Welcome back to another episode of cutting the distance. Today we're going to jump into a topic that we don't hit on a lot, but we do backpack hunt.

And we're going to go through the decisions like when it makes sense to backpack hunt versus when maybe it makes sense to just day hunt it or hunt from a base camp.

I'm joined today by my co-host Dirk Durham.

Appreciate having him on and what you're pretty much getting today is two of the best

backpack hunters to ever do it.

Yeah, we're gonna.

No, all kidding aside, We do enjoy a backpack up, but there are times where you need to you need to make the you know there should be a decision tree made you know it's not that complex but it's like do I need to go 10 miles in or am I going to start to

hit horse camps or am I you know when does it make sense and we'll try to break that down for you.

And my simple term, you know, is like if there are elk that are in an area or lots of elk

or an elk I want to kill, and I really don't want to walk in there

every morning and walk out every night because it's a long or it's physically arduous and I don't want to deal with that.

Then that's kind of, that's my very easy decision, but I'm talking with Dirk, we'll jump into all of that and

and they give you, you know you our best information as far as gear, strategy, tactics,

some of the other things you need to think about that you don't maybe have to think about.

And if you're on the fence, you're new to backpack hunting,

kind of what you may need to think about

as you do that.

So welcome to the show, Dirk.

Yeah, thanks for having me on again.

Yeah, yeah, it's nice to catch up, even though we run our own shows and we were we were just at a I don't you

You can't call it cougar camp if you our wives may question what we were doing

hunting at cougar camp, but, but we were just at Cougar

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