EP 250: The "Shizzy" Story Episode & the "Sarge" Mule Deer Story

Anything to do with Western big game.

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What up, everybody? We got some rain outside. Here we go. It's going to be an awesome year. Wyatt's got some bucks he won't tell us about. Let's see, Devin, since Wyatt won't talk, tell us what you got going on. Bucks, bucks, bucks, bucks. I don't know what you want me to say. All right, Wyatt, can you beat that? Yeah, I can throw another bucks on there if you want me to. There's some bucks out there. Well, everybody, we're pretty excited. It's time. Saturday's the opener. Well, Friday's the opener in Arizona for some archery deer. We got a lot of archery hunts starting here in Utah on Saturday. Everybody's pretty excited. So we've been out and about. Of course, we're here in the office right now. It's kind of rare that we're all in the office together. Happened for a couple hours this week. This might be the last one for a minute. It's about to get haywire. It is.

We might have to continue maybe the podcast via phone somehow. From the field. Whoever's in the office once in a while. Let's see. Should we give away something? Should we just do it right off the bat? Sure. Let's do it right off and change it up. Normally, we make them listen to all of our BS until the very end. Let's save them some pain and acne. Really? Yeah. Well, if they're only on here for the giveaway, what are we going to give away, Josh? All right. So we've got Vortex gave us some range finders and binoculars to give away. We still have a Crossfire HD 1400. Dang. Handheld range finder. Perfect in time for the archery hunt for you. How are they going to win it? Well, I haven't been scouting very much. Probably not as much as I should. So what I'm thinking is, why don't you tag epic at epic underscore hunts with a picture of a velvet buck or bull? All right.

Well, the bulls are hard antlered by now. So what if it's a hard antlered bull? Well, that's okay. It can be even a trail camera picture. Do they have to have their location services on? Do we have like, I mean, what are we? I thought it was going to have tagged Josh direct. DM me. Yeah. Your personal photos. Slide into my DMs. Slide into my DMs. Tag epic. Oh, boy. And then, yeah, we'll give this away. We'll do a random thing. Give it away. Okay. When are we going to give it away here? We probably do a Monday. Monday. Let's have them by Monday. All right. It's going to be a quick turnaround. That's the 22nd. All you've got to do is post a photo of an animal. We don't even really. It doesn't even really have to be seeing a video this year. Let's do mule deer, elk. Just a trail camera or phone scope, whatever, picture. Of a fuzzy book. And if it's over 200 and over 375, double points.

Points are doubled. Right. Two names and a half. The day they double. Yeah. I like that. Wyatt's an official scorer and he has to judge every one of them. So if you only get one name in the hat and you think you got a 200, why take it up with Wyatt? Location services, 10 times the points. Yeah. Your points are squared if you do that. There you go points squared. Oh. Oh. We're kidding on that. Hey. We expect a lot of Egypt post, you know, locations. That's right. So, all right. So John won't let me suck on a gobstopper. So everybody just imagine you got a gobstopper in your mouth. I'm going to just suck on it. I don't care what John said. All right. So anyway, while Josh is talking, Bronson, Josh has had an interesting life lately. Yeah. Well, he was trying to win dad and father of the week last week or month. He got shiz'd on. And B, with his truck, he got shiz'd on.

So which shizzy story do you want to talk about, Josh?

Neither, really.

All right. Let's start off with the shizzy story. Yeah. You went camping. So there I was.

Maybe a few guys could learn from this. First, yeah. Oh, yeah. You should. How's the best way to dump your black water? Go ahead, Josh.

First of all, it's terrible. Do you get down underneath and lay on the ground? Do you do that? Keep your mouth open. John? Have you ever had a shizzy experience after that one shizzy experience? Well, if you've missed episodes probably about two years ago now. Yeah, I went through one. So let's hear what Josh's is. I haven't heard the story yet. Basically, in a nutshell for yours, just to reiterate, is you thought, the guy told you, ah, I cleaned it all out. You were under there. I mouth open and just basically opened up the black. What does this do? I bought a trailer. And the guy said, it's winterized, empty, blah, blah, blah. So it came to spring. I was like, oh, let's get the expected stuff. So I'm just checking out. Okay, here's this lever. This lever, that lever. This lever does this. I am sitting right in the way of it. Pull the black. Pull the black, and it comes gushing out.

All right. I love these stories. It was so wet. I love them. I learn from them, and I try not to repeat them. Wyatt's looking kind of pale already. Well, Wyatt was thinking about buying a trailer, and now he's thinking the spring bar system. Statistically, it's going to happen to another one. Somebody else here. Wyatt's just got a camper shell for every truck now.

Wyatt, could I interest you in a trailer? I'm good for now. Okay, Josh. Take it away. You have your family. So we had just finished a camping trip. I can't even call it camping. It was a stinking. Glamping. Yeah. It's an RV park. Whatever. RV park. It's fine. Okay. I've done that once ever in my life. Hey. Hey. I've never used a car in a park either. I've never hooked up to real water and sewer in my life. That RV park in Kellyanne is legit. I like it. It was nice having power. You know, we flipped on the AC in the afternoon. That was pretty fancy. I don't, never really ran that. It was nice having unlimited water. You don't have to yell at the kids every time and threaten to break fingers if they leave the water on, things like that. So I, uh. Another dad of the year. Yeah. So anyway, we, we go to leave. Well, there's quite a line of people.

And so I'm trying to hurry to get out of there as fast as I can. And it's like a 10 hour drive to get home because we're in Southern Idaho. And, um, so I go to, I go to get out of there and there's this, usually when I dump my camp trailer, when I'm camping here close or whatever, we have a sewer clean out of my house and I just pull up and do it there. It's easy. I can drag my own hose over there, spray everything out. Good. All that kind of stuff. Well, I have this. It's probably legal. It's probably legal, right? Yeah. I'm sure. I guess. I'm sure. Penguins. But, uh, so this was at their dump station. They, at this campground, they didn't have a hook right into the sewer system or whatever. So there was still a dump station. So I got over there real quick. Well, there's this attachment that goes on the outside that my wife bought that hooks

to the end of the hose that hooks to your black water nozzle, I guess, coming out of your trailer. And essentially. Sounds complicated. Yeah. It's, it's not, but it's nice because you can hook a hose to the outside of it directly. So you can actually close that nozzle, open up your black water after it's dumped and it'll spray water up in there and stuff. And then you can turn it the other direction and it shoots water down your hose. Some of the new trailers have like, you know, little spray nozzles inside and they spin and clean out your tank and all that. But if you have an overwind. So this was kind of pre that, you know. Yeah. So, but it's nice because it'll have a jet that sprays down your hose too. So it'll clean everything out the hose. So it's nice at the end, you just kind of spray up in there, spray down in there, you're done. But well, I hadn't used it for a long, long time.

And so I wasn't paying attention. I was trying to hurry and I got down there and I got it all attached and there's like the lever for the black water. Well, there's a lever on that one too. So you should open that one first on that attachment and then open your black water. And I just didn't see it. I don't know. I was in a hurry. I got the water hooked up and I literally said, okay, here we go. And I'd hooked it all up. Like it was on there. I made sure. And I pulled the black water and it knocked the hose off. How? How? It just, you know how it like spins on? It's just the pressure of it, something, the force of it coming down and hitting that, it spun it. I don't know. Because it wasn't open that the second valve wasn't open. So, and the other thing was because we had unlimited water and I knew that we were going to be dumping just like two feet from it.

I basically filled that toilet to the brim. Like, you wanted it good. Yeah. I wanted it good. You wanted it solid. Good. Yes. I didn't want chunks. Keep in mind, beeswax isn't made for pressure. Like that, the wax, you know, whatever. Yeah. Well, I wanted it to come out of there with some force because I wanted to be fast and not see whatever. So, there we have it, knocks it off. I go and it knocks it off. And instead of just reaching up and pushing your black water lever right then. Yeah. That would have stopped the bleeding. Well, the problem was because the hose went down. I didn't, it's one of those things you don't know what to do. You just grabbed it and tried to put a hose, a fire hose hooked up, just put it onto the hydrant while the hydrant's shooting water. I tried to put my hand against the end of a fire hose. So, as I did, I put it back on there.

The fire hose is full of brown, black, and feminine Nacchins. You okay, Wyatt? Yeah. So, as I'm doing it, just this fountain of water. Fertilizer. Yeah. It comes all over me. Just, I mean. Were you wearing shorts? I had, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I had on my shorts. My Crocs. My Crocs for the drive. So, it was like, you know, the holes in the Crocs. So, it got socks. There's like toilet paper hanging from the mustache. Actually, I can't believe you weren't clean shaven Monday. I would have, I would have. He can't. I would have. He publicly said. I will not trim my stash. I can't shave until I kill something. I would have decontam. Yeah. I could do it. I would start a new line in the sand. If I had dangling stuff from facial hair. That's why. No way. This thing helped me through COVID. It was basically like an N95. It filtered anything that came in my nose. Let me teach you and John something.

They made cattle guards for a couple of reasons. One of them was dumping your black water. You pull the lever and you drive away. So, the only blessing about being in a campground was there was a shower right there because there's no way I would have been able to drive it out. I mean, the most foul urine smell I've ever smelled in my life. The only thing good is it was your own. It was all your family's. Yeah, I guess. But still, that's not what I want in my face. I don't want that in my face. So, yeah. So, it was pretty rough. I don't humble any man right there. I'll bet you never do that again. Oh, heck no. Nope. And the best part was my mother-in-law was there. What do you mean, camping? I'll bet he never goes camping. My mother-in-law was there. My brother-in-law was there. I blacked out. Like, when that water started coming. I don't know.

Apparently, it sounded, you know, on the toy, on what is it? Christmas Story. Christmas Story. When he's helping his dad change the lug nuts and his dad hits the thing of lug nuts and they go flying in the air. It was kind of like that mixed with when he's down there fixing the furnace. Oh, yeah. Yeah, anyway. There were some, apparently some words said, I don't recall saying them. Like I said, I was in the black zone. I splashed out. I don't know. Anyway, so my mother-in-law thinks a lot of her son-in-law now. You made me not want to go camping. I'm done. I'm tapped out. Nobody's using my. You can take my toilet. But I'm not filling any water in my trailer. No. No. Let's try. I've got dry camps only.

There you go. So let's save the other shizzy story for here in an hour or 30 minutes. I already signed the title. I already signed the title. All right. Go ahead. Tell this one, too. And I just, about a month ago, going bear hunting and have my little hunting truck and my other truck. I was pulling the camp trailer with my big truck. And my wife was driving my other truck and pulling the side-by-side on it. And she calls. I was sitting there talking to her just to make sure, hey, everything pulled good. Yeah, everything's great. Everything's good. And we were just about to lose service for a little bit. And so I was like, I'll just check with her before I do it. And then all of a sudden, she's like, no. No, everything's not good. And then just drops the phone. And I'm like, what the heck's going on? And she's behind me. So I'm trying to see. So I hurry and find a spot to get off.

When a woman says things aren't good and it has to do with your vehicle? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So because I was worried about her welfare first and then the vehicle. Yeah. For sure. Wow. That was smooth. Come on. Anyway, it turns out just then it basically went into neutral. And that was it. That was it. Toasted the transmission. Been in neutral ever since. Toasted the tranny. So because of that, for anyone that owns like a 2005 to 2008 Nissan Frontier, go get a new radiator put in it that they fix. There's a problem they've had basically between a gasket that'll allow. Fluids. Transmission fluid. Yeah. To get in. And radiator fluid. Yep. Coolant. Freezing stuff to get in there. They mix. It gets in your transmission and it basically explodes. Ruins your tranny. So when you take it to a transmission place, think, no, it's going to be 4,000 bucks. New transmission.

I'll have the hunting truck back. Good to go by archery season. And they tell you, no, it's going to be more like six grand because you've got to do a radiator, all your hoses, transmission cooler, transmission. 100,000 bucks. Bad news. Warranty. Rebuilt. Da, da, da, da. COVID environment. Hard to get parts. On a truck that I bought like four years ago for like 5,000 bucks itself. Yeah. So more than what I bought the truck for. We had black water problems and tranny problems. Jeez. That's hard to beat. That's hard to beat, Josh. It's a rough go. All right. So where are we at on this thing? Wyatt and Devin and Josh, you guys are going to run this with the outline per Adam and I. What do you got for us? Got you to tell a story for us. I don't have one. I told one last week. I told one last week. You did? Oh, yeah. You did. Well, Devin might have a story for us. Devin. Devin. Devin.

Devin has stocked some bucks. Yeah. Devin's the only one fortunate enough to have pulled in Deertag, Nevada, which that started the tent. So until this weekend when Arizona and Utah both open up, it's like the only thing going on right now. Yeah. You guys are all here. I heard the podcast last time on my drive back. It has been eerie, deathly quiet in Nevada for kills, archery kills. Some years, there's 230 bucks, 220 bucks, and there are some good bucks in Nevada, but they're just not being killed yet. You ever heard of a supermoon? Yeah. Oh, I have. Literally, you could see hundreds of yards at night. I dealt with the supermoon. And I actually saw some stuff. That's a thing. Supermoon. What's the difference between a full moon and a supermoon? I'll look it up while you guys are talking about it. No, I don't do hot springs.

There's a lot of hot springs in Nevada, and somebody, a local there told me that there's people going in there, putting their heads in there. What? And the water's getting in their mouth and ears, and they got a parasite, and somebody died. What? So if you go to a hot pot or whatever, don't put your head in there. I just can't imagine. If somebody's dying, don't swim. If somebody's dying in there, I'm not putting my toe in there, let alone my head. So what happens? What's the problem? Parasites and stuff in those warm springs. There are? That's what a local guy told me. He said people have got parasites. He's just keeping you out because you're a non-resident. That's fine. It's 104 degrees. The last thing I want to do. Do you see how many pairs of underwear? I was going to say last year. There were parasites in there. There are. That's why I didn't put a toe.

There was, but it's hot enough you think it dies. And there's a lot of people that use those. Lots. Lots. The stacks of used underwear and Matty Light cans spread around there. There's a reason in your hot tubs and that, at your house and that, that you've got to put stuff in there every time you get out of them, like bleach and stuff to kill whatever sloughs off a normal body. Normal. This is disgusting. Now you're going to a community 104 degree petri dish. It's a petri dish. Might as well have black water all over you. It's a bubbling petri dish in the desert. I don't know. No way. Black water and parasites. It's fresh water. It comes out all the time. No. It's so freaking hot in some of those. Yeah. And it runs and runs. And it goes in this pool and that pool, so it cools. But yeah, there's, I don't know, man. There's some weird stuff growing in there. Come on.

You couldn't get yourself out of them a year or two ago. I would never, ever go in there this time. I did. I did. It's 104 degree. I did. That was Oregon. We've done that on my sheep hunt. That particular pot you know about. I bathed multiple times. It was awesome. Never got sick. Did you put your head in there? Dude, come on. He was doing catamble. It's fresh water. I drove 57 miles to the trucker lounge. So that was my other option. Not me. For a shower. There's some parasites in there. Trust me, dude. Like, that's safer? Oh, wow. A trucker shower? And they told you it wasn't even clean. I had my flip-flops on. And my swimsuit. I thought my Crocs were good protection, too. So here's a super moon. A super moon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee. Perigee, the closest that the moon comes to the Earth in its elliptical orbit, resulting

in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size than the lunar disk as viewed from the Earth. It was impressive. Technical name is perigee. How often do they occur? Once a year? I guess like four times a year or something. A couple times a year or something. Here, right here. How many super moons are there in 2022? There will be four super moons in 2022. May 16th, June 14th, July 13th. June 13th. How come this is a new term if there's four a year? No, it's not a new term. It's not. It's just a thing. The other thing I saw that you guys talked about that I was wondering something, John, you might know. I saw the Starlink or whatever. Yeah. I'm just laying there looking up at the stars. The choo-choo train. And there's satellites and whatnot going. And they spelled Musk. Shooting stars. I'm making the same wish over and over and over. It's spelled Musk up there. Legit. Musk.

Just bing, bing, bing, bing. They come out. In a line. In a line for like 10 minutes. There had to have been, I don't know, 30, 40 of them. No kidding? Are they connected with like a cable or something? No. No. They're perfectly spaced. They're just programmed perfectly on the same orbit, I'm sure. Are those really his? Those are his. Oh, yeah. You look it up online. They're in a chain line. Oh, no kidding? I did not know that. You saw them? I saw them. Google it. You'll see a picture. For like, Google it. You'll see a picture. I almost stayed up another hour and a half to say, I wonder if they went all the way around the Earth. They'd be a little bit further that way. How long it would take? Find out how long Elon's choo-choo train takes to circle the Earth. Yeah, I'd like to know that. Oh, my God. You can calculate when you can see the SpaceX Starlink satellites above your location.

How many are there in the sky right now? More than 2,200 Starlink satellites are currently in orbit and working. Wow. I only saw like 40 of them. Hey, he's legit. I like the guy. What do you mean? Just because you can launch your own stuff to space and have it stay in line? Who else makes the world look up at the star? You think you're having a nice evening with your wife or whatever. You're looking at the stars? No, you're looking at my crap. Well, I would have been a little freaked out when my buddy Chris told me. He said, oh, that's Starlink. I did not know that. I had no idea. I would have been like, what the freak is that? You're like, what if they charge him for rent up there? This is some Putin. Russian. Can anybody put something up there? What if we want to compete with him? You probably could just if you had enough money. That's your own Starlink. I don't know. Well, all right.

Anyway, well, so back to the guts of your story in Nevada. Anything noteworthy to report? Did you see anything good? Bucks, bucks, bucks. Bucks, bucks, bucks. There was bucks. One in particular I tried to kill. I was alone that day. He's still alive. It's funny how you learn stuff every hunt you go on. Same stuff you already knew, though. Same stuff I already knew. Like the wind goes bad and I stop for about three minutes. I'm thinking. I can beat the wind. Well, yeah. And then I'm like, this is going to be. It's going to. It's changing. I'll be fine. And he beats me by two minutes. One minute. Thirty seconds, maybe. 110 yards. Comes strolling through where I wanted to be. And then I go all the way back to the truck because I'm alone. Haven't seen him. To relocate him. Relocate him. And he's bedded. And this is the one time he's been alone.

And I could see antlers and just like perfect, you know. Okay. Get in there. He wasn't in the right patch of bushes. I thought he was in this patch. And he's in this other patch. I'm like, I'm going to see his tines any second. Now, I'm like, I can't be more than 40 yards, right? And all of a sudden, corner of my eye, there's another patch. Identical looking stuff. Just 30 yards deeper. Yeah. Which would be to my left. Stood up and looked at you. Just one of those times. Like that was the first time he saw me. You know? Like now he. Now it's different. He knows he's being hunted. Now it's different. Yeah. Yeah. Fast forward a couple days later. He's still breathing. I'm here. And didn't. Wasn't there. Was there. Was there maybe something launched? Like an arrow? Yeah. Yeah. And tell us what you learned on that. Yeah. Seriously. In all seriousness. In all seriousness.

Because it happens to all of us. It happened to me last year. It happened to me last year. And I missed a bull cousin. You must range find every time. You must. And I did it. I told you guys, I'm not going to shoot unless I get a range. Because of a prior experience. Well, you had pre-ranged a bush or a tree. Yeah. Which we all do. Which we all do. I'm on like this bush line. And I've got 15 minutes. I mean, I'm going to wait for these bucks. They're feeding right to me. I figured where they're angling. This is the most cover. They're going to come right to me. And while I'm there, I range this bush. 58 yards. The only bush out there. Big enough to range. That's significant. Yeah.

Anyways. And the first buck comes right from you. Yeah. Six and a half inch two pointer. Little baby. Comes into how close? 10 feet. I mean, he hits that bush. He feeds on that bush. He came out of a wash. They were in a wash. Hits that bush. Comes walking right at me. And I'm just, I'm on my knees, right? I'm tucked in there. You got decent cover? Oh, good cover. Yeah. You just see my face. And comes at me. Goes to my right. And then he's feeding to my right. Like at me. Coming behind you almost. I'm like not moving. You can't move. I didn't look him in the eye. I'm not even looking at him. I'm just looking down. But where I could see if that buck come out. And three minutes goes by. I'm waiting, waiting. I get a time. I could see the big buck. He's coming. Like it's happening. But this two point. I hear him just eating. Ripping off leaves. And I hear his belly.

That's how close he is. And so I'm like, this thing's going to step on me. And I turn my head real slow to the right. And he's like, you know, you could just chuck a pebble at him. He's so close. And as I look back, the big one. In all his glory. Standing in your gap. Standing there. Standing in my shooting lane next to this 58-yard tree. So I'm like, this is happening. I'll grab my range finder. Go up maybe four inches. Two point just bolts. He saw me. He saw me grab. So at this point, I have to make a decision. Do you. He knows I'm there. Like he saw. And so I just took the D loop. Settled a 60. And everything was perfect, man. Two. Five inches low.

Walk out there. So when I turned my head to look at the two point, I couldn't tell when that buck came out, if he was behind the bush or in front of the bush. The bush is now hidden. But you think he's a yard in front of it. He walked either in front of it or behind it. But I missed it. I didn't see it. And so I went out there, found his track, and ranged the bush. It's 15 yards deeper. So yeah. He's still breathing.

That happens to all of us. So yeah, it's just. I could have ranged him. I could have got a perfect range and still had time. I'll never know until the day I die, you know, or for the rest of my life. We've all had that happen. It's like, it's terrible. Sucks. It does suck. Pretty depressing. Jeez. I mean, that's a. Like the second. That's the third shizzy story we've heard. Yeah, we needed something good to happen. I'm kind of getting depressed. It happens, man. Trying to decide which hot spring to jump in. At first. None of them. I did not know hot springs are bad for you. We do need something good to happen. They're not bad for you. I'm going to freaking Google that. Google this. Come on. It's so hot out there. Days are so long. It's brutal. And the one day it rains. It's a breeding gown for every disease and bacterial culture known to men, women, and children. Our hot springs sanitary.

Hot spring water are usually fairly safe from the standpoint of carrying disease causing. But some is not. Sea under, below under, stay healthy. And the surface water that cools a scalding spring to usable temperatures will be prone to some bugs and pathogens as any other surface water. Yeah, but when it's warmer, I'm telling you. It grows. It's a breeding pool. Trucker showers versus hot springs. I mean, what'd you say? Listen, man. First of all, it gave me excuse to be in the A.C. and not be just sitting in a chair trying to just maybe sleep. A used trucker shower, fine. On archery hunts, there's a lot of downtime from 9 a.m. to about 6 p.m. A lot of downtime. That's a long freaking day. When your buck is blown for the day and you might glass him up that evening just to know that he's still in the zip code. And this specific deer, you couldn't hunt him at night.

The wind was bad every night. You put a solid what week on him. Six days, yeah. Yeah. And then at some point beheaded back. Yeah, he needs a break. Yeah. After that much pressure and getting winded a couple times. Yeah, it's maybe a break. Well, here's something good to talk about. Bronson, how many fierce rifles do you have now? One. How many fierce shotguns do you own?

More than one.

Hey, everybody. We got some fierce rifles in stock. And you guys can't. Who here has kept their hands off them? Me. Well. That's it, Josh? Which is really hard to believe. Josh, Josh. Because Jason usually is the instigator of something. That's food storage. They never go down in value. That's right. Guns never go down in value. Well, and, you know. Pelosi. Good partner of ours. Can't have one of my fierce rifles. Well. Yeah. Going to try to get it. Good partner of ours and good deal. And, hey, we have some in stock, too. We're, you know, we may have announced that. I'm sure we did. They're awesome. So you can buy them straight from us. And if you walk in, you can take it out as long as you pass your background check. Otherwise, we'll ship it to your FFL of your choice. We got steel barrels. We got carbon barrels. You guys, I mean, they're colored. Like, man, they're good-looking suckers.

Good-looking. Shooting suckers. Ammo is getting a little easier to find. After Wyatt got done cleaning off the shelves, they've kind of restocked a little bit. I still think Josh is going to buy this Pacific. I think this is funny. Between Wyatt and Adam. I mean, you guys could sell out. Josh. We're stocked up now. No. I just, I went through a phase. We've long documented that in the spring about food storage stuff. Anybody that wants turkey loads, call Bronson because he's going to have them all. Turkey and coyote. That's what I got. I got auto loaders. I just wanted. Well, it's hard to take a three-and-a-half shell with a pump shotgun to the shoulder. You know what I mean? Not as fun. So it's nice to have an auto loader. Yeah. Take a little bit of the bite out of it. Ashley shoots a three-and-a-half auto, you know, smash and grab. All right.

Well, anyway, so anybody that wants a Fierce rifle, of course, they're awesome. They sell shotguns, rifles. Man, they got brakes on them. They're good looking. They're lightweight. They're shooting like crazy. We got a .300. What do we got? We got a .300 Ultramag on the shelf, I think. For now. 26-inch barrel. I know. I'm looking at it salivating. We got a .600. We got a .600. We got a .600. We got a .600. A .300. At least those three calibers. And some of them have multiples of. I mean, more common. There's a .600 BRC. If you're after a .30-40 Craig, probably need to do a special order. But other stuff we got. The more common stuff. So here was our plan. We decided, let's order and get in stock guns that we would personally want. And what happened? We ordered a whole bunch and we bought a whole bunch. Yeah. Well, we personally have them. We filled some gas. We personally have them.

They're in our personal houses. So the ones that we have in stock are stuff that we would endorse and we would personally buy. Do we have a .28? We've got a .28. Don't we? No. Or do we sell that? No. There's still a .28. 28. No. So still barrel? So let's see. Now's the time. I mean, there's guys. I cannot believe we kind of had a lull in optics. You know what I mean? It was just kind of somewhat dead. It wasn't dead, but not as good of sales as normal, so to speak. And then all of a sudden, slammed. Well, the hunts are here. And some people maybe just realize, I mean, I had people drop their binos off a freaking mountainside that rolled 400 yards the other day. And then they hiked out, drove around, hiked back up in just to get an out-of-alignment pair of binos. Well, yeah. They thought they might be good, but they're out of alignment, so they had to call them

by some because you're not going to get them fixed in the amount of time that you need them in a week. So there's just lots of reasons. Or you put it off, or you've saved and it's time, or your hunt's now upon us. Whatever. Whatever. Call us. Whatever you're looking. Yeah, we got a lot of stuff on the shelf. Spontan scopes. Rifle scopes. Make a great deal. We've been sending a lot out. I know that. And it's first come, first serve. Saguaro's shut down. They're reconfiguring their computer system, and so they're shut down for a bit. And so what companies have is what they have. No dealers are getting new orders in until early to mid-September. So what you got is what you got on the shelf. Speaking of gear, Archibald, how about that Hoyt? I know you missed. I get it. But that was user error. How do you like the bow? It's pretty awesome. I love it, man. Pretty awesome.

You've been a bonding there. Even though we haven't killed yet. Do you have a name? Is it a... No. Okay. No. I don't really name. I've named the gun. What's the name of that color? Little shooter. But I haven't named bow. Wilderness. Wilderness? Yeah. I love it. The quiver matches. Yeah. It's a good shooting bow. I love it. I really do. I love my Hoyt too.

Smooth and awesome. Shooting awesome. I think most of us here are shooting one now. All of us, right? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Jason. So how many arrows are you down to shoot? You got a hunt coming up. One a day. One a day. Okay. One a day. Have you shot your arrow for the day? Not today. Can I pick the yardage I want you to shoot tonight? Yeah, I don't care. Any yardage you want. I want you to shoot it at 100 and under. No. Okay. Yeah, I know. I'm giving you realistic. Yeah. Give me realistic. Give me arch ball. It's 58 yards. No. Plus two yards. Plus two yards. I'll thread that sucker. Plus 15. So 17. I already did the math. 17 on top of 58. Where'd the two come from? What was the two? Because you got the 58 on this side of the bush and the bush is the other. 15 on the other side. So you have to add two yards. Oh, it's two for the bush. For the bush. Oh, okay. That's what I figured.

So what does that work out to be? 77? 77. Okay. No wonder you're five inches low. Yeah. Yeah. I can see why he missed. He's adding and subtracting on the fly. You've got the calculator up. 17 plus two plus 58. That's 77 yards. Okay. I'll dump it. I want you to shoot at 51 and a half. No. Too close to 50. 53 and a half yards tonight. Okay. And take a picture. Send it to us. I will. I'll do it. 53 and a half. I love it. Cold. Cold. No stretching. From your knees. Oh. Yeah. Be real. If you're only shooting one, you can't be out there, you know. I did shoot from my knees. Go, Sarge. You're going to be on your knees. That was a bad story. Half the time. Or more. I think half the stuff I've killed have been. I was on my knees with a bow. Yeah. Seems like. On your knees. 53 and a half. No stretching. Have I told that story? No. What? Sarge? The milkweed? No. Oh. Sarge. Tell us the Sarge story.

Yeah. Yeah. You brought it up. Now you can't. Well, I don't have to. You can't skip over it.

This deer. So this was a desert deer. And had his number. Like one of those places that you know you can't kill. Bronson, you've been out there. You cannot kill anything with a bow out there. You can't kill anything. I skipped. Very difficult. Skipped an arrow. Skipped an arrow into a coyote. It skipped right off the freaking dirt right into the coyote. Killed it. It was kind of one of those arch bald range finding moments. And it was a little low. And it skipped right into him. Dead. But anyway, that's the only thing I've killed out there. So. This buck. Yeah. This buck. I would glass him every time. And I'm like, how are we glassing him? Like this buck is meant for me. This is, you get up there, thick sea of trees, sea antlers. It's him. Get in there. And I go in there. And Jared can't see him. I can't see him. But you just go in there roughly where he is. You walk into him.

Hopefully good things. You walk into him. And he's, you know, 110 yards or 120 yards bedded or whatever. iPhone scope him. Video him. Got cherry video in the velvet. I mean, you never. Bronson, you know this. You never. You videoed a buck out there. But, I mean, you never really go out there with the intentions to really do harm to something. It's just one of those places. Not with a bow. Yeah. So, anyway, ended up, you know, kept trying, trying, trying, trying. Ended up getting them where there was heavy wind. 30 or 40 mile an hour type wind. And had the group of bucks coming. And we glassed them. And I made the stock. Got in on them. And they were walking right. They were coming right by me. And I'm like, and I'm on my knees. And this would have brought this up. I'm on my knees. And they're coming by. And it's, you know, they're 45 yards-ish. I did the whole archibald range.

Because you don't, you never do range while they're feeding at 40 yards. And you got eight bucks. It's hard to know an exact, exact. Yeah. And they're going to catch you. So, you're trying to range them before. So, here's my options. Here's a tree. And then they kind of get close. We've all done it. You're going to do it again before. Oh, I know. You're going to do it again. Because, but most of the time it works. Roughly it works. And if that buck goes four steps to my right, I have to stand now. I can't shoot on my knees anymore. Yeah. All that. So, anyway. But you can't stand because the other three bucks might see it. Yeah, he might. Yeah, kick me or something. So, anyway, ended up, you know, touching it off. And it hit him. And I'm like, I just shot a 240-incher or whatever he was. High 30s. Bladed out. Seven-inch eye guard. It's just a disgusting pig.

And I'm like, I can't believe this just happened. I go over there. I can't find blood. I can't find blood. I get on his track. You know, and this is, of course, it takes 30 minutes just to gain your composure. So, it's not like I'm rushing the buck, everybody. I mean, I know you're supposed to wait. I'm just walking around in circles looking for stuff. I don't know why. Foam. Anything. Give me some, yeah, some good sign. And we end up tracking him. And then we start getting into blood. And then good blood. And it looks like things are going to go well for me. You know. Yeah. Ended up seeing some actual bubbled blood. And Jeff, you know, anyway, Jeff John, my brother-in-law was there. You know, he ends up helping on the track. And we end up tracking. And we track. And we track. And we take turns. And day one turns into day four. And we figure we track that buck 40 miles. Squeezing?

Me, Jeff, Jared, everybody. 40? Sean, my brother, or my son, all taking turns. And he was just checking water hole to water hole to water hole to water hole. And they were all dry. But he was teaching us where there's water at times. So we were marking him, you know, teaching you out in the desert. Walks up to this pot of water. And it had polywogs in it or whatever. And so you know it's got water pretty regular. Drinks out of it or whatever. And we end up bumping him. And he lived. Lived, like, multiple years. Two years later. Alive. And another guy did a smashing grab. Not with a bow. With a rifle. And so there you have it. Where do you think he hit him? I know exactly where. Well, I thought it was shoulder. But it was kind of high shoulder. And it was wind. And I know it was wind. I didn't compensate. I thought it was close enough.

In the heat of battle, I just, I should have compensated. And it didn't. It floated it. And it was a little bit high. Right? That's basically. Yeah. High shoulder, but almost, yeah. Shoulders through neck almost. But not in the neck. Yeah. But in the bone. In the bone. And anyway, and then it, he lived and was fine and was awesome. And he's. Still was big. Yeah. Bigger than crap. And anyway. So another shizzy story. That's number four. Wow. Who has a good story? I mean, jeez. I can't even think one right now. Jeez. The good thing is, I mean, these animals are tough. And like, you didn't touch your animal. I mean, he's safe. Everything. He'll be. You'll end up with him. You're going to get him. Well, and even yours was hit. And Adam killed a buck. And it had a broadhead in it. Yeah. For multiple years. How about that? Here, tell that story while we're on to archery deer story.

This is a good one. I didn't even. I didn't even. We didn't even find it. We quartered that deer out. This is my Henry's buck in. What was that? 2017 or 17-ish. Anyway. The butcher. It was just the last 220 archery buck you killed. Okay. But 2017 or 18. Anyway. One of those two years. The butcher. The processor. I can't remember. I usually do my deer on my own because they're small enough. But in the heat. In the heat. And when you're right on to sheep guiding. I took this to a guy. I probably made sticks or whatever else. He says, hey, I threw your shoulder in. There's a broadhead in there. And I said, oh, really? Okay. Well. All right. That'll be cool. He goes, well, it's been there a while. I says, no. There wasn't. There was no scar. Remember? You guys were there. There was nothing. Like, you would notice something.

I just assumed it was one of mine because I hit the buck and then I had to finish him off. And then, of course, arrows are breaking while the buck's rolling. He just, I don't know, maybe snapped in there and we didn't get it. No. Now, this was a perfectly healed up broadhead that in the front shoulder on, you know, if you've deboned a front shoulder, there's a vertical running bone that sticks vertical on your shoulder. This broadhead had hit that square, had cut that and buried in there. And then over a year, that bone had healed up on top of it. And so, it's like inside the shoulder blade healed up behind it. And it rattles. It is. It's loose in there. It's stuck. It's an expandable. It's an expandable. It's like in a cage. It's like in a cage. And I'm like, that's not mine. I can't get in bone and heal. No, that's not mine. So, I knew. I'm like, holy crap.

Somebody, a year or two before shot this. And you end up finding out. Somebody's reached out. So, I think my uncle had some beetles at the time. We cleaned it up. So, it's on my desk here. It's awesome. Maybe we can show a picture of this. Well, that's the crazy part. Because it's expandable. So, those blades are hanging out. They're open. So, they had to have been still cutting him somehow. Something you'd think. Yeah. While he's walking. All those years. I mean, could you imagine? Yeah. I don't know. We didn't even notice it, Bronson. No. It looked like you just cut the front shoulder off. There was no like. Oh, there's a mask or something. He never favored his leg. No weeping. It was old enough. And it was exactly one year. It's like when they heal itself contains all the infection. The healing. There was no infection. There was no nothing. Yeah.

And the deer put on probably 20, 25 inches. Because the year before, we got video. He's 195-ish to 200. It's really pretty deer. But really good deer. But anyway, pretty crazy. Then I think it was the expo. Somebody came up and said, hey, did that deer have a scar on the shoulder somewhere? So, I said, well, we never know if it's a scar. But we got a broadhead out of it. And I can't remember the whole story. But yeah. His buddy or something had shot it the year before. But tough animals. And anyway. Yeah. I got one in my office that's been shot two or three times. Oh, that's your. That's the buck. That was over two years, wasn't it? Two years in a row we got hit in the backstrap. Archery guys. And like when I took the backstrap off, I was like, what is going on here? And actually in that sinew line at the top, kind of on the side a little, how it rolls, you could see a three-blade. Jeez.

Yeah. It had shrunk and like smaller, but you could see a three-blade. And then you cut the backstrap off and it's just demented. But a three-blade hole. There was no broadhead. Yeah. No broadhead. It zipped through him, but both. Fresh. He had four holes. A freshie from this year. Two pass-throughs. Yeah. One from this year and one from the year before. And then you killed him in. You sent pictures of him, right? Yeah. People sent me pictures like, here's that buck. I hit him. You know, he's got a big old hole right there. And you killed him in the rifle hunt, right? This is August. And I killed him late October and I didn't even see it. But 40 miles away too. Yeah. 40-something miles away. My greatest. But we caught. Different hunting unit. Actually, the exit was I did see. There was a little scar. And I was like, oh, he got poked or something. Yeah, that was different.

And sure enough, come to find out he'd been shot a couple times. Jeez. Yeah. Tough animals, man. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and don't even need to talk about elk. Because we're talking about mule deer. They're tough enough at G's Elk. How many elk have just sucked up broadheads and slugs over the years? They just suck them up. But. Anyway. So, for everybody out there, hopefully we got some good reports in a week or so. We've got a lot of bad. I don't know why we got on a bad topic today. We're all in good moods. This is like. If you can. Debbie Downer. Range the buck. Raging. Don't range. And I'm telling you. Like. When I've missed. I've. It's the exact same story. Over and over and over. You think. I got this. That bush is close enough. I know what it is. Had another time. Ranged a tree. The bucks. My number one buck's coming through these thick quakies. I ranged the tree. He comes out.

And he would have got closer. But. And I'm just waiting. And he lifts his head and looks away from me. So what do I do? It's time. He's not. But he's not to your tree yet. But he's not to the. The range right by it. Yeah. But he was just same thing. He was deeper. Just five yards or something. I put my 40 on him. I'm like. It's over. You know. Oh God. Just same thing. Right underneath. Go over there. He was ten yards deeper. It's just. Hey. It looks close. You can't see that. But five or ten yards at that range is an obvious mess. You can't tell the depth of that. But. So yeah. Geez. The next giveaway. We should have somebody give away some. You know. Tag a buck pick that they've messed up on. Or I don't know. Yeah. So we don't feel bad. The one that got away. Yeah. The one that got away. It's probably the last time we're going to have Wyatt choose a podcast topic. Tell stories. Wyatt.

Your outline sucks. Yeah. Exactly. You'll never make me choose it again. Why do you think I went this out? Let's have a story from you. The one that got away. I got no story. The one that got away. No. We want to upper. He's such a liar. So. Nothing's ever got away. We want to. Got to end in a good tone. Hey. I'll tell you what. You find a story right now or we're going to call Carly. Call her up. She's currently sleeping. Worked last night. Don't make me give. Hey. You got your Nevada elk back this week mounted up. Yeah. I got it. Took it home to get mounted. How'd that go? Hung there in the office. It was pretty challenging. First off, you took it home to get it mounted. How did that go? You took it home to put it in the house. I took it home. It did not fit in the location that I had planned. According to you or somebody else? Somebody may have sustained a bruise.

According to both of us, it was agreed upon. Did you get hit? I left it on the floor for a couple days. The wife was vacuuming and caught her hand. She did? Yeah. I got a little bruise. And that was it. The elk needed to leave at that point. Wyatt has the audacity to spin it that this was a mutual decision. Bull crap. Wyatt, tell the truth. She never forced me to. Wow. He's afraid of her. He's afraid of domestic violence. Carly, if you're listening, you got him right where you want him. Dude, are you really afraid of her? No, I'm not afraid. Where's your freaking? She hasn't told me no yet. I have a moose in my living room. A Yukon moose. He always says he's got brass ones, but I don't believe it.

I mean, geez. But we're glad. We get to see your bull now. You did bring it to the office, and we got that mounted up. Hey, put it up on the wall. Looks cool. That crazy pedicle on the one side. Big, tall. That's awesome. It's vertical. Big vertical. Jeff Baird did a great job mounting him. Yeah, strip taxidermy. Of course, he doesn't want elk, everybody. You know what was funny? He only wants fish and turkey. He only wants 200-inch-plus deer and some bass. I was just going to say, when we brought it through, so we had to bring it. There's three doors. We had to bring it the farthest away from Wyatt's office. We got through the first door, the second door, and the third door, we hit a little struggle spot. You know who figured it out in about two seconds? Jenna. Jenna. She's like, oh, you've got to put his nose this way. Wrap this beam over here. And we're like, you've done this before.

Hey. Hey. Well, she's kind of the thoroughfare through two or three offices right there. She's been created stuff through there. She has to live with mounts. Unlike Carly.

Jenna has to live with them. Yeah, she has plenty in the house, too. I know. One thing we ought to circle back to, though, is Under Armour gear, where we're talking about gear. Well, Wyatt, take it away. Restock their website. I like it. A lot of key items there. A lot that we use on our hunts. The Raider pants, the HD. This year, I guess last year, they actually upgraded them. Now they have the heat zips on the side. Pretty awesome pair of pants. Also have the Raider light pants. Okay. More of a summertime. Have the little. I like it. Yeah, they kind of got. You can actually see through them. Yeah, super breathable. Super breathable. I wore them last week. It was nice. It's like little pinholes all over in them. They've got their down gear restocked for maybe a little bit later hunts. And if you want 40% off any of the UA gear, check our website. We do have codes available.

Anything on UA.com. You can buy anything with 40% off cards from our website. Epicoutdoors.com. I like it. Wyatt, we appreciate that. They've got some boots, too. Seems like you've ordered a few. Yeah, they have some boots, and they actually have a new pair coming out. So watch their website in September. That's awesome. Do we have any codes on our website? Yeah, we do. Little tip on those codes. Copy and paste those codes. Yeah. Yeah, and sometimes. They work. Yeah, they work. Just got to copy and paste it. I don't know why. Is that upon checkout? Yeah. Well, if you type them, I don't know. There's some unseen to the human eye space or something there that when I typed them, it doesn't write. But you copy and paste it, they'll work. Yeah. So, anyway, go to epicoutdoors.com. What are they, 40% still on? 40% off. Yep. Right there on our homepage. You'll see a banner on the top.

And that's only valid on UA.com. You can't take that code and walk into, you know, your local hardware store and buy an Under Armour hat and want to get 40% off. So, pretty awesome. Pretty awesome. All right. Well, Pacwheel came out. Did you guys notice Pacwheel came out with an electric bike? Dude, yeah. That looked. Two-wheel drive. Sneak peek. I don't want to say complicated. Like a Rocon. But it looked legit. It was a machine. Oh. A non-machine machine. I thought about Pollock and his El Cunt in New Mexico. I don't know why. I don't know why. I'm just like, that thing's beastly. Yeah. Unbelievable. You could bounce over down logs, it seemed like. Yeah. On that. It was a bike. That's not the bike I grew up on. Let's just say that. Made me want to take it to Region G or H or something crazy, you know. So, anyway, pretty awesome. You might go out there to Pacwheel. Check them out. John?

Is there anywhere we can get a hold of them? Let's see. Pacwheel.com. 801-935-4764. Anyway, of course, they've got the single-wheeled cart. Josh, you guys have used quite a bit. I've played with it a little bit. John, you've used it. Yep. It works awesome. I've carried some big loads on it. Man, it just is like a tank. Pretty incredible. Stuff that climbs is pretty crazy. I mean, even like a flight of stairs, you know. You just go up to a flight of stairs and it'll go right up the stairs. Just a low-gear climber. Yeah, it's got a big fat tire on it. Pretty awesome. Hopefully put it to use in a couple weeks. Well, sounds good. What else do we got, guys? Anything else going on? We got a second draw for Idaho coming out at some point. Yeah. We got some of them, what we call raffle tags, this little secondary. Limited entry stuff in Arizona. Yeah, Arizona stuff that hopefully I get drawn on.

That's what 10 or 12 people. You're really holding your bill. What? For the Goulds? Did you put in for the Goulds? I applied for a lot of stuff. Did you? I don't want to tell everything. What do you mean? There's no choices. I applied for coos deer hunts where there's no coos deer. What do you mean? I applied for everything, Bronson. The Goulds turkey? Possible. Holy crap. What do you mean? Hey. I love the kill. I got a kill in Colorado and sent it back. And it was worth the tag fee. It was worth the $420. I had to get to keep it. It was worth it. Shipped to your house for all of one day. I love the kill. I just want to help you all get kills. I mean, I love that. I'll give you my login. I'm glad to. All right. All right. Glad to do it. Anyway. All right. Well, it's that time of year. You know, Devin, I think one thing, there was a lot of different openings that have come

through recently that were actually high-quality openings. Yeah. Why don't you talk about that? For sure. We had outfitters, landowners, find tags in the mail. The guy, you know, the guy we know real well. It's like, dude, I got four more than I thought. Yeah. New Mexico. Yeah. It's mid-August. Do a group of four. You could go one-on-one. You could do tag only at this point. There's, there's, we had another big bullhunt come through. We had two openings, private ground. 350 plus bulls. Yeah. Geez. No longer. We've had moose hunts. We've had stone sheep hunts. Somebody who's been on, that's somebody who's been on our call list for over a year. Him and his dad, I called him. He said, sign me up. Let's go. Done deal. Yeah. Well, and they're pretty specific about what they're looking for too. So like, not that you have to call us and in a year we'll find you a hump, but, but you're

persistent. We've called them on other opportunities, but they have to have two, have to have exact dates and the size of bulls and everything. And, but we've had stone sheep guys, book hunts, moose. And it's, you know, if you have the ability, touch base with us. I guess that's what we're saying. If you still have room in your schedule, can't promise it. Openings are tough, but, but I mean, Hey, stay in touch. If you can react last minute, self-employed or have the ability to drop something and leave, stay in touch with us. Yeah. Stuff's happening. I mean, we've had, we've heard everything in terms of stories of why you can't go on a hunt last minute. I mean, there's been a lot of them, but we've heard of everything. A lot of physical injuries, physical injuries, health stuff, health, unrelated health things, people lying, blaming it on physical injuries. Don't you think? Come on.

Possibly. I don't hear a lot of the stories, so I just know that people aren't going and now we have two openings or whatever. Well, and I think it's a testament too, to you, you know, keeping track of what people want and, you know, it's not, I mean, yeah, you get put on a list and maybe after a month or two, you think we forgot about you and we didn't. And, you know, we're. Well, and we do, at the end of the year, we do kind of hit a reset because, you know, you can't just keep. Yeah. Every year is different from your perspective too. You draw tags, you draw hunts, you have family vacations. Certain dates next year aren't good. This year they are. You're hungrier one year than another. Are we really going to let, are we really going to end this podcast without Wyatt giving us a real story? Tell us a client story. Tell us a good one.

It seems like you had a really funny one the other day that you wouldn't let us tell. What one was that? Wyatt probably wouldn't let you tell him. It was the antelope. Who? It was the antelope. Well, we're talking archery. Let's. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Tell us an archery story. Do you have. Mind blank on them right now. Wyatt has so many stories. Wyatt's going to be hunting this weekend with hunters. Next week, kill some bucks and you're going to come tell some stories next week. We'll maybe get the hunters on the podcast next week. Maybe we'll make a book. In and around golf. See what they have going on. Wyatt's got clients a lot. He's got good clients. Hey, I've done that too. Like in Monticello. Golfing is a big part of the hunt. Devin, hit under a shade tree during the heat of the day. We're going to hit the golf course. I've golfed 18 holes many times in August and September.

I don't golf. I haven't golfed in years, but I like to hit a ball as hard as I possibly can. I love that. It's therapeutic. It is. It's like there's something about just crushing a ball as hard as you can. I enjoy it. Baseball, softball, golf ball, whatever. Pickleball, you name it. I've golfed a hole two times in my life, and that's both been with these guys. Wyatt, you've been practicing. Yeah, I've practiced. Did you get a net in your backyard? There's a net back there. I still can't really hit a ball into it great. Bronson, you had to bring him some golf balls, I heard. Yes. Well, I need to live by the golf course. Just, yeah. He just picks him up out of the backyard. Seriously. I went and felt like eight and gave him to Wyatt. You're like, here you go. Four minutes. You got your practice. You're ready. You're ready. Guy's taking shots at his windows all day.

All right. Well, sounds good, everybody. We hope you have a great fall. We're pretty excited. Everybody's hitting the hills this weekend, or at least most of us, some of us. And then some of us that don't have quite hunts lined up, why, we'll be back here Monday. Okay. Taking your calls, sending out optics, helping you on your hunts. We've had a lot of guys take advantage of the member experience program, letting us know what tags they have, and getting a list of clients who've had that tag in the past, as well as getting names of outfitters still, this late in the game even. So anyway, if there's something we can do to help you, Wyatt, give us a holler. John? I got one other thing. All right. We never push ourselves enough, so go rate the podcast. We need some more five-star. We've got a 4.7-star average, so let's get a couple more five-star ratings out there.

If you enjoy it, it's free to you. If you give us a five-star, we're going to give you an optic. Go ahead, John. What are we going to give them? We'll explain how to do that. Hey, this is like these contests where you can buy votes. I mean, I feel like we're voting for a president of the United States. I'm not going to give you anything, just you're mooching off of this for free forever. The least you could do is go rate us a five-star. Let's buy some votes, John. What do you propose? Let's buy something. Tell us how to do that, though. I wouldn't know how to do that. So if you go to whatever podcast app you use, let's say Spotify or whatever, you just scroll down to the ratings, and then you tap on write a review, and then you can do five stars. Jeez, we've got five guys right here that could give us five stars. Five stars is the answer. There's nothing but five stars.

You write a five-star review. Oh, gosh. How about if you go give us a five-star review? There's no way to track that, is there? They're going to screenshot it and slide into Josh's DM. We have no pride today. We are buying your friendship. Buy the votes. I have a pair. Hey, this is what's going to happen with this freaking Arizona tag we're talking about, right? That's what it looks like. Tell us about that. Tell us about it. We don't know exactly what's going to happen with it. Well, you checked into it a little. But it looks like it's going to be one of those voting systems or buy your vote. How do you – isn't it called the hero tag? For an Arizona big game raffle tag. For a governor's deer tag. So we're going to see a lot more Wyatt Bull social media posts. Wyatt's getting amped up. He's already signed up, right? Well, I've seen him. I have not signed up.

I signed up at the grocery store and he was kissing babies in carts. Helping old ladies cross the street. I mean, I've been doing everything. Yeah, he was – Hey, man. Could I get your Instagram handle? Could I help you with those groceries, man? Looking for that five-star rating on myself. She gives him a $5 bill. You know, if you don't mind if you'd buy me some votes, I'd appreciate it. Here's a website. We just go in there and type in Wyatt Hero, hashtag Wyatt the Hero. So, in light of that, Josh, let's buy some votes. Go ahead, finish it off. I have a five-star optic here that you will receive. Go ahead. Diamondback 10x42. Yeah, I've got a Diamondback 10x42 here that we'll send you. You screenshot your five-star review. Even write something. Maybe that will get you two times the votes. Screenshot your review and send it to us in our DMs at epic underscore hunts.

John, this reeks of a program. You would initiate. It does. Where did you even pull out that pair of binoculars? Don't you worry about that. There's another pair under there. Don't you worry about where I have these. Hey, that's none of your business. That's two giveaways in this podcast. Yeah. Both from Vortex. We appreciate them. Thanks a lot. Just buy in the vault. I like it.

I'm going to have to go home and shower. Oh, yeah. Don't do it in hot springs. It sounds like those are dirty. Sounds like go choose the trucker shower down at Lowe's. Make sure it's used. We're in my hometown. I've got my own shower taken care of. Come on. I never should divulge some of these things. I just keep to myself. Sounds like you could have walked outside and got a good shower there a second ago. That sounded like it was getting biblical out there. I have a feeling I'm flooded. Yeah. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. All right, everybody. Well, good luck in the hunts. If you need something. Western big game. Right here at Epic Outdoors. Give us a holler. 435-263-0777. At Epic Outdoors, we help you reach your hunting dreams. Whether it's helping you to develop a long-term application strategy or finding the perfect outfitter for your next hunt.

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