Today on Grady, my guest is my good friend Phil Mendoza. I've been attending a few of his beginner bow hunter and bow tuning classes at his Denver Archery shop, no limits archery.

If you live in the area and you're new to archery or just want to learn how to work on your own bow or build your own arrows, check out Phil's classes. They're great.

On today's podcast, Phil and I discuss hunting mistakes. Primarily, mistakes made in the final moments of a shot opportunity.

Cody Eardley wrote a great article in the January 2018 Bugle magazine put out by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which you should become a member of if you aren't already.

And the article is titled, Situation Ethics. The article is a good one and it got Phil and I talking about ethics, shot selection and closing the deal in the final moments of a hunt.

I enjoy talking to Phil because I always learn. He's an extremely talented hunter and archer. He's a trained hunt champion and he's owner and mastermind of the Alpha Bow Hunting Challenge.

And as discussed on an earlier podcast, Phil wrote a mini book titled Targeting Buck Fever.

Train to hunt and the Alpha Bow Hunting Challenge are competitive events designed to help hunters hone the ability to make good decisions and good shots in the proverbial moment of truth while under extreme pressure.

So join Phil and I for a frank and open discussion on mistakes we've made, things we've learned and our situation ethics.

Big thanks to Cody Eardley and Bugle Magazine for providing relevant, educative, thought-provoking articles like the one we discussed today.

Hello folks, welcome to the Gritty Podcast. Where are we, Phil? No limits archery.

No limits archery. I was here last night.

Yeah. You were doing the class here and we got to hang out and I learned I tied my first deloop.

Yeah. Uh-huh. I tied it like seven times.

Peace cake after the first time right?

Oh, dude. And it's beautiful. So I'm moving up people and we learned a bunch of other stuff on knots and servings and stuff like that.

Um, it was good. So today though, I hang out with Phil down here at the shop.

I've kind of wanted to catch up with Phil on his archery season. It was funny.

I sent you your picture of your nice mule, your buck to Aaron. I'm like, did you see this? He's like, yeah, that's old news.

Like I saw it a long time ago. I'm like, where was I? Like I missed this. And anyway.

So I want to talk to you about your season. Sure. We were talking about some other subjects and this topic came up and interestingly enough around ethics, shots and success and shots to take shots, not to take.

Every season is kind of full of those kuda shuddo, wood, uh, you know, kind of moments and the stakes.

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