What's up everybody this is Dirk Durham here I'm filling in as a guest host for Jason

Phelps. On this episode of cutting the Destins podcast we've got World Champion Colorado

native elk hunter elk caller Germain Hodge a long time friend just a good dude and funny man

I wanted to have him on here and talk about something that's on people's minds all the time

Colorado elk cutting. Yeah thanks Dirk for having me on.

Germain can you tell us a little bit a little bit about yourself? Yeah a little bit about

myself I'm originally from North Carolina and I didn't move out to Colorado until 2005

kind of going back I came in the army in 2004 and then I got the chance to make the world

class athlete program for the army and once I did and I made the team I got stationed

out here in Colorado because once again you know Olympic training centers here and most

of all the athletes trained here for particular sports anyways wrestling the in one of them

and then when I came out in 2005 some of my team members were big hunters and they kind

of introduced me to elk and I missed that first row and then started hunting elk in 2006

but my journey wasn't you know it wasn't as good as you think it is I mean you know you

go go through that first season and it's always a struggle but I was fortunate enough to

kill my first self in 2006 and I've just been I've been on a roll ever since but self talk

how to call myself and watch the bunch of videos and here we are I'm on the phone right

now with Dirk Dirk whom the bugleers so I've been I've been fortunate enough to be successful

and and and now I'm teaching what I've learned for a promote you know all the years of you know

getting elk and and having encounters year in year out so that's just a little bit about

myself I'm going to a long story but it'll be a deep one I won't I won't side right D

rail is too much here but I didn't want to touch on like okay you mentioned your job a

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