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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 general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share

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Speaker 1: my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented

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Speaker 1: by Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you

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Speaker 1: the best outdoor podcast the airwaves have to offer. All right, friends,

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

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Speaker 1: stories to share. Weston one, Bob Zero. I hope you

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Speaker 1: all have enjoyed the last few episodes about turkey hunting,

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Speaker 1: because you're in for some more. I may have to

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Speaker 1: change the title of this show to This Turkey Life.

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Speaker 1: But for those that don't care about hearing about turkey hunting,

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Speaker 1: next week's shows about making quilts, ain't. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking turkey hunting then too. I have had a great

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Speaker 1: spring and I've got a lot to talk about. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I can't wait any longer, so

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Speaker 1: let's get to it. This story comes from This Country

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Speaker 1: Life listener Garrett Baker. Garrett is from Smithport, Pennsylvania, which

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Speaker 1: is twenty miles from the happiest place on earth, the

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Speaker 1: Case Knife Factory in Bradford. I actually met Garrett and

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Speaker 1: his son Wes when I was in Bradford last summer

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Speaker 1: tour in the factory, visiting with all my case family,

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Speaker 1: John Pantuso, Tom Taylor, Fred Fener, Marissa McGary and all

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Speaker 1: the other Case faithful. We had a good visit and

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Speaker 1: Wes walked away with a pocket knife courtesy of John.

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Speaker 1: Now Garrett's talking about smashing turkeys, and if someone's willing

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Speaker 1: to share a good gobbler beat down, I'm willing to listen.

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Speaker 1: So in Garrett's words and my voice, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Wake up, buddy, it's time to go find you a turkey.

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Speaker 1: Wes jumped out of bed like he'd never been asleep.

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Speaker 1: The excitement had been pouring out of him. In anticipation

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Speaker 1: of the Youth Turkey Open. He spent just as much

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Speaker 1: time as most adults scouting and working on his calling,

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Speaker 1: and testing different turkey loads and sighting in the red

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Speaker 1: dot on his Mossburg four ten. Now that's not bad

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Speaker 1: for a six year old. The twenty three to twenty

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Speaker 1: four season had already been good to him. Here in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: we bagged his first squirrels, and he helped me trap

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Speaker 1: some beavers. Turkeys were next on his list, and that

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Speaker 1: boy was bound and determined to get one. We headed

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Speaker 1: down to our friend Treys, and Trey and I grew

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Speaker 1: up together spend the most of our time chasing any

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Speaker 1: sort of game that was in season. Trey had more

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Speaker 1: Weston's mind, the golden ticket to him getting a turkey.

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Speaker 1: Now we had permission to hunt a farm on the

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Speaker 1: through the center and logging roads branching upward that the

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Speaker 1: birds really like to travel. Every day we'd see him

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Speaker 1: come out to mill around in the field. Tray's dad, Bill,

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Speaker 1: a retiree, gets his kicks out of sitting in his

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Speaker 1: I can enjoy the simple things in life. I guess

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Speaker 1: there's worse things that a person can do besides watching

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Speaker 1: turkeys to pass the time. We were in the blind

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Speaker 1: Tray's al Hooton had a turkey goblin. Soon after, it

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Speaker 1: was finally daylight and our turkey callar let out some

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Speaker 1: Let's hope he decides to tell us a visit. The

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Speaker 1: Those birds had meandered at a snail's pace, and it

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Speaker 1: Wes said, I was shaking the gun with my shivering.

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Speaker 1: I had never been more excited for someone else to

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Speaker 1: When it was okay for him to shoot, and just

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Speaker 1: We all started laughing at the sight of these turkeys

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Speaker 1: doing all the calling. That Saturday was much hotter than

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Speaker 1: It's hard enough to not get busted by a gobbler

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Speaker 1: West didn't seem to mind. He had little debies to

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Speaker 1: They could get away now. They came in on a rope,

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Speaker 1: us and West showing signs of turkey fevers, shaking and breathing.

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Speaker 1: Ard just put the dot on ahead and squeezed the trigger.

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Speaker 1: Fuddy Wes took his time, and that jake started to

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Speaker 1: get atty and began walking away. We got to shoot soon, Wes.

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Speaker 1: They got the thirty five yards. When Wes let the

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Speaker 1: group hit the ground. I grabbed the blind and flipped

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Speaker 1: it backwards. I got it, Dad, I shot my first turkey.

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Speaker 1: We both ran over that bird and hugged and high

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Speaker 1: five and took fischers to send the tray and everyone

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Speaker 1: else that we knew. With a cell phone, Weston retold

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Speaker 1: This will always be one of my most cherished memories,

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Speaker 1: and I hope it will be one of Weston's, and,

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Speaker 1: according to Garrett and Wes Baker, of almost the happiest

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Speaker 1: place on earth. That's just how that happened. Now. I

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Speaker 1: love a good turkey killing story, Garrett, and any that

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Speaker 1: involved family, especially youngins. I'm all in my man, thanks

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Speaker 1: for sending it in. Let's slip back about twenty years

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Speaker 1: to a farm in Missouri. I was just getting into

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Speaker 1: filming and the man that taught me the most about

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Speaker 1: running a camera was meeting me there to hunt for

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Speaker 1: a few days. He shuns the spotlight like he's in

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Speaker 1: There hadn't been a cow grazing on this property for years,

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Speaker 1: keep a valuable friendship, and he taught me what little

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Speaker 1: am sitting right now talking to you, Missouri. Turkey, beagle

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Speaker 1: with an old bear in Saskatchewan. Thank y'all so much

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Speaker 1: for listening to all of us here on the Bear

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Speaker 1: Grease Channel. Playboy and I appreciate it very much. If

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff. Check out Dan Flore's new podcast called The

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Speaker 1: American West. It just came out. I love it, y'all

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Speaker 1: know I wouldn't steer you wrong. Now next week Monday,

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Speaker 1: Monday following this Friday, me and Tony Peterson got some

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Speaker 1: that's all they gonna let me say about that right now.

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Speaker 1: But stay tuned. We'll be making the announcement very soon.

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Speaker 1: Till next week. This is Brent Reid, sign it off. Y'all,

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