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 Cutting the Distance Nation. I'm your host, Remy war and today we're going to the mailbox to answer your questions. I don't know where that came from. I was just trying to switch it up a little bit. Some of these, some of these intros seem repetitive, so throw out the old radio man voice. Maybe you guys liked that. I don't know if you liked that, let me know. I'll just do the whole podcast in radio man voice. But what I wanna do is this week we're gonna be jumping into your questions. As radio man said, head into the mailbox. And oh man, I've got a just pile of success stories. I'll just read a couple here. Colin Johnson says, ELK party and it was over. Just picture of a big old bull. Jason Lee Roy says, thanks for Podcast fifty five. I created a party and the biggest bull ever came in to join. You're completely changing my hunting world. Thank you, thank you. Then we got one here from Rob Garrett. He says, Remy loved the podcast, thanks for putting them out. Put one of your mentioned tactics to work on this guy and help me bring home a dream Roosevelt. I laughed when you mentioned it on the podcast, but I had nothing left in my bag of tricks. After raking and bugling, I decided to take a leak on the ground. This gave me the one final bugle I needed to close the distance. I would think between all our ELK series. I mean, I've just got so many messages year of success stories, awesome photos. Thank you guys so much for sending those in. They are incredible. I think I've had I was trying to tally him up a little over fifty messages of just success pictures, maybe even sixty of success pictures, first time out kills, a lot a lot of them first time out kills, and most of them attributing to success. To one of the most recent podcasts, I would say the number one tactic people are pulling out this season ELK Party. That tactic has just been gold and I myself ELK partied a bull end this last week. Gosh, I was just I was calling from my buddy Dusty, and I think in seven days, I don't even just countless bulls within range. He was recurve hunting and we I don't know. It was like one of the best weeks of elk hunting I've ever had. And I don't know how we didn't shoot a bull. Was like every bull did not offer a shot. I'd say, like a dozen bulls twenty yards or less. It's something like we called one bull in three times and just no shots, like thick stuff always stopping. He had one bull five yards from him and just thick stuff, no shot. So that just happens. Man. You could have everything right, you could have a great situation and sometimes just no no shot, no opportunity. But really good elk season so far, and a lot of people just sharing their success and using a lot of these tactics. And they're obviously tactics that I use myself. So I love hearing that. Thank you, guys. Let's jump into a few of these questions here. I've got a list of them. This week, we're gonna be talking about a whole bunch of different stuff. We got some upland stuff, some different species, a lot of questions on camping and gear and all the good things that are involved with hunting, all the questions that you guys have. So let's jump in right here. Since we're talking elk, let's just keep some of these elk questions going and then we'll jump into some other stuff. The first one says is from Tyler. He says, Hey, remy love the podcast. I grew up hunting white tails slug hunting in Minnesota and now live in Montana learning how to Western big game hunt. Your podcast has been extremely helpful. One question I had was about calling elk in rifle season November time being after the rut mostly is there any utility in using calls this time of year or is it more spot in stock at this point? Thanks again for your help, Tyler. That's a great question. I always have elk calls with me no matter the time of year, So from archery season through even late season December, whatever, I'll have elk calls with me. The use of those out calls changes, so by the time November hits, you aren't unless I mean I have random random story of a bugling bull in November super super rare. You aren't really probably gonna call elkie and unless it's a certain scenario that time of year, but you want those elk calls because yes, it's going to be a spot in stock game. However, those elk calls will be used primarily to stop elk if you bump elk, I would say nine point nine nine percent of the time if you hit that alk call like a cow call or even a bugle later season, as long as there's not a lot of other hunters that might the loud noise might draw to your location, it'll stop those elk. And I use it constantly. Also, as I'm walking through timber or maybe making noise or getting close to elk, I have that cow call out and I might just do those soft cow calls as I'm walking. Sometimes you might get a response from another cow or just put elk at ease if they hear something moving through the woods. So those calls are effective all year long, but they're like intentions and purpose change, So normally I use them later for stopping elk primarily, and then as just a calming technique or as I'm moving through sometimes a little bit of location with the cow call, but very rarely. Now, if I have a scenario where I see like a loan cow and I'm cow hunting or whatever, I might be able to draw that cow to my location using a cow call. But generally it's just for spooking out so as I'm moving. In a lot of times I have that cow call just at hand because the second if if I mess up or something happens, I need to get a quick shot. Or even after you shoot, man uses tactic guiding. When a guy shoots, I just wrench on the cow call because they hear that sound and it makes them curious. They stop, they want to look. Almost every time, I would say pretty much every time. So definitely still use calls, but you won't be calling them in like September. This next question comes from Josh. He says, how do you choose your camp area when you're out hunting? I got a lot of questions about that. You know, a lot of people asking, Okay, what's too close to my hunting area? How do I decide where to camp? You know, it depends on where you're hunting, Like if you're if you're gonna be hunting based out of let's say, what I call like truck camping, where you're camping off the road and then day hunting different areas. I like to pick a camp central to a lot of different places close to where I'm hunting, but also good access to other or places that I'm going to be going. Maybe you're gonna hunt up this one trail one day and another another day. So just having good access is a great way to choose your camp location. And if you're packed in a lot of people get worried about camping too close to the animals. Yeah, I mean I I definitely wouldn't pitch my camp right in the area where they're feeding. I like to kind of keep it a little ways away and obviously down wind. It depends on how you're going to be camping as well, Like if you're gonna be I would say like low impact camping where you're biv wack hunting, you're just kind of camping as you stop. You can camp a lot closer, you stay quiet at night, you don't build a big fire, you don't hoop it up. Then you don't have to be so far away. I mean you could be within half a mile, quarter mile, maybe even near just the ridge below where the animals are hanging out as long as you're just kind of keeping to yourself and not really disturbing that area. Now, when you're talking about maybe just picking a specific spot for a camp or tent or other things, it can be difficult sometimes. I mean I go through that too, where I'm like out hiking or I was like, okay, is this a good spot to camp? Here's what I look for. I look for a flat spot. I look for something tucked out of the wind. I look for a safe place where I definitely do not ever pitch a camp in burned areas with trees around. You're better off being out in the open if there's like a lot of timber potential for trees to fall, or trees if you got some kind of shelter to keep you out of the wind, but definitely live trees. So you just want to be thinking of those things. And then anywhere that might be protected from the prevailing winds is always good, but it's not always possible. You know, I never really set my camps up on ridge lines or ridge tops one it just gives away your position. Maybe maybe there are some good animals around where you're at, so try to keep a low profile when I set up my camp, but I'm first off looking for a flat spot and then I extrapolate out a good campsite from there. I got a question here from Brian Rhodes, small game question. He says, just started binge listening to your podcast while I'm at work seven or eight hours a day. That's what I like to hear all day every day. So he says, I know you're you like to checker hunt. He said, I can't do big game this year due to back surgery a few months back, but checker one of my favorite wild game to eat. Counting down until I can chase Chucker in southern California without a dog. Would love some tips or just here checker hunting stories. Thanks for sharing your info. Yeah, I think that's that's a great suggestion. I'll definitely probably hit on some checker hunting stuff in the future. And for those of you who don't know, checker just a type of partridge and where I hunt them in Nevada or even where Brian probably hunts them here in southern California, there's places in Utah and Idaho. Man, It's it's a rugged, rough hunt. It's about like hunting wild sheep. But you're chasing these birds around. They jump far, they run a lot, they can be difficult to find, and you put on some serious miles and some serious countries. So that has the recipe for everything I like, and I grew up doing it for a long time. I hunted them a lot without a do dog, and I would say a few things, a few tips. I mean, obviously, get those boots broken in. You're gonna be putting a lot of miles on. They generally like to run up from down below the water in the bottoms run up to the tops. So I picked those like top roosting zones, and try to pick those areas where like the rougher the terrain, the more chucker you find. That just happens to be how it works. After I bust them up, I use my voice to call a lot to try to relocate them, and using my ears a lot. So practice making that chucker sound that that might have sounded annoying over this microphone, but getting that chucker sound out there and getting it to echo through the canon. You'll start hearing them trying to group back up as they grew back up, and you can follow in there. When I get close. If I don't have a dog, I'll actually use my binoculars a lot. So if I don't have a dog, I'm glassing a lot, trying to see them hopping on rocks and their places, and also calling. So those are some really good tactics if you don't have a dog to help you find them, to to get in close. And then as I get in close, I actually sneak because I don't want them jumping too early. If I know it's a big group too. If that first one jumps up just out of range, don't shoot, try to get closer. I realized that when I'm hunting other things and I jumped Chucker, I end up getting a lot closer to the big covey than taking a long bomb on the single that jumps early. So that's a little bit of a helpful tactic. If you got one or two that jump and you know there's more, don't take those long shots because then you're gonna get the rest of the flock to jump too far out. Be patient getting close and and make some good jumps, some good shots. Next question comes from Bradley grow. He says, here, remy love what you do, And I've heard every podcast you have. I do have a question. I drew a late season archery olk tag in Arizona. I've heard some of your tips for locating them, but was wondering if you have any tips for closing the gap. I've hunted deer throughout the West and understand spot and stock. Is there anything you would add to hunting elk in the late season. Thanks for all that you do that. That's a great question, and I know those late season elk hunts, especially with a bow, can be difficult, but it's a good tag to have because it's a little bit easier to get some of those tags and some good areas. There's a lot of a lot of areas around actually that have some late season hunts, and actually for Arizona, I would say, well anywhere for for late season. What I would probably do is mostly plan on it's all going to be spot and stock, but I would plan on glassing in the mornings, watching where they go, then get into a position very close to where they went midday, and kind of a technique of stocking and ambushing simultaneously where if you can't see where they went, into maybe setting up where they might go or come out to and then planning your stock as they're moving into feed for the evenings. Another really good option is just if you can see one bedded, that's that's a great time to stock a bull. I would say out of elk, deer antelope, elk are probably the easiest animal to to stock because they don't necessarily care about sound as much. Late season, those bulls might be broken off on their own, so they might just be solitary. They're big animal. When they're bedded, they can be fairly easy to creep on. I mean, I'm not saying it's easy, but between elk, deer or antelope, I would if someone's like, you have to stock one and you've got to be successful, I would choose elk because they you can get away with a lot more. Now you just have to obviously watch the wind, watch their eyes. But if you've got a solitary bull or maybe a group of bulls bedded, that's going to be your best opportunity. If they're betting and really thick stuff, you know, try that combination of spotting them in the morning and then trying a combo ambush stock in the evenings. If that works, if you can't relocate them, and make a good stock on a known location of that elk Alright, we're gonna travel down to tech exists. We've got a access to your question. This one comes from Jeffrey. I'm just gonna kind of paraphrase here, but essentially, what he's got going on is he's got a small piece of property, maybe forty acres, and he's gonna start hunting it with a recurve. He's got some access to deer that are coming in, but he says he's he's stocks several bucks within forty yards and had some wonder by about that close. He just needs them closer because he's recurve hunting. One didn't know if I have any tips or tricks on how to get within distance under those circumstances. Now, he can't really stock because it's a smaller piece of property and it keeps bumping him off. But also he's set up and they just don't seem to be going to a specific place. So he wants to know if I found a good way to call them or to help get them closer access. Deer hunting is becoming more and more popular, and if you have something like that where maybe you've got a small piece of property. And this this could go for deer hunting, like white tail hunting whatever. I mean, there's a lot of places in this country where you don't have big tracks of public land. You got hunt smaller little pieces. So an ambush tactic is going to be your best bet kind of creating some kind of pattern with the animal, whether it's white tales, whether it's access to your figuring out when they come to where they are, what is it that they like? Are they betting there? Are they feeding there? Are they just traveling through? Identifying that and then trying to exploit that. Now with access tore in particular, I do actually call them quite a bit, and I use my elk calls for that cow call. Mostly they make a chirp sound like, and that can maybe help entice them your way access to your do kind of rut year round. So if you hear some, they don't necessarily bugle. They're more squeal like. And I'm making a lot of horribly enacted animal noises of this podcast, but that sound of an access to your buck, you know, kind of sounding off like their form of a bugle. Once you hear it, you can actually try to mimic that I've called them in with my voice, but that call works pretty good. Um, if you don't have a diaphragm call honestly, the hoochie mama, I guess the premios makes Remember that like push button elk call works pretty good for access to hear. Another tactic that I've found that works pretty solid is like a fawn and distress call. So what that is is that's the sound of a fawn that maybe is in danger or another deer and what happens is access to you or hurt animals. So if in the right conditions, they may run in and try to charge whatever is on that animal to get it away. And so by blowing that call, you could possibly have them run into your location. And those work on other animals too. I've I've used dear and distress calls with success, and there's kind of two reactions. They either run away or they run into you. UM. I've used them on mule deer in the Southwest, primarily like the desert meal deer down in Arizona. I've actually used it early season and some Nevada locations as well. Uh, black tails, I've used a distress call. I've used it on white tails does a couple of times as well, so that there are calls for a lot of different types of deer that aren't just mating calls. Those distress calls can work pretty good. They also work pretty well and have alina. If you haven't have a chance for those, especially being down in Texas, maybe that's something you might have running around as well. Or hogs. Actually, distress calls do work for hogs to have called a fewe without, so that's that's an option. Kind of went down to rabbit trail their distress calls, but I think it's it's a good tactic to know, all right, Alex As a question here, he says, Hey, Remy really dig the podcast. I'm a lifetime East Coast guy who moved to Colorado a couple of years ago, and I've really dove into backpack hunting, climbing, fourteeners, the whole stick. He says. I've been doing more long trips for hunting recently, and I've been planning increasingly longer out of state hunts. I just listened to your Meat Care and Transportation podcast and got asked, what about the hard sided coolers in d I A. I see dudes with two big gass coolers to slip lcom in all the time. Did they fly the empties in buy them in town after successful harvest? I might have missed it, but have to know, that's a great question. So I think what he's saying is obviously what he's saying is in the airport, you know, you see these guys coming back from Elk Hunt and wherever, Denver, wherever, and just you know, like hard sided coolers. I've done that in the past, where I would just essentially buy cheap coolers after I was successful somewhere like good Walmart, buy a cheap cooler, fly at home. I just ended up with a cooler graveyard of cheap coolers that were just a garbage So I stopped doing that. I felt like it was fairly wasteful, quite expensive, And that's why I started using those soft sided coolers because I got a lot more uses out of them throughout the year. Nothing you can't use those other coolers throughout the year, but they just didn't. They just weren't as good quality. And I had some really good YETI coolers that I take on trips. So some guys will fly with their coolers, like pack their gear and the cooler fly with it. It's bulky, it can be. It just depends on how remote you're going, or where you're flying or kind of You know, if you rent a car and you've got like all your you and your buddies gear and in coolers in a rental car doesn't work that well, so a lot of guys end up buying them later. Um, I don't necessarily think that that's necessary. I mean, I've found that the soft sided coolers work just as well, or I mean even just like um, meat boxes were good, like wax boxes, putting something in there and just making sure it's something that's not going to leak. But the hard sided cooler does work as well, and for most airlines you can actually put dry ice in there. I can't remember if I mentioned that or not, but if you've got a hard sided cooler that vents, it has to vent. You've got to have that vent open. But you can pack dry ice in there, as long as you label it and check with your airline regulations. But that's another great way to do it, so I guess if I missed talking about that. That's definitely also Another option when you're traveling is to just pick up some coolers after you're successful rolling whatever. But I think it's just better to arrive with your own stuff or have kind of a like a another plan on like the recent Carabo hunt. I just use like a yetty panga, which is just a big dry bag. I froze my meat, put it in that bag, and then just I actually had some of those yetty ice things in there with it, and then just checked it as frozen and everything came back home frozen. And that's just like a light way to do it, just a large dry bag instead of a cooler. The bottom of the plane is pretty cold. As long as it's frozen ahead of time, you're gonna be fine for the majority of a day, especially if you're flying on an airline that has some kind of cold storage, which I did talk about a little bit. So lots of options. Just kind of pick the one that works for you and go with it. Alright. I got a lot of questions on this same topics, so we're definitely going to cover this one comes from Will Rogers. He says, any advice on hunting spike Elk. I have a spike tag in Utah and I'm interested if you have anything on that it's a rifle hunt starts October three and goes to love your content. Thanks. Yeah, So, you know, you think about a lot of areas may have you know, different tags. Some areas might be bull only tags, Some areas are any elk tag, some areas are brow time bull which you know a brow time coming off the lower third of the horn. Or some tags might be spike tags. I would say areas that offer spike tags often are and this is just kind of a general rule. I don't know about the place you're hunting, but often places offer spike tags in limited entry units for what would be considered maybe trophy bulls. So an area that's kind of hard to draw, they'll throw out some spike tags because they've got maybe too many bulls, but they don't want to shoot that higher age class bull because there's guys with a lot of points have been waiting a long time and they're managing it for trophy potential good age class. So to kind of help the population and maintain the good age structure, they offer a few spike tags or maybe like over the counter spike tags and cow tags things like that. So you actually have a really good opportunity to harvest the bull in those areas because they all get pressured a lot less. The hard part might be sometimes finding a spike. So you have to understand, like spikes are bulls, but they act more like a combo between bulls and cows. What that means is they still like to be in those big groups, especially in the beginning of October. They're still going to be grouped up, so as everything's running, spikes like to be in the action, just like the bulls. But they're kind of a little stand office. So you'll find spikes on their own, but you also find spikes in those big groups at cows. I would focus on two things early, so I'd focus on finding the cows, but you get those groups and the spikes will probably be there. Another tactic is spikes gonna be pretty easy to call in and they can respond. So if you see a loane spike throughout some cow calls some stuff like that. As you're hunting and especially early October, you'll probably call a few in. Now, obviously, same tactics as anything else. Glassing a lot's gonna really help you find where the elk are at, and there's no real specific place that spikes will hang out is different than maybe you're bigger bulls, but you should concentrate on those areas where there's a lot of cows because they'll probably be there now. Later in the season, spikes will actually I've seen groups of spikes of like fifteen sixteen spikes, but generally, you know, as it gets later, most cow groups will have a spiker two in it. So start finding elk and you're gonna just start finding those spikes, and that's that's a good way to do it. Whereas those bulls might pull off later in the season and be off on their own, the spikes are actually probably gonna pull in and start joining with those groups that they've been hanging out with since the rut. Alright, we've got a couple of gear questions here, So Shane Tyler says, I've got a gear related question for you. What tripod would you recommend for glassing? My Vanguard took a crap on me this past week and I'm looking for a new one. I can't remember if you've covered this topic in your podcast or not. If you don't mind giving me a recommendation, i'd really appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, I've used a lot of different tripods over the years, a couple that really kind of stand out to me. It's funny because actually the tripod that I use mostly is one that I picked up at Costco for like eighty bucks ten years ago, and they don't even make them anymore. I only say that because just my tripod used for what I do is like when I'm solo hunting and self filming. I like that like a ball head, but it's not necessarily the best for like glassing and other things. So the tripods that I use may not even be the ones that I suggest, because if you're just using it for hunting, I think there's a lot of really good hunting tripods that have better features. Couple that probably come to mind the most outdoorsman has some great options. It's uh, They're aluminum, super durable. They've got a couple of different pan head option or like a pistol grip if you like the pistol grip. They also have a pistol grip with like a pan effect. Use that one a lot um. I use the the shorter, the smaller one. I can't remember exactly which model it is, but I use that one. Over the years, a lot and because I really like their mounting system for the binoculars, which can go on any tripod as well, but their binocular mounting system is like, I think the best one out there, hands down. Another tripod I've used a lot is the Vortex ones. I mean, I work with Vortex and use their optics, so I get access to their a lot of their tripods as well. Um, there's some pretty good tripods, Like I think the one that I used the most would be the Summit That one I use quite a bit, and I've actually got to test. I don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about it, but I've been testing a new one that is going to replace my old tripod that I'm pretty stoked about. I don't know when that's going to come out. I hate to like throw out teasers, but I'm pretty stoked on that. Hopefully don't get in trouble for mentioning it, but it's been fun testing it because it's it's probably one of the best tripods I've tested in a while. So pretty stoked on that, all right. This question, I actually don't know who it comes from for some reason. The name is not here, but it's a good question, so it says uh, I know most of the questions you have have to do with the main three elk, deer, antelope. My question is when hunting desert sheep, are there different tactics you used for locating There's a place you might start search first with compared to the other three. He drew a desert you tag in Nevada, and even though it's not a RAM, he's pretty excited to have a chance to chase these awesome animals and wants to use the experience to learn more. So when one day maybe gets a RAM tag he's been sheep hunting before, that's an awesome idea. I mean, finding any kind of desert sheep can be difficult sometimes or easy. It just depends if you're looking in the right area. So you want to find those good vantages. Desert sheep country is very open, so you're gonna find I would say the first place to scout is finding those glass areas where you can cover a lot of area at once. Now, there's a couple of different types of desert sheep habitat. The first is like more mountainous, so you're gonna be probably glassing from the bases, glassing up at the mountain. Then the other option is the more broken country where you're gonna be going on the top and then checking the fingers below. If you can get at the bottom and look up into the mountains, that's gonna be key. Another key thing is anything in the desert. Got to focus on one of their favorite things, and that's gonna be water. So sheep used terrain as cover. You know, they aren't gonna be going and bedding in trees mostly unless some areas are a little bit different. But they're using train is covered. So the more rugged, rocky stuff that's where you used like to be. They like to be protected, kind of keep their lambs safe. So they're gonna be in some of those more higher peaks, but they're also going to be around water sources, so locating those water sources and then that's where I would start my search and then kind of spreading out from there. This question comes from Braxton Helster. He says, I have a question on gear weight. I've been backpacking all my life and was raised with boy Scout idea of be prepared or in backpacking bringing a ton of stuff you probably don't need. This year, he has been trying to shed down on pack weight and size. I'm wondering if I can get some tips on shedding weight budget friendly if possible, as I'm in college, what would you say people bring that they don't need and what are some things you would recommend spending more money on to get smaller, lighter versions of this can be related to rifle, western hunting gear, or just backpacking camping gear. That's a great question. You know. I've spent a lot of time, a lot of years kind of honing the pieces in my in my backcountry kit, and I try to get the lightest, best stuff possible, and over the years has taken a lot of years to gain up some of that stuff. I was always looking for discounting things, um lighter stuff. I would say the first, most importantly, if you're going to spend any amount of money on backpacking gear, the number one top thing I would recommend is a pack. Like expensive packs are expensive because they're good generally, and getting a lighter pack that you can still carry a lot of weight, Like that's the most uncomfortable touch point of the whole process is something to carry it in, so it's uncomfortable, So you want to get something that's comfortable you want to get something that's a little bit lighter but makes the felt weight seem reduced. So a really good pack is key plus for hunting applications, You're you're using it to get in and you're also using it to carry your meat out. So a high quality pack is like, if I'm going to spend money on something, that's where I'm investing my money. The other stuff I can figure out later. Um. The second thing I would say would be like a sleeping bag, because lightweight but warm is what you want, and there's there can be a big difference in like packability size wise, I like to go with I've mentioned it before, I used down I've used synthetic in the past. I've I've completely switched my philosophy. I used to be on all synthetic guy and looking for lightweight, really warm synthetics, but now I've gone to that downside because I just find it acts better. It's smaller, it takes up less size, and is a lot lighter for the amount of warmth you get. And and those are probably I would say the two main things. The other part of that question was things that people bring too much of it. If you just want to shed weight on your pack. I know, for a fact, people bring too many clothes. You need to have the clothes you wear, something warm and some rain gear. I mean, I've seen so many people bring an extra pair of pants. I mean, here's what I have, is I have a warm if it's like later season or whatever, I've got a warm shirt, a base layer, my pants, my outer layer. Then I have for warmth a puffer jacket and rain gear and a beanie and gloves. And that's what I have. And maybe for like, depending on how many days you're going, I've got a couple of extra pairs of socks and maybe an extra pair of underwear if I'm going for like a week. I know that sounds disgusting, but um, you don't need like doubling up on things that you probably won't use. So that's just some like right there, an immediate way to make it lighter. If you're gonna double up on any thing, I double up on like a flashlight, so I have a headlamp and then I have like a handheld flashlight that's a higher beam. So for finding your way out in the dark, if you've got not necessarily for finding your way out in the dark, but checking those like that headlamp only works for i'd say close situations and I can use that longer light or if one of those lights goes down, it's nice to have a little bit of a backup. Or if you're with a buddy, his his dies, here you go, dude, here's an extra. So that's something that I was like, Okay, if you're gonna have a little extra something, But I generally try not to double up on things or find multiple uses for a lot of different gear that you have. So thinking critically about your gear. And if you go I've said it before, but if you go on a trip, you have something in your packet that you're like, man, I haven't used this in a trip or two, don't bring it like you probably don't need it until you need it, and then you'll wish that you had it, but you'll still probably get by, so you'll be good, all right. So this last question here comes from Andrews. It says, Hey, Emmy, thank you for your awesome podcast. I have enjoyed it since it first aired. I have a fourth season Colorado Deer Tag this fall and live in Georgia. Could you give any tips for using slash when to use snow chains on your truck in late season conditions. I'm not sure what road conditions would warrant chains versus just four wheel drive. Thank you. That is an excellent question, and I honestly think that there's a lot of things that have to do with vehicles and the types of things you need in your vehicle when you come out West on a hunt. It's it's big country, a lot of its remote, a lot of the roads are rugged and rough. There's maybe things that in your area you aren't used to. Every year I am in some way assisting somebody without of state plates in like their vehicle, assisting either pulling them out either um having to cut down a tree, fix it. Like, There's just so many things that I think a lot of people are unprepared for. And that's why I think this is a really good question. So if you want the answer to this question, you're gonna have to listen to next week's podcast, because next week I'm actually gonna be talking about the twenty top items that you have to have in your vehicle to hunt out West, things that you're gonna need for recovery, and ways to use them, how to use them if your area that you've grown up in doesn't necessarily have the same conditions that match out here for driving and just off road travel. So next week it's going to be all about overlanding while hunting. I definitely think that you're gonna want to listen to that because there's gonna be some stuff that This is just a public service announcement that I've realized over the years, and especially like I feel like I've seen a lot of people this year in situations that they just weren't prepared for. So before you come out here, I'm gonna help get you prepared for the things you need to have in your vehicle next week. So until then, keep getting after it. Keep sending me your questions because we're gonna keep compiling these over the course of the month, and then i'll do another Q and A here coming up. And also any like like I said, tips or things that you want to hear about topics, those are always awesome to hear about because those eventually become podcasts. So keep sending all that stuff in. You know, you can reach out to me via Instagram at Remy Warren or Remy at the meat Eater dot com. Generally during the hunting season, I'm probably using the Instagram more often for questions because I'm kind of in and out doing these podcasts on the road in between hunts. Who knows. Like sometimes I'm doing them in the tent or in the back of a truck or in a crazy I mean like a little cabin right now. So um, just keep those coming in and anywhere I get service I can, I just screenshot him and answer those questions and then hopefully build out some topics that you guys want to hear about. So thank you guys so much for listening, and we'll catch you next week.

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