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Speaker 1: full swing. You kind of just have to be there

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Speaker 1: it impacts the hunter at a deep level. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to over romanticize it, but the experiences that we

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Speaker 1: have in wild places are often significant highlights in our lives,

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Speaker 1: and these stories on this episode celebrate these moments of

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Speaker 1: our friends. A lot of these stories are funny, and

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Speaker 1: we're stacking them in like Cordwood this fall because the

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Speaker 1: stories just keep getting better. This is our third Deer

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Speaker 1: Stories episode. On this episode, a lot of stuff seems

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Speaker 1: to be falling out of trees, and again, once again,

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Speaker 1: a few people get thrown under the bus, and as always,

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Speaker 1: some really big deer get killed. But something's really special.

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Speaker 2: This week we will hear.

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Speaker 1: From one of our living members of the Bear Grease

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and I really doubt that you're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to miss this one. And very soon First Lights

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Speaker 1: Black Friday sales will be coming up. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the best times of the year to buy gear from

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Speaker 1: the live tour tickets in Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Dallas, and Austin.

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Speaker 1: And if you're hoping to come to Fedville, you're out

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Speaker 1: of luck. Fedbele Arkansas has sold out. Thank you all

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Speaker 3: A third brother pulls up, has nothing to do with

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Speaker 3: the shooting, drags the deer over there to his truck,

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Speaker 1: My name is Klay Nukem and this is the Bear

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Speaker 1: Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search

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Speaker 1: for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the

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Speaker 1: story of Americans who lived their.

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Speaker 2: Lives close to the land.

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Speaker 1: Presented by FHF Gear, American made, purpose built hunting and

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Speaker 1: fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the

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Speaker 1: place as we explore. Our first story is unique because

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Speaker 1: it's being told while the buck that we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Just last week, I had the privilege of being in

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Speaker 1: camp with my friend Jason Kaylor from Telephone, Texas when

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Speaker 1: he killed a dandy buck on a place that we

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Speaker 1: the foot of a big timbered ridge. Above him is

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Speaker 1: He's kind of like hunting on the edge open rangeland

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Speaker 4: it's perfect rout time and coming in the root, and

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Speaker 4: it's been hot weather, and you know, just been hopping

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Speaker 4: was easing down the road, there clays, these trails coming

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Speaker 4: Here today, I was like, I'm gonna go hang in

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Speaker 4: that red oak tree. And I'd gotten aggravated this morning.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if you've hunted white tails long enough,

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Speaker 4: You you see there and you're like, oh, that's a

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Speaker 5: And I put my bow this tree. I'm in.

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Speaker 4: I need to saw two limbs to finish climbing to

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Speaker 4: and I got so much buck favor I'm shaking. So

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Speaker 5: Like I was in a recliner. And I was like, man,

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Speaker 4: It's pretty hard to get me super excited, but that

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Speaker 5: What did I just do?

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize how big I how big he was,

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Speaker 4: so I really thought that he was a clean ten.

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize that he was a five by six.

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize he was a main trame eleven point.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think he was as big as he is.

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Speaker 4: You know, I was I was thinking I'd probably killed

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Speaker 4: five and six eighths. But today's been a today's been

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Speaker 5: Day at dear camp. I think tomorrow is gonna be better.

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Speaker 1: Jason says he'd never set in that trie if it

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Speaker 1: and that redoak probably wasn't much more than ten inches

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Speaker 1: from two other very recent fresh hunts. But I asked

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Speaker 1: like any good hunter, he did so.

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Speaker 4: About twelve years ago, I was hunting a place in

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Speaker 4: He's actually thirty two yard shot. Anyways, I drew my

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Speaker 4: I make a really good shot on him. I can

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Speaker 4: And at this time, you know, I'm an eighty yard

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Speaker 4: he's about seventy two yards standing in this thicket, and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I'm gonna shoot him again, and he's

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Speaker 4: just standing there, blood running out of him, but he's

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Speaker 4: both hands to do this, and I'm like, where's my boat?

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Speaker 5: And I look and I have dropped my bow.

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Speaker 4: I don't shoot a wrist strap, and I guess for

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Speaker 4: and I guess when I shot that, I just let

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Speaker 4: But my bow was laying on the ground and I

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Speaker 5: Did a bend to kim?

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Speaker 4: I don't know how it landed because I didn't even

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Speaker 4: know I dropped it. So I had a trail camera

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Speaker 4: set up there, and I have a picture of the

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Speaker 4: deer and all of his points, no broke off, nothing.

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Speaker 4: I shoot the deer and when I get to him,

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Speaker 4: he had seven inches of a flyer broke off of

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Speaker 6: Dustin Craig from Western Arkansas, and this is my deer story.

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Speaker 6: So this started out about two months ago. A buddy

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Speaker 6: And I said, okay, I'll come by and get them.

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Speaker 6: So I'd say all that to say, it's not really

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Speaker 1: I have never fallen out of a tree on account

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Speaker 3: There was four, four or five of those guys. There

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Speaker 3: And I had these young walker dogs. Well, they didn't

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Speaker 2: Was have her out.

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Speaker 3: And these first two brothers are still standing their fighting.

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Speaker 1: Gary has one of those laughs that makes it hard

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Speaker 1: And we still don't know what happened to that buck

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Speaker 1: is unique and it's close to home for me. It's

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Speaker 1: told by none other the nineteen year old baron John

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Speaker 1: Like Jason's first story. This one is fresh.

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Speaker 7: This is a dear story about the biggest buck that

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Speaker 7: a just an enormous buck, a mainframe eleven kickers everywhere.

434
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 7: We heard some rumors about him getting killed, but we

435
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 7: really don't know what happened to him. But we go

436
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 7: a couple of years, the biggest deer that we see

437
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 7: are these little basket racked eight points, maybe every now

438
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 7: and then a three and a half year old deer,

439
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 7: And so I started hunting public land pretty hard and

440
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 7: kind of fall in love with that. This year, we

441
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 7: got access to a new section of private land right

442
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 7: there in the area that was just this big, thick,

443
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 7: overgrown thicket. We had a camera just kind of for

444
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 7: the sake of having a camera out there, just to

445
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 7: see what was going on, and for the first month

446
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 7: of season, we didn't see we didn't have much on it.

447
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 7: And November third, we get a picture of a ten

448
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 7: point is all we could tell. But he was super heavy,

449
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 7: and so that got us excited because all of a

450
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 7: sudden we had, you know, a nice buck to chase,

451
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 7: and we started getting more pictures of him and we

452
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 7: realized he's way bigger than we thought. The more pictures

453
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 7: we get of him, we kind of look at him,

454
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 7: we realized he was probably well I asked him it was.

455
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 7: He was one hundred and forty eight inch dear and

456
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 7: he had the two big kickers coming off of his

457
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 7: G twos. So we hunt him hard last week and

458
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 7: don't see him, but he comes in at night and

459
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 7: we'd see pictures of him just crossing through this property.

460
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 7: I had a deer camp this weekend, and so I

461
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 7: wasn't able to hunt him. But the day after the

462
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 7: deer camp, there's a big cold front got down to

463
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,479
Speaker 7: twenty three degrees, and so that morning I went and

464
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 7: I sat a field with the six y five creed more.

465
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 7: I kept seeing it. There were doze busting out of

466
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 7: this property. And this property is just thick as can be.

467
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,239
Speaker 7: I mean, there's almost no way to hunt it other

468
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 7: than just the edges. And so I hunt till about noon,

469
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 7: and I had something to go do in town. I

470
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 7: come back, get a little bit of a late start

471
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 7: out there by about three, and I set up on

472
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 7: the far side of this field. I went over there

473
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 7: and I got a really solid rest where I could

474
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 7: shoot prone across this field and God set up to

475
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 7: where I felt really good to four hundred and I

476
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 7: don't see any deer until about thirty minutes before daylight,

477
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 7: and six doves come out the bottom corner of it,

478
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 7: and they start to circle way down to my right

479
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 7: until eventually I just lose sight of them and some timber.

480
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 7: I keep sitting there and I kind of hear something

481
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 7: back behind me up the mountain. So basically behind me

482
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 7: there's timber. In front of me, there's four hundred yards

483
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 7: of field, and I'm sitting next to a giant.

484
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: White oak that has a little cedar right at the base.

485
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 7: And I just thought, you know, a deer could come

486
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 7: in from behind there, and I could tell it wasn't

487
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 7: an acre, and could tell it wasn't a squirrel, and

488
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 7: I actually thought, that's probably a deer up there.

489
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,239
Speaker 2: I just didn't think too much about it.

490
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 7: Well, about ten minutes later, with twenty minutes of shooting

491
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 7: light left, I hear behind me and I could tell

492
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 7: those deer were about to come, and I was like, well,

493
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 7: i'd better get set up just in case when they

494
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 7: pop out. And so I get my gun and I

495
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 7: just get I push myself into this wide up tree

496
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 7: as hard as I could, and these does come over

497
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 7: the hill, you know, whenever I first see him, they're

498
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 7: like ten yards from me.

499
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: But I didn't see that buck.

500
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 7: So I put my hat bill over my face, and

501
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 7: I just sunk into that tree and just tried so

502
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 7: hard to imagine I was just a rock.

503
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: And hope that they wouldn't spook.

504
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 7: And so they come into the edge of this field

505
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 7: and they're all eating, I mean literally probably within five

506
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 7: yards of me, and I was, you know, I was like, dang,

507
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 7: that big buck. He's gonna come in from behind me

508
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 7: over across that field. And I'm over here trying not

509
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 7: to spook these does. And I sit there, sit there,

510
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 7: sit there, and eventually my calve he gets so tired,

511
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 7: and it's starting to cramp, and my arms from holding

512
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 7: that gun up started to get tired, and my hands

513
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 7: were freezing because I didn't have gloves, and I was like,

514
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 7: am I about to have to spook these does? Because

515
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 7: I can't hold this position? And about the time I

516
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 7: was thinking that, from up on the mountain, I hear

517
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 7: where I heard that noise earlier here, and I.

518
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 2: Was like, holy spokes, this might be it.

519
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 7: Up where I heard that grunt is it's kind of skylined,

520
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 7: and the sunset was real pretty that day, and I

521
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 7: could just see a deer coming down that and he

522
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 7: stops and I can see his brow ties and they're

523
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 7: kind of were curved outward, and I was like, that

524
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 7: looks like that looks like him. So I keep waiting,

525
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 7: and he comes down the mountain, grunting the whole way,

526
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 7: and finally I get a glimpse of his rack in

527
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 7: the silhouette and I could see these two big kickers,

528
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 7: and I could see his crab claws out front, and

529
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 7: I realized that this was him and he is in range.

530
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 7: But the issue is I can't get my gun up

531
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 7: because there's six dos around me. And then I'm also like, well, crap,

532
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 7: I had this gun set up for a four hundred

533
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 7: yard shot. I'm zoomed all the way in turrets set

534
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 7: for a four hundred yard shot, and I was like,

535
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 7: this is about to be a twenty five yard shot.

536
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: While as just slowly.

537
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 7: As I can, I move my hand off the pistol

538
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 7: grip with that sig and I pushed the magnification all

539
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 7: the way out, and then I was just like, I'm

540
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 7: just gonna have to aim for his heart, like real low,

541
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 7: five inches low from where I want to hit, because

542
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 7: there's no way I'm gonna be able to turn that

543
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 7: turret before without those dose. Seeing he gets twenty five

544
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 7: yards from me, and I flick that safety and that

545
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 7: buck walks right behind some trees and right he's about

546
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 7: to go, I move my gun a little, and he

547
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 7: stops and looks down at me, and I freeze, and

548
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 7: then he goes back to doing what he's doing. I

549
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 7: get my scope up and I can see his head

550
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 7: pop out from behind these trees, and I mean, there

551
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 7: was just no doubt it was him. And this is

552
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 7: the biggest buck I'd ever even seen while hunting. And

553
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 7: he takes a step out with his left foot. I

554
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 7: could see a little sliver of his vitals. I almost

555
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 7: pulled the trigger, but decide to wait. He takes a

556
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 7: step with his right and then steps uphill with his left,

557
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 7: opening up his whole side, and I just put it

558
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 7: right above where the white meets the brown, and I

559
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 7: squeezed the trigger and I hear these does run from

560
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 7: behind me, but I don't hear anything up the mountain,

561
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 7: and I was just like, oh my gosh, did that

562
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 7: just happen? And I jack another shell in, and I mean,

563
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 7: it's like five minutes to legal shooting light, so I

564
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 7: can't see anything, but I just knew I didn't hear

565
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 7: a deer running and so I'd run up there and

566
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 7: whenever I get up there, he's laying on the ground dead.

567
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 7: I mean, it was just it was just one of

568
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 7: those moments. I mean, anyone who's killed, I mean, not

569
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 7: even a big buck, but just like a deer that's

570
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 7: really special to him, Like there's it's it's it's impossible

571
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 7: to describe, but if you know that feeling, you know

572
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 7: that feeling. And whenever I walked up to the buck,

573
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 7: I mean, I thank God for because I just knew,

574
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 7: I mean just the way that that all worked out,

575
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 7: that this was absolutely not on my own efforts, and

576
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 7: I put my hands on the deer and just kind

577
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 7: of like recognize the moment for what it was.

578
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: I mean, called my dad and the first thing he said,

579
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: I don't know how he could tell, but.

580
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 7: He just goes, did you get him? And I said,

581
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 7: I got him? And I mean, it's still hard to believe.

582
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 7: The deer that I've been used to hunting, the biggest

583
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 7: you'll see is maybe one thirty this year net scored

584
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 7: or gross scored.

585
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: One fifty four and a half.

586
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 7: Oh and here's the craziest part of the story is

587
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 7: the big deer we chased four years ago that we

588
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 7: called Jody. This year is undeniably Jody's offspring. Whenever you

589
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 7: put the two pictures up side by side, you would

590
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 7: almost think it was the same, dear, and so we

591
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 7: named this one Jody two. But this was my first

592
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 7: truly big buck, and it is still kind of hard

593
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 7: for me to.

594
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: Believe that was some good hunting bear John. And what

595
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm most proud of is that he killed a much,

596
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: much smaller buck on public land a few days before

597
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: and was ecstatic about that one and recognize its value

598
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: almost equal to the big one. I was in Oklahoma

599
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: hunting when he killed that buck, and I drove straight

600
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: home after his call. There was no way I was

601
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: gonna miss getting to see Bear's buck in the flesh

602
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: and miss the celebration. When I got home and we

603
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: saw the buck, I told him, let's just let the

604
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: deer hang overnight in the barn and we'll skin it

605
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: in the morning. You only get so many hours in

606
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: a lifetime to really enjoy success in these special moments.

607
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: As much as we seek after these big deer, the

608
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: times that we actually see them alive on the hoof

609
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: usually just add up to minutes in the lifetime, and

610
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: after you kill one, I just kind of wanted to

611
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: soak it in and we did. Our next story is

612
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: pretty unique. Bar Neukom would like to introduce us to

613
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: his friend Weston Taylor, who is riding high on a

614
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: good streak of hunting.

615
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: So I've grown up with Weston.

616
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 7: He was one of my first hunt buddies, and I've

617
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 7: been going to his deer camp since I was maybe

618
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 7: thirteen or fourteen, and We've done a lot of hunting together,

619
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 7: squirrel hunting, deer hunting, even some bear hunting.

620
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 2: But for some.

621
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 7: Context, Weston he drives a nineteen ninety three single cab

622
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 7: Chevrolet pickup that I think has a hole rusted in

623
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 7: the muffler, so it has a little.

624
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: Bit of a growl to it.

625
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 7: And Weston will drive that thing around in the woods.

626
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: He hunts mostly public land.

627
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 5: His whole life.

628
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 7: He's under public land, and you'll hear that thing coming

629
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 7: for miles away and you'll know that Weston's coming back

630
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 7: to camp.

631
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 8: Well.

632
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he used to have a giant eagle like

633
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 7: sticker or on the on the rear glass, this giant eagle.

634
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 2: So anyway, it was quite the rig.

635
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: Here is Weston. He's also known as the Eagle amongst

636
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: his friends.

637
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 9: Well, I'm Weston Taylor. I've been hunting with my dad

638
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 9: since I was about four eighteen years old and killed

639
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 9: nineteen year.

640
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 7: This year before deer season, my buddies and I we

641
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 7: were sitting around, Weston being one of them, and you know,

642
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 7: we were talking about like, you know, I'll probably won't

643
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 7: shoot anything under two and a half and.

644
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: Try and save my tags for the rut, and.

645
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 7: Weston goes, he goes, you know, I don't think I've

646
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 7: ever passed a deer in my life, and we were

647
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,479
Speaker 7: all just like, what, like, how do you not pass

648
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 7: a deer?

649
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: So the Eagle has never purposefully let a single deer

650
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: walk past him. I wanted to ask him if this

651
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: is true, that.

652
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 9: Is correct, that is correct. Yeah, it just never really

653
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 9: happened growing up. It's just like I never seen anybody

654
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 9: do it.

655
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 5: I never.

656
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 9: It was never really talked about. And also it's like

657
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 9: where are we hunted, Like if the deer like walk past,

658
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 9: you might be the one dear you see all season.

659
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 9: So it's kind of like, I mean, take your chances,

660
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 9: and I mean I mean I did try to pass

661
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 9: the deer one time, but it like it kind of

662
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 9: lingered a little too long and I was like, ah,

663
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 9: I don't know, took a shot at it. But yeah,

664
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 9: it's like every time a deer pot walks past me,

665
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 9: like it seems like I just kind of black out

666
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 9: and just like sometimes it's just sometimes there's a dead deer,

667
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 9: sometimes they're not. It kind of depends on the situation,

668
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 9: you know, either miss or skin into deer, and it's like,

669
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 9: oh uh, yeah, it's just kind of like anything that

670
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 9: walks in front of me, I get about us amped up,

671
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 9: Like any deer, I get amped up.

672
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 5: And yeah, that's what I mean.

673
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 9: It is kind of like feels like I'm just kind

674
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 9: of like whatever happens happens, Like I just kind of

675
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 9: go into problem lotis seems like but.

676
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 2: Purely instinctual.

677
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 7: Another interesting fact about Weston is that he's killed more

678
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 7: three points than anybody I have ever met in my life.

679
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 7: I don't know how he I mean, like almost every

680
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 7: little buck that he shoots has three points, which I've

681
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 7: recently heard a term for that called a spork. It's

682
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 7: not a spike, it's not a fork, it's a spork.

683
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 7: Weston has killed an unbelievable amount of sparks. And anyway,

684
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 7: Weston is a He's a great guy. Anyone who meets

685
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 7: him really likes him. Good hunter, but he has one

686
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 7: of the most unbelievable streaks I've ever heard of in

687
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 7: my life of eighteen years deer hunting hard, never once

688
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 7: past the deer.

689
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 1: I'd like to give a big salute to Weston Taylor

690
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: the Eagle for carrying on the tradition of the American

691
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: meat hunter. Weston's dad is Matt Taylor, who spoke on

692
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: the last episode about their deer camp. These guys have

693
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: a rich history and hunting, and Matt has taught all

694
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: of his kids to be ethical hunters.

695
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 2: And these guys.

696
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: Take wild game meat incredibly serious. They live off of it,

697
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: and they love it. Our next story is from my

698
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: good friend Shane Auman. Shane is an incredible whitetail hunter

699
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: and actually had multiple videos on Primetime Bucks back in

700
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: the early two thousands. Shane shot professional archery for years

701
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: and was sponsored by Matthews for fifteen years. He's not

702
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: an amateur, and that's why this story is so good, all.

703
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 10: Right, Shane, I'm Alpine, Arkansas, born and raised in Boone County,

704
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 10: just as Clay likes to discuss and talk about this

705
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 10: typical redneck hillbilly that likes to deer hunt, mainly with

706
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 10: a bow. But in twenty fourteen, I'd come across and

707
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 10: got information of a pretty nice deer, had a piece

708
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 10: of property I could hunt on. But the neighbors had

709
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 10: been talking about seeing a really good deer and I

710
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 10: had got word of it, and they's talking to me

711
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 10: about it, and they none of those are none of

712
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 10: those guys as bow hunters. They are all gun hunters

713
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 10: and don't hunt till you know, mid November. So I'd

714
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 10: got to trying to find or get pictures of the deer.

715
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 10: So I started, you know, had cameras out like everybody does.

716
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 10: And this is you know, mid Septembers about you know,

717
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 10: it's probably the second week of October or so started

718
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 10: getting a few, seeing a few more bucks right on scrapes,

719
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 10: and then a really good one did show up, you know,

720
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 10: really really nice nine pointer five before with a lot

721
00:39:59,360 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 10: of trash on.

722
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 5: He's on his right side.

723
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 10: So anyway, the way I like to hunt, goat standing

724
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 10: on my back, you know, never stays anywhere more than

725
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 10: a couple of times. So that's what I was doing

726
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 10: the whole the whole time. You know, I'd get pictures

727
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 10: of a deer on a field edge, and I'd be

728
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 10: looking for any areas where they're starting to scrape for

729
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 10: white oaks they's feeding on, trying to get horned in

730
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 10: on doughs, knowing it's just clockwork around home. You know,

731
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 10: time muzzloder season opens, that's right before Halloween. There's always

732
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 10: going to be some bucks at home, just breeding dose.

733
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 5: I mean, that's just bottom line. I mean it has

734
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 5: been that way for as long as I can remember.

735
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 10: So anyway, i'd i'd been hunting the deer, hadn't seen him,

736
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 10: seeing lots of activity. I mean, it had been storming, raining,

737
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 10: coal front blew in. It was just perfect north wind.

738
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,959
Speaker 10: So I had a I had a place in mind

739
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 10: I'd been wanting to sit that I thought needed to

740
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 10: be north wind.

741
00:40:58,640 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 5: And it's at the head of a holler.

742
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 10: And this this holler where this holler cuts in right

743
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,479
Speaker 10: makes you know, really good flat on the ridge comes

744
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 10: rolls around old growed up field home place, just one

745
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 10: of those bucky looking places and a few scattered white

746
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 10: oaks in it, and you know, some precimmons. I mean,

747
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 10: just just place you ought to see deer messing around,

748
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 10: walked in, stand on my back, found a tree and

749
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 10: as I'm standing there looking I could see I could

750
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 10: see several you know, big horn bushes and a few

751
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 10: scrapes around here and there. So oh yeah, I'm just

752
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 10: going to get in this particular tree. So I got

753
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 10: crawled up in it. I pulled my bow up, hang

754
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 10: my bow up on my hangar, had everything ready to go,

755
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 10: looking around, and there was one little limb come out

756
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 10: in front of me here, and I thought, well, I

757
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 10: need to I'll just snap that off. Well, I on

758
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 10: the end of my platform, just reach out there, snap

759
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 10: that limb off. And somehow my safety line on my

760
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 10: harness hooked my bow and I didn't really realize it,

761
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 10: and I turned around messing around looking at some other stuff,

762
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 10: just getting everything situated.

763
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 5: Knocked my bow off.

764
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 10: The hook lands on the ground, you knowin I was

765
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 10: like fifteen foot wasn't super high this cedar bush there.

766
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 5: I mean no, I didn't think much about it.

767
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 10: I mean I didn't hit very hard. So I crawled down.

768
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 10: I get to my bow, go back up the tree,

769
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 10: pull it up. Look it over and then nothing looks

770
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 10: out ordinary. I mean nothing, I mean, everything looks fine.

771
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: I mean I.

772
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 5: Everything looks good.

773
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 2: Pulled the bow and blah blah blah.

774
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 10: So I sitting there thinking about it, you know, and

775
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 10: I had I had three arrows in my quiver, which

776
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 10: is mistake number one. You've got a six arrow quiver.

777
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 10: You need all three arrow you know, all your arrows

778
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 10: in your quiver. But I shot a couple of coyoats

779
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 10: like a couple of days before, you know, something like

780
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 10: you know, and didn't didn't take time to put them.

781
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 5: Back in, which still no excuse.

782
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 10: But in my mind I kept thinking, well, how to

783
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 10: shoot my bow at that leaf over there, so just

784
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 10: double checking.

785
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 5: No, that's not good either, there's no need doing that.

786
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 5: That's just a.

787
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 10: Waste, you know, waste air, brake era or whatever. Anyhow,

788
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 10: sat there dwelled on that, finally decided it's all right.

789
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 10: But the other kicker to that is something I've always

790
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 10: had with me, always.

791
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 5: Carry with me.

792
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 10: I'd have a little bag that I keep watered up

793
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 10: in my fanny pack or in my cargo pockets, on

794
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 10: my hunting pants or whatever that has an extra knock

795
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 10: a field point and a broad head wrench, so absolutely

796
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 10: no problem to check the bow.

797
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 5: But anyway did not.

798
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 10: So anyway, continue on. We're like thirty minutes before dark everything,

799
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 10: you know, just the prime time. No deer had filtered through.

800
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 10: And then I thought I heard a grunt. Well then

801
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 10: I kept really fixated over and watching it, and about

802
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 10: that time, coming through old broom sage, I see it

803
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 10: a dou will coming and she is just kind of

804
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 10: skirting along and buck pushing her. Well, as soon as

805
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 10: I seen the buck, I mean, no, he's a good one,

806
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 10: you know, I got ready, getting ready. Then it's the

807
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 10: deer I had seen and had pictures of. He comes

808
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 10: in pushing that dough and gets thirty yards broadside just stops.

809
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 10: He's standing there, jacking around in a scrape and paw

810
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 10: on the ground and mean this this is yeah, this

811
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 10: is it. So I got drawed anchored, and I aimed

812
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 10: on him, and I went and that shot broke. I

813
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 10: mean there was no doubt in my mind that deer

814
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 10: was dead. I mean there was zeroed outs except when

815
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 10: I seen the era go about two foot over him

816
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 10: and to you know, right went shot way high into

817
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 10: the right. Well, I knew exactly you know, well that

818
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 10: wasn't that wasn't me, and that wasn't my bow's fault.

819
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 5: That was all because I knocked it off and didn't

820
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 5: check it. So anyway, I deer run off.

821
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 10: You know, he had no idea what happened in the dough.

822
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 10: She's went the other way, And I thought, well, I'll

823
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 10: go ahead and get down right quick, try not to

824
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 10: booger anything else, and got over aarraw was clean, thank god,

825
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 10: I mean didn't didn't foul shooting him, didn't gut shoot him, know,

826
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 10: nothing like that. So anyhow, he gathered up my stuff

827
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 10: and pouted all the way back to the.

828
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 5: Truck and got to my house.

829
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 10: So I've I've always had a place at my house

830
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 10: where I could shoot, even you know, after dark. I've

831
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 10: got to had a big outside light in my target

832
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 10: so I could shoot twenty yards pretty easy. So I've

833
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 10: opened the door, flipped the lights on, shot the bow,

834
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 10: and yeah, it was like you know, at twenty yards,

835
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 10: like a foot to the right and eighteen inches high. Anyway,

836
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 10: eventually messed around looking at everything I could tell my sight.

837
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 5: I could see where it had bent. Should have caught it,

838
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 5: but anyway, I didn't.

839
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 10: To add more insult to the injury that one of

840
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 10: the neighbors kills a big deer and he's one hundred

841
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 10: and fifty seven inch deer. I mean, you can't ask

842
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 10: for a better and it's the deer. Yeah, I mean,

843
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 10: I've got picture here. He is a nyeu pointer, you know,

844
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 10: on the same trash on the right. I mean, just unbelievable, nice,

845
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 10: super nice. Can't ask for a better deer for you know,

846
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 10: full out acron deer. This ain't no food plots, nothing there.

847
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 10: I mean, it's just an all out mountain acron deer.

848
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 10: And I mean it's one of them. It's just a

849
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 10: freak and a rarity that you see.

850
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: But anyway, of all the stories that Shane Aumand could

851
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: have told, I appreciate that he told that one. Shane's

852
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: as good a white tail hunter and archery shooter as

853
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: they make, and he told us about the one that

854
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: got away when he did something stupid. For our final story,

855
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: we've saved the best for last. And it's not really

856
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: that it's the best story, even though it's an incredible story.

857
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: It's really more about the unique person telling the story.

858
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: This is one of the few living Bear Grease Hall

859
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: of Fame members my dear friend James Lawrence. Below his

860
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: name on the Hall of Fame placa, it says Arkansas backwoodsman.

861
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: That's a good description of James. And this story is

862
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: about a buck that he killed just a few days ago.

863
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 8: This hunt. The last two or three years, and maybe

864
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 8: longer than that, I've still hunted that area. And it

865
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 8: seems like all the sign that I was finding still hunting,

866
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 8: whether it be scrapes, trails, signed just tracks for seeing deer,

867
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 8: it all led to this holly tree. And that holly

868
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 8: tree is probably seventy yards from where my blind's at.

869
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 8: But my blind was the traffic of the deer, and

870
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 8: I've put up cameras and the traffic of the deer

871
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 8: is all coming from that holly tree. This one's about

872
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 8: sixty yards from where I've got my blind. This hunt,

873
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 8: I've had two good bucks that I've hunting. When of

874
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 8: them's a just a long time eight point and the

875
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 8: other one's it's a six or six. But uh, the

876
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 8: t fours has broke. I mean you still got cauntible point,

877
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 8: nice boat. But I was in my blind and I

878
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 8: picked up this movement just the edge of vision be

879
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 8: where I see in the brush. I could see movement

880
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 8: and see deer and the shape that I come up with,

881
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 8: I mean was watching. I finally focused in on it

882
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 8: and it was a deer standing and he stood. I mean,

883
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 8: he's been standing there for a long time. And this

884
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 8: don't make any sense for a white tailed deer, deer

885
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 8: in the rut, when there's deer over twenty yards from

886
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 8: him or thirty and him's standing in their broadside. I

887
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 8: had the bright idea of maybe a grunting with a

888
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 8: grunt call. Had a grunt call in my backpack that

889
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 8: I've carried for I don't know, many many many years.

890
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 8: Uh it's to me, it works better, sounds better. But

891
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 8: one day I got caught without it out of my backpack.

892
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 8: I lift it in my coat and my backpack, but

893
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 8: at in it, so I didn't have my backpack. So

894
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 8: as soon as I could after that, I bought a

895
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 8: grunt call. All it does it just looked like the

896
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 8: one I had, which was a nighting hail. Anyway, I

897
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 8: thought I would grunt to him because I seen movement,

898
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 8: and I used two calls to grunt hurt, you know,

899
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 8: just not enough. I figured to could hear it it's

900
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 8: really to call too loud or too much. The deer

901
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 8: turned a little bit, but it didn't move. I mean

902
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 8: this this deer stood there forever. The deer turned, and

903
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 8: this other deer was still out here. I mean I

904
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 8: could see them, but I mean, if they were bucks,

905
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 8: I and it took a shot at them because I

906
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 8: could just see their legs, and that deer kind of

907
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 8: turned and went out and looked straight at me. And

908
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 8: when he did, all I seen was that horns come

909
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 8: out and the head and neck, and I thought, oh

910
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 8: my word, you know, but there's nothing I could do

911
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 8: about it. He didn't come in. I grinded maybe three times,

912
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 8: just one note. This drunk, he slipped out on me.

913
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 8: I guess I could just see movement. And then I

914
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 8: didn't see the deer, but the other deer, I didn't

915
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 8: see them, just see them kind of moveing went out

916
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 8: of sight. So he did notice the factor pick up

917
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 8: the grunt. So I would do just a low grunt,

918
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 8: probably thirty minutes apart, just one note hurt. An hour later,

919
00:50:55,600 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 8: I was drinking just once low, and here this buck

920
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 8: appeared ten yards away walking. But that buck come to

921
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 8: my grunt. I grabbed my rifle come up, got cross

922
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 8: hairs and hair. I towardst it off. The deer went bawn,

923
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 8: so I unse uped it out and the deer was

924
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 8: trying to get up. So I put him down. And

925
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 8: it turned out it was the twelve point that I

926
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,399
Speaker 8: had pictures of, you.

927
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 4: Know, So.

928
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 8: Patted myself on the back tickle to death, counted the

929
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 8: point six by six. I looked at the where did

930
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 8: I hit him? All I done was just clipped to

931
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 8: his back. It didn't even bring blood, It just burnt,

932
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 8: I guess the backbone, and I jar There was a

933
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 8: matter of just seconds that deer would have got up

934
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 8: and run off. Scared me to death. When I actually

935
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 8: seen I thought he was down and I just had

936
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 8: to finish him off. The second one, the one that

937
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 8: killed him, he was fixing to get up and go,

938
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 8: But that positively was a grunt call brought him in.

939
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: The stories we bring back from wild places can't be

940
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: bought with money, They can't be replicated, and they enrich

941
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: our lives with something intangible, something primitive, something that only

942
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: comes from engagement with the wild. It's only in the

943
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: mind of the hunter that the imagery of the hunt

944
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: can be replayed, and our words bring it all to

945
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: life inside of a story, when it's expressed into something

946
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: that's truly magical and can be shared with others. I'm

947
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 1: kind of sad that our Dear Stories episodes are coming

948
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: to an end this year, but I look forward to

949
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: making more stories in the future. I cannot thank you

950
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: enough for listening to Bear Grease this country life in

951
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: the Backwoods University. Keep the wild places wild because that's

952
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: where the bears live.