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Go BIG or Go HOME! Chris Burandt!

ElkShape

Dan Staton

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8618 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Former Gold Medalist at the X-Games and Backcountry Snowmobile Extreme Athlete Chris Burandt joins us on the pod! We talk shop on his bowhunting, business and snowmobile career. He's got quite the story detailing how he became known as one of the best to ever ride a sled in the backcountry. #ElkShape Listeners of the ElkShape Podcast Exclusives: 💢 Discount Codes 💢 BORN PRIMITIVE 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE  CANVAS CUTTER 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE  WILDERNESS ATHLETE  20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE  VORTEX WEAR  20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE BLACK OVIS 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE SHEEPFEET 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE onXhunt ELITE Membership 20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE  FATTY SMOKED MEATS 10% Off Code: ELKHUNTER   CrossOver Symmetry  20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE STEALTH CAM 20% Off Code (non-cellular): ELKSHAPE20  MAGVIEW 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE  TRUMEDIC 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE PEAX EQUIP 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE WILD SOCIETY MEALS 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE MY MEDIC 1ST AID 15% Off Code: ELKSHAPE DARK ENERGY 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE GORUCK 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE ELKSHAPE TRAINING PROGRAM 20% Off LINK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

First of all, thank you for today.

0:11.0

The whole reason I am here is for all those things you said to be able to get.

0:18.0

Figure out how to build a bow specifically for me i've never had that done

0:22.5

um i'm very fortunate i get to build snowmills for people which is really fun that's sick um

0:28.2

and then you know honestly i came here so to have you fletch my arrows which you what you're doing

0:34.7

right now yeah man no uh all joking aside okay, okay, when did I become a hunter?

0:41.2

I've been a snowmobiler all my life, age six.

0:43.8

Like, I knew snowmobiling was going to be a part of my life somehow.

0:47.1

You knew?

0:47.6

I just knew.

0:48.7

Okay.

0:49.0

It's funny, the hunting deal wasn't like that.

0:51.8

And it was, so I grew up in the city, Denver, like city kid.

0:58.4

But thankfully, my grandparents had a cabin up in northern Colorado that we'd get to go visit a couple times a year.

1:08.0

And which exposed me to being outside, exposed me to snowmobiling. My

1:12.1

grandfather was like a ninja hunter. Oh, he was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like military dude just got it done

1:19.4

with a rifle. Just I looked, I didn't know it then, but I really looked up to my grandfather

1:26.9

for the lifestyle of you know he worked hard

1:32.0

in the city like saved his money built his cabin with his bare hands he did oh yeah like he was a

1:39.8

builder and just and then like you know watching him hunt and it's so funny you know I don't know how

1:47.3

many times he'd look back at me like are are you even trying to be quiet I'm oh yeah you

1:53.9

we've all seen that look from a father or grandfather or and you know so still give that look to

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