All right, what is up everybody? Welcome back to the Vortex Nation podcast. We are here at the Western

Hunting Conservation Expo. I'm joined by my good friend, Remy Warren. If you hear a little buzz in the

background, that's just high energy of folks that are excited about hunting. And Remy, one thing I'm

always excited about is bear hunting. What we're going to talk about today specifically a little bit is spring bear hunting. And Rumi, one thing I'm always excited about is bear hunting. What we're going to

talk about today specifically a little bit is spring bear hunting. A lot of it probably applies to

bear hunting and maybe hunting in general, but some gear, some spring bear gear. It's going to be a

spring bear gear primer, maybe some things that are just stuff you always want, and maybe a couple

outside the box things, perhaps.

Yeah, I think that spring bear hunting, it's so much fun because it's like you get out,

get out, it's winter's over, you kind of get some good weather, sometimes, sometimes it's not,

but you can get out chase bears.

It's a lot of fun.

It's a great hunt. I love it. And there is

some stuff that time year that I really don't do any other time or on any other hunt.

Interesting. Yeah. I agree with you. In fact, I probably talk about bear hunting so much.

And I feel like I'm kind of like an outlier person, and I don't know why, and I should actually talk about spring bear hunting less because, you know, I like to have the woods to myself a little bit.

But like you said, you're shaking off cabin fever. You know, you can be in the mountains hunting big game

with a rifle, lots of over-the-counter, lots of states with over-the-counter tags. Like, what is not to like? Yeah.

You're going to need some gear to do it, though.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah, so I figured I kind of made a little list of some of the things that, you know,

I kind of think of and that are in my gear kit for spring bear hunting, that some of them are year-round, but these are primarily things

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