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Pass’n it on Outdoors

Bruce: Four, three, two, one. This is Bruce Hutcheon, your host at Whitetail Rendezvous. I’m really happy to have Kristin Kiger from Pass’n It On Outdoors as a guest today. This gentleman is from out east in Winston-Salem, Carolinas, I believe. Kristin, why don’t you tell us about “Pass’n It On Outdoors”?

Kristin: Pass’n It On Outdoors started about five or six years ago in central North Carolina, and what our basic principles are is taking the less fortunate, the handicapped, the non-hunters, or somebody that’s hunted their lifetime back out in the woods again. So we do a couple handicapped hunts a year that’s just dedicated to the handicapped. We take our veterans, some of the veterans that came back from various wars and stuff that can’t get around any better than they used to, and take them out and try to get them back in the woods shooting turkeys or deer, or even catching fish.

That’s basically what we’re all about, and we try to film it, every bit of it. It’s on Fox Sports South at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays, and we try to just pass all the stuff that we do along to others.

Bruce: How do you get involved in this? That’s pretty aggressive goals that you have, mentoring people, getting people back in the outdoors that have forgotten the outdoors. Let’s talk about that.

Don’t have the land, don’t have the access, don’t have the ability to get out there, without help from others

Kristin: Well, there’s one particular hunt that I think got us…I wouldn’t say started, but keeps us going that we do the first Saturday of every December. And we have 30-plus hunters every year, and they’ll peel 40-plus deer in a Friday evening hunt, Saturday morning hunt, and Saturday evening hunt. And honestly, it’s not that hard trying to find somebody that wants to get in the outdoors. There’s people all over the place that want to get out there but can’t, for whatever reason. Don’t have the land, don’t have the access, don’t have the ability to get out there, without help from others.

And we’re just lucky enough, honestly, we’re the lucky ones that they call to be a part of their hunt. If you’re ever a part of a hunt that somebody couldn’t do if it wasn’t for you, there’s no reward in this world like it, for sure.

Bruce: Talk to me about your crew. Talk to me about the guys and gals that are doing this with you.

Kristin: We’ve got six guys with us that’s been with us for a while, and we’ve got four, five, six, videographers that’s with us too. And David Hinceman is the owner/operator, so to speak. And then you’ve got Brandon Currin, he’s the co-host of the show. They’re kind of the face of the show. They open the show up every week and close it every week.

Brandon lives in the Raleigh-Durham area, and David lives right outside of Salisbury, North Carolina. Then you’ve got Joe Penney [SP], that’s one of our main editors. Then you’ve got Brad Ross, he’s a staff member, and Robert Collins is a staff member. And all of us have full-time jobs. This is not our job. I work for Pepsi, and David’s a welder, and Brandon’s an HVAC man. Everybody has their own jobs, and this is a full-time part-time job for us, every one of us, even the videographers. They all have full-time jobs.

Bruce: We’re going to talk about this at the end of the show, what I call “The Wrap Up.” We get a couple minutes of shameless promotion. But if somebody is interested in finding out how you guys do it…because they say, “Hey, wait a minute. I can do that. I can get together with my crew of guys, my friends.” How would they do that? Who would they get a hold of, and where can they go to get more information?

Kristin: Well, it just depends on what you want to do. I can tell anybody and everybody that wants to get involved in this; if you just want to take somebody out and go hunting and get them in the woods, there’s always somebody that knows somebody that doesn’t have access to the outdoors that you could help them with access. Whether it would be just giving them the land to go hunt on, or never done it before, and they’ll need to learn. But if you’re going to try to film this stuff and edit it and put it on a YouTube page or start a show, I would tell you to have deep pockets and a lot of patience, because it is a lot of work.

I’m just starting to help edit, and Brandon and David and Joe do most of the editing. And when they get home in the evenings, they don’t get to sit around and watch TV. They’re sitting in front of a computer editing for hours and hours on end, just for one show. I would say get with somebody that’s already filming and follow them around. Because it’s a whole lot harder work than what it portrays to be.

But again, if you just want to get somebody in the outdoors, there’s plenty of people around that want to get in the outdoors that’s never done it. And I promise you, you’ll be more rewarded by taking somebody else and letting them shoot that turkey or that big buck or even that doe than it will be if you do it.

Bruce: And again, do you have a website URL you can share with our listeners?

it’s called Pass’n It On Outdoors. And it’s spelled P-A-S-S-N-I-T-O-N-O-U-T-D-O-O-R-S.com.

Kristin: Yeah, it’s called Pass’n It On Outdoors. And it’s spelled P-A-S-S-N-I-T-O-N-O-U-T-D-O-O-R-S.com.

Bruce: Hey, thanks for that. Let’s switch it up now, and let’s talk about what you and I both love to do, is chase whitetails. How did you get involved in whitetail hunting?

Kristin: Well, mine’s, I would say, maybe the same old story. My dad was a deer hunter, a fisherman, an outdoorsman. And luckily enough, he had a friend that’s 17, 18 years old that started taking him hunting. My grandfather didn’t hunt. Dad started hunting at 17, 18 years old, and of course, then I came along, he started taking me in the woods with him.

I can remember to this day the first deer that ever walked by me and the first deer that I shot. Two years ago, I was able to take my dad hunting and put him in one of my tree stands and let him shoot a little [inaudible 00:07:45] on the property that I hunt around the house, and kind of giving it back to what he gave me for so many years taking me in the woods.

Bruce: Let’s talk about your best hunting tip, what it was, and who gave it to you.