Ep. 34: Calling Bears in New Mexico and Essential Tactics for Filling Your Spring Tag

two point oh. So last week was bears one point oh and we were just kind of laying the groundwork how to identify where bears are based on behavior, food sources, and then we even touched a little bit on seasonality of the food sources and where you should be looking certain times a year. Once you've keyed in on where bears will be, now we need to imploy away the hunting tactics. So this week is going to be all about bear spot and stock and western bear hunting tactics.

And the three that I'm gonna cover are gonna be glassing than a still hunting tactic, which would be more roving on logging roads, and then the third tactic, which will be calling. Now, before we get too far into the tactics, I'd like to first share a story. One of my personal favorite stories out of my collection of hunting experiences. This involves a bear hunt in New Mexico while I was guiding, and it's just one of those stories that needs to be told. This story takes place

in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Now I used to guide down there for an outfitter, and it's primarily elk hunts, but the hunters every once in a while would have a bear tag in their pocket as well. This year, in particular, was just a crazy year for

acorn growth. There's all these scrub oaks just I would say, like head high, super thick oak brush, and for some reason this year, every oak tree had just thousands of acorns, whether it was a the right combinations of spring and dry summer and weather before this time, whatever, this particular September, there was just acorns everywhere, and because of it, it really drew the bears out of the pine forests in the surrounding areas and we're seeing an encountering quite a

few bears. So the food source was there, just everywhere, acorns on the ground, and because of it, we're seeing more bears than we'd ever seen in years past. On this particular hunt, we were primarily focusing on elk, but it's just kind of hot in a really hot dry September, and the elk activity, the running activity was pretty slow. So in the middle of the day, I just figured we're gonna go walk around and maybe try to find some elk sign, maybe throughout some bugles, whatever. It's just

it was just getting pretty slow. And my hunter happened to have a bear tag as well, because we've been seeing so many bears. So we're working in this particular area, and I think this was actually the same hunt. I told the story earlier in a different podcast about the elk almost stepping on me. This isn't that same area.

So there's to paint a picture. There's this big open meadows, so there's these big slopes that go up the mountain and then there's these big drop off canyons on one side, so there's a big canyon that drops off, and in between the meadows, it's these big pine forests, open meadow going up, maybe some aspens mixed in, and then it drops off into this canyon on the other side. And in the lower parts and on the drier sides of the hill, so all the north faces normally you know,

a lot of places north faces would be meadows. In this particular area, seemed like most of the north faces were like really choked thick with this oak brush. So on this particular day, we're I'm walking through the pine stuff with the wind was coming down the mountain. So we're working the morning up and we end up at the top of the hill and we've got this kind of overlook over this valley and we just start working the pine edge around and I look and I start

seeing a lot of bear sign here. So I kind of investigate the bear sign and I look and go, okay, there's like bear scat everywhere in this one particular area, and I think, okay, I kind of analyze it, and they're just a corns in it. I'm thinking to myself, there's only one real spot on this particular mountain up high here that has acorns. So I get my hunter and I'm like, hey, let's go see if we can try to find a bear. He's like, okay, cool. So

we we walk up and there's this perfect overlook. It's just it comes out of the pine forest and it's just this like perfect rock rim maybe a ten foot drop off the raw and it's surrounded by pines and it's just this thick oak brush coming right up to that from there, and I'm like, okay, out of everywhere, this is where this bear has got to be living. I mean, it's it's got the right habitat, it's within a good range of where we're at. It's just thick in there. There's a ton of acorns. This has got

to be the spot. So it's the middle of the day and I tell my hunter, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna bust out my call. I've got I just carry this this jack rabbit and distress call with me. And I'm like, we're gonna we're gonna call this bear in. And the wind was perfect, it was coming up from the bottom. Everything was just set right. We could see all around us, and I'm like, ah, this is good. So I tell me hunter, I'm like, all right, you go and set up by this this big pine where

you can see down. I was about ten yards away and I'm just gonna sit here and call and I give them specific instructions. I've called plenty of bears. It takes a long time for a bear to get active and decided to come in. So I'm like, it's gonna be a minimum of pretty five minutes and we won't leave until after an hour. So I'm gonna be calling constant for forty at least forty five minutes to an hour. He's like, okay, So I get over in my spot

and start wrenching on the calle. I mean, it's just like I'll do one of these stands calling for bears maybe every few days, because it's just it's it's just taxing to just blow on this call as loud and as long and as hard as I can for an hour. So I just get going and you can just hear it echoing down the canyon's perfect. All of a sudden, it starts attracting the birds, which is just like first step, Okay,

it's working. Here comes some magpies, and about ten minutes in, magpies are landing on all the trees around us, and I keep about twenty minutes in, I am just taxed, like, oh gosh, here you go, and I can see my hunter is just kind of like, I'm like, okay, I have an air on, be ready, you know, and he's looking like okay, nothing's happening. I'm like, just wait giving him the hands signals like it's okay, you know, be ready. So he's sitting there and I keep wrenching on the call.

All of a sudden, the crows start circling. I'm like, well, stuff thinks that this is a good setup, and it just feels good. I know this is gonna happen. So we're about I would say, forty five minutes into it, and I kind of I give him like the thumbs up, like we've hit the mark now where bears should be coming in. We're just gonna keep an eye out. And for some reason, I think he just got impatient, like

this is just not working. So he puts his arrow back in his quiver and walks over to me and I look at him and he's like, I think your calls broken. And I'm like what and he's like, yeah, it's not working, and I'm like, okay, yeah, but I told you it's gonna take like even if it doesn't work, like this is now we're in the time zone, like if a bear is gonna come in, he's gonna come

in from now into the next ten minutes. So I'm thinking, I'm like what, okay, And as soon as he said his back is now to the downhill side and he's facing me. He's like, you, you know, just talking to me, like your call is not working. Like he's like, I don't think this is gonna happen. And I was like, what do you mean it's not working? It's like huh. As soon as he said it wasn't working, a bear stepped out, like thirty yards blown, Well, what about that

bear right there? And he thinks I'm joking. He turns around and just locks eyes at this bear and the bears like thirty yards it's below us, It has no like it can't see us the way that the angle is. And he starts shaking and he gets down and rat like rattling around, gets an arrow on on his string. It was like from zero of this call is not working, to all of a sudden me nonchalantly saying, oh, what about that bear there? And of course bear right there?

So I range the bear thirty yards. He gets drawn back and I can see he's it's just like the nerves I think got the best of him from the surprise of thinking that there's no bears two now here's a bear thirty yards away. He draws back and shoots, I know the arrow hit the ground somewhere way away from the bear. I think between the adrenaline and the shaking and the surprise that bear wheeled around and ran straight back into the oak brush that he came from,

never to be seen again. I'm gonna break it down into my three favorite bear hunting tactics, So we're gonna call it glassing, cruising, and calling. Let's start with glassing. Now, if I was to describe bear hunting to someone that says, hey, what's it like to go spot and stock bear hunting in say, Montana, Idaho, my definition of it is it is hours of boredom interjected with a few seconds of

sheer excitement. Now, the reason is is because there's a lot of time in between spotting bears, and that's probably why it makes it so exciting when you actually see one. I think a lot of people the first time they go bear hunting, they kind of get worked up too, because the whole predator aspect, they've got teeth, they've got claws, it's a it's an elusive animal that you don't see

very often. Not that there's low populations of them, but they're just very elusive in nature, they can be hard to find and there can be a lot of time in between spotting, so when you actually do spot one, it's like, WHA crap, there's one. What do I do? All your time has been spent focusing on finding the thing, and very little time has been spent focusing on what are you gonna do when you find something? So I

think that adds to the excitement fact actor. Now, out of all the successful bear hunts I've done, I would say that I've probably many of them. The success is probably split up amongst the three tactics. The cruising, glassing and calling glassing I think works best early in the season, but then where are you glass changes throughout the course of the season. So at the beginning of the spring, I'm always looking for those more alpine areas, big rugged canyons where I can get up in there, post up

and look over a lot of country at once. Now, the thing with bears is you expect them to move and be fairly crepuscular, moving mornings and evenings. Yet I've found throughout the years that sometimes you find bears moving at just random times, and they might decide this. Certain bear likes to move at noon, and that's when it's

gonna move now. Because the days are super long in the spring, that makes it a lot of time between sitting and just watching the same area over and over with nothing happening, and then all of a sudden, boom,

there's a bear. My particular tactic and my tips for glassing or this, what I like to do is I like to get into an area where I can get comfortable and set up overlooking as many openings as possible, a lot where I can I'm within range of what I consider probably my a area, the best area where I'm kind of expecting something, where I can look at that with my eyes, and if something did pop out in the open, I would be able to see it, and then stuff further away that I can look at

with my optics. Now I do my setup this way, it's very optics intensive and very looking intensive. So I prefer to use high power binoculars during spring bear season mounted on my tripod. I generally go with either twelves or fifteens. I've even used twenty power binoculars. A good set of high power optics is key. You don't necessarily need a spotting scope as much, but I do carry the spotting scope for those times where I'm looking at a bear at a far distance away and I really

want to judge that bear. I want to say, Okay, that bear is two miles away, three miles away. There's a lot of stuff to get into position for that. I better make sure that that's the type of bear that I'm looking for, and I'm going to take the spotting scope out and zoom in and say, okay, does it have cubs? Is it a bore? Is it a sow? I'm gonna really judge that bear through the spotting scope. Some of the key tactics for glassing are really just, like it sounds, sit there and watch one area for

a pro longed period of time. That might be an entire day, or if you want to cut your day down. Sometimes I'll choose weather. I'm hunting mornings or evenings on those long days, and I'll go early. I'll get set up in my position for the sun to come up glassing, and then I glass until say two or three PM.

Or if I'm just hunting evenings, maybe I'll start at noon and then glass until dark, which is that time of year, could be ten thirty eleven, and walk out and whatever, because by the time you get back to camp and eat, it's just a long day. I've done those all day glasses and it's just mentally beats you up. So I found that for me personally, I just like to pick now a morning or and evening and just

hunt half the day really hard. But if I've got the time and I'm in the back country and camping whatever, I'll probably just glass as much as I can. But you want to be set up in an area where you're just you're overlooking the same stuff and you really get a sense of what is in front of you. Now you'll notice there's things that will start looking like bears and you'll be glassing, and then you'll start to really understand and kind of memorize, Okay that I already

looked at that. I didn't look at that. So when something pops out, it catches your attention immediately. And that's what I do. I just sit there, get comfortable, have your snacks or whatever, and just look. The longer you're looking,

the more likely you are to spot something. And it sounds like, yeah, that's a no brainer, but there there's so many times where I've been sitting there and we go, Okay, there's nothing here, and then all of a sudden, a bear pops out in fifteen minutes later another I've I've been in one spot seen four bears, when previously I thought I sat here long enough that I would have seen something, And there's nothing here. I've seen it at all,

and all of a sudden something pops out. The key is to just find those areas like we talked about the last podcast, and then just know that, Okay, they're here, this is a good area. Now I'm going to sit here and play the waiting game. How long is too long to wait? Well, if you've gone a couple of days and I haven't seen anything, maybe it's time to move spots or check a new area. But for the most part, if you sit there and you watch it and there there, you should see them because they should

come out at some point while you're there. You just have to stay vigilant. And that's where that boredom factor of okay, am I doing this right? Am I looking hard enough? Comes in Now in those times where I try to use my eyes and my chest binoculars, my lower power binoculars to glass the more open stuff. In those times where I'm not really seeing anything. Then I'll use my higher power optics to really grie some of the thicker stuff that I should be able to pick

something out in with more magnification. So I'll constantly go back and forth between looking wide and say the openings, the edges, the grass is, the good food sources, and then I'll spend my down time looking and cover with my more magnified optics. Now the key is to grid it, so I'll just sit there. I know it's I'm pretty stationary, and I'll go start at the top and go left

to right, down and then right to left. So what you're doing is you're just covering your like making a grid on the mountain, and then you're using your optics to cover every square inch of that. And that works really well because you can you can actually see into some more of the covered areas with those higher power optics.

So I'll do that, and then I'll jump back and forth between looking intensely and then taking my eyes out, letting them adjust on the hillside, using my smaller optics to just get a broader view of the more open stuff. So I'm going back and forth between cover, gritting and just taking my eyes off the binos and looking at different ranges. That also helps keep the headaches down and the eyes strained down by kind of going in and out of your optics so you aren't constantly focused at

one level. And then you pull your eyes off your optics and you get kind of this blood rush headache, um, weird vision because your eyes were focused looking through these magnification and then you kind of pull it off and your eyes done and just the real world so fast. So I like to go back and forth between the two, have like tripods set up, gritting, head off, looking at the open glassing some stuff, back to my gritting pattern and don't lose track there. I've had a lot of

success spotting bears that way. So I talked a lot about in a canyon early season. Now as the season progresses, I like to change my view point to maybe looking towards other open areas, more meadows and parks, as well as glassing into elk calving elk feeding areas. So as the food source just change, you're gonna change your positioning and where you're glassing from and what you're glassing into.

And that's key for spring bear hunting is being adaptive to where the food sources are and then moving your locations based on that. That's key. Now we're gonna go into cruising. So cruising I consider cruising country is in more thick country, so more timbered areas, areas that don't lend themselves to glassing very well. And these can be super productive because the food sources can be more limited in these timbered areas. They come up later, they're in

a smaller area. But the cruising tactic just means that you're moving a lot more and covering more country. As opposed to letting your eyes do the walking, you're doing the actual walking. And I've had a lot of success doing this, especially in timbered areas early in the spring and even a little bit later. What it is is these logging roads, most of them would be gated logging roads where there's no vehicle access, but you can walk

these roads from previous logging activity. What that does is it opens up the canopy of the forest and allows sun to grow and hit these roads, and they start to get the new growth, so they'll get the new grasses. You'll see a lot of dandelion, a lot of clover, especially early, and these roads draw the bears in from

that surrounding thick country. The best time to hunt the roads is when you notice there's not a lot of growth in the timber, but there's growth on the logging roads because it provides an area that's open for the bears to feed. And then it's easy walking, quiet walking away that you can move around and cover a lot of country. Just by covering more country, you're you're increasing

your chances and your odds. Now, I've even gone as far as scouting these roads on like a pedal bike or even some of these roads you can take like a four wheeler or a dirt bike or whatever, but just using it as a scouting tool to cover a lot of country and look for sign. Now I do the same thing to try to figure out when a bear is using that portion of the road. So what

I'll do is I'll i'll cruise these logging roads. When I'm looking for bears, you're kind of looking off the side of the road, on the road all around, but you're also looking for sign any kind of droppings. Now, if i find bear sign, what I'll do is I'll pull out my phone on my ONYX map. I'll just drop a pin scat right here, and I'll put the time that I saw it, and then I'll kick that off the road, and then I'll walk the road back

out and then come back. Now I pay attention both ways in and out and see if there's any more sign okay, and then I walk that same road a different time or that same time the next day or a different day. So what I try to do is I try to have a bunch of different roads that I know are possible good spots for bears or a route, and then I walk that route, and then as I see sign in a certain area. Most of the time what will happen is the bears will keep coming back

and feeding in the same general area. Over the course of my time hunting, I can kind of build out a timeline of when the bears are hitting it. So if I walk the road in the evening, i'll walk it the next morning and if I see sign there, then I'll know, okay, it was coming out in the evening. But if I walk it in the morning, kick the sign off, and then walk it in the evening and see it again, that I know it's coming out in the daytime. Between those two times that I walked it.

So what I keep doing is I keep narrowing the times that I walk it into pinpointing when this bear is particularly coming out. It's a fairly rudimentary system, but it ends up working over the course of time because you've got multiple areas that you're going. You're creating data of saying this bears probably coming out this time, so you'll walk those sections of the road at certain times when it's most advantageous that that bear is going to

come out. I hope that makes sense. So you're you're you're just building a bunch of data based on Okay, the bears are out here, I'm seeing sign here this time, or maybe you're seeing sign every couple of days that you know, okay, well in a day, and you can kind of build these patterns based on the sign that you're seeing in the times that you're walking those logging roads, those gated areas. Now, the key to the cruising method

is you have to have the wind right. So you have to find places that have the wind right, have the grass and feed, and you're gonna be able to be more successful. If you're walking a section where the wind's wrong, it's essentially pointless because they could be right there. But bears have such a good sense of smell their site. They don't really pay much attention to sound. They don't really care about but if they catch your wind, it's all over. So the key to the cruising technique is

you have to have the wind right now. You can also go a more shotgun approach to the cruising where maybe you aren't seeing signed but you've got the food source, you've got the wind right. Just continue cruising and keeping on a lot of different roads that have all the right things. Sooner or later you will bump into what

you're looking for. Now, it doesn't seem as predictable as maybe some of the other methods like glassing, where you go, okay, I'm sitting here, I'm actively looking at seems it feels kind of random. But what you'll notice is over the years and the time of doing it, you'll find certain roads during certain times that attract the bears. And what you need to do is you need to kind of make note of that because, as we talked about in the first one, bears are very predictable and patternable. It's

just on a larger scale. So once you understand which roads they like which areas they're going to and and maybe not necessarily the time of year, but what's going on on that road Over the years, I take notes on Okay, I walked here, I saw a bear here? What was going on? Okay, the grass was this tall? Here's what it looked like in the forest around it? Was there? Any calving activity was there? Any of this was there? And what's going on in this area at

that time? And then replicating that each and every time you go out, because the more you hone in on the spots and the races and things that they like, the more likely you are going to be to intersect their paths. And that's all it is is bear hunting. A lot of times, it's just like spending time to where your persistence intersects with their pattern. And that's the key to a lot of this as far as spring

and spot and stock bear hunting goes. Now another tactic and we did touch on it last week a little bit along with this cruising is if you start to find like a really grassy patch and you say, okay, there's bear sign here. There's a lot of tracks, there's a lot of sign. Maybe it's a wallow or something

that you find along the way of cruising. You can also, if it's legal in the state that you're hunting, put up a trail camera and see and try to gain a sense of a pattern of where that bear is eating, and then hunt that. I've had a lot of friends that have have walked roads and they keep finding, say a green grassy patch that has a lot of sign. Well,

the bears are gonna keep coming back to that. Maybe it's got some good clover, some good dandelion, and it's just the sun hits it right, the snow melted off just right. Maths, that's its food source for right now while that's happening. If you find a place that has a lot of sign, don't be afraid to just set up and wait. I've been very successful just cruising logging roads and finding the spot like, Okay, this grassy bend is the best one. It always has sign in it.

I'm just gonna sit here and wait and almost like you would set up a tree stand, set up a blind. I don't really do a tree stand, but I would set up like a makeshift ground blind, tuck in, get the wind right and just wait and watch that spot because that's the spot where they're preferred feeding and they're gonna keep coming back to. And that's all just based on the knowledge that you've gained by cruising and covering a lot of country. Now, the third tactic is going

to be calling. Now, I think calling works great in both the spring and the fall. In the spring, I find it pretty effective, especially in elk caving and deer fawning areas. Now I will focus in on those areas later in the spring season, and I use a combination of the method, so I'll glass those areas. I might change my glassing pattern to a calving area. Also, a lot of times elkal cabin in maybe say clear timber or some more timbered pockets where there's good grass a

lot of cover for the fonds to survive. So a cruising through those areas can be super effective. But also calling in those areas can be effective. It's because bears will mostly use their nose to suss out food, but every once in a while they'll key into those audio cues of oh, there's a free snack over here. So here's the deal with bear calling. I have done it pretty extensively and had quite a bit of success with it. But there are a few things that you need to

understand when you're getting started. Bears are very strange responding to a call, whereas a lot if you're used to other predator calling or what have you, bears. I've actually called to bears that i've seen just outsay quarter mile away or whatever and start calling, calling, calling, And the technique of calling a bear is you pretty much have to blow. Is loud, and is long, and is constant on the call as you can for as long as

you can. It's very strange. But for some reason, I've I've seen bears where they're they're just feeding, they're doing their thing, and you start blowing on the call. You'll blow on the call for thirty forty five minutes and nothing, and then all of a sudden, the barrel whip its head up and run in. I don't know why. It's just like maybe it's something in their head. They're like, if I hear that long enough, then it's worth going

over there. I don't really know the explanation why, but that's just seems to be the successful tactic to calling bears. Very rarely have I had a bear just come in right off the bat. It's mostly calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, and then they just decided to come in quick after that, at least the ones that I've observed with my eyes while calling to them, and I'm pretty sure it's the

same in any scenario. The other thing you have to really consider when calling to bears is, I mean, it's it's fairly difficult to blow on a mouth call for that long that many times, so you really have to pick your set up correctly. So you want to pick a set up in an area that you know is very likely to hold bears. And that can be kind of how that story played out. Where you find sign and okay, what's in the sign, what is the bear eating? What? Where is an area that has that type of food source?

And then get close to that area, get the wind right and start calling. They're probably gonna be hanging out and thicker stuff during the middle of the day. I've actually had some pretty good success calling bears in the middle of the day. And maybe that translates into why it takes so long too. Maybe they're just kind of hanging out, chilling, laying down, taking it easy, and then they hear something and think, okay, well that's worth going

and checking out. There are a lot of setups where I've I've called, called, called, called, called, and nothing came in, and then I walk out and see a bear track down wind to me. So you have to pick your spot where it's gonna be hard for the bear to circle you and get your wind because they won't come in. And for the most part, you're gonna be blowing on

that call for an hour. You're gonna exude all your vocal and calling energy into calling, and that bear is just gonna circle around, catch your wind and leave and you won't even know that he was attempting to come in. So when you set up the setup is the number one thing. You got to find a spot where it's hard for the bear to get behind you and you've

got the wind right. So I like to try to find places where i might be at the top of a hill or I've got a good like rock outcropping that I'm on top of and I'm expecting the bear to come from below me. That's generally the best. You know, calling in the bottom of something is tough because they can circle around you. So if you're in a tight gut, you know, maybe position yourself in the goalie where you you think that the bear will come up from the

bottom and you've got good vantage on both sides. I do like to use the call, and I think it works really well, especially in Southwestern states, um more arid climates, it works really well. I kind of refrain from using the calling technique in areas where there's grizzly bears just as far as a safety concern, I don't want to have to deal with it, so I just go with

the cruising or the glassing in those areas. But if you're in a spot where there's no grizzlies, um, you've got a good set up and you know that there's bears close by, calling can be super effective. The other key is just after you've got the set up right, being consistent with the call, long loud, keep it going, keep it going, keep it going until you pretty much

can't go anymore. You're gonna find that the most successful calling is gonna be when you're within I would say eight hundred yards or so of probably where that bears at. So you really have to pick your spot precise the first time, because you're gonna you're gonna run out of

energy to do this multiple times. I mean the idea of oh yeah, I'll just go calling bears is great and make stand after stand after stand, but most states don't allow electronic calls, and the actual act of blowing on a predator call for that long that many times is exhausting. So you really have to pick the scenario right.

And I do find that in the springtime, picking a scenario where you're near a calving area, or say you've glassed and you saw a bear in this elk caving areas sniffing around in that area, going and setting up in those kind of scenarios, you're gonna have a lot more success than if you just start blind calling in the woods. So you really want to pinpoint your calling, set up, and then call along and hard and loud,

and you will be surprised at how successful it can be. Also, as a note to the calling, you just gotta watch your six. I mean, you can't treat it as I'm just gonna start calling here, because a bear is coming in expecting a meal, and they can be aggressive predators, so you should have your gun loaded, you should be ready, you should be watching and paying attention, and also have something against your back so they can't sneak up on you.

I don't know how many times I've called, called, called, called, called, Think nothing's there, turned and look and there's a bear ten twelve feet away. I mean I've had bears walk up right there. I actually had one one time. I was calling set up, had a big rock behind me, and I kind of hear a little bit of wrestling, and maybe six seven ft away is this bear standing

on its hind legs looking down at me. I mean, they walk in so silent, so quiet, So you just really have to be on edge, paying attention and really, you know, be smart about calling. Although black bears tend to not be aggressive, there is always that off chance that you could do something stupid and have one become aggressive, especially if it's got cubs and comes in or whatever. I'm sure at this point, with everything going on a lot of you're feeling pretty cooped up right now. I

know I definitely am. I actually somehow got sick while pretty much avoiding everybody, so I don't even know what's going on. But um, yeah, you're just kind of ready to get out and do some hunting. But I really hope that this bear hunting episodes, this two part deal helped a few people out because I did get a ton of questions about it, and I thought, okay, this would be a good thing to take a little bit

of time and talk about. Now, if there's something that you didn't understand or I don't know, maybe you want more information, more specifics on you know, feel free to shoot me an email at Remy at the meat Eater dot com, at Remy Warrant on Instagram. Probably the emails, you know, we do a lot for the podcast and then as well as the Instagram. I kind of take

from both. So next week we're gonna do another Q and A. So if you've got any other questions on spring stuff, whatever, hunting tactics, shoot me messages this week and we'll try to get as many answered as we can next week. Label it if it's like a hunting tip that you want to know, maybe a gear stuff, we'll do some gear stuff in the subject. Just let me know, kind of break it down into category. We also had a little category we called life advice or whatever.

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Everybody that listens gets gets something. And maybe you weren't a guy that's gonna go bear hunting this spring, that's okay. You can take some of these tactics into other types of hunts and hopefully some of the stories are entertaining as well. But if there's things you want to know about, shoot me some ideas, some questions, whatever. We're gonna answer some questions next week and until then, I gotta use the same as yet don't cut the distance to each other.

We guess we gotta stay separated and I don't even know. Crazy times, friends, crazy times. But we're gonna get through it, and we're gonna have some pretty awesome, exciting outdoor adventures in the months to come. Catch you later