Hey folks, Randy Noberg here. Welcome to Loop Fold's Hanthac of Radio.

Hey folks, Randy Noberg here with another episode of Loop Fold's Hanthac of Radio. I hope you're all doing better than I am.

Oh man, I apologize for the delay in how many weeks it spends since we've released podcast, but with all of us being on the road for the last

throws of hunting season and then losing one episode due to a technology issue and then me being laid up and sick.

Well, it's just put us behind so I appreciate you all being patient and waiting for us.

Today, I think it'll be worth it. Our buddy Jim Batesdale from Prince of Wales Island up in Alaska.

You've seen Jim on a lot of our episodes. Most people recognize Jim by his jolly smile. His belly laugh, his big,

she bearded and often his custom made hawk and rifle. But today we have Jim. He came all the way to Montana to see some friends and then to do this podcast and Marcus, chief number one,

Ace, videographer and field producer are going to tell the story about when Marcus went up with Jim in August. Jim drew one of the very rare Alaska Bison tags.

And that season started in late August. Marcus flew up to film it all and captured all.

And if you know Marcus, he's been through a lot, seen a lot, filmed a lot of great stuff. And when he got home, he instantly told me that this might be the most remarkable landscape I ever have had the chance to film.

And I'm like, whoa, Marcus and I have been on some really, really cool places. So this must be worth it.

And the story of the adventure and the logistics were so cool. I asked Jim, I said, you know, you might be on a podcast on this. And he said, yeah, I'll come down in December and let's do it.

Well, little did I know I was going to end up with some sort of virus. I've been tested for everything. I don't have COVID. I don't have influenza. They say I've got some other viral infection, whatever that means.

What it means is I sound as bad as I feel. But you know what? At least it happened right when we got off the road instead of doing the middle of season. So I'm grateful for that.

I'm grateful for all of you who tune in and listen to this stuff. And I'm grateful for all the sponsors that make it possible.

I hope you go out there, check them out. Go to lupel.com. They're just such a huge supporter and public lands conservation access shooting a you name it.

Hunting.

Nozzler. You know, but you can almost talk of nozzler and little pulled in the same sentence and just insert the company name.

They're both family owned company that have been around in the hunting and shooting space forever. Nozzler's based in Bend, Oregon.

And you'll hear Jim talk about in this episode. He used a nozzler 180 green e-tip to shoot that bison up there in Alaska.

We use e-tips and a lot of our rifles. They're just other just bad medicines. I know I'll say it. So.

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