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Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host, Brian Call and I enjoy my brother, the Gritty

Bromant. Brent Call, how are you? I'm well, thank you. Today's podcast is with Rihanna Carey and

she works in the offices here at Mountain Ops, down the hall from where I'm generally here when I'm

not in the mountains somewhere and when she's not in the mountains somewhere. And Rihanna Carey is

I started interviewing her like four or five years ago when I first started the podcast. She lived

in the same neck of the woods I lived in and we got to meet each other and she's a bow hunter.

Just a legit outdoor bow hunter gal and she has stacked up on this podcast we go over her

recent elk hunt that she did on public land over the counter. She goes out and by her self

essentially not that Jeff didn't help but he held the camera. He mostly was a pack mule. So her

boyfriend Jeff went with her and they went out into the wilderness in Oregon over the countertag.

Being a pack mule is a time honored tradition. I mean if you haven't spent time as a pack mule

can you consider yourself a real adult Brent knows because that's all he's done. So Rihanna is a

she's this is our six elk with a bow six elk with a bow. She's killed some great one. She's killed

a few a couple solo. First one was solo. Some blacktail deer and some other things and I've kind of

watched her through the years and she's not the particularly she didn't like brag about these

things. She just does them. Rihanna is the sort of person that breaks stereotypes. You know she's

your woman in the hunting industry. She's attractive and you know these stereotypes are that they

don't know how to hunt or they're doing it for the wrong reasons and Rihanna is one of those people

one of those types that breaks that stereotype because she does love to hunt genuinely.

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