Welcome to the Huntback Punch Podcast. This is the fifth and final part of the series that we've been doing picking some of our five favorite episodes.

Today in this episode, it's actually not one too far back in the archives. It's episode 216, which is just from earlier this year. The guest is Chad Wright.

Chad is a former Navy SEAL hunter himself, ultra runner, and we just wanted to talk with Chad about a bunch of different aspects of adventure, mindset, challenge, adversity, and there's so much good stuff in here.

So as much as we can talk like tips and tactics and, you know, say, oak calling strategies or glassing strategies for me, or something like that,

we love to get into mindset on this podcast because it plays a huge role in hunting. You get out there in the backcountry.

Things don't go your way. You're dealing with the elements, you're dealing with animals that don't cooperate. You get multiple days into a long hunt, and it's easy to start getting down.

Like it's easy to want to give up. It's easy to want to quit. But it's only by staying strong and continuing and persisting that you will find success.

So there's just a lot here that we wanted to leave you with, especially as we head into season to get you into the right mindset to start your season to push through the hard times.

So in this conversation with Chad, we talk about the power of your thoughts. We talk about the power of your words. We talk about defining true adventure.

We speak on what you can learn from failure. There's so much in here. Guys, I hope you enjoy it.

Even if you have tuned into this one, like myself, not that long ago, I think this aired maybe in February, so call it six months ago. It's one to come back to you.

So guys, hope you've enjoyed not only this episode, but the series. Don't forget, there's a link in the show description to a podcast giveaway that we're doing just for you guys.

Just as a way to say thank you for supporting us in the podcast.

We are excited to say we're five years in and glad to keep going. So a whole lot more to come, but right now here's a conversation with Chad right.

Chad, welcome to the Hunt to Backcountry podcast. Thanks for joining us.

Large Steve, thank you so much for having me brother. Yeah, yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be on a few podcasts. And this is one that I have been really, really fired up and excited about.

Oh, it's cool man. It's too kind. It's a we connected because of your podcast, which I somehow stumbled upon. And I don't even listen to too many podcasts these days, but I found your show and listen to one or two and then kind of got hooked and caught up on a bunch of them.

So it's one of those things where it's like, all right, we got to make this happen. And to be honest with you, the outset, I didn't even know that you hunted or had a hunting background, but you do.

So even all the better that we can kind of merge that into the storyline as well.

Yeah, no doubt brother. Well, yeah, I definitely started hunting at a really young age and you know, I've never met a team guy that didn't like to hunt like a Navy SEAL.

We all, man, we all look man, some guys obviously like it more than others. Right. But there are no anti hunters in the SEAL teams. I could promise you that.

But we actually had we had another former SEAL on the podcast. Gosh, this has probably been like two or three years ago, but Rourke Denver. And he was saying that like for him, he discovered that hunting more so after his time in the teams.

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