Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. Today we are going to be talking about Colorado with Colorado resident Brady Van Sickle from Broomfield, Colorado. Brady, how you doing?

Doing good Jay, thanks for having me on. Yeah, you know, we had a good podcast. doing good

L-O-Kelks, I think it was during elk season. You gave a good Elk, Colorado elk hunting update,

what was going on with the rut and such so I thought I would

double back and get you on for this regulations breakdown units breakdown in

Colorado we've got an application deadline of April 7th and wanted to make sure we got you on here

and talked about your home state. Before we do that, why don't you give a brief

introduction of yourself, a little bit about your passions and what have you and we'll dive right in

Definitely I appreciate it. The name is Brady Van Sickle

Like you said, I was born raised here on the front range of Colorado. I grew up

elk hunting, deer hunting, waterfowl hunting and upland hunting. Nowadays I spend a lot of time chasing my two little

kids around and then whatever is left over after the work is spent in the field.

So whether it's scouting or trying to help other people out or I jump in and help a couple of buddies that have some

outfits and they got an overflow client so I'll jump in and help them out from time to time

but yeah just an ordinary guy that like to spend time in the woods.

Right, he has a general question. ordinary guy that like to spend time in the woods.

Radia, a general question, and we've got a bunch of Q&As from listeners as well and

Instagram followers that we're going to hit at the end of this podcast so guys stay tuned but

Excuse me in general you know from from growing up to now what kind of trend would you say if you had to take an overall trend line on Colorado

as far as judging trophy quality opportunity, overall experience experience number of animals you know what

you say it's it's a relatively the same you noticing it trending down trending up

where do you think we are in that cycle?

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