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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just in general

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Speaker 1: country living. I want you to stay a while as

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Speaker 1: I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life

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Speaker 1: is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio

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Speaker 1: on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor

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Speaker 1: podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab

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Speaker 1: a chair or drop that tailgate. I've got some stores

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Speaker 1: to share, a first buck in Pennsylvania and my new office.

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Speaker 1: I talk a lot about dads on this show. Being

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Speaker 1: a dad is the best job I've ever had. But

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Speaker 1: there's some mamas out there that are equally towing the mark.

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Speaker 1: And if you've got a good one, there ain't nothing better.

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Speaker 1: Also got a new office, studio, secret hideout that I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you all about too. But first I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you this story. Today's efforts come from way

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Speaker 1: over Yonder in Pennsylvania. This Country Life listener, who we're

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Speaker 1: gonna call Chris. Chris has a job where it's best

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Speaker 1: to keep his name out of public domain. Trust me,

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Speaker 1: he is one of the good guys and Hell's from

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Speaker 1: the Keystone State and says he wants to share a

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Speaker 1: story about how he has the best non hunting mother

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Speaker 1: a son could have. Well, that's a lofty claim, Chris.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen and decide for ourselves. So in

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Speaker 1: Chris's words, if that is in fact his real name

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Speaker 1: and my voice, here we go. As I sit here

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Speaker 1: during the white Tail rud in twenty twenty five, I

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Speaker 1: think back to my first archery buck that I killed

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Speaker 1: in the fall of two thousand and six in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: It was November the seventh of that year and I

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Speaker 1: let me skip it to go bow hunt on property

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Speaker 1: when we had started hunting a year before. My parents

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Speaker 1: were hesitant to let me go since I wasn't familiar

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Speaker 1: hadn't hunted without my father being there with me. He

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Speaker 1: had to work that morning. My mother was to stay

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Speaker 1: supports us hunting, but she isn't wanted to get in

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Speaker 1: let me skip school to go, and it was thanks

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Speaker 1: I would have to check in with Mama periodically to

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Speaker 1: The morning came and my poor mother woke up extra

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Speaker 1: I remember being excited because the weather seemed great. It

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Speaker 1: game in anticipation for shooting light. It was the perfect cold,

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Speaker 1: Movement was slow to start, but around seven that morning,

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Speaker 1: This property had not been very productive at this point,

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Speaker 1: As the bucks started to walk again, fighting the urge

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Speaker 1: My mama probably got one of the biggest hugs ever.

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Speaker 1: I was so proud of that deer. I remember making

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Speaker 1: nineteen years ago. In each with their own story, that

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Speaker 1: brother and stay Frosty. Last April, I was in Bozeman

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Speaker 1: a dozen times. Yes, Matthew, I absolutely would have use

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Speaker 1: wife Alexis and I had been on a three or

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Speaker 1: talked about it at length. The night before I left

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Speaker 1: I represent First Light and all the other companies we

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Speaker 1: as Alexis refers to it. We'd also talked about moving

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