always different. I love that. Uh Like, growing up as a kid, my favorite movie was Indiana Jones. You know, like that that that aspect of adventure. And when I'm out hunting, I think that's why I love like mountain hunting, Western big game hunting, traveling and hunting like international destinations. I love exploring back country areas and like I like that

idea of like kind of venturing into the unknown. Obviously there's pretty much nothing unknown, but for me, it might be going somewhere and even in places that I hunt a lot where I'm very familiar with, it's like you're constantly encountering different things. You know, you could one day be going on the trail and see something you've never seen.

Or it's just it's it's never the same. And I like that feeling of like I feel like it's an adventure, that that portion of hunting that is like I'm out there, it's me and the elements. It's like this very wild experience. I'm chasing something and it's like this very primal, very wild, very adventurous feeling. And that's what I love about it. That's one of the things that I love it about it.

There's so many reasons that I hunt, but that's to me, one of the major things is like that that's seeking adventure, that challenge and excitement of exploring something new and unknown or something wild and and not frequented by a lot of people. Martial asked, would you bother re trying to stalk in on a bumped animal? Once alerted? How long would it take for a deer elk to relax? Yeah, I h if I bump something, I always continue on

the course. Um, it just depends on the situation. Sometimes with elk, like you might bump them, they run two ridges and then by the time you get over there, they just like didn't even care anymore. With mule deer, maybe i'd bump it and it's like if I win, if they win, did you in blew out? You know, maybe I'd give it a lot longer, let him settle down, let them re bed, let them, you know, maybe make

a play later. Sometimes you just bump them, like oh they heard something, they bumped off, and you just watch their behavior and decide for yourself when to proceed. But sometimes I will immediately follow up. And other times it's like, oh, let's give him an hour, Let's give him a little bit, let him settle down. The second stock is always harder than the first. It doesn't matter, like you bump something. They're kind of like a little bit more on on edge.

But as long as I have opportunity and I can like make a play, then I continue to make those plays and and seek those opportunities, whether it's bumped or not. Um there's been many times, many animals that have been bumped once and and made right on the second one learned from the mistake and and redid and got in and and made a shot. Josh asked, how did you start? What was the beginning of your hunting? For me, I started as a kid. My dad took me hunting. That's

one reason, like I think that. Um, if you've got kids, you know, by all means take them out hunting. It's it's one of the coolest experiences. Is a great thing. You know, there's a lot of like I've I said, you know, the adventure, there's the food aspect. Then there's just like the family aspect of hunting is a thing that we do as a family. Um. You know for me growing up, I grew up in it. Uh. I could see it being very difficult to get into to start if you didn't grow up in a family that hunted.

But I do have a lot of friends that did not grow up in families that hunted and got into it from someone taking them out, an uncle, a cousin, Uh, you know someone else Like well, I guess that's still family or family friend taking him out. My neighbor. Like growing up, one of my best hunting buddies was my neighbor. His dad hunted when he was a kid, but kind of didn't hunt. And then you know it's like me and my dad hunted, so he'd always take the neighbors

with us. Whoever wanted to go was allowed to go. And because of it, he's just like you know, he's one of my favorite friends to hunt with. Even though we don't get a hunt with, we haven't hunted in a while together since it's just you know, life gets busy, but um, you know, having somebody take you out is an awesome way to get into it. And I got into it through my family. Jeremy says, what's your favorite big game holiday dish to prepare for your family and friends?

I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Thanks for taking to time to share your stories insight with us. By far, yours is my favorite podcast. Thanks Jeremy. I would say one of my favorite holiday big game dishes is I love making a wellington. Um. I do it around the holiday season. It's uh, if you aren't familiar with it, it's like, essentially, I take a piece of backstrap, UM, I make like a I guess, like kind of like this mushroom drug sole that I put around it, then

pursudo around it, and then like puff pastry. Then I cook it and it's like it's like a backstrap steak wrapped in pastry and it's delicious. It's like one of my favorite things to eat around the holidays, and I generally don't cook it other times. A year. I don't know why. I think I just like it very It's like a very special thing. So, um, we always cook quite a few around the holiday season, especially with Christmas coming up and stuff. That's definitely a go to. Another

one is just like I like to do this. Um. I call it like my prime ribs style backstrap. I'll post a video on that here in next week or so. Um, if you got my newsletter, if if anybody wants additional information or whatever, I'm gonna actually kind of beef that up a bit. But you can go on my website remmy Warren dot com, sign up for my mailing letter, and I try to put a few things. I'm gonna start putting a few more things on there that you get to see before anybody else gets to see it,

a little bit of insight and other things. But um, I had a video on there recently and I'll put it up on YouTube here in the coming weeks. Uh, just prime rib style backstraps my kind of my go to. It involves just a lot of rosemary and garlic um that I coat on the top and then uh cooking the like brown and finish in the oven and you can pretty much make like any cut into what tastes like prime rib I just did for Thanksgiving, actually did

a full access to your hind quarter. I stuffed it, uh, trusted up, and then put this rosemary garlic on the top, put it in the oven, and that thing was a little spiker buck man. It was just like the best prime rybe you've ever had. You know. It's just like really really good an entire hide quarters. So that's, um, that's a really good way to do it. Something to think about, all right. Evan says, what factors into choosing whether to stay in one spot or move to another

quote unquote better spot? Uh, that's a good question. I think. One of the things that I do I like to I move. Um. I know there's some people's like, oh, sit here and wait it out. Um. For me, it's like if I don't see what I'm looking for, I move on. And sometimes that I also judge, like what time of the day am I looking in an area.

If I look at an area like this looks good and it's like the middle of the day, then I can't actually judge the area on how good it is because I need to look at it at morning or evening. So I might say, Okay, well I'm going to give it in an evening. UM. But if I don't see something that i'm looking for, I generally moved until I find what I'm looking for. I'm very mobile. I stay

very mobile. There are times where I'm like, Okay, this looks really good and I hunt it for a few days and then end up finding something because I know it's like, oh, I'm seeing sign I there's enough country that I can glass, but there's a lot of maybe timber. It's like, Okay, there's there's room for these animals to stay hidden from me. Um. If it's an area that I feel like I cover really well and I'm like, yeah, I've seen everything here and I haven't seen what I'm

looking for, then I just move on. So it really just depends on the spot. UM. But I'd say for me personally, I kind of tend to be like bouncing around more often than not. Bobby says, what are your strategies when hunting early season sitka blacktail? When it comes to early season blacktail or even like mid season, I feel like every time I hunt a blacktail, it's the same scenario. I go to the top, I hunt them like I would a goat or a sheep go high,

especially if you're talking early in the velvet. You want to be up in the alpine looking for deer. They're a lot of spot in stock, you know, just getting up on a knob glassing looking for those bachelor groups of bucks or bucks, uh, watch them, wait for them to bed, then sneak in get your stock on. That is a really really, really fun hunt. Sitka blacktail hunting

kind of all times a year. I find like even in those October time frames, you know, pre rut um and even later in the rut some sometimes late season. I handed them in December last year, they're down a lot lower. We had a couple of weeks shooting. Antlers would fall off, like drag. Do not drag a late season blacktail by the antlers because they're probably gonna shut them off. But um, yeah, so I I do that. Um. Early season definitely head high and for most of the

season I like to head eye. It's just where I prefer to find them and like to be in that open glass al alpine country. Okay, great gas truck keys, do you take them with you and risk losing them in the field or stash them near the truck and hope nobody finds them. That's a good question. I won't tell you exactly where I put my keys, but I like to have a set on the truck. UM. One thing you might want to look into is getting a lockbox, UM and then putting that lock box underneath your vehicle.

So if you're like in an area where you're sketched out about maybe there's like a lot of traffic or whatever, you can lock your keys somewhere around your vehicle in a lockbox. I think that's probably the best option because one thing, if I'm with somebody or something happens, I want anybody that gets the vehicle to be able to like drive it and so and I'm always like a little worried about if I if I lost my keys.

You know. Sometimes if it's like, oh I've got I don't know, maybe I flew somewhere, rented a car, I just take the keys with me. But on my own vehicle, I try to, you know, have a lock box or something where the keys locked away, but uh, somewhere where you can access it. Question comes from Brandon. He says, how do you keep your feet warm when it's below thirty degrees fahrenheit. I'll use a thousand k insulate boot shoes, boots plus thick wool socks still on my toes go

completely numb after a couple hours. Great question. I get cold feet very easily. Um, I've had the frost bite before. I think that plays into it. But UM, I use till warmers like they're super awesome. And when I use them, UM, I don't know. There's a bunch of different brands. I can't remember even the names of some of them. The grabber ones are Grabber Grabber, Yeah, I think they're Grabber something like that. I just get like the big party

pack at Costco, whatever is available. But um, when I put them in my boots, I put them on top of my toes, so I like put it on top of my sock. I found that if I put them underneath, it kind of affects the way that my foot grips the boot and the foot soul and it rubs weird. So I just stick it on the top of my sock, stick my boot foot in my boot. And their money, especially if you're sitting, but even when walking might be hot for a lot of people. But I rather enjoy it.

Joe asked, do you like mince and cheese pies in New Zealand? Absolutely? Miss and cheese is really good. Pepper steak is my favorite. That's um if I got the option pepper steak it is. Mark asks do you use chapstick yet? The answer is no, never. Chapstick makes your lips dry, and it's just one of those things I just don't use. I just can't bring myself to using chapstick personal preference. But hey, there's everybody's got that thing that they think that's not for me, and chapstick is

one of them. I won't use it ever. Question comes from Mitch. He says, do you drink lyon read or spits? Uh? Spates all the way? I like that space if you don't know what that is. South Island and New Zealand has some pretty good after hunt beers. The last question comes from Eric. He says, when deer's moving slowly in your shooting lane, when do you employ that sound to try to stop them? What triggers the decision? I've been too fearful of spooking them, and I've missed two shots

on deer that don't stop moving. That's a really good question. I mean I I when I spook something even I make that sound. Um, But on something that's moving and I needed to stop, there's a few things that I always try to do. First, you need if you're bow hunting, you need to be ready in at full draw, especially if it's cloths. I generally don't like make that noise and then draw back. I want to be drawn ready,

and then I try to anticipate the stops. So it's like, think about it depends on how far they are when I make that sound. Like if it's an elk, let's say it's an elk across the canyon, I'll use a cow call to stop him. But if they're like behind a tree and they're walking, I generally make that noise right when they're behind the tree, so I can get generally one or two steps by the time that sound hits them and they stop out in the open um. When it's a deer, whatever, kind of the same strategy.

If they're super close, though, they might stop right away. So is it just is that front shoulder kind of comes out into the open where it's like, okay, if he stopped right there, I'd still have a shot. Um. But if he takes one or two more steps, then I still have a shot as well. So I like to kind of anticipate they need time to hear it and then stop. The further they are, the longer the

sound takes to travel to get there. So if it's like an elk, I've a time where it's like they're behind something, they're moving, and they're gonna move to the open. I actually call when they're behind something, so by the time the sound gets there, like it's a rifle shot or something three yards away, because how the sound gets there that they'll take those extra couple of steps and stop. Maybe they stop behind something that you've got to do it again. If it's something close I bow hunting, and

it's like, oh, here's a shooting lane. I've got it. It's twenty yards. I draw back when they're behind something, and then generally as it's like, I try to be settled if I can, and maybe there's only one opportunity, I try to stop them, you know, like when they're in that open, but I try to get it just as they're in the open where their head or something might be obstructed by something else. So it's like and

they look but they can't see me. If they're close and it's like, okay, vitals are there, Boom, release the arrow, and happy hunter at the end of the trail. So that's what I look for. It's just the timing thing based on how far they are. But I try to get them to stop when they're in the open, especially distance rifle shot. Now if it's close, you know, try to get them to stop in the open, but maybe where they can maybe they're they've got something that blocks

their head if possible. I mean, that's the perfect scenario. Sometimes you just gotta do it. Like you come up over, they bounce out, say it's mule de or something, come up over the ridge. You spook them. Maybe they'd heard you or maybe saw a little bit, but don't know why they're spooked. I'll make that noise because I've had them bounced two or three bounces, stop, turned and kind of look, and that sometimes gives you enough time for

a shot, especially when you're rifle hunting. I appreciate all the questions. I mean, there's so I got so many questions this week. Um, I really really appreciate. I wish I could answer all all of them. I think that the topics that I picked answer to a vast majority. Will also use this to kind of decide some videos I make in the future and some other things that I do. UM, so thank you guys so much for

those those questions. Maybe we'll have to do kind of I don't know something on social media to answer some more questions. I'll try to go through and answer a few of your questions on there, ones that I missed that I liked, and then maybe we can do some kind of live thing later on. So if you don't you know you can. You can find me on at remy Warren Instagram. You can always go to my website and sign up for my newsletter at the very bottom.

Just put in your email that way. If there's some information some of these things I'm answering or got a live thing going on, you know, maybe I'll just advertise it that way help you find it a little bit easier. I'm looking forward to some of the stuff coming up Christmas season, gonna be doing a cool giveaway again. UM just got some some great hunt topics and other things that we're going to cover, So make sure to tune

in for the rest of the year. I appreciate everybody that's sending questions listen to the podcast, giving us a like in a comment. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you all. And until next week. How we can end this one? Mm hmm. I thought out everything about this podcast except the ending. I'd like to leave it a little bit of a surprise, so until next week. Maybe I just leave it until next week. Yeah, it's just the way you say it, right, So thank you

guys so much. Until next week. Fund Rang Tundra