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Is AI ruining hunting? Our 2026 Total Archery Challenge schedule! · The Bow Disciples Podcast

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We are back with a new podcast. It's been, we've been cranking
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out pods. Very proud of that.
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It's one of our goals for the year.
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And we just did back-to-back with Andre and this is the first
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After the videos come out. I think this will come out,
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yeah. It'll come out after.
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Yeah, it'll come out after. So we're good because we got
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Andre Part 2 this Wednesday coming up and then it'll be the
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following Wednesday, but by then that video, those two will be
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out. So anyways, go check them out.
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Two videos from the tournament. I shot known male open.
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The shots ranged anywhere from I think the shortest we did all
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weekend was 8 and the longest we did was.
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Ever a 60? I don't think they're other.
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I don't remember there being a 60.
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There was like one that was like 5960, but there was several over
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50, like between 50 and 60. So yeah, range from 8 yards to
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6020 targets The first day, 20 The second day Brianna filmed
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and I had a new bow set up, had the proven 34 set up for target
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and man, I had those podium Archer bars on the bow.
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I have a 27 in the front and 210 V bars in the back.
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Love the V bars in the back to set the bow down.
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Super convenient. But also with those big bars,
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that thing just so stable is so good.
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There's still a couple tweaks that I want to make to it that
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you and I have discussed magnification.
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So I'm going to try A4 power lens on the Black Gold dual
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track. So I'll have 4X magnification
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and switch to the Victory Archery 20 threes for outdoor
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rather than the HLRS. Yes, I think that is.
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I think that is wise. I think that you would.
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There were a couple we know I counted at least three that I
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could just remember not even looking back at the clips, but
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three that I could remember off the top of my head that would
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have for sure been twelves, which is an extra 6 points.
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We haven't even discussed what your over your total score was
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but yet, but that if you had had the 20 threes, you would have
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for sure gotten twelves on. And then I think the
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magnification where that comes in handy.
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And because you handle the magnification well, you know,
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some people have a hard time with lenses and even more so
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can't match a lens with a clarifier, but you don't do bad
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with them at all. So I think with the four power,
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that's where I think not just the line cutters, you know, that
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the arrows will help with, but with magnification.
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I think that's where you're going to see the biggest change
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in your score is because that's where a lot of, not that you get
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a lot of AIDS, but that's where a lot of those like I wouldn't
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even call them marginal shots like, but you know, say eights.
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A lot of those I think will turn into 10s.
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Yeah, I, I think that I think it's a good move, definitely.
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And it'll be, you know, another thing I like about it is that
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all three of my different bows will be pretty different setups,
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you know, from one to the other. So I think it'll be kind of nice
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because in a way it'll, I'll be able to compartmentalize, I
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think shooting with each one because they're going to be so
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different. Not feeling like there's a
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change every time you have to make switching to each one, you
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know, like like how you used to. And I also myself like 1 bow for
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all, one bow for everything. But then it felt as you started
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to dabble in more things that like it was constant.
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Like though there's a change I need to make.
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Oh, there's, you know, so I need to put these bars on before we
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go out the door or, you know, whatever.
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Having three separate and very different ones makes it easy to,
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especially once you shoot each one more.
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It's like, yeah, there's a little period where you got to
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pick it up and they're like, oh, OK, let me get used to this.
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But I think that's a short period for you.
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And then it's like, though this feels like that bow.
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Yep. Oh, this one feels like the
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hunting bow. Yep.
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Just very organized, I guess you could call it.
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Yeah, I agree. I think it is nice to just grab
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and go with each one rather than having to tweak it.
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The proven. The bow I just shot had a nick
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string from a broadhead on the system X.
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So it actually I just got new strings put on it, which I sort
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of wish now I would have waited to do till after this next trip
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we're about to go on. But nonetheless, well, because I
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it was dialed and now it may not be and I got to go, you know,
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shoot with Paige. So I want to do well.
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Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, I was like full for
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your next shoe and then when you get back, you're going to dial
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it in with the new string. But yeah, I see what you're
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saying. You're that competitiveness.
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Yeah. And you?
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But anyways, the new string is actually not a system XI thought
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it was, but it's it's some other type of gas Bo string, but it's
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all black and I love it Everything it's just jet black
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and I really like it. Like I I saw it and I was like,
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I thought the System X kind of had like some Gray in it too.
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And I looked at the package and it wasn't System X, but it
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didn't say what it was. But it's all black and I love
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it. So I don't know.
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But the bow looks sick. It's ready to go.
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I can't wait to get the lens and the new arrow, new veins.
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We got an ad here for Come Undone movie, it looks like, but
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an interesting name. But anyway, anyway, yeah, I'm
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excited about that. And for tabs, actually, you just
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got a new bow as well. That's something to talk about.
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Talk about your new. Your new bow?
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Yeah, the the diamond, the diamond edge.
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I have not shot it yet. It's actually supposed to.
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An edge Max. Oh, a diamond edge Max.
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Nice. Yeah, maximum pressure.
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I don't know what the Max is for, but it is it probably it's
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not going to be like my everyday bow, you know, that's for sure,
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but it will be. I think a diamond edge was my
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first bow. Don't hold me to it, but I'm 99%
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positive because I know it was a bow tech and it was like the
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beginner level, which is a diamond.
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So it was a diamond of some sort was my first bow ever that
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lasted all about 3 months before I got a like a flagship bow.
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But it'll be fun to play around with.
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I'm very interested to feel it versus my virtue.
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I wish we had, you know, played with it yesterday.
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But I, we were slamming out other things.
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And then by the time I finished editing photos, I was about
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ready to pass out. But you don't have a job.
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Yeah, you don't. Actually do.
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Anything like do things for for for fun you know about 60 hours
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a week yeah but I I have not felt one in gosh sure it's 10
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plus years now like a pulling back of beginner level bow so
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I'm very interested. I feel the difference in it
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after having shot flagships for so long now and I'm I'm
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interested like will I play with it in the house where like I
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shoot it for funsies in the house, then my my virtue.
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I don't know. I know we have some stuff in
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store though with like doing some local shoots or whatnot
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where both of us shoot more of a beginner level, which should be
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interesting. I would really love to get a
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setup where I've so I wish we had two diamonds where like
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could dial it down because I would need it real low.
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But I've always thought of this video with doing it with Bernie.
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But even if I did it with you, although I think I would
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probably still lose if you shoot left-handed.
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We did that. Video one time, right?
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Oh, you didn't shoot right. Handed.
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No. Yeah, if I shoot right-handed.
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We did a video one time years ago where?
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I know you shot my bow. We both shot it.
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I think that one we should. You still won.
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We should actually do that again.
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Yeah, I was on that day. I know.
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But we should go do that that again like so you know, I like
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that fun stuff like that so. Yeah, but I, I don't know that I
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would be able to do it because I genuinely cannot close my left
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eye. So like I would have to, I would
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need a little bit of a grace period to like practice shooting
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with both eyes open, which I'm very not good at and see if I
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could even manage it. Otherwise, I don't know if I
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could do that competition because I can't shut the other
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eye. But having one that we can play
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with and do some more fun stuff. Once you're, we won't say what
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yet unless you feel like it, but you have another bow coming in
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which will allow us to do some more creative, funny content
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while also being able to use them for other people.
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Yes, that, that, that, that to me is.
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What the main reason for getting?
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Them exactly. Now the I don't know how
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adjustable the ascend is, but I think it's pretty adjustable.
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I think it's it's not as adjustable poundage wise as the
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diamond, not even close. It might go from 70 to like 55,
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but I think the draw length is still quite adjustable so I
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should be able to get most people with the exception of
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maybe some females to be able to fit into it if that's.
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The eventually we'll just get another diamond right-handed.
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That way people have options. That's the coolest part about
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the diamond though is to have a draw length from.
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I think it's from like 14 inches to 31 and the poundage goes from
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like 15 to 70. So I mean, literally, you can
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make it fit anybody in a couple of minutes.
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It's so cool. So yeah, I mean, I I'm excited
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that you have that bow. I think that historically budget
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Bowl videos have done quite well on the channel.
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So I think having a couple of them on hand that are actually
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ours and we don't just borrow from Bow and Arrow shop, I think
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it's going to give us some nice tools at our disposal to film
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some neat content that. I think I decided where I want
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to hang them too. I think we'll have two right
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there. That has a lot of value to it,
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you know, because bows are expensive.
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I mean they're really expensive nowadays and everything like
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everything, the prices just keep going up and up and up.
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So the fact that you can get a diamond package ready to go for
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400 bucks or whatever it is is nice, you know, so I, I'm
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excited for that and. I think they're great options
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for kids or like, say your wife is intrigued enough, but like
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not interested in going hunting and not interested in like going
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even like to fun competitions, but like wants to come and shoot
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tack for fun. You know, such an easy bow to
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like shoot in the backyard when the kids and you know, the the
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husband or whoever shooting and I'm I'm I feel like someone's
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probably going to comment like you're being sexist, but like 9
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times out of 10 that's the case. You know, it's the man the in
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the relationship who's likely a hunter shooter and you know, I'm
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oddly obsessed with archery where it's like sometimes like
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the female just doesn't tear. But if they do want to shoot for
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fun, what a cheap bow to pick up to just play in the yard with
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it. And then but it's so versatile
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because it being a bow tech and the things that they can do and
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whatnot, then technology that you could just have it as a play
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in the yard bow, but it can also go shoot attack like it's plenty
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capable of that. And you know, you can upgrade
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your site, you can upgrade your whisker biscuit.
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I love the whisker biscuit whisker.
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Biscuit whisker Biscuit a. Whisker Biscuit has to be the
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most sold arrow rest of all time.
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It has to be. There's no way it's not as far
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as volume goes. Think how many Whisker biscuits
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have sold all time. It's got to be insane because
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they're on every single test bow at a shop.
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All of them. They're on every single budget
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bow or entry level bow. They're on any bow at Walmart.
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You know what I'm saying? Like they're on everything.
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Shout out to Whisker Biscuit. I don't even know whose company
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that is. I was literally just thinking
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that like who What? I'm I'm sure it's an umbrella to
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under an umbrella of some sort, but what umbrella?
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Is it owned under you? You look like you're ready for a
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nap right now, partner, are you? Just found that my most
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productive day. We know that it hasn't.
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No, no it hasn't. But you're that's OK.
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You you do as well. So I think it would be fun for
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the viewers, number one, to drop some suggestions down in the
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comments for videos you would like to see with some more
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budget friendly Bose and they could be educational, they could
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be entertaining. Entertaining is my preference.
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Competitions. Let us know what you want to see
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with those rigs. With that being said, we're
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obviously doing a fair amount of tournaments this year or I am
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and you're filming a lot of them, but that's fun, right?
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And we got one under our belt and a freaking W on our first
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one in the premier class, right? So that's a good start.
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But don't get it twisted. We are still doing the TAC
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circuit and the Boat Disciples Challenge circuit.
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So Boat Disciples Challenge May 15th through 17 Lake Henshaw,
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California information Boat disciples.com One day, 2 day,
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three day pass. So then we're going to that we
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should go over what total archery challenges are on our
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schedule for this year and maybe we alternate.
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So you say the first one, kind of introduce it and then I'll do
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several ones. OK, So what?
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Oklahoma, it's Beaver's Bend, Oklahoma Tech, which we did do
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last year for the first time and I think we kind of did this last
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year in a pod after we were. We're kind of like reviewing and
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rating each tack in the positives and things we did.
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We did go back if you want to hear about that.
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But Oklahoma by far to summarize it up same as we did last year
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is I think one of the funnest tacks.
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It's not going to have your like big mountainous courses like the
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ski resort tax, but it's fun on a whole different level.
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Like just where the, I have a tickle in my throat, just where
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the, what you call it vendor area is located.
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And the way they like lay it out, it's more compact, but I
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think that's great because they like it.
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It mushes everybody together more, doesn't feel so spread
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out, which not to say that Oklahoma's tech is empty at all,
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but I like it not spread out. Like it's easy to walk from
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vendor to vendor and like the aisles.
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And they had that, Remember the one afternoon we went back and
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they had that concert with that one guy that was like, was he
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from like the voice or who's from some show?
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There wasn't like a winner, but like high up on the the list and
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just very like outdoorsy, vibey fun vibe, like one of the
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funnest vibes from TAC. And then not just the TAC event
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alone, but the town Beavers bend that it is in like the funnest
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town of all. Tax every restaurant or.
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We can't say all 'cause we. We haven't been to all yeah,
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this is true and we are trying some new ones, quite a few this
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year. But one of the funnest, I think,
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at least to what we have been to for tax because it's like it's
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got like a wine bars, but they're like outdoorsy ones, you
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know, not like hoity toity and regular bars like kids, like zoo
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adults can go there too because I want to go and restaurants and
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just everything you can imagine in in town.
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And then to top it all off, the Airbnb's some of the cheapest
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prices. For some of the bougiest cabins
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like cabins cabins, the one we had so nice and I believe it is
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to date the cheapest Airbnb we have rented for how many rooms,
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beds, niceties, amenities, private hot tub, everything that
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it had. So it's fun to kick back off
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with that one. Course wise, they're still
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challenging but not strenuous on the knees.
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So that was very nice for me at least for it.
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But they still work with what they have and make it tough.
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So very excited to start off with Oklahoma and then after
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Oklahoma, they have a nice little break from tax intro BDC
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4. And and reading.
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And reading, Yep, Yep, that's in the tournament side of things
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that you're going to be doing, but then straight from.
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I, I would like to briefly touch on Oklahoma as well.
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I agree with everything you said, but I think part of what
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also makes it a little more electric in people's vibe and
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and energy. So good is that I didn't even
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think of this in the past, but it's the, it's the first one of
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the schedule the whole tour for the tack as a whole.
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So I think that your vendors, the people at Tack, like the
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employees, everyone's kind of getting those like you're not
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burnt out yet. And.
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You're having fun because you haven't seen all your buddies in
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a while. So everyone's just in a good
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chipper mood and and I think that also sets a really nice
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tone for the event. I loved it and the the the cost
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effectiveness of the Airbnb's key right now.
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I will say the downside if if if you got a nitpick is that it's
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not really It's not super greatly close to an airport for,
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for people flying on. It's hard to travel to if you're
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flying so. Yeah, a car rental is required.
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Right now, this year we are flying to somewhere else to film
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with just one of the humblest poppers.
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One of the humblest poppers we're filming with before the
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event and then we're driving with that popper.
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Have we have we mapped how long or did he map how long that
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drive is from there to there? I think it's like 8 hours.
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It's not too. Bad.
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Geez, Martha. OK.
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Geez Martha, what do you mean? We're about to drive like 12 in
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a couple. Days, I know.
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OK. And then next total archery
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challenge that we will be going to after Bo Disciples Challenge
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344 Bo disciples.com is Vermont. Yeah, new one.
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Vermont, new state, new state and new tack unlocked.
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Yeah. Now here's what's interesting.
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We have not been, We have not been.
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So there's not a whole lot to speak of from experience.
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I will say from signing up though, it only has 3-4 courses.
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I'm sorry. So a pretty limited venue it
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would appear, but Vermont looks beautiful.
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I know they don't have billboards.
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I know it's a really pretty state.
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I know it's the home of the legend Bernie Sanders and show
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my boy Chuck Adams is from there, right?
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So we had to go for Chuck and I want to go.
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I wouldn't want to click off some of these other stops that
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are a little more avant-garde. I don't think too many people go
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into Vermont unless they live there.
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Most. Likely so interested to see like
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the vendor area for Vermont. And then it is on a ski resort
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though, so it just must be a smaller like mountain, you know?
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It's got ski lifts and everything.
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Yeah. So I imagine the the difficulty
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levels of the courses to still be decent because any ski resort
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one typically is more of your like up and downhill shots and
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things like that. And you know, kind of like a
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bonus for us is that Chuck is from Vermont and going with us.
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So even if the the days are short, because I mean, you do a,
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you do a course and we only got to do a course twice on one of
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the days in order if you want to do all four, because it's three
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days, four courses. So the other days, I mean, if
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Chuck has recommendations on things like to go do or
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restaurants to go try or you know, whatever it may be, we got
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the whole rest of the day to go do something.
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Yeah, I think it's going to be very fun.
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Which brings us to the third stop of the tour.
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Yeah, the third stop, just think of us as kind of like, what do
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they call those groupies? Like tag groupies?
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We're kind of like following the tour.
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Well, we are. Well, we're going to be on a
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road trip, so we sort of are. Yeah.
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So therefore, if that didn't give it away, if you don't know
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the tag schedule by heart yet, the next stop after Vermont is
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Pennsylvania, which is the biggest tack.
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It did, I believe now for like the last year or two, surpassed
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the size of Utah's tack, which used to be the biggest one.
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I don't think that's true. I do think that's true.
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I think they've said it. I'm pretty sure Pennsylvania's
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always been the largest. I don't know about that, but
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I'm. Pretty sure, but it's it's
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irrelevant. Yeah, who does?
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I have a. So yes, Pennsylvania, that is a
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four day. Event My Tack Pennsylvania is a
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four day tack and four days, 3-5 nights if you include your
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before tack starts and your when tack ends.
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We are going with a boatload of people, but that's what you do
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when you're going to the biggest tack we've got in our our
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Airbnb, which I'm looking forward to because you always
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know when you know you're going with a big group comes a big
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Airbnb. And this group contains me, you,
26:53
Brittany Jean, outdoors, the one and only podium Archer, the Ty
26:59
Jordan, right, I believe. I think so, yeah.
27:03
Scotty Evans, That's right. You know the the bow.
27:07
What's his name on TikTok? Bow Talk.
27:10
Bow, Bow Boy and then the. Legend.
27:14
Jeff Cordero and I believe his wife is coming as well.
27:18
We haven't met her before, so that'll be fun.
27:20
Have I forgotten anybody? Is Joey coming?
27:23
And everyone's favorite degenerate of the happy fun
27:27
bunch, Joey, is coming along, so it is going to be just.
27:31
A massive group. And we're planning to add one
27:33
more because one of the members of our group, I'm not going to
27:35
say who is a very poor popper. Very poor popper.
27:39
So we need more people in the house to get the cost out.
27:42
Hey, I'm. A poor popper, please.
27:45
I don't have a job, remember? Yeah.
27:47
Please. So we are going to put one more
27:49
person in the Airbnb. Which brings us to our 4th tack.
27:56
Yeah. Which is one of the two
28:00
Michigan's. It's Crystal Crystal Mountain.
28:03
Crystal Mountain. Michigan one we're for sure
28:05
doing. And we might also do the other
28:08
Boyne Mountain, Michigan as well.
28:10
I. Think it's just Boyne, Michigan.
28:12
For for sure doing Crystal Mountain, Michigan.
28:15
We might also too do Boyne, Michigan as well.
28:18
But for definitely the one, maybe not not for sure the
28:21
other, but possibly the other. So we will be in Michigan.
28:25
Yeah, home of boning veins. OK.
28:30
And we will. Hold our inspiration for
28:33
basically going to that one. Correct.
28:35
Lord willing, we will be doing some content with boning on that
28:40
trip, possibly including some sort of factory tour,
28:45
potentially, maybe talking to some of the fine American folks
28:49
that are working there. And yeah, should be a heck of a
28:52
lot of fun after that. We will be heading home all the
28:58
way back to the great state of California, but.
29:01
We don't know yet, but we don't know yet.
29:03
But if you all have any collaborations that you would
29:08
like to see the Happy fun bunch do on a nationwide road trip
29:14
over the span of four to six weeks, drop them down below.
29:19
Or maybe you know somebody. Maybe, you know, Matt Damon, OK,
29:23
if you do, if you'd Or maybe, maybe, maybe Malcolm Stewart's
29:27
watching this right now wants to show.
29:29
You never right down the Florida.
29:30
So if anyone knows somebody who you would like to see the Happy
29:34
Fun Bunch film with and maybe RIP a pod, let them know or let
29:37
us know or drop a comment because we are going to try to
29:40
schedule a lot of content between all of these stops.
29:44
And we do. Oh, I'm not going to spill the
29:48
beans on it yet, but we do have a podcast.
29:50
I'm very excited to go on on the trip.
29:55
Oh, I'm excited. It's going to make for a very,
29:59
let's just say basically to get to this place you estimated what
30:02
was the drive time. 29 hours 29. Hours and BDC 4 ends Sunday
30:11
afternoon. We.
30:12
Pack up. Hold on.
30:13
Let me, let me build up the dramatics of this.
30:16
We have to pack up 60 targets, A merch booth, check in booth. 2
30:26
Kawasakis. Two Kawasakis, the practice
30:29
range, signage, cones, flags, all that afternoon because we
30:38
need to hit the road by early as possible AM.
30:44
Like if you wake up sometime in the middle of the night, just
30:47
come wake me up and we'll get in the car and go Basically because
30:50
we need to leave no later than like 5:00 AM.
30:57
Monday morning to drive 29 hours with a stop or two to be
31:06
somewhere by Wednesday. Now that is sound, it sounds
31:13
terrible. I'm not excited about that
31:15
cause. Well, when you say when you say
31:16
it's 29 hours spanned over. Well, the thing.
31:22
Is plus a little bit. The thing is motorcycles
31:24
challenge is a lot of work and you never feel more drained than
31:30
that Sunday night and the next day you feel just totally worked
31:33
right pro to drive let's say 10 hours the next day and stay at a
31:41
motel or something, whatever which I'm probably will be
31:45
staying at a motel and get in the hot tub that sounds.
31:49
Terrible. I think I'll be doing the first
31:52
leg of the drive. Oh, do you?
31:55
Oh, yeah. Because we're going to wake up
31:57
early AF. We're going to stop at Duncan.
32:02
I'm going to get me a full box of snacks.
32:05
Yes, I am. And then I do well with early
32:09
morning drives because I just set that cruise control.
32:12
I sit crisscross applesauce. Believe me, if I ever got in a
32:14
car accident on cruise control, just count me paralyzed from the
32:17
waist down because I'm crisscross applesauce every
32:20
single time. At minimum, one leg is up.
32:24
But I do well with early morning drives because you only got a
32:28
little bit of time in the dark and then that sun rises and
32:32
you're nice and awake. I do not do well with evening
32:36
drives because your eyes are already tired from driving
32:39
whatever portion you did in the daylight.
32:41
And then I have poor vision, especially at night.
32:44
That's why I do have glasses that I'm supposed to wear while
32:47
driving and so I can't read Rd. signs to save my life.
32:51
Everything starbursting not good, not good at night.
32:57
So I think I'll start the first leg.
32:58
That way you can kind of nap, get rejuvenated and then the
33:02
next leg it's all on you. I.
33:06
Love napping in the car. I know that's like my favorite
33:09
place tonight. But yeah, so that is our our
33:14
tack schedule for 2026. Also, by the time this is out,
33:24
my video should be out unless they scrap it, which if they do,
33:28
this won't make any sense. But I should have a video coming
33:31
out in collaboration with Total Archery Challenge, Valentine's
33:35
Day thing, which should be after this.
33:38
So this. It will because Valentine's Day
33:40
is in like. It's next week, Yeah.
33:43
Yeah. So, yeah.
33:44
So if you saw that, basically we did a tough challenge.
33:49
It's a couples challenge. I don't know how long they're
33:51
going to run it for, but maybe like a month or something.
33:55
So go watch it. It's on the Total Archery
33:57
challenge page. It may also be on our page.
33:59
Not entirely sure, But go try the challenge, watch it, try it
34:03
and film it. And if you successfully pull it
34:07
off, which is very hard to do, and it takes also some science
34:10
to even make it possible, but if you do it, you have a chance to
34:14
win two dozen victory arrows, which is a great deal.
34:17
So go try it. It's tough.
34:20
It's not one of those pretty challenges that just like, you
34:23
pop a balloon and glitter flies everywhere and like, oh, I did
34:26
it at 100 yards. You have some tape on hand, some
34:30
scissors, some string, maybe a rock or two, maybe some floss.
34:38
You just need a variety pack. Maybe even beef up the the item.
34:44
You'll find out if you watch the video prior to starting.
34:49
I would because that I think was key to even making the challenge
34:54
possible. I didn't realize the force of an
34:56
arrow's impact, especially when you were trying to do the
35:01
challenge. I thought for sure you were
35:03
going to get on the first try and it took me like 9 didn't
35:06
turn out to be the case, but what you were shooting at was
35:10
more flexible than mine. The weight had now changed.
35:20
It just that was a tough one. That is tough.
35:25
OK, good. Good.
35:27
It was tough, but go check out the challenge.
35:29
Two dozen victories up for grabs.
35:31
That's great. Now you had a subject that you
35:34
wanted to discuss about something about AI plants.
35:38
Oh yeah, but I don't know, I, I have not, I'm not talking about
35:43
vegetation guys. And I need to do more research.
35:47
So this is going to come back up again.
35:49
I don't know how long this pot been going.
35:51
Right now it has been going approximately 34 minutes.
35:56
OK, well I I might not cover in this one a ton because I
35:59
definitely want to do some more research.
36:01
It was, at least the premise. But the premise to it is that it
36:04
was brought to my attention the other day on a phone call that
36:09
as all this AI begins to become popular, like, I keep seeing
36:13
this thing. Elizabeth posted 1 today,
36:16
actually a funny one of like, not AI.
36:19
It was her just holding a cup in the snow.
36:21
And she's, like, seeing this and all the AI caricatures on my
36:25
stories. And I've seen a boatload of them
36:27
over this past week. Have you seen those?
36:30
Yeah. Yeah.
36:33
Ironically, I don't know where people.
36:35
My algorithm must not be shelling me because I feel like
36:39
as popular as I've been seeing it.
36:41
I would see like you know the ads or whatever to like make the
36:46
same type of character. You just do it on ChatGPT.
36:49
He just had to copy. Oh, is that where everybody's
36:51
doing it? Yes, you have to copy and paste
36:54
the prompt that other people use and then it'll generate the
36:57
image. Yes, see, I hadn't even noticed
36:59
that. But anyways, so a eyes, it's
37:04
growing. It's growing a lot, I mean,
37:07
immensely just in the last few months.
37:11
But I didn't know like AI takes an immense amount of power to
37:19
generate the like essentially facility or power plant that
37:24
runs AI. Like, think of it like back in
37:27
the day when computers required like a whole room for what is
37:33
now your monitor, you know, And that is like what AI is right
37:40
now at its beginnings. It's takes an immense facility,
37:45
huge, massive to generate the power to run AI.
37:52
Maybe that'll scale down as AI evolves, as we evolve.
37:59
AIII, don't know how you want to put it, but with these power
38:04
plants, because they're so massive, they take an immense
38:08
amount of water or cooling to keep these.
38:12
Think of it like a giant computer and they create a lot
38:14
of heat and you have to cool that heat down so that the
38:19
computer doesn't overheat. And in a state, I don't know
38:24
which state, so this is where my research needs to come back in.
38:28
But it is dried like miles of or something of habitat all around
38:34
the power plant because it's sucking in all of running water
38:40
from the area to cool down the AI power plant or facility.
38:48
And it's brought, it was brought up to my attention that, hey, as
38:54
outdoors enthusiasts and conservationists, should we be
39:01
like being so Willy nilly about AI, not for the sake of like AI
39:06
is going to take over the world or, you know, you're not being
39:10
as content creators, you're not being genuine with your content.
39:14
Like none of those categories. But the main reason why outdoor
39:19
content creators are here is to grow the space, to grow hunting,
39:26
to grow knowledge of it. You know, at the end of the day,
39:30
at the core, I think I would like to think that's why almost
39:33
every true genuine hunting or outdoor content creator is here.
39:39
And if you're just Willy nilly using AI, not knowing this, you
39:44
are directly contributing to the need for these plants that is
39:49
ruining massive amounts of habitat.
39:52
That's what it boils down to. And how do you come back from
39:57
that? You know, So I do want to do
40:02
more research. Well, I have done a little bit
40:04
of research. So it says AI data centers are
40:08
putting significant strain on water resources, with studies
40:11
suggesting that the sector could consume between 312.5 and 764.6
40:20
billion liters of water annually by 2025.
40:24
High water usage is primarily due to evaporative cooling
40:28
systems, often called swamp coolers, which are used to micro
40:33
swamp. Coolers.
40:35
Which are used to manage the intense heat generated by AI
40:39
servers. So yeah, it I think it's not
40:47
going to be solved by people not utilizing AI.
40:50
That's never going to happen. That's like the same argument of
40:53
saying like we need people to stop using social media to save
40:58
off road trails. Like that's never going to
41:00
happen. People are going to use social
41:01
media, they're going to use AI. Now what could help it is the
41:05
technology getting better. So like making it run cooler,
41:10
not needing as much water for the swamp coolers, making the
41:14
machines run more efficiently. That's going to be the solution
41:18
eventually. It's just.
41:20
Sure, I think that solution will come because the tech will
41:23
evolve and will, you know, humankind and smarty pants
41:27
people who work on that stuff will come up with a way to make
41:32
it evolve. But I think the the point was
41:34
brought up because you're not going to stop the world from
41:39
using AI. It's well, now that it's here,
41:41
it's never going to go away. That's it.
41:44
You're dumb if you think it is. Like you're just playing out
41:47
stupid. Like we didn't invent rockets
41:49
and then just decide to stop using them.
41:51
We went to space and now created satellites and space stations
41:55
and went to the moon and you know this.
41:57
You're just not going to not do it anymore or not use it or not
42:00
create it, whatever. But I think it's more of a an
42:05
idea that a, a hunter who thinks conservation is important should
42:11
keep in their mind when the thought comes to use AI or use
42:16
it significantly. Because if there's a group of
42:18
people that maybe should not be using it to, I don't want to say
42:24
prove a point, but, you know, set to us of, you know, a
42:29
standard of morals, I guess that like, hey, this does affect
42:33
habitat. So it's not something it's like
42:37
you recycle because plastic is bad for the environment.
42:41
I actually recycle because I'm a cheap bastard and want that.
42:44
Well, let's just say the majority of people should
42:45
recycle beef. It's bad for the environment.
42:48
You get what I'm saying? I do it for both.
42:50
So yeah. But so likewise, if you use that
42:53
metaphor or scenario analogy, you, if you are a
42:58
conservationist that thinks habitat is important, you should
43:02
therefore not use AI. I think that's a pretty simple
43:06
step as one sole person or a community to take.
43:11
But on the opposite or not opposite end with an additional
43:15
point to be made here. It's not just not using AI if
43:20
you're a conservationist or a hunter outdoor enthusiast, but
43:24
it's also are you going back to this whole thing of like if
43:28
you're a hunter or you're doing your part, so are you using your
43:33
voice? Are you signing those?
43:35
I know there's a huge 1 going on right now for petitions that are
43:38
going to, you know, consider in one of the states, hunting to be
43:43
illegal, literal hunting to be illegal.
43:46
And also ranching. Yeah, ranching, trapping, all of
43:50
it's up on the chopping block. So are you signing those
43:53
petitions? Are you sharing, if you see one
43:56
on your social media accounts for another hunter that you, you
43:59
know, follows you to see it brings that point to an even
44:05
higher precedent. Because if you don't speak up to
44:11
conserve more habitat, well, if that habitat's not protected and
44:17
huntable and managed, guess what?
44:20
Companies can come in to buy up that land and drop another power
44:24
plant and boom, there goes more habitat.
44:26
So I think that's the bigger point to be made with AI is not
44:32
just don't use AI, but are you doing your bigger part as a
44:35
hunter and conservationists to keep lands managed and
44:39
conserved? And if you are, great, because
44:44
that means there is less land to throw AI power plants on.
44:47
And therefore they have to be smart about where they choose to
44:49
put them. And let's face it, there's tons
44:51
of land in the United States. But yeah, I think that's the
44:56
bigger point that probably out of that whole story and AI, you
45:06
know, thing that came up is just are you doing your part?
45:12
Very good. Very well said.
45:14
Yeah, very well said. It's going to be an exciting
45:18
year. We're going on a great road
45:21
trip. It's.
45:21
Going to be a long one. Great road trip.
45:23
Some of the a lot of that content will be out after this
45:26
podcast, so I'll I'll shell shell.
45:29
Some of that with Rd. trips. I would like to say I would love
45:32
so many things to drop in these comments.
45:34
And men and women, please don't post trail mix.
45:39
It's not not what I'm looking for.
45:41
I'm looking for more of a creative snack here.
45:45
I'm a sweet person, but I'm also on, you know, as you could call
45:49
it the health journey and it's become, you could call it a
45:52
little more liberal, but it's still health conscious, I guess.
45:56
You know, you do have to fuel your body to gain muscle and
46:01
strength and whatnot. And so you can't just starve
46:04
yourself and not eat, you know, anything but health conscious
46:10
creative snacks. Let me give you an example here
46:13
of one that I'm about to go pick up some supplies to make
46:16
tomorrow for our our upcoming road trip.
46:20
They are protein, banana and blueberry.
46:26
I think it's banana, I think no lemon, lemon and blueberry
46:34
balls. So you take cottage cheese or
46:37
you can substitute for Greek yogurt.
46:39
Not a big cottage cheese fan, but you're supposed to blend it
46:41
up. So I might try the cottage
46:44
cheese. Cottage cheese or Greek yogurt.
46:48
Lemon zest blueberries. I think it's you can either use
46:55
gluten free like oats or almond flour of you know, your choice.
47:00
I think for this one it's oats and then like honey or whatever,
47:04
mix it all together, make them into little balls and then you
47:07
either let them just set or you can bake them for like 15
47:10
minutes. But and then if you want, you
47:15
add that extra powder, vanilla, like protein powder, and they do
47:20
have a significant amount of protein per little ball and then
47:24
natural sugar. So you know, from your fruits
47:26
and whatnot and honey. That's the kind of snack I'm
47:30
looking for. I'm a good, I'm a good Baker.
47:33
I'm a good, you know, I like things that require a recipe.
47:38
Please don't tell me mixed raisins and M&M's together in a
47:43
bag with some trail mix or to go buy a first form protein bar or
47:48
something. One of some things that we could
47:51
keep in a cooler in the back seat to have snacks to stop not
47:55
stop at the gas station as much and pick up my favorite gummy
47:58
worms. So if you have any of those
48:02
creative snacks or your wives have any of those creative snack
48:05
recipes, please drop them in the comments because I'm looking for
48:09
some. I also found one for coconut
48:12
cookies. I can't wait to make them.
48:17
Well, there you have it folks. Drop in the comments.
48:19
Good snack options. Creative.
48:22
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