Historically, hunters were traditional hunters. They grew up in a family of hunters and so they became hunters and now we have a lot of people who didn't grow up in hunting families, but they want to begin hunting.

What brought my back to hunting was food, you know. grew up in hunting families but they want to begin hunting.

What brought my back to hunting was food,

you know the idea that, you know, that it is, you know, it is local,

it is sustainable.

Coming up on a big bowl or some cows and all of a sudden they disappear and how does the 800 pound creature just vanish?

All the guns in the corner of my room. I'm nine years old, you know, and this is your granddaddy shotgun, you know and here this is your granddaddy shotgun you know

This is Hal hearing with the backcountry hunters and anglers podcast and blast

We're up here on a real smoky day at the Boone and Crockett Ranch.

It's Theodore Roosevelt Ranch, right?

Yes, sir.

And we're out of DiPouyre, Montana, way back on the front here.

We're talking with Trey Curtis, Sawyer Connolly and

Jim Geezy and they're going to introduce themselves because they know more about

themselves and I know about them.

And this is a great part of the world right in here.

I know everybody is, we got a lot to talk about.

Jim, you're going to leave a little bit early right because you got duties here that's right

but we'll so we'll get started. Trey have I'm telling me what you what you do and how you got here?

Yeah absolutely so I'm the collegiate curriculum andreach Coordinator for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

It's a fellowship split between BHA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

I interned for BHA when I was at University of Montana for just under two years. I graduated this past May and a few weeks later started full time with BHA.

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