Guys, welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast.

Today we've got Jeff Lester, the owner of Hunt Hard Outfeters,

based out of Unit 1 and 27 in Arizona.

Jeff, how you doing?

Great, Jay. Awesome.

I'm good. I'm going to having you on here.

We usually have some great conversations, good talks.

Let's first just talk about what's going on right now as far as moisture conditions

up in your neck of the woods.

Well obviously you know this last season we came off a pretty you know solid year of moisture. We had a really good winter and we had a really

good hunting season due to that, antler growth across Arizona and New Mexico was fabulous. I mean Arizona was much better than New Mexico. New

Mexico still had a few places that were a little affected by you know drier

conditions but Arizona was looking really really good a lot of holdover so I mean as everyone can see this year

Arizona you know was was really good compared to the last couple of years.

So, right now we're sitting.

I mean, you know, we had that big

Thanksgiving storm that right before the late rifle hunts just

dumped some big big moisture in unit one in 27 as well as the rest of the state I mean it was just

that those you know that's one of the more popular late hunts and you know we dealt

with a lot of weather on that late the late rifle

hunt in one in 27 and had a couple another little kind of storm in between

that time and now and now we're getting hit with another pretty big wave of it as we speak, you know, being, you know, a couple days after Christmas here, so.

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