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? Welcome back to the Vortex Nation podcast. Got a good one for you. I'm joined by Brandon Mason and Ike Eastman from Eastman. We're down here at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo, guys. It's one of the few times of year. Like, I feel like I always get to see you guys here. It's like it's like a reunion. We've been podcasting with a lot of great folks and you guys included right now. And we're going to talk about a subject that I know you guys

are incredibly familiar with. And oftentimes, as a hunting opportunity or a species gets overlooked

and for absolutely no good reason.

And we're talking antelope, also called pronghorn.

I know we might get a comment to me, well, that's not technically, you know.

So for all you pronghorn folks out there, we'll get that in there for you.

But guys, welcome.

I'm super pumped to see you and chat about this incredible species that is so fun to hunt. Well, thanks for having us, Mark. You're right. Antelope hunting is one of my, it was the first big game animal I ever took, and it's one of my passions. And it's a cool species because you can hunt them. It's a great hunt for kids, and we'll talk about why. And it's also a great hunt once you start winding down your career because it's not as physical as some, you know, a backcountry mule deer hunt. But it is good to see you. It's thanks for having us on again. And your marketing team will love this. It's my birthday today. It's not. Darn it. I'm going to say happy birthday?

It's a perpetual joke. Yeah. So here from your team constantly sends me notes. Hey,

did you check out the new what's blah, blah, blah. And oh yeah, happy birthday. My birthday's every day,

apparently. We're always celebrating, though, you, Ike. But, you know, and actually I should back up a second for those, and I'd say it's probably

highly unlikely if you're into hunting and in the hunting space that guys or folks out there

aren't familiar with you. Just give us a brief background of who you are and what Eastman's

is up to. And actually, I was chatting with Brandon a little bit earlier today. You guys are up to a lot and even a few things I didn't know about.

Yeah, yeah.

You'll have to share those.

Maybe I don't know about him, Brandon.

Oh, by the way, we started this conversation.

Yeah, so we're a Western hunting company.

Been doing it longer than anybody.

In 1957, my grandfather started filming uh wildlife and we have we've grown

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