Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

All right, what is up everybody?

Got a fun one for you.

One that I'm personally very excited about, Jim.

Now I'm excited about it because of the topic, okay, I find it really interesting, but

I'm also excited about it because of the person, because across from us virtually right

now is Mike Scoby from the outdoor sportsman's group.

Now Mike is a long time friend of mine I know him from way back in my Washington days, took

me under his wing back in the day, taught me a lot about the outdoors, we did a lot of hunting

and fishing together, had some really cool adventures, spent some time at Cabela's together

as well.

Actually Mike was pretty much the catalyst that brought me east, if you will, my first

venture east, and yeah, Mike, so before we get too deep into the topic that we're going

to talk about, which is going to be air guns and air gun hunting.

Why don't we hear a little bit about you and what you have going on?

Well, thanks Mark, and thank you invite me on this podcast.

No, you're right, you and I go way back, I count you as one of my oldest friends, probably

not in numbers of years, but numbers of years, we've known each other in the industry

today.

I do when you were in college, and I remember staying at your friend house going hunting

together, and we went to the same university, and it's been a long, long time ago.

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