Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. I am here in my place in Colorado. I'm joined by my friend and

Optics manager of Go Hunt.com, Cody Nelson. How you doing?

Jay, how are you sir? Good to be here. here good I'm glad you were able to make it up over the pass and get to see some of our rivers and some of the mountains what do you think yes

yeah just try to get rid of me now just try to. When you leave here next month?

Yeah.

Like in Christmas vacation?

I'm not sure my wife is going to like that proposition and Jean may kill me,

but yeah, I know you're going to have a hard time getting me out of here.

Yeah it's a beautiful place for sure. We're sitting here overlooking the lake that we live on here and can kind of hear the Roaring Fork River in the background. And today we're going to get to talk optics with Mr. Cody Nelson my friend of shoot you just told me that we it's

like 90 98 no well I mean that was our first hunt yeah so I mean 96 so it was back 20 plus years back in the wildlife images

taxider me yeah so in college for those of you don't know I was finishing up my

hours at ASU and I worked part time at Wildlife Images

taxidermy shop in the Scottsdale Air Park for Craig Pearson and I learned a lot working for Craig I learned how to

flesh animals I learned how to build bases and yeah most of what I learned on how to cape and how to do different things came from working at that

taxidermy shop and that's, you reminded me, that's where we met.

And it's been a long time.

For the listeners out there, the last episodes, we did a couple episodes on episode 562 and 564.

We did episode with Jared Bernstein and we did an episode with

Cortland who is the Zeiss account manager and Jared is with Vortex.

And so Cody, this is gonna be the episode

following those and I put out on my Instagram page questions

on glassing technique, optics, rifle scopes, tripods, binoculars,

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