#066 - Jeff Barlow | Eight Feet From a Bull: Close Calls and Big Lessons

Jeff Barlow... better known online as Nimrod Outdoors joins Ryan to talk family, faith, and the kind of hunts that turn into lifelong stories. Jeff shares how a joking nudge from his wife and a verse about the “mighty hunter” Nimrod sparked a 15-year digital journal with his seven kids, documenting everything from first tags to pack-outs. He tells the incredible Depression-era tale of his grandfather’s 34-inch cactus buck that fed the family and, decades later, found its way back home. We go deep on elk and mule deer strategy, why bugles in bow range raise the neck hairs, and Jeff’s wild Wasatch opener where a missed arrow turned into an eight-foot shot on a six-point bull. He also walks through his once-in-a-lifetime Utah moose hunt snow tracks, near misses, and the final pack-out with friends.

Jeff breaks down Sneek Tec: wind checkers, cover-scent sprays (sage, cedar, juniper), and “sneek boots” that quiet your steps plus how these tools buy you the 20–30 seconds that matter. We finish with advice for new hunters: enjoy the ride, put meat in the freezer, and don’t chase someone else’s score chase experiences with the people you love.

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Takeaways:

Origin of Nimrod Outdoors: A nudge from Jeff’s wife + the Old Testament “mighty hunter” = a 15-year family hunting journal across Facebook/IG/YouTube.

Legacy Story: Jeff’s grandpa’s 1934 cactus buck fed the family during the Depression; decades later the antlers were returned to the family—now hanging on Jeff’s wall.

Close-Quarters Elk: On Wasatch opener, a miss turned into an 8-foot archery shot on a six-point—proof that persistence (and good positioning) pays.

Moose Tag Marathon: Snow tracking, public-land chaos, two misses with a bow, then a successful rifle finish—highlighting patience, adaptation, and teamwork.

Sneek Tech Breakdown: Wind checker + cover-scent (sage/cedar/juniper) + quiet “sneek boots” to reduce foot noise—tools aimed at smell, sound, and sight to buy crucial seconds.

Why We Hunt: The therapy of mountains—bugles at bow range, rain-washed pines, and shared hardship—matters as much as (or more than) punching tags.

Advice to New Hunters: Enjoy the ride. Don’t chase scores; chase experiences, meat in the freezer, and memories—especially with your kids.

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Episode Transcript

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You're listening to the Hunt Stealth Podcast with Ryan
Uffins, the podcast where we dive head first into the wild,
whether you're an aspiring hunter or an adventurer seeking
the untamed. Together, we'll explore the
strategies and stories that leadto success in the great
outdoors. Hey guys, welcome to the Hunt

(00:22):
Stealth podcast. Excited to have Jeff Barlow on
the show today. Jeff Barlow hails from Price, UT
and your social media profile isNimrod Outdoors.
Is that correct? Yep, that is correct.
So Jeff, tell me, tell me a little bit about about Nimrod
Outdoors if you would please. I want to I want to get to know

(00:44):
a little bit about the founding of that.
OK, pretty good story actually about well, about 2010, my wife
and I, we, we shared a social media account together with a
Facebook account together. And she came to me one day and

(01:05):
she goes, you know what? I'm, I'm, I'm sick and tired of
seeing all your hunt and stuff on my Facebook account.
I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute, how come that's your
Facebook account? So I decided to do something
different. And about that same time I was
reading in the scriptures about Nimrod in, in the Old Testament

(01:27):
and says that Nimrod was a powerful man on earth and a
mighty hunter. And I thought, man, what, what
better, what better name to havefor, for social media accounts.
So that's, that's what we did iswe, we started up as a Nimrod
outdoors. My wife and I, we have 7 kids,

(01:48):
six of them are boys and so our oldest at that time, the two
oldest were, were just starting into the teenage years and I was
looking for something to do withthem to stay involved in their
lives. And of course at that age
everything was going to social media.

(02:09):
So we started up Nimrod Outdoorsand we have a, a Facebook
account, we have a Instagram account, we have, you know, all
these others. We have a YouTube channel where
we filmed all of our hunts, put them up on YouTube.
And, you know, it started out to, to be something just that I

(02:30):
could be involved with my boys and, and always doing something
with them, that stuff that they enjoy doing and it's involved
into something pretty awesome. And now we have a, a digital
journal of the last 15 years of everything that we've done
outside, you know, all of our hunts and everything we do
outside. And it's been, it's been pretty

(02:52):
awesome. We can go back and watch those
videos now and laugh at each other.
Holy cow, you were Pretty Littlethen, you know, all this type of
stuff. And it's, it's just been a great
digital journal to have now. So it's been a lot of fun.
But that's where that's where the horse came from.
So. So did I think that's a great
story? It's a that's a ton of fun.

(03:13):
Yeah. Nimrod.
That name sometimes gets thrown around in a different context.
And rather than the mighty man and a mighty hunter.
Yes, it truly does it it. In fact, I think it was Elmer
Fudd that that they called the Nimrod.
And that's where that kind of that social misfit nut goofy guy

(03:35):
came, came to be. It was a Nimrod.
You know, if look at our, if youlook at our Nimrod logo, it kind
of fits that description becausewe wanted to, we wanted to use
the, the slang word of Nimrod. So our, our social media, our
logo, it has the front end of anelk, the front diggers and
things like that. And then it morphs into a mule

(03:57):
deer from there. So it's kind of, it's kind of
cool. It's kind of screwed up kind of
a Nimrod. So that's awesome.
That's awesome. So, Jeff, tell me, did you have
you always haunted your entire life?
I have, I actually actually grewup in Southern Utah in Saint
George area and my, my parents were from a very small town and

(04:23):
so hunting's always been in, in my makeup.
I I've got a, I've got a buck hanging on my wall that my
grandfather shot in 1934 in the middle of the Depression.
And it's just a great big cactusbuck.
It's about 34 inches wide, really terrible genetics, but

(04:47):
it's just a cactus buck. Shot it in October and it still
has the velvet on it. So yeah, it, it's really cool.
It was the story to that is amazing.
And if we have time, we can get into that, but.
Well, let's dig into it right now, OK?
OK. Well, so so grandpa, he was
working for the County Road department in 1934 in the middle

(05:09):
of the depression and he came home for lunch.
He was working for a dollar a day at that point in time.
He came home for lunch one day and something told him to go
hunting. So he grabbed his gun and he he
walked out of the house and up into the foothills there by by
the house and he sees this buck and he shoots this buck.

(05:33):
He ended up shooting at three times within that big.
The buck never fell. It just kind of lowered its nose
to the ground and then kind of lowered itself to the to the
front knees and then to the backknees and then just laid there
and died. So it was a big, old, big, old,
tough, tough buck. Anyways, he hauled it back to

(05:55):
town and, and work got around town that grandpa had killed a a
really big buck. And this California guy that was
in town hunting came to grandpa and said, hey, I'll give you
$100 for that buck. And grandpa was like, that's a
lot of money, but I really need the meat to feed my family.

(06:16):
I, I don't know what to do. And the guy says I, I don't want
the meat. You can keep the meat.
I just want the head. The crap was like dill, dill,
you can take it. So we got to keep all the meat
feed. His family got the 100 bucks
from the California guy that gothim through the Depression.
Years later in the late 80's, the guy from California ended up

(06:42):
dying and his widow contacted mygrandfather and says, hey, my
husband died, would you like your head back?
And grandpa said, yeah, I'd loveto have it back.
And so it came back to the family.
Grandpa kept it in his house till he died.
Then my uncle kept it in his house.
And about 5 or 6 years ago, my uncle asked me if I wanted it

(07:05):
because I was the only one that really wanted it.
And so now I've got it hanging, hanging on my walls there in the
in the family room. So it's really an incredible
story. The buck that got him through
the Depression. That's that's wild.
You know, you, you forget sometimes, you know, it, it's so
close, but it's also seems so far away.

(07:28):
The, the time frames. It's crazy how things change.
But yeah, I mean, it's always a California guys, right?
California, California guys comein.
They're like, hey, I, I just, I want, I want.
I wonder how many stories he told the yeah, he's like, I shot
this, I shot this bucket in Saint George.
He ended up using, he ended up using it and went a lot of big

(07:50):
butt contest down there in California from from what we've
heard. So really, he got his money's
worth, I guess. Well, the cool thing, I think
the cool part of that story is that he kept your grandfather's
information and, and that the widow was like savvy enough to,
because I mean, if I had something like that, my wife and

(08:12):
I passed away, she'd be like just I want it out of the house.
Yeah, get it out. Of here.
Get it out of here. But to think to try and find, I
mean, clearly he must have shared that story who who he did
get it from and that. So it's it's pretty cool that
it's been able to return back tothe the rightful family, I
guess, if you will. It's, it's almost 100 years old
now and it's still hanging on the wall.

(08:32):
So that's. Wow, yeah, 91 years.
That was 91 years ago. That's.
I can send you some pictures of it.
It's it's a really cool looking buck.
Yeah, yeah, for sure send them over and I'll, I'll, I'll add
them into the the episode if I could.
But but that's awesome. So so he got, he got 100 bucks
California dude took the head and then he was able to keep the

(08:55):
meat to feed his family. Win, win.
It's funny, yeah. And and then so so your
grandfather did get it back before he had passed away.
That he did. I understand that.
OK, So he was able to have that back and that's fun.
That's. So yeah, honey, honey's been in
my, in my, in my DNA for a long,long time.

(09:15):
For generations for sure. That's super cool and I think
it's fun that you guys started this Nimrod outdoors with with
your with your boys and that to be able to get out there.
I saw one of the pictures you sent over.
You got quite the crew out thereon that, on that L cut.
Yeah, my, my littlest. He's, he's 11 and he didn't want
to wake up early on, on the day that we, we killed that, that

(09:38):
bull. But he says if you get
something, you better come back and get me so that I can help
cut it up because I want to cut it up.
So, so when we got the bull down, one of the older boys ran
back to camp and, and got him and brought him down to the
bull. And he sure enough, he dove
right in and helped us cut it up.
And so it was. It was pretty.

(09:59):
That's fun, that's fun that that's exciting to be able to
share those types of things because I didn't grow up hunting
and I've got a ton of memories doing stuff with my family.
But this whole hunting thing with it being new is, is, is a
lot of fun. I'm hoping that I get to harvest
my first animal this weekend. We're heading back out.

(10:19):
Me and the crew, Dustin and Boy Jackson, we've got, we got a
couple buck tags and, and then we've got, you know, our OTC elk
tag so we can shoot a doe or a spike.
We went out opening weekend and we had seen I, I roughly, I
think it was almost 27 cows. Oh my God, Jackson and Dustin

(10:44):
were on one Ridge and they got to about 200 yards.
I had, I had mine and I, there'slike it's, I've got 2, I have
the tag and I just, and everyone's going like, you just
have to kill something like you just have to kill.
And so I'm, I'm watching, there's somebody had chased

(11:08):
these cows off of the other Ridge and I'm watching them.
There's like 7 of them coming running down the hill and I'm
like, oh, I got my phone out. I'm like, I'm going to capture
this and, and I'm going, oh crap, they're coming right at
me. And so I hurry, grab my bow and
like knocked an arrow. And I had kind of a good little
setup. I had a tree which provided me

(11:28):
some cover from the front and then a nice little rockledge I'd
been able to like kind of set upand, and do some spotting.
And it's, it's amazing for how large these animals are, how
they can also just disappear on you like that.
So they come down and I range itas at, at the bottom and they're
about 150 yards and I'm going, they're going to pop right up.

(11:53):
I mean, they were coming right at me and they dropped down And
it, it was, I was about halfway down this ledge and they would
have I in my mind, they were going to pop up right on top of
me. And so I'm sitting there like I
draw back and I could hear them.And then all the sudden like

(12:14):
nothing. And I've got this like, great
view of the entire Canyon. And they went down into this
little ravine and just completely disappeared.
And I'm going, where on earth did these things go?
And so after, you know, I'm like, OK, well, did they stop?

(12:35):
And finally I'm like, all right,well, I'm going to hike down
there. You know, it just there's this
little ledge that I mean, they could have climbed up it easy,
but I am like, I don't know where they went.
And I went down there and I lookto the right and I can see all
the way up the Canyon and there's nothing.
And I look to the left and I cansee down, I don't know, probably
1/2 mile just disappeared gone. And, and that, I mean, that was

(13:04):
the first time since I've been hunting that I've been on, on
cows. And yeah, I thought for sure
that I was going to be able to harvest one of these cows.
But there's also a part of me that's like kind of glad that
this cow didn't come up because the unit that we were in, I can
only shoot, like I said, a cow or a spike.
And I would have shot it, but but yeah, it ended up not

(13:27):
working out. And that same Canyon that we
were in, we'd seen like 18 bucks.
Like the previous. Two weeks and not A1, not a one,
but we ghost nothing, just just disappeared.
But so I started going like, I don't know what's going on.
So I start I mean I probably putin 10 miles that day, but I went

(13:48):
down this Canyon and also I start hearing this like blah.
And I'm like sheep, like 300 sheep.
And I'm like, well, that would explain why they're, I mean,
normally from what I understand and you can correct me if I'm
wrong, the bucks typically are OK with the sheep.

(14:11):
But the elk disappeared. We saw more elk with the sheep
in that Canyon than we did bucks.
But I don't know. Yeah, it's kind of, it's kind of
weird how they, how they work. I, I, I see it most frequently.
The bucks don't like the sheep. No other way around.
Bucks don't mind the sheep, the elk don't mind the cows, but

(14:33):
they don't like the other one. Yeah, yeah.
Vice versa. Yeah.
I didn't see any cows. I mean, other than the kind I
could shoot at. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But but it yeah, it's fun. I'm excited to get back out
there. And what what unit are you
hunting Manti of the manti. Very good.

(14:53):
Yeah. Well, yeah, we, we live on the
manti. So if you need any, any hints or
anything that's that's that's our unit.
It's only 35 minutes from the house so.
Yeah, yeah, I'll, I'll, we'll hang on after and I can show you
my pins that I got. You can say like, hey, you're in
the right area or, or, or not. I mean, I we've, we've, we're

(15:14):
all, we've been on them until the season opened.
And then I, we just went out a little short.
I mean, there were so many people out, but it was wild.
We I only came into one other hunter.
Where was that? That's pretty good.
And I was, I was expecting to see a whole bunch of people.
Either that or they saw me and stayed, stayed hidden.

(15:35):
But yeah, I mean, every once in a while you bump into someone.
But yeah, it's, it's a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed getting out there and and learning.
And it'll be fun to have my son out there with me when we I
don't, I don't care who it is. I just one of us has got to
harvest something this year. So first year hunting then so.

(15:57):
This is my fifth year. 5th year hunting, OK. 5th year.
Yeah, but I've only been able toget close enough to draw back on
anything. It was, it was the very first
time I went hunting. I had a bull elk at like 30-30
yards and it was the cool. I didn't have a clean shot on
vitals. Yeah, he was in scrub oak.
And I just waited. Waited.

(16:18):
And then he then the wind, he winded me.
He stopped, turned and looked and was like later, dude, it was
the last day. It was the last day of the
archery season. So he blew out of there and I
looked for him the rest of the day and couldn't find.
Him. Find him, Yeah.
It is a lot of fun. This is this is the first year
that I've actually been out chasing buck though.

(16:40):
Oh cool. So out I'm out trying to get a
mule deer this year. All the other years I've done
the, you know, the OTC elk and, you know, last year we focused
on, on Jackson, like trying to get him something.
But yeah, we got, we got the whole crew out there.
We got a fun little group that goes out and we're going to do,

(17:01):
yeah, do Manti try and see what we can get done over the next
four days. And and then the following week
we're we're heading up to the Uintas, see if we can chase
them. All that's nice, Nice.
So I'm. I'm hoping they're Bugle and we
I actually heard we had heard Bugle in open opening weekend.

(17:21):
Oh cool. And I mean, there, it wasn't a
ton of it, but it was like earlyin the morning, it was like 530.
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(17:41):
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(18:09):
like another hunter bugling that.
With with this weather that we've had the last couple of
days here in Utah, you might hear some good stuff this
weekend. Well, I hope so.
That's that's the one thing I haven't.
I haven't been out and and Dustin and Quinn and those guys
were like, dude, when you're outand they're like in the rut

(18:29):
bugling, they're like, that's insane.
Yeah, it is. It's it's an unreal experience
for sure. Yeah.
So, Jeff? That, that, that picture that
some of those pictures I sent you there.
We just killed that buck or thatbull opening weekend.
I'd, I'd actually drawn a, an Expo tag from the, from the

(18:51):
Honda Expo and like getting themmy money for I don't know how
many years. And I finally drew one of those
$5 Expo tags. It was for the Wasatch unit,
which we had a lot of time on. So we put in a ton and ton of
scouting and we the night beforethe opener we betted our number

(19:14):
2 bowl and my wife's like, are you going to go after the number
one or #2 And I'm like, I got togo after the number 2 bowl
because we bet it and we know right where he's at.
We haven't seen the number one bowl in 2 1/2 weeks.
We don't know where he went. I mean, we got it.
We got to go after #2 and so thenext morning we went after him

(19:36):
and, and we got up on the Ridge above and my other boys were
when my good friend Ryan Greenfield, they were, they were
scoping across the at us and kind of guiding us in, you know,
And we were working our way downto, to our number 2 bowl and we

(19:57):
got to, we got to within oh, 50 yards ish.
And we couldn't see him. There was a ton of deadfall in
front of us. We couldn't see over it.
So, so we knew we were getting close.
And then my, my boy that was with me, my oldest, he was
videoing and he catches the tipsof the antlers and up we're

(20:22):
like, oh, he's right there. He's close.
And we still couldn't see because of all this deadfall.
And so I had to jump up on this great big stump and I got up on
this stump and I was able to seeand I, I had a good clean
shooting lane. I had a quakey tree on this side
and then a good, good shooting lane where his vitals were.

(20:45):
Then there was a Bush cover in his front shoulder and part of
his neck. And then I could see his head.
So there was a just beautiful little shooting lane right
there. And I asked my boy, so what's
the range? What's the range?
And he says, I can't see him. I'm down below, I can't see him.
I don't know what the range is. I'm like, OK, I'm guessing.
I mean, I he looked, he looks at30.
Anyways, I draw back and I shoot.

(21:06):
And as soon as I shoot, I knew I'd missed because I hadn't
adjusted for the steep down angle.
And it slid right over his back.And on the video from my boys on
the other side of the Canyon video, and through their phone
scope, they can see, they can see that the arrow come in and

(21:29):
actually sliced the bowl right across the back.
And oh, really? You can see the red mark right
across the back where it sliced him right across the back.
And I thought the whole world was over.
I'd missed, missed my #2 bowl and ended up that there was two
other six points just down below.

(21:51):
And so we, we kept working and kept getting in there, got
closer and closer and we got to the point that there was a
little patch of those, those 5 foot tall Quakeys.
So you couldn't see through themfor nothing.
But we can see the horns of bothof them just on the backside of
these these Quakeys. And we were 10 yards, we were

(22:15):
within 10 yards of these bowls. And we were there for probably
10 to 15 minutes. And I was just trying to find a
shooting lane, trying to get a shooting lane.
And the one I ended up getting ended up betting and I didn't
see him bed and we could still see the other one moving around
in the in the trees with his horns and stuff.

(22:36):
So I worked my way around to theleft just a little bit and I
ended up finding a little great little spot that I had a
shooting lane in case any of them came past.
And we could see the, the, the one, the one was still in full
velvet. And that's how we could tell him
apart. And we could see him off to the

(22:57):
left just a little bit. And we didn't know quite where
the other one was. That was a, that was bigger the
2. And so we're trying to be really
quiet and careful. And I took one step and I
snapped a twig and the bull stood up and looked right at me.
And it's, it is amazing. You talked about how big these

(23:19):
animals are. They are really, really big when
they're live on the hoof. Anyways, it seemed like
eternity. He was staring at me.
He finally puts his head down and kind of turns just a little
bit, and I draw back and I shootand I hit him and I asked my
son. I said.

(23:39):
I said what pin do you use at 8 feet that bull?
We had snuck to within 8 feet ofthat bull when he stood up and
looked at me and man they are really big at 8 feet.
My boy says you use them all. That's.
Yeah, I said that's what I did. I just put all my pins on him

(24:02):
and shot him. So he went about 75 yards and
tipped over and and the rest is history.
But the the reason I was tellingyou that story is my good friend
Ryan Greenfield, we've been hunting together for for quite a
few years. He had, he had befriended this
other guy that was just getting into hunting.

(24:24):
He had just bought a bow, got his very first tag.
It was his very first hunt. It was opening morning and he
got to set and watch this whole thing go down of me sneaking in
and killing this elk at 8 feet. And when he, when we got down
there and we're, we're packing this elk out, we, we turned to

(24:47):
him and said 99.9999% of the time it does not happen like
this. So, so just get used to it.
So this is, this is crazy. It, it was, it was awesome
experience to have Mike out there in the hills with us and
just to teach him and introduce him to hunting.

(25:07):
But we made sure that he understood.
Yeah, but what an introduction, man.
I mean, what a what a what an introduction.
I mean, I get it's like, hey, set temper expectations like it
normally doesn't work out like this.
Ever. Ever.
But. Missed one bowl, it's still get
on another one and shoot him at 8:00 if you did.
This does not happen like this. Well, he must be doing something

(25:27):
right. So.
The the old, the old namesake, the old Nimrod, Great Hunter is
is is coming through. Alive and what?
Yeah, it's. It's, it's, it's amazing.
I, I mean, I feel like each timelike I, we went out and got
skunked, but that opening weekend, but still having cows

(25:48):
come to within, you know, well, I ranged them at 150 yards.
One of them had come up and I had kind of seen the back and,
and the wind was coming up the Canyon.
So I don't think I got winded, but I, I, I saw her and she kind
of just was right there for a minute and I'm going like, man,
I'm like, I draw back and it gives you hunting.

(26:10):
I feel like teases you. It gives you just enough.
It's kind of like I, I hate golf.
I don't golf. It's like, I think golf is the
worst sport in the entire world.But I've also played enough golf
that it like it does give you just enough that like keeps you
coming back. But I'm glad that I found like a
new focus cause even when you'reout hunting, if you don't get
anything, I mean, the experiences that you have out in

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the woods, they're just like, tome, they're unmatched.
It's like you get out, you get, you know, you get into your spot
and it's still dark and then, you know, like first light
breaks and things start to kind of like come alive.
And it, it's just, I don't know,man, it's magical to be out
there. And it's it, it does something
for me. And I think for a lot of people

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like to the soul, it's like it'shealing to be out there.
It is, it's, it's I, I've told alot of people, I have some
friends that aren't hunters that, that I have talked with
and, and things like that. And they ended up getting bows
and just shooting bows in their backyard.
They said it's so therapeutic just to get out there and just

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to shoot your bow. And I said, yeah.
And then you get on the mountainin the, in the, the smells and
the sights and the everything that goes on is just, it is, is
relaxing for sure. You might hike 10 miles, but at
the end of the day you're like, man, I feel good.
Yeah, yeah, I, you know, the other thing you talk about the

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smells. So that bowl that I had the
experience with on my very firstone, like I, I never smelled it
and I hadn't been close enough to smell any elk.
But like we when, when we were walking in hiking in, you know,
on opening day and I, I told Dustin I was like, did you hear

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that? He's I'm like, I swear to her to
elk bugle. He's like, no, he's like, they
won't be bugling now. And I'm like, well, I get that.
I get that it's not the right time.
I'm like, but I'm telling you like I heard what I heard.
And like, it's funny because like my wife and, and kids are

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always like, do you, you know, can you hear?
And I'm like that not great, butthere are certain pitches that I
pick up and for whatever reason,that elk bugle is one that I'm
like, I'm telling you, that's anelk.
Anyway, then, then we had like abreeze came up and it hit us and
Dustin's like, I think you heardan elk bugle.
He's like, and they're close. He's like, I mean, we could, we

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could smell them. And anyway, it was, yeah,
there's been a couple times whenwe were when we were hiking in
and out that they had to be close.
But it the woods, some of the areas you go into are so thick
and they're just not highly traveled that it's just, I mean,

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you could be right on top of them and not know it, Yeah.
Yep, very much. But yeah, that smell.
So there's that smell which is very unique to elk.
There's also just like the othersmells of like the pine and the
sage and and everything that it's just man, it's.
One of my you. Haven't been out there like you

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can't describe it to somebody. I I can't describe, but there's
probably people that are much better articulating that type of
stuff. But.
One of my favourites has got to be a high mountain thunderstorm
and a rainstorm. Just love, love the
thunderstorms and the rainstormsup in the mountains that the
smells it brings the when it when it knocks down all that

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dust with the rain and, and, andit's everything is just crisp
and clean. And yeah, it's that's one of my
favorites. Yeah, it's there's so there's so
much to to love about it. And yeah, it is.
It's just, I don't know, I'm excited to get back out there
again, spend a little bit more time on the mountain than we did

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that opening weekend. But yeah, it's, it's it's
healing, man. It's to me, it is.
I think to a lot of people, it'ssuper healing.
And then good for you, man, to get it done on opening weekend.
Yeah, it was getting. Out there.
Yeah, that there's guys that go out there and just get it done.
I've never, I haven't been 1 yet.

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I mean, I'm looking forward. To just get there.
Figuring out. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is the
year. This is the year for sure.
I know we're going to get it done.
So Jeff, like what? What is your favorite animal to
hunt? Oh man, so I just, I, I love, I

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love a big muhly buck. They're, they're just, there's
something about them. But I love hunting elk when
they're making noise. The the sounds, oh man, it's
just amazing to get to get within bow range of a bugling
bowl and just have the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

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Just absolutely amazing. In 2018, I was lucky enough to
draw a once in a lifetime moose tag here in Utah and that was an
incredible experience to hunt moose.
So I, I don't know, man, there, there's so many goods of each

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one of them. It's it's hard to pick an animal
for me. Well, since you brought it up,
tell me about this moose hunt. OK, well it was drew a a wasatch
tag. The the unit is really, really
big for Moose on the Wasatch tag.

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It actually includes the entire Manti unit.
Oh really? Yeah, it's, it is a massive,
massive unit. So we, we spent a ton of time
looking and trying to decide where we're going to go.
We actually passed up three bowls opening morning.
We actually helped two other hunters get on two of them and

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watch both of them shoot them. So that was really cool.
One of them had 27 points, was an older gentleman.
We watched him shoot that bull. And then we got another lady,
she had 34 points and we watchedthis bull and got her on it.

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They happened to drive by and wesaid, hey, we got one right
here. It's not far off the road.
It'd be pretty easy one for you.And they said, yeah, let's do
it. And so they, they went after
that one and ended up getting that one and then we passed on
another one. It was a good bull, just not
quite what I was looking for. We spent a lot of time hunting,

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a lot of time looking. We went up, it was October,
October 6th, so I still had a couple weeks left in the hunt.
We went up Big Cottonwood Canyon.
We spent a lot of time at Big Cottonwood Canyon and it's hard
to hunt that because there's so many people.

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I mean, you got mountain bikers,you got hikers, you got, I mean
there. There's just a ton of people
that hike those trails. Earlier this would have been so
I got him on the 6th. The 3rd, I actually had missed a
big bull with my bow. We were walking up the trail

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just right at right at daylight.It was just starting to get
light and we happened to come around this corner and there was
this big bowl laying in the middle of the trail.
He was just laid out right there.
He saw us, we saw him and he stood up and he just kind of
started to walk off. And in the chaos of me trying to

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get my arrow and all that kind of stuff, he walked off.
So we kind of chased him up through there and I ended up
getting a shot at him. I had two shots at him with my
bow. The first shot was at about 40
yards. And if you think buck fever is
bad, ho ho man, you ought to youought to try the moose shakes

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'cause I didn't, I didn't come to full draw.
I didn't even level my, my arrowout.
I, you know, I drew back in about right here.
I pulled the trigger. The arrow went flying.
He kind of spooked a little bit and ran up the hill a little bit
further and we kind of followed him up through there.
The second shot, I had him at 35yards and at that point I'd calm

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down and I was calm as could be.I was just rock steady.
I drew back. I had him at 35.
I was dead still and I shoot andat about 27 yards I hear this
Ting and I caught a little branch that came out of the tree
and boom that went up and over him and he took off and we never

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saw him again after that. And so, man, I was like
devastated that I'd missed this bull with three days later on
the 6th, you know, we were goingback up through that same trail
trying to find that bull. And as, as we parked up Big
Cottonwood Canyon, it started torain a little bit on us.

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And as we hiked up the trail, about halfway up the trail, it
turned to snow. And then as we got back in a
little bit further, there was probably about 3 inches of snow
on the ground. And as we were walking up the
trail, we cut a, a, a moose track going across the trail.
Like that's a big bull. That's, that's a big track right

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there. That's a big bull.
So me and my boys, we jumped on that track and we tracked that
sucker for almost 4 miles. He never sat down.
He just kept walking and kept walking and we stay right on his
tracks. I remember coming up and over
the Ridge thinking we're going to see him and we start coming
down the backside and we ran into two, two guys that were

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hunting deer on the extended archery.
And they said, dude, you're right on him, keep going.
You're like 5 minutes behind him.
He just came through here. I thought he was going to run me
over. So we just kept on him, kept on
him, kept on him. And we got up on this next hill
and then we got to a point that we had a great vantage of this
basin below. I said he's going to be down on

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that base. We just got to sit here and
watch. And so we watched for an hour or
so. The sun had come out.
We were trying to warm up because my little ones were,
were getting cold, you know, andso we're trying to warm up.
We grabbed a little bite to eat and we never found him.
So I said, let's just jump back on his tracks.
And so we started on his tracks and we, we were on a AS facing

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slope. So a lot of the snow had melted
off. And I thought, oh, crap, we,
we're going to lose his tracks. And we started to try to track
him and go down, down the Ridge where he was, where he was
headed. And I'm, I'm looking for tracks.
I've got my head down looking for tracks.
And my son reached over and hit me in the chest, said stop, he's

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right there. And, and we looked up and then
he was just bedded down under a tree 100 yards from us.
He was probably only 150 yards from where we had been sitting
for the last hour trying to lookfor him.
So we're like, like, OK. And I said, I'm not playing this

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game again. This is an illegal weapon hunt.
So I pulled the 300 out of my backpack and I pulled up and,
and I shot him and, and he tipped over right there in his
bed. And we're all hooting and
hollering and saying yay and allthis kind of stuff.
And all of a sudden he sets right back up.

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I'm like, what the heck? So I stopped and I put another
round in him and he tipped back over and I thought, OK, there we
go, we're good. And so we gave it a while and we
went down down to him. And as we get down to him, he's
not moving, but he's still alive.
And I watch him with his eyeballs and he's watching us as

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we walk around him. So I didn't have to put another
round into him just to kill him and get him dead.
But I, it was amazing how strongthat that moose was.
I was like 3 rounds from a 300 in the chest and it was amazing.
But that was, that was a really,really cool experience to have

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my boys there with me hunting onthat one and to be able to, to,
to enjoy that whole thing with them.
Made a phone call. You get to pull like.
Go ahead. I I made a phone call to my
buddy, said Ryan, we got a bowl down, get up here, he says.
I'll call some guys and get somePackers.
And and they all showed up and then helped us pack it out.

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And yeah, it was, it was amazingexperience.
That's exciting that and that's that's wild.
I mean you kind of go through like all these highs and lows.
It's like you nice you're helping out other people get
there, you know, punch their tag.
And then, yeah, we I was talkingwith with Jay down at Wild Arrow
and he'd, you know, he had talked about like he'd been, you

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know, wanting to save up. And he's like, I'm going to, you
know, be 2530 years before I getmy, my moose tag.
And I got another buddy. Hood message and he's like yeah,
he's like I'll probably be able to draw my moose tag when I'm 90
and and he'll probably still be out on the side of the mountain

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hunting too. Yeah, but but that that's fun.
I mean, to be able to like, you know, coming kind of down to the
wire and, and snow comes in and all of a sudden, you know, you
get these tracks that are like, oh, I think that might be
something, yeah. That's that's one thing that I
that I love and hate at the sametime.

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I I hate the snow. I hate being cold, but I
absolutely love hunting in the snow.
So yeah, I mean love, hate, love, hate.
With the snow, there's some benefits to it.
I'm I'm like you like I hate being cold.
Like I, I, I actually, it's funny, like I'm allergic to the

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cold. So when, when and, and I, and I
say that, but like, actually I'msuper nervous about hunting like
in the snow because if I get wet, if I start sweating and
it's cold, like my whole body breaks out in hives.
Oh, really? So when I say like I'm allergic
to the cold, that's crazy. And it, it started, I don't

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know, probably like 15 years ago, I'd never had a problem
with it. But we, we were sledding and
hiking up, you know, I had the kids out where I'm dragging them
up the mountain. They'd slide down, dragging back
up the mountain and it was cold and I had, was sweating.
And so like that temper regulation thing for me and
hunting is going to be like super, yeah, in the winter,

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'cause I like, I don't know. I mean, I don't know, anything
is going to happen. I mean, it's annoying and they
itch, but like, I legitimately like when I get cold and wet, if
I start sweating like I whereverI'm wet, it like breaks out with
I'll break out with hives. That is insane.
That and maybe maybe I need to. I'm glad we talked about this

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because maybe what I'll do is just toss some Benadryl in the
pack right now. Yeah, good idea.
Wonder, Wonder what it is that'sdoing it.
That's crazy. That so they're they I went into
the dock and there's like there,you know, are people that just
develop like allergies to the cold or like it's an actual
thing. I can't remember what it was
called. I've gotten pretty good at just

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regulating like if I feel myselfstart getting hot, like I'll
just shed a layer in the winter.But but yeah, I mean, I, we've
gone up in the extended archery with Dustin and his brother
Colton and I didn't have any problems.
I mean, it was cold, it was snowy, but we also didn't push

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too hard, you know, where, wherewe went.
So I, I just, I do have to definitely gauge like my effort
level because that is something that's kind of, I mean, I don't
think anything would happen other than it's annoying, but.
But that did that you? Don't want to be itching?
From your, from your focus, and I mean it distracts from

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everything. Yeah.
Yeah, that's that's. Crazy what have you got any
other tags that you're looking to fill the remainder of the
year or have I could go boys gotstuff like what's going?
On Yeah. So the rain remainder this year.
I've got, I've got one of my boys has a, A tag like yours, a
spike cow tag that he's trying to feel.

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I've got a boy that's got an archery deer tag on the the
Wasatch unit. I said we'd never haunted that,
but when I drew that at the Expo, he says, hey, I might as
well put in for a deer tag therewhile we're there.
So he's got that tag and we're going to try to go out this
weekend and see if we can get that filled.
And then I've got my second youngest son has a muzzleloader

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tag for deer and I've got a dedicated hunter.
I'm on my year, year three of mydedicated hunter.
And I think with everything elsethat's going on, my daughter, my
one girl out of the seven kids, she did not draw A tag this
year. And so I think I'm going to
mentor her off of my dedicated hunter tag and let her do the

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mentor program and hunt the muzzle loader and the rifle
with, with my tag. So that that youth mentor thing
is pretty, pretty amazing, pretty amazing program that the
the state of Utah has done. I think most states probably
have some kind of thing like that, but to be able to to let
my kid hunt off of my tag, that's that's pretty awesome.

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I didn't know that I knew they had like the mentor program
because that's actually how I got started hunting because oh
good. I I started looking what yeah,
when I when I very first did notnot the youth one, but they have
like that. So rather than doing the hunter
safety, you do like the mentor program.
You have to go out with somebody.
You have to go out with somebodywho who's 21 or older and has a

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Hunter's license, which turned was my son.
Your son, he was 21 and he'd gotten start.
Yeah, he'd gotten his hunter safety when he was, I don't
know, 14. But I went on.
I was just going to go and try and do.
I had gone through and done the online portion, but it was like
in the middle of the season and there were no classes.
I was like 3 months out from being able to go in and do it.

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And my, and my brother-in-law was like, you should look at the
mentor program. And so you go out.
It's like, I don't know, like 8 questions.
It's super simple. It's like basically, can you
know, don't be a Nimrod. Yep, exactly.
And anyway, so that was how I kind of gotten started.
So I could, I never went out, obviously couldn't go by myself,

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but went out with my son and a couple other buddies and that
was how I had got started. And then finally eventually did
the, you know, full hunter safety like shebang.
But so there's another mentor program.
So if you have the dedicated hunter, you can let one of your
kids. Yeah, I mean, I mean, any, any
tag you can go in and pay and pay a fee.

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From my understanding, I've got to go to the DWR just to, to
make sure. Well, the, the, the, the
details, but you pay like a $10 fee and then they can hunt off
of your tag. So even that big bowl tag, I
think you could, you could mentor somebody off of that if I
would have wanted to. But the, the, the mentor program

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is pretty awesome. Awesome program to be able to
get people involved in hunting that have not had the
opportunity to do so. So it's it's pretty cool.
I think our state does a good job of trying to, you know,
foster that love for hunting with like the young.
They've got a lot of like the young.
Youth. Programs and that so.
I think, yeah, they've done somegreat youth tags.

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You know, they're just availableto the youth.
They they do. I know they do youth fishing
days and things like that. So I think they've done a pretty
good job trying to get youth involved in in the outdoors and
and keep them away from computers so much, I guess.
Yeah, that's an entirely other subject.

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Yeah, but, but it's fun. Yeah.
My, my, I've got 2 grandkids, 2 granddaughters.
They're one's 2 1/2. The other one's four months old.
But my wife, she got she got madat me because we had our
granddaughter and she's like, Papa, you're going to kill a elk

(47:33):
this weekend. I'm like, that's the plan,
sweetheart. And she's like, I want to kill
an elk. And my wife is like, you're not
taking her hunting. But she's also kind of like my
shadow. Like she wants to be where I am.
You know, fortunately we live close.
We're able to see her pretty much on a daily basis.

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And that's cool. Looking forward to, you know,
I'm going to let her get a little bit older and I mean two
and a halfs young, but it's fun to see her.
She likes to go out and watch meshoot the bow and that's all I'm
doing right now is archery. Archery.
It's just I'm trying like until I until I kill something and I'm
just going to stick with the with the bow.
It's. Really good and of.

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Course you pick the. The hardest to start with.
Yeah, once I start hunting with the rifle, I'm like, why?
Why didn't I just do this to begin with?
Most most people do it the otherway around.
But yeah. A lot of fun.
I, I remember, I remember years ago, my, my daughter is now 17,

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but back when she was like, you know, 6-7 years old, me and her
older brothers would be sitting there watching YouTube videos on
hunting and stuff like that. And it should walk through the
room and it should say, Hey, that's a big deal or should walk
through the room and the hell could bugle and should bugle
back, you know, with her boys and things like that.
So it was, it's really cool to watch him.

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I tell you, you know, I, I've killed elk, I've killed deer,
I've killed moose. You know, I've done, done a lot
of hunting, but my most favoriteexperiences, all of my hunting
are watching my kids have successful hunts.
It's, it's, it's amazing to, to be right there and watch your
kids be successful and, and feelthat, that, that rush and that

(49:23):
energy and that it's, it's, it'spretty awesome.
That that's where I'm at. I mean, with like with my son
Jackson, who we're out with, I'mlike, the goal is to get him
something, but we'll kind of like split up and it's like
unless something just stumbles in front of me like those those
cows that were coming down, it'slike, well.

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We'll take it. If opportunity presents itself
and he was probably a mile away from me.
So it's not like they're hard enough to find, you know, let
alone like try and get, hey, youneed to like hoof it over here.
And I and I try and keep a stockon and see him.
But yeah, that's I'm looking forward to that.

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Jackson's he was the one who gotme into it and he's yet to
harvest anything either. So like I really want him to be
able to like harvest animal thisyear.
It's a greatest. And for me, something, if
something stumbles in front of me, then I'll, I'll, I'll let
her let her loose. Yeah, you, you think, you think

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you're a big tough guy until that, until that happens and
your kids harvest and then all of a sudden there's big hugs and
tears and all kinds of stuff. And it's, it's, it's a full
experience. And I tend to be a pretty
emotional guy too. What do I?
Like. Yeah, I can't remember what
happened. We were watching something, but
I got choked up and, and my granddaughter, she's like, Papa,

(50:47):
are you OK? And I'm like, yeah, Papa's
great. Papa's happy.
Oh, it was probably, I think it was when, yeah, like got to hold
like her little sister for the first time.
You know, yeah. It's just, it's, it's those
things that just those memories you create and there's nothing
like going out, you know, with your son and that like just
beating yourself up on the side of a mountain and and then being

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able, once we get the job done, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Yeah, I, I even, even when you don't harvest, there's so many
memories to be made. We Oh yeah.
We, we backpacked into the UN asone year on an open bull hunt.
And it was towards the end of the, the end of the hunt.
So, you know, mid-september ish.And the day we got in there and

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the next day we're just absolutely gorgeous, beautiful
days, you know, mid 70s, just beautiful September days.
And I remember we had taken our hammocks up, so we'd go light
and sleep in our hammocks and stuff.
So we were sleeping there in ourhammocks one night and I looked
up and I'm seeing light and I'm like, which one of the boys is

(51:54):
going up to the bathroom? You know, who's up with their
flashlight? And then I realized, hey, that's
lightning. Then I started feeling raindrops
and I'm like, oh boys, we're going to get wet.
Luckily my oldest boy said, hey,let's just take the little tent
up so that we have a place to throw stuff and we'd change in
there and blah, blah, blah. So we bailed into the tent in

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the middle of the night. It was a little four man tent,
which really is not a four man tent.
So we had us and all of our gearand everything in this little
four man tent. There was four of us and that
storm rolled in and it dumped about 6 inches of snow and the
wind was howling. We could hear trees falling over

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all the way around us. We were stuck in that tent for
36 hours, the four of us. We were cooking inside that
tent. We were sleeping inside that
tent. We were doing everything just to
stay warm inside that tent. Luckily my my oldest boy was
dumb enough to pack his iPad up there and he had a couple of

(53:01):
movies downloaded on his iPad sowe watched movies in the tent.
But that was one of my favorite memories, being stuck in that
little four man tent for for 36 hours with my boys.
It wasn't a successful hunt, butman, we had a lot of fun.
Yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, we've had a lot
of good memories. I mean, just being out there.

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Yeah. Stuff that we laugh about and
you talk about those thunderstorms, like when you're
up in those high mountains. I won't go into a whole bunch of
detail. I've shared it on some other
podcast, but man, like, I thought that was it for us.
Yeah. I mean, it was like we were high
and, you know, 10,000 feet elevation and it's just dump and
rain. And when the IT went, the

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lightning would flash and it's like you can smell it.
Yeah. It's.
I was like, oh, like, my, yeah, I'm like, you're we're going to
die and then your mother's goingto kill me again.
But it's yeah, that that is one that is just completely

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unnerving, like being up in in those hills and and it's fun and
like now we look back and we kind of laughed at it.
But when yeah, we we were out and that storm came in on
opening weekend and light started flashing.
Like we both looked at each other.
We were both thinking like little.
Fortunately it like moved through quick it you know, but

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but yeah, it you have those things that those experiences
that you flashback and you have memories of.
Oh yeah, definitely changes things for sure.
Sure. Well, Jeff, hey, as we wrap up
here, I know you guys, you've been doing this for so long.
You guys have a business that you've started, you know, in
addition to your Nimrod Outdoors.

(54:52):
Yep, so tell. Tell me a little little bit
about that. So the company is is sneak tech
basically our our tag lines werethe leaders in stocking
technology. We have products that help with
smell and we have products to help with sound.

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We're getting into one that is is is going to help with sight.
You know what animal has basically 3 defenses, it's
hearing, it's sight and it's smell.
And so we're attacking those 3 defenses on on all ends.
We have for the smell. We have a product called though,
it's a wind checker. And then we have one that's

(55:35):
called Sneak Attack, which is a cover scent spray.
It's natural covered, natural smells like cedar, juniper or
sage. And it's not designed to
eliminate smell because you knowyou can't eliminate it.
As soon as you start hiking, you're going to start sweating,
then you're going to smell again.
But it's it's meant to cover that smell and give you just

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that extra 2030 seconds if necessary to get a shot off.
You know, you're sneaking in on animal the, the wind swirls on
you like like you said it did. The wind swirls on you and blows
your human scent to them. And boy, they're alert they're
gone. But if, if it blows A scent to
them that they're very familiar with, very comfortable with,

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with like sage smell or something like that, it may give
you that extra 2030 seconds thatyou need to get that shot off.
And so we, we're dealing with the smell.
We're dealing with the wind withour wind checker.
We have a product color sneak boots.
They're designed to go on your boot.

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They they set like a slipper under, under your boot and they
are designed with a recoil foam and Barbary fleece.
So it reduces the sound that your feet make when you walk by
up to like 80%. So really quiet walking.
And then we're, we're looking ata thing to do with the, with the

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site. But we, yeah, we're, we're just
trying to help people get, get to sneakier as they're as
they're out in the woods. We have a lot of, we have a lot
of guys that are in the wildlifephotography that use them
because it allows them to get close to the animals and be able
to take pictures up close. So there are a lot of different
things really, really effective for the bow hunters.

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But we do have muzzleloader guysand rifle guys that use them all
the time. So, so if you want to sneak up
in your wife in the kitchen, putyour sneak boots on and you'll
get sneaky and scare the heck out of her.
But yeah, it's been a lot of funwith this business.
And it's, it's just me and my, my kids that run it.

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We do all the marketing, the social media, the packaging, the
the you know all. We do it all right here at our
house. So, yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, I mean, like you said, maybe if I had some of that
cover sent at a minimum confuse them long enough for me to get a
shot off. Yeah, that's awesome.

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So if people want to go check itout, how, how, how would they
find? You they they can find Nimrod
outdoors on all of his social media and on YouTube.
They can find sneak tech at www.sneaktech.com.
We also have social. Media See.
Yep, hi there SNEKTEC sneak tech.

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For those of you that are listening on the podcast versus
watching on YouTube. There you go.
But yeah, we have social medias for for those as well.
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube forfor sneak tech as well.
So you can find us in a lot of different places.
Awesome. All right, guys, well, if you
want to go check him out, Jeff hate as as we wrap up, like any

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advice that you would give to somebody that's new to hunting
that that maybe he's like one piece that that's like in your
mind was like, man, I wish I wish them would have told me
that a lot sooner. I would say the biggest piece of
advice, and I tell my boys this all the time, enjoy the ride.

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Don't get, don't get caught up in, in, in everything.
Don't you know, you see all this, this publicity on social
media and all that kind of stuffand, and you think you have to
have a, a 200 inch buck or, or, or a 400 inch bowl?
No man, just enjoy the ride. Put some meat in the freezer.

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Enjoy the experience that you'recreating.
Don't, don't put all this pressure on yourself to, to
think you have to be something that you're not.
And you know what I mean? It's it's, it's about the
experience. The elk that I killed this year,
it was a great bull, nice six point bull.
Was it my number one or my #2? No, it wasn't.

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But I wouldn't trade that experience that I had.
Getting 8 feet from a bull with my son right next right behind
me and my others watching from the hill.
I wouldn't trade that experiencefor a 400 inch bowl.
Yeah, it's it's it's about the experience, not not the score.
Just enjoy the ride. Yeah, I think that's great

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advice. Like I like I said, like I've
yet to harvest anything. I've been fine eating tag soup
for the past five years. But you know, but yeah.
And that a lot. Yeah, there there's also,
there's a lot, like you said, there's a lot to be said by just
the different types of memories that can be made regardless of

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the harvest success. So I think that's great advice.
Well, Jeff, man, hey, I appreciate that you guys.
Thank you for listening to the podcast.
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We'll make sure and put links toeverything in the show notes as
well. So if you're if you're looking

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for some of those type of products, you want to be extra
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