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 that will get you closer to your ultimate

goal, success in the field. I'm Remi Warren. This is Cutting the Distance.

Welcome back to the podcast everyone. This week we're going to be talking about October

Mildere. In my opinion, it's one of the hardest times to hunt Mildere out west. Why is that?

The tactics seem to always contradict themselves. It's that time when the Mildere vanish and

disappear between being bachelored up and the rut. They just ghost you. They're hard and

difficult to hunt. So if you were to ask me, well, are the deer higher low? Honestly, the

answers both. Now, if you said, should I focus on cover or the open? Once again, both.

Should you glass or bush stock? The answer is both. So this week we're going to even odds on

October Mildere by sharing this now open secret of using contradictory tactics that effectively

put you in a terribly good position for success. But before we do that, I want to share the most

successful, unsuccessful hunt I've had for October Mildere. Now, this hunt took place last season.

It was on over the counter Mildere tag during middle of October. The reason a lot of those

over the counter tags are during October is because it's difficult to find deer. So

game managers know they aren't going to all get shot out because there's going to be a lot of

people that don't even see bucks or something that they're allowed to shoot. Now, on this particular

hunt, I had my dad and my at the time pregnant wife joining me. We decided to go. We had a

kind of like a long weekend. They were going to go and do just a fun hunt together. It was kind of

planned as like, I mean, sometimes you're like thinking or at least me, I'm thinking, I'm here

to find the biggest best deer I can or other hunts. I'm like, I'm going to go deep and just

hunt it hard for a week. But this hunt was just kind of like one to get out, one to get

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