Latest / The MeatEater Podcast / Ep. 103 Thirteen Bullets
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- 0:08Speaker 1: This is me eat your podcast coming at you shirtless, severely,
- 0:13Speaker 1: bug bitten and in my case, underwear listening n E podcast,
- 0:18Speaker 1: you can't predict anything presented by first light. Go farther,
- 0:23Speaker 1: stay longer, All right? Start? What why? Why are you
- 0:38Speaker 1: guys uncomfortable? How? How I'm sitting at a desk like
- 0:40Speaker 1: an evening newscaster. Well you have your pants on, right? Yes? Okay,
- 0:45Speaker 1: because nowadays there was a time when you could do that,
- 0:48Speaker 1: but nowadays you need to have I'm at a desk
- 0:51Speaker 1: with a computer and papers in front of me, and
- 0:53Speaker 1: it's intimidating to uh Ryan Callahan and Janice Poodles. It is.
- 0:59Speaker 1: It's seems like we're just not all part of the
- 1:02Speaker 1: conversation here. I'm not to swivel. Well, I'm leading from
- 1:05Speaker 1: over here at this desk. Like the old time. There
- 1:10Speaker 1: was a time when America would tune in at night
- 1:14Speaker 1: in a and a middle aged white gentleman would explain
- 1:19Speaker 1: to you what's going on in the world, and it
- 1:21Speaker 1: was a shared experience, and oftentimes they were pantless. And
- 1:25Speaker 1: we're hearkening back to those days with me here at
- 1:27Speaker 1: this desk with these pieces of paper. Um Callahan, do
- 1:34Speaker 1: you remember the last time we spoke, we talked about
- 1:37Speaker 1: a fellow by the name of Kaido. Oh. He was
- 1:41Speaker 1: breaking down how he does sushi salmon. That he berries
- 1:48Speaker 1: it in kashr salt for eight minutes. So he takes
- 1:51Speaker 1: a fish flat skin on, berries it in kashr salt
- 1:56Speaker 1: for eight minutes. There's berries in salt for eight minutes.
- 1:59Speaker 1: And then rinse is the flay, and that's where you
- 2:01Speaker 1: how you get buttery. Yeah, I feel like he must
- 2:06Speaker 1: have broken some unspoken rule, like some smoking mirrors of
- 2:11Speaker 1: the sushi industry. Everybody's blown away by that. He wrote back,
- 2:18Speaker 1: he wants you to know this. Yes, that's what he does.
- 2:24Speaker 1: We did not have it wrong. He says, he does
- 2:28Speaker 1: half flay's um, leaves the skin on it when he
- 2:34Speaker 1: salts it. Cat he thinks it controls a little bit
- 2:38Speaker 1: of the moisture loss. And then he says when because
- 2:42Speaker 1: you gotta pull the pin bones pull him after you
- 2:45Speaker 1: salt the flame. So cover the whole flay in salt.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Count to count what's eight times sixty? That is a
- 2:54Speaker 1: hard math problem. Count to four and then the count
- 3:00Speaker 1: to four like one Mississippi four times. Then rinse all
- 3:05Speaker 1: the salt off, then pull the the then pull the pinbones,
- 3:10Speaker 1: because he said absolutely no longer than ten minutes. Tracks. Yeah,
- 3:14Speaker 1: And he says that when you pull those pinbones, it
- 3:16Speaker 1: doesn't do any damage to the meat. It's just they
- 3:19Speaker 1: just slip right out. I've seen that, because if you
- 3:22Speaker 1: freeze a flay and then pull the pinbones after you
- 3:24Speaker 1: freeze it, it it does a lot less damage. It loses
- 3:27Speaker 1: its grip on the pin bones. When you pin bone
- 3:30Speaker 1: a fresh fish, you're pulling up little popsicles. Yes, bone
- 3:33Speaker 1: with meat hanging off the end. Yeah, you can make
- 3:36Speaker 1: him look like junk fast. What he also says is this,
- 3:40Speaker 1: and I do. I learned this from my old man. Well,
- 3:42Speaker 1: my old man learned it from Eugene Grotors. Lord knows
- 3:46Speaker 1: where Eugene grots learned it from. But when he's handling
- 3:50Speaker 1: salmon flays, and this kind of goes for all fish flays,
- 3:53Speaker 1: he makes a hole at the tail through the skin
- 3:56Speaker 1: to make a little finger gripper hole, and that's how
- 3:58Speaker 1: he handles it. He doesn't carried around by holding the
- 4:01Speaker 1: meat and doesn't maneuver it that way. He makes at
- 4:05Speaker 1: the tail cuts a little hole and that's how it
- 4:07Speaker 1: isn't that isn't that right? Yeah, it's back me up.
- 4:10Speaker 1: We make a little finger hole and fish flats oftentimes
- 4:12Speaker 1: to tote them around and to skin him because he
- 4:15Speaker 1: gives you something to grab onto. He says, he does that.
- 4:19Speaker 1: This from a this from a full on sushi chef. Um.
- 4:25Speaker 1: That way you handle the flay, all the stresses on
- 4:27Speaker 1: the skin and not on the meat. The skin never breaks.
- 4:30Speaker 1: He goes on to say this Callahan, He says, it
- 4:33Speaker 1: spells your name right. Loves to use call fat. He
- 4:38Speaker 1: soaks it in buttermilk to purge it and flavor it.
- 4:42Speaker 1: He likes to add a tablespoon of old bass spice
- 4:45Speaker 1: mix to the buttermilk and then soak his call fat
- 4:49Speaker 1: in air and also his liver. That's gonna make a
- 4:53Speaker 1: young Ford van Fasten at the First Light office very happy.
- 4:57Speaker 1: He's a Marylander and he thinks the sun rises and
- 5:01Speaker 1: sets on old bay. Uh. That's good ship. I like it,
- 5:06Speaker 1: I mean for like just like an all purpose It's
- 5:08Speaker 1: right up there with Tony Seas. Oh yeah, I think
- 5:12Speaker 1: it is very distinct, No, from my desk, from my
- 5:17Speaker 1: desk in a in a position that would suggest authority
- 5:20Speaker 1: over those around me, No, Tony sees. I don't know
- 5:27Speaker 1: why we always called Uncle Tom's seasoning. I have no
- 5:31Speaker 1: idea where that came from, Like something to do with
- 5:33Speaker 1: Uncle Tom's cabin. But um, Tony, how does it? Someone?
- 5:38Speaker 1: You know what? I had some Cajun boys I said
- 5:40Speaker 1: that one time. Some Cajun boys told me that I
- 5:42Speaker 1: had it. I was so far off I don't even
- 5:45Speaker 1: say it anymore. Oh yeah, I get shell shocked by cherries.
- 5:51Speaker 1: That's not it, Sash. No family is safe when I
- 5:55Speaker 1: say that's a rock song. But that stuff? You like
- 5:59Speaker 1: Old Bay as much as that? Yeah, in its place
- 6:04Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, that's because you hang out in North
- 6:07Speaker 1: Carolina all the time. I like. I eat a lot
- 6:10Speaker 1: of seafood too, from North Carolina. That's what I'm saying.
- 6:12Speaker 1: They probably use a lot of Old Bay down there.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Not a ton My father in law doesn't. He likes it,
- 6:19Speaker 1: playing it simple, you know. Kido also says this on
- 6:26Speaker 1: the subject of Morrell's he's talking to you and this, well,
- 6:28Speaker 1: he's talking to me and this. He spells your name
- 6:30Speaker 1: right in my name wrong. He spells me Steve ste
- 6:33Speaker 1: a v e Um. He says Morrell's Yeah, man, you
- 6:37Speaker 1: gotta rinse them place, don't run water over him. He
- 6:41Speaker 1: places them in water, let some salt for a while,
- 6:47Speaker 1: the dirt falls away, and then he lifts them out
- 6:53Speaker 1: of the water gently. Is a denser than the mushroom
- 6:57Speaker 1: stuff and will sink to the bottom. And he doesn't
- 7:00Speaker 1: then use that water. If he does, he just imagine,
- 7:02Speaker 1: just use the top and not get down in the silt.
- 7:05Speaker 1: I told you guys this year that the few that
- 7:07Speaker 1: we found last spring turkey hunting, um, I did the
- 7:11Speaker 1: steam and freeze method and uh just had them frozen. Bay.
- 7:16Speaker 1: I froze them on cookie sheets and then when once
- 7:18Speaker 1: they were frozen and dried, I just threw them into
- 7:21Speaker 1: gallons ziplock bags and uh, great products. Very happy when
- 7:26Speaker 1: it came back. I messed around freeze mushrooms. Was never
- 7:28Speaker 1: that happy about it steaming and freeze. So uh. Another
- 7:33Speaker 1: little thing I noticed is you really don't have to
- 7:35Speaker 1: go to cheese cloth if you want to reserve that liquid,
- 7:38Speaker 1: because as you reduce that all those heavy parts, once
- 7:44Speaker 1: it gets down to like the bottom inch of liquid,
- 7:48Speaker 1: they just start plaster into the side of your saucepan.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, I mean it is
- 7:55Speaker 1: clean as clean as a whistle. Yeah, uh, can I
- 7:59Speaker 1: tell you a little more? Call fat? A uh emergency
- 8:04Speaker 1: room doctor wrote in from Jackson, Michigan. He's an emergency
- 8:09Speaker 1: room doctor in Jackson does an ann arbor. He says
- 8:13Speaker 1: there's something we need to know about. The couple things
- 8:15Speaker 1: we should know about. Speaking of call fat, he says
- 8:20Speaker 1: humans have something similar to call fat Anatomically, it's called
- 8:23Speaker 1: momentum okay, and it hangs off the greater curvature of
- 8:29Speaker 1: the stomach and an overweight people, this cann cottain considerable
- 8:33Speaker 1: size due to fat deposition. When cleaning our dear, he
- 8:40Speaker 1: gives a basic anatomy class to his hunting tribe and
- 8:42Speaker 1: reminds him how similar human anatomy is the white tails
- 8:45Speaker 1: and most mammals for that matter. And he says, there's
- 8:48Speaker 1: some words we ought to know about for the stuff
- 8:51Speaker 1: we like to talk about. The paritoneal cavity is everything
- 8:57Speaker 1: below the diaphragm. The pair it to neil cavity that
- 9:01Speaker 1: contains below the diaphragm is in uh diaphragm to an
- 9:06Speaker 1: section Yeah downstream downstream um that's having deliver large and
- 9:11Speaker 1: small intestines spleen stomach and everything. So the pair ton
- 9:17Speaker 1: neal cavity when you're gutting a deer is below above
- 9:24Speaker 1: upstream is the thoracic cavity. This is where you got giosophagus,
- 9:27Speaker 1: heart lungs, and your great vessels like the aorta and
- 9:31Speaker 1: vena cavin in Scotland. Hunted in Scotland one time with
- 9:36Speaker 1: the gamekeeper and they have a thing called like a
- 9:39Speaker 1: They like they got deer out in the field. They
- 9:44Speaker 1: got dear only below the diaphragm. You know what I'm saying,
- 9:52Speaker 1: Like it's like the word they uses, like the glad.
- 9:55Speaker 1: I don't know, glad. I'm screwing it up just because
- 9:59Speaker 1: the diaphragm is holding everything else. All this stuff that's
- 10:01Speaker 1: gonna sour fast is blow. You get all that out.
- 10:06Speaker 1: But then in the field you don't got diaphragm up
- 10:12Speaker 1: anything with the esophagus. They pull that, they cut the
- 10:16Speaker 1: windpipe or anything like that and pull the windpipe out.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Remember this stuff is not gonna sit around though, But
- 10:22Speaker 1: I remember it was like that was He's like when
- 10:23Speaker 1: you got something, they got it like that, And we
- 10:26Speaker 1: got the parrot tonal and thrasc we remove the contents
- 10:30Speaker 1: of both the parrots and neil and thoracic cavities, and
- 10:33Speaker 1: those guys just removed the contents of the parrot toneal cavity.
- 10:39Speaker 1: He goes on to have a whole lot to say
- 10:41Speaker 1: about getting poisoned by mushrooms man harrowing stuff which I'll
- 10:51Speaker 1: not get into right now. Um quick, oly thing I
- 10:54Speaker 1: want to touch on just from like feedback to feedback.
- 10:57Speaker 1: I had two guys right in to say that in
- 10:59Speaker 1: the old days, no one bled Wally, but now people
- 11:04Speaker 1: bleed Walleye. This guy says, about ten years ago everyone
- 11:09Speaker 1: in lake Erie started bleeding Walleye. This guy says the
- 11:15Speaker 1: same thing. He fishes the western basin of Lake Erie,
- 11:19Speaker 1: and he says, twenty years ago no one bled Walleye.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Nowadays everyone bleeds Wally. They're using buckets of slash ice
- 11:27Speaker 1: and getting real particular about field care in Lake Erie.
- 11:32Speaker 1: He says, better text your better flavor. When he got
- 11:37Speaker 1: when he bleeds him, he says, the meats whiter and
- 11:39Speaker 1: firmer fish last longer. I have not actually been able
- 11:43Speaker 1: to detect a flavor, and those ultra white fish. But yeah,
- 11:48Speaker 1: I know you complain about Walleye about that, well, here's
- 11:51Speaker 1: how he does. Here's how he handles his walleye. Standard
- 11:53Speaker 1: practice is unhooked legal fish clip the front of the
- 11:57Speaker 1: gills with pruners. Picture he's talk about where to come
- 12:01Speaker 1: up together. Okay, right, blow the chin and then drop
- 12:06Speaker 1: the fish head first into a five gallon bucket half
- 12:08Speaker 1: filled with water. Fish and bleed out and dive very quickly.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Then it's removed and iced. He's enjoying great success with
- 12:19Speaker 1: that method. That's cool. That's really cool. Now here's the
- 12:26Speaker 1: guy saying that when he breaks something and gotta fix it.
- 12:29Speaker 1: He says, so it not with thread, you dumbass, but
- 12:33Speaker 1: with braided fishing line. Here's a guy. Wants to know
- 12:38Speaker 1: your guy's opinion on this. It's smart. Yeah, dental floss,
- 12:44Speaker 1: he says, this is better than donal floss. Downal floss
- 12:47Speaker 1: strong step, braided fishing line strong. Yeah, but you don't
- 12:52Speaker 1: flash your teeth. I know, but yeah, I carry donal
- 12:55Speaker 1: floss and do my field repairs with dental floss. I've
- 12:57Speaker 1: got field repairs. I made a way ago. I sold
- 13:00Speaker 1: my sling up a long time ago with dental floss.
- 13:03Speaker 1: I carry a little mini travel dental floss in my
- 13:06Speaker 1: kit into the back of that. I stitch a needle
- 13:11Speaker 1: meant for like fixing sailboat sails. It's got a curve
- 13:15Speaker 1: to it because little kids carry needles because they think
- 13:18Speaker 1: they watched Rambo and they think you're gonna sell yourself up.
- 13:22Speaker 1: I've heard from doctors that that's not the way to
- 13:25Speaker 1: go about it. When you give yourself stitches, the first
- 13:28Speaker 1: thing they're gonna do when you get to the doctors
- 13:29Speaker 1: undo those stitches because it's just not properly cleaned in there.
- 13:35Speaker 1: You're you're holding holding the nasty stuff. My friend who
- 13:38Speaker 1: is a doctor, stitched their own dog up one time
- 13:41Speaker 1: when we were hunting, and they even undid those stitches
- 13:44Speaker 1: that were done by a doctor to get everything sterile
- 13:49Speaker 1: in there and then do a redo. But we used
- 13:52Speaker 1: to all dream because Rambo stitched his arm, and we
- 13:55Speaker 1: used to all dream of stitching getting it if you
- 13:58Speaker 1: would be so lucky as to get into a sitchy
- 14:00Speaker 1: age where you could sell yourself back up, and then
- 14:02Speaker 1: you could point to it at some party later and like,
- 14:05Speaker 1: I know that looks a little rough, but understand that
- 14:07Speaker 1: I did that. I have a um coincidental counter story
- 14:12Speaker 1: because my cousin was somewhere deep in Colorado, not real
- 14:17Speaker 1: bad country, but like what do you call it, like
- 14:19Speaker 1: four World drive back country right across some slick spots
- 14:23Speaker 1: and whatnot. And they got to a spot and they
- 14:25Speaker 1: got to a snow drift and there was like some
- 14:27Speaker 1: trees down and anyways, they're chopping their way through it,
- 14:31Speaker 1: and he put a hatchet right into his shin. Yeah,
- 14:35Speaker 1: and they I don't know the reason that they didn't
- 14:39Speaker 1: just leave, but they stitched them up and they stayed,
- 14:43Speaker 1: and uh. He got to the hospital a couple of
- 14:46Speaker 1: days later, and they were like, good job, excellent, don't
- 14:50Speaker 1: need to do anything here. Bullshit, really really all right,
- 14:57Speaker 1: here's one was it? Because they looked at him, they
- 15:00Speaker 1: were like, well, you're not gonna be able to pay
- 15:02Speaker 1: for this anyway. So maybe I feel like there was
- 15:05Speaker 1: an argument to that there was gonna be maybe more
- 15:07Speaker 1: damage done by going in there and messing around anymore
- 15:12Speaker 1: and trying to reopen the moon, especially after that, you know,
- 15:15Speaker 1: the time of whatever forty eight hours or more had
- 15:17Speaker 1: passed that there was some sort of thinking like that,
- 15:23Speaker 1: let's say you're out hunting, you're out picture it. Yep,
- 15:27Speaker 1: I'm setting the scene you're out hunting? How many bullets
- 15:30Speaker 1: you got with you? This is a great question. What
- 15:35Speaker 1: is the reasoning for this number? And what arguments have
- 15:38Speaker 1: guys had on the topic over the years? How many
- 15:42Speaker 1: bullets are you toting around out in the woods. Can't
- 15:44Speaker 1: believe we haven't covered this. I cannot believe we've never
- 15:46Speaker 1: talked about because I have very ah strong conflicted feelings
- 15:50Speaker 1: on the subject. Do you remember the last second to
- 15:54Speaker 1: last time we hunted B C. And we were up
- 15:58Speaker 1: on the mountain and this question just kind of came
- 16:01Speaker 1: up between Aaron, yourself and myself. All three of us
- 16:07Speaker 1: had thirteen rounds total days. Do you remember? No? I don't.
- 16:12Speaker 1: I wish I remembered because that number feels good to me.
- 16:17Speaker 1: The number feels good to me. It's an unlucky number,
- 16:22Speaker 1: which I don't believe in. Don't maybe we all have
- 16:24Speaker 1: thirteen rounds because everyone knows that twenties too many? And
- 16:28Speaker 1: ten Because here's the thing, I start to, Okay, get
- 16:32Speaker 1: on a couple of issues. Well you go first. Why
- 16:37Speaker 1: I'll get around to why I carry thirteen around? Why
- 16:40Speaker 1: I carry around thirteen? Okay, three rounds in the magazine?
- 16:45Speaker 1: Oh that's why it's thirteen, uh three rounds in your
- 16:50Speaker 1: pocket or someplace quick access too in my pack, two
- 16:56Speaker 1: in my my hip pouch and me and three in
- 16:59Speaker 1: the mag two in the pouch. You got at least
- 17:01Speaker 1: two tags on most long huns, so that could be
- 17:07Speaker 1: you know, one to three rounds per animal if things
- 17:11Speaker 1: get sideways, and then if you fall on your butt
- 17:16Speaker 1: and you whack your scope, you want a couple of
- 17:18Speaker 1: rounds to sight back in with. Right, That's one of
- 17:22Speaker 1: the things in my head. How that adds up to
- 17:25Speaker 1: in my brain when I'm packing from my pack, Well,
- 17:29Speaker 1: I don't know what I'll touch on. Two is um
- 17:31Speaker 1: that there's uh societal collapse while I'm out, and I
- 17:37Speaker 1: gotta reckon with that. So here I am, society has collapsed,
- 17:41Speaker 1: ammunition value goes away. I'm like I have, I'm gonna
- 17:44Speaker 1: be residing in the mountains now for the foreseeable future
- 17:46Speaker 1: until I can sneak my way in and rescue my family.
- 17:49Speaker 1: So then I got a factor that and add another
- 17:51Speaker 1: one another boulder two for that. So that's that's your
- 17:56Speaker 1: like little equation. Yes, that's it. But that would mean
- 18:02Speaker 1: that if you only had a teg. Let's say you
- 18:04Speaker 1: don't have a deer tag and elk teg you got
- 18:05Speaker 1: oh teg, you got oh dear tag? Do you then
- 18:07Speaker 1: take some out it would be yeah, by that it
- 18:12Speaker 1: would be reduced by three. Yeah. I mean, so you
- 18:18Speaker 1: do the you you calculate that carefully. No, I really don't.
- 18:22Speaker 1: It's just and that's the question. It's like, that's typically
- 18:25Speaker 1: what I end up with in my between my person
- 18:28Speaker 1: and my pack. How I get there? I do not know.
- 18:32Speaker 1: These numbers are definitely more of like backpack, Like I
- 18:35Speaker 1: can't get back to the truck tonight, Like I'm like
- 18:38Speaker 1: in there for a week, So if I haven't bought
- 18:40Speaker 1: my sculp, I gotta deal with it out here. No,
- 18:43Speaker 1: because I do the same thing even day hunting. Yeah,
- 18:46Speaker 1: even day hunting. Um, where it's like I leave my
- 18:51Speaker 1: vehicle before daylight and I know I'll get back to
- 18:54Speaker 1: my rig after dark. I will find myself still carrying
- 18:58Speaker 1: around the same number and I'm gonna explain how I've
- 19:02Speaker 1: come to it or like sort of the loose math
- 19:06Speaker 1: I'm running in my head. Um, but yeah, what's your number?
- 19:12Speaker 1: I would say that, Yeah, if I'm out there for
- 19:14Speaker 1: like if it's like a big hunt and we're backpacking
- 19:17Speaker 1: staying out there, I'm probably like full mag so if
- 19:20Speaker 1: that's three or four rounds, and then I've probably just
- 19:24Speaker 1: got a sleeve of ten um. You know. Lately we've
- 19:29Speaker 1: been shooting Federal ammo, which but before shooting Federal I
- 19:33Speaker 1: would just have reloaded stuff. So sort of depend on
- 19:36Speaker 1: what sort of container I had. So if the container
- 19:39Speaker 1: held eight, I'd probably have just had eight. But just
- 19:41Speaker 1: some way that I can organize it. You know, I
- 19:43Speaker 1: like to run those little stock pouches and sheet um.
- 19:49Speaker 1: But man, I mean, don't talk about having a play.
- 19:51Speaker 1: You don't have, no do I have like bullets hanging
- 19:54Speaker 1: off my stock. It's like a like a bullet losing device.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Deal looks you know, look so oh you don't care.
- 20:02Speaker 1: Like the bandelier look no, no, no, it looks so
- 20:05Speaker 1: put together. And Benny O'Brien was running one of those bandeliers. Yeah,
- 20:10Speaker 1: I guess what, because he was carrying a honest pitelis
- 20:12Speaker 1: rigged rifle. It's like I call like an ammunition dispersal device.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Know that one does have it on the outside, and
- 20:20Speaker 1: I feel like that is a flaw um. But the
- 20:22Speaker 1: other one I have, and I think I gave you
- 20:24Speaker 1: one like that, the one from Pig Tactical. It's zipped
- 20:26Speaker 1: in the power when I use. When I use that,
- 20:30Speaker 1: I keep the ones that I would normally keep in
- 20:32Speaker 1: the hip belt of my pack and the hip pouch
- 20:35Speaker 1: my pack in that thing, because usually if you're in
- 20:38Speaker 1: this situation where things got as as I don't know
- 20:41Speaker 1: who coined the term, but Scott little Western squirrely. And
- 20:45Speaker 1: when I think they say Western, they're talking about like
- 20:47Speaker 1: maybe a Western movie shootout. No, I think they mean
- 20:50Speaker 1: just anything gone haywire. Because people that use people that
- 20:54Speaker 1: that use uh, they'll use it anything like like people
- 20:57Speaker 1: will say, um be running lions and like, oh the
- 21:01Speaker 1: things got a little Western. I when I hear them,
- 21:03Speaker 1: like oh the dog's got a new fight with a cat.
- 21:06Speaker 1: If someone packs horses, things got a little Western, Like
- 21:09Speaker 1: oh the horses freaked out and ran down the hill
- 21:12Speaker 1: and scattered gear everywhere, gear everywhere. I got all tangled up,
- 21:16Speaker 1: kick someone in the face. Okay, Well, let's say you
- 21:19Speaker 1: get into what I'm saying that a synonym is squirrely, yeah,
- 21:24Speaker 1: or shootout except no, because someone told me they got
- 21:27Speaker 1: into a shootout, I'd be like I was like holy
- 21:30Speaker 1: people are shooting back at you. The deer were so,
- 21:32Speaker 1: but I feel like, um, you want to have those
- 21:35Speaker 1: extra rounds close and like top of the top pack
- 21:39Speaker 1: or top pouch on your pack. It's probably kind of
- 21:42Speaker 1: a close spot. But man on the stock your gun
- 21:45Speaker 1: is super close to where they need to go to
- 21:48Speaker 1: get more rounds down range. You know. Um, But I'd
- 21:52Speaker 1: say for day hunt, I'm probably like full mag plus
- 21:55Speaker 1: another pocket full of three or four maybe two full max.
- 21:58Speaker 1: So probably day hunt. If I'm going dawn to dusk,
- 22:01Speaker 1: i might be down to seven or eight. But if
- 22:03Speaker 1: I'm going back country for a week or whatever five days,
- 22:07Speaker 1: then it's uh in that thirteen range full magplus ten.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Something to think about as far as like your m
- 22:16Speaker 1: you know, cartridge containers, sleeves, um, you know the ones
- 22:21Speaker 1: that like hook on your belt and stuff like that.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I've found one time, I've I watched a kid go
- 22:28Speaker 1: after his mantelope and he had a full box of
- 22:32Speaker 1: ammunition in one hand, rifle in the other. Stop to
- 22:36Speaker 1: make his first shot, put the box ammo down and
- 22:40Speaker 1: continued off into the prairie without his box ammo. Um.
- 22:44Speaker 1: So I I found that and I just put it
- 22:46Speaker 1: on his truck hood. Uh, but then I've found two
- 22:50Speaker 1: other like cartridge containers, like in the back country, like
- 22:55Speaker 1: going up a trail, and the same exact thing must
- 22:57Speaker 1: have happened. Somebody stopped, did some shooting. I had to
- 23:02Speaker 1: pull out their sleeve anu and then took off. Yeah.
- 23:07Speaker 1: We one time climbed up this is on the Arctic slope,
- 23:10Speaker 1: like where no one's around, and there's a mound of
- 23:14Speaker 1: kind of like a like a little like a like
- 23:15Speaker 1: a little knob, like a little glass and tip with
- 23:18Speaker 1: a smooth thing on there. And you're out in the Arctic,
- 23:21Speaker 1: right and climb up there, and sure enough some lost
- 23:25Speaker 1: couple of bullets up top there, lost couple shells up there.
- 23:28Speaker 1: But my my thinking at it like I've arrived at
- 23:30Speaker 1: the same number, and it's it plays out in my
- 23:34Speaker 1: head like this. I don't want them. I don't need
- 23:37Speaker 1: a whole box, right, I don't need a whole box.
- 23:41Speaker 1: So what will happen is I'll put three in my magazine,
- 23:45Speaker 1: not one in the chamber, but I'll put three my magazine.
- 23:47Speaker 1: There's three. But then I'm thinking in my head, a
- 23:51Speaker 1: lot of things could happen. You could even lose the magazine.
- 23:55Speaker 1: It's happened where you're all hunting if you have a
- 23:58Speaker 1: detachable magazine all of a sudden. I used to be
- 24:01Speaker 1: so paranoid about it. I would put my magazine in
- 24:04Speaker 1: and then I would put a piece of duct tape
- 24:05Speaker 1: that wrapped up around each side to secure that. Man,
- 24:08Speaker 1: I was so paranoid about dropping that magazine. Major complaint.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I think, Well, I had word of those goofy remming
- 24:14Speaker 1: to Model seven hundreds a long time ago, and it
- 24:17Speaker 1: had like exposed buttons that would drop the magazine. I mean,
- 24:21Speaker 1: you'd look at that thing, funny in the magazine would
- 24:23Speaker 1: come out. So I used to duct tape that thing
- 24:26Speaker 1: on and I'd put a whole stock on there so
- 24:29Speaker 1: the duct tape would grab that stock material. And I
- 24:32Speaker 1: was so nervous about losing that thing all the time.
- 24:34Speaker 1: I'd click it in there and put a piece of
- 24:35Speaker 1: tape on it. I can still get it off in
- 24:37Speaker 1: a hurry, but in a in a situation like that,
- 24:40Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be reloading that anyways. Then you're just
- 24:41Speaker 1: dropping single rounds. And yeah, you know, like I don't
- 24:45Speaker 1: need it. I don't need to be able to get
- 24:46Speaker 1: the magazine off in her. I'm not gonna pull them.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, in the heat of the moment, pull
- 24:49Speaker 1: the magazine. Now, reload the magazine, stick the magazine back in.
- 24:53Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be dropping in singles. But what if
- 24:56Speaker 1: you had a second magazine, sure, and that's how you
- 24:58Speaker 1: carried your three extra hounds in your pocket. I still
- 25:01Speaker 1: wouldn't because then I'd be like, yeah, I'm not gonna
- 25:03Speaker 1: told that magazine round. Then what I do? So I
- 25:05Speaker 1: got nobody I ever knew until like this day and
- 25:10Speaker 1: age ever thought the seventy bucks for another magazine was.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Everybody was like, yeah, that'd be nice, but ever wanted
- 25:19Speaker 1: to pay it. I just never had a detachable magazine gone.
- 25:22Speaker 1: But I kind of almost went that route one time
- 25:25Speaker 1: just so I could because I saw it in action
- 25:28Speaker 1: once where the dude I was like, I had tagged out.
- 25:32Speaker 1: The client was like the last day, it was a
- 25:34Speaker 1: great hunt. We uh in the morning, it's the fifth
- 25:37Speaker 1: day of the hunt. And in the morning we're all
- 25:39Speaker 1: jacked up, drinking coffee, getting ready to go out, and
- 25:41Speaker 1: we got one tag left to go and out walks
- 25:44Speaker 1: one of the clients and he's got like dress shirt
- 25:47Speaker 1: on press Khaki's like ready to go to the airport.
- 25:51Speaker 1: We're like, what's up. He's like I'm done. I'm done.
- 25:54Speaker 1: It ain't happening for me. We're like, we got a
- 25:56Speaker 1: whole day, bro, let's go Nope, nope, nope no. So
- 26:00Speaker 1: it like literally takes us to wait after first light
- 26:04Speaker 1: until we're like get your gear on. All his buddies
- 26:07Speaker 1: like rally and we get out there and it's just
- 26:10Speaker 1: one of those weird mornings where like ten am, there's
- 26:12Speaker 1: a five point bull out feeding in the quake. He's
- 26:14Speaker 1: like the first ridgie peak over and we're like, see
- 26:16Speaker 1: he told you, you know, all you have to do
- 26:18Speaker 1: is get out here. But Ethan, who you met this
- 26:22Speaker 1: year in Colorado, was carrying his ax the guy's extra magazine,
- 26:27Speaker 1: and he shoots, shoots, shoots, shoots, and then literally it
- 26:31Speaker 1: was like I just saw his hand come up and
- 26:33Speaker 1: Ethan goes and that extra mag like gets put in there,
- 26:37Speaker 1: and somewhere down the line of you know, six or
- 26:40Speaker 1: seven shot, finally he hit him, and UM, yeah, see
- 26:45Speaker 1: here part of what I'm doing all this like math
- 26:48Speaker 1: in my head. I don't go out like I'm like
- 26:50Speaker 1: I need one of these bullets. Like to go out
- 26:54Speaker 1: making a plan about how much shooting you're gonna do.
- 26:58Speaker 1: I feel like you've already and as a lab Vian,
- 27:00Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this. You've already set You've already sent a
- 27:04Speaker 1: message out into the universe to be like that. You've
- 27:11Speaker 1: got it all planned out about how much, just how
- 27:13Speaker 1: many bullets you're ready to shoot. But you don't plan
- 27:16Speaker 1: for the best of times. You have to plan for
- 27:18Speaker 1: the worst of time. Hear me out, I am, but
- 27:22Speaker 1: I'm not going into it. Fixate on how I'm gonna
- 27:25Speaker 1: get maximum rounds out the end of the barrel. Right,
- 27:29Speaker 1: I put my three my magazine, then I in my
- 27:34Speaker 1: hip belt. I used to put two in my hip
- 27:37Speaker 1: pouch on my pack. Now I like to depending my
- 27:42Speaker 1: binal harness has a little pocket, right, and I'll put
- 27:48Speaker 1: often one there because that's with me. Like no matter what,
- 27:53Speaker 1: I don't like to leave my pack. I don't like
- 27:54Speaker 1: to like get up and be like, okay, you know this,
- 27:58Speaker 1: next hills the hill, let's leave our packs. I don't
- 28:00Speaker 1: like to like to keep my pack with me because
- 28:01Speaker 1: you just never know whe're gonna wind up when things
- 28:03Speaker 1: go bad. But like I took one there and nowadays.
- 28:08Speaker 1: I took one there, and I took one in the
- 28:09Speaker 1: hip pouch of my pack. So I got three of
- 28:13Speaker 1: the magazine, one right here, one right there, So I
- 28:16Speaker 1: got them all over to damn place, and then I
- 28:18Speaker 1: got Then I take a sleeve half of a box
- 28:24Speaker 1: and that's in my pack. And what I am prepared
- 28:28Speaker 1: for is if I'm hunting with other people, I'm especially
- 28:32Speaker 1: like wanting them because I'm picturing that they're gonna cripple
- 28:35Speaker 1: up something and then we're gonna be trying to chase
- 28:39Speaker 1: it down. Right. Yeah, So that's one of the means
- 28:42Speaker 1: I have much. And I'm also mindful of societal collapses.
- 28:46Speaker 1: We'll think about Rambo too, right to go back there,
- 28:49Speaker 1: He didn't he pour out gunpowder onto his wound and
- 28:53Speaker 1: cauterized his wound. I don't. I can start carrying an
- 28:56Speaker 1: extra one for that, so I carre him for societal class.
- 28:59Speaker 1: I'm gonna carre him for that. And then, like you said,
- 29:01Speaker 1: knocking your rifle off and need more. I think about
- 29:06Speaker 1: that the backpack thing. I say snarky comments when I'm
- 29:12Speaker 1: hunting with somebody. That's always almost always our tree season,
- 29:15Speaker 1: and for some reason they dropped their pack and then
- 29:18Speaker 1: take off after the elk. And what I would like
- 29:21Speaker 1: to do is leave that pack there and then that
- 29:24Speaker 1: they would be forced to go learn that hard lesson
- 29:27Speaker 1: of trying to find their pack in the dark. But
- 29:31Speaker 1: that would also make me stay on the mountain much
- 29:33Speaker 1: longer when I'm trying to get out of there. So
- 29:36Speaker 1: I pick it up and I say something like, yeah,
- 29:39Speaker 1: some small child forgot their knapsack over there. I was
- 29:43Speaker 1: talking with someone not long ago who I can't remember,
- 29:46Speaker 1: who you might remember, leaves tie surveyors tape onto their
- 29:49Speaker 1: pack to help them find it when they lose it
- 29:52Speaker 1: because they've left it somewhere. I've done that they're missing
- 29:56Speaker 1: the greater lesson there. Yeah, you think that, like you
- 30:00Speaker 1: get up and you think like it's all gonna happen
- 30:03Speaker 1: right at this little rise, and then you wind up
- 30:07Speaker 1: hours later in the pitch black miles away without your pack.
- 30:13Speaker 1: But it don't even take that man. I mean, when
- 30:15Speaker 1: it's pitch black, it can be fifty yards, but you
- 30:18Speaker 1: think it might have been two hundred yards like I've been.
- 30:21Speaker 1: I know that I've been within like seeing distance off
- 30:24Speaker 1: my pack in the dark and with your head lamp
- 30:26Speaker 1: and you're just sitting there going ship ship ship. Yeah.
- 30:30Speaker 1: When I do leave my pack, I drop away point
- 30:33Speaker 1: on my GPS if some real like if you're run
- 30:37Speaker 1: like a very heavy pack, right and it's just really
- 30:40Speaker 1: and you need to have like mega optimum stealth right
- 30:44Speaker 1: day one of a hunt or something. Yeah, and you're like,
- 30:48Speaker 1: do this pack is too much? Like I can't put
- 30:51Speaker 1: a creep on right now, I'm gonna have to leave
- 30:53Speaker 1: the pack. Then, No, that's why they have them. Then
- 30:55Speaker 1: I'll put some essentials in my binal harness in the
- 30:58Speaker 1: little pockets and whatnot on there, take a GPS thing
- 31:03Speaker 1: and throw that unit in my pocket so I can
- 31:05Speaker 1: go find some bitch when i'm you know, wind that
- 31:07Speaker 1: way later. Uh cal Yes, this guy we had talked
- 31:12Speaker 1: about Camo. Andy's remember that this guy wrote, and he's
- 31:16Speaker 1: got a bone to pick with you. He owns camouflage.
- 31:22Speaker 1: He owns first like camouflage boxers. But he says both
- 31:28Speaker 1: times when he's winning to make his order, he tried
- 31:30Speaker 1: to buy a solid but it was out, and bought Camo,
- 31:33Speaker 1: and everyone thinks he chose Camlo. So he's like, he
- 31:36Speaker 1: thinks you have a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy,
- 31:38Speaker 1: going on there to say that people buy camel. This
- 31:41Speaker 1: guy is saying that it wasn't his intention, but that's
- 31:43Speaker 1: what he has. But it's okay because his wife thinks
- 31:45Speaker 1: it's hilarious. Goes on to say, I'm not calling cattle wire. Yeah,
- 31:53Speaker 1: well yeah, not not to say I'm right and he's wrong,
- 31:57Speaker 1: but I feel like I did say when we first
- 32:00Speaker 1: started out, that's the way it was like the camera
- 32:03Speaker 1: went faster than the solids. Now I think it is
- 32:06Speaker 1: the opposite way, and and I could be totally wrong,
- 32:09Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm I'm right there with you. I do
- 32:12Speaker 1: we have such a limited offering of colors, Like right now,
- 32:16Speaker 1: you know, I'm like into week two of living in
- 32:19Speaker 1: hotels out of my same bag, so it's I also
- 32:24Speaker 1: have camouflage on DS with man burned through the other ones. Yeah,
- 32:28Speaker 1: and I can be like, oh, literally burned dry earth
- 32:32Speaker 1: is gone. Time to worth fusion. Here's a good letter.
- 32:37Speaker 1: This is this guy's an attorney. This this is this
- 32:38Speaker 1: is an attorney, a lawyer with an interesting practice. He
- 32:42Speaker 1: has a practice focused on hunters, guides and outfitters um
- 32:48Speaker 1: and wanted to talk about our permissions episode a law practice. Really, Um,
- 32:53Speaker 1: he I am an attorney with a practice focused on
- 32:56Speaker 1: helping hunters, guides, and outfitters and numerous ways. Nathaniel is
- 33:01Speaker 1: his name. Um, he's responding to the Permissions podcast. Most
- 33:08Speaker 1: like like states have All fifty states have a version
- 33:12Speaker 1: of the Recreational Use Act. This is helpful for people
- 33:15Speaker 1: to know. Listen to what I'm saying. If you're at work,
- 33:18Speaker 1: stopped working, just listen. Um, All fifty states have a
- 33:23Speaker 1: version of a Recreational Use Act. It confers liability protection
- 33:29Speaker 1: onto landowners who allow free access to their property for
- 33:33Speaker 1: recreational purposes. This means, he says, if I go knock
- 33:37Speaker 1: on the door, which I frequently do in Colorado and
- 33:39Speaker 1: canvas in Kansas where I hunting practice, and the landowner
- 33:42Speaker 1: allows me to hunt, fish, hike, et cetera without charging
- 33:45Speaker 1: me for the privilege to do so, the landowner is
- 33:49Speaker 1: protected from liability. But recreational what's the word I was
- 33:57Speaker 1: using again, r U s is, oh, recreational. Yeah, so
- 34:05Speaker 1: anyhow this liability no, I've not got myself toldly confused.
- 34:09Speaker 1: But he wants to caution this. It extinguishes the protections
- 34:15Speaker 1: if there is compensation of quote of any kind given
- 34:19Speaker 1: to the landowner. If this guy, we had a guy
- 34:23Speaker 1: right in the letter that he offers the landowners, or
- 34:25Speaker 1: he says, hey, man, if you let me hunt, I'll
- 34:28Speaker 1: provide a number of services to you. I will post
- 34:31Speaker 1: your land if it's not already post. I will pick
- 34:33Speaker 1: up garbage. Okay, he's gonna do these a he's gonna
- 34:37Speaker 1: do these favors to the landowner. He's saying, once you
- 34:41Speaker 1: enter into an arrangement like that, you negate the liability
- 34:46Speaker 1: protection provided that landowner for giving free access to his
- 34:49Speaker 1: land because you've now entered into a broker arrangement. Wow,
- 34:56Speaker 1: and that'd be so hard to disprove or approve one
- 34:59Speaker 1: way or enough. The compensation exemption would likely not apply
- 35:04Speaker 1: if the work was done after the season as a
- 35:07Speaker 1: thank you to the landowner. But if you enter into
- 35:12Speaker 1: it and say you let me hunting, I'll do this,
- 35:15Speaker 1: you might not be protected by your landowner, might not
- 35:18Speaker 1: be protected by his states lie like de facto liability
- 35:24Speaker 1: waiver of a person who allows free access to their land.
- 35:30Speaker 1: This guy says, if an individual is going to hunt
- 35:32Speaker 1: on the land of another in pay or compensate, he
- 35:37Speaker 1: absolutely advises having liability waivers. He goes on to save
- 35:41Speaker 1: waivers are a whole can of worms depending on your
- 35:45Speaker 1: own state. But um, he still advises it. I know
- 35:50Speaker 1: that a liability waiver is very powerful Alaska. That's not
- 35:53Speaker 1: him talking, that's me talking. The National Agricultural Law Center
- 35:57Speaker 1: has a great database on the r US for every state.
- 36:02Speaker 1: So he's just saying, Um, you can go on to that,
- 36:06Speaker 1: the National Agricultural Law Center and look up what your
- 36:09Speaker 1: state covers. If you're a landowner, what all your state
- 36:12Speaker 1: covers for you with liability when you let people on
- 36:14Speaker 1: your land for your charge? What do you think about that?
- 36:19Speaker 1: Good to know, it's good to know, but also nothing
- 36:26Speaker 1: you would ever put into that landowner conversation. Right, Well, well,
- 36:31Speaker 1: well I wanted to about I would love to pay you,
- 36:36Speaker 1: but I cannot because yeah, it's but um, but you
- 36:40Speaker 1: could add it in, say you got the permission and
- 36:43Speaker 1: then it was going to be free. Hey, just so
- 36:46Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, I told you i'd feed those cows
- 36:49Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna do it in three months. You
- 36:52Speaker 1: know what I could I could picture throwing it out
- 36:54Speaker 1: like this, You get a permission, right, there's a feeling
- 36:58Speaker 1: of mutual goodwill. You get a permis and there's no
- 37:00Speaker 1: strings attached to the permission, like happy to allow you
- 37:05Speaker 1: to hunt my place. Son. I could picture saying, Um, well,
- 37:09Speaker 1: you know what's cool is you know our state does
- 37:12Speaker 1: have a protection to you. You're giving me free access
- 37:15Speaker 1: to your land. Um, you're, by state law protected from liability.
- 37:19Speaker 1: If I wout to hire myself out here, he might
- 37:22Speaker 1: be like, really great, and that could kind of pay
- 37:24Speaker 1: it forward for somebody else than he says thank Then
- 37:27Speaker 1: he might say something like thanks for sharing. Here's the
- 37:30Speaker 1: guy that spells janice why A N N I s,
- 37:34Speaker 1: which is a good spelling, not right, but it's a
- 37:36Speaker 1: good spelling. Fanatically says he's got squirrels coming out of
- 37:39Speaker 1: his ears in Illinois. He also says this, we often
- 37:41Speaker 1: talk about doing autopsies on our kills to determine what
- 37:46Speaker 1: oregans you hit. That's not correct, and autopsy is done
- 37:50Speaker 1: on a human and the cropsy is done on an animal.
- 37:57Speaker 1: This guy says, I performed all kinds of the cropsies.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Luckily I have never had to perform an autopsy, So
- 38:05Speaker 1: keep that in mind. That kind of falls into my
- 38:10Speaker 1: cannibal thinking from a couple of months back. You remember that, Yeah,
- 38:15Speaker 1: you can preview with me again, but I'm still not
- 38:17Speaker 1: totally sure how I feel about it. Yeah, because I
- 38:20Speaker 1: mean it's not bulletproof. Do you remember this here? Honest
- 38:23Speaker 1: that uh uh folks that say I shot a hole
- 38:26Speaker 1: in it? Hunting is murder, okay, And well you know,
- 38:33Speaker 1: we as humans say murders or murderers, but if you
- 38:37Speaker 1: are a murderer who then eats the person that you murder,
- 38:41Speaker 1: you are called a cannibal, which is I regard as
- 38:43Speaker 1: being even worse. I never looked at it being like,
- 38:47Speaker 1: um like, oh, at least he ate it. Like I
- 38:55Speaker 1: don't feel like when I hear of a murderer, right
- 38:57Speaker 1: who then cannibalized the victim, I'm not like, well, you know, yeah, yeah,
- 39:02Speaker 1: I don't disagree. I do disagree with murdering uh people.
- 39:06Speaker 1: But however, you know, at least he put it to
- 39:09Speaker 1: good use. It's like it never enters my mind. But
- 39:13Speaker 1: those are just our societal standards here. And then you
- 39:16Speaker 1: go down to uh pop on New Guinea where they
- 39:19Speaker 1: had you know, some some structure for that. It was
- 39:25Speaker 1: an important thing for certain age classes. It had like
- 39:27Speaker 1: religious or spiritual significance. So you're saying, no, you're saying,
- 39:33Speaker 1: if animal rights person, it's gonna say like, oh, you
- 39:39Speaker 1: murdered those deer. That the language in some way reflect
- 39:42Speaker 1: the fact that you ate it and not use that word.
- 39:46Speaker 1: You want a word akin to the cannibal that you
- 39:49Speaker 1: that you cannibalized it. Yeah, because I mean is murder
- 39:55Speaker 1: I mean it is murdering. I don't know. I mean
- 39:57Speaker 1: that's why I float out these big ideas to you.
- 39:59Speaker 1: Guys can fine tune him for me to stretch him
- 40:02Speaker 1: in poke them. Cabeza de Vaca, who is perhaps the
- 40:07Speaker 1: first European head cow. Yeah, Cabeza de Vaca, Okay, He
- 40:16Speaker 1: was a Spaniard who was shipwrecked um on the Florida
- 40:22Speaker 1: Peninsula like way early and everyone died off and was
- 40:32Speaker 1: killed off, and event she was just Cabeza Davaca, and
- 40:36Speaker 1: he to survive. He started to head west and walked
- 40:42Speaker 1: all the way to the Spanish settlements in Mexico, probably
- 40:47Speaker 1: went insane along the way, survived all number of harrowing things.
- 40:53Speaker 1: It was a long journey picture I'm talking about, from
- 40:57Speaker 1: the Gulf coast to the Spanish settlements of Max to
- 41:00Speaker 1: go in the early hundreds, Cabeza Davaca walked it around Houston,
- 41:06Speaker 1: it seems, around Houston, perhaps became the first European everley
- 41:10Speaker 1: eyes on bison bison bison otherwise known as the buffler.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Cabeza de Vaca. One of the groups Cabeza Davaca encountered,
- 41:23Speaker 1: would they would burn their dead and then make like
- 41:26Speaker 1: a shake a milkshake of the ash and drink the
- 41:32Speaker 1: ash like a clay shake. But folks, folk shake. You
- 41:42Speaker 1: want to read about some crazy ship man, read about
- 41:44Speaker 1: Cabeza Davaca. I write about him in My Buffalo. But
- 41:47Speaker 1: we're just thinking the thing like there would be some
- 41:50Speaker 1: serious backtracking just right now. You try to walk through
- 41:54Speaker 1: the panhandle of Florida, all the swamps, flakes across the
- 41:57Speaker 1: miss we've drained so much of that Louisiana saying like
- 42:03Speaker 1: and he he describes a lot of wildlife. People put
- 42:06Speaker 1: a lot of stock into like historians when you're trying
- 42:09Speaker 1: to get a general picture of what was where, they
- 42:13Speaker 1: put a lot of like faith into what Kabayza Davaca
- 42:15Speaker 1: described along the way, but he encountered these big kurvey
- 42:19Speaker 1: horn shaggy haired cattle around what seems to be around Houston. Wow,
- 42:27Speaker 1: what was the timeline? How long did that take him?
- 42:30Speaker 1: It was a long ass walk, but I can't remember
- 42:32Speaker 1: exactly how many months. It's like a three page footnote
- 42:36Speaker 1: in my Buffalo book, the Saga of Cabeza Davaca, and
- 42:40Speaker 1: also how he came up, how he wound up with
- 42:41Speaker 1: that handle. He's raphien st elsewhere though, right it's famous
- 42:46Speaker 1: because it's like it's like the first glimpse. What people
- 42:48Speaker 1: are really interested in is the location and prevalence of
- 42:52Speaker 1: of the location and prevalence of Native American communities along
- 42:59Speaker 1: the coast, because what you realize is that, you know,
- 43:02Speaker 1: smallpox traveled ahead of the settlements. So usually when you
- 43:10Speaker 1: look at like when the Spanish are going into areas,
- 43:12Speaker 1: when the England later the English went into areas, you
- 43:15Speaker 1: think of them like they're doing their explorations and they're
- 43:18Speaker 1: seeing it for the first time, and you think like
- 43:20Speaker 1: what they're seeing as being what was there. But the
- 43:23Speaker 1: way smallpox works, like Kabys Davaca probably right introduced disease
- 43:29Speaker 1: along the way, So oftentimes you'd have to be that
- 43:31Speaker 1: you'd have a European stumble through some area, but then
- 43:34Speaker 1: it didn't really get like explored for a hundred years later.
- 43:38Speaker 1: And now it seems like like when the English were
- 43:41Speaker 1: going into areas, they were encountering probably about ten percent
- 43:45Speaker 1: of the humans that would have been there had they
- 43:47Speaker 1: passed those areas a hundred and fifty years earlier, because
- 43:51Speaker 1: how many people smallpox carried off. So if you look
- 43:53Speaker 1: at like what Kabeza Davaca describes as he travels the coast,
- 43:57Speaker 1: for just like like how many people he's encountering, diferent groups,
- 44:00Speaker 1: different languages, different cultural practices. And then you go and
- 44:04Speaker 1: compare that to people traveling that same thing a hundred
- 44:06Speaker 1: years later, you think they were in a different country
- 44:10Speaker 1: for what they're encountering one abundance of animals. There's a
- 44:16Speaker 1: school of thought that believes the abundance of animals is
- 44:18Speaker 1: much higher later and the presence of humans is much
- 44:23Speaker 1: much lower, And there's an implied correlation between that d peopling,
- 44:28Speaker 1: but not kind of historically how we've been thinking about it.
- 44:31Speaker 1: But that deep interesting that you carried off of the
- 44:34Speaker 1: human predators. Of course you're gonna see us in a
- 44:36Speaker 1: hundred of course you're gonna see us. The game of
- 44:38Speaker 1: spike and game there's a guy. So when you look
- 44:41Speaker 1: at like, we're Lewis and Clark found the greatest abundances
- 44:45Speaker 1: of wildlife. Historians later when and looked and found sort
- 44:50Speaker 1: of the Noman land, the contact, the edges of contact
- 44:54Speaker 1: between warring tribes. So like the areas that were very
- 44:59Speaker 1: hostile in environments seem to be the areas. This is
- 45:03Speaker 1: just a theory someone has that We're Lewis and Clark
- 45:06Speaker 1: described the greatest abundance of game where the border lands
- 45:09Speaker 1: between warring tribes. So you'd get to where the like
- 45:14Speaker 1: you'd get to a buffer of the Crow and black Feet,
- 45:19Speaker 1: right and that sort of no man's land between their
- 45:22Speaker 1: two core territories, you would find a lot of games.
- 45:25Speaker 1: It's very dangerous to hang out in that spot because
- 45:28Speaker 1: when you were in that area, you were in the
- 45:31Speaker 1: war zone. Yeah, I'm shaking my head because this is
- 45:34Speaker 1: like it makes total sense that it has never been
- 45:39Speaker 1: explained that like the Headwaters region of the Missouri and
- 45:42Speaker 1: you've read that, like just doing your Montana history right,
- 45:45Speaker 1: and it was like, oh yeah, and then Blackfeet carry
- 45:47Speaker 1: off sue here and Nez person would come over. But
- 45:51Speaker 1: so that that Headwaters region of the Missouri was like
- 45:53Speaker 1: a hotly contested ground where like you had the crow
- 45:57Speaker 1: would come from the south and go up in there.
- 45:58Speaker 1: The black Feet would come from the north and weston
- 46:01Speaker 1: going there to the Lakota would would come from the
- 46:03Speaker 1: eastern range there. And if you went in there, you
- 46:05Speaker 1: were gonna be mixing it up with other folks. And
- 46:08Speaker 1: it was just and it was like a game rich environment.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Here's something interesting. We're talking about morality on a podcast
- 46:16Speaker 1: quite a while ago. You were there the Bozeman event. Oh,
- 46:22Speaker 1: the live event. We're talking about what makes a good person? Uh,
- 46:28Speaker 1: which is way off topic for us, but we're talking
- 46:30Speaker 1: about what makes a good person. My brother brought up
- 46:33Speaker 1: something called the cants categorical imperative. Okay, he didn't explore it,
- 46:41Speaker 1: but he touched on it. And this guy writes in
- 46:44Speaker 1: to take to kind of take that idea to task.
- 46:48Speaker 1: He's saying that um can's categorical imperative it was a
- 46:53Speaker 1: way to determine the morality of an action by imagining
- 46:57Speaker 1: the consequences of any individual action if it was a
- 47:01Speaker 1: universal law. So he says, let's go out and set
- 47:05Speaker 1: out to prove why littering is wrong. Okay, so to
- 47:09Speaker 1: to apply Kansas categorical imperative to it, you would say, well,
- 47:13Speaker 1: what if everyone littered, what would the world look like? Right,
- 47:21Speaker 1: So he goes, Therefore, you can arrive at the fact
- 47:23Speaker 1: that littering is immoral. If everyone did it, it would
- 47:26Speaker 1: be a total ship show. My kids have a book
- 47:30Speaker 1: called What If Everyone Did That? And one of the
- 47:33Speaker 1: things that explores is what if everyone littered? What if
- 47:38Speaker 1: everyone like talked out of turn? Which is another problem
- 47:41Speaker 1: we have on this show. So uh so he goes
- 47:46Speaker 1: on to say, so if you want to prove he
- 47:48Speaker 1: goes more, he goes on to that he brings us
- 47:50Speaker 1: around the hunting. He says, most arguments against hunting tend
- 47:53Speaker 1: to be based on irrational emotions, are preconceived assumptions. But
- 47:57Speaker 1: when you apply the categorical imperative to it, it does
- 48:00Speaker 1: make it seem in his view that hunting becomes immoral
- 48:06Speaker 1: because he says, what if everyone hunted? But he hasn't
- 48:10Speaker 1: thought about it good enough, because just the fact wouldn't
- 48:16Speaker 1: you hunt. You're still subject to the laws. So if
- 48:22Speaker 1: everyone hunted, we wouldn't have It wouldn't mean that there's
- 48:26Speaker 1: more death. It doesn't mean there's more death and less game.
- 48:31Speaker 1: It would just means you have greatly reduced opportunity because like,
- 48:36Speaker 1: if everyone hunted, I was like, okay, so that means
- 48:38Speaker 1: everyone now has to apply for all the tags. Yeah,
- 48:42Speaker 1: we will all draw a lot less tags. But it doesn't.
- 48:45Speaker 1: But it doesn't make like you can't use cancers categorical
- 48:48Speaker 1: imperative to say huntings immoral, because if everyone hunted, all
- 48:50Speaker 1: the animals would be dead, because in this country it's
- 48:54Speaker 1: all regulated. If everyone hunted, it would just mean that
- 48:58Speaker 1: there's like a lot less opportunity and you're gonna wait
- 49:01Speaker 1: in the longer line to get your bit of access.
- 49:05Speaker 1: A lot more cash for state agencies, a lot more
- 49:08Speaker 1: cash for state agencies, which makes it seem more moral. Yeah,
- 49:13Speaker 1: I see what he's going for, but he just didn't
- 49:15Speaker 1: think it through far enough. Guy's name is Brad. Generally
- 49:19Speaker 1: had good luck. I've generally had very good luck with
- 49:22Speaker 1: Brad's in my life. Interesting, I'm thinking particularly of Brad
- 49:27Speaker 1: Cross and Bradchester, who were both big BMX guys growing
- 49:31Speaker 1: up when I moved Rad and Rad rhymes with Brad.
- 49:35Speaker 1: When I see the name Brad, I generally feel like
- 49:37Speaker 1: I'm I'm like like like I would like the guy.
- 49:41Speaker 1: They already starting up with a little bit of credit,
- 49:44Speaker 1: you know, Brad Brad trying to come in and hit
- 49:47Speaker 1: his heart with Kansas category comparative. Do you any thoughts
- 49:51Speaker 1: on that? You honest, I don't, Yeah, because that, you know,
- 49:56Speaker 1: really just nothing. Everybody litters. Well no, I mean I
- 49:59Speaker 1: think he stands. But that crosses the boundary of well, yeah,
- 50:05Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gonna be higher fines for littering, but
- 50:08Speaker 1: if everybody just keeps littering, that doesn't quiet hold water. Right, Yeah,
- 50:15Speaker 1: I guess if everybody poached. Yes, we've already arrived at that. Yeah.
- 50:25Speaker 1: So Kancers category impair to my Um, here's a good one.
- 50:32Speaker 1: This guy is aware of the fact that there are
- 50:34Speaker 1: Turkey Grand slams. I don't know if he's aware of
- 50:36Speaker 1: the fact that I happened to be a Turkey. A Turkey,
- 50:42Speaker 1: I can remember what turkey slam I have? Thank you
- 50:45Speaker 1: have this grand the royal. No, we're gonna figure it out. Okay,
- 50:53Speaker 1: So slams. A lot of people hate slams, and for
- 50:57Speaker 1: very good reason because it introduces an element. Look, I
- 51:02Speaker 1: gotta backup. Uh, there's slams are a thing that someone
- 51:05Speaker 1: made up or another someone or another made up this
- 51:07Speaker 1: idea that you'd go like, Okay, there's different kinds of turkeys,
- 51:11Speaker 1: and if one were to get one of all those
- 51:14Speaker 1: kind of turkeys, that person would be a slam holder. Okay.
- 51:21Speaker 1: So with with turkeys, there there's a thing called a
- 51:24Speaker 1: turkey Grand Slam and to get it. So there are
- 51:28Speaker 1: five five yis holding up four, but there's five a
- 51:33Speaker 1: grand okay, is there just America Grand Slam? There's there
- 51:39Speaker 1: are five subspecies which some people say aren't actually subspecies.
- 51:45Speaker 1: There are five types of wild turkeys. You have the
- 51:49Speaker 1: eastern of the Eastern US. You have the Osciola of
- 51:55Speaker 1: the southern half of the Florida Peninsula. You have the
- 52:00Speaker 1: Ariams and Rio from the southwestern US. And then you
- 52:04Speaker 1: have the Goulds turkey from northern Mexico and the Sky
- 52:10Speaker 1: Island Mountain ranges of southern Arizona, New Mexico. If you
- 52:17Speaker 1: were to get and the ghouls is kind of the
- 52:19Speaker 1: hardest one to get because of availability, Like most people
- 52:23Speaker 1: who get a Google turkey get it in Mexico. So
- 52:25Speaker 1: a grand slam is that you get the four kinds
- 52:28Speaker 1: of wild turkeys. That are around and widely available in
- 52:34Speaker 1: the US. A royal slam is if you get the
- 52:39Speaker 1: Goulds too. A world slam is if you go down
- 52:44Speaker 1: and get another whole other species of turkeys, which is
- 52:46Speaker 1: called the oscillated not to be confused the osceola, the
- 52:50Speaker 1: oscillated turkey, which is down in the Yuka tam Peninsula, Guatemala,
- 52:56Speaker 1: you know the Mayan areas, there's the oscillated um. So
- 53:01Speaker 1: that's the world slam, and that's a whole other bird
- 53:02Speaker 1: they used to think there used to be. There's possibly
- 53:05Speaker 1: was a sixth subspecies of turkey called the Mexican turkey,
- 53:10Speaker 1: and that is the one that's probably been domesticated for
- 53:13Speaker 1: thousands of years, and that's the one that when the
- 53:15Speaker 1: Spanish conquistadors came to the New World. That is the
- 53:19Speaker 1: domestic turkey that the Aztecs had probably doesn't didn't even
- 53:24Speaker 1: maybe didn't even exist in the wild at the time,
- 53:27Speaker 1: but that was where they derived the domestic turkey, which
- 53:30Speaker 1: was then taken back to Europe and is the domestic
- 53:32Speaker 1: turkeys we know today. So turkeys were are a New
- 53:35Speaker 1: World species. They were domesticated thousands of years ago by
- 53:40Speaker 1: indigenous groups in Mexico in Central America, Europeans came borrowed
- 53:47Speaker 1: the birds, took the birds back to Europe, bred up
- 53:50Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy variants on the wild turkey, and
- 53:53Speaker 1: then brought those back to the New World, reintroduced them
- 53:59Speaker 1: and asked, when you going buy a turkey in the
- 54:01Speaker 1: grocery store, that's what you're buying. And they think that
- 54:04Speaker 1: that original domestication was perhaps a turkey subspecies that is
- 54:08Speaker 1: no longer around. I think some people think it was
- 54:11Speaker 1: the Goulds. Maybe it was the Goulds. The question being
- 54:17Speaker 1: that this guy has is um, why is there a
- 54:22Speaker 1: deer elk Grand Slam? Can I add one thing about
- 54:26Speaker 1: the Super Slams or this all the slams here with
- 54:29Speaker 1: the turkey thing, because I was just on the National
- 54:32Speaker 1: Wild Turkey Federation website and they have a Canadian Slam
- 54:37Speaker 1: if you kill all available birds in one province of Canada,
- 54:41Speaker 1: which is a Canadian Slam, Yeah, or one too, And
- 54:47Speaker 1: then the Mexican is uh gold Rio and uh no,
- 54:54Speaker 1: Miriam's all down in Mexico really, so there's okay, there's
- 54:59Speaker 1: more turkeys around. But then there's a super Slam, which
- 55:03Speaker 1: is the all states besides Alaska and uh. And the
- 55:09Speaker 1: reason I mentioning this is because I was like, man,
- 55:10Speaker 1: that's gotta be freaking hard right. Well, the last time,
- 55:14Speaker 1: according to the books here on the NTF, back up,
- 55:18Speaker 1: back up, you didn't, I got I got confused, um
- 55:24Speaker 1: because looking at something else. But there's other slams too though,
- 55:26Speaker 1: for turkeys you didn't get into, like grand right, Oh,
- 55:30Speaker 1: I thought you covered that. Okay, so you're doing just
- 55:32Speaker 1: the ones and the one that you hadn't covered. Yeah, okay,
- 55:35Speaker 1: so tell me again the name you had it right
- 55:37Speaker 1: that you're saying a name for getting a turkey in
- 55:40Speaker 1: all fifty states as of what us super slam, U
- 55:44Speaker 1: s super slam. I'm jealous of someone that's done that.
- 55:47Speaker 1: I can't explain why. Listen, there are according to these records,
- 55:51Speaker 1: there's eight people that have done it, killed a turkey
- 55:56Speaker 1: and forty states. I like, my brother, is what I
- 56:00Speaker 1: explained this to them. They just they can't even begin
- 56:03Speaker 1: to understand. They don't like anything that. They don't like
- 56:06Speaker 1: anything where you introduce a sports type mentality like a
- 56:12Speaker 1: keeping track sports e competitive stuff as um. Thomas McIntyre said,
- 56:24Speaker 1: it's pissing in the cathedral. Yeah, in their opinion, But
- 56:27Speaker 1: I like it a little teeny bit. I like it
- 56:29Speaker 1: a little too. I like it for the I feel like,
- 56:32Speaker 1: if that's the way you're gonna go and travel the
- 56:35Speaker 1: United States and get to go to different states and
- 56:39Speaker 1: meet the people in every nine states and see forty
- 56:41Speaker 1: nine different landscapes of turkeys live in, like, it's well
- 56:44Speaker 1: worth it, well worth thing to get into, you know.
- 56:49Speaker 1: You know, by the end of it, if you were
- 56:51Speaker 1: to kill a turkey in all four nine states, you
- 56:53Speaker 1: would have killed turkeys in eleven states that did not
- 56:56Speaker 1: historically have turkeys, right because they think at the time
- 57:02Speaker 1: of European contact we had turkeys and maybe thirty nine states.
- 57:07Speaker 1: So yeah, so in that way to go stressed that
- 57:11Speaker 1: you'd be like looking at like just how good turkeys
- 57:14Speaker 1: are doing. But the dear one, I didn't know, y'all's
- 57:18Speaker 1: gonna break down. What's up a deer? Well, like I
- 57:21Speaker 1: thought before I did my little ten minutes research here,
- 57:25Speaker 1: it's like there's this idea of a deer slam out there,
- 57:28Speaker 1: floating around, floating around, But like somebody uh involved with
- 57:32Speaker 1: q d m A, they tried to go with a
- 57:34Speaker 1: white tail slam and our buddy Mark Kingyon actually wrote
- 57:37Speaker 1: a piece on it five years ago and uh where
- 57:40Speaker 1: they break down eight subspecies of white tail across our continent.
- 57:44Speaker 1: That that's not Yeah. So again, that's why I'm saying,
- 57:48Speaker 1: it's like this idea that people are pushing for whatever reason,
- 57:52Speaker 1: but it's never really because they wanted to become a thing.
- 57:54Speaker 1: They wanted to become a thing. Same thing with the
- 57:57Speaker 1: with the regular uh, not the white tail slam, but
- 57:59Speaker 1: the regular deer slam would be Columbia blacktail, sick of blacktail,
- 58:05Speaker 1: regular white tail? Whose white tail mule deer? Right five,
- 58:09Speaker 1: I've done that accidentally, Right, I'm an accidental deer slam holder.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Now I'm one away cal but I'm far off the mark,
- 58:19Speaker 1: far off the mark. Uh. But the reason some people
- 58:23Speaker 1: don't like this is the argument of oh, you're just
- 58:28Speaker 1: a collector. Yeah, that's maybe what I was trying to
- 58:32Speaker 1: say earlier. Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna start saying, not that
- 58:37Speaker 1: i've I'm gonna make it into a food thing. I'm
- 58:40Speaker 1: gonna say that I have eaten I have to the
- 58:43Speaker 1: royal slam. Be Like, what's that be? Like, I've eaten
- 58:46Speaker 1: all um, I've self harvested and eating all five subspecies
- 58:51Speaker 1: of turkey man turkey tetrasini out of everyone. Okay, ready
- 58:58Speaker 1: for this one. There's nothing I'm not asking you does
- 59:00Speaker 1: add anything to this. It's just a thing this guy has.
- 59:02Speaker 1: This guy hunts the Texas hill country, cool country. I
- 59:06Speaker 1: think you know his family owns, you know, fifty some
- 59:09Speaker 1: acres of prime hill country. Over his life, he says
- 59:14Speaker 1: that it's become that. Um, he's just seen a lot
- 59:18Speaker 1: of change over his life as the whole place has
- 59:20Speaker 1: become fenced. His subject line is high fence is screwing
- 59:26Speaker 1: my fair chase. He says, when you drive down the road,
- 59:29Speaker 1: you're driving down corridors between high fences. And he says
- 59:34Speaker 1: it just has had dramatic impacts on sort of the
- 59:37Speaker 1: movements of deer and has really kind of like put
- 59:40Speaker 1: the screws to someone who doesn't fence, just the interruption
- 59:46Speaker 1: of deer movements. And he also gets into the interruption
- 59:50Speaker 1: and then the other things that have happened on the land,
- 59:52Speaker 1: like introducing exotics onto your fence property just has really
- 59:57Speaker 1: changed the area in his opinion for the worst. UM.
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: He tried to bring all this up on a thing
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: called the Texas bow Hunter form and got thrown off.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: That's interesting. Interesting. I have been on those lanes though.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure you guys have to driving down
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: between the fences. Yeah, you know, I haven't really spent
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: that much time there. Yeah, buddy ars has A has
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: a place out there, and gone hunted with him a
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: couple of times. And his place is not high fence.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: But in order to get to his place, that that
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: is the scene that pops in my head. Right, you
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: got ten ft tall chain link fences on both sides
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: of the road, and so if an animal did want
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: to move around, they have to basically walk down a
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: very very thin shoulder or right down the middle of
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: the road to go from there is no point A
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: to point B. Right, it's all following some you know,
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: ranch map from a hundred years ago. Or the flip
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: side of it is is that there's probably if you
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: went and tallied up the number of deer, there's probably
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: more dear than before. They just lived differently. They don't
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: move around as wild animals anymore. But like, it's not
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: that there's it's not that you probably can't go and
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: look and be like, oh, it's there's no dear, there's
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: tons of deer that has all been turned into livestock. Yeah,
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: I'm thinking that. Yeah, and so something like the numbers,
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: like the number, like you can't say the species is
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: hurting because they're probably doing fantastic. Like each one of
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: these fence places probably more dear than it did in
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: the past. Real they wouldn't be fencing it, but they're
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: just not. Like some of their wildness is gone because
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: they can't roam. Be interesting to see it. Like how
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: much corn go like silage corn goes to the state
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: of Texas because it's such a heavy you know feeding uh,
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: you know game feeding state. Really Yeah, the number of
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: like the pound or like the calorie count, how much
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: food comes in. And then again, man, it's like that
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: in some ways everybody's got it up and downs because
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: in some ways that ship makes the desert bloom too, right,
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: because like a lot of wildlife feeds off that. There's
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: a lot of wildlife feeds off that cycle just different, right,
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: it's different. Some some people might go and look like, yeah, man,
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: got a lot more quail now than we did, probably
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: way more water. People do water bring in a bunch
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: of corn, You bring a bunch of food and you
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: bring in a bunch of water. So people might look
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, man, we know have a lot
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: more quail than we did when I was a kid.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: We got a lot more haviolina than we did when
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: I was a kid. We got a lot more white
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: tail deer than we have when I was a kid. Um,
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: there's just like the landscape is supporting a larger biomass
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: under the system of all of the feed where you're
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: turning like marginal habitat, you're taking like what's missing, Like, well,
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: what are the things that are missing that would make
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: this just place? Ex blowed with numbers, You're like, well,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: food and water. Okay, well let's fix it. Let's bringing
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: food and water. You wind up with something like very different.
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: But you can't really readily going and just attack it
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: from top to bottom because if you just if you're
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: going like, well, how are we going to quantify the
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: health of the ecosystem, Let's do it by counting up
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: how many pounds and animals are running around out here.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: You look at that and you'd be like, it's made
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: a big improvement. There was a lot more poundage of wildlife.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: But our people might be like yeah, but everything about
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: like the way it uses the landscape, how it's moved,
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: just all the dynamics. You know, you've interrupted all that.
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: And some people might be like, hey, you're right, well
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: there's the negative, and then they would be like, but
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: a lot of animals, every life is so complicated. That's
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: what I found. Kl Um. This guy, we're talking about
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: shooting fawns. Someone's like, what's the morality behind shooting fawns? Now,
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: I'm saying I don't. I don't think there's any it's
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: not a moral there's no moral decision to be made.
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: This guy writes in to say that we shouldn't be
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: harvesting animals that haven't achieved skeletal maturity because you're not
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: getting maximum output out of the animal. He thinks it's
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: premature to shoot a fawn m hm, to pull so
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: you shoot. We're talking about a falling, talking about like
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: a deer drops around Memorial Day, right, and then you
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: shoot in the fall. You know, like you don't have
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: to hear people say they shot a buck. This just
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: like real basic stuff for people who aren't tuned into
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: this kind of junk. You know, people say, like people
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: talk about deer like they'll be like, I killed the buck.
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: He was one and a half, he was two and
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: a half, he was three and a half. The reason
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: they're always throwing in the half is because they're born
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: in the spring and typically hunted in the fall, so
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: you always got like the half. So people say they're
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: shooting a phone, but the really time was just shooting
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: a six month old thing. And you're talking about a
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: species of the life expectancy are too. It's not that little,
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: but it's little. You always hear like deer of the
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: year or fawn of the year, faun of the year
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: born that spring. So when you shoot one and the
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: thing way it's sixty pounds or whatever, and you get
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: a forty you know yield, right. Um, he's saying that,
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: it's just like a premature harvest. Yeah, and I thought
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: we kind of covered that. That was kind of one
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: of my grips with even shooting cafe elk. Everybody's like, oh,
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: the veal of the veal. I'm like, yeah, but you
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: get like fifty or sixty pounds, man, And if you
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: shoot a two year old cow, you're almost double than
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: that usually for sure. I like his term skeletal maturity
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: here's a hard one to answer. This guy wants to
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: know Adam um mixed experiences with atoms throughout my life.
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: Warning to give him the benefit of the doubt, he says, like,
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: do you think each state has its own hunting subculture?
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: Does the state have a hunting culture? I would say
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: no for states, but regions? Do you think so? Oh yeah?
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Definitely expand on that, man, Um, I guess either works, right,
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: you can't. Yeah, go ah, I've grappled with that in
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: the past. You can expand or expand. I don't carry, honny,
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: what everyone seems wrong hunting culture by region or by state? UM,
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: I think that you could probably find a little like
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: nuances about hunting culture in certain states and be like, oh, yeah,
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: that's just like a total Idaho thing, you know, But
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: it probably more more likely you'd be able to break
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: the country across like the classic regions of northwest, southeast, northeast,
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: you know, Midwest, UM, and sort of find things that
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: are you know, uh, maybe tactics that are more accepted
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: one place or another, Like you and I grew up.
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: I don't know, did you guys? Do money drives deer drives?
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: So where you brought that up because I was the
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: guy rolled in and wanted to know the morality of
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: deer drives, like, I mean, that's like, that's how I mean.
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: I was kind of I grew up in deer drive culture. Yeah,
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: and we do. I mean we did. It was funny
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: because you just like you go right from the evening
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: before you'd still be in full archery mode, setting up
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: stands and hunting deer on the ground and trying to
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: get close. And then the next day you would just
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: like flip the switch and it's like dudes just pushing
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: through the woods running deer and you're you know, taking
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: running shots at deer. I mean I killed my first
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: deer and he was screaming and buy me at ten
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: or fit twenty yards, you know. And we didn't switch
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: into drive mold. We had a ten day or two
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: week rifle season whatever it was. Um, we didn't switch
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: into drive mold to the last couple of days, and
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: you were kind of an a hole if you were
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: out driving deer early in the season. We do. We
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: do opening. We would sit opening morning for two to
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: three four hours. Doug they have like in Wisconsin and
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: the Doug during property dug during family property they have
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: a light drive, a gentle drive that they call the moot.
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: They'll start mooching the second day of the season. But
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: it's a gentle drive. It's not like dudes lined up
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: banging pots and pans and stuff, you know, which is
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: we kind of grew up driving deer, not with pots
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: and pans. But it was like, yeah, it was a
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: lot of guys in the woods, but that okay, couple
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: of a couple of your guys camp stuff too. Yeah,
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: like the car, the camp that you went to. Yeah,
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: I was gonna bring up just a couple of differences
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: that I've seen between just the two regions that have
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: hunted a lot in, which would be the Midwest and
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: then the Inner Mountain Rockies. Um, but like uh, deer
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: poles or meat hanging polls. Right, Like, we have a
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: picture of every single year that I've been at that
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: Wisconsin deer camp, of most of the deer unless someone
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: left early and took theirs, but hung up on a
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: pole and all of us standing in front of it.
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: And it's like a picture that's taken not really to
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: like be like, oh, look at everything we killed, but
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: it's sort of just it commemorates in UM archives the hunt,
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: right and like who was there? How many deer were killed,
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: so that you know it was a good year bad
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: here um attracts time, yeah, but a lot like so.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: And then if you compare that to out West, like
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: deer drives and I think meat poles are by a
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: lot of like Western hunters are kind of considered like
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: not not cool, you know, not part of the culture. Yea,
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: not part of the culture. Well, the deer drive thing,
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: like we did some some drives here and there for
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: the large part, I would say, completely unsuccessful. But you're
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: dealing with bigger chunks of ground, right typically, right, Yeah,
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: it's just not as manageable because you're generally driving like
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: when you're doing deer drives, you're driving places that have
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: way more dear per unit of space then you're gonna
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: have in the West, and we always had way fewer people. Two.
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: I feel like, if you really want to find success
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: on a drive, the number of hunters you have to
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: have has to be way higher, and we just never had,
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: you know. That's why the whole deer camp thing it is.
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: So it was always so weird to me in the
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: West because it was like, yeah, where everybody together artist
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: artisans small batch drives too. Like the first deer I
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: killed when I was third team was on an artisans
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: small batch drive. There's a four man drive, and that's
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: when you know how the deer, you know what they do,
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: you know how they respond. So like there's this creek,
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: Mosquito Creek, and there's this big sort of bend in
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: the creek, and when deer get bumped out of that bend,
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: they go up, you know, the second ridge down every year,
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: and every year someone's gonna kill a deer coming out
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: of that bend in the creek going up that second ridge.
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: And so then it just as a matter of you say, hey,
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: at ten, I'll post up on the ridge and you
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: go down in the big band and you know it's
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: gonna work. You can't do it the next day, it
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: definitely won't work, but every year it'll work. Yeah. So
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: that's like a kind of a different sort of drive
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: in the big pop bang and drives. You could also
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: do um. A subculture that I used to struggle with
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: but now I understand it is when you see hunting
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: pictures from Arizona in Utah, why how there's so many
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: people in the picture like a Gripp and Grin and
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: Arizona gripp and Grin will have a dozen guys Utah
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: the same way. And I used to be like, why
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: is that? Then I realized it's because they you know,
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: you don't have huge populations of wildlife there and it's
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: hard to draw tags. So to draw like an Elk
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: tag in Arizona is you know, if you live in
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: Arizona and you draw an Elk tag, it's a big deal.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: And a lot of your bodies didn't draw an Elk tag. Yes,
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: so if you want hunt every year, so helping somebody out, Yeah,
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: So we now that we like have friends in Arizona
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: who are have sort of a tribe, you know, like
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: a group of guys that hang out with it they
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: hunt with. When one of them draws, it's just a
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: it's a thing that yeah, we're all gonna do it.
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: So if some so draw some sweet elt tag, everybody
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: wants to get involved and everybody wants to go hunt.
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, he's got eight barties that
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: all want to go too because someone's got his tag. Now,
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: if you get up in a state like like Colorado
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: with like you know, vastly more elk than the other state.
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: Everybody's got a ELK tag. Yours out hunting onesies, twos,
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: these threezies. You don't need to have eight guys because
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: those eight guys all got their own tags. You're like,
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: you do your thing, I'll do mine. It's more individualistic.
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: But it's like a communal form of hunting down there.
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: And that's why you see these big packs of dudes
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: standing behind some animal. I couldn't do it. Drive drive
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: me insane. Well they also but they also radio. Yeah,
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: they radio hunt down there. Yeah. So Jennie, what you're
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: doing is everybody's out glass and um theyroreout glass and
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: and then when they find something they just through text
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: messages or radios convey its location. Yeah. It's just like
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: a way, it's like a hunting culture. Yeah, and and
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: I Understandyeah, I imagine it'd be very successful for me.
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: It would just like lead to paralytic indecision, information overloading. Yes,
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: and then you got like that like again, like that
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: South Texas hunting culture where there's no public land or
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: virtually no public land. Um, it's general practice to use
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: corn to bring to your out of an area that's
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: otherwise very difficult to find them and to concentrate them.
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: There's general practice to huntt of elevated tripod stands or whatever,
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: elevated platforms, and it creates like a sort of culture
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: around that. That's like how deer hunting works. Uh. We
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: were down at the Dallas Fire Club Show a couple
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and unbelievable amount of Texas residence saying
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: we're going out and we're gonna hunt public land this year.
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: And they're all going out of state, lots of New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming,
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: some Montana, but all like I gotta go try out
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: this public land hunting stuff because we just can't do
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: anything around here. Yeah, pretty cool to see. Here's another
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: one guy named Patrick. I've always had great luck with
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: Patrick's uh plan to hunt the future and have a
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: question that's yet to be Oh, this guy's never even
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: been hunting. It's not been addressed anywhere. He's sure after
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: looking everywhere. Why does no one mention harvesting the diaphragm
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: from a deer or elk We've not even kind of true,
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: but no one's mentioned it. Yeah, skirt steak, So when
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: you got it's just small on the deer. Like when
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: you open up a deer, where the diet for am
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: fastens to the rib cage, there's sort of like a
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: little like the diaphragm kind of t bones. This makes sense.
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: It kind of t bones into the rib cage and
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: there's a big piece of of of stride it or
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: like stringy kind of meat that's long and thin. It's
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: like a like a Hershey's bar would be like four
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: Hersh's bars or two three Hershey's bars set end to
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: end right diameter in length to hers She's bars laid
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: end to end, let's say. And that's where the diet.
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: That's how the diaphragm joined to the cavity. Now that
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: skirt steak, is it a continuation of the diaphragm or
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: the skirt steak it's like the diaphragm from the ribs back. No,
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: it's like the diaphragm sort of goes out and that's
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: how it's sort of welded, which is an anatomical term.
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: But the diaphram kind of welded to the the the
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: body of the animal. And when you go and get
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: uh carne a saba that's in a Mexican restaurant, that's
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: what you're getting. And on deer, it's just really small
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: on elk and moves. It's like legit, like you can
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: make like full on balls out fajitas with the skirt. Yeah.
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone who takes like the who
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: who does anything besides maybe grind up the actual diaphragm.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: But that skirt steak portion is usable, which is the
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: one that you're talking about that basically flaps below the
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: ribs going back. It's very close to below the ribs,
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: but it's it's yeah, it's kind of like where our
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: our ribs really start to v and and angle back.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: That's where the the right right at the syphoid process
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: where the ribs come together. Yeah, so I think on
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: do you just don't really notice because it's really small
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: and moves. When you open that thing up, you're like,
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: holy ship, that's a big chunk of meat. Yeah. Yeah,
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: but you guys aren't answering my questions. Still, that could
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: be it doesn't taper back like it's but you know,
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: when you when you got an animal. Okay, so yeah,
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: you're calling that then the flank steak, yes, and then
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: the skirt being a diaphragm yes, Oh the flank, yeah
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: is the well and I always grew up calling the
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: paunch m yeah, which should be your sides blow your ribs,
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: but above your hip bone, below your ribs. Or's this
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: this thin thing the paunch? We call that the paunch
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: that you just grind up. It's low quality meat and
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: has a very strong bit of fashion in there, or
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: like a like a thick. It's where love handles form. Yes,
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: there you go. No, yeah, I'm pinching mind. I believe
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: that's where it would be. I've been putting a lot
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: of work in love. It is really a thing like, yes,
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: you're like I need something to grab onto, grab on
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: the love handle. Oh no, no, no, I think that's
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: a marketing spin one. Okay, it's like an ironic, is it?
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: Because it just seems like like, I don't know, I
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: just have a hard time with it. That's the hand
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: that that's when one needs purchased. That's where they find it.
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: Oh man, um, quickie, there's a quickie. There's a quickie,
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: then a quickie, then a long. This first quick is
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: a question, second quick is the observation. The third long
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: is just a whole different thing. Uh. This guy says
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: to say, how do you sharpen your knife found in
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: the field. He talks about he's got a bench made
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: saddle Mountain skinny knife, which is a damn fine knife.
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: Agreed Um. He goes on to say that how a
- 1:19:04Speaker 1: bench man has a deal where you can send your
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: knife in and get it sharpened, which he likes. But
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: let's say you're out hunting and you've gotta you're gonna
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: be skinning a couple of different animals. How do you
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: what do you how do you sharpen out in the field? Well,
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: bench mate also makes you use their sharpeners. Yeah, it
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: happens a little one of the big one. Honestly, I
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: think the big one is well worth packing if you're
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: gonna really stick with a true fixed blade knife. And
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, but it's got a
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: ceramic part to it. It's got kind of a course
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: and a fine diamond sharpener on there and and yeah, man,
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: a little minimal bit of practice and you can sharpen,
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: I mean sharp sharpen those things. Yeah, it's a little
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: it's a little heavy and a little clunky, but it
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: depends what you're up to, Like, if you're out hunting
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: where you're you know, let's say you and your buddies
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: are out hunting anilope you're not one or two a day. Um,
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: then I'll be like, okay, this warrants bringing like more sharpening.
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: If just going out on for one thing, I don't
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: worry about it. I used just carry like a little
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: just like basically a little teeny teeny diamond hone it.
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: But it's like you get so much more to have
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: an actual yes, an actual face to to sharpen on.
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: If you bring a multitool of some sort, you can
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: use the hard edges on that, you know, straighten out
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: the edge of your of your blade, which is typically
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: more than enough to keep you keep you running. I
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: feel if you want to be minimalist, you know, and
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: you're bringing that. What I like about them that bench
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: made deals. It's got the angle so it's like molded
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: into it. There's there's like a big diamond honer, not big,
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: there's a diamond honer face on it, but molded into
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: the molded into the sharpener is the is a set bevil.
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: So each swipe you take you can lay it up
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: on that beveled piece and it sets your angle. You
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: gotta doesn't hold your angle. You gotta maintain the angle
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: as you swipe, but it establishes your angle to go
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: on there and sharpener up. It's got like a little
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: leather strappy thing on and a ceramic rod on it.
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: I don't know what. It's called guided field sharpener and
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: it's got a hook sharpener on it. Guided field sharpener.
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: Thea you can sharpen sread knives, scissors. We all know
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways of skin of cap. There's
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: more ways to sharpen a knife. This is one of them,
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: and it's like I like it. But if you take
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: a brand new blade out of the box and you're
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: careful with it, it does not take much at all
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: to get that thing sharp sharp if you don't mess
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, I think that's the key, is uh,
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: staying on top of your maintenance. Don't let it get
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: doll Yeah. And what dolls knives more than anything in
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: the whole wide world is bone. Mm hmmm, and dirt
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: hair bone is bad hair. Dolls bone messes up. Get
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: some mud in that hair when you like, can you
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: watch your buddy come in, you know, come into like
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: kind of shank or something off and you're like, oh boy,
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: that's not I think the knife ruining. This activity I
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: know about is when you're skinning out ahead for like
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: whatever whatever reason you're doing it, caeping something or skinning
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: it out for a euro amount, and you get your
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: knife in there and you're working the you're working off
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: the hide around the pedicles. Yeah, that's a knife ruining activity.
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: That's almost like throwing knives at rocks. Oh here in
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: the knife the blade hit the teeth too. That just
- 1:22:50Speaker 1: send shivers up my spine just thinking about it. Oh yeah,
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: I can usually carry the little they called the tacticle sharpener.
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: They have a mini version too, but it's only a
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: couple three inches long. It's got the ceramic V notch yeah,
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: and the stone. So I just use that little V
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: notch and just you know, through an elk, maybe hit
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: it two, three, four times and uh, just to keep
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: an eye on her, just keep her straight. Keeper. What's
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: that thing called? I have one of those two. I
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: carry it if I'm like, if I can't justify my
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: big thing, it's called the tactical. If I can't justify
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: my big full on sharpener, then I'll grab that little
- 1:23:31Speaker 1: V notch. Deally but I like, I kind of like
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: became suspicious of those V notch dealis, I think you
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: can unless you take the time to really line that
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: thing up perfectly vertical and the V notch, you can
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: kind of mess your devil edge up a little bit. Uh.
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: Here's the observation that was the question. Here's the observation.
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: This guy says, you guys were struggling with a term.
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: I think you were trying to refer to the Alley effect. Now,
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: the Allee effect, because when you're talking about a population
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: not being able to recover from low numbers, meaning there
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: are like critical population levels at which certain social aspects
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: important for reproduction begin to break down. So mean, like,
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: let's say you have a large um, there's a there's
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: a reproductive strategy called predator swamping. For instance, Let's say
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: you have like like picture a large collection of say geese,
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: and these geese all lay their eggs at the same time,
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: and hundreds of geese, and they're all in an area,
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: they all build a nest at the same time, they
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: all lay their eggs at the same time, all those
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: eggs hatch at the same time. There will be a
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: lot of predators lurking around, But since all of those
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: hatchlings all emerged together at the same time, it's called
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: predators swamping, where the predators can gorge themselves and gorge
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: themselves and gorge themselves, but they can't get them all
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: because they're all hiding the ground at the same time.
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: Whereas let's say it took the same of the same
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: set of circumstances, but let it play out over a month,
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: where every day just some percentage of of these eggs hatched,
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: and the predators could every day gobble up the small
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: available thing, you would end up where they could feasibly
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: get them all. But with predators swamping, you're creating such
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: a like a a deluge of offspring getting put out
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: there that the predators can't They just don't have a
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: chance of getting them all during that that window of vulnerability.
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: So likewise, if you'll see the like like elk, for instance,
- 1:25:37Speaker 1: will sometimes gather up in very large groups, like you
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: might see two hundred three hundred cows in their calving grounds,
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: and those calves are all hitting the ground over of
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: course of a couple of days, preferably right, and you've
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: got some predators hanging around, but they can't get them
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: all and then the calves are very vulnerable for a
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: couple of days um, but then they're up on their
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: feet and everybody's find they can run in. The ulnerability
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: goes down and you have some survival. So the alley effect,
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: they're only effect is when you reduce a population down
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: and then to wind up being that it's hit like catastrophe,
- 1:26:13Speaker 1: low levels like that. You can't just have some. Either
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: have to have a whole bunch, or you're gonna have none,
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: because they need lots in order for them to be
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: able to survive. I can't remember what we were talking
- 1:26:25Speaker 1: about when this came up. Was it the condor condor
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: It's applicable to a ton of things. Passenger we definitely
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: talked about long ago by name with the passenger pigeon,
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: that maybe that species. If you don't have a billion,
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: you don't have any Like you can't maintain a population
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: of ten thousand passenger pigeons because passenger pigeons need to
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: have hordes of them in order for them to be
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: socially effective or to be reproductively effective. Final one is
- 1:27:01Speaker 1: this final thought for the day. A guy wrote in
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: and he's like, curious about is it worthwhile putting in
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: for the buffalo hunts in Montana, which are a mess,
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: but I think it's worth while. So there's a couple
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: of buffalo hunts you're looking. There's a gardener hunt in
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: the West, Elstone hunt. It comes up every year where
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: you have uh buffalo or bison are summering in Yellowstone
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: and the winter, late winter, as the snow accumulates, they
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: need to migrate out. And when they migrate out, they
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: crossed the park boundaries and entered private land in national
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: forest land. And there's a debate. There's this this argument
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: that's a perennial argument that goes on around this where
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: legally the animals aren't regarded as wildlife in Montana. Um
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: they regarded once they go from being their wildlife in
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: the park, even though their native fauna that have been
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: present on the ground always it's like a native land mammal,
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: native game animal, I would like to say, um. But
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: when they leave the park, they lose their status is
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: wildlife and they fall under right right now, to varying
- 1:28:11Speaker 1: degrees that they fall under the jurisdiction of the Department
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: of Livestock. They fall under the jurisdiction of the Department
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: of Livestock because they carry brucellosis, which is a livestock
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: disease that cattle passed to buffalo, and now buffalo carry brucellosis,
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: and they don't want the buffalo passing the brucellosis back
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: to cattle. And so a state, you know, they enjoy
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: brucellosis free status, and if the disease were to cross
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: the species barrier back in the other direction once again,
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: you'd have brucellosis in Montana livestock and you have to
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: start doing all this testing and quarantining and it's very expensive.
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: So they don't want brucellosis getting back in livestock. Forget
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: about all that for a second. Um. One of the
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: things that they do, one of the things that the
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: state has been experimenting with and trying to do for
- 1:28:57Speaker 1: a long time, is treating him like lives, treating him
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: like wildlife. So they migrate out of the park, they
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: cross in the national forest land. Here you have a
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: resource that has value to people as food. It's a renewable,
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: sustainable resource. And so the state will issue through a
- 1:29:17Speaker 1: lottery permit, draw some limited number of hunting permits. And
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: it's uh controversial. Can be a controversial hunt. There can
- 1:29:29Speaker 1: be situations where there's not a lot of privacy while
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: you're hunting. There can be a fair bit of hand
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: holding going on and like letting you know when they've
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: left and where they are. It's not perfect, but I
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: think people should participate in it and and engage in
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: it and get the most out of that that they can,
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: including a whole shipload of great buffalo meat, for the
- 1:29:52Speaker 1: reason that it is a step in the right direction.
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: And by that I mean it's a step in the
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: direction of managing this herd as native wildlife that can
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: support some amount of consumptive use. You have people that
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: want the meat, the population can support limited harvest. It
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: might not be perfect, but hunters should get in there
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: and be engaging in it and putting in their two
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: cents and doing the hunt and helping hunt, letting hunt
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: managers know, like what they liked about it, how it
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: could be different in the future, and not just turning
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: your back on it. Because this is a step in
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: the right direction. It's good that they're conducting these hunts.
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: He wants to know if I would suggest three eight
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: the huntee, you know, look into it. I put in
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: form I put an inform and I've been down there
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: observing the hunt before. It's something that we just need.
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: I think it's nothing we need to be doing. There's
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: no negative to it at all. And the more we
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: can do to encourage states to recognize and manage these
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: animals as as a big game species, the better. So
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: take one for the team and go down there and
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: do the hunt. What's the worst it comes out of it?
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: You walk home with three hundred pounds, four hundred pounds
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: of bones meat, and if you draw the tag, you
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: can give it up, Like if you all of a
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: sudden you're like, boy, I mean over my head, you
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: can give it up. But yeah, th where you're happening
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: the ring. But the hunts occur at a time of
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: year when no one's hunting anyway, so you be able
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: to round up all your bodies, like, dude, we're gonna
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: go out. We're gonna you know, it's kind of it's
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: a hunt, it's a management thing. Um, we're gonna get
- 1:31:39Speaker 1: the most out and we're all gonna walk home. We're
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: all gonna walk with a hundred pounds of boneless heck. Yeah,
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: So Larry, get down there, bro, Thanks for joining US,