You tip them over, you get there and in that moment, you're feeling some level of disappointment,

call it what you want.

How do you look back at that moment now?

I look, I look back at it now is that was probably the most ridiculous reaction I could have.

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Well, thanks for tuning into this episode, guys. This is number 172 and our guest is Josh

Rory. He, like you, is a listener of this podcast and he reached out to us about a topic

that we wanted to talk about that he raised, but then in talking to him, he had a great story

that relates to it. So we kind of flipped the script on him and he went from suggesting a topic

to us saying, hey, you have some experience, you have a story to tell, some lessons that you've learned,

let's just get you on the podcast to talk about it. So we talked with Josh about an elk hunt that

he had. It was a limited entry hunt. It was a special tag, lots of opportunity, lots of potential

for trophies. He had some help. Like this was a big hunt, but in the end, as you'll hear about in

his story, on this side of the hunt, he has some regrets about how he handled it and the mindset

he had going into it and basically how some of the trophy aspects of this hunt kind of ruined

the experience at some level for him. So this is an interesting topic, one that I think we need to

think through ideally in advance, especially if we get that special tag, we have that special

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