My 2023 Season

[Justin Crossley]

I have a few good hunts lined up this year and I'm planning to post about all of them here in this thread. Hit the watch button if you want to follow along.

Last weekend I took a buddy on his first backpack hunt for bear.



We had a great time and got really close to getting him a great bear but it fed into the brush as we closed the distance and then the clouds rolled in and we had zero visibility.







I leave in a few days to help my brother on a high country mule deer hunt.

 

[Justin Crossley]

Doing some final packing tonight and will be hitting the road tomorrow to meet my brother for his mule deer hunt.



I pack each day's food separately to make things easy. I'm at 24oz of food per day including a freeze-dried meal for dinner.

 

[cjdewese]

Doing some final packing tonight and will be hitting the road tomorrow to meet my brother for his mule deer hunt.

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I pack each day's food separately to make things easy. I'm at 24oz of food per day including a freeze-dried meal for dinner.

New guys curiosity, how many calories at 24 oz?

 

[Justin Crossley]

New guys curiosity, how many calories at 24 oz?

I'll double check but it should be about 3000 calories.

 

[CaliWoodsman]

Doing some final packing tonight and will be hitting the road tomorrow to meet my brother for his mule deer hunt.

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I pack each day's food separately to make things easy. I'm at 24oz of food per day including a freeze-dried meal for dinner.

Frosted animal cookies is next level stuff.

 

[Justin Byers]

Good luck! Good food is a must on an intense hunt! I always look at it like there aren't many comforts on a tough hunt, but good food and good sleep are super important to keep going hard every day.

 

[AArmsnw]

Good luck!

 

[cjdewese]

I'll double check but it should be about 3000 calories.

That seems pretty good. If you wouldn't mind can you share your food list?

I feel like it's the area I am weakest in right now.

 

[Randle]

Dang Justin just cost me 3.89
Animal cookies sounded like an add to a couple lunch ziplocks

 

[Justin Crossley]

We've seen a few bucks but nothing big so far. Seems like the numbers are pretty low compared to normal.



Food list:
Two instant oatmeal packs.
One each MTN OPS Enduro and Ignite
Two Pure Organic layered fruit bars
Ritz with cheese flavored filling
Two Jack Links beef & cheese packs
1.5 oz of Nerd Clusters
Honey Stinger waffle 1.06 oz size
1 oz pack Circus Animal cookies
Nature Valley sweet and salty peanut bar
Rice crispy treat
Marshmallow stuffed oatmeal cookie
2 oz Kirklank trail mix
Mountain house

 

[hobbes]

Similar to my set up:


Good luck finding the bucks.

 

[Justin Crossley]

After hiking and glassing our butts off and seeing hardly any deer, we decided to call it and save our vacation time for our next hunts. We expected lower than normal deer numbers due to winter kill, but it was even worse than we expected.

 

[hobbes]

Dangit that sucks. Good luck on the next hunts.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

After hiking and glassing our butts off and seeing hardly any deer, we decided to call it and save our vacation time for our next hunts. We expected lower than normal deer numbers due to winter kill, but it was even worse than we expected.

Bummer man. That’s why we call it hunting and not shooting…

Hit the watch button, thanks for posting!

 

[lamarclark09]

Bravo man, love these pics, and your experience.

 

[Justin Crossley]

My brother and I are only a couple weeks away from our elk hunt. We both have tags for this one and are excited to see what we can find.

 

[Randle]

Following along Justin. What state for elk ?

 

[Justin Crossley]

Following along Justin. What state for elk ?

We'll be in WY for this one.