Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, and we are about to bear down on another great podcast.

I'm joined by Mr. Colby Moorhead, owner-operator of Bear Hunting Magazine.

And Colby, today we're going to talk a lot about, we'll talk about you and what you have going on with the magazine.

But we're also going to talk about hunting,

one of the absolute coolest critters that roams the woods.

Yeah.

I always say I should talk about bear hunting less because actually, you know, I like... You should shout it from the rooftops, man, or the mountaintops.

Right.

That's where there are.

Exactly.

I just, it's so cool.

I think it's one of the last remaining super cool hunts that,

I guess that doesn't get the credit it deserves at times. I think, uh, as, uh, as hunters, we focus a lot

about on, on deer and elk and other critters, but man, bears, they should, they should be in

your hunting mix. It's true. It's true.

I mean, especially like they're a great addition if you're a Western hunter to be able to go out to the same areas that you would be elk hunting later in the year. Like it's great for getting out there, getting after some big game, and also getting used to an area that you'll, you know, draw or be around later in the year.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, that's a mini hot tip there.

I hunted elk with a buddy of mine a few years ago, and we saw a lot of bears in the fall.

Yeah.

We came back and we spring bear hunted it, and we got two bears, you know?

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