Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Gritty and Kaffaroo cast podcast. I'm back on the mic with Brian. Brian's doing these a higher tech red neck than I he's doing video and audio. I am just doing

audio, which took a minute to make sure I even had it right so hopefully it works, but man, it's good to get back on here with you.

It's good to see you brother. Yeah, you too. I've talked to you in a coon stage man. How long is it? Well, I mean of any substance anyways probably been two months.

At least yeah, it's been it's been crazy here crazy here. Yeah, same here. It's been it's been busy, you know, just crazy busy and and does it feel like the season just

up on you. Yeah, I mean come from guys anal retentive about being prepared. I still last night was loading up, you know, a prototype pack.

Like always of 2000 for 2019 trying to figure out if I want to even use it and then I'm we've taken some gear in and then I deleted the video of what I took in on the phone because I was really good at videoed everything.

But my phone fills up with crap so much as deleting that off and I anyway, I'm sitting there trying to get my memory. I'm like, what did I leave? Okay, and then I'm thinking we packed, you know, it's 15 days. So it's not like, I can rough it for a couple nights. I don't want to rough it for 15 days. So anyway, we're getting ready for that.

What what's your favorite pack right now?

That the I'm still the cavern and the crater by by far, but it's not the best seller. I mean, I obviously should not be designing packs off of what I like because that is like the the bomb.com for me. And it's all I use.

And people are like, you don't like whatever. And I'm like, no, I don't like that pack. I like this pack. But if you call me for advice to argue with me, I'm like, you should have just bought what you wanted because you you were wanting like words of affirmation that that one is the awesome one, but I don't use that one. So yeah, I

Yeah, the cavern and the craters what I've been using the most, I mean, that's all I use really, but for a big packs anyway.

So you've got some big hunts planned. It's for the fall. What what do you got lined out? What's your what's your star? Are you going to sheep hunt this year?

No, I supposed to be there now, but the price down that about triple from what it was supposed to be. So I pulled the pin on that one. We got high country.

We didn't draw an elk tag. So we're doing over the counter, which is where we're doing mule deer. So mule deer elk and we have black bear tags. And then we go to Montana with Frodo and Bilbo Charlie and John Gabrielle.

And then we go to which I think BC for mountain goat and then we go to Alberta and then Missouri.

Good Lord Oklahoma.

Alabama, Florida for alligator and man, I'm missing some stuff in there, but a lot quite quite a bit only only a couple tough ones like this for

the first one's going to be bad. I'm already down to like 200 pounds. So yeah, yeah, I'm going to be skinny coming out of it. It's a it's a physical it's a rough pecker back there. It's a rough one. But what what do you got going on?

I'm going to hunt elk just over the counter and Idaho. Yeah.

And going with cousin Ben. Yeah. I was cousin Ben. He's cousin Ben been eating better and getting crossfit shape. Is he doing work now? He has been exercising.

He has been exercising in preparation, which is good because Matt Davis is going with us to Alberta. It's like I called him earlier. I said, you're not going to believe this. I'm getting ready to do a podcast with Brian. I got to go. But let's get you in on the hunt. So anyway, awesome. Yeah, he needs to go there, dude.

I'm going to get another struggle stick, buddy. I didn't want me only with shooting a shoot a shoot a stick. Everybody else got a compound. That's right. I I'm going on a Eastern Plains Mildier hunt with Barclow in Montana.

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