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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Backcountry Foot Care & other Q&A

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

• Issues with your feet and/or boots can ruin a hunt

• How to choose ideal boots for your foot type & terrain

• Foot health maintenance & pain management

• Injury prevention & treatment

• NEW SEGMENT: Backcountry Scouting & Navigating

• Questions & Answers:

  • Bear guns & bullets
  • Eyewear for hunting
  • Mild-recoiling classic cartridges for deer
  • More

• How to order Backcountry Hunting Podcast Tee Shirts

• Support the Backcountry Hunting Podcast on Patreon

Transcript

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0:00.0

If your feet goes south in the backcountry, your hunt can be over.

0:06.0

There's a few things you can do to keep your feet in the best possible condition,

0:10.0

and we're going to talk about that today, at the request of one of our listeners.

0:15.0

We're also going to talk about a whole bunch of other questions and answers, some really

0:21.0

interesting stuff ranging from, oh gosh, from bear protection to

0:27.0

reloading for reliability to how to clean your rifle without hurting it and so forth.

0:35.0

Some good stuff here.

0:36.6

So let's jump in to foot care.

0:41.0

This is a subject that, know we really probably don't give enough focus to and by the way I'm sitting in Wyoming on a

0:52.4

Scout hunt. It was really windy today. This morning, our first set we had three

0:57.0

kioats just come charging in. Magnificent sight. Doesn't happen to me very often.

1:02.4

I am an enthusiastic but not a good

1:05.8

coyote hunter and so I get pretty excited when everything happens just right.

1:11.2

This time I was barely prepared. We just set up. This time I was barely prepared.

1:13.5

We just set up.

1:15.4

I'd scanned the draw that I was supposed to be focusing on real hard.

1:20.3

Turned to look over my shoulder at my hunting partner Neil Emory from Hornity to make sure all was good on his end and

1:27.3

thinking you know like you do if your partner gets through four coy coming in, maybe you can shift positions just enough

1:34.9

to provide them a little backup. Well, I wasn't paying attention, and on a little plateau right

1:41.2

between our two fields of fire, three kilots came dashing in.

1:46.4

And our guide, whose name was Cody, managed to say something that got my attention redirected and I managed to miss one and then

1:55.7

hit it on a hard run at 191 yards so bad first shot at about 170 yards.

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