Exo Journal — Backpack Hunting Basics

Start sharp and stay sharp. That should be the goal for your hunting knife. When it comes to keeping your knife sharp on a backpack hunt, we have experimented with a lot of different options — from replaceable blade knives to a wide variety of sharpening devices and methods for fixed-blade knives. In this video, we demonstrate the technique and share some tips for using our go-to knife sharpener for backpack hunts...

The food you bring on a multi-day backpack hunt is critical; not only for your survival, of course, but also in determining how effectively you can hunt day after day with sustained energy, as well as greatly influencing how much your pack weighs and how much space you have as you pack your bag for a hunt.

When backpack hunting, you need a water filtration solution that is fast, efficient, and effective. Based on extensive experience, this is what we use...

There is backpacking. There is hunting. And then, there is backpack hunting. Leaving society behind, hiking into the mountains, and surviving for days on end with the items you have on your back — on a mission to find, pursue, and kill an animal and then pack out protein to feed our families... There is nothing like backpack hunting! That is our passion and our purpose. It is the sole reason that Exo Mtn Gear exists. We design our bags from the perspective of backpack hunting. (They also work great for shorter, single-day hunts as well!) Every stitch and square...