Hunt Backcountry Podcast Archive — Hunt Planning

In this Hunt Backcountry Podcast episode, we discuss wildlife law enforcement with Matt from Arizona Game & Fish. Matt shares his insights on mistakes that hunters make, the rules they break, how enforcement officers operate in the field, and much more.

Cody joins us to share the story of the Mule Deer hunt that he shared with his brother and father this past fall. They hunted Montana for the first time and were able to go 3-for-3 on filling their tags. We discuss their strategy for planning and scouting, how they battled cold conditions, and how the success happened.

Scott Gillespie of Rocky Mountain Big Game Recovery joins us to discuss the use of tracking dogs to help hunters recover big game animals in the Rocky Mountain West. We discuss how hunters can find a tracking team. When to contact a team. What it costs to have a tracking team help recover an animal. And much more.

Our guest for this episode, Brian, is an everyday hunter with many years of do-it-yourself, non-resident elk hunting experience. With a success rate that is higher than the average, we wanted to speak with him and cover lessons learned, mistakes made, and successes achieved in his elk hunting journey over the years.