Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast.

Today we've got Jeff Lester of Hunt Hard Outfitters out of Eager Arizona.

Jeff, how you doing?

Great, Jay.

Are you eager or Springerville? I live in Eager. Okay. Springerville, Eager,

they're all the same. You drive and you don't know which one. It's kind of like Phoenix and Scottsdale. You don't know where you're at. You know you're in one of the two, but you don't know where you're at.

That's right.

Jeff, I've had you on the podcast a bunch. We've talked about Arizona, we've talked about

New Mexico, we've talked about your Hanhard Deer, we've had some great podcast, I always get good feedback when you're all on the

podcast. We are sitting here with a deadline in our face here of March 20th for

New Mexico, but we are sitting in a spot that you and I have not sat in very

much in that moisture in Arizona is really good and from what I'm hearing moisture in New Mexico is good as well.

So you and I usually are talking about how dry it is and how poor the antler conditions going to be and what have you, just

being realist, being guys that have done this for 20 plus years each of us.

What situation are we in now and how is it different than it's been?

The situation where we're sitting right now, I'm going to say we, you know, other than about seven or eight years ago when we had a couple of big massive storms in March and we had some good snowpack.

This is probably the best consistency of moisture that we've had in 10 years between October and now, being the first week in March.

We've consistently got moisture

in the region that I live in here in eastern Arizona

and western New Mexico, pretty steady since the second week in October.

So every couple of weeks or week, we've had a pretty solid little storm come through

and we've just, I said consistently had solid moisture you know and

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