Hey, I'm Janice Patelis.

And I'm Jordan Bud.

Jordan and I have spent our lives in the outdoors, both as hunters and professional guys.

And on Meet Eaters newest podcast, Gear Talk, we're taking the ultimate deep dive into the tools and gear we rely on in the field,

seeing the natural season.

We're talking classic, don't leave home without it,

staples, to the cutting edge and outdoor equipment.

Listen to Gear Talk on the iHeart Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

My name is Clay Newcombe and this is a production of the Beargreese podcast called the Beargreese Render,

where we render down, dive deeper and look behind the scenes of the actual Beargreese podcast.

Presented by FHF Gear, American-made, purpose-built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore.

Hey guys, I want to take a minute and talk about something that I think is really important.

Right now in the United States, the spring 2022 legislative agendas and public comment periods for state agencies are coming out.

And as I hope you've heard, many have strong anti-hunting and specifically anti-predator hunting agendas.

Washington State recently canceled the spring 2022 Bearsees and despite it being recommended by their fish and wildlife.

Colorado Bill SB22-031 is set to ban, mount lion, bobcat and links hunting.

Arizona is experiencing a strategic push from the animal rights crowd to change current regulations about lion and bear hunting

by flooding the public comment process. California has petitions filed to suspend bear hunting in the state

until further population studies can be done. In Vermont, anti-hunting groups are pushing for a full ban on the use of

hounds in hunting and the list can go on. Years ago, if you told me that hunting was strategically under attack,

I would have called you an alarmist. Cry and wolf when there wasn't one here.

We all live in some version of cocoons with limited visibility of the wider nation.

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