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Episode 067 – Saul Soltero – Field Director Whitetails Unlimited
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Interviewer: Three, two, one. Welcome, Whitetail Rendezvous community to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. Today I am really happy to have Saul Soltero and he is the Regional Director for Whitetails Unlimited out of Wisconsin. Sturgeon Bay I believe isn't it, Saul?
Saul: Yes we are headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
Interviewer: Right. Tell us what you do for Whitetail Unlimited and even more important, what type of whitetail hunter you are.
Saul: Two totally different subjects there as far as I'm concerned. I am the regional director for Whitetails Unlimited. It's one of these jobs where guys come up to you and ask how you got his job. It's kind of a dream job. Basically in the hunting industry, I am the Regional Director of the Midwest, which means I cover from Fargo, North Dakota to Stillwater, Oklahoma. We've got chapters all up and down the Midwest. Always looking to open new chapters. We are a pro second amendment hunting. We are certainly very involved in youth and youth shooting sports as well as youth hunting opportunities. One of the most important things that is near and dear to my heart is we are linked up with the Wounded War Heroes, which is a group that supports the mission of taking our wounded warriors when they come home from the war on hunting and fishing trips to kind of ease them back into life.I am very proud of my existence and my participation in that they're doing. That's a little bit about Whitetails and where my region is.
In regards to hunting, I'm an avid outdoorsman. I would rather be outdoors than anything in the world. And it seems like chasing those whitetail deer is probably the number one thing on my list. Although I will hunt just about anything. I just got back from a hog hunt. I love to pheasant hunt. I've got two very well trained labrador retrievers that I consider my two best buddies in the world. And love to be out there chasing the roosters, goose hunt. I love to go shoot my gun, side of me [SP] my and my kids enjoy doing it as well. I would like to say I am a huge outdoorsman and Whitetails Unlimited plays right into that aspect of being able to get outdoors as often as possible.
Interviewer: Thank you for that background. Let's just jump right into the interview. What's one of the best hunting tips that you received and who gave it to you?
Saul: For me it was a bit of a baptism by fire. I went on my first pheasant hunting trip over 25 years ago. I am from Southern Arizona. My wife's family is actually from the Midwest. Came into the Midwest and decided that I wasn't real sure if I wanted to stay based on the weather. And that was the day that they took me hunting for the first time. It didn't take much more than that. It was a pheasant hunt. And as some of my people may understand. . .some of your people understand out there, a pheasant is a tough bird. First and foremost you have to judge whether it's male or female based its colors. It's giving you one one-hundredth of a second to decide that as it flies away at Mach speed from right beneath your legs and then you have to figure out how to get a shot off and how to cut it off from point A to point B.
I was hooked on the meticulous nature of hunting and the interaction with the dogs, the interaction with the buddies that you are with. Just being outdoors. I say, there's been times when I lay down in the field and took it in because I'm tired, but I don't want to quit. The dogs laying right next to me because he's tired, but he doesn't want to quit. It's just an unbelievable sport, it's challenging, it's rewarding, it's satisfying. It scratches a lot of itches.
I've learnt my hunting from a lot of different people. The first person to take me hunting was a gentleman by the name Jack Lutz [SP]. Jack was gracious enough to work with me in all of my failures and my [inaudible 00:04:00] and my lack of knowledge and he just did a wonderful job with.
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Interviewer: Three, two, one. Welcome, Whitetail Rendezvous community to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. Today I am really happy to have Saul Soltero and he is the Regional Director for Whitetails Unlimited out of Wisconsin. Sturgeon Bay I believe isn't it, Saul?
Saul: Yes we are headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
Interviewer: Right. Tell us what you do for Whitetail Unlimited and even more important, what type of whitetail hunter you are.
Saul: Two totally different subjects there as far as I'm concerned. I am the regional director for Whitetails Unlimited. It's one of these jobs where guys come up to you and ask how you got his job. It's kind of a dream job. Basically in the hunting industry, I am the Regional Director of the Midwest, which means I cover from Fargo, North Dakota to Stillwater, Oklahoma. We've got chapters all up and down the Midwest. Always looking to open new chapters. We are a pro second amendment hunting. We are certainly very involved in youth and youth shooting sports as well as youth hunting opportunities. One of the most important things that is near and dear to my heart is we are linked up with the Wounded War Heroes, which is a group that supports the mission of taking our wounded warriors when they come home from the war on hunting and fishing trips to kind of ease them back into life.I am very proud of my existence and my participation in that they're doing. That's a little bit about Whitetails and where my region is.
In regards to hunting, I'm an avid outdoorsman. I would rather be outdoors than anything in the world. And it seems like chasing those whitetail deer is probably the number one thing on my list. Although I will hunt just about anything. I just got back from a hog hunt. I love to pheasant hunt. I've got two very well trained labrador retrievers that I consider my two best buddies in the world. And love to be out there chasing the roosters, goose hunt. I love to go shoot my gun, side of me [SP] my and my kids enjoy doing it as well. I would like to say I am a huge outdoorsman and Whitetails Unlimited plays right into that aspect of being able to get outdoors as often as possible.
Interviewer: Thank you for that background. Let's just jump right into the interview. What's one of the best hunting tips that you received and who gave it to you?
Saul: For me it was a bit of a baptism by fire. I went on my first pheasant hunting trip over 25 years ago. I am from Southern Arizona. My wife's family is actually from the Midwest. Came into the Midwest and decided that I wasn't real sure if I wanted to stay based on the weather. And that was the day that they took me hunting for the first time. It didn't take much more than that. It was a pheasant hunt. And as some of my people may understand. . .some of your people understand out there, a pheasant is a tough bird. First and foremost you have to judge whether it's male or female based its colors. It's giving you one one-hundredth of a second to decide that as it flies away at Mach speed from right beneath your legs and then you have to figure out how to get a shot off and how to cut it off from point A to point B.
I was hooked on the meticulous nature of hunting and the interaction with the dogs, the interaction with the buddies that you are with. Just being outdoors. I say, there's been times when I lay down in the field and took it in because I'm tired, but I don't want to quit. The dogs laying right next to me because he's tired, but he doesn't want to quit. It's just an unbelievable sport, it's challenging, it's rewarding, it's satisfying. It scratches a lot of itches.
I've learnt my hunting from a lot of different people. The first person to take me hunting was a gentleman by the name Jack Lutz [SP]. Jack was gracious enough to work with me in all of my failures and my [inaudible 00:04:00] and my lack of knowledge and he just did a wonderful job with.