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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this Spike Camp episode, Rich, Scott, and Watkins discuss what all training Rich has had Watkins do to get ready for his first trip out west.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | This season on Blood Trails, each story begins with a hunter stepping into the wild, but not all of them come back. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Jordan Sillers, a journalist with over a decade of experience investigating stories about hunting, fishing, guns, and crime. |
| 0:20.7 | Join me as we track the truth through tangled cover and cold case files, |
| 0:24.3 | where every trail tells a story, and every story leaves its own trail of blood. |
| 0:30.2 | Blood trails. Listen now on Spotify. |
| 0:34.3 | Being as fit and healthy and rested going into the hunt as possible because there might be days |
| 0:42.5 | where we get back at 8 o'clock and we get up at 5 and go back you know like it's just you're like |
| 0:48.3 | ben said it's but there's this emotional roller coaster that you can't account for of like |
| 0:53.0 | excitement on the next set of the ridge or the next set of heavy timber or and this is we're talking archery which rifles a little bit different we will be covering a ton of ground because you know we'll sit in glass we don't have something we'll move we'll sit in glass because we can get to some really good spots. |
| 1:14.2 | Out here, the stakes are real. |
| 1:19.3 | Effective preparation starts with fitness, but it requires so much more. |
| 1:25.0 | This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. |
| 1:27.1 | Join me, Rich Broning, as we apply the decades of wisdom |
| 1:30.5 | I have gained through training and competition |
| 1:32.7 | to hunting in the backcountry. |
| 1:35.8 | This is In Pursuit. |
| 1:38.8 | Brought to you by Mountain Ops. |
| 1:42.8 | In collaboration with Mayhem Hunt. |
| 1:46.0 | Spike Camp. |
| 1:47.5 | Have you ever been on any of our podcasts? |
| 1:51.0 | No. |
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