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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 301 | Elk Advice, Optics in the USA, Hunting Bans, and More...

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports:wilderness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Marks goes solo to answer listener questions about hunting elk off-trail and making noise, why we haven't recommended spotting scopes from Leupold, what we should do about a proposed hunting ban in Oregon, and more. Links mentioned in this episode... The Experience Challenge — https://exomtngear.com/challenge Exo Newsletter — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter "Roosevelt vs Rocky Mountain Elk, And How to Hunt Both" — https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/142 "Changes & Challenges to Hunting & Wildlife with John Stallone" — https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/491 "Finding & Protecting Alaska with Bjorn Dihle" — https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/563 Howl for Wildlife — https://www.howlforwildlife.org/ Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership — https://trcp.org 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 — podcast@exomtngear.com 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 Hunt Backcountry podcast.

0:03.7

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

0:09.2

although today there is no we.

0:12.2

This is just a solo episode.

0:15.2

This is Mark, and we will dive into some listener questions,

0:19.5

but keep this one pretty brief.

0:22.2

If you guys have been tuning into the past few episodes, you've heard us talk about the

0:27.4

experience challenge, and registration for that did just wrap up last night.

0:33.8

If you happen to be interested, if you are registered, stay tuned.

0:38.9

It's the official kickoff email coming later today.

0:43.8

If you registered and don't see that email by the end of the day, be sure to check your

0:49.7

spam or your junk folder to make sure it did not end up there.

0:54.7

And then also in that email, we're actually talking about preventing that exact issue from

0:59.3

happening by white listing exo emails.

1:03.6

So be sure to check that out in particular if you find that email on spam junk or promotions.

1:10.4

If you didn't sign up for the experience challenge, that's no problem.

1:14.8

There's going to be a lot coming for you guys through the podcast.

1:20.6

And some of that is going to cross over.

1:22.5

We're going to be talking about different topics that will go deeper into for participants of the experience challenge,

1:29.6

but everyone's going to benefit from listening to those podcast episodes

1:34.1

and then even video content and article content to come.

1:39.0

So if you've been around for a while going back to what we did with the experience project

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