WEBVTT - Ep. 229: This Country Life - Decoy Dogs 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.240 Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Rieves 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.680 from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.040 I want you to stay a while as I share 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.479 my stories and the country skills that will help you 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.360 beat the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.880 part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.960 outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.080 pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.760 think I got a thing or two to teach you. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:43.240 Decoy dogs. I'm talking about decoy dogs this week, and 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.800 not the dogs are decoys I'm normally associated with. You 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.919 don't hunt birds or bandidos with these cane nines, And 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.800 believe it or not, the dog is the decoy. We're 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.760 hunting codies. And if you're not familiar with how it works, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.639 just hang with me and I'll tell you all about it. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:11.760 But first I'm going to tell you a story. This 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.320 story comes from This Country Life mail bag and listener 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.560 Justin Moore from way up Yonder for me Anyway in 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.240 Orchard Lake, Michigan. Orchard Lake is a bustling metropolis of 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.280 some twenty three hundred folks, with the most notable being 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:32.080 our pal Justin and Bob Seer. We're turning the page. Bob, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.120 it's Justin's time to shine. And does this boy shine? 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.240 I'll say he does. And Justin's words in my voice. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:50.360 Here's Justin's story. Well, it was the fourth of July 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.680 twenty eighteen. I had the day off from working long 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.000 care and I had decided to go fishing. There was 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.720 a small lake in the back of my division that 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.560 only me and one other gentleman fished. It was perfect. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.400 I had the whole place to myself, and for some 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.200 reason unknown, I decided not to take the boat out 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.639 that day and just to fish from the bank. And 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.960 after a couple of hours and a few fish later, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.160 a woman came walking up the beach I was fishing 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.800 with a big old flamingo floating well there with the fishing. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.160 She told me she was just going to anchor it 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.760 out a little ways for her grandkids could swim on 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.440 it and play on it the next day when they 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.280 had a cookout. Well, I thought that was a great idea, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.000 so she started swimming out with it as I started 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.200 packing up my gear and loading everything in my truck, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.080 and then I heard something no one ever wants to 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.440 hear at any given place a yell for help, but 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.720 I mean a real yell for help. I ran down 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.400 to the edge of the water like I was getting 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.000 paid for it, and I started yelling her, you okay, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.760 what's wrong? She continued yelling for help, and I pulled 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.840 out my phone to call nine one one, but I 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.440 quickly realized that whatever was going on, it couldn't wait, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.520 and in the water I went. I wouldn't be surprised 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.920 if a witness told me I had a rooster tail 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.040 of water coming up from behind me on my way 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.160 out too or while I was swimming. I tried to 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.080 keep communication with her, and I tried to keep her calm. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.800 I'm coming, it's gonna be okay. She wasn't responding, and 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.160 that big floating flamingo a terror, was blocking my view. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.080 I came around the end of the floating All that 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.360 was sticking out of the water was the woman's nose 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.800 and her mouth. The anchor had wrapped around her arm 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:46.160 and was pulling her under. Now she had enough time 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.720 to grab the seam of the flamingo with the tips 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.760 of her fingers, and I told her to stay calm 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.000 and most importantly, don't grab onto me, or we're both 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.000 gonna be in a big mess. I was able to 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.440 reach under her for the rope with one hand and 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.000 grabbed the floating with the other and pulled them together. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.120 I eased a tension off her arm and she was 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.400 able to swim away. I made sure I wasn't in 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.880 any way tangled up in that rope too, and I 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.800 let it go. Who were both tired. She said, let's 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.760 float on our backs to the beach now. I quickly 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.280 made her aware that personally, I do not like being 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.320 in deep water. Now. I'm a great swimmer, don't get 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.920 me wrong, but I'll take the boat out and catch 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.640 some fish anytime. That's never been a problem with me, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.320 and I just don't like knowing what's underneath me. Anyway, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.960 we made our way back to the beach in safety. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.960 She's a wonderful woman whom I'm glad to still know, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.200 and she laid her notified the fire department in our 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.800 local newspaper, where I was recognized by the city and 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:58.320 awarded the Meritorious Citizen Award at the fire station. To 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.720 this day, she brings me down to jar of her 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.680 homemade strawberry jelly for Christmas. And boy, that stuff will 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.480 put some folks out of business. More importantly, Miss Andrew 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.120 is still alive and doing well, and faced with that 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.640 same situation, I'd do it all over again. And according 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:22.279 to Justin Moore, that's just how that happened. Well, Justin, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.400 you earned that strawberry jelly, my friend. I'll tell you 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.560 something else. If I ever find myself in Orchard Lake, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.680 Michigan being attacked by floating flamingo, I ain't gonna be 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.880 hauling for Bob Seger to come save me. It's gonna 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:48.000 be Justin Moore and nobody else. Decoy dogs. I had 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.279 the pleasure several years ago before I started filming my 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.840 old palle clay chasing bears, to be introduced to some 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.720 of the coolest dog related hunts I'd ever been on. Now, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.240 I'd hunted coons, worlds, deer, quail, rabbits, hogs, and coyotes 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.360 with dogs of all makes and models, and I assumed 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.919 I had done just about every type of hunting imaginable 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.200 with a dog in Arkansas, and I was wrong. Through 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.719 an Internet hunting form, I ran across the guy from 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.839 North Arkansas who was not only a decoy dog hunter, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.800 but about the best in the business. I'd soon come 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.919 to find out. I never heard of decoy dogs or 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.159 what they were used for. That was all about to change. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.520 When I saw some footage connected with a man named 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.880 jeff Ryder. I told him I was intrigued with what 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.159 he was doing, that I was trying to get into 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.680 filming hunts and wanted to meet up and document what 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.440 he was doing. Over the course of the next couple 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.000 of years, I spent a lot of hours traveling and 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.000 filming some amazing dog work and interactions that, while were 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.880 exciting and action packed, were also providing a service to 0:06:55.040 --> 0:07:00.520 landowners and wildlife. Before all you lovers started lighting your 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:05.120 torches and issuing out pitchforks. The National Agricultural Statistics Service 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:10.040 reports that ninety five thousand caves were lost one year nationwide, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.720 and sixty five percent of the calf losses because of 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.840 predators were attributed to coyoties. Now, codies can have a 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.480 significant impact on cattle, sheep, and goats, but there there 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.080 can be original differences as well. They can be worse 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:30.000 in some places than others. Kansas, for example, sees coyoties 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.760 being responsible for eighty four percent of calf losses. Not 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.640 eighty four percent of losses to predators. Eighty four percent 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.840 of all losses are to old wiley Cody filling his 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.880 belly with baby bovines. That's a lot of calves. There's 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.160 also a lot of bees. Kansas is also where my 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.640 friend Jeff does a lot of his coat. Then more 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.320 on Jeffrey in just a minute. Coats also impact dear 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.800 another wildlife. After all, that's where they naturally get their groceries. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.720 And I get it they got a E two. But 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.160 a study in South Carolina involving ninety one radio collared 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:16.000 fawns saw fifty six of them killed by colds. That's 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.360 why of those jokers have got to be held in check. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:24.360 Enter the decoyed dog hunter as one method of controlling them. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.440 And like I said, until I met Jeff, I didn't 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.360 know there was such a thing or such an activity. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.160 He explained to me that there had been government contract 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.360 hunters for years out west whose sole purpose was to 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.520 control the colt population, and most all of them used 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.080 decoy dogs. Now y'all have heard me talk about how 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.280 my dad and his colt running buddies did it. They'd 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.760 gather up after dark on the timber company roads near home, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.560 and they'd make the colts hound by blowing a siren 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.800 at them, or mimicking the howl with their voices, or 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.960 finding scating the road and just cutting the dogs loose, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.439 and the race would be on, literally a race. They 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.679 chased them. They chased them through the woods and the 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.400 the dogs did through the woods and the river bottom 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.680 until the cold got away. Now rarely did they catch them, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.520 and they didn't want to catch them. They wanted them 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.600 to run so they could hear the hounds barking to 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.040 see whose dog was the best. Then come back and 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.480 do it again another time. And the longer the race went, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.440 the more testament to the dogs that keep up and 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.760 stay in the contest. We just drove around different roads 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.640 and keeping the dogs within the earshot and listening. Now, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.560 when using the decoy dog, the time of the day 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.160 you hunt and the ending is much different, especially for 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:54.880 the cows. Now here's how Jeff did it. When I 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.800 was filming them in Kansas. He drive for miles talking 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.560 to ranchers and farmers getting permission to hunt property specifically 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.800 for coyote control. Now this was in the days before 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.200 on next one, folks had to read maps, and Jeff 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.240 had a landownership plat book in his truck with property 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.080 owners marks that he'd gotten permission to access. And I 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.480 remember thumbing through that book, and I don't recall the estimate. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.280 He told me once about how many thousands of Acrecy 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.839 had permission to hunt coyotes on. But it was a lot, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.520 like a jillion. There's a jillion, and actual number, if 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.000 it is, I know it's a big one. And Jeff 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.439 had three of them. He knew those areas like folks 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.800 know their neighborhoods that they live in. And we drive 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.199 from my alls according to wind direction and the position 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.440 of the sun, and cherry picking the best spots to 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.560 set up and call a coat and break him once 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.840 and for all from the bad habit of eating cash 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.040 phones and building elaborate bombs and traps to catch road runner. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.920 We started daylight on that had creek bottoms and thickets 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.520 next to prairie ground and pastures with grass that was 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.120 short enough that you could see a good ways across it. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.560 Then he checked the wind direction and we'd set up 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.520 with the wind in our face or at least a 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.680 quarter and two us in one direction of the other. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.199 The reason being is if they smelled us before they 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.120 heard the call or engaged with the dog, the chances 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:28.560 of us even seeing them were drastically reduced. Kylds ain't dumb, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.079 and they're thriving everywhere because of their adaptability and weariness 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.800 when it comes to survival. But you can throw all 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.200 of that stuff out the window. Once they get focused 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.080 on that dog, they do some really wild stuff. Now 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.440 I've buried the hook deep enough, let's get to it. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.920 Check this out. We set up in a fence row 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.160 or beside a big round bala haea, the tree line 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.040 or brush topping. Nine times out of ten, we wasn't 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.480 wearing any camouflage. We was just in jeans, overalls and 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.079 T shirts and sitting on folding stools. And Jeff would 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.680 run a fox Pro predator call out about thirty yards 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.679 or so away, sometimes closer and come back and he'd 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.640 set beside me and the camera on one side and 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.720 his decoy dog spot on the other. Spot was a 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.520 bobtailed Catahoula curR cross that was the smartest dog as 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.079 I've ever seen. She was laid back, professional and knew 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.640 what her job was as well as any seasoned veteran. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.800 Her job was to be the judas to every coat 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.800 she could find. Jeff would kick that predator call off 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.160 with different sounds depending on the time of the year, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.400 and set back and await for a coat to reveal itself. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.960 All the coaches had to do was be in a 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.959 position where Spot could lock in on them. Couch sometimes 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.240 would be hundreds of yards away when we saw them 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.240 trotting closer to the sounds coming from that predator call. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.880 They moved in and out of the thickets and trees 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.040 like ghosts until they got within one hundred yards or so, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.720 and with spot laser focused on that coyotes, Jeff would 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.640 send her out towards the colt. Now eight times out 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.079 of ten, the cold would see Spot loping out towards 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.160 them and freeze until she crossed whatever distance that cayote 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.200 had chosen us close enough, and then they turned around 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.640 and start running away. But just before they hit the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.160 woods or a thicket, they'd always glanced back at Spot. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.120 And here's the cool part. Jeff had trained her and 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.000 conditioned her to retreat when the coach did this, and 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.480 it became so ingrained in her that he didn't even 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.439 bother toning her back anymore over their tracking collar. She 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.160 see that colt look back, and she'd voluntarily start back 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.960 towards where we were sitting, and just like setting the 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.080 hook on a fish, that colt would stop, turn around 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:59.000 and follow her. Now. Once that happened, our scent, our movement, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.280 and any other thing that would normally spook a coat 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.760 into another zip code went out the window. With the dishwater. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:11.120 They lost all natural fear of anything they were genetically 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:20.440 coated to avoid, mainly people. It was incredible to watch 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.000 the interaction between the dog and the colt, and every 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.360 stand would have the coat turn and chase Spot, then 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 turn and start back to safety, only to have Spot 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.280 turn around and go back. Then the coat would re 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.760 engage and Spot would once again make tracks back toward us, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:42.040 tolding the coat even closer. I've seen this back and 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.840 forth go several rounds until Jeff ended it all with 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.920 a well placed two twenty three round or turkey loads 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.440 at close range. I remember one of the first times 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.360 I hung with Jeff and witness this back and forth 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.320 between Spot and the coat. We were sitting on the 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.960 edge of a pl loud field in the Arkansas Delta, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.280 not far from where my brother Tim and I are 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.240 putting the SmackDown on the catfish in the Arkansas River. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.560 It was nearing sunset, and the last end of the 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.240 day was this one before we headed back to camp 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.480 and supper, and we walked down the river levee and 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.080 were more or less in the bald open setting on 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.880 the ground, resting against the field levee with us hoping 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.320 that it was tall enough to break up our outline 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.520 against the horizon. The field was muddy, and Jeff laid 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.120 the predator call in the seat of his hunt stool 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.440 about twenty five yards out in front of us, and 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.840 then he walked back through that gumbo mudding, settled back 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.200 down beside me, and he turned it on. Almost immediately. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.360 We saw one, two, then the third codey entering the 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.360 field a quarter of a mile away, heading toward the 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.480 diet rabbit sounds coming out of that collar that was 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.560 wailing out in front of us. Then they saw us 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.240 and they froze and spot right on. Q took off 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.200 like a labrador after ducking the decoys, and all three 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.480 of them, at different stages, started going back from where 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.400 they came. Just before hitting the field edge, they looked 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:15.120 back and spot did her thing. One by one, they 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.840 turned and followed her back, tried to catch her. She 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.480 was playing tag, but the coyotes weren't playing at all. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.000 She was an intruder and if they could, they had 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.520 to catch her and turn her into suffer. But Jeff 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.200 was ready to make sure that that wasn't going to happen. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.600 But back and forth they went, spotting all three colts 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.080 like a k nine yo yo. Every time they came 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.320 back they got a little closer. Jeff could have whacked 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.240 all three of them at any time, but we were 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.760 enjoying the show and it wasn't showing any signs of ending. Son. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.240 The predator call was twenty five yards in front of us, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.760 and at one time there was a cold walking around it, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.720 another one just behind it making laps. But the bravest 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.800 of them all was following the spot back to where 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:04.360 we sat in the bald open match. That one got 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.520 so close. When he turned to go back yet again, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.960 he kicked mud on me and my camera. He was 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.399 easily within ten feet to where we were sitting. I 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.720 could have jobbed him with a frog gig and never 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.159 fully stretched out my arm. It was crazy then it 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:24.800 got loud, bam bam. The end of two cold is 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 the third one, old, spooky, the one that never came 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.240 in as close as the others. He got away. The 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.159 thrill and enjoyment of seeing the interaction is what's so incredible. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.879 You know, I enjoyed cold hunting with my dad only 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.159 because he was there. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.720 hearing a good dog race as much as anybody, more 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.840 than most. But there's a reason I don't have a 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.440 pen full of cold dogs out behind my house. Well 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.560 there's probably several reasons, really, but the main one is 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.000 I don't enjoy it enough to justify owning a passive 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.639 of them. But hunting like he did, I had to 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.720 guess at what was going on out there? Where his 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.960 dog's really leading the pack or were they just allowedest 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.800 or was it Toby's or Raimonds getting the best of 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 all of them? You know, no one really knew, But 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.119 with a decoy dog, the only thing you wondered about 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.879 is why you hadn't heard of this, or why someone 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.359 hadn't told you about it, or why you hadn't tried 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:27.280 it before. Now it's fun, but it's not all action 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.040 all the time, you'll have stand after standing, have driven 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.200 miles and miles between them and zeroed on all of them. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.080 But just like that one good golf shot that keeps 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.160 Gary Believer Nukem out on the link swinging the wrenches 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.520 when it works, and you see a code attempting to 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.399 play his deadling ninja skills in the broad daylight up 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:53.920 close and personal. Man, it is a sight to behold, y'all. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.679 Check out Jeff's YouTube channel, Decoy Doggers. Reeve was going 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.760 to post up a link to it in the description, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.680 And while you're wandering around on there, ease on over 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.640 and smash the old subscribe button to our new Meat 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.240 Eater YouTube channel two. It's gonna have the audio to 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.280 all the podcasts and the video to the ones that 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.040 are filmed. And we just started filming the Bear Grease 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.000 Renders and that buffoonery will be up there soon too. 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.920 Lots of other stuff is coming and in the works, 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.280 and I'm excited for y'all to see it. I hope 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.240 everyone has a safe and happy Fourth of July, or 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.800 as I like to call it, America one England zero 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.680 day until next week. This is brit Reeves. Sign it off. 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:37.360 Y'all be careful.