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Ep. 018 · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: you everyone. Just the meat Eater Podcast were recording in
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  Speaker 1: the warm and sunny Juno, Alaska, the only state capital
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  Speaker 1: not joined to the International Highway System. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: drive out of Juneo. How many people live here? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Was it thirty five thousands? No idea, It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Not many people live here. For a state capital, um
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  Speaker 1: surrounding us as Tongas National Forest, And we've been here
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  Speaker 1: in Juno for four days of action packed sooty grouse hunting,
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  Speaker 1: which is something you probably haven't heard of before. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: lay some quick groundworld. Well, no, no, The first thing
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about who's here? Um, we have
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  Speaker 1: our representative from the famous Hunt to Eat T shirt company.
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  Speaker 1: Honest tell us he's wearing his Hunt to Eat shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Smith, he's wearing a Hunt to Eat shirt. Did
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  Speaker 1: you buy that or get that free? Gurt? I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: You can say I was giving it so the people
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  Speaker 1: in this room get a free Hunt Eat shirt. But
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  Speaker 1: but really, if you wanna, um, we've got we've got
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  Speaker 1: shirts in stock. Janice long Tong, Yanni, Yanni Chamani whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call him, has T shirts in stock
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  Speaker 1: now at Hunt to Eat. And I want to point
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  Speaker 1: out I have nothing to gain a Steve the host.
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing to gain from you buying, um y
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  Speaker 1: honest the T shirts. Besides many thank you you know.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'll point out I have something to lose
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  Speaker 1: because if you get rich and famous from selling T shirts,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna work here anymore. That's not true. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know that. You might just do it like oh
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of your heart. So yeah, I like my job,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I can only lose from telling you
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  Speaker 1: to go buy Onni Yanni's hunt eat T shirts. He's
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  Speaker 1: got him in dock. Why don't you sell him for
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  Speaker 1: un But wasn't there a special deal where people could
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  Speaker 1: put in a thing and get some cheap T shirts?
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  Speaker 1: There was? But this is tough because we're recording this now.
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  Speaker 1: It's uh may, who knows when this is gonna air,
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  Speaker 1: So it's tough. Anyways, check the website. Yeah, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: have a special goal full price man Um Garrett Smith Garrett, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't born in Miles City, Montana, Great Falls, Montana.
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  Speaker 1: Born in Great Falls, Montana. He's working with right now
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  Speaker 1: because his old man. In a roundabout way, not not
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  Speaker 1: to diminish your talents, but in a roundabout way, because
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  Speaker 1: you're old man's friends of my brother. Talk about nepotism,
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  Speaker 1: Yanni's friends of my wife. Full circle. Mike washed Leskie's here.
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  Speaker 1: He's not friends of anybody. He Mike got his Mike
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  Speaker 1: got his job the honest way. Man, How did you
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  Speaker 1: get How did you come to work here? Mike? Uh? Since?
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  Speaker 1: And he email to sence to me yeah, did you
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  Speaker 1: think about sending me one? No, I didn't have it.
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  Speaker 1: I watched an episode on television like a year ago
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  Speaker 1: or actually a little bit more year ago, and was
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  Speaker 1: very moved by the production and and this it was
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  Speaker 1: whenever you didn't pull the trigger on that bear at
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  Speaker 1: your cabin, and I thought, well, what did you think
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  Speaker 1: about the hosting? I thought it was excellent? Excellent? Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It spoke a lot the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't take the bar. I was it's like, well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you know, not to diminish other hunting shows,
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  Speaker 1: but there was something that really stood out. The first
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  Speaker 1: episode I saw I was with Rogan. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell am I watching? Like, why is Joe
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  Speaker 1: Rogan on hunting show? And then I watched another one
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  Speaker 1: because it was like a marathon or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and it was the episode where it was just you
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  Speaker 1: out hunting that bar and you didn't pull the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, that says something because you know
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  Speaker 1: most hunting shows like you gotta put it down. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the whole point where here is going to kill
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  Speaker 1: the animals like that. Then you came out to work
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  Speaker 1: shot yeah, sure to Yeah, And it you know, and
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  Speaker 1: no it got revenge on us man. Yeah, Mike's uh
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  Speaker 1: that was your first trip, that was my first trip. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This young kid, um, Mike washed Leski is out of Austin,
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  Speaker 1: Texas and he's up here right now. Because as everyone knows,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Jade Helm, the U. S. Military is in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Um much fear in Texas that it's actually they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: they're overthrowing the government in Texas. Is that right? The U. S.
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  Speaker 1: Military is imposing martial law in Texas, take everyone's guns.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, So they sent uh, the U. S.
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  Speaker 1: Army into Texas and there it's a big movement. They're
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  Speaker 1: a big operation to declare martial law in Texas and
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  Speaker 1: disarmed Texas. That's what That's what people think is happening.
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  Speaker 1: That was gonna happen until the Texas governor very boldly
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  Speaker 1: said that he's gonna have the NA National Guard keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on the U. S. Army while they're there.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to defend us from from the from the U. S. Army, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and special forces. He's like, not only that, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: send some more cops out too. So but Mike' up
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  Speaker 1: Juno to all this blows over man because he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to have Marshal lawful duck out. Yeah I did
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  Speaker 1: duck out man. It was getting too crazy. Um also
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  Speaker 1: joined by Corey kaz Merrick Yes or cutch Mark or
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  Speaker 1: cutch Mark what nationality is that? Polish? Yeah, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really get his job honestly because you came on recommendation
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  Speaker 1: from a guy. Yeah, well a small town zpc West
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  Speaker 1: moved to Bozeman, and I live in Bozeman, Montana. So
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  Speaker 1: that's an honest way to get a Job's on a
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  Speaker 1: good recommendation. That's true. It is, Yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: like the way Mike did it. Send an email? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but come on, everyone's gonna send an email. But to
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  Speaker 1: come on recommend more I think about it. To come
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  Speaker 1: on recommendation now that it's something we'll see here. Who
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  Speaker 1: does here, Mike? So? But to get on the may
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  Speaker 1: they want to talk about blue grouse. Now, I as
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  Speaker 1: a hunter, I'm a fan of uh. I like hunts
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  Speaker 1: that that are underutilized, right, I like consider overutilized. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, there's like too many people trying to do it,
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  Speaker 1: which I would say that generally like hunting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ducks right. It's like ducks high competition hunting typically you
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  Speaker 1: know publicly, and white tails high competition, turkeys, high competition.
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  Speaker 1: I like all that stuff, but I also like stuff
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  Speaker 1: that just no one does because I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not something people know about, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would say squirrel on people know about, they just don't
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  Speaker 1: do it. Or there's a way more squirrels and way
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  Speaker 1: more squirrel hunting land than are people interested in hunting squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the most underutilized hunts in the world
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  Speaker 1: is the blue grouse. Now a blue grouse, people used
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  Speaker 1: to call them blue grouse. And then some years ago,
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  Speaker 1: like seven years ago, I think oh six two six, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: figure ou how many years ago? That was nine? Yeah? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Net ballpark? Right, net ballpark thanks to the um right
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  Speaker 1: ned ballpark. The Ornithological Society declared or not declared, but
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  Speaker 1: suggested that it be split in. The blue grouse, which
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  Speaker 1: is a bird from the western uf so split into
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  Speaker 1: two populations dusky grouse, city grouse. Duskies live in the
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  Speaker 1: interior mountain range of the Rockies. Cities live on the
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  Speaker 1: coastal ranges. Now, people who run into and and and
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  Speaker 1: and inadvertently now and then. Sure, do not not, like,
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  Speaker 1: as an incidental take kill a blue grouse now and
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  Speaker 1: then because the birds are just kind of there and
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  Speaker 1: they don't really know to run away people. They're one
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  Speaker 1: of many birds that people call a fool's hen, which
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  Speaker 1: is like a disparaging term for a bird. And what
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  Speaker 1: they're getting at is that they would say, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that smart. The blue grouse isn't that smart, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I subscribe what happens when you walk up on a
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  Speaker 1: blue rouse. You were talking about this earlier, oh in
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  Speaker 1: the inner Mountain Rockies interior. But yeah, so what what
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  Speaker 1: is now since two thousand and six now? Dusky grouse? Well,
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  Speaker 1: often I've run into him archery, l hunting, and I
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  Speaker 1: used to I used to always have an arrow maybe
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  Speaker 1: sometimes too marked, you know, grouse on my fledgings. You'd
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  Speaker 1: actually write it on there. Oh yeah, because it'd be
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  Speaker 1: like a you know, slightly crooked arrow or you know,
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  Speaker 1: something to be wrong with it. But so you could
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't feel bad shooting at the grouse. But yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: just cruising along and like you look over and you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten fifteen feet away there he is just chilling feeding
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  Speaker 1: sometimes just kind of like they see you, but they're
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  Speaker 1: not flushing, they're not running, they're just kind of slowly
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  Speaker 1: walking away, and enough time to take oftentimes multiple shots
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  Speaker 1: with bow and arrow. I've killed more now Dusky's blue
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  Speaker 1: grouse with my bow and arrow than I have with
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  Speaker 1: a shotgun. At one time, hunting in the Interior Ranges,
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  Speaker 1: shot a blue grouse with my bow and then grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a rock and killed the second one. The point I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting at is people look at the blue grouse, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, they live in the high country. Typically they
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  Speaker 1: look at a blue grouse, they're like, oh, there's a
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  Speaker 1: dumb bird. But that's that's that's a dumb way of
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it. A blue grouse, like blue growls. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: human predation is not something they're generally dealing with, right
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  Speaker 1: They live in areas where they have other stuff that
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  Speaker 1: they're worried about. And I think it's unfair to birds
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  Speaker 1: and fish and animals when humans declare them dumb, because
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  Speaker 1: their response upon seeing a human isn't to run away.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people be like, oh, those two are dumb.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't run away. But you might say, well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's really smart because he doesn't run from everything he
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  Speaker 1: sees and waste calories and put himself into risk from
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  Speaker 1: other kinds of predation that he might not know about
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  Speaker 1: when he inadvertently runs into other things, and so he
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  Speaker 1: knows the hold tight and assess whether it really is
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  Speaker 1: danger or not. And it's dumb to fly away and
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  Speaker 1: run away from stuff that means you no harm. That
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  Speaker 1: could be one way of looking at it. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a an ignorant person's way of like it's personification,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're putting like human emotions and feelings to an
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  Speaker 1: animal and and saying like, in that situation, if a
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  Speaker 1: human did that, you would say it's dumb, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but humans humans like humans walk up on them. No,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but that's I walked up on a ton
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  Speaker 1: of people in that restaurant we ate at tonight. I
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  Speaker 1: saw running Actually, yeah, yours ran over some guys with
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  Speaker 1: your fan. So yeah. The word anthropomorphism giving it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of different than anthropomorphism is what people What people do
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  Speaker 1: with their dogs usually like act like their dogs are
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  Speaker 1: capable of emotions, you know. I'm like, you're like projecting
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  Speaker 1: human tendencies or human attributes onto animals, which most dog
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  Speaker 1: owners are guilty of you know, Ronnie being not Ronnie
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  Speaker 1: ban but most dogs look and those those those humans
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  Speaker 1: that are saying that you're saying, I just I just
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  Speaker 1: walked up to some people. But that bird had people
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  Speaker 1: sneaking up to it in camouflage with rifles. So if
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  Speaker 1: you had done that in that restaurant tonight, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: everybody would have been so dumb and just been hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them might have fled, so especially if you
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  Speaker 1: walk through the door where the rifle and camouflage. But
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  Speaker 1: we have so much ground to cover blue I want
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  Speaker 1: to I want to move the blue grouse storyline, like
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  Speaker 1: everyone's being real boring. So blue grouse are hunted in
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  Speaker 1: the fall now. Years ago, in probably in the late
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  Speaker 1: nineties and early two thousand's, I was out hunting black
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  Speaker 1: bears in the spring and the way one of the
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  Speaker 1: Montana the way we eventually started hunting black bears once
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  Speaker 1: we got good at it. As we would hunt uh
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  Speaker 1: southerly south facing, east facing, southeast facing exposures in really
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  Speaker 1: steep country where you had avalanche slides or snow slides
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  Speaker 1: would clear away snow on big hillsides so that you
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  Speaker 1: climb up into a high area in the Moun Mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and everything's covered in snow except avalanche shoots where the
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  Speaker 1: snow slid off, and then the sun warmed the hill up,
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  Speaker 1: and because the snow was gone, those hills greened up.
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  Speaker 1: Those strips would green up faster than all the surrounding topography,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd get skunk cabbage and glacier lily and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of grasses would grow on these snow shoots. And
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  Speaker 1: a bear, a black bear who might dan you know,
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  Speaker 1: eight thousand, nine thousand feet above sea level. He comes
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  Speaker 1: out of his den around me earlier or later, but
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  Speaker 1: generally May six. Some people say May seven. I think
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  Speaker 1: my brother Danny thinks that's May eleven. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: day every year. And also like bam, all the bears
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  Speaker 1: come out. Some bears trickle out all the time. But
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  Speaker 1: like bears come out, Um, we s on these avalanche
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  Speaker 1: slides and now on then we'd be sitting at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of an avalanche slide and you would hear a noise.
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  Speaker 1: It would sound like it's who whose things they can
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  Speaker 1: do it best, not that's I'm gonna do. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: mine then, but someone else has to do there's next.
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  Speaker 1: Would hear this noise? Okay, picture it's April May, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, m m was that six seven notes?
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  Speaker 1: Almet m m m m M. You try yours. M
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  Speaker 1: that's one far away. Yeah, that's why. That's when we's
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  Speaker 1: all that's might might do the far away grouse? Who
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  Speaker 1: else wants to take a stab at? You're getting the
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  Speaker 1: point the bar set too high. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Do one let one rip? Oh oh that was good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that sounds good. Here's this noise. Now, we were
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years baffled by what this noise
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  Speaker 1: was because I grew up in Michigan, right we moved
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  Speaker 1: out west get into the hunting fishing action. We would
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  Speaker 1: hear this noise. Turns out that the blue growls, which
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  Speaker 1: is just kinda I was gonna call him blue grouse
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  Speaker 1: like everyone knows now right, dusky grouse, city grouse, blue grouse.
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  Speaker 1: Learned that it's it's it's a blue grouse, and that's
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  Speaker 1: his noise in the spring to call in ladies um
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  Speaker 1: and eventually figured that out and then learned that there's
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  Speaker 1: a thing in southeast Alaska where you can hunt blue
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  Speaker 1: grouse in the spring, and the Molaska they calm hooters
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  Speaker 1: spring hooters because you can hunt them in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: The hunting method is you go out into the mountains
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  Speaker 1: in the spring and try to listen for that hoot
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  Speaker 1: noise and then try to locate the bird. Now, three
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  Speaker 1: years ago, we were finishing up bear hunt and we
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  Speaker 1: had passed through the town to ketch A Can. Yanni
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  Speaker 1: was there. We had some time to kill and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take some pictures and we drove up on
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  Speaker 1: the road system out of Ketchikan on revel A Gegado
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  Speaker 1: Island or Ravilla Island or Revy Island. We drove way
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  Speaker 1: to up the road till we got the snow got
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  Speaker 1: too deep, and then we walked for a ways and
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  Speaker 1: got to this high road and it sounded to me
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  Speaker 1: like from everywhere, from everywhere was Mike, what do the
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  Speaker 1: far away everywhere? You remember that you honest, I do
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  Speaker 1: describe your impressions. Yannest was so moved he started a
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  Speaker 1: T shirt company. Yeah, it was one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where it because we weren't focused enough, Like we weren't
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  Speaker 1: hunting him. So we're just like cruising around doing our thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking some pictures and no, because if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: I proposed we draw back into town and buy a
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, then drove back up there to hunt for
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  Speaker 1: an hour for our plane. I forgot about that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we heard a lot of hooters. It did sound like
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  Speaker 1: they were everywhere. It haunted me as haunting as a
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  Speaker 1: noise as it haunted me A year after that, well,
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  Speaker 1: so that year I started researching how to hunt spring
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  Speaker 1: hooters because like I had a spot. I got onto
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  Speaker 1: this idea where I was gonna um kill him, like
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  Speaker 1: how you killed turkeys. So I found this catalog online.
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  Speaker 1: There's like, here's one right here. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: Macaulay Bird Sound Library. Here the libraries full of all
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  Speaker 1: the library things. Start this way. I'm gonna play one
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  Speaker 1: thing real quick. Four or five two. That dude says that,
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  Speaker 1: then you're here. That's a female. Okay, that's a female
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  Speaker 1: tending her chicks, HEARDing her chicks. So I started trying
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  Speaker 1: to find ways that you would mimic these noises, and
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  Speaker 1: I would send the noises to friends of mine who
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  Speaker 1: were musicians, first asking them like, if you had to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to make that noise, how would you
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  Speaker 1: make it? I sent them both the female and the
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  Speaker 1: male sound. Now, everyone said that a blowing out a
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  Speaker 1: beer bottle would make the male noise, which you don't.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone said, there's some kind of Australian instrument. Did
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  Speaker 1: you re do? Yeah? Do you do? You like this?
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  Speaker 1: Do you no? That's a that's a that's something yeah,
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  Speaker 1: with the like thing on the end. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it is. I think it's like I roped up. You
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  Speaker 1: spend the rope real fast at that. What's it called?
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  Speaker 1: I have no IDEA boomerang? Bro, Remember they had a
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  Speaker 1: ghost caller toy growing up. It's like a tube you
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  Speaker 1: do that? Yes, yeah, that's the word. I mean it
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: made that sound, yeah, know that. I think about it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Whenever I was out there, I pictured, like in like
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: an old guy with the moonshine jug with like triple
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: axes on it, just like softly blowing on it. Yeah, Mike, Mike.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: First thing, Mike said, we got in the moms like,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: she's just a lot old mood shiners out here, the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: all things mood shiners. Are you think we've find it still? So? Yeah,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it sounds like an old dude blown on a moonshine jug. Anyways,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I sent these sounds that everyone eventually sent uh the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: sound to the guys that down in dirty game calls,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and they made me a box call and an open
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: read call that I could use to try to mimic
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a hand and it's kazoo like that was the other
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: musicians kept saying, like, you might be able to do
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it with the kazoo, but I couldn't figure out how
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to do it with the kazoo. But I got this
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: open read call that sounds damn good, and it's like
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it's like, uh, is that right? Yeah, sounds like that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And I put out a thing on social media asking
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: anyone if anyone had a dead female blue grouse laying around.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: This dude name who had become kind of like email
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: buddies with this guy named Shad Brunson out of Utah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Runs out, He's like, hey, I'm going hunting them anyways,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: runs out, shoots me one I have it, go to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a taxidermist that I know in Montana who stuffs that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: female and armed with a hand call and my decoy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I go out back one year later with Yanni and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: do where he was with us back out to Ravilla
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Island and spend four days trying to get under the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: tree of a blue grouse in order to call to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it and present it with this decoy, thinking that I
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: would pull the bird down out of his tree where
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they're hiding up in the tree, pull him down, he'd
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: come down and strutt and I shoot him. And we
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: got killed on that trip. Talk about why we got
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: killed for what I know now know from what you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: knew then what I knew them. There weren't as many birds,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: we felt like, and we hunted the same. We didn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: have a lot of room in room. We're kind of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: hunting the road system out of catch can. We had
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe three five miles of road we
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: could hunt that was National four something like that, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they're just I felt like we were working the same
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: four or five birds. We named them all, Yeah, we
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: had them all named It's a roast bird, lost Bird, Randy,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: new Bird, Houdini, Houdini. Yeah. Yeah, We're like, yeah, there's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: like we knew about these birds and we try to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: find them. You could not find them. Yeah. We kept
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: getting cliffed out. We got cliffed out numerous times where
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: we just could not we felt like we couldn't continue,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, moving on these birds. What these
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sons of bitches will do is they'll get up in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a high spot like picture, you're at the head of
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a canyon, and they, like the walls of a canny
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: kind of come together and peter out at the head
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of a canyon or the head of like a draw,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, on a mountain slope, and there's some big,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: badass spruce tree rising up and towering over the head
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of the draw. A blue grouse will go up into
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that high spruce tree and start making is weird hit
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it like noise, and you it sounds like it comes
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from everywhere. Like you know, if you're out in the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: woods and you hear a sound and you'd say to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: your body'd like point your finger at the sound. Well,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I noticed people do when a blue growlse calls. They
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: don't point their finger. They sort of like gesture with
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: their hand like uh, like, oh, it's over, like in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: this vague sort of direction. Yeah, what we started doing
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: now is like it's like a two handed like pie
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: kind of you hear a blue grouse, sometimes your pie
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: thing describes degrees right, or sometimes you might a very
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: narrow pie wedge would be a yeah, a very narrow
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: pie edge is a lie. But I would say a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: narrow pie wedge is a fifteen to twenty degree pie wedge. Right.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: If you see someone get what if you hear annoy,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you hear a grouse, a blue grouse off like you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: he's a mile away whatever he is, um and you
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: drew a pie wedge more narrow than fifteen degrees, you
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the person's over excited, you know. To put it this way.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: One time, while we're trying to hunt spring hooters in Alaska,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: we had a grouse's location in our minds. Pinpointed to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: two trees, one of which I climbed. Hours later. We
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: were probably about a mile away from there, trying to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: ascertain which mountain the bird was on. He never stopped hooting.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I think we finally said he's probably up on that ridge.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And we said we said we couldn't. We couldn't go
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: on the ridge though even that's what it was, wrong, wrong,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: wrong landownership. For four days, we would just be like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: we'd go we get burned by let's say it was
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Randy Newbird. We get burned by Randy Newbird one day.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: The next day would get exasperated, we'd go back up
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to try again. On Randy new bird, and we'd sit
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and just listen to him, being like, what portion of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the mountain ranges that bird calling from? I got sober funneled,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and it was so miserable that Uh. I called some
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: buddies of mine, and I happen to have a buddy
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of mine named Matt Carlson, who's a he's a um,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: he doesn't he's a biologist, but he does a lot
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: of ornithology, and he grew up in southeast Alaska. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I called him because I knew he'd hunted a spring hooter. Now, man,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he said, like, you know, to be honestly, I never
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: did it enough. Um, it's tough to find him. Let
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: me ask around. He calls around and finds a dude
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: who another biologist from Juno who knew a retired woman
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: named Barbe who is a blue grouse master. And one
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: day all piste off while we're hunting blue grouse. I
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: called Barbe and asked her how to find him, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: she gave me some tips that just explaining over the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: phone did me no good, and then we just got
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We continued. We had one more day hunted, the last
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: day of the season, and didn't find any birds. Yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: A year goes by and we email with and become
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: friends with Barb and Fanagal and invitation up to come
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and hunt Blue grows with Barbed for four days which
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: just ended, and we fucking slay them, slate them. We really,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: we really worked bar We just we kind of gave
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: her the one to punch we could like we really
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls, really had our tails tupe
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: between our legs, were like, we have a good time
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to even hold this one on her. Um, you do
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you do what you pulled on her? But your daughter,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: my daughter, No, you're not your dog daughters. Yeah, y'alln't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: even got y'alln't even took it to this to to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: try to finagle an invitation on the bar. You went
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: as far as to well, because it's not everybody that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: wants to jump on TV. There's a lot of people
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: that do want to be on TV. Some people could
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: give a ship, don't need, don't need anything to do
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: with TV. There's people who want to come on a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: TV show because they they could be fun. They want
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to hang out, go on a free trip, it'd be fun.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: They've always curious about how TV shows get made okay.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: There's people who want to come on t VO because
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: they gotta sell. They want to sell something like, oh,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yanni comes on the podcast, sells t shirts, like they
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: got a thing. They're gonna get a specific, concrete thing
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: they're going to get out of it. That's hunts Eat
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: dot com. And then you got what were the other
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: kinds were identified? And I tried to have it be three,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but we identified five kinds of people that want to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: be on TV. They wanna be a guest on TV show.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: There's people who would just do it. They don't want
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to do it, but your buddies with them and they'll
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just do it, which is pretty much what happens as
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a bar. But anyways, the card I pulled on her
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: as I said, look, I've got two daughters, and there
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: are no great female hunting role models out there, let
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: alone with blue grouse hunting, right, Please show them how
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it's done. And so Barbe has been hunting blue grouse
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: twenty five years. She hits it hard. Yeah, And what
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: was interesting that I realized about her this evening at
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: dinner is that, um, she's got a very deep hunting resume.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: She passed around her a little portfolio of pictures, and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Barb's kills just about everything in the state of Alaska
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and moves doll sheet her family daughter when she's a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: very little girl, which makes me like her even more
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: because she's just into going hunt blue grouse. Yeah, she's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: un all the big game, but she is like a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: blue grouse hunter, and she took us out and taught
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: us how to find those things. And I can't even
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I'm trying, I'm searching. I don't know what the method is.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Corey today commented, the blue grows signing is good for
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's like good for anyone who has good hearing, is
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: in good shape. Did you quit it to golf a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: little bit? No? No, I well, I said the opposite's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it's just I guess it's a you know, it's a
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: hunt that's probably not meant for deaf people and people
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: out of shape. That's how I put it. But yeah,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I meant barbed. The first day we got here,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we flew in, I mean, Yanni, We're talking to her
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in the hotel and I was like thinking to myself, Oh,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: this is this is gonna be a breeze. You know,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: barns probably in her fifties, I would say, mid fifties,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and uh, we're just gonna walk around in these nice parks,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: forest parks and look for these birds. And first day
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we're sweating, you know, within fifteen minutes because everything is
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: straight up and down here cover to moss, sofer moss.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Thank god it wasn't raining. And she crushed us. I mean,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: she pretty much left us in the dust. Really, I couldn't. Like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I still don't understand how she was doing it. Just
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a climbing fool. Yeah, she smoked us and maintaining. Day
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: one she made one of our cameraman quit. It. Shouldn't
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: even have pink accents on her gun. Nope, smiling, no paint,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: no paint needed. Yeah, did it without mascara. Just out
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: there hammering the mountain and on point. She was always
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: knowing what she was doing and looking forward. Yes, so
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: barbed hunts, buy herself like that. Here's how she hunts.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Her husband doesn't have blue grouse anymore, and he'll come out.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: They'll go out on their boat and sometimes they'll just
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: go out and cut the engine on a calm day
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and drift off the you know, out in the ocean,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: listening up on the surrounding mountains to hear some hooters
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: going off. Then Barbe's husband, well bring her up and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: beat or they got a flat bottom boat, like a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: big boat. They can sleep on the thing, you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and carry his already act around on it. But he'll
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: go up and beach around the beach, and then she'll
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: go hunt all day um while he trolls for salmon.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And then she carries a orange banner with her so
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: she don't need to pay any attention to where she
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: winds up. She usually belines it and I'm talking temperate rainforest,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I mean rainforest. She blines it up to you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: hundred feet hunts, comes down, hits the ocean shore, hangs
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: up her blaze orange banner so that her husband, while
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: he's trolling up and down the shoreline will notice the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: banner and not to come get her all spring. She
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: says that they don't start fishing hall but until spring
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: hooter season is over. There is probably no other person
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: who's that committed. If they if they are, please email me.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You're honest, stop but tell us at zero point zero
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: dot com. I would love to talk to you, because
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: every I've read a handful, the only place that publishes
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: blue grouse hunting articles. Is like uh Laska Department of
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Fishing fishing game because they try to promote it to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: new hunters and stuff like that, you know, And so
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: they'll they're always every year they'll round up some dude
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: who's gonna write like a blue grouse article, and the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: blue grouse article will be like, oh, there's this zany thing. Um.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I'm usually into something else, but so every now and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: then I'll go do this anything. And the birds are
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: like and no one can write an article without using
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the word ventriloquist. They're like a ventriloquist. And you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it's just silly kind of anything. That's like what it
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: brings out in people. I don't know why people are
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: down on it, except that I think it might be
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that when you find the bird, you shoot it. Out
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: of truth the twenty two. It's not wing shooting, you know,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: it's not win shooting. Except that the article that we
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: read that was publishing the Juno newspaper wasn't he afforded
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to me before we came here. But this guy wrote
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: an article about it, how he was so into it,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and he said that I thought he wasn't into it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I thought. He's saying, I'm not a big hunting guy
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: now and then I'll go do this. Well, my point
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: is that all the effort that he put into finding
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: these birds, he wasn't gonna shoot him with twenty two.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: He just took his dead. Guy smoked him out with
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: truth with the twelve gage, which I don't know most
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of the birds we found, you were gonna kill the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: twelve gage too far away? Yeah, I was gonna say, man,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: they were high because bullet drop is an effect but
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: affected by vertical distance. But shotgun spread is he's saying
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: he's shooting, he's mostly walking away from a lot of birds,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: or he's not find him because he's not gonna be
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: shooting him with a twelve gages seventy yards in the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: size of a softball the body unless he's go up
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: there with with a bunch of heavy shot up super
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: turkey choking a bunch of heavy shot. Maybe yeah, talk
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to that guy. Anyways, he did make a thing. He
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: likes shooming a scatter gun. They don't jump, So that's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the thing, is like, like, who do you guys ever,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you guys ever hold ducks off the water with a shotgun.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: He's Texas. Did you not do it because because you
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: don't hunt ducks, or you not do because you think
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: it's unsportsman, Like I said, don't ut ducks? All right? Yeah, no,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: that's something I we go duck hunting, and we'd always
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I guess the etiquette was to let him get off
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the water first. Yeah, it's weird, man, because you're saying
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I see both sides of it. You know. When you're saying, yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I want this thing to be dead and I and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I wanna give it a chance, we'd also be saying
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm also giving it more of a chance that it's
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: gonna that I'm gonna hit it with a bb and
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not kill. It's like you want it, dad, but you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: can make it dead, you know, shoot it. But it
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: is unsportsman. It's generally regardless unsportsman, like the hose a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: duck off the water. That's how market hunters used to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: do it too. But is that the same as like
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: shooting a deer bedded to listen, man, I will fight
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that to the dead dye. It is not no listen.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It's way different. I think that to shoot a betted
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: animal is a sign of good hunting, not bad hunting.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: It's like you've done your work right. There has no
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: idea there, like you put on you put such a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: good stock on that you found the thing laying. You know,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you don't like drive up on a bedded animal. Mm hmm. Yeah.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: People might be confusing betted animal with like animals asleep
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and like you're fathering along after Thanksgiving dinner was passed
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: out on the couch. Like that's not the animal you
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: sneak up to. These animals aren't just snoring with their
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: head and on the ground. You just having having stands
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: across him and then get to boom them. No, betted
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: animals like it's on full alert, you know, in its
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: bed in a safe spot where you can see all
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: around it. He's got the wind coming in the right direction,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: he's got covered behind him. And like you're saying, if
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you sneak in there, you've done something special. Now, if
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: you opposed shooting bedded animals because the shot placement problems,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. The shot places was
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: difficult on bettered animal. But we filmed the thing. We
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: we filmed the animal uphunt. I belly crawled, I mean
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I spent a long time belly crawling up on an antelope,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: very hot, very uncomfortable, belly crawled on an antilope, got
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: close to it in his bed, had a perfect shot,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: killed it, and never even stood up. Blamn dead. Some
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: guy writes an email like I've hunted all six continents
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and that that that I never see anybody shoot a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: betted animal. I'm I don't know. You must be not looking,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: you know. He was like, morally outrage, not about shot placement,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: but just the coward you know, how cowardly it wasn't
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: shooting better animal. So it's like, so is it cowardly
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: to shoot an animal running away from you? Shooting him
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in the back? I think his bs. But the whole
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: shooting birds out of trees thing, I think that that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: might be a thing is because guys and hunt birds
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: like wing shooting, and it's not wing shooting. Garrett, you
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: don't need to raise your hand, dude. Well, I was
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: thinking with you talking about the better down animals and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: getting a good hunt on him. It takes that skill
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and effort. And it seems like with the grouse, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Souti grouse in particular, I mean to get up in
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: that country to find out where that sounds coming from
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to find him in the tree to get a shot
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: at him. That effort is there, so yeah, yeah, it
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: takes work. Yeah, it's worse. So you earn or I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: mean you don't earn. But if it's an etiquette thing
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: or a fairness thing, a sportsman's thing, the sportsman's things
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: there with the Sudi grass not needing them to like
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: if you got all you you go to South Dakota,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: right and you you go up and you get out
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of your truck, you have some coffee, eat a couple
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: of doughnuts, walk down and do ditch row and start
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: spitting pheasants out every which way, and you're shooting with
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: your shotgun and you act proud of yourself on that.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you're gonna measure effort, that is
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to what it takes the final it's hard, man.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: It might be it's less than five percent. It's nothing. Nothing. No,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's like an excuse. I think they know
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: what it takes to go up there and to like
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: get a limit. We've been at it four days and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: had some great hunting, did not get a limit any day,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and we're like trying to figure out what it would
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: take to get a limit here and not get a limit.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But he's hearing hoots, always hearing hoots. I think maybe
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: people know what they have in store for him. I mean,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: you're talking about what do we hike for elevation, gaining
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: loss in our bigger days? Yesterday? All right, that was,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: but that was just days. But I think you keep
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: pointing out were talking about in rainforest. It's not like
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: hiking that trail. It's off you get landed on the beach.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: We we'd go out and get landed on a beach
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: with a boat. Boat pulls up. Everybody jumps off the
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: bout and you're at tideline and you don't start hearing
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: hoots till you're six seven ft up, typically straight up.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's really I mean, it's a physically very
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: challenging hunt. And there's no other hunt that I can
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: think of, and I've been trying to think of it.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Turkey hunt involves listen for gobbles, but there's no other
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: hunt that just comes down to listen ning locating the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: source of the noise. But that's only half of it,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: because once you find where you got it narrowed down,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: you know what three trees in and neither. Trees that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: are a couple hundred feet tall, several hundred feet tall sometimes,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Now that's why hundred tall before you get into optics
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: of city grass something. Let's say a quick break. All right,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: welcome back. Uh, there's a couple we're gonna get back
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: into blue grouse on. We're gonna start talking about like
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: finding them by noise and finding them by sight. But
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of things came up. One I meant to
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: talk about this rout off the bat. Does anyone here
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: if we're talking, we never quit. We're talking about before
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: we started recording, we're talking about big Foot. No one
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: here believes in Bigfoot? Right? Do you believe in big Foot? No?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I believe that there's a some sort of archetype about
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: someone larger than us humans. You know, yeah, I agree
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: with that, Like a lot of cultures have a version. Yeah, yeah, Mike,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: not tell us he for I'm I'm undecided. What do
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: you mean your own decided? Well, there was I saw,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you know, with all the internet videos, there was an
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Asian bear that walks on its hind legs for longer periods.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: It can walk up to like, you know, like a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: quarter mile or something. I can believe that. And it
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: looks like, does that mean I have the the well
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the big foot thing, Like yeah, I don't know. No,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: do you believe that there's a giant hominid? No? Actually no, yeah,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you're right. No, No that's good. Not that. Take't care.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: So the other came up. We want to touch on that.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: What's something else we're just about touching on. Oh, the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: painting in the hotel room. It's like this painting from
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: it must be some prominent saddle around. It's a big
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: grizzly up on the on the mountains above Juno. He
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: looks like he's headed down into town to go drinking.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: It's like he's coming. He just must have come. It's
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of snow. He just come out of hibernation.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he's like headed down to get drunk,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: like what is going on? Or eat a few people
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have, like a man he doesn't have. If
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I was the painter and I wanted to make it
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that he was headed down to to kill people, how
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to have him look mean, I don't know. This guy's
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: mouth open. He's like he's like the version of the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: lone wolf, you know, with the wolf in the village
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: below was going down to get drunk or something. Yeah, back,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: so the trick. Now, there are parallels in this world
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the sound thing. Okay, listening for bugle and elk up,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: like you're you're listening to locate listening to a turkey,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: you listen to locate, but in but in those things squirrels,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I'm always listening for squirrels barking. I'm heading their direction. Yeah,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: there's a big audio component too, Is that? Is that
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the right word? Big audio component to a lot of honey,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: auditory component to a lot of hunting, but nothing like
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: where you're trying to track down such a difficult sound.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: And even when you get like what kind of happened?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Is that, you'll be out hunting your your hero hoot right,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: and you'll argue about what direction it was, and you're
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: going that direction and then you won't hear anymore, and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: then you'll crest like a slight ridge and it will
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: sound farther away than it did before you started walking
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: that way. But you know you're walking in the right
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: direction because it's still you still agree on the direction,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: but just as less loud. Now then you walk in
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the sound goes away. Then you walk a little more
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: into sounds louder than you've heard it at all. And
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: then you walk a little more and it's really faint.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: You can't tell what's going on. And then you climb
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: up the next ridge and it's booming loud, at which
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: point you're like, oh, he's in this clump of trees,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: and then it might take on the way. Though, I
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: gotta add, you're constantly, at least maybe today I wasn't,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: but up until saying walk, yeah, as as which is
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: the wrong word, Oh that's right, Yeah, climbing, climb four
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: points of contact through the rainforest, steep rainforest, your hands.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: The point I want to make is that you're constantly,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: like I said, up until today, kind of second guessing yourself. Yeah,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: just like wondering like am I going the right way?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Did the bird I'm chasing quit hooting? Am I not
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: chasing a different bird? Are we on the wrong ridge?
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Like it just goes on and on and on, it
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: never quits. Well, that was the cool things, like you
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: have three options. You here here, you know, you hear
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: who It's like, okay, he either right, he's either center,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: he's left, and you have to just choose the direction
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and then and then you're or there's the other one
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: where he's behind you. Well that's any thing too, is
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: that like the topography really changes like the sound of
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: the bird, you know, And that's why you have to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: get up, because like if you're gonna get on the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: beach and just like say, I'm gonna go hunt city
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: grouse or you know, blue grouse or whatever, and just
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: go up, you know, a hundred feet from the beach,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna get anything. I mean, you have to
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: go up to get above them in order to like
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: hear anything at all. And like and especially like this
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: one thing you know, but that I learned, you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: in the short time I was here, is that like
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: if you're down by a stream or if you're inside
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: like you know, a sat or ravine. Because I've never
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I've never been elk hunting, so I don't
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: know how that bugle carries and like how that like
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the way the hell better than the hoop, right, So
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: it's just like, okay, you got these like little thing.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: But even then if you're down by a stream, like
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the streams were crossing and the bulls bugling up on
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the ridge above it, you probably won't hear him. That's
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: stream will drown it. Okay. So it's like, yeah, so
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: you have to get up and and and get into
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: essentially like where they're podcasting from, like on that same
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: kind of level, because that's what they do. They're picking
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the big tree just to like you know, finding mate,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: you know, and just like then that and that's where
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: we found him. Was all these big trees are not
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: like you know, on a bush, yeah, exactly. And it
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: might be that you hear him now and then like
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: we've had it where we heard him all day. We
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: other thing happened today where we heard a hoot chamber
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: our something. We heard her who We're like, well, let's
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: just going that way a little bit and see what
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: happens next. And we go down and and Corey, you
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: proposed to go up on a little knob to listen
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: from a knob, and I was like, well, no sense
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and all being on the knob. So I was down
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: off the knob, but we're close enough for we can communicate.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing that something going loud, loud and clear, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: you guys couldn't hear him. He was only away. I'm like,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: there is they're like they kept giving me like they
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: don't they don't hear anything. I'm like, no, dude's right,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So we want to finding that bird, and that want
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: to be in the bird that we spent close to
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: two hours looking for it. I think it was after
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we identified his clump of trees. Um, we spent an
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: hour and forty five minutes trying to find the burden
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: in the trees. Thrown off by this fact, we found
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: fifteen a total of found, not killed, but found a
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: total of something like fifteen blue grouse and spruce trees,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: to the point where I was like, oh, they're in
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: spruce trees. And this when we couldn't find was an
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a hamblock. So you get to an area and I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: started in my head, I would get to an area,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: clump of trees, you gotta low. He's like, he's got
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: to be one of these five six trees. I mean
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: we're talking about big gass old growth timber, right, he's
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: one of these five six trees. And I would usually
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: go like, where's the spruce, you know, and there will
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: always be a spruce in the some bitch of always
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: be in the spruce way up high, like how many
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: feet up are they hunter feet up? Yeah, I'd say
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: eighty foots. I mean the roots systems are twelve inch
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: round roots coming out of each tree on those big trees.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I mean they're old growth trees and they got the
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: birds sit on top of big limbs that usually if
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: you find a bird you can see from below. What
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you usually see is beak in his tail, and if
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: you move a foot or two either way, you want
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to see him. And it's a dense forest and so
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you got all you got covered from other trees. So
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: it's not like there's just like the one lone giant towering,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: you know thing that's like just like you know with
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: blue skies behind it. I mean it is, there's dense
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: frisbee size. Yeah yeah, yeah, No. Coming back to parallels
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: glass in these suckers office right out there with like
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: glassing up a bedacus here, but instead of looking a
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: mile away, you're looking fifty yards away, right. You know
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: what I noticed Barb is running eight and I was.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I know for a fact, if I ever come back
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: to grass, I'm gonna have some etes on me. I'm not.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: You're not you gonna stick with the tents? What? What?
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: What do you what? Are you gonna get out having eats?
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Just less shake it. I don't need, I don't need
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: thefation you have less shake and just I mean you're
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: looking yards for birds. It's actually making noise perched up there,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: even moving while he's making noise, and they are tough
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to glass. Although he had ten, what your binals are ten?
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And your scalpe was listen this story. So today I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: had ten binals in a seven power scope with my
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: double juice. Okay, I found a patch of the bird?
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Did We spent an hour and forty five minutes trying
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: to locate I found a patch of that bird in
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: my tempore knockers couldn't see that patch in my seven
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: power scope. So I eventually had to look through my
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: binoculars and study the cones on a hemlock, the configuration
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: of cones on a hemlock, and then look through my
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: rifle scope and try to identify those hemlock cones. Go
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: back to my binoculars and study some more like, Okay,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: there's a black patch of limb. Then I see those
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: four cones. There's just one little stick coming down and
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: he's there. Go back to my rifle scope and find
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: all that stuff never made would identify that. I was
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: seeing the wing patch on the bird. Wow, Corey was
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: holding a hat up to block the sun because I
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: was staring into the sun while doing this. So seventh
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: isn't good. Mm hmm. I'll have you know. I want
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: to on that bird. After two hours and a couple
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: shots and shots, I didn't have any binoculars. Had eyeball him. Yeah,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I gotta give my credit. He found our first bird.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: We put thirty minutes into it. Mikey naked eyebald him.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: He's doing like the hound circle around the tree. Once
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: we isolated, like, Okay, it's got to be it's his tree,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: it's history because like that's the That's the cool thing
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: about it too, is it's like, okay, I think it's
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: these three cheeries in this general area because that that
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: sound really just kind of like kind of rolls around,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: you know, and and so like and that's a nice
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: thing doing it with two people because then that person
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: can go down and like hear it from different directions,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: like you kind of triangulate, you know what. Okay, it's
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: gotta be this tree. It's the tree. So I'm looking
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: right in here and so and that's a nice that's
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: that's a cool thing about it. But I didn't. Yeah,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: if I was gonna give one tip to a new
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: city gross hunter, I would say, Dude, once you're in
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: the area where you're like, okay, I think this bird
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: is here, do some circles and get a hoot from
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: you know, all sides of where you think he is.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: And I feel like after you do one circle, you're
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: about ninety plus percent sure of what tree he's in,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and that gives that much more confidence of where to
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: glass as opposed to just kind of hanging back and
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: looking up there and going, Okay, he's in one of
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: those four You're not glassing four trees. This sounds weird.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: You know, people are gonna be like, what you're glassing
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: into four trees? What four trees is a lot more
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: country than you want to cover. And they're not like
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: flapping their wings and like you know, like displaying and
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: like strutting around on the limb. They're not like, you know,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: right at the tip of the limb like all silhouette
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean, they're like close to the trunk
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: and they're just there the seam. They're always sitting at
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: the seam of a big gass limb in the trunk
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: and they're just like very very slightly but these are big.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I mean they're big birds, but not as big as
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: a pheasant, but close. But they're hunter feet in the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: air in dense you know, uh, you know, the canopy
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: is just dead, and so it's just like you have
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: to isolate that tree and just like you have to
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: narrow down otherwise you're just looking at limbs and shadows
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: and moss. Like I saw it, like, I was like,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: it's like Joanni. I was like, there's a bird sit
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: on top of that tree right there, and he's like, no,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: that's just like part of the tree. I was like,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's like you're serious. It's like that looks
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: like a's like, no, I agree with you, but that's
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: not a bird. No, no, no, this was like it well,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: and then he described because I hadn't seen anything because
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I'm filming you guys, and so I hadn't actually, you know,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: seen a burden a tree, so I don't know what
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for. And he's like, so he describes like
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: whenever he hoots, the tail just kind of bumps a
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: little bit. I was like Okay, well, then that's something
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: for me look for. Whenever I hear the sound, I'm
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: looking for this one particular emotion. And so I like,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, I think he's in the
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: general area. And then as soon as you told me that,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: it's like I saw the tail, you know, kind of float.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, there he is. It's like boom. My
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: piece of advice. If I wasn'ting someone a soudy girls
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: hunting too, the whole sound thing like finding them, there's
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: nothing I can say. There's just you have to just
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: trial and error, um, or go with someone to watch
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: someone do it. It was helping to watch I couldn't believe.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Trust yourself, don't second guess yourself, trust yourself. If you
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: pick a direction, keep going that direction, trust yourself, and
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: know that he's probably always a little bit farther than
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: he thought he was in the beginning. That first day
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: we went out with barbed we hiked up and we
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: most have hit probably like I think we hit six
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: d feet and we heard her who and um. Based
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: on my experience from the year before, I'm like, if
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: you know who cares about that, like, you'll never find
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: that bird because he's just one of those like he's
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: one of those like thirty degree certainty birds, you know,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: like one arm out here, in one arm out here,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: you're trying to like draw the pie wedge, like a
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: pie wedge bigger than anybody would want to every eat
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: a piece of pie. So I'm like, well, clearly that's
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: not gonna matter. And Barbe says, no, we'll get under
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: his tree, and we did. You just start going. You
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: gotta be a hound dog man, just got it. And
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: what would mess me up the year before is I
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: could never get my head around the idea that you'd
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: hear a noise and get closer to it, but it
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: would get fainter. So I would think that I was
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: doing something wrong all the time, Like I couldn't accept
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: that the noise will get fainter as I get closer,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it will get loud
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: again and all that. So I'd go and get painted. Well,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: that must not be right, and I turn and go
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the other direction, thinking that that I had misread it's direction.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: But the tip I was gonna give is these things
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: live on such a steep pitch core. You know pitches,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: what are those pitch what are the hillsides? How would
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: you describe the hillsides? It's probably like five seven climbing standards,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: which is maybe at some point we were fifty degrees.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: The fifty degree pitch not a little plus maybe even
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: you're just grabbing a root, grabbing another root, grabbing a tree,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and you're just sticking your feet in this moss.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I tend to like wear you know, big
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: heavy angled boots and just kick my toes in. Yeah. Yeah, Look,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: if you're climbing with crampo ons, most like kick my
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: tone and the moss now, and then just climb up
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: like that when my heels out, like in the mid air,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: you know. But my my suggestion when you're looking at
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: when you get where you think you were, maybe you
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: don't know which trees, but you gotta my my strategy
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: became to pick a tree and work that treat and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: rule the sun bitch out right, be like, I'll rule
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: that's like the hour and forty five minute bird. We
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: ruled out the three spruces, and then I started looking
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: at the hemlock, and that's why it took so long.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: So but at one point I was like, this is
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: this is for the birds. Man, I was ready to go.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I proposed leaving. I proposed leaving, going looking for another hooter. Well,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: like he said, Steve too, like when they shift the
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: direction that they are actually projecting the sound, it changes
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: where it's like when you throw your voice. You know,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: So they got three dimensionals. Yeah, that's a good way
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: of putting it. You know, Yeah, it does because you'll
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: be sitting there and it'll like be like the birds
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: moving from tree to tree. But just because but then
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: when you do see one, he is always doing that.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: He who's on one side of tree. You'll step over
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: in our limb face the other way and who in
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: our direction? And it sounds like you kept Garrett, you
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: kept proposing that there's two or three of them up
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: in the tree. That's what it sounded like, there's two.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to do the circle around
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: like the base I keep getting what my suggestion is. Yeah,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: but on top of yours, the going around, go up
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: hill and get eye level because the pitch is so
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: severe that you can do this, go up hill and
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: get eye level with the canopy. So you might wind
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: up being I remember today, I wasn't even close to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: eye level with the top of a tree. I remember
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: ranging the tree trunk. I was thirty seven yards from
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the tree trunk. I'll pill behind it, looking into its canopy,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: kind of looking into its canopy. And then so you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: kind of read, like, what direction should I go uphill
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: where it's not going to be obscured by a bunch
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: of twigs and ship from another tree? And if you
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: can find a little gap and then climb up there
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: and look into the tree rather than looking up. We
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: found I think one bird from looking up. Yeah, Well,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: because you got all the branches below it, and they're
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: at the top. I mean they're not halfway up, you know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: I mean at least from what I saw. I mean
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: they're they're so looking straight up. The tree is just
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's garbage. I mean, you gotta like
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: do concentric circles out find those little pockets. Yeah, which
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: brings me to to the kind of a final not
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: not the final thing, but you know an important part
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: of this. You go up, up, up, and you're getting
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: away from the trunk tree looking in when you find it,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: you invariably wind up in tricky shooting situations, you are
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: not gonna shoot a blue grouse by lying down prone
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: in the angle. The shooting angles are usually much too
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: severe to shoot over your knee. You're shooting up. I
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: shot one lying down on my back. You know. It's
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: like it's like your contortion is trying to get in
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: the shooting position on him. But it's the most rewarding
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: shooting I've ever been involved in. It's not like it's
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: in its own way. I would say it's as difficult
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: as wing shooting. Oh definitely. It's very demanding. Especially you're
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: not gonna blow the breasts out of him. If you're
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: trying to hit him in the neck and head. It's
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: very demanding. It requires. Yeah, it's a great attention to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the heads, you know, so you head shooting squirrels not
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: easy to do. I love hunting blue grouse. I don't
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: think it's gonna catch on. Yeah, that's tough man, which
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: is part of the peel too. Doesn't get sad and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: it's just not I mean, you gotta come like like
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: dudes aren't dudes from down Dude from Lord forty eight
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: aren't gonna when they do their big Alask trip if
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: they're up here spring bear hunting, they just tack onto
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: you because no one's gonna be like clearing it up
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: with your wife and shipped to like come up to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: hunt blue grouse, getting time off work, you know, buying
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: a bunch of garbage on Lyon for hunting gear and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: then come up and shoot birds. I don't know why,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: but if I wasntna last after their first time, if
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I was a sheep hunter experience, yeah, then they'll do it.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, you do this all spring and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know how whatever you'd have to do for
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: June and July to retain that shape. But if you
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: did this all studio cross season, you would be ready
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: to smoke the brooks range and look for dolls. So
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: this is so this is the the the the primer,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the your your work out getting ready for that. So
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: this is a good Like this is CrossFit, Yeah, this
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: is this is your you know, your rainforest cross fit
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: prior to it's better CrossFit because like my brother criticized
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: the CrossFit all texts crossfits the only thing it does
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: it makes you good a CrossFit. What I'm saying, yeah,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: like we're I'm gonna go hunt with someone, like if
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take someone on a hunting trip, I usually
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: tell him, like you're sitting there thinking about what's sleeping
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: bag you need, right, what gun you're gonna bring, whether
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you got to this kind of scope or that kind
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: of scope. Is like, here's the thing that's gonna that's
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: gonna make your hunt. Here's the thing that's gonna make
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: it that you're happy and successful or miserable not successful,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Your ability to your ability to climb hills, whether or
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: not your feet are gonna hold up. Yes, I mean,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: well this is a good pise. It's like the only
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: thing if you're gonna go on a mountain hunt, you're
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: going on a sheep hunt, elk hunt, mule to your hunt.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: All the garb would you think you need to worry about,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Like who do I want this kind of pants or
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: that kind of pants? That is largely bullshit. It's like,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: can you walk a long ways up and down hills
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: and have your feet stay in good shape and that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: you can keep doing that day after day after day
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: after day on your face with a smile on your face,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: because the minute you don't want to go to that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: next ridge, you're done. All right, everyone, I know you're
• 1:04:51
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• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: The minute you start finding reasons to not go to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: that next ridge, it's over for you. I was kind
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of curious, what do you guys think about whenever you're
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: looking at just straight up, like, what is it? What
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: you're talking about? These fifties degrees? Okay, I gotta get
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: up there. Whenever you're just you're having to grind to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: get up to the top. What do you guys think
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: about whenever you're doing that and it's just your legs
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: are screaming. I don't know if your legs are screaming
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: and stuff like physically what you're going through, But what
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: what's going through y'all's mind in those situations to get
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: you to the top of that. Me lying there, dying
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: on my deathbed as an old man, Yeah, that keeps
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: you grind. Yeah, because I always think about this when
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: I'm dying. Okay, I will not be like man, I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: sug glad I didn't climb that hill. This is no way. Yeah,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: there's no way. Today we got up on a ridge.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Remember we're on the ridge top yeah, okay, and there
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: was a hooter down below. I'm like, man, I don't
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: want to go the ridge top because we're up on
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: the rooftop. Then we have to go down there to
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: kill him or try to kill him, and then climb
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: back up the bridgetop. Then I'm like, why in the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: world are you thinking this way? Go down there and
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: climb back up, because it's I mean, there's a mental
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: component of day four for Yeah. I mean I have
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of curiosity too. I'm always curious about stuff,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: like they're I was gonna find something weird laying on
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the ground or I don't know, right, there's a rewarded,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like I'm always like, oh, you know,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll find something weird laying there, or he's all
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: benched out, you know, there there are bench as. It
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: wasn't inconsistent. I mean it's something you're just like, yeah,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe like two bucks, maybe two bucks got tangled
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: up and died with their antlers locked. Yeah, and also
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stumble across that, or I'll find a dead
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: guys did actually get to the treasure. I always look
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: in the holes under the trees and thinking there's something
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: in there. I was sparked to something to jump out.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Wolverines coming at you. Yeah, so there's that. There's like
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: do I will I ever, that's what you're thinking of,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Like I need to get to the next bitch so
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I can look underneath that tree from I'm always like,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: where's barb right now? Way out there? I think about this.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: There's a direct correlation. There's an undeniable direct correlation between
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: how much weird ship you see in the woods and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: how much time you spend in the woods. M sure
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Guy spends a lot of
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: time in the woods, has a lot of things, like
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: stories that begin with I'll tell you what you know
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: what I mean like that, or he's got sh it
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: on his shelves. He's like you see that. You know
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: you learned a lot about porcupines. Yeah, well about you
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: a lot, Like what do you what's going on in
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: your head? Whenever? It's just like it's it's flipp in
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: front of flip in front of foot to get to
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: the top the grind, the grind in the grind, Yeah,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: depend depends on how long the grind is. But just going,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I mean like I try to like to go just
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: in my head and like try to push myself to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: the plateau without stopping like that. That's it. There's nothing
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: else in that that time that that if it's the longer,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: if it's a longer like we're talking trying to go
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: two thousand feet, same consistency now on the pitch, then
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: you can get in more of a rhythm. But this
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: was kind of like steep bench. Listen, stop, that's the
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: point you raised because Core used to be a competitive
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: like a professional snowboarder, and you you gotta walk up
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of those hills. Yeah, but you're, like you
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: said today, like but doing that every step is the same. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: it's just like the same step. It's like the same
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: step over and over again. Goes but here every step
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: is different. Okay, yeah, every step you're twisting an ankle,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: different degrees every step. You know, we're thinking or of
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: turknees and holes that were covered by you know, moss stuff,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: and every step, every step is different. Crawling over logs,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: under logs, trees, grabbing a dead tree, knocking over the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: whole tree. You know, like out of the sound, I
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: got a different But I think to your question is
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: just so you guys are all. I think what you're
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: trying to ask is really like what is like there's
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: a motivating kind of a factor, not just like what
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: happens in your head, but like you're in you're in
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the grind, and like what do you say to yourself
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I'm fired up to get to
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: the top. Just what I just said. No, I know
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: you answered it right. I just just wanted to make
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: do you want to be the kind of guy that
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: goes up the hill or not? No, No, you're still
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: gonna get to the top. You're still gonna get to
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: the top. But that time before you get up there,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I mean your brain is you know, what are you
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: thinking about your taxes? Or you oh think about like that?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Like what yeah, like what is going on in your
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: mind during that that that grind and trying to Blue
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Rose the whole time? The hell are you thinking about?
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: I started playing? So you answered it right the first time.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: You said. No, he's not asking that. He's not saying
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: what motivates you. He's wondering what the star point? There
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: might be some pain involved, well the pain you're thinking
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: about stuff besides what we're doing while we're out there,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: whenever I'm climbing, whenever we're going straight up and like
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: we have to get up there, and it's like we're
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: not like okay, we hear the sound. We gotta go
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: up right and it hurts and it's painful and stuff,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: and so there's nothing going no mash you what should
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: call my mom or often, well, your mind doesn't wander
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: whenever you're like in that, whenever you do that, just
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: mean this question packing meat or something like that, it does.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: But I'll doing this. I'm just hoping to find right,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: he's just getting out there, yeah, like a drudgery. Like
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: if you're just like, oh yeah, we got a nine
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: a mile walk, we're all done. It's like just hiking out.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm thinking about crazy ship man. Right, that's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That's that was a question. And
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn how to think about something like
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be like, because you know, I write
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: a lot, right, so I'll be like, why don't I
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: take this time and actually write something in my head
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: word for word for word, memorize it. And then I
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: got home, I said to type out what I wrote
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: in my head. Your body is gonna I can't do
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: that because then I'd be like, man, I should really
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: call my mom. Or often I'm like, oh, I'm supposed
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: to be writing my article, but then I can't, you know.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: But I mean I'm onne of some other thing, like man,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I gotta remember that, you know, like I gets some
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: new finger paint for my kids. You know it's uncontrolled.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: But Blue Rail's hunting, I'm thinking, Mike, I am constantly
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: training for the next hunt. Every time I get into
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: that position where it's the grind and it heard to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: my legs or like please stop, please stop, and I'm like,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: shut up, legs, And in ahead, I think the six
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: point bull that I've been looking for for twenty years
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: is at the top of the next bench. Who does
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: the top six um killed a lot of cows, calculate machine.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: But no, I'm just like constantly thinking, like this is
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: good for me. That's how I make it good for me,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: and so I like enjoy it because I think in
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: this fall, this higher that I'm doing right now next
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: fall is gonna help me hopefully be successful in whatever.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: But doesn't that wind up being real circular, because yeah,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: of course, because yeah it's helpful, right now, do I mean,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: I'm helping myself right now in order to help myself
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: in the future. It's kind of people who like, you
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: get dumped by a girl and people like, yeah, it'll
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: only make you stronger. It's like, well, for next time
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I get dumped, I'm I'm with you, guys. Yeah, Absolutely's
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: like this is like this is gonna pay off, Like
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: this is the effort involved is you know, I'm not
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: gonna find a dead guy or two. Think Mike, because
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Michael Ridge was asking of like how like you make
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: it okay in your head to like deal with the
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: pain of like keep keep pushing, don't take a break
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: right now, keep pushing. Yeah, there's a hooter at the
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: end of the road, but you said it. You're like,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: when I'm on my deathbed I'm dying, I would be like,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, but you guys talking about motivations, like
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: you got that motivation to get up there, like where
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: does your mind go? And this I may be off
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: off here, but when I'm like I'm maxed out, I'm thinking, man,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: I need to stop, and I know I need to go,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep going. I actually go to really
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: calm water, like sitting on a lake with a beer
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: and that's where my mind is. Okay, So yeah, that's
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: not be worried about whether the fishure button. I'd be like,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: I've better walked down the beach. I mean, because it's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: about keeping your heart, you know, keeping your heart, Oh,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: I got you know what I'm saying, Like your body
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: is gonna do I mean, you're sucking wind, your legs
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: are screaming to keep that heart rate down. So you
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: go to a place of you can climb like you
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: do technical climbing. Yeah, like ice climbing, technical clim and
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: it's all about that, Like your body's maxing out, but
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: you can go way beyond as long as you keep
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: your your heart right down. It's being able to separate
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: your mind from all the physical pan of your feeling.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Right Like you guys say, you gotta stay focused. Your
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: motivation is going to take you there, but to get there,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: you know, and even further, you know you're gonna get there.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get there. I mean, there's no doubt that
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: you're going to the top of place. But it's just
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's just dealing with that like internal
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: turmoil at least for me, And I was just like,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: go to fucking hurts, go to that lake. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Like if I want to call myself um all sometimes
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: just focused on breathing in and breathing out. Or I'll
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: picture a really old dog on a really hot day
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: down south on a porch. That will change your Yeah,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: that would change your and that makes me feel sleepy.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: But your body is still like and sue for supermode
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: and you just carry a picture of yourself taking a nap.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Just look at that. Well that's what a beer on
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: the beach is pretty much. You know. I earlier mention
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: getting dump How many you guys did all you guys
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: get dump way ass hard in your twenties? Yeah, funnies, No, no,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: really dumping down the dumping. I got married, Oh yeah,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I got married young because I was observing that long ago.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: How like, you get dumped in your twenties by someone
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: for me, with someone named Maris, and it killed something
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: in me that never grew back. He didn't need that anyway,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: So that you know what I'm saying. I'll saying about
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: when people say, oh, yeah, I only make stronger, It's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: like that made me stronger. It killed something in me
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: that never grew back, something agree with you. But that
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: happened to me. I feel like when I was like,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, I had an exhaustible supply of
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: disappointment that was killed. It was replaced by awareness of that.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: And that's for that's and I've been trying to fill
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: that spot in me with It's the heart meat. That's
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: what the Sudi Groundse call mimics. It's a yeah, it's relationships,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: isn't The city grouns is just like, hey, babes, I
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: kept the top of the hill while we were hunting studies.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I kept trying think what's the fun part and a
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: very stided that thought all the fun part shooting them,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: you know, like picking your shot. Then I thought the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: fun part, you know, like bounced around, like what's the
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: fun part, the fun part, the funnest part. Like if
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: you could make a drug, if you could, you know,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: go to Bristol Myron and make it up a little No,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't really that kind of drugs. Who does that
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: kind of Who's like? Who makes like drug? Drugs? Fighting?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: If I was gonna go to fires and I'm like,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: I want to drug to me makes me feel like
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: X but not X to see But I mean like why,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: I want to drive me to feel like why? Why
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: would be the moment when you think I will find
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: this bird's cluster of trees? Yeah, it's that. For me,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this is the tree. Let's let's
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: figure out what what branches on. Yeah, it's like, okay,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: that was the happy part. We isolated it. That was
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: the fun part. The fun part was once we figured
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: out what tree it was and we started doing the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: circles and like looking around and stuff. That I enjoyed
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: that because it was you know, it was a detective work.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Now you're wrong. It's when you it's when you realize, Yeah,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: any was your fun part, Like if you could get
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: any in capsule form, buck a pill somewhere right in there.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the cluster of trees or
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: isolating the tree, but right in that moment where you're like,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: you know you're underneath him, but you haven't found him.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: So that's the funniest part you just said it was,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: there's the same thing. For you. It's one I know
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna find the cluster trees. Oh so you're
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: still a couple of hundred yards out, but you're like
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: this something's gonna get found. It like gets loud. We
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: talked about this earlier today about how now we've got
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: seven or eight days of city across hunting under our belts,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: and now as you hike, climb, trudge towards the bird,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: and there's a there's a long time where it's so faint.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: It's the you have to stop to hear the sound.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: You have to stop every now and then and go, okay,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: there's my straight right left. You keep going, You keep going,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: and then the next time you stop, it'scott just a
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: little bit more of a and you're like, okay, we're
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: kind of bearing in that. You keep walking, You keep walking,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, there's a point where
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: you hear the bird over the sound that you're making,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: whether it's your your boots or scratching through the brush
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: or whatever. And at that point now it's like, okay,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: we're in that. We're probably within two yards, and you're
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: probably gonna we're gonna find this tree, we're gonna finds,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: we're gonna find his cluster. When the needle starts doing
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: this instead of like doing this, it goes like that.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: But I felt like last year all that honey, we did.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: We didn't have that dialed in only one time. One time. Yeah,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: but I didn't know what was happening. And yeah, what
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: was the bird that was right off? Like when we
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: hiked up the trail got to the snow and then
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: he was off. That was Lost Bird. We were under
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: Lost Bird Street, we were in his cluster. Yeah, we
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: could go back, and I've played that back a hundred times.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: He's a year older. I know right where he is.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: I got I got him, I gotta weight, I got
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: a GPS way point on him. Yeah, he's looking back,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: and I was like that lost Bird. I not realized.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: After multiple visits to Lost Birds area, I now know
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: that we were actually standing beneath the Lost Birds tree,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: walking in circles, because I thought it would be that
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: you look in the tree and there he is, right
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, no, he's not that tree. Almost
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: be insane. And then we just start going down these
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: bridges and trying to like go down these little cliffs
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: and trying to get the angles. Like no, I realized, yeah,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: we're standing and even if someone tells you no, you're
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: gonna have to glass up into the trees. It's the
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: classic story of like the first time Cruiser Hunter when
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: like our buddy Jayscon says, yeah, going to that ridge
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: and that ridge acrossing you going glass it And you
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: come back twenty minutes later and you're like, yeah, man,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: glass it. He's like, no, no, you didn't glass it
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: because you picked up your bloculars, didn't put him on
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: a tripod, looked over the hill and then left. And
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing here. Like first thing Barb does
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: pretty much does the circle, narrows down the tree, and
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: then lays down, takes off her backpacks, that's her rifle down,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: bust out of binoculars because she's not gonna eat him
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: until then, and then lays down and gets comfortable and
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: starts glassing straight up in the air. I remember Chris
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Denham uh the poblish your Western Hunter and Elcounter magazine.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: I was talking to him about hunting couis deer and
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: I said something him along the lines of how long
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: do you sit in no spot? You know, how how
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: long do you glass one area? And I remember him
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: saying sometimes all day, I mean like without moving, hes
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: like without moving I was sitting once all day. I
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: didn't really, I couldn't even really comprehend what he was
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: talking about. Now I understand what he's talking about, but yeah,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: what I made that original called barb she said. I'll
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: usually look for the bird for an hour. If I
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: can't find it, I'll sometimes move on and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: you know, and then one thing after another, all right, yeah,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: honest closing thoughts, go if you if you're up here
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, cruise ships, bring bear hunt whatever, take
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: a couple of days and go city gross hunt. It's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: a blast. That's it. That's the best you can do.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: That's my closing thoughts. Yeah, I'm trying to sell I mean, Derek,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: I would say in response to the fun moment, that
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: scenery like just oh that's touching. Well, that's that's that's
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: the kind of thing I wanted to get out of,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: you know, when I break out of that lakeside, you know,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: trying to calm my heart. Right, you look around here
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: and it's just I mean that moss and like the light.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: I mean it's beautiful. Whales, yeah, whales, and the way
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: when you hit one with it, hit a grouse with
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: twenty two ft No, no, not that the feathers. Oh yeah,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: when the sun's right, and dozens of feathers are filing, Yeah,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: falling from a hundred feet up in a tree, and
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: it's just like they're it's just as nice. Yeah, it's
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: a nice juxtaposition. There's like death and life in the affirmation.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: You know. I had a thought today that when I
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: didn't feel bad shooting the burden, but I felt bad
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: as he fell out eight feet up and he hit
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: the ground so hard. But no, he didn't do any
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: of that. It was one of those where there was
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: like it wasn't a single limb, so he's like gaining speed.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: He was almost hitting terminal velocity, you know, and I
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: couldn't even see where he landed. But I don't know.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: It's that juxtaposition of like I don't feel bad killing you,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: but after you're dead, I don't want you to slam
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: the ground from a hundred feet up. I feel bad
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: shooting a lot of stuff, particularly bears. Like whenever I
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: shoot a bear, I feel pretty bad. Not that I
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: stopped doing it, but um man, just not a trace
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: with blue grouse. I think because you're shooting primary, you
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: know your goal. You're shooting males. You know, females are
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: gonna get bread you're shooting males and then something like that.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: You think, like every year seventy five percent of the
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: birds alive or dime. A four year old blue grouse
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: is ancient. I don't feel bad shooting him. Yeah, it's
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: like they're they're like they have like pretty high for
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: country is super high mortality. You know, they're just dying
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: all over damn place and that just you know what
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: I mean. It's like if I didn't get him something,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Song's gonna get them now Bears.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: I killed a bear one time. They with the tooth
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: dental analysis was seventeen years old. I was in my
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: early monies. Well he's about die old age anyways. Yeah,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: but I'm saying I can't be like, oh, if I
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: didn't kill you something, you know what I mean, Like
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: if you killed blue gross like you blue gus So's
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: gonna kill them anyway. Now bear, you might shoot him
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: and I can't say that you might live in our
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: ten years. I don't know what is the blue gross
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: as a predator or what predator feeds off the blue grass.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Pine Martins kill a lot of them. Weasels, long tailed weasels.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Ermine's kill a lot of them. Rafters kill them, and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: then you got all the nest predators because they nest
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Even pine squirrels will steal the eggs.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: We found a big gass egg today way up the hill,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: did you guys really some yeah, seabird like a like
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: a like a ducker, the duck hagers big robbin's robin
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: egg blue but the size of a chicken egg way
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: up in the woods, like in the nest. Something carried
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: it up there. Look okay, oh you know what happened
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: there day? Man? We had a robin building nest maybe
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: weight big their egg and be like that, yeah, like
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: a you know a quarter. Uh. Robin built a nest
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: up in my out the out our kitchen window, and
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: me and my boy were out in the yard, and uh,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: I see the nest fell out the tree. So I'm like, oh, Jimmy,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: look you know the nest fell out of the tree.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: And walk over. We're looking at the nest, and I
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: realized all that the babies had gotten pretty developed inside
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: the egg and all the eggs. When the nest fell
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: the tree, all the eggs broke. So he's four. He
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: didn't like that a bit. Little baby birds laying every
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: which way. He talked about that for a few days,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: concluding dos Mike Hunt dot com. Um, I enjoyed the
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: the I enjoyed the hunt. It was, you know, another
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: new experience. And then in an adventurer and it was
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: it was awesome, and you know it was it was
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: a it was an adventure. I liked it. I liked
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: it a lot. And what I think about whenever I'm
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: grinding and going to the top as I get a songs,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: it just keeps going over and over and over, and
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: for the past few days has been Fleetwood Mac and
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: I can't get which which one? Can't get it up? No,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: I can't get out of my head, No, out of
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: my personal head. Well Fleetwood Mac. If it's silver springs,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm with you there, man. Yeah, I don't know why.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: It's silver springs in your head. Man, that's a good tune.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: It's like, uh, lady singing to a man and the
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: man she loved the man, the man didn't love her.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: And she says she's telling them that, you know, my
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: voice is gonna haunt you for the rest of your life.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: So like these guys in there twenties, Yeah, fun time,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: you know her voice is gonna follow him down and
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: haunt him. Um Corey concluding thoughts. Closing thoughts, How's one
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: of those hunts where I think anyone could maybe not anyone,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: but those who want to pursue soudi grouse can you
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: probably have quite a few encounters if you gave it,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: you're all. You know, it's one of those where you're
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: probably gonna have a good opportunity to see what you're chasing.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: And you know, especially if you if you've got a
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: pair of ears on, you'd like to walk around the woods.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: It's perfect hunt for you. Bring your kid out. You
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: can't be a little kid though. My kid couldn't climb mean,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: my five ye old, he's five now, he if you
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: made a goal to find one a day, if you're like,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: I could take my boy out and be like, our
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: goal is to find one and we're gonna bring a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: ton of snacks and looking a lot of holes under
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: trees and have a general good time and maybe you know,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: but yeah, you're not gonna have it downhill though. Man,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: it's well, I'd wind up carrying it. I'd wind up
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: carrying it. Yeah, it's hard. You can't really carry someone
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: not gonna carry anyone down that. Yeah, I got he's
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: gonna get a little older. Is that your concluding thought? Yeah?
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: And then uh yeah, besides this Devil's Club. You know
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: what my comcluding thought already planned out my concluding thought,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: which is freaking Devil's Club. Yeah. God, that stuff it's terrible.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: There wasn't too much. There was a little bit. There
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: was more in the Alaska Range whenever we were there
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: with Rourke that we were going through that was thick.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: But man, that stuff is just it's terrible. I like
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: it better than poison oak. Absolutely a lot better than
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: poison oak for two reasons. One, where you get it
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: is where you get it right. It doesn't spread, there's
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: no surprises, and it doesn't get on your packer unless
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: I mean unless you're like, unless you pee different than
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: I do, because it doesn't get on your packers. So
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: it's like, when you come out of the wood, you're like,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: I have Devil's Club in these places, right, it's not
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: like poison Like a week later it's like, oh no,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: I have Devil's Club. You know. It's like, did I
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: really touch myself there while that was going on? You
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Um, did you grab, did you?
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you did. You talked about it,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: but like you know, you're grabbing for vines and stuff
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: when you're going up and you grab a line of
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: spikes to put yourself up, and just the main the
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: main I got bit slapped where I was. I moved
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: one out of the way with my foot, you know,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: bent it out of the oil of my foot, and
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: it slipped from out of my toe and came up
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: and just door nailed me. So that like my most
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Devil's Club action is from that one thing. But also
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