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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 284 | Motivation, Record (Smallest) Elk, Training, & More

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Monday Minute of the Huntback Country podcast.

0:03.8

These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listener questions.

0:09.3

Steve, you're about gear enough to head out on a moose hunt here.

0:13.2

Yeah, yeah.

0:13.9

Justin and I head out Wednesday.

0:16.4

It's Monday morning, obviously.

0:17.6

We're actually recording this one on normal time.

0:21.8

That's been a first for a while, it feels like. And yeah, head out Wednesday. You and I are just chatting over.

0:26.8

We're going to film this, but not in the way that we filmed like last year's experience

0:31.9

project videos. It's going to be very, very educational. Like I was like start the video.

0:37.0

Like if you're here for like a lot of entertainment, like that's not the goal. The goal is just like a bunch of tips and tricks and how we're planning, how we're moving through the country. So yeah, I'm excited to see how it plays out. Definitely we're, I've got a good, it's kind of a small-ish unit, not tiny, but small-ish unit that I drew.

0:57.9

And right now, we're leaving Wednesday, kind of come back Wednesday, Thursday next week,

1:03.5

but I've got like a six-night route.

1:06.5

I'm going to have somebody meet us at the end, and I'm going to leave my truck there and then shuttle

1:13.3

us around to the other side of the unit and it's roughly 26 miles from end to end like on the

1:20.6

you know through working through the trails and it's not maybe like 8,000 feet of elevation there's

1:25.6

a lot of trails in this unit that are pretty well established.

1:28.8

So we should just be able to kind of move around on those, get to different glassing points.

1:32.0

And the goals just cover a lot of country.

1:35.4

I've talked to a few people.

1:37.2

There's definitely not a moose behind every bush here.

1:40.2

Like you're probably going to go a day or two without seeing one.

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