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Cutting The Distance

Ep. 146: Elk Calling with Chris Cabral

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cabral is an accomplished lifelong elk hunter and hunting guide. This week Dirk picks Chris' brain on trail cams, locating bulls, calling bulls, and late season rifle elk hunting tactics.

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Lenovo, Lenovo. And we're back to another episode to another episode of cutting the distance podcast. I'm Dirk Durham, and today's show I have Chris Cabral. You guys might remember Chris

0:57.8

from a show earlier this spring when we talked about bear baiting and shed antler hunting.

1:03.5

Chris runs Russell Pond Outfitters in North Idaho and I just want to say welcome the show,

1:08.5

Chris. Hi, how's it going, dude?

1:12.4

Good, good, good.

1:16.3

Now that bear season's over and you finally get a break,

1:18.9

how many bears did you guys get this spring?

1:22.3

I think we ended up with 37 spring bears total,

1:25.3

not counting, wounded or missed, those just kills.

1:28.5

Okay, that's pretty impressive. That's a lot of bears. Yeah,. Okay. That's pretty impressive.

1:29.3

That's a lot of bears. Yeah, for sure. We do pretty good on bears in the spring. Yeah. Man, that's got to help the elk. Yeah, for sure. There's no question. You can just tell when we bring those big boars in in June, which ones are the elk cav eaters. every time we got one, we open up the stomachs and you can tell which ones have been calving.

1:28.9

Oh, yeah. in June, which ones are the elk cav eaters. Every time we got one, we open up the stomachs and you can tell which ones have been calving.

1:47.6

Oh, yeah.

1:49.0

Yeah, he got some pretty good ones too this spring.

1:51.2

Seems like some.

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