Preparing for a DIY Hunt Out West
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This episode dives into the often-daunting task of preparing to hunt Out West. For folks coming from low-elevation flatland, here's a guide on the whole shootin' match:
- Mental prep
- Physical prep
- Handling high altitudes
- Differences from hunting whitetails
- How to handle hunter pressure
- How to find and hunt wary, pressured game
- How to hunt overwhelmingly big country
- How to stay safe in dangerous terrain
- Are bears, mountain lions, and wolves a concern?
- Crossing rivers and climbing mountains
- The importance of staying hydrated
- Staying focused when against challenging odds
- Packing meat
- Gear selection: Camping gear, hunting gear, and killing gear
- How to become a minimalist (mountain hunter)
- Binocular, rangefinder, and spotting scope selection
- Crucial characteristics of a western hunting rifle
- Selecting ammo
- Choosing and buying a backpack
- How to dress for (backcountry hunting) success
- Species to start with, and states to hunt
- Maximizing e-scouting
- Western DIY hunting is a campaign, not a battle
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From a listener. |
| 0:02.0 | What is your advice on preparing for a Western trip for someone who's never been |
| 0:08.0 | and lives basically at sea level? |
| 0:11.0 | What are the major equipment needs who differ from hunting Whitell? I know there are many. Mental |
| 0:17.6 | prep, physical prep, gear, etc. As well as what are your recommendations for what states to start with and |
| 0:26.8 | species progression? This question was submitted by a listener we'll call Brandon. |
| 0:33.0 | Now, like all passionate enthusiasts, I occasionally get carried away with |
| 0:38.0 | diving into the finer points of my chosen pursuit and neglect fundamental information. |
| 0:45.0 | This question sort of brought me back to the ground, right? |
| 0:49.0 | So today we're going to address how to get started in planning and preparing for a hunt out west. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Joseph von Benedict, and this is the backcountry hunting podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | Today, before we get into our main topic, we're going to go to our upfront |
| 1:05.2 | Q&A section, brought to you by Spartan Precision Equipment. And by the way, Rob |
| 1:10.1 | Gearing, that very British chap that founded Spartan and is always such a hit here on the show, |
| 1:17.0 | is joining me to record a full episode soon, |
| 1:20.0 | detailing some really cool new products from Spartan precision. |
| 1:25.2 | Cool news. |
| 1:26.2 | Before I forget you can submit questions via email at Joseph at backcountry podcast.com or on Patreon.com slash backcountry. I try and |
| 1:37.0 | answer every one of them personally and we'll use the most interesting ones |
| 1:40.9 | here on the show. When time is really tight I always give |
| 1:44.8 | priority to questions from our Patreon members. Okay here is the question that's a |
| 1:51.1 | cool rifle-build question from a |
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