WEBVTT - Ep. 176: Phil's First Hunt, Part 1 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:08.719 Clean your Gun Jr. Bow Where the Uncollective show Colin 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:16.000 Hunters new and all uncollective show with thanks or fancs 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:29.160 and opinions are subjective. You're listening to the Collecting. Everybody, 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.000 Welcome to the pen ultimate episode of The Hunting Collective. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.519 I am as always been O'Brien and I'm joined in 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.960 studio by Phil t engineer Phil. How are you, sir? 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.160 Everybody knows that the pen ultimate episode is usually one 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.199 of the best of a TV show, like a series 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.680 or a season. Um, we'll see if that's the case here, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.880 you'd never know. It could be the second the best 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.160 episode ever of this program right out. So strap in. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.080 I don't know if you're in a place where there's 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.000 any straps around, but get one and strap yourself to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.400 wherever you're sitting. I don't know, you know, don't move 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.440 and lock in because you're about to get You're about 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.080 to get regaled with one of light like one of 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.080 the nation's most riveting coming of age tales, and that 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.000 is the tale of Filthy Engineers First Turkey Hunt. It's 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.200 gonna be I will say this, and I say much 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.040 about what happens, other than to say it's a two parter. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.280 There are two parts. This is of course the first 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.679 of two parts, and we will reveal at some point 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.679 along the way whether Phil killed a turkey or not. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.480 But more importantly than that, a few days back, I 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.840 shared a photo of Phil the Engineer on Instagram and 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:58.000 Facebook where he was holding his turkey target. Now we'll 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.680 get to what happened. How that turkey. It came to 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:06.080 be full of tiny little holes. But Phil, the reaction 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:13.839 was broad and it was interesting. People, you're a hero, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:20.679 you are an inspiration. People love you. Hundreds of comments 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:28.800 poured in from across the world. They the globe. People 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.080 love it. Man greatest, somebody's the greatest character arc of 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.160 all time. Phil is way less of a nerd than 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.280 I originally anticipated. Still stoked on him, though, hashtag legend. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.280 I've never I've never wanted someone I've never meant to 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.520 shoot a turkey more than I want Phil to shoot 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.600 a turkey. Good luck. Don't forget the t P Phil, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.440 just in case. It's a good poop callback. Yeah, it 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.440 really is. It's a good it's a good call back 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.160 to the show. A lot of good lucks, a lot 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.679 of yeah boys, a lot of people talking about how 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:07.040 you looked. Ah, what do you think about hundreds of 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.880 people commenting on your looks as opposed to your voice 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.160 because we did the voice face contest back in the infancy. Yeah, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.480 of th HC. I totally understand the fascination because I've 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.000 had the same experience. Yeah. Yeah, you you listen to 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.240 a radio show or a podcast, and you haven't You 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.119 just build up an image of somebody in your head 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.280 and then you actually see them, and it's usually disappointing. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.359 It's This guy says, Phil looks like Steve and Yanni 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.840 are his dad's. That was a good one, and I 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.880 see it. I kind of see it. Phil looks a 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.680 lot less nerdy than I imagine. That's a compliment. I 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.800 imagine Phil is some nerdy early thirties chubby ginger with 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.440 a beard. Do you think about that? I mean, I'm 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.880 I'm offended for chubby gingers everywhere on their behalf. Yeah, 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.360 I mean, nothing wrong with the chubby ginger support for 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.680 those folks. So there there's a lot of people. Uh. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.720 This guy says, this is the first picture I've ever 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.680 seen of Phil. Phil is not the character I drow 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.480 up in my head. Well, people actually drew you up, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.600 and I don't think you look like what they drew 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.040 the whole point of it. My favorite comment um was 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:18.640 something along the lines of Phil looks less masculine than 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.800 he sounds, and he doesn't sound very masculine. This guy said, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.960 I'll take it. He is like a small infant child, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.880 sweet boy. I hope he has fun in his first 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.840 first time out. So thanks for all those comments. Yeah, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.520 I I could go on because there is hundreds of them. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.960 People from across the country sent us d m s. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.040 They sent us emails to t ac the meter to 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.680 have wasting you well and hoping that you would get 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.960 a turkey. So this is by far other than I 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.840 don't know. I think this is by far the biggest 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.400 thing we've done as a podcast, and that that it's 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.839 the last thing we'll ever do, so why not be 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:00.359 the biggest. People are into it, Phil, People they want it. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.360 Can you feel the pressure? I can feel it, but 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.839 it's surprisingly not weighing on me as much as I 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.680 thought I would. Know you were pretty I'm kind of 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.720 brushing it off. Excuse me, I'm kind of brushing it off, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.520 But I don't mean that. I don't mean that I'm 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.839 brushing off the compliments as well. I hear all the 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.640 compliments and it's it's I want to thank you, yeah, um, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.920 because I I am. I am glad you're invested in 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.039 my in my in my arc, in your character, but 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.560 the greatest character arc of all time, which is essentially 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.800 just hey, Phil, have you ever gone hunting? Nope, We're 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.200 gonna take you hunting. And that was the ark. But 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.440 people love it. Yeah, well that's it. If you stretch 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.279 any small storyline now for two years, it seems like 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.440 an epic tale. Exactly where we are now. We got 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.159 a message from our friend Eric Hall. He had something 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:52.280 to say to say something or signing of failt Engineering 0:05:52.320 --> 0:06:00.440 on Facebook that what's not a big siding? Yes, very rare, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:06.800 you don't see it often. His numbers going up. So 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.000 looking forward to Field Turkey Hunt, the last two shows 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:18.080 coming up. There kind of a build up to feel 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.359 a Turkey Hunt being the last show. Yeah, that's it, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.920 He's right, The man is right, Yes, siting a filthy 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.760 engineer like the big Foot, the lore of old Maybe 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.120 you'll will once are the show is over. Your your 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.680 legend will continue and people will continue to see you 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.520 in places where you don't exist or maybe I will 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.719 just retreat to the woods. Yeah, and a lot of 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.480 check exactly, grow a beard, yeah, grow skip pop, we 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.240 stashould come back. So let's let's lay out, Phil, what 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.320 we're gonna do here. Uh, we have it. This is 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.119 a lot of work to tell this story. And again, 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.520 as we mentioned, quite the build up. So we're going 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.560 to tell the story and its totality. We're going to 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:06.760 lean into a linear tale of one man and another 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:13.080 man and a truck in the Turkey hun and yeah, okay, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.120 I was gonna say, like in some decoy and some 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.800 decoys we could just list there in your truck, a 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.480 cup of coffee. We're gonna lean into. We're gonna tell 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.720 you the whole story, and we're just on a little 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.920 bit different Phil and I have decided that we're going 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.800 to play our audio and and and do some color 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.160 commentary of what was happening at the time was happening. Yeah, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.920 we're gonna do some live commentary with some probably minimal 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.920 editing from me. I'm gonna I'm talking about I'm thinking 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.000 about future me right now, several hours from now when 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.800 I sit down edit this podcast. I don't know, I 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.200 don't think I'm gonna do a lot of editing. We're 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.120 just gonna do it kind of on the fly here, yep. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.400 And if you don't like it, cancel us, get rid 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.000 of us. It doesn't matter. We do whatever we want. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.840 At this point, we get the worst thing could happen 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.080 has already happened. And so we're pretty much flying by 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.960 the seat of our paints that we're weren't already before. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.560 As I've been saying, what kind of building a roller 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.800 coaster while we're riding it? So this is this, this 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.000 is Phil's first hunt hashtag if you're going to post 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.680 about this online hashtag Phil's first bird, okay? Is that 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.760 it was that the final hashtag on landed on Phil's 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.200 first bird? Okay? Because I think you've gone through several 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.120 of this. Have you seen the video that I took 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.160 a slow a video of you jumping over Yes, I 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.080 saw it before I came over here today. What do 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.920 you do you have any of ficial comments about it? 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.040 I look fantastic. I mean a lot of people, a 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.040 lot of people love it, dude, A lot of people 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.319 are into it. Do you want to tell us a 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.960 little bit about your strategy while jumping over this My 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.959 first strategy was watching you so I can learn from 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.920 your mistakes. And you you shorted it barely. I put 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.240 a foot in the wall. Yeah, there was a foot 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.000 in the water. If if, if you guys aren't haven't 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:51.640 seen you gotta go to my Instagram. But any of 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.720 B three or when I took a slow mo video 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.679 of Phil leaping majestically in his new shnays boots, which 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.679 we'll get to, yes, over this ditch that had filled 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.960 with some runoff, so it's full of water, and at 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.600 first Phil didn't know if he could make it over 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.200 the dish, and I said, well, let me jump over 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.480 first and then film you in slow moo for posting 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.360 online later. So that's what we did, and it is 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.960 it's pretty majestic, uh people. One guy said, it's like 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.280 watching poetry. Such grace. I can't disagree. How are your 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.720 a c L s feeling? Somebody wants to know My 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.040 legs feel great to show you how how not in 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.679 shape I am? I think I actually overextended my arm, somebody. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.720 My arm was sore for like a half hour after 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.080 I made that jump. Somehow, don't know how, but that's 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.880 how my body works, all right. Well, All the highlights 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.199 from the hunt are going to be on my Instagram 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.559 as you listen to this, they'll be there video B 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.800 three oh one on Instagram, So you could see some 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.360 of the visual highlights. But we have the audio highlights 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.960 of this hunt. And let me just tell you a 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.840 lot of stuff happened. A lot of things have happened, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.480 and we're gonna lay them out over the next two episodes, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.480 the final two episodes th HC. And I can't wait 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.439 for you to see how it ends. Okay, Phil, you're 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.840 ready to go, let's do it. Here we go. Now 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:17.960 play some sort of awesome intro music right here. I 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:35.079 believe in the Turkey and uh so we struck out. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.840 First thing we had to do was we had to 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.920 strike out too what we'll call site in the shotgun, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.080 to pattern this shotgun. The weather be eighteen I that 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.920 we had selected fulfilled for his first hunt. We went 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.719 out to some local public land to site in this shotgun. Now, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.960 what happened on the way there is I think emblematic 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.600 of this entire story. We didn't really get this on 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:02.680 video or audio, but we're driving up a gravel road 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.640 to this kind of what we'll call a public land 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:12.160 shooting range close to to to my domicile here, and 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.559 we're driving past a set of homes and there's kind 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.199 of a rancher style home tucked in this little you know, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.200 the bosom of this litwer ridge. And in the yard 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:30.679 is many things. Many things are there, rusty farm implements. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.600 There was chickens, a few chickens. It was not unlike 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.320 some some places a hobbit would live. It was like 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.920 tucked into a hillside, it really was, with a bunch 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.720 of just animals and random stuff scattered, gentle smoke coming 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:50.600 from the chimney um. And there in the yard was 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.800 a turkey. First first first turkey sighting as a as 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.439 a part of Phil's first hunt hashtag hashtag Phills first bird. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:06.120 The first turkey we saw was really emblematic of the 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.920 rest of our journey. Let me try to describe this 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.840 turkey to you, Phil, and you help me out here 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:15.840 if I'm getting this wrong. This turkey. First picture some 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.560 sort of goblin from the depths of Hades, and then 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.960 a turkey, and then mix those two things together and 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.240 that's what you get. This turkey could barely walk. It 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.200 had maybe six or seven of its tail feathers. It 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:37.280 could barely. It was. It was shaking uncontrollably. Its head 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.679 was like the size of a cantalope. And it was 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.280 just kind of like wandering around this yard like a 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:51.840 zombie were somehow, but somehow it was. But it was 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.600 walking like it could barely. Yes, if I had just 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.360 punted it in the cloaka, it looked like it just 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.680 it was in massive amounts of pain. It had like 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.280 gyrating wing feathers, like a palsy of some kind. I'd 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.360 like to think this turkey has had seen better days 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.120 earlier in its life. I hope so. I hope it did, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.600 because it was. It was infirmed in a way that 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.000 I've never seen any any wildly creature in my life, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.440 but we it was. It was. It was almost like 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.120 a sign that this was going to be weird. But 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.240 this tale, this coming of age tail, was just gonna 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.280 be strange, and there's not a whole lot we can 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.840 do about it. I've never seen a turkey like that. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.640 I got out my call, I hit the diagram a 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:44.880 few times, and it let out this sad, dust filled 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:50.720 gobble that could only be described as depressing. You could 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.240 barely hear it and it was only ten yards away 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.920 from the truck. So wherever that turkey is today, and 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.240 it's probably right under that same tree he was. It 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:07.040 is now the mascot for this whole two episode run. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.040 Sad as a mascot though it maybe you know, r 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.280 I p that turkey because it's gonna die soon. I 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.840 mean it's probably from natural causes or unnatural causes. I 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.840 was looking around for like a power plant, a nuclear 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.960 power plant, share like some some neon news was coming 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.320 out of a pipe, and it was the turkey was 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.960 eating it. There's this thing wearing an eye patch, like 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.720 hasn't been shanked by one of these other turkeys. I'll 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.400 never forget it as long as when I closed my 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.960 eyes just now I can see it. I can see 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:47.720 its face staring into my face. Um. Anyway, that's a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.640 I don't even think it had a beard. It was 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.840 just it was a grotesque. It was just grotesque. So 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.160 right into THHC at the Mediator dot com and name 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:03.240 that turkey Skippy mc no beard, whatever you want to 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.800 name that turkey, but he will be the mascot for 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.840 the rest. We'll go back and give video because here 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.640 he couldn't go far like physically he couldn't. He's there, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.400 he's got to think he roos in it. He can't 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.400 fly up in a tree. He just lays down on 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:20.320 the ground when he goes to sleep, just lays on 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.120 the ground. Sayway, that's that's kind of my first and 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.600 most searing memory from our journey, Phil, Yeah, was that 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.360 we uh it was an omen an omen from the 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.280 Turkey gods to watch the funk out. She was about 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.880 to get western, Okay, and what happened after that it 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.800 was completely unbelievable. No one would believe it, but you're 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.840 about to hear it. So we moved past this mutant 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.400 Turkey and shocked in all you know, kind of twitter 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.200 painted a little bit, and I we move up to 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.000 the shooting range. And the shooting range portion of this 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:02.120 certainly was all about education, right Phil. Yeah, I mean 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 I I had never fired a shotgun before, so this 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.400 was Yeah, this was it. So we get out there 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.320 and we are preparing and I need to go through 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.160 what the gun is, what it does. Imagine your thirty 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.280 two three my age, Yeah, thirty, I am thirty thirty. Yeah, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.520 I got it right on the first try. You're thirty, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:22.800 Your three year old man, you've done a lot of 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.800 things your life, but you've never shot shotgun, you know, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.560 pulled the trigger. I got very into air soft in 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.840 high schools. As far as that's as far as I got. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.680 I met, not yesterday or well yesterday, a couple of 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.359 days ago, I met a fellow that had never tried pineapple. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.640 I've never had pineapple. To watch this human, this full 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.840 grown adult human, eat this pineapple's amazing. So this is 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.560 a lot what it was like for Phil. And so 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.360 we get out there and um, I want to say, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.440 hilarity ensues, but it was pretty normal. And so here's 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.000 here's me teach and Phil a little bit about the shotgun. Okay, Phil, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.440 are you ready, sir? Yes, I've had my my ice coffee. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.240 Of course, you've had your This is the this is 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.440 what most people at the range do. They talk about 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:19.040 their caffeinated beverages. Any anything, you want? Any questions before 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.960 I go through the shotgun and task here? Uh not yet. No, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.280 I'm I'm ready to learn. I have some more Turkey 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.600 specific questions for later, but right now I think I 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.760 just need to like hold a gun in my hands. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:37.320 Probably all right, Well, here's the gun here. So this 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:41.320 is a weather B eighteen. It's a semi drun. We 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.120 gotta be honest. It was very windy. So we went 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.200 into my truck and I didn't actually have the shotgun. No, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.160 I was my man the whole time, so just let's 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.840 just keep going. It was sad. Uh. This thing that, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.360 this big piece in the back is the whole thing 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:08.520 is the stock, Yes, a big silly And there's a 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.000 recoil pad on that that helps to to cushion that 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.960 recoil that you're gonna feel from the I'm trying to 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.439 be the expert of experts here. I'm super worried that 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.800 people we'll think that I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.640 so you're you're going over every little part of the gun. Yeah, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.719 I think I was even reading off something on my phone. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.240 The shot when you pull the trigger, so there's the 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:36.879 trigger guard. Put your finger right there. You see that 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.280 it's totally never put your finger on the trigger and 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.960 even inside that trigger guard until we're ready to go, 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.560 all right, and then when here's the safety, so you 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.320 can push it back and forth and see as as 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.240 the action is open, you can see that there's you 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.639 can push that back and forth and see safety was 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.679 when the red indicators showing, and on safe is when 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.760 the red indicators and here at the range, we won't 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.200 do this in the field, but here in the range, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.159 when that safety clicks off, you just say fire in 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.600 the hole, which means I'm preparing to shoot, which lets 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.240 me know that you're getting ready to send some shots. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.600 So now you're educated, Phil, educated. I was holding the 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.800 gun in my hand, yeah, inspecting all the parts you 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.280 were showing me. It was kind of like an air gun. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.719 It's made of air. There you go. But we did 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.679 we actually did later than you know, inspect. It's the 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.000 magic of the magic of audio. Here. We're just letting 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.160 you into the creative work that goes into the show 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:33.960 like this. You should be grateful. And then was so 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.880 honest with you. He's really he's really opening up. Yeah, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.120 in these last episode and then you know, we did 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.280 other stuff. Okay, it's it's it's getting a little window 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.320 out here. We're out in them. We're on America's public lands. 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.880 Obviously America's public lands. There'd be somewhere else. I'm gonna 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.680 show you what you're what you're doing here, Phil, You're 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.280 gonna be shooting these federal TSS loads. These heavyweight t 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:00.160 SS Sponsorler Tungsten super shot. These are three inch shells. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.120 They have nine shot and it's one and three year 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.720 quarter ounce of shot inside of there. So we're gonna 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:11.320 put these babies right in here, and then when we 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.919 hit this button, it's gonna go. It's gonna be chambered right, 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.359 we're gonna be ready to fire. Okay, safety there like 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.320 I showed you, and then this is the magazine or 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.320 you'll be able to insert the extra shells that which 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:30.679 will be cycled through when you pull the trick semi automatic. Okay, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:36.200 got it. Now onto the next thing. We recorded all right, 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.760 eyes and ears safety, see, we're yes, we're doing it right. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:45.760 We made sure to about how far do you think 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.960 that's your guests, Probably about fifteen yards? This turkey as 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.959 a turkey's head. And you're gonna put the bed look 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.600 down the barrel here real quick. You're gonna put that 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.840 bead see the rip of the shotgun here. You're gonna 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:01.800 bed that bead down in the ribs. So you just 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.000 see like a half moon, and that bead is going 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.479 to go right on the turkeys. Major curruncles are right 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.800 in the middle of its neck. There. As you can see, 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.040 there's a bull's eye on the target, and so you're 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.920 gonna place that that bead right on top of that 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.640 right and then you're gonna shoot him in the face. Good, 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.040 So it's gonna go okay. Commentary Philip, No, it's a 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.840 lovely day. Um. I couldn't ask for better, better weather, 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:33.640 better situation. I'm excited. We're gonna we've got about We're 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.400 gonna try it. We're gonna run through this once. Let's 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.240 just let you feel it and then get your reaction, 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.040 and then we'll start to look at accuracy and kind 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.080 of play a little bit around what we need to 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:44.960 do in the field. You were thrilled at this point, 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.119 phil Yeah, Well, I mean, I'm gonna be honest, I 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:48.720 was a little I mean, it was very much out 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.520 of my element, so so you know, I was, I 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.399 was I didn't really know what to expect, um, and 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:57.760 I was just trying to take in what you were 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.080 telling me. Yeah, I mean, I think all seriousness. I mean, 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:05.000 I think being a mentor is about that feeling out process. 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:06.800 Of course, we know each other from sitting around in 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:08.960 the studio a lot of times, but those of you 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:10.920 that are out there mentoring folks. You may not know them, 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.760 or you may know them from other you know interactions. 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.720 You may know him professionally even or from work. You 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:17.600 may know from church. You may know him who knows 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.200 you know, from the corner store, you don't know. Um, 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.879 it's this going to the range of someone one is 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:26.800 a good way to kind of set the precedent for 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.399 how you're going to communicate, you know, whether you trust 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:31.480 that person, whether you're really going to take on the 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:33.840 mental roles like I'll handle the firearms, I'll make sure 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.879 we're safe, or you're gonna see some trust over to 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:40.000 that person that you're working with. And and these these 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.800 early interactions are a way to kind of get to 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.119 know each other but also to set a cadence because 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.639 you have to to to do this successfully. To mentor 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.080 someone successfully, you have to be able to communicate with 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.160 them and understand them and they have to understand you. Uh. 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.520 There's a lot of you know, even non verbal communication 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.239 in the woods, a lot of whispering, a lot of 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.280 fast action. And so this is to me, is like 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:02.879 a good way to say, like, this is how we're 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.879 going to communicate each other. That's how we're gonna be safe. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.200 This is this is setting a precedent for when we're 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.480 out there, making sure we understand, you know, kind of 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.560 the step by step process of how we're going to 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.199 handle some of these more intricate actions out there in 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.440 the field. So that that's my what I was, what's 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.879 going through my mind, you know, to see how comfortable 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:23.720