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Bruce: Okay. I’ll count it down. Five, four, three, two, one. Welcome to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. This is your host, Bruce Hutcheon. Today, we have Jordan Camp joining us. She’s from Relentless Addiction Outdoors, where she is a producer of the show. Jordan, welcome to the show.
Jordan: Nice to be here.
Bruce: Jordan, let’s just jump right into it. Tell our listeners about Relentless Addiction Outdoors.
Jordan: Well, Relentless Addiction Outdoors is basically a group of pro staffers from different parts of the country. We have some from Michigan and some from Arkansas, some from Ohio, and we all get together, and we film fishing trips, hunting trips, basically us being in the outdoors, and we are turning it into a TV show on the Hunt Channel.
Bruce: On the Hunt Channel?
Jordan: Yes.
Bruce: Okay.
Jordan: And we have our show coming out this fall.
Bruce: And what cable network, or who produces it on the TV for us?
Jordan: Well, I don’t think it’s available on Directv, but I know it’s available for Dish, Roku, and I’m not sure what the other company is that has it.
Bruce. Okay, and I understand that you’ve got a long heritage in the shooting sports. Can you share some things that your granddad taught you?
Jordan: Well, I got started shooting in general, whatever, I was four, whenever him, and my dad and my uncle took me down to our deer lease and he had a bunch of beer cans sitting in the back of his truck. And he just so happened to have a BB gun in there for shooting snakes and stuff, and he let me start shooting BB guns, and I’ve been hooked on shooting, in general, ever since
Bruce: Now, what are some of the lessons that your granddad taught you?
Jordan: Well, obviously gun safety was a big thing. That was something that was emphasized every single time I shoot and it’s something that I passed on to my younger siblings. And it also taught me a great deal of patience because some days you just can’t shoot right. Those days are bound to happen, especially in competition shooting. And he taught me patience and just general problem-solving skills is also a really big thing that I’ve learned because sometimes you’ll have a gun that’s not wanting to work right, and you’re able to go through and dissect little problems, or it might be on your end, and you’re able to dissect those problems. That’s another huge thing for me.
Bruce: Now, how did you get into competitive shooting?
Jordan: It was around 8th or 9th grade. The high school and middle schools were organizing a track shooting team, and I kinda wanted to join, but at the same time I kinda wasn’t sure about it, because it’s kind of a guy’s sport, is what I thought, and then, finally, my sophomore year of high school, my other granddad who’s a big wing shooter, he loves to go hunting in the South Dakota places to pheasant hunt. He finally, kind of conned me into doing it, and he said, “I bet you’ll never be good at it.” I said, “All right, challenge accepted,” and I’ve been hooked on track shooting ever since.
Bruce: Now, it says that you were crowned the 2014 Champion of Champions?
Jordan: Yes, that was my final season of high school shooting towards the end. At the end of the year we had this big thing where all the shooters who are on the team lined up on the shooting line, and the coach said, “You basically shoot till you miss so whenever you miss, you step off the line,” and we keep going until finally somebody’s crowned champion, and I just put my mind to it that I was about to bust every single target that was thrown out, and I did.
Bruce: So, you were the last gal standing, huh?
Jordan: Yep, I was the only girl on the team, too.
Bruce: Oh my goodness. Hey, let’s circle back to Relentless Addiction Outdoors. We’ve got listeners that really want to get into the outdoor industry. Just give us in a couple of minutes here, four or five minutes, how you became the producer of that show.