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

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All right, what is up everybody?

We're heading south today, not south of the border, just south.

We've got Parker, McDonald, so I got served in my right, by the way, that's the Northern

Pronunciation, right?

Yep, that's a little Northern twang on that one, Northern twang.

We're going to talk today about Parker.

He's got some really cool platforms that he's built, how we got into deer hunting, southern

deer hunting in general, maybe some Alabama specifics, and all that good stuff.

And it sounds like you've actually been, you've already been hunting, Parker, so we want

to talk about that.

But before we get too deep, as I like to say, if you can introduce yourself and let's

just talk about, yeah, you, what you have going on, how you got into hunting, and all

that good stuff.

Sure.

So, I appreciate you guys having me on.

Yeah, my name is Parker McDonald, I'm from, I'm actually originally from West Texas, Midland

Odessa, Permian Basin area, so I was born and raised at and moved over here to Alabama.

When I was, I guess I was about 18 when I moved here and is a whole different hunting culture,

even though Texas is technically south, it's kind of more of a southwest type thing.

And if anybody's ever hunted Texas, you kind of know like, there's not a lot of public

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