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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better dear hunting. Present it by

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Speaker 1: now your host Tony Peterson.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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Speaker 2: which is brought to you by First Light. I'm Marrist

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Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and today I'm going to talk about the lowly,

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Speaker 2: no good, overlooked antelope. I'm going to make a bold

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Speaker 2: statement here. If antelope had big, old antlers instead of small,

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Speaker 2: prongy little horns, they'd probably be a hell of a

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Speaker 2: lot more popular to hunt. The problem is, the difference

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Speaker 2: between a giant antelope and a good one is like

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Speaker 2: ten inches, and the biggest diaper butt you'll ever see

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Speaker 2: on the horizon won't score more than the average two

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Speaker 2: year old white tail in a place with shitty genetics

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Speaker 2: and poor soil. The thing is they are a hell

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Speaker 2: of a lot of fun to hunt. They are also

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Speaker 2: a real test to your skills, and they are delicious,

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Speaker 2: and they offer several different styles in which you can

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Speaker 2: kill one. How many of you find listeners like avocados.

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Speaker 2: I know that the current advice on how to become

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Speaker 2: super wealthy is to stop eating avocado toast, which I

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Speaker 2: guess was a fad, But it's kind of like the

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Speaker 2: hackneyed financial advice that the distance between you now, as

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Speaker 2: a brocass young person, and someone who I don't know

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Speaker 2: wants to host parties on your private yacht is simply

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Speaker 2: to ditch the Starbucks every morning. If only it was

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Speaker 2: that simple. Avocados are superfoods. They contain omega threes of

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Speaker 2: C and E vitamins of folic acid, which is good

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Speaker 2: if your preggers. They contain magnesium potassium, are rich in

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Speaker 2: soluble fiber, and on and on. In other words, avocados

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Speaker 2: are good for you. They are also kind of wild

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Speaker 2: for starters. The avocados you might see turned into some

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Speaker 2: delicious guacamole have been grown in orchards here in the

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Speaker 2: United States for like one hundred and ten years. Before that,

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Speaker 2: they were grown in Central and South America for like

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Speaker 2: five thousand years. But even before that, the avocado has

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Speaker 2: a real origin story. Up until about thirteen thousand years ago,

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Speaker 2: this fleshy fruit grew in the wild no surprise there right, Well,

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Speaker 2: what is surprising is that it evolved as an awful

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Speaker 2: lot of seed bearing flora has to get its seeds

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Speaker 2: away from the parent plant. In this case of tree,

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Speaker 2: you don't want to be a cute little avocado sapling

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Speaker 2: fighting for sunlight and other resources while growing at the

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Speaker 2: base of your parent tree. It's not going to work

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Speaker 2: out very well, you know, unless you're dropping metric tons

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Speaker 2: of seeds in a spray and prey method like oak trees.

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Speaker 2: This is just a great way to not pass on

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Speaker 2: your jeans. Instead, avocado trees through who knows how many

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Speaker 2: thousands or millions of years figured something out. The megafauna

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Speaker 2: of the time thoroughly enjoyed eating avocados and the ones

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Speaker 2: and by that I mean the avocados with slightly bigger,

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Speaker 2: denser pits survived the trips through the digestive tracks of

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Speaker 2: these megafauna, and then they got pooped out in a

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Speaker 2: new spot with a fresh batch of fertilizer to boot.

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Speaker 2: So those giant ground sloths and wild horses, mammoths and

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Speaker 2: other big old mammals ate the avocados and then walked

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Speaker 2: off to do what animals do, or at least they

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Speaker 2: did over time. The avocado jeans that ended up getting

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Speaker 2: the journey. Even when those megafana went the way of

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Speaker 2: all kinds of animals. Boa constrictors, for example, have pelvic

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Speaker 2: Some great gray owl chicks are born with little owl

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Speaker 2: hands at the end of their wings, and humans aren't

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Speaker 2: And then there is the prong horn, who can outrun

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Speaker 2: and they aren't unique just in that way. They're also

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Speaker 2: pretty crazy with their migrations. Some of them migrate like

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Speaker 2: biologists compare it to looking through ten X binoculars at

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Speaker 2: all times. Their speed and eyesight makes them confident because well,

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Speaker 2: they're super hard to get close to, and if you

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Speaker 2: do get close and screw up, there'll be three counties

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Speaker 2: over before you can swear too much. This is an

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Speaker 2: a hunter, learn to use it against them. Anloe also

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Speaker 2: boasts a pretty unique paint job. While most deer species

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Speaker 2: are born with natural camouflage that work so freaking well

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Speaker 2: in a variety of environments. The antelope is brown and

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Speaker 2: they don't care if you know they're there or not,

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Speaker 2: because they can see you first and run away seventeen

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Speaker 2: is just there to taunt you a little bit. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's like when Mark used to wear bright green and

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Speaker 2: orange jumpsuits while he and his buddies used to do

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Speaker 2: one time. They wanted the attention and they look damn

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Speaker 2: good getting it. Now. The anelope isn't that cool, but

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Speaker 2: he's pretty cool. He's also a hell of a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun to hunt, and you know what else, I

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Speaker 2: think he's the most underrated Western game species out there.

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Speaker 2: Everyone wants to go after elk in the mountains or

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Speaker 2: meal deer, which is pretty understandable in my book, but

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Speaker 2: those opportunities are getting harder to come by. Analope opportunities

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Speaker 2: are becoming somewhat limited as well, But there are still

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Speaker 2: I think you should consider these hunts before they are

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Speaker 2: gone as well. I really do. I think analope hunting

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Speaker 2: And I want to start with a highlight reel why

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Speaker 2: bad news about antelope, So here it goes. Analope are

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Speaker 2: find that I've ever hunted. To be honest, they just

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Speaker 2: don't hide a whole lot. They aren't really nocturnal, so

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Speaker 2: they do most of their anlope stuff in the daylight.

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Speaker 2: And that's a good thing. You can be in the

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Speaker 2: game all day long on antalope if you have the

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Speaker 2: fortitude to hunt them all day long. An Analope are

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Speaker 2: delicious too. In fact, if you take care of them.

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Speaker 2: I think they're the best eating game animals out there,

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Speaker 2: at least out of all the animals I've eaten, which

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Speaker 2: will claim that elk or white tails are better, but

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Speaker 2: antlope is the clear winner. If you don't lead the

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Speaker 2: you get him skinned in on ice pretty quickly, it's

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Speaker 2: unbelievable meat, and the only downside to it is there

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Speaker 2: really isn't much of it to start with compared to

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Speaker 2: the other stuff we hunt. You can also hunt antalope

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Speaker 2: quite a few different ways, but the two most popular

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Speaker 2: styles are one that is really fun but also super

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Speaker 2: difficult spotting and stalking, and one that is mostly horrible

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Speaker 2: with a bow. With a gun, it's actually pretty easy.

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Speaker 2: Provided you can walk over flat ground for enough miles

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Speaker 2: with a bow, you're in for a challenge. I don't

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Speaker 2: think there is a DIY domestic type of bow hunt

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Speaker 2: that is tougher, but then again, I haven't done them all.

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Speaker 2: I think spotting and stocking antelope with a bow ranks

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Speaker 2: land in any state with high hunter numbers. It's no joke.

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Speaker 2: With a rifle, you know, it's not a joke either,

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Speaker 2: but it's nearly a foregone conclusion for a competent hunter

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Speaker 2: who can shoot. And that's not a knock on it either,

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Speaker 2: it's actually an endorsement. If you aren't sure you're cut

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Speaker 2: got good news for you. The antelope is out there,

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Speaker 2: and getting a rifle tag isn't terribly difficult in a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of different states. Now, you might have to

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Speaker 2: not only are they easy to locate, but if you

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Speaker 2: I say, and they're easy to get out of the field.

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Speaker 2: The biggest antelope on the prairie might weigh what a

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Speaker 2: yearling doe does in Michigan, so getting them out of

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Speaker 2: the field isn't much of an issue. This is honestly

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Speaker 2: a bigger component of a Western hunt than most folks

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Speaker 2: when we were at sea level and not standing at

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Speaker 2: nine thousand feet over a dead animal that weighs four

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Speaker 2: different world, and it is not for everyone. Most people,

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Speaker 2: on the other hand, could get an antelope out of

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Speaker 2: a hammy. And that's not nothing, my friends. There are

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Speaker 2: a lot of awesome things about antelope, but now it's

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Speaker 2: time to take our medicine. Antelope hunts are usually hot.

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Speaker 2: If you bowhunt them, it's damn near a guarantee that

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Speaker 2: you're going to sweat your knackers off. Mid August openers

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Speaker 2: it isn't going to be much. Pronghorn also have the

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Speaker 2: annoying habit of living in places where trees are more

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Speaker 2: rare than finding a hunting cameraman who isn't the loudest

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Speaker 2: person you've ever met. You won't get to lay up

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Speaker 2: in the shade African Lions style, while though day progresses

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Speaker 2: in the cooler temperatures, are finally delivered upon the scorched

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Speaker 2: wasteland that antelope call home. On a spot in stock

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Speaker 2: keep a cooler full of cold water in the truck.

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Speaker 2: On a water hole hunt from a blind, well, you're

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Speaker 2: in for a real treat. There's nothing quite like it,

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Speaker 2: and if you're into suffering, you better get out there

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Speaker 2: and try it. The rub here is that it's the

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Speaker 2: best way to earn a high odd shot at an antelope.

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Speaker 2: It's just that you'll pay for it, kind of like

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Speaker 2: how most people view all day sits for running white tails.

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Speaker 2: You know, the idea is simple, and the theory is sound.

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Speaker 2: Put in your time, all of your daylight time where

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Speaker 2: the odds of a cruiser are high, and then eventually

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Speaker 2: you'll be rewarded. But talking about this stuff is a

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Speaker 2: In fact, it's a good idea to take your potential

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Speaker 2: I could cover with antelope, but this is kind of

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Speaker 2: It's not for everyone. If you really hate the heat

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Speaker 2: deer or an elk adventure, the pronghorn is your guy.

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Speaker 2: Consider it, think about it, get out there if you

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Speaker 2: be talking about how we are all hypocrites when it

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