Welcome to the show today folks. I'm Joseph von Benedict, your host and today I've got a good

buddy of mine on the line in Alaska. Now this is Tyler Freel. He is a gnarly real-deal backcountry hunter. He's shot four grizzlies with a recurve bow, if that tells you anything.

He's shot 12 sheep in the backcountry, most of them, or at least many of them in walk-in areas.

Did that by the time, I think he had 10 by the time he was 30.

He's also an outstanding rifleman

here in his distinguished rifleman badge when he was quite young still.

And that's quite a challenge in service rifle competition., Tyler, welcome to the show.

Thanks for joining me today.

I really appreciate it.

Yeah, no problem.

Thanks for having me.

Now another thing to know about Tyler is he runs the Tundra Talk Podcast. I've mentioned that here a couple

times in past episodes is really worth following and listening to if you

dream of the far north.

Tyler grew up in Colorado until your teens, right?

Yep, yep, that's right.

Well, how old were you when you moved to Alaska?

It was 16 years old.

Did you know at the time it was going to be a permanent thing or did you think it was temporary?

No, I, I, you know, pretty much didn't consider that it was going to be temporary it took me I don't know like initially I wanted to I was a little miff because I wanted to stay where I was at and play football but after about 10 minutes I got I kind of accepted the idea and was all for it and never looked back.

Ten minutes that's not very long.

No. Yeah, that's a tough age to make a move halfway around the world.

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