EP. 668: BIG BUCKS, GENETICS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA | JIM HEFFELFINGER
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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I sit down with Jim Heffelfinger at the Western Hunting and Conservation Exposition and we talk about deer, genetics, and social media.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Gritty Podcast where we talk about all things gritty. |
| 0:15.0 | World Runeown, dear biology. I'm just a dear guy from Tucson. Just a big massive thing with pictures and points all over. |
| 0:21.0 | It was insane. Too much emphasis put on genetic. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm really when you're pissed off because you can't get one like, oh, those media does so much good. |
| 0:29.0 | If we could just live like, you know, the Lakota Indians again, pet ship sailed. It's gone. |
| 0:38.0 | Alright folks, welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am at the Western Hunting Expo right now in the Peaks equipment booth. |
| 0:47.0 | The Gators and the Poles were surrounded by even a new teepee over here coming looks like a prototype headlamps. |
| 0:54.0 | People that have been following the show for a while, you know about Peaks because we've been rocking it for a couple years. |
| 1:01.0 | Who knew that a trekking pole company would blossom? |
| 1:05.0 | Blossom. Yeah, it's kind of cool. I was like, I'll run your poles. I guess. I see what happens. |
| 1:11.0 | And then and then I'm like, hey, these aren't bad. I bought some poles from my dad. He's 88 years old. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm not your hunts with me. Elk hunts with me. I bought them poles and he says, that's for old guys. |
| 1:22.0 | That's why they're called. I only canes. That's why they're called sissy. I know. |
| 1:26.0 | I know. So I told them, no, all the cool kids are using these. |
| 1:29.0 | And then I actually made him bring them once and I was walking up the hill to glass and I looked behind me and he's carrying them horizontal. |
| 1:36.0 | He's like not even using them. Hey, they're for old guys. |
| 1:39.0 | So for those that don't recognize Jim's voice, this is Jim Heffel finger. |
| 1:46.0 | World renowned deer biologist. Oh, I wouldn't say that. I hate that. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm just a deer guy from Tucson, Arizona, game and fish, biologist. |
| 1:58.0 | And lately your roles have shifted a little bit, haven't they? |
| 2:03.0 | About five years ago. Yeah, I was a regional biologist for more than 20 years in Tucson, doing hunt recommendation surveys, coordinating all that. |
| 2:10.0 | And then the last five, six years, transitioned into wildlife science coordinator position. |
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