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Planning a Backcountry Hunt | Gun Talk Hunt

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🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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If you are interested in backcountry hunting but aren't sure how to get started, Rob Gates of Savage Arms is here to help! Gates joins Gun Talk Hunt's Kevin "KJ" Jarnagin to chat about his upcoming hunt, preparing for a backcountry adventure, and caribou. This Gun Talk Hunt is proudly supported by ATN and Pyramyd Air.

Gun Talk Hunt 05.08.21

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Caribou hunting, backcountry hunts, all right here with Rob Gates of Savage Firearms.

0:10.4

Welcome into Gun Talk Hunt. Today's Gun Talk Hunt is brought to you by Pyramid Air, your

0:15.0

number one resource for everything air gun hop on over to PyramidAir.com to check out all the goodies

0:21.6

they got. We got a good episode today coming up. I mean, we've got the man from Savage Arms,

0:28.5

Rob Gates. I'm going to leave it at that and I'm going to let him give him a little bit of background

0:34.0

on your your your background. Sure. That's all we want to do, right? So I work with the sales

0:42.7

and marketing team at Savage and been in the business a long time. This would have been 30 second

0:51.2

shot show and I'm not quite 51 years old yet. So started young. So you started really young

0:58.4

and you said you started out sweeping floors. Is that correct? Yeah, I was the 13th employee at

1:04.3

Glock in Smurna and started sweeping floors there and just kind of worked my way through college

1:10.8

and the rest is history. But you and I have something very much in common and we have a passion

1:18.8

for the outdoors and we have a passion for hunting. And that's that was one of the first things

1:24.5

that you actually told me and we were just talking and you said, well, that's really why I do this.

1:31.2

What is that? Is that accurate? It is. Yeah. Of course, you you got to enjoy what you do. And

1:39.2

you know, there's there's been some good times and some bad times through through the many years

1:43.5

in this business. And the hunting part of it is just kind of a respite for me. Just allows me

1:52.0

to step away and you know, I'm blessed to be able to sell and market and work with products that

2:00.1

that I use and enjoy every day. Right. And we'll get we'll get to savage down the line. But

2:06.4

but you actually brought up a hunt that really like I'm actually really jealous of you going

2:12.3

on this hunt. And in a few months, you're heading up to Alaska. Yeah. So how did this come about?

2:19.1

I mean, where roughly, I know you're not going to give us GPS coordinates. But where roughly

2:25.9

are you going? What's the plan? What's the goal? Yeah, it's a caribou hunt and we've got a customer

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