Wow, I've never heard of a dude killing his first animal in Birkenstocks.

Thanks to a scouting tip from a yoga instructor.

That's pretty impressive.

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Welcome to Episode 170 of the Huntback Country Podcast.

Our guest in this episode is Johnny Mack from Washington Backcountry.

We talk with Johnny about his origins getting into Big Game Hunting.

And as you heard in that teaser, it's quite the story.

Especially with his first Big Game Harvest, which was scouted by a yoga instructor.

Yeah, we'll hear more about that story.

Johnny runs Washington Backcountry.

And a part of his initiative with Washington Backcountry as well as his personal passion

is this idea that mentorship is conservation.

So we talk a lot about that in this episode as well.

It's a very, very helpful piece to add to the puzzle if you will.

So in terms of conservation, a lot of times we talk about public lands, we talk about legislation.

But Johnny's helping us realize that actually getting more hunters and mentoring hunters

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