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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone.

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Speaker 1: I hope maybe some of you are enjoying some nicer

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Speaker 1: spring weather. I think this week we're gonna just shake

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Speaker 1: West's best springtime hunts in my opinion, we're talking about bears.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna cover my early spring season tactics for targeting

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Speaker 1: and finding those emerging bars and where to concentrate your

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Speaker 1: efforts this spring season. We're also going to go over

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Speaker 1: a few of the best times to look for bears,

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Speaker 1: specific spots to concentrate on, and why early spring or

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Speaker 1: right now can be a great time to target bears

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Speaker 1: spot in stock. But first, I want to share the

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Speaker 1: story of a persistent bear hunt gone right. This particular

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Speaker 1: hunt really is one that I think if I look back,

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Speaker 1: it just hunts that I've guided. This is one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite trips and one that I definitely will remember

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Speaker 1: for a very long time. I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons behind that. But when you think, when I

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Speaker 1: think about a hunt, what makes a hunt hunt that

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Speaker 1: I remember, and it's it includes that struggle, that persistence

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Speaker 1: and then eventually finding success. And I think that this story,

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Speaker 1: if I were to just tell this story of the hunt,

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Speaker 1: this particular hunt, it actually starts many years before. I

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Speaker 1: had a particular client. Him and his daughter would come out,

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Speaker 1: and his daughter really wanted to hunt bears. She they

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Speaker 1: had hunted elk with us and she was successful getting

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Speaker 1: an elk, but a bear hunt was something that she

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Speaker 1: really wanted. She wanted to do it spot in stock.

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Speaker 1: So he scheduled a spring hunt and the first year, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: something came up and she couldn't make it. So her

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Speaker 1: dad came out and he ended up getting a bear

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Speaker 1: like kind of right off the bat, and of course

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Speaker 1: it was like that was her dream hunt, the one

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Speaker 1: that she's supposed to go on, but unfortunately, some some

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Speaker 1: stuff came up and she couldn't come. So the following

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Speaker 1: year she came out. And spring bear hunting can be

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Speaker 1: a lot of boredom mixed and hiking and everything mixed

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Speaker 1: in with just sheer excitement. We had some good spots,

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Speaker 1: we had some good stocks, but when we got into position,

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Speaker 1: the bears kind of disappeared. On the last day of

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Speaker 1: the hunt that week, we were going back into this

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Speaker 1: one spot where we'd seen quite a bit of sign

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Speaker 1: and seen actually a couple of bears earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: It was like mid morning, and um, I look over.

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Speaker 1: We're just kind of talking, kind of you know, just bsng,

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Speaker 1: and I look around, like there's a bear and it's

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Speaker 1: a big bear and it's close, like seventy five yards.

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Speaker 1: And Micah the hunter, she was really I mean, she's

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Speaker 1: a really good shot. I've seen her shoot. She shoots

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Speaker 1: tournaments for skeet and other things like she's she's really

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Speaker 1: good under pressure. But when that bear was seventy five

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Speaker 1: yards away, I don't know, just something happened. She pulled

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Speaker 1: up the gun and missed, missed the shot, and the

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Speaker 1: as a guy seeing how hard she'd work, how hard

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Speaker 1: she'd hiked, you know, she shot, she practiced all for

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Speaker 1: that moment, and then I just know that feeling, let's happened,

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Speaker 1: Like the best of us have done that, taking a

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Speaker 1: go back tomorrow morning and see if we can find

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Speaker 1: him again. But unfortunately they had to be back for

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Speaker 1: a tournament ski shooting. I guess trap, what I know,

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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna go in

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Speaker 1: And I ended up actually shooting that bear myself the

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Speaker 1: that just gonna be like rubbing salt on the wound.

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Speaker 1: So the following year she came back, we hunted and

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Speaker 1: something feels wrong. I just feel like there's a bear

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Speaker 1: a nice, nice bear and everything. This particular week, we're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's it was nice, cool weather. We wake up the

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Speaker 1: little bit stacked against us because it was a full moon.

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Speaker 1: But it's just the only kind of week that we

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Speaker 1: and two things that do not combine well when it

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Speaker 1: bear hunting. So we hunted hard all week and that

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Speaker 1: some of my best places, some great backcountry spots, just

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Speaker 1: was just slim pickings. We couldn't turn up a bear

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Speaker 1: But I was like, man, it's so freaking hot this year,

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Speaker 1: to wallow around in this area where I had seen

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Speaker 1: not really set up for backcountry sitting, but I thought,

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Speaker 1: this particular time, I'm going to give it a shot.

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Speaker 1: Just a random tactic that I normally pull out way

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Speaker 1: and everything, I thought, man, maybe this tactic will work.

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Speaker 1: But I was also thinking I'm not good at sitting,

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Speaker 1: all day in the heat. But nothing else is really working.

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Speaker 1: The bears aren't moving, so we'll see if this works

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Speaker 1: because it's the only way that we can hunt this

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Speaker 1: to and and maybe be successful. So I load up,

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Speaker 1: We load up everything I've got, like chairs that are

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Speaker 1: not not super paccable. I don't even know how much

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Speaker 1: need a lot of lunch because I'll probably be snacking

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Speaker 1: all day. Like comfortable chair, whatever, Just make it so

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Speaker 1: what And I put everything down. I still have my

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Speaker 1: spotting scope because I thought this might happen, I might

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Speaker 1: spotting scope. Look at it, and I'm like that it's

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Speaker 1: At this point, he's about six d and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: seven yards. I'm like, okay, I'm looking at it, and

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Speaker 1: this like old logging robe. It's just so overgrown. So

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Speaker 1: range it's like two hundred yards no bear Like, all right,

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Speaker 1: he's got to be in here. So I get her

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Speaker 1: high noon. We're going in thinking maybe we'll see something

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Speaker 1: the heat. It's probably seventy four degrees that day, just

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Speaker 1: So we get set up and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I see the head of the bear pop up over

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Speaker 1: a log, but turn yards away. Tried to direct her

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Speaker 1: to where he's at. He's like, I'm like, okay, he's

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Speaker 1: right there. He's really hard to see. I can just

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Speaker 1: see a piece of him, but you're just gonna get

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Speaker 1: the rifle on him and just wait. And he's starting

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Speaker 1: to feed. And I see he's starting to feed, and

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Speaker 1: then there's this patch of timber maybe yeah, fifty yards

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Speaker 1: he's going to be moving out of the center at

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Speaker 1: some point. I don't think he's just gonna stay right here,

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Speaker 1: but there's gonna be very few openings, so just stay

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Speaker 1: bear starts moving moving, and he just moves behind tree.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, that's it. And then he turns

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Speaker 1: around and starts feeding back. I'm like, okay, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Just pick a spot, nice and easy, squeezes the trigger. Boom,

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Speaker 1: perfect shot, bear rolls over. It's done. She was shaking.

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Speaker 1: She was crying out of excitement. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: For her, it was as close to I have ever come,

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Speaker 1: just shedding a tear of just how exciting it was.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome because her dad was there as well.

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Speaker 1: when I'm guiding or hunting bears, I hunt the whole season,

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00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: so I've got a few full moon weeks in there

431
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 1: that I have to hunt and we're still successful, but

432
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 1: it's a lot harder work than those times when the

433
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: moon is really good. My best bear seasons are always

434
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: when there's a really like no moon during the beginning

435
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 1: of the first few weeks, because I tend to find

436
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of big bars out and more

437
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: active then. And then also you kind of get less heat,

438
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: so they stay out a lot longer than mornings, and

439
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: they come out a lot sooner in the evenings. In

440
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's just over looking at bears for hundreds

441
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: of days. But I think that if you kind of

442
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,919
Speaker 1: factor those things into your spring plan, you'll be a

443
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 1: lot more successful now when it comes to hunting bears

444
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 1: in the early part of the season. So for a

445
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: lot of places, the season opened April, and I would say,

446
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 1: let's call April to May tenth the early part of

447
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: the season, and then May tenth to the thirty the

448
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: later part of the season. Or if it's a season

449
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: that goes into June, let's say so April fifteenth to

450
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,679
Speaker 1: May fifteenth the early season, and then April fifty two

451
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: June to be kind of that later in the season.

452
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: One thing you want to think about depending on you know,

453
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: if it's a late winner, if you're hunting in an area,

454
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: you might be hunting where there's still a lot of snow.

455
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: And one thing you want to think about is when

456
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 1: you're spotting for bears. Obviously you don't want to shoot

457
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: stals with cubs I ten. I mean, if you don't

458
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: really know how to identify bore in a sow right away,

459
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: or it's it can be difficult, and it can be

460
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: difficult for anyone. I've looked over a lot of bears

461
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: and still every once in a while I make a

462
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: wrong judgment call. But what I always do is, I oh,

463
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: is to make sure to look for cubs earlier in

464
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: the season, it's important to watch the bears longer because

465
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: what will happen is the sal's will actually emerge from

466
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: the den and kind of leave the cubs behind. There's

467
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: been times where I've sat and watched the bear for

468
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes. I'm like, well, I know it's

469
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: a sal but she doesn't have any cubs, And then

470
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: here come two little rug rats screaming out of the

471
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: bushes A little bit later. I think that that tends

472
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 1: to happen earlier. I find that later on, And that's

473
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: not I'm not saying, you know, make rash judgments or whatever, later,

474
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: but I tend to find that that is the case.

475
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: Like later on, the cubs are generally with her a

476
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: lot tighter, so you see them sooner. But that's one

477
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: thing to think about if you're hunting early. One way.

478
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: Another thing kind of about early spring hunting is the

479
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: boars don't have as much weight on them. They've just

480
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,360
Speaker 1: come out of hibernation. They're a lot smaller like as

481
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: far as weight wise, but they can be easier to identify.

482
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: I really look for that barrel chest that the head

483
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: shape on a board looks a little bit different. They

484
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: grow wide, they have larger heads, especially compared to their

485
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: body size. One thing you'll see like a boar, his

486
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: his head tends to match his body a little bit better,

487
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 1: whereas a sow seems to be like a real big

488
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: body and a real small head. Another thing I notice

489
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: is sous tend to be a little more back end heavy,

490
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 1: so bigger rear ends, whereas boars are more like front

491
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: end heavy. They have larger barrel chests, more weight on

492
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: that front. Sometimes you'll see, and this does happen with

493
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: old sows too, more of like a hump you kind

494
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: of see on the boar is not necessarily like a

495
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: grizzly type hump, but just more of a swede back.

496
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 1: It seems like their neck and their front end is

497
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: a lot more stout as opposed to like a real

498
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: skinny neck, a real small head, and then even a

499
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: bigger body. That would kind of distinguish a sou. Other

500
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: things you can kind of look for if you've got

501
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: time and you can glossom while they're doing their thing.

502
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: You know, if they urinate and it seems to be

503
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: coming from the middle of their body, it would be

504
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: a boar. But if they tend to be in a

505
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: more squatting position, it would be a sou You don't

506
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 1: get to see that too often. I have, you know,

507
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: been able to id to fy some smaller bears that way,

508
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: especially earlier in the spring, but for the most part,

509
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: that's a that's a tough way to tell unless you

510
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: have a really good look at them. But generally, just

511
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: based on their size and outline is a good is

512
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: a good beginning and one thing you want to start

513
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 1: doing when you when you're out there, when you're seeing bears,

514
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: kind of take note mentally on Okay, that's how does

515
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 1: this bear look, how does he look proportionately to himself,

516
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: and what time of year is it. You know, if

517
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: it's earlier and it looks like a really big bear,

518
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: most bears when they come out there a little bit smaller.

519
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 1: So actually those boars look quite a bit bigger than

520
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: those sows that are really drained out. They they've lost

521
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: a lot of weight, um, especially the ones that have cubs.

522
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: You know, if I see a bear that looks pretty skinny,

523
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: pretty gaunt, then I'm definitely gonna wait and watch for

524
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: a long time to make sure that there's no cubs,

525
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: or it's a or it's a boar. Smaller boars will

526
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: look like that as well, but especially early, you find

527
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 1: that with the sows, uh, the big boars, when they

528
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: first come out, they tend to look big. You go,

529
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: it's a big bear, And I think one problem for

530
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: new bear hunters is all bears look big. So, just

531
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: as a public service announcement, if you're just getting into

532
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: bear hunting, maybe this is your first bear trip, do

533
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: yourself a favor. Watch a lot of videos of bears

534
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: in the field, Watch a lot of videos of maybe

535
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: some bear identification videos. I know I've seen someone most

536
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: phishing game websites, and really kind of analyze that, and

537
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: then spend some time looking at the animal that you're

538
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: going after. There's not a lot of times sometimes and

539
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: it feels like there's not a lot of time. But

540
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: one thing you'll learn is you can watch a bear,

541
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: see where he goes, and they're going to be in

542
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: that area. So there are times where you think I've

543
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: watched the bear going in the morning, I think, oh,

544
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna come out in the evening and never see

545
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: him come out. Um, But the next day in the

546
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: morning they're right back in there. They've got that food

547
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: source and they're gonna for all intents and purposes. If

548
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: they've got a good food source, they'll continue to hit it.

549
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: You can identify bears as well, just by certain markings

550
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: on the bears. So I like to keep track of

551
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: bears that I see throughout the week and say, okay,

552
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: really analyze a I didn't get a good look at

553
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: this beer, but it's got it's got this white chest blaze. Oh,

554
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: it's got a big rub on its left side. And

555
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: then I can start to identify those single bears as

556
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: they come out and kind of start to build out

557
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 1: a pattern on how are they feeding, what times are

558
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: they feeding, where they at. If a bear disappears in

559
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: a smaller area, I'll know that it's probably in there,

560
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: and I will try to get closer and then watch

561
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: that area later on in the day within range or

562
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: within shooting range to see if that bear comes out.

563
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: I think one of the major difficulties with spot and

564
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: stock of bear hunting is you'll see a bear and

565
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: then it disappears, and that happens quite often. One thing,

566
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: one tactic that I use, especially if I'm hunting up

567
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: higher earlier, I like to earlier in the season hunt

568
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: quite a bit higher because I think there's a lot

569
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: more concentration in the bears higher. But also it's just

570
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: easier type hunting. It's difficult to rain, but it's easier glassing.

571
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: I have more ability to see more open area. I

572
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: might be up near the tree lane, there might be

573
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: big snowfields that I can cover really quick with my eyes,

574
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: and then focusing on those areas that have like food

575
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: and cover really close together, so I can scan a

576
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: lot more area in a shorter amount of time and

577
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: be more effective in it. One thing that I found

578
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: those you'll see a bear, it goes into that cover

579
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: and then okay, now what I saw that bear two

580
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: miles away? How do I get over there before that

581
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: bear disappears? What do I do? Bears kind of feed

582
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: in very erratic patterns. They'll go one way and sometimes

583
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: I'll go right back the way that they came. So

584
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: you get over there, you go, okay, was feeding this way?

585
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: He should pop out and you never see him again.

586
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: What I like to do if I know it's gonna

587
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: be a long ways away and I don't have time

588
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: to get there for a shot. While it's out, I'll

589
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: just watch where it goes and then I'll make my move,

590
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: get into position, and then sit and wait, and I'll

591
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: do that kind of like in a similar way that

592
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: I do with elk, where you see where the bear is,

593
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: you kind of watch and assess what it does. Then

594
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: you go in to get into position and continue being

595
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: vigilant throughout the day, hoping for that bear to either

596
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: feedback in the evening or make a move into the

597
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: opening um while you're set up within range. It seems

598
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: like most bears early season, it's like if you're rifle hunting,

599
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: it's either going to be shot across the canyon at

600
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: a long distance or a really close range because you've

601
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: got to be on the same hillside and kind of

602
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: shooting right there. One thing I try to avoid is

603
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: getting on the same hillside if I'm rifle hunting, I

604
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: like to get away, get back far enough where I've

605
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: got a good range right Like, no, I'm gonna be

606
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: super efficient, say to three yards, but I've got a

607
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: good broad view of where it's going to come out,

608
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: because sometimes they'll pop out lower, sometimes I'll pop out higher,

609
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: but they'll be in that general vicinity and that's a

610
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: really good way to kind of close the gap and

611
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: bring it in on a bear that you've spotted earlier,

612
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: but get to within range and then sit and set

613
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: up and be patient and wait for it to come

614
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: out again. Really, I can't stress enough how much food

615
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: source is tied into bear hunting success. So early season

616
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: and really figuring out what are the bears gonna be eating,

617
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: where are the food sources? Looking for those neon green patches,

618
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: anything that looks super bright, super green and doesn't look

619
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: like everything else, uh, is a really good place to

620
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: key in on your keen in on that food source.

621
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: But you're saying, okay, in an area where it's all

622
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: food source, maybe find that one thing that's gonna be

623
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: a little bit different that they like. So hey, if

624
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: it's all pretty green already where you're at, look for

625
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: that wet spot that's even brighter green. That the place

626
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: with the highest amount of nutrients. That's where the bears

627
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: are going to focus their energy. They aren't stupid, They're

628
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: very selective eaters. They know what the good stuff is,

629
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: and they tend to know that if they feed, they

630
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: can feed less amount of time or the same amount

631
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: of time, but get higher nutrients and help build their

632
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: body weights up right away. So they're gonna focus in

633
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: on those highest nutrient places. When I'm looking in an area,

634
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: when I sit down, let's say I hiked up to

635
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: around five six, seven thousand feet whatever, I've got a

636
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: great view across the canyon, and I'm gonna really concentrate

637
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,959
Speaker 1: my efforts on those places, Like, Okay, that looks different

638
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: than everything else. It looks more nutrient rich, it looks

639
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: like better forage. That's gonna be a good spot to

640
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: focus my attention. And then I kind of figure out

641
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: where those spots are from distance, and those are a

642
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: lot of times with spots that will concentrate on. There

643
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: are times as well, where I see a good food source,

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Speaker 1: and even if I haven't seen a bear, maybe I

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Speaker 1: I've got a good view of some other places up

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Speaker 1: the canyon, because that way, if a bear does pop out,

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Speaker 1: I may not have to move in. I may be

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Speaker 1: ready or have a very short amount of time to

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Speaker 1: stalk in and make a shot. And those are just

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Speaker 1: a few things to think about when it comes to

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Speaker 1: early spring bear hunting success. I think that if you're

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Speaker 1: like me, this is a great time to kind of

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Speaker 1: dust off your gear to get out to to get

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Speaker 1: something that you can kind of pick up a tag

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Speaker 1: every year for and hopefully find some success. I hope

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Speaker 1: for those of you heading out, maybe there's some of

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Speaker 1: you heading out this weekend, maybe next weekend, sometime during

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Speaker 1: the spring season to chase bears. If you use any

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Speaker 1: of these tips and tactics in their work out for you,

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Speaker 1: let me know. I'd love to hear about your success stories.

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Speaker 1: You can always reach out to me social media at

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Speaker 1: Remy Warrant or Remy at the meat Eater dot com.

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Speaker 1: I generally get to the social media stuff sooner because

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Speaker 1: it's just a little bit easier for me to to

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Speaker 1: track and see and all that kind of stuff, or

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Speaker 1: with anything with the podcast. If you enjoy the podcast,

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Speaker 1: appreciate all the great comments and feedback. And if you

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Speaker 1: listening and all the support as always to feel free

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Speaker 1: to start shooting your questions over for our next Q

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Speaker 1: and A, we're gonna go over some more gear stuff,

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Speaker 1: maybe some more hunting tipps and tactics. And I like

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Speaker 1: to build these podcasts based on your guys recommendations everyone

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Speaker 1: the people that listen, So if you have things that

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Speaker 1: a message and hopefully we'll add it into the list

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Speaker 1: here shortly. Maybe some of your questions will get answered.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll just do a whole podcast topic on it.

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Speaker 1: I thank you guys all for your your support and

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Speaker 1: um just helping build this to be something that I

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Speaker 1: think is is useful in the hunting space. So thank

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Speaker 1: you guys. Until next week, uh, let's see until next week,

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Speaker 1: get out of hibernation, get outside, hopefully get on some bears.

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Speaker 1: See you later,