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9 DAYS. 2 FEET OF SNOW. 40 MPH WINDS. 3 BULL’S I WILL NEVER FORGET. 🏔️🦌 Eight days deep in the Flat Tops, chasing some of the most incredible animals North America has to offer. Climbing ridges, glassing timber, covering miles, and learning quickly that the mountains have absolutely no interest in making things easy for you. We endured an estimated 24+ inches of snow, with winds reaching 40 MPH some nights. Frozen mornings, brutal conditions, snow covered terrain, hypothermia, exhausted legs, lungs literally giving up…Alan, & the constant challenge of adapting to whatever Mother Nature had planned for us next. But that is the reality of backcountry hunting. You do not get to choose the conditions. You only get to choose how you respond to them. And then there is a moment like this. There is something almost impossible to explain about finally laying your hands on an animal that, until that moment, had never been touched by a human. After spending days pursuing him in his own world, watching him move through the mountains, and working to get close enough for an opportunity, finally being there with him brings every emotion full circle. The exhaustion, the uncertainty, the cold, the miles, the anticipation, and every ounce of effort suddenly take on a whole new meaning. You are no longer thinking about the miserable nights or the conditions you endured. You are standing there, realizing you have experienced something incredibly rare, in a place that remains wild enough to make you earn every second of it. For me, that is one of the most humbling parts of hunting. It is about more than the animal itself. It is the connection to the wilderness, the respect for the life taken, and the gratitude for an experience that cannot be manufactured or replicated. The Flat Tops Grand Slam was never just about filling tags. It was about immersing myself in this incredible mountain range, pursuing multiple species, testing my limits, and experiencing the Flat Tops in their rawest form. The mountains take PLENTY from you….but every once in a while, they give you something you could never put a price on. That is what ELK CAMP represents. REBUILD TO BECOME UNBREAKABLE.
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🦴SHE EARNED SOMETHING BETTER THAN A MILK BONE 🍖 It’s a little more challenging for her to balance then a milk bone…but the game we have has a simple rule… You balance it…you own it… She gets a piece of the animal she helped me find. A nose built to follow a blood trail. A mind built to work. And a partnership built one recovery at a time. So today, the milk bone got replaced with something a little more fitting. She knows exactly what she’s balancing. And she knows exactly what she earned. 🦌🐕
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🥋🚨 THE SECOND I HEARD “BRIGGS!” I KNEW I WAS IN DANGER🥋🚨 I was refereeing today when all I heard was my buddy @spicy_jitz yell my name. No warning. No explanation. Just “BRIGGS!” My nervous system immediately went DEFCON 1. 😂 With everything in my body, I hit the Heisman, yanked my already-bum LCL leg straight up, and prepared myself to get returned to the mat. At this point, I’m not refereeing. I’m protecting national infrastructure. That LCL is now under federal protection. The CIA has a file on it, the Pentagon denies its existence, and the Department of Homeland Security has quietly moved it to an undisclosed location. If anyone asks what happened to my knee, the official government position is that “there is no knee.” 🇺🇸😂
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🐻🏔️ THE FINAL PACK OUT🥩🏕️ One last time throwing the pack on, cinching everything down, and heading for that truck sitting 2,600 feet below me. I hunted my way up to 2,200/2,600 feet…now it was time to earn every one of those vertical feet back. The pack felt heavier on the way out. Not because of the gear, but because every step carried the weight of the miles, the exhaustion, the memories, and everything this mountain had demanded. No roads. No shortcuts. Just boots, a heavy pack, steep country, and a whole lot of grit. And then came the final descent. 2,600 feet of elevation between me and that truck. Every downhill step was one step closer to leaving this mountain behind, and one step closer to realizing what we came here to accomplish. Part 1 of the Flat Tops Grand Slam is in the books. 🐻 The bear is down. The pack is on. The mountain is behind me. But this isn’t the end. One mountain range. Three animals. One hell of a story still left to create. The bear was only the beginning. 🐻🫎🦌⛰️ GET TRAINING, GET RUNNING, ELK CAMPS COMING🏕️🥩🇺🇸 #FlatTopsGrandSlam #BearCamp #BlackBearHunting #FlatTops #WildernessHunting
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🐻💩 DON’T JUST LOOK AT THE SCAT. READ IT💩🐻 This is the kind of stuff that GOOD hunters get excited about. When I find these piles, I wasn’t just thinking, “Cool, bear poop.” 😂 I was trying to reverse-engineer what happened here. What are they eating? First thing I noticed was the amount of vegetation and what appears to be a ton of conifer needles throughout it. That immediately tells me this bear is consuming a lot of plant material. And particularly off the forest floor, maybe grubs and bugs or from ground squirrel hunting ect ect Then I started looking for berries. Nothing. Or at least nothing that would suggest berries were making up a major part of these bear’s recent diet. That matters…No more hunting berry patches 🥴 Because if I walk into an area expecting bears to be hammering berries, but the scat I’m finding doesn’t reflect that, I’m going to question my original assumption and pivot. Then I start asking: Why is this bear here? What is it feeding on? Where is it getting water before or after feeding? Is this an isolated pile or am I finding multiple piles in the same area like this?…WHICH I WAS😂 How fresh is it? What does the surrounding vegetation look like? One pile of scat doesn’t tell you everything. But when you combine scat/tracks/water/feeding sign/habitat suddenly that pile of poop becomes another piece of the puzzle. That’s the mindset I was trying to develop on this hunt: Don’t just find sign. Interrogate it. The mountain doesn’t always hand you the answer… Sometimes it leaves it in a pile of shit. 😂🐻⛰️
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🥩🏕️UGGGGG ANOTHER GIANT BULL🥴🙄 POV: You hike halfway across Colorado chasing bears and somehow keep finding MONSTER ELK instead. 😂🏔️🦌 326 meters away from yet another absolute STUD of a bull. At this point the Flat Tops are basically saying: “Here Dude, you want a bear?” “BEST I CAN DO IS ANOTHER GIANT BULL” 😂 GET TRAINING, GET RUNNING, ELK CAMPS COMING🏕️🥩🇺🇸
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🏹🦌ADRENALINE IS ONE HELL OF A DRUG🦌🏹 This hunt was a pretty good reminder that you can’t let one mistake ruin the rest of your day. At first light, an absolute ALL TIME PB BUCK walked in at 30 yards. I had the shot, but he stopped in the absolute worst possible spot for that stand. I rushed it, missed, and just like that, the biggest buck I’ve ever had in front of me was gone. But that’s archery hunting…🤷‍♂️ You miss…You learn…You move on… A wise man once told me…”treat it like water off a ducks back” So I switched stands, freshened up the luck, settled back in, and a few hours later another buck came walking through the goldenrod at 58 YARDS. Not my all time PB… But definitely a BOW PB. 🎯 I wasn’t sure if he was going to load like the last one, so I picked my spot carefully this time…and aimed bottom heart…NOT Center lung 🥴 He never loaded. And in great fashion, the arrow found exactly where I aimed. Perfect heart shot. 58 yards. Through waist high goldenrod😎 And that’s when the buck jitters showed up. 😂 Funny how you can be completely calm, execute the shot, watch the deer go down, and then suddenly your body decides it’s time to hit the panic button. That’s why I’ll always live by one simple motto: “ARROWS IN THE QUIVER DON’T DELIVER.” Training matters. Putting in the reps matters. Shooting at distance matters. Building confidence before game day matters. But eventually, you have to let the arrow fly. You can’t kill a deer you’re afraid to shoot at. You can’t wait for perfect conditions every time. And you can’t let one bad shot convince you that the next opportunity is going to end the same way. You train so that when the moment comes, you’re ready. Then when game day comes… LET THE ARROW FLY. 58 yards later, I’m damn glad I did. 🏹🦌
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🦌🥩ARROWS IN THE QUIVER DON’T DELIVER 🥩🦌 60 yards… Which sounds far until you actually think about it. That’s basically 20 yards three times. And I’ve shot 20 yards plenty of times. So technically, this is just three 20 yard shots stacked together. Not sure why everyone makes bowhunting seem so difficult. I’m just going to walk in tomorrow, find the biggest deer I’ve ever seen, range him at 60 yards, settle the pin and do what I’ve been doing in the backyard….duuh🤷‍♂️ No pressure. Just a state record. And if he’s farther than 60, I’ll just consider that a 60 yard shot plus some…🫡 Easy work. 😂🏹 GET TRAINING, GET RUNNING, ELK CAMPS COMING🏕️🥩🇺🇸
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🏕️🥩🏔️THE MOST UNDERRATED HUNTING ADVICE YOU’LL EVER GET🏔️🥩🏕️ GET YOUR LIFE IN ORDER BEFORE YOU LEAVE. A lot of people think the hardest part of a backcountry hunt is the mountains. It’s not. Sometimes the hardest part is what’s happening in your head. One of the biggest reasons hunters cut hunts short is because they start convincing themselves that something back home needs to be handled. A bill. A chore. Something with work. Something around the house. Something they forgot to take care of before they left. And once you start thinking about it long enough, suddenly that 10 day hunt turns into a 7 day hunt. Then a 5 day hunt. Then you’re driving home. Handle your responsibilities BEFORE you leave. Get the bills paid. Get the house in order. Get the vehicles taken care of. Talk to your family. Make sure the people back home have everything they need. Because when you’re thousands of miles away, deep in the mountains, you want your mind focused on the hunt. Not convincing yourself that you need to go home. I’m getting everything lined up before I head to Colorado for the Flat Tops Grand Slam. The mountains are going to test me enough. I’m not giving my own mind a reason to quit. Prepare at home. Commit in the mountains. Finish what you came for. TRAINING IS OVER…THE HUNT IS HERE🐻🦌🏔️ #FlatTopsGrandSlam #BackcountryHunting #ColoradoHunting #ElkHunting #bearhunting
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🔥 THE FUEL BEHIND THE FLAT TOPS GRAND SLAM 🔥 What does it actually take to fuel a backpack hunt through the mountains? I broke down my entire food plan down to the calorie, macro, weight and cost. ONE DAY OF FOOD: 🥧 1 serving Pop Tarts 380 calories | 3g protein | 66g carbs | 9g fat 🍚 2 Rice Crispy Treats 180 calories | 2g protein | 34g carbs | 5g fat 🍫 2 Granola Bars 180 calories | 2g protein | 34g carbs | 5g fat 🥫 1 can Meat Loaf 1,140 calories | 44g protein | 8g carbs | 96g fat 🐟 1 can Sardines 160 calories | 17g protein | 2g carbs | 8g fat 🍜 2 Ramen 760 calories | 16g protein | 108g carbs | 28g fat 💧 2 Hydration Packs 100 calories | 0g protein | 26g carbs | 0g fat ⚡ 2 C4 10 calories | 0g protein | 0g carbs | 0g fat 🔥 DAILY TOTAL 🔥 2,910 CALORIES / 2.05LB / $9.20 PER DAY 84g PROTEIN 278g CARBS 151g FAT 💰 ABOUT $9.20 PER DAY And that is the crazy part. This isn’t a luxury menu. This is calculated mountain fuel. Every calorie has a purpose. Every ounce has a purpose. Every dollar has a purpose. I’m heading into the Flat Tops to chase something that doesn’t happen often. 🐻 BEAR 🫎 ELK 🦌 MULE DEER ALL THREE. IN ONE MOUNTAIN RANGE. THE FLAT TOPS GRAND SLAM. Picture waking up above 10,000 feet with everything you need strapped to your back. You eat what you carried. You drink what you carried. You climb until your legs are smoked. Then you wake up and do it all over again. For days. The food isn’t fancy. The mountains don’t care. And the animals definitely don’t EITHER😂 The only thing that matters is having enough fuel to keep moving when the mountain starts taking everything you have. This is the fuel behind the mission. THE FLAT TOPS GRAND SLAM IS HERE. 🏔️🥩🇺🇸
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Friday we head west. 🏔️🐻 I picked up 4 cases of Monster to help pull off the Flat Tops Grand Slam, specifically the 72 hours in the truck round trip😂 One case gets me to Colorado. One case gets me back home. One case keeps me fueled while I’m in Colorado. And one case until Colorado. The Flat Tops Grand Slam is the goal of chasing all three big game species in one mountain range: bear, elk and mule deer. 🐻🦌🏔️ Picture this… One mountain range. One backpack. One long season. Three species. And thousands of miles of roads and mountains standing between me and that slam. Friday, Part 1 begins. I’m heading into the Flat Tops to spend September backpacking through the mountains chasing bear. No hotel. No easy miles. Just a heavy pack, big country, and a whole lot of mountain ahead. Bear first. Elk next. Mule deer after that. Three species. One mountain range. The Flat Tops Grand Slam starts SOON. #FlatTopsGrandSlam #FlatTops #Colorado #BearHunting #Backcountry
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1️⃣ You reduce the choking arm’s access to your neck. By turning the back of your head toward the choking side and using your head to pin that arm against the mat, you can limit the arm’s ability to stay connected around your neck. The arm is no longer freely floating behind your head. 2️⃣ Your head becomes a wedge and a pin. Once your head is positioned over the choking arm, your body weight helps trap that arm against the mat. This is important because you do not necessarily have to win a hand fight immediately. You are temporarily using the mat and your head to help control the arm. 3️⃣ It gives you time to address the legs. The rear naked choke is much harder to escape if the opponent maintains strong back control with both hooks or a body triangle. Pinning the choking arm can give you a brief window where you can concentrate on clearing the legs instead of simultaneously fighting the choke and the lower body. 4️⃣ You make the opponent’s chair sit harder to use. If you escape toward the choking side, your opponent may want to release their legs and perform a chair sit toward the opposite side, following your movement and recovering your back. Keeping the choking arm pinned while you clear the legs makes that transition much more difficult because they cannot freely use that arm to post, control your head, or help redirect you. 5️⃣ You are trying to get your shoulders to the mat. The ultimate goal isn’t simply “turn toward the choke.” You’re trying to progressively get your back and shoulders out of their control while denying them the ability to follow. Once you can get your shoulders toward the mat and establish a defensive position, the choke becomes much less threatening. Protect the neck → turn the back of your head toward the choking side → trap/pin the choking arm with your head → work the legs off → prevent the opponent from following with the opposite side chair sit → get your shoulders to the mat → establish your escape. FORCE THEM TO BAIL INTO MOUNT, THEN EXECUTE YOUR KIPPING MOUNT ESCAPE FOR STYLE POINTS 🫡👹🦍
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