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Take six.

Yes, that's right.

I'm going to come up with something really good here in one of these takes. We're going to come up with a strategy that really works.

We have been stuck on this particular part of the podcast like five times because yesterday it was glitching.

So all right, you're up.

It must be important. So we'll go pretty good here. You know, Elk are they live to survive. I mean, they really do every minute of the day.

They're thinking about what they need to do to survive and they use their nose. So in the morning, they're feeding at a lower elevation down in that meadow.

And they've got the thermals coming down the mountain so that they're protected. And as they move back to their bedding area, it's very precisely timed.

They don't just lolly gag grounds. I'm going to eat a little longer today. They know when that thermal is going to switch and they turn and head up the mountain while the thermals are still in their face. They can smell that danger that's ahead of them.

As they get up to their bedding area, the thermal switch and bring any scent from behind them. So if you're 100 going up the mountain trying to stay right on their tail, they get to their bedding area and also in the thermal switch.

You're busted and you've wasted all morning. So I found the best thing to do is just get off to the side, you know, get on a parallel ridge, whether it's 300 yards, 600 yards across the canyon, get parallel to them and work your way upside hill to them. If they stop and linger, you know, there, you can move over across there and not be caught in that up and down thermal transition.

The other thing is, you know, you get up there, they're bedding area and I love hunting that bedding area mid day. And so if you get up there, parallel to them, they get to their bedding area and start milling around. You can move over and and again, you don't have to worry about that thermal.

Bust and you which the wind is the nemesis of an archery, I mean, if you, there's no controlling end and I can't tell you how many times things have been perfect. I'm like this bowl is dead. He's coming in and the wind out of nowhere switches and it's over.

Have you ever called a bowl in on his way to the bedding area with the cows before it's tough, but yeah, I mean, if you get close enough and pressure that bowl to the point where he's sinking your threat, I've had him turn and come in, but it's usually a very quick march down the hill stop and look around and then go back. And if you're ready, if you're set up and out in front of the collar as a shooter, definitely we've got shots that way, but it's, it's not that come in and take care of business. It just come down and say get out of here.

Those cows moving they're on a mission to get to the bedding area and they don't want to stop and if they aren't stopping, the bowl doesn't want to get separated from them.

We've kind of done that running gun approach where we're just right on him right on him chasing him screaming chasing him screaming and the out the cows seem to just move off as usual.

The bowl sometimes runs back to confront us just a little bit, but seems to just always stay just quite out of range and then run back to the cows and then come back down and it's just this back and forth thing. So we kind of gave up on that and what we do often is because the terrain is kind of thick and it's hard to see where they're going and sometimes that bowl just shuts up as he falls the cows up the hill.

So we usually leave a guy back and he's calling and that those bulls tend to, if they're calling in the meadow, they call all the way to their bedding area.

It seems like if they get, if they get, you know, if they get a guy calling to them early, then then they just call all the way to their bedding.

It allows us to like pinpoint where they're at. So as we side hill up the mountain parallel them weekend, you know, keep them keep them pinpointed back to them bedding down like when the cows kind of stop and they start hanging out like just before they bed down.

You're saying you have pretty good sometimes you can call a bowl away from them right about then for sure.

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