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In Pursuit

Ep. 55: Muzzleloader Hunt Recap and Hoof Rot

In Pursuit

MeatEater

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

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Jason recaps his recent western Washington muzzleloader elk hunt. After a ten-year hiatus of hunting close to home, he returns to find a surprising lack of elk. He goes over the struggles he faced, what worked, his opinion on the hoof rot issue, and the huge increase in predator numbers.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Brent Rees with Meadeater's new podcast, This Country Live.

0:05.0

You ever wondered how to pick out a good dog, bowl up a mess of crawfish or catch cat fish

0:09.3

on a trot line?

0:10.3

Well, on this country life, I'm inviting you into my home, where in each episode I'll

0:14.8

be telling you the story of a good hunt, close call, a hard time, a good time, whatever.

0:20.0

And then we'll talk on some good country skills I think you ought to know.

0:24.1

Listen to this country life in the Bear Greece feed on the I Heart Radio F or wherever

0:29.1

you get your podcast.

0:45.3

Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Dissence.

0:47.5

On this episode, I'm going to go over a quick recap of my recent Western Washing and Rose

0:51.2

Valtmuzzle Elder Hunt.

0:52.2

I'm going to talk a little bit about hook rot and just a general decline we're seeing

0:55.9

in this area in our Elkards, what we think the cause may be, and then what we can do

1:01.6

moving forward.

1:02.6

But first, like all Cutting the Dissence episodes, we're going to take a few listener questions.

1:07.2

If you have any questions for me or my guests, feel free to email them to us at ctd at

1:13.5

fulpsgamecaus.com, send us a social message, and we'll do our best to get them on here.

1:30.4

So our first question comes from Austin Smith.

1:33.0

He wants to know what a strategy for late November archery bull hunt would be.

1:37.9

The elk are going to be quiet.

1:39.1

The landscape severely limits glassing, it's snowing, water's readily available, he thinks

1:44.5

for him, but he says so Austin, if I was, you know, I was back at when my early start

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