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What are THE BEST archery events & tournaments??? · The Bow Disciples Podcast

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But let's let's hop into it. I don't remember the last time
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we did a pod here, but I think it may have been pre Vegas even.
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I don't think we've done one after Vegas.
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We did do the Podium Archer podcast and talk in depth about
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Vegas, so we won't really talk about that too much here.
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If you guys want to hear more about it, go listen to that.
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It's basically all we talk about for like 3 hours.
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Yeah, but we couldn't touch on the Buckle series.
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What was your thoughts on the Buckle series and the Buckle
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itself? Long We did that, but maybe we
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didn't. Maybe we didn't.
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You talk and I'm going to look at the.
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The Buckle series was it was great.
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It's a good, it's a good series. You know, if you're in the
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Arizona area, anywhere southern to mid California, you know
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you're not looking at more than a few to 6 to 8 hours drive or
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so from wherever you're coming from.
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And you know, there's still, it's not, you know, it's not
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like clear lanes and like ASA. So the last podcast we did here
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was March 25th that came out, which is before Vegas, I believe
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or maybe right during. And then after that we had one
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with Kayla, one with Towson and then we missed a week.
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So yeah, we have, we have not talked about any of these topics
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on this pod. So anyway.
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Continue. So yeah, just a little more
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challenging than your, I think probably your standard like ASA
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or something. Now you have more competition
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because those shoots are much larger in an ASA.
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But yeah, a little more, you know, ups and downs and see you
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know, some will cater or quarter their targets just a little bit.
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You know, it's not just, you know, wide out in front of you.
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They'll play with lighting a lot.
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So yeah. Oh, there really was a rocking
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I. Told you the Mikes might have
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picked that up. But yeah, you, you won your
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buckle. Yeah, maybe.
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I'll get it and show you talk. I'll get it.
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OK, keep talking. Oh, there goes taters.
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It's a great buckle. Doesn't look like it's focusing
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on it. But anyway, I don't know why
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it's not but. It's like cameras.
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There it goes. There we go.
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So there's the buckle. Yeah, and you went to three out
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of the four legs, so you get to choose which ones you want to go
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to. Or if you want to go to all
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four, they'll just drop your lowest score for you, which I
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think is pretty cool. And yeah, overall just a fun
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series to do to go out and, you know, either camp, most of them
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had camping on on location, or you could stay at a nearby
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hotel. And yeah, so I think you overall
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enjoyed it. You learned a lot about playing
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with like a target ish style outdoor rig, which is another,
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you know, achievement unlocked for you compared to just using a
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standard hunting rig with a sliding site.
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I do enjoy that a lot of places are moving towards the modern
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bowhunter class. I can't say that enough.
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I don't know how many, but I would say it's the vast minority
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that go out there with A5 pin non movable site and you know,
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gap pins or stack pins anymore. Now most 5 pins or even 3 pins
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that you buy slide and if you have the opportunity to be more
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accurate, I think the majority of the world is sliding.
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That doesn't mean there's a lens, that doesn't mean there's
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a clarifier verifier doesn't mean there's a 25 inch stab on
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the front of it, doesn't mean there's 18 inch back bars coming
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out the side. Like you're not going hunting
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with all of that, but at minimum you do slide your site.
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I think that's pretty common in the hunting world now.
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So why have we not advanced the bow hunter class to allow for
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that? So I get it.
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If you want to have a couple, just add another group to the
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winners list. You could just advance the bow
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hunter class to be modern bow hunter and allow for sliding
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sights. But I get it, you know, if
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there's some old school people out there who want to keep that,
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you know, class because you feel there's a which there is, you
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know, there's a challenge to that that you're either good at
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or not as good at. And that is gapping pins and
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stacking pins. And then even more traditional
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is the unknown class where they both gap or stack and have to
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guess their yardage. So I get it, there's a level of
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difficulty in there, but I would just love a modern bow hunter
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class where like, I'm not going out and putting all that extra
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stuff on my bow, but I can slide my sight and that I appreciate
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some, some, some archery ranges are including that class now.
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So that I think is pretty cool. So I'm going to do it next year
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and I got to do my research. I got to look at the scores from
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this year, get an idea of where I feel I need to be at by next
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year. And, and move towards that, that
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buckle, or I'm going to sign up for every other buckle series
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there is in the Western Hemisphere of the US until I win
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a buckle, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I I think I'm
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excited for you to give it a RIP.
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I would love to defend my title, but I would have to find us both
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a. Filmer.
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A filmer? Yeah, I have to find a filmer.
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Which? Maybe we will by then, but I
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would love to be able to defend the title.
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But at the same time, if we don't have the the, you know, if
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it doesn't work out to get a filmer for.
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Or if you just don't film my series, you know.
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I would to film it though, I think that's super good stuff.
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And I think, you know, you do have a lot of women that watch
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your stuff and look up to you or learn from you.
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So I think to have you actually go compete for something that
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you know isn't just a pin. It's like something you put
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effort into and time into and I think for you to go do that as
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well as Vegas, I mean, we probably haven't said that on
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the pod either that you're doing Vegas next year in the Bow
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Hunter class, so. Not on this pod.
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I know. So I think the fact that, you
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know, you're stepping into that lane a little bit more, I think
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is really good for our videos. And I think it's also very good
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for especially women who want to get into it.
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And I'll be able to kind of watch you go along that journey.
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I think that'll be really, really good for for the viewers
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and for us. So I think that'll be fun.
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For the average day person who doesn't want to go to the level
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that you did as far as a target rig bars, competitive side, you
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know, just all the things that you know, add up to be an even
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more expensive bow than the hunting bow is.
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But hands down, there's it's it's more expensive, but you
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know, so this is just a different Ave. to show people
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and it can apply what I'm going to do to my bow.
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It applies to both men and women.
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You know, you would do the same things to both, whether it's the
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Super tune or, you know, different type of arrows.
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Just on a hunting bow, a simple change in stabilizer that maxes
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out the length that you can have in the bow hunter class without,
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you know, going into a $500 front stabilizer.
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That applies to both. But the, the things that I will
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do specifically to to train and prepare can definitely apply to
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women who want to get ready for it and just see the beginning,
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you know, results when we shoot that first stick through a full
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300 round compared to the end. We'll give a lot of people an
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idea of like, OK, these these drills and, you know, tactics
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are successful to overall just improving your archery accuracy.
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And so to see it on someone who you could say is a bit more
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average of a shooter compared to you, I think we'll show people
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even more. Yeah, I think so.
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And I think you'll have fun with it too.
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I mean, I certainly have had fun.
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I mean, I am excited to get done with reading, which is this
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upcoming weekend and then be able to just shoot the alliance
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for the rest of the summer and hunting because I have not spent
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a lot of time behind that bow and it it showed a little bit in
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Taco Oklahoma. Not that I shot bad when we
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added up the scores at the end. I actually somehow did have the
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highest overall total, but like I didn't win a lot of matches or
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things, but it it took me time to figure out the tape, you
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know, it had a new string and blah, blah, blah.
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Well, and. Just because you haven't had
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time behind it, you didn't. You didn't recognize that you'd
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you'd shot enough to stretch out your strings but never went back
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for your tune. So then your tape didn't align
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the feet of your bow tape? Was made for a different string
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altogether. So then when I got this one, I
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never got it redone so, but I'm excited.
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I really what I learned in Oklahoma was that I really like
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the way the Alliance feels. Even in performance, a draw
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feels good. It points really well and I'm
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excited to, you know, shoot the Proven this weekend for three
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days in Reading. Hopefully do really well, which
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I feel like I will. I feel really good with the
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Proven, especially coming off the series we just did.
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I feel pretty solid, but I am excited to just shoot the
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alliance, you know, for a boat Disciples challenge, TAC
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Pennsylvania, TAC Michigan, which that does lead me to a
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kind of unfortunate update in our schedule and that is that we
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will no longer be going to TAC Vermont or TAC Crystal Mountain,
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which sucks. We were excited.
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We had a whole road trip planned.
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We were going to go on working class bow hunters, hang out with
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those guys again. We were going to do 4 tacks and
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a road trip and it ended up that one of the people in our crew
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had this sort of bail and that they were.
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Sort of the primary reason. Yeah, we were going to Vermont,
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so they were kind of a key piece and then once they bailed, it
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changed the trip, which is good and bad.
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It's a bummer we won't be able to say hi to everyone in Vermont
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or Crystal Mountain, but on the flip side, it's nice for us
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because you know, that was going to be a five week road trip
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immediately after Bo disciples challenge, which would have been
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brutal. So now we're going to be home a
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lot more this summer than we anticipated, which is, you know,
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for us personally, actually pretty nice.
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Then we're looking forward to it, but we will still be at
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Pennsylvania for the whole time and also Boeing.
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So super excited about that and who knows?
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I mean, we our our Canadian friend Rebecca is doing Montana
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and we weren't going to go to that.
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We still probably aren't. But like now it's like we don't
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know more stuff could happen now that the schedules opened up.
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So, but the two tacks were for sure going to are those two plus
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bow disciples challenge, which you guys should definitely come
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to. I think the third three days is
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going to be so sick and, and but yeah, I think the competition
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stuff to to circle back is, is really good.
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I think you're going to enjoy it, you know, it's going to the
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biggest thing is you're going to learn how have to learn how to
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not make those metal glitches that really could kill you, you
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know, especially indoor like you just can't afford it and.
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But I think that goal of that I'm trying to reach of, of
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pushing that bow to its as you know, I when I got it, I said
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Nope, do not get me another set of £50 limbs.
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You get me 60 LB limps and I will get there.
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And I have not gotten. Not yet.
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Not yet, but we've managed to get it up now to, you know, I
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think it's at 50 and I shot it all through Oklahoma and other
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than a couple times I was just being lazy and had you draw
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because I was sitting down for the shots.
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Pretty uncomfortable footing you can get in Oklahoma.
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Is mine off? It's going to die.
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Oh, it's flash in red. We can pass this one back and
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forth. This is.
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Sorry guys, our, our, our all our cameras, like everything is
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on East, including us. But like we're working on it.
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So these mics also for some reason they don't charge super
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consistent, like they'll be in the charging case, but sometimes
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they like won't charge. So that one is gonna die, but
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it's fine. We'll just hand this one back.
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I'll just make sure you watch the light on it.
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Yeah, but anyways, you know, it felt like I could already, like
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I told you, move it up a pound. And so we're by no means at a
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point where like I could pull that back 100 times back-to-back
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to back like I would need to do in a, you know, Vegas shooter or
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whatever. But if I can get it to 60, you
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know, before the end of before September, then when I back a
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bow down to use an indoor to 40 lbs or something, it's going to
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feel like a cakewalk, you know? Which I think will help
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significantly. Again, one of those tactics like
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you do not need to go with your Max poundage to an indoor 20
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yard shoot. That's just so silly.
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Yeah, and I mean if you're pulling less weight too, then
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you could up your holding weight, which can help you point
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better. So yeah, I mean, we'll we'll be
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able to get it all dialed in and you know, so far we haven't
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really drawn any tags. So right now we know we have a
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hunt in July and then we know we have one end of August into
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September. So I assume you plan to bring
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the alliance of course of. Course, yeah.
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So it'll be ready by then and I'll feel really good with it
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because that's all I'm going to be shooting after after this
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weekend in Reading. Also, this pod comes out
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Wednesday, so yeah, people at Reading will be able to hear
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this, maybe drive into the event or whatnot.
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But we do have a pretty exciting thing we're doing.
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We actually are going to have a Badlands 3D backpack with us
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that we're going to actually give away to somebody at
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Reddick. I don't know how yet.
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Brianna and I got to talk through how we're going to do
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that. We might do something random or
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do like a hide and seek or I don't know, we'll do something
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but. Stay tuned.
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Story related. Stay tuned to the Instagram for
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sure. That's likely where it'll kind
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of like. Fester out.
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Yeah, so stay tuned to the Bow Disciples Instagram page.
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Be sure to follow follow the stories if you're in reading
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because we're only giving it to someone at the shoot, but
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there's thousands of people there, so you'll have a chance
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to win a super, super nice. That 3D pack.
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I love it because it's good for 3D, but I'm gonna hunt with that
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pack a lot because for a day pack, plenty of storage, a lot
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of nice different pocket options which to me I've always loved 2
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great water bottle holders and a lap belt that pulls forward when
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you tighten it which is really really nice.
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So I love the pack. It's a formed pack too, you
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know, It's kind. Of a name in it.
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Yeah, soft frame, but so the pack stays, stays formed.
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It doesn't like my my day pack right now, though.
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It has a waist belt, which is lovely.
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I think no matter what, a day pack should have a waist belt
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because when you're adding your amount of water you need for a
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day, plus, you know, your jackets you have in the morning,
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plus any, you know, you know, one to two sets of binoculars.
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Usually I have the vital pack plus a larger set in the
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backpack or you've got a spotting scope in the backpack.
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That's a lot of weight on your shoulders.
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So any day pack should have a waist belt, but the fact that it
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stays formed is very nice just because it makes it a lot easier
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to put things away and take things out.
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That's always been a big, big thing for me, along with the
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pull forward tightening straps for the waist belt because they
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don't stretch out as you walk, whereas your waist belt will
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tend to get loose when you pull them this way because they're
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they're working with you versus this is like fighting the
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opposite direction when you pull this way.
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So that I think is a plus. That's an excellent tape back.
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You know, it's not like an overnight pack or anything, like
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it's not large enough for that, but it's definitely large enough
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for a in and out few miles. You know you do hunting whatever
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every day. Yeah, and it's perfect for tack
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or, or, you know, motorcycles challenge or any 3D shooter
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reading. I'm going to wear it at reading
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so I could. Have a water bladder in it too.
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Technically, yeah. And so that's a sick backpack,
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and we're going to be giving one away at Reading, PA Tack and
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Michigan Tack. We're going to have one to give
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away at every single one of those stops.
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So stay tuned for that. It's going to be really exciting
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and again, if you want to purchase one team BD is going to
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save you 20%, which is huge. And I think we may have a
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special promotion coming on one soon.
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So stay tuned for that, but other.
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Real quick to highlight for Badlands just because I've been
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telling you that, you know, get more of the day, wear stuff get
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more of the day wear stuff and I got the jeans we've highlighted
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the shorts quite a bit now in in some content and whatnot, which
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are a fantastic short. The amount of pockets that they
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have that are not like big bulky cargo pockets, but allow you to
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stick, you know, or release in a pocket.
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Everything has zippers, like they dry really fast, they're
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super lightweight, great shorts for every day.
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Like when you hit 3D season and it's hot and same thing.
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Now you have the jeans those are.
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Very nice. And the lightweight pant, I
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think they even came out with a like a Chino pant I keep seeing
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ads for and some kind of fun color.
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So like, if you're a golfer who needs, you know, lightweight
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stuff like Badlands is just, you know, they're coming out with a
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lot of cool stuff. They have a lot of Yeah, I mean,
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they have an impressive line because they got packs,
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harnesses, Fanny packs, tons of clothes, day wear.
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That also can work for hunt wear.
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And it's actually pretty cool because we only have been
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working with Badlands for about a year now.
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And you mentioned it and I noticed it too is really cool
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because at Oklahoma Tech, a lot more people were wearing
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Badlands than I've seen before. So I, I would like to think
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hopefully we had something to do with that.
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If not, that's cool too. But I'm just happy people are
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wearing the gear because the gear is really good, phenomenal
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warranty and just such a vast array of options that they have.
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So. You literally can not beat the
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warranty because even if you were to blow out a hole in your
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rain gear or your hunting pants which I'm not saying theirs is
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more likely to blow out a hole than another piece of gear.
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I have kuyu pants that now like you know from sitting on rocks
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look just as as ass in the the back end.
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But the fact that when hunting clothes are so expensive that I
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can just throw a piece of blue tape on the area that needs
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correction and likelihood is they're just going to send you
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back the new pair and not correct the old pair.
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How do you how do you beat that versus having to go drop another
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150 to $300 on a jacket or a rain gear set or, or whatever?
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You know, that's a lot of money out of people's pockets when you
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could just send it in for the cost of your shipping, I think.
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And get it back fixed or a brand new, you know, set and whatever
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it was. I agree.
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I mean, super cool, especially, you know, for humble poppers
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like myself that don't like to spend money and, and, or, or if
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you do spend money, you want that shit to last.
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What better way to give you confidence than a lifetime
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warranty like that? So yeah, really cool.
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Shout out to Badlands team BD 20%.
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And then I have kind of a fun question.
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So we're early in the year. It's all, it's all not even
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quite May yet, but we've had a decent amount of events so far
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this year. We've hit high noon on the HeLa,
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Rumble in the Rocks, Blythe Bowman, Vegas, Oklahoma Attack.
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Those are the five main events we've hit so far this year.
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And obviously reading this weekend, but so far out of the
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five events we've hit, which one has been your favorite event?
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I think tacks are always going to be my my favorite.
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I like I told you, we really got to have like a, a renaissance
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sesh of like when we just bring back all the old characters you
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know, of, IE our friends that haven't been able to like line
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up attack where we all go again in like a year or more.
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And it's just like, it's just fun.
23:37
Yeah, videos are fun to make, but it's it's fun when it's just
23:40
on a camcorder and we just like pass it around from person to
23:44
person. That all of your friends know
23:46
how to use the camcorder. Press start, stop, zoom, you
23:50
know, like tap the screen for focus.
23:53
And pretty much all of them have been trained on like what shot
23:56
you like behind the shoulder. So we all know what to do.
23:59
So like there's no just like you're just having fun playing
24:02
the game of whatever the video idea is.
24:05
But like you're, you're still getting that experience of TAC.
24:08
It's not like about the the making of the content.
24:13
And, and and and speaking to that too, like in Oklahoma, the
24:18
only day we even shot like a course in its entirety was the
24:21
first day. And it was largely because we
24:23
were only filming on the camcorder, passing it around.
24:26
Yeah. Whereas all the other.
24:28
On the 1st 5 targets we started on target 6 I think.
24:30
Whereas all the other days we only had about 10 shots because
24:33
it takes so Dang long to film with the other way.
24:36
So and, and personally, I think the videos are better when
24:39
they're filmed on one camera. Grip and RIP.
24:41
I thought that video was so fun. I thought it was such a fun
24:44
video. It felt vintage.
24:45
It was hilarious, good arrow flight, like had a storyline of
24:50
the game, but it was mostly just about killer jokes being a
24:54
little wild and I loved it. And then in Redding, you know,
24:57
spoiler alert. But in Redding, we're going to
24:59
film that same style. We're not doing the dual cameras
25:02
anymore. We're going to go back to just
25:04
Brianna's ripping the camcorder and I'm saying wild shit and
25:08
trying to shoot my best and it's going to be fun.
25:11
But I agree with you. I think there's something to.
25:15
It's experiencing tact. When we used to film, when we
25:18
used to film with our our regular group before we started
25:21
filming with other people that do videos, we would be faster
25:24
than groups that weren't filming.
25:26
Now that's definitely not the case.
25:28
So like I would like to. You know, we always finished a
25:32
course. Every time, full in full.
25:35
So we're going to sign up regular.
25:36
We're not going to shoot at 6:00 AM or 3:00 PM and you know,
25:39
we're going to have a frigging regular group of poppers and
25:42
just like go friggin shoot at 9 P 9:00 AM and shoot the whole
25:46
thing and and. You're 4 1/2 to five hours of a
25:49
course, like it takes everybody and, and get through the whole
25:53
thing. And from there, we'd usually get
25:55
lunch and hang out in the vendor village and then go back.
25:57
Go back, Yeah. Or we would hit a second course
26:01
or, you know, or, you know, we'd go do the RMEF or the, the
26:05
Lancaster, you know, the, OR lacrosse, the, the, the easier
26:10
course and, and then go back and, you know, hang out at the
26:16
Airbnb or, or whatever, or our hotel room back then.
26:21
Yeah. So I think a little bit of a
26:24
nostalgia and how like tax used to be.
26:26
There's still fun though, like great Airbnb's, great fun when
26:30
we go out to dinners and, or, or come back to the Airbnb's.
26:35
I would just love to have more of the tac experience again when
26:39
we're when we're there, IE just the courses, you know, because
26:42
like you're going to get to shoot these fun courses that are
26:47
not regularly set at your local fun shoot, you know, And so to
26:51
not get to do as much of that as possible while you're there in
26:55
your three or four days, depending on the length is like,
26:59
it's a, you know, it's a missed opportunity on your part to, to
27:03
get to experience as many of those crazy fun, technical long
27:07
shots as possible. So why not try to dedicate as
27:11
much time to that and hanging out the vendor village as
27:14
possible, you know? Yeah.
27:16
And speaking to that too, one thing that I'm bummed that we
27:19
did not do at one of the events we went to this year was Rumble
27:25
in the Rocks had an extreme course as one of their fun
27:28
courses and we did not get to do it.
27:29
We did the other two. We did not do the extreme one.
27:32
That is a little regret of mine. I wish we would have shot the
27:35
extreme course just to give it a shot, you know, but we didn't.
27:39
So maybe next year we got to do Rumble in the Rocks again.
27:43
For me, that's one, unless something that we have to do is
27:46
like there. I want to do that one for the
27:48
foreseeable future and hopefully they'll have that extreme course
27:51
again and we can give it a go 2027.
27:54
But Rumble and the Rocks would be on the list for me.
27:57
I just love that. Well, obviously Vegas, Vegas
28:01
would probably be like the top of this heap for me, but I
28:06
really liked Rumble in the Rocks because it's beautiful.
28:09
The setting shooting was not that tough, but like the setting
28:13
was beautiful. I love that they have the
28:14
saloon. There is so cool people go hang
28:17
out after. That would be a crazy place to
28:19
have like a full three day. I would love camp there.
28:23
Be a little nervous about you'd want to definitely do it in a
28:28
cooler time of year just simply for the sheer amount of
28:32
interactions you may have with rattlesnakes because of all the
28:36
rocks. You can guarantee there's more
28:38
rattlesnakes there which are more active in the summertime,
28:42
obviously. And so just for the sake of
28:46
security purposes, you'd want it in a cooler time.
28:49
But imagine just a three day event there where like you have
28:51
the saloon in the evenings, you can have a concert like, you
28:56
know, whatever, set up cornhole boards and whatever out there in
29:02
front of the the saloon and then like really utilize all those
29:07
those rocks. Imagine like the steep shots you
29:10
could have like up and down and just like through the tunnels
29:15
with the rocks, like there's a lot.
29:17
And they have a pool too. They have a pool, they have
29:20
animals. It's just a cool spot.
29:22
So I really like that. Event I did love the horses I'm.
29:24
Glad we I'm glad we went to that event.
29:25
I think that would be a fun one next year to like invite a bunch
29:29
of the buddies and like pitch in and rent one of the places they
29:32
are on the property and just split the cost.
29:35
Up now I do think definitely getting a house if you can get
29:38
you know a a confirmed list of of people to go because it is
29:43
not the cheapest on site cabins. No, they're not the cheapest,
29:48
but it would be, it would make it a lot more fun than driving
29:51
over to, you know, Wilcox or Benson to camp.
29:55
Yeah, but I mean, yeah, we've done a lot of sick events this
29:58
year. I'm I'm very much anticipating
30:00
reading. I'm excited for reading.
30:02
I am excited for it to be over as well and then sort of be done
30:05
competing for the year. But other than attack and
30:09
messing around, but like, man, we've had a lot of cool events
30:13
this year and and two that I've I mean, I'm for sure doing Vegas
30:18
again. Definitely.
30:20
And then I have a feeling we'll feel the same about reading.
30:22
So like it, it'll just be fun to hit some of these and and then
30:26
next year have you dip your toe in the water.
30:28
I mean, you were considering shooting reading until we, you
30:30
know, we tried the logistics of it and it's just like it didn't
30:34
really work to where you could do it.
30:36
But you should get to shoot the practice course and maybe maybe
30:39
they'd have a fun course. I don't know but.
30:40
Yeah, who knows? And I do think that that same
30:45
idea come here, Nugget, you know, same thing with Tack, but
30:52
for Vegas. I think what makes Vegas or can
30:55
make Vegas very fun is if you get a bunch of your buddies to
31:00
go. And so it's kind of like going,
31:03
I said to a convention, like you wake up in the morning, stay at
31:09
the Paris, stay at the hotel it's at.
31:11
You know, if you get enough buddies to split your hotel
31:13
rooms, don't be shy. Share bed with them.
31:15
Who cares? And so you can lower your cost
31:19
because Vegas is not cheap. You know, you wake up in the
31:24
morning, you, you get your coffee and yeah, you head down
31:27
in your slippies and go, you know, watch your Bunny shoot.
31:30
And then you go and hang out, do whatever.
31:34
Like go to the vendor area and then go get ready.
31:36
Go to practice. Like practice ranges are open.
31:39
Like a lot. All the time I like.
31:41
And I. Thought practice was.
31:43
That's something to touch on. Actually real quick is I thought
31:46
it would be much more of an ordeal to practice.
31:49
It was not at all. You literally could practice
31:51
anytime you want and just like it's, it's a nothing burger.
31:55
So like if you are going to Vegas for first time and you
31:58
have that anxiety that I did of like, oh, am I going to be able
32:00
to practice? Like yes, you are going to be
32:01
able to practice. And I agree, having a group like
32:04
man. You go out afterwards, it's kind
32:07
of like what we do on hunts, like you go out afterwards and
32:10
it's just basically like a debrief of the whole day and how
32:12
you shot and like you know how things went and and you know,
32:16
you explain in that one arrow that just didn't go right or
32:20
whatever in detail. Well, it's.
32:22
Good too that you don't necessarily shoot at the same
32:25
time like you were saying, because if you all shoot at the
32:28
same time, then it kind of sucks.
32:29
You can't go like gesture your buddy.
32:31
But if if you're shooting at different times, then you can
32:34
kind of go, you know, bounce around and watch different
32:38
people. So that was really cool.
32:41
I like that. A lot.
32:42
I'm hoping next year we have. I would love to have some more.
32:47
There are plenty of people we knew there, but like to get some
32:51
of our friends from here to to go I think would be really cool
32:57
I think. Scott's for sure in I think that
33:00
I bet. Joey would.
33:01
I think Joey would do it, which would.
33:03
I don't know why, but shooting Vegas sounds hilarious.
33:06
He'd probably have a grit on the on the lie.
33:10
Get kicked out. Oh boy.
33:12
But but yeah, so exciting stuff. Like I said, follow the
33:18
Instagram story for sure coming through with reading coming up
33:22
and we'll see you guys around. We're going to be out and about
33:25
this summer. Super bummed we're not doing
33:27
Vermont, but we did make sure we wanted to say that somewhere.
33:31
Not that people would go just to meet us, but I don't want people
33:34
to be like, ah, I thought they said they were coming and now
33:36
they're not. So yeah, that's unfortunate.
33:39
But nonetheless, full schedule and we got some cool hunts too.
33:44
So it's just going to be a great year.
33:45
We'll have. A Turkey double That was fun.
33:48
Yeah, yeah, we didn't. You know, we have not talked
33:50
about that, but and then we still got to go out and try the
33:53
decap, try the decap. I didn't.
33:55
Sail A decap, but it was. That was too far though.
33:58
That's not, I mean, it's literally advertised at which,
34:02
you know, distance and under you're supposed to shoot a decap
34:05
shot. So yeah, hopefully maybe when we
34:08
get back from reading between, we have to do it between reading
34:12
and your shoot, because otherwise I think archery season
34:16
ends like the week end of your shoot.
34:19
Yeah, so we'll have that'll that'll be our window.
34:23
But thanks for listening to the podcast.
34:26
We appreciate y'all topping on here.
34:28
Sorry, we we missed a week, but this year we're really
34:31
attempting to have a pod out every week and I think we only
34:34
have missed a handful. So we're doing better than we
34:37
did last year and if we need to, it's nice we can just pop up 1
34:41
camera and have good audio and get it out quicker because we
34:45
really are pretty, pretty pinched for time.
34:48
But that should get better after reading and for sure after BD
34:52
challenge. So the content will be a little
34:54
less. But we, we, we've just been
34:56
grinding and getting stuff out. We appreciate the support.
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35:09
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35:13
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