Ep. 41: Answering Your Questions, Part 6

this answer some of the questions. Because I've said it a million times, I'll probably say it a million and one more. I really want this podcast to be about making everybody more successful in the field and making it

tailored to the things that you want to know. So the Q and A s really helped me outline well, I mean, answer specific questions, but also kind of I take some of those responses that I get and build out other episodes of the podcast because I wanted to be tailored towards the things that you guys want to know and into these Q and A s. I mean, maybe I might be reading one question, but most of them I've gotten a pile of questions on the similar topic,

similar veins. Some tend to be more popular than others.

So those are the things that I try to key in on, and it really helps me identify the stuff that people want to learn about, because some of the stuff might just go over my head, stuff that I not go over my head, but as things that I might not think about or deem important, but people are interested in in understanding some things that I take for granted because it's maybe something that I've just done forever and don't even think, oh yeah, that might be something

that somebody wants to know. So I really appreciate all the input and things that we've got. I pull a lot of the questions from Instagram at Remy Warren as well as the email that I throw out at the end of most of the body guests, So appreciate we got a lot for this one, Like I can't get through all of them, but maybe someone will continue on. Probably because I was kind of promoting the Q and A for about three weeks, but I kind of got

into some of the stuff. We talked a little bit about scouting from home, how to pick spots from home, like figuring out areas to apply for and then a little bit jumping into in the field scouting. I like to jumping into those topics because it's just a little timely for a lot of people being quarantined. Maybe you're thinking a lot about future hunts and planning and prepping and maybe having a little extra time to do a little bit extra research and maybe try to figure something out.

So I know these are crazy times for everyone. I really hope everybody's doing well, and you know, I'm sure that some people's hunt plans have changed. Things are a little bit crazy right now, but hopefully these podcasts help kind of, you know, prep you and get you excited for the future and what's what's in the store. So

let's jump into a couple questions here. This first one was one of the ones that I'm like, I would have never thought to talk about that, but I got so many questions, and we're gonna talk a little bit about snakes. So Brady says, I appreciate all the content you're putting out there. I try not to miss any of it. This is a question probably for your podcast along the lines of the Tike podcast. This time of year, I have an area I've run into multiple rattle snakes

and glassing points in the mornings. I've done some research on what to do to avoid them and how to respond when bitten, but thought maybe this would be another bit of info for your podcast. Thanks and good luck this spring. Okay, so if I'm going to talk about snakes, I have to at least talk about my strange love of snakes. It's maybe, like, I don't know, if it's a hobby, something that I'm into, maybe something that people don't really know about me, don't really discuss. But I

love reptiles. I mean, I think reptiles are some of the coolest animals on the planet, and it's just been one something that I've always been fascinated with them. So snakes, lizards, even some man phobians and stuff, turtles whatever. As a kid, I would go out. I loved going out and just like trying to find different reptiles. I'd catch all kinds

of different lizards, snakes, whatever, keep them as pets. And then as an adult, one of the things that I like to do in the spring is whether i'm shed you know, like in combination with shed hunting, or even just going out I call it herping around. I'm just going out looking for various reptiles. I just catch them and let them go. But it's cool to just see the different types of reptiles. I kind of it's like, I feel like I'm a strange in that strange bird

watcher category. I probably don't talk about it too much because everyone's like, what a weirdo likes to go out and catch reptiles. But it's just fun to be able to kind of figure out what reptiles live where, you know, identify different habitats, and see if you can kind of catch them, like grab them. It's kind of cool. It's difficult. I don't know, it's my thing whatever. It's a hobby um. And I've seen some really cool just like different species

of snakes and other things around while doing that. So I do really enjoy looking for reptiles and rals. Makes is the one that I actually enjoy looking for now. I think it probably runs in my family though, because my grandpa. I've talked about him quite a bit on this podcast and some others. But he was just like a wild man. And uh, I don't know if I've told this story here or not. I can't remember, but

I've told it other places. It's just worth talking about he used to be a professional fighter, and I don't know what he would He just liked he would catch rattlesnakes, which I mean, I get it's kind of cool, but I don't suggest doing that. And he's been bitten. I don't know how many times he's been. I think he was bitten at least four times by rattlesnakes. Most of them, I would say three of them were him just dicking around with them, and then one of them was just

a pure accident. He was the kind of guy that would wear cowboy boots, cowboy hat, and jeans every day of his life. And then I don't know, is he's a little bit older. Someone bought him some like sandals. They might even been birkin stocks, I'm not really sure. So he's out mowing his lawn in Montana and he felt something thing. He's like, oh crap, and looks down and sees us coiled up rattlesnake. He's like, oh shit,

I got bit. So he walks into the house, gets his wife, and they call the ambulance and started driving to the hospital. He gets to the hospital, they give him the anti venom, and you know, clearly a snake bite there, he's he's not really reacting right to it, and he's just like having trouble breathing and it's just getting worse. So they inspect a bite and they see inside the snake bite is a beasting and he's actually really allergic to bees, like deathly allergic to bees as well.

So now they have to like stabilize the beast thing. They give him epinephrin, like an EpiPen shot kind of things. It's like epinephrin and I think adrenaline goes with it, kind of pump it through your system. I'm not sure how they did it with a snake bite, because you don't want to pump the venom through your system faster. Um. But he ended they ended up being all right from it. But it was just like a random, crazy coincidence. They stung by a beat and bit by a snake at

the exact same time. That might have been the first day where ever warre Sandals, and I think it was the last day every war Sandals in his life. Pretty funny, um, But yeah, another time he got bit. This is just like the kind of crazy things that he would do. I don't know what he was doing. I think he was. I've heard many stories from different people, but he was probably just like showing everybody how fast he was when he was boxing, like, I'm faster than a rattlesnake kind

of thing. And he was outside of town and ways, I think on a job site or on on a military base, and he was kind of messing with the snake that he caught and had in a bucket and rattlesnake, and so he gets bit by the thing and he's like, he's gonna drive himself to the hospital. So as he's driving into the hospital, he's not feeling so good. He gets into town and I think it was just not

like things weren't going right. So he was going to pull into this gas station, convenience station to get help, but on the way in to go into the community, so blacks out and drives his truck through the front of a convenience store and then the owner runs out. Who have I've actually heard the story from him? He runs out, he says, he opened the door and my grandpa falls out of the vehicle whole like clutching alive rattlesnake in his hand. So they knew what bid him.

Um and he survived. He survived that one as well. So I just say that to say, most people you get bit by snakes are actually messing with them. So I highly, highly highly suggest nobody try picking up or or messing with rattlesnake. Most venomus snakes. You gotta understand, like a way venomous snakes their venom is for acquiring food. So you've got constrictors, which you know, the grab whatever their prey is, they wrap around it, suffocated and then

swallow it. Rattlesnakes don't do that. They don't have that hunting skill, so they when something comes by, they bite it, they inject it with poison venom, and then as that animal will then die expire and then they slither over and swallow it need it. So for rattlesnake, you know it needs its venom for survival to eat, and it generally does not want to use its venom on something very large in a defensive way. So in a defensive man or rattlesnake, they've got their rattles they're warning you.

They're like, hey, dude, I'm right here, getaway now. It seems aggressive and menacing and kind of scary, but think about other there's way more dangerous snake species in the world that do not give warning and are a lot more aggressive. So I kind of see like the rattlesnake is the mountain lion of the snake world. Like they're very timid, they don't want to attack. They aren't like a leopard of the cat world, where it's like, yeah, you mess with a leopard, you're probably gonna die. Um.

Rattlesnakes are are a little bit different. They warn you. They give this audible really loud, like, dude, I'm right here, I'm not going to try to bite you, but don't mess with me. I'm gonna look real mean and piste off and try to scare you before I have to strike. And even when I do strike, they might just bite defensively and not inject venom. Smaller, younger snakes don't necessarily have the same control as older snakes, but that's just

what they're going on. So if one's rattling seriously, just stop, identify where it is, and then just slowly walk away get out of its striking zone. They can strike about half their body lengths, so you just want to get away from them and move. And also identify areas that they like, you know, springtime they're gonna be coming out sunning a little bit more. And you know, you say you might find them in the mornings and these rock

piles and other things. So just identify and be aware where they might be and try to avoid the snakes themselves. Avoiding things is always the best method. Now, if you do get bit there's so much information and misinformation and this, that and the other thing out there. So I'll just tell you some of the things that I've been taught a lot of it, you know, being in hunting in places in Australia where it's super remote and there's I mean,

I've I've seen brown snakes, coastal type hands. Actually almost stepped on a coastal type hand last year. It's like, you get bit by one of those, you're probably dead. But there are things that you can do because you're just so remote, so far away. You know, one thing you never want to do on a snake bite and you hear this, and I think there's enough information out

that people don't try this anymore. But you don't suck the venom out, And if you think about it, most snake bites one they're probably it's most of them are on your legs or on your hands. People get bit in the hands are generally like messing with them, or maybe reaching into a bush for something or whatever, sitting down, putting your hand down and get struck there. So it's normally on your appendages somewhere, arms and legs. One thing you got to realize is so the venom it's kind

of got like these. I would almost refer to it as like a half life, where, uh as time goes on, the venom gets less strong. But what you don't want to do is you don't want that venom to reach your heart or your your brain, your central nervous system. And so by trying to suck the venom out, you're just getting in your mouth and getting in your bloodstream fast. It's very dangerous. There are snake bite kits which have like some form of suction. You don't want to cut

the bite um. That can cause complications and infections and other things. But uh, you know, sucking the venom out with a snake bite kit, I don't know. I've never used one. I used to carry one and then I just I don't really know how well they work or what that is. But one thing you do want to do, I know, is slow the venom to your heart. So the key is like, let's say you got bit by

rattlesnake or a more deadly snake somewhere else. The first thing you want to do, and it just might as hard as it might be, well, first identify the type of snake that it is, because that's gonna make a big difference if you can, you know, maybe real fast, and if I where the snake is, and try not to get bit again because there's a good likelihood that the first strike might not have injected any venom as well, but you don't know. You treat every venom snake bite

like it like it has. Then what you'll do is you'll wrap, like whether you use like a bandage or a cut t shirt or something or about you know, you're gonna start wrapping around and tying off not so tight like not I'm not talking to turn a kits

that you still want your blood to flow. You don't want to cause any more damage than necessary, So you're just gonna kind of slow the blood almost like where would be I don't know how tight, like a good snug, not necessarily make your footfall asleep, but maybe in that footfall asleep zone. Definitely don't get it real tight. So your wrap going down and then you can wrap going

back up to kind of double rabbits. So starting or even starting down around the bite low and then coming up around your leg all the way up your leg or up your arm, whatever you can do, and then you're gonna try to keep that bite lower than your heart and you relax, calm down, don't run to the truck.

I've heard stories of aboriginals that in Australia to be bitten by things like a brown stinker type in and they'll do that and then they just you slow your heart rate, they'll lay down, take a nap by a tree. They'll either wake up or they won't, and it's just allowing that venom the time to break down and not

be as potent. Now. I've heard of people getting bitten by some of very poisonous snakes and doing that similar thing, learning the heart rate, getting to the hospital and then at that point they have time to administer the n a venom they undo it. Once those ties get undone, then that that blood can rush to your heart and it can be very fast acting. So you don't want to run, you don't want to freak out, you don't want to sprint, you don't want to stab yourself with

an EpiPen which has adrenaline. It's gonna pump it through your heart and some people have done that and hasn't turned out so well. So you just gotta you gotta keep your heart rate down, and then if you've got some way of notifying medical maybe in reach or a phone call, and get get medical help from there, that's

the best method. And if you've got to hike out or get out or whatever, you know, don't get your heart rate up, don't exert yourself an extreme manner of a way that will pump that venom through your blood right away. The worst thing you could do is get hammered and then just like try sprinting back to the car, because you probably will die halfway between there in the car.

Not rattlesnakes meant necessarily, but there are a lot of snakes that are a lot more poisonous in the world, and if you get bit by one of those, um could be bad. Anyways, let's jump to the next question, a little turkey hunting question. Here we go, it says actually from Idaho says, I'm hoping you might have some advice from me. I shot a turkey this weekend and want to do a tail mount, and my husband is planning on keeping the wings for fletchings. The only problem

is that turkey has fleas. We live in an apartment, so I'm a bit nervous about bringing the feathers inside and spreading the fleas and hatcht eggs into pets in the carpet. Any advice on how to kill the eggs and fleas still on the feathers. So I would suggest doing the same thing that a lot of people do if they hunt coyotes and collect the pelts or furs. Coyotes have a lot of fleas. So take a black trash bag and I use I use like the raid spray,

So I just call it like a flea bomb. You put whatever you have, the fleas in the bag, the feathers in the bag, and you just spray that raid flea spray that will kill any live ticks, any eggs, everything. You tie it off and just let it sit for a while. That that should work. Now there are other things you can do. There's like flea powders and other stuff. But I think that that raid spray works pretty well. Do that and you shouldn't have any problems, and you

can bring the feathers inside. They're still all workable. Won't won't affect the feathers. You can do the turkey fan mount. When you do that mount, you know, lay it out on a piece of cardboard. I used twenty meal team borax to try to take out all the meat and everything, and then just use borax to preserve the meaty part of the tail before I do that. I'm sure there's other things you can use. I've just used borax forever,

so that works really well. And then um, yeah, and I'm actually fletching samarrows with the turkey I got, so it'd be cool. It's good, it's fun thing to do, and you should be flee free using that method. Andrew Hermanett, strangest thing you've encountered in the woods, the most scared you've been, the coolest thing you've seen, something along those lines. Yeah, you know, okay, this isn't I wasn't scared or anything like that, but it's just kind of like a really

cool encounter. I was hunting in Arizona accused the archery season, and I'm walking through this wash back It's like a few miles back into this area, and I'm walking back out the middle of the day and i see this drag mark across the wash and I'm like, look at it. Analyze the tracks, and I'm like, oh sweet, a mountain lion had just killed something. It looked pretty large. So there's some cattle around, so I was assuming that it was a beef calf. And I see the line tracks

were drugged. So I'm bent over in my backpack, like getting out my camera because I'm gonna just film the tracks and the drag mark and everything, and this is pretty cool. So I'm bent down, like getting into my backpack and I look up and literally five ft away in the tall grass, this catch just crouch staring at me like whole crap. So then I instead of taking my camera to take my pistol out just in case

and slowly start backing away. And as I'm backing away, the catch kind of like SLINKs out and then it gets about ten yards or so looks back at me. I'm just like cool, and I grabbed my camera now and get some video of it. And then just like slips off into the bushes. I'm like, well, that was crazy.

So now I started investigating and it actually there was like this log over um, like a fallen I can't emeram what kind of like maybe like a cotton wood and some tall grass, and it had drug that calf that it killed up underneath that and buried it with dirt, and it had already taken the liver out of the calf, and it was just sitting there crouched like had I not stopped to get my camera, I probably would have just walked right past it. I mean, it's just like armed.

I could have just slapped the thing in the face if I had won lunge and slapped it. It's just crazy how well it blended in and I just had no clue it was there, and even when it walked away that closer just so quiet. Pretty crazy, pretty cool encounter. I didn't have a mountain lion tig or anything at the time, so I just watched it and got some video of it and stuff, and it was pretty crazy encounter,

all right. This question comes from Adam. He says, altitude sickness, how do you prevent it or recover quickly so it doesn't ruin your hunt. It seems like every time I get over thirteen thousand, thirteen five, I'll get flu like symptoms. He's self diagnosed it as altitude sickness. As soon as he gets blow ten or eleven thousand feet, it just kind of goes away, magically goes away. He says, I don't think it's a bad food situation. I'm not a marathoner,

but I'm in pretty decent shape. What can I do to prevent That's a great question, and it's actually a question that I get asked a lot, and one thing that I do consider. I do quite a few hunts that are really high elevations, and it's something that you have to take seriously and honestly think. Maybe this is actually a really good topic that I could probably do a whole podcast on and might in the future, maybe, you know, if if more people want to send in

some stuff. But I'll just give you a preliminary thing of some of the things that I do. It's really important to kind of understand altitude sickness. So what happens is as you go up in altitude, there's less oxygen pre density, so it's like if you if you started see level and grab a bag of chips and take it up to thirteen thousand feet, that bag is just going to be super expanded, rock hard. Well, there's the same amount of oxygen in that bag, but it's taking

up more space, so each breath takes in less oxygen. Now, as you're exerting yourself in the mountains, your muscles need oxygen to work, so your body as it acclimates, So the acclimation process does some crazy things with red blood cells and deliveries. It's like a transport system of oxygen to your muscles, and that takes weeks of time sometimes at certain elevations, depending on where you live and other

things to get acclimated. So it's not necessarily something you can do at home, but there are I found some some kind of cheat codes if you will, to that altitude sickness. There's a few factors I would say, and I really keep The more I talk about this, the more I'm like, yeah, this needs to be a full,

full podcast. But one product that I use have found regularly, like between using it and not using it, that works well for me is a willerness athlete outtitude advantage I think I've talked about it before on here, but I take it like a week or two beforehand, and then I bring it into the field with me on those high alpine hunts, and honestly, like just as personal use using it, I feel the effects of altitude way less. I just think it helps the blood flow to the

muscles to help transport that oxygen in a way. There's other things that you can do as well. One thing that altitude does to people is as you go up in elevation, it can actually increase your metabolism, but in some ways it decreases your your appetite. So making sure that while you're at these altitudes you're eating and properly feeling your body if you I mean, there's so many times where you'll pack in. Is you get up in that altitude, you're like, you eat a granola bar, you're full,

and then you don't really think about eating anymore. Um, But trying to just force that food of knowing you're burning a lot of calories you need to keep your body functioning at it its peak and its prime. Another thing is as huge as that dehydration and factor. As you go up in altitude, you know you can get that dehydration and you aren't drinking. So I I always bring a drink mixed from I'm replenishing fluids. I make

sure to drink extra water at altitude. I had some friends come over from a sea level last year hunt in one of the areas that I hunt, dear a lot. It's it's twelve thousand eleven twelve thousand type feet, and I was like, man, you guys just just no matter what, just constantly be drinking water. If their water is available, drink, drink, drink. And they're surprised how much water they went through and still felt dehydrated. But keeping hydrated and minimizing some of

the other problems can really help you just stay functioning. Um. And then it's just some some factors of if you it might be hard to acclimate for you, or you might be slow at acclimating, so you might just get it even with some of that stuff. So I think using those measures. I've used those measures and seeing a lot better results in the mountains at altitude, so it's worth looking at. Now. There are some like altitudes you

can actually die from certain types of altitude sickness. Brain swelling can up in pulmonary a demo or your lungs fill with liquid and some of that kind of stuff. It's super dangerous if you do get altitude sickness. Uh, some things you can take while you've got it, because you might you start get a headache, fatigue, Take some aspirin, some ivy proof, and keep that stuff in your pack with you. Super important. And then yeah, if you get it,

you gotta go back down to elevation. Another thing is if you get into an area you know you could try to start acclimating a little bit um, maybe get in and not just go straight up, but start hunting some of the lower stuff. Your body a little used to it. I know it takes longer to create those red blood cells, but within combination of some of the other things, you might not overdo it as much right away.

I've found that it can happen to anybody. Sometimes. I've been on trips with the guys in the best shape got altitude sickness, and the guys that were a little bit overweight and whatever, they didn't get it. So you think, oh, I'm in the best shape ever, I'm not going to get it. And that's those are the guys that it hits, probably because they keep pushing, whereas the other guys kind of slow down, react to their body. They don't just

force it. Those are some things to think about. There are some drugs like diamox that you can get prescriptions for that are are made for altitude sickness. But honestly, I've used that altitude advantage stuff for a long time, and I kind of you can start to feel the effects. I think about eight thousand feet. I luckily live at six thousand feet. So whatever elevation you live, if you live at sea level and you're going to thirteen foot hunt, you really want to factor in the altitude. Um doing

everything you can. Something like that makes you sure you're hydrated. Food And then another thing that I have done in the past, I got one of those we'll shoot. Everybody's got face masks now, like go for um. They've got those. They call them, like the training masks or limits the amount of oxygen as you're training. You know, try some of that. It kind of helps your lungs get used a little bit less oxygen. I don't know how long

you'd have to use it. I know that, like it's not feasible for everybody to sleep in one of those altitude chambers. So it's just something you can kind of think about. If you want to wear a mask and try to workout, be careful, don't overdo it the first time, don't black out. But um, that's all a few things that just off the top of my head that I think will help you out. And then, like I say, if you get it, you know, go down elevation, drop down to a level where you start feeling better. Maybe

just have to continue hunting there. But altitude sickness is serious. It's ruined a lot of l counts for a lot of guys. At first time L counts, they get out, they get a high altitude, and yeah, it sucks. You don't want that, Okay, Danny said, I'm a longtime listener of your podcast. Me and a hunting buddy are in college paying off student debt. We're using all the end quote spare money. We have to apply for tags out

west and make progress. After listening to your episode on the topic, to get to the question, is there any good place to look for budget equipment? Where is the best place to find use slash budget gear? Yeah, I've I've been there, and I like your plan. You know, using some of that money to put in for tags.

I mean, I remember going through college and just being like pretty much not going out, not eating anything but Top Roman for the however long and whatever game meat I have, and then you know, saving all my money to apply for tags and then needing some gear as well. So you know this this is not an endorsement of any type, just some places that I've found some stuff, and some of this stuff, you know, it's just from back in the day, so I don't know how relevant

it is now. But one of the places that I probably bought most of my hunting gear was Sierra Trading Post. It's kind of like a what would it be like a marshals for like outdoor equipment where they kind of get overstock stuff, last year's stuff, and just like super good discounts. We actually had when where I live an outpost, but they kind of went online quite a few years back. Finding some of those online discount places. I always had a lot of friends get some sweet deals on camel Fire.

I'm not sure if that's still around. I don't know. That was like they would do like daily deals and it's just like overstocked stuff. Um, and you could get some really good stuff, but like, yes, your training post, I probably pretty much bought almost sleeping bags, tents, some backpacks, like some hunting gears. Shoot, I even see like optics pop up in there every once in a while. There's plenty of sites, you know, the Internet. It makes it so much easier. A lot of that stuff was like

not a lot of information out there. You know. I'd get that Sportsman's cat Guide catalog every once in a while, find some good deals on stuff there. But you know, the one thing too is if you can find a good deal on high quality equipment, that's great. I mean Craigslist, you could always go that route or eBay. I sometimes I just maybe I'm just too distrusting for some of that.

But even just you know, knowing friends and you'll run into guys that um on message boards and stuff like that that maybe there there's a lot of guys that like to buy new bows every year, so equipment like that you can sometimes get good deals on. Just find stuff that fits you. Look online. I think that's a

great place to start. And then I was always of the fact that it's like, all right, if I find a good deal on something or whatever, that's great, and then I'm gonna try to find and gear that that I don't have to buy a bunch of times. I would rather just you know, maybe buy one thing and have it for quite a few years. You're gonna kind of save and then each year plan some a new piece of kit that you can add in there and

not try to do it all at once. But those are some of my suggestions, and good luck on some of those tags. Guys. Joe Asks. Always enjoyed watching you on TV and now really really like your podcasts. I'd like to hear your take on filming and self filming Hunt,

more specifically on camera gear. And this is actually you know, I've got a lot of questions on this as well, probably will be um the self filming thing might be a full podcast in the future, but I think it's good to just talk about a little bit of camera gear. You know, at least Q and a S I would say, of the questions are all about gear, So it's good to take a little bit of time to talk about gear.

What I use and what I recommend are two completely different things for self filming, because when I film solo Hunter, it's you know, it's a television type show. I've been doing it for years. I'm very comfortable with cameras and equipment. The camera that I use, I would never suggest anyone else try to sell film with it because it's a very difficult camera to use. But I chose it off of quality and a little bit of like the highest

quality with the lighter weight. But I also carry a lot of extra lens and things, so I use a Sony A seven S two, which my own personal stuff. I upgrade every couple of years to try to keep up with it. What I suggest if you want to get into filming is find a handicam. Like a handicam would just be like that cam quarter style camera. So I use a DSLR camera, which is because I take a lot of photos as well. It fits into my style.

There there are some great DSL cameras. Cannon Redbells are great ones that get into Sony makes some like smaller, lighter weight DSLR or merrorless type cameras. My camera is actually mirroral lists, but a handicam would be like more of that cam quarter style. If you're purely interested in filming, go that route. It's got great zoom, it's got ease of use, some auto focus features. Get yourself amount for

your tripods the same. Try iPod you user spotting scipe on and you can throw that on or you're filming someone else or yourself. That tripod helps out a lot. And my thing is when you buy a camera, you don't have to get the best camera in the world. What you need is you need a camera that you can afford and don't mind keeping out all the time.

So we're starting out, I was like, Okay, I need the best camera I can get, and I was on a budget, and I bought this expensive camera, and because I didn't want the camera to get damaged, it would just always be in my backpack and I never got anything. And then I went and got this cheap little handicam thing and I filmed way more like if you watch Solo Hunter whatever. I keep my camera strapped on the outside of me all the time. I'm either carrying it in my hand on a tripod or carrying it around

my body. So the best camera is a camera that you don't mind keeping out pretty much all the time because the footage that you capture the ease of use of pulling something out of your pocket uh, something around your neck is just right there to use. That's the best footage, the foot that you actually get. If you have to stop and get into your pack and film, it's just not gonna happen. I've tried it. It's not good.

So the best camera is one that is a decent price that you don't mind getting dirty, beaten up, dragging through the mud, tromping around the mountains with, and the one that's easy to use. Because if it's easy to use, you can always progress from there. But you're going to capture some cool stuff. It'll be handy, you'll get some really awesome content. And that's the way that I suggest starting. So I like Sony stuff right now. I think they make some great stuff. Um I have a Sony for

like four K handicam. I think it's the A X series. Those are great. There's three different versions of it. You know, some other things to look about. It's just like a digital camera that does some good filming and has just like a lens built in zooms. Those can be awesome.

I know some guys have really good zooms on those handicaps and they'll use them in the back country and replace of a spotting scope in a lot of ways where they can just take that get a good enough view of where it might got to sixty x zoom and they can zoom in on something and just getting an idea of what they're looking for. And they don't even need to carry a spotting scope. So that's something

to think about. Closing it out here pretty soon. Dave from Michigan says, I'm looking at getting into bow hunting. I'm right handed, but left eye dominant. What bow should I get? I got that question a lot in a lot of different ways, and actually address some of it on social media, but I think it's worth talking about here.

Is you need to shoot to your dominant eye. Honestly, I think that we should start a movement right now to change the name of shotguns and bows from left handed and right handed to left eye and right eye. You really want to shoot with your dominant eye. So if you don't know what that is, you need to put your hands in like a triangle where you've got a hole in the middle, and look at an object in the distance. Then close your left eye. If the

object is still there, then you're right eye dominant. Close your left eye and it moves. Then your left eye dominant, so you want to shoot towards your and I that that's the eye that's sending the most accurate picture in line to your brain. You know, because we have binocular vision. In order for our brains not to get confused by looking at both eyes, we meld the picture into one. So one eye is taking over and showing you all your depth perception where things are. That's your dominant eye.

That's the eye that you want to be aiming with. Now a rifle, you know, it's just better to just switch to everything. But a rifle you're probably closing one eye and looking through scope, so it's not as important. But I actually shoot rifle with both eyes open. I think if you learned to shoot with both eyes open, you're gonna be a much better shot in the long run, especially when it comes to archery, because you're you're focusing on a site, the archery site, and then you've got

the targets. So you want to be using your dominant eye and let your non dominant I kind of pick up some things on the side, so that way you're lighting up your site picture with what's in the distance, and you can focus on the right thing without racking this weird focus and getting this weird view or having

to close one eye. What I'm saying is, if you're starting out, especially with a bow, get a bow that goes to your dominant where you're drawing to your dominant I mean, especially if you're starting what's it matter what hand you're drawing within, what hand you're playing with. I mean, it's kind of weird that if you're right handed you would pull the bow back with your your right hand. It's not like it's more strength or anything. You can push and pull at the same time. You can draw

the same with whatever muscles you build. I mean, it might actually be better to be crossed dominant, where you're holding the bow with your dominant hand and drawing to your dominant eye. So it's kind of a win win in some instances. You shouldn't think of it as left handed right handed, but just left eye right eye, and that will really help you out, especially when you're getting started.

If you've already started down the wrong path and it's time to get a new bow, it's gonna be hard to switch over, but it might just be worth it. Take the time. I've shot left handed bows plenty um sighting in my dad's bow, and he got started helping him out. He's left handed and left eye dominant, so you know it can be done. You can get used to it. A lot of bow shop guys shoot both ways, so it's it's definitely you can get used to it

and overcome the awkwardness. Have you already started wrong? All right, we'll do this last question here, kind of running out of time. So many and more I wanted to get to. But there will be more Q and a's in the future, so says he Remy. I've been binge listening to your podcast all week at work. I have already learned a ton. In one of your early podcasts, you mentioned Cashmir by led Zeppelin was your killing song. You ordered it a little better than that, and I think that people want

to know what else is on Remy's killer playlist. Keep up the great work, Rocky. Okay, So in an earlier podcast, I was talking about me and my buddies kind of have this song that comes on It's just like a good luck song if it randomly comes on the radio. We Kashmir by led Zeppelin. That was There's a whole

backstory to it of the fact that. I know, one of the first hunting videos I made from my outfitting business, that song was on there that my buddy happened to hear it on the way to his hunt one time and he got something good and then I shot the best buck of my life before hearing that song. So it's just this thing that we've got. Great song by the way too. So if you got that on your going hunting playlist, I'll give you my top five. Now.

I like all kinds of music, but these are just happened to be maybe my top five going out hunting good luck songs. Let's start with number five. We'll go Hank Williams Junior Country Boy Can Survive. I mean that's just that's just a classic outdoorsman anthem. I mean that just gets you pumped up right there. If you haven't listened to it, do yourself favorite go for it. Number four. I'm gonna go with Stepan Wolf Born to Be Wild.

I had a hunting video that I made a long time ago, and I put that song on there just I felt like that song just embodies I mean, half the time when I'm walking through the woods, that song just is is blaring as an anthem. Number three, This is a this is a good song to send your buddies. Me and my hunting friends we do this. It's like there's times when you know you've got a friend out on a hunt, or you're on a hunt and it's

coming down to the wire. We've all been there. Five day hunt, ten day hunt, whatever, it's getting close to the end of the season, maybe a couple of days left, maybe it's the last day, last evening of the hunt. A little pick me up, a little pet me up, Final Countdown by Europe. You just you gotta have that saved on your download Spotify. On that last day, just blast that as your anthem. Last year meal deer hunting Um came down to the wire. Was had a Nevada

archery tag. And it's like four in the morning and I just take that song and crank it volume up in my tent. The final countdown, this is it. Got to give it your all today. Number two it's got to be Kashmir, the good luck song. And then number one this might surprise you, but the Indiana Jones theme song. Now that one you don't have to download that one. You can just hum. That is my theme song to life.

So ever since I was a youngster out by myself, anytime I get into a hairy situation, anytime I was just feeling like I was really getting after it. I think probably of the time while I'm hiking, I'm humming or thinking about the Indiana Jones theme song. So that's something to leave you with until next week. Donna, no no, nonna, no no no no no. Probably get super copyright infringement, but that's all right. See you guys.