Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast.

Today we have my friend Pat McCarty of Shadow Valley Outfitters.

Pat, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Jay. How are you?

I'm doing great. It feels a little bit like deja vu, and for the listeners out there that

don't know what Pat and I kind of were chuckling about before this podcast started is

after the Arizona

mule deer season, the strip, Pat and I did what I thought was an incredible kind of a recap of

the Arizona deer seasons, and we talked about OTC deer, and out of 644 episodes, it's the first time that, for whatever reason, the software that I

used to record did not record the episode.

I basically got a blank episode.

So I had to call Pat and say that hour and a half that you spent with me where we went

into deep, dark details and is now gone. And Pat being

the guy is just said, oh, well, we'll have to do it again. So today we're going to talk about

the Arizona, the 2020 elk applications with the new regs coming out and talk about elk, but we're

going to probably recap a little bit on the mule deer.

So, Pat, I apologize again for the mishap, but we're going to do the best we can today.

Yeah, I'm excited. It'll be a really good podcast.

Sounds good. Pat, for the listeners that don't know you, why don't you give kind of a brief history on you and Bob Dyckman as far as your partnership and the area of focus that you guys, a little bit of history, where you live and all that.

Okay. So, yeah, I grew up in the Prescott area. I grew up here,

fortunate to be able to hunt and fish and spend most of my time in northern Arizona and throughout

the state just hunting various species and enjoying all the outdoor activities that Arizona really has to offer and started guiding

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