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#10MinuteTalk | Train How You Hunt: Build Mountain-Endurance with Pack Training

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Your ability to hike and hunt hard for multiple days is directly dependent on your fitness and mental toughness. If you do one thing to prepare for your hunt, rucking/pack training may just be your best bet. Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn show their current systems and talk through how they weave rucking into their pre-season training regimen.

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0:00.0

Pack it up, pack it in. Let me begin this podcast.

0:09.0

Right, now you're throwing me off. All about rucking. We're talking about pack hiking. If you're watching on YouTube, Ryan and I have our rucking systems on right now. There's no, there's no bones about it.

0:26.8

Yeah, you're going to like the way you look. You look real nice right now. Thanks.

0:30.6

No bones about it. And I've heard this from, I've heard this from guides. I've heard this from

0:36.1

people that I respect in the, in predominantly,

0:39.9

I guess, the Western hunting space. But if there's one thing that you need to be doing to get

0:47.7

ready for your Western hunt, and I am including myself in this conversation, because I've gone

0:52.1

into many a hunt, not as fit as I'd like to be, but it's rucking.

0:57.6

That was not the direction I thought you were going to go with this.

0:59.8

What do you mean?

1:00.6

I thought you were going to say, like, buy more gear, put cool stickers on your truck.

1:07.0

Okay, that's going to help.

1:08.3

That's going to help.

1:09.2

No doubt that's going to be a big help.

1:11.3

So what you're saying is you want to go out and train?

1:16.3

It's imperative.

1:17.7

Oh, weird.

1:19.1

Yeah, unfortunately, in this instance, Ryan, you've got to put in the word.

1:21.8

And like I said, I am including myself in that conversation.

1:25.2

I will say last night, coincidentally, this is what I did

1:29.7

for my exercise routine. And I fitted in, right? Like I actually had to fit, we had some

1:35.8

some kid sports activities, and I had a drop-off pickup sitch where I had about an hour between.

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