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7 ELK AND MULE DEER HUNTING MISTAKES I WISH I KNEW SOONER | 🎙️ EP. 124
In this episode of Backbone Unlimited, Matt Hartsky shares seven hard-earned hunting mistakes he made over 34 years pursuing elk and mule deer—mistakes that didn’t feel wrong at the time because they looked like effort, toughness, and doing things the hard way. These were the quiet habits that kept results inconsistent while confidence and years in the field kept growing. Matt breaks down how chasing noise instead of patterns, relying on gear to cover skill gaps, moving too fast, ignoring recovery, and confusing experience with real progress quietly held him back for decades. This episode is…
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