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This week we're doing our live Q and A. You know, this is always one of my favorite types of podcasts because I get to talk with people and really kind of tailor the podcast to what you guys or the people out there want to hear. So today it's really special because we're at the Western Hunt Expo. We're doing an in person live Q and A and so we're going to jump in and go into some of the questions. I love doing These Q&As because it's one of the ways that I can kind of answer everybody's asking dying burning questions. I used to do like seminars of these things and have something planned and then it would be like backcountry, mule deer, whatever. And then everyone would be asking questions about elk hunting. So I decided to just do only Q&As. It makes it a lot easier. But one of the things I always like to do is a little bit of giveaways. So I've got an elkhorn Skinner, one of my Montana knife company knives up for grabs. At the end of this I've got some of our Live Wild socks, Live Wild spices. We got some new like lens cleaner, like optics rag and spray thing, a couple kids water bottles, some new stuff. I just love giving stuff away and it's a terrible thing for a guy that's trying to run a store. Everyone's like, stop giving everything away. But you know, I just, I like being able to share a lot of stuff as well and it's always fun to do it. Sometimes we do a raffle. Sometimes we just do a straight rock, paper, scissors for it. But we'll figure it out at the end. I want to open it up to questions for everyone, so if you guys don't mind, I'll have Nico come by and give you the mic, and you can ask your question. That way, everyone can hear it. And then. And then I'll hopefully have a. An answer. If you stump me, then I'll let you know. Be like, I don't know. We'll find someone that can figure it out. So who wants to start it off? Mute my phone. All right, we got a couple in the front here. So I just had a. Well, now she's 2 years old and wanting to kind of have her grow up in, like, the outdoors and also do hunting. My wife doesn't hunt at all. She's not really interested at all. I don't want to, like, I don't want to be overpowering. Always trying to take her out hunting, but I also want her to kind of want to go hunting, if that makes sense. Yep. I know you kind of have a kid, so I'm like, I wonder how you're doing it. Yeah, that's a great question. That's something that I kind of was afraid of, too. I'm like, well, this is our life. Right. For us. And so it's. It's. My wife hunts. We all hunt. And it's also, like, we have an outfitting business, and we're, you know, doing this stuff all the time. I'm like, I don't want to burn them out, but I also want them to have that opportunity to love it like I do. And, you know, I think there's a couple things that, like, when I was thinking about, you know, taking my kids out and not wanting to burn them out is, like, a huge thing for me because I have two brothers, and I really loved hunting. My youngest brother kind of got into it as he was, like, more of a late teenager. And then my middle brother starting out, like, he hunts now a lot, but kind of wasn't into it as a kid, and I think it was like, burnout. Right. Like, we all went on a sheep hunt with my Dad. I was 10. My brother was nine or 10. Eight and six. Right. I think them being younger and it just, like, being so tough, and it was like, oh, man, I don't know if I want to do that again. Right. And they thought every experience was gonna be like that or whatever, but, you know, and I had already just been obsessed with it. So I think some of it is just comes down to the kid, but also kind of the way that you introduce them. For me, I think, like, outdoor stuff, it doesn't have to necessarily just be hunting, right? Like, I think about my journey into hunting and it started fishing and honestly, like, with my kids, and we took them like at a pretty young age, like in a backpack. But like memories that they have as they started to get a little bit older, like introducing them to other outdoor pursuits of like, fishing and then like eating the wild game. My daughter is like all obsessed about that. And then so it was just a logical step of like, oh, I want to go hunting with dad, and then just being willing to take her too. And so that's like the other thing. And when I take my daughter hunting or my son who's too, it's like the hunting experience with them is completely different than when I'm by myself. It's completely different when I'm guiding someone, completely different than when I'm with my wife. Like, it's catered toward them. And I've actually been really successful on some of those hunts. But I'm also like, my ideal of success is a lot different. Like, you know, we're. We're truck based, right? Like, we're moving and looking at animals. Like, we're stopping and taking time to look through the spotter. Like, I get the phone out and you know, use like my mag view and put it on there. It's like a little TV screen, like, whoa, let's watch the elk. I want to watch the elk, you know, and like, really engaging in that fun stuff. Letting them walk, letting them, like, see what my tolerance is for, like, probably what I did to my parents. Like, blow the call as much as you want, you know what I mean? Like, that kind of stuff where it's just like they get to have fun and they think of those memories as like, really fun and they really want to go and be a part of it with me. It's like every day my daughter's like, can we go hunting? You know, it's like she's three and a half and that's like all she wants to do, which is fun because it's like, okay, we've done something right so far, but it is fun to kind of see that new chapter. And like, you know, I'm just figuring it out. I don't know if I have all the answers, but that's just what I've been doing. And it seems to be okay so far. Great ideas. All right. Remy, I will be hopefully in the field from say August till December. How would you go about building a hunting wardrobe to go from 90 degree summer days to potentially negative winter temperatures? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean it's all for me, I don't really change my kit a whole lot. It's more just adding those layers. And so I kind of go with like pants, a lighter pant and then I just add on like a thermal underneath. As it gets later in the season, you know, I increase the weight of my socks is one thing that I do. As it gets later in the season, I generally, you know, I use a lot of the first light stuff. So it's got like, you know, I will change like early season I like maybe a more synthetic type shirt. And then late season I'm like a full on like their kiln hoodie, the wool. And then I've got pretty much the same jacket that I run early season as late season. And then I use an added insulation layer of like a heavier down and then rain gear when it gets real cold. And then if I get real cold, I just walk faster. But like that's kind of my, my kit isn't like crazy different between August and December. It's just like one or two more pieces of gear, you know, and then kind of it makes it a little bit more versatile throughout the year. And then if you were like, oh, okay, I can add an extra pant or whatever, then sometimes I do like, like a lined pant for late season hunts like I use because I'd rather like some people like, I don't really like to wear thermals all the time, so I'd rather have that lined pant because when I'm hiking I get hot and I'd rather be able to dump heat out of that lined pant where it's like it's cold enough that, that pants comfortable. But if I want to dump heat when I'm hiking, then I don't have that like next to skin layer that's probably, you know, I don't know if I always did that, but that's what I've been doing lately and I, and I kind of enjoy that. You know, some people like to have that next to skin layer late season, but I've been kind of going with like an insulated or like the, the warmer pant. And then just because it's like when it's cold and then being able to like vent them, I feel like it just dumps that heat faster. And then I don't Sweat and then you know, I don't get as cold when I stop because I'm dumping that heat as I'm hiking and feel free if you guys want to give me first name and where you're from or whatever kind of gives me a reference. Yeah. What up? I'm Spencer, I'm from Utah. I've potentially got a opportunity to go guide in New Zealand and I was going to ask you turn back the clock, would you go back to guide in New Zealand and what were the pros and cons of doing that? Yeah, man. I mean, yeah, it's like it was one of the coolest experiences in my life. Like it just got me in new country see something like really cool. It was a lot of fun. It was definitely like a good time in my life to do it, you know, like before I had a family or anything like that. So it was nice. And you know there's a lot of like cool opportunities there too because you know there's the guiding portion but then there's a lot of hunting you can do on your own, which was the draw when I did it for me to go over there. And so like I think that it's like definitely something that I would just do. If you have the opportunity to do something like that, absolutely do it. I have another question. That's all right. Yeah, go for it. Trail cameras, what do you recommend out there that like you can get notifications through your phone and that sort of stuff. If you have any recommendations on that. I'm like I'm gonna up my trail camera game here recently because like I think I've had, I don't run them a lot because a lot of the places that I do hunt, you can't use them. But where they, where I can use them, I will utilize them. If you know a lot of my stuff's super old. I was just looking into some tacticam ones. I bought some like cuddy link ones that like link to the, I like to that idea of the hub and I could like daisy chain them. I used those recently. Last year unfortunately my base tower fell out of the tree when I was taking it down and so that was the end of that. But yeah, and then my other ones like the non transmitting kind, I've just kind of gotten random cheap ones. But I've been looking at, I don't know, some of my friends have been using the, the tacticam ones and like, like them. But that's only just secondhand reference. Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna pick up Some of those and, and try those this year. Like, I've got a mix match of just random stuff. Really. Like most of it was whatever was cheapest, but I did that for a long time, like bought a lot of real cheap ones and then they wouldn't catch stuff or whatever. So I started buying like the mid range ones just because it was like a little bit more. It's like if you're going to waste the time or you spend the time, you want to capture what's on there. Like, for my wife's antelope hunt, there was another trail camera out there, someone else's that was looking for sheep. And because we put it on a sheep guzzler, she had an antelope tag and he had like a, you know, like a cheaper camera, the exact same ones that I was using a couple years earlier. And I went and bought like a better one. And we had hundreds of pictures of pronghorn and he had zero pictures of any animals. Like, you know, because we were talking with him and I was like, well, this is like they were on top of each other essentially. So, yeah, I think like that, that makes a big difference. Sweet. Thank you. Yep. But I will, I'm going to, I'm going to retry those tacticam ones. I'll report back at the end of the year. Mason from California. So I got two questions. One, I start my first deer hunt on my private property. I have a couple bucks that I like look for that I see every year, but in season they're not there. And I'm not kidding, the day or two after they start and like it starts the rut and I start seeing them again. Do you think that after the rut and like following like, I guess throughout the year that they're not. I know that they're like resident deer. Yep. Do you think. How far do you think those deer would travel? If I know that they're resident deer, yeah. Are they like mule deer or blacktails? Hybrid. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would, I would probably say like what they're doing is they're, they're going into like a seclusion pattern, pre rut. And so you're probably seeing them in a feed pattern. Feed pattern. And then you're like, you're. I don't know, I'm just guessing. But like, maybe you're seeing them like hit certain food sources. Like, oh, they're out in this open, they're feeding, you're seeing them all the time and then they just straight up disappear and then the rut happens. And it's like if they're there again, those are absolutely resident deer. They're just in a seclusion pattern. So like those bucks are pulling away and they're like, they're probably being more localized, spending more time bedding. It could be a temperature and timing of the year thing. I don't know like the exact timing of the year for that. But like, my guess is they're probably just pulling away. And that's like mule deer do that on a big scale on the mountain and they do it on a small scale on like the foothills or resident ones that live on. Maybe they live in this, I don't know. Let's say it's 2,000 acres and it's like these deer are there every day. Whether it's, you know, let's call them mule deer. And it's like, okay, you're seeing them, you're seeing them in like the same places. They're kind of probably doing a similar pattern. And that pattern is based off of what they're eating. And they're really just trying to bulk up and like prepare for that rut. And then they kind of go into that, they just break off. They're a wave. Because what happens is when they're around other deer and everything that time of year, they then they kind of have to do the jockeying for position. They're just wasting energy, so they just pull away. They go feed in like bedding a lot closer together, they change their pattern and then they know where those other does are because they're resident animals. And then they move in for those. I wouldn't think that those deer are going crazy long distance, but it might just be off of where you're hunting. You know, it could be like a couple miles and they've pulled off into like maybe wherever you're at, this is like more open and they're pulling off into like thicker terrain, deeper pockets, south facing slopes, that kind of stuff, brushier canyons, whatever. And then when the rut hits, then they're cruising and then they're moving around. And generally it's the opposite where people see them. And then when the rut hits, they leave. Because once that rut hits, they have like patterns, but they're a lot bigger patterns. And they kind of go to other places where there's doe pockets. But the fact that they're there before and there later is telling me that those are probably like purely resident deer and they aren't going that far. And then this other question pertains to backcountry So I started doing, obviously some backcountry hunts. And I've been focusing on meadows and on the timber edges right in the early morning. And I guess my question is, would you spend any time glassing some of these brushy pockets of kind of waist or like mid chest high brush stuff too, in the mornings or what time of year? September to November? Yeah, I definitely like, because you think about like, mule deer and stuff, they are their primary diets, browse. And so like, the new growths and that kind of stuff can provide food and like, a good cover where they're kind of in that stuff. It is worth glassing that stuff. Um, you know, especially, like, if you're having trouble finding, you know, it's like, well, if they aren't coming out to these other areas, it might be a good way to like, turn up bucks that aren't getting spotted and aren't getting hunted. They're, you know, can be difficult to find. But I do glass a lot of that country, you know, or those like, faces where it's like brushy and covered, but open enough to see, you know, because there's stuff that you're like, there's deer in there, but. And you look at it, but you really are like, I'm looking at. I try to like, to think of like, if I'm glassing something, a 10% rule. Like, if I can't see 10% of it, you probably aren't gonna actually catch them. But you can like, particularly talking about, like, California. There's like, some backcountry places that I've hunted and I've like, ran into a lot of bucks. When other people aren't seeing any deer and just essentially still hunting like that more covered area. I'll come into that, like, more open pocket. I'll be close glassing it. I can like, get in there. I'll get across the ridge and like, glass into a pocket where I think they might bed. It's like, okay, good all day shade, good downhill wind. I can glass into there and I'll turn them up in these little holes in these little pockets of timber or of timber or, like, brushier, like, open stuff. So it's like pocketed. Like, I like hunting that, like, transition of, like, thick timber. But maybe this is like a steep hillside that's like, now it's brushy in this, like, small canyon or something like that where you could actually see into it. And then I'll find, like, look for sign and trails and other things to kind of still hunt more timber stuff. And I've had good success doing that too. Or in between glassing spots, trying to look for those areas which can be successful. Cool. Thank you. Yeah. Hey, Remy. I'm Dan from Utah. We primarily spot and stock for elk and doing cow elk hunting. We have an issue where a cow elk will probably be like a hundred yards over onto private land. And we're on public. And I've heard with bulls, you can call them in. They might be able to cross that divide and get them. Any tips for cow elk hunting? Yeah, I mean, it depends. Like, sometimes cows, the right cows can be easy to call in. Like lost calves or like a cow that maybe can't find her calf, like you can. We just do like a, like a constant, like, lost calf sound. And sometimes that just gives them enough, like, what's over there, you know, like, it depends on the time of year in the elk, too. Like, if you hear elk making noise and then you're replying back, sometimes it'll get those other elk to kind of pay attention to it. But the hard part with like, cows is, you know, they're. They're like, we run into this a lot where you're almost better, like, figuring out their patterns in their cycles and like, kind of ambushing them in a way, because they're probably on that private. Because it's like they aren't getting chased and there's plenty of food and like a lot of cow elk tags, like, especially later in the season, they move down onto that stuff. It's almost like they know where those boundaries are, because as soon as they come off, they get hammered and then they go back. That happens everywhere. But, you know, like, oftentimes you can find where maybe they're moving through. And it's like, well, if that's all you've got, try it. Sometimes what I like to do is essentially just go to those places where I don't have to worry about that in a way, you know, it's like, yeah, there's a lot of elk here and guys that are hunting that and watching that, like, they are going to move off oftentimes. Sometimes they don't. There's been a. Plenty of places where we've been. It's like those elk are in that. It's not even big. 200 acres of private, and they never leave. Seems like. And you might call at them all day long if they're. If they're within 100 yards, maybe. But that depending on the kind of fence, too, like, it can be a. It can be a real block for them to want to come and look, you know? So, I mean, I think, like, sometimes you're almost better off, like, saying, forget about those ones and go look in other places, because there will be elk other places too. But, I mean, it is like, if you're struggling to find elk, go go to that ag in that private and, like, hunt that boundary, and you're gonna find elk. Right? Whether they're elk you can harvest or not is another question. Then you might have to play the game of sitting and waiting for a long time. Or you could try. I mean, like, I've called in a lot of cow elk just messing around or for hunters, just, like, with that lost calf sound. If I was using one call to call a cow elk, and it'd be a lost calf call. Thank you very much, Remy. Appreciate it. So I'm Brigham from Utah, and I'm just starting on bow hunting, and I was just wanting to ask you, how do you, like, how did you switch from into backcountry hunting when you were just starting out? Yeah, well, I think I kind of. I had been on a backpacking trip before, did, like, backpack hunting. So, like, summertime's a great time to learn backcountry skills because it's, like, good weather generally. You know, it's mild. You don't have as much gear as you might have specialized for hunting. So you can go up, go to a lake, go fishing, camp out for a little bit, get. Just figure out what you want in your backpack, what you like to eat. Figure out, you know, okay, cool. Do some scouting or whatever. Maybe go scout out an area and stay overnight a couple days and kind of get into it that way, because it's a good way to kind of ease into it. It's a good way to learn an area. It's a good. Good way to kind of get, like, you know, the kinks worked out. Because when you're hunting, like, hunting is hard enough as it is, and you're adding in something that might be new, like backpack hunting, and you're like, okay, how do I set up? Where's a good place to set up? My. Like, once you're more comfortable with that, it makes it so much easier, and you can focus on the hunting more than the, like, just surviving and getting through it aspect sometimes. So I would just say, like, if you can get a trip, a couple trips in the summertime, short ones, two days, three, whatever. Go fishing, go scouting. Like, scouting is a great way to do it. Like, you got your scope, whatever you're camping but there's not that pressure of hunting and trying to be successful in that time hunting. So you're getting all the kinks worked out and then when it comes hunting season, you're like, cool, I know what I'm doing. And now you can focus on the hunting portion of it. And it makes a big difference of that comfortability because you aren't trying to learn a new skill while trying to fill a tag at the same time. If that makes sense. Yeah. And then one more question. So this year with my bow, I had a couple opportunities on a couple mule deer, but I was never able to make good and get in within range on them and they would normally win me. So what would you say is the best way to get closer on a bedded down mule deer? Yeah, I mean, like, knowing what the thermal shifts are gonna do and when that wind's gonna change is, is like a huge factor. And a while ago, like, I kind of like compiled a list of deer that I've killed with a bow, deer that people have guided have killed with a bow. And some of this is like skewed a little bit to my hunting preferred hunting style. But the majority of those deer are killed between like 11:45 and 3pm because that's when like the thermals are cruising up and the winds stabilize a little bit. So what you're going to get is you're going to get thermal shifts in the morning. It's like, oh, buck's bedded. And I've got a really good opportunity. But that wind isn't real stable. And everyone's like, well, I'm gonna sneak in. And you sneak in and it holds, it holds, it holds. And then that thermal just causes that wind to swirl a little bit and they get blown out. The other thing is like planting that stock where the wind is absolutely good and not edging on. Okay. Like if you have two options of like, oh, the wind's kind of blowing sideways this way and if I kind of come in from the bottom, well, you know that that wind's going to start shifting with that thermal uphill and you're below him, go the harder route and get up above him. The best stock you can make on a mule deer is like from above, often in the mountains. Because you've got the advantage of a rising thermal in the evening. It's actually the opposite. So it's really hard. It's harder to kill a mule deer in the evening, I think, like, because that, that dropping thermal often gets you on that stock. So, you know, in the evening. Sometimes it's hard to come up from the bottom because they're looking down that way. And then you've got that the thermals going up and then it shifts back down. But there is a time where you can get in on them then. But paying attention to like that wind shift and like making notes of it, like, what's the wind doing here? Like, pay attention to it, look at your clock. Start to kind of understand when you're out there before you do a stock days, whatever, what those thermals are doing and then. Or like what that wind does in those canyons. And just understanding how to read the wind. Right. Like mule deer bed themselves in places where they get more swirling winds. But understanding the way that that wind swirls and then how that rising heat might actually save you even if that wind does swirl. Like, hard part is when the wind swirls and a buck smells you, that's it. But when you have that thermal in your favor, it's pushing that air up. So even if the wind swirls and I've got a buck 30 yards below me, the odds of my wind hitting that buck, even when like I was sitting on a buck last year, and I'm like, boom. I feel it hit my neck and puff, puff, puff, and it's like. And it's going straight up in the air and I'm above the buck. The odds of my wind hitting that buck there are a lot lower because I gave myself the right timing for the stock and I'm trying to kill that buck within the window of good thermals. Okay, thank you. Got a question up here. So I understand that you were part of the research and development for the 7 millimeter backcountry. Yep. Two part question. First part is, do you think this round is. Would be good for mule deer and elk? And the second part is the elk that I think it was you that killed on. It was like 200 something yards. Yep. Is that did. Were you happy with the. With the impact and would you go out to 4 or 500 yards with that rifle? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So the thing that I really like about the 7 mil backcountry is like the speed for the bullet weight in the 7 millimeter, but it's really for the short barrel. So like, honestly, like, if you're like I'm not shooting suppressed, it might not matter as much because you could shoot a longer barrel and you could can. You can have that speed. But the thing that I like is like, I like hunting with a shorter barrel. I like the balance of the rifle and it's a little bit lighter rifle as well. I mean it's absolutely, it's great for mule deer, elk. You know, I, I believe like you could shoot an elk as far as you really want to shoot an elk. I guess I won't give you exact yardages, but like, I mean there's, it's terminal velocity with that out to, with those terminal scent bullets. I think they said like you know, 800 yards or something, maybe more. You know, I just like getting close anyways. But the thing that I really like about that, and I think that people didn't understand the technology in that peak alloy case, because when I first heard about it, it's like, oh, is it a steel case? And everyone's like, well, steel, you know, can't reload it because it doesn't expand, right? Well, the boron alloy that's in that allows it to expand other things. So it allows it to expand. And the, this is the crazy part about bat technology that I think people missed. Like they just saw something and just like immediately had a reaction to it. So you're like, oh, well, the, you know, the higher pressure has more blowback into the bolt face. One of the things that's cool about that is it's the same. Cause like SIG did one, they got the brass and then the steel back end. I can't remember which caliber it is. And they kind of had to redo their rifles a little bit for that added pressure that they could do. But this case is taking like a lot of that energy is going into the expansion of the case. So this is reloadable, it expands and it has the same pressure on the bolt face as conventional brass for the most part. So, and then you're getting an added, you know, 300ft per set. You're getting essentially faster speeds than a 7 PRC out of a 20 inch. So a 24 inch PRC barrel. You're getting faster speeds out of a 20 inch barrel. So it's got all the killing power of any other set where as much killing power as any other 7 millimeter out there out of a shorter barrel. So if you're gonna go suppress, like it's a great option. The only downside is it's brand new and if nobody adopts it, then it's gonna be your hard pressed to find ammunition for it. So that's like the, with anything new, you kind of like have to roll the D dice. But I mean, I hope people roll the dice with it because I really like it. Want to see it keep going and I'm like, my exciting. The exciting thing for me about it is like, I like to think about, well, what could be next? Because imagine you could do the same thing with like a.308 type brass. You get a short bolt, a.30 cal bullet, and you're getting like.300 win mag performance out of it. Like, how cool is that? Like, I think that that should be the next. So like if this takes off, I would really be excited about that. Really excited about that. But I like the, I like the. I like being able to shoot 175 grain bullet out of a seven millimeter. Seven mag. So, you know, having that same like performance is awesome. I'm Brett from Wyoming. How do you deal with other hunters? Pressure on public lands? Do you change your tactics or do you hunt it harder or do you move out of an area? That's a good question. I assess how they're hunting to be 100% honest. Like, I don't know how many times this is just. I can't even count the times I'm guiding. We're hiking in somewhere and like a guy's hiking out and I have like two guys with me, like, oh, those guys didn't see anything. They're coming out and I like, look at them. It's like no binos on their chest. Like, you know, whatever. I'm like, those get. Doesn't matter. And we'll go a half a mile up, we'll sit down, we'll glass and we'll find bulls and go kill a bull just after somebody was like hunting here. I haven't seen anything. Uncountable amount of times that's happened, right? Or, you know, I mean like everybody hunts different. You know, people have different varying levels of where they hunt and how they hunt. And just because somebody just hunted an area and came back out of there doesn't mean that there's nothing in there, you know. So I kind of assess it based on like how well I think that that person, you know, like you see people, you're like, what are they hunting? They're in this area, but how far are they going, right? Like, are they just kind of meandering around the periphery hoping to bump into something or are they like sitting down, picking this amount and apart? You know, if I see a guy like posted up on a good vantage, like with optics off, locked off and glassing and whatever, I'm like, no, he's probably covering this. I'm gonna go somewhere else. Sometimes, like, pressure isn't always bad. You kind of just have to, like, if you know the area really well sometimes. Sometimes, you know, like, where pressure drives animals, and it can actually be beneficial. You know, we. We've utilized that a lot guiding where it's like, opening day. We're highly successful hunting areas that, like, we know people are going to hunt. We know where the elk kind of go once they get pressured, and we go into those areas and we find success areas that you haven't been before. I would rather. So it's like, if I know an area really well and how the animals react, I probably hunt to the pressure. If I'm in a new area that I've never been, I probably try to find no pressure. You know, in a way, it's always good to find animals that aren't being pressured, but it can be, like, a tall task sometimes. Sometimes that involves, like, more legwork. Mostly, like, it's. It's not hard to find where fewer people are, because fewer people can. There's certain places, like, a lot of people just can't get or can't get an animal out of. And so, like, I try to gravitate toward those because I know, like, I can get it. I can eventually get an elk out of anywhere, you know, might suck, but I'm willing to do it. You know, there's maybe probably 4% of the hunters out there that are willing to do that. So it's like, well, let's just go where the 4% go. And of those 4% that can do that, some might know the area really well and go hunt an area that has the pressure and they know where the elk go into. So that's like a. I guess, like, if I don't know the area, I just kind of pick the, like, work harder method. And if I know the area, I pick the work smarter method. Thank you. I'm Tanner, also from Utah. I just wanted to know what setup you're running on your bow with your site. Like, a single pin, three pin. And then why. Yep. So I've been using. I've tried a lot of different stuff, and I'll continue to keep trying new stuff, but until I find something that I like better than what I have, I kind of keep going back to it. I've been using the Fast Eddie xl. Well, actually, it's the. I've got the boonie site now, which I think is a little bit better than the Fast Eddie. I just got that last year. But I use a single pin with two indicators, so it's got, like, two marks on the Single pin. So it's got the top and then another one down lower. And then the dial has what those two yardages are. I've used it and like, honestly, I was. Cause I was like a seven pin guy for a long time. Fixed seven. Like, just keep it simple. I had like the fat one, the spot hog seven deadly pins forever. And then when I went to, like, the slider, I was like. The first time I used it, it was just like a way better sight picture. Everything was clear. I could focus in. I started making way better shots because I could see everything and I could really focus in on the shot. But I liked having that indicator. I've tried the three pins and I think you just get once again, like too much. It's just too much. Like, I like to keep it simple. I mean, if there was a like a third indicator on that single pin, I think I'd do it. But most of the three pins have like, multiple pins in there. And you do catch, like. I don't know. For me, it's just different. The reason I like. And you know, I practice a lot with like, shooting those gaps in the pins and stuff. So I'll set my pin at like roughly 33 yards when I'm like walking around. And I can shoot that without. I can shoot that single pin out to about 60 yards pretty confidently just knowing the indicators and where everything's at. If I didn't have the time to set anything up, I don't like to do that, but I. And then if I've got like the time to adjust, I'll do it. But like my mule deer this year I shot it at roughly 50 yards. The pin was set for 30, 32 yards. It was like, perfect shot, you know, and I knew exactly where to hold. And I didn't even worry about, you know, like, making the adjustment. I was already at full draw. He ran out. And I knew that I could make that shot. But it's good to practice that with that. With that sight or that kind of sight. The downside to it, like the major. I would say, like, the hardest part about that is like shooting through stuff where fixed pins are superior to like a movable pin is like being able to like, shoot through something and know, like, oh, here's a branch at 20 yards. Am I going to clear that? You know, and some of that, like you kind of gauge, like, I practice that a lot and gauge like where in the sight housing. Things like would relatively line up. So I kind of like still picture on those kind of things where My sight pins might be, but it's not as accurate, thankfully. Knock on wood. I've done pretty good in the last few years. Like I shouldn't say this out loud, but I haven't really clipped anything that I didn't want to clip and have made some like thread the needle shots. Probably just a hope and a prayer. Like definitely on this shot, say a prayer first and let it fly. But that's what I like. I'm gonna try. There's a. Was it like the ultraview one? I was gonna try that one. And then there's the dial. I haven't shot the dial one yet, but the spa augs that I've been using too is like bulletproof. I'm pretty hard on stuff and like I've only ever broken one in probably however many years of using it. And I've had other sites on that I've broken like within half a season or whatever. But I always like run my setup and then I have like a backup bow that I'll take on a hunt or whatever and try new stuff too. So always look and see what I like, but that's the one that I like so far. Hi Remy, Janae from Wisconsin. I was curious if you and your wife have found any golden rules or tips for hunting together or when it comes to planning and preparing for a hunt. That's a good question. I should text her and ask her what I think. Like, you know, for me, I think a couple of things are like when my wife's hunting with me, you know, I try to make it like, like in some ways just kind of like hunt to her comfort level and ability. I can be like, I used to be like the type of person who just leaves someone on the mountain. Thankfully, like she, I don't know, she could probably out hike me. So it's not like that wouldn't be like a good strategy. But I think one of the things like, you know, with anything like, but especially out there, like the good communication is key, like, here's what I'm thinking, here's what you should do. And then you know, like I'm like, alright, if you're getting frustrated with the way I'm doing something, let me know, you know, because otherwise I don't know. Because it happens. It's not even just husband, wife, like hunting partners, like I don't know how many buddies that I've been hunting with and like the whole time we're like pissed off at each other because like the way he's like describing this, like the Animals. And you're like, dude, okay, like, just tell me where it's at. Don't describe something that is like, it's by the green tree, by the rock, by the whatever, you know, like, being like, you know, we kind of go through that. Like, here, like, I'm like, okay, here's how I describe something. And then she's like, okay, let's try this. Let's practice describing something. Because when it's in the heat of the moment, that's when things get frustrating. Like, I'm trying to tell you where it is. What are you. You know, that kind of thing. Like, it doesn't matter if it's your wife, your husband, your best friend, your kids. Like, getting that all sorted ahead of time. Way better. I've learned that guiding. Like, let's. Here's how we'll do this. And now I'm more just like, take a picture with the phone. It's right here. You know, but that's always, like, a good strategy. But, yeah, getting that stuff, like, dialed, I think is key. And then, you know, going in with, like, you know, just like any kind of hunt, like, here's our expectations, here's what we're looking for. You know, here's what I want to get out of it. Like, it would be awesome to get you on a deer. Let's, you know, take stock. And then when she's like, I want you to stock, she actually means it, you know, like, okay, I'll stock. You know, but just good communication with. Anything's good with any hunting partner. Because sometimes you, like, you know, there's always stuff that, like, whatever annoys people when you're out in the field, and it just gets multiplied when things get hard and it's like somebody missed or explained something wrong and you're like, especially, you know, like, I don't know, places where it's legal to use radios for stock. That's a time where most hunting partners fall apart. Like you told me left. It was like, whatever. So just going into it with, like, that expectation that things go wrong and it's okay. Thank you for that. Any more questions? Take a couple more, why don't we. Ryan from Edmonton, Alberta, talking about footwear for late season. Once snow's on the ground, when you're out for five, six days, how do you manage staying dry, getting boots dry, and do you have a preferred boot? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I like running the Schnay's boots. We've actually got them in our booth because I love them so much. But the reason I like their boots is a couple of, a couple of things. I like the way like I think with boots though it has to fit your foot and be super comfortable, you know. So I mean I personally like. Those are my favorite boots. I. My feet get cold so I generally run like a good wool sock real late season. Like I actually run toe warmers in my boots, but I put them on the top of my. Because if it's underneath, like it messes with the way your foot interacts with the footbed. Like a lot of people put them on the bottom and you actually get real like your feet get sore if you do it that way. So I put them on the top of my like socks on the toes, you know, which I think like I've always done that. But a lot of people put them on the bottom and you get like your feet get sore in the backcountry. There's a couple of ways that I dry them out. I mean mostly like dry socks and wet boots. And then your boots soak up the water and then you dry your socks like in your. So I like sleep with my socks in my sleeping bag to dry them out at night, whether they're on or in there to let that evaporative cooling measure, bring it to the outside sleeping bag and dry them out. Dry socks are key really. And if you can bring another pair and swap them out, dry them at night, whatever, have that backup pair, that makes a big difference because your boots could be cold and wet. But if you're moving around and you've got drier socks, it keeps your feet warmer longer. And then the combination of the nice thing about those like toe warmer, you know, you know, like the air activated ones is that creates a heat which actually helps dry your. If you've got like a, you know, not like rubber boots, it doesn't really work so much but like, you know, leather boots or whatever, that heat creates that drying process throughout the day. So it actually dries your boots out because it's a little bit warmer than your body temperature and it's a drier heat. So it kind of helps the drying process of them and keeps them warm. Another thing that I've used a lot like real late season cold snow is I use their pack boots and so their pack boots like a rubber bottom and then it's like a, it's got like an air bob sole and then like a full leather. Whoever's getting these socks, they're wet, sorry. Talking about you can sleep with them in your Sleeping bag tonight. But so the thing that, like, on real late cold hunts, backcountry hunts, I've been wearing those. I was like, can you hike around in them? Cause they look like something that are hard to hike in, and I have no problem hiking in them. They're super comfortable. There's like zero break in with them. It's a little bit. It feels a little bit different at first, but you get used to it real quick. And the reason that I like those is they have a wool, like, instep. The whole insulation portion of the boot comes out. So when it's really cold, I will sleep with those in my sleeping bag. And in the morning, my boots are cold outside. And you put a warm, like, warm insulation layer back in that boot. And that's a game changer. Cause, like, there's been times where I've slept with my boots in my sleeping bag because they freeze otherwise, you know, it's like real late season. Like, she puns and stuff like that. Like, nothing worse than, like, I'll put them underneath my sleeping bag when I'm sleeping just to keep them from freezing. Like, if you put on a frozen pair of boots in the morning, it's like a horrible day. And if your feet get cold, that sucks. So the. Those pack boots have been, like, pretty awesome. I've used those for quite a few years now, like, late hunts. And man, it's hard to get away from those. I don't know if you've ever tried them, but it's like, worth trying because it doesn't look like I've hunted some serious, like, I mean, like, most, like, elk, mountain type stuff, like elk backcountry stuff in those boots and been pretty pumped on them. Late season. Jared from Utah, Ogden. So where I hunt for mule deer in Utah, it's not very glassable. It's more like timber with, like, some sage, like, kind of feeding areas, but you can't really see them very well. I've sat those feeding areas and had luck. But I don't know if you have any other tips on ways to kill bucks without having very good glassing bandages. Like, I've made, like, yeah, maybe like, still hunting or something like that, but I don't know what your thoughts are. Yeah, I mean, like, what I do, I move around a lot. Because sometimes you're like, you could watch these areas, but if you don't have knowledge of, like, a deer, you know, if I find signs somewhere, then it's. It might be worth, like, oh, this is a good feeding area. There's not a lot of good feed, you know, like, it's more that new growth browse that I'm looking for in those kind of places. But I actually move around a lot. I look for, like, game trails across the steep stuff because it narrows down, like, in that, like, steeper country. It actually gives you more, like, places that you can pinpoint to find where they might be traveling. I'll look for fresh tracks, fresh sign, oftentimes get into the wind and, like, still hunt that stuff until I find areas where it's like, oh, okay, these deer are definitely traveling this, and they're probably feeding in this particular area. You know, it. It is like, it's hard hunting in that kind of country, but you can find deer in it. Like, there's a lot of places that I've hunted, and that's your only option. Right. It's like, you know, one place that I hunted into burning, and that was a game changer. But don't start any fires. Yeah, but, like, you know, it's not my favorite way to hunt, but it is. It can be effective. You know, it's a lot of moving, glassing. But, like, I look for those, like, travel areas where I can kind of pinpoint. Like, I'll actually climb, like, pick a real steep spot and climb up the middle of it until I start finding those intersecting trails. And then actually, to this guy's point about the California hunting, I've done that a lot there because it's a good. That's a lot of the hunting. And they are like kind of blacktail mule deer crosses. So they just stay in that thicker stuff than, like, more open mule deer country. But, you know, like, finding those steep places, hiking up that because it's easier to, like, they will create trails. And then those trails, like, they aren't going to be necessarily, like, walking all over in that steeper stuff. So it pinpoints, like, where you can find intersect with where they might be. And then looking for fresh sign in there and then kind of extrapolating out good areas to kind of still hunt from that point. And then, you know, I've even, like, found deer by just, like, tracking them in that, like, softer dirt. If you can find it. Like, oh, here's a good set of tracks. Okay. Moving, looking, moving looking. You know, if you see like an area, like a feeding area, it's like, oh, it's got a lot of good sign. It's a fresher sign. Probably a good indication that they're using that a lot. You could glass it right but sometimes it's just, like, better to continue moving, like, from that area to the next area, maybe intersecting their bedding areas, because they could be hitting those in the in dark. You know, you could just waste your time sitting there all day watching it, and nothing is going to come out. So that's. That's a strategy that I use in, like, thicker country, I guess. Another one real quick. So when you're moving through trees and stuff like that are. If you, like, step on a branch and break it, are you like, crap, I just screwed up everything, or do you not worry too much about it? No, like, it depends on what I'm seeing. Like, most of the time as I'm moving in and initially, like, I kind of like, I'm hunting, right? I'm always paying attention. I'm looking around, My head's on a swivel. But I know that I have to cover country. And I kind of go in with a philosophy of, like, as I'm kind of, like, scouting, like, my hunting doesn't happen until I find the place where I think that I'm gonna find a deer in a way. Like, I'm like, cruising in, like, okay, if this is an area where they might be traveling, I'm probably doing a lot of that in, like, the middle of the day. You're gonna, like, if I bump a deer, like, when they blow out, you could probably hear them, but for the most part, like, that kind of stuff, they might be like, okay, this is an area where they might travel. And they're probably traveling that, like, early morning, late evening. So I'm kind of, like, using the day to find this kind of sign in these, like, particular areas. When I find those areas, then I like, I was like, dude, like, sometimes you just go, this seems like a real bucky spot. Like, this seems like an area where they bed. And I slow it down, way slow it down. Glassing, looking, moving. And then other times where it's like, I haven't found the trails. Like, there's not a lot of signs I'm cruising, and I'm really not being super careful about my noise as long as I'm like, moving into the wind. Because I think you are going to spook some stuff. Just going to be. That's just how it's going to be, right? Like, you can't always not spook something. You have to. Like, you don't want to be moving so cautiously and so slow that you haven't covered any country. And you're just burning time to get to a spot. That's going to be productive. So there is that. Like, you know, sometimes I'm like going through an area. It's like, it's loud, it just sucks. But that's what it is. And sometimes I blow out deer and I go, well, this is a. Okay, like, let's go investigate. Oh, it's a bed. Okay, cool. Maybe I'll find another spot that looks like this. That's another thing about like hunting in timber. Whether it's elk or mule deer, like, I'm big on the topography of that area. When I found like, let's say it's a certain elevation band, a certain like pocket, maybe there's like a certain plant. Whatever it is, they're like, oh, there's deer here, there's sign here, you've seen deer here, whatever. When I try to like replicate that kind of topography and elevation and everything else in other places. So like when I. You can kind of like start to pinpoint like the preferred places. And that is based on the time of day, the time of year and like the area. Right. Maybe even the current weather of like you're in an area and it's like, okay, they like all these north facing slopes at that like 6,000 to 6,500 area. Like these bucks are in this, like these thick pockets that are kind of like a little bit wet and really thick, you know. And like you'll kind of notice that like there's certain topography, topographical features that they're just concentrated on. And then I try to like match those other places and it helps you pinpoint like what those deer might be doing then in cover, because it's. It seemingly all the same. But there is differences between where they like to be and where they don't like to be. I don't. You can't always tell what those differences are. It's. Until you're like in the field and then you try to match those places, other places. All right, one more question. So you mentioned earlier hunting those evening deer. And that's a lot of what I did this year. I'd run up after work and try to find deer. And a lot of the deer I found were already up out of their beds feeding. How would you suggest stocking those deer for archery? Yeah. Like, let's say. So you're like, you found deer, it's evening time, they're up feeding. Yeah. So most of the time, like feeding deer in the evening are our best success. Like if you can plan a stock, you know, like they're the. I guess I don't know. The best part about evening deer is like, they can get into feeding and they can be very concentrated on feeding. Like, I, I, I go after deer, mule deer, in the evening very aggressively. When they're chomp, chomp, chomp, not paying attention, I'm moving. Like, it's almost easier to stalk a distracted buck sometimes than a buck that's like, when they're bedded, they're hyper focused. It's like they know that they're doing it and they're trying to put themselves in like, the best advantageous place where they. It's hard to stalk a bedded deer, but like, if there's a lot of bucks around sometimes, like in the evening, they can, you know, get into feeding. And mostly I'm like, trying to time my stock where it's like the thermal has shifted and I'm moving in that last 15 minutes of hunting. Like, like legal shooting time. Like, that's generally, you're like, you've got this small window in the evening where it's like, actually really good as far as wind and like, distraction and feeding. And like, you know, younger bucks especially, you're really susceptible that time. Like that twilight, like that last 15 minutes of shooting time are very susceptible. The hard part is like, you know, you gotta get that timing right and be close enough. So I'm like, trying to move in, like, and then I start to shadow the deer like I'm shadowing them. And as like, things start to go in my favor, I close the gap. I close the gap, I close the gap. So it's like we've got a group of bucks feeding, and it's like the sun's still hitting, the wind's kind of going up. I try to get like, on level with them so my scent's going up. And then I try to get as close as I can. And then that like, thermal shift is going to happen. So I'm like, kind of in that stage where I could be below them and then move in. And it is a lot of like, timing. The other thing I do a lot in the evening is like a, kind of like an ambush strategy where you see where they're going and try to cut them off. So you're using the wind and like, staying away, staying away and letting them close the distance as you close the distance. I've killed a lot of mule deer that way as well. I wish I, I should like, have my stats on my phone, but it was kind of fun to do of like, we, that was another way that we killed Like a. A good percentage was like evening deer. But it, you know, it seemed like the morning. So, like, the evening can be good for that kind of strategy. Mornings can be tough because they're moving, moving from feed to bed. And so the strategy in the morning is generally an ambush strategy. And then waiting for them to bed and then moving in. So let's say I'm hunting mule deer. My day looks like this. I'm up and I'm glassing. If I've got a buck and it's open enough country where I can swatch in bed, I'm gonna sit there and I'm not gonna make a play on that deer generally. Unless something like, unless he looks like he's gonna do something real stupid. Which stupid would be like, move toward an area where I have good wind and a good ambush. So the plays that I make, like in the morning are often ambush strategies where it's like, I think I could get to a place to cut him off. Otherwise I'm gonna watch in bed and make a play four hours later. And especially the earlier it is, like, the more emphasis I put on that. Like, if it's like toward the rut, it's kind of changes. And then late season, it doesn't really. It's more like earlier, but. And then. So as it goes to like midday, then I've got like that midday play and I'm making like my preferred high percentage stock. In the evening, I'm doing one of two things. Like, I'm probably like a reverse ambush where he's going to feed, or let's say I can't get there and they're already out. Like, there's a lot of places where I'm like, you aren't seeing deer. And then they come out in the evening. It's kind of that ambush to strategic stalking when that. When that wind shifts. And by doing that, like, I'm pretty good at, like, pulling off, like, high percentage stocks. Like, generally, you know, like, I see a lot of people chasing mule deer around. It's like, they stock, they stock, they stock. They blow it, they blow it, they blow it. I'd rather make like a couple stocks. But, like, of those stocks, I'm probably 75% or 50, you know, probably better than 50%, you know, like last year I made on mule deer, like, archery, mule deer hunting. I made one stock and shot a buck. You know, it's like the last three years, I've made three stocks. And so it's like. But I'm patient in finding those stocks. You know, and so like that's, you know, that's kind of a big key of like knowing when to move on those. I hope you guys really enjoyed that podcast. It's always really fun for me to kind of be out and actually get to do these Q&As live because I get to interact with everyone. Thank you everybody that stopped by our booth this week, came by, shared their hunting stories. It's always fun for me to kind of, you know, see your guys success. So if you didn't make it to the show and you know you've got some success or whatever, feel free to, as always, reach out via social media, leave a comment on the podcast or even on our YouTube channel. I really appreciate everybody and all the support that you guys have have done. It's been just an awesome experience at the Western Hunt Expo to just be able to sit down with you guys and, and get a little bit of time to talk with different people and share those hunting stories. That's been, that's been a fun. Thank you also everybody that's kind of supported our, our brand and our Live Wild stuff. If you guys are interested, we still have a lot of different stuff on our website. We've got, you know, hunting gear as well as our Live Wild apparel, so you can check that out. 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