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Speaker 1: I talked about the topic of knife hunting, do you
Speaker 1: know anything about that? Yeah? No, good? See it's working already. Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about knife hunting, chuck. Okay, Arguably
Speaker 1: it's the fairest way to hunt. And this is based
Speaker 1: on an article I wrote is knife Hunting the Fairest
Speaker 1: Way to Hunt, which is pretty subjective, and I was
Speaker 1: a little worried about, you know, me bringing my own
Speaker 1: opinions into it because I don't hunt. True, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of an open and chuck cakes, if you asked me, well,
Speaker 1: maybe so. And luckily, though, there is a there's a
Speaker 1: principle out there among hunters and wildlife managers. It's called
Speaker 1: the principle of fair chase, right, that there needs to
Speaker 1: be a balance between um, the hunter and the prey. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean like you can go out and spend tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars. You've got your a t V,
Speaker 1: You've got your really super duper camo, you've got your
Speaker 1: incredible scope in a deer exactly. There's you know, you
Speaker 1: can there there's a launder detergent that's that removes any
Speaker 1: odor whatsoever from you. You can put buck lur around,
Speaker 1: there's feeding says, There's all sorts of things you can
Speaker 1: do to an unsuspecting and well to raise your advantage
Speaker 1: to where it's it's not even sport any longer. It's
Speaker 1: just blood sport or target practice live animals. Right. Um, Now,
Speaker 1: the principle of fair chases you were saying, it's basically
Speaker 1: trying to strike a balance between the deer or whatever
Speaker 1: you're hunting. I guess it doesn't matter what you're hunting,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, so yeah, it applies across the board.
Speaker 1: And you can't give a deer gun, So no, you can't.
Speaker 1: And frankly, I think that would be a really bad idea.
Speaker 1: All we've done to them with our cars and with
Speaker 1: the hunters, right, don't give them cars or guns and
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. Right, What what fairer way to hunt
Speaker 1: is there than hunting with the knife? Right? I think
Speaker 1: that would be the only fair way to hunt that?
Speaker 1: Or bare hands? Yes, yeah, obviously bare hands going toe
Speaker 1: to toe with like a bear. Dude. Actually, you're at
Speaker 1: a disadvantage, you know, there's fair hair chase should be
Speaker 1: balanced in your favor at that point. And frankly, I
Speaker 1: mean probably all you're wearing is a loincloth, so everything's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt extra back a soiled loinecloth at that definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: so do you know much about knife hunting? Uh? Not
Speaker 1: personally from experience, but you know, I know you and
Speaker 1: I were talking about this a lot when you wrote
Speaker 1: the article. Um. One thing I did want to talk
Speaker 1: about first, though, was this thing you found about internet hunting,
Speaker 1: which thankfully was shut down soon after it started. But
Speaker 1: this is like the opposite spectrum, complete opposite. This guy
Speaker 1: in Texas launched a website where you could hunt remotely
Speaker 1: from your computer, and it was literally attached to a gun.
Speaker 1: You could you had a camera and you could look
Speaker 1: out on the wild range and see something, pan over
Speaker 1: to it with your mouse, click it, and the gun
Speaker 1: with fire. And lawmakers shut that down, you know too.
Speaker 1: It's sweet, thankfully, Yeah, which is I frankly applaud that.
Speaker 1: I mean, apparently it wasn't just animal rights people, hunters
Speaker 1: as well, like sportsmen's groups were like this has to
Speaker 1: go away, this can't be good, which is good to know. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: so we've got internet hunting band. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see any any bands on knife hunting based on
Speaker 1: questions of fairness. No, it's mostly used for wild boar, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is kind of I mean, I don't. I'm no hunter,
Speaker 1: but I think that kind of cool. First, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're about they get up to fifty
Speaker 1: pounds six feet long. There was there was one that
Speaker 1: went around um on the internet and I actually went
Speaker 1: onto Snopes and it was verified there was one that was, um,
Speaker 1: I think eleven feet long, right, what that? What's the
Speaker 1: name of that one? They called it like, um Jurassic
Speaker 1: pork or something like that, and so I was like,
Speaker 1: obviously this is a fake. I went on the steps.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, we verified it was part of an
Speaker 1: a p article. Was a knife it wasn't. It was
Speaker 1: shot with a pistol, and it turned out that it
Speaker 1: had been a family pet that was sold to this
Speaker 1: hunting preserve like two days before the guy shot. But
Speaker 1: so we've got a knife hunting. And basically what it
Speaker 1: is is you you send dogs out to go run
Speaker 1: after some some hogs who hide in the brush and
Speaker 1: they are startled. They're generally tranquil and they're not aggressive
Speaker 1: towards humans, but if you started them, they will run,
Speaker 1: and when they start running, you want to kind of
Speaker 1: get in between them and wherever they think they're going.
Speaker 1: And when they get close and if you actually push this,
Speaker 1: you know, seven hundred pound board to the ground and
Speaker 1: stab it and stab it to death, and it still
Speaker 1: results in the death of an animal. But if we're
Speaker 1: talking about whether or not knife hunting is fair, then
Speaker 1: arguably it's a lot fairer than being up in that tree. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would say, if you have the fortitude to leap
Speaker 1: from a bush on top of a seven hundred pound
Speaker 1: pig and stab it to death, then I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get in your way, right. And there was this one
Speaker 1: hunt who actually uh and it happened in nineteen six
Speaker 1: with this guy in Florida who not only knife hunted,
Speaker 1: he used throwing knots. That was crazy. Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1: I'll have to af forward you the link. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: And while I'm forwarding to Chuck, you guys should go
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