EP 243: Calling the Hunt Winners

You won the doll sheep hunt. Are you guys kidding me? No, it's no joke. It's no joke. We would never. Spring Alaska grizzly hunt. Wow. It would be my dream hunt. Anything to do with Western big game.

Welcome to the Epic Outdoors podcast, powered by Under Armour. All right, everybody, here we go. We're going to call the winners of the hunts that we just gave away. Pretty exciting, pretty awesome. This is like our favorite time of year. Well, unless the draws come out and we win. It's up there with dollar results. It's like Christmas. But you get to play Santa Claus. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. All right. We've got a Alaska 2023 doll sheep hunt. This is with Aaron DeRose and Dillinger River Outfitters Bunch. So this is going to be for August of 2023. So he's got a year to get ready. This Jason. Hey, Jason. Brian Burkheimer calling. I got a message from Adam to give him a call. Oh, yeah. Let me put him on. Adam, go ahead. How's it going, Brian? Good. How about you guys? We're doing great. We had a little event. You've been working today. We know it's in the middle of the afternoon.

So hopefully I'm not taking you from anything too important. No, no. Just got out of a meeting. So I can talk for a few minutes. Okay. Well, hey, we had our membership drive draw. Maybe that's what you're suspicious of as to why we're calling. Maybe not. Maybe you're getting more excited now when I just told you that. But that's why. I'm suspecting. But I'm putting my breath. Well, you'd won. You won the doll sheep hunt for next year in Alaska 2023. How's that sound? Are you guys kidding me? No. No. It's no joke. It's no joke. We would never joke like this. No. We don't do that. But you won it. Wow. If you're from Janesville, Wisconsin. Your last four digits are 4-1-2-4. That's you, Brian Burkheimer. I mean, if there's two of you, then we've got to call the other guy. No, you've got the right one. You've got the right guy.

You won it with Dillon to River Outfitters August 20th to the 29th of 2023. So you've got a year to get in shape. That's for sure.

I'm stunned. I really am. Well, great. We appreciate the support. That's what we like. The fun part about giving these hunts away, some of these are obviously big, big ticket items. A doll sheep hunt. I don't know. Have you hunted sheep before, or is this kind of a dream hunt for you? This is a dream hunt. This is the bucket list. Is it really? That's awesome. Pretty special. Well, we're glad to help make that happen. We'll be sending you an email here in the next day or so. Just introducing you with the folks at Dillon's River Outfitters. And obviously not a complete amount of urgency in getting that set up since it's next year. But you need to get those dates on your calendar, August 20th to, well, basically the 30th, the end of the month there. Next year, 2023. That's where you're going to be.

We'll send an email out with all the details and get you in touch with Aaron DeRose over there. Super good guy. Really good friend of ours. And just does a fantastic job. You're going to have an incredible hunt with him. This isn't a discounted hunt. We paid full price for this. It's legit. Yeah. So. That's amazing. That is awesome. Well, congrats again. I'm kind of stunned, guys. I wish I, besides thank you, I don't know what else to say at this moment. You're kind of taking me back here. Well, no problem. Maybe just take the rest of the day off. Could go get on that Stairmaster if you'd like. Whatever. So, yeah. All right. That's fantastic. Yeah. He runs a real high kill rate up there. Just does a fantastic job. So, we're excited for you. We're proud to give this one away and glad you won it. Oh, thanks a lot, guys. That's really appreciated. Okay. Yeah, you bet.

I look forward to that email. Okay. We'll be in touch. All right. All right. Great. Now, we're going to give away the Colorado Mule Deer Hunt. This is with Garvey Brothers Outfitting, Unit 61, third rifle season. They only give, what, Bronson, nine landowner tags that are unit wide. So, pretty awesome opportunity just to get your hands on one of those, let alone go with an outfitter, one of the best in the unit, and something we're super proud to give away. Great opportunity at killing an absolute giant. So, yeah, let's give them a caller. It'll be Michael Melling.

Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. This Jason. Hey, Jason. This is Mike Melling. Hey, how are you? Good. How are you doing? Good, good. Nice to get a call back from somebody. We've had a slow answer rate today. Oh, man. After the new federal holiday, even. Yeah. After everybody's rested up and everything. We just figured everybody was out working, darn it. Yeah. What are you doing? Yeah, just on the job site. Are you? Well. What do you do for a living? Oh, construction management. Oh, right on. Well. We've got a lot of that going on around here. Yeah, that's crazy. Well, yeah, you probably, you got an inkling why we might be calling you on a Tuesday? I'm not sure. Or is this Wednesday? I don't know. Well, did you happen to play in our little, our summer membership drive hunt giveaway? I did. You did, huh? Well, all right. Bronson. Well, yeah, you won.

You won a deer hunt in Colorado, third season with Garvey Brothers Outfitters in Unit 61. How does that sound? Oh, very cool. That's awesome. I guess you've got November 12th on your 18th schedule, wide open, I hope, because that's when it's going to happen. It is. Nice. Okay. Congratulations. It includes the landowner tag. Well, thank you. Very cool. Yeah, it includes the landowner tag. It's unit wide. They're in Unit 61 with the Garvey Brothers. They've been there for decades and decades. Extremely well accomplished, super good guys, and produce an absolute great buck. So, anyway, we're proud to give that one away, and we're glad you won it. Awesome. I'm super happy, super excited. Well, we'll be sending an email here in the next day or so just with all the details and put you in touch with the outfitter and everything like that.

But, yeah, keep those dates blocked off November 12th to 18th. You're hunting big bucks in Colorado. Will do. I don't know if you've got a deer tag in Colorado, you need to turn it back because you can't kill two deer. Just remember that. Oh, okay. I got one to turn back then. Do you? No. You never know. I don't want to make a felon out of a guy giving him a free hug.

Good to know. Did you burn a bunch of points to get something then? Just four points. Okay. Well, it'd probably be worth turning it in and getting those four points back then. Yeah. We can work out those details too. Pretty easy to do. But this one's, this will take you about 15 years to draw if you're to draw it. So, it's a great tag, great unit. So, you're going to want to go. Awesome. Very cool. Thank you, guys. Okay. We'll be sending you an email. Sounds great. All right. You betcha. Have a great day. You too. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. We're giving away the New Mexico elk hunt with Frontier Outfitting. So, for this year, winner chooses muzzleloader or archery. Their choice. With land under tag and fully outfitted hunt. Pretty awesome.

I wish I was getting a free hunt right now. I'd answer my phone.

Hey, we need to make some new rules.

Two calls. Two calls within the 30-second period. This is Lee. Lee, Adam Bronson, an Epic Outdoors crew here. How are you doing today? Yeah, I'm doing good, thanks. Great. Well, hey, we had a special event. We just did our summer membership drive drawing. Oh, no way. Yeah, way. You must have bought tickets, huh? I did, just yesterday. Wow. We got a couple of Epic hats here for you. By the skin of your teeth, you got in the draw. Well, I would say that that paid off for you. So, we're calling to let you know you're the winner of the New Mexico elk hunt with Frontier Outfitting for this September, October. How's that sound? Oh, man, that's fantastic. It includes a landowner tag, archery or muzzleloader, so you get to choose, and they let you hunt with the modern muzzleloader down there. So, if you've got a scope muzzleloader, why that works.

Or, of course, you can choose your archery season. And we've got some tags set aside for you to choose. So, anyway. Do I have to make a decision now? I would say in the next 30 minutes. No, we're good. We're good. You've got 12 or 24 hours, something like that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's fantastic. Thank you, guys. Yeah, you bet. Well, congratulations. We'll be sending you an email. Put you and GT Nunn, the outfitter, in touch together so you both can start communicating and discuss the season dates and what's on your schedule. Archery or muzzleloader for elk in New Mexico. But you're heading there. That thing's for sure. Oh, yeah, that's great. That's awesome. All right. Well, congratulations. Appreciate your support. And, yeah, we'll send you an email here soon. Awesome. I appreciate it, guys. All right, buddy. You betcha. All right. Thanks. Bye. Bye. That's awesome. Last minute.

I love getting that stuff. Top of the pile. Wyatt. The Wyatt philosophy. Yeah, top of the pile. Wyatt, what have you drawn this year? Not a thing.

That's my point. Montana general deer. Hey. All right. So here we go. This is the Nevada elk. LaRue. LaRue. Nevada elk. Freddie. Missouri. Letty LaRue. Is it? Okay. Yeah. Pretty awesome. What time is it? It's 412. It's dang near 5 o'clock somewhere. Here we go. Let's give him a holler.

Hello.

Please leave a message after the tone.

Message machines are such a thing of the past. We should be texting, FaceTiming. We should FaceTime these guys from now on. We should try. I thought about that. Dude. This phone's hooked to a wall somewhere. There's no way it's hooked to a wall. Yes. They don't even hook phones to walls anymore. After they talk. That. Freddie. Hey. Jason Carter. Epic Outdoors. The entire Epic Outdoors crew. Just calling to visit with you. I possibly want to have some really good news about a particular hunt that you might be interested in. So give me a call back. You've got the number. Hello. Hey. Is this Freddie? Yes, sir. Freddie. Jason Carter here with the entire Epic Outdoors crew. How are you? Fine. A little warm. Are you? How warm is it? Yeah. It's hot in our neighborhood. Is it? How hot's hot? Yeah. Well, it's been around 100. Oh, wow. Yeah. And you guys got high humidity, don't you? Yes, sir.

Yeah, that's the bad problem with it is you got the humidity along with it. Man, you just walk outside and you can breathe air and you melt down. Put it that way.

Well, anyway, we, yeah, we had our Epic Membership Drive. We did the drawing for that and for those hunts. Do you remember any of the hunts that you put tickets in for? Yeah, I put in for the Alaskan sheep hunt and then I put in for the elk hunt. Well, how about Nevada elk, 111 to 115, the one that includes the landowner tag there. It's obviously one of the most expensive elk hunts there is. But anyway, that's the one that we pulled your name out on right there. Well, dang, that's good. World-class elk opportunity there, you know, 111 to 115. Wyatt's on the phone here. He hunted it. Wyatt? I had the tag last year. Pretty awesome hunt for the time I was there. I guess I've been there multiple years, but that was pretty awesome. Yeah, Wyatt killed a great bull. Where did he go, Wyatt? Mid-370s. I hunted with a bow, so you can pick your season. Yeah.

You'll be able to pick your season with the landowner tag. So I don't know what season you're going to want to do, but it is with Timberline Outfitters, Thomas Brunson, fully paid for. We purchased the landowner tag to go with it. So anyway, just an incredible opportunity. You'll have to pick up the state tag fee. But other than that, you know, it's all been paid for. Well, dang, man, I can't beat that, kiddo. No, that beats the heat. That beats the heat right there. Yeah. Thank you a lot, sir. Thank you on that end. No problem. No problem. I appreciate that. Yeah, the wife said, you got a funny message on the phone, you know. And I said, a funny one? She said, yeah. And I said, okay. It was late when I got in last night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We, you know, we try not to spill the beans over a voicemail, but at the same time want to create that sense of urgency to give us a call back.

We're excited. We want you to, you know, we want to visit with you and be able to publish the results, you know. So we want to be able to talk to everybody that we can. Oh, yeah. So. Well, yeah. I can understand that because, yeah, I figure you want pictures and stuff like that. Yeah. We want a story. We want photos. We want about everything, you know. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, sir. All right. You betcha. No problem, Fred. You have a good day. Okay. You too. Bye. This will be, okay. So here we go with the Alaska grizzly hunt. This is with Freelance Outdoor Adventures. Lance Kronberger. Awesome opportunity. We've sent our personal friends multiple times. Just incredible opportunity on this particular hunt in Alaska. So we're going to call up old Ed Bird. He drew this. And I don't know. Somebody's got to answer our call. Come heck our high water.

Hi. This is Ed. Leave a message. Thank you.

Jeez. At the tone, please record your message. When you've finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more options. Hey, Ed. This is Adam Bronson and the Epic Outdoors crew here. Just calling to visit with you real quick. You're going to want to give us a call back at your earliest convenience to discuss a hunt you're probably going to be interested in. So, yeah. Try us back at the number that we called from, and we'll go from there. Thanks.

This Jason. Hey, this is Ed Bird calling. I got a message here from Adam. Let me give him a call back. Yeah. How's it going? This is Adam and Jason and the whole Epic Outdoors crew. How are you doing today, Ed? Good. Good. A little warm, but good. Okay. How warm is it? For Wisconsin, what's warm in summer? Is it? 35 degrees. No. It's 100 right now. Is it? Really? Wow. Holy cow. That is warm. We were teasing when we were leaving your voicemail. Like, well. Yeah, no. It's 100. I wonder if the frost has left the ground in Wisconsin yet. Yeah. Sounds like it's. No. It's way gone. Way gone. All right. Well, hey. We had an event. We had our membership drive draw. I don't know if that's why you thought we might be calling you or if it even dawned on you. Well, I kind of did. I'm like, did I buy some tickets or what? I can't even remember. Wow. Wow. All right.

Do you want to buy some more tickets?

You. Well. I can answer the question for you. Yes, you did. You bought some tickets. Because I'm staring at one of those tickets right now. Okay. With your name on it. And it is for Spring Alaska Grizzly Hunt next spring with Freelance Outdoor Adventures. How does that sound to you? Wow. It's got your name all over it. You know, I buy the tickets because I'm like, this is something I'll never just do for myself. I just plan it. So I'm like, this is where if somebody tells me I want something, I'm just like, well, I can't do it. I got to go. Yeah. There you go. You've got to go on this one. Next June. Yeah. No, this is honest to God. It's my, it would be my dream hunt. I've shot moose and elk and all that kind of stuff and goats. And I never shot a grizzly. I've been to Alaska a dozen times. Wow. Well, you must have put in there with a deliberate purpose and it paid off. Yeah.

So congratulations.

So thank you. Appreciate it a ton. Well, we appreciate the support. The support you've got here at Epic Outdoors and, and just happy to give it away. It's with one of the best up there and you'll be getting an email from us with all the details. But again, congratulations. And, and it's yours. So plan, plan that for next spring. Next June. What time? What time? What time year is it? Did you just come back? June. First, first, first part of June. First to the 15th is when you need to kind of block off of June. Spring hunt during the breeding season. Boars are roaming and it's a good time to hunt them. So next spring, you know where you'll be. So block it off. Wow. Thanks a lot, guys. I appreciate it. Okay. You bet it. Thanks. All right. You bet. Thank you. All right. Bye. All right. This is going to be the bonus package for the optics pack. $15,000 worth of optics from our store.

Absolutely just boxed up and shipped to your door at no charge. Unbelievable. How's that sound? Pretty awesome. Jeez. I want it. It's going to go to Montana. So see if Craig's around.

Hello. Hey, is this Craig? Yeah, it is. Craig, Jason Carter, Adam Bronson, John Peterson, Chris Peterson here at Epic Outdoors. How are you? Good. Hopefully you got me good news. We got some good news. All right. He's like, let's have it. Let's have it. Hey, so we did conduct our summer membership drive. We've drawn all the hunts and the bonus item. The bonus item, obviously, if you remember, was $15,000 in optics. And you drew the bonus item. You've got $15,000 in optics. Awesome. Thanks. Yeah. So we'll get it all boxed up. We've got all your address and your membership, so it should be easy to find. But the only thing I guess you need to let us know if you wanted angled or straight eyepiece on your Swarovski spotting scope. That's the only piece that we need your input on. And the rest of it's all laid out there. And we'll get it coming your way. Angled, please. Angled. All right.

Perfect. Well, congratulations. You've got a BTX combo coming. I mean, that might be a little aggressive for that thick country you're in up there. I don't know. Well, some of you, you've got a lot of open. I've got a Nevada deer tag, and my wife's got a Wyoming 102 buck tag. Oh, no kidding. A 102. Hey, we're going to have to talk after you get done. You're not going to use it all, then. You've got range-finding binos and tripod and tripod-mounted binos from Vortex and a Zeiss V6 rifle scope, BTX, and a spotting scope eyepiece and 95 objective. So hopefully you can put it all to use. Awesome, guys. I like that area code when I see it.

It is a good area code. We might be a little biased, but it is good. All right. Well, we'll get it out to you. Just wanted to let you know. It'll be coming. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. You betcha. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. Bye. Okay. Well, that's it. We've got three hunt winners we haven't gotten a hold of yet. We'll be getting a hold of them here shortly. John, you wanted to say something about, you wanted to kind of. What? What did I want to say? Well, look at the official rules. For what? What do you mean? They have a timeline when they can freaking get back to us. Well, we draw alternates. Yeah. So we'll see if we ever have to dip into one. Well, we'll be getting a hold of them. So anyway, congratulations to everybody that won. We're super excited for you. What a great lineup of hunts. Can't remember a better lineup we've had.

Of course, we try to get the best of the best every single time. Yep. Absolutely. Anyway. Fun. Appreciate you all. And we'll start another one December 1st. So we got to go hunting first, though, boys. That's right. All right. Talk to you later. 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.

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