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. Howdy and welcome back everyone. This week I'm calling it Spotting Stock Part Do. Last week we talked about the cutoff method of spotting stock hunting. This week we're going to talk about stalking a stationary orbedded animal. And that's a really great tactic in a scenario that's encountered quite often. It can be extremely effective, especially for bow hunters, because it can give you a chance to slip in within range unnoticed. It can also be one of the most exciting encounters during the hunt. So this week I'm gonna break down the bedding habits and stock planning, outlining what I think are the seven best tips for moving in on a bedded animal. While this type of tactic makes me think of early season mule dear, I want to share a story of a bedded stock on an old ram in the occluting a bow area of Alaska. About three years ago, I was fortunate enough to draw a tag in the Occlutina area of Alaska for doll sheep. This is an archery only area and you can actually shoot any ram, so unlike most areas in the state where you have to be full curl, this particular area you can take any any ram is legal with the tag, which is awesome because it's a bow hunt. But this area also has very low success because it's pretty difficult. There's quite a few tags, but there's only one nonresident tag. I happened to be lucky enough to draw that tag now is an honor resident. I couldn't just go in there solo, but a good friend of mine, Jeremy Rusink, runs Rogue Expedition outfitters, and so I could hunt with him or one of his guides in the area. And so I had a hunt planned with him, and we decided to go in and scout ahead of time. I got there early and figured, Okay, I want to learn this area the best I can, you know, even though I had someone with me, I wanted also to you know, be a part of every aspect of the hunt. So we went in early and did some preseason scouting. We ended up finding like this group of rams on this face across the river, so that this unit has like a river going up through it, and then there's actually a four wheeler access certain days of the week, and then outside of that, you know, the access is shut off. So while scouting, we found some rams up in this big pocket on this big basin by one of the bigger mountains, and then we also found some rams across the river kind of above this really thick scrub in this really steep band of cliffs. While we're planning out our hunt, we figured, well, let's go into that basin. We've seen some really good rams scouting. It seemed like a good place to camp and somewhere we can maybe get above the rams and hunt in there. So we kind of abandoned the rams and the nasty scrubby zone, not sure where they would go, and they were they seemed a little bit more where people would see them, and maybe too many people would be going after those rams, so we decided to try to get away from people and go up into the basin. The night before the opener, we hike all the way up into this high basin. We pitch our tent, We wake up opening morning and start from our glassy knob. We're looking for a particular full curl ram that happened to be bedded on the back side. The first morning, as the sun comes up, we're looking down there and the rams kind of like spooked around. I don't necessarily think that we spooked it, but what we came to find out is there's quite a few other hunters in this particular spot. There was a good trail in there, and where we had camped, we kind of got in right the night before and we didn't really realize where other hunters were. So we were sitting there, we're glassing, and we're in this area. We see some smaller rams and I kind of think, oh, man, my goal was to just get a ram with my bow, but also it'd be nice to see what was around. Scouting. We'd seen some really nice rams and figured I don't really want to stock one of these other rams yet, Let's just wait and see what we can find. So we're glassing and we saw quite a few other hunters and I'm thinking, man, this is the exact opposite of what we were planning. And while we're scouting there, I'm glassing back across to the rams that were in that real scrubby rocky nasty stuff. It's about four or five miles away, and I look and I'm like, dang, those rams are still there. We made the wrong decision, but they are very long ways away from where we're at. So I talked to Trigg, the guy that was with me, and we're like, okay, we can either keep hunting here. There are lots of rams, but they were spooked up. You know, it's going to be difficult most of the rams now that they're spooked or in the cliffs where you can't really get to What about packing up our camp and just making that long trek across the valley down and get on those other sheep hoping that nobody else does that same thing before we get over there. So like, sweet, let's do that. So we hike back to camp, load up our packs, like we still got all our stuff, you know, ten days worth of food everything. We pack all the way back down to the trailhead, go back up the valley, and then camp pretty much at the base of the mountain that night, and we had those same rams in sight. We watched them that full day to see what they did. In the morning, they fed low then as the sun came up, they walked up, they bedded, and then they got into the cliffs for the rest of the day and then came back down right kind of on dark, but not to where you could shoot in the evening or get to like it's just sheer vertical cliff. So we get down and we plan, all right, the next morning, we're gonna get up early. We're gonna get there and try to spot and locate where they're at. So we get up just as it starts to get light. We spot the rams and the group had kind of separated. There's four, like all mature rams on the left, and then on the right there was just this real heavy, good looking ram and a young ram. So we made a plan. We're like, okay, we're gonna we're gonna work our way over there. And the sun was actually rising behind us, so the sun was across the mountain, but the mountains were really tall. So the thought was, we have to get to where they are before the sun gets to them, because as soon as the sun gets to them, they're gonna do what they did the day before. They're gonna move up into a place that we physically can't get to. In the cliffs. So we kind of created this plan where we're gonna go after the rams on the left on the way up because they were actually down low feeding and there was some good cover getting to them. And then if we missed those rams, we're gonna get up above and then stock down on the other rams because they're in a gut where the shadow would be there longer. So we start working up. We also were kind of worried about the thermal switching as soon as that sun hit us, so it was kind of a race against the clock. Now, it wasn't the easiest mountain to get up because of the really really thick alders brush Devil's Club getting up to the rocky point where the sheep were at, and it was fairly steep, So we're going as fast as we can and you can see the sun starting to hit the valley below us, and I know that it's just going to be a race against the clock at this point, so we're moving as fast as we can. We get into position, and the rams are still feeding down low where we had originally seen them. At this point, we're like maybe ninety yards and I'm just waiting because there's four rams as we're stalking in, we're just waiting for them to get into a position where they can't see us and we can close that last little bit of distance. While doing that, the sun kind of it's just like bad time, and the sun starts to hit him, and they start moving up, feeding up, and as they're walking up, they're moving fast enough for they're just keeping that seventy eight yards ahead and offering no shot. We just need them to stop for a little bit. Then they get out of sight. I'm pretty sure that maybe the winds, like the thermal's, they might have caught our wind because they disappeared, you know, got to the top, got to the base of the cliff. The sheep were nowhere to be seen. So now is decision time. It's like, Okay, that plan didn't work, but now we've got that backup ram, which is actually probably the best ram in the group on the other side, and it was a good approach from the top. So you work our way to that next steep gut and start looking thinking maybe the ram would be moving up like the others. But I noticed that it was just really shaded in there because it was so steep and it was a little bit different orientation where the sun wasn't hitting that canyon because they didn't see him at this point starting to heat up, and I'm like, man, they must be bedded in the shade of this gut somewhere. So we slowly start working down this avalanche shoot in the direction that those other two rams were. As we moved down, just kind of like slowly peeking and creeping, peeking and creeping, and then spot the RAM. I hear something and I'm like, oh, they're coming this way. So I get into a position where we can watch the ram like stops and then they both bed down right in the shade, right in the middle of this like big shale avalanche shoot. Luckily it was on the edge of this grassy area on the side of the avalanche shoot where there's a little bit of like brush in there and a really good opportunity to sneak in. Let them get settled. Now they're going to be bedded there for a little bit. Take off my boots because it's just so many little rocks rolling in other things normally on like sheep or mountain goats. You don't have to be super quiet. They're used to hearing rocks rolling all the time, but it was just one of those scenarios where it was gonna be really tight getting in and it was super dead, quiet, dead calm, and the area that I had to walk through is more sticks and other things then necessarily rocks, and I didn't want to blow away my position because if they heard me and looked up, there was a part where I was going to be super exposed. So creep in. I get into position and think it was like just less than thirty yards away. I'm like on my butt, scooting over, scooting over and get into position. The trouble is I was hoping to line up a shot on the bigger ram that was bedded, but the smaller ram was bedded right above him. They're both looking downhill and like, my heart is just pounding in my chest right now because this is a really good ram. I'm like thinking, Okay, what am I gonna do? How am I going to get a shot? I creep into position, and the one opening that I have, the way that the alders are growing up out of the rocks and where they're bedded in the pitch of the hill. I've got one little lane, and that lane doesn't offer me a shot. At this bigger ram, So I think, okay, I sit there and I'm waiting, and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna wait till they stand up. I'm like hidden well enough, but I think that I can probably get a good close shot while this rams betted, because he's betted perfectly broadside from where I'm at. So I think, okay, I'm just gonna move a couple of scoots over and I might be able to get a shot on this bigger ram. As I'm scooting, that little ram caught some movement or something and whipped its head back and just stared right at me. And I'm thinking, this is it, man cover blown, the best opportunity I'll probably ever get it. A ram of this caliber just messed up by this little two year old banana ram, and I'm just like dead, still not moving. That ram whips his head back, stares at me, knows something's off, snorts and runs off, and I'm like, oh crap. At that point, I draw back, and that bigger ram stands up and follows that other ram. But they stopped like right across from me. I had plenty of time to pre range everything. I set on my pin let my arrow fly and it finds its mark. It's a perfect shot. The ram runs up onto a cliff, falls off stone dead a few seconds later. It was very close to being a blown opportunity, but the way that they was set up and then being bedded, and that bigger am not really knowing what was happening, led to me being able to act in that split second and get a shot off and take what was really one of I think the coolest animals I've ever taken with a boat. It was a thirteen year old doll sheep in an area that I'm not sure actually any non residents had actually ever filled that tag because of the difficulty and a lot of other things going against you. And that was just one of those moments in hunting that I just always think back as being one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. In the mountains. Well, I shared a story of stalking a bedded doll sheep. I think that probably the animal that really comes to mind for a lot of these tactics of stalking bedded animal would be early season archery meal deer hunting. It's something that a lot of people will probably be doing. It's one of the first hunts coming up for many and it's just mule deer, much like sheep, are a pure spot and stock species. It's very hard to pattern mule dear. It's very hard to call mule deer. At certain times a year, it's like archery season. It's it's primarily focusing on sneaking in being stealthy. And because mule deer in open country a lot like sheep and other mountain animals, you can really focus in and plan your stocks and and understand their habits. But stalking a bedded animal can really work for any species because most animals follow a certain pattern of the way they do things. Where there's a white tail and antelope, um cou's deer, mule deer, it's fairly similar, elk, it doesn't really matter. So I'm gonna just kind of cover a little bit of the basics of an animal's daily routine. And what that involves is, you know, most most game species are fairly crepuscular. They move in the morning hours, in the evening hours, and in the midday is a lot less movement. They're conserving their energy and they're bedding down. So the morning generally starts out with the feeding face, they're they're out in the open. They're mostly in the open because that's where the good feed is, and that's when they're vulnerable to being spotted. And that's this idea of spot and stock is you have to often find the animal before you can go make a play. A bedded animal is a great animal to make a play on because they're generally stationary and there's a lot less moving parts. However, they are more aware of danger. Their ears are tuned in. It's a more controlled environment. And although they can be dozing in and out, there are generally one or two animals bedded in a group that something is always paying attention, so they actually feel very safe when they're bedded down. So we're gonna talk about how animals bed and then we're gonna talk about planning stock. Once you've got an animal bedded. Let's just go with mule dear for now as the example, and think about me. In the morning, we're just gonna run through the day. It's the more running time. Sun's just rising. You're on a glassing knob, you spot a group of a couple of bucks out there feeding. What's gonna happen is those deer are going to feed, and then they're gonna go to a bed. What this bed is going to be is somewhere that provides shade and safety. It's gonna be a little bit more cover, but it's also going to be something that protects them from the sun throughout the day where they don't have to necessarily move around a lot. Now, what they're gonna do is they're gonna probably feed and then they're gonna go bed down somewhere. This might be in the early morning hours still, maybe the shadow of the sun hasn't actually hit where they're at yet. They fed, Okay, maybe they were even feeding before daylight hit you spotted them. Now they walked off and they bedded down. This is what I would call their first bed. Maybe they walk over to a tree or bed down, but it's generally not where they're going to bed for the full day. They might get up again and feed again, or they might just get up and go to a permanent bedding spot after that. How you can tell that it's not a permanent bed is kind of understanding the way that the sun is going to be moving, So as the sun's rising, that shadow is going to change throughout the day. Their permanent betting spot is probably gonna be something where they can sit for a longer period of time without having to move. So that first betting spot, you'll notice you go in there, and that dear is just gonna be Maybe he might even just be bedded out in the open. The sun is not hot on him yet. He's just gonna be bedded there, waiting and kind of feeling things out. What is he feeling out? Well, he's also going to see, hey, which way is the wind going to be going today, because that will likely determine where that animal is going to go to bed. He's gonna want to bed in a position where he's got that shade and he's got that safety that winded his back where he can look downhill, or he's got a good steady wind and he's going to go into that wind to bed. So when he beds, he's thinking about protecting himself at all costs, and that first bed is more just sitting down, relaxing, figuring things out, and then getting up and going to a betting spot. So if I'm watching an animal, I'll generally watch them through the morning, I'll see where they bed, then I'll follow them again to maybe where they're going to bed up and analyze that spot, whether it's a spot that they're going to bed for a long period of time, whether they might move again depending on what the sun is gonna do once we've put this deer to bed. So that's just the idea of watching it and then watching where it beds down. Now it's time to make a plan make a stock, and I think that there's seven important things that come into play. So we're gonna go through my kind of seven step process of planning out the stock on a bedded animal. The first step is going to be to anticipate the shadows, Like I said earlier, as that sun moves across the sky, so will those shadows. Understanding where the animal is, where the sun is, and where the sun is gonna be and where it's going to cast that shadow is really going to help you understand when to stock and if that animal will still be there when you get there. There are some bedding spots where deer will sit and essentially be there for most of the day. As the sun moves, they'll get hot, they'll stand up, they'll move a little bit, they'll sit back down. Then there's other times where they get hot and they've got really nowhere else to go, so they move to another bedding area. When you're looking at that that second bedding spot, that maybe that final where he feels the final betting spot, analyze it and say how long can they stay there? Can they stay there for two to three hours? If the answer is yes, then that's a good time to stock. Also understanding you know in the morning the shadows are moving a lot more rapid than they're moving like say midday, when the sun's high and beating straight down. You have a lot longer time frame in the middle of the day for that animal to potentially still be there. Because what happens is most bedded animal stocks get blown not by anything that you do, but why what the animal does? You go in you think that that animal is going to still be there. It got hot, got up and moved, and during that stocking process you don't know now what the next play is. You're going in blind where the benefit to you as the hunter of the stationary stock is you have an idea where that animals at. So the next thing I'm gonna do is step two would be analyzed the wind and thermals before I make that play, I'm really gonna have to figure out, Okay, what's the wind doing and what's the best approach for the wind. The wind is gonna be key, but you also have to factor in all the other safety things that that deer is taking into consideration, where it's betting, the direction it might be looking, and possibly the sounds that you can make getting into that position, what like brush and other things are in the way. But first we're gonna analyze the wind and thermals. In the mornings, the winds are often shifting because those thermals are changing. You want to wait till a point in the day, and every area is different, Like some areas that you'll hunt, maybe the mornings have a more consistent prevailing wind, or maybe that area isn't gonna have a lot of wind, but it's just gonna have that really initial thermal and a good updraft. Sometimes it's a really good time to make a move, or you might have to wait till everything stables out, maybe around eleven am. That time in a lot of places in the mountain seems to be like a good stable position where the thermals are cranking up, the prevailing wind is going a certain direction, and you can really anticipate what that wind is going to do for the next hour to three hours. The third step is kind of planning your approach. Now, planning your approach is saying, Okay, where is the deer, where's the wind, where's the thermals, which way is the sun gonna be? Is he going to stand there? And then which is the best way for me to stalk in? I consistently feel that stalking in from above an animal is going to be your best option for a few reasons. The first reason is generally, when an animal's betted, he's facing downhill because it's more comfortable, so it's harder for the animal to look uphill for danger. If you watch like other predators stalking in many times like a mountain lions, other like snow leopards, whatever, they're stalking in from above, it's a lot harder to see danger from above you than from below you. It's also you've got a factor in what happens when you get into position. You need to not only stalk into a place where you're close enough to shoot, but a place where you can draw back without the animals seeing and make a good shot, and that generally means stalking in from above. So I know what you're thinking, how many of the times does that scenario happen where the winds correct and you can go in from above. That's the hard part is finding the correct scenario, but by playing the thermals, and you know, depending on the area or like, the direction that you can come in above doesn't always mean directly from above. You can kind of angle it at a forty five from where he's at in an uphill direction to possibly get the wind right. And those are the scenarios that I look for, and those are the routes that I generally think are the most successful. While I have made stocks at animals from below and gotten into range and been successful, there are a lot more difficult to pull off. So we're gonna kind of think in terms of looking at where the animals. Now we're planning this approach, and we're gonna put more weight on the approach from above. And now if we don't have that approach from above, it might be a factor of just saying like, hey, I'm just gonna wait until I have a better approach or a better set up. You know, maybe that animal is going to get up and move a little bit later, which is very very likely, or maybe things are going to change with the wind or things are going to get more stable later on. So I'm looking for that high percentage stock now. Number four in analyzing and preparing this is just gonna be picking landmarks and then picking where I'm gonna stock to. We know where the animal is, and a lot of people just think, Okay, well, I'm just gonna stalk into that animal. What I like to do is I like to know where the animal is and know where I'm going to stalk into for a shot. Having that much forethought is so important. And the way that I start that is I use my range finder. I'll range where the deer is, and then I will range areas around the deer that I think would be good places to shoot from, especially anticipating maybe where that animal might move next, like when it's going to get up or if I can get a shot on it bedded. Where am I going to shoot from? Where am I gonna have cover or be out of sight? Where am I gonna be close enough to shoot from? And I'm gonna make that the place that I'm stalking to. So I'll arrange the animal, I'll range that spot that I'm going to try to get to, and then all subtract those two distances to give me an idea when I get in there. Okay that place, that bush behind it is thirty five yards or that bush behind it is a hundred yards, and that's not gonna work. Knowing that before you get in there is so important. I mean, before I started doing that, there's times where I'd see a deer and be like, oh, this is perfect. I'm looking at the hill and go, okay, I can get to that tree right behind him. Perfect. I go over there, I stalk into that tree. I arranged that deer. He's like a hundred and eighty yards, and I go, oh crap, Now what I'm gonna have to readjust on the I from here. If I maybe did a different approach from the beginning, I would have got right into range and been a lot more successful. The other part of that is just picking your landmarks, understanding where you're stalking into, because as you go into position, things are going to change with technology. Now, man, I'll use my on X, I'll mark where the deer's bedded on that, and then I'll mark where I want to get to. I can even use the distance tool on that and just measure the distance, make sure oh okay, it's thirty yards, its fifty yards whatever, Like that's a game changer. But I also think that there's something to be said for having those skills that don't necessarily also rely on technology, So getting good at picking landmarks and understanding where you're gonna pop over the hill, finding places where it's like you're planning out this route, because often the best option to get in is a way that you aren't seeing the animal, because that means he can't see you, So it might be going around the hill coming in from the top. Things are going to change, things are gonna look different, and making sure that you have good landmark from where you're stalking in. Another thing that I do a lot is at my view where I'm looking at the animal. Before I make that stock in the planning process, I'll take a picture with my phone with my camera at varying distances, so like a wide view of what I'm looking at. Then I'll zoom in, maybe through the spotting scope, at the animal and take a picture. What that allows me to do is just reference back to that original view. So if things change, like if I stock in there and that deer isn't there, I can look at that picture and say, okay, where would he maybe go? What's and really get like that original view back in your head, because a picture lasts a lot longer than the things that you think you're going to remember when everything's going on. Number five would be just like stealth is key. So when I'm planning my stock, I'm not only looking at the route that I'm going to take, but what are some obstacles in the way, What are some other deer that might be bedded there? What are especially with me you dear, or animals that are very sensitive to noise. What are some of the things that are gonna be no goes? Is there a shale slide behind it? Is there a large patch of balsam route that's dried up and just gonna be super loud? You know? Identifying those things from a distance and then choosing your route might be the difference between making a successful stock and making a stock where you get in and you get too deep and you're gonna make mistakes. That happens a lot, especially mule here. They generally like to bed in areas where they know that there's a lot of noise coming in from different directions. So identifying that before you get over there helps you one plan out how to get close, and two helps you understand the time factor because if you understand before you go over there, oh man, this is gonna be loud. So that means that it's going to take a lot more time. Am I going to have the proper amount of time to pull off this stock where he's at now? Or am I gonna have to throw down the weight card and say wait for a better opportunity. Also during the stock of the stealth is going to be key. This is where that shoes off, you know, stalking and your moccasins, your stocking, socks, your feet whatever. Also judging the situation based on that stealth and saying all right, from this point here, I can drop my pack and I've got two hundred yards three hundred yards, I'll drop my pack and my boots here and then I'll stalk in. Or it might be a scenario where you say, look, it's not worth the time, or it's going to be quiet enough. I'm not going to have to do that, you know, But understanding that going into it ahead of time and Planning for that stealth option is going to make you a lot more successful. Number six is just keeping an eye out for the eyes. When we talk about spot in stock, I think a lot of people get either too timid or I'll just say just too timid. I'm a fairly aggressive stalker, but I know when to move and what I can get away with. You have to realize if you can't see their eyes, they can't see you. That means like a solid obstruction obstructing their eyes. Many animals, actually their peripheral vision is a lot better than you might expect. When you think, oh, that antelope or that deer had eyes in the back of their head, they practically do because their eyes are on the side of their head and they can actually see quite a bit behind their heads. So using their head necessarily to block their vision isn't the best option. It isn't a option in certain instances, but it's not the only option. I would say, I'm looking for blocking their eyes with something solid when they're bedded down there lower so that's something solid might be the slope of the hill getting low enough. That might be a tree that they're bedded near and keeping the trunk or whatever of that tree. Out of their eyesight, you could see the whole body of the deer, the neck of the deer. But if it's heads covered, you're good. You're good to roll. And so that's something that you want to think about. Where is its eyes? Where are the eyes of everything else around? And how do I position myself? Keeping in a position where they can never see you is paramount, But it's also awesome because whatever you're stalking probably has antlers that will be sticking up and show you where that animal is, where its head is, and where it's positioned. But just keeping track of those eyes and understanding that as you move in and as you plan your stock from the sitting here looking phase to the now I'm on the hill, moving in phase, you're gonna want to think about where its eyes and how do I keep them blocked? Now Number seven, it's just gonna be the portion of the stock where you're moving in and you've lost sight of the animal. I said this earlier in the last podcast, but it bears repeating because it's it's a mantra that you need to constantly keep saying in your head. And this is something that I've learned over the years. If I don't say this, then I don't do it. And it's thinking you have to simultaneously assume that they are there and simultaneously assume that they're gone. You're covering all possible scenarios. So you always stalk in on a bedded animal like that animal is still there. If you don't do that, you're probably gonna blow it, or I know you're gonna blow it. Once you start thinking, oh, he's moved, he's moved, he's moved, with no proof that he's moved. That's when you rush things. That's when you do stupid stuff. No joke. I stalked in on a buck. I'm like fifteen yards from where it's at. I'm like, this deer has definitely moved, it's gone. I literally just stood up and started like walking off, and then I turned around and that buck busted out. It hadn't moved, it had just fallen asleep and was out of my sight. I didn't see it. I was just gut wrenched because I knew better, and I thought to myself, from that point on, I'm never gonna make that same mistake again, because I've made that mistake many times in the past. So assuming that it's there, but then also assuming that things have changed, that the other deer are in other places, that that deer might have got up and rebedded. Thinking about that as you move in really keeps you alert, keeps your head up, and keeps you constantly scanning, even as you're getting in within that hundred yards or less, throwing up your binoculars, glassing, stepping, glassing, looking glassing, moving, stepping glassing. That constant act of looking makes you much more successful and much more focused in on the possible things that can go wrong. There are a lot of facets to spot in stock hunting, and whether you've been doing it your entire life, or maybe this is your first year that you're going to try this style of hunting, there's things that you can learn from years of doing it that kind of ring true in different scenarios. And so next week what I want to cover is kind of that next step, that next step in the stock where the actions you take as you get within range, and how to turn a good stock into a good shot opportunity. I've noticed that there's so many times where I do everything right and then you do the things wrong when you're within that range of the animal, they're bedded, you're waiting, and just a few little things that you can do to kind of turn the tables in your favor, because just because you're within bow range doesn't mean that you can get a shot or execute a good shot. So I want to talk about the actions you can take in that next step when you're within range and you're either waiting for the animal or waiting for your opportunity. I've been getting a ton of great feedback from you guys on some of the topics we've been talking about and going into this hunting season, what I'm really doing is just trying to think of things that are topical then breaking them down into enough information where you can feel like, yeah, I've either learned something that's gonna help me, or you know, giving you the encouragement to say, yeah, what you're doing or have been doing is the correct way to do it or a really good way to do it. So we're gonna kind of keep on this spot and stock path, and the next month I'm just gonna go full blown Elks series, calling tactics, wallows everything. I'm gonna give you like thousands of days of elk hunting experience, into four condensed episodes of some of some form or another. Also kind of start thinking about elk questions because I want the next Q and A to be about elk hunting. So if you've got those questions about elk hunting, fire in my way, and then I've got some really good stuff planned. We're talking a couple of weeks down the road, but I like to get stuff early because hunting season will be upon us and I'm finding some leftover tags right now of you know, any kind of general hunts that I can find that might be going on, because Canada border doesn't look good for me, and I kind of put all my eggs in that basket prior to any of this COVID stuff and it looks like I probably won't be able to go. So I'm going to be thinking about finding some hunts and some last minute planning. I'm been doing a lot of research on some things that I've been thinking about for years and just haven't done because I've planned other stuff. So I'm actually kind of stoked on it should be should be pretty good. So today I am launching a math se giveaway and you can find the info on my Instagram page. If you don't follow me on Instagram, please do a lot of these things I'm gonna be showing, like videos and other stuff on things that I'm talking about, some of these tips and tactics, like some good illustrations and some videos on so head over there and the giveaway. I just thought, man, how awesome would it be if you could just get all the best gear in one go, like literally everything you need for hunting. So what I did was I compiled, like a lot of the people that work with me, companies and things, I just compiled essentially fifteen thousand dollars worth of the best gear out there, and the winner will take it all. I mean, full clothing kit, a full rifle set up with scope mounting and a top of the line scope, A brand new prime bow with pretty much everything you need. Arrows. We've got sleeping bag, stone glacier, tent, stone glacier pack, a deck system for your truck. Game processing, a chain member vacuum seiler, which if you've never used a chamber vacuum seiler do These things are commercial grade, incredible for game processing, a really high powered grinder. I mean, just too much stuff to even mention right here. If I just I should go down the list and just like get you all stoked on it. But you can go. There will be a link on my Instagram for this giveaway. Like the winner will be super stoked. Honestly, it's like fifteen dollars worth of some of the best gear on the planet. So I'm really really excited about that. I've never done anything like this. I've kind of shied away from a lot of giveaways in the past just because organizing it. This has taken me months of like work just to kind of organize this and make sure everything's right and we got everything forever for the prizes and all that kind of stuff. So it's been a lot to do this, but I'm pretty stoked. I think it's like an awesome way to give back to you guys who have just supported me and listened to this podcast. I know so many of you have dropped in good comments or subscribe to wherever you listen, shared it with friends. I just really want to this is like my thank you to you for doing that, and I want to give one of you something super awesome that could change essentially the way you hunt and the thing whatever, and you know it's it's I'm just excited about it. That's also the contest opens today. Go to my Instagram. I'll put a link there, or you can go to my Remy Warren dot com website and find the link in there. It's essentially putting in an email and your name and then we'll email the winner random draw pretty much like two weeks from today. So go check that out. I'm super excited, and I just want to thank everybody for all the support. I think this is a way that I'm trying to say thank you back in combination with giving you some of my best tips that I know as far as hunting goes. Sometimes I give these tips out and I'm like, damn, that was almost too good. Like it's making people. I've been running into people out hunting using my tips and just like, wow, a lot of this is awesome. That's what I want to see. That That was the end goals is giving tips that I honestly think are actionable and really going to help you at whatever stage of hunting you're in. But just understanding the little bit of things that I've picked up in a formula for success, and I understand that there's a lot of awesome gear out there and one of you will be winning this incredible gear. So you go over there, check that out. I'm pretty excited about it. You know, share it with your friends. I know it. It might lessen your odds, but it might increase your odds of someone you knowing winning. And if you tell them, you'd be like, hey, man, put in, we'll we'll split some of the stuff. You get the rifle, I get the bow, You get the sleeping pad bag. I get the tent. You know, keep thinking like that, So I thank you guys. Appreciate it, you know, drop some comments and uh yeah until next week, stay stealthy. So yeah,