Aye This is the Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast on Western Big Game hunting Fishing, and I'm your host Jay Scott.

I live and breathe hunting and fishing spending half the year in the field enjoying God's

creation.

I hope you'll enjoy hearing about our adventures.

Hello and welcome to the J Scott Outdoors podcast. Today we're fortunate to have a good friend

of mine Craig Steele of exclusive pursuit outfitters and Craig is one of Arizona's best

big game hunting guides and he also is very involved in media, social media, and other platforms.

Craig, how you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Jay?

Pretty good.

Craig has been a lifelong hunter and Craig how did you get your start in

hunting do you even remember your first hunt or did you start when you were so young

you don't even remember? I guess it was I don't know exactly first hunt but if

you count Chuck in rocks at Cottontail Rabbits as my first hunt.

I mean, I guess that started at six, seven, eight years old,

but my first official, I guess, big game hunt was when I was 10 years old that was a bull elf tag and

the famous Arizona's famous unit nine it was a late season hunt, and I killed a bull on the first day,

but I just grew up in a hunting family and it was just kind of prioritized in our life that you know we were going to go hunting so that's kind of how I got started hunting and Craig you can correct me or you know, tell me whatever you remember, but you have hunting roots on both sides of your family.

I mean, I believe both of your grandfather's hunt, your dad hunts, I mean it's in both sides of your family is it not?

Yeah, no it is. It's it's pretty deep you know I my my mom's dad we don't have a close

relationship but he was kind of a I don't know if he's a famous hunter but he was very heavily involved in

outfitting and and hunting you know both predators and

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