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Speaker 1: Late October is upon us.

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Speaker 2: The acrons are falling, the clover's eight inches tall, and

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Speaker 2: the woods are full of scrapes, and it's deer season.

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Speaker 2: These Deer Stories episodes are some of my favorite. They

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Speaker 2: feel like when your buddy rolls back up into camp

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Speaker 2: and he has that look on his face and you

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Speaker 2: never know what story is about to come out of

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Speaker 2: his mouth. I guarantee you that all these stories will

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Speaker 2: surprise you. We've got seven storytellers and they hail from

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Speaker 2: the states of Alabama, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. And I really

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Speaker 2: doubt that you're gonna want to miss this one. Some

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Speaker 2: of these are really gonna surprise you. And hey, if

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Speaker 2: you're looking for a unique heirloom deer call that I

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Speaker 2: think is the most versatile call on the market, check

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Speaker 2: out the Phelps Acron grunner in Osage Orange. This call

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Speaker 2: was designed by me and Jason Phelps. It's an inhale

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Speaker 2: exhale o bleat and buck grunt, two calls in one

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Speaker 2: Helps game costs.

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Speaker 3: You know, I washed that neude out and I cleaned

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Speaker 3: it up the pists I could, you know. Of course,

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Speaker 3: it had one of those spare tard that deals down

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Speaker 3: in it you know, in the back there, and somehow

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Speaker 3: that blood, that blood got doubt in the spare tard

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Speaker 3: and this is no lie. For a year after that

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Speaker 3: when it got real hot in that it's smelt like

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Speaker 3: a bucknare And that's not that is no lie. And

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you when we sold it, it's smelt like

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Speaker 3: a buckner what he got in there. But uh oh,

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Speaker 3: but just you know, you ain't got no sins if

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Speaker 3: you do stuff like that. But that that's just what

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Speaker 3: we did. You know, we just told it up there

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Speaker 3: like we had good sins.

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Speaker 2: My name is Clay nukemb This is the Bear Grease Podcast,

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Speaker 2: where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search for insight

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Speaker 2: and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the story of

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

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

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Speaker 2: gear as designed to be as rugged as the places

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Speaker 2: we explore. Our first story is from the Great State

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Speaker 2: of Alabama and involves a variety of wildlife from three

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Speaker 2: different genera species from the rich biota of the American South.

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Speaker 2: Our storyteller, who I'll let introduce himself, analyze the reaction

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Speaker 2: of his hunting partner to all these critters, and decided

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Speaker 2: that he should marry her. The story is short with

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Speaker 2: a lot of surprises.

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Speaker 4: And this is Daniel Williams. I'm attacks herrom Us up

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Speaker 4: in North Alabama, and when me and my wife were dating,

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Speaker 4: this was about six months before we got married. I

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Speaker 4: decided to take her down to our hunting club in

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Speaker 4: Selma and take her deer hunting with me. She had

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Speaker 4: never killed a deer and never been deer hunting that

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Speaker 4: many times, but she wanted to go. So we went

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Speaker 4: down and sat on the edge of a big swamp.

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Speaker 4: We actually sat on the ground. The whole thing was

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Speaker 4: the edge that water. And while we're sitting there, we

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Speaker 4: haven't been there probably two hours. My wife starts getting

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Speaker 4: what are you doing? She'll be quiet. Well, she pulls

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Speaker 4: nastiest spider you've ever seen in your life. I don't

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Speaker 4: know what kind of it was. It was nasty. Then

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Speaker 4: shehes grabbing that thing, kills it, and every thing like,

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Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I can't leave. It just happened unless

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Speaker 4: Mary and just got bit by a spider and you still,

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Speaker 4: dear honey. So we're good. Well, about an hour goes by,

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Speaker 4: it's probably four four point thirty pm. Well, I here's

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Speaker 4: the last thing on my mind is snake. And I

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Speaker 4: look down and the tail of a snake has just

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Speaker 4: lo and behold. About thirty minutes goes by. It's starting

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Speaker 4: sure enough, it wasn't a few seconds here come deer. Well,

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Speaker 4: I hear splash, and hear splashing. I start picking up

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Speaker 4: with buckshot on a dog drive. I'm talking about face plants,

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Speaker 4: I stand up, I got my gun up, was looking

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Speaker 4: I didn't even hear you shoot. I was like, I

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Speaker 4: what I mean, my gun ain't even gone. I said,

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Speaker 2: That was a good story, Danny, and sounds like you

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Speaker 2: found a partner for life. Our next story is from

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Speaker 2: my friend Brad the Snakeman Birchfield of mountain Berg, Arkansas.

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Speaker 2: You see him handling snakes on the bear Grease Render.

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Speaker 2: This story involves some unfortunate lip reading.

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Speaker 1: Here's bread.

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Speaker 4: This is Brad Birchfield.

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Speaker 5: This is a story maybe more about parenting than it

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Speaker 5: is about deer honey. But as a child, my dad

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Speaker 5: was always working and didn't really have time to taking

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Speaker 5: It was very boring and cold. And when my son

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Speaker 5: got old enough to go hunting, I thought, I don't

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Speaker 5: want him to have a different experience. I want him

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Speaker 5: to be missed bull as I was. So we would

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Speaker 5: not have iPads or games or being a nice blind

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Speaker 5: he was about six at this point, and he wasn't

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Speaker 5: really ready to shoot a big gun. He'd shot twenty

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Speaker 5: really sure of hisself on a rifle. So he went

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Speaker 5: think it was probably Thanksgiving Day, and we were sitting there,

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Speaker 5: and of course, all the way out there, I'm telling

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Speaker 5: I'm telling him, you know, we got to wait, and

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Speaker 3: Magic hour right before dusk.

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Speaker 5: We're sitting there and saw a few doze and he

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Speaker 5: and he looks at me, and I look at him,

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Speaker 5: and I, I want all your listeners to do this,

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Speaker 5: say the word be still, very clearly and very purposely.

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Speaker 5: So I turned around to him and he's looking at me,

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Speaker 5: and I mouthed the words be still, and he looked

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Speaker 5: I reiterated be still, and he nodded and like he understood,

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Speaker 5: Deer was standing broadside about eighty yards, so I shot it,

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Speaker 5: course we were deep into the outdoor channel shows like

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Speaker 5: Ted NuGet and Meat Eater, of course, and we high

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Speaker 5: fived and I told him, I said, you know, the

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Speaker 5: excited and kind of started calming down. He kind of

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Speaker 5: looked at me and I said, why did you tell

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Speaker 5: me to pee slowly? And I said what? And he said,

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Speaker 5: you told me to pea slowly? And I said, what

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Speaker 5: He goes, well, I did, and at that point I

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Speaker 3: But I said, why did you pee your pants?

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Speaker 5: And he said, I thought you were You were, you know,

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Speaker 5: wanted me to pee quietly, and so I did. And

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Speaker 5: so we had a long walk back to the house,

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Speaker 5: while he's like, would you carry me? And I said no,

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Speaker 5: because you're covered in pea, And so that was our

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Speaker 2: That's funny, Brad, You've raised an obedient son. Sounds like

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Speaker 2: some good parenting, but just some unfortunate lip reading. Our

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Speaker 2: next story is from Johnny Johnson from eastern Oklahoma. You

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Speaker 2: may remember him from one of the most compelling episodes

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five called Confessions of a Former Outlaw.

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Speaker 2: It was episode three fourteen. Johnny told me a dear

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Speaker 2: story in passing that truly blew my mind. I'm still

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Speaker 2: fixated on it. And he told it to me by accident,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the old man was on the road, and I

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Speaker 6: Good at there is, I said, Dan, there he is

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Speaker 6: Well he shot the old man's man shot and the

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Speaker 2: To clarify, two shots have been fired at the same buck.

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Speaker 6: And the deer went behind a brush and we went

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Speaker 1: I mean as big a deer as maybe y'all ever killed.

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Speaker 6: Probably bigger dean thing in there, bigger, yeah, big, And

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Speaker 3: Go around here.

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Speaker 6: We'll owe that for you. Boy. What's a good And

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Speaker 6: that's the best one we've seen this year. Dan was

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Speaker 2: Just to make this crystal clear, Dan killed this once

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Speaker 1: Now it was Dan.

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Speaker 2: Now, now you instigated the conversation, though, are you? You're

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Speaker 6: No, it didn't shock him. Mobilla, He didn't saying that

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Speaker 6: He's good. All most people would have argued with you, yeah,

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Speaker 6: That's just the way Dan and I are. He liked

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to wrap my mind around giving away one

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Speaker 1: I asked Johnny a simple question.

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Speaker 4: Did you do that?

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Speaker 6: I liked the old fellow. I know him. He was

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Speaker 2: That was a good one to quit on. Can you

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Speaker 2: on this podcast. Our next storyteller needs no introduction. It's

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Speaker 2: Andy's stories always seem to end with a good laugh.

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Speaker 3: So have I had an uncle name of uh, you

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Speaker 3: about eight o'clock, right between me and him on the

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00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: main mountain, the's a little notch in there, and they

435
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: was a gobbler turkey come into their goblin, come right

436
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 3: through that notch. Now this is middle of November, November

437
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 3: fifteenth goblin, just like it was in spring. He just

438
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 3: come right in over the top of herding gobble over

439
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 3: the mountain. He come right in on top and gobble

440
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 3: gobble real big. When he got off on the side

441
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 3: and off down, just gobbled out of here. And that

442
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 3: same morning I sat there, and of course back in

443
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 3: those days, we had turkeys, and we had lots of turkeys.

444
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 3: And I was sitting up there, I hadn't seen a deer,

445
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 3: hadn't seen anything, and I heard something and it just

446
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 3: start got getting louder and louder. And there was forty one.

447
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 3: I counted forty one turkeys that come in in one bunch.

448
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 3: And it was that time of year where they'd all

449
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 3: got together. There was six or seven big gobblers in

450
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: the bunch. There was young turkeys, there was you know,

451
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 3: there was hens. But the best I can remember, there

452
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 3: was forty one that I counted because they were all

453
00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 3: over me, you know, just digging the woods up. So anyway, long,

454
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 3: about ten o'clock back north, you could hear this dog coming.

455
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 3: It's buried, he hearing, and uh. In a minute, he

456
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 3: topped out across the highway across on the next mountain.

457
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 3: He come right through what would call Cicero Gap, come

458
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 3: right through the gap north of us. And I mean

459
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 3: it was a single dog and he was he was

460
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 3: he was running. I mean he was you could tell

461
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 3: he was, and he was you could tell he was

462
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 3: a good dog. And anyway, he just come on this

463
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 3: ow ou and come right off down out across the

464
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: highway out where I'm sitting in that gap. You can

465
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: look across west over there and you can see a

466
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 3: big long leg that went right into that gap where

467
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: Uncle Larry was. Now Uncle Larry he was a shotgun guy,

468
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 3: but that particularly morning he had taken his thirty thirty.

469
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 3: He had he had a thirty thirty and he very

470
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: seldom every hundred with it, but we were still hunting,

471
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 3: so he had taken it that morning. But anyway, that

472
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 3: dog just oh ow ow. He hit the end of

473
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 3: that leg. He gets about halfway up bo and so

474
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 3: it's pretty exciting, you know. And of course we didn't

475
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 3: have phones, we didn't have radios, we didn't have nothing.

476
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 3: But I knew the dog.

477
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 4: Just outright it.

478
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 3: It was just hushed, and so I knew, I knew

479
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 3: he'd killed the deer. So I couldn't stand. It was

480
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 3: about ten thirty, I sailed off the haller, you know,

481
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: And of course I could. I wasn't but twenty three

482
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 3: years old, so I could run up a pine tree,

483
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: you know, and right over there I went. But I'll

484
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 3: never forget walking up into that gap. And when I

485
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 3: walked up into the gap, I could see the deer's

486
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 3: horns laying. I seen the deer before I actually seen

487
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 3: unc Laurie. I got up there, Clay, and that was

488
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: at that time. I had never seen a buck deer

489
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 3: like that. I mean he was a mainframe twelve. I

490
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 3: mean a biggin, I mean a big buck. I was

491
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 3: just a stop.

492
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 4: I don't know.

493
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 3: I was more proud of. I mean, I was ecstatic

494
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 3: over the thing, you know. And Uncle Lauri was just

495
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 3: like another day, you know. But he was tickled too

496
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 3: because he had a couple of sets of horns at

497
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 3: his house. He had another mainframe twelve, and he had

498
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: a mainframe fourteen that he kept inside his house. Uh

499
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 3: in the fourteen point and I mean it wasn't it

500
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 3: was a mainframe fourteen. It wasn't kickers, but he was narrow.

501
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 3: But the other one was a lot like the one

502
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 3: he killed. Anyway, we shook hands, and you know, I

503
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 3: was just so happy for him. Anyway, we grabbed the

504
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 3: deer and we dragged him off down the mountain and

505
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 3: it's a long way, it's probably it's probably a quarter

506
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 3: maybe back to the rig. He didn't want to gut

507
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: him in the gap, you know, so we drug him

508
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 3: off the mountain and got off down on the branch

509
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 3: and we got down there. We gutted that dude and

510
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 3: washed him out the best we could. Wasn't hold a

511
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 3: lot of water branch. We washed him out the best

512
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 3: we could, and so we get him. We dragged him

513
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: out down to to the to the old Dotson. So

514
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 3: we've got the buck deer and the dog and we're

515
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 3: at the dots and well, I just soake him up

516
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 3: the hatch that dots and we just picked that gutted

517
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: deer up and we just saw he right in the

518
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 3: back of that dots that Dotson. It kind of proppy,

519
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 3: but before he wouldn't bleed out, you know what, the

520
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 3: thing like, I had good sense and throw that dog

521
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 3: right in on top.

522
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: Of h if you don't.

523
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 3: So anyway, we take off and we come back and

524
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 3: we bring him. I lived out at the lake out

525
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: here on eighth West at the time, and we brought

526
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 3: him out. I've got a picture of that deer being

527
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 3: him as a polaroid picture of me and him with

528
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 3: that deer hanging from a tree. And we gutted the deer.

529
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: I'm not gutted, but we skinned the deer and we

530
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: cut him in half. We halfed him, and we called

531
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 3: the guy whose name was on the collar. It was

532
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 3: one of the Looney boys that lived back over. They

533
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 3: were hunting in there south of Nunley, back in there

534
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 3: on that still house country. And that deer he was

535
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 3: headed to cost you know, I mean, and that's why

536
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 3: they do lyne out. But anyway, we took that deer, half,

537
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: that deer and that dog and we went to his house.

538
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 3: And you know, that's what you're supposed to do back then.

539
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 3: You know, somebody's dogs running deer. You know, they deserved

540
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 3: their portion of it. And he was tickled to death

541
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: because a lot of people didn't do that. But we

542
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 3: took him. We took him half, the deer and the dog.

543
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: But the car. You know, I washed that dude out

544
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 3: and I cleaned it up the fenst I could you know,

545
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: of course, it had one of those spare tard that

546
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 3: deals down in it, you know, in the back there,

547
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 3: and somehow that blood, that blood got doubted the spare

548
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 3: tard And this is no lie. For a year after

549
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 3: that when it got real hot and it's melt like

550
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: a bucknaire and that's not no lie. And I'm telling

551
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 3: you when we sold it, it's smelt like a bucknare

552
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: what they got out of it there? But uh, but

553
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 3: just you know, you ain't got no sis if you

554
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 3: do stuff like that. But that's just what we did.

555
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 3: You know, we just thowed it up there like we

556
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 3: had good sins.

557
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a great story. As he spoke, I

558
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 2: could just see the landscape. I could see those turkeys,

559
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 2: the dog, the buck, and you can imagine them cramming

560
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 2: that buck and that dog in that little car and

561
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: giving half of the deer to the owner of the dog.

562
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: That's some og stuff, as in original gangster stuff. That

563
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: was a great story, Andy, Thank you so much for

564
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: telling it. Our next story is from a good friend

565
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: of Andy's and mine. He's a veteran white tail hunter

566
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 2: named Mitch Sykes, also from western Arkansas. This is about

567
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 2: one of the best bucks Mitch is ever killed in

568
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: the strange thing that he did.

569
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you this, dear, here's another deer that

570
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 7: I learned a learned something about. He's one of the

571
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 7: better deer i've killed, just a heavy eleven point, but

572
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 7: the year before he was just a real nice ten point.

573
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 7: And believe it or not, he was just about as

574
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 7: big the year before, maybe not as heavy, and he

575
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 7: didn't have that kicker right there, but a really good deer.

576
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 7: And he was on our place down there where we hunt,

577
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 7: and my daughter that's the one she had her heart

578
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 7: set on. And I hunted down there a few times,

579
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 7: and every time I hunted, I saw him and he was.

580
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 4: Just he was too big to pass.

581
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 7: But I passed him because I kept thinking she'd get

582
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 7: a shot at him, and she never did and ended up.

583
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 7: You know, we go into the next year, and I

584
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 7: don't know why. I started putting out a camera, probably

585
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 7: the fifteenth thought, no, maybe about the first October. And

586
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 7: he is down there, solid at every place where deer

587
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 7: scrape and deer travel, he's there, and he's a little bigger,

588
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 7: and I mean, she had her heart set on him.

589
00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 4: And she doesn't bow hunt.

590
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 7: So Muslim season comes and she was in college. She

591
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 7: hunted him that first weekend and didn't seem but I

592
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 7: was just getting his picture daytime picture. It just wouldn't

593
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 7: be where she was at nighttime. I was getting pictures

594
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 7: of him. I didn't think he was leaving the place.

595
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 7: He was just at every camera, just staying down there.

596
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 7: Had a bunch of dos down there in some other bucks,

597
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 7: but he was there every day. And I think I

598
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 7: hunted him maybe a couple of days early in the week.

599
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 7: And the last weekend of Musloaden was coming on, and

600
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 7: I took off that Friday to hunt, and I didn't

601
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 7: want to hunt down there because I knew she was

602
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 7: going to get to come in and hunt over the weekend.

603
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 7: So I've got a place leased that I cut hay

604
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 7: off of. It's about almost three miles down the river.

605
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 7: I hadn't been in there. I've got an old buddy

606
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 7: stand that's in a tree that's I'm just hoping that

607
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 7: the strap's not rotten, you know. It's one of those

608
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 7: that's just there. And I thought, I'm going to go

609
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 7: down there for a change of scenery. And I think

610
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 7: my wife, going to work maybe the morning before, had

611
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 7: seen a good buck crossed the Highway right in there,

612
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 7: going into that part of the kind of into that area,

613
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 7: and I thought, well, I'll go down there and see

614
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 7: what I see. Big old long hay field. It's real narrow,

615
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 7: but it's right on the river, and right between the

616
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 7: field and the river there's a bunch of switch came,

617
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 7: some big old hardwoods. So normally see quite a few

618
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 7: deer in there. In that morning. I remember when I

619
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 7: got up in my stand, I didn't cut. I didn't

620
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 7: cut hay because it had some Johnson grass in it,

621
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 7: and we got an early frost, and I didn't want

622
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 7: to put up bad hay anyway. That Johnson grass had

623
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 7: turned white, and sometimes you don't want to do that

624
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 7: when it gets stressed like that, feed it the cows.

625
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 7: So there was still some pretty tall Johnson grass out

626
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 7: in this field that I.

627
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 3: Had walked in.

628
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 7: I'd walk right up the edge of it, got up

629
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 7: in my stand, and when I got up there, it

630
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 7: was a full moon that morning, and I got settled down,

631
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 7: and when I looked I looked down there in the field,

632
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 7: I seen something in the moonlight. I could see something white.

633
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 7: I could tell it was moving, and I didn't know

634
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 7: if it was a skunk's tail or something. But I

635
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 7: could tell something was moving. I got my binoculars and

636
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 7: it was a buck bedded down not fifty yards from

637
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 7: me in that Johnson grass, just a i'm gonna say

638
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 7: maybe a two and a half year old eight point

639
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 7: real white horn. Is not a big deer at all,

640
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 7: but even bedded down, And I thought, man, how did

641
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 7: I ever, how did that dear let me walk in here?

642
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 7: And not because I had a headlamp on, you know,

643
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 7: I don't know.

644
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: He just stayed put.

645
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 7: But when I got up elevated like that, I could see.

646
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 7: But anyway, as he got closer to daylight, the deer

647
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 7: finally got up and he just walked right straight away

648
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 7: from me. And right on the edge of that field,

649
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 7: there's a bunch of big pinoak trees and they dropped

650
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 7: penocacres and them deer love and pinocacres, and a bunch

651
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 7: of low laying branches. There's scrapes all up and down

652
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 7: the edge of that. He kind of walked over there

653
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 7: to the edge of that field and went into switch

654
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 7: cane and went out of sight. It was right about

655
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,240
Speaker 7: to break, right about the break of daylight. In anyway,

656
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 7: it started getting a little bit lighter, and I just

657
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 7: took my binoclars and I thought, well, it's you know,

658
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 7: I can probably see to the far end with these binoculars,

659
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 7: and I just kind of scanned the field. And when

660
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 7: I got back behind me the way I had walked in,

661
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 7: I seen a deer standing there under a pinoak tree

662
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 7: making a scrape. And as soon as I seen it.

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00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 3: I said, that is a big buck.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's a big buck. And I was nervous

665
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 7: as could be because he was about one hundred and

666
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 7: twenty five yards from me, and that field edge stays

667
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 7: that and now I'm not comfortable shooting that far with

668
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 7: my mussloader. I normally shoot my musloorder about once a

669
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 7: year at fifty yards and I'm about an inch high,

670
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 7: and I call that good. Yeah, And I remember thinking,

671
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 7: I hope he I hope he comes closer to me.

672
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 7: But I knew he was going to go right down

673
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 7: that field edge where all those scrapes were, and he

674
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 7: ended up going right down the edge of that and

675
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 7: I had to watch him walk probably about one hundred

676
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 7: yards till he got to where I could actually shoot

677
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 7: at him. And he was a little over one hundred

678
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 7: yards and I just I remembered, I just I just

679
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 7: held a little bit higher than I should, you know,

680
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 7: kind of like a real high shoulder shot. And when

681
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 7: I shot, he took off out of there like I

682
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 7: had not touched him, just perfect, just.

683
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 4: Out of sight.

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Speaker 7: And I sat up there like you normally do on

685
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 7: an hour or so, you know, worrying about my shot,

686
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 7: replaying it in my mind, and got down and went

687
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 7: over there. And actually when I got out into the

688
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 7: field and I could see, I could see him laying

689
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 7: out there, and I was real surprised. When I got

690
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 7: to him, I thought, that is that eleven point that

691
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 7: we my daughter has been hunting, that I've been getting

692
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 7: tons and tons.

693
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 4: Of pictures up.

694
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 7: Well, I pulled my card that day and I had

695
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 7: this buck on my place. I think it was like

696
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 7: at three point thirty nine am, and I killed him

697
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 7: about seven am. Three miles it's about two and a

698
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 7: half miles down the river. So I would have never

699
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 7: believed unbelievable. But you sit there and think, I mean

700
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 7: a lot of that's hey, met us and switch. I

701
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 7: mean it's not hard terrain, but an old buck just

702
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 7: taken off. I mean me and you could be there

703
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 7: in you know, an hour or less than that, But

704
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 7: you know I was. I was kind of sad for her,

705
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 7: but I was excited.

706
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 8: When you shot that. You didn't think you had. I

707
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 8: had no idea shooting a big butck. Yes, yeah, actually,

708
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 8: and he was. I actually thought he was. You know,

709
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 8: if I'd have missed him, I would have not thought

710
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 8: he was that deer. I would have thought he was bigger.

711
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 8: They always looked bigger. But I thought he was always

712
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 8: a really big buck.

713
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: But he is a beautiful deer man.

714
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 4: He is a good deer.

715
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: You learn so much from stories like this. Sometimes you

716
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 2: wonder where a new buck comes from, and other times

717
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: you wonder where a buck goes when he never comes back.

718
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: It's rare.

719
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 2: Someone is on the receiving end of both questions. Thank you, Mitch.

720
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 2: Our next story is from the one and only Pablo

721
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 2: escaval from Alabama, episode three twenty three of Bear Grease.

722
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: You can listen to his whole life story, which is

723
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 2: very interesting. This their story involves the shedding of clothes.

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00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 9: Hey, Hello, So my name is Pablo Esqun. I'm from Bailuton, Alabama,

725
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 9: originally from Costa Rica. And as I progress with my

726
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 9: hunting career. You know, I killed that a point bug

727
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 9: rather the small bug. Being the first year ever I

728
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 9: went into a drought. A couple of years went by,

729
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 9: grinding my way in the woods man trying to find

730
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 9: another one. And I'm on this piece of public where

731
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 9: it was a rifle days. So as I'm walking down well,

732
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 9: I set up for the morning, didn't see anything, climb

733
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 9: back down and keep scouting. Dashed hunting like, still hunting

734
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 9: my way into it. Finally made it down on these

735
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 9: holler sat down for a little bit, didn't see much

736
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 9: another you know, two three hours went by and next

737
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 9: thing you know, I'm waking up because I was asleeping right,

738
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 9: so I woke out for a quick nap, and I

739
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 9: was like, well, I might as well keep on hunting.

740
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 9: It's about one o'clock in the evening. As I'm still

741
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,479
Speaker 9: hunting my way into the woods, I thought I seen

742
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 9: something moving maybe about one hundred yards. Stopped, got down

743
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 9: on my knees the briers and everything was a little

744
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 9: bit high, and I decided to just hunker down and wait.

745
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 4: And I waited, and of course in.

746
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 9: That moment, every noise becomes a deer, every moving leave

747
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 9: any bush becomes a deer. Right, So I'm not having

748
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 9: a good time because I'm second gazing myself. And eventually,

749
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 9: after a good forty five minutes of standing still, I

750
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 9: come to realize that no, I'm I'm fooling myself and

751
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 9: I have to keep going. So I stood up and

752
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 9: took two steps. Boom, a spike jumps up and takes

753
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 9: up running, And I was about to cry, man, because

754
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 9: I was like, that was the deer that I was

755
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 9: looking for. He runs and he hugs to the right

756
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 9: side of a mountain and just goes up. So it

757
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 9: broke my heart once again. Then I made another mistake

758
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 9: that I was so close, especially being on this route,

759
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 9: and I sat on the ruck, like literally on the

760
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 9: only rug that I was pretty much right on the spot,

761
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 9: sat on it, put my rifle on the ground, and

762
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 9: I was reflecting about like, man, how come I keep

763
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 9: making these mistakes? How come I keep failing? I'm just

764
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 9: not good enough for this. Right. So as I'm beating

765
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 9: on myself right there, I heard something and I look

766
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 9: up and it's that book that comes down the hill

767
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 9: and it stops maybe about forty yards looking at me.

768
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 9: While I'm sitting on the rug. The rifle is on

769
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 9: the ground, so I'm just like we're doing like a

770
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 9: staring contest looking at each other. It's like, oh my god.

771
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 9: He takes two steps and I picked up the rifle.

772
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 9: He takes two more and stops, and I got a

773
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 9: perfect broadshot on him, smoked him with the thirty oh six.

774
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 4: He takes up.

775
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 9: Running piles up.

776
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 3: Man.

777
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 9: Man, man, we're talking about like a pump dude, you know.

778
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 9: Because I was like, I don't know where he came

779
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 9: back out. So I got to him. I remember, I

780
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 9: took videos and pictures and I was extremely excited, even

781
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 9: though it was only a spike. But once again I

782
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 9: was breaking the eyes on this bribe, I mean, on

783
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 9: this piece of public rud. So walk up to him

784
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 9: and then the phone begins. Now I got a dragon,

785
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 9: and I forgot that I was doing a stalk hunting.

786
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 9: You know, I'm like three miles away from the truck,

787
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 9: and I said, not a big deal. Man. At the time,

788
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 9: I didn't have a saddle like I do now. I

789
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 9: had a climber and he was the one made with

790
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 9: his steel instead of aluminum. So he was sixty pounds

791
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 9: plus the buck plus the rifle I started making my

792
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 9: way out and he got hot. He got very hot

793
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 9: that day. And I started stripping down my clothes as

794
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 9: I was walking up.

795
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 4: Man.

796
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 9: I took my jacket up there, and I took my

797
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 9: t shirt up. Then I took my pants off and

798
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 9: I made it on top of the hill and I

799
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 9: was literally on my box, just on my underwear, and

800
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 9: this old man.

801
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 4: Comes up and he was looking at me. He's like,

802
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 4: are you hine? Are you okay?

803
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 9: And I was like man gasping for air, panting and

804
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 9: I was like.

805
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 4: To kill a buck. He's like, what happened with your code?

806
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 6: Man?

807
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 9: And I said, well, it's too hot. And I've been

808
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 9: dragging him all the way from that holler. So that

809
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 9: old man, he was kind enough that he helped me

810
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 9: dragging all the way to the truck. And I didn't

811
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 9: have a knife if at the time either as usual,

812
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 9: so I was, you know, all the guts, everything is

813
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 9: stealing on him. But I was able to make it.

814
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 9: And that was the bugs or buck, you know, because

815
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 9: I end up walking up with my underwear because I

816
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 9: was man, seriously, he was really hot. He was like

817
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 9: a live threaten and I was it might have been

818
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 9: out that bad, but I was. I was feeling the

819
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 9: need to like I hot to cool up. I'm gonna

820
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 9: make it, and I sure did. I sure did make

821
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 9: it and make it with him.

822
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: That was a good story, Pablo.

823
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: I always appreciate your appetite for learning and your ability

824
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 2: to be self deprecating. It's hard not to like somebody

825
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: that's humble. Thank you so much. Our final story is

826
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 2: from an old gentleman from Alabama. He's got walls full

827
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: of big deer and a custom pine coffin sitting on

828
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: sawhorses ready for when his time comes. There aren't many

829
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 2: folks like him. I'll let him introduce himself.

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00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 10: I'm Claude Strada from Gastenberg, Alabama. I got an old

831
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 10: family the home. I've made a hunting camp out and

832
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 10: it entertained a lot of guests over the years, and

833
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 10: I considered the best free hunting lodge in Alabama. And

834
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 10: a lady killed a buck last year. We've been hunting

835
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 10: deal here for thirty years and she was the one

836
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 10: hundred and thirty fourth person to kill her first buck

837
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 10: hunting out of my campouse, hunting from my camp out,

838
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 10: and I just liked being around people, and I like

839
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 10: I like entertaining. My wife and I have entertained some

840
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 10: parties up to two hundred folks before. We just liked

841
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 10: to entertain and give them a chance to hunt. A

842
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 10: lot of folks didn't have a place to hunt and

843
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 10: didn't know a lot of them didn't know anything about hunting.

844
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 10: But then I found out. I don't think I've ever

845
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 10: had a woman miss a shop or girl. They're just

846
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 10: pretty much one hundred percent on. But we've had some

847
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 10: great hunts and great times. This was a house built

848
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 10: in eighteen ninety three. It was a railroad town, and

849
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 10: when the railroad came through, houses popped up and it

850
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 10: was in the family and I ended up with it

851
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 10: and just knocked out a couple of walls and made

852
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 10: a living area and kitchen and the rest of its bedrooms.

853
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 10: I got I think nine beds, and he scattered around.

854
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 10: It's just kind of kind of the headquarters. So I

855
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 10: started in seventy six. That's when I started turkey hunting.

856
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 10: I went back and wrote fifteen or twenty pages of

857
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 10: recapt of what I had done up until then, and

858
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 10: then since seventy six, every hunt, deal, hunt, turkey hunt,

859
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 10: fishing trip, everything is documented you know, hundreds of pages

860
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 10: and ultra fine, and I can go back and tell

861
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 10: you everybody ever killed a deal on the place, every

862
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 10: hunt I've been on, whether I killed a turkey or not,

863
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 10: I write the hunt up and I go back and

864
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 10: read them occasionally, you know, just pick up when I

865
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 10: got on my fourth book.

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Speaker 5: And.

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Speaker 10: It's something I've enjoyed. I don't let many folk anybody

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Speaker 10: read it because I can talk pretty bad about you

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Speaker 10: in it. If you mess up, I can get pretty brutal.

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Speaker 2: Here's a memorable story that involves the men's cologne, Jade East.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Jade East.

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Speaker 10: And they've asked me to see if I can tell

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Speaker 10: a deal story. I'm gonna tell the DS toy first.

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Speaker 1: I had three.

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Speaker 10: Guys from Florida with me, went up to all of

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Speaker 10: them met my brother in law, Lynn Skipper, to gold

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Speaker 10: deal hunting. We were a full day, about thirty minutes

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Speaker 10: and Lynn got out of his car and and we

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Speaker 10: got out, and he reached back in the car and

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Speaker 10: got a bottle of Jdas and put it all over

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Speaker 10: him and we all laughed, said what are you doing?

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Speaker 10: He said, Well, if you want to kill a deal,

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Speaker 10: you got to put on jds, and so we were laughing.

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Speaker 10: You could hels a quarter mile. So all of them

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Speaker 10: put on jade East and they went on in the woods.

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Speaker 10: Lynn walked me in and told him where to go,

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Speaker 10: and I sat in the truck waiting, and about daylight,

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Speaker 10: a big buck some dough came right by me, but

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Speaker 10: I wasn't gonna shoot one. And about eight o'clock all

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Speaker 10: four of them had shot, and I cranked up my

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Speaker 10: true and went in the woods and picked them up.

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Speaker 10: And all four of them had killed nice bucks and

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Speaker 10: then had killed a beautiful seventeen point And it was

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Speaker 10: all because of the jade East lime flavored. Now it's

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Speaker 10: just a perfume, a man's perfume. You put on a

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Speaker 10: little bit, not poll all over you, you know.

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Speaker 6: But it worked.

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Speaker 10: It was just a miracle, having to catch every buck

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Speaker 10: in the world in rough that day, moving round.

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Speaker 2: It's funny the things that you remember from the deer hunting.

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Speaker 2: All I know is those boys must have been playing

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Speaker 2: the wind. I can't thank you enough for listening to

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Speaker 2: bear Grease. These stories always speak to my soul. I

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Speaker 2: feel like deer stories carry inside of them a value system.

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Speaker 2: When you hear a storyteller talk. You can tell what

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Speaker 2: he values by what he emphasizes, what he remembers, how

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Speaker 2: he interprets the situation, and it always just gets me

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Speaker 2: fired up for deer hunting and just makes me grateful,

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Speaker 2: grateful to be able to hunt such a majestic beast

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Speaker 2: as the white tailed deer, America's favorite big game animal.

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Speaker 2: And what a beautiful, precious, sacred time that it is

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Speaker 2: in October, in November when we're hunting them. Brent Lake

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Speaker 2: and I can't thank you enough for listening to this

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Speaker 2: bear grease feed. Thank you for supporting our partners, thank

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Speaker 2: you for sharing this podcast with your friends. And I

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Speaker 2: think we've got one more Deer Stories episode left in US.

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Speaker 2: So keep the wild places wild, because that's where the

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Speaker 2: bears and the bucks live