EP 344: The 2025 Winter Hunts Giveaway!

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Hey everybody, Jason Carter, Adam Bronson, John Peterson. We got everybody here from Epic Outdoors, minus a couple of them. But anyway, it's a super fun day. We're giving away all the hunts that we've been talking about since December. So pretty awesome. We've got everything from doll sheep, moose, and the Yukon, Utah elk, New Mexico elk, Nevada deer, Utah deer. Good grief, I'm running out of breath. New Mexico antelope for two hunters gear package and $10,000 for your choice of a hunt. So anyway, super excited. Just want to say thank you to everybody that participated. Thanks to the new members. Welcome. Thanks to those that got their buddies in. Thanks to those that purchased tickets. That's awesome. It helps us pay for these hunts. And it's awesome to be able to give them away. So here we go with $200,000 in giveaway items. Prizes. Here we go. It's unbelievable.

Who are we going to call first? I don't know. What do you think? Should we give this gear package away first? Let's do it. All right. Get a bunch of stuff. Tell us about it, Bronson. I was getting a fierce carbon edge rifle. Caliber of choice, I believe. Worked with Devin on that. Gets a Hoyt RX-9 bow. Leupold VX-6 HD rifle scope. Swaro EO range TA 10x32 binos. Those are awesome. A Zeiss Harpia spotting scope.

Can't beat that. And an Epic Ultra tripod and head combo. So I'm valued at $15,000 in gear. I just rattled off in about 14 seconds. $15,000. Oh, jeez. Bronson, you take pride in putting this package together. It's a lot of fun walking into the Epic Gear store where we sell optics mostly. Optics, guns, bows, and tripods, of course, right? Best freaking tripod on planet Earth. It's just fun to go in there and pick some best items that are in there. It's good. And every time we do a little something different just because. So this is a great setup. You've got a rifle, scope. I think we actually had a podcast a while ago. Sid would throw in the rings. So we better do that. I think we wrote that show. Maybe we go in house with the guys. Let's go in house with him.

Somebody's throwing the rings. How about some lens cleaners? Which one? What do you think? Mediums, lows, or highs? I mean, what do you want? Whatever. Whatever we can mount that scope up with. Here's some high rings for you. Hey, I like the high rings. Let's make a call. All right. So anyway, here we go. We've got Michael Dunkley. So let's see if he answers the phone.

Hello.

Mike, hey. Jason Carter and the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you? Who's this? Jason Carter, Epic Outdoors.

Oh, how's it going? Good. How are you doing? Pretty good. Good. Hey, did you participate in our membership drive this year? Do you remember? Yes, I did. All right. Well, you won one. How's that sound? You're kidding. No. You're kidding. What did I win? You won the gear package, $15,000 worth of guns, bows, optics, and all that kind of stuff. So how's that sound? Well, that sounds pretty good.

I'm excited. I'm excited. Yeah. Well, you should be. There's a lot of stuff. Yeah. We're just calling you to congratulate you. Appreciate you supporting us, and congratulations on winning that. I'll be probably giving you a call in the next day or two just to arrange, you know, shipping the gun to an FFL and the bow you want, size, draw length, all that type of stuff. And the rest of it will get boxed up and coming your way as well, the optics. Sounds great. Okay. All right. Sounds good. If you've got any hunts out west this year, you can bring some of that stuff back out here. Do you want to just hold it out here and wait to have you pick it up? We could use it a little, make sure the gun shoots good, get your bow squared away. All right. Well, this is the best call I've had in a long time. Thank you. You bet. Well, good luck in the draws.

Now you've got to get some tags to put this stuff to use. Thanks, Mike. Oh, thank you. You betcha. Bye. Bye. All right. Well, Bronson, let's give away this antelope hunt. Antelope hunt for two there in New Mexico. If the answer is, let's let Devin tee it up. Let's Devin help us acquire this antelope hunt. All right. Sounds great. Tony Perry. Let's get him on the line.

Hello? Tony. Hey, this is Devin. Epic Outdoors. How are you? Good. How are you doing? Good. We've called you about four times. Have you? Yeah. We really want to get a hold of you. Bad, huh? Yeah. Kind of. Well, what's up? We pulled your name out of a bin today for New Mexico antelope. Oh, you're kidding me. Not joking. Yeah. Right. Not just for you, but for you and a buddy. Do you already know who you're bringing, or are you going to have some kind of competition or something? Well, I haven't even thought about it yet. This year is insane. You know, my daughter drew the buffalo tag on the book clefts up at the frigging banquet this year. Holy cow. Wow. Really? Holy cow. You guys are on a roll. Well, if you want us to give this one away, we'll give it to somebody else. If you've got too much on your plate, we do draw alternates. No, no, no, no.

I want to kill a good goat, man. I've hunted in New Mexico a couple times for antelope and got my bucket. Oh, this is awesome. You know, a good one. So, yeah. This is awesome. This is the perfect hunt for you and a friend and a family member. This will be in August, so that should... End of August. Yeah. Good weather down there. Take a... What unit are we in? It's multiple different ranches in that east-central part of the state, right, Devin? Yeah. Depends on... There's a couple giant ones. I don't know specifically which unit, but... Yeah. I think the dates will be the 23rd or the 25th. Oh, that is so awesome, dude. I am stoked. Completely stoked. We're excited for you. Are you going to sell this to one of your friends, or... You're going to let them come for free? You're going to go, right?

It's pretty awesome. We're excited for you. We hope you kill an absolute giant. Well, I'm going to give her hell, that's for sure.

Do you need a new rifle? We sell them. Actually, I'm actually part owner of a rifle company. Oh, no way. Geez. We might need to buy them from you. Yeah, there you go. Awesome.

All right. Well, sounds good. We'll be emailing you the details here. Okay. Well, thanks a lot, guys. I appreciate it. You bet. We'll send you that tomorrow. Okay. Talk to you later. You betcha. All right. See you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. All right. Let's find somebody on the East Coast that's watching the news and having dinner. How about this? Let's give the Mexico Alcon away. Sitting out of our lazy boy. I'll dial him up. Bronson, you're up.

3436. Sorry. I'm done.

Hello.

Darren speaking. Hey, Darren. Adam Bronson and the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you doing today?

Are you guys? Can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me? Yeah. There you are. It's Adam Bronson and the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you doing today? You hear me? I'm doing great. Yep. Well, good. How about you guys? We're doing great. We're, yeah, about to break some news to you. You might even have a better day. We just gave away our Epic Membership Drive Hunts, and you were the winner of the New Mexico Elk Hunt. How's that sound? You're kidding. Yeah. No, you got it. You got it, buddy. Man, that's awesome. That was like my dream hunt. I just... Was it really? All right. Yeah, between that and the other Elk Hunt. Well, you get your choice now. It's luck of the draw. So, hold it. That's like a unit... Unit 34 or 36. Yeah, the outfitter, Joseph Graham. He operates in both those units. And so, we'll be sending you an email, putting you two in touch through email, introducing you to the winner.

Holy... And then you can reach out to him and choose seven-day hunt for archery, or you can do one of the five-day muzzleloader hunt or rifle hunts there, whatever you choose there. So, you can set that up. Is that for 2025? Yeah. For this fall. Yep. Holy... Yeah. Wow. Well, thank you guys so much. I was not expecting this call, and yeah, my day did just get a whole lot better. Well, we appreciate your support. We love making these calls, and so, yeah, look for an email here in the next day or two from us. Jason or I will send you an email along with copying the outfitter, and you guys can take it from there. But congratulations. All right. Thank you so much. God bless you. You bet. Thanks, Darren. You bet. I'll bet. Bye. All right. Bye. All right. Let's give this Utah elk. He touches it. Who wants to do that one?

Whoever.

Whoever. Where's he from? Mississippi. Mississippi. I'll give that one. That's Robert. Utah? I can't remember. Yeah. I'll give Dusty's away. Okay.

Plow through it harder.

Is this Robert? This is he. Robert. Why would we be calling you today? There is absolutely no way, bro. Well, you're the runner-up. Just teasing. I'm just teasing. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry. Oh, goodness. You won the elk hunt here in Utah, buddy. Get out. You did. Yeah. That's awesome. Dusty Trails outfitting, Southwest Desert. The landowner tag alone is over 30 grand. So, just for the landowner tag. That's awesome. I know how much it is because I bought one from you. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway. Yeah, we buy and sell a couple of those. That's for sure. But, anyway, here you go. You're going to get gifted one. And, anyway. You get to choose your season with him, seven-day hunt with Dusty Trails outfitting. And, of course, you know the drill. You know what it's like, I'm sure. So, anyway. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much. All right. Okay. Sounds good. Well, have a good evening.

Bye, buddy. Thanks a lot. Bye, buddy. Thank you, man. You bet. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Here, let's do this. Messini, Yukon Moose. Massachusetts.

It's like midnight over there.

Clear over there. I have to wake this guy up. It's not Sweden.

Wyatt, you want to try this one? I can. Or whoever. Yeah. What's his name? Greg Messini. Greg. Yeah. Greg? Greg. Yep. The red one. Okay. Here we go. Let's call Greg.

Hello? Hey, Greg. It's Wyatt with Epic Outdoors. How are you? How are you doing? Good. There's a little bit of a delay there for some reason.

Yeah. Probably my phone. I don't know. Oh, dang it. Well, we're just calling you here today. I've got the entire Epic Outdoors crew here, and I just wonder if you had any plans to hunt the Yukon this year.

Actually, not the Yukon. I don't plan on hunting the Yukon. Well, you should now because you just- I will be in Northwest Territories. Oh, you just want to moose hunt in the Yukon.

Are you kidding me? No, you get to hunt another province up there.

Oh, my God. That is amazing.

That's awesome. Holy smokes. I've never won a hunt. Excuse me. Awesome. Yeah. Oh, man. Pretty awesome hunt up there with Jarrett Dooling in the Yukon, September 17th of this year.

Unbelievable. I've hunted with Jarrett. I've actually got a moose with Jarrett. I've got my stone sheep and a doll sheep with Jarrett and a caribou. Oh, you get to go back. That's awesome. I can't wait. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Jarrett's going to be laughing his ass off.

Well, I don't have to tell you how awesome this hunt is then. That is awesome. Well, congratulations. Yeah. Go ahead. Thank you. Go ahead. Tell me again. Tell me how this is going to go. Tell me how lucky I am. Oh, that's awesome.

Oh, man. I can't believe it. I'll call Jarrett as soon as I get it off the phone with you guys. Yeah, well, I was going to say we normally send an email to introduce you to, but you guys know each other pretty well, it sounds like. But we'll text Jarrett. Yeah. We'll text Jarrett or send Jarrett an email, but you guys can make plans for that hunt. What was it? 17th to the 20th. September 17th. 18th through the 29th. Yep. So, peak of the rut last season. So, should be a good one. Oh, my God. I can't believe it. It's crazy. Holy cow. Thank you so much, guys. Hang up. That is just amazing. Hang up and give him a call. Go ahead. I certainly will. Thanks, guys, so very, very much. I appreciate it. Oh, God. This is awesome. We appreciate your support, for sure. Thank you. All right. Have a good evening. All right. Thanks, guys. You bet. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. Here we go for the 10,000 bonus.

John? You ready? Or somebody? This is Devin's deal. Let him start this one off. Yeah, this is Devin. That is. We're going to get it. I'm your new best friend. He's not going to answer now. How would you like to talk to me more often? Yeah, what's the first name on it? Orange ticket, Devin. Michael. Yeah, he goes by Mike. Mike. Mike. Yep. I wonder if anybody would book a cow elk hunt for four. That's like $2,500 bucks a piece.

Bring your friends and family.

I have a story about that. It's a good story. I just rarely remembered it from my childhood. I want to hear it. All right. I'll tell you right now. Okay, let's hear it. Let's have a hunting story. Let's tell a hunting story. We want a little kid's motorbike. Okay? I'm the only boy in the family. Whose motorbike do you think it would be? Right? Traded it in for pedal bikes for the whole family. Logan, that has to stay. Traded it in. Traded it in. The guy sold motorbikes and pedal bikes. And we got pedal bikes. Because he could go four of you instead of just Jason. There goes my motorbike that I never had my whole life. It made you a better hiker. I buy motorbikes all the time. T-W. No. Now we know.

Where are we at? Call Curtis. That number.

All right.

What? What? Can't talk right now. Connect tomorrow. What? Connect tomorrow? All right. Can we connect tomorrow? Text him. Call him again. How about right now? Just call me. Say, if you want to hunt deer in Utah, call ASAP. He texted you that? Yeah. How does he know who it is? He doesn't. He doesn't. Is it automatic? I just said, okay, you want to hunt. They want to hunt. Say epic outdoors. He won't even know. Say epic outdoors. You want to hunt. Okay. You want to hunt. What would you be thinking if you're in Utah? No exclamation. Say you want an epic hunt. No period. Bubbles. No, say you want an epic hunt. Oh, we got bubbles. Epic outdoors. He hit that little button at the bottom that says report junk.

Ding. What does that do?

He's going to say WTH. His reply is going to be, who is this? WTH is this. I'm under the knife. What did he say? What? WTF? Well, no. No. No way. He just said, really? No way. You're making my day. What's the hunt? I'm on a plane just about to take off. Lands late tonight. Tell him to stop. What did he win? Just say you can call from a plane. Pause the plane and call us. Utah. Just say Utah. Rifle mule deer. Just let him hang on it, man. Make it an interesting fight. Here we go. 231. Includes line or attacks. Here's your weapon. That one. Choose your weapon.

This guy's name. This is Shane. Hey, Shane. This is Josh with Epic Outdoors. How are you today? Good, Josh. How are you? Good. And Jason. And Adam. Go ahead, Josh. We were worried you were going to report us as junk and not answer the next time. Glad you finally answered. Do you like to go mule deer hunting?

That'd be fun, fellas. All right. I enjoy that. Well, did you enter into the Epic Outdoors Nevada mule deer giveaway? Yep. All right. Well, you are the winner. Oh, my God, guys. That doesn't happen to me. Today it did. It's never happened to me either. Wow.

Today it did. You drew your name for the 231 mule deer hunt there with Mogollon Rim Outfitters. You get to choose your season, archery, muzzleloader, rifle. That's for 2025. So you're already on the board for a mule deer hunt this year. Plan on it. Let's go, boys.

We'll be in touch. We'll shoot you an email, introduce you and Greg Krog, the outfitter, together here. And congratulations. Appreciate your support here at Epic Outdoors. Well, fellas, thank you guys for what you do and appreciate the call. That's fantastic. Thanks. We appreciate the support. Have a great evening. Thanks, you guys, too. All right. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. See you. Yukon Doll Sheep. Here we go. This is Montana.

Devin, have you done one yet? Not yet. Hi, this is Mike. Hey, Mike. Adam Bronson and the Epic Outdoors crew, how are you doing today? Great. How are you? Doing good. Sorry, we were on another call when you were trying us back. We were giving away a hunt. We were giving away a hunt to a guy. And now I guess it's your turn. Did you play? Hey. Did you, I assume you had some tickets into our membership drive? Yes, I did. And I was actually in church. That's why I didn't answer the call. Wow. Wow. You're getting blessings. Jeez, you're getting blessed. That's right. Save this number. Save this number and answer it every time. That's right. I will do that. For sure. For sure. And I actually, that's actually something I prayed for, too. Oh, my God. Yes. No, I'm not going to go to church and lie about that. Yeah.

Well, since we're on a roll, I mean, is there any of the hunts that are kind of stand out as like your highest wish list here that you remember putting in tickets for? Probably the moose, I would say. Well, we're very close. We're in the same province. This is a Yukon doll sheep hunt that you want. How about that? Oh, my gosh. Both of those would be phenomenal. You're kidding me. No, we're not. We wouldn't kid about something like that. I go to Pheasants Forever and Ducks Unlimited, and I might win the bag of candy or something, never a gun or anything. But, yeah, this makes up for it. They usually give me a hat.

Exactly. Well, you got a $40,000 doll sheep hunt with North Curl Outfitters. Congratulations. Holy moly. We know where you're going to be the first of August this year. We'll send you an email introducing you and the outfitter, Mack Watson, together. And you guys can take it from there, start making plans. Oh, my gosh. And that's the first of August? Yeah, you'll have to arrive there a few days, the end of July. Opening day is actually August 1st, but you'll be there maybe the 28th. But we'll send all the details to you in an email. But, yeah, it's the very first sheep openings of the year. So, start to put that on your calendar. Pretty fun. I will do that. We're stoked for you. Thanks so much. Wherever you're at, you might just turn around, go back to church, and do some more things. I'm done.

I'm actually going to go home now, and I think I'm going to have an old-fashioned or two for that.

No, I'm done. I don't need the Lord's help anymore. That's awesome. I appreciate that. You bet. So, are the drawings all done? Yeah. We did them all. Yep. You only won one of them. Sorry. You just won a donkey. That's it. But we will give you a hat. Yeah, that's big. That's huge. Yeah, that's awesome. My phone was blowing up in church because two of my boys entered in it. My one son sent me and said, you ought to try to enter in this. And I just did, I think, night before last. And they were texting. Anybody hear anything? Nope. I didn't hear anything. So, wait until I text them. I'm going to flip. Geez. I mean, you're talking about it. You're in church. I mean, talk about karma. Don't you call this manifesting it? You've manifested it. Oh, man. Yeah, this is like unreal. Unreal. I can't believe it. Well, you bet. Appreciate it so much. And looking forward to it.

We'll send you an email here in the next day or so, Mike. But congratulations. All right. All right. Thank you. You bet. Talk to you later. Thank you. Bye now. You betcha. Bye. Bye. Bye. Well, you probably. Mine had a great one to end off. It just proves you. Pays to be a good guy. Everybody should go to church.

Where is he from? In fact, I'm going to go right now. Jason, you don't get enough of it. Go to the end. Yeah.

All right. Question is, what church does he go to? Well, find out loud. Text him tonight. Say. All churches are good. All right, everybody. That wraps it up. We've given away everything we've got. $200,000 in gear, hunts, bonus, all kinds of stuff. So, anyway, we sure appreciate your support here at Epic Outdoors. Couldn't do it without you. We are going to be cranking up another membership drive. We're going to give it a few months break. April 1-ish. Right, John? Yep. Adam, I think April 1-ish. We've got another one coming up, and it'll end mid to end, third week in June. We're going to give away a desert sheep hunt, just to let you know. Alaska moose. Of course, elk, deer. Incredible elk and deer hunts. Don't want to tell you all the details quite yet. Alberta whitetail hunt. Wolf hunt. Gear bonus. We're going to bump it up a little bit, Bronson. Yeah. Big plans.

Yeah, it's going to be awesome. So, anyway, looking forward to the next giveaway. We love doing it here at Epic Outdoors. Of course, we're cranking on publications, working on Nevada, Montana, and all kinds of other states that are coming out in preparation for their application season. Just a lot going on here with everything to do, Western Big Game. That's what we do here at Epic Outdoors. If you're interested in joining and you're not a member, go to epicoutdoors.com. You can join online. Of course, you can call us, talk to one of the gals up front. Huh, Wendy? Talk to Wendy over here. Of course, we need to give her a mic next time. Such a nice, friendly little voice you're going to get. Anyway, call 435-263-0777. And we'd love to have you on board here at Epic Outdoors. We take a lot of pride in what we do.

And we have an incredible membership with guys with tons of experience that are deep in points. And guys that are just starting out and gaining points. And so we'd love to help you with your strategy, drawing tags, booking hunts, guaranteed tags, anything to do with Western Big Game, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, and Western U.S. So anyway, again, we appreciate you. Thanks for supporting us. And we're just going to keep cranking, Bronson. Let's do it. All right.