EPISODE 332: Blood Origins with Robbie Kroger

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen, I sit down with "Blood Origins" founder Robbie Kroger. Robbie is kind of a big deal in the conservation world, but not as widely known in the hunting world. Robbie grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, one of the largest urban areas in the world. He did not hunt. Guns were banned. Hunting was just a bunch of stories and antlers on the wall. But, he had a hunting past that he could not deny. From that heritage grew an idea —Blood Origins, a way to connect the past with the present.

"When I look at the liberties afforded to you in the United States of America, I consider it incomprehensible. I am going to go out on a limb and say that this liberty is likely lost on most of you, that it is very often taken for granted. I say that only from a perspective of someone who came from a place where there was no opportunity to connect with something that pulsed within me." —Robbie Kroger

Photo Credit: @bloodorigins

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0:00.0	Now that I'm in America and I get to, you know, buy a hunting license for $32 or whatever it is and I can hunt whatever I want.
0:07.5	It's like I'm experiencing what my grandfather experienced when he landed in Mozambique, but I'm in Mississippi.
0:13.3	He lived the heyday of African hunting.
0:15.8	My father at the time was a young teenage boy.
0:18.3	You name it, they hunted it.
0:19.5	When I look at what's out there right now in the hunting industry, I think the story telling aspect of who we are as hunters is lost.
0:28.8	And I literally came out after being attacked by yellow jackets of that one forest experience.
0:33.9	I said, guys, send me back to Africa.
0:37.1	Give me a buffalo that I can see and I can watch an elephant that I can see coming.
0:42.2	Don't give me the stuff that nest in the ground and comes in literally through car hard pants is thrown and like get it is
0:48.9	stinger into me and then you got poison ivory everywhere that you spread it.
0:53.1	It's like give me stuff I can see.
0:55.3	Don't know this invisible rubbish.
0:57.1	You know, folks, welcome to the Gritty Bowman podcast.
1:02.0	I'm here with Robbie Kroger.
1:04.1	How do you say it, Robbie?
1:05.2	Kroger, I'm at typically say Kroger like the supermarkets where I'm from down in the southeast.
1:09.2	We have Kroger supermarkets and when I first came to the States, I was a poor PhD student like Duke,
1:16.3	poor right?
1:16.8	I was a I had to be a bouncer in a in a in a bar to make ends meet, but I was going home to Australia.
1:24.0	My entire family lives in Australia now and to give them Christmas presents, I went to the Kroger supermarket and I bought as much Kroger stuff as I could get.
1:34.2	Kroger, coffee, Kroger, peanut butter.
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