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nationally televised hunting and fishing show entitled “Appalachian Trophy TV”

Bruce: Four, three, two, one. Welcome to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. This is your host Bruce Hutcheon and we’re heading to Charleston West Virginia today and we’re going to talk to Jeremy Allen. Jeremy is the owner and producer of a nationally televised hunting and fishing show entitled “Appalachian Trophy TV”. Jeremy welcome to the show.

Jeremy: Thank you Bruce.

Bruce: Jeremy let’s just jump right into it. Tell us about your trophy TV program.

Jeremy: Well Appalachian Trophy TV was founded in 2012 by myself and my wife Jessica Allen and we decided we were going to start the television show and have a bunch of friends. That’s what our show’s about. We’re just a group of friends who hang out together. We have cookouts we enjoy the outdoors together and we’re all from this general area in West Virginia. So we decided we were going to start the show. We started airing in 2013 on cable television, added to national television in I believe it was June or July of 2013 and been running ever since.

Bruce: Now what channels on either cable or dish can they find you on?

Jeremy: Okay well on Suddenlink cable we air on channel 2 which is Network West Virginia. It’s the local network West Virginia channel. It goes to Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia and we were currently airing on the Hunt channel which is the christian based outdoor channel. On channel 266 on Dish Network. We took off there but we’ll be back on there soon and looking to go to the Pursuit channel hopefully in January 2016.

Bruce: Well it sounds like you’re a busy guy. You and your wife have certainly cranked something up starting in 2012 and now you’ve got some national exposure I’m assuming or is it just regional exposure that you have?

regional television but we feel we reach 8 or 9 different formats rather it’s television, internet based video players

Jeremy: At this point we are just airing on regional television but we feel we reach 8 or 9 different formats rather it’s television, internet based video players. We’re on two separate rogue channels so you can still watch us across the nation. Our video account is very big, the current channel, we have I believe it’s close to 100,000 on there so we download to that way. Like I said we took this season off on Dish Network type channels and looking forward to hopefully moving to the Pursuit channel, we’re adding the Pursuit channel in 2016 to us.

Bruce: Outstanding. Now talk to us talk to the listeners and myself about the hunting tradition. Where did that come from?

Jeremy: Myself, my grandfather. we called him pappy, he was an addicted hunter ever since he was young and they lived in Cumberland Maryland. And my family you know we’re from Charleston and we’ve always lived down here. My mom moved away from there when she was young so we’d go up and visit and everything. And I’d get go up there and he’d get my license and go hunting a little bit and really enjoyed it.

A lot of times it was as simple as just going out in the woods with him. We’d go walk around. He’d teach me the different trees, the different leaves, the animals we seen he’d teach me about them. It was more than just going hunting. It was spending quality time in the outdoors with your family. And that instilled tradition in me for the rest of my life that I’ll pass onto any of my friends or my own children one day and he really taught me a lot about the outdoors. The patience and to respect the land, respect the animals and all those type of things so he is the one that really, really brought the outdoors in my life.

Bruce: So do you hunt with a bow, a rifle, Muzzleloader? What type of weapon do you hunt with?

on Appalachian Trophy TV we hunt with all the weapons. We hunt with a bow, we hunt with muzzleloaders, and we also hunt with rifles during deer season

Jeremy: Well on Appalachian Trophy TV we hunt with all the weapons. We hunt with a bow, we hunt with muzzleloaders, and we also hunt with rifles during deer season. West Virginia offers three different seasons so take advantage of it. Our primary focus is archery. [Inaudible 00:04:10] which is a great archery company out of Indiana and we have them on board for our second year now. And we love their products so we’re avid in the archery department outdoors and we’re really enjoy going out and taking our outings and getting some chances at some beautiful West Virginia deer.

Bruce: Now let’s talk to me about the opportunity to harvest some mature 3 1/2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2 year old buck in West Virginia.