Ep. 83: Spring Bear - Waylon and Devon Herzig

... you mentioned something, and this is what I want to get into, and I don't know who wants to cover it.

I want to talk about hunting with dogs and baiting bears.

Here's what I don't understand about bear hunting.

You guys are dropping us into these just seems like random spots.

I mean, we're just on the mountain.

Right.

How do you fi- like where do you decide like, all right, this is where we're gonna put the bait? 'Cause it seems like, well, if we just put the bait here, that's where the bears will be.

Well, like for us, picking spots is...

So we're, we're not just bear hunting here.

We're elk hunting.

We're deer hunting.

Yeah.

We're lion hunting.

For sure.

We're shed hunting.

So I mean, we're spending close to 300 days a year out here.

Yeah.

And it, it's weird to say, but the, we have 540 square miles that's, that's our hunting area, and-

Holy crap

... and we, we, I, we've literally-

How many acres is that?

He's, he's probably walked...

At his age, he's probably, he's probably walked most of it and been in these spots.

And as you're out there doing it, you're always thinking, like say we're shed hunting.

I'm like, man, this would be a great spot for a bear bait.