Ep. 129: Hounds, Cats, Labs, Elk, and Sheds with Chris Cabral

Cutting The Distance

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Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ever wonder what it's like having a "Shed Antler" dog? Dirk and Idaho hunting guide and outfitter Chris Cabral talk about Chris' labs and what it's like shed hunting with a dog. They also take a deep dive into bear baiting, and talk hunting mountain lions and elk in Idaho's rugged back country.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance podcast.
0:14.8	I'm Dirk Durham.
0:16.0	And this week's guest is a family man, an outfitter, and guide, and all-around outdoorsmen.
0:22.5	Welcome to the show, Chris Cabral.
0:26.2	How's it going, dirt?
0:27.6	Good. Did I say your last name right?
0:29.3	Yep, Cabral. That's correct.
0:31.0	Perfect. Perfect.
0:33.1	So how's Winter treated you so far? your Instagram shows you've been pretty busy?
0:38.8	It was pretty slow early December just because of lack of snow cat hunting.
0:42.8	But after that, once about Christmas hit, we had a really good season.
0:46.9	Ended up killing seven real nice cat.
0:49.4	Holy cow, that's awesome.
0:51.3	How many cat clients do you typically take out every? I try to take between
0:56.8	eight and ten. Usually eight to ten. Okay. Yeah. Now, do you guys, are you guys camping at your remote
1:05.7	base camp out there? Are you like? No, we run all of our cat hunts out of Avery, Idaho, that little town,
1:12.6	and we can start hunting just nine miles out of town. So we actually stay in an apartment or a house
1:18.7	that we ran every winter, and we got Wi-Fi and running water and that kind of stuff. Okay, okay.
1:24.9	Hunt off snowmobiles, or do you guys using side-by-sides with tracks or anything?
1:28.6	No, we use snowmobiles and trucks for all our cat hunts. Side-by-sides with tracks are just too slow. We need to cover up as much ground as we can.
1:37.8	Yeah. Yeah, I've heard guys talk about the side-by-sides with tracks. They're cool, but man, they use a lot of fuel, and they're just not very fast.
1:46.9	Yeah, it's a maintenance thing on the bearings, and fuel is just incredibly, you know,
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