Ep. 122: Answering Your Questions, Part 24
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As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days in the field. This show is about translating my hard-won experiences into tips and tactics that'll get you closer to your ultimate goal, success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back, everyone, to Cutting the Distance podcast. This week, we are heading to the, I can call it the giant mail sack. This is the...

I tried a new system and it worked out outstanding, I would say. The mail sack is full to the brim. We had 527 questions.

So far. So I'm going to be, I think a lot of these, 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 can, 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 on

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 going to 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 for 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. Uh,

Whether it's the journey getting there, 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...

Just as an example, the BC stone hunt that I just recently went on is like, you know, almost over two weeks of backcountry hunting and not really seeing much as far as sheep 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 were on the hunt?

And I think that that's the biggest struggle. So it's like understanding how to capture that and making sure to get those points, but also being creative in a way that's like people are going to 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. But I'm getting used to, you know, having somebody else around. And I find when somebody else is filming, it's actually more like when I'm guiding where it's like, okay, you got to factor in all the uncontrollable things for everyone with you. And that actually is kind of a new challenge 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? Ooh, 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 it would be sheep somewhere, anywhere, anywhere.

I just love the idea of sheep hunting or even just going to some exotic place like Nepal or somewhere in mid-Asia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, again, some pretty cool spots in there. So something along those lines would definitely be at the very top of my list.

Joe Dibble asks, 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 the sheep's nose is straight up in the air. And I just 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 where it's like sheep nose up in the air. Uh, I, 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, a field photo, in many ways, it's like that's a memory that is going to 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, 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 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 and

However you like to remember that experience is cool. 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 a, maybe it's a good look at how far it curls. I don't really know. I'm like, man, it doesn't make it look bigger or smaller or tell too much about it, but

I like one that's a natural angle so I can see the drop, see the curl, see the sheet personally. Aaron here asks, what is your idea of the perfect client when guiding? That's a great question. Actually, a couple of people really, really wanted to know the answer to that. So, okay, as a hunting guide, there's a couple of things. First off, somebody that's just

willing to enjoy the experience, you know, that shows up and 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 actually going on the hunt. You know, when you hire a guide, the guide's 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,

been practicing shooting. That is huge. Those are the two biggest factors in being successful when you're on a guided hunt for like Western type hunting, mountain hunting, anything like that.

So if you, if you can do those two things, you're going to be in a lot better position than just having a good positive attitude. You know, picking a hunting buddy is a 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

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 find success because they're willing to go day in, day out, hunt hard, but also they're just more enjoyable to be around. And then to be 100% honest, you know, if you're a professional guide, I'll just say this for all the guides out there, you know, tip 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. Cause 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 too, because, you know, you gotta have a good guide, you know, a guide that really like you can tell is, is working his off. And, you know, if you got a lazy guide and, um,

then it makes the whole experience bad too. So I think part of that is just dependent on the guide that you have. And 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 working his butt off and doing everything in his power to find success for you,

you know, enjoy the experience, enjoy, like pay attention, learn, listen, because, you know, he's an expert in what he's doing or should be. And, uh, you know, if you, if you just take in the things that he's saying and follow along and whatever, then 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?

Ooh, 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 weight, 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 bring in 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 like to protect my feet, um,

Um, and I just use like a parasympathetic, um, generally Under Armour. What are they? Uh,

I don't know, fairly popular underwear, I guess. Like synthetic material that doesn't really, it's like antimicrobial. You can 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 as easily. So I'd say a couple, one, two.

Generally, maybe more if it's like a really long trip. But for the most part, I put my weight in socks. Drew says, want to hear about that new bow? Yeah, so I'm shooting now a Matthews V3X. That's their newest version of it.

I got a lot of questions about the new bow and why this bow in particular and kind of my whole bow setup. I think out of the 500 and something questions, 400 of them were about my bow. So I think what I'm going to do, I'll do, how about I'll do this. I'll make a YouTube video, put it up on my Remy Warren YouTube account, going through all the features of just my bow setup, arrows, broadheads, etc.

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 to my YouTube channel and see if you want to like check out my entire bow setup.

But I think, you know, 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 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. I like simplicity in it. And I like something that's very quiet. 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 had a tag, traveled a long ways. I only had a short amount of time to hunt. I hiked, I don't even know, like in the three days, 50 miles, got on a deer. It was sleeping. And 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 insane.

the noise of my setup, you know? So I was like, the thing I really like about this new Matthews bow, 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 jump the string. I just last week, I shot an axis deer at like a pretty good range that I probably would never shoot an axis deer at because, you know, they generally jump the string and like no string jump, perfect shot. I'm 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 setup too. So you can check more out about that on the video, but yeah, so far love that bow. Everything's streamlined. Everything's all together. 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 liked that. I really liked 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's a really good question. And it got a lot of people were curious about the same thing.

So here's the thing, you know, when you're on public land and there's other hunters around, people are going to be bumping into people. It's just a factor of it. It's almost something you got to factor 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 going to hunt. So yeah, cars are going to maybe stack up at certain trailheads or whatever. 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 try 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to bump into you. People are going to 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 in and when it feels like

Oh, there's nowhere to hunt. 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 or 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 his 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 interfere with someone else, don't do it. But also, you know, take the opportunities that you see 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 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 use 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 the net, so I just move everything in, try 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 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.

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That's a great question. I think for the most part, I kind of like look at it as 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 going to 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

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 talk. It's like, all right, man, you're tired, but today could be the day just around that next corner. Like I always keep this super positive attitude, even when things aren't looking great. It's like, oh yeah, I've got, um,

torrential winds and I drank 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 intention is going to go. That's where things are going to go and your head isn't going to be in the game. I always think on the positive side. I always think about the next one. I visualize that next elk I'm going to 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 going to happen, it's going to happen. Even if it doesn't look like it's going to happen. I mean, I've been on hunts for, it's like five days, haven't seen a single animal. And I'm thinking it's going to happen. I just got to 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 going to happen. So I keep looking harder. If I think it's not going to happen, then I get lazy glassing. 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, is

a huge key factor when you, whether you're by yourself, whether you're on a hunt with other people, it doesn't really matter. Just keeping that positive mental attitude is, is much a part of the hunt as anything else. And a huge factor in success, in my opinion. Hunter asks, 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 opportunity.

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. 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 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. 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 is experienced just taking you out in the field for a day. 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 or people that I've met and taken out is like that initial, hey, let's go hunt chukar. Let's go hunt quail. 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, it 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. 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 asks, Hey Remy, how much prep shooting do you put into your bow before a hunt? Cheers.

That's a good question, Rob. I mean, I, let's say like every waking moment that I'm not doing something else. If I'm not hunting, I'm every day pretty much shoot my bow. But I also just really love shooting my bow. And I like to get a bow, especially when I get a new bow. I

I like to really get it set up, get it dialed. Like I like to know every little nuance about the bow. Sometimes I might get a bow that I'm like, Oh, 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, shooting it, you know, I start getting a bow set up through paper and then just a lot of time in the field just doing like, you know, shooting 3d or, um,

just targets outside and just kind of really, 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 torque am I putting in this bone? Really just analyzing it and saying, okay, like this is the perfect setup. Um,

And then once I get that set up, I like to just kind of keep it, like maintain it. Don't really, 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 bludgeon Saunders bludgeon tips or whatever. I'll bring a couple of field tips or whatever. Have a little target and camp.

Or maybe just shoot my broadheads at a target and camp up a couple for practice if I'm like, you know, near a vehicle or a cabin or whatever. 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 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 release that arrow, I know in my head 100% 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 arrow, I want to say, yup, that's going to be a hundred percent. And the only way for me personally to do that is by practicing enough to know that when I released that arrow, it's going to 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. It's like, I don't know. I never get tired of it. I can hunt, you know, I've hunted, uh,

before I had a family, um, like my most days in the field was 323 days in a single season. That's a, that's a lot, you know, I was guy, that's a lot of guiding, a lot of being out scouting, you know, I, I think probably I've 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. Like growing up as a kid, my favorite movie was Indiana Jones, you know, like that, that, that aspect of adventure, uh,

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 in 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 about it. There's so many reasons that I hunt, but that's to me, one of the major things is like that, that story.

that seeking adventure, that challenge and excitement of exploring something new and unknown or something wild and not frequented by a lot of people. Marshall asks, would you bother retrying to stalk in on a bumped animal? Once alerted, how long would it take for a deer elk to relax? Yeah, if I bump something,

I always continue on the course. 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 went, if they winded you and blew out, you know, maybe I'd give it a lot longer, let them settle down, let them rebed, let them, you know, maybe make a play later. Sometimes you just bump them like, oh, they heard something, they bumped off and

And you just watch their behavior and decide for yourself.

when to proceed. But sometimes I will immediately refollow up. And other times it's like, yeah, 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 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. There's been many times, many animals that have been bumped once and, and, and,

made right on the second one, learned from the mistake and, and redid and got in and made a shot. Josh asks, 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

If you've got kids, you know, by all means, take them out hunting. It's one of the coolest experiences. It's a great thing. You know, there's a lot of, like 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. You know, for me growing up, I grew up in it. 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, 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 was 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? Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Thanks for taking 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. I do it around the holiday season. If you aren't familiar with it, it's like essentially I take a piece of backstrap and

I'd make like a, I guess it's called, you know, like kind of like this mushroom Drexel that I put around it, then prosciutto 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, 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 a, definitely a go-to another one's just like, I like to do this. Um, I call it like my prime rib style backstrap. Uh,

I'll post a video on that here in the next week or so. If you got my newsletter, if anybody wants additional information or whatever, I'm going to actually kind of beef that up a bit. But you can go on my website, remywarren.com, sign up for my newsletter.

mailing letter. And I try to put a few things. I'm going to 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 I had a video on there recently and I'll put it up on YouTube here in the coming weeks. Just prime rib style backstraps. Kind of my go-to. It involves just a lot of rosemary and garlic that I coat on the top and then cook in the brown 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, trust it up, and then put this rosemary garlic on the top, put it in the oven. And that thing is a little spiker buck, man. It was just like the best prime rib you've ever had. You know, it's just like really, really good an entire hind quarter. 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? That's a good question. I think one of the things that I do, I like to, I move. I know there's some people's like, oh, sit here and wait it out. For me, it's like, if I don't see what I'm looking for, I move on. And sometimes I also judge like, what time of the day am I looking in an area? If I look at an area, I'm 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 an evening. But if I don't see something that I'm looking for, I generally move 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. There's enough country that I can glass, but there's a lot of maybe timber. It's like, okay, there's room for these animals to stay hidden from me. 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. 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 there. A lot of spot and stock, you know, just getting up on a knob, glassing, looking for those bachelor groups of bucks or bucks that

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 timeframes, you know, pre-rut and even later in the rut, sometimes late season. I hunted them in December last year. They were down a lot lower. We had a couple we'd shoot and the antlers would fall off. Do not drag a late season blacktail by the antlers because they're probably going to shed them off. But yeah,

Yeah. So I, I do that, um, early season, definitely head high. And for most of the season, I like to head high. It's just where I prefer to find them and like to be in that open glassable 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 lock box. Uh,

And then putting that lockbox 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 to the vehicle to be able to like drive it and

And so 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 a, 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 somewhere where you can access it.

Question comes from Brandon. He says, how do you keep your feet warm when it's below 30 degrees Fahrenheit? I'll use a thousand K insulate boot shoes, boots, plus thick wool socks. Still my toes go completely numb after a couple hours. Great question. I get cold feet very easily. Um, I've had the frostbite before. I think that plays into it, but, um, I use toe warmers like they're super awesome. I, and when I use them, um, I don't,

There's a bunch of different brands. I can't remember even the names of some of them. There's the Grabber ones or Gerber Grabber. Yeah, I think they're Grabber, something like that. I just get like the big party pack at Costco, whatever's available. But 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 in the foot sole and it rubs weird. So I just stick it on the top of my sock, stick my boot foot in my boot and grab

They're money, especially if you're sitting, but even when walking. It might be hot for a lot of people, but I rather enjoy it. Joe asks, do you like mince and cheese pies in New Zealand? Absolutely. Mince and cheese is really good. Pepper steak is my favorite. 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, eh, 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 Lion Red or Spates? Spates all the way. I like that, Spates. If you don't know what that is, South Island in New Zealand has some pretty good after hunt beers.

The last question comes from Eric. He says, when a deer is moving slowly in your shooting lane, when do you employ the 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, when I spook something, even I make that sound, but

but on something is moving and I need it 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 and at full draw, especially if it's close. 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 stop. 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 them. 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.

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. 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 time it where it's like they're behind something, they're moving and they're going to 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, 300 yards away, by the time the sound gets there, they'll take those extra couple steps and stop.

Maybe they stop behind something and you got to do it again. If it's something close, I'm bow hunting and it's like, oh, here's a shooting lane. I've got it. It's 20 yards. I draw back when they're behind something. And then generally as it's like, I try to be settled if I can. 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, 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 a timing thing based on how far they are, but I try to get them to stop when they're in the open, especially if it's 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, you

that blocks their head if possible. I mean, that's the perfect scenario. Sometimes you just got to do it. Like you come up over, they bounce out, say it's a mule deer or something, come up over the ridge, you spook them. Maybe they 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 bounce two or three bounces, stop, turn, 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. I really, really appreciate it. I wish I could answer all of them. I think that the topics that I picked answered a vast majority. I'll also use this to kind of decide some videos I make in the future and some other things that I do. So thank you guys so much for those questions. Maybe we'll have to do kind of a, I don't know, something on social media to answer some more questions. I'll try to go through and answer

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, you know, got a live thing going on, you know, maybe I'll just advertise it that way, help you find it a

Looking forward to some of the stuff coming up Christmas season. Going to be doing a cool giveaway again. Just got 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, listening to the podcast, giving us a like and a comment. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you all. And until next week, how are we going to end this one?

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.

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