Scott Engels, we have known each other for a long time. I feel old. We're not getting younger.

Over a decade. Damn. So you're from Spokane originally? Yep, small town south of Spokane. So yeah,

farm town. So what do you got? Big town of Lamont, Washington. Okay. Yeah, I think 90,

about 90 people in the town one school, no stores. So pretty crazy. What high school did you go to? Sprague. You did? Big town of Sprague. Yep. Yep. Good times. Sprig's a big town if you're in Lamont. Yep, they actually had a gas station. But good times, good. Did you grow up farming? Yep. Grew grew up farming family farm and had allergies so decided that yeah i needed to get out of it so wow thought i thought i could ride dirt bikes and

race dirt bikes and crashed too many times and like to fix things so went to be a mechanic so

really did you start out on like uh the classic 50 or like an 80 or did you like bump up to 125? Like what was your first bike? Yep, the YZ80 was the first one. The thing ripped. The thing just ripped. It had one speed. It was all or nothing. Everybody fell off the back. It was a good one. But it never ran. So I always had to fix it. So that's what I enjoyed doing that. And it worked out pretty good.

So. nothing, everybody fell off the back. It was a good one. But it never ran. So I always had to fix it.

So that's what I, I enjoyed doing that. And it worked out pretty good. So all the wrenching at home and probably on farm equipment? Farm equipment stuff. Yep. So did you have to go to school to become a mechanic? Yep. So went down to Arizona, MMI, went down there for school for two full years. It was full-time school and year-round.

And yeah, went from a little town to a big one in Phoenix. And yeah, that was different.

So, but it was good. Learned a lot. And yeah, it was awesome.

All right. We'll get into how you end up where you are now career-wise. But I got to know,

when did the hunting, the archery, how did that evolve?

Yep, always.

Growing up on the farm, always around mule deer hunting, pheasant hunting, goose hunting.

So from a little kid following dad and grandpa around.

And, you know, that was just, that was good times.

You know, good family memories and turned out really good.

The gun,

I shot a lot of trap and shot shotguns. I really like shotguns and did some traveling on that

and competition. Yep, I was going to try the Olympics and went down there for a little while. It just

wasn't quite the fit to that stage in my life at 17. And yeah, it was a lot of commitment and,

you know, had different plans, but enjoyed shotgun shooting and the rifle I got into it the first

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