Speaker 1: It's it's beginning to look like Christmas everywhere.
Speaker 2: We from Kansas to Tennessee and everywhere in between.
Speaker 3: Looking for the.
Speaker 4: Third time is a charm.
Speaker 2: This is the third time we're report we're reporting this podcast,
Speaker 2: recording this podcast, and I'm not int stop again.
Speaker 4: I don't care what happens reporting this podcast.
Speaker 2: You can hear a little wheeze in my throat, and
Speaker 2: that's because I have asthma and basement. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 2: get Jordan to go get mine haalar and throw it
Speaker 2: to me here in about twenty five.
Speaker 4: Minutes, because in a basement, and you know, my chest
Speaker 4: getting heavy.
Speaker 2: And we are in a basement that's really hot, and
Speaker 2: because it's sixty degrees in the middle of December, it
Speaker 2: smells a little bit like dead deer down here because
Speaker 2: it's connected to my garage.
Speaker 5: You know what doesn't smell like dead deer is our
Speaker 5: unbelievable studio in Nashville where all kinds of microphones.
Speaker 2: And micro and nice microphone legit stands and nice chairs
Speaker 2: that are comfortable.
Speaker 5: But you can't you can't determine how people were gonna
Speaker 5: feel during Christmas break, especially when they have the stomach virus.
Speaker 5: So shout out mow and hope you get feeling better. Yep,
Speaker 5: wasn't worth the risk, Buddy, wasn't worth the risk.
Speaker 2: Might be might have been, might have been the risk
Speaker 2: out of my watching Matt act could just be today.
Speaker 2: Shout out also to Ben Stennis for that microphone, Tucker
Speaker 2: Bethard for this microphone. I took my daughter to Huff's sister,
Speaker 2: just a little grocery store slash gas station up the road,
Speaker 2: country store. Got a biscuits this morning, met Stennis there
Speaker 2: with that SM seven B. Brought it back thinking that
Speaker 2: I had an s M seven B here didn't because
Speaker 2: we recorded with Ella Langley. I hope y'all enjoyed that
Speaker 2: podcast a couple of weeks ago, and she brought her dad.
Speaker 2: We needed four mics. I brought my mic from here
Speaker 2: to up there to our state of the art, million
Speaker 2: dollars studio. I don't know if it's a million dollars,
Speaker 2: but it might be. I mean the building, I say
Speaker 2: billion dollar studio, and left it there. So we had
Speaker 2: one mic called Tucker but you know about his crib,
Speaker 2: and got another one. This is the Christmas season, and
Speaker 2: today's got the Christmas tree today is the day before Christmas.
Speaker 2: Check out these deer.
Speaker 5: We're doing everything we can for y'all, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5: We even sang Christmas song we wrote real quick.
Speaker 2: We even we even have the studio light that is
Speaker 2: a just a lamp that's with the shade off. That's
Speaker 2: all it is. I think Jordan took a picture of
Speaker 2: it and probably going to post it on this It
Speaker 2: looks like it's going to take off running across the basement.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if it's doing anything. Yes, if
Speaker 2: it's working.
Speaker 5: Cloudy on the iPhone, don't care. But here we are. No,
Speaker 5: it's not time for that.
Speaker 4: Ye nope.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's get into the Christmas episode, y'all. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, guys, get off my cord. I have limited
Speaker 2: my arms already have limited footage. Dan, you've been busy
Speaker 2: with h F on the show with Sprinkles. Man, give
Speaker 2: us a give us a little bit, and I don't
Speaker 2: make it long so I can rest my arm.
Speaker 4: Let me just be honest.
Speaker 5: I got mad at Chyanne because she she named it
Speaker 5: Sprinkles the night before and I was just like, you know,
Speaker 5: if you're going to like do something creative, like be
Speaker 5: creative with it. You know, I thought Sprinkles was like
Speaker 5: a pretty just run at the middle name.
Speaker 2: What okay, I mean calling your wife out and all
Speaker 2: over daddy listening to this podcast. Well, just sure she
Speaker 2: knows it is true or not. I'm not getting stopp
Speaker 2: or cut. We're not cutting it.
Speaker 5: No, I don't care, that's fine, She's cool, So sprinkle
Speaker 5: like sprinkles. I just feel like it's just such a
Speaker 5: foreseeable name for a elvia Michelle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, but it's not the most foreseeable name.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 2: No, I got the most foreseeable name. And I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2: If you're Elfie Elf is named this, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a bad one. Yeah, Elf Chippy people, Yeah, Chippy is
Speaker 2: like the actual Elf on the Shelf show. Oh I
Speaker 2: didn't know there was a show and people. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: an e Fland Shelf Netflix show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody's making some bank on that bit.
Speaker 2: And Griffin loves it. But Chippy is that one? And
Speaker 2: I know some people are naming their Hippy. I feel
Speaker 2: like that's like just h zero creativity. Sorry, yeah, hot
Speaker 2: takes zero. If your el's name is Chippy, if your
Speaker 2: kid's names elf. If your kids el's name is Chippy
Speaker 2: or Elfie or Elfie, get it together and change their names.
Speaker 4: It's like people who have an iguana named Iggy.
Speaker 2: I'm like it was pre named. We had Eggy and egg,
Speaker 2: we had e one and two.
Speaker 4: It was yeah, we were six.
Speaker 2: They're still buried at Shadow Popular Street and Savanna shout
Speaker 2: out you too. All right, give us some Sprinkles updates.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. My daughter's five.
Speaker 5: She really enjoys Sprinkles just because it's like, you know, man,
Speaker 5: something that look forward to. Right, she's popping up in
Speaker 5: the morning. Oh my goodness, what did the f do?
Speaker 5: She's in the moment, she's that young. Sprinkles isn't is
Speaker 5: annoying to you know, deal with? Yeah, Sprinkles is annoying
Speaker 5: to deal with. But at the same time, it's, uh,
Speaker 5: it's pretty fun. I mean you just get to like
Speaker 5: take this thing kind of be creative that night. So
Speaker 5: and there's also a plethora of information on the Internet
Speaker 5: that you can just jump on if you're feeling kind
Speaker 5: of stumped. And I don't try to like do exactly
Speaker 5: what the internet does, but I may pull a little
Speaker 5: inspiration from what they say is a good idea to do,
Speaker 5: like for example.
Speaker 2: Sorry, anxiety tweaking over this thing?
Speaker 5: For example, what was the one I did the other night? Oh,
Speaker 5: we made a gingerbread house and I took a bite
Speaker 5: out of the gingerbread house like that, like Sprinkles had
Speaker 5: done it.
Speaker 2: Are Loretta is our el's name, and she was she
Speaker 2: was on the like sitting on this ginger head bread
Speaker 2: ginger breadhouse of the n Yeah, pretty normal. Yeah, sure
Speaker 2: for Chippy, easy move for Sprinkles.
Speaker 5: So and and let me say this, this is I
Speaker 5: can get a little personal take in this. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of stress that comes with these holidays, especially if
Speaker 5: you have kids and you're trying to figure it all out.
Speaker 5: And we as dudes want to be deer hunting the
Speaker 5: entire time, correct every day. Yeah, well, while we're busy
Speaker 5: worrying about that, some people, my wife as such, it
Speaker 5: is worried about our kids, the gifts, them, enjoying things.
Speaker 4: What Sprinkles is going to do that night?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: It's like I feel like, as dudes right now, it
Speaker 5: goes a long way for deer season next year to
Speaker 5: be considerate of what your significant other is going through
Speaker 5: at the same time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, good good, Uh tip out there too. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a good that's what I'm saying. That's a good
Speaker 2: thing to say. It's like we all know what browning
Speaker 2: points are, right, Like, dudes feel different about holidays than
Speaker 2: girls and just kind of in our situation, in our situation,
Speaker 2: so so do what they want to sometimes.
Speaker 5: So a thing to do, which is not that hard
Speaker 5: to do, is to smoke down a hobby lobby. You're
Speaker 5: going down there anyway. You're dropping your kid off at
Speaker 5: Columbia Academy anyway. So I'm down there, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm going to just pop in to hobby lobby, even
Speaker 5: though it's out of my comfort zone. I don't want
Speaker 5: to be there much. It was the last time you
Speaker 5: ever went to hobby lobby years, So I'm going with
Speaker 5: Camelo crocs on. There's like fifty moms in there, and
Speaker 5: it's so at Christmas time, it's.
Speaker 2: Like hobby lobby at Christmas bro six Wonder of the World,
Speaker 2: sixty percent off everything.
Speaker 5: It's like a I mean, what do they call that
Speaker 5: when they try to fire it's a fire sale. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they trying. They were already turning it over, putting it
Speaker 5: all out. Yeah, so everything sixty percent off, dude. I
Speaker 5: picked up like a bunch of little ornaments for them
Speaker 5: to paint, some some felt ornaments for them to put together.
Speaker 5: I picked up a couple of puzzles for like ten dollars.
Speaker 5: I picked up some like Pez candy, Santa stuff. So
Speaker 5: now for the next week, that's when I think you
Speaker 5: enter the danger zone of.
Speaker 4: F on the chef. It's like the week before Christmas.
Speaker 5: You know you're running out of ideas. Just stock up
Speaker 5: on all that stuff for like three dollars, bring it
Speaker 5: all home, put it in a cabinet, and each night
Speaker 5: walk up there and be like, bam, got it. So
Speaker 5: this morning Elfie rode the Christmas Pig to North Pole.
Speaker 2: One of the most prepared you've ever been in your life.
Speaker 5: I think Elfie rode the Christmas pig to the North Pole,
Speaker 5: not Elfie Sprinkles rode the Christmas pig to the North
Speaker 5: Pole and picked them up a Christmas warm up, which
Speaker 5: is a little puzzle like a Christmas pot and with
Speaker 5: some Christmas cookies on there, and was sitting on it
Speaker 5: riding the pig.
Speaker 2: And they were like, oh, my goodness.
Speaker 5: Uh, Sprinkles aught this a Christmas warm up and I'm like, yep,
Speaker 5: he did, and it wasn't that it wasn't that much
Speaker 5: to do. I mean, you can really get stressful because
Speaker 5: you don't want to be the mom or dad that
Speaker 5: like Sprinkle has been cooking eggs for three days in
Speaker 5: a row. You know what I'm saying, Like right, get
Speaker 5: him going, Yeah, put a little effort into it.
Speaker 4: You got nothing else to do. You're not that exhausted.
Speaker 2: Well five, I mean, Liza is at the perfect age
Speaker 2: where like Third Imagination is going.
Speaker 4: Crazy so loving it.
Speaker 2: She's loving Griffin's just like Gryffin will see Loretta hanging
Speaker 2: from the fan and like twirling and be like like
Speaker 2: Lauretta to be careful of there, don't. You're gonna hurt
Speaker 2: yourself if you fall, and then not look at it
Speaker 2: the rest of the day. And so we just kind
Speaker 2: of Loretta is not really doing much. She's just kind
Speaker 2: of hopping around places.
Speaker 1: Like around Christmas, christ miss day, keep going everywhere, see
Speaker 1: with you and me on the good play fash Day.
Speaker 4: Well Christmas, dude, especially when it's seventy.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred and sixty in this basement, right, good, honest,
Speaker 2: So what sprinkles? What's the big what's the big? Who
Speaker 2: roh for sprinkles? You go, you get anything once she
Speaker 2: goes home on the Christmas Eve. So no, just some
Speaker 2: steady cool holiday cheer.
Speaker 5: Hey, look, man, be cheery, dude. It's one time of year.
Speaker 5: Be cheery this year. You can just maybe drop your inhibitions.
Speaker 5: Feel the rain on your lips and just.
Speaker 2: I was off key too. This is losing it. It
Speaker 2: was a December and music city, Remember delusion?
Speaker 4: That was funny? I recorded that we got.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anything's recording, dude. I don't know
Speaker 2: if the computers for audience recording. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the phone looks like or the A seven.
Speaker 5: Just stop talking about time, talking about things recording and
Speaker 5: not recording. So fill the rain on your lips, skin,
Speaker 5: and be cheery this year.
Speaker 4: It is a decision, man, be cheery this year.
Speaker 2: This year, be cheer.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be plenty of time of deer in duck Hunt.
Speaker 5: Just give them some talking to yourself.
Speaker 4: Okay, what I did? You know what I did? You
Speaker 4: know what we did say?
Speaker 5: This morning though, when we went back to hust for
Speaker 5: the third time by HUSS for the third time. You
Speaker 5: think you went up there for breakfast. We went back
Speaker 5: by there on the way to drop your deer off.
Speaker 5: We came back by it only drop your deer off.
Speaker 5: Then we stopped again when I had to get gassed.
Speaker 5: We've been past HUSS four times a day. There is
Speaker 5: four dudes, oh man, And I know they're not listening
Speaker 5: to this podcast, and that's okay, man, but they maybe
Speaker 5: they are. Maybe they're listening to her right now. They
Speaker 5: were gassing up their forward extended cab, not four door
Speaker 5: extended cab, shell on the back with the shell on,
Speaker 5: pull in the duck boat probably twenty two years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four of them. Duck Prime, blind bags and Prime
Speaker 2: decoys Prime. Yeah, prime of your life. Man hold on
Speaker 2: to those days. Was like, can we get in there?
Speaker 2: I was like the room.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm usually not a guy.
Speaker 2: They're from Georgia. And Dan was like, where you going?
Speaker 2: He's like Arkansas. Black Day was like, he's like black River.
Speaker 2: I said, I hope you sid I hope you kill me.
Speaker 2: I hope you kill a million.
Speaker 4: I said, man, we all just hopping every with it.
Speaker 5: He's like, come on, man, man, dude, go go listen,
Speaker 5: go do it. Go do it while you got the
Speaker 5: time of kids. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 5: There was an ounce of jealousy there at the beginning
Speaker 5: of that, and then I just felt complete joy because
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, those guys are just doing it. Man,
Speaker 5: they're just going and doing it, and like we're past it.
Speaker 4: We used to we used to do it.
Speaker 2: We used to drive to South Dakota a day.
Speaker 5: And all right, let's talk about have we talked about
Speaker 5: that analyte punch, specifically your analyop tag?
Speaker 4: I don't know. So Reed draws a South Dakota.
Speaker 2: An awesome antelope mount back. You gonna go grab that?
Speaker 5: He grabs a a U South Dakota antelope tag west
Speaker 5: West River, extremely coveted, by the way, And when he does, it's.
Speaker 2: Upstairs, shack, it's upstairs. I thought it wasn't.
Speaker 5: No, it's upstairs. We don't need that much you going.
Speaker 5: So we reads like, man, we can't afford to go
Speaker 5: out there. We don't have the money to fly. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be way too much. It's like four hundred dollars
Speaker 5: a ticket. We both want to fly to fly, and
Speaker 5: you waited too, Remember you waited too long to get
Speaker 5: the tickets. At one point it was like two hundred
Speaker 5: bucks to fly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so it's like everything else.
Speaker 5: And so you called the d N or whatever South
Speaker 5: Dakota DNR is and we're trying to turn the tag
Speaker 5: in to see if you can keep your points and
Speaker 5: she was like, too late, you can't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you called me and you're like, we're going to
Speaker 5: southa Coata and I was like okay, So we jump
Speaker 5: in the truck, we drive. I had to be back
Speaker 5: on Sundays or Saturday, Saturday, Sunday, I can't remember. We'll
Speaker 5: say Saturday. And so we left on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Dude, I don't remember the day. I just know we
Speaker 2: left and drove. That's a it was fourteen hours. That's
Speaker 2: a fourteen hours where to South Dakota. Yeah, you're crazy
Speaker 2: as nineteen hours? Oh okay, I thought it was nineteen hours.
Speaker 2: Look how awesome this looks uh shout out Craig Jay
Speaker 2: CG I mean CJ Creig Jerald, Creg Jerald's look at.
Speaker 4: Mohawk on that thing not taking customers. Sorry, but this
Speaker 4: is a meet.
Speaker 2: This is the media arount. This is not the ANLOPA
Speaker 2: shot in South Dakota on this trip. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 2: go on oaks frown looks sick.
Speaker 4: Man, Those uh easy.
Speaker 2: Those prongs on the shovels are ship shovels are nasty.
Speaker 2: We drive nineteen well, we drive about seventeen hours. We
Speaker 2: drove about seventeen hours. I drove the whole way on
Speaker 2: the way up there. I sure did the whole way
Speaker 2: all way. We drove my Tacoma and Dan. I didn't
Speaker 2: have enough money to put tires on my truck. First off,
Speaker 2: I didn't either, but we we had to have them.
Speaker 2: We got up there and it was snowing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're eighteen hours on some it was like it was.
Speaker 2: It was snowing and nasty. And I think somebody told
Speaker 2: I think we talked somebody and they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: if you don't have if you don't have tread on
Speaker 2: those things, you're done. And we would have been no
Speaker 2: if we for sure muddy. Remember we slipping that gas.
Speaker 4: Wait just start.
Speaker 5: So we pull up and there is a shell of
Speaker 5: a of a barn. Like remember we know we slept
Speaker 5: in the back parking lot. Yeah, we slept in that
Speaker 5: gas station parking lot for like two.
Speaker 4: Hours until that dude pulled up and kind of sketching.
Speaker 2: I was left. Yeah, and then we just kept on driving. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pull into this to where we're gonna hunt. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of old sheds. We raised the and it's like
Speaker 2: literally seventeen degrees I mean, and the windshills like maybe negative.
Speaker 2: It was freezing straight north wind. Yeah, that that put
Speaker 2: like a knife wind. That weather out there is way
Speaker 2: different than down here. Weather pulling the ground was cold.
Speaker 2: Pull up to a to ah ha, Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: wearing everything. I was like whatever that micheline Man raised
Speaker 2: the garage door of this little like this old dilapidated
Speaker 2: garage pretty much shed dirt floors. We backed the Tacoma
Speaker 2: in make room for a tent. We put up the
Speaker 2: tent and ended up trying to sleep in the tent,
Speaker 2: but it was so cold that we couldn't, so we
Speaker 2: got in the truck, remember that. And we would take
Speaker 2: turns waking up and turning the truck one and turn
Speaker 2: turning the heat on ventilated, and then we would turn it.
Speaker 2: We would stay up for about thirty minutes while the
Speaker 2: truck hinted up, and then we turned it off and
Speaker 2: try to fall asleep Oh my goodness, du that was
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: But also the sweetest not sleep ever because earlier to
Speaker 5: that day, after we set the tent up, we had
Speaker 5: two hours of light. Three hours of light, that's right.
Speaker 5: And you were like, let's go check, let's might as
Speaker 5: well go. We're here, might as well go home.
Speaker 2: One giant butte in the middle of this, this five
Speaker 2: thousand acre ranch and you can eat press. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: easily access to it. So we drove to the bottom
Speaker 2: of it, climbed to the top of the but and
Speaker 2: I remember there, if you were looking south, you saw
Speaker 2: those two herds of goats in that cut hayfield and
Speaker 2: it was round bells and they were rutting at the time,
Speaker 2: running around doing crazy, going crazy, and it was like,
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I don't really want to know
Speaker 2: if we can get to No, that wasn't that was
Speaker 2: just a straight up pasture, no round hay bells. And
Speaker 2: then you said, hey, look over here. Yeah, and we
Speaker 2: looked left and there was one long buck sitting at
Speaker 2: the end of a cut hayfield with round bells in
Speaker 2: between us, by himself, and we glassed.
Speaker 5: Him and he just looked twice the size of any
Speaker 5: other antelope in the entire.
Speaker 2: His horn, the shovel on his right side was broke off.
Speaker 2: He's just like an old warrior, he was. He just
Speaker 2: looked like a brute. And so we literally had just
Speaker 2: pulled into camp maybe an hour and a half, two
Speaker 2: hours before set up. Temp came up here and looked
Speaker 2: and Damn was like, you wanna go for it? And
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, man, might as well try. Sure enough,
Speaker 2: we were videoing at the time, trying to do the
Speaker 2: brothers hunt thing. We we videoed and stalked our way
Speaker 2: round bell, round bell, round bell, round bell, and got
Speaker 2: to forty something like that, set up on a round bell,
Speaker 2: shot this goat and took hero pictures in the most
Speaker 2: it was awesome, unbelievable sunset you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2: Just drove nineteen hours to do it.
Speaker 5: Hold him out, hung him from a tree, the one
Speaker 5: tree on the entire place, hold him out, and then
Speaker 5: tried to sleep and didn't really got up the next morning,
Speaker 5: went and paid the trespass feed you man.
Speaker 2: We did some scouting too that day, yeah, because we
Speaker 2: were coming back in a month for meal dear and
Speaker 2: ended up killing great meal deer out there that that
Speaker 2: and then drove home. Dude, that's getting it, that's getting it.
Speaker 5: We were we were on the road one way, like
Speaker 5: five more hours than we were actually on the property.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think we were on the property a total of
Speaker 5: like thirteen hours. We had driven eighteen or whatever it
Speaker 5: was to get up there, and then came and then
Speaker 5: and then came back. I came straight home into my
Speaker 5: wedding outfit and was at a wedding on Saturday night
Speaker 5: and I was like this just but it was shining
Speaker 5: sister's wedding, so I had to be there those the days.
Speaker 4: That's what we're saying.
Speaker 5: The whole point of that rambling story is to tell
Speaker 5: you that if you're listening to this podcast, you're twenty
Speaker 5: something years old, you don't have.
Speaker 2: Kids, you know, Man, get out there and do it, man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: do it. Keeping ducks chase them, if fits bucks, shoot them,
Speaker 2: if it fish catch them.
Speaker 4: That's right, it's dreams chasing.
Speaker 2: I canna keep going. All those are good things.
Speaker 4: What else is moving right along?
Speaker 2: Hey, we're gonna try a new thing in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: Big Year coming back for season tall.
Speaker 4: Yeah we're back, dude, I forgot that.
Speaker 2: Let's twenty twenty five be doing some new things, at
Speaker 2: least for a little while. We're gonna try a.
Speaker 4: Thing called h.
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Speaker 5: I don't listen, and let's just break it down. This
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Speaker 5: He's so mean, so mean, calls us at all hours
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Speaker 2: Rates us about this podcast.
Speaker 4: You talk too much about private land. Yeah, I'll just
Speaker 4: kidd you. Don't do that. You don't call us. I
Speaker 4: don't even know the guy. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do roasting for ratings. All right. You want
Speaker 2: to get into what are we doing? What you're mad at? Oh?
Speaker 4: Sure you yeah, you are.
Speaker 6: What you mad?
Speaker 2: Just tell us what it is. What you're mad at
Speaker 2: is a gin lost kid, might be a boss man, well,
Speaker 2: your neighbor's cat.
Speaker 6: Just tell us what.
Speaker 2: You're mad. I try to make this that is Christmas
Speaker 2: as possible.
Speaker 4: Me too, Are you mad anything?
Speaker 5: M Yeah, specifically specifically, I'm mad at online entities.
Speaker 2: My back is killing me.
Speaker 5: You are trying to influence people passing deer.
Speaker 2: Online entities that are trying to influence people passing deer.
Speaker 5: A certain size of deer. Okay, I think personally for
Speaker 5: their own benefit?
Speaker 4: Which you mean?
Speaker 5: Am I getting my talking to inside? Should I save
Speaker 5: this for like actual content in the podcast or should we.
Speaker 4: We can do it right now, we can just do it.
Speaker 4: We don't have a guest, all right.
Speaker 5: So I ran across I ran across a thing, A
Speaker 5: relatively popular thing. And uh, do you have enough microphone rope? Yeah, no,
Speaker 5: it'll kill you.
Speaker 2: It might hit the space mark.
Speaker 5: Speak, which you know. I'm talking about your boy doing
Speaker 5: a front flip here earlier. That's set the mood. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Dan was moving deer around. That's not even in the shot.
Speaker 5: And uh, we were in the meantime looking for microphones.
Speaker 5: I was in an unbelievably bad mood. First off, let
Speaker 5: me say it wouldn't have happened had there not been
Speaker 5: a faulty screw in the preston.
Speaker 2: But it puts one hundred and fifty inch Mississippi ten
Speaker 2: point up there, and it just does a somersault off
Speaker 2: the wall and heads straight on the antlers. Yeah, luckily
Speaker 2: he's luckily he's tough and didn't break anything. Damn was
Speaker 2: real glad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was real glad because that was kind of
Speaker 5: me kind of kind of.
Speaker 4: Not but kind of. I'm working.
Speaker 2: That's how hard we're working to bring you.
Speaker 5: This for you for you on Christmas Eve. To look, man,
Speaker 5: these guys online are talking and I think I think
Speaker 5: as hunters we have to be careful with what terms
Speaker 5: we use in order to describe something right, Like I
Speaker 5: mean We've been hunting a long time, right, We're in
Speaker 5: a different spot in our progression of hunting than.
Speaker 4: Other people are.
Speaker 5: But this this idea that if you kill anything less
Speaker 5: than one hundred and fifty inch deer, get out of
Speaker 5: my face. You're not some true hunter or some get
Speaker 5: out of my face, annoys me so much, dude, there
Speaker 5: is so much. Now, look, let me just put a
Speaker 5: disclaimer out there. There is but two ways a deer
Speaker 5: gets to one hundred and fifty inches. One we all
Speaker 5: know is age has to be an old.
Speaker 2: Asian genetics put aging genetics in that same category.
Speaker 4: It's got to be a special deer anywhere.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I mean there's people out like, there's one hundred
Speaker 2: fifties run around every corner in Illinois and Iowa, Kansas,
Speaker 2: and there's note, dude, we've hunted there, and there's not.
Speaker 5: There are some there, There are some there. But I'm
Speaker 5: telling you, it takes a special deer to push one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty inches. It takes a really special deer
Speaker 5: to push one hundred and fifty inches anywhere south of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anywhere it can happen.
Speaker 5: It happens every year. It happens all the time. But no,
Speaker 5: not all the time. It happens a lot. It doesn't
Speaker 5: happen a lot, it happens a pretty bit. Okay, they're
Speaker 5: deer that get killed that are over one hundred fifty
Speaker 5: in just in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: But it for sure has to have age. I don't
Speaker 5: think you're going to have many two year olds anywhere
Speaker 5: in the country run around over one hundred.
Speaker 2: And fifty unless they have unbelievable genetics, which is I mean,
Speaker 2: it's very rare for a two year old to ever
Speaker 2: reach that.
Speaker 5: Secondly, it's got to have the mineral slash nutrition to
Speaker 5: get to maximize that antler growth. Right, and we're talking
Speaker 5: about area, yeah, in which it's sure the area. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is not a hard it's not a hard concept
Speaker 5: to grasp that the bigger deer are in the bigger
Speaker 5: ag areas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean more the soul is more fertile.
Speaker 2: It's it's it produces more nutrition in the corn, produces
Speaker 2: more nutrition in the in the beans, and.
Speaker 4: Says a mineral.
Speaker 5: And when you combine the two things, nutrition and age,
Speaker 5: you start to get into that higher class of literal class.
Speaker 5: I'm not talking about like a class. I'm saying they
Speaker 5: call him one hundred eighty inch class. And if you
Speaker 5: have no idea what we're talking about, this deer right here,
Speaker 5: it's probably one hundred and thirty five this year forty
Speaker 5: maybe maybe one thirty.
Speaker 2: Maybe one thirty. Okay, this is a Tennessee deer. Okay,
Speaker 2: they can see it on the well, I guess it's fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, anyway, so it's a Tennessee deer. It's probably
Speaker 5: a four to five year old deer. Heck of a buck, sure,
Speaker 5: heck of a buck. But like that's what he's going
Speaker 5: to be right there. And to try to push it
Speaker 5: on people that they should be passing this deer in
Speaker 5: order for there to be like the possibility of hitting
Speaker 5: one hundred a booner is absolutely ridiculous. Like ultimately, d
Speaker 5: n R S and TWA that's ours. Tennessee wildfe Resources
Speaker 5: Agency set up the number of deer that should be
Speaker 5: taken per state, right, so scientifically they're proving that there
Speaker 5: are there's this many number of deer in the state,
Speaker 5: this is how many need to be taken, and then
Speaker 5: they aim at that right so we're allowed two bucks
Speaker 5: in the state of Tennessee. Well, what that's doing is
Speaker 5: doubling the amount of deer of bucks getting shot than
Speaker 5: you would have in like Kentucky, probably because and I'm
Speaker 5: nots ssaring, I'm not exactly sure on the numbers, but
Speaker 5: I would say it's probably more because you're only allowed
Speaker 5: one buck in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So because of that, and when this is deer
Speaker 5: math I'm doing here, but essentially you have an older
Speaker 5: age class because you can only take one deer in Kentucky.
Speaker 5: So those deer are getting to a bigger age, they
Speaker 5: also have.
Speaker 4: A bigger ag.
Speaker 5: But but where I get kind of weird is when
Speaker 5: there starts to be pressure on either a novice hunters
Speaker 5: b meat hunters. I mean, there's all there's all kinds
Speaker 5: of different reasons while people go into the woods, and
Speaker 5: just because your reason is different than someone else's reason
Speaker 5: does not make it correct. And I get really annoyed
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always going to be that, right, There's gonna
Speaker 2: be that guy that says, well, I'm trying, I'm only
Speaker 2: shooting six plus deer and if they're not over one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty inches you know, I'm passing them because
Speaker 2: it's a shame to shoot a deer, you know, less
Speaker 2: than one sixty one seventy when you know the potential
Speaker 2: that they can they can get to. And that's the
Speaker 2: term that got me. Yeah, the shame. That's the word
Speaker 2: shame got me too. But yeah, man, because it's not
Speaker 2: a shame, but it's just like everything else. Are you
Speaker 2: ashamed of shooting that hit? I'm not ashamed of any
Speaker 2: deer hanging in this room, bro. And the reason why
Speaker 2: is because, like you said, man, I okay, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of I'm kind of baiting you here. We hunt for
Speaker 2: we hunt for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm baiting you here, all right. I kind of
Speaker 5: baited you into this conversation because within the last ten
Speaker 5: days you've killed one of each class.
Speaker 2: Okay, you killed a inch term literally, yeah.
Speaker 5: You killed and you killed the bigger one. First, you
Speaker 5: killed one hundred and sixty inch eight nine wacko bully
Speaker 5: boss Buck in Kansas a week ago. Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: you turn right around, come home to Tennessee and shoot
Speaker 5: a one thirty Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, there would be.
Speaker 5: A conversation from from these guys, whoever these guys are
Speaker 5: that are having this conversation online and annoying me saying, well,
Speaker 5: if you're such a if, why in the world would
Speaker 5: would somebody go to Kansas shoot one sixty come home
Speaker 5: seven days later and shoot one hundred and thirty inch
Speaker 5: the deer?
Speaker 4: Can you answer that question?
Speaker 2: Because I believe he's he's a mature deer and he
Speaker 2: was one of the he was one of the shooters
Speaker 2: on that farm.
Speaker 4: He was, and he was a mature deer.
Speaker 2: He's a deer that that we've watched all year, and
Speaker 2: we made the decision to hunt him, and we went
Speaker 2: in there and hunted him, and I just so happened
Speaker 2: to get into the stand five minutes before he walked
Speaker 2: out of off the ridge, which deer. You gotta clarify
Speaker 2: what had here? Yeah, the last ten days have been
Speaker 2: deer hunt. Wise's been insane for me. We ended up going.
Speaker 2: Dan took that giant two hundred and eleven inch year
Speaker 2: early season in Kansas. I didn't tag, so I still
Speaker 2: have my tag in my pocket. The second gun season
Speaker 2: came and I couldn't go. Dan couldn't go, and I'd
Speaker 2: been talking to Jordan and talking to everybody and work
Speaker 2: and kind of cut out some time, and in doing that,
Speaker 2: my dad was like, Hey, I'd love to I'd love
Speaker 2: to go see it. And so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: So we'd plan this this trip out west which just
Speaker 2: me and Dad to go to Kansas and and try
Speaker 2: to get it done. And got my court dog cour
Speaker 2: Sorry sorry sorry. On the way there, I asked him,
Speaker 2: I was like what, I was like, have you ever
Speaker 2: what's the farthest west you've ever hunted? And he said
Speaker 2: McNairy County, which is the county right next to Harden County,
Speaker 2: so kind of like that, kind of like the antelope thing.
Speaker 2: We drove thirteen hours. He got done preaching at at
Speaker 2: the church.
Speaker 5: I picked him up Santafy Baptist. Y'all come straight shout out,
Speaker 5: drove pretty much straight.
Speaker 2: We we stopped to eat some dinner to Kansas twelve
Speaker 2: and a half, thirteen hours. We got there at three
Speaker 2: forty five in the morning. We slept for an hour,
Speaker 2: went to the stand, got up, went to the stand
Speaker 2: and Dad was having such a good and at this
Speaker 2: point in like the rut's over right, Like they're not,
Speaker 2: they're just they're on feed there. It's a it's a daylight,
Speaker 2: dark thing, and so Dad was having such a ball.
Speaker 2: We saw thirty something plus bucks man, We saw so
Speaker 2: many doze. There were deer everywhere, new deer. I mean
Speaker 2: Dad had his binoculars and he was like, a point
Speaker 2: right there, there's a good one. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's a shooter. There's a spike, there's there's there's another
Speaker 2: eight point just I mean everywhere, you know, because their
Speaker 2: bucks are running crazy all over us form and he
Speaker 2: was having such a good time. I was like, it
Speaker 2: got to about nine thirty and movements started going down
Speaker 2: a little bit and I was like, hey man, what
Speaker 2: we want to do? Do you want to get got
Speaker 2: out of here? And He's like, I could sit here
Speaker 2: all day. So we literally sat there all day long.
Speaker 4: Two hours of sleep that night and for.
Speaker 2: An hour of sleep, drove twelve hours, sorry, drove twelve
Speaker 2: hours up an hour, sat in the blind for twelve
Speaker 2: hours that afternoon. Hunt was awesome. Is the same thing,
Speaker 2: bucks running everywhere. We didn't catch up to one of
Speaker 2: the shooters we had on camera. Go back, we crash,
Speaker 2: wake up the next morning and a little bit slower,
Speaker 2: but yes, a deer that we had previously been watching
Speaker 2: on trail camera. I got a ton of trail camera
Speaker 2: pictures of him that we were in there were in
Speaker 2: there hunting two deer. This deer showed up. We call
Speaker 2: him the Urlacker Buck because there's a trail camera picture
Speaker 2: of him doing like this, like turned this way, I
Speaker 2: guess to the to the camera. And I'm talking about if, if,
Speaker 2: if a deer could be one of those guys that
Speaker 2: wear the g string bikini and the outfits and like
Speaker 2: the muscle things and like this, that would be this bob. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've never seen he looked like Mike Tyson. He could
Speaker 2: also be called the Tyson Buck because I've never seen
Speaker 2: a body on a deer like this. And he wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna he wasn't the biggest. He wasn't going to score
Speaker 2: the most on that farm.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of deer that we're going.
Speaker 2: To score more than him. But this dude was bad, man,
Speaker 2: he was He was bad. And I kept on telling everybody,
Speaker 2: Like the trail camera pictures we've got of this deer,
Speaker 2: he was always alone. He never he didn't run with Bucks.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'd befriended Bucks. I don't think he
Speaker 2: Bachelorett I mean bachelor groups with bucks. He just wanted
Speaker 2: to be and I think he was. I think he
Speaker 2: was the oldest, baddest dude on.
Speaker 5: That farm, which is a telltale sign to me of
Speaker 5: mature animal. Is like, it seems like these bigger bucks,
Speaker 5: the older bucks, when they when they get to that caliber,
Speaker 5: they don't like a bunch of bunch of teenage dude
Speaker 5: like us.
Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, man, we we kind of we kind
Speaker 2: of do what's comfortable to us. We don't really get
Speaker 2: outside the box. And I think that's what this deer
Speaker 2: was doing. And uh, sure enough he stepped out, had
Speaker 2: a muzzleater in my hand, and you know, cranked him
Speaker 2: at forty five yards and and he ran around the
Speaker 2: ceater and me and Dad gave him about an hour
Speaker 2: and got down and found him in about put us
Speaker 2: both in the hospital trying to load him up in
Speaker 2: the man on the car hauler. And it was awesome, man.
Speaker 2: We got to celebrate with our buddies up there, and uh,
Speaker 2: and really just to do that with Dad, and just
Speaker 2: to see him hunt the Midwest and see anybody hunting
Speaker 2: Midwest for the first time is an unbelievable experience. But
Speaker 2: somewhere like Kansas where it's like a like it's it's
Speaker 2: like nature's one to one ratio. The hunting experience is
Speaker 2: unbelievable out there, and to take Dad to do that
Speaker 2: and watch that go down was pretty special, man.
Speaker 4: So we drove back.
Speaker 2: We went out there on Tuesday, drove back, or we
Speaker 2: went out there on Sunday, got there, hunted Monday. I
Speaker 2: killed that buck on Tuesday. We drove back Wednesday and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, did some stuff, finished off work for the year.
Speaker 4: Scrapes got hot in Western Sea.
Speaker 2: For the second for the second time too. So so
Speaker 2: if you're not familiar with the Southern rut kind of
Speaker 2: how it works is is that that third week of November,
Speaker 2: right about Thanksgiving, we got to get some better chairs. Dude,
Speaker 2: these are yelling, my d my left arms numb, and
Speaker 2: my back is Lambard done that first? That's that first
Speaker 2: rut circle. Those those first doze are gonna start coming
Speaker 2: into heat that third week of November, and it's and
Speaker 2: it's clockwork every year, right like ish it is. It's
Speaker 2: clockwork every year. It's gonna be it's gonna be that
Speaker 2: November to that that December one, like twenty four to
Speaker 2: one is a great It is a great time if
Speaker 2: you're hunting Tennessee to be in the deer woods and
Speaker 2: so so scrapes fired up hundred rut hard. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: what are we talking about? Sorry, the air came home
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking that it's gonna mess up our mics
Speaker 2: what you did. But uh so now we're into the
Speaker 2: let's it's really this is dropping on the December for
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, but let's let's fall back to December sixteenth,
Speaker 2: the second second cycle of dose. The does that weren't
Speaker 2: bred and the younger yearlings are going to start coming
Speaker 2: into heat now, and that's all that's gonna do is
Speaker 2: just kick run off again. Because every buck in there,
Speaker 2: a buck can breed as many times as he wants to.
Speaker 2: A dot can only be bred once. So the younger
Speaker 2: does that didn't get bread, or the yearlings that are
Speaker 2: coming into heat, or the older does that didn't get
Speaker 2: bread are coming back into heat too, So.
Speaker 5: Clear that they can they can be bred multiple times.
Speaker 5: They can only be.
Speaker 2: Like Inception, Yeah, yeah, impregnated, yes, whatever. Instead Inception is
Speaker 2: a movie. Yeah, it's a great movie, by the way,
Speaker 2: as yeah, is that right? Is that the right word?
Speaker 4: Terms bread? Insiminated.
Speaker 5: What I'm talking about, though, is the acts of breeding.
Speaker 5: I've seen those be bred multiple times in the same
Speaker 5: field by multiple bucks. When they take when they become
Speaker 5: with child, they're not getting bread again after that.
Speaker 2: Right, That's what I meant to whatever word that is,
Speaker 2: whatever whatever word terminology that is, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: So just with child is just falling right in there
Speaker 5: with the holiday spirit, you know. Yeah, So from.
Speaker 2: From a trail camera pictures, we've been seeing that the
Speaker 2: scrapes are starting to fire up again and and deer,
Speaker 2: big deer starting to show back up on scrapes. And
Speaker 2: that's when this big wide eight showed back up. And
Speaker 2: we had previously said that, you know, there were a
Speaker 2: couple of deer on the farms in Weston and see
Speaker 2: that we were going to hunt, and he was one
Speaker 2: of them. And and h December sixteenth, I had already
Speaker 2: got permission from Jordan to go down there. I had
Speaker 2: that Kansas deer to take to Craig, and also had
Speaker 2: Nana Loved to pick up from Craig and a turkey
Speaker 2: to drop off at Craigs, and so I had some
Speaker 2: reason to go down. But I also had like a
Speaker 2: ton of work to do in the garage, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to I'm gonna build these like organizing them. We're
Speaker 2: redoing the basement. So there's all this stuff going on,
Speaker 2: and I was, I was, Dad was going to go
Speaker 2: with me, and but he had stuff going on. So
Speaker 2: I was really contemplating on going and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: that's kind of what you said earlier. I was like,
Speaker 2: I've got I've got permission, I've got the opportunity. I
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of these days anymore as as
Speaker 2: a parent and a husband and all that. So I
Speaker 2: took off and took all this stuff to Craigs. We
Speaker 2: talked for you know, an hour and a half, and
Speaker 2: literally left there in time to get to the stand
Speaker 2: at two thirty. When I got to the farm, I
Speaker 2: had my last, like the last pour of seeds into
Speaker 2: my into my mouth. I poured the seeds in. I'm
Speaker 2: on the chinook. Yeah, less salt less, salt less, harsh,
Speaker 2: they don't they don't chew your jaw up. Cody put
Speaker 2: us on those. No, I found those. He did not
Speaker 2: put me on this. I found those. Oh, he put
Speaker 2: me on them, and they're good. I like them a
Speaker 2: whole lot. I've also found out that I'm an original guy.
Speaker 2: I don't like any I don't like any crazy seasonings anymore.
Speaker 2: The taco things out the door that was a fling.
Speaker 2: Period's gone through, the last last handful of seeds in
Speaker 2: my mouth. Drove to the stand, blew a dough out
Speaker 2: of the field getting there, didn't care when was good,
Speaker 2: climbed up. I was gonna sit in this other this
Speaker 2: one lean to but when I got when I got
Speaker 2: over there, I saw that you couldn't really shoot. We
Speaker 2: hadn't really cleared out shooting lanes too much, so I
Speaker 2: decided not to sit there. I went to another double
Speaker 2: set that me and Dan hung that Dan shot that
Speaker 2: deer out of, and uh. Climbed up and literally was
Speaker 2: about to sit in that seat that you sat in
Speaker 2: when you shot that deer. And I saw that the
Speaker 2: straps had broken, and I pushed on that tree stand
Speaker 2: and it swag out like it was literally holding on
Speaker 2: by the tree.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 2: So climbed up into the clant camera stand. Checked the
Speaker 2: camera stand and I got up there and was looking around.
Speaker 2: And it's not really ideal because I have to shoot
Speaker 2: over my opposite side, but I knew this deer had
Speaker 2: been in there a couple of days before I broke
Speaker 2: a limb, And this is all sequence, and I'm saying
Speaker 2: this for what's about to happen. I broke a limb,
Speaker 2: I got my gun and I kind of aimed around
Speaker 2: to see where what limbs I could shoot over, what
Speaker 2: limbs I could shoot under, where I could see. I
Speaker 2: turned around, hung my gun up on the bow hanger
Speaker 2: and sat down. I said a prayer and literally looked
Speaker 2: to my right again, and I just saw a just
Speaker 2: a bristled up, dark, big deer walking off the ridge
Speaker 2: two thirty in the afternoon. This is about two thirty
Speaker 2: eight right now. And I was like, man, there ain't
Speaker 2: no way, there ain't no way that that's that deer,
Speaker 2: and grabbed the gun, spun around, put the scope on him,
Speaker 2: powered it all the way up, and sure enough it
Speaker 2: was that big white eight point he's about two hundred
Speaker 2: fifty yards of working his way down this ridge. He
Speaker 2: went down and washed him make a scrape. I got
Speaker 2: off of the stand and put my knees on the
Speaker 2: platform and was and was like holding in my elbow
Speaker 2: and tried to rest as much as I could on
Speaker 2: the seat of the millennium and shot the deer, shot
Speaker 2: the deer and uh dropped him in the in the
Speaker 2: scrape and that was that was Monday kill Tuesday. So
Speaker 2: I killed that I killed that deer on Tuesday in Kansas,
Speaker 2: came back shot that deer on Monday, and yeah, man,
Speaker 2: they're gonna score a whole lot different. And deer in
Speaker 2: Kansas is is probably the biggest body deer I'll ever
Speaker 2: kill in my life. And the deer in Tennessee does
Speaker 2: not even compare body size or rack.
Speaker 4: Size to that.
Speaker 5: To that, when you but ten years from now, when
Speaker 5: you think back on the memories, will the memories compare
Speaker 5: a million percent? And to me, that is like the
Speaker 5: answer and the rebuttal to this ridiculous theory that every
Speaker 5: deer has to be one hundred and seventy inches for
Speaker 5: you to pull the trigger. What is the reason that
Speaker 5: you're doing it? I think you just did a beautiful
Speaker 5: job of explaining telling two stories about two very different
Speaker 5: deer that mean as much to you as as each other.
Speaker 5: There's there's no there's no greater weight determined that the
Speaker 5: second the first story wasn't better because that deer has
Speaker 5: thirty eight inches on your other one, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean? Like the heck no, and my and my point.
Speaker 2: Is because I love hunting, man, I love being in
Speaker 2: the woods. I love I love making memories. I love
Speaker 2: going on adventure. And that's what that is, man. I
Speaker 2: was thinking back, dude, and we've hunted together our whole life, right,
Speaker 2: and we've we've been blessed to hunt with have Dad
Speaker 2: hunt with us. And I've been I've done a ton
Speaker 2: of hunts. I've went by myself. I've gone by myself.
Speaker 2: But I shot that deer and Dad was hunting on
Speaker 2: that other farm over there, and I loaded that deer,
Speaker 2: I took him back, I gutted him and did everything.
Speaker 2: And it was the first time that I've been by
Speaker 2: myself and killed a buck by myself and did the
Speaker 2: whole process by myself, and to me while I was
Speaker 2: doing it, Man, I remember, I put that deer in
Speaker 2: the creek after gutting him and just to cool him
Speaker 2: off a little bit because it's again it's sixty degrees outside,
Speaker 2: and I was just sitting on the bank just staring
Speaker 2: at him and looking at the farm that we hunt
Speaker 2: and had been you know, blessed to hunt. It for
Speaker 2: a while now, and man, just sitting there and enjoying
Speaker 2: that moment and reliving all the hunts before that and
Speaker 2: all the deer that had been laid in that creek,
Speaker 2: and you know, just just thankful for the opportunity to
Speaker 2: do it and the memories that you make while doing it.
Speaker 2: And that's dude, there ain't no I mean, if it
Speaker 2: could have, I don't care what kind of I don't
Speaker 2: care what deared, what size, anything like that. Man, That's
Speaker 2: that's why. And and listen that it's all different, right,
Speaker 2: it's all subjective, and you may do it for a
Speaker 2: different reason than I do it. But that's my take
Speaker 2: on that anyway, it's my right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's much left to say.
Speaker 5: I mean, to me, it's like, what are you? What
Speaker 5: are you doing it for?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Not A guy show me a picture of him holding
Speaker 5: a seventy inch eight point and this boy holding a
Speaker 5: about a forty inch forecorn the other day and he
Speaker 5: was proud to show me that and he knew. He's like, man,
Speaker 5: I love the podcast, love what y'all do? Can I
Speaker 5: show you my dear? And he flipped that thing around.
Speaker 2: Dude, and I was.
Speaker 4: Like, hell yeah, brother, it's almost hell yeah.
Speaker 2: It's probably almost more encouraging to you to see those
Speaker 2: deer than to see a hunt. Him holding one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty inch deer and his son holding one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty inch deer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, And he was thankful.
Speaker 5: He was like, man, I appreciate what y'all do and
Speaker 5: representing like the normal Southern hunter, which is what we are.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Yes, we get to go to some unbelievable places now,
Speaker 5: but we just start off like that, man. I mean,
Speaker 5: we started off hunting age and well we could start
Speaker 5: off hunting anything we could shoot, and then once we
Speaker 5: had shot a couple of six points and eight points,
Speaker 5: we kind of started moving up into wanting to get
Speaker 5: into the higher class bigger deer because we could we
Speaker 5: had the But but the reason, I mean the truth
Speaker 5: is some folks got twenty five acres that their aunt owns,
Speaker 5: and she's ninety two and who knows how long she's
Speaker 5: going to be left on the planet, and them some
Speaker 5: just shooting everything or anything that walks across with horns.
Speaker 5: And to tell the truth, that is okay, dude, absolutely perfectly.
Speaker 2: The fact that we're even having to debate and talk
Speaker 2: about it is kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Right, agreed, that's what anyway, let me round this out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, recognize as hunters that we all do it for
Speaker 2: different reasons, and that whatever the reason is, it's valid,
Speaker 2: it's valid. Yeah, there's the shame should never even enter.
Speaker 4: We should erase the word from conversation at all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, especially if you said twice in a two
Speaker 5: minute clip, Yeah, about small deer and what a deer's
Speaker 5: potential could be.
Speaker 2: Come holler at us, Well, that was what you're mad at,
Speaker 2: as well as the rest of what we're going to
Speaker 2: touch on in the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just kind of opened Pendora's box here.
Speaker 2: What else.
Speaker 4: You got anything music going on? I mean everybody's done.
Speaker 2: Dude, everybody's done. Just waiting for next year. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I've been. I've I hadn't written a song in a
Speaker 2: little bit, and to be honest, it's been kind of nice. Yeah, agreed,
Speaker 2: just kind of being able to get some stuff done
Speaker 2: and you know, hunt a little bit, dad, a little bit,
Speaker 2: husband a little bit. Do you get ready for my
Speaker 2: birthday tomorrow? Well? Last week? Oh yeah, thirty seven week?
Speaker 2: I don't feel Yeah, no, dude, I really don't. Man
Speaker 2: and me and Dad listen. We were in the truck
Speaker 2: for twelve hours on the way to Kansas hand back,
Speaker 2: and we had this conversation because he's turning seventy one
Speaker 2: or seventy two, and he's like, man, I'm not old.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm not old. He's like, I still feel
Speaker 2: like I'm young. And I feel, I mean like I'm
Speaker 2: thirty seven.
Speaker 5: He acts young when he ain't wearing his hair, and ads,
Speaker 5: I want to lose my mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huh huh no, he said today he said, sometimes
Speaker 2: I wear them, sometimes I forget them, and sometimes I
Speaker 2: forget them on purpose. And I was like, I get that,
Speaker 2: and I like that point. But uh no, man, we think,
Speaker 2: you know, you think back to when you were younger,
Speaker 2: and and like you said, right, like I think about
Speaker 2: Dan and Bobacks and and those are two people from
Speaker 2: from our back, you know, way back in in uh Savanna, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: But they were the forty year olds. They were the
Speaker 2: thirty five, and they were the four year old, and
Speaker 2: they were brothers want their four or five years apart.
Speaker 2: They were the they were the guys that that the
Speaker 2: cool guys, the young dads, the doing everything good playing softball,
Speaker 2: going to you, going to watch football games like those
Speaker 2: those are the dudes. Man. And and now that I'm
Speaker 2: to this point, and I saw how goofy they were
Speaker 2: back then and like acted they still acted young. But
Speaker 2: I was like, man, how can you even? I remember
Speaker 2: thinking like when I was little, like how can you?
Speaker 2: How can you be forty and act like they do?
Speaker 2: And dude, that's where I'm at, man, Yeah, like I
Speaker 2: I still feel I have a zest for life and
Speaker 2: and dude, I feel like I'm I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: twenty years old. Man, me too, honestly and meja yes, Dan,
Speaker 2: we were talking about earlier. If you're if you're twenty
Speaker 2: in single and you don't have any responsibility, man, go
Speaker 2: go chase your dreams. Go chase those deer, go chase
Speaker 2: those ducks, Go go chase those turkeys all over the country.
Speaker 2: Do it. But like I promise you, I'm thirty seven,
Speaker 2: I've got a wife and kids, I've got tons of responsibility.
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of time to myself. And
Speaker 2: I wouldn't change anything.
Speaker 5: For the world me neither, because I feel like we
Speaker 5: did it. I feel like when we had the time,
Speaker 5: we went and we got to a place to where
Speaker 5: now it's changing, right, It's turned into time for our kids.
Speaker 5: And to be honest with you, at this stage of
Speaker 5: my life, I'd much rather be playing with my kids
Speaker 5: in the backyard than in a rusted up to come seventeen.
Speaker 2: Hours from home. Ain't no doubt. If I'm just being honest,
Speaker 2: there's times for both right now. There's there's periods for both.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I saw them jokers getting in that
Speaker 5: boat and that truck today and thought.
Speaker 2: There in that there, that's their rested up to come
Speaker 2: ahead of decide.
Speaker 5: But I quickly turned from jealousy into gratefulness. Yeah, a
Speaker 5: sense of gratefulness that I had the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 5: And if you didn't have the opportunity to do that,
Speaker 5: you still can, man, there's still time. Like if you're breathing,
Speaker 5: there's a chance, you know. We talk about it all
Speaker 5: the time. It's like people getting into hunting through this podcast, right,
Speaker 5: like taking their tests, finding them their uncle's rifle, tuning
Speaker 5: it up, putting a new vortex on, shooting a spike
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 4: Who cares do? We love to see it.
Speaker 5: We're encouraged by it, and uh, We're just thankful to
Speaker 5: be a part of the ride with you guys, and
Speaker 5: thanks for thanks for you know, letting us be involved
Speaker 5: without hope. It's encouraging and you can always reach it
Speaker 5: out with questions. I had a guy hit me up
Speaker 5: the other day for our deer chicken fried deer recipe. Oh,
Speaker 5: He's like, dude, I from Canada. We don't do that stuff.
Speaker 5: Can you run it back on me?
Speaker 2: One time? I was like, I don't have time for this,
Speaker 2: and then I wrote in my whole paragraum, we just uh,
Speaker 2: we just brought those deer from Kansas. I had that
Speaker 2: buck tag and then a dough tag and me and Dad.
Speaker 2: It was a heck of a two days uh processing
Speaker 2: those deer. But got them all processed and Jordan was
Speaker 2: gone to a Christmas event the other night and I
Speaker 2: and it was that night that we processed and I
Speaker 2: was like, man, what are we gonna eat for dinner?
Speaker 2: With the kids? Gonna eat? And I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: I got macaroni, I got I got deer burger macaron
Speaker 2: I got deer burger helper. How guess was that Griffin
Speaker 2: didn't touch it? She just she ended up just eating
Speaker 2: mac Okay, two balls. He's crushing it reaching for it.
Speaker 2: So that was that was fun. It was first his
Speaker 2: first time eating deer. But then we had deer chili.
Speaker 2: You made dear chili. I want to do some I
Speaker 2: got jerky thing. It's just the time, man, just that time,
Speaker 2: a time of year to be doing it.
Speaker 4: Let's wrap it up, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was important, that thing that I was saying,
Speaker 2: but it's a part of our show for the one
Speaker 2: that got away, and I'm gonna do one that got away,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna do gravorite.
Speaker 4: I don't know is that how we're walking this about it?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I go.
Speaker 5: We'll just you know what, it's gonna come up a
Speaker 5: lot about songs that we like. So uh, I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna do a song I like. And you what if
Speaker 5: I have to do another one four episodes from now,
Speaker 5: You're just gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 2: Where let's well, let's get it going. I gotta I
Speaker 2: gotta go get bone. Where we hunt in West Tennessee,
Speaker 2: there's this long power line. And when Dad used to
Speaker 2: and I thought you'd probably know this because we've talked
Speaker 2: about it, But when Dad used to go hunt. He
Speaker 2: would take me and Dan with him and he'd drop us.
Speaker 2: He built out two boxes he'd dropped Dan in the
Speaker 2: first one me and the second one was called Dan's
Speaker 2: Blind or Dan's Field Readsville. And then Dad would take
Speaker 2: off into the woods and go hunt. And we'd have
Speaker 2: radios with walkie talkies and we'd be we'd be talking
Speaker 2: the whole time. We'd throw the orange, our orange vest
Speaker 2: out the window that signal to turn on your walkie
Speaker 2: talkie and turn the channel too, and we had got
Speaker 2: something to say. So I was I was real young, uh,
Speaker 2: And I hadn't killed a big deer at this point,
Speaker 2: and really hadn't seen big deer at this point. I've
Speaker 2: seen a bunch of bucks, but this one was different.
Speaker 2: He and and the first this is like I'm gonna say, like,
Speaker 2: let's go Friday Saturday, right, So Friday we go out there.
Speaker 2: This is the afternoon and I'm looking out the north
Speaker 2: part of this blind and I just I see what
Speaker 2: I think in the thicket is a is a deer butt.
Speaker 2: I put it on and it moves, it's walking down
Speaker 2: the power line. I can't see its head, but it's
Speaker 2: just not knowing. Then I was probably eight nine years old,
Speaker 2: well maybe I was probably older, twelve thirteen maybe, but
Speaker 2: not knowing then that what I was looking at was
Speaker 2: a super old deer, very gray, very sway back, very
Speaker 2: big belly like he was mature, probably was a big buck.
Speaker 2: I couldn't see his head because of the thicket, but
Speaker 2: I had opportunities to shoot this deer, and so he
Speaker 2: walked through the power line. I radioed walkie talkie Dan
Speaker 2: and told him and I was like, man, this deer's
Speaker 2: body was huge, and but I just and see his head,
Speaker 2: so I didn't want to shoot him. Well, when Dad
Speaker 2: found out, he's like, hey, man, he was like, next
Speaker 2: time you have that. He's like, that's an old deer.
Speaker 2: Shoot that deer.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like sure. So the next morning I got
Speaker 2: back into that same blind and I remember putting my
Speaker 2: scope out the window and my gun out the window
Speaker 2: and looking through the scope, and I was like, man,
Speaker 2: if that deer was right there again, I would put
Speaker 2: the gun. When I was practicing looking through the scope
Speaker 2: and I was in my mouth, I was going and
Speaker 2: about that time, still looking through the scope, that same deer,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, stepped into my scope and I was
Speaker 2: like and I looked at it. I remember looking up
Speaker 2: and I should have shot him, just like yeah, right
Speaker 2: likee years old. Yeah. And he stepped broadside perfectly, and
Speaker 2: I had the gun out and I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my goodness. And I remember raising up and looking over
Speaker 2: the scope to see him and then I put it down.
Speaker 2: And when I put him down, he turned and started
Speaker 2: walking away, and I did at that point, I went
Speaker 2: man and he gave me a shot and he turned
Speaker 2: around and I put it right on the back. He's
Speaker 2: walking away, turned around, was put it right over his back,
Speaker 2: and I pulled the trigger and I remember his rack
Speaker 2: like the way I explained it is that I said
Speaker 2: it looked like flames, my young way, I would look
Speaker 2: like flames almost touching at the top. And it didn't
Speaker 2: go out. It wasn't wild like out and up. He
Speaker 2: just went over the top and was almost touching and
Speaker 2: I hit him. And we trailed blood for probably close
Speaker 2: to a mile. And the last time you know, we
Speaker 2: we found bloods was traveling uphill. We grid searched everywhere
Speaker 2: and never found that deer. And to me, I also
Speaker 2: shot one back there. Then I'm pretty sure I shot
Speaker 2: his rack and knocked him out because he fell down
Speaker 2: the hill. I got down out of the stand. I
Speaker 2: called you, and I was like, I just killed a giant.
Speaker 2: I got down. Under stand I was walking toward the deer,
Speaker 2: and the deer hopped up and frant We never found him,
Speaker 2: never found him, didn't find blood, didn't find nothing. So
Speaker 2: probably blew his horn off or something nice.
Speaker 4: That's the one that got away.
Speaker 2: And that was a couple that got away.
Speaker 4: Let me see a country song.
Speaker 5: Dan's gray for it, everybody, I mean, it is, it is,
Speaker 5: but it's just one.
Speaker 4: It's just a country song that I love.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 4: How are we gonna do this?
Speaker 5: And look, I don't I'm not a good singer, and
Speaker 5: I don't care if you think I am or not.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I just like the song.
Speaker 4: Should I do Christmas song? It's too late?
Speaker 7: No, Well, it sure feels good to come in here.
Speaker 2: And just pull up.
Speaker 4: See frosty mug of a cold one helps to be the.
Speaker 7: Lee's old don days of summer. Lord, I'll be glad
Speaker 7: when they're gone. It's too hot to fish, too hot
Speaker 7: for gold, and.
Speaker 2: Too cold home to of course, marn't you kill me?
Speaker 8: Wellowly plant for one or two, my safe three. That
Speaker 8: good looking thing in the corner keep smiling back in me.
Speaker 2: It's so week easy, not care.
Speaker 4: About what's right of what is wrong.
Speaker 2: Dog struggling.
Speaker 6: It's too hot to fish, too hot to go, or
Speaker 6: too cold at home. It's too hot to hunt, too cold.
Speaker 8: Fish and two kids at home?
Speaker 2: You got three kids, I got two kids. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: my shoulders.
Speaker 5: Thanks for chicking it out with us. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Home episode done, rappid ambles today, Merry Christmas figured it out.
Speaker 4: Thanks Jam got it doing.
Speaker 2: I hope all this recorded.
Speaker 4: Mary christ I'm not sure it did. I'm out by
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the support. We'll catch ull letter out in
Speaker 2: God's country or our basement.
Speaker 4: See