Hey, welcome in. This week we've got Bethany Bayothard on the show full-time mom, full-time wife,

and full-time outdoors woman. So you're going to want to buckle up. Hold on because we're in for an elk hunt.

Hey, I'm KJ, dedicated life-long 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 elk

in the backcountry of British Columbia, you'll always find me on the hunt.

All right, welcome in gun talk hunters. I'm your host KJ and all seasons are really opening up

right now and I have to apply. I'm going to go ahead and apologize to our next guest because I read

the intro right before and I've probably butchered her name. So my bad Bethany, Bethany,

Bethard out of my home state of Oklahoma and I'm glad she's out there because she's holding it

down pretty solid out there. Bethany, how are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. Pretty good. Good,

good. Well, we've got an exciting show because we're going to talk elk hunting, we're going to talk

getting into the outdoor industry a little bit of everything and Bethany is also a writer,

but I'm going to let her tell her story. But this episode is brought to you by Smith and Wesson.

Thank you, Smith and Wesson and Benelli. Man, they make good shotguns but they're also making good

rifles. So I'm just saying they're doing a lot of stuff. Um, all right, Bethany, uh, give us a run

down on who you are. Oh, man, in a nutshell, I'm Bethany, Bethard. I am an avid outdoors woman. I'm

a military wife, mom of five homeschooling mom of five and I kind of do a little bit of everything.

Yeah. How do you, how in the heck do you make time for hunting? Like because I mean, I know it's

it's tough for me, but I can't imagine homeschooling five kids. Well, I feel like the outdoors is a

lifestyle and just like going to the gym, you got to make time for it. You got to make time to go

hunting. Uh, sometimes I'm hunting with little feet behind me and like yesterday I was in a deer

stand up north on Oklahoma with my 10 year old and trying to get him his first deer and, uh, you

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