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Live Wild with Remi Warren
Ep. 210 | Tracking Pt. 2 - The bull that beat us to the truck
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In this conversation, Remi Warren discusses the importance of using binoculars effectively while hunting. He emphasizes that hunters should utilize their optics to enhance their ability to spot wildlife, likening binoculars to a superpower that can significantly improve the hunting experience. Warren shares insights on how to approach wildlife observation and the necessity of actively looking through optics rather than relying on chance.
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Foreign. I'm Remy Warren and I've lived my life in the wild as a professional guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days perfecting my craft. I want to give that knowledge to you. In this podcast we relive some of my past adventures as I give you practical hunting tips to make you more successful. Whether you're just getting started or a lifelong hunter, this podcast will bring you along on the hunt and teach you how to live. Wild Podcast is brought to you by Mountain Tough and Yeti. Now for those that don't know, Mountain Tough is an online based training app that's designed for hunters to train you both mentally and physically for the mountains. So you can go on. And there's programs designed with workouts that are specifically made to get you ready for the things you're going to encounter out there in the wild. And while a lot of you probably know that their programs are designed to get you ready, they also have programs designed to keep you ready during the season. 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Now last week we started to look at a hunting tactic that involved tracking. We looked at identifying the types of track and then understanding what fresh tracks look like. This week we're going to get on the trail and look at how to effectively hunt a track, the when and how to follow it, and how to look for the animal that you're tracking to find it before it sees you. But before we do that, I just want to share a fun, maybe more of a funny tracking story of what can happen when you follow a track. One of my favorite things about tracking animals is what you learn in. When you can see what that animal is doing when you aren't watching them. I guess for the most part. A lot of the tracking that I do is in thick timber because it allows you kind of eyes in the past, eyes on the ground allows you to see where animals have been and where they're going. When you can't see. See in there. There's a lot of places that I hunt that are thick. If I. The best place to follow a track is where it's open, because you can. You can, like, know the direction and generally get on the animal a lot sooner. When you're following them in the thick timber, there's that thing where you still have to find that animal before it sees you. A lot of times it's close quarters and you're in the thick trees and all this other stuff. But it makes it exciting too. Tracking elk is. Is something that I've done a lot of, um, especially because as a guide, you kind of. You. You hunt every week of the season. Doesn't matter. Rain, snow, shine, whatever. And some weeks you get some just absolute shit weather where you can't glass like I would. Some. Some of the areas that I like to hunt, I just prefer to glass. But, dude, I was like, well, it's foggy this week. Snowed, though. What are we gonna do? We're gonna follow the tracks. This particular day was just one of those days where it's like we're just following tracks. So I'm going up, cutting fresh tracks in the snow, like myself driving. And a bunch of elk had crossed the road, like, very, very fresh because it was snowing when I left and left camp. And it's not snowing anymore. These are. These are freshies. So we pile out and start following the tracks and end up. You know, sometimes you'll be following some tracks and you run into a better track. But anyways, we're following these tracks and follow them out to this. And it's like cows. And I can see that there's a bull track in there. And we come around the mountain and it starts to hit this ridge. And the wind's good. I can smell the elk at this point, so I know they're there. And come up and actually see group of elk. And I can see a bull in the timber, but try to line my hunter up. You just can't see the bull. And they move off. And he ended up spooking. And so, like, all Right. Well, whatever. So we. I'm going. And I cut. I can't remember. So I guess it was. I don't know if it was that same. Maybe if that bull peeled off, like, get on that bull track and start following it and end up cutting this very big bull track, like, without. Based off this track. I know this is a mature bull. I don't know what he's got on his head, but I know that he's big, like his body. So start following this track, and it's just like, goes up over the mountain. We're following it, like, following it out. So it's very fresh. I'm like, at any point we are going to be on this bull and so start to come up to this spot. It was bedded here. I'm like, dude, we are absolutely on this. Like, we have to see this bull. It bedded drops down. And now we've been following this track for, like, I don't know, miles, I don't know how far. Seems like a long time. And so we're following this track and, like, went up around the mountain, bedded on this knob, and started heading back toward where we're parked. Anyways, so we start following the track, and sure enough, I'm not kidding you, the bull Track walked within 20 yards of where the truck was parked. Like, it walked right in front of where the truck was parking. Like, man, if someone was just sitting at the truck, they would have absolutely just killed this bull. And then it went up, crossed, and then I don't know if, you know, the wind had shifted. And then we ran into those tracks running away. I didn't, you know, it didn't run from us, like, from the vehicle being parked there. It just, like, meandered right past it. I figured I was like, okay, of course, you know, you trackable all day, and it ends up walking back to behind your truck. But had there been no snow, we would have never known that, right? Like, hey, man, there's just a truck. A bull walked right past our truck. We would have probably continued to stay on that. That elk. But there's some pretty good snow that day, and a buddy of mine got his truck stuck, and so we decided to pull out and go help him out. Also, because the elk had been running, didn't really help our chances. We had followed it for a long time, and we're probably going to run out of daylight anyways to find that bull. So it didn't work out. But it was funny because it's like the things you can decipher in the snow. And what an elk or an animal is doing are things that you, maybe you want to know, maybe don't want to know, but the old adage of like, you can't shoot them from the truck if you're out there hiking around, it was just funny. We kept joking like, I shouldn't. Should have never been hiking all those miles. Should have just sat in the truck, kept drinking our coffee, would kill the big bull. You know, there's always those stories of somebody that was sitting back of the truck and an elk walked by. That would be nice. I'm never that guy because I'm always walking around. But it was funny to see what that elk did in the snow just by following his track. Yeah. So last week we looked at, looking at the track, the individual track. What's it look like? How old is it? What's it doing? Is it meandering? Is it feeding? Is it bedding? What do we got going on? Now, following a track, though, means that to be successful at tracking an animal, you can't just. Well, you can, right? You can just follow a track and see what happens. But you're going to have a lot more success if you understand the animal that's laying that track down, because the track is at the end of. That's where the animal's at. But how to find that animal before you spook it, before it finds you, that involves understanding the animal. So there's a couple of questions that I, I would ask, right? What are we hunting? And this is. You might find this common theme in the podcast when it comes to tips and tactics, understanding the animals. One of the biggest portions of being a continuously successful hunter, people that really understand what they're going after, are the guys that find continued success. You can have all the gear in the world. You can have all this and that and the other thing. But if you don't have that knowledge of the animal that you're chasing, then you're kind of spinning your wheels on the tactic that you're using. So one of the things that I like to think about is the time of day, the time of year, the species, and then what are their habits. So I'm going to give you some examples. And this is just, you know, I can't. I'm not telling you every single scenario, right? But you got to start to piece it together. So. So let's say it's, I'm elk hunting in November, right? I've got a bull tag, species, even gender of what I'm hunting, right? I've got a bull tag and I've got a bull track. What is a bull elk's habit in November? What's he doing? Well, he's doing a couple of different things. Well, where, where am I? Okay, if I'm at 8,000, 9,000ft, I'm in nuts deep snow and I've got, you know, and I'm bordering like I'm in an area where the elk are clearly not going to winter. What do I think that bull is doing? He's probably working his way to lower country or migration area now maybe I mean, I mean high altitude area and hey, there's, there's feed up there and like he can, he can stay up here for as long as he wants. Okay, well maybe he's just hanging out, living life too. Right? So I got to understand, what do I think that this elk's doing now? Now let's say you're like, well, Remy, he's migrating. Okay, so what, what am I going to expect? Well, maybe I'm, I'm planning on that bull moving a lot further distance than just where I'm at right now. But that doesn't mean that he's going. It's like he's not just going to straight walk to. Well, sometimes they would walk to low country, never stop, you know. But he is probably moving, betting, moving, betting. Is there areas where he can start to feed? Maybe we'll see that in the track. But what's that elk primarily doing? Is it a single bull track? Is it multiple bull tracks? Now let's say it's like same time frame and it's mule deer, buck track. Well, that buck's rutting. What's he doing? He's looking for does. What time of day is it, Is it like morning? Okay, well what's an elk doing in the morning? He's probably just coming from feeding and he's probably moving off to bedding. Okay, well that, that's actually a pretty good habit. Like, or is it, am I finding this track midday and you know, I'm probably going to find it like closer to the evening time where I followed it. I'm probably going to find an empty bed and that bull's probably going to, to feeding. Understanding what that animal would be doing naturally is going to help you understand how to look for that particular animal. When I'm following an elk track and I believe that it's going to bed, feed to bed, feed to bed, feed to bed. That time of day, I'm really kind of honing in on finding that Animal in its bed, especially if it's like morning time. And now I'm like moving into that mid morning. Okay, what's the temperature out? Like, do I believe that this elk is going to bed in the shade or do I think that this elk might try to get out into some open in bed? So why does this matter? Because following the track kind of is a. Is a timing issue too. Like I kind of tagged on it last week. There's going to be distance where this animal is traveling. Probably not going to see it. There's going to be a distance where I need to pay a hyper level of focus on the places where I think it's going to turn up. Because a lot of people follow tracks and blow stuff out. A lot of people follow tracks and blow stuff out because they don't know when they might encounter that particular animal. And the people that are really good at it kind of understand when and where that animal is going to be based on that track. There's many times that I cut tracks and can almost guarantee where I'm going to cut that track again and can kind of like don't even have to stay on that track. Okay, this elk is clearly like morning time. Let's use an elk scenario. And this is one that, that happens a lot. Snowed. It's like morning time. I hit up a feeding area. I find tracks. I was like, you. Yep. Look, they were feeding. What do I think this elk's gonna do? I think it's gonna go up the mountain. I think it's gonna hit a ridge. I think it's gonna dump over into some timber and then it's gonna bed and it's probably gonna bed on a, on a finger ridge just below the top where it's got good wind. And they're all gonna be scattered all over and I'll just cut up, cut to the ridge and intersect that track as it's moving into the timber in the, into like a bedding area. And I didn't have to like just follow that track and meander and pick them apart everywhere they're going. I could just cut up to where it's going to single file into the trees. And now I'm back on that bull track and I don't have to sort through tracks out in the thing where they've been feeding for a couple hours pre daylight. I can just go to where it's going to go. And, and now I'm, I'm time heading. I'm like, maybe, maybe this point now, ooh, I might catch this bull while it's on its feet, that's nice sometimes because, you know, they're, they're easier to see when they're standing and sometimes they're a little distracted. They're feeding and moving through the trees before they bed, maybe doing a little meandering. And then I'm following this straight track like it's boogieing to go bed and this starts to move around. I go, oh, it's slowing down, it's looking for a place to bed. It's feeding here, it's feeding there. Okay, I bet this bull's up or maybe it just bedded. And now I can start to slow down, I can start to pick it apart. And I have a lot of higher likelihood of encountering that elk kind of on my terms than on that elk's terms. Most animals are putting themselves in position where they aren't going to get attacked by predators. In the primary, they're like natural predators. Follow their scent trails, follow their tracks. When in like whether it's snow on the ground or not. In many instances, especially mule deer, they're, they're concerned about the predators that aren't the two legged kind, the four legged kind, the wolves and the mountain lions and what have you. That like that wolf that I saw last week, nose to the ground on a set of tracks, right? It hit a trail and started following tracks. How do you think that the animal is naturally going to defend against that predator? It's going to have the wind at its back. It's going to be bedded where it can see that trail for an approaching predator. And that's going to be how its safety net is. Understanding that and that safety net really allows you to say, this is a good potential place for this animal to bed. It's got the wind going downhill, like you'll follow tracks. Like, where's this animal going? It's going to a place that's safe. It's going to a place where it's got that, you know, multiple ways of defending against predators, predation. It's got wind coming downhill. It's got maybe some loud stuff around it. Think about like a creek crossing or like real thick brush. That buck that I killed last week, it had just was like just up above the creek, watching its back trail, wind coming down the hill. When I saw that setup, I was like, if the buck's bedded, he's bedded here. And within 100 yards I ran into that deer and shot that deer because I understood the game, right? I understood what that animal uses as Security where deer tuck in, where they can hear, where they can see, where they can smell. Understanding the animal and understanding the way that animals bed and the way that animals use. Topography and other things helps you identify the strategy and scenario when you're following that track. So the second thing, like when you're following a track, the. The. I guess one of the things, like, you're gonna have to have a good wind, but sometimes an okay wind works. And that's. That's one thing with falling trains. Sometimes you're on a track and that animal isn't even close to where you're at. So you go, oh, this is a bad wind. We also have to go, well, where. Where do I think this animal might be? Do I think it's right here, or am I just encountering the track and let's see where it goes and see where it leads and see if that wind ends up changing for the direction that it's going. Oftentimes too, we can. We can cut a track and anticipate. Anticipate where that animal might be moving to and utilize multiple tactics where we're using the track to kind of put us into a position to find that animal and then using other tactics to kind of try to get ahead in advance. So what I'm saying by that is like, okay, I've got a track. I'm on a track. I'm following it as I come up to a hillside where I can look across. I'm sitting down, glassing, glassing for that track, looking for the track. Okay, there's the track. Where's the track going? Oh, I mean, like last week, I don't know how many sets of tracks I followed with my binoculars and didn't see them come out from a tree and then moved multiple times to look behind that tree, and voila, there's a deer bedded there. Cool. Shows me where they're at, right? So just understanding where that animal might be and trying to think a couple steps ahead with the wind, one thing is like, you aren't gonna. You aren't gonna trick the wind. But in some scenarios, right, you've got thermals that are helping out or hurting. Sometimes you've got prevailing winds that might be helping or hurting. But then there's times where it's like, okay, the wind's bad, but I've got the general travel of that track. Maybe I can loop around, right? So, like, get the better wind. So and. And try to re. Intersect that track coming in with a better wind and see what it does. So in A scenario where. Where I might do this. I can think of multiple times where I've been following a bull track, and the wind's like, blowing. Let's say I'm standing on the track, track's heading, yay direction, side hilling, and the wind's like, just right at my back. So what am I gonna do? I could just continue to follow that track. I could say, well, once I wrap around this, maybe the thermal is gonna be pushing it up. I could get lucky in many instances. What I might do is I probably, like, I've had this happen a lot, especially for elk, the way that they travel, like on the fate, like through the side. And even deer. It's like, okay, I'm going to back out. I'm gonna go straight up to the top, and then I'm gonna go a couple ridges over and then go down the ridge and then glass both sides because the wind's go, like, let's say as I'm now coming down the ridge, I'm paralleling it. So I'd be coming down from above on something that might be bedded in there. I'm giving it a little bit of space where I think it's going to go, and then I'm gonna see if I intersect that track again. And if I don't, then I can work back toward the track. So I'll have my Onyx on. I'll use, like, if I can do 3D mode, I will. Or I'll just have the topography in there. I'll see the topography and I'll kind of do the system, like working back with the right wind into the track. So overshoot, drop down. If I don't catch the track on that next ridge, then I know, okay, well, it's probably. It either peeled down or it's. It's somewhere in between. And I try to find that logical place where now I hunt back looking for that animal with a good wind. But if I intersect the track, then I do the same thing again. I go back up. I go a couple more, you know, like a couple fingers over, drop down. Oh, it intersected it here again. Okay, cool. I'm going to keep do, like, keep leapfrogging. And the other nice thing is with the tracks, if it was like, oh, did he win me? Well, you should be able to tell in the snow because you'll see. Oh, it was bedded. It blew up and then just started running away. Well, okay, that one didn't work. I'm going to cut a new track and try to figure Out a new plan or play from here. So one of the strategies that I also utilize a lot is moving off and glassing those productive or likely spots and then get back on the trail. So, you know, oftentimes I'll have my tracks on. On my onyx, or I'll just either have the tracks on or I will, you know, drop a pin where I'm leaving the track, what have you. I'll move off. So, like, even. Especially with deer, rutting deer. And I go, okay, this deer is probably cruising for does. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to follow the track. And then I start to intersect doe track tracks. I'm like, okay, well, he's going to be distracted. Is there a place where I can maybe look into this next little pocket? I'll back up. I'll try to get across or what have you look into their glass, see if I can pick up tracks in the. In the glass and maybe try to turn up that deer that might still be on their feet messing with does, doing what have you. The other thing is, when we're following a track, one of the. Especially in the timber, I think there's those times that you. You kind of got to go fast, and there's times where you literally have to stalk that track. Last week, I. I shared the story of shooting a buck real close on that. That recent mule deer hunt. And I've done that with elk, I've done that with deer, done that with a lot of different things. One of the reasons that I. I tend to find the animals before they find me is I'm using my binoculars in that thick country. And that's one of the things that I think gets over, like, a skill that gets overlooked. I had somebody hunting with me recently, and they're like, why are you. When you're throwing up your binos, are you seeing something? I'm like, no. Rarely do I see something with my eyes and then throw my binos up. I mean, I see a place that I want to look, but if I see a place that I want to look, I'm looking with my optics. You've literally got a superpower in your hand, is like you can be superman if you put your optics to your face. I would say the number one, and I've said this a million times, but the number one, like, thing that people don't do that they should do is just put their glass to their face. Like, people have it around their neck, and it does not. You do not spot animals through osmosis. You have to look through your binos to utilize that superpower. I, around my neck, have 12 power vision, and some people just choose not to use it. I use it in every scenario. No matter how close or far. I'm constantly throwing up my binos. I'm rolling the focus to go through the trees and back. Because sometimes you'll spot things at a close range where you think you can see it with your naked eye, and you probably aren't gonna see it with your naked eye. I call it rolling the focus where I pull the binos up, I'm looking through the trees, and I just scroll that focus back and forth. So as it goes, as I adjust the focus, it goes deeper and closer within the thing I'm looking at. I take a few steps, I stop, I scan, I take a few steps, I stop, I sc. And that's the pattern that I do as I'm following tracks in the timber. Especially when I think I'm getting to a spot where it might be close or an area where it's like, okay, I can see some new terrain. Glasses, scan it, step, glass it, scan it, step. Most of the time, I'm picking up a tiny little piece of an animal. And, you know, I've done it so much that I know, like, the effectiveness of it. And more often than not, I actually spot animals before they spot me because I'm paying that level of detail. But I'm looking through my optics at those close ranges. It makes a. I cannot probably count the amount of times that that's been the difference maker in a successful hunt of one more step and I would have blown it. But yet we caught this elk or this deer, whatever, unaware of our. Of our presence, and we were able to get into position and get a shot. And so, you know, as you're moving in through the timber, that's an extremely effective strategy, is use your glass in that close country. It's not just for. I use the same optics that I use for glassing five miles away as I do for glassing 50 yards away. And believe it or not, there's stuff that you're going to spot at 50 to 90, whatever yards that you may not see. I was actually hunting this evening with my daughter. She's 4, but she's carrying my little tripod. We're walking in a gate, like a logging road that you can't drive. And I had my bow. It's like general rifle season, But I'm like, I'm just gonna bow hunt. And sure enough, I'm just like scrolling it's starting to get evening time. Still 30 minutes of legal shooting light. But it's just cloudy and overcast and dark, and animals blend in. I got my binos up, I'm rolling focus, and 107 yards away, there's two deer that I would have just walked past or glazed over had I not been looking through my optics. So there's so many instances where that pays dividends. And when you're tracking, you know that that animal's there. You know that at the end of that track, you're looking at something. You can be pretty, pretty focused. Now, one of the things that I will say is a strategy. Moving in on the track is understanding that topography. And where do you expect that animal might go as we start to move and follow the track? What's that next play? And then really focusing in on those places. If you've got a spot where you're like, I think that they're going to be in this particular area. How can I look into there before I go into there? What are ways that I can start to strategize and find this animal before it finds me or before it is alerted that I'm here? And in different kinds of country, you can work those tracks at different kinds of speeds and, you know, cover that track in different ways. In real open country, like I said, you can get on the track, maybe get off the track a little ways, kind of glass ahead, glass ahead, glass ahead, move up, get back on the track, pull back out, glass ahead, glass ahead, get back on the track. Maybe you see the track going, don't come out. Okay, well, now we can really start to pick this apart. Sometimes you can do that from a greater distance and have a lot more success that way. Now, in thick country, let's say you're chasing whitetails and some more mountainous terrain or even river bottom kind of stuff. Mule deer, other things that might not be feasible. So we almost follow that track like we're bow hunting. We're literally practically crawling on it. Every step is quiet, Every couple steps. We're glassing, we're moving slow, we're glassing, we're moving slow. We're essentially continually stalking. You know that that deer's there, it's in that track somewhere. Now you're just stalking that track. You're moving up, like every tree it could be behind. Glassing and moving, glassing and moving. And by understanding the animal, like understanding what that track's doing and then anticipating where that animal might be, you're going to be a lot more likely to turn up whatever you're following before it turns you up and potentially get a shot. Tracking is a really fun way to pursue an animal. And definitely, if you haven't, maybe there's probably a lot of people listening to this podcast and like, that's my primary method of hunting. There's a lot of places that are thick, mountainous, and once that snow falls, there's a certain group of guys that they used their time off work the morning after the snow, right. Their method for hunting was tracking and tracking and they could do it with the right conditions and we're very successful with it. And then there was guys that like, they would see, they would drive past the track and not even think twice about it, like, oh, an elk was here. I don't know. And then just keep cruising or doing whatever, right. I think that there's like that happy medium of understanding the tactic and how to utilize it successfully and then working in multiple tactics. But it's a really fun way to hunt. If you're listening to this podcast, you're like, hey, that's actually maybe I've never considered that, or this is a new strategy for me and you find some success, you know, definitely. Let me know. I love to hear those stories where I got some messages on Instagram the other day of just guys like, oh, dude, archery season. Utilize this strategy that you talked about, or mule you're hunting, use this one from last week's podcast. Driving out there and started doing this and man, dude, here's what I got. Like, I love hearing that kind of stuff, especially during the season. So keep it coming, guys. Like, I really do appreciate, appreciate that. One of the things I wanted to mention as well before we go, Stone Glacier, an incredible supporter of this podcast. I mean, everybody knows, like, they've got phenomenal packs, they've got some incredible gear. I really enjoy their gators too. They're. They're awesome tents. Like just some incredible stuff for just lightweight backpack style hunting day hunting. Like their day packs are incredible too because you can carry substantial amount of weight in them for packing out, but they're lightweight going in. They can be quiet. One of the things with like following a track, I guess I should say like a strategy, you know, I, I see a lot of, like, a lot of the guys, we'll call me old timers and they've got, they, they know, right? I, I see they wear different clothes. The guys that are, that are tracking thick timber wear different stuff. Like they're in fleece, they're in like they don't wear a back. Like, they got lightweight stuff on. They're moving quiet for me, I'm not gonna go trekking through big mountains and miles probably without a pack on for a lot of reasons. Like, there's things in it that I probably want and I. And I've been successful, you know, moving quiet. But often if I know I'm tracking, I'm going with a lighter, smaller, more of a day pack pack, or taking my big pack and cinching it up. The nice thing about, like, snow and moving through that a lot of that kind of timbery country is you can generally move pretty quiet that time of year. Like, it depends. Once that snow freezing gets crunchy, like, your footsteps, they're a dead giveaway. So sometimes you got to wait for the right time of the day when it starts to get soft and melt a little bit and be a little more quiet. But one of the things I was going to mention about Stone Glacier is, you know, it's an incredible. They've got some incredible gear. But also, as we're kind of moving into that Christmas season, I guess next week's, you know, all the Thanksgiving kind of stuff, Black Friday, all those promotions, other things, it's a good time to start thinking about buying something for yourself, buying something for someone else. So, you know, I think, like, if you're looking for something for yourself or say, like, hey, I wanted something for Christmas, I mean, some Stone Glacier, like a Stone Glacier pack, tent, all that kind of stuff. Great idea. And they always have some fun. Some awesome, you know, I don't know. I always. What I get from Stone Glacier this time of year, I hope they have it this year, is they're like themed wrapping paper and they've got the best. They've got the best Christmas shirt swag. They always have, like a fun, cool design around this time of year. That's always my holiday party go to. I don't know if they'll have it this year, but something to look out for. One thing I want to mention, as always, you can get. Get free shipping on Stone Glacier. Use code livewild. So if you're. If you're like, yep, I'm gonna. I'm gonna dive in. You get something from those guys. You can get free shipping using our code. And then also I do have a lot of Stone Glacier gear on my website. Remy warren.com. so pretty much, I know a lot of stuff's going to be coming back in stock. There's been some stuff that's been sold out and what have you So I know those guys have been, you know, hammering, working, working to get a bunch of. Bunch of, I'd say, like, prime gear. Some of the stuff that, like, always sells out pre season. You know, about this time, it starts to get stocked back up. So if there's something you're like, man, I missed out on it, give it another look. Because a lot of stuff's coming back in the store. We've got a lot of stuff in our store. So just something to think about if you're. If you're looking for that kind of gear or even just a little bit of Christmas swag, something like that. So something to check out. Guys can use that live wild code or just check out, you know, see what we got on my website, Remy Warren.com but I'm going to say until next week. Oh, yeah. Also, if you guys don't. This is just a friendly reminder. If you don't subscribe to my email list on my website, the RemyMorren.com and the Day6Gear. Go to the Day6Gear website. Make sure you're on the mailing list. We're gonna. We always around after the season. I always do some epic giveaway kind of stuff. I, I save up a lot of gear. I buy a lot of stuff throughout the season. Whatever, whatever it takes. I, I love doing, you know, connecting with companies and just getting a bunch of stuff to give away to you guys. I generally do it after the season. It's kind of going into December, so we're getting to that time of year where you want to make sure you're on those lists and stuff. So, you know, it's going down. You know, we'll have, you know, a few of our products and things, you know, whatever, you know, for all the sales and what have you. But I think the biggest thing is, you know, make sure that you don't miss out on the giveaways. A lot of people don't know this, but on my email list, dang, near every email, not every email. Kind of curtail it a little bit. I was like, why am I losing everything? Pretty much anything that I sell through the email, I would get, like, essentially spend on giving stuff away. So it's kind of a bad business practice, I guess, if I want to make it a business. But I just, I like doing that kind of stuff. If you know me, like, you're probably laughing like, yeah, exactly. Like, it's just. It's fun for me to do. So. We do a lot of giveaways on our email and everybody that's just subscribed to it is automatically entered. I mean, to be honest, we've given away thousands of dollars in free stuff for people doing nothing just being on our email list. So something to think about. But especially as we get into this time of year, I always ramp it up at the end of the year. It's just like everything I can get. We just start. I call it Santa's Bag of Swag, the old swag toss. So we got some cool stuff coming up. So I'm excited about it. So until next week, I'm just gonna say I'll say what my grandpa used to say. What my grandpa used to say and what my dad used to say. My grandpa, my grandpa used to say can't eat them tracks. And my dad would say you can't if they're in the snow. So go ahead, go eat some tracks. We'll catch you guys. Sam.