As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days in the field. This show is about translating

my hard-won experiences into tips and tactics that will get you closer to your ultimate goal,

success in the field. I'm Remi Warren, this is Cutting the Distance.

Can you hear it? Birds whistling in springtime, fresh grass and flowers budding, and you're sitting

on the side of a mountain looking for an elusive black bear. Now while that might sound far off,

as you're probably sitting at home in some form of quarantine or social distancing yourself from

others, right now we're in a crazy time, but that doesn't mean that we can't look forward to what

we've got planned being out in the mountains in the near future. I got a ton of questions. I keep

asking every week, send me your questions, what do you want to know, and a lot of them have been

focused around spot and stock bear hunting and hunting bears in the spring. Now I believe that

that question came up so many times because there was a common theme. People frustrated

had difficulty finding bears when they were out hunting and just an overall challenge of it.

And I think that hits home because spring bear hunting, response, stock type bear hunting,

I believe is one of the more difficult hunts out west, especially to be consistent and successful.

Now there's a lot of knowledge and time that goes into that consistency, but I think once you

figure out a few of the basics, you can go from frustration to consistent success year after year.

Bear hunting really comes down to knowing where to look. And that involves understanding bears

how to hone in on their appropriate food source for the time of year, and then just understanding

bear habits in general. From there, you need to take it a step further and employ the right hunting

tactics, which might mean a form of sitting and glassing. It might be a form of moving through

cover in logging roads or it could even involve some tactic like calling. It was asked so much and

it is such an in-depth topic and such a challenging animal to be successful at hunting consistently.

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