I understand the importance of gear when it comes to hunting but I also ponder the reasoning behind why we are all so obsessed with it. In this episode I freestyle spit on what I think it all means and why I think we are being duped. You'll probably disagree, but that's ok.

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Pat Hogan is on the Executive Board at MUCC and is also on the board of Tomahawk Archers. He is dedicated to conservation in many aspects. He's a birder as well as an avid hunter, proving that you don't always have to be "one or the other. "

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Tony Ruffing helped found the Ohio Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. He is an avid outdoorsman and fight to help preserve public lands here in Ohio. He also has a great mindset that we all need to work together to preserve wild places for EVERYONE who loves the outdoors, not only hunters and fishermen.

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Kim Kaseman is an all around outdoorswoman with a passion foe conservation education. She's working on completing the Appalachian Trail, she's a hunter and the State Coordinator for the Leopold Education Project.

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Welcome back to the annual Aptitude Outdoors Halloween bigfoot episode! This year I get to talk to the one and only Shannon LeGro of Into The Fray Radio and star of multiple Small Town Monsters Documentaries "On the Trail of UFOs: Season 1, 2, and 3" as well as author of "BEYOND THE FRAY: BIGFOOT" and "BEYOND THE FRAY: PARAMALGAMATION"

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Jonathan Durtka of Michigan Spearfishing Association details how he singlehandedly got the spearfishing laws changed in the state of Michigan and the hurdles he had to overcome to make that change.

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Larry White of Wildgame Gourmet and I talk why getting your own food is so important, hunting stories, how to cook some of the less popular cuts of meat (including organs) and his career as a chef starting at the US Coast Guard!

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Jen Davis and I discuss some awesome topics including her work as an Artemis Ambassador, Sporting Lead Free Ambassador, Instructor and Advisory Board Member of Michigan's Becoming an Outdoors Woman program, as well as her work as a conservationist, hunter, angler, forager and all around outdoors woman.

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My friends and I took on the 2022 Michigan Adventure Race in the Manistee National Forest this year and somehow won 1st in the 3-4 Person Division. On this episode of the Aptitude Outdoors Podcast I breakdown the race, the gear and the mental anguish I experienced during the race.

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Wesley Littlefield of Your Bass Guy and I discuss bass fishing, the reality of being a "normal" fisherman, fish habitat and elk hunting in Oklahoma! Tune in to learn more!

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