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Welcome to the Keep Hammering Collective.

This is another solo podcast. The topic of this discussion will be how good of shape do you

need to be in to kill an elk. So I have a lot of history in this category of knowledge or mindset or approach I guess, how good a shape do you need to be in?

You know, it depends, I guess. If you're going to rely on luck, which happens every year, I mean there's guys who are driving down an old Logan Road or backcountry road.

If they're rifle hunting, you know, see an animal off the road. I said elk, but this could go for deer or elk, whatever the case, whatever you're hunting, but I pretty much focus on elk.

But this could be for anything.

Driving down the road, see an animal, jump out, shoot it.

That could happen. That happens every year. Those type of people are not going to have consistent success.

So the fact is to do something like that, you don't need to be in great physical condition.

You need to be able to drive and shoot.

So those are the two things.

Bow hunting, it's going to be a little tougher.

Those animals usually won't get you that opportunity, but they could and it happens every year.

So yeah, I guess you don't have to be in any sort of physical condition as long as you know your weapon and you can shoot straight,

you could potentially kill, right?

So, you know, over the years, this might seem weird now but back when I first started coming into the

scene and writing articles and kind of my journey developed from I would I just wanted to shoot my bow and bow hunt. I thought it was cool and be in the mountains and I didn't really you know we did 10 K's and we kind of trained a little bit but nothing crazy. Then I started hunting

the wilderness and I was like man I need to be in better shape to do this this is

really hard especially the way I hunted

with a bivvy style setup, which means bivouac camp on your back.

So you're taking all your food, all your water, all your survival gear, tent, sleeping pads, sleeping

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