EP 242: Bonus Giveaway Announcements + Gun Powder, Range Finders & Fatherhood

Anything to do with Western big game.

Welcome to the Epic Outdoors podcast, powered by Under Armour. Hey everybody, Jason Carter, Adam Bronson, John Peterson, Josh Pollock coming at you from the Epic Outdoors studio. Kind of exciting times. We've got our membership drive going. Basically it's ongoing through June 19th, which is Father's Day, this upcoming Sunday. Today's like Thursday, so we're talking just a few days away. And we'll finish out that summer drive. But today we had a little mini giveaway from last weekend until Wednesday night. We had a little bonus drawing incentive, if you will. If you bought entries to our hunt giveaway or joined our service or referred somebody that joined up until Wednesday night at midnight, we were going to draw a winner for either a fierce 6.5 PRC twisted rival or a pair of Swarovski 10x42 NLPers, winner's choice. So that's what we're here to do this morning.

So we drew, and it was just a quick deal, obviously a quick turnaround and whatever. So anyway, we drew the guy's name. It's Curran Pagonsky. And he doesn't even know he drew yet. So we're going to give him a holler and see what he has to say about. See if he can choose between the right ones. $2,500 to $3,000 in his lap. Here we go.

This is Curran. Curran, hey. Jason Carter, Adam Bronson, John Peterson, Josh Pollock here at Epic Outdoors. How are you? I'm doing pretty good, guys. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Did you know that we're having a little mini giveaway going on for guys that participated in the membership drive in the last few days? I had heard some stuff on the podcast that Jason wanted to give a bunch of stuff away. Wow. So it wasn't an accident that you may have had some entries in that drawing then. So you were fully aware, I guess what I'm saying. Potentially two entries, looks like you had. I spread them out, yep. Well, anyway, we drew your name. So we drew your name. You are the winner of either a Fierce Rifle, Twisted Rival, or a pair of Suaro NL 10x42s. Congrats. Ooh. Thank you. Do I have to make a decision right now? Well, yeah. Within five seconds. Within five seconds. Yes, you do. No.

Okay. And I don't get to phone a friend. Not really. Five seconds. We'll let you. We're your new best friends. You are. But no, we appreciate you jumping on that. It was just a little something we kind of came up with spur of the moment last weekend to just throw a little bonus giveaway for those that bought tickets within that three, four day period. So, yeah, you did it, jumped on it. And obviously, those entries that you entered are still pending. That goes through Sunday night, and we'll draw those winners first to next week. But on this bonus entry, yeah, you're the winner. So I guess be deciding if you need a new 6.5 PRC or a pair of 10-power Swarovski NL Piers. I'm going to go NL Piers. Okay. All right. We'll ship them out today. We got them in stock. It's going to be about $1,500 in shipping. Okay. I'll give you my wife's credit card. Yeah.

You give your wife a bigger balance than I give mine.

We can make sure the receipt says Target. She'll never know. That's right. She'll be trying to hide it from you. She'll be trying to hide it from you. Target and Mother's Day 2023. Can you put Swarovskis on a Target red card?

No problem. Yeah, we'll get those ships. She might think that they're crystals, jewelry. So there you go. There you go. Yeah. Anyway, good stuff. Well, we appreciate you participating in it. And, of course, congratulations. What an awesome prize. It's kind of fun to give this stuff away. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I appreciate it so much, you guys. You're doing an awesome job. And just always appreciate how well you guys treat the customer. So keep working. Okay. Fun call. So, yeah, appreciate it. We'll get those in the mail to you today. Awesome. Thanks, guys. Have a good day. You too. Bye-bye. Can you believe it? All right, that was pretty fun. Oh, yeah. He actually thought he had to think about it, but then he really didn't when he saw it. No. He thought, I can't find 6.5 ammo, so go with the bio. I don't know. Bronson's been finding it like crazy. Trust me. Oh, yeah, he has.

Now he's a distributor in the ammo.

They call me Don Bronson. Kind of like the Godfather.

Well. You come and see me. We're dark. I'll make you an offer you can't refuse. It's like a drug deal around here. Somebody finds powder. I was like, hey, there's powder. And even though you don't need the powder, have never used that powder your whole life, you think you need 14 pounds. Carter was buying Red Dot shotgun powder the other day. I don't even. What am I going to do with any of the things you guys buy? Well, because Devin keeps telling us that's going to be currency in 23rd. Oh, I know. You get a trade in little Ziploc bags of powder. I don't even think Devin was alive pre-cell phone. What experience does he have in life? All right. Well, anyway. But he does get us wound up. And we may or may not have made some entrances in stores to buy powder on his behalf. H-1000, like it's our job. All right. Well, anyway. Well. Let's do it. Bronson, what do you think?

Maybe we, John, should we do it again? Yeah. I mean, we still got a rifle. We still got maybe something else. Yeah, nobody took the rifle. So, I don't know. What do you want to do, Carter? Let's give away the rifle. Let's give away the rifle. Okay. Well, let's do it again. There's an obvious deadline of 1159 on Sunday the 19th, right, of June? Yeah. Let's do it again. Anybody that buys tickets from Thursday, whatever today is. Today, right now. From the time you hear this. Until 1159 on Sunday night, which is the same deadline as our giveaway. Anyway, we'll do another. We got to give away this rifle. Let's give away the rifle. Fierce 6.5 PRC Twisted Rival. Twisted Rival. Yep. To anybody that buys tickets, $100 or more, or joins or refers somebody that joins within this, what, three, four-day period. What is it? Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Four days. Four days.

I don't want to count the hours up. That's too hard. Maybe that's 96 or something. No. Yeah. I thought you weren't going to do that. Quick math. Now you really want to know how far it is. But we've already cut. It's already less than that. That's right. Nine or ten hours into the day. All right. Well, let's do it again, though. Yeah. We'll get maybe you to put on Instagram, Josh. Yeah. So we've got to give away this rifle since nobody took the rifle. We've got plenty of optics. We've got rid of a pair of those, but we've got to get rid of a gun. Yeah. That's right. Do what you want with it. Kill something with it. Sell it. Give it to a kid. Whatever. Yeah. That's kind of an expensive rifle. And ask Josh if you need some ammo. Yeah.

Or Adam.

Josh is known as LHF. How many boxes do you have? This exact ammo that works in this gun very well. What is it? You've got a specific. It's an ELDX. I've got a couple boxes. The ELDX, what? Yeah. 143. 143 ELDX. Okay. Or any. Nice. Precision. Oh, you know how we were going to talk about something positive each time? After we talked about Father's Day last time, I had a thought. Oh, yeah. That's right. All right. So, all these guys, all you guys out there that have some serious girlfriend and you're not marrying her, you should marry her. Become a dad so you can enjoy Father's Day. It's like the best thing you'll ever do. Okay. I mean, you know, have kids. Just marry a family. Sounds like we're queuing up the Beyonce put a ring on it song right now. That's what we're doing. This is for the guys who've been dating like an awesome chick for three years. Okay. If they're an awesome chick.

Yeah. If you've been prolonging it. Don't just get married to get a Father's Day gift. No, no, no, no. Not that. He's saying if you've been with somebody and you know she's a catch and you've been with years or excessively months, a good period of time. You define that yourself. But a good period of time. Put a ring on it. You know she's a keeper. Do it. I mean, do it. Do her a favor. Where did this? Yeah. I mean, clearly you need like a leaf blower or weed eater in your life. So, become a father. Yeah. Josh. You need a new lunchbox in your life. Hey. No, I just think there's a lot of guys I was thinking after we talked before that are just like. It's true. Yeah. I'm just going to shack up with this girl and never really seal the deal. You're saying seal the deal. Yeah. Seal the deal. Have kids. It's the best thing. It's the best thing ever. Yeah. Like.

There's no heartache with kids, right? There's no heartache. Well. So easy. You got some heartache. But really like the good outweighs the bad. That's right. You know? Yeah. That's right. Life is much more fulfilled. John, you're a little bit sentimental today. I want to know what was. You got kids leaving the house. I do. I got kids leaving the house. Nobody to go to Lake Powell with. Yeah. Huh? So. It was like monument. You did go to Lake Powell with your entire family. But it was like hard to get everybody together. Yeah. It is. They get summer jobs. And they move out of the house. Hopefully they get jobs. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what a dad always hopes for is that they're hardworking suckers. If you teach your kids. If you teach your kids right, they do. Yeah. Yeah. Part of being a dad. Yeah. Or forcing them.

Well. Justin and I woke up at, you know, 530 this morning. Why did he go with you? Because he needed to wake up, I thought. Justin, get up. Let's go. Because you needed somebody to run to the target and spray paint it at 1,200 yards. You don't walk 1,200. That's three quarters of a mile. Oh, dude. I was shooting 1187 with that new SIG 8K. That new SIG 8K, we've got a few on the shelf. Anybody that's interested. Lightning fast response. Boom, boom. Lightning. And the 2400 was too, but this is just a souped up class laser is what it is. It's unbelievable. And I put in all the profiles. What other features did you know? Was it very similar to the 2400 ABS that we already use? It's similar, but it's actually like when you look in there, it says Red Rock 30 Nosler. You know. You don't have to know what Pro 1, Pro 2, Pro 3 for it. No, you don't have to know. It says the gun.

Because you used to have to go into the app for the 2400 and look at it. You know it says. It says. The gun you're shooting. Levi Reed muzzleloader. I like it. And then it also says the distance. And then at that distance, what your bullet is. Yeah. What the speed is at the distance you're ranging. So it calculates that. Does it show you the energy at that range too? Yes. So you know if you've got. Yeah, I had 1300 pounds of energy. Over 1,000. Yeah, I had over 1,000. You want to make sure you got over 1,000, right? You need over 1,000 for now. That's what the general. General consensus. You start going below that. It's like throwing around. Better hit them behind the ear. Was there a different app or anything you had to do? It was the same app. Yeah, so you download the. It's the SIG BDX app. Okay. So the other one's for 2,400. Only. Yeah. Different. So it's the SIG BDX app.

And the BDX is multiple units, right? It would be the binoculars, the 10Ks. Okay. Or whatever. But anyway, and then it was better. The Bluetooth pairing, way better. It was better. And hey, if you missed our Instagram post this last week, we got them in. We made our pre-orders. We shipped those out, and we still have some on the shelf. So they've been long awaited. The 2,400 was long awaited to get back in stock. They simply discontinued it and upgraded is what they did. Yeah, and I even, I mean, I put in zero wind, and then it still told me, you know, at 1187 is 0.3 mils for spindrift. Like, just stuff like that. And I did. I had to calculate for it. It was unbelievable.

You wouldn't want to have been a person at 1,200 yards this morning out there. It was unbelievable. And, you know, and I threw the Z8 on there, the Swaro Z8. And, yeah, I had to dial a bit. I'll bet. Eight mils. Well, I mean, it's a lot of dialing. Might have been a shim involved. No. Different ramping of the back. I needed a 20 MO A-R. That's what I mean. I mean, yeah, it did. It kicked it pretty good. And it was, it's awesome. It's unbelievable. So that's what Justin was for. He was supposed to hold the apple. Hey, there was a bird. I about got distracted, but I didn't take enough rounds. I'm like, ooh, I want to smash a Tweety bird. But, you know, Justin was disappointed in me. Anyway. Pretty fun. Well. Good stuff. It's fun. Thanks for listening. This is just a quick announcement of that bonus giveaway. And I appreciate everybody that bought entries for that or referred anybody.

But Curran this time was a lucky winner. We'll get those NLPers out to him. But maybe you're next. Yep. We're giving away a gun. And then if you want any optics, we've got plenty on the shelf. And, again, the new SIG rangefinder. Unbelievable. Okay. And my final pitch. Oh. It's Father's Day coming up. This is a perfect gift if you're looking for something. That's why you want people to get married. Yeah. So you can have more Father's Day gifts. Look at this. More Father's Day gifts. No more purchases, John. You buy them a ticket. Self-serving. I knew there was something behind this. You could win them like a $37,000 elk hunt. Or a sheep hunt. I'm with you. And you say, here's your chance, Dad. Okay. Drawing's going to be on Tuesday. I like it. All right. Sounds good, everybody. Hey. Oh, one other thing. Give us a call at the office. Their number. Yeah. Give that real quick. 435-263-0777.

Or jump online at epicoutdoors.com. If it is Saturday or Sunday and you haven't done it, you're going to have to do it online. We won't be answering the phone on weekend. We'll be here through Friday. But then have to do it online after that. Yeah. Sounds good, everybody. Good luck. 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. As a member of Epic Outdoors, you'll also receive the Epic Outdoors magazine and have access to the best hunting consultants in the industry, online tools, and more. To join Epic Outdoors, visit epicoutdoors.com or call 435-263-0777.