#10MinuteTalk | Fall Hunt Recap - Rifle Rut Elk with Vortex’s Erik Barber/Slingin’ Rik

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Vortex’s Erik Barber is fresh off a Rifle Elk Rut Hunt for the books. He burned points and powder making a lifelong dream come true. With his wife along for the adventure, they made memories to last a lifetime. Tune in to hear all about it.

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0:00.0	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic and welcome back to another fall hunt recap.
0:09.3	And I've got a good one for you sitting standing across from Mr. Eric Barber,
0:14.7	aka Slingin' Rick.
0:16.5	Now, Eric, generally when we have you in here, I'm trying to soak up some of your archery white-tail
0:24.0	wisdom that I can apply to, hopefully, begging a big buck of my own.
0:28.4	Not the case today.
0:29.5	Not the case.
0:30.4	We're talking rifle, rut, elk.
0:33.6	Yep.
0:34.5	Dude, I just want to get, this is your first elk hunt. You burned all your points. You pushed your chips in. You went for it. We were talking about... You were talking about how you wanted to burn your points. For a long time. For a long time. Yeah. Every option under the sun... I'm getting... Look at this. There they are. There they are. There they are.
0:55.2	When you brought up. Right on cue. Oh my gosh, dude. You can't fake that. You cannot fake that. I've got chills. Ryan, get a close-up of that. That's attractive. When you brought up this option, dude, I got so pumped. and for good reason, because spoiler alert, it turned out pretty
1:14.0	darn good. Eric, dude, give us the rundown. How did this go? How did you decide on this hunt?
1:19.7	Who did you go with? And then just let's go into the story. Yeah. So, okay, this goes like,
1:26.3	I mean, I'm going to bring it way, way back. All right.
1:29.1	I like that. As I was kind of like thinking about all this stuff, um, like on the days leading up to
1:34.6	the hunt, which I think our hunt dates were September 12th through the 17th,ish. Okay. That week.
1:42.7	But in that week leading up to it, you know, you and I talked about this.
1:45.8	Like the best part of any hunt, I'm starting to think is the anticipate, like obviously,
1:50.8	the hunt itself is incredible. Like, that goes without saying on any hunt, you know,
1:55.9	regardless of the outcome. That's always like the icing on the cake. But, you know, as I, like, as we talk about
2:02.9	this stuff more, I'm starting to think it's the anticipation that like week leading up to it,
2:07.8	the months leading up to it, you know, all that stuff because not very often you get to
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