#10MinuteTalk - Fall Hunt Recap — Washington Black Bear

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Zack Ellis from Pacific North Wild takes a break from fall bear hunting to give us a season update. He covers conditions and timing specific to this year, bear encounters thus far, tactics, and what to look for in the coming weeks. Tune in for some solid info and tips you can take to the field.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to the brand new Vortex Nation podcast Fall Hunt Recap series. I tell you what,
0:06.5	fall is in the air and one third the fun of Aeney Hunt is telling the story afterwards. And that's
0:12.4	exactly what we're going to do. We're going to tell the stories of folks here internally at Vortex,
0:16.8	folks externally as well. We're going to do them as real time as possible, as close to the close of these
0:23.1	hunts as we can to capture the essence of the hunt, the energy of the hunt, and hopefully
0:28.2	give you some information you can take to the field.
0:32.1	Tune in, listen up.
0:33.9	Let's start the show.
0:37.4	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic and welcome to the first installment of our fall
0:43.4	hunt recaps. Fall is in full swing. It is hard to believe and to break down one of the coolest
0:52.3	hunts I think there is going in existence. We have Zach from
0:56.4	P.N. Wild, Pacific North Wild. Zach, you guys are doing some really cool stuff over in your
1:02.1	neck of the woods. Man, you guys are creating some really cool video content. You have a podcast
1:07.0	of your own. You guys have some really cool apparel. And one thing that I really like about
1:12.2	you guys is you are ardent bear hunters. You take it as serious as anybody I know. And man,
1:19.5	I respect that move. It's killing me right now. I actually went home last week to, like, I guess, you know, it's like you're trading good for good, right? I went home last week to like I guess you know it's like you're trading good for good right
1:29.0	I went home last week to go salmon fishing with my girls to hopefully ignite their salmon
1:33.7	fishing fire boy I reigned the mine I'm not I'm not sure where theirs is at but uh still still have
1:41.2	a little bit of hope left but because of that I didn't get to go bear hunting this year. And so I'm going to have to live vicariously through you guys and the rest of the P&Wild team. So, man, yeah, give me the update, man. What do you guys have been up to? You've been in the Bearwood since August 1? It's an August 1 opener, which is, you know, one thing that I always think is super
2:01.1	cool about that hunt is like, you can be in the woods with a rifle in August. Come on,
2:04.9	does it get any better? So I'm going to quit talking. As you can see, I'm super excited about this.
2:09.9	Zach, give us the rundown. Dude, I fully understand that excitement level. You know, it's something
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