WEBVTT - Spring Bear Hunting Gear List 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.640 You're listening to the Sportsman's Nation podcast network powered by 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:08.520 Interstate Batteries from your truck to your trail camera. Interstate 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.440 Batteries as you covered. Visit your local Interstate Batteries store 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.880 today or online at Interstate Batteries dot com. Interstate Batteries 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:27.280 Outrageously Dependable. My name is Clay Nucleman. I'm the host 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.240 of the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. I'll also be your 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.880 host into the world of hunting the icon of North 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.839 American wilderness better. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation who 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.440 will also bring you into some of the wildest country 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:52.200 on the planet. Chasing battery. Welcome to the Bear Hunting 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.920 Magazine Podcast. We're at the Global headquarters today and we're 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.680 gonna be talking about our here list for going on 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.320 a spring do it yourself hunt in Montana. Okay, so 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.960 this podcast is gonna be a pretty technical in terms 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.640 of the gear that we use. What we're gonna be 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.200 we're just going through a list and basically we're going 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:20.640 through my personal packing list for going out west and 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.679 uh so that's what we're gonna be doing. I've got 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.840 with me in the office Colby moorehead I introduced Colby 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.160 a couple of podcasts ago, but Colby works for Bear 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.600 Hunting Magazine now full time. So Colby is uh, Colby 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.880 is doing all kinds of stuff for us. Um he's 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.760 Ryan Grab named him the Bear Hunting magazine bear tech. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.760 I call him my tech nerd W. How would you 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.480 describe your how how would you describe your job here? Colby? 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.520 You've been here for two months almost two months? Two months? Uh? 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.880 See you need feeling need you need feeling need yep, yep. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.320 I don't know that you could put it in a title. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.480 Maybe bear tech is the best thing. Yeah, like bear tech, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.000 I mean pretty much. The goal of Bear Hunting Magazine 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.920 is to promote conservation and bear hunting and best practices 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.320 inside of bear hunting. So that's pretty much what you 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:22.080 you support, all under laying foundational things inside of doing that. Yeah. Yeah. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:28.240 So what's interesting though, is just today Colby Moorehead learned 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:33.360 that he's going to Montana with me. Oh man, my 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.320 legs aren't even Arkansas already yet, no doubt, no doubt. Man. Really, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.240 I threw a ranch at Kobe this morning. But I 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.360 have to give a little bit of background before we 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.400 start into the skier list. I've been to Montana on 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.680 a do it yourself hunt two different times. I believe 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:57.640 twenty and I went to Montana. The first Montana hunt 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.120 that I did was I took my wife with me 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.880 and we did a backpack hunt. We back we packed 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.079 back in, and so we were only using gear that 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.080 we could carry on our packs. My pack was about 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.840 fifty five to sixty pounds, her pack was about forty pounds. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.200 And we hiked back in about five miles and stayed 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:21.160 for five days. Okay, never came out. That was pretty 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.040 That was our first big step into Western back country hunting. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.600 The second hunt that I did was in twenty seventeen, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.560 I believe, and I went with gym sessions of Best 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.440 of the West rifles and husk and my optics, and 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.080 we used his mules and horses to pack in, and 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.720 so each of us had uh an animal that we rode, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.960 and each of us had an animal that carried all 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.600 our gear, and so we got to carry a lot 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.280 more gear. Typically an equine animal that you're packing can 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.280 carry between I mean as much as two hundred pounds 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.880 of gear. Usually more like a hundred and fifty pounds 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.280 of gear and so all of a sudden, your limitations 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.120 for what you could bring become a little bit more 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.880 luxurious when you've got equoin animals. So I want I'm 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.880 getting around to why you're going with me, Kobe the 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.080 So I've been planning this hunt in my mind for 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:23.719 a long time, and I needed I wanted somebody to film. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.839 I mean, I want to make a film for the 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.880 YouTube channel. I also want somebody that's able to take photography, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.320 you know, take photos and do stuff for the magazine obviously, Um, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.120 but uh, the main thing is that I didn't know 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.440 exactly when I was gonna go. I mean, I just 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.719 kind of refused to just like pick an arbitrary date 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.320 on the calendar and just go, I'm gonna go this week. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.760 And most normal people that have normal jobs that you 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.479 want to go hunting with you have to have some 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.719 pretty significant prep time and I just couldn't do that 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.160 because it was weather dependent and there was a many 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.840 other variables on the business side of it that I 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.479 didn't know when I was gonna leave, right, And so 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.839 Colby Morehead works for me now, So, uh, Colby was 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:19.919 Mr Flexible inside of this deal, and uh, and Colby 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.160 and I have hunted together before, but this will be 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:27.600 the first big do it yourself Western deal. And um, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.640 so that's a primary reason Colby may end up with 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.640 a bear tag. I mean, we're gonna get up there 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.800 and assess the situation. When Missy and I went up 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.720 there in both of us bought tags, you know, three 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.480 or fifty dollar tags, and we in need of one 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.280 of us ever had a shot out of bear. So 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.520 Colby is going with me. I'm gonna have a tag. Um, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.480 if we get into some bears and feel like success 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.000 is probable, you know, we may go back into town 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.960 get him a tag. We realize he's gotta wait twenty 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.480 four hours before he can hunt, but we'll see what 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:07.520 to see. Um, the the way that I'm hunting is 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.080 and I wanted to talk about this I've and I 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.120 mentioned this on my podcast the other day, is that 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.120 I've got two buddies up in Montana that have kind 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.159 of helped me find some areas and have kind of 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.320 given me a leg up a little bit on finding locations. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.839 Well not a little bit, I mean they pretty much said, hey, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:33.080 this is the region you go in, and uh, there 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.680 their locals and they're having success on bear. They are 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.640 killing bears pretty regularly themselves or people that are up 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.960 there around them, um by walking roads and just glass 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.320 and clear cuts and being mobile. Okay, so they're not 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.320 doing this back country deal where they're going way back in. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.200 I mean, they're pretty much driving around in the evenings 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.159 and glass and cuts and going you know, hopping around 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.000 to a lot of different locations trying to find a bear. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.480 The last time that I went, I kind of fell 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.800 in love with the style of hunting that we did, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:12.120 which was an equine based back country hunt, and that 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.320 is what I want to do. That is that's the 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.280 way that I want to kill a bear in Montana. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.240 So last year we went up there and we didn't 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.320 kill a bear. We hunted for six days and and 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.320 never had opportunity at a bear for the second time 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 in a row. And so my buddies are like, Clui, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.120 you're doing this wrong. If you stayed in a hotel 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.680 and drove around in your truck, you could probably kill 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.720 a bear a lot easier. And uh, I'm not putting 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.400 that I'm not above that in any way. But I've 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.560 also I just the older I get, the more I 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.880 want to do things in a certain way and to me, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.320 a back country do it yourself hunt using these these 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.920 mules that I've got, these animals, to me would be 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.280 really significant. And uh so I've kind of made vision 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.320 that's the way I want to do it. And and uh, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.800 you know because to me, the West is so iconic 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.720 of using equine animals for hunting. And uh actually, when 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.280 I first got Izzy, the mule that I've currently got 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.920 that I'll be writing. You know, I trained her from 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.640 scratch in the whole idea. You know, when I got her, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.520 I envisioned taking her to Montana. And obviously I used 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.400 her mostly here in Arkansas, but I envisioned taking her 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.679 to Montana. And uh and that vision has not died. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.440 Some things evaporate, some dreams evaporate, and some do not. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:41.199 That dream has not evaporated. And uh so we're going 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.280 to Montana and we're we're borrowing a mule from my buddy, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:50.320 Trey Autrey. Now you've have you ever met Trey? He 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.280 was on the podcast, but you weren't here when he 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.440 was here. He's a squirrel hunter, so smoky. So if 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.679 you if you watched our our killer squirrel hunting video 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:04.000 called hundred Dollar Squirrel, Trey Autrey is, uh, he rides 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:08.800 a mule named Smokey Colby. You will be riding Smokey. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.760 trial by fire. I get on the mule the first 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.160 time we're going up a mountain. Man, you're perfect, You're 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.560 you're you don't have a family. Yeah, right, okay, you 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.120 know so it's kind of like, you know, indispensable. I 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.800 guess is that the right word. Is that the word 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.679 I'm looking for? I don't know about that. It's kind 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.720 of like it doesn't matter if he comes home or not. No, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.439 I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Now. The reason we 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.959 we put you on Smokey and I've been I've been 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.280 negotiating with Trey all morning, not negotiating. He was like, hey, yeah, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.800 you can take him, but we gotta get him shot 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.959 before next week. There's a few things, but Smokey is 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.200 super safe. It's like fifteen years old, pretty short. Um. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.080 Colby is not the tallest guy in the room, and 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.920 I'm not very tall either, So if that tells you anything, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.719 I don't have to duck a whole lot. Yeah. So 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.200 Smokey is like probably hands thirteen and a half hands, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.720 and he's kind of a dead head. And so we 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.480 don't need speed out there, we just need we need 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:14.760 surefootedness and just forward movement. Yeah, sou and Smoking Easy 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.440 have have traveled quite a bit together, so they'll do good. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.520 So um well, and and the the other reason that 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.760 you had to be pulled into this so quickly was 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.079 my buddy Brent was gonna go with me, okay, And 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.640 just in the last forty eight hours there's been another 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.920 bear hunt planned this spring that Brent is gonna go 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.280 with me on. Okay. So it's like, all of a sudden, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.520 this Montana trip had a hole in it. I needed somebody. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.800 So it's like, Kobe, let's go. Yeah, because this was 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.959 the flexible trip to Yeah, yeah, this was a flexible trip. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.280 So it's gonna be super fun. We got a lot 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.560 of work to do between now and when we leave. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.360 But uh but this podcast is gonna actually help us 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:02.040 as we think about planning. Um it seems natural. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.280 I want to start off by saying that I am 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.880 not a gear head. Kolbe kind of is. Yeah, all right, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:14.200 I ventured into it. Yeah, I mean you're you're pretty technically, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.720 I mean like you enjoy like searching out the gear 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:23.160 and looking at different products and really yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.839 a lot of podcasts, yeah, a lot of YouTube and see, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.040 I'm the exact opposite of that, Like, uh, I'm a 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.640 minimalist at heart. But at the same time, I think 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.079 I've been pretty effective with the gear that I use 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.720 on these back not just back country like these two 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.720 do it yourself deals, but I mean I've I'm hunting 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.600 a lot, traveling and hunted a lot in the last 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.560 five years and back country hunted here in Arkansas. And 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.040 you don't want to be limited by your gear. I 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.840 think that's that's the thing, and that's what I live by, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.240 is I as I never want my gear to be 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.440 a reason for not being successful. So even though I 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:08.360 don't enjoy the technical side of gear stuff, I mean 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.000 I I can navigate my way through it, and typically 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.640 what I do is just by the absolute best stuff possible. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.720 I mean, that's that's just a good, good way to go. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.520 But I do believe it's a lot simpler than people 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.040 make it sometimes. I think sometimes people enjoy it, like you, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.760 Kolbe enjoy gear stuff, and so you talk a lot 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.960 about it, and to somebody who doesn't enjoy gear stuff, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.520 then it becomes like stressful. It's like, well, I had 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.400 no idea that there were so many options for freeze 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.520 dried meals. I'm happy with what I've got, you know. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.360 So so I think sometimes it can be confusing for 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 somebody who doesn't like gear to listen to a podcast 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.320 where they just dissect like two different types of gear 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.680 for three hours. It's just like, hey, man, tell me 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.840 which is the best one, and I'll get through it. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.760 And so there's kind of a rugged mentality of being 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.439 a minimalist that I inc is good. But also there's 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.679 something really good to be said for somebody that's really 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.559 good at planning and strategizing and getting the best gear, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.760 and so, uh, you know, I don't think either one 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:18.160 of those positions is superior to the other, you know. Um, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.480 but so what we're gonna what we're gonna talk about. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.480 We've got a list here of stuff. And I told 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.600 Colby before we started this that I didn't want us 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.520 to just like make a gear list for a spring 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.680 Bear hunt, just like off the internet, just like read 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.440 and saying this would be a good idea, Like I 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.960 really went through and thought about the things that I bring, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.280 and um, and because I've never gotten out in the 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.880 woods and wished I had something different. I really haven't, 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.360 or or or got out there and realized that there 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.199 was some massive hole in my gear list. Let me 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:56.280 put it that way. Um So that being said, this 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.080 gear list would be this could easily be put into 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.840 a back backpack hunt. I mean, like, you don't have 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.520 to have mules to do what we're gonna do. Honestly, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.679 when we pack up our mule, we will probably we're 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.760 just packing with one equine animal. The other one will 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.800 be ridden. Basically, what we're gonna do is we gonna 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.000 have two animals and uh, both of them are gonna 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.360 have riding saddles on, but one is gonna have a paniard, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.840 and the one that we pack on will probably have 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.680 a hundred and fifty pounds of gear. So let's just 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.360 say seventy five pounds of gear between the two of us, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.400 and all you'd have to do to get that down 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.960 to that fifty to sixty pound range would be just 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.480 shed a few things that were kind of extracurricular, which 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.120 will probably end up being food and drink. Okay, so 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.200 we'll have the liberty to probably bring you know, some 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.000 sodas or some gatorade or something if we wanted to, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.960 you know, and didn't want to like mix powder. I mean, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.640 we'll have a little bit more liberally. But I'm saying 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.240 that to say that this all this stuff is still 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:58.840 the same stuff that I would take if I was 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.320 carry stuff on my back. Yeah, that makes sense. But 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.920 we will have some liberty to take more stuff if 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.600 we if we want to. Um, So one of us 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.800 will be walking and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.920 say that again one of us. Now we can switch off. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.040 But where we're the one place where planning to go, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.480 it's about five miles back in and uh, we can 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.440 easily switch off, like somebody will be leading the mule, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.920 somebody to be walking, but you won't necessarily have a 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.960 big heavy pack on while you're walking, you know. Um, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:40.520 and we're also carrying camera gear. We're carrying forty pounds 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.040 of extra camera gear that most people wouldn't be taken. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:51.040 So does that make sense? Yep? Is that fairy? Okay? Well, um, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.120 let's start right here. At the top of my list 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:59.560 is weaponry, and I want to talk about what the 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.800 kind of gun then I'm gonna be taken in Montana. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.480 I've had some people interested in that. And what we're 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.720 gonna carry just one gun, even if both of us 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.200 are hunting, I mean, even if Kolbe buys a tag, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.360 We'll just have this one gun. And what I'm shooting 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.040 right now is UH Best of the West Hunter Elite 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.480 three wind MAAG. Okay, this is UH with with a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.120 with a husk the baw two by twenty by fifty scope. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.480 This to me is a super good bear gun for 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.040 black bear or brown bear. Three in a wind maag. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.800 It's probably on the on the smaller side of the 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.360 scale for what you would want to use for brown bear, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.320 but is fully capable and has the ballistics and has 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.160 has everything it needs for brown bear hunting. So it's 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.960 it's a gun that would spam the span a pretty 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.560 wide swath of North American big game. Okay, But if 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.000 you were going to if you're going to Kodiak and 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.040 we're gonna be you know, hunting ten ft brown bears 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.320 and gonna have shots on a hundred yards, I mean 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.200 maybe you would take get different big bore, shorter range gun, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.960 but thrown wind mag would do it all right. Um, Now, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.480 have you ever seen my best of the West Hunter Elite. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.639 Not in person. Not in person. I need to go 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.439 get it, show it to you. Um, I want to 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.240 talk a little bit about this gun I'm shooting. Uh. Well, 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.560 the gun is nine point to five pounds. It's a 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.560 has a fluted stainless steel barrel with a Sarah Coat finish, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.280 So the barrel is actually black, but it's stainless underneath that, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.240 so it has a Sarah Coote finish. UM has the 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.320 Best of the West seven style action with a Timney trigger. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.960 So these guns are built in Cody, wy Woman. Every 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.720 pretty much every component is built in Cody Woman. I'm 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.120 not sure if they if they build their their stocks there, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.359 but they have them built four Best of the West. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.480 They build the actions there, they build the barrels there, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:02.040 they build everything there. Um and uh they now like 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.560 a Timney trigger that is a custom long range, high 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.120 end trigger, like you could go if you were gonna 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.560 trick out one of your guns, you can put a 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.160 Timney trigger on it. And there's several really good triggers. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.040 Jewel and Timney are two of them. Um, you can 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.040 get it. You can get a Jewel trigger on some 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.879 of the Huska guns, but this one has the Timney trigger, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.520 which basically the Hunter Elite is. Let me talk about 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.520 the best of the West system is that you purchased 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.359 this gun from them and it is out of the 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:40.760 box a absolute sniper rifle. They've they've sighted the gun in, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.760 they've broke the gun in, it's been shot, it's been uh, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.600 the scope has been I mean it's totally been sighted in. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.520 And a custom turret built on the husk Mos scope. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.159 So I mean you could literally get it in the 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.480 mail and pick it up and it's this gun is 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:02.600 guaranteed accurate out to seven hundred yards. So the beautiful 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.840 thing about husk Moth scopes is I'm not a gun guy, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.560 I'm not a technical gun guy. I've learned my way 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.440 around a little bit the last several years, but most 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.800 scopes are well, first of all, do you know what 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.200 a custom tour it is? Tell us what a custom 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.399 tour it is. That's where they calibrate it so that 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:29.840 you can dial in like your yardage and yeah everything, um, yeah, yeah, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.240 So it's so it's what it is. Is. It's like 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.680 typically inside of scopes, if you're you would you would 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.000 zero in the scope at tuoundred yards that means the 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.560 tundred yards that's hitting dead on. Well, if you're shooting 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.000 a three hundred yards, you have to calculate the hold over. Yeah, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.920 four hundred yards, you calculate the hold over. I mean 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.600 by the time you get to six hundred yards, you 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.160 might have a four in holdover. And so that's where 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.080 the error comes in. The human error involved in holdover. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.960 Hold over is a limon, aided by having accustomed turret 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.240 because you dial the turret to the yardage of the 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.280 target and you put the cross hairs directly on it, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.800 so there's no hold over. Last year, I borrowed a 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.520 gun in Manitoba and it was a gun that did 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:20.760 not have a husky moscope on it, and it was 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.280 my father and I was gun his muzzloader, and he 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.320 had a little chart taped onto the side of his 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.760 gun that had holdover, you know at three hundred yards 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.720 eight inch holder, four hundred yards sixteen inch holdover. And man, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.040 I mean, if you practiced, you could get fairly proficient, 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:43.600 but you guessing how far, you know, at six hundred yards, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.720 and this muzzleloader was accurate out to that far ridiculously 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.320 high precision muzzloader. But I mean think about holding over 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.560 four ft at six hundred yards. You're guessing what four 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.600 ft looks like at a target six hundred yards away. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:02.520 I mean massive probability of human so accustomed turret takes 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.120 that away. The reason huskmall is different is that its 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.399 turret is the only turret that has yardage rather than 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.359 m o A, so a minute of angle. Yeah, so 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.760 like any any uh, they have it patented because so 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.680 on my custom turret it has yardage. I mean, you 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.600 you range find a bear and he's at four hundred yards, 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.480 you dial it to four hundred. Typically what you would 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.479 do is you would range it to four hundred yards 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.199 and then you would have to calculate the m o 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.199 A and dial to it. And I've never had a 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.600 scope like that, so somebody may correct me, but basically, 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.960 scopes are m o A and you you understand, you 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.040 understand how much a minute of angle is and you 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:49.000 calculate it. Basically, Yeah, you're other rifle that you already had, 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.920 didn't you put a huskmall on it? Yeah? Well, I've 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.440 got a big board gun, a four fifty seven magnum, 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.000 and I put the husk male one by six uh 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.800 tactical cope on it. It's a it's a six power 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:08.280 and um it uh, let's see, yeah, it's a it's 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.520 a it's a six power the little bit tactical scope 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:16.080 into it's It's what you do is you gather data. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.560 So if you so like my Hunter Elite came fully 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.480 ready to roll, okay, But if you want to take 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.040 one of the guns that you have and put a 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.480 huskam My scope on it with a custom tourret, all 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.399 you do is gather ballistics data. So basically, you go 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.440 to the range with a chronograph, you shoot the top 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.399 of you you have to have an already decided what 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.399 top of bullet you want to shoot. You shoot it 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.160 through the chronograph, and then you measure the drop at 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:46.760 three different distances. Basically, so you like say and you 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:48.720 tell them this, You say, the gun is zero to 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.200 a hundred yards and it dropped eight inches at two hundred, 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:56.000 and it dropped six, you know, eighteen inches at three hundred. 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:59.800 And basically they do all the physics of bullet drop 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:04.879 and from those three things and barometric pressure and temperature, 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.119 and I mean they take a bunch of things that 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.880 just fine tune this calibration. But those are the three 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.679 main things is that how fast is that bullet flying 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.200 and how much drop does it have at two different distances? 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.359 And from that data they build a customed turret that's 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.960 built for your gun. It's pretty cool. It's it's super cool. 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:29.040 So that's the gun that I'm gonna be using. Um 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:31.560 My that three hundred wind maag's I'm shooting a tuner 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:36.440 twenty excuse me two twelve grain? Hornerty yelled the ex 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:40.920 bullet okay, which, uh it's shooting out of that gun 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:44.040 When we cronoed it, I think it was mainly in 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:48.879 the ft per second range, but the Internet says it 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.080