Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.
Speaker 1: From coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.
Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share
Speaker 1: my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented
Speaker 1: by Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you
Speaker 1: the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends,
Speaker 1: grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I've got some
Speaker 1: stories to share. Welcome to this country Life podcast, Deer
Speaker 1: and Coon Camp Edition twenty twenty four. My name is
Speaker 1: Brent Reeves, and my guest host. My guest co host
Speaker 1: today is none other than Austin clever Rad, better known
Speaker 1: as Chili to all of us who know I love him,
Speaker 1: or Luke Grimes as the guy next door has accused
Speaker 1: him of secretly being. Now, I have to say this
Speaker 1: before you start talking Chile. I've never seen you and
Speaker 1: Luke Grimes in the same room together, so the jury
Speaker 1: may still be out on that. I can't testify it
Speaker 1: either way. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Welcome brother, Thank you, thanks for having me. Pretty excited
Speaker 2: to be here down in your home state.
Speaker 1: First question, Yeah, what I mean, I've known you for
Speaker 1: two years now, almost two years? Yeah, Well, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: does a meat eater production coordinator do?
Speaker 2: I handle all the camera equipment, uh, that we send
Speaker 2: out on shoots for all of you guys and any
Speaker 2: anything that we want to record or film. Most of
Speaker 2: that gear is coming from me in a lot of
Speaker 2: logistics that I go along with it.
Speaker 1: I've seen your office down there and it looks like
Speaker 1: some kind of like a best buy best Buy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: best buy store down there's gear and cases and stuff
Speaker 1: stacked everywhere. You got to keep up with all that.
Speaker 3: I certainly try.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a lot, but it only took me
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: To get well. I know that you and I hit
Speaker 1: it all from the very beginning when I when we
Speaker 1: first met, and uh, I've been trying to I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you got to come to Arkansas. I know you like
Speaker 1: it because you are from.
Speaker 3: I'm from South Dakota.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is all very foreign to me down here,
Speaker 2: a little bit different, very different.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So white tail hunting as far did you grow up
Speaker 1: doing a lot of that or any of it.
Speaker 2: As far as hunting goes, Yeah, white tail hunting, Uh, Yes,
Speaker 2: and no, I would say the first year I ever
Speaker 2: shot was a Black Hills white tail deer okay, and
Speaker 2: predominantly white tail are just in the in the Black
Speaker 2: Hills and the river bottoms is but.
Speaker 3: Like, so that was my first year.
Speaker 2: And uh then I kind of as I got older,
Speaker 2: transition over the meal deer because I just I just
Speaker 2: like doing that more.
Speaker 1: That's that's your gig.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I shot a few white tail doze, never shot it,
Speaker 2: I tell buck, and then just focus.
Speaker 1: On how are you hunting them up there? How are
Speaker 1: you hunting neil deer up there?
Speaker 2: We didn't have any tree stands growing up, so it
Speaker 2: was kind of like, you know, you're When I was
Speaker 2: with my dad, he's we go out to the woods,
Speaker 2: he'd be like, all right, sit down, shut up, and
Speaker 2: just wait.
Speaker 3: Hopefully a deer walks by.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're hunting off the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then as I got older and started working like
Speaker 2: hunting by myself, I started walking around and kind of
Speaker 2: stocking and still hunting.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, before we get into all all the differences
Speaker 1: and stuff that we've been doing, let's talk about what
Speaker 1: we've been doing for the last couple of weeks. For
Speaker 1: the last fourteen days. As a matter of fact, you
Speaker 1: left Bozeman. I left Arkansas. We met the same day
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Yep. Yeah. From there, we went to
Speaker 1: the tip it toe of Louisiana down at Venice, Louisiana, did.
Speaker 2: A bunch of did a bunch of inshore and offshore fishing.
Speaker 1: Man that now you may have done that before. It's
Speaker 1: a mosquito. We can talk about them in a minute.
Speaker 1: But have you ever done that kind of fishing before offshore?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Similarly yes, in short no, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So speckle trout sheep's head, which looks like they got it.
Speaker 1: I mean they're beautiful fish, but when you look at
Speaker 1: their teeth, they look like somebody's grandpa ordered some Roebuckers
Speaker 1: from the out of the out of the catalog. I
Speaker 1: mean that is the craziest looking teeth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're rounded off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like little spears almost like they look
Speaker 2: like they're for grinding.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For it's weird, man, I don't know. They're probably
Speaker 1: they're eating crabs and shrimp and stuff. They got to
Speaker 1: have them kind of teeth. I don't know. But everything
Speaker 1: down there, you know, at home here in Arkansas, just
Speaker 1: about every fish if you're going to pull him up
Speaker 1: out of the water. You can. You can put your
Speaker 1: thumb in his mouth. You can do that, Louisiana. But
Speaker 1: they ain't telling what you're able to get out of it.
Speaker 3: You probably lose thumb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lose the thumb for it's all over with. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that was great people we met down there, the folks
Speaker 1: we were fishing with and were we were staying. Mister
Speaker 1: Renee and all those folks down there was just such
Speaker 1: a great, great time. You couldn't want for more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, as far as being people like you never
Speaker 2: met before, they were very hospitable and very welcoming and
Speaker 2: just very much so. They were just a pleasant to
Speaker 2: be around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they talk funny compared to me, didn't they.
Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, they're a little bit they have a little
Speaker 2: bit more of an accent.
Speaker 1: I talked to Yannis the other on Monday before we
Speaker 1: came down later that week. He said, Man, some of
Speaker 1: these folks down here make you sound like a yank.
Speaker 2: The similar thing that you guys have, or some of
Speaker 2: your counterparts local counterparts have was Miss Charlotte made me
Speaker 2: get a picture with her, Yeah, because she's like, I
Speaker 2: got to send this to my niece because.
Speaker 3: We think you're Luke Grimes.
Speaker 2: And for those of who don't know, Luke Grim's Casey
Speaker 2: Dunner from Yellowstown. Not the first time I've gotten that compliment.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if it's accusation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I took a picture of this ar
Speaker 2: and we sent it to her niece, and she actually
Speaker 2: legitimately thought that I was.
Speaker 1: I haven't asked for his idea yet, so I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows. We'll get to the bottom of this eventually.
Speaker 3: Sleeper agent.
Speaker 1: All right. From there, if that wasn't enough, we get
Speaker 1: back on air and playing in New Orleans and fly
Speaker 1: straight to Knoxville, Tennessee, or not straight. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can go anywhere with that layover somewhere, But anyway,
Speaker 1: we wound up in Knoxville, Tennessee eventually, yep. And that
Speaker 1: was a meat eat or tailgate event right there by
Speaker 1: Kneeland Stadium where the Tennessee Volunteers play.
Speaker 2: And good gosh, what a good time. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was great. It was like a big show out
Speaker 2: of fans. Yeah, a lot of people obviously there for
Speaker 2: the game, but tons of people wearing bear grease shirts.
Speaker 2: Some even had your new logo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: which was just awesome to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good. I've said all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: Clay gets to go to all these interesting places and
Speaker 1: do the stuff on this on the Wonderful podcast he does,
Speaker 1: but he gets to interact and talk with people, and
Speaker 1: I just stare at the screen and read a script.
Speaker 1: So it's really cool for me to get out and
Speaker 1: be able to talk to the folks that listen and
Speaker 1: hear what they like and the things that they want
Speaker 1: to hear, and and just get some feedback one to
Speaker 1: one or one on one. And man, I tell you,
Speaker 1: it's just it's very rewarding. Especially the folks that bring
Speaker 1: their kids up there. Oh yeah, Oh, I feel like
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Man. I was holding young and is everywhere
Speaker 1: getting their picture made.
Speaker 2: Every time I looked over Bren had he had a
Speaker 2: baby in his hands taking the picture.
Speaker 1: I tell you, man, I ain't worth fifteen cents by myself,
Speaker 1: but I feel like a millionaire when I got We
Speaker 1: got it young and of any kind in my hand.
Speaker 1: But we we did some squirrel hunting up there, killed
Speaker 1: a few squirrels. A guy Ah did some with Rich frowning.
Speaker 3: Rich Froning.
Speaker 1: Yep, the fittest guy in America or the fittest guy
Speaker 1: in the world at one time or not a.
Speaker 3: Couple of times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good fella, nice guy. Good place to kill some squirrels.
Speaker 1: We cooked some squirrels up and shared that. But from there,
Speaker 1: once we got that, we went to the ball game.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody's heard the how the if you're interested,
Speaker 1: how the the Tennessee and Alabama football game went. There
Speaker 1: came barn Burner. Man.
Speaker 2: I will admit I'm not a football guy right at all,
Speaker 2: but as far as being interested in a game like
Speaker 2: that was like I had to have close game.
Speaker 1: The entire the first half was like watching paint dry.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a whole lot going on, but in the
Speaker 1: second half, but it was a totally different feeling. You
Speaker 1: could just feel a different vibe in there, and leave
Speaker 1: was back and forth and back and forth and making
Speaker 1: big plays.
Speaker 2: And yeah, oh it was like it was for me
Speaker 2: to be actually interested in a football game and stayed
Speaker 2: for the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, this is.
Speaker 1: Game and a hundred and two thousand people in.
Speaker 2: There, Yeah, that was that was I didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: conceptualize how many people were actually there. Obviously, every time
Speaker 2: the crowd roared, it was so loud, and my first
Speaker 2: thought was, man, getting out of here is gonna suck.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I had a loose tooth when I
Speaker 1: left out of there. Man, it was loud, but everybody
Speaker 1: was just so nice. Uh. It was just a very
Speaker 1: accommodating place. Hunter Spencer, our graphic artist for for Meat
Speaker 1: Eater that designed the the A lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that you see, uh, and the this country Life logo
Speaker 1: for sure, but a lot of the Meat Eater stuff
Speaker 1: that you see, the T shirts and stuff. Hunters the
Speaker 1: guy does that and he is a Tennessee alung o. Man,
Speaker 1: he was hard to handle there at the end. He
Speaker 1: wanted to rush the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he did. I think he did.
Speaker 2: And now, for those of you who also don't know this, uh,
Speaker 2: mister over here decided to show up to the Tennessee
Speaker 2: game with his Razorbacks T shirt on. Because if you
Speaker 2: want to tell them, Wellesse has the only loss this
Speaker 2: year too.
Speaker 1: It just happen to be. It's just a coincidence that
Speaker 1: it was the University of Arkansas. Now, I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to start any trouble or anything. It was just the
Speaker 1: only clean T shirt I had, so I just for it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't no purpose, it was just a coincidence, great environment,
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Was glad to be there, but
Speaker 1: I was glad when we hit the plane again. Two
Speaker 1: stops later, we're in a little rock. An hour and
Speaker 1: a half later, we're at the twenty twenty four Coon
Speaker 1: and Deer Camp in Augusta, Arkansas. My friend Randall Whitmore's camp,
Speaker 1: the famous Coon Club, that coon camp that his father,
Speaker 1: mister Dick Whitmore owned free years and it's been featured
Speaker 1: in a couple of films that Clay and I shot
Speaker 1: down here. We were coon hunting and squirrel hunting, so
Speaker 1: there's some there's some history and stuff that in some
Speaker 1: of the films that we did that's available on the
Speaker 1: Meat Either YouTube channel. You can see those films there
Speaker 1: and hear a little bit more about this place. But
Speaker 1: it's iconic place. It's an iconic structure. Has been a
Speaker 1: lot of just for for the people down here that
Speaker 1: appreciate this kind of stuff. It's just a great place
Speaker 1: to be. Oh yeah, and we hit the ground running
Speaker 1: man public Ground, public Land, Deer hunting with Michael's. Michael
Speaker 1: got us the muzzle loaders. We hit the ground and
Speaker 1: we we took off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was we just I mean we came
Speaker 2: in in there, we cooked some dinner, yep uh, and
Speaker 2: went to bed, woke up, started hunting and it was great.
Speaker 3: I mean, I and what else was it?
Speaker 1: It was hot, very it was hot, incrementally hotter every day.
Speaker 1: And we've got some cameras out on public land. We
Speaker 1: know other folks that are hunting. There's a guy next
Speaker 1: door to us that's hunting here, a boat hunter from
Speaker 1: out of state, and he's got running cameras everywhere. And
Speaker 1: no deer moving during the day, hardly at all.
Speaker 2: No, no, and uh, which that's to be expected, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 2: but uh yeah, I mean I guess I wouldn't say
Speaker 2: that I'm disheartened at it, Like you gotta, you know,
Speaker 2: work with the what you don't yeah, and so but
Speaker 2: there is the the cool thing for me, or the
Speaker 2: the most reassuring thing was like just the amount of
Speaker 2: sign yeah on this public plan that we were on.
Speaker 2: And just when you see that minute much sign on
Speaker 2: public You're like, okay, well this is not like this
Speaker 2: is not a total bust. I'm not like coming down
Speaker 2: here wasting my time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a gar hole, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a gar hole. And we would you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like we were the only two folks here,
Speaker 1: but everybody that we were around that were hunting and
Speaker 1: it was hunting around us. They were very respectful of
Speaker 1: each other's place where they were, and just it was
Speaker 1: just not to be that the game just wasn't stirn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the biggest thing.
Speaker 2: You know, Like up in Montana, you will run into
Speaker 2: people and people will go out of their way to
Speaker 2: come talk to you, but like down here, what I've
Speaker 2: noticed is like you're hunting on a smaller chunk of
Speaker 2: land and you might run into somebody or see someone
Speaker 2: park there, but people aren't encroaching on one another, which
Speaker 2: is again like so reassuring and like makes me actually
Speaker 2: want to hunt down here again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean it's just a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and everybody gets you know, we got to share this
Speaker 1: place totally. If we're going to keep access to it,
Speaker 1: We're going to have to do that. But two day
Speaker 1: or three hunts actually morning afternoon morning, not one deer
Speaker 1: scene we got pick cameras at We're seeing a few
Speaker 1: deer moving at night. They're just not moving. But what
Speaker 1: was moving? Mosquitoes? Y'all ever have sperienced with skis like
Speaker 1: this in South Dakota or Montana?
Speaker 2: Man, I cannot Montana. Yeah, I'd say, you get on
Speaker 2: the rivers. You're floating on the rivers and during a
Speaker 2: certain time of year, like they'll they'll be out. I
Speaker 2: can't stay grown up in South Dakota that like I've
Speaker 2: ever been.
Speaker 3: Attacked that way by mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know in October, in October.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's like I was sitting there, I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: you and I had separated and then we were doing our
Speaker 2: own thing and I'm pretty much covered head to toe,
Speaker 2: just you know, trying to hide all my skin tone,
Speaker 2: and but my hands are exposed, and yeah, they're they
Speaker 2: are tore up, and I'm yeah, I texted, I think
Speaker 2: we were texting, and we were like, we're done.
Speaker 1: We had talked about this part. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: like an hour before dark. He was like, how's it
Speaker 1: going over there? And I'm like, mosquitoes and you said yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, and I was wait and I was just
Speaker 1: like please, please, say, let's got the truck. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's what you were probably waiting on me to say.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I was kind of.
Speaker 1: Going to be the first one to punk out, but
Speaker 1: I was sitting over there swatting the squitters. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even hunting deer at that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was pretty much done deal.
Speaker 1: So we talked to Michael. Michael checks as Michael rose,
Speaker 1: he checks on us. What'd y'all see nothing? He's all right,
Speaker 1: let's go coon hunt tonight. So what do you think?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that was so foreign but just kind
Speaker 2: of the coolest thing to be a part of. And
Speaker 2: like I've never felt so like useless in a way,
Speaker 2: because like it's like I'm just sitting there and like,
Speaker 2: obviously we have dogs. We had whaling and heck, heck
Speaker 2: is Ah is Mikey's dog. Yeah, and Whalen's obviously are
Speaker 2: both just dang good dogs. And uh, they're just going
Speaker 2: to work and doing all this and then finding these
Speaker 2: cones and training them and like that was so cool
Speaker 2: to witness.
Speaker 3: But again, like I'm just like sitting there.
Speaker 2: I'm like I don't know what I should be doing
Speaker 2: right now, and I'm just I'm kind of just waiting.
Speaker 3: Then you two are like, let's go, and so we go.
Speaker 1: Well, I was you know, I've been talking to you
Speaker 1: about it, and you've been asking me questions about coon
Speaker 1: hunting for well two years almost two years. And how
Speaker 1: was it anything? Was it just what you expected like
Speaker 1: I had described to you? Was it different? Was it? Well,
Speaker 1: how'd you take it?
Speaker 2: I think I think like the cool the biggest like
Speaker 2: catalyst that I got, like I finally came to realize,
Speaker 2: was when we actually got here and we were sitting
Speaker 2: down and I turned to you and I go like, Brent.
Speaker 3: Like, what is the deal with coon hunting?
Speaker 2: Because obviously when people go hunting, they're looking for like
Speaker 2: that specific buck, elk, bear or whatever. And I'm just
Speaker 2: like having a hard time trying to find the appeal
Speaker 2: of a raccoon because at the tail size is the
Speaker 2: amount of rings on it, and and You're like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with the coon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has everything to do with.
Speaker 2: A dog, and like watching him work in that relationship
Speaker 2: and just like having a solid trainwalker and h and
Speaker 2: like Mikey attested to this as well, and that was
Speaker 2: just like, oh, okay, this it doesn't matter about the coon.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if we filled the buggy up with
Speaker 2: him or not. And that was I think the coolest
Speaker 2: part for me. It was just kind of really just
Speaker 2: like ego checking myself, Like it's not about shooting something.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. You know my friends Jason doubIe, Buddy Woodbury
Speaker 1: up in northwest part of the United States, they like
Speaker 1: to chase cats links and you know, and treat them
Speaker 1: the same, using the same methods that we do down here.
Speaker 1: So it's it's not the it's not the the species
Speaker 1: you're after. It's just that relationship with that hand and
Speaker 1: you you I mean we stopped by my house, you know,
Speaker 1: to get all kind of rearranged or stuff, and pick
Speaker 1: whaling up and bring him up to the camp. And
Speaker 1: you saw how my family interacts with that dog and
Speaker 1: treats that dog. I mean, he's just he's not a hammer,
Speaker 1: a tool to put out of a drawer when you
Speaker 1: want to go try to trercoon. He's part of our family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he certainly is.
Speaker 1: And that whole relationship is just what is it's what's
Speaker 1: it's what's so special and so much fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to see that, like being carried over into
Speaker 2: different like roles, like whether he is out there hunting
Speaker 2: with you or at home with the family laying on
Speaker 2: the couch. Yeah, but like, yeah, it's it's like it's
Speaker 2: the same mentality. It's like it's all about the interaction
Speaker 2: and the relationship that you guys are building with.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just so rewarding to me. And there's
Speaker 1: there's good to be found in anything if you just
Speaker 1: pay attention to the to the details and and the
Speaker 1: the that that's where the goodness is is in the details.
Speaker 1: And that's that's that's what I like. That's what I
Speaker 1: I like the little things. You know, when when I
Speaker 1: was training that dog, or he's more or less trained
Speaker 1: his self, I just give him the opportunity. But to
Speaker 1: see when he figured out out what his purpose in
Speaker 1: life was, the reason he was on this planet, it
Speaker 1: was to be there and witness he's, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is so much fun. And you pit me when
Speaker 1: I'm barking at this coon up a trip. You know,
Speaker 1: That's that is his reward, is me praising him. And
Speaker 1: to see that turn on, it's just a it's just
Speaker 1: a special deal.
Speaker 2: Oh and this is the way he responds to you, Like,
Speaker 2: the very last run that we did yesterday was cool
Speaker 2: to see because I think he was probably on a
Speaker 2: trail and but he was going kind of a direction
Speaker 2: that you didn't want him to go, and he was
Speaker 2: about to cross the river that you didn't want him
Speaker 2: to cross. I think we what mapped out like almost
Speaker 2: three quarters or a quarter of a mile?
Speaker 1: Oh how far he was? Yeah, and over there.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, Brent just starts like doing his recall
Speaker 2: and like that.
Speaker 3: Dog just came right back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he act took him a little while because he's
Speaker 1: because he was so far, but he had actually gone
Speaker 1: and was on the other side of the White River,
Speaker 1: and we called him back. I hollered, Michael hollered, he's
Speaker 1: louder than I am. But Whaling heard it, and back
Speaker 1: he came. So yeah, it's pretty cool. So Michael comes
Speaker 1: to our rescue again and last night and says, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, coon hunting's fun, y'all came here to kill
Speaker 1: a deer. Come to my place, my lease and see
Speaker 1: if we can't get you a deer. Because obviously public
Speaker 1: land hunting is good and we love it and we
Speaker 1: do a lot of it, but if there is a
Speaker 1: chance if you can, if you can put the odds
Speaker 1: on your side, it's going to be on a place
Speaker 1: where access is limited and you got feed out for him.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go. We're gonna try to and the ninth,
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the ninth, we're going to try
Speaker 1: to smash a whitetail that you can take back to Montana. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, and we and we certainly did just that. We tried.
Speaker 2: And I think anybody in there right mind if someone
Speaker 2: offered to give them opportunity on some private land, sure,
Speaker 2: I'd say ninety nine out of one hundred people would
Speaker 2: probably do that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. If you're trying to feel the freezer, and that's
Speaker 1: what we were trying to do. Put some deer meat in
Speaker 1: the freezer, take home.
Speaker 3: Freezers running low. Yeah, hell kind of up there was
Speaker 3: a little rough this year.
Speaker 1: So but but we get up there. Yeah, it's still hot,
Speaker 1: there's still wild animals, and they're they ain't reading the script. No.
Speaker 2: No, we did have a little bit of like, uh, hey,
Speaker 2: maybe this is gonna happen moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had well.
Speaker 2: The first year that we saw across the river behind us,
Speaker 2: couldn't really make out what it was, And for those
Speaker 2: of you wondering, I was, we're looking for bucks, but
Speaker 2: I was more than happy to take a dough. And
Speaker 2: that was that was the goal, is just to fill
Speaker 2: the freezer and uh bring some meat back home. But
Speaker 2: so we were like, oh, maybe this first one was
Speaker 2: a dough, so we got pretty excited. The second one
Speaker 2: that crossed, we could tell was a little four ky,
Speaker 2: So we were getting getting pretty amped up to to
Speaker 2: maybe do again, do just that puts me in the freezer.
Speaker 1: Yep, they came out. The doe grew a set of
Speaker 1: spikes in the span of time she hit the bank,
Speaker 1: and she walked behind those trees. That's where we could
Speaker 1: see her.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, she she she knew that she.
Speaker 1: Wanted to horn. Yeah. Yeah, So we didn't. We wound
Speaker 1: up not getting to get a shoot a deer.
Speaker 3: No, but it was fun. It was fun.
Speaker 2: That was the cool thing too, because I've actually never
Speaker 2: experienced that either. And and I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people are going to say, like, well, you obviously don't
Speaker 2: do enough hunting, but uh, I've never been in a
Speaker 2: stand and like just observed deer that close. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I've shot a fair share of deer, but just watching
Speaker 2: them with them having no idea that you're there.
Speaker 3: It's pretty pretty press.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were hunting in a buddy stand. And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean that spike before it left. I mean they
Speaker 1: were both of them were within thirty yards of where
Speaker 1: we were at at one time. As they're walking by
Speaker 1: us there within ten or twelve yards, and then the
Speaker 1: spike walks up almost to the bottom of the tree,
Speaker 1: and I mean he's you could have hit him with
Speaker 1: a rock.
Speaker 3: Oh, he definitely knew something was up.
Speaker 2: But I think he's just a little too inexperienced to
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, this is not yeah, not normal.
Speaker 1: But had a great time. You got to do some
Speaker 1: stuff you don't normally get to do. And I think
Speaker 1: you should take me pheasant hunting. Yeah, in South Dakota
Speaker 1: done that. I've never done that. I've never experienced that.
Speaker 1: So take me up there and we won't kill some
Speaker 1: pheasants and and we'll be we'll be even. It'll be
Speaker 1: good as this deer hunch.
Speaker 3: You went on. Yeah, yeah, I just take you to
Speaker 3: the Sage cross spot, don't see no, Yeah that deal,
Speaker 3: you got it.
Speaker 1: Well, this has been a lot of fun. We got
Speaker 1: to get our stuff cleaned up and head to the
Speaker 1: airport in the morning and gets you back to Bozeman,
Speaker 1: back to your project, to your production coordinating and get
Speaker 1: that stuff squared away. And I appreciate you being here, buddy,
Speaker 1: Well thanks for having me. It's all. You're always welcome here,
Speaker 1: and we thank you for watching the first Maybe Annuel
Speaker 1: maybe reoccurrect Chili and Brent Coon and Deer Camp podcast
Speaker 1: twenty five is next?
Speaker 3: Is next?
Speaker 1: Y'all be careful, see ya.