Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry podcast. This is episode number 571.

And our friend Josh Koontz returns to the show to talk a bit about his personal journey that he's been on, including a hip replacement, how he has undergone that what led to it, how recovery is going early on in this process, and dives into a late season hunt that he had

for elk in Arizona. As you'll hear, Josh has been on the podcast previously with a couple of

really good episodes. So I will leave links to those in the show notes as well. But if you want to

go to them by episode number, it's number 329 and number

390.

I'm excited to have Josh back on the show, and even though he's talking about his personal

journey with this hip replacement, there's so many lessons to take away in this, not only

the physical side, but also the mental, on bouncing back from setbacks, on pushing

through difficult times, on keeping your focus set on what you can become capable of once

again. Whether you are young and healthy right now, whether you are old and battling some

issues for yourself, you're going to be able to take away

from today's conversation in a way that you can apply to your future hunts and adventures.

As always, guys, we do appreciate all the support for the show. If you are enjoying it,

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questions comments or feedback for us you can always get in contact directly by just

sending an email to podcast at exomontgear.com. Right now, though, let's dive into this conversation with Josh.

Josh, welcome back to the podcast.

I had notes from you with this conversation and some of the things,

and you mentioned it was three years

ago you were on the show is that right yeah that was the last time i was on this is my third time on

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