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Ben Harrison

Ben Harrison

Founder and CEO of the Bowhunting League, the world's largest free archery-only hunting competition, based in Bloomington, Indiana.

Sep 4, 2026

9:57
yeah
9:58
but anyway so We had those two deer roll in, and we elected to just go track all the ones that our close group shot, the guys that were staying in our houses and stuff.
10:15
We just elected to go track them after we ate just because, you know, we can do it all at one time, you know, and just take the side-by-side and do the thing, you know.
10:23
Well, so Jackie, let me think who all shot one that night.
10:31
It was, uh, Jackie Dane and, um, uh, Jared.
10:36
Well, Jared, uh, Hinton, uh, won the velvet, uh, hunt drawing.
10:41
So, um, you know, kind of help pay, pay for our food and stuff.

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That's
EricHOST
31:55
Yeah.
31:55
You know? Um, now, um, saying all that, we have some outstanding sponsors because they know what we're about.
32:02
You know, we're about having fun and, um, you know, giving them the spotlight when we can, you know, and, and, and we, we do as good of a job as we can on that stuff.
32:13
But at the same time, um, they, they compete.
32:17
You know, they sign up and get sign, you know, get signed up for the contest, and they compete, and they see how much camaraderie there is.
32:24
Um, even in a, you know, if y- you think about, like, I'm gonna go off on, I'm gonna go off on a little different track here real quick.
32:31
But you think about, like, when you were a kid and, um, you were in the best years of your life and you didn't realize it, but you were playing all these sports, right? Playing baseball, basketball, football, whatever.

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EricHOST
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Mm.
EricHOST
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Yeah.
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Um, so there's, there's all these things going on, like, I mean, all kinds of stuff going on.
43:56
Right.
43:58
And, um, the reality of a bow hunter is it's very hard for somebody to get into bow hunting period.
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Um, if they don't, you know, they're, you know, just a fresh person that, you know, that, that.
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wants to get into the sport and it's very hard for them to get in there.
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And it's hard for the established guys to, you know, to get, to get access to property, you know, somewhere close to the house or, or whatever.

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