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With all of the attacks on sportsmen's values and opportunities these days by animal activists and/or anti-hunting organizations, pro-hunting advocacy from the sportsmen community is on the rise. Incredibly so. But exactly what IS the nature of our advocacy? Is it reasoned? Is it balanced? Is it thoughtful? Or is it based purely on emotion – the same type of emotion we criticize the activist organizations for? And what about dialog and advocacy/opposition to ideas within the sportsmen's community? Again, is it reasoned and balanced, or is it fired from emotion? In this episode, Chris goes through four examples of current events (in his own life and elsewhere) where sportsmen have – at least in some ways – triggered off of emotion, and thrust their personal advocacy into the public forum in what often seems like a "Fire, Aim, Ready!" manner. ...a manner that quite likely represents a losing strategy for all of us in the long run.

For this episode, we dive into a completely different type of conversation with long-time RHR subscriber Josh Benton. As the title suggests, we dive into lengthy discussion that ranges from: – Chris going cold-turkey on quitting alcohol and caffeine for at least the month of February; – High-functioning Alcoholics, and the addictions for so many folks these days; – The idea of Motivational Interviewing/how to conduct meaningful dialog; – How a kid from Martha's Vineyard got into elk hunting; – Why don't we see western hunters going "out-of-State" for fishing trips to experience the feeding frenzies of Striped Bass and Tuna off the New England coast?

"Left" vs. "Right." "Us" vs. "Them." "Cancel culture." Social media "blocking" and "shadow banning." With every passing day, it seems as a society we're becoming more and more divided, and even seemingly actively encouraged to "hate" anyone that thinks differently than we do, or that expresses a different value-set, or political ideology than we do. Regardless of who we are – conservative/liberal, hunter/non-hunter – if we don't strive to understand how individual, and/or collective, ideologies influence the way that the people we interact with on a daily basis think, we're doomed to fail in effective communication. In this video, Part One of a much larger discussion to come, Chris goes over some of his thoughts on how: 1) He visualizes how different ideologies relate to one another; 2) How ideologies might be distributed across individuals throughout society; 3) How/Where individuals may find themselves within Chris's conceptional model of an ideological framework (Chris's "color wheel" of the "ideological spectrum"); and 4) The influence of, and interplay between, individual personality (as related to the Big 5 personality traits) and life experiences on how individual (and collective) ideologies come to be. Qualifications right up front: Chris is not a clinical psychologist, and he makes no assertion that his opinions expressed here are statistically "right" from a scientific, peer-reviewed, standpoint. This is simply Chris explaining how HE visualizes the ideological spectrum, based on his direct experience with diverse publics/individuals and their ideologies, and what he has learned over the years from folks like Thomas Sowell, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Eric and Bret Weinstein, and others. This video is the "relevant" body of discussion that was previously released to the paid subscribers of www.RoeHuntingResources.com in the early part of 2021, but then released to the public in the early fall of 2021, due to the relevance to current events – and the resulting dialog around them – and subsequent discussions led by Chris Roe within the RHR Podcast, and other Podcasts he was subsequently a part of. While this was uploaded to YouTube for the benefit of RHR Podcast listeners – an audience which is largely made up of passionate, ethical hunters – it is my hope that ANYONE who chooses to watch this learns from it, and finds value in it. If you'd prefer to skip the introduction and reason for this discussion, feel free to jump to minute 18:39 of the video. Thanks for watching, and if you found this valuable to you, please consider clicking "Like," and then Share this video with others you think might enjoy/benefit from it.

Chris Roe, Roe Hunting Resources, has worked with the Van Loenen family out of Prairie View, Kansas for the past seven years, and has grown to consider Beau, and the rest of the family, close personal friends. As the wildlife biologist and hunt programs manager, Chris helps a number of hunters each season enjoy high-quality, highly educational hunts, but when the paying clients are done, it’s time for Chris and Beau to see what their portion of the season might hold. In 2020, Beau was able to capitalize on a true local legend, and absolute tank of a buck! In this video, Chris goes over how the buck was scored, and what the tail of the tape ended up being!

Before you can even begin to answer this question, you need to answer three (or four) different questions about yourself to properly identify the "best" broadhead for your next elk or whitetail hunt! This video is the relevant portion of the Roe Hunting Resources' "Podcast" video - episode 1 - posted to www.RoeHuntingResources.com for the Full Access website subscribers.