Ep. 90: Spring Bears

spring weather. I think this week we're gonna just shake winter off and we're gonna dive into one of the West's best springtime hunts in my opinion, we're talking about bears. I'm gonna cover my early spring season tactics for targeting and finding those emerging bars and where to concentrate your

efforts this spring season. We're also going to go over a few of the best times to look for bears, specific spots to concentrate on, and why early spring or right now can be a great time to target bears spot in stock. But first, I want to share the story of a persistent bear hunt gone right. This particular hunt really is one that I think if I look back, it just hunts that I've guided. This is one of my favorite trips and one that I definitely will remember

for a very long time. I think there's a lot of reasons behind that. But when you think, when I think about a hunt, what makes a hunt hunt that I remember, and it's it includes that struggle, that persistence and then eventually finding success. And I think that this story, if I were to just tell this story of the hunt, this particular hunt, it actually starts many years before. I had a particular client. Him and his daughter would come out,

and his daughter really wanted to hunt bears. She they had hunted elk with us and she was successful getting an elk, but a bear hunt was something that she really wanted. She wanted to do it spot in stock. So he scheduled a spring hunt and the first year, unfortunately,

something came up and she couldn't make it. So her dad came out and he ended up getting a bear like kind of right off the bat, and of course it was like that was her dream hunt, the one that she's supposed to go on, but unfortunately, some some stuff came up and she couldn't come. So the following year she came out. And spring bear hunting can be a lot of boredom mixed and hiking and everything mixed

in with just sheer excitement. We had some good spots, we had some good stocks, but when we got into position, the bears kind of disappeared. On the last day of the hunt that week, we were going back into this one spot where we'd seen quite a bit of sign and seen actually a couple of bears earlier in the week. It was like mid morning, and um, I look over.

We're just kind of talking, kind of you know, just bsng, and I look around, like there's a bear and it's a big bear and it's close, like seventy five yards. And Micah the hunter, she was really I mean, she's a really good shot. I've seen her shoot. She shoots tournaments for skeet and other things like she's she's really good under pressure. But when that bear was seventy five

yards away, I don't know, just something happened. She pulled up the gun and missed, missed the shot, and the bear ran away, And it was just heartbreaking for me as a guy seeing how hard she'd work, how hard she'd hiked, you know, she shot, she practiced all for that moment, and then I just know that feeling, let's happened, Like the best of us have done that, taking a bad shot and and just not connected. And it was

a really big bear. And I actually just to result in the window, was like, hey, you know, let's let's go back tomorrow morning and see if we can find him again. But unfortunately they had to be back for a tournament ski shooting. I guess trap, what I know, I guess sporting place. There we go one of those clay pigeon flying someone shooting at sporting events, and um, they're like, now we gotta be back for this tournament.

I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna go in there tomorrow and see if I can find that bear. And I ended up actually shooting that bear myself the next day after they had to leave, which was pretty much I think it was the biggest uh Montana bear I've ever shot, so like, of course, I was like, man, do I send him a picture of this bear? Is that just gonna be like rubbing salt on the wound. So the following year she came back, we hunted and you had to do a lot of hiking get into

some spots. She had a shot on a really good bore again, um, but just this time, having missed the last shot, hesitated too long not feeling comfortable with a shot, didn't take a shot, the bear disappeared and we ended up not finding him. Fast forward to a year later, we're like, all right, this is the year where it's all gonna come together. We had a miss, we had a hesitation, that kind of missed opportunity. This year is

gonna be the year. And she's put in a lot of time, a lot of effort, and I really, I mean I wanted to see her get a bear as much as she wanted to get a bear. Uh. The first night, the first evening, the first day, my wife and I were out with them, and uh, we walk over this little rise and it's just like the wind hit our back just I was looking in there, like

something feels wrong. I just feel like there's a bear in here, and I'm looking, looking, looking, and then the wind swirls and a bear runs out and it's all a nice, nice bear and everything. This particular week, we're like, okay, it's it was nice, cool weather. We wake up the next morning and everything had changed. Things were already a little bit stacked against us because it was a full moon.

But it's just the only kind of week that we could hunt and then of course it just gets hot, and two things that do not combine well when it comes to hunting bears. Is a lot of heat in a full moon in my opinion for spot and stock bear hunting. So we hunted hard all week and that was probably the hardest. I mean, we went into some some of my best places, some great backcountry spots, just glass and doing everything right, and just could not turn up another bear that he really killed us. Now, fast

forward to the last day of the hunt. That was probably the fewest amount of bears I'd seen in a week of hunting in a very long time. Just that one bear the first evening of the first day, and it was it was a good bear, but man, it was just slim pickings. We couldn't turn up a bear to save our lives. So the last day I'm like, all right, I've got this spot because it's hot. Normally early I wouldn't be trying to hunt a water hole. But I was like, man, it's so freaking hot this year,

maybe they're gonna be hitting some water. So I thought the best is just real tighten there. So I'm like, I'm gonna bring in some chairs. We're gonna like bring in blind, and we're gonna sit there all day and hopefully a bear will come in. Did you cool down to wallow around in this area where I had seen a lot of sign but we just had not been seeing any bears, And thought, well, if we sit there all day, maybe something will happen. After after a morning was just a bust and there's quite a ways in

from the trailhead. So I packed up and my pack was just loaded down. I had, like I did, I'm not really set up for backcountry sitting, but I thought, this particular time, I'm going to give it a shot. Just a random tactic that I normally pull out way later in the season, but just because of the heat and everything, I thought, man, maybe this tactic will work. But I was also thinking I'm not good at sitting, and I really don't want to sit in a blind

all day in the heat. But nothing else is really working. The bears aren't moving, so we'll see if this works because it's the only way that we can hunt this really thick timber and maybe a place where they'd concentrate to and and maybe be successful. So I load up, We load up everything I've got, like chairs that are not not super paccable. I don't even know how much my packway it was a lot. I had a lot of just random stuff in there. I'm like, if I'm

gonna sit, I need like some waters, some lunch. I need a lot of lunch because I'll probably be snacking all day. Like comfortable chair, whatever, Just make it so we can sit comfortable and quiet. So I'm hiking up and I'm just thinking to myself, Man, this is gonna suck sitting all day. And I'm thinking that. About like halfway there, I look up in this clear cut off the trail and I just dropped, like bear, It's like

what And I put everything down. I still have my spotting scope because I thought this might happen, I might need to glass on the way up, take out my spotting scope. Look at it, and I'm like that it's a big bore. We need to get over there. Right At this point, he's about six d and fifty yards seven yards. I'm like, okay, I'm looking at it, and he goes behind. He's like in this regrowth of kind of like a combination of a burn and an old

logged area. So I'm like, all right, sweet, So we move in on this there's actually off the trail as this like old logging robe. It's just so overgrown. So we get in and I we get to a spot where I can see where the bear was and I range it's like two hundred yards no bear Like, all right, he's got to be in here. So I get her set up and get some shooting sticks ready, and I've just got to actually like cut down branches so we can even see this little hole. I'm like, all right,

he's he's got to be in here. I don't. I mean, we hustled, we got there quick. He's just got to be in here somewhere. And this is like right around high noon. We're going in thinking maybe we'll see something in the evening. And this bear was just out in the heat. It's probably seventy four degrees that day, just out in the heat at noon, feeding around. All right. So we get set up and all of a sudden, I see the head of the bear pop up over a log, but turn yards away. Tried to direct her

to where he's at. He's like, I'm like, okay, he's right there. He's really hard to see. I can just see a piece of him, but you're just gonna get the rifle on him and just wait. And he's starting to feed. And I see he's starting to feed, and then there's this patch of timber maybe yeah, fifty yards from it. I'm like, he's gonna start going toward that that timber, towards that creek on the other side. He's he's going to be moving out of the center at

some point. I don't think he's just gonna stay right here, but there's gonna be very few openings, so just stay on him. So she finds him, stays on him. The bear starts moving moving, and he just moves behind tree. I'm like, oh no, that's it. And then he turns around and starts feeding back. I'm like, okay, here we go. Just pick a spot, nice and easy, squeezes the trigger. Boom, perfect shot, bear rolls over. It's done. She was shaking.

She was crying out of excitement. I mean, I don't know if I was just out of sheer like excitement. For her, it was as close to I have ever come, just shedding a tear of just how exciting it was. It was awesome because her dad was there as well. He got to watch the whole thing and it was just as exciting for me and him as it was

for her. Went up and uh, I actually called my wife to help come up and pack out, and her and my dad came up and packed out, and we're all just celebrating, and it was just an awesome, awesome trip.

Skin of the bear out, got all the meat, and then packed it out in the middle of the day on a day when I definitely did it not expect to see a bear out in the open, and on a day when it was the last day of the hunt, and I thought it was probably not going to happen, but we were just trying whatever tactics we could and ended up seeing one kind of randomly, but keeping persistent and not giving up and just pretty much hunting extremely hard for this bear. It was a really, really exciting

experience for everyone. And that right there is just what makes spring bear hunting somewhat unpredictable but also extremely exciting. When it comes to spring bear hunting, there are some things that you can do to kind of consistently find success. I found that of of most hunts, spring bears can be one of the more difficult hunts to find consistent success. But I've found certain times a year. There's certain tactics that you can employ that help increase those odds of

success and finding bears. I think the number one thing that most new bear hunters in areas where it's spot and stock bear hunting or where it's not allowed to use dogs or use bait, find that sometimes the hardest

part is just finding a bear. And then there's other hunters that are out there that are consistently successful to and see multiple bears every day, and I want to give you the tips on how to be those guys to kind of find that consistent success and how to really hone in on what those bears want, and the time of year and the tactics to employ, because what you might do right now, uh, mid April through the beginning of May would be different than mid May to

end of June. And there's a lot of reasons for that. So we're going to cover a few things, including the timing, some things to think about, and then where to look, and why hunting earlier it can be really good. I know in the past some people used to shy away from hunting early because they say, oh, the bears aren't out of hibernation yet, and on really late winters. Sometimes that can be the case for most places. Right now, most of the bears will probably be out of hibernation.

So I think it's gonna be kind of important to first look at the way that bears hibernate and where they're going right after that hibernation, what their first moves are. So if you think about the way that bears now is they'll go up into a big canyon. They generally get like let's say you're in an area where the highest elevation is ten thousand feet and the valley floors maybe three thousand feet. I tend to find that bears well kind of hibernate in that maybe seven thousand foot range,

fairly high up the mountain. There's a few reasons for that, and obviously they can do different things everywhere. But what they do is they end up like they'll dig their den or they'll there's just kind of three ways that bears den, so they they'll mostly I I believe that most of them actually just dig their own dens, and they rarely use the same den twice, but they'll be in kind of similar areas, like the same canyon or the same kind of elevation and depends on the snow level,

the type of year, lots of things. So they'll go up, they'll dig in, and they pretty much dig it like for the most part about the size of their body. Um. Now, they might find something to den in like a crack between two rocks, maybe a cave, maybe like a big stump or things like that. I've I've found dens like that as well. Um And then they primarily will like

they'll dig that den. They kind of want it where it's gonna provide a lot of insulations, so it's pretty tight, and they want it where there's gonna be snow packed because I just think about it, like for us, if it's winter time and we're trying to stay warm. If I don't know if you've ever done it, but building a snow cave is a great way to stay warm,

Like snow is a great insulator. So they're generally gonna be on those north facing slopes where that snow is gonna hold in, it's gonna pack, And you think they want to be on that warm, sunny south face, but for the longer period of time, they're gonna want that snowpack to kind of cover up their den and insulate

them from whatever winter weather is happening. Now. When it comes time to emerge from the den's the big boars are generally, in my opinion, the first ones that come out, like a lot of seasons, start April fifteenth and on late winter years, sometimes the only bears you'll see out right away will be males. Um it depends on the winter. You know, if you've got a light winter, many of the bears might already all be out of hibernation by now.

If you've got like more of a harsh winter where there's still a lot of heavy snowpack and maybe kind of a late winter, then you might see, you know, mostly just boares early early on. And that's one of the reasons that I like to hunt the beginning of the season is you tend to find bears emerging in this order. It's it's boares, and then it's females without cubs,

and then females with cubs. I've found that for some reason in my experience, it seems like the females with cubs tend to den higher up, because I think that they're planning on staying in the den longer. The way that bears breed, they breed in June, but that egg isn't implanted till later, and then they're born in the den and I think that gives them a little bit

more time. That also gives the big boars time to hunt for those dens, and I have found that early in the season you'll see big boars up high in the snow, and I truly believe that what they're doing is they're looking for those denning nails with cubs in actively hunting them, And that can be kind of a good tactic to take early in the season, especially if you've got a little bit later winter where you might run into those other bears looking for bears to kill

or bears to eat, because those boards will kill those cubs and then they know that, hey, that's that's potentially killing their competitors offspring, and it's gonna allow that saw to come into heat later on in the season. So I think you've got to think about first early season, breaking it out. Okay, what's the first moves of bears, How are they how are they getting out of hibernation, what are they doing? Well, as soon as they get out,

they're gonna be looking for food. Um An episode thirty three I tried to focus on kind of finding those food sources, but I want to dive a little bit deeper because early is when they're going to primarily be targeting UM a couple of things. First off, potential winter kill like undulant deer, elk, moose, whatever that didn't survive the winter. Those bigger boards will be cruising around for those. But the first things that they're probably gonna be eating

is just regend new growth. And a lot of that good new growth is going to be out in the open. Actually on some of those south facing slopes in the avalanche shoots right on the snow line, is that snow starts to melt away, that that tends to be some really good green grass. One of the first things that

I look for. Let's say I go into an area and early in the season, I like to pick canyons where I've got openings that I can glass, and I like to pick a good vantage where I've got a lot of cover, and I look for what I call neon signs. It's just you look at the mountain and anything that's super green, it really tells you that's where

that new growth is. Early is is the best time to pick out those those neon areas, those areas that are just really gonna be high productive new growth, new buds, and things that's gonna be really good food for bears to target first. I also like to look for areas where it's a little more open, not that the bears

like the open, but because I can actually see. One of the benefits to hunting early is a lot of the the like the roughage, the alder, the other kinds of plants around may not necessarily have leaves fully formed yet, so you can actually glass into the cover a little bit better, so it allows you to glass a little bit longer. One thing that I have seen with early season bear hunting is you know you can you can set up, and it's more you have more option to

glass all day. It makes longer hunting days, but it also kind of allows you more places to look um kind of get bored a little less. For me personally, I'll zoom in my scope or use I actually really

like to use twenty power binoculars. Get into a good zone and just grid that cover after the like first part of the morning when I think they might be moving, and look in those places where, hey, the leaves have fallen and I might be able to pick out a bear in there, or you might see one in the open and you might be able to watch to where it goes and beds down for the day. You may not be able to actually see the bear bedded. I think in my years of bear hunting, I've only spotted

a couple of bears bedded. But you might be able to kind of get an idea of where that bear is and then get into a shooting position and wait for that bear to come out in the evening. One thing I like to do when it comes to picking a time for spring bear hunting I found for spot and stock. I really like to find the times that's

not a full moon. Um. I think there's two factors that really I wouldn't necessarily know if it limits bear movement, but maybe limits bear movement in those mornings and evening times when you're most alert, when you're most concentrating your efforts, And I think that having a full moon kind of

limits their movements to weird times of the day. I also think that heat is a huge factor when it comes to spring bears, so hunting early you don't necessarily have to worry about it being too hot right away. As the season progresses, it starts to get hot and it kind of throws off. It makes it one hard to kind of hunt fine shade. You're you're almost looking for shade as much as you're looking for bears, and you often think, well, the bears are probably doing the same.

But I actually haven't found that the case, because I have. I was just going back through my photos and notes and looking last year. I mean, I found a couple

of different bears. It just random times, Like noon seemed to be the best time for bear movement during the full moon last year, and actually over the years, like mid day they seem to move in the middle of the day, But that mid day can be a very long stretch of sunny, hot weather when it's very hard to like look and stay vigilant and kind of think in your head, now, nothing's gonna move now, or how do I know if this is a productive area. I've

watched it all morning and watched it all evening. Should I stay here all day? Is this gonna be a productive area? So I like to actually hunt when there's um like a waning or a growing moon, just after a new moon or just before in those times, I find I tend to find bears being more crepuscular than like moving out in the open in those times with those good moons. It's not saying that bears I mean,

I've never tracked bears. It's just saying like they move out of cover at the times that I'm looking more often, I find, probably on average full moon weeks, because generally when I'm guiding or hunting bears, I hunt the whole season, so I've got a few full moon weeks in there that I have to hunt and we're still successful, but it's a lot harder work than those times when the

moon is really good. My best bear seasons are always when there's a really like no moon during the beginning of the first few weeks, because I tend to find that there's a lot of big bars out and more active then. And then also you kind of get less heat, so they stay out a lot longer than mornings, and they come out a lot sooner in the evenings. In my opinion, that's just over looking at bears for hundreds

of days. But I think that if you kind of factor those things into your spring plan, you'll be a lot more successful now when it comes to hunting bears in the early part of the season. So for a lot of places, the season opened April, and I would say, let's call April to May tenth the early part of the season, and then May tenth to the thirty the

later part of the season. Or if it's a season that goes into June, let's say so April fifteenth to May fifteenth the early season, and then April fifty two June to be kind of that later in the season. One thing you want to think about depending on you know, if it's a late winner, if you're hunting in an area, you might be hunting where there's still a lot of snow. And one thing you want to think about is when you're spotting for bears. Obviously you don't want to shoot

stals with cubs I ten. I mean, if you don't really know how to identify bore in a sow right away, or it's it can be difficult, and it can be difficult for anyone. I've looked over a lot of bears and still every once in a while I make a wrong judgment call. But what I always do is, I oh, is to make sure to look for cubs earlier in the season, it's important to watch the bears longer because what will happen is the sal's will actually emerge from

the den and kind of leave the cubs behind. There's been times where I've sat and watched the bear for five or ten minutes. I'm like, well, I know it's a sal but she doesn't have any cubs, And then here come two little rug rats screaming out of the bushes A little bit later. I think that that tends to happen earlier. I find that later on, And that's not I'm not saying, you know, make rash judgments or whatever, later, but I tend to find that that is the case.

Like later on, the cubs are generally with her a lot tighter, so you see them sooner. But that's one thing to think about if you're hunting early. One way. Another thing kind of about early spring hunting is the boars don't have as much weight on them. They've just come out of hibernation. They're a lot smaller like as far as weight wise, but they can be easier to identify. I really look for that barrel chest that the head

shape on a board looks a little bit different. They grow wide, they have larger heads, especially compared to their body size. One thing you'll see like a boar, his his head tends to match his body a little bit better, whereas a sow seems to be like a real big body and a real small head. Another thing I notice is sous tend to be a little more back end heavy, so bigger rear ends, whereas boars are more like front end heavy. They have larger barrel chests, more weight on

that front. Sometimes you'll see, and this does happen with old sows too, more of like a hump you kind of see on the boar is not necessarily like a grizzly type hump, but just more of a swede back. It seems like their neck and their front end is a lot more stout as opposed to like a real skinny neck, a real small head, and then even a bigger body. That would kind of distinguish a sou. Other things you can kind of look for if you've got time and you can glossom while they're doing their thing.

You know, if they urinate and it seems to be coming from the middle of their body, it would be a boar. But if they tend to be in a more squatting position, it would be a sou You don't get to see that too often. I have, you know, been able to id to fy some smaller bears that way, especially earlier in the spring, but for the most part, that's a that's a tough way to tell unless you

have a really good look at them. But generally, just based on their size and outline is a good is a good beginning and one thing you want to start doing when you when you're out there, when you're seeing bears, kind of take note mentally on Okay, that's how does this bear look, how does he look proportionately to himself, and what time of year is it. You know, if it's earlier and it looks like a really big bear, most bears when they come out there a little bit smaller.

So actually those boars look quite a bit bigger than those sows that are really drained out. They they've lost a lot of weight, um, especially the ones that have cubs. You know, if I see a bear that looks pretty skinny, pretty gaunt, then I'm definitely gonna wait and watch for a long time to make sure that there's no cubs, or it's a or it's a boar. Smaller boars will look like that as well, but especially early, you find that with the sows, uh, the big boars, when they

first come out, they tend to look big. You go, it's a big bear, And I think one problem for new bear hunters is all bears look big. So, just as a public service announcement, if you're just getting into bear hunting, maybe this is your first bear trip, do yourself a favor. Watch a lot of videos of bears in the field, Watch a lot of videos of maybe

some bear identification videos. I know I've seen someone most phishing game websites, and really kind of analyze that, and then spend some time looking at the animal that you're going after. There's not a lot of times sometimes and it feels like there's not a lot of time. But one thing you'll learn is you can watch a bear, see where he goes, and they're going to be in

that area. So there are times where you think I've watched the bear going in the morning, I think, oh, he's gonna come out in the evening and never see him come out. Um, But the next day in the morning they're right back in there. They've got that food source and they're gonna for all intents and purposes. If they've got a good food source, they'll continue to hit it. You can identify bears as well, just by certain markings

on the bears. So I like to keep track of bears that I see throughout the week and say, okay, really analyze a I didn't get a good look at this beer, but it's got it's got this white chest blaze. Oh, it's got a big rub on its left side. And then I can start to identify those single bears as they come out and kind of start to build out a pattern on how are they feeding, what times are

they feeding, where they at. If a bear disappears in a smaller area, I'll know that it's probably in there, and I will try to get closer and then watch that area later on in the day within range or within shooting range to see if that bear comes out. I think one of the major difficulties with spot and stock of bear hunting is you'll see a bear and

then it disappears, and that happens quite often. One thing, one tactic that I use, especially if I'm hunting up higher earlier, I like to earlier in the season hunt quite a bit higher because I think there's a lot more concentration in the bears higher. But also it's just easier type hunting. It's difficult to rain, but it's easier glassing.

I have more ability to see more open area. I might be up near the tree lane, there might be big snowfields that I can cover really quick with my eyes, and then focusing on those areas that have like food and cover really close together, so I can scan a lot more area in a shorter amount of time and be more effective in it. One thing that I found those you'll see a bear, it goes into that cover and then okay, now what I saw that bear two miles away? How do I get over there before that

bear disappears? What do I do? Bears kind of feed in very erratic patterns. They'll go one way and sometimes I'll go right back the way that they came. So you get over there, you go, okay, was feeding this way? He should pop out and you never see him again. What I like to do if I know it's gonna be a long ways away and I don't have time

to get there for a shot. While it's out, I'll just watch where it goes and then I'll make my move, get into position, and then sit and wait, and I'll do that kind of like in a similar way that I do with elk, where you see where the bear is, you kind of watch and assess what it does. Then you go in to get into position and continue being vigilant throughout the day, hoping for that bear to either feedback in the evening or make a move into the

opening um while you're set up within range. It seems like most bears early season, it's like if you're rifle hunting, it's either going to be shot across the canyon at a long distance or a really close range because you've got to be on the same hillside and kind of

shooting right there. One thing I try to avoid is getting on the same hillside if I'm rifle hunting, I like to get away, get back far enough where I've got a good range right Like, no, I'm gonna be super efficient, say to three yards, but I've got a good broad view of where it's going to come out, because sometimes they'll pop out lower, sometimes I'll pop out higher, but they'll be in that general vicinity and that's a really good way to kind of close the gap and

bring it in on a bear that you've spotted earlier, but get to within range and then sit and set up and be patient and wait for it to come out again. Really, I can't stress enough how much food source is tied into bear hunting success. So early season and really figuring out what are the bears gonna be eating,

where are the food sources? Looking for those neon green patches, anything that looks super bright, super green and doesn't look like everything else, uh, is a really good place to key in on your keen in on that food source. But you're saying, okay, in an area where it's all food source, maybe find that one thing that's gonna be a little bit different that they like. So hey, if it's all pretty green already where you're at, look for that wet spot that's even brighter green. That the place

with the highest amount of nutrients. That's where the bears are going to focus their energy. They aren't stupid, They're very selective eaters. They know what the good stuff is, and they tend to know that if they feed, they can feed less amount of time or the same amount of time, but get higher nutrients and help build their body weights up right away. So they're gonna focus in

on those highest nutrient places. When I'm looking in an area, when I sit down, let's say I hiked up to around five six, seven thousand feet whatever, I've got a great view across the canyon, and I'm gonna really concentrate my efforts on those places, Like, Okay, that looks different than everything else. It looks more nutrient rich, it looks like better forage. That's gonna be a good spot to focus my attention. And then I kind of figure out where those spots are from distance, and those are a

lot of times with spots that will concentrate on. There are times as well, where I see a good food source, and even if I haven't seen a bear, maybe I choose to hunt closer to that spot, Like I'm gonna glass, uh, three yards from this really nutrient rich spot. But also I've got a good view of some other places up the canyon, because that way, if a bear does pop out, I may not have to move in. I may be ready or have a very short amount of time to

stalk in and make a shot. And those are just a few things to think about when it comes to early spring bear hunting success. I think that if you're like me, this is a great time to kind of dust off your gear to get out to to get into the mountains and have a real mountain hunt on something that you can kind of pick up a tag every year for and hopefully find some success. I hope for those of you heading out, maybe there's some of you heading out this weekend, maybe next weekend, sometime during

the spring season to chase bears. If you use any of these tips and tactics in their work out for you, let me know. I'd love to hear about your success stories. You can always reach out to me social media at Remy Warrant or Remy at the meat Eater dot com. I generally get to the social media stuff sooner because it's just a little bit easier for me to to track and see and all that kind of stuff, or with anything with the podcast. If you enjoy the podcast, tag me in it. Let me know I appreciate it,

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maybe some more hunting tipps and tactics. And I like to build these podcasts based on your guys recommendations everyone out there. I want this to be a podcast for the people that listen, So if you have things that you want to hear about, feel free to shoot me a message and hopefully we'll add it into the list here shortly. Maybe some of your questions will get answered. Maybe we'll just do a whole podcast topic on it.

I thank you guys all for your your support and um just helping build this to be something that I think is is useful in the hunting space. So thank you guys. Until next week, uh, let's see until next week, get out of hibernation, get outside, hopefully get on some bears. See you later,