All right, on this Gun Talk Hunt, we're talking about hunting numbers and what it looks like from an economic stance and a new product highlight.

Hey, I'm KJ, dedicated lifelong hunter here.

If you've got an interest in all things hunting, you're in the right spot.

Whether chasing quail across the plains of Oklahoma or in pursuit of belking the back country of British Columbia,

you'll always find me on the hunt.

All right, welcome in all you gun talk hunters.

I'm your host, KJ, and this episode is brought to you by Ruger and Range Ready.

All right, let's get this show going.

So, as a lot of you know, like, when I, in my previous life before Gun Talk, I was in the PR game.

And in Oklahoma, where I grew up and when I was, where I was born the PR game and in Oklahoma where I grew up and when I was where I was born and raised

and and a lot of my hunting was done state side like I didn't have the funds to hunt out of state

and really I almost like certainly don't have those funds right now. But, but I had to turn into a road hunter.

And I really never understood like the economic impact that I, my money and the money

that I spent traveling, what that meant to bringing in state funds, you know, for my

state of Oklahoma.

Like I kind of took everything for granted.

Like it's just a short jump. It's short to short two hour drive down or a 30 minute drive, you know,

to my hunting grounds. But now that I'm traveling across state lines, I'm bringing, you know,

I'm taking my dollars to different states because the hunting down here is just not exactly

what I look for. It's not really what I love as far as like, you know, white-tailed deer.

Like it's all it's it's it's pretty scarce where I'm at now. And that's why I have to travel to

hunt. That being said, uh, Sportsman's Alliance put out a,

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