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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Steve & Mark answer your listener-submitted questions and discuss some timely topics. They cover another attempt to sell public lands, what's going on at Exo behind the scenes, new shirts for women and kids coming later this week, how we filter and carry water in the backcountry, if they practice with their bow on multi-day backpack hunts, why Mark was using a suppressor cover on their recent spring bear hunt, and choosing optics for a Frank Church elk hunt. Links & Resources... Our Water Filtration System: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/backpack-hunting-basics-how-we-filter-carry-water Backpack Hunting Basics: https://youtube.com/exomountaingear?sub_confirmation=1 Exo Open House & Garage Sale (RSVP!): https://exomtngear.com/pages/exo-garage-sale Public Land Sale — Information & Action: https://www.howlforwildlife.org/keepitpublic Get Your Bow Ready for the Backcountry: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/get-your-bow-ready-for-the-backcountry LS Wild Suppressor Cover: https://www.lswild.com/store/p180/Ultralight_Suppressor_Armor_%28Custom_Fit%29.html The Hunt Backcountry Podcast is brought to you by Exo Mtn Gear: https://exomtngear.com/ EXO INSIDER NEWSLETTER — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter ASK YOUR QUESTION — [email protected] LEAVE A MESSAGE — https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry VIEW & SEARCH THE PODCAST ARCHIVE: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Monday Minute of the Huntback Country podcast. These are shorter and more informal
0:06.0	episodes where we answer your listener questions. I'm joined by a semi-delirious, maybe a little
0:12.6	bit incohesive rambling, Steve this morning. A long day coming home from Florida yesterday and turned into getting home at two in the morning. It was a long day coming home from Florida yesterday and turned into getting home at
0:24.3	two in the morning last night.
0:25.9	But lots of, for whatever reason, just a handful of delays.
0:30.6	I sent you a screenshot of the airport, the airport screens, you know, and there's just,
0:34.5	like, if there's a hundred flights listed on there, 80 of them were 80% of them were, I guess that is 80. See, delirious. They were all delayed, man. It was a
0:44.9	train wrecked. I booked and rebooked the flights probably half a dozen times. But we're home and
0:50.1	yeah, good to be home. I just talked with Jake this morning.
0:54.3	He called me at 7 a.m. on FaceTime, which he never does.
0:58.0	And he's been in the airport for 24 hours separate from you and had the same delays.
1:03.5	And he, dude, he was so out of it.
1:05.5	It was so funny.
1:06.5	He goes, I feel like I should get on the podcast this morning just so people could see a sleep
1:10.8	deprived Jake.
1:12.8	Yeah.
1:13.3	So I feel for both of you guys.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:15.5	But the, um, like obviously we talked about went down to Florida to meet with our company
1:21.3	National Molding that provides most of the existing plastic hardware for the packs.
1:26.0	And I'm working on their custom,
1:29.2	like specific like Exo designed.
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