July 1, 2021 • 34 mins
This week on Cutting the Distance, Remi celebrates episode 100 by taking a look back at some of his favorite stories and moments from the CTD archives.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
in the field. This show is about translating my hard
won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
to your ultimate goal, success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
This is Cutting the Distance. Well, we made it one
(00:31):
weeks of awesome podcast action, as I like to think
of it, and it's all really thanks to you, the questions,
the comments, mainly the support. I can't believe it's actually
been a hundred podcasts. I thought this week it might
be kind of fun to just mix it up a
little bit and tell some of the stories behind the stories,
(00:52):
like a behind the scenes of Cutting the Distance podcast
reminisce over, maybe a few of my favorite moments, do
a little bit of trivia, we give something away, and
then I'll give you a episode one guaranteed tip for success.
This will be a tip that will pretty much guarantee
you follow these three steps and you can feel any tag.
(01:15):
I think, yeah, I think I could guarantee that. I
don't know what the rebate would be if it doesn't
work out, but I definitely think that I'm up to
that challenge. So let's jump into the story of the
first time I recorded at cutting the distance episode and
what was actually going on in the background. I think
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one of the things that allows me to do this
podcast is kind of the format that it's set up.
As you may notice that it is pretty much just
me talking into the microphone and like, well, that's a
little bit different, or this this kind of format. You know,
you don't maybe don't hear a lot of solo style
podcast but if you think about it, a lot of
things that do are solo, self filming, solo hunter. Um man,
(02:03):
everyone's probably man, this guy Reamy is a real loner,
and that's not the case. I do enjoy the company
of humans. I do love being out in nature more.
But my lifestyle is very nomadic. I try to live
by this principle be out hunting as much as possible,
and so far I've been able to successfully manage that. Now,
I think that like with guests and other things, and
(02:25):
and that kind of idea just wouldn't really fit into
that because I'm traveling a lot, I've gone a lot.
Connecting might be difficult to have a very limited service
a lot of a lot of the year. Actually, to
be honest, um so I was like, Okay, what's a
way that we can kind of make this podcast where
I What I wanted to do is accomplish a few things.
I wanted to be able to tell stories and entertain
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because I enjoy the process of telling stories, and I
think that's one thing that really makes Hunters kind of unique.
Like there's there's stories, but there's something about a hunting story,
and so I was like, I want to be able
to share those stories, but also like provide some kind
of tips to make people better. I feel it's very
fortunate to follow that lifestyle be in the field as
(03:08):
much as possible, and I feel so fortunate that I
was like, I want to be able to share what
I learned with other people. So this kind of format
came about. But the first episode was episode one back
in twenty nine, and it's about a story about missing
the biggest buck of my life. But I actually think
the better story for the podcast would have been what
(03:30):
I was doing while I was recording that first episode.
I was actually in New Zealand and I had gotten
just gotten done off of a hunt and I'm I
don't know, I like hunt til the very last minute.
It doesn't matter if if You'm like, hey, I've got
a ten day hunt and I hunt til like I
need to be back. And it was the same deal. So,
(03:50):
like I had some bad weather towards the end of
the trip, and I actually I was like, Okay, I
gotta go out on Tar hunt hunter as much as
possible while i'm there, because like, I need one star
hunt any one more fixed before I get home. And
I can't remember how long I was there that that trip,
maybe like two or three months, and um, so I'm like,
all right, I'm gonna get this the last Tar trip
in and unfortunately, it was like really kind of ship
(04:12):
weather and I got rained out and it was kind
of a bummer. But um, anyways, I was like, Okay,
I'm sitting there and I'm thinking I'm not going to
be able to get a hunt in because the weather
is so bad. So I'm like sitting at the trailhead,
the last place where the road kind of ends, and
like looking at the river and thinking there's no way
I can cross this beast. So I'm just like waiting,
(04:33):
camped out in my truck, like through this horrible rainstorm,
waiting for the river to go down. So the river
finally like starts to go down. I test the waters
and I'm like, I think I can make it, So
drive across the river and um I park. I end
up like being like, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
up this one canyon because the river got I was like,
there's no way I can drive up this river valley
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any further. So I parked my truck and I'm like,
all right, I'm just gonna hike across and go up
this one valley. I've got like a day to do it.
So I hike across. I actually got swept down the
river completely drenched, end up getting out crawling out. Luckily
I didn't lose any gear. Like this is so stupid,
I'm gonna die and get to a There's like an
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old hut and it's one of these huts that's just
like completely overrun with mice and rats. Nobody stays in
this hut because it's just gnarly. But I was like, okay,
I need a fire, and it has just been raining
for three straight days. So I get in there. There's
a little bit of wood left in the firebox. In
the fire in the wood box, like all this old
beach and stuff, so I kind of break that up,
(05:37):
make a fire, dry all my stuff out, climb up
the mountain. The next day, shoot atar, get out of there,
and luckily it was like I got out of there
and it just started to like downpour again, flash flood whatever.
So I'm like, oh man, I'm wet. I've got every
like meat and things that I need to process, and
I've got a flight that's impending, like I need to
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start driving back to christ Church, back to the airport,
so get to town. I'm like, okay, I gotta deal
with this Tar. I got a butcher, like, I gotta
do all this stuff, and I'm like, but I'm a
very limited amount of time. And I also, of course
had to send off like it's been months delayed. I
was like, I gotta get this first podcast thing out
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because I was getting hounded pretty good about like if
we're gonna do this, we need to nail this thing
down right now. So I'm like, sweet, okay, So I'm
gonna do my stuff and record the podcast. So I
get a hotel. It was like an airport hotel out
of christ Church. I probably shouldn't see the name of
the place because once they hear what was going down.
I'll probably never get an hotel room there again. And
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but I got this place because it's the head out
of freezer. So I've got like I'm pretending like, oh yeah,
everything's good. But I've got this tar school and I've
got a bunch of meat that was going to freeze
and take home, but this place had a freezer, so
I've got like I went to the store on the way,
I got a bunch of cellophanes saran wrap. So I'm
like pretty much butchering this tar in a bathroom hotel
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and I'm like, I'm going to I'm going to uh
freeze what I can, take back what I can, and
then I was going to give some of it to
my friend on the way out, who's dropping me off
the airport. So I'm like sweet, But I was also like, man,
i want to take this tart tar skull home. So
I've like got my little jet boil. I've got a
little pot in there, and I'm like boiling into the bathroom,
running the exhaust fan to like suck it out and
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make sure it doesn't smell, and um, luckily I did,
so I did get like a pre boil over the fire.
So this was like it was good, but I just
it wasn't good enough. So I'm boiling the pot in there,
and I'm like, all right, cool. I was like, I
gotta do this podcasting. So I got all my stuff organized,
get everything ready, and um, I finally got that up,
(07:50):
but I was like, I needed to dry. I went
to the grocery store got some like what would it
be like blonde platinum hair dye to use the peroxide
in it to like reach it out. So I've got
it soaking in this thing. I think I can't even remember.
It's probably I think the boil was probably going on
while I was recording the first podcast. I'm like, all right,
(08:10):
so I'm telling the story of the hunt doing the thing,
and meanwhile I'm in a hotel room with a skull
boiling in the bathroom after just butchering this tar and
processing it in the hotel room, kind of like undercover.
And that is why these episodes are all solo style,
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because it's, um, it's the life on the road and
spending a lot of time in the hills and then
just being able to accommodate and make sure that I
can knock out a podcast a week for now what
is a hundred weeks, so that is the kind of
the story of the genesis of cutting the distance podcasts.
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I talked about telling like enjoying to tell stories, and
I think there's been a lot of cool stories over
the last hundred episodes. I don't know. I think if
I had to pick what my favorite story was, um,
I don't really know. I think I think that back
in episode five, there was a story in there about
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the elk that wrecked my nap and we can queue
that up and retell that story right now, because I
think that was that was probably one of my favorite stories.
And I think one of the cool things that kind
of reinforced like, um, just this podcast and inspired me
was I actually randomly got uh, well not necessarily randomly,
(09:43):
but after that story, I got a text message from
Joe Rogan, who's obviously like the king of podcast and
he's just like, hey, man, I really loved your podcast
this week. That story was awesome. Keep up the good
where it keep going after it. And that was a
really encouraging because for me to sit down every week
and talk into a microphone and do these podcasts, it
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just to wrap my head around that was kind of
like I don't know if it's something that I want
to get into, and that that kind of encouragement from
somebody like him was pretty awesome, So I think that
kind of story sticks in my mind. It's probably one
of my favorite stories and one of my favorite moments,
Like with the podcast. One story that really stands out
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in my mind. I was guiding in New Mexico and
I had one of those weeks that just nothing seemed
to be going right. I could tell that bulls were
hitting this meadow in the dark, but nothing would make
a peep and nothing would come out during daylight hours.
I could also tell that the elk we're using this
particular wallow. I decided, okay, the elk are coming from
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the timbered area to the west, and this wallows right
on the edge of the timber, and then it enters
into a feeding area. I yet to see one in
daylight hours, but I thought, why don't I create an
illusion that there's a herd of elk cows out here
and hopefully draw a bowl out of the timber where
I could tell the tracks are coming in and out of.
I was assuming that if he's gonna go to the
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herd of elk, he'll probably hit this wallow first, he'll
get mudded up, he'll get sent it up, and then
come in hot trying to impress the gals. So I
put him up in a tree stand that I set
up over the wallow, because I figured, well, even in
while I'm calling, he can have a better vantage from
the tree stand and might just catch an elk that's
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cruising to wallow or even drink because it was fairly
hot as well. And then I would go a little
bit further out and start cow calling. So I started
in the morning hitting a few cow calls, and I
had a whole slew of different cow calls, everything from
diaphragm calls to open read calls, as well as some
of those squeeze button calls might even have like a
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hoochie mama call. And then one of the carlton though
what it was at a button call or they call
it something like that in my pockets because what I
wanted to do is sound like a bunch of different
elk at once. So the morning starts out, I give
my bugles just to make sure there's no bulls around.
Nothing replying the same as it's been the last few days.
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So I decided to work in my cow call sequence,
hitting some mus standard elk talk me and me going
off a few of those little pocket calls. Nothing all right,
but I'm intentionally calling to a bull that I'm assuming
is going to come in quiet. I'm trying to call
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to the loan bowl that I'd cut tracks of that
i'm hoping is looking for cows. The morning progresses, it's
starting to get hot and nothing has shown up. So
I'm going to divulge a little secret. And this is
something I rarely do. I started dozing off in between
sets of cow calls because for two reasons, One I
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was pretty tired, and two I just get so impatient.
I'm not good at sitting there just being patient and calling.
Take a little nap, and in between falling asleep, I
would wake up, he hit a few calls, go back
to sleep. That just kept me from overcalling. Really, so
I'm in between call sets, I'm laying there. The sun's
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hitting me, like man, there's definitely not going to be
any elk right now, but there's really nothing else we
can do, so I'll just keep calling. I opened my
eyes just slightly. I look off as I opened my eyes,
there is an elk's foot within half an arm's length
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of my head. I could just literally reach my right
arm out and grab this bull. I look up and
this bull is directly over me. That elk knew exactly
where those calls were coming from. He had pinpointed the
exact location where I was calling from. Yet Ed walked
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right to me. Now, the trouble is, I've never had
this happen, and I have a bull. His head is
literally right above my head. I'm worried that he's going
to freak out and start stomping on me. I do
not want him to see my eyeball, so I'm just
squinting and partially freaking out, thinking that he is at
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any second going to realize something's wrong and stomp me.
When I woke up, I must have rustled a little
bit because he kind of tilted his head down, so
he's got his head down and I can see his
eyeball maybe three ft from my face, and he's got
his head down and his eye he cocked his head
sideways so he could look at me better, and I
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can just see his eye sort of bulging out of
his head, and he's moving back and forth trying to
figure out what the hell is at his feet. At
this point, I'm literally just praying this thing does not
smash me and trying to move, not move at all.
I do not want to open my eyes. I'm just squinting.
He probably felt or heard my heart beating out of
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my chest. He got a little antsy and trotted off,
spun around again, looked back where I was. I just
continued to lay there until he moved off. Once he
got out of sight, I'll let a few more cow
calls out, snuck around, grabbed my hunter from the tree stand.
I was like, dude, this big six point bull was
just right here at that point. I didn't tell him
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that I was asleep, of course, But so he comes down.
We work. Luckily, the wind was good. I get him.
We work into the wind, set up again, continue to call.
This time he actually kind of button hooks around, just
out of range of myself and the hunter. You say,
fifty five yards, circles around, catches our wind and blows out. Now,
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while we did not get that bull, it taught me
two really good lessons, one in patience and one in
the fact that those elk no exactly where you're calling
from and that is gonna play huge into the way
that I set up my calling sequences for loan bulls. Now,
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a funny story behind the stories. That wasn't the only
animal that wrecked my nap on that trip. I had
a couple of days off and I was like, even
all my days off, I would just go out scout
and whatever. So I went up to this big meadow
it's kind of like right on the border of this
area that we're able to hunt, and there's like this
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this big, like timbered face, and there just happened to
be this one bull that always would hang out in
this meadow. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna see
if I can just get eyes on him and kind
of pattern him so when the hunt starts, I can
bring a guy in here. No if it's like, hey,
this this elks using this or what time of day
or what's going on. So a glassed in the morning,
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didn't see anything, and you know, the sun comes up
and I'm not the type of person that takes naps,
But here's two naps stories back to back. These are
like the two naps that I've taken in my life.
And this is probably why I ever did not taking naps.
So I'm sitting there and it's like nothing's going on.
I'm eating those like cheese peanut butter crackers, you know,
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whatever they are. I don't who makes this. We need
to figure this out. It sounds like a disgusting combination.
It's cheese and peanut butter, but man, they're awesome. And
I think that these ones are probably from nineteen seventy
and there's still good dat I've got. I pull those
cheese crackers out of my pack that I don't even
know what air they're from, but they still taste like
they do I would imagine fresh. I don't know if
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I ever read them fresh. So I'm eating these my
favorite cheese peanut butter crackers. I'm like laying there and
sun hits me. It's like, okay, cool. I started to
doze off, and then i feel something in my crotch
area and I'm like, okay, what is going on? Slowly
opened my eyes and there's a chipmunk. It's digging in
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between somehow. Well, clearly, when I was eating, the crumbs
from the crackers had fallen into like my lap and
probably got behind the zippers. So this chipmunk is trying
to get into my zipper and like digging around for
the crumbs from the crackers. I'll look at that chipmunk
and my eyes are open and I'm looking at and
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some it noticed that now whatever it was digging at
is not a log. It is alive. And that chipmunk,
I swear to you, it was like staring in his eyes.
I swear its eyes got like three times in size
because and just jumps off a million miles an hour.
And from that moment on, I went back to hunting Camp,
told everyone's story, and my big joke was my big
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punchline to the story of the day was yeah, that
chipmunk was trying to get steal me nuts. So um,
that's my napping story. After the napping story, I had
two pretty good napping stories and camp that season. One
was a nuts stealing chipmunk and then the other one
was the elk that got a little too close. If
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you ask me, you've listened to all one episodes, you're like,
if there is one thing you learn from all these
podcasts or one mantra that sticks in your head, I
think it's this. It's go the best way, not the
easy way. You might remember that from episode fifteen, And
what that is is just kind of planning your stock.
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When it comes to planning your stock, always thinking go
the best way, not the easy way. That's something that
I say on every hunt, on every stock, every time
I look at a mountain. I want to be successful,
and in order to be successful, I need to do
things the best way, not the easy way. Now, when
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I say go the best way, not the easy way,
what's that even mean? When you're thinking about a potential stock,
there's always these little outs, little ways to go, a
direction that will probably get you there, but something's just
a little bit wrong. The best way is the way
with the least amount of possible ways to get busted. Okay,
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So if you have all your options laid out on
the table right in front of you, you have to
pick the option has the least potential to send that
animal running. And that oftentimes I've found statistically over the years,
the best way is often the most physical or longest
way possible. It's the way that kind of seems in
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your mind, I don't really feel like doing that. That's
because there's an element in choosing the best route, not
based on what's the easiest. You have to pick it
based on what is the most likely to get you
in position without hitting the three get busted factors. Those
three get usted factors are the wind, being spotted, and
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being heard. Those are the three things that you need
to take into account when planning your stock, and then
you pick the option that always lends you to get
within range without the deer ever potentially being aware of
your presence. Now, while a lot of the podcasts are
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set up in the way with the storytelling and the
tips and tactics, I think some of my favorite episodes
are actually the Q and A s because it's a
great way to really answer the questions of other people.
And I think that I actually enjoy I have fun
with those Q and A. I actually kind of wish
that there was a way that I could do a
more live Q and A style podcast because I really
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enjoy that on my feet thinking and that's just when
you know that that knowledge just comes out and it's
a it's a quick way to answer questions and probably
answer a lot of people, quite a lot of people's
questions on certain tips and tactics. If if you're the
kind of my favorite topics are generally, maybe you can
decipher this out of my excitement level of talking about it.
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I can talk about elk and I can talk about
archery hunting. I could probably just have a weekly podcast
on just one of those topics. But there's so many
other things that I love. I got to include all
those in as well. Um, But I think one of
a great question, you know, I don't. I don't think
there's been a bad question that I've answered a lot
of great questions, but one that kind of sticks in
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my head and one that I think I get asked
a lot is about people going out on elk hunt
and how to get away from people in general area tags.
So episode fifty two, there's a great question relating to
elk hunting and heavily timbered areas. Let's check it out,
all right, Cody says, Hey, Ramy, can't thank you enough
for the information and education you provide all of us.
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I've learned a ton. I have a question for you
and upcoming out podcasts. I didn't draw a tag in
New Mexico, my home state, so Buddy and myself are
going over the counter in southern Colorado. Do you have
any tips or tricks for finding elk in what I'm
sure will be some packed units. Thanks. Again, that's a
great question, because a lot of the hunts that I
do myself are in what I would also consider packed units,
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areas that you can just get a tag and and go.
I would say, like, my plan is to always get
away from hunters, but that doesn't necessarily always mean go
the furthest into the back country. So what that generally
means is find a place that other people are ignoring.
You might get there and there might be twenty cars
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at one trailhead, and you know that, Okay, once I
get up this trail, that's the only place to hunt
up there. I would probably avoid that, But also there's
probably gonna be thousands of vehicles driving the roads. So
what you're trying to do is pinpoint spots that are
far enough off where guys that are driving the roads
can't see it or won't hunt it, and then places
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that maybe aren't necessarily that iconic back country that already
has a trailhead that's attracting other people. I mentioned it
earlier already in the Q and A. But finding those
like spots that you gotta bush whack into that take
a little bit extra energy to either get in or
get out and pinpointing those spots. Now, Obviously, like I
love to the first place I'm gonna look as those
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back country areas. But sometimes those type of places actually
get hunted a lot, and that may not be the
best spot for you. And also, you know, stay away
from the roads where people are just gonna there's a
large majority of the people that will have those tags
that will never kill an elk, and they're just gonna
keep driving the roads and maybe point zero one percent
will shoot one, but they're just cruising those roads looking
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from those roads. So you're just trying to find that
place that other people aren't. Another thing I like to
hunt in really heavily hunted areas is place that I
call a whole where if I kill something, I have
to carry the elk uphill back out. That really deters
a lot of people from hunting that. So if you
can find those holes, those pockets, or even just getting
further and deeper into the back country is a great way,
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just anywhere you can get away from people. Now, the
other option is if you know that area well enough.
Now this might not be particularly for Cody's instance, but
if you hunt an area a lot understanding the escape
routes and like where elk like to travel, and then
using pressure to your advantage. There's been many times where
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I get into a position knowing that, Okay, the elk
are gonna get bumped here, you know, mostly opening days
that I hunt our elk that have been pushed by
someone else, because I know this is where the elk travel,
this is where they're moving through. This is the highest
likelihood of these elk coming through here. And then setting
up and using other people to your advantage, getting into
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those positions where you're you're kind of capitalizing on a
known behavior that elk will be running around on this
particular day, and that generally is an opening day in
a general area well as promised, I always have to
give a good tip before just to make this maybe
maybe you're the type of person that wants those absolute
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tips to be more successful in the field than episode one.
Will not let you down because I am this is
my three step guaranteed success in the field. I tell
this to all my clients and as like, if you
were hunting with me this week, I would take you
out and I would essentially tell you our plan and
it's going to be these three steps, and then we
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go through these three steps and be successful. Step one,
find the animal, step two, shoot the animal, Step three,
pack the animal back to the truck. That's it. That
any hunt you go on, it doesn't matter where you're at.
If you follow those three steps, that's the three keys
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to hunting. That's all you have to do. Now. Sometimes
the gap between step one and step two can be
pretty large, and sometimes the difficulty level between step two
and step three can be daunting, But it's all about
those It's really just to be the two steps. Find
the animal, shoot the animal, pack the animal back to
the truck. Now, if you fail at step one, then
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you just restart step one, find the animal. Now, if
you fail, it's step two. Maybe you missed the shot.
Then it's back to step one, find the animal, and
then go back to step two shoot the animal. Basic simple,
follow those three tips you'll be successful on any hunt.
I hope that was the tip you're looking for. Don't
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forget you heard it here first on Cutting the Distance podcast. Well,
that about concludes our episode one. I as always, I'm
super appreciative of everybody that's really supported the podcast over
the last hundred weeks. I know a lot of you
have listened to every episode. There's many of you that
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have actually listened to every episode multiple times or some
of the episodes multiple times. I thank you guys so
much for all the subscribing, commenting rating. That's just that
means a lot to me because the reason I do
this is is really not for me. I mean, I
don't know if people might not really understand this, but
I'm kind of like the most extroverted introvert out there. Um.
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I just kind of feel like I really enjoy being
able to help people out when it comes to hunting
because it's something that I love so much, and I
hope that that passion really translates through what I do.
And the reason that I do it is because the
reason I continue to do this podcast is because people
enjoy it and I think that it helps a lot
of people. I guess so many awesome success photos, stories,
other things, so I'm just very appreciative of that and
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that's the reason that I've continued on for a hundred episodes. UM,
I figure we might as well do. Let's see. Let's
test your knowledge. If you are a true cutting the
distance aficionado, Let's see this is I'll give you the
answers after this or you know, it's not like this
isn't how you went a prize, but let's just test
(28:53):
your knowledge here so you know, it's actually funny because
I can't remember what I say in a lot of
the episodes. Um So I don't even know if I
repeat myself or not trying not to. Some some weeks
I have to go back and see. But let's start
off with this question. You know that it's set up
with a format that is generally solo, and I say
generally because there have been two other individual voices on
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this podcast. Can you name the two people that have
appeared in Cutting the Distance outside of myself? Que the
Jeopardy music. I don't know if this is copyrighted, And
maybe I could just do do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do I'm
not gonna win any like humming contest. The answer is
(29:40):
Ben O'Brien. Early on he read the Q and a S.
And then I had a special guest lecturer in the
Archery series, which, um I think what was that episode
seventy six or something that started four part Archery yet
seventy seventy eight getting in darchery hunting, and I had
my good friend and fellow solo hunter Tim Burnett as
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a guest lecturer and those have been the only two
cutting the distance guests. Um. So if you got that right,
kudos to you. Let me know, I mean on our
system and just curious how many people got that question.
You can always reach out social media at remmy warren Um. Yeah.
And then one thing that I do, Like I said,
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I do really enjoy doing the Q and A S
and there's gonna be an opportunity to do a live
Q and A with me Friday July. It'll be in
my hometown of Reno, Nevada for the Pope and Young Convention.
So I'm gonna be doing uh instead of a seminar,
just more of a two back to back Q and
A S on Friday afternoon. And if you want to
(30:47):
join in on that would be awesome because if you hopefully,
I mean, I don't know if I'll be able to
get to everyone's questions, but I will answer a few questions.
I will also have uh some swag toss some probably
try to get something is to give away. UM. So
I'll be cool and if I can, I'm gonna try
to record it, so those might be I might have
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some other voices on Cutting the Distance podcast in the
near future if I can figure out how to record that.
So that's Friday, June And if you want, if you're
going for the day, you can use my name Warren
and get a half off day pass. That's just something
I kind of worked out for UM. People listen to
the podcast, use it if you want. And yeah, I
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was speaking of shots. We've got a couple items to
give away. I've got a new line of Live Wild
t shirts, my own shirts, so um, they're pretty cool there.
I like him like some designs that I worked on
with some guys and got those going. So I will
be giving away. I'll give away one of each one
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that I have left in stock by the time this goes,
so I'll try to save a couple hopefully. I've definitely
got some in the large size, but if you're a
random size and they're already sold out, then we'll just
swap it out for something else. I'm sure I've got
something cool we can mutually agree on. Um. But just
as a thank you to the people that listen, and
I don't know, like there's no way to actually do
(32:15):
it on here and um so I'll just figure go
on to my um. I was doing it on Instagram,
but then they got way too many people, so I
think it's just better to reward the people that listen
to the podcast. So go to my YouTube page, my
Remy Warren channel YouTube channel, find that, find the most
recent video and leave a comment that mentions something about
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the podcast or the number one and uh in the
next within the next week, I will randomly pick someone
from that And if you guys want, feel free to
subscribe to the my YouTube channel. I let it go
dormant for a while, but I've got a ton of awesome,
really good content how to stuff. Some of the stuff
that needs to be more visual will be on there,
(32:58):
so feel free to subscribe to the at and then yeah,
thank you. Oh so, finally we're gonna settle this thing,
loyal listeners of the show. I know that since podcast one,
I've been working on a sign off, So we're gonna
settle that once and for all, one sign off to
rule them all. What I did was not this is
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a genius. I went back and I tallied up the
totals of different things that I've tried and what people
responded to the best. I liked that part, you know,
maybe went back through messages people commenting on things saying
I liked this one, I didn't like that I liked
this one. So over the past one weeks I tallied
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them up and I've just kind of come up with
a hybrid of the greatest hits of cutting the distance
sign offs, which will be the sign off of all
sign offs. Here it goes, keep cutting the distance, you
filthy animal audios until next week, Aimes, small, miss small,
Now get close and stay frosty peace. Was that it?
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I don't know, Yeah, I think that's we'll just do
that every time. So, in other words, keep cutting the distance,
you fill the animals audios until next week, aims small,
miss small, Now get close and stay frosty peace. I
really got to emphasize the piece. I think. I think
that's how we're supposed to be
As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
in the field. This show is about translating my hard
won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
to your ultimate goal, success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
This is Cutting the Distance. Well, we made it one
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weeks of awesome podcast action, as I like to think
of it, and it's all really thanks to you, the questions,
the comments, mainly the support. I can't believe it's actually
been a hundred podcasts. I thought this week it might
be kind of fun to just mix it up a
little bit and tell some of the stories behind the stories,
(00:52):
like a behind the scenes of Cutting the Distance podcast
reminisce over, maybe a few of my favorite moments, do
a little bit of trivia, we give something away, and
then I'll give you a episode one guaranteed tip for success.
This will be a tip that will pretty much guarantee
you follow these three steps and you can feel any tag.
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I think, yeah, I think I could guarantee that. I
don't know what the rebate would be if it doesn't
work out, but I definitely think that I'm up to
that challenge. So let's jump into the story of the
first time I recorded at cutting the distance episode and
what was actually going on in the background. I think
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one of the things that allows me to do this
podcast is kind of the format that it's set up.
As you may notice that it is pretty much just
me talking into the microphone and like, well, that's a
little bit different, or this this kind of format. You know,
you don't maybe don't hear a lot of solo style
podcast but if you think about it, a lot of
things that do are solo, self filming, solo hunter. Um man,
(02:03):
everyone's probably man, this guy Reamy is a real loner,
and that's not the case. I do enjoy the company
of humans. I do love being out in nature more.
But my lifestyle is very nomadic. I try to live
by this principle be out hunting as much as possible,
and so far I've been able to successfully manage that. Now,
I think that like with guests and other things, and
(02:25):
and that kind of idea just wouldn't really fit into
that because I'm traveling a lot, I've gone a lot.
Connecting might be difficult to have a very limited service
a lot of a lot of the year. Actually, to
be honest, um so I was like, Okay, what's a
way that we can kind of make this podcast where
I What I wanted to do is accomplish a few things.
I wanted to be able to tell stories and entertain
(02:47):
because I enjoy the process of telling stories, and I
think that's one thing that really makes Hunters kind of unique.
Like there's there's stories, but there's something about a hunting story,
and so I was like, I want to be able
to share those stories, but also like provide some kind
of tips to make people better. I feel it's very
fortunate to follow that lifestyle be in the field as
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much as possible, and I feel so fortunate that I
was like, I want to be able to share what
I learned with other people. So this kind of format
came about. But the first episode was episode one back
in twenty nine, and it's about a story about missing
the biggest buck of my life. But I actually think
the better story for the podcast would have been what
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I was doing while I was recording that first episode.
I was actually in New Zealand and I had gotten
just gotten done off of a hunt and I'm I
don't know, I like hunt til the very last minute.
It doesn't matter if if You'm like, hey, I've got
a ten day hunt and I hunt til like I
need to be back. And it was the same deal. So,
(03:50):
like I had some bad weather towards the end of
the trip, and I actually I was like, Okay, I
gotta go out on Tar hunt hunter as much as
possible while i'm there, because like, I need one star
hunt any one more fixed before I get home. And
I can't remember how long I was there that that trip,
maybe like two or three months, and um, so I'm like,
all right, I'm gonna get this the last Tar trip
in and unfortunately, it was like really kind of ship
(04:12):
weather and I got rained out and it was kind
of a bummer. But um, anyways, I was like, Okay,
I'm sitting there and I'm thinking I'm not going to
be able to get a hunt in because the weather
is so bad. So I'm like sitting at the trailhead,
the last place where the road kind of ends, and
like looking at the river and thinking there's no way
I can cross this beast. So I'm just like waiting,
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camped out in my truck, like through this horrible rainstorm,
waiting for the river to go down. So the river
finally like starts to go down. I test the waters
and I'm like, I think I can make it, So
drive across the river and um I park. I end
up like being like, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
up this one canyon because the river got I was like,
there's no way I can drive up this river valley
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any further. So I parked my truck and I'm like,
all right, I'm just gonna hike across and go up
this one valley. I've got like a day to do it.
So I hike across. I actually got swept down the
river completely drenched, end up getting out crawling out. Luckily
I didn't lose any gear. Like this is so stupid,
I'm gonna die and get to a There's like an
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old hut and it's one of these huts that's just
like completely overrun with mice and rats. Nobody stays in
this hut because it's just gnarly. But I was like, okay,
I need a fire, and it has just been raining
for three straight days. So I get in there. There's
a little bit of wood left in the firebox. In
the fire in the wood box, like all this old
beach and stuff, so I kind of break that up,
(05:37):
make a fire, dry all my stuff out, climb up
the mountain. The next day, shoot atar, get out of there,
and luckily it was like I got out of there
and it just started to like downpour again, flash flood whatever.
So I'm like, oh man, I'm wet. I've got every
like meat and things that I need to process, and
I've got a flight that's impending, like I need to
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start driving back to christ Church, back to the airport,
so get to town. I'm like, okay, I gotta deal
with this Tar. I got a butcher, like, I gotta
do all this stuff, and I'm like, but I'm a
very limited amount of time. And I also, of course
had to send off like it's been months delayed. I
was like, I gotta get this first podcast thing out
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because I was getting hounded pretty good about like if
we're gonna do this, we need to nail this thing
down right now. So I'm like, sweet, okay, So I'm
gonna do my stuff and record the podcast. So I
get a hotel. It was like an airport hotel out
of christ Church. I probably shouldn't see the name of
the place because once they hear what was going down.
I'll probably never get an hotel room there again. And
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but I got this place because it's the head out
of freezer. So I've got like I'm pretending like, oh yeah,
everything's good. But I've got this tar school and I've
got a bunch of meat that was going to freeze
and take home, but this place had a freezer, so
I've got like I went to the store on the way,
I got a bunch of cellophanes saran wrap. So I'm
like pretty much butchering this tar in a bathroom hotel
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and I'm like, I'm going to I'm going to uh
freeze what I can, take back what I can, and
then I was going to give some of it to
my friend on the way out, who's dropping me off
the airport. So I'm like sweet, But I was also like, man,
i want to take this tart tar skull home. So
I've like got my little jet boil. I've got a
little pot in there, and I'm like boiling into the bathroom,
running the exhaust fan to like suck it out and
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make sure it doesn't smell, and um, luckily I did,
so I did get like a pre boil over the fire.
So this was like it was good, but I just
it wasn't good enough. So I'm boiling the pot in there,
and I'm like, all right, cool. I was like, I
gotta do this podcasting. So I got all my stuff organized,
get everything ready, and um, I finally got that up,
(07:50):
but I was like, I needed to dry. I went
to the grocery store got some like what would it
be like blonde platinum hair dye to use the peroxide
in it to like reach it out. So I've got
it soaking in this thing. I think I can't even remember.
It's probably I think the boil was probably going on
while I was recording the first podcast. I'm like, all right,
(08:10):
so I'm telling the story of the hunt doing the thing,
and meanwhile I'm in a hotel room with a skull
boiling in the bathroom after just butchering this tar and
processing it in the hotel room, kind of like undercover.
And that is why these episodes are all solo style,
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because it's, um, it's the life on the road and
spending a lot of time in the hills and then
just being able to accommodate and make sure that I
can knock out a podcast a week for now what
is a hundred weeks, so that is the kind of
the story of the genesis of cutting the distance podcasts.
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I talked about telling like enjoying to tell stories, and
I think there's been a lot of cool stories over
the last hundred episodes. I don't know. I think if
I had to pick what my favorite story was, um,
I don't really know. I think I think that back
in episode five, there was a story in there about
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the elk that wrecked my nap and we can queue
that up and retell that story right now, because I
think that was that was probably one of my favorite stories.
And I think one of the cool things that kind
of reinforced like, um, just this podcast and inspired me
was I actually randomly got uh, well not necessarily randomly,
(09:43):
but after that story, I got a text message from
Joe Rogan, who's obviously like the king of podcast and
he's just like, hey, man, I really loved your podcast
this week. That story was awesome. Keep up the good
where it keep going after it. And that was a
really encouraging because for me to sit down every week
and talk into a microphone and do these podcasts, it
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just to wrap my head around that was kind of
like I don't know if it's something that I want
to get into, and that that kind of encouragement from
somebody like him was pretty awesome, So I think that
kind of story sticks in my mind. It's probably one
of my favorite stories and one of my favorite moments,
Like with the podcast. One story that really stands out
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in my mind. I was guiding in New Mexico and
I had one of those weeks that just nothing seemed
to be going right. I could tell that bulls were
hitting this meadow in the dark, but nothing would make
a peep and nothing would come out during daylight hours.
I could also tell that the elk we're using this
particular wallow. I decided, okay, the elk are coming from
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the timbered area to the west, and this wallows right
on the edge of the timber, and then it enters
into a feeding area. I yet to see one in
daylight hours, but I thought, why don't I create an
illusion that there's a herd of elk cows out here
and hopefully draw a bowl out of the timber where
I could tell the tracks are coming in and out of.
I was assuming that if he's gonna go to the
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herd of elk, he'll probably hit this wallow first, he'll
get mudded up, he'll get sent it up, and then
come in hot trying to impress the gals. So I
put him up in a tree stand that I set
up over the wallow, because I figured, well, even in
while I'm calling, he can have a better vantage from
the tree stand and might just catch an elk that's
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cruising to wallow or even drink because it was fairly
hot as well. And then I would go a little
bit further out and start cow calling. So I started
in the morning hitting a few cow calls, and I
had a whole slew of different cow calls, everything from
diaphragm calls to open read calls, as well as some
of those squeeze button calls might even have like a
(11:54):
hoochie mama call. And then one of the carlton though
what it was at a button call or they call
it something like that in my pockets because what I
wanted to do is sound like a bunch of different
elk at once. So the morning starts out, I give
my bugles just to make sure there's no bulls around.
Nothing replying the same as it's been the last few days.
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So I decided to work in my cow call sequence,
hitting some mus standard elk talk me and me going
off a few of those little pocket calls. Nothing all right,
but I'm intentionally calling to a bull that I'm assuming
is going to come in quiet. I'm trying to call
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to the loan bowl that I'd cut tracks of that
i'm hoping is looking for cows. The morning progresses, it's
starting to get hot and nothing has shown up. So
I'm going to divulge a little secret. And this is
something I rarely do. I started dozing off in between
sets of cow calls because for two reasons, One I
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was pretty tired, and two I just get so impatient.
I'm not good at sitting there just being patient and calling.
Take a little nap, and in between falling asleep, I
would wake up, he hit a few calls, go back
to sleep. That just kept me from overcalling. Really, so
I'm in between call sets, I'm laying there. The sun's
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hitting me, like man, there's definitely not going to be
any elk right now, but there's really nothing else we
can do, so I'll just keep calling. I opened my
eyes just slightly. I look off as I opened my eyes,
there is an elk's foot within half an arm's length
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of my head. I could just literally reach my right
arm out and grab this bull. I look up and
this bull is directly over me. That elk knew exactly
where those calls were coming from. He had pinpointed the
exact location where I was calling from. Yet Ed walked
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right to me. Now, the trouble is, I've never had
this happen, and I have a bull. His head is
literally right above my head. I'm worried that he's going
to freak out and start stomping on me. I do
not want him to see my eyeball, so I'm just
squinting and partially freaking out, thinking that he is at
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any second going to realize something's wrong and stomp me.
When I woke up, I must have rustled a little
bit because he kind of tilted his head down, so
he's got his head down and I can see his
eyeball maybe three ft from my face, and he's got
his head down and his eye he cocked his head
sideways so he could look at me better, and I
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can just see his eye sort of bulging out of
his head, and he's moving back and forth trying to
figure out what the hell is at his feet. At
this point, I'm literally just praying this thing does not
smash me and trying to move, not move at all.
I do not want to open my eyes. I'm just squinting.
He probably felt or heard my heart beating out of
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my chest. He got a little antsy and trotted off,
spun around again, looked back where I was. I just
continued to lay there until he moved off. Once he
got out of sight, I'll let a few more cow
calls out, snuck around, grabbed my hunter from the tree stand.
I was like, dude, this big six point bull was
just right here at that point. I didn't tell him
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that I was asleep, of course, But so he comes down.
We work. Luckily, the wind was good. I get him.
We work into the wind, set up again, continue to call.
This time he actually kind of button hooks around, just
out of range of myself and the hunter. You say,
fifty five yards, circles around, catches our wind and blows out. Now,
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while we did not get that bull, it taught me
two really good lessons, one in patience and one in
the fact that those elk no exactly where you're calling
from and that is gonna play huge into the way
that I set up my calling sequences for loan bulls. Now,
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a funny story behind the stories. That wasn't the only
animal that wrecked my nap on that trip. I had
a couple of days off and I was like, even
all my days off, I would just go out scout
and whatever. So I went up to this big meadow
it's kind of like right on the border of this
area that we're able to hunt, and there's like this
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this big, like timbered face, and there just happened to
be this one bull that always would hang out in
this meadow. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna see
if I can just get eyes on him and kind
of pattern him so when the hunt starts, I can
bring a guy in here. No if it's like, hey,
this this elks using this or what time of day
or what's going on. So a glassed in the morning,
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didn't see anything, and you know, the sun comes up
and I'm not the type of person that takes naps,
But here's two naps stories back to back. These are
like the two naps that I've taken in my life.
And this is probably why I ever did not taking naps.
So I'm sitting there and it's like nothing's going on.
I'm eating those like cheese peanut butter crackers, you know,
(17:24):
whatever they are. I don't who makes this. We need
to figure this out. It sounds like a disgusting combination.
It's cheese and peanut butter, but man, they're awesome. And
I think that these ones are probably from nineteen seventy
and there's still good dat I've got. I pull those
cheese crackers out of my pack that I don't even
know what air they're from, but they still taste like
they do I would imagine fresh. I don't know if
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I ever read them fresh. So I'm eating these my
favorite cheese peanut butter crackers. I'm like laying there and
sun hits me. It's like, okay, cool. I started to
doze off, and then i feel something in my crotch
area and I'm like, okay, what is going on? Slowly
opened my eyes and there's a chipmunk. It's digging in
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between somehow. Well, clearly, when I was eating, the crumbs
from the crackers had fallen into like my lap and
probably got behind the zippers. So this chipmunk is trying
to get into my zipper and like digging around for
the crumbs from the crackers. I'll look at that chipmunk
and my eyes are open and I'm looking at and
(18:31):
some it noticed that now whatever it was digging at
is not a log. It is alive. And that chipmunk,
I swear to you, it was like staring in his eyes.
I swear its eyes got like three times in size
because and just jumps off a million miles an hour.
And from that moment on, I went back to hunting Camp,
told everyone's story, and my big joke was my big
(18:52):
punchline to the story of the day was yeah, that
chipmunk was trying to get steal me nuts. So um,
that's my napping story. After the napping story, I had
two pretty good napping stories and camp that season. One
was a nuts stealing chipmunk and then the other one
was the elk that got a little too close. If
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you ask me, you've listened to all one episodes, you're like,
if there is one thing you learn from all these
podcasts or one mantra that sticks in your head, I
think it's this. It's go the best way, not the
easy way. You might remember that from episode fifteen, And
what that is is just kind of planning your stock.
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When it comes to planning your stock, always thinking go
the best way, not the easy way. That's something that
I say on every hunt, on every stock, every time
I look at a mountain. I want to be successful,
and in order to be successful, I need to do
things the best way, not the easy way. Now, when
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I say go the best way, not the easy way,
what's that even mean? When you're thinking about a potential stock,
there's always these little outs, little ways to go, a
direction that will probably get you there, but something's just
a little bit wrong. The best way is the way
with the least amount of possible ways to get busted. Okay,
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So if you have all your options laid out on
the table right in front of you, you have to
pick the option has the least potential to send that
animal running. And that oftentimes I've found statistically over the years,
the best way is often the most physical or longest
way possible. It's the way that kind of seems in
(20:40):
your mind, I don't really feel like doing that. That's
because there's an element in choosing the best route, not
based on what's the easiest. You have to pick it
based on what is the most likely to get you
in position without hitting the three get busted factors. Those
three get usted factors are the wind, being spotted, and
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being heard. Those are the three things that you need
to take into account when planning your stock, and then
you pick the option that always lends you to get
within range without the deer ever potentially being aware of
your presence. Now, while a lot of the podcasts are
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set up in the way with the storytelling and the
tips and tactics, I think some of my favorite episodes
are actually the Q and A s because it's a
great way to really answer the questions of other people.
And I think that I actually enjoy I have fun
with those Q and A. I actually kind of wish
that there was a way that I could do a
more live Q and A style podcast because I really
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enjoy that on my feet thinking and that's just when
you know that that knowledge just comes out and it's
a it's a quick way to answer questions and probably
answer a lot of people, quite a lot of people's
questions on certain tips and tactics. If if you're the
kind of my favorite topics are generally, maybe you can
decipher this out of my excitement level of talking about it.
(22:09):
I can talk about elk and I can talk about
archery hunting. I could probably just have a weekly podcast
on just one of those topics. But there's so many
other things that I love. I got to include all
those in as well. Um, But I think one of
a great question, you know, I don't. I don't think
there's been a bad question that I've answered a lot
of great questions, but one that kind of sticks in
(22:29):
my head and one that I think I get asked
a lot is about people going out on elk hunt
and how to get away from people in general area tags.
So episode fifty two, there's a great question relating to
elk hunting and heavily timbered areas. Let's check it out,
all right, Cody says, Hey, Ramy, can't thank you enough
for the information and education you provide all of us.
(22:50):
I've learned a ton. I have a question for you
and upcoming out podcasts. I didn't draw a tag in
New Mexico, my home state, so Buddy and myself are
going over the counter in southern Colorado. Do you have
any tips or tricks for finding elk in what I'm
sure will be some packed units. Thanks. Again, that's a
great question, because a lot of the hunts that I
do myself are in what I would also consider packed units,
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areas that you can just get a tag and and go.
I would say, like, my plan is to always get
away from hunters, but that doesn't necessarily always mean go
the furthest into the back country. So what that generally
means is find a place that other people are ignoring.
You might get there and there might be twenty cars
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at one trailhead, and you know that, Okay, once I
get up this trail, that's the only place to hunt
up there. I would probably avoid that, But also there's
probably gonna be thousands of vehicles driving the roads. So
what you're trying to do is pinpoint spots that are
far enough off where guys that are driving the roads
can't see it or won't hunt it, and then places
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that maybe aren't necessarily that iconic back country that already
has a trailhead that's attracting other people. I mentioned it
earlier already in the Q and A. But finding those
like spots that you gotta bush whack into that take
a little bit extra energy to either get in or
get out and pinpointing those spots. Now, Obviously, like I
love to the first place I'm gonna look as those
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back country areas. But sometimes those type of places actually
get hunted a lot, and that may not be the
best spot for you. And also, you know, stay away
from the roads where people are just gonna there's a
large majority of the people that will have those tags
that will never kill an elk, and they're just gonna
keep driving the roads and maybe point zero one percent
will shoot one, but they're just cruising those roads looking
(24:37):
from those roads. So you're just trying to find that
place that other people aren't. Another thing I like to
hunt in really heavily hunted areas is place that I
call a whole where if I kill something, I have
to carry the elk uphill back out. That really deters
a lot of people from hunting that. So if you
can find those holes, those pockets, or even just getting
further and deeper into the back country is a great way,
(25:00):
just anywhere you can get away from people. Now, the
other option is if you know that area well enough.
Now this might not be particularly for Cody's instance, but
if you hunt an area a lot understanding the escape
routes and like where elk like to travel, and then
using pressure to your advantage. There's been many times where
(25:20):
I get into a position knowing that, Okay, the elk
are gonna get bumped here, you know, mostly opening days
that I hunt our elk that have been pushed by
someone else, because I know this is where the elk travel,
this is where they're moving through. This is the highest
likelihood of these elk coming through here. And then setting
up and using other people to your advantage, getting into
(25:41):
those positions where you're you're kind of capitalizing on a
known behavior that elk will be running around on this
particular day, and that generally is an opening day in
a general area well as promised, I always have to
give a good tip before just to make this maybe
maybe you're the type of person that wants those absolute
(26:04):
tips to be more successful in the field than episode one.
Will not let you down because I am this is
my three step guaranteed success in the field. I tell
this to all my clients and as like, if you
were hunting with me this week, I would take you
out and I would essentially tell you our plan and
it's going to be these three steps, and then we
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go through these three steps and be successful. Step one,
find the animal, step two, shoot the animal, Step three,
pack the animal back to the truck. That's it. That
any hunt you go on, it doesn't matter where you're at.
If you follow those three steps, that's the three keys
(26:45):
to hunting. That's all you have to do. Now. Sometimes
the gap between step one and step two can be
pretty large, and sometimes the difficulty level between step two
and step three can be daunting, But it's all about
those It's really just to be the two steps. Find
the animal, shoot the animal, pack the animal back to
the truck. Now, if you fail at step one, then
(27:06):
you just restart step one, find the animal. Now, if
you fail, it's step two. Maybe you missed the shot.
Then it's back to step one, find the animal, and
then go back to step two shoot the animal. Basic simple,
follow those three tips you'll be successful on any hunt.
I hope that was the tip you're looking for. Don't
(27:27):
forget you heard it here first on Cutting the Distance podcast. Well,
that about concludes our episode one. I as always, I'm
super appreciative of everybody that's really supported the podcast over
the last hundred weeks. I know a lot of you
have listened to every episode. There's many of you that
(27:48):
have actually listened to every episode multiple times or some
of the episodes multiple times. I thank you guys so
much for all the subscribing, commenting rating. That's just that
means a lot to me because the reason I do
this is is really not for me. I mean, I
don't know if people might not really understand this, but
I'm kind of like the most extroverted introvert out there. Um.
(28:12):
I just kind of feel like I really enjoy being
able to help people out when it comes to hunting
because it's something that I love so much, and I
hope that that passion really translates through what I do.
And the reason that I do it is because the
reason I continue to do this podcast is because people
enjoy it and I think that it helps a lot
of people. I guess so many awesome success photos, stories,
other things, so I'm just very appreciative of that and
(28:33):
that's the reason that I've continued on for a hundred episodes. UM,
I figure we might as well do. Let's see. Let's
test your knowledge. If you are a true cutting the
distance aficionado, Let's see this is I'll give you the
answers after this or you know, it's not like this
isn't how you went a prize, but let's just test
(28:53):
your knowledge here so you know, it's actually funny because
I can't remember what I say in a lot of
the episodes. Um So I don't even know if I
repeat myself or not trying not to. Some some weeks
I have to go back and see. But let's start
off with this question. You know that it's set up
with a format that is generally solo, and I say
generally because there have been two other individual voices on
(29:15):
this podcast. Can you name the two people that have
appeared in Cutting the Distance outside of myself? Que the
Jeopardy music. I don't know if this is copyrighted, And
maybe I could just do do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do I'm
not gonna win any like humming contest. The answer is
(29:40):
Ben O'Brien. Early on he read the Q and a S.
And then I had a special guest lecturer in the
Archery series, which, um I think what was that episode
seventy six or something that started four part Archery yet
seventy seventy eight getting in darchery hunting, and I had
my good friend and fellow solo hunter Tim Burnett as
(30:04):
a guest lecturer and those have been the only two
cutting the distance guests. Um. So if you got that right,
kudos to you. Let me know, I mean on our
system and just curious how many people got that question.
You can always reach out social media at remmy warren Um. Yeah.
And then one thing that I do, Like I said,
(30:25):
I do really enjoy doing the Q and A S
and there's gonna be an opportunity to do a live
Q and A with me Friday July. It'll be in
my hometown of Reno, Nevada for the Pope and Young Convention.
So I'm gonna be doing uh instead of a seminar,
just more of a two back to back Q and
A S on Friday afternoon. And if you want to
(30:47):
join in on that would be awesome because if you hopefully,
I mean, I don't know if I'll be able to
get to everyone's questions, but I will answer a few questions.
I will also have uh some swag toss some probably
try to get something is to give away. UM. So
I'll be cool and if I can, I'm gonna try
to record it, so those might be I might have
(31:08):
some other voices on Cutting the Distance podcast in the
near future if I can figure out how to record that.
So that's Friday, June And if you want, if you're
going for the day, you can use my name Warren
and get a half off day pass. That's just something
I kind of worked out for UM. People listen to
the podcast, use it if you want. And yeah, I
(31:31):
was speaking of shots. We've got a couple items to
give away. I've got a new line of Live Wild
t shirts, my own shirts, so um, they're pretty cool there.
I like him like some designs that I worked on
with some guys and got those going. So I will
be giving away. I'll give away one of each one
(31:53):
that I have left in stock by the time this goes,
so I'll try to save a couple hopefully. I've definitely
got some in the large size, but if you're a
random size and they're already sold out, then we'll just
swap it out for something else. I'm sure I've got
something cool we can mutually agree on. Um. But just
as a thank you to the people that listen, and
I don't know, like there's no way to actually do
(32:15):
it on here and um so I'll just figure go
on to my um. I was doing it on Instagram,
but then they got way too many people, so I
think it's just better to reward the people that listen
to the podcast. So go to my YouTube page, my
Remy Warren channel YouTube channel, find that, find the most
recent video and leave a comment that mentions something about
(32:37):
the podcast or the number one and uh in the
next within the next week, I will randomly pick someone
from that And if you guys want, feel free to
subscribe to the my YouTube channel. I let it go
dormant for a while, but I've got a ton of awesome,
really good content how to stuff. Some of the stuff
that needs to be more visual will be on there,
(32:58):
so feel free to subscribe to the at and then yeah,
thank you. Oh so, finally we're gonna settle this thing,
loyal listeners of the show. I know that since podcast one,
I've been working on a sign off, So we're gonna
settle that once and for all, one sign off to
rule them all. What I did was not this is
(33:20):
a genius. I went back and I tallied up the
totals of different things that I've tried and what people
responded to the best. I liked that part, you know,
maybe went back through messages people commenting on things saying
I liked this one, I didn't like that I liked
this one. So over the past one weeks I tallied
(33:43):
them up and I've just kind of come up with
a hybrid of the greatest hits of cutting the distance
sign offs, which will be the sign off of all
sign offs. Here it goes, keep cutting the distance, you
filthy animal audios until next week, Aimes, small, miss small,
Now get close and stay frosty peace. Was that it?
(34:07):
I don't know, Yeah, I think that's we'll just do
that every time. So, in other words, keep cutting the distance,
you fill the animals audios until next week, aims small,
miss small, Now get close and stay frosty peace. I
really got to emphasize the piece. I think. I think
that's how we're supposed to be
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