579 | Our Spring Bear Hunt Story, Tactics, & Gear

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports:wilderness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this "on-the-road" episode, Steve, Mark, and Justin recap a successful backpack spring bear hunt. The crew discusses the hunt strategy and story, the tactics that helped them find success, how the 22 Creedmoor performed, and other hunt takeaways. For photos, gear notes, and other resources from this hunt, visit: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/spring-bear-tactics-and-gear The Hunt Backcountry Podcast is brought to you by Exo Mtn Gear: https://exomtngear.com/ Email Sign-up: https://exomtngear.com/newsletter Contact Us: podcast@exomtngear.com Leave A Message: https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry Podcast Episode Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0	I only pooped one time, and it was glorious.
0:04.0	I happened to have hit record right before that, so we're keeping that.
0:08.4	It was one of those one wipes.
0:11.8	Perfect.
0:13.3	I get more consistent when I'm, like, backpacking than when I'm at home.
0:18.5	Really?
0:19.1	Yeah, I don't know what it is.
0:22.3	Well, yeah, we might actually keep that in there, but podcast from the road, I think the three of us did this last time when we were either driving to or from Canada or maybe both, I don't remember.
0:33.9	But we are coming home from spring bear hunt.
0:38.8	We're on the mountains, hopefully going to survive.
0:42.1	Steve ignoring the speed limit by drastic measures on curves.
0:46.6	And if you're hearing this podcast, I guess we did survive.
0:49.6	Yeah, well, trying to, if I can get home by 430s, Joey doesn't have to go to dance photos with Sawyer and my wife.
0:59.0	So let's see if we can save Joey.
1:00.8	We're going to save my son that moment of his life.
1:06.3	So we're trying to go fast.
1:08.5	We hiked pretty fast.
1:10.2	We did.
1:10.5	We hauled us out of there. Yeah. Long story short, cut to go fast. We hiked pretty fast. We did. We hauled us out of there.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:13.2	Long story short, cut to the chase, killed a bear.
1:17.2	That was just last night, right?
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