Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host, Brian Call, and I am joined today by my

little brother behind the camera, the Gritty Brom and how are you, Brent?

Well, thank you.

Today, we're going to talk a little bit about quitting and not quitting. About sticking

it out about solo hunting, I get a lot of messages from people each season. People asking,

you know, how do you do it? How do you stay out there? How do you do it solo? How do you

not quit? You know, how do you make it happen? And, you know, if you think about it, a lot

of us think about elk season. Let's just take elk hunting, archery elk season. In general,

it's a pretty easy tag to get across Western states. Everybody can do it. Everybody sort

of dreams about it wants to do it. They prepare year round. They try to get fit. They shoot

their bows. You know, they hone their skills and they prepare for elk season and there's

only one rutting elk season in September every year. Okay. And so a lot of us, you know,

prepare and prepare and think about it and kind of dream about it, watch films about it,

right? And then thousands of of us go out into the mountains or in the woods and do our

elk hunts. And there's thousands who go out with the intention of a 12 day or 10 day,

7 day hunt, hunt three or four days and use their whole two weeks vacation. Yeah. And then,

quit early and then they go home and then they're left, you know, kind of in a position of being

frustrated by their themselves, you know, I got a text message this season. In fact,

from a friend of mine and I'm going to read his text and this is going to sort of lay the

groundwork for the discussion I want to have. I was going to send him a note individually and

just kind of talk or give him a call. But I figured this way, anyone in the same boat as he is,

can sort of we can just, you know, have this discussion more openly and address everyone

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