Welcome to the Monday minute of the Huntback Country Podcast. These are shorter and more informal

episodes where we answer your listener questions. Normally, they are released on a Monday,

as the name applies, but today is a Tuesday.

Steve yesterday was a Monday that was a recovery day from Hunt Expo and getting back in town late.

You're probably hearing both of our voices that were not quite a hundred percent today.

Yeah, some one of the handshakes out of the 10,000 picked up a cold somewhere along the way there during the show. So yeah, I felt, I actually slept for 12 hours last night, man.

I don't think I've done that since college.

I just fell asleep at 7 o'clock and woke up at 7 this morning.

I was pretty out of it.

But yeah, show was fantastic. Had a, had a, I mean just overall the entire kind of vibe of the show is just a lot of energy, a lot of people, a lot of

great companies showing up. It's just certainly continuing to become, it's not like they're just, yeah, every

year is just getting better, right?

Yeah, yeah, more incrementally getting better and it's not it's not they're not like

getting lazy and it's declining or maintaining steady it just seems to be better every year

yeah I mean there's certainly not only in the hunting world, but really if you look at the broader outdoor market and then also just trade shows in general, like obviously the lot of them took a hit at COVID and some have not recovered, and somewhere that declined before then and that kind of was maybe a nail in the coffin for them but it has been cool for Hunt Expo because they have yeah just every just every, as you said, every year is getting better.

They've expanded, they've opened more floor space.

There's still other companies who are on wait list to get booths, So they have, if they have the room to add more,

they have the demand to even have more folks there,

which is great.

So yeah, it's definitely a good time. To set context, obviously, you know, we could just talk about our experience, but we did have a podcast listener reach out and kind of two separate things both I think are worth

mentioning and talk about I'll read part of his email he said I would love to

hear how Hunt Expo went for you guys and the feedback you received from

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