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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Mental toughness, mountain fitness, & lightweight gear with Ron Spomer

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Spomer is back! My good friend Ron shares solo-hunting experiences, tips for pre-hunt fitness and conditioning, and how to build your mental toughness so you don't give up when tested by harsh country and conditions.

Additionally, we dig deep into:

  • Hydration (and debilitation when lacking)
  • Lightweight rifles & gear
  • Going just one ridge farther to achieve success
  • Being prepared to sleep anywhere
  • Bivy gear & lightweight sleep systems that work
  • DIY sheep hunting
  • Solo hunting & the test of solitude
  • Drawing tags—or not, and hunting OTC instead

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We are back in the studio with Ron Spomer, a long-time friend of mine and one of the best mountain hunting guys in the industry in my humble opinion. I'm actually not that humble but I like to say that.

0:14.6

Do you know you can't claim humility? You can't? The act defies itself.

0:19.8

Sure. It's like trying to measure something. Yeah, that's right. So today we're going to talk about mountain hunting

0:27.6

Prep attitude maybe a little bit of gear because Ron's done a lot of it. He's shot quite a few

0:34.9

mountain sheep, some of them on your own right? And here's some stories I hope

0:40.6

from. Yeah, we like stories. I can make up a story. Story. Yeah, we like stories.

0:43.0

I can make up a story any day.

0:44.6

So let's start at the beginning.

0:46.4

I'm not even going to ask how old you are right now.

0:49.2

It might frighten our listeners, but.

0:51.2

Thank you very much.

0:51.8

As you. listeners but as you reach your your age of wisdom what do you do each fall?

1:00.3

First thing in the morning they try to wake up.

1:04.0

There you go.

1:05.0

That's a great first step.

1:07.0

And I take my pills.

1:08.0

Too much information already.

1:13.0

So talk to us about mountain hunting prep.

1:16.0

Calling back into your years when you were doing it aggressively on your own

1:20.0

and even, you know, what are you doing now before a vigorous

1:25.0

hunt. The last question is the easy one nothing but the first one is the one

1:29.0

that's really going to pay off here. What do you do to prep for a mountain hunt?

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