Gear List for DIY Elk Hunting
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
This episode takes a deep dive into the crucial gear you should have on a DIY elk hunt. Host Joseph and guest (outfitter Tate Bradfield) detail why each item is important, along with how to pick the right brand and model for your specific needs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there one thing that you can take into elk country that will help you succeed more than any other? |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the Backcountry hunting podcast today, folks. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Joseph Fond Benedict, your host. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm here with Tate Bradfield. |
| 0:15.5 | Tate's the owner of process-based hunter, a teaching organization. |
| 0:19.9 | He's a professional big game guide and outfitter and a man who |
| 0:23.2 | wants to help you learn to hunt elk more effectively. We've partnered in the elk hunting boot camp. |
| 0:29.9 | The is kicking off here in, geez, 10 days or so. Yeah, I don't need. It might be nine days now. |
| 0:35.2 | It's sneaking up on us. It is. Thanks for coming back on the show today with me, Tate. |
| 0:39.9 | Oh, thank you, Joseph. |
| 0:40.8 | I love it. |
| 0:41.3 | And we have Tate's gear list here. |
| 0:44.3 | And that's what we're going to go over today. |
| 0:46.8 | We're going to talk through all of his items. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm going to jump in if I think anything's missing or maybe if some things are not as important, things that |
| 0:56.2 | you could maybe eliminate from your pack if you really want to drop weight. And we're just |
| 1:02.3 | going to have a little bit of fun with that. But first, I'm going to, we're kind of playing a |
| 1:09.0 | little bit of a trick on you here. Set you up a little bit, folks. |
| 1:12.3 | The single thing that will help you succeed more than any other on an Elkhut is your mind. |
| 1:19.3 | Now, of course, that's not really gear. |
| 1:21.3 | I like to think of that as the software in the system. |
| 1:24.1 | It is. |
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