Guys, welcome to the J Scott Outdoors Podcast. Today we've got my good friend Steve Chappell of Elkhamp TV and Zero Hunt fees.

Also Chapel Guide Service, Steve, how you doing? fees, also chapel guide service.

Steve, how you doing?

Jay, I'm doing awesome.

I'm really looking forward to being on with you.

It seems like we just get done with the hunting,

and then it's time to start thinking and planning for the next year and here we are.

Yeah for sure you know it's a little easier to swallow how that rapid progression seems to come.

We just get done with the late hunts and then all of a sudden we're now talking about

putting in and applying for 2020.

But it's real easy to swallow when you're sitting in snow and I'm sitting in you know

it seems like it's been raining every day uh... down here in Arizona

uh... wouldn't you agree as far as, you know, anticipation for next year, it's easier

to have this conversation when we know that, you know, the state, our state here in Arizona has been getting

really good moisture. Yeah absolutely Jay I was kind of getting concerns you

know after we went through a really dry summer and basically had very little

if any monsoon and then the whole fall was dry I mean it really didn't start

storming until the day before the late rifle hunt started as as a lot of people know who are out

there grinding through that but you know that when that started and since then we've

got some really great moisture so it's looking up for 20-20 I'm really

thinking that maybe we're going to have another good antler growth year and it's

going to be great. Yeah you know I think the interesting thing about last season was the fact that we had really good winter moisture and we had good antlers, but as you said, we had one of the worst monsoons on record and the rut was

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