You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

My name is Clay Newcomb, and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast.

I'll also be your host into the world of hunting the icon of North American wilderness.

The bear. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you into some of the wildest country on the planet chasing bear.

On this episode of the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast, I'm sitting with Sean Curran and Evan

Houstonfield at the Archery Trade Association Show, and we're talking about the organization

that they're a part of called Sportsman's Alliance.

I am really just starting to learn about called Sportsman's Alliance. I am really

just starting to learn about the Sportsman's Alliance, but they are the organization that is

defending the rights of hunters and trappers, houndsmen. These guys are in the business of keeping

things alive and swinging towards the favor of conservation minded sportsmen and

sport hunting.

You're going to learn a ton on this podcast and I encourage you to really listen to the whole

thing because the mentality that we're fighting against in the whole of hunting is people

thinking that this fight is not theirs because their specific

type of hunting isn't under threat today.

And what we've got to graft into the hunting culture from the way we train our kids in every

state and every place is that to be a hunter in 2019 is to be a defender and is to be a representative of the best that hunters

have to offer.

We've got to be educated.

We've got to be articulate.

And most of all, we've got to be who we say we are, which is ethical, conservation-based

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