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.

As the spring bear season progresses, I figured it'd be a great time to expand on some more

bear hunting tactics. While spotting from a distance and stalking in is a great way to hunt,

what about those areas where that's not possible? Those vast areas of bear country we're having

a look even maybe a hundred yards away would be a tough feat. My bear hunting is often split

between hunting timber and glassing. This week we're going to cover all things thick

country bear hunting by breaking down food, terrain, sign, and effectively covering country.

But before we do that, I want to share the story of my best Montana bear.

So I actually kind of told this story not the long ago, episode 90. I briefly mentioned

the story of this bear. I kind of got into detail, but because the last story was predicated

on a couple of clients that I had and getting her a bear. But at the beginning of that

story, I talked about a bear that I ended up shooting, which was my best Montana bear.

And even though I kind of already told the story, I feel like it skipped out on a lot

of details because I didn't want to make it too long. So I figured, well, today I might

as well tell the actual full length version because I think it's pretty good. So like I

talked about earlier, I was guiding a father and a daughter, Jason Micah. And we'd been

hunting for most of the week and got on some bears. And that week is a little bit later

in the season. So my tactic kind of switched from, you know, actually in the mornings we

were going up some big canyons, glassing, doing that old glassing thing. And it just,

we spotted some bears. But by the time we got there and it just didn't work out, the

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