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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 280 | New $10 Shirts & Hats, Solo Elk Packouts, & Optics Questions

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Steve & Mark answer your listener-submitted questions on this Monday Minute podcast episode. They also announce all-new, at-cost logo gear, including a Hunt Backcountry Podcast hat. Listener-submitted questions and topics include: how much time should a solo elk packout take, how to use binos (and which binos to use) for archery elk hunts, which magnification is best for EL Range finos, the best model of SIG Zulu6 image-stabilizing binos, if chairs or stools are worth using when glassing, and more... LINKS & RESOURCES $10 Shirts & Hats: https://exomtngear.com/logo Hunt Backcountry Hat: https://exomtngear.com/collections/logo-gear/products/shadow-series-hunt-backcountry-hat Backpack Hunting Basics: https://exomtngear.com/basics Crazy Creek Chair for Glassing: https://amzn.to/3JwK4VA SIG Zulu6: https://sandsarchery.com/collections/sig-sauer-binoculars Swarovski EL Range T/A: https://sandsarchery.com/products/swarovski-10x42-el-range-ta-binocular 40+ Elk Podcasts: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/must-listen-elk-hunting-podcasts 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Monday minute of the Huntback Country podcast.

0:04.2

These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer our listeners.

0:09.0

Steve, I hope that your Elkhunt went well this weekend.

0:11.8

Tell me about it.

0:15.5

You're like, what?

0:16.5

I can see into the future.

0:20.2

It's Labor Day.

0:21.1

We're pre-recording.

0:23.1

Yep.

0:23.6

Thursday morning here and beautiful Boise, Idaho.

0:26.6

We've had some amazing, you know, it's like August, just hot, 90, 100-degree days.

0:31.9

And then just the last few days it cooled down, rained a ton.

0:36.6

It's definitely got that fall kind of feeling in the air. I'm sure

0:39.7

the heat will come back, but it's a nice little break of saying, hey, it's cooling down and fall's

0:44.5

coming. Well, yeah, you're getting out with your sun, little chill kind of phone Elkhunt this

0:51.4

weekend, so I truly hope that does create some good memories at the very least, I'm sure. I was studying Google Earth yesterday. Just like, right, where the heck can I take them? You know, that's not going to just be like a 10-mile freaking death march. But I'm excited to push him a little bit. I told them yesterday. I was like, we're going to hike and we're going to hike pretty hard, man. There's going to be times that you're going to want to cry and, you know, your feet might hurt. He's like, okay, dad, I'll be tough. So, yeah, I'm excited. I guess, yeah, I think there's the potential. The last time I took him was four. he was four because last year we were up in Alaska the entire time. I didn't do any hunting down here. And so he did, you know, he probably could go a couple, two, three miles. But now that he's six, I think I could push him. I bet we could do some five, six mile days. I just don't know about the area where going's an old burn, which is deadfall

1:44.7

everywhere. I just don't know what that's going to do to them, just zap them pretty quick. We'll

1:49.1

find out. I'll hope it be fun to find out. Hope you guys are all having a good labor day. I'm sure

1:55.3

some of you are catching this episode maybe later than normal because you're outside the normal weekday

2:02.0

cadence and whatnot. We do have some brand new logo gear that just hit the website. Three new shirt

2:11.3

designs, some new hat designs, restock on our kind of like our classic icon hat, things like that.

2:18.9

So hopefully you guys, if you're interested, can jump on that as we have been.

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