Guys welcome to the J. Scott Outdoors podcast. Today I've got my friend Daniel

Franco of Burnt Timber Outfitters born and raised Heber, Arizona. Daniel, how

you doing? Doing great, man. It's always great to talk to you. We are about a

week away from the draw deadline for applications for Arizona deer next

Tuesday. I believe June 6th and I wanted to call and get conditions up there

in your country of the rim country 3c 4b that country up there how are

things looking? You know it's looking pretty good actually we we had a pretty

good winter had quite a quite a bit of winter moisture not a ton of snow but

enough to just kind of keep it going the north face of basically 3c all that

along the rim country it held quite a bit of snow we had shoot we had quite a

bit of snow in the higher elevations even like around 4c lakes they were they

they got hammered with snow this year which was which was great it started

to melt off and and kind of do as it normally does and of course then the

winds kick up and started to dry everything out but we we actually just had

about a week of of kind of unusual late May moisture that hit us we had

about a week of of little rainstorms just here and there that kind of came

through and and it was it was awesome it's something we haven't had in quite a

while it almost almost seemed a little bit monsoon there for a while but got

some rain on the ground and grass is greening up and and yeah it looks looks

really really good. Okay let me ask you a question obviously we're talking

deer but we have elk coming up was it one of these winners where it stayed

cold quite a bit and it it's actually taken it a long time to green up or no

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