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We’re heading actually down to Georgia, and with Lyle Avis, and we’re going to be talking about dog tracking tonight. And he’s quasi-famous. He’s real famous in Georgia for Deer Hunting with his tracker – Zada, he’s getting famous throughout the social media world with just his stories and his handheld videos. And, you know, pronounce the name of your company, your dog company.Right. So it’s Schmavis Outdoors.: Schmavis Outdoors, so remember that. And you can look him up on social media. But Lyle kind of got reverse engineered, he fell in love, and then his wife got him into hunting. How did that happen?So, yeah. So, I mean, my dad hunted a little bit [Inaudible So he comes home at lunch, hands me this bow from my little brother-in-law that’s, you know, about three inches draw length too short for me. And he’s like, “Here, I’ll show you how to shoot this.” So about 30 minutes of instruction at lunch, he comes back after work at about But, I mean, that’s what really sucked me in from there, was the in-laws and them wanting to go hunting and go out all the time. I mean right now they’re probably the biggest pheasant-hunting family that I know and a whole house full of pheasant and deer heads on the wall. And, you know, they have the land that we hunt whenever I go back home to Iowa [Inaudible Now what part of Iowa is it? What part of Iowa is it?Northeastern Iowa, so it’s Dubuque, Iowa. They actually live in Epworth, Iowa right now, a tiny little speck on the map outside of Dubuque. Right on the Mississippi River kind of, where Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa all touch in that little corner right there, that is my hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.Is that near McGregor at all?It doesn’t sound familiar, but I haven’t been there.Okay. McGregor is a little bit north of that. You know, like you said, you know where I went to college at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, and so I wasn’t that far from it. I never hunted Iowa, I’ve only hunted Iowa for whitetails once, pheasant hunted a little bit. But I’d like to get back there, but it’s a four-year wait. You know, it’s just a four-year wait.

