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Mounting Memories: Display Your Prized Possession – Noah Gotsis
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In this episode of the Tricer Podcast, Drew Miles talks with Noah Gotsis, founder of Prized Possessions, to talk about the evolution of premium skull and shoulder mounts designed with hunters in mind. Noah shares how his western hunting background and passion for DIY projects led him to create mounts that are not only durable and secure but also stylish enough to fit seamlessly into any home. The conversation explores the challenges of displaying game trophies, customer-driven innovations like custom engravings and state-shaped plaques, and the importance of blending craftsmanship with hunting culture. Drew and Noah also trade stories from the field, covering hunts in Arizona and Colorado, the realities of crowded tag systems, and the unwritten rule of keeping your best spots under wraps. Whether you’re interested in high-quality hunting memorabilia or just love swapping western hunting stories, this episode delivers a mix of practical insight and authentic camaraderie from the field.
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Introduction
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners.
00:00:17
Speaker
We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen. All right. This will be a fun one. i have Noah Goatsies from prize possessions over in Arizona on the pod today.
00:00:30
Speaker
Noah is making what I would describe as the best like skull mount, shoulder mount mounts I have ever seen. they sent me one like totally blew me away. Surprised me. I was, I didn't ask for it. I had no idea it was coming. I had no idea it was on my debt, on my front porch, opened it up.
00:00:47
Speaker
And, um, dude, I was just blown away by the quality.
Noah's Popularity and Premium Mounts
00:00:50
Speaker
And, Noah, man. How are you doing, dude? Dude, we're doing good. Thanks for having me on, man. This is awesome.
00:00:58
Speaker
Yeah, I had not, like, even... i think we got hooked up through Cody Nelson, who's a good friend of mine. i think maybe Mike Hern or someone else linked us up together to come on the pod.
00:01:10
Speaker
But, um dude, like, I had not seen your stuff, and... Cody called He's like, hey everybody knows it' to come on the pod. He's making some really cool stuff over here. He's really blowing up. And I was like, okay, cool. Like I've seen school hookers. I've seen, you know, whatever. I've got all the mounts here.
00:01:25
Speaker
Um, and then you sent me some and I was just like, Holy smokes. This is like next level for mounting things in your house on the walls. Well, thank you. Yeah. I mean, that was, that was the whole point. Skullhooker is great. There's a bunch of great brands out there, but there a little hole in the market for something premium. I mean, you spend thousands of dollars on a hunt.
00:01:45
Speaker
You have many days out in the field and we wanted to make something that was extra special and premium and secure. Um, so that's kind of what we've been doing. And the, the feedback has been phenomenal.
00:01:58
Speaker
Yeah. And I would just describe it as premium. Like that's the only way to put it. Like, Uh, and you make a good point, right? Like I'm going to spend, you know, there's no hunt you go on that doesn't cost you even the tags, 800 bucks.
00:02:11
Speaker
You know, the the, you know, the week off of work is a few grand and then you've got all the money that goes into it. And then we just take that mountain. and We screw a little like picture frame thing to the back of it and hang on the wall.
00:02:25
Speaker
Right. And you're making it like you're doing things that actually made my wife would like to let me have it in the house. Yeah. for That's perfect. That's what we like to hear. Yeah. you know, that's what the plaques kind of do because all of our mounts are compatible with plaques and the plaques kind of got us started with engravings and we wanted that modern home decor
Security and Compatibility of Mounts
00:02:44
Speaker
look.
00:02:44
Speaker
And then we started pairing that with premium mounts brackets. We don't have a deer one yet. That's coming soon. But yeah, dude, you invest so much time and money and it's priceless. That skull is priceless. And if that falls off the wall, I mean, you're not going to rebuild a skull.
00:03:00
Speaker
So why not secure it, make it as best as possible. i mean we do our best to make them affordable. I think they are affordable for what they're doing. But yeah i know that we we get that all the time. Like our our wife, our wife approves of this. We put it on the wall and, you know, they're a customer for years to come.
00:03:16
Speaker
Yeah, dude. And honestly, the falling off the wall thing, there is nothing worse, right? Like I have five kids. They play ball in the house and they're not supposed to. They do things. I've had...
00:03:28
Speaker
i don't even know. I mean, probably three euros just destroyed. Right. And then like they ended up throwing it in a bucket or throwing it in this garage. And like, yeah you know, I tried to do like a plastic one on one of them. And it's just so ugly.
00:03:41
Speaker
Like the, the freaking, I mean, no offense Cabela's and like the plastic ones they make, but like it's ugly and like finding a better way to mount them is, um, necessary and needed. And honest honestly, I kind of like how,
00:03:55
Speaker
your mounts are then kind of three-dimensional off the wall, it just flat to the wall as well? Yeah, you get the teeth off the wall, and you have the adjustability. So with that elk mount, you can adjust at angles. if you want it angled, you can.
00:04:06
Speaker
If you want it flat the wall, you can. you know build it for the customer to choose what they want. But yeah, I mean, there's nothing. I mean, gosh, I broke my first school, my first deer ever. Nothing big, nothing special, but probably the most special one to me.
00:04:21
Speaker
And that fell off the wall when i was in college. And I mean, it's just like missing a big buck when you're out there archery hunting. You get that feeling in your chest. It never goes away. Yeah, and honestly, I like, ah I just started going to like some of like, they're even Skullhooker. There's some stuff I got Amazon to some hooks that make it where, like, you can see the one behind me on the wall is just straight up and down. Like, it's just a coos deer.
00:04:42
Speaker
But when you get a big buck, it really protrudes too far out off the wall, like a mule deer for me. But when you put them at an angle, it kind of like hugs the wall better. and it just fits the room better. Yeah, you want to match that. You want to match those antlers with the wall, whether it's elk or a deer. But yeah, if you're hanging them flat, you have big mule deer.
00:05:00
Speaker
I mean, if you put that big mule deer flat down the wall, that was a Euro mount, it'd stick off the wall by 18, 20 inches. Yeah. yeah Yeah, and then it's a knock off the wall. Then the kids are walking my head in Yeah, exactly. yeah And then like our deer hooks, we just have our affordable deer hooks. And those are a preset angle, but they're not straight down. So those still have um that angle that that looks good, which I need to send you one for that who's up on the wall.
00:05:24
Speaker
So you, you're like a pretty popular dude over there in Arizona, dude, you know, all the dudes, um, lot of the same friends over there. How did, how'd you get into this? Like what, like, would you come from the hunting space? Like how'd you get into like cutting sheet metal lasers or machining deer mounts and doing all this stuff?
Hunting Background and Arizona's Appeal
00:05:41
Speaker
Well, I didn't know anyone until about a year ago, probably. i just grew up hunting with my dad, man. And we were weekend warriors until I got addicted to it. And once I went off to college, I was hunting as much as I could.
00:05:54
Speaker
I knew I always wanted to do something that in the the hunting space. Just didn't know quite what. I come from a background of just... ah maybe DIYers, right? So I grew up working on cars, restoring cars with my dad. So I've always been handy, always build my own stuff. And that's kind of how we got in the business of sheet metal, I guess.
00:06:12
Speaker
um But, you know, my best friend who's our engineer, so I grew up with him. He's an engineer now. And I mean, dude, I usually come up with the crazy idea and he can throw that in CAD and pull it up and it's just a good system going on. But no, I mean, I started just networking here in Arizona, um, Arizona archery club, man, Eddie over there has put me in contact with so many people that, and then, um, we just networked from there and getting in front of the right people.
00:06:37
Speaker
Where are you living in Arizona? We're up in North Phoenix. Okay. Yeah. I was, I was looking at moving to the desert Hills, but now we're moving to Yuma in the spring. So dude, I love desert Hills.
00:06:48
Speaker
I actually, so Cape Creek's right behind there and there's a little Metro unit. I guess I probably shouldn't be saying this, but I'll sneak out there in the December, January hunts. There's some really good mule deer in there. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I know i looked at yeah Cave Creek as well. Cave Creek, all those areas over there. Problem is is just so far from San Diego and I've got a daughter in high school still. So we want to be able to come back a little bit.
00:07:09
Speaker
Yuma's two hours away. It's the armpit of Arizona, but I'm going to move to Yuma in January and become an Arizona resident. Get my, so get my ah you know, get a silencer, do the whole thing, you know. and hey Do it all. Yeah.
00:07:23
Speaker
Yuma's not bad, man. No, we've had a place out in Martinez Lake forever. I've had some properties in Yuma for a long time. Like I've been going there my whole life because, you know, you the river's right there in Martinez Lake.
00:07:35
Speaker
So like we'll to the river, that stuff. we i cut my teeth learning to hunt in Yuma, all over Dome Valley and all that stuff out there, Welton and go and do all that stuff. So um mostly birds. Birds, there's lots there's good duck hunting out there, good hunting.
00:07:48
Speaker
upland hunting, and then obviously the archery stuff we can get after. And as a resident, I'll be able to go and do that now whenever I want. Because as a non-resident, I got on there like 10 minutes late this year and I don't have a tag this year for archery.
00:08:01
Speaker
Yeah, is that pretty cutthroat? Obviously, I'm i'm a resident, but you know is it hard to get that OTC tag? So like I had my phone set. like I'm religious. like I apply in like 10 states now. And I have my phone set for 8 a.m. m Well, the problem is that we're an hour behind or ahead of one of the two.
00:08:18
Speaker
you guys don't change your clocks back. And so it was actually 7 a.m. my time, 8 your time. ah So I got on like, think I got 10 or 15 minutes late and it was done already. I think they sold out in like seven minutes, something like that, something crazy.
00:08:32
Speaker
I'm surprised, dude. Arizona Gavon Fish's site's always busting, too. I'm surprised nothing weird happened there. But, yeah, that's that's a pain, man. I mean, got there's been a lot of non-residents out here, I got i got to admit, with those OTC hunts. So something did have to happen, but that's a weird system.
00:08:47
Speaker
I'm trying to get on there. Yeah, I could do a whole podcast on why I think Arizona's website is the worst website in the country for this. I mean, just from top to bottom, I think this they they redid it and it's still terrible. All they did was make it look good.
00:09:06
Speaker
You have to go through the process of checking out for every flipping tag. Yeah, I hate it. Now, let's say you have three sons like me.
00:09:17
Speaker
you have to through the process of checking out for every freaking tag, for every person. like Not like over cart. You're working on whole afternoon. Oh, you're hours, dude. hours to do it right like it's like you have to remember every single one you did you gotta go like not like add them all the cart and do it i think like you i think california is actually surprisingly really what good at it and think utah does it as well where you can actually add them all the cart and then check everyone out at the same time colorado does that it's easy yeah yeah and but like Arizona? No.
00:09:47
Speaker
You have to go through and then enter the credit card information every time. You have to put your social security number in every time. You have to tell them if you're a resident. The entire process every time for Arizona. and like It's like, dude, it's 2025.
00:09:58
Speaker
How hard can this be? i can order something on Amazon and have it to my house by this afternoon, but we have to check out every single tag all the way through. Doesn't it save your information? Nothing.
00:10:10
Speaker
No, not it's awful. yeah Tell you what, they'll never forget my social number because I've typed in so many damn times for Arizona. So every single thing type it in, like it doesn't make, it doesn't make no sense to it. It's like, yeah. And then the Google, if you're doing like on Google Chrome too, won't even save it. It's one of those, like you can't even just right click and then paste it. You literally have to type it in. Yeah. It's, it's not fun.
00:10:29
Speaker
But again, this is not going be a web podcast where just bash Arizona. Cause I love Arizona is my favorite state to hunt. Everyone should not go there. There's no deer in Arizona. Don't go there. But it is where I cut my teeth. It is where I learned how to glass. It is what probably started tricers going over there hunting coos deer and doing that.
00:10:47
Speaker
But anyways, so very similar to you. i grew up um building hot rods, building boats, right? Like I just sold my 29 model. a i had a 68 Camaro that I bought when I was like 14.
00:10:58
Speaker
um i built a race boat when I was 16. I bought a truck and then I bought a, hydro, a two seat hydro with no engine in in it. Um, it had no reverse, no neutral. it was literally just fast. That was it.
00:11:11
Speaker
It built a motor, blew that thing up like three times, but everyone always asked all the time, like, how would you learn how to be so mechanical and do this stuff? and it's like, just by doing that stuff, literally just by, yeah, building car building cars building um i bought i bought a like i think it's like a 78 amc eagle like there's a gremlin it's all-wheel drive car and i just freaking gutted that thing put a full roll cage in it um put race seats in it and then blew the transmission up like the second weekend out but um and never drove it again but uh like i just i love tinkering that's kind of how i learned how to do this stuff
Mechanical Skills and Innovation
00:11:46
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, gosh, you and I could probably talk for hours about that. I mean, I grew up buying and selling dirt bikes, right? ATVs just, they were blown up. I was going fix it. I was gonna sell them. And, um, that's all I did.
00:11:57
Speaker
So we could definitely get along with that. And we love car, dude. I mean, I grew up with a 65 Comet. My grandpa had a hand it handed out to my dad. We, uh, restored that. Gosh, it's been in my blood ever since. That's one the things i'm excited about going to Arizona for is the gas prices. Um, cause like right now it's supposed to be the lowest gas in five years or something in the country. And my gas is still like $4.50 in San Diego.
00:12:19
Speaker
So I'm like, Oh, I can't wait to go to Arizona so I can actually drive like a VA and not worry about driving. I mean like, so expensive. So, yeah, so you did that. And then when did you like make your first skull mount? What did it look like? Was your first one like a state? like What would you do? Like, how did this work out?
00:12:39
Speaker
No, so actually, you know, I keep telling people we we started prized possessions officially probably last year, a little bit before last year. But during COVID, my dad and I and Joey, our engineer, were like we were selling stuff on Amazon. I was helping my dad with his business. And we're like, let's just throw, let's make a little skull mount.
00:12:57
Speaker
And we did that in COVID. It was like a... When say it's not cheap, it was just an affordable Amazon competitive you know competitive school amount we threw through on there. And that thing blew up. I'm like, all right.
00:13:08
Speaker
And that's what turned into the states. didn't turn into multiple states. It turned into Arizona. And there's a forum out here called Who's Whitetail? I'm not sure if you're part of that. Yep. 100%. Yep.
00:13:20
Speaker
I threw those, the Arizona States, on there, and we sold 300 in a week. Really? That kind of fueled everything. But we just sold Arizona, like ah a flag version, a solid version, and then we did like a crosshair and a broadhead. We sold that for probably a year, and they all steel, one-piece steel.
00:13:38
Speaker
We did that for about a year just... Kind of on a whim. And then um finally we decided, but let's try and make a business. you know And part-time. And we just slowly started making all the states. It was hard though. I mean, dude, carrying inventory of 50 different states and two different sizes was really hard for us to start.
00:13:55
Speaker
But people started buying them and started spreading. Last year we said, let's do it. And about this time last year, it was kind of like go time. And then I went full-time in November.
00:14:07
Speaker
Last year in November. And so are you actually carrying every single state in stock? Every single state is in stock for, we have two sizes for deer, then we have an elk size right now.
00:14:18
Speaker
And then we we only carry the elk, know, the states that have elk. And then we're about to launch. So like right here, we have our shoulder plaques. We're about to launch those and we're probably gonna do those made to order. But yeah, we carry a lot of inventory right now.
00:14:30
Speaker
Dang, that's awesome. Yeah, that that does make it easier, I guess. There's only elk in so many states. So it does. But do we keep we keep getting like we got ah a South Dakota order. We don't have a South Dakota state. We knew they had them. We just didn't expect to have many orders from there. So we we keep adding to that as well.
00:14:47
Speaker
Do my COO just text me like the guy that won the raffle for Pennsylvania. He's from Pennsylvania. A monster. I mean, it's like it's like a four sixty four. I mean, just freak these.
00:14:58
Speaker
so Like if somebody shoots a buck in ah bull in those states, they're going to want prize possessions mount for that thing. hundred That is true. Yeah. Oh, my God. I've seen some of the bulls come out of Pennsylvania and even I think West or maybe Virginia or West Virginia. I saw a bull that came out of there, too. And it's it's pretty incredible. Well, they're like, you know, 10 tags or 15 tags or whatever. It's probably butchering that, but not that many tags.
00:15:19
Speaker
And these things are giants and they're almost like park bulls. Yeah. Right. So yeah they're not they don' pressure. They don't have predators. And they got they got feed everywhere, man. It's green out there. It's not just feed everywhere. here Like Arizona.
00:15:33
Speaker
Dude, it's been ah ah okay keep going all the places thing, but we're getting some rain. do You guys get a bunch of rain last week. Yeah, we got a ton last week. Massive dust storm knocked down all our trees our house. That's been pain. But yeah, we're getting some rain finally. um You know, i've I've been talking to some of the guys up in, you know, the White Mountains area, Unit 1.
00:15:50
Speaker
Their horn growth's been great. We hunt up in northern Arizona, Unit 10, Unit 8, Unit 9. And I was thinking was going to be some bad antler growth, but they've been saying been pretty good up there. And then these late rains have been good too to finish them off.
00:16:04
Speaker
Yeah, I woke up this morning, and it was raining, and I'm like, almost too little too late, like, especially for our bucks in San Diego, but, ah like, it's it's still like, man, we're getting some rain. We had a massive desert storm this week that, like, flooded the whole desert out on the, you know, all central side over here, and I'm like, oh, it's had to be coming your way, too, so, yeah, it's good. I mean, almost a little bit late on it, but, I mean, we'll take rain in August.
00:16:25
Speaker
Even if it's late August, finish it out. take rain. I'll take rain whenever. Yeah. i'm Dude, I'm kind of a weather freak too, so I'm always on. But like we're – I guess we're going have a really dry winter. So we'll take we'll take as much as we can.
00:16:38
Speaker
Keep those legs full. The deer are still embellished over there too, right? they're Are they going hard horned now or starting to go hard horned? they'll start to go but most of them i haven't seen a hard-horned one yet we were just out this weekend um i wonder if anything up north maybe i think i badly might be starting to shed i'm not sure yet yeah yeah yeah i still finish them out especially down south with this koozie here some water and get them growing a little bit and yeah down south they'll have them a little bit longer yeah definitely um what about have you been out hunting at all have you seen any just all velvet right now Everything's Velvet, yeah, that I've seen, at least locally here in San Diego. and then I mean, i just got back from Alaska. They were all in Velvet. but
00:17:14
Speaker
Yeah, I saw some photos. That looked like an epic trip. That was an incredible trip. That was fun. i'm going I already booked the same trip for next year. So same same crew, same guys, booked it again. going back to Alaska and going do it again.
00:17:28
Speaker
So cool, man. Yeah, that's that's a bucket list one for us. So you're making you're making the shoulder mount. You're making the skull mount. um What's the difference between skull mount and shoulder mount?
00:17:41
Speaker
Well, so with the shoulder mount, we're not making any mounts for them yet. We're just doing plaques. There's so many options right now for mounting the shoulder that we just make a universal plaque. So we're making just plaques. And there's a hole back there. It's adjustable, so you can move the plaque up and down. And you can use whatever hardware you want.
00:17:56
Speaker
We will be developing a shoulder mount. bracket, I guess you could say. But they're just there's tons of options. They're affordable. It's fairly easy. It's just a piece plywood back there. we't We haven't gotten in that. But for Euro mounts, the cool thing about that is there's so many you know like checkboxes, right? So many things that we want.
00:18:16
Speaker
I guess so many things that customers want. They want angle adjust. They want swivel. They want plaques. They want security. And there was an amount that we had seen yet that did all that. So when we start developing this, like how can we fit all that into one package? And you can never have the perfect thing, never make everyone happy.
00:18:34
Speaker
Our goal is to try and do that as best as we can. But with Euro mounts, it's pretty fun to do that in a premium way. you know, look good, not just sheet metal, adjustability. The hardest part is you're building a stationary object for an organic you know, skull.
00:18:48
Speaker
So that was kind of hard to figure out the best way to do that. Um, I know i kind you asked what the difference was, but obviously a Euro and a shoulder. Um, sorry, I just geeked out on designing those for skulls.
00:19:01
Speaker
So if I order like a Euro mount, right? Say ordered an Arizona one, there's one behind you. Does that have the flag on it too? Or is it just this? Is this the yeah that's got the flag? Yep. That's an Arizona flag one. I can see it behind. All right. So if I order that, what does that come with? does it come with a mount as well or just the plate? What does it come with?
00:19:18
Speaker
Yeah, so for elk, you can order the plaque by by itself if you want, um but it comes with the plaque itself, and then of just that's pretty much it If you want engravings, we'll put the the engravings on there. Then you have the option to add on our Skolok mount.
00:19:31
Speaker
This is our Skolok. That's what you have too. This is the actual Euro mount bracket, whatever you want to call it. Um, this locks into school. You can, it's it it's it's insane. Like I, it's, it's, it's like the highest quality school man i've ever seen in my life. I got And was like, it almost looks like something go on like my rifle or my bow. Like it's pretty hardcore.
00:19:53
Speaker
What I don't understand. Like, so I haven't used it yet. So what is this just, what's the point of like the serrated edges here? What's the point of all this stuff? Yeah. So when you're mounting school here, actually, give me a second. I got one right here.
00:20:06
Speaker
Let's see if we can fit this in the screen. Yeah. Okay. So when you're mounting anything, say this is just your basic mount. It's going in, gravity's pulling the skull and you're holding it.
00:20:18
Speaker
Yep. What we want to do, make it way better. So you see that notch? You obviously have one there. That's going to slide. So going slide that tip, and the serrations just give you two points of contact in there, that square tip. Serrations just help with grip.
00:20:30
Speaker
And then that notch slides right in. fact These are called the occipital condals and slides right in the back of there. So now you can't pull that. You physically, because the gravity pulling that skull forward the way elk are, you can't pull that up.
00:20:42
Speaker
Your kids cannot knock it off the wall. Yep. And then we sell support plate, which I don't have on hand, but say you have like a broken bowl. It's lopsided. It's asymmetrical because now you can't pull it off.
00:20:53
Speaker
It could still rotate technically. so say have like a broken beam. We have a plate that clamps down the top now. So that's what that is right there. That's what this is here. Yeah. Yeah, and now you can mount broken or lopsided bulls on there. But yeah, so we you know took a lot of time to, you know, we started with a simple rod, and we came up with that notch system that really holds it place. It's sharp.
00:21:12
Speaker
The edges are sharp, so kind of grips in there. But yeah, I mean, it's really secure. Slides right in. It doesn't want come. Yeah, and then you can actually adjust the nut on the back. I mean, it's like, what does this thing cost?
00:21:22
Speaker
Like this little kit that you sent me. We just raised that price. So we're doing $85 for the Skull Lock right now, and then the support plate is a $15 add-on. It's only $85. It's only $85 right now, and we keep being told to raise it, but we also want everyone to have them. Dude, like I feel like I look at this, and I'm like, this piece of machining here looks like it's a $200 piece of machining. It's insane.
00:21:46
Speaker
This is a billet aluminum like part. i mean and then you got i mean it's just There's a lot going on here. There's a lot of engineering going on to hang a hook. This is not just like... Like I said, what I do normally on all mine, like one behind me, is just like I go buy like a ten pack of the...
00:22:02
Speaker
you know, the little picture framers. And then I drill a little hole with a pilot. Then I put a screw in it and sit done. Yeah, which is fine too. You know, we we keep telling people, you know, it's made for some, not for all, but for the people that want that green quality and they want that peace of mind. And if you have a special skull trophy, I mean, it doesn't even be big, be special in any way.
00:22:22
Speaker
And you just want that peace of mind. going stay up there. I mean, this is, this the way to go. And we make that, that support plate optional because it already is secure. But if you just want extra security, go ahead. 15 bucks. You have that extra security there. And this is basically locks it in now to where it won't,
00:22:37
Speaker
come off. It can't come off. Yeah, show you. Watch this. So this is a 375-inch bolt, and got one antler up there, and mean, you've held up. That's heavy right there, and you're holding one one antler up there. It's torquing. Obviously, we can straighten that out, but that's what that does right there.
00:22:55
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That's awesome. Yeah, this is, this is like, it's insane. I thought for sure it only seemed to be 200 bucks. like I wish I'd looked at the pricing on your site. You said it to me and I just like instantly called you and just told you, thank you. I had no idea it was coming and you custom engraved Tristron, which is awesome.
00:23:09
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Uh, that turned out pretty cool, huh? It's not really sick, dude. Uh, now are you guys planning on doing anything that like does like kind of articulation at all? Like what's is like that in the future? Yeah, so the cool part about the way we design this is it's going to be modular.
00:23:23
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So now you can add things in the back. You can swivel it. We don't have we we don't have any final products for that. vs We can do extensions if you want. Those are all plans. And everything we design is going to be for like the customer to choose whatever option they want. But we don't want to sell you a big package that's $250. We'd rather you you know you have a base model and add on to it.
00:23:44
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Yeah, I kind of honestly feel like I would just be happy with just this because I just want to be like like just done. right like I'm a simple kind of guy. I don't want crazy stuff, but like this is... a Yeah, I can't believe it's $85. I was like, oh, this is going to be $200 mount for sure.
00:24:00
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And it's no it's awesome, dude. It's it's pretty epic. we keep it as We keep it as affordable as possible. i can't you know With ah some of the tariffs and whatnot, I can't say that it's always going that price.
00:24:13
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But you know with Joey, your engineer, and some of the people we work with to get it as, you know how it is. When you design stuff, you also design it for affordability and what machines, five-axis, four-axis, whatever is a lathe. They did a good job at designing this to be affordable to make.
00:24:27
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Yeah, we're killing a bull here in the next week or two. So we're going to be putting a bull up on this thing. i says That's what this is for. I don't have a bull year amount. No, I do. I do have one, but this will be for my son's bull when it gets on here. So we have some shoulders and then this will be yeah the next one. The wife is kind of out on the shoulder mounts now.
00:24:46
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Really? um Taking up too much space? Yeah, I mean, my kid killed, we're moving Arizona, so we're going to get a bigger house in Arizona because you can get a bigger house there for cheaper. But she likes the Euros. She puts them all over the house. She likes the Euros.
00:24:59
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like Stuff like this really makes a lot more clean for her to use and do. and just It's just a lot nicer, man. I like it. I'm i'm into it. I'm all about this. And you don't have this for deer yet.
00:25:11
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Deer's coming. No, we're working on it. Yeah, we're working on We got we got something pretty cool up our sleeve for for deer. um It's coming. We could have launched something already, but we just we really want to perfect it.
00:25:23
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And yes, it's coming. So we just have a regular hook. So the thing that you have, that's just our deer hook, which works fine. Oh, that's super. So you sell that as well just for going on the wall?
00:25:34
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Yeah, so you can just have that on the wall. So it's low profile, just slides on. That's kind of just our... you know, cheap, you know, competitive amount. A lot of people, you know, dude, have so many guys out East killing five deer a year, right?
00:25:45
Speaker
It's not cheap. It's not cheap. You're right. It's wrong. It's affordable. Uh, no, I want to buy i'll buy a bunch of those things, dude. Cause yeah, like I literally have the top of my fridge right now. I think I have 10 deer that need to be finished. they're all They're all boiled and just like they still got a little meat on them and like I need to finish them and bleach them. But I'm like, I got to get these things done.
00:26:04
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I can't keep telling me that deer are just never home. So yeah, like I'm not going to definitely... yeah And some of them aren't worthy, of no offense. like Some of them aren't worthy of this mount. I mean, some of those deer up there... you know, a little three by two. There's a couple of them from Colorado. I'm like, eh, they're, they're decent bucks, but they're going be, I'm not going to put them on a $200 amount, but like some of them I want to show off and I want them on something like this.
00:26:22
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Cause like not only that, like, dude, people come over and they see this, like it's almost, much this is almost as much of a show speed stopper as my freaking deer. It might take away from some of my deer, honestly. Well, I appreciate that.
00:26:34
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I like it. Yeah, and like and and the deer one's going to way smaller. I mean, the whole goal is yeah i imagine low profile, and then if you want if you want a plaque too, you you know if you want to go extravagant, you can attach a plaque. But we want it to be non-existent when it's just a skull. We just want the adjustability to function, and you don't even notice it.
00:26:52
Speaker
Obviously, this is big, but when on elk, man, it's it's pretty small. It's not. Bowls or elk are big. Every time I shoot one, I regret it. Yes, unless it's by the road, and it's still...
00:27:04
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I did kill one Arizona dude right next to a drinker. We drove it up drove a truck up to it and put it in the truck. That was pretty nice. Other than that, I just regret every single one I've ever killed or been in. That is the beauty of Arizona though. There's roads everywhere. i don't know if it's a beauty, but sometimes it's nice to have all the roads.
00:27:18
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It's, it's debatable. I don't know. Like my kids unit this year that they have, I'm just like, we're not getting away from the road. We're just going to be basically side by side and just get on top of the knob or before everybody else and yeah find the deer and go get them killed. There's just no, some of that stuff, especially some of those like desert stuff is just, there's no escaping the roads. session there's No, you can't.
00:27:37
Speaker
But whatever. It's crazy. A lot of people don't understand. If you haven't hunted Arizona, you need those roads for water. You need to fill up tanks. And, you know, a lot of those units wouldn't have elk. But I have the side-by-side now. So we'll just be moving around. And that's why i use side-by-side and radios. Arizona, man. People don't understand. It's different.
00:27:54
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It is different. Those late those light late rifle general hunts can be a nightmare though with everyone on the roads. It can be. well the youth one Youth aren't generally as bad. um Not as many hunters out there, but still you're kind of like in the middle of like two tags or I think muzzlers right after you and you've got a rifle right before you. so mean The deer have been pushed around a lot. so Lots of glass and finding those things. I find kind of all replace this pod but ah find like on those later rifle tags before the rut hunts is just be in the glass middle of the day.
00:28:25
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Like that's where you're going find them. A lot of times are going nocturnal, but you're gonna find them standing up for, you know, 10, 15 minutes in the middle of the day and you go get that deer killed. We killed most of our deer. I feel like in that midday range during those tags for the kids.
00:28:37
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And nobody's up during that time either. So you got to kind of have the unit to yourself unless they're having hunters, but yeah, I agree. I'm a psycho. I love just cooking in Arizona, cooking in Arizona, New Mexico, desert units, Utah, just getting up there, just getting, just putting on one of those sun hoodies and it's getting cooked all day and looking for deer.
00:28:55
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Man, I sat a blind this weekend from, I mean, the whole day and we're not far out of Phoenix. It was 98 in the blind and I was ready to get out of there. Oh yeah. You're in shorts. I assume shorts, cool or full Gatorades.
00:29:09
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Dude, yeah, the whole Yeti in there, everything. Yeah, I wish I was glassing, but until now, it's been so dry, ah pretty much. And I'm chasing coos, too. I don't want to be hiking those canyons right now in 98-degree weather.
00:29:21
Speaker
No, no, not at all. It's ah it's tough, man. it's But is we that's a game you got to play over there. I mean August is the blind time over there. it's everyone's Everyone's doing it. Find find why I get in the blind and sit there and do it. Yeah, most people are up north.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, 100%. I'm surprised like how competitive it could be over there, even with some of the the guides and stuff over there, man. like It's like freaking modern warfare over there, some of these units, and these you know these outfitters. and over the count i didn't realize like some of my buddies are big archery hunters over there, and they're just dude, though, it's like we have to be at two hours to to the knob because a lot of these outfitters have 10 kids working for them, and they're just sitting on top of knobs to basically take over. I mean, they're taking over areas. Yeah.
00:30:02
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Yeah, no, you know, you'll see one, you'll see one camp and they'll have 15 people in there. It's usually an outfit or just a big group of guys. i have away those units in OTC, especially August. Um, I'm usually in those desert scrappy units. Um, and like we, I haven't seen a single hunter in our area, but yeah, no, it can be really bad.
00:30:20
Speaker
You same thing you know, that's kind of why they got rid of the the trail cams, which I'm indifferent on, but you used to go up to Kaibab unit nine and, uh, um, you know, elk season. There's no secret about unit nine and There was just 15 cameras on tank. Everyone 15 cameras or two round blinds on tank.
00:30:35
Speaker
It just wasn't enjoyable and can still get that. But I tried for it at all Yeah, it looks like monster truck rally. that A deer would jump the fence and all of a sudden, all these flashing lights going off.
00:30:47
Speaker
So now you do these skull mounts. What about the um ah states? like What are those costing to do? comfort to buy Yeah, so states, if you've got a standard size deer mount plaque, that's running you. Right now it's $70. We're going to raise that.
00:31:03
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People are probably going to watch this. It's going to be $85 for standard size. That's base. If you want engravings, we'll have add-ons. No, it's really not. and It's aluminum. It's powder coated. and then you can add engravings on there too. And we have different levels of engravings because we can do text. We can do topography. I'm not sure if you've seen our topography designs, but we can do really cool topography designs on there. Oh yeah.
00:31:23
Speaker
but I haven't seen that, but by i saw, I mean, you did mine with all mine is the same thing, but you did all the Trichor logos on there. looks sick. It's going to be my desk. It's got a coos on it right now. It's going to be on my desk forever. Like I'm going to, that thing's something awesome.
00:31:36
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I'm all about it. Well, we appreciate that. had some fun engraving here. Yeah, dude. And like, that's one thing to be nice. Like I would love to like, you know, you shoot a deer and then just put on there like, Hey, you know, whatever, August, whatever. Can you do like faces and stuff too? Like a picture, like that kind of thing. Like if you can vectorize it or cartoonize it, we can do it. But like real images we struggle with on the powder coat. If it was anodized, we could do it easily. But the powder coat we have an issue with because it just wants to burn.
00:32:04
Speaker
I got you. So yeah, that's where we struggle with. But yeah, we do all the text. I mean, and You guys done anodized? Not on the plaques. We've tried it, but there's too many imperfections in it.
00:32:16
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um the The cost, in order to get that aluminum perfect, because the powder coat covers imperfections. Anodized, you see everything. That was kind of the issue. It does look really good, but the powder coat also mitigates glare better than anodization too, so that looks better in like home decor aspects.
00:32:35
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ums like these This is anodized, but the plaques are all powder coated. Yeah, yeah, 100%. It's easier to do a smaller part, too. I couldn't imagine doing a flat part, anodized, and trying to keep it flat and smooth and look good. and Exactly. And they just, yeah, they don't hold up as well either. It does look really good. We've we've messed around. We've also messed around with ACM paneling, which is like a composite paneling, which is anodized on the end, which looks really good.
00:32:57
Speaker
But then it turns into issues with shipping, packaging, like everything needs to be, would just, we'd be spending more on packaging than the actual product. Oh yeah. I mean like you could probably glass stuff. would look really sick and get like sandblasted. Yeah. But it would just be, yeah, it'd be tough.
00:33:13
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Yeah. We got some big plans. We have some, we have some big plans with other stuff we want to do. I mean, the plaques are just, you know, we're breaking into it. There's so many cool things we can do with artwork on plaques or anything that we'll be tapping into.
00:33:28
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ah Once we get some free time, we're just so busy right now.
Customization and Craftsmanship Praise
00:33:31
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That's awesome, dude. I, yeah, I'm a big fan of it. And honestly, like just even having like, just like the state with like Simon's first deer, you know, whatever, like we're going to Mexico this year. Like maybe I'll do that. Like Simon's first buck, New Mexico 2025, you know, like it's just, it's, it's sweet. yeah It's it kind of yeah something different to hang it on and it just looks cool. And I like it.
00:33:54
Speaker
Well, we appreciate it, man. That's the whole point. i mean majority of our orders are just like that, you know, a name and a date, a location. um and Then we we can go all out with topography too. You know, yeah, if you want, like we can do custom topography. So like this right here, that's my, one of my deer are killed.
00:34:07
Speaker
That's the exact canyon I pulled it out of. So I can pull topo data from that. and you know, some people, yeah you'd have send me coordinates for that. And they don't like that. I don't blame them at all. Reality is... I'm probably not going to ever go there.
00:34:20
Speaker
And we do a ton of custom topographies like that and they turn out awesome. ah And we can do, you know, if you want the state topography, like if Arizona or California, wherever you're at, we can do the actual state topography and then place a pin relative to the state. You know, you're not giving away any honey holes relative to the state.
00:34:36
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um We can do that as well. People that. That's why our biggest seller. Yeah. So people love that. Yeah, then it's not giving away pins. kind of put it an area. No, I'm the same way. I hold, especially in units that are kind of like easy to draw units. I think there's more secrets and stuff like that.
00:34:51
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um I hold stuff really close to my heart. I've i've learned the hard way. And in regards to like sending coordinates for topography, I don't, if you don't want to send them, don't send them. I don't blame anyone. Honestly, that just came because customers started requesting it. If you want to request it, we're to do it for you. And they do look cool. But yeah, i'm I'm right there with you. You you got it.
00:35:09
Speaker
You got to hold that stuff close to you. There's too many hunters out there now and they'll just ah ruin an area for you. Oh, people don't understand it too. Like I have guys like, like at my church, like i am the hunter, like in San Diego, people just don't hunt. Right. It's, it's, it's very taboo that I hunt. Right.
00:35:25
Speaker
Um, so people are like, Oh, want you to take me hunting. I'm like, no, they get offended. I'm like, i don't think you understand. No, like, no, I've got three kids. I've got friends. Like, I'm like, no, like I worked too hard to take you out to like what you're, what they're saying is like, take me to your spot to kill a deer.
00:35:40
Speaker
Right. it's like, yeah, make it easy. Yeah. No, like, I'm sorry. You go get a bow. You go, like, I have a kid in my church, the youth pastor who I've taken elk hunting with me. I've taken him out with me. And like, he, we got him a bow. He's killed two deer now. Like I'll take that guy any day of the week.
00:35:55
Speaker
Cause he's actually out there, put the boots on the ground hunting. Like if you're just a guy that wants to kill a deer, like dude, go to Florida Texas and go shoot a deer for four grand or three grand. you know what I mean? Like I'm not taking you out. I mean, like last year hunted San Diego. I think I hunted 10 days here. I saw 80 deer and only four spikes, not one buck. Like it's just too hard of an area to hunt.
00:36:11
Speaker
ah San Diego is brutal. like San Diego's is way too hard to take you out to any of my spots. Cause it's just like, there's so much, i want to say there's a lot welcome ball. There's just not a lot of deer, you know? So it's just like, yeah, people don't understand that sponsor, sponsor sacred, man.
00:36:24
Speaker
You gotta be keep close to the vest. Cause once they get out there, once they're ruined, they're ruined, you know? No, it takes a long, long time from the recover and everyone already, people will be checking back in them all the time too. And I'm right there with you, especially in,
00:36:37
Speaker
units out here in arizona but i can't imagine california i didn't even know you could hunt in san diego i'm sure you get up in the foothills but uh um that yeah all the hunters in california up north that i know of yeah dude it's uh we give out about there's 3 000 rifle tags in san diego there's like a couple thousand or it's like 5 000 tags in san diego for like a four month season the art the rifle season is a month the rifles the rifle tag is a month long it's san diego is terrible The rifle tag is a month long 3000 tax.
00:37:09
Speaker
So like, there's just no deer. And we do no management. And like, so there's no deer. Like it's just so hard. I mean, a lot of does, right? Like my kids, a doe tag this year, know, probably go smoke a doe if we have time, but, uh, it's just dude, any buck with antlers get shot.
00:37:25
Speaker
Like you can't kill spikes. Anything with one branch gets shot. And like, it's just like my buddy is texting me. I took him to spot a few years ago and he like, were talking about one. was like, Hey man, No joke, like I was in this canyon probably five or six days last year. There was two spikes in there.
00:37:41
Speaker
As long as you're eating by a lion, they're to be bucked this year. Like I'm going to be in Africa. I'm like, just go to this canyon. There's probably a buck in there. Get it killed. But you need to be there opening day, like an hour before sunrise, like ready to go. It's like going to be modern warfare back there with people coming in trying to get these deer.
00:37:55
Speaker
Because like you just got to get them killed. And I'm like, as soon as you see a buck. There's no age class. No, not at all. I told this guy, he's never killed a deer. I'm like, dude, as soon as you see a buck with an antler, like branches, just pull the trigger.
00:38:07
Speaker
because see If you don't, he's going to shot within the next hour. my gosh, dude. Yeah, there's no age class. didn't even know that. Wow. If you shoot a three by, like... A buck over, like, I was on a buck that was, like, 120 a couple years ago, and that's a giant.
00:38:20
Speaker
That's a giant in San Diego, right? because they like Are they mule deer? They're, like, a Pacific hybrid is what we call them. It's, like, a mule deer blacktail deal. ah They're definitely not mule deer. um But, like, dude, getting, like, a, you know, 120-inch buck is, like, if you shot that buck, it'd be talked about.
00:38:36
Speaker
It'd be talked about, like, all over the place. They're, like, coos deer, bigger coos deer, bigger-potty coos deer out here. figure body coos deer yeah yeah but yeah dude they just it's it is what it is but anyways my point i don't know why i'm going to whole san dago rant but uh my point is like yeah there's just there's not enough deer for me to be sharing spots people you know what i mean and plus some people work man like you show a guy your spot he's gonna be in your spot forever because not gonna try and find his own spots right it's like yeah the same thing with like dove hunting see a guy dove hunting niey you know you go down the guy's in your dove spot with four of his buddies you know what mean like just like keep this stuff close to your vest don't share it and i have no problem offending people
00:39:11
Speaker
no sorry yeah and if you don't like it i'm sorry like i don't know what to tell you like you know go out and do it i'll give you all the gear you need i'll help you out with stuff i'll give you ideas but go out there and figure it out and then we'll we'll go hunting together you know once you start figuring it out well that's hunting too man figure it out i spent my first five years i didn't harvest a single animal but that was the most rewarding harvest ever had right it's like you got to go put that effort in um yeah i mean I made the biggest mistake a couple of years ago. i was helping a guy out and I never told him my area, but I was giving him some spots to start. i was being too nice, dude. And like, I gave him so much info that it led him right to my area.
00:39:47
Speaker
And there are and and filer buddies have hunted that now the last three years and I can't find a quality buck in there now. Yep. It's how it works, dude. It's how it works, man. They tell a friend, they tell a friend, they tell a friend. And the next thing you know, like the spot's done.
00:40:02
Speaker
There's only so many deer, you know, you might have one or two bucks and, and you know, especially in San Diego in an area. And it's just like, yeah, that's what getting out. going to go archery hunt this weekend. I only have a few days to hunt before i go to Utah, but archery season opens up on Saturday. So I'm gonna get out on Saturday and try and get one killed with my bow just before season, before rifle season gets going. Cause it's really your only chance to really get on some of these deer before it just goes. So do you have, you can, they give out all the tags, you can hunt archery rifle and it's like a muzzleloader tag too. Yeah. There's a late muzzleload tag for like two weeks end of the year.
00:40:34
Speaker
There's an archery tag called the A22, which is like from September 6th through december so like October 16th, and it turns back on again in like November through December, or maybe it turns on December.
00:40:44
Speaker
And then the rifle tag is good for like the last Sunday of October for a month straight, but it's also good for like the first like I think two weeks of the archery season in September as well, or maybe the first month for buck only. The rifle tag?
00:41:00
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, wow. So like, and the archer, the A22 tag is good for doe or buck. Then we give out 300 G13 tag, which is a doe tag. And then we give out the muzzleloader tag, which is a doe. it's like, there's probably no joke, over 5,000 tags for San Diego and not that many deer.
00:41:17
Speaker
Nowhere near, I'd be surprised there's even 5,000 deer in San Diego, you know? That's insane. Yeah. Wow. A lot of weekend warriors out out there? or is there lot A lot of weekend warriors, right? Like I hate to be that guy now, but I pretty much, I'll hunt this weekend cause it's opening, right? But I hunt during the week mostly. I'll get out during the week.
00:41:35
Speaker
When I'm in town, I'll get out most days in the morning. I turn, like, i like hey, no podcast till afternoon. I'm going to hunt, you know, three or four days this week and get out in the morning and I'll go hunt just from ah you know, 5 a.m. m until 11 or 12 and get out of the field and come home and do my work. So but during the week, I'm going to have time to hunt it. But honestly,
00:41:55
Speaker
I've been gone every year on hunts and I haven't got to hunt it until like the second or, until like the third or fourth week and it's just been brutal last couple of years. haven't been able to buck up. Oh, really? mean, last year, I mean, I'm friends with like, I don't want to be like, oh, i know all the good guys, but like some of the best hunters in San Diego, like not one of them killed a buck last year.
00:42:11
Speaker
Right? These guys can hunt and they just didn't kill a buck. You know, just tough, tough areas out here. 5,000 tags, man. That's a lot. Yeah. I mean, it's not hard to get lucky when there's that many guys in the field. you what i mean? They're going kick a buck they're going to shoot at it, you know, and It's just, you get that many guys moving around and deer are going to get killed.
00:42:29
Speaker
It's like a, you ever go hunt Colorado in the late seasons, dude. I will never do it again. and went last year. I will never do it again. We killed three bucks in three days and I will never go back again.
00:42:42
Speaker
Dude. It used to be so fun and now it's just a pumpkin patch and oh my gosh, that's what it is. Everyone drives around, kicks up bulls or bucks and everyone chases them.
00:42:54
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Dude. So I had the draw system. Yeah. I had seven points. Right. And this is like, I made a mistake on this last year. So like, Oh, I found a unit. It was my kids last year. I had my kids in college now.
00:43:05
Speaker
I was last year hunting, but it's pretty last year hunting, right? He's gone for six years and go in the military after that to be a Jag. Like he's not be doing too much hunting. And so I was like, Hey, here's this unit. It takes like,
00:43:16
Speaker
I took like six points or five points to draw. at seven I seven. burnt seven. He used five. um And the success rate was like 70%. And I'm like, oh, sweet. The reason why success rate is 70% is because it's an easy hunt and it's going to nightmare. Like I will never again do a hunt that's over like 30%, right? Like I say that my kids have a tag at 70% this year, but it's a youth hunt. different.
00:43:39
Speaker
But um dude, it was like opening morning. they There was a herd of cows. Because Elk Seas opens the same day. Yeah. Dude, like, people were shooting across the fields towards each other.
00:43:53
Speaker
i mean, off the highway. I mean, it was wild. Nothing I've ever seen before. Wild. I have never seen anything like my life. Like, I was in my trailer, and all of a sudden it was like, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom. And we're four miles off the road in this trailer, and I'm like, holy smokes, this is wild.
00:44:10
Speaker
And, dude, people were everywhere. We killed all of our deer. Like, we'd hike, like, a half mile off the road and we were killing deer. Right. Like it was just, yeah. People were, I watched a kid.
00:44:22
Speaker
We found this buck and we didn't want to kill. was too small. It was like a three by it was like broken on one side. we're watching this All sudden see this Jeep driving by. They see this deer and this deer is like 200 yards up this Canyon.
00:44:33
Speaker
They all get out of the Jeep. It's like two cars. All out the Jeep. Kid misses the deer, misses the deer. ah and we're like, oh cool. They're going to go up there. Now where we see the deer go up the hill a little bit.
00:44:44
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, they're going to walk up there shoot it. No. They get back in the Jeep, drive up to the deer. The deer stays there. They get out of the car and shoot the deer. And I'm like,
00:44:56
Speaker
I'm trying too hard. They literally did a stock with a Jeep and then killed this deer. Um, but yeah, after that, I was like, dude, never again. Will I do one of these like late season? just wasn't in like for me, like,
00:45:10
Speaker
killing an animal isn't necessarily fun it's cool i've just done it so much now and i've killed so many deer now it's just like i want the experience and if the experience is dealing with a bunch of yahoos and orange and side-by-sides like it's not what i want i want to enjoy it i did not enjoy colorado last year at all Yeah, we haven't been back in four or five years now because of that. It used to be so much fun. There was still a lot of pressure.
00:45:36
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Not many people were hiking in. um But dude, the last time we went, man, I mean, we almost... we we were getting shot over. We were getting shot. People were shooting the same deer from over us. It was just, it was, it was insane.
00:45:48
Speaker
Um, but man, there's so much game out there. That's the thing. It was wild. So many deer. We didn't kill anything. Great. I think my buck's a one 40 is like a four by three. We killed three, four by three bucks.
00:46:00
Speaker
But like, I had a guy from Arizona that I met out there, um, the treasure customer. And he's like, he ended up hunting the whole week. And didn't say anything over what we killed. He's like just couldn't turn a good, couldn't turn a buck up. but There was nowhere.
00:46:12
Speaker
That unit was a corridor unit and there really was nowhere to hike in anyways. Okay. So it was basically a rut hunt in the snow and you're just basically moving around like roads, like in glassing, right? Like there was no, there was no hiking area to it. So that's why it was a 70 or 80% success rate to just drive around and shoot an animal.
00:46:29
Speaker
You know, yeah like my, my buddy literally drove in one morning and I took him out that night and he killed a deer. And I was like, okay, cool. We're done. he went he went home the next day. were done. Three deer done. That's the crazy thing about those late hunts, though, in Colorado. It almost like I've i've never hunted out east, but it reminds me of it makes me feel so like there's that many deer out there. Right. Like my girlfriend's from Michigan. We go out there. There's deer everywhere. And you can go out in the fourth season in Colorado and just drive down the road and see 40 doe or couple bucks. And you can do that out there. You can just drive the roads and find deer. It almost it's like the kaibab in the early season, too.
00:46:59
Speaker
Um, but when you get that many people with firearms and cars, it turns dangerous. It's unenjoyable. Um, and we used to go out like that buck right there that was killed in one of those late season hunts. You could draw it every single year as a second choice.
00:47:12
Speaker
And now it's just, you can't go in there and find quality deer anymore. and they're all pushing in, they're, they're finding quarters of private land. Now that just, everyone knows how to hunt them. And it's usually on the roads, which is unfortunate.
00:47:26
Speaker
yeah it was mean it was cool like i can say like if you want to go kill your first year and you've got a couple points there's some units over there you go do it in those third season tags but not my thing i'd much rather go hunt them in october try and find one try and turn one up or get a harder tag to draw but like a lot of guys don't like hunting deer in october i like hunting deer when it's hard to find them i like hunting dude love october in colorado get up in those alpine countries yes a lot of them are they're in the timber but uh Dude, those are fun hunts or the the early archery. I have a buddy up there right now up in the the high country, man. I love those hunts.
00:47:59
Speaker
It's just hard, strenuous. takes a lot of time to do it. Yeah. I just spent a week up there, like 13,000 looking for goats. Do you know Ed Fanchon? I don't know.
00:48:11
Speaker
He's a taxidermist over there. has a goat tag this year over there. In Colorado or in Arizona? In Colorado. Okay. No, I don't know. He's got a goat tag. He's probably hunting right now. Honestly, I think his season's open. So I should go tag right now in Colorado. Yeah. He's got the text. We're over there and scouted with them, but it was like 13,000. I'm like, oh man, we were seeing deer up there. I'm like, I want to come back to my bow and just do this. Like that'd be fun for me. Like spending, can get like 10 to 14 days up in high country looking for deer with your bow like that.
00:48:38
Speaker
to me seems way more attractive than just smoking a deer at you know 500 yards off the road it's just not cool yeah the biggest issue is time dude you have to take 10 to 14 days off you have to 10 days to do it Yeah. Yeah. And you can, but you find deer. I mean, you can be up there and find quality, mature deer the first day, but then you got to figure out how to get close to them, how to kill them. how are you going to kill them? And like yeah like, dude, like, and when you see them, like, it's not like just go straight to them. Like you have to like up, down, around, they might take you a day or two just to get on some of these areas over there. It's just so crazy.
00:49:13
Speaker
Like I've never spent that much time at that, that elevation. And like, dude, like 13,000 feet feels like someone has like their arms around your lungs. Like just squeezing your lungs, your hand, just squeezing your lungs, their hands. Yeah.
00:49:24
Speaker
It's a, it's cool. And the weather, yeah get the you get all the rain, you got to tar and you go through, you know, you get hot and then it's freezing rain and it's sleet. It's just like, it's really cool up that high.
00:49:35
Speaker
li me You'll even get snow too. Yeah, we've done a couple hunts there where snowing in August and you're like, what is going on? But yeah, we were I went to school in Colorado College. We used to go up there on weekends. We'd hike up the same day. We'd go do morning hunt. We'd hike 4,000 foot elevation, go hunt, and then we'd come back down. We were crazy back then. but gosh you need to be so prepared we had nothing back then you know i had no budget for that and uh we'd get soaked we'd get cold and now it's like i don't want to do anything unless i'm prepared but no those those are some really fun hunts really good deer quality up there i love hunting uh velvet meleys as well i need to get back out there but i just don't have the time right now
00:50:12
Speaker
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00:50:24
Speaker
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00:50:51
Speaker
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00:51:03
Speaker
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00:51:17
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00:51:30
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