00:00:07 Speaker 1: 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 they'll get you closer to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to the podcast. Everybody. When it comes to hunting, being consistently successful really no matter the species, the first thing you have to think about is being able to identify the tactics to give you the advantage. And you do that by looking for the right moment to make a move. Whether it's a late season elk, early season mule, you're running caribou, open country, prong horns, it doesn't really matter. The recipe is the same observed behavior, find a weakness, make a move. This week we're going to cover those tactics, but first I want to share the story of a recent hunt for woodland caribou and using spot and stock tactics to get a shot with my bow on a bedded giant. This season, I was fortunate enough to be able to get the opportunity to chase woodland caribou with my bow. I was actually up filming it for one of the Matthews Proving Ground videos. So I got a chance to take out the new bow just launched this week, and then you know, go put it in the test throughout the season different places, and one of the places that I decided to take it was Newfoundland in uh and Chase Woodland, Caribou. That's right. I So one of the things that I learned there, you know, I used to call it Newfoundland, and the locals informed me there like if if any if you do anything for the rest of your life, it's heavy in the land. Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Newfoundland. Say it five times asked, And I know exactly what they mean, because coming from Nevada, a lot of people pronounce it Nevada. And when you're from there and you're pronounced wrong, you're like, man, So if you hear me say Newfoundland, that's the correct pronunciation coming from the people on the ground. What I was reported to report heavy in the land. But I will say my my trip there was one of I would say probably my definitely one of the most memorable hunts of this season, and a hunt that I definitely would want to do again. For a lot of reasons. I haven't up until this this season I actually have not had the opportunity to hunt Canada, and it just so happened that I got to do a sheep hunt in BC and then cariboan moose in Newfoundland this year. And the caribou hunt was one that I've kind of thought about for a long time, but also, um, you know, I just didn't have not the right timing or the right opportunity or enough open schedule to do it. And I'm really glad that I was able to make it happen. Um. So, if you aren't familiar with a woodland cariboo, I kind of think of a woodland you think of all these species. So you've got you know, mule deer, white tailed deer in the deer family, like different species of deer. And then there's a few different species of cariboo. There's you know, baring ground that you might find. Um Like in Alaska you've got your mountain cariboo that you find kind of in BC You've got your Quebec labrador. There's actually five species cariboo and then the woodland cariboo and these would be found in like I guess Nova Scotia, um I think, but primarily in Newfoundland and it's a When you think about these caribou, I kind of think of them as like the coused here of the Cariboo world. They are the smallest antlers um. They don't necessarily have these large migrations. Now, they might migrate from um like a summer range to winter range, but it's it's generally like an isolated migration with this these small pocketed herds, So not huge, huge migrating herds, but like little isolated pockets that they're kind of more um within a certain area. They're like, well, maybe have the summer ground up high, and then they moved to these valleys, but very similar terrain to something you might find caribooan anywhere where it's like they kind of open tundra that kind of moves into a little bit of forested small subalpine type trees and then you know you've got that more like big open tundra, big valleys and then mountains in between where they're they're kind of hanging around. When I went, it was probably peak rut One thing that I found was interesting is like they're very very active during the rut um. There's some tactics that could get employed using like a white bag or even calling like they get very curious and very I would say like decoylable if you had the right like decoy or whatever. But also the other trouble is just like anything that's running. I kind of it's one of those things where it's like almost like an antelope hunt pronghorn hunt, where during the rut you see a good pronghorn and he's running all over the mountain. So the first day we get dropped off, we're able to use a helicopter there for drop off. So a lot of places, you know, you fly in with an airplane, here we could we could get dropped off by helicopter. So we got dropped off, set up camp and just glassing around, and you know, we're seeing a few little isolated herds maybe cariboo here and there. And we'd seen some you know, just from our glassing vantage seen some animals starting to move and you could tell they're running. They're starting to push um around there. They called the bulls stags and the cows does um, So I might just use those interchangeably, but you know, you get so used to calling caribou bulls and cows that I might just stick with that. I always like to use when I'm there. Whatever the people they're used, but and for this purpose of this podcast, I'll probably just call them what I want now. Um, the first day we kind of got in and it spotted some good animals. My original assumption is they're gonna just be like small antlered caribou, but we saw some serious giants. I think it was just one of those years. I mean, my whole hunting career, I've I've shot a few really nice animals, and this year I happened to shoot a really big elk And now I'm like staring down the spotting to cope and another Boone and Crockett sized animal got my bone in my hand, and thinking, oh my gosh, like this is gonna be awesome. So the first cariboo we ended up stalking was like I spotted him, we decided to cross. Like from our camp, we see this one bull. So you got like these bulls cruise and just like anything during red bulls or cruising between groups of cows, and then they're fighting, you know, fairly aggressively, and then you've got the one that maybe is in control of the herd for that period of time. So we see some loan bulls and we're like, okay, these are nice. We hike across the valley to get a look back up this other valley. You know, I don't know how far it is, it's the ways get to the glassing point. Sit down, we're gonna glass to the other side of the mountain. But I turned around and look back kind of the direction we came from, in a in a spot that we couldn't see, and sure enough, I mean, from maybe two miles away, I'm like, oh my gosh, there is that one is huge. So um, I've got two friends of mine with me filming, and then Daniel who's from there, guiding, and and I'm like, there is a giant bull over here. So like yep, we look at it through the spotting scope. It disappears behind the ridge and we're like, we gotta go. We gotta go make a move. So we get over there, you know, get set up um on this ridge where we can see down and sure enough he had pushed off. We saw two good bulls, like one was really nice, and then this bigger one pushes this other one off. I'm like, man, either of those would be incredible. Get over there, and sure enough, like the one. Now we just see the one big bull and all the cows, the one big stag and all the dose whatever you wanna call him. So it's like, all right, in the wide open, how are we gonna do this? So we only do we like plan a stock on him. You've got like a white bag. It's kind of like a decoy. So Daniels right there with the bag and then we're stalking in and it's kind of like they're kind of intrigued by it. But the wind is just howling and they're just constantly on the move, so they're moving, pushing. We try to get in. We almost get a shot, and it's just like bad wind, not necessarily like them winding us, but just too much wind to shoot them moving like just no good shots, and it just keeps having. We keep chasing him, moving him. They're just pushing each other and moving and you hear like I know with certain cariboots, like I know when I was hunting northern Alaska, it's like when you're on those migrating her and good luck you see one good bowl a long ways away, good luck catching it. But we're like, this is a big it's a big one. We're gonna keep chasing him. So they're moving. They crossed the river. They go essentially where we spot them from two miles away there over there. Now we are running trying to catch up, drop down, cross around, stock up in front of them, get in front of them, end up blowing out the herd again. I don't know how many times. It's like you've got all these different cariboan moving. They're pretty riled up. Then they go back the other direction. So we're essentially running, sprinting, jogging, doing all the things to catch up again, go up and around. I think I was tracking how much we did in. It was close to marathon, and I mean we put in. We put in miles just essentially jogging trying to catch up and get ahead of these things. So they'd be going up the mountain. We try to jog around and get caught up and get set up for an ambush, and it just didn't work. We were getting run ragged. So we get back onto the point and we see the bull. Um, we see I see some cat one cow betted, and the bullets kind of split off from the group, and sure enough that bull is betted, and I'm like, oh man, this is our opportunity. Caribe hunting generally, it's an ambush game. They're moving, they're constantly moving, and now we've got the advantage. This bull is bedded down. He's kind of like it looked like at the time by himself with it just a couple of cows. There's kind of like this this creek that comes down behind him, and I'm thinking, this is gonna be perfect. There's a big mountain behind him, sort of like all right, last play of the day. We dropped down, we cross around. We just gotta go wide, and keep saying to myself, go the best way, not the easy way. There's an easier way. But we got to go to the top of the mountain, get around him, and then come in from one side. So we're stocking in. Blow out a couple of moose and I'm like, oh, crap, is that gonna I canna blowhim out to a cow and a calf moose blow past him, and he ended up not really getting up like looking behind him, you know, whatever him let the moose go. We back out again, get up higher, go all the way around the mountain, come in from the top, and it's perfect. There's like a shoot He's bedded just behind this little knob, and I'm thinking, oh man, this is awesome. So I've got myself, Daniel and Niko's filming. I always mentioned the people that are filming because it just adds that little element of difficulty when I'm doing a hunt, and if you watch a video or something, you don't necessarily see that if it's that's to be honest, I actually prefer self filming sometimes because just me and the camera, it's it can be difficult to set the camera up, but I'm more used to it now. Um, sometimes it's hard when you like got other people with you, because I've always said this, like one person is too many on a stock, Like just yourself being there already makes it difficult, and then you start adding more people, it makes it more difficult. But like this is my bread and butter stocking beded animals, so remind me of early season meals. You're hunting, Like this is what I'm good at. So we're gonna get in on this this bowl and get a shot. Sure enough, it's like we've got maybe I don't know, we're like again, I'm like we're like balancing the clock of like twenty minutes left of shooting time. Now we're moving in. We're about thirty forty yards. Drop the packs. That probably about fifty yards dropped the packs. He's bad. I can just see the antler tips get down and we all start creeping in. And as we're creeping in, it's like, perfect. Well there's this one cow and she happens to be coming up like right where we're at, kind of spooks out and goes down around the bowl. All right, it's okay, Like he's still betted. You know, he's looking away. This is perfect, So get into about twenty yards peak over range. I'm like, and I've got him where he's he's broadside. But if he could see me out of the corner of his eye, I imagine if I popped up there, so I we back out, come around the back side. So I wanted to get like his his back end towards me, blocking his eyesight, and then you know, drawback. I would be able to get a good quartering away shot at himbedded there it was open enough or when he stood up, you know, be perfect because I could just see the top of his other So at this point I draw back and I didn't catch the cow or dough down below us looking our direction, and caught that movement of the drawing back I think, plus with two other people. They're kind of at that point for her would have been skylined, and that her alert look like whipping head back. I'm at full draw now and I'm just about to take one step and and settle in and take a shot. And that bull ran out hundred miles and it was like twenty yards away. Dreams crushed. We just chased this thing for freaking I don't even know how far, how many miles and it was not gonna happen. And based on the way he was running this time, we probably weren't going to find him in the in the same area code uh tomorrow, So long hike back to camp. Everybody put in a good effort, put in some good miles, and it's like, man, it was. It was a bummer. Here's a big animal, and you're like, man, that was my opportunity. You know, on a hunt, I rarely think that. You know, just getting a good opportunity is sometimes the challenge, so you know, and especially at an animal that caliber, I was like, oh man, I was I was just I was bummed. So we get back to camp, cook up a good meal. You know, like, well you can't have you know, you gotta have that roller coaster. That's bow hunting man. So next morning we're gearing up. We're like, there was that other, that other good caribou, but you know, we're glassing and it's like pretty much a ghost town at this point. So we're glassing and getting our stuff set up, and his caribou, like a big caribou, walks over the ridge and he's like walking down um essentially where we'd seen a nice one the day before, but we hadn't actually seen this one, and it was like as big or bigger than the one we were stalking the day before, just different looking, awesome fronts on him. He walks and just like from like six zero, he's just walking, plops down in beds, like, no way, you right here? Another good bull and we're gonna get our stock. So this time we decide, okay, we're gonna we're gonna kind of split up. We left one of the camera guys here to kind of get a side angle like from where he's watching at Then Nico and I are going to sneak around. Daniel is going to be kind of behind us here and that way. If for some reason he stands up or whatever, maybe we could pull out a white flag, get his attention to steer that way, and then all continue stalking. But we're gonna play it just like I would mule their stock or anything like that. Betted bull. So I'm watching him and he just PLoP down, goes to sleep, like man, this thing is ben I'm assuming he's just been running hard, just chasing and moving and fighting and like war out. So it's like perfect same same plan. Go the easy way, Sorry, go the best way, not the easy way. Don't go the easy way, go the best way. So it's like the wind's going up hill. We want to be out of sight the whole time. So we cruise around the mountain, come over the top, get in a good line, you know, made some good references, and start creeping in range in the whole way kind of like okay, you know, from from where we're looking, it looked like there's some trees and you can get to those trees and you get a shot. So on my stocking plan, I get over there, I range the trees, range the bed where I think the bed of caribous because I can't actually see it from my advantage, and I'm like, man, that's too far. We're gonna have to replan the stock because the way the hill looked when we're glassing at it across, it's completely different when we're getting down. So I arrange and find a spot. It's like twenty thirty yards some bushes, I think, and get to you. So we start stalking down, get into position in between like the Caribs sleeping, picking his head up, looking around. So when his head's down, just moving, when he heads up, just stopped, we get into about I don't know, forty fifty yards and there's no shot he's bedded. But I'm like, okay, I can use this opportunity. Every time he puts his head down or looks away, I'll creep in. So it's kind of like a shoes off situation here, but I left my shoes on because it was just soaking wet and pretty cold. So he's got his head down, sneak in, ranging gets set up, just kind of subtracting the distance to each little bush, like okay, next one, I'll be forty, next one, i'll be thirty. So I get into about thirty something yards maybe thirty five yards. He's bed, and I'm like, alright, perfect, I get set up, get my feet set, just like just like I do. One thing I always think about is like when I'm in that situation, it's like, okay, here, it's crunch time. I might be waiting all day, but I need to be waiting in a comfortable, ready position. So my release on. Do all the ranging ing and all the trees and bushes in case he gets up whatever, and just wait. His head's down, I'm like, okay, cool, and I feel like the winds a little swirly, and I don't I'm just thinking about, oh, last night, the bull blue out and within range, and it's like it was just perfect, and then it wasn't. Like I don't want this to get blown, so um, I kind of I decided there's a little bit of brush in front of me, and I use that opportunity. I'm like, okay, he's looking, he's pretty alert, and he puts his head down one more time, and I just use that opportunity to sneaking, get into range, get set again. I'm like, all right, perfect. If he stands up, I set my pen. If he stands up, we're good. If he moves out, we're good. This is awesome. So he's got his head down and then kind of like picks his head up, shakes his hand, and I'm like, oh, get ready to draw nothing. So then, you know, then I feel that kind of surly wind, so I draw back and thinking, well, maybe the noise of it drawing back, we'll kind of get him to stand up, but not no know where it's coming from. Because the wind still still enough, I can get full drawn. My cam's back a couple of times, not loud, just enough to you know, get steady and and and see put the pin there. I just have no shot. All I can see his head and nailers above the kind of brush. So drawback down. He doesn't even notice that I'm there, and nothing. You know, it's it's good. So waiting a little bit longer, and you know, it's like, okay, now it's the waiting game. I'm standing because if I sneel or sit, I would have no shot. And then all of a sudden, you know, I see that he's betted. I see that head come up. He kind of does like a weird stretch thing, and as he's standing up, I draw back. I think one good thing was he's like pretty stowed up from running a hunchback, so he's stand up, gonna do a stretch. He's been betting he's gonna stretch out, and I'm thinking, I don't know how long he's gonna stay there, but I want to be anchored in and ready. The second he's fully standing. As soon as he got standing, I'm anchored. I'm ready. Pins on the vitals, released the arrow, perfect shot. He spins around like not even knowing that he's hit. I don't even think he heard the bow go off. I put another air on drawback, Release one more arrow for good measure. Another perfect shot. Cariboo. I mean he goes a few yards and falls over dead. Exactly what you want, a perfect clean kill with the bow and an incredible animal. I mean, walking up to it, it it was just like one of these scenes that I'll never forget because it's just in this beautiful place, a place that I've never been, something that I always dreamed about. I thought this would be cool. I love chasing cariboo. I love chasing cariboo with my bow. To be able to take like a woodland cariboo, not just because you as big but just like looking at the whole scene, it was in some ways, I don't know, there's a certain hunting moments that almost feel like overwhelming. You're like, how am I so lucky that I get to do this? And I really I really felt it there. I was looking at like the snow's coming in, the sun's over the valley, there's like a rainbow in the snow, and I'm walking up on this incredible animal, thinking, just man, and I am so blessed to be here and to be able to experience something like this. And it's definitely a hunt that, um, you know, I would love to do again, but I will. I will remember that memory and that experience forever and just an incredible stock. But one thing that I kind of took away from it was, you know, here's here's these moving caribou, and we're trying to keep making plays on them while they're moving, and it put us at a disadvantage. But then they bedded down and that gave us like the perfect opportunity to make a stock and use tactics that I use for so many other things. Early season, Mule Dear maybe Elk after late in the like post rut where it's like, hey, we've got an animal that's bedded stationary, and it gives us a perfect opportunity to sneak in with a bow using tactics for one thing, on a species that I've never hunted. When it comes, it doesn't really matter if you're bow hunting, rifle hunting, um running deer late season ELK. I think that observing the behavior of what the animals are doing at that time, being good at that is probably the most successful tactic that you could pick up. And the reason is because once you've got let's say a stock pile of hunting knowledge or hunting experiences, you can really go and hunt anything anywhere and use different tactics at different times, but just kind of observe at the time and then use the tactic that will work best for those animals for them, because what you're gonna try to do is you're gonna try to observe their behavior and then find that weakness that you can exploit to get within range. This is especially true when it comes to bow hunting because within bow hunting, it's a it's a game of proximity. You have to be close enough to make an ethical, clean shot that you know sure when you release that arrow, you're gonna take that animal, and in order to do that, you've got to be close. And that can be the a part because, uh, you know, finding an animal is one thing, getting within range is another. You know. I like to always think when the rifle hunt ends is where the bow hunt really begins, and then get even closer. So you really have to learn how to exploit that weakness. But it's not just for bow hunting. It can be for anything. When I'm thinking about you know, some difficult hunts like rifle season general units for elk that can be an extremely difficult hunt, October season meal dear that can be a tough one. Even running meal there can be a difficult hunt. You know, you've got a mountain unit or a general tag or whatever the tag is. Maybe you've got a limited entry tag and you've got you're using ref doesn't matter what you're hunting. You need to be able to find the animal, but you also need to be able to get close and exploit that weakness. If you've got a running meal here that's just on the cruise, you spot them at five miles away, well you might not ever catch up to them or you've got a late season, ELK. It's like, well, they're barely coming out, they aren't out in the open. How do I pinpoint and figure out what these animals are doing? And I say that the best tactic is using observed behavior and then finding that weakness. So here's a couple of examples. You know, Let's say you're you're hunting deer during the rud. Kind of their attitude during the rut is their weakness. It puts them out in the open more, It puts them moving around more. That's that weakness. So in order to exploit that weakness during that hunt, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna be finding the glassing vantages because I know that they're going to be moving more, they're gonna be out in the open more, they're gonna be cruising more. So that that's my advantage when they're normally brushed up or very well hidden. I'm gonna use that time of year to exploit the fact that they're out. Let's say it's um late season, ELK, this is a good one, especially very timely. Well what are they kind of focusing on that time of years? So say it's a general unit rifle tag late season elk. What are they focused on? Post rut they're focused on They're gonna be really tied to food sources because they've got to bulk up. They've got to keep that winter weight going because they're gonna be heading into winter. Food is gonna be scarce, So they're gonna be really tied to food sources. So what am I gonna do? Well, I'm gonna try to pinpoint and figure out these food sources. I'm gonna use those food sources, like those open grassy areas, maybe those like timbered area life it's all timbered, maybe a meadow or something. Maybe it's you know, maybe it's all open, but I'm gonna kind of exploit the preferred food source that grass, maybe the south facing slopes, things like that. I'm gonna figure out what they're doing at that time and then figure out what's the place that I can pinpoint and kind of like figure out how these animals are using the resources around. It's the same if it was like an early season el kind. I've talked about this stuff before, but you know, if it's an early season elk hunt in a hot area, well, they're gonna be more tied to that water. So I'm gonna pinpoint that water, and I'm gonna observe the behavior of what's going on that time of year and then figure out the tactics that allow me to get close. On this particular last time, it's like caribouo. They were running, they're moving. We couldn't really catch up. Now, we could use some flagging and decoin, which worked, but when we're doing that, like Wendy and they're moving and it didn't offer us really good shots this particular day, it could have worked the very next day. You know, if we saw, hey, this stag is like being really aggressive or these ones are doing whatever, that would probably work and it would work really well. But we saw that they would get tired after cruising all day and fighting really hard and go the bulls would pull off and go bed down, maybe with one cow or no cows, and it's like that's the time that we can exploit it, just like an early season meal there when they're you got the heat of the day and they go out and feed and they're out in the open, and then they pull away and go bed for the rest of the day. It's like that's our time to attack. So What I like to do is I like to figure out the observed behavior, pinpoint a weakness, and then make a move. When it comes to making a move, there's my school of thought is this. There's the watching weight, there's act fast, and then there's plan ahead. So I'll kind of go into that like watching. Wait. I can think of many like early season meal er hunts were I was looking for a specific buck, maybe a really big buck, a really mature buck. Set up on a glassing knob, I'm glassing the feeding sources in the morning, going okay, they're gonna be out in the open. They don't like to be in real thick stuff. But they also are gonna be bedded a lot of the day. So I'm set up and I'm watching. And then I watched the deer and they go bed and they've got everything to their advantage. They've got the wind coming downhill, they're bedded below the tree, they're in the shade that's gonna be stay shady most of the day, and they can see over the area. Plus they've got all this dry balsam root around him, which acts as just like an alarm system for sound, and a shale slide on one side, and I look at that and go Not that I couldn't try stalking that dear, but the odds of me making a stock and being successful are very low percentage. If I blow it out, then I probably won't get another chance. So I'm just watching and waiting. What I'm waiting for is that dear to do something stupid. And if you wait and watch long enough the animals that you're hunting, eventually you'll find one that does something stupid. That's kind of like the key to hunting. Go out, observe what they're doing, and then find one doing something stupid that gives you just a slight advantage. I'm waiting for that one deer that's like, hey, the winds a different direction now it's blowing up hill and for him to get in the shade. He's got a bed behind this rock, and so he goes and beds down behind that rock. I've got good wind, I've got an obstructed view. I can come in from the top, and in my mind to go, that's almost a hundred percent chance that I'm going to get within range. Now, a lot of things can go wrong, but when I see that stock or that opportunity, it's like, now is the time. So I watch and I wait for the deer to make a mistake, especially if i'm hunting something that's like, you know, i'm hunting one deer. I'm looking for a mature animal and you know or whatever, maybe I'm just looking to harvest any deer. But I've got a whole pilot deer over here that are doing something that's doesn't really lend itself for me to make a good stock. And I've got this one over here that just did something stupid. We'll all go and stock that one because it's a high percentage stock. I'm waiting for those stock where I have a high likelihood of making it happen. Now, the other make a move factor is the act fast. It's it's still tied to that, Oh there's something doing something stupid, or there's the you know that maybe it's that observed behavior, it's that late season elk, right, and it's like, well it's a general unit, it's with a rifle, and finding illegal bowl is freaking difficult. You might hunt seven days and you might have two spots on illegal bowl. Well, now it's time to act fast. You know, you maybe don't have the perfect opportunity, but you don't have time to watch and wait. You know if you wait, you aren't going to find another one. So you gotta act now. You gotta get where they are while they're there, and that's the act fast plan. It's like, Okay, let's say the difficulty in it is this the observed behavior is they don't come out of the timber very often. They're hard to find. And I got one feeding now, or hey, he moved out and bedded in a burn or bedded in the open or bedded behind something. It's like, okay, not everything is perfect, but finding one is difficult, So I gotta act fast. I gotta go and make my move and make my plan now. Um, and then the other one. The third move is the plan ahead. So you think about this, and this is ties back to the behavior of the animals that you're hunting and what's going on that time of year. So if we think about, um, let's just tie it tight back in with late season elk. Right, you've got some milk and you see them out feeding at night and you're or let's say you seem out feeding in the morning and you go and you're I don't know wherever you're hunting and this we do this a lot in like eastern Nevada. Okay, we'll be set up lasting five miles away. You got all this cover, all these places. It's late season, snows on the ground, and these bulls come out and they feed in this one little basin and you're like, oh, there they are five miles away, and you watch it for five more minutes and they walk right into the thick mahogany juniper and you're like, they aren't coming back out. We know we could go in there. If we could act fast. We could just do our stock and probably blow them out of the our beds. You know, the wind will be right, everything will be wrong and you probably aren't going to see those elk again. Or we can make our move and plan ahead. So go Well, it's late season, those elk are tied to that food source. It's a tiny little opening. It's sea of cover. So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna spend the day getting up in there into position. I'm gonna get the wind right for those thermals coming downhill. I'm gonna set up and I'm gonna wait for those bulls to come back out in the evening and that's the plan ahead, and it works as well with whatever you're hunting. Maybe it's you know, dear, let's say, dear, during the run, you've got a group of does in this particular draw. You've seen bucks kind of like checking it out. The does tend to be there every day, so we're gonna instead of be glassing that far away, we're gonna get ahead and the next morning get into there within the range where we can make a move on a like cruising buck and be set up. We're seeing deer on this particular ridge one day, but they're cruising, you know, So we're gonna go and get into position and plan ahead to make our move in adv ants were kind of like doing that chess game of thinking a couple moves ahead, do it even early season meal dere, It's like, Hey, the deer feeding in this particular stage basin. Instead of watching them from across the valley, I'm gonna go get in that stage to that feeding area in the dark, and then as they feed out in the morning, I can crawl and try to get ahead and do an ambush stock. So I'm using what the animals are doing in that observed behavior, I'm thinking what are they going to do next? And then I'm planning ahead making a move. So those are the three ways that I consider making a move when it comes to planning a stock. When I think about hunting or whatever species I'm chasing. One of the fun things that I love about Western hunting that you maybe don't get other places is a variety of species. You know, there's elk, meal, dear white tails, moose, sheep, goats, pronghorn like, wolves, bears, mountain like, there's so many different species, caribou, moose, like. It's just there's so many different species to hunt, and yet you know, you gotta well, how do I be successful if I if I draw? Even when you go like, hey, I'm going on a hunt in Alaska, d I y hunt first time? First time chasing caribou. I don't know much about caribou, but what I can or let's say, I'm just saying like, if you don't know much about caribou, but you can use tactics that you've learned from other things, observe what the animals are doing, and then employ it in those weakness. If you've got moving caribou that are like migrating through and you're like, hey, man, they seem to be crossing this one value, or like they're cruising up this valley and following the wind. Well, then the next day you can kind of plan ahead and like get into that position and be ready. I know I've done that um many times. Or like chasing animals that you've never hunted before and using tactics that you find from other species, other hunts, other places, and then just trying to figure out, Okay, what when this animal does something, how can I best it? How can I get ahead of it and really observe what they're doing, and then try to find that weakness while I'm doing it. It's one thing like if you're coming from somewhere else, you've got your first del count, your first deer hunt, whatever, trying to just really observe, like what's going on, what do these animals need? Pointing that, and then focusing on how can I exploit that. That's how you're gonna be consistently successful no matter what you're hunting. I really appreciate I've been checking out. There's some great comments on a bunch of different podcast platforms. I try to read those and thank you guys so much for all the kind words. I really appreciate a lot of people enjoy the podcast and and I really thank you guys so much for all that, especially like the ratings and and all those things. Some new there's some new comments and stuff like that. So if you feel so inclined and want to drop a comment or rating, I always appreciate it. Uh, this the I like talking about some of the things that have just happened recently. I've actually got um I know you like hear a hunting story and it's fun to see it as well. So last this week I posted a video that we just edited of that caribou hunt. So you want to go check that out. That's on my Remy Warren YouTube page. Should be able to search that find that. If you don't subscribe already, it's a you know, please do. I appreciate that too. UM. I feel free to drop a comment or wherever it came from the podcast or whatever. You know, it's always fun to see where like where people come from and whatever. And as always, you can reach out to me via social media generally Instagram is the best. At Remy Warren. UM. I know there's always like all these platforms, I'm like, go here, go that, check this out. But it's always fun to be able to kind of see something that I talked about. You can kind of visualize it in your head, and then it's it's cool to see how it plays out. And I know, like when you edit a video, you can't see all the details of like what's going on, what I'm thinking, and when I'm telling the story, you can't actually see it all. So it's kind of fun to just see it all together combined. So if you get time and want to do that, that's awesome. Um yeah, and oh, speaking of videos I was doing, I was selected got to select some finalists for the Western Hunter Film Fest. There's uh, you can go in there and check it out if you guys are looking for some I don't know. I always like to point people in the direction of some fun stuff to check out. I love watching hunting videos. I mean, you know, I started doing solo hunter. I've like, I love filming my own hunts. I love watching people's on So it's really fun to be for me to be a part of that process. Helps select some people you've got like amateur shorts, amateur longs, pro shorts, prolongs. Uh. So that's something else. If you're just like looking for some cool stuff to check out Western Hunter Film Infest, you could probably just Google search it and find it that way. I think there's a little bit of a voting period where you can kind of vote on the ones that you like. I think it's kind of fun those guys we'll get some pretty sweet prize packages and stuff like that. So that's always fun for me to be a part of and see guys getting into it and filming their hunts and there's some incredible stuff out there, so I appreciate you guys sharing all that stuff with me. Also, man, I've gotten so many the October and some of the Dear Tactics stuff really helped a lot of people be successful in Mule Deer. A couple of guys already using those white tail rattle tactics, like guys that are I'm not even selling like guys in the West, guys that are like and I had this area. It was like kind of public land win in there. Um, you know, I got sick of sitting. I did this like alling sequence and I got a picture last night great buck at guy took just you know, finding the deer that wanted to play, you know, honing in on one one little tactic and making it work for yourself. So that's that to me, gets me pretty stoked, pretty fired up. So I appreciate you all. Thank you guys. Until next week, plan those stocks and exploit the weakness. Catch you guys later.