Hey folks, Randy Nubberg here. I am on my one day home in the middle of the season. I've been on the road

pretty much non-stop and here I am in the middle of November and I need to get some podcasting done

and I need to answer a bunch of your questions. So this podcast is going to be a little unique. It's

from the galactic headquarters of Randy Nubberg's office here, the the worldwide empire in Bozeman,

Montana, which my wife calls the Randy Room. It's me and all my taxidermy upstairs with my

computer going. And what this is going to be and the reason it's unique is in a podcast we really

can't have live call-ins. So I've been accumulating all of these questions from many of you since the

podcast started airing in July. And some of the questions are remarkably pointed, very, very good

questions. Go exactly into some of the topics that we talk about on our show. And a lot of these

are emails, but even more of them are thread, thread we have out on our hunt talk forum. If you go to

www.hunttalk.com, you'll find a section of that forum dedicated to our podcast and there's a

request for topics and a request for guests. And so I'm just if you hear the keyboard clicking in

the background, it's me sitting here scrolling through the hunt talk threads answering some of these

questions. And I'm also scrolling through some of my emails at the same time, but it's really cool

stuff because you guys and gals have really picked up the ball here. And I think you're pushing us on

some topics that that that was my hope when we brought them up that these topics wouldn't just get

talked about never to be heard from again. I think it's really good to see so many people

interested in the public land issues. So many people interested in hunting and conservation.

It just I guess when we started this podcast, the whole idea was let's generate some discussion.

And from what I've seen here, that's exactly what we've done. So I'm going to start out with a couple

questions that I think are pretty easy, but because I'm on the road a lot, I get to read a lot when

I'm in the tent. Or when I'm having downtime and we're waiting for the big elk to come out, which

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