#2381 - Taylor Kitsch

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Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Yeah, 85, yeah, drop some headphones on, let's roll.

Taylor Kitsch (0:15)

Damn.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Yeah, you have to, well, see, if you're ever going to shoot something at 45, you really want to be comfortable at twice that.

Taylor Kitsch (0:23)

Okay.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

So I'll shoot 90, I'll shoot 100 yards. Yeah. Yeah, because that way, when you get into 40, it seems normal.

Taylor Kitsch (0:30)

Yeah, right.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

It seems easy.

Taylor Kitsch (0:31)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Yeah. It's all just about, like, effective distance.

Taylor Kitsch (0:35)

Would you take a shot at 85?

Joe Rogan (0:36)

No. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no.

Taylor Kitsch (0:38)

That's far.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

You might take a follow-up shot. Like, you know the animal's already going to go down. Yeah. If you can, you should always get a second shot on them.

Taylor Kitsch (0:47)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

So I'll take a second shot at 85, but I would never.

Taylor Kitsch (0:50)

If you had one and it just fucking ran, just gone.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Oh, yeah.

Taylor Kitsch (0:55)

Like 200, 300 yards.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

What do you mean?

Taylor Kitsch (0:58)

Like if you shoot it and you know how to hit it. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Hit it.

Taylor Kitsch (1:01)

And it just goes into the bush and you got to track it.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Find it. Yeah. You can track them, though.

Taylor Kitsch (1:05)

Yeah. Just leaking all over the place.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Yeah. Blood trails.

Taylor Kitsch (1:08)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

Especially if you use a large mechanical broadhead.

Taylor Kitsch (1:11)

So I've shot one deer in my life and it was after Lone. And I was on Luttrell's.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

After Lone Survivor?

Taylor Kitsch (1:19)

Yeah. And I was with Luttrell and a couple other Seals on his ranch. And, you know, you're surrounded by Seals. So it's like, he's like, let's get you one. I'm like, yeah, let's go. And so we're on the ranch. Have you been there? No. Oh, it's great. And I don't know how many acres, but he had, used to have like giraffes on the ranch and shit. It was crazy. You would literally just be out there and there's a couple of giraffes. And I think they're, they've, they're gone now. But we pull into this like opening and he's like, there's going to be some deer on the right. Lo and behold, a couple of deer. He's like, okay, take that one. Pull out the M4. We're pretty far, but not crazy. And I'm nervous, man. I like, of course I've trained with the M4 for Lone and all this stuff, but I've never like shot, shot. And so I hit it and he's like, fucking great shot. Let's let's roll up, roll up. No deer. And you can hear it though. And it's like, just losing this fucking mark. And I'm like, oh, fuck. And so the other seal, he's like, let's go. So we walk and walk and walk and finally get around this corner and we have to put him down with a pistol.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

And I was like, why did you have to put him down with a pistol?

Taylor Kitsch (2:45)

Just because we walked right up on it.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

And it was just dying.

Taylor Kitsch (2:48)

Yeah. And so I was just like, okay, this is part of it. Yeah. And then we ate it and all that kind of stuff. But it was that's a good part. Yeah, it really is. But that was my one experience. But I did I did go with my bro loves hunting. And we went out in Montana and there's on a friend's ranch and into the backcountry and he was bow. And I love tracking animals for photography. So it's the same thing. Watching the wind, getting up fucking before light hits, just getting deep. You're way up there too. Calling all that kind of stuff.

And it's just so fun. And once you get in tight, your adrenaline just buzzing. And we had eyes on this big boy. And so then I'm doing the, he's working his way up the mountain, up this pass. And I'm doing the antlers against the tree and then the antlers and getting it angry, getting it worked up and it starts bugling even more. And you're like, I'm not even taking the shot. And I'm like, this is fucking legit. And he pulls his fucking mask down and he's getting into it. I see him like, army crawling up there, missed. But we had a blast. It's more of like a bonding experience, man, than anything for us.