FULL GEAR BREAKDOWN: SPRING BACKPACKING HUNT 2026 | 🎙️EP. 924
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I'm Brian Call. I am going on a black bear hunt here in the next few days. I've gone through my gear. I've got it kind of dialed in for the season. I'm going to go through it as quickly as I can. Otherwise, I'll be here forever because there's a lot of gear to go through. And it's nice gear. It basically, what I'm carrying into the backcountry is kind of |
| 0:21.9 | elite. High level, expensive. I'm not here to tell you what budget items to get. I'm here to tell you |
| 0:28.7 | what I am going to take. So you could still leverage this show. You don't have to get the same gear I |
| 0:35.1 | have. This will just give you a foundation of what to put in your pack. |
| 0:39.2 | You can get a less expensive version, get whatever you want. |
| 0:42.3 | Don't forget, I'm 51 years old, almost 52. |
| 0:46.1 | I've been on this earth a little bit. |
| 0:47.6 | I've been collecting gear my whole life. |
| 0:51.4 | This is the thing I love to do. |
| 0:53.0 | I remember back in my early 20s, I would wait in lines |
| 0:56.5 | at garage sales, at the REI garage sales, and purchase used gears and old rental equipment. |
| 1:02.3 | I get stuff off camifier, anything I could get at an auction or eBay, Craigslist, I got it. I know |
| 1:08.2 | that life. This podcast isn't about that life. Okay. This podcast is going to go |
| 1:13.0 | over some nice gear. What I think is pretty much top shelf that you might want to collect over |
| 1:18.1 | the years to fill your pack the same way. Um, but you can certainly do this same, uh, you could |
| 1:25.1 | certainly backpack on a budget. You can get budget stuff. I remember buying a |
| 1:28.6 | $20 Walmart tent, not kidding, it was 20 bucks, and hunting all elk season for two weeks in the |
| 1:34.2 | pouring snow, just a backpack I borrowed from my dad. You can do it on whatever budget you want. What we're |
| 1:41.7 | going to do today, though, is go over the top end, |
| 1:44.6 | why I think it's top end, and hopefully help you dial in your own kit so you can have a lighter |
| 1:49.6 | pack that helps you be more successful in the backcountry. So let's start with boots. |
| 1:54.3 | Everybody has their favorite boot. I don't really recommend a boot because I think you need to find |
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