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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Bears & Blades, with Evan Siembida

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Recorded in the backcountry, this episode is the story of an epic bear hunt. Custom knife maker Evan Siembida came West to hunt Idaho's vast remote country with host Joseph von Benedikt, and after a series of setbacks and challenges, took a magnificent color-phase boar with his new Browning X-Bolt in 6.8 Western.

We discuss black bear baiting, glassing, rifles, optics, cartridges, bullets, shot placement, and hunting techniques in general, woven into the blow-by-blow tale of Evan's hunt.

Plus, when you've got a top-notch custom knife man on the air, you just gotta talk knife steel, design, and handle materials. Evan shares his new favorite type of steel and a scale (handle) material that might just be the best thing going.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in today folks. We're coming at you today raw and uncut from the field.

0:09.0

We're in out in the wilderness country, not designated wilderness, just God's wilderness in Idaho, my home

0:17.4

state of Idaho, but I'm not going to tell you just exactly where, because I'm hunting

0:21.6

with Evans and Bba for Bears.

0:24.0

Yeah.

0:26.0

Good to have you back on the show my friend.

0:29.0

Oh, it's good to be here, especially this week.

0:31.0

Yeah.

0:32.0

So a couple of years ago I extended an invitation to

0:37.0

Evan to come hunt with me next year which was of course last year now and at the time I was trying to get my house finished

0:44.9

up and just so swamped that I couldn't do it and so I asked him for a rain check

0:49.7

we postponed and rescheduled for this year and last weekend Evan spent two long days

0:58.9

burning rubber from Ohio to Idaho. How much sleep did you get? and

1:05.0

I'm running rubber from Ohio to Idaho.

1:03.0

How much sleep did you get?

1:05.0

I think I got four and a half hours of sleep.

1:07.0

It wasn't at once, hour and a half each time.

1:10.0

Geez, and how many driving hours?

1:12.0

Uh, not including stops for gas. Geez and how many driving hours?

1:16.0

Uh, not including stops for gas and stuff. I think 24.

1:19.0

Yeah, that's a long drive. It's a poke and a half.

1:21.0

Which was your favorite state coming through? Idaho. Even though you only came

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