#177 - How Much Does the Average Hunter Spend a Year? - The Budget Hunter
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we hop on a call with TJ Doherty. TJ resides in IL and runs an account Intstagarm named The Budget Hunter.
When most people are trying to share less with what's going on near them on public land, TJ is sharing his struggles and success year-round.
In this episode, we talk about what he has going on for this upcoming year and how to save a few dollars!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on? This is Jay Koffer with Exodus. In this episode, I had a chance to hop on a call with T.J. Dordy. |
| 0:08.3 | T.J. resides in Illinois and runs an account on Instagram called the Budget Hunter. |
| 0:13.5 | And what's interesting with T.J. is when most people are trying to share less with what's going on near them on public, |
| 0:22.4 | TJ is sharing his struggles and success year-round on his Instagram account. Really fun to follow along and see |
| 0:27.2 | what he runs into. So in this episode, we talk about what was going on for this upcoming year |
| 0:32.6 | and how he saves a few dollars. And there's also a pretty fun fact in here |
| 0:37.9 | of how much the average hunter spends annually on hunting |
| 0:41.1 | and so that includes basically tags, gear, travel, |
| 0:44.5 | the whole nine yards. |
| 0:45.2 | So I found that to be interesting. |
| 0:47.9 | Honestly, it was a little bit lower than what I thought. |
| 0:50.4 | I know there's a lot of outliers. |
| 0:52.4 | So yeah, that's an interesting fact. |
| 0:53.9 | We share that. |
| 0:55.1 | And before we get into this episode, our sixth year anniversary sale is sneaking up very soon. |
| 1:01.0 | And we're not going to share any of the details here for now. But if you want to be the very first people to know, you need to go to our website and sign up for our newsletter. |
| 1:09.7 | You can be found at exodus outdoor gear.com with a sign up on the bottom of the |
| 1:14.9 | homepage. So enough of all this, let's go ahead and get right into this week's episode. |
| 1:20.6 | Lights. |
| 1:21.2 | Camera! |
| 1:22.4 | Follow the trailer. |
| 1:23.9 | If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
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