guys. Guys, welcome to the J Scott Outdoors Podcast. I am mobile today. I am

driving between the Ot6 Ranch in South Central Colorado to Carbondale

Colorado. I'm going to pick up my wife and she is going on a trip. I'm taking her to the Denver Airport. But I wanted to take a second here to kind of bring you guys up to speed because I've had a lot of emails, a lot of phone

calls, a lot of text messages as to what I'm doing here in Colorado.

And so I thought I would take a few minutes here and explain

what's going on so back in the spring I did some turkey hunting in Texas and I had a friend.

One of the places that I hunted in Texas was a friend of mine, whom I met through another friend of mine that actually works for this family. And they had told me that they were interested in

purchasing a ranch in either Utah or Colorado for elk and mule deer and so I thought that was neat. I didn't really think much about it.

But this summer I got a call from this gentleman and he had told me that he had indeed put a

ranch in Colorado in escrow and was scheduled to close in September.

And he had at that time asked me if I would be interested in being the hunt manager or hunt director or ranch manager, whatever you want to call it.

And so I came over in August and looked at the property.

And it's about 40,000 contiguous deeded acres.

And it's a really nice beautiful property.

So when I came over in August, my initial impressions of the ranch were

it's opinion, of opinion juniper country some ponderosa pine

and very few aspens but there are some aspengroves on the property.

The elevation runs roughly from about 7,000 feet up to just under 10,000 feet to give you guys kind of of a perspective of the ranch.

And the ranch is actually, the original ranch was about 56,000 acres and the portion that my friend was buying is about 40,000 acres of that property.

And the property is fairly thick there's quite a bit like I said opinion

juniper country and then on up into Ponderosa Pine country.

There are portions of it that are steep, but there is some nice gradual terrain,

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