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Good afternoon, everybody, to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. From time to time I run across somebody that’s that’s gotten something new on the block, something interesting, something current, and you don’t have to be technologically savvy to run it. That man would be Scott Osteen with Inside the Hunt. He is the founder of Inside the Hunt and he’s got a lot to share with us, so Scott, say “Hello” to the folks.
Scott: Hey, everybody. How you guys doing? Bruce, I appreciate you having me on, reaching out to me, and asking me to be a part of your show. I’m interested to listen to all of the episodes and get to know everybody that’s out there. Thank you for having me.
Bruce: Well we welcome you to our community. And it is that. It’s a community. We talk about hunting. We talk about personals in hunting. We talk about the things we care about: the youth, the women, and mostly important, the tradition of hunting. So how is Inside the Hunt going to help us, and help you, and help hunters build a tradition? Get youth involved and get women involved in the sport.
Scott: Well, the reason I got started with it, I’m probably not much different than everybody else. So when it comes to watching hunting shows on TV, you watch and you see these massive, big bucks being killed and you say, “Man, I’ve got to have some that!” And when you get to the woods and that doesn’t happen, I think we all may get a little distraught or a little down about it.
My idea was a couple of different things, but to give the average individual like myself a platform for sharing their hunt, to take to take us, the general public, inside their hunt. What do you do that I’m not doing? And to be able to share those experiences. I hope that when people get to using it, and get familiar with the sight, that they will start to make little videos of how they place their stand. Little videos of what they’ve done in their food plot, just any number of different things, because we don’t all have the budget that you see on TV.
I think there’s probably a lot of good information that’s out there and there’s not one central location for people to share that about hunting. And to me, this community — and you’re exactly right; that’s what we are — this community is very shareable, very friendly with one another. And we have the technology now. Everybody has a phone that has a camera on it that can record a video. Upload it right from the food plot.
I see constantly people that just got through hunting and they share their video of their hunt, where they killed — it’s currently turkey season — where they killed their turkey. As I watched some of this, I noticed that it was shared on Facebook. A lot of people made comments that were anti-hunters or whatever. I said, “We need a place where we all feel welcome as hunters, and we don’t have to listen to outside voices, and we can share that information back and forth.
And to encourage women and children to get involved in this sport. I have a nine-year-old son, who yesterday was begging me to take him fishing. So I think having a community like this, where we can share that type of information was what really got me started on the website.