Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast. Today we've got my friend Brian Rimsa on the telephone. Brian, how you doing?

I'm doing well Jay, yourself.

I'm doing great. I'm looking forward to having this conversation as we sit right now

we're August 14th we've got deer seasons all across archery deer seasons all across the west opening up,

we've got some elk seasons opening up, anelope, you know, 2019 fall season is upon us.

What are your thoughts?

Well, I mean, I am jealous of those individuals that have some of those coveted

tags out there. I don't have any tags in there on this year. But for those of you who have tags,

shape enough to be one of the best years I've probably ever seen. Yeah, you know what's so crazy as we had, you know, it's so crazy as we had, you know, pretty widespread across the southwest.

We had good winter moisture, but to be honest, speaking about Arizona specifically, like our monsoons just have not been that great

although the country from everything everybody's telling me the countryside the grass the antler growth, you know, everything's looking fantastic, but when you look

at the charts like we haven't had much summer moisture, I was sure hoping that we could put you know an

unbelievable winter on top of you know an unbelievable monsoon season but

it looks like we're not going to get that.

Going into this archery deer season

with the way the conditions are right now,

I mean, I think it's 113 in Phoenix today,

speaking specifically to those Arizona deer hunters,

archery deer hunters, what are your thoughts going into the season?

Archer deer. You know, archery deer, for the over-the-counter guys and I mean also the guys up in the strip and stuff like that.

It's kind of a... You really watch the weather the next couple weeks because, you if you're kind of taking advantage of

the water sources and sit in water because it's hot and in some of these elevations

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