Adam and I speak about learning from the experiences we have. Adam shares some hairy stories with us about hunting in BC. 

Lane an I discuss backcountry hunting and he shares with us some tips about how to be more comfortable and translate that to success. 

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Arizona Prop 134 - Just my take

  Balanced Decision-Making: By requiring voter approval from all 30 legislative districts, Prop 134 ensures that wildlife and conservation policies reflect the interests of both urban and rural communities across the state.

  Protects Science-Based Management: This approach guards against policies driven solely by urban populations, supporting evidence-based wildlife management.

  Prevents "Ballot Box Biology": It reduces the risk of policies shaped by public sentiment alone, promoting more informed and sustainable conservation.

You will hear people say it’s a double edged sword, but I don’t believe this to be true. Lets think about it…

First off hunting and fishing since my involvement in it politically never seeks to add policy via ballot initiative because our measures typically have merit so it will be sponsored by a senator etc or brought up through the legislature.  

Secondly outdoorsman will have a much easier time collecting signatures about hunting, fishing or wildlife in general from a citizen in Wilcox than they would in downtown phx, Conversely it’s a much harder road for the other side.

Lastly I don’t want to make this a partisan thing but if you want to think of it on the big stage.. the democratic party doesn’t want this to pass at all because they use the ballot initiative process more than anyone and they know right now that their largest constituency resides in Maricopa and Pima county. Lets say they want to stop a rancher from raising cattle they know they have a much easier time collecting signatures and get support from people that are removed from the issue.  

And that’s exactly what this bill does it allows for a much more well balanced representation of the state on citizen initiated measures which is good for everyone!!!!!

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In this episode Charles Whitwam and I speak about our struggles this season and how the lack of practice and preparation effects outcome, we talk about my unfortunate by eye opening accident taking a broadhead to my right calf and most importantly we talk about saving hunting in AZ how we have an opportunity to solidify some protections against ballot box biology. 

Brian and I dicuss his new book and he shares a few stories with us about hunting a giant 200+ inch muley, Rosevelt elk, bear and blacktail deer.

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Chris Muhlbeier, with TheArrowBuilder.com , specializes in outfitting hunters with affordable custom arrow builds. He's gone down the rabbit holes to develop a data driven approach to tailor each arrow to the hunters application.

We speak about arrow building philosophy in this episode I mention a few older podcast that are a must listen for arrow building here are the links. 

https://interviewswiththemasters.podbean.com/e/broadheads-and-arrow-flight-testing-with-iron-will-bill/

https://interviewswiththemasters.podbean.com/e/high-foc-fast-and-furious-arrow-building/

Throwback Thursday Coues Deer with Shane Edgar

Artom is a long-time friend and one hell of a whitetail hunter. I will be hunting with him this October. We discuss hunting deer in Michigan, stand sites, locating bucks, where you want to sit vs wind and time of day, scouting techniques to help you score a big buck this season. 

Article I mentioned Mapping Monster Bucks 

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Our Last episode Together 

Throwback --- Jason Matzinger shares with us one of the most amazing stories 

Jason tells us about the time he had a guiding client die while hunting and shares with us some life lessons 

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Anthony And Joey Stop by 2 days after Anthony's Arizona Strip Archery Mule Deer hunt to tell me the story of how it all went down.  

Well we went all over the place on this one... not sure if we accomplished what I set out to with this one. But there are some takeaways so Im putting it up there.