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Jeff Vane is the Bowhunting Savage

So Bowhunting Savage. Come, we gotta talk about this. What’s going on?

Jeff: Well, last summer I was trying to figure out what I want to do with this. And I just took a few things that I was really interested in. One was bowhunting. I just started in July, so I’ve only been bowhunting for a short period of time. And I just fell absolutely in love with the sport. Then I started researching Cameron Hanes, Remi Warren, Steve Rinella and just listened to these guys. And I just branched even further.

Then Savage, it kind of came from the inspiration from Joe Rogan’s podcast because that’s what he liked to call people. But then I really sat down and digested what the word meant to me. And it’s like it’s somebody that will go above and beyond, the passion to make sure they always accomplish what they want to do, whether they’re successful in the field or not. They’re out there at 4:00 in the morning waiting for the sun to rise and waiting for the deer to start waking up out of the bedding.

Let’s talk about the hunting tradition and where the heck that came from.

it started with my dad, watching him get up at 3:00 in the morning, hearing him go out with

Jeff: For me, it started with my dad, watching him get up at 3:00 in the morning, hearing him go out with…he was a muzzleloader himself, and just hearing the stories and the camaraderie about everything. Because it’s not necessarily about the hunt or the harvest. To them, it was mostly getting together and talking about their experience.

You’d wake up, and they’d be coming back off the field at 8:00, 9:00 in the morning covered in snow, 13 below zero. And they’re just out there talking about everything and seeing how they’re going to dress their afternoon set and such. But it was just the breakdown of everything and then going out and being taught by some of his best friends, teaching me how to shoot, and just learning the tricks. Just listening for the snap of a twig or what’s the difference between a squirrel.

And it was just all breaking down that humbleness of it all, because it’s like these guys have all been hunting for decades, prior to my experience, so they’re just dropping me with a bunch of knowledge. And it was just very humbling.

And hunting’s a good way to teach people that.

: I think it’s something that we need to strive for because with everything going on with the media and such with that, you really have to sit down and look at how we’re going to approach the future because population centers are getting big. People are getting tired of the factory farming. And hunting’s a good way to teach people that.

I just listened to a good podcast with Joe Rogan where a hardcore vegan transitioned into hunting. And it’s more of a paleo diet, where he eats and he catches his own fish. And that’s what changed his entire life, because he wanted to see what else is out there. And he got into hunting out in Vermont and just fell in love with it.

What I like about the hunting and why we need to keep it still passionate throughout the entire United States is that it brings unity. It brings camaraderie. And it allows everybody to relate and talk about their problems that they’ve experienced in the field. And like, “Okay, how can I adjust this?” And then on top, that opens up to a whole new wide community. Like you said, 17-plus million people out there. Everybody’s going to have a story because everybody’s going to be able to give two cents about something.

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