Steve, I almost said happy Monday, but it's actually Wednesday.

But this is going to be a pretty laid back informal podcast.

We just wrapped up our rifle outcome, you and I.

I just got back home at 2.30 in the morning.

So I will try and stay awake during this conversation.

But we just wanted to kind of hop on and chat about the hunt, chat about the experience,

some of the things we learned, some of the questions that you guys had on social media

as listeners to dive into.

And yeah, just go into it.

So I guess super helpful if guys are newer to the podcast by chance.

This was our second rifle outcome.

We did a very similar hunt last fall, which was our first rifle outcome.

And if we'll get into the story, it was oddly and eerily similar this year and last

year in so many ways, it was pretty wild.

Yeah, that's just crazy.

So yeah, I guess we'll just dive into the story.

And we'll try and hit some of the questions that came up as we tell the story.

And then after a bit of the story and kind of the play by play, if you will, if there's

anything we didn't hit, we'll go back and do some Q&A.

But yeah, where do you want to start, Steve?

I'll say for me, before, I guess before we get into the hunt, for me, one thing I had

to like consciously shift my mindset on going into this hunt was that it wasn't necessarily

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