guys welcome back to the final installment of our september series here at the old shape podcast we're talking about the last week of september we're talking about do or die tactics we're talking about the fact that peak rut could actually be this week you never really know depending on the area you're at but i've seen areas where you catch a lull into September, or it's like

the ruts just starting to get better each and every day. I don't know. My guess is that the

ruts actually better this week. I didn't want to say that last week's episode, but I think for

a lot of you, you're going to experience them in tremendous amount of elk rut bugling. And I think cows are getting bred this week for sure. And it's time to make, you know,

some pretty aggressive moves. So what does that mean? If it's your last week or your only week,

I've been in this position. One of my best memories is 2023. I I hunted, we made a film called I think 26 days.

I hunted like 26 days with having awesome elk hunting, seeing elk, being into elk, but never

letting loose and arrow. And then I think I finally killed an elk on day. I don't remember what it was,

but it was in Utah. And then I came I finally killed an elk on day. I don't remember what it was, but it was in Utah,

and then I came back to public land for the last couple days of season and ended up getting my

Idaho Public Land Bull killed. And all told, I think I spent 26 days in that unit trying to kill an elk. And it came down to

the last week. And so when I look back at that story, I went into an area that I had basically,

eh, wasn't super stoked on the first time I came in week one or two.

And I spent a few days there.

And I came back into that area towards the end of the season because why not?

And I wanted to just see if the elk rut had picked up, if more elk had moved in.

And sure enough, after hiking, honestly, hours and hours and hours pitching bugles, glassing.

I made it really far back in there.

And I could hear out bugling over to my left a mile or so away and kind of some

mountain goat canyon type stuff that was super steep.

And I remember sidehill in my way through a few avalanche shoots and getting over

into some like

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