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Speaker 1: To the deer hunter.

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Speaker 2: The ebbs and flows of nature's calendar become built into

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Speaker 2: our lives. We've become fixated on small temperature changes, length

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Speaker 2: of day, the changing visuals as summer shadows shift to

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Speaker 2: the long shadows of autumn leaf color. The date is

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Speaker 2: November the fifth, which is undoubtedly one of the top

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Speaker 2: ten days from encountering a big buck on his feet

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Speaker 2: in the daytime on a calendar with three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty five other options. One of the first big bucks

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Speaker 2: I killed with my bow was on November the fifth,

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Speaker 2: and the date will never leave me. We're about to

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Speaker 2: listen to five storytellers, and three are thematic in that

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Speaker 2: it's a buddy telling us story about his other buddies mishaps,

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Speaker 2: which is one of my favorite genres. The other two

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Speaker 2: are just top shelf deer stories with monster bucks hitting

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Speaker 2: the dirt. I really doubt that you're gonna want to

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Speaker 2: miss this one. And don't forget to check out season

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Speaker 2: thirteen of Stephen Ronella's show Meat Eater on the Meat

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Speaker 2: Eater YouTube channel. And don't forget to get your live

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Speaker 2: tour tickets in the cities that aren't sold out. It's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a great show.

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Speaker 3: I was just fixing to touch the trigger on release,

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Speaker 3: and they busted loose. And when they broke loose, the

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Speaker 3: loser come running straight at me, and he run right

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Speaker 3: past me, and he run four steps of me. Well,

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Speaker 3: when I turned back around, the one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: one inch dear will stand in four steps from me.

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Speaker 3: And I was afraid when I turned to arrow loose

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Speaker 2: My name is Clay Nukem, and this is the Bear

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Speaker 2: Grease Podcast, where we'll explode things forgotten but relevant, search

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Speaker 2: for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the

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Speaker 2: story of Americans who live their lives close to the land.

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Speaker 2: Presented by FHF Gear, American made, purpose built hunting and

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Speaker 2: fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the

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Speaker 2: place as we explore. Our first story is from my

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Speaker 2: friend Matt Taylor. He grew up on a chicken farm,

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Speaker 2: has a master's degree in business. He's an outstanding father,

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Speaker 2: and he's in his late forties and can probably run

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Speaker 2: a forty yard dash in under five seconds. But most importantly,

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Speaker 2: Matt is a lifelong deer hunter, and he's gonna tell

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Speaker 2: us the highlight stories of their public land camp that

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Speaker 2: he's been a part of for over thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So my name is Matt Taylor, and I've been

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Speaker 1: hunting down on the Washtall Mountain of Arkansas for really

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Speaker 1: all my life. But some of the stories I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell are related to a camp that I've been

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Speaker 1: nephew went to work for us. His name's Russell, and

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Speaker 1: he went to work for us, and Russell's about my age,

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Speaker 1: and we got to be good friends and started going

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Speaker 1: dere hunting with him and join his camp. At that time,

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Speaker 1: it was one camper which was his dad, Ernie. Ernie

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Speaker 1: camp and there would be I don't know seven eight

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Speaker 1: Eventually I got my own camper and the camp got

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Speaker 1: Antlers never meant nothing to him, never had a deer

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Speaker 1: Russell's nephew Cody has been hunting with us since he

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Speaker 1: time to break camp. Well, I had this year of

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Speaker 1: still a good bed of coals in the fire pit. Well,

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Speaker 1: Cody kind of walks around on the edge of the

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Speaker 1: let me back up. Cody was sporting a brand new

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Speaker 1: biggest explosion I've ever heard in my life. Shook the camper,

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Speaker 1: He comes shaking walking around, feeling for where he's going.

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Speaker 1: It's all burnt off. That new vest he was sporting

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Speaker 1: completely melted. All all the muster pirate ex powders went

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Speaker 1: mean smoke coming off of him. I desperately wanted to

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Speaker 4: He was really hurt. I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: I wish now I had a golly. I've never seen

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Speaker 1: anything like it. I don't know how he didn't die

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Speaker 1: from this explosion. Like I'm assuming it knocked him down.

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Speaker 1: messed up. We had to give him sunglasses. His eyes

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Speaker 1: to regrow the hair on his face and everything else.

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Speaker 1: It was quite the move to drop a bomb in

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Speaker 1: So they Cody doesn't go back. Russell goes back. The

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Speaker 1: And just you know, we built so many memories with

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Speaker 2: Those are some good stories, Matt, and I find it

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Speaker 2: from Gary Farmer, who lives deep in the Central Ozarks.

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Speaker 2: He's a farrier, a horseshoer, a professional auctioneer. He's a

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Speaker 2: But he's also a veteran deer hunter that has killed

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Speaker 2: These guys have all hunted together for decades, for like

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Speaker 5: Last year, was all af there deer hunting, and someone

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Speaker 5: that Anyhow, two three lined up on the shridge, kind

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Speaker 4: And it was straight up.

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Speaker 5: And you'd go a little ways and it's leveled, and

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Speaker 5: It's warm, and I just laid back there, had my

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Speaker 5: She couldn't really buck hard with both of us on there,

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Speaker 5: This gun come out of this scalber, and I'll guarantee

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Speaker 5: Something caught my tension. And she was above me, coming

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Speaker 4: And he said, I've.

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Speaker 5: Messed my shoulder up, I've runned my shoulder and I've

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Speaker 5: He said yeah, And I said, my goodness, you want

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Speaker 4: And he said, I'll be all right.

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Speaker 5: All from Ascimated ride double And I could tell when

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Speaker 4: I knew, I knew that.

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Speaker 2: That was a good story Gary. And as a follow up,

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Speaker 2: known in many bow hunting circles. His name is Richard Fought.

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Speaker 2: He's an accomplished public land bow hunter and this one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm Richard Fault from down here in Lone Oak, Arkansas. Man,

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you about this this buck I killed off

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Speaker 3: the ground. Remember my nephew, Nathan was he was twelve

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00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 3: or thirteen years old, and we was headed into a

434
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 3: place on one of the WMA's and we hunt here

435
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 3: on the river.

436
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 4: And it was mid November.

437
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 3: It was actually the youth hunt was going on in

438
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: Arkansas on some of the WMA's and that's the reason

439
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 3: we was in this particular one. We were bow hunting

440
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 3: in there. There was not a youth hunt on it.

441
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 3: He wanted to bow hunt instead of gun hunt, so

442
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 3: that's what we were doing. He was a full moon night,

443
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 3: so we were gonna hunt midday. I wanted to be

444
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 3: in stand midday. So we get to the place we're

445
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 3: gonna walk in at and I actually had left. I

446
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: had been in her scout a couple of days earlier

447
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 3: and had left a climbing stand he had under a

448
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 3: log back there, so I didn't have told it in

449
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 3: if I wanted to hunt there. We was gonna walk

450
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 3: mile mile on a quarter or something like that. In well,

451
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 3: we get about three tenths of the mile from the truck. Now, Nate,

452
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 3: you got a picture Nate. Nate is Nate at this time.

453
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 3: It's four foot tall and he's sixty pounds, and he's

454
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: got a climbing stand on his back and it's hitting

455
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 3: his heels about every time he stops.

456
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 4: I think there was an old man stand, that's what

457
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 4: it was.

458
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 3: And I mean, he's a little bitty fellow and he's

459
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 3: walking behind me and he's clicking, he clacking, and well,

460
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 3: the wind's blowing real hard. So as we're walking in,

461
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 3: we get about three tenths of a mile from the

462
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 3: truck and I look up and I see one hundred

463
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: and fifty inch dear. He's twenty two twenty three inches wide.

464
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: I actually killed, had had already killed one hundred and

465
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 3: sixty three inch buck in there just across the road

466
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 3: from there. That was twenty three inches wide. So I

467
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 3: mean he was in that caliber of buck, not quite

468
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 3: as good, but really good buck. And he was he

469
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: was he was coming straight at us, and he was

470
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 3: about thirty yards off to our left, and he hadn't

471
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 3: seen us. And I just eased Nate down on the ground.

472
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 3: I kneel down on my knee and I pop mcquiver.

473
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, I used to pop my quiver off

474
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 3: every time I got ready to shoot or was shooting.

475
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 3: So I pop mcquiver off and I knocked an arrow. Well,

476
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 3: the buck got up sixty or seventy yards of us,

477
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 3: and he kind of ered awful. I had seen some

478
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 3: big scrapes out there, and I went to put my

479
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: quiver back on, and I thought, man, I said, let me,

480
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 3: I said, I told Nay, I said, you just stay

481
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 3: right here. I said, I'm gonna slide right out there

482
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 3: and see if maybe I can can see that buck.

483
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 3: Maybe he went to work scrape when was boring real hard,

484
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 3: when was in my favor, I thought this is gonna work.

485
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 3: You know, it could work out if he's out there.

486
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: So I start sneaking out there and I get thirty

487
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: five forty yards from Nate, and I see this buck

488
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 3: or a buck, and he's on his knees and I'm like,

489
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 3: why is he He's on his front knees and I'm like,

490
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: what's he doing?

491
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 4: Well about that time, he.

492
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 3: Just gets shoved backwards and it's two bucks fighting. It's

493
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 3: that buck that I had seen, and what turned out

494
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 3: to be one hundred and sixty one.

495
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 4: In is buck. These two bucks are fighting, So I

496
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 4: just clo.

497
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 3: They're forty yards forty five, so I just start I

498
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 3: draw and start walking towards them. I don't know how

499
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 3: big the buck is that he's fighting. I just know

500
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 3: that he's winning the fight. So at this point, whichever

501
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 3: one of these two bucks gives me the shot, I'm

502
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 3: gonna take.

503
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 4: Man.

504
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 3: I'll walk twenty yards of these deer, and I mean

505
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 3: they're after they're shoving back and forth, back and forth,

506
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 3: and I'm at full draw, and the one hundred and

507
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 3: sixty one inch dear is shoving the big eight point

508
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: that I had seen or nine point whatever it was.

509
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 3: He was an eight or nine he undred fifty inch

510
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 3: year And when they when he when he gets him stopped,

511
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 3: when that, when that smaller buck gets him stopped, I

512
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 3: was fixing the turned arrow loose on the smaller buck.

513
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: I didn't have a shot at the buck ended up killing.

514
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: But when he I was just fixing to touch the

515
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 3: trigger on release, and they busted loose. And when they

516
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 3: broke loose, the the loser come running.

517
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 4: Straight at me.

518
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 3: And he run right past me, and he he run

519
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: four steps of me, and for whatever reason, he caught

520
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 3: my attention, and I turned my head with him. Well,

521
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 3: when I turned back around, the one hundred and sixty

522
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 3: one inch deer was standing four steps from me. He

523
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: had he would chase him, he'd, you know, was I

524
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 3: guess running him off? But he was standing four steps

525
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 3: of me. And I was afraid when I turned the

526
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 3: arrow loose that my arrow wasn't going to clear the bow.

527
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 3: So I think, I want to say, maybe I leaned

528
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 3: back when I went to shoot. I shot the deer

529
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: right in the chest and the arrow went in about

530
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: fletching deep, and he just he just stiffened up, and

531
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: he made a big grunt.

532
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 4: Well, blood started pumping out the end of my knock.

533
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 3: It's shooting out the I had a light up knock

534
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 3: at the time they had first come out, and it

535
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 3: was shooting naft the hole in that knock. And he

536
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: turned to run out there about ten yards and fell over. Well,

537
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 3: I look up and that other buck that had run

538
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 3: off is standing twenty two or twenty three yards from me,

539
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: trying to catch his breath.

540
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 4: And I don't have an arrow.

541
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: And it was one of those situations where I could

542
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 3: have killed two deer one fifty plus that day, had

543
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 3: I would not have left my quiver laying on the

544
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 3: ground back there with Nathan, and Nathan got to watch

545
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 3: the whole thing from being hunkered down behind me back there.

546
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: That was a unique expert car. It's Richard one that

547
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: most of us will never see. And it's incredible that

548
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: you had your nephew with you. And I'm sure that

549
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: this put you in the legendary uncle column for life.

550
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: Great story. Our next story is from my friend Wailing

551
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: Blinds from the Ozarks. He's a gunsmith, a mule and

552
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: horse trainer, and a turkey farmer, but also a lifelong

553
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: deer hunter. This is the story of an encounter with

554
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: a true mountain monster while he was holding a brand

555
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: new gun.

556
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 5: It was two thousand and two. Most of our hunting

557
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 5: we'd done off the back of mule. We grew up

558
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 5: running dog running Beagle's dad was always a dog man,

559
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 5: and when we shut that down, Dad couldn't sit, so

560
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 5: me and him we'd just ride and hunt off for mules.

561
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 4: That summer I had bought.

562
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 5: It was a Rempedon seventy six hundred and thirty six

563
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 5: with a scope point first scope gun i'd ever had.

564
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 5: I've always hunted with a windchest leve rection thirty thirty.

565
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 5: Every deer I've ever killed has been with that gun. Well,

566
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 5: I'd bought this all six and me and Dad started

567
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 5: to leave the house that morning and I come backing

568
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 5: that gun out and he said, son, he said, you

569
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 5: don't need that with us riding. I said, no, We'll

570
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 5: see an old dough so I can at least get

571
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 5: to kill me a dough.

572
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 4: He said, all right.

573
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 5: Well, we'd been riding public ground is on up in

574
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 5: the morning. We'd been riding for a while and hadn't

575
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 5: seen anything, and we was riding along and we heard

576
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 5: something coming and there was a door come off the hill,

577
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 5: I mean, just like a streak. We knew buck was after,

578
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 5: so I just jumped off my mule, didn't tie him up,

579
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 5: just dropped the reins and I run back. We'd just

580
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 5: passed was riding an old logging road and we'd just

581
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 5: passed a fork and I run back down there to

582
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 5: the fort and kind of cut over the hill. And

583
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 5: when I stopped, I heard a deer coming and looked

584
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 5: and it was a big forking horn. I let him

585
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 5: go by me. I kind of run on over the

586
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 5: hill to get where I could see the next bank

587
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 5: blow me and the only thing I figured is this

588
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 5: deer heard me and thought I was the little buck

589
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 5: chasing the door still, because he come up the bank

590
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 5: right before I got to where I cold see over

591
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 5: the break. He stopped behind the city tree and I

592
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 5: had one hole I could see through, and I just

593
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 5: seen it was the biggest buck I've ever seen. I

594
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 5: throwed up, put the crosshairs right on his shoulder, pulled

595
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 5: the trigger and he took off. Well that always taught me,

596
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 5: do you want to see him fall? So I just

597
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 5: took off running and got around where I could see

598
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 5: and I stopped and I could still hear him grunting

599
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 5: as he was going away from me, and I thought, well,

600
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 5: not good. So I slowed down then and looked for blood. Nothing,

601
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 5: And I was sick because, like I said, this was

602
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 5: the biggest buck OUT ever seen. I didn't know what

603
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 5: he was others in it was a really big deer.

604
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 5: And that's what I told Dad, because he said, well

605
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 5: what was it? And the only thing I had compared

606
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 5: to I've got an uncle that's killed some he's killed

607
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 5: some good deer, and I'm talking one hundred and forty

608
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 5: to one hundred and fifty inch deer and I said,

609
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 5: he's bigger than anything Uncle's got.

610
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 4: On the wall. That's the only thing I compared to.

611
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 4: Of course, everybody laughed. I told my uncle what I'd said.

612
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 4: He got a kick out of that.

613
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 5: But got home and because I had shot this gun

614
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 5: a couple of times before I went, and it shot good,

615
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 5: and I got home shot it didn't even touch the paper.

616
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 5: Being the first gun I'd ever had with the scope one,

617
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 5: I knew nothing by the scope. Well, the scope mountains

618
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 5: ended up being loose. You could turn the scope inside

619
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 5: the mounts. There's no tellings where I hit. I'm just

620
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 5: glad I didn't cripple him. But anyway, so it was.

621
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 5: It ended up being I think nine days later before

622
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 5: I got a chance to go back. My wife life

623
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: at the time hadn't started hunting much. She had went

624
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 5: with me a time or two. So the morning that

625
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 5: I was gonna be able to go, and I was

626
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 5: going to walk back in there, it was a couple

627
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 5: of mile walk to where I had seen him, and

628
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 5: so I asked her if she wanted to go, and

629
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 5: she said, yeah, she'd go with me. So we walked

630
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 5: back in there and it was it's a pretty good

631
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 5: height in rough country, and we got back in there

632
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 5: and just sat down on the ground.

633
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 4: Oh.

634
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 5: I took my one Chester thirty to thirty with me.

635
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 5: The autsie kept putting the corner and sold shortly thereafter.

636
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 5: I took my lever gun and we sat down and

637
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 5: like everybody, I'd been watching hunting videos and I'd never

638
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 5: done a lot of calling or anything. I had to

639
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 5: grunt too, and I just watched somebody. They was talking

640
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 5: about doing a sequence like a buck chasing a dough

641
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 5: just man, man, man and drag that last one out.

642
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 5: And as soon as we sat down, I'd done that.

643
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 5: And we hadn't been there ten minutes, and we were

644
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 5: sitting where there were two fingers running off into a

645
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 5: deep canyon. It wasn't right where we seen him. It

646
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 5: was within a quarter probably. I just found a good

647
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 5: It was a good oat flat where a couple of

648
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 5: logging roads come together. It was a good looking spot.

649
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 5: But anyway, were sitting there, and the best way I

650
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 5: can describe it, because he come up out of that canyon.

651
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 5: He was on a ridge just a little ways over

652
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 5: from us, and he looked like he reminded me of

653
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 5: an old tom Gobler. He come up out of there,

654
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 5: just walking slow and looking. He come probably fitture sixty

655
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 5: yards up that ridge and got behind some brush. I

656
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 5: couldn't see a hair on him. I owed it all

657
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 5: to my wife because she could see him. If I'd

658
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 5: been by myself, I would have messed up because I

659
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 5: was wanting to see him, and I knew it the

660
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 5: same deer.

661
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 4: I mean, he's the frame he's got. There was no doubt.

662
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 5: And he come up and I don't know how long

663
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 5: he stood there. It felt like for it was several minutes.

664
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 5: But I would want to call or move to where

665
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 5: I see him, and she would say, he's looking at us,

666
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 5: or he's looking this way. And I was sitting there

667
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 5: and I was getting pretty shook up because I was

668
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 5: wanting to do something.

669
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 4: And finally she said, he's moving.

670
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: Well.

671
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 5: When he moved, I seen him, and he turned and

672
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 5: just started coming and he was going to be a broadside,

673
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 5: maybe forty yards, and I just, of course, I had

674
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 5: the gun that I had complete faith in then, and

675
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 5: I started tracking him and I said to myself, he'll

676
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 5: stop in that hole, I've got him. And he stopped

677
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 5: right in that hole, looked up the hill. I pulled

678
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 5: the trigger He never flinched, he never moved, he didn't

679
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 5: do anything.

680
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 4: I thought I missed him. Of course I was about

681
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 4: to panic.

682
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 5: I jacked another shell in when I did, he just

683
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 5: turned and started walking over the hill, and I did

684
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 5: not want to shoot him in the hips, but I

685
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 5: was fixing too and all of a sudden he just

686
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 5: humped up and fell over. I mean he never he

687
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 5: never acts like he was hit nothing. And we sat

688
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 5: there for a little while. I was having calmed down

689
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 5: because it was I was a little nerved up. And

690
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 5: when we got up and headed down there, he got

691
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 5: bigger the closer we got. And we got down there

692
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 5: to him, and which he's ended up being one hundred

693
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 5: and seventy three and some change is what he is.

694
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 5: He's a main framemate fourkid back times, got kickers. But

695
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 5: the most impressive thing is to me, he's got mass.

696
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 5: He's six I don't remember now, six and something at

697
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 5: the basis, but he holds it all the way out

698
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 5: because he's like four and a half at the tips.

699
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 5: All these times are really massive. And I was just

700
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 5: in shock because I mean it's the biggest thing I've

701
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 5: ever seen. He's the biggest body deer I've ever seen

702
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 5: too around as far as the country. And at the time,

703
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 5: we always drug stuff out. We didn't court them up

704
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 5: and all that. So we heard drugging probably two miles

705
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 5: back to the rig. I mean, we'd dragg him for

706
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,479
Speaker 5: waves and we'd sit and talk. We'd dragged for waves,

707
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 5: set and talk. At one point we were sitting there

708
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 5: talking a little buck walked up on us while we

709
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 5: were sitting there talking and we finally it took a while,

710
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 5: but we finally got him out. And my first stop

711
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 5: was my uncle when when I had to go over

712
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 5: his house and go home, and I said, hey, come

713
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 5: out here and look at this, and he said, you

714
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 5: wasn't lying. He said, that's he said, probably the biggest

715
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 5: deer I've ever seen come out of this country.

716
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 4: And it was.

717
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: It was quite the deal. It's I don't hunt him

718
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,959
Speaker 5: for the horns anyways. I just enjoy hunting and hunting

719
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 5: for the meat. But it was quite an adventure for sure.

720
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: Whalen's buck truly is a giant one hundred and seventy

721
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 2: inch plus mainframe eight point. It is a monster. And

722
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: for the record, Whalen's wife was listening in when he

723
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: told me this story and confirmed that it happened pretty

724
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: much the way he described. In our next story, We're

725
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: gonna turn back to my favorite theme of ratting out

726
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 2: hunting buddies, but this time the one being ratted out

727
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 2: is Jordan bliss It's dad Boat. Jordan is a good

728
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 2: friend of mine and a true big buck killer from Mississippi.

729
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: He's gonna tag team this story with Backwoods University's own

730
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: Lake Pickle, and they're gonna tell this story together. Lake

731
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: also works for Onyx and if you need a discount

732
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 2: code for your next upgrade, use bear Grease lowercase one word.

733
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 2: Here's Jordan and Lake ratting out Bow Blissed.

734
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 6: So this is one of the most entertaining, slash quickish,

735
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 6: slash successful deer hunting trips I've ever been on in

736
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 6: my life. So by the weekend in Illinois in twenty

737
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 6: and sixteen, so Lake Pickling myself were working at Primo's

738
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 6: at the time. We had very very little off time

739
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 6: and it was approaching rut time in the Midwest around

740
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 6: the first week in November, and had zero plans of

741
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 6: going anywhere.

742
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 4: But it looked like we were going to get.

743
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 6: A three day weekend, and I told Lake I was like, hey, man,

744
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 6: I got a place in Illinois that we can go hunt.

745
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 4: Do you want to go?

746
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 6: And Lake was like, heck, yeah, I'm in. And anyway,

747
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 6: the backstory behind the farm in Illinois. Been hunting there

748
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 6: since I was fifteen. My dad was actually up there

749
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 6: at the time, and on the way to Illinois, I

750
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 6: prepped Lake for my dad.

751
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 4: So this hole ride up there.

752
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 7: Granted, Jordan and at the time didn't know each other

753
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 7: that well at all, and I'd never met his dad,

754
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 7: bow Blissed, And this whole ride from Central Mississippi Illinois,

755
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 7: I'm getting this low down on bow Blissed and his

756
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 7: hunting antics. And Jordan told me he said, he is

757
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 7: arguably one of the most unsuccessful deer hunters I've ever

758
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 7: been around. And he will shoot at something every day,

759
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 7: but he's not going to hit it. And I'm laughing

760
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 7: at his story, but I'm also assuming that he's kind

761
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 7: of joking a little bit, like I didn't think he

762
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 7: was being serious. But anyway, we get up there that

763
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,959
Speaker 7: evening and get ready because we're going to start hunting

764
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 7: the next morning, and the first morning we just have

765
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 7: to be kind of go where Bow wants us to

766
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 7: go because we hadn't had a chance to look at

767
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 7: anything yet, and so he puts me on this big

768
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 7: cut cornfield and I'm like, all right, you know, I

769
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 7: can see a lot. It's rough time, it's Midwest, it's

770
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 7: early in the morning, and I hadn't seen much of anything,

771
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 7: and it was probably somewhere between seven thirty and eight am.

772
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 4: And I look up across the end.

773
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 7: There's like a finger rid shooting out of this cut

774
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 7: cornfield and I see a big buck, I'm talking one

775
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty plus inch deer running across this open cornfield.

776
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 7: And my first instinct is he's chasing the dough. And

777
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 7: then I look and the buck stops and he looks

778
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 7: behind him, and then he takes off running again.

779
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's that Buck's not chasing a dough. He spooked.

780
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 7: Next thing I know, I see a person who is

781
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 7: bow blisted walking across this open cornfield, and I'm like,

782
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 7: what is this man doing. It's it's like eight o'clock

783
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 7: in the morning and it's rut time, and he just

784
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 7: spooked that deer. What's going on? Come to find out,

785
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 7: Bo had seen a dough that morning and had emptied

786
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 7: his quiver and lost two eras and had one lodged

787
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 7: in a tree and was walking back to the truck.

788
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 7: And so that was my That was my introduction to

789
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 7: Jordan's father, and that was our morning hunt. And I

790
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 7: was like, holy smokes, Jordan wasn't lying. But anyway, Jordan,

791
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 7: that kind of cartells us into what happened that afternoon.

792
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 6: So we find out after that morning hunt that my

793
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 6: dad has procured a new farm to hunt. He tells

794
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 6: us that he is not interested in hunting it at

795
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 6: all because it is way too thick. Man, there's briars

796
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 6: and brambles. He can't see nothing. And my dad is

797
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 6: the type of guy he wants to be able to see.

798
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 6: And you know, as us as hunters, we kind of

799
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 6: know deer like thickets. But it's way too thick for

800
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 6: him to hunt. He said, man, y'all can have that place.

801
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 6: It ain't no good, ain't gonna see nothing there. I

802
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 6: look at it on on X and I'm like, this

803
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 6: farm is sitting in the right spot. And that afternoon,

804
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 6: Lake and I decide to go hunt that particular property. Well,

805
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 6: this is where the story even gets a little bit better,

806
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 6: because Lake and I it's a little creek bottom and

807
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 6: he's on one end of it and I'm on the

808
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 6: other find little pinch points to hunt best we could.

809
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 6: First time walking in this proper and not seeing a

810
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 6: whole lot. It's getting about prime time though. I mean

811
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 6: it's five ash o'clock, about thirty more minutes a daylight left,

812
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 6: and I can hear Lake on the ridge over across

813
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 6: the creek bottom rattle and working four hundred yards three

814
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 6: hundred yards apart, give or take.

815
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 7: Then I was up there giving it like the full blown.

816
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 7: I mean, you got to think I'd been able to

817
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 7: hunt the Midwest in a while. So, I mean, like,

818
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 7: I don't know how hard I was hitting those antlers together,

819
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 7: but I was giving it full board, you know. So

820
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 7: when I initially got that text from Jordan that he

821
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 7: could hear me radling, I was like, that's one talking

822
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 7: about you know.

823
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 4: I'm like, they're hearing me now.

824
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 6: And I hear him rattling. I text him like, is

825
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 6: that you radling? He's like yeah, and uh I was like, well,

826
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 6: I heard you. And it wasn't thirty seconds later I

827
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 6: look up to my left across this little crp looking

828
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 6: field and there's a buck walking kind of towards lake,

829
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 6: but kind of angling at me as well. And he's

830
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 6: a nice buck, mature buck, big body deer. And immediately

831
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 6: get pretty wound up, and the deer's coming. He hops

832
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 6: the fence about seventy yards from me, and I snort

833
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 6: wheeze at him, and the deer ends up turning and

834
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 6: coming directly at me. And keep in mind too, this

835
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 6: first time we've ever hunted this piece of property. So

836
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 6: I walked in there, and I didn't want to stink

837
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 6: up the area and make too much racket and run

838
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 6: the deer out. I ended up getting in a tree,

839
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 6: like the only tree I could fit my climbing stand on,

840
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 6: and I'm about seven or eight feet in the air.

841
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 6: It's as high as I could get. And the deer

842
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 6: ends up walking directly within ten yards of me, and

843
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 6: I shoot him. I hit him good, and I'm all

844
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 6: fired up.

845
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: And I taxt late.

846
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 6: It's like I just shot one. He was coming to

847
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 6: your rattling.

848
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: Well.

849
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 7: Then I find out that Jordan shot this bucket awesome.

850
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 7: I'm like, man, that's cool. So I get down, we

851
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 7: go find the deer, and the funniest part of all

852
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 7: of it, other than it was pretty sweet that Jordan

853
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 7: had shot it really could buck, you know. And as

854
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 7: we get down there and he Jordan caught his dad.

855
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 7: So Bo gets over there and he is keyed up

856
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 7: because at this time Jordan has killed this deer and

857
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 7: we've been up there for less than twenty four hours.

858
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 7: And with all the seriousness and in his tone, he

859
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 7: was like, man, you know, this is Bow talking to Jordan.

860
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 7: He said, you know, I've let y'all. You know, I'll

861
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 7: let y'all come up here and hunt my new honey hole.

862
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 7: Y'all gonna have to vacate this place now. It's my

863
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 7: turn to hunting.

864
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 6: The place was too thick for him to hunt. Hey

865
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 6: didn't want nothing to do with it. We went in

866
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 6: there and we killed us a deer, and all of

867
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 6: a sudden we get kicked out. And that was the fastest,

868
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 6: most entertaining hunt we've had.

869
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 2: At some point we may have to have a rebuttal

870
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 2: from Bow blissed himself. I know Lake and Jordan pretty well,

871
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: and sometimes they're hard on people. But I don't blame

872
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 2: Bo for kicking them out of his new honey old.

873
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 2: I mean, just you know, how it was discovered is

874
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: kind of irrelevant. To the fact that it was discovered

875
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:04,959
Speaker 2: as honey hole. But our final story is a little

876
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: bit different and you'll find it doesn't have much to

877
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 2: do with deer. But it's told by a unique guy

878
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: by the name of Father Stephen Gadbury. I mean, his

879
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: first name is not father, but you'll get you'll get

880
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 2: what I mean.

881
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 8: Okay, Stephen Gadbury, pastor of Saint Thurisa Catholic Church in

882
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 8: Little Rock, Arkansas. So as I just I'm pastor of

883
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 8: a big church in Little Rock, so always doing ministry,

884
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 8: always preaching the gospel. This story today is about one

885
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 8: of my best friends, Jesus, but it's a different Jesus.

886
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 8: It's a Spanish speaking Jesus. His name is Jesus. So

887
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 8: a couple of Jesus is in my life. So I'm

888
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 8: a lucky guy for that.

889
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 4: So Haesus and I we go back many years.

890
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 8: We've hunted for a long time, and the funnest parts

891
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 8: of our hunts is the most random human things that

892
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 8: happened in the middle.

893
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 4: Okay, So we all have these.

894
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 8: Human experiences of you know, stubbing your toe or hitting

895
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 8: your shin on the coffee table, or you know, you know,

896
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 8: getting a gnat in your eye or something, or sneezing,

897
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 8: silly things that every human does, but for whatever reason,

898
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 8: they're just kind of funny, these natural reactions. So this

899
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 8: one of the trips that we went on, one of

900
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 8: these adventures was we laugh about san kudos and calambrees.

901
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 8: So sankulo is this mosquito, but I think san culo

902
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 8: sounds like a really cool word in Spanish. So we

903
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 8: still laugh about these sankulos from this trip that we

904
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 8: went on, and on the same trip we still laugh

905
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 8: about some calambrees. A colambre is a cramp. We all

906
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 8: hate both of those things, right, we hate sun coulos.

907
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 8: We hate mosquitos, and we hate cramps.

908
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 4: We hate colabites.

909
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 8: Like there's nothing fun about eavy of those about mosquitos

910
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 8: or cramps. So this this trip we went on, i'll

911
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 8: you know, not to well the story and everything. We

912
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 8: both got some sweet bucks. So the points not the

913
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 8: animals that we got, but how we got to those animals.

914
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 8: It was a new property. We had to go and

915
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 8: scout it out. And as we're scouting over these ridges

916
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 8: and over these saddles, a couple of hollers that we

917
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 8: wanted to check out we find this creek down at

918
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 8: the bottom and we start following it. We'll find an

919
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 8: amazing sign, amazing sign, and Hazus and I are talking.

920
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 8: We're chit chatting the whole time, like, you know, quietly

921
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 8: because we were actively hunting at the time. But hey,

922
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 8: look there's some Look at that sign there, there's a

923
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 8: scrape there. Look at that rub. There's you know, a

924
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 8: path they've been coming to the water. Here the crossing there.

925
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 4: We get it.

926
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: And we.

927
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 8: At this point, like we're walking through this grass on

928
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 8: the side of the creek. It's probably knee high, knee

929
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 8: to waste time. And I'm right in front of Jesu's

930
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 8: maybe four steps in front of him. He's falling behind me.

931
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 8: And at one point I stopped and I turned around

932
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 8: to whisper to him, like, hey, I think I think

933
00:48:58,520 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 8: I think we have something up here. I don't know

934
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 8: if it's a buck or a dobe, but I just

935
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 8: saw something. So I turned around and I tell him that.

936
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 8: I'm like, hey, we got something up here. And then

937
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 8: he's like, okay, I said, he's.

938
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,720
Speaker 9: And I couldn't quit laughing because he just started speaking

939
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 9: in tongues or something.

940
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: He's what is good.

941
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 8: And by this point, like he can't even look at me,

942
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 8: he can't talk, and he's still coughing doing this. After

943
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 8: probably twenty seconds go by, he catches his breath and

944
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 8: like connects me talk and I don't know what's going on.

945
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 4: I said, he's just what lappened?

946
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: He said?

947
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 4: He said?

948
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 9: He said, I sucked him askuit in my throat. Its

949
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 9: just something so silly, it's so stupid. But he was

950
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 9: talking like Daffy Duck. And so for the rest of

951
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 9: that afternoon.

952
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 4: We couldn't quit laughing about that. Though.

953
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 8: We finally get back to camp that night, we're just

954
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 8: we're exhaustive from going NonStop. Jesus is a big guy,

955
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 8: and as we you know, we get to bed in

956
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 8: the bunk room at the camp there and around two

957
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 8: am or so, I hear this ruckets next door or

958
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 8: not next door, like across the bunk room. So in

959
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 8: the in the bed next over, and uh, and I'm thinking, like,

960
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 8: oh my god, Zus is having a heart attack. And

961
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 8: so like I jump up and I'm like, us, Jesus,

962
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 8: what's going on? And he's not talking to me. He's

963
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 8: just squirming in the bed, and I'm thinking, oh God,

964
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 8: my best My best friend's dying. And then and then

965
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 8: finally he just he stops and everything gets calm, and

966
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 8: my brain isn't happy because I'm not thinking like, oh,

967
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 8: he's okay, Like I'm thinking that that's it. And then

968
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 8: he looks over at me and smiles, and I'm like,

969
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 8: what is going on?

970
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: He said?

971
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 8: He said, I got a cramp in my leg and

972
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 8: I couldn't and I couldn't talk or do anything. And

973
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 8: the calimbitis that was the second thing in that trip.

974
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 8: It was the next day that both of us hammered

975
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 8: just some sweet bucks. But to this day we still

976
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 8: laugh about san Kudos and Calumbitis, about the mosquitos and

977
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 8: the crabs, and it was from that adventure that azeus

978
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 8: and activity.

979
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: It's the stories, the memories, the meat and the antlers

980
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 2: that all combined to make deer hunting so special. All

981
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 2: of us here on the Beargrease Feed hope that your

982
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 2: neck deep in big bucks this November. Making memories with

983
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 2: friends and family that will last lifetime, and truly encountering

984
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: nature in a unique way and seeing it in all

985
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: its glory, I'd say equally important this November. It's worth

986
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,760
Speaker 2: it to evaluate the opportunity that we have as American

987
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: hunters and not take any of this access we have

988
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 2: for granted. It seems like every week somebody's trying to

989
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 2: sell off our public lie for trying to put a

990
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: road through America's finest remaining wilderness. I'm proud to be

991
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: someone who values true wilderness and the protection of public lands,

992
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 2: and I'm also proud to be with a company that

993
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 2: I think is truly fighting for American public lands and hunters.

994
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 2: And say what you will, but I see nobody doing

995
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: more for American public lands. To my friends and colleagues,

996
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 2: Ryan Callahan and Steve Rinella, that's this way I see it.

997
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: But we cannot thank you enough for listening to Bear

998
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 2: Greece Brins, this Country Life podcast and Lakes Backwoods University.

999
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 2: Keep the wild places wild, because that's where the bears live.