Latest / The MeatEater Podcast / Ep. 097: Loose Ends
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- 0:08Speaker 1: This is me Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely,
- 0:13Speaker 1: bug bitten and in my case, underwear listening hunt don't
- 0:16Speaker 1: eat podcast. You can't predict anything presented by first light.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Go farther, stay longer. This is an extra special Loose
- 0:35Speaker 1: Ends episode. In fact, we're recalled loose Ends where we
- 0:38Speaker 1: deal with hate mail. Um, we don't love mail, No,
- 0:44Speaker 1: very little hate mail, disappointed mail, outstanding questions, clarifications, the
- 0:52Speaker 1: one my favorite corrections. We're a doodle here something He's
- 0:57Speaker 1: like non in and in and in any right, and
- 0:59Speaker 1: it takes the time to right in and tell you
- 1:01Speaker 1: where you're wrong. I love it. But um, there's two
- 1:06Speaker 1: ways that it comes. It comes as from a person
- 1:11Speaker 1: who is like, man, you know, I want to contribute
- 1:14Speaker 1: to the conversation in a constructive way, and those boys
- 1:19Speaker 1: should not be misleading people in this way. And I
- 1:22Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna do my civic duty as an
- 1:25Speaker 1: engaged listener and set the record straight. There's that guy
- 1:28Speaker 1: well love, and there's like this other sort of feller
- 1:32Speaker 1: who just has a ax to grind, probably spends a
- 1:36Speaker 1: lot of time on Facebook writing mean messages to people.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Right first one, I'll bring this one up just like
- 1:44Speaker 1: just got it today, just came in today. What are
- 1:47Speaker 1: you doing? Honest? Making notes part of my job. This guy,
- 1:54Speaker 1: here's what he has to say. My hunting body and
- 1:56Speaker 1: I were watching your show what Butcher and a Moose yesterday?
- 2:00Speaker 1: Tom Habib is this feller's name? My hunting body never
- 2:03Speaker 1: watching your show while Butcher and the Moose yesterday. I'm
- 2:05Speaker 1: already I'm already hooked. I'm already engaged by this letter.
- 2:08Speaker 1: And he says, we're chatting about the cast of characters
- 2:11Speaker 1: that appear on the show and podcast. I don't want
- 2:16Speaker 1: to turn this into it if your favorite Meet Eater
- 2:18Speaker 1: guy was a character from Game of Thrones, Harry Potter
- 2:21Speaker 1: or whatever, who would he be type of thing. But
- 2:23Speaker 1: there was one comparison that just leaped out at us,
- 2:26Speaker 1: especially after listening to the podcast under the Bear Encounter
- 2:32Speaker 1: on a fog Neck, which is talled The Meat Tree
- 2:34Speaker 1: Part one. In The Meat Tree Part two, he says,
- 2:37Speaker 1: while Steve is the apparent protagonist and gets all the glory,
- 2:41Speaker 1: it is clear to us that he is merely the
- 2:45Speaker 1: fro Though to Janice's Sam Wise, I e the true
- 2:49Speaker 1: hero of the story who just goes out there and
- 2:52Speaker 1: straight up get ship done. It is your honest, so
- 2:59Speaker 1: do you that's this guy had to say that. It's
- 3:02Speaker 1: like that was just a nice fan letter. That's really sweet.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Sign that for me. He signed him in a frame
- 3:11Speaker 1: it less less, get so full of himself. Let's get
- 3:15Speaker 1: so full of himself. Thanks tom um. Did you just
- 3:20Speaker 1: set your honest up to just knock him down a
- 3:22Speaker 1: peg or two? I swear to it's on top of yeah, coming,
- 3:27Speaker 1: it's on top of the heat. It's on top of
- 3:29Speaker 1: the heat because I just printed it off this morning. Alright,
- 3:33Speaker 1: you can't see me, but I'm sitting here that fistful
- 3:36Speaker 1: of print outs. What happens? Does He's come into an
- 3:41Speaker 1: account the contact if you go to like the meat
- 3:44Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com and go to the contact
- 3:46Speaker 1: thing you write a letter. It's like, I get that
- 3:50Speaker 1: on one of my accounts and I'll be like huh
- 3:53Speaker 1: if I if it catches my eye, I'll be like huh,
- 3:56Speaker 1: and I'll afford it to my regular email and there
- 3:59Speaker 1: I will print it off and putting this big giant
- 4:01Speaker 1: pile of things that keep meaning to bring up. Here's
- 4:05Speaker 1: another one about Yannis Yanni's going on and on and
- 4:09Speaker 1: on about how there's no difference between the thirty or
- 4:16Speaker 1: six and three mag particularly where a guy was saying
- 4:20Speaker 1: a guy Yanni was saying, Yanni was talking annoyedly. That's
- 4:24Speaker 1: not a word, but Yanni was. Someone was saying, Oh,
- 4:28Speaker 1: on this hunt, doesn't matter what hunter it was. He's like,
- 4:30Speaker 1: on this hunt thirty all six ain't gonna cut it, um,
- 4:35Speaker 1: you need a three win mag. And Janni was going
- 4:39Speaker 1: on on and on about how there's really no difference,
- 4:43Speaker 1: because he's saying, what's the difference? Who really cares? If
- 4:47Speaker 1: you have? It's a thirty caliber bullet, so it's point
- 4:50Speaker 1: three zero eight of an inch, weighs the same amount.
- 4:58Speaker 1: So it's this projectile with a certain diameter, and this
- 5:04Speaker 1: projectile has a certain weight, and it's going a certain speed.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And he's pointing out that you have this set thing.
- 5:13Speaker 1: You're talking about the same grain bullet, the same weight bullet,
- 5:16Speaker 1: the same diameter, made of the same ship. What's the
- 5:21Speaker 1: difference is it's flying out of your gun at three
- 5:23Speaker 1: thousand one ft per second or what you honey, uh
- 5:29Speaker 1: whatever fee per second? Um. As in the den of
- 5:36Speaker 1: this idea, I'll point out that when I was a kid.
- 5:39Speaker 1: I was born at the at what I call the
- 5:42Speaker 1: Great Awakening of the thirty six. You guys lived in
- 5:46Speaker 1: the shotgun area, Yeah, Michigan. There's a line at which
- 5:52Speaker 1: there's a line across the state in the southern part
- 5:55Speaker 1: of the state where if you live like north of
- 5:56Speaker 1: that line, you can hunt with a center fire. You know,
- 5:59Speaker 1: you home with a rifle. South of that line, you
- 6:02Speaker 1: can only help with the shotgun, a muzzle loader. Do
- 6:04Speaker 1: you know that? Cow? I did? I did not? You
- 6:07Speaker 1: mean you weren't aware of Michigan shotgun rifle line. No,
- 6:10Speaker 1: I wasn't, how insult exactly. I'm not well traveled man there.
- 6:17Speaker 1: There is such a lot of our Midwest deer hunting
- 6:19Speaker 1: states are shotgun only. But you know what they I
- 6:22Speaker 1: just gotta I just saw a story about this. There's
- 6:25Speaker 1: some new cartridge, some new rifle cartridge that you can
- 6:27Speaker 1: now use in the shotgun area. Some giant, some crazy
- 6:32Speaker 1: giant thing I'm not real familiar with, some slow lobbery
- 6:38Speaker 1: you're allowed to use in the or something like that. Yeah,
- 6:41Speaker 1: but it is, but not but something like that. Um So, anyways,
- 6:47Speaker 1: prior like when I was born, everybody had a thirty
- 6:50Speaker 1: thirty it was called it was known as a brush gun.
- 6:53Speaker 1: But then and that's all everybody had. And then right
- 6:57Speaker 1: around when I turned fourteen, everyone was going out and
- 7:00Speaker 1: buying a thirty at six. It was only like two
- 7:02Speaker 1: guns that existed. You either had a thirty thirty or
- 7:06Speaker 1: you were anxious about getting your thirty ot six. I
- 7:10Speaker 1: had never heard of most guns. When I moved in Montana,
- 7:13Speaker 1: everybody had two seventies and three d Win mags. Is like, huh,
- 7:18Speaker 1: I was packing the thirty hot six. Probably soon after
- 7:22Speaker 1: that's when the short magnum craze started. Right right about
- 7:25Speaker 1: it was the first act that first going to first
- 7:28Speaker 1: non nine old gun that someone gave to me. Gun
- 7:30Speaker 1: I bought was a short mag um. Another side note,
- 7:35Speaker 1: this thirty oh six. All the numbers and guns mean
- 7:39Speaker 1: different things. What do you do you know what thirty
- 7:42Speaker 1: thirty means? Yeah? Thirty Well, originally when it got its name,
- 7:46Speaker 1: it was the third The first thirty is for thirty caliber,
- 7:50Speaker 1: and then the second thirty was for thirty grains of
- 7:53Speaker 1: powder behind it. Okay, thirty oh six is thirty caliber.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Come out in six introducing six, so it wasn't new
- 8:02Speaker 1: in ninety four. Well, I got a little bit of
- 8:07Speaker 1: a jump on the legal minimum shooting age and and
- 8:10Speaker 1: and uh got a little bit of a head start
- 8:12Speaker 1: on app But anyways, whatever year I had, I was
- 8:14Speaker 1: still I was shooting a thirty two special, which was
- 8:17Speaker 1: old time even compared to a thirty thirty peep site
- 8:22Speaker 1: on it, so Winchester model. Anyhow, this guy writes in
- 8:27Speaker 1: to say to take Yanni to task. He says, you
- 8:32Speaker 1: guys talked about how the only difference between the thirty
- 8:35Speaker 1: oh six and the three wind Meg is velocity, which
- 8:38Speaker 1: is technically true, but the argument for the wind mag
- 8:42Speaker 1: is not velocity. For velocity's sake, I didn't print this
- 8:48Speaker 1: guy's name off, which is bumming me out. For an
- 8:51Speaker 1: equivalent bullet weight, what you're really gaining with the three
- 8:55Speaker 1: wind Meg versus the thirty oh six is increased kinetic energy,
- 9:01Speaker 1: which could loosely be correlated as stopping power. My old
- 9:07Speaker 1: man during Whiskey Whiskey to World War Two, my old
- 9:09Speaker 1: man said that the sniper shot thirty oh six is
- 9:13Speaker 1: m M true. He carried a Tommy gun um and
- 9:19Speaker 1: he had a B A R. I believe in the
- 9:23Speaker 1: Tommy gun for a while, but he said there's that
- 9:25Speaker 1: was the gun that was like the So even back then,
- 9:28Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want people to come away
- 9:30Speaker 1: me thinking thinking that somehow the thirty out six became
- 9:33Speaker 1: cool in the eighties. Um. He goes out to say
- 9:37Speaker 1: what the formula for for uh kinetic energy is. But
- 9:43Speaker 1: here's the important part. Since you're squaring the velocity. So
- 9:47Speaker 1: when okay, I will tell you the formula for kinetic energy.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Kinetic energy is one halftimes mass times velocity squared. Since
- 9:58Speaker 1: you're squaring the velocity, a moderate increase increase in speed
- 10:02Speaker 1: provides more than a linear increase in energy. So, using
- 10:08Speaker 1: Yanni's one hundred grain bullet as an example, a three
- 10:12Speaker 1: hundred wind meg throwing that one eight grain bullet at
- 10:16Speaker 1: three thousand, one hundred and fifty ft per second is
- 10:20Speaker 1: putting out three thousand, nine hundred seventy two foot pounds
- 10:25Speaker 1: of energy, and the anemic little thirty oh six Yanni's
- 10:31Speaker 1: a little thirty oh six throwing the same bullet at
- 10:34Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred feet per second, So four hundred
- 10:38Speaker 1: fifty less ft per second is a full thousand less
- 10:45Speaker 1: pounds of connect energy. A seventeen percent increase in velocity
- 10:53Speaker 1: yields a thirty seven percent increase in energy. You have it,
- 11:00Speaker 1: it's not the same. No, I would carrying this piece
- 11:05Speaker 1: of paper on, waving this piece of paper in Johanni's
- 11:08Speaker 1: face for months, wanting to bring this up. I want
- 11:11Speaker 1: to go ahead, then you can. You can say what
- 11:16Speaker 1: you gotta say, Guy goes on to say. Guy goes
- 11:20Speaker 1: on to kind of wind. He winds up sounding a
- 11:21Speaker 1: little bit like like the eagle, because he goes on
- 11:24Speaker 1: to say, that's the physics of it, but doesn't really matter.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Ask the smartest hunter, you know how many footpounds it
- 11:31Speaker 1: takes to killing elk. I think by that he means
- 11:35Speaker 1: they're not going to know. More energy results in increased
- 11:38Speaker 1: hydro static shock pressure, but good luck quantifying that. As
- 11:42Speaker 1: it relates to killing a large animal, there is a
- 11:45Speaker 1: point of diminishing returns, and Janice is correct to say
- 11:50Speaker 1: that it is better to shoot a caliber you are
- 11:52Speaker 1: comfortable with so you can make a good shot to
- 11:55Speaker 1: the vitals. There is also the issue of too much
- 11:59Speaker 1: energy in meat wastage. Velocity is obviously also tied the
- 12:05Speaker 1: bullet drop, but that's a separate issue that can be
- 12:07Speaker 1: solved with practice and a range finder, says odds are good.
- 12:11Speaker 1: You guys already know all this. I just need an
- 12:14Speaker 1: excuse to take a break from my yard work. Okay,
- 12:17Speaker 1: now go ahead. Well, I think when we when I
- 12:20Speaker 1: read that email earlier, I didn't catch those the last
- 12:24Speaker 1: two where he starts signing like you, Yeah, that was
- 12:27Speaker 1: just gonna be my follow up. So you're gonna say
- 12:31Speaker 1: the same thing he's I appreciate the man sign off.
- 12:35Speaker 1: That was well writ email there. No, he did a
- 12:38Speaker 1: good job. Let print his name off. I'll look up
- 12:41Speaker 1: his name. Any thoughts about that, Kelly him you shoot
- 12:45Speaker 1: a three wind Meg. I love the three mag Yeah,
- 12:49Speaker 1: the very similar that. I mean, like, the whole historic
- 12:57Speaker 1: lineage of this is a bigger argument than just when
- 13:02Speaker 1: you break it down to the numbers, I feel like,
- 13:05Speaker 1: because it kind of comes down to experience and what
- 13:09Speaker 1: you're comfortable with and what you've seen perform well in
- 13:11Speaker 1: the field. And yeah, just the difference between growing up
- 13:14Speaker 1: in Michigan and growing growing up in Montana. Um it uh.
- 13:21Speaker 1: You had access to different things at different times, and
- 13:26Speaker 1: and like you talk about the thirty six coming onto
- 13:29Speaker 1: the scene and what that did for hunting and the
- 13:32Speaker 1: availability of ammunition that it wasn't really that great because
- 13:37Speaker 1: it was all of World War two surplus stuff. I
- 13:39Speaker 1: don't think great for big game animals, but that could
- 13:43Speaker 1: have made lifelong thirty six fans and lifelong thirty six opponents. Um,
- 13:50Speaker 1: which you know, leads you down the path to different calibers.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And then there's the there's the old like, well it
- 13:56Speaker 1: works for me at which is hard to argue against.
- 14:00Speaker 1: It's very hard to argue against. Okay, right, here's the
- 14:08Speaker 1: guy exactly my age. He includes his age and he's
- 14:11Speaker 1: exactly my age. His name's Brian Um. He goes on
- 14:18Speaker 1: to say, spent some years since I've really been out
- 14:22Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Your thoughtful discussions with intelligent members of
- 14:26Speaker 1: the hunting and fishing and wilderness management community have reignited
- 14:29Speaker 1: that love of wilderness and wildness. I was especially impressed
- 14:34Speaker 1: with episode seventy two American Wilderness, which highlights how important
- 14:39Speaker 1: wilderness is to our national identity and heritage, and that
- 14:44Speaker 1: wilderness as untouched lands and quote untouched is somewhat of
- 14:48Speaker 1: a myth. We tend to these lands to manage them
- 14:53Speaker 1: and maintain their wilderness character. I'm reminded of something I
- 14:58Speaker 1: read by Michael Pollen regarding wilderness and his essay The
- 15:03Speaker 1: Idea of a Garden from his book Second Nature. He
- 15:07Speaker 1: addresses this idea of wilderness where he writes, this is
- 15:11Speaker 1: Michael Pollen writing, at this point in history, after humans
- 15:16Speaker 1: have left their stamp on virtually every corner of the earth,
- 15:22Speaker 1: doing nothing is frequently a poor recipe for wilderness. He
- 15:28Speaker 1: goes on to say. Pollend goes on to right, the
- 15:33Speaker 1: inescapable fact is that if we want wilderness here, we
- 15:38Speaker 1: will have to choose which wilderness we want, an idea
- 15:43Speaker 1: that is inimicable, inimical to the wilderness ethic. Interesting bit
- 15:50Speaker 1: of follow up, Yeah, don't agree. So what this gentleman,
- 15:58Speaker 1: wilderness don't have by accident anymore, and your idea of
- 16:04Speaker 1: I guess he's arguing the purity of wilderness. Yeah, that
- 16:07Speaker 1: it's a managed landscape in our country's history, I think
- 16:13Speaker 1: we like for a long time we had wilderness in
- 16:16Speaker 1: spite of our best efforts to get rid of it,
- 16:20Speaker 1: and now we have some because of our best efforts
- 16:23Speaker 1: to preserve it. That switch happened like around you know,
- 16:31Speaker 1: it was a round like worked and work to work,
- 16:33Speaker 1: and work to work to to to conquer it, and
- 16:37Speaker 1: then we had this like awkward transitional period and then
- 16:40Speaker 1: we worked and worked and work and work and work
- 16:41Speaker 1: to hang onto some of it. Right. Yeah, absolutely can't.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Can't cut a road up there, or I cut a
- 16:51Speaker 1: road up there, and the avalanches keep knocking the thing down,
- 16:58Speaker 1: So we're just not going to go up there. Made
- 17:00Speaker 1: a choice to just quit going up there cutting it.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Here's from a guy named Richard. Now this one really
- 17:06Speaker 1: struck a nerve with Yanni. This guy is saying this,
- 17:09Speaker 1: I've been hunting for the last seven years and yet
- 17:11Speaker 1: to close the deal on a deer, so seven years
- 17:13Speaker 1: as Feather has been at it. I never grew up hunting,
- 17:17Speaker 1: but have always been interested in it. I took up
- 17:20Speaker 1: archery and rifle hunting when I turned thirty. My first
- 17:25Speaker 1: year archery hunting, I had a spike come in at
- 17:27Speaker 1: five yards, but buck fever was so bad I could
- 17:30Speaker 1: barely pull in time. Second year, I had a bad
- 17:33Speaker 1: shot on a dough at twenty five yards. I was
- 17:37Speaker 1: crushed and then wanted to quit after that, so I
- 17:41Speaker 1: gather he crippled up a door and ever found her.
- 17:44Speaker 1: I moved to Idaho a couple of years ago, so
- 17:46Speaker 1: right in your backyard cow. Yesterday I missed a deer
- 17:49Speaker 1: at two d yards. My oak season starts on Wednesday,
- 17:52Speaker 1: and I'm having serious doubts as the weather I'm gonna
- 17:55Speaker 1: be able to do this? At what point do I
- 17:58Speaker 1: call it good? In just six sept that I'm not
- 18:01Speaker 1: good at it. I hate that I have spent countless
- 18:05Speaker 1: hours and time and money pursuing this with very little
- 18:08Speaker 1: to show for it outside of rabbits. I think if
- 18:12Speaker 1: I quit without getting a deer elk, It's gonna bug me.
- 18:16Speaker 1: My hunting buddies think I'm being too hard on myself.
- 18:19Speaker 1: But am I? You said one of your podcast you
- 18:21Speaker 1: were quit hunting if it was no longer fun and
- 18:24Speaker 1: there was no meat. I think I'm at that point.
- 18:28Speaker 1: I'm not sure what should I do. Should I press
- 18:31Speaker 1: on Richard, no me and no fun? That'd be a
- 18:38Speaker 1: good T shirt. No meat, no fun that is a
- 18:42Speaker 1: great T shirt. Like my daughter says, she says, well, yeah,
- 18:46Speaker 1: we won't have a meal to eat, but we'll have
- 18:48Speaker 1: a story. It sounds like Richard's got a lot of stories.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Are you truly not having fun? Though? Like I mean,
- 18:58Speaker 1: I've had some every he here is Yeah, my god,
- 19:02Speaker 1: the misery we could pass on to people if that
- 19:05Speaker 1: were possible, But there was always something that comes out
- 19:11Speaker 1: of that trip. Seven years. Yeah, I know, it's a
- 19:15Speaker 1: hell of a dry spell seven year but you know,
- 19:19Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many places to go with this.
- 19:21Speaker 1: He's a he's a better human because of those seven
- 19:24Speaker 1: years spent. And look, he doesn't say how many days
- 19:27Speaker 1: of field per season he's spent. I'm sorry, but Richard
- 19:30Speaker 1: might only be hunting a couple of three days. You know,
- 19:34Speaker 1: maybe he needs to put in a month of archery
- 19:36Speaker 1: hunting and then see where his luck stands. You know. Um,
- 19:41Speaker 1: I mean you can like national averages. I haven't looked
- 19:43Speaker 1: in a few years, but you know, the majority of
- 19:48Speaker 1: the hunting population is getting a long weekend at the
- 19:53Speaker 1: most is what gets recorded. So you know, if this
- 19:58Speaker 1: guy's getting out during archery and rifle season, he you know,
- 20:03Speaker 1: it could be a week total, let's say, or maybe
- 20:06Speaker 1: he's hunted fourteen days in his life. Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
- 20:12Speaker 1: the years doesn't really that doesn't really work that well.
- 20:14Speaker 1: And I think he's only you know, if he kills
- 20:17Speaker 1: one this year on his eighth year, he'd be just
- 20:19Speaker 1: a little bit less than like the national success rate, right,
- 20:23Speaker 1: because I mean we hover somewhere between like ten and
- 20:25Speaker 1: thirty depend on if it's archery or you know me
- 20:29Speaker 1: for general over the counter success. I'm gonna come at
- 20:34Speaker 1: him more practically. I think that, like I think that
- 20:42Speaker 1: the guy just kind of gotta have he's a little
- 20:44Speaker 1: bit of I think you stick with it. I think
- 20:46Speaker 1: he needs a little bit of success. I think the
- 20:47Speaker 1: way they'll find that success. I don't know how he's
- 20:49Speaker 1: sort of gauging what he's after, but I just have
- 20:51Speaker 1: a real hard time thinking that in the state he
- 20:54Speaker 1: lives in, if he goes out and carves out a
- 20:57Speaker 1: week a time to go out with his rifle and
- 21:00Speaker 1: he's committed to shooting a legal deer, he's gonna go
- 21:05Speaker 1: spend seven days out in a general unit and and
- 21:09Speaker 1: get a nice less than one shot yard shot at
- 21:13Speaker 1: a four key deer with his rifle, that he's not
- 21:15Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that. I agree. I don't
- 21:18Speaker 1: care if you just I don't care what you know.
- 21:21Speaker 1: If you can learn how to shoot at one hundred
- 21:23Speaker 1: yards and hit and just walk around in the woods
- 21:29Speaker 1: and you have in mind that you find the legal deer,
- 21:32Speaker 1: a good shot at legal deer and give yourself seven days.
- 21:35Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna come up empty handed. Yeah,
- 21:39Speaker 1: I mean that that may be generous. I think our
- 21:45Speaker 1: friend Richard is probably like right at that cusp of
- 21:49Speaker 1: doing one thing and being like, holy shit, it's that easy.
- 21:55Speaker 1: It's all gonna click. Stick with it. Yeah, I really don't.
- 22:00Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that's the whole idea of quitment.
- 22:03Speaker 1: I don't really get the whole quitting Like I'm not.
- 22:08Speaker 1: I quit one thing one time where I was always
- 22:13Speaker 1: curious about chess, and my nephew sat down to explain
- 22:17Speaker 1: chess to me, and after about fifteen minutes, I was like,
- 22:21Speaker 1: never mind, because once I knew that it would take
- 22:26Speaker 1: that much just to be sucky, right, I didn't want
- 22:31Speaker 1: to get involved in it. I thought it was like
- 22:34Speaker 1: a little more complicated than checkers, right, sure, But once
- 22:39Speaker 1: I was like, oh that's what chess is, just never
- 22:42Speaker 1: mind because I'm not gonna This isn't something I'm just
- 22:44Speaker 1: gonna toy with. I'm either gonna do it or not
- 22:48Speaker 1: do it. And I see now that I am not
- 22:50Speaker 1: gonna like, I'm not gonna devote like I don't have
- 22:55Speaker 1: the time to figure this out to the degree that
- 22:58Speaker 1: I would want to figure it out if I would
- 23:00Speaker 1: start dabbling, right, And and you're thinking that to you,
- 23:07Speaker 1: your fund comes when you're at least proficient at something
- 23:10Speaker 1: like I like to play Sneaky Snaky Squirrel with my kids.
- 23:13Speaker 1: I have I'm able to play at a highly competitive level, right,
- 23:17Speaker 1: and I have it dialed so it's enjoyable to me.
- 23:20Speaker 1: But chess wasn't gonna be like Sneaky Snaky Squirrel. So
- 23:25Speaker 1: where you trying to get all the acorns? Yeah? I
- 23:28Speaker 1: guess I am very biased here, but I don't under
- 23:31Speaker 1: if I guess you gotta ask you if you are
- 23:33Speaker 1: truly not having fun, which I just don't see as
- 23:38Speaker 1: as an actual possibility unless this seven years has just
- 23:42Speaker 1: been fraught with some series of you know, god awful
- 23:47Speaker 1: and unfortunate events. Uh went into the woods, house burned down,
- 23:53Speaker 1: went into the wood, dog died, went into the woods. Yeah,
- 23:59Speaker 1: if you are truly not having fun, yeah, find yourself
- 24:02Speaker 1: a different Yeah. If you're like, you're out there and
- 24:05Speaker 1: the sun's rising, you're like sunrise. I hate seeing those.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I hate natures that damn birds chirping. Yeah, he probably quit,
- 24:16Speaker 1: but that's not what he wouldn't be writing in if
- 24:18Speaker 1: thous case. Here's the thing two, Just as an inspirational point,
- 24:21Speaker 1: I'll sure um I had a very bad pumpkin year
- 24:25Speaker 1: in my garden two thousand and six. Team will go
- 24:29Speaker 1: down as a bad pumpkin year. I came out of
- 24:32Speaker 1: that wanting to become a pumpkin enthusiast. I've been reading
- 24:36Speaker 1: up on how to grow world record pumpkins. So I'm
- 24:42Speaker 1: taking like loss and failure and turning it into becoming
- 24:47Speaker 1: a pumpkin enthusiast. I'm not writing letters to people about
- 24:51Speaker 1: quit and growing pumpkins. Had some stolen the ones I
- 24:57Speaker 1: did have her so small they were ridiculed by my
- 24:59Speaker 1: wife from children. They went out and bought other pumpkins.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Car like the pumpkins weren't good enough for him. We
- 25:12Speaker 1: ate one. Okay, our episode of wit Fosberg episode ninety
- 25:19Speaker 1: I think it was ninety really touched nerve and read
- 25:24Speaker 1: three pieces of feedback about this episode. Maybe yeah, I'm
- 25:32Speaker 1: gonna read three pieces of feedback. Here's one. Here's one
- 25:35Speaker 1: version of a way to take that. What was with
- 25:39Speaker 1: Fosberg from Theodore Roosevelt conservation partnership reached out to us
- 25:44Speaker 1: or not when my same reached out to us. Came
- 25:45Speaker 1: on the show and we did sort of a walk
- 25:47Speaker 1: around the country looking at leading conservation issues around the
- 25:51Speaker 1: country that affect hunters and anglers and fishing wildlife, or
- 25:56Speaker 1: affect fishing, hunt affect hunters and anglers through their impacts
- 26:01Speaker 1: on fishing wild life, and then talked about a couple
- 26:04Speaker 1: other like perennial conservation issues that just never really go away.
- 26:09Speaker 1: One guy says this to say, thank you very much
- 26:13Speaker 1: for it. Guys, I love the wonky conservation talk, and
- 26:18Speaker 1: he was very knowledgeable. Thank you for the work that
- 26:21Speaker 1: you do with this podcast. Here's where it gets interesting.
- 26:23Speaker 1: I'm not a hunter. I have a very stereotypically liberal
- 26:29Speaker 1: person and a city planner, but this podcast has helped
- 26:34Speaker 1: me become better informed and now I actively support the
- 26:40Speaker 1: hunters in my community. There's one way to take that,
- 26:44Speaker 1: here's no way to take it. Really enjoy your podcast,
- 26:50Speaker 1: to find it informative and interesting. I like the hunting stories,
- 26:53Speaker 1: which are the best part of hunting. The historical info,
- 26:56Speaker 1: like the history of the elk on Kodiak on the
- 26:59Speaker 1: Kodiak Archipelago, in scientific information your guests have on the
- 27:03Speaker 1: environment and animal species that inhabit those environments. Your podcast
- 27:08Speaker 1: is a great diversion from the current news of the day.
- 27:12Speaker 1: He goes on to say some other very kind things.
- 27:15Speaker 1: UM goes on to have an observation about feeling uh,
- 27:21Speaker 1: you know, pressures being that that are on hunting and wildlife,
- 27:26Speaker 1: and it goes out to here's where he airs his grievance.
- 27:28Speaker 1: This guy's named advance UM. And it goes on it
- 27:33Speaker 1: has some very valid arguments and I and I feel
- 27:36Speaker 1: those frustrations where he says, as usual, I noticed you
- 27:39Speaker 1: had a new podcast today, episode ninety, so I did
- 27:42Speaker 1: my work. I plugged in the earbuds and started listening.
- 27:45Speaker 1: I heard a person talk about a lot of various
- 27:47Speaker 1: stats and facts on past and current game numbers and
- 27:52Speaker 1: making sure access to public lands stay open, et cetera.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Then over and over again, I heard this person repeat
- 27:58Speaker 1: leftist talking points with no rebuttal from you. Once this
- 28:02Speaker 1: person made the statement that the U S should not
- 28:05Speaker 1: have withdrawn from the Paris climate cord, I had heard
- 28:09Speaker 1: enough and ended my listening session. This told me this
- 28:13Speaker 1: person was either foolish, slash delusional or simply a hardcore,
- 28:20Speaker 1: unabashed leftist with no rebuttal from you. I have to
- 28:23Speaker 1: assume you basically agree with this wolf in sheep's clothing.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I obviously do not personally know Mr Fosberg. I'm simply
- 28:32Speaker 1: forming an opinion based on his own words. If these
- 28:35Speaker 1: are the type of people you support, but which I
- 28:38Speaker 1: guess he means. If I would support a person who
- 28:41Speaker 1: has a personal opinion about that it was a mistake
- 28:45Speaker 1: to withdraw from the Paris climate a chord, then I
- 28:49Speaker 1: will move on. It makes your podcast into another a
- 28:53Speaker 1: media media attack on people like me. Just be warned
- 28:58Speaker 1: that a leftist like this, when the time comes, will
- 29:01Speaker 1: cut the throats of hunters everywhere. Give him the chance.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Um a couple of thoughts there one advance really like,
- 29:13Speaker 1: really gonna stop listening? That is heartbreaking to me. If
- 29:19Speaker 1: I had stopped listening to everyone that said something I
- 29:22Speaker 1: didn't agree with, I wouldn't listen and talk to you,
- 29:24Speaker 1: cal you, Yanni, or my wife or my kids. There
- 29:29Speaker 1: would be no one at all I would listen to,
- 29:32Speaker 1: and I would just have to separate myself from everyone
- 29:37Speaker 1: I know. Put your head in a hole in the ground,
- 29:39Speaker 1: put my head in the hole in the ground, because
- 29:41Speaker 1: it is unavoidable that you will find a way to
- 29:45Speaker 1: only hear things you agree with. So I just feel
- 29:51Speaker 1: like you should reconsider if you're out there and you're
- 29:53Speaker 1: apparently not, I feel you should reconsider, um the other
- 30:02Speaker 1: part of it. And I see this quite often where
- 30:06Speaker 1: I finally like, you'll have a guy like with Fosburgh
- 30:09Speaker 1: who devotes his life to hunting and fishing. So that's
- 30:16Speaker 1: what he did growing up, that's what he does now.
- 30:19Speaker 1: He's devoted his life to hunting and fishing, and it it
- 30:21Speaker 1: was inspired by his love of hunting and fishing to
- 30:25Speaker 1: advocate on behalf of fishing wildlife. And there's like this
- 30:30Speaker 1: thing that happens, this sort of movement that happens often
- 30:32Speaker 1: you hear like the green decoy thing or whatever, where
- 30:35Speaker 1: it's like people go like, oh, if you have some
- 30:38Speaker 1: viewpoints that are regard as like a liberal viewpoint, then
- 30:43Speaker 1: you don't really actually like hunting and fishing, even though
- 30:47Speaker 1: that's all you've done your whole life, and even though
- 30:50Speaker 1: your career is based on hunting fishing, you don't actually
- 30:53Speaker 1: like it, and you will cut the throat of hunters
- 30:58Speaker 1: and fishermen first chance you get. It's like as though
- 31:02Speaker 1: looking for the enemies of hunting and fishing, you have
- 31:05Speaker 1: identified the people who like it most to be the
- 31:11Speaker 1: one who would like betray whereas a guy that hunts
- 31:14Speaker 1: and fishes and doesn't give a rats ass about fishing
- 31:18Speaker 1: while they've habitat is somehow more trustworthy. Like I like I,
- 31:22Speaker 1: I don't understand the perspective. I understand, um, what it's
- 31:29Speaker 1: like to be annoyed by someone's viewpoint. Like if I'm
- 31:32Speaker 1: talking to someone and they're telling me how they think
- 31:35Speaker 1: that under no circumstances should there be capital punishment, for instance,
- 31:38Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, dude, I totally disagree. I don't
- 31:41Speaker 1: then be like, and you know what, I disagree, and
- 31:43Speaker 1: you're gonna be the guy that turns your back on
- 31:45Speaker 1: hunters and fishermen. I just like, I don't see that.
- 31:47Speaker 1: I don't see the correlation. Yeah, you know something I'd
- 31:51Speaker 1: like to bring up with that is that, um, we
- 31:55Speaker 1: hear that a lot about who that these people would
- 31:58Speaker 1: do this, and you would think that this is like
- 32:00Speaker 1: a real thing that maybe over the course of history,
- 32:04Speaker 1: over the course of hunters being conservationist, we would have
- 32:07Speaker 1: like an example and where these people could be like, yeah,
- 32:10Speaker 1: remember so and so that's some bitch. He hunted and
- 32:13Speaker 1: fish his whole life. He was just baiting the trap,
- 32:16Speaker 1: just baiting the chap and then he did it. He
- 32:20Speaker 1: did this whatever some hunting and fishing guys. However, however,
- 32:25Speaker 1: he did it, you know, with some legislation or some
- 32:28Speaker 1: rule or law or who knows what. But yeah, if
- 32:31Speaker 1: you have an example of that, please because I'd like
- 32:35Speaker 1: to understand it better. Um, you know, and we flirted
- 32:40Speaker 1: around with political discussions all the time. And the reason
- 32:42Speaker 1: politics makes me uneasy because I'm fifty real conservative and
- 32:46Speaker 1: real liberal depending on what part of the things I'm
- 32:48Speaker 1: looking at. So I'm like completely alienated by politics. There's
- 32:53Speaker 1: virtually no politician that I respect, um because I, no
- 32:57Speaker 1: matter what, disagree with half the stuff out of their mouth.
- 33:02Speaker 1: Uh No, here's another guy who said something. Here's here's
- 33:07Speaker 1: the kind of that I really like. Here's the guy
- 33:09Speaker 1: saying where Wit was wrong about something? So thank you
- 33:12Speaker 1: for writing in has enjoyed the last show is to
- 33:14Speaker 1: do every episode to keep up the good work. But
- 33:17Speaker 1: with Fossburg was incorrect when he said hunting is permitted
- 33:21Speaker 1: in Maine woods and waters National Monument. So so the
- 33:26Speaker 1: Cadada National Monument. I gin that's how you pronounced is
- 33:28Speaker 1: how you pronounce account. You know, it's like one of
- 33:33Speaker 1: those annoying names where you're like, no, it's Sherry tells me, yeah, Stefan,
- 33:43Speaker 1: not Steve. So he goes on to say it is
- 33:46Speaker 1: in fact prohibited in the majority a small portion on
- 33:50Speaker 1: the east side of the Panov Scott River. I believe.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Now I wentn't check down the mapter and this guy's right.
- 33:55Speaker 1: The bulk of that monument you can't hunt. There's a
- 33:59Speaker 1: handful of black east of that river that you can hunt.
- 34:02Speaker 1: So we were wrong, he says. As a registered main guy,
- 34:04Speaker 1: I strongly opposed this, He goes Honestly, I'm very supportive
- 34:08Speaker 1: of conservation and preservation efforts with regard to this landscape.
- 34:12Speaker 1: He says his opinion the timber industry has decimated the
- 34:16Speaker 1: forests of Maine. I say this as a former lagger,
- 34:21Speaker 1: maybe a future lagger again, but as a hunter, I
- 34:25Speaker 1: am deeply troubled by the loss of hunting access to
- 34:28Speaker 1: this large area, especially when it provided the type of
- 34:32Speaker 1: remote experience which is steadily disappearing in the Northeast. For
- 34:36Speaker 1: this reason alone, the monument does not have my support
- 34:40Speaker 1: on this issue. Ryan Zinkie and I agree. Please correct
- 34:44Speaker 1: this air and make hunters aware of this law of
- 34:47Speaker 1: the loss of this once great opportunity. We cannot stand
- 34:50Speaker 1: to lose many more of such areas. This guy's named Bill. Bill.
- 34:53Speaker 1: I totally agree with you man, in any case, in
- 34:56Speaker 1: any possible scenario, hunting and fishing and in my opinion,
- 35:01Speaker 1: hunting and fishing should be allowed on national monuments only,
- 35:07Speaker 1: not only because I believe in extending hunting and fishing
- 35:10Speaker 1: access wherever possible, just as a jet as a rule,
- 35:14Speaker 1: but particularly with national monuments, because why deprived the This
- 35:19Speaker 1: is like the side thing. Why deprived the monument of
- 35:24Speaker 1: that level of engagement from the public. The best buddies
- 35:29Speaker 1: you can have, The best buddies you can have when
- 35:33Speaker 1: it comes to wildlife management and land management is the
- 35:37Speaker 1: hunting and fishing crowd. Stay on their good side you
- 35:43Speaker 1: will have. Right now, we're having this big national debate
- 35:45Speaker 1: about the legitimacy of monuments. When having that argument and
- 35:50Speaker 1: fighting that fight, you should have hunters and fishermen on
- 35:55Speaker 1: your side. What was Cold Dad Uh Woods and Waters
- 36:01Speaker 1: National Monument before it was a national monument. That's not
- 36:04Speaker 1: the place that was collections of public lands. I believe
- 36:07Speaker 1: there's a huge private in holding too. Isn't this the
- 36:12Speaker 1: bird's bees wax story? I don't know? Trying to find
- 36:19Speaker 1: out more quickly. Well, this feller is calling it a loss.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Yann to keep checking it as we go. We'll return
- 36:25Speaker 1: to this idea in a minute. I hate to think
- 36:26Speaker 1: that it jumped into this unprepared. Well, I'm just doing mail.
- 36:31Speaker 1: We're talking about this guy, Quentin hunting. Oh, here's a
- 36:35Speaker 1: good one, right for this calian. This brings up two
- 36:38Speaker 1: points you wanted to bring up or tease them up.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Scott says, Hey, I was just listening to this podcast
- 36:44Speaker 1: and you were speaking about certain species of fish you
- 36:46Speaker 1: need to bleed and others who don't. You brought up
- 36:50Speaker 1: the fact that most of the species you bleed are
- 36:53Speaker 1: red meat fishes. I believe the reason you bleed some
- 36:57Speaker 1: species and not others is because of the types of
- 36:59Speaker 1: muscle they possess. White flesh fish such as walleye and
- 37:03Speaker 1: perch have muscle compositions of primarily anaerobic muscle because of
- 37:10Speaker 1: the burst of motions swimming style they employ, meaning fish
- 37:15Speaker 1: lays in the bottom kind of chills. See something he
- 37:18Speaker 1: wants to eat whilst ass over there and grabs it
- 37:21Speaker 1: real fast and then goes back and chills out like
- 37:24Speaker 1: anaerobic bursts of energy. Salmon, on the contrary, presents possess
- 37:31Speaker 1: primarily aerobic muscles because they participate in sustained swimming. Yeah,
- 37:38Speaker 1: like a salmon doesn't go land the bottom in the ocean.
- 37:41Speaker 1: He's like a plagic fish cruising around all the time.
- 37:44Speaker 1: This guy goes on to say the aerobic muscles require
- 37:47Speaker 1: higher rates of respiration, which need a greater blood supply
- 37:50Speaker 1: to the muscles. I'm not positive about this, but the
- 37:54Speaker 1: correlation seems to be great, and the theories seem to
- 37:57Speaker 1: be backed by what I have learned in my collegiate classes.
- 38:01Speaker 1: Just food for thought. Now, this aerobic anaerobic muscle thing
- 38:06Speaker 1: is interesting because if you look at like, think of
- 38:08Speaker 1: game birds, all the game birds, you know, waterfowl upland
- 38:11Speaker 1: which ones have white flesh breasts and which ones have
- 38:15Speaker 1: dark flesh breasts kyl Yeah, Well, pheasants r at the
- 38:21Speaker 1: ditch chicken classic white white meat bird chills out and
- 38:26Speaker 1: has an occasional explosive flight rough grouse chills, occasional explosive flight,
- 38:37Speaker 1: dark meat, not dark dark um, not like a goose.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Birds are kind of in this category, a little darker.
- 38:48Speaker 1: It's a spectrum. It's a spectrum, sure, but it's a
- 38:53Speaker 1: little dark tim a little darker. No difference in behavior. Yeah,
- 39:02Speaker 1: but what I'm talking about is this, I'm talking about
- 39:04Speaker 1: talking about waterfowl. Oh yeah, waterfowl s. No goose breast
- 39:11Speaker 1: very dark. This guy would get up and he's gonna
- 39:13Speaker 1: cover hundreds of miles in a single flight, sustained flight,
- 39:19Speaker 1: dark dark meat. Yes, and think about a wild turkey.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Where's the dark meat on a wild turkey? All the
- 39:31Speaker 1: legs up on his feet, one and around all the time,
- 39:37Speaker 1: white breast, short bursts of flight. Yeah, now, now here's
- 39:44Speaker 1: a weird deal. You look at a sage grouse. I
- 39:47Speaker 1: think got a sage grouse. His thighs are lighter than
- 39:49Speaker 1: his breast. So I don't think it's a universal principle,
- 39:56Speaker 1: but it is interesting. And just to bring it back
- 39:57Speaker 1: around to the fish thing, I think that there's something
- 39:59Speaker 1: too it. I have like grown up fish and fresh
- 40:02Speaker 1: water in the Great Lakes, right. I never once met
- 40:06Speaker 1: a guy who bleeds waally or bleeds perch or bleeds bluegill. Yeah,
- 40:13Speaker 1: you know, and then most guy, anyone that knows anything,
- 40:16Speaker 1: bleeds salmon. And you and I are ripped a couple
- 40:20Speaker 1: of gills on rockfish just because just out of habit
- 40:25Speaker 1: and there's nothing happens. You know. My brother said, I
- 40:29Speaker 1: was asking my brother Danny, who is a fisheries biologist,
- 40:31Speaker 1: about that rock fish has such a slow metabolism, has
- 40:36Speaker 1: such a slow sorry, has such a slow like slow
- 40:40Speaker 1: low flow blood flow. Yeah, that when you bleed him,
- 40:47Speaker 1: it doesn't force any blood out. Yeah, super small heart
- 40:51Speaker 1: moves very slow because they're living to be twenty years old.
- 40:55Speaker 1: You know. There's an idea about animals. It's kind of
- 40:56Speaker 1: like roughly is like a heart is good for so
- 40:59Speaker 1: many beats. You have a finite amount of beats, yeah,
- 41:04Speaker 1: because you want to like like how long is a mouse?
- 41:06Speaker 1: Like what's a mouse's heart rate? And like mammals, okay,
- 41:10Speaker 1: what like what's a mouse's heart rate? Very high? And
- 41:13Speaker 1: how long does it live? Very short? Very low lifespan.
- 41:18Speaker 1: So there's this idea that like a heart's good for
- 41:20Speaker 1: so long, how long you live? It's like how long
- 41:24Speaker 1: it's gonna take you to suck up the heartbeat that
- 41:26Speaker 1: how long is it gonna take you to to use
- 41:27Speaker 1: up your allotted quantity of heartbeats? And then it isn't
- 41:31Speaker 1: being kind of interesting when you look at heart rates
- 41:34Speaker 1: and life expectancy of different mammals and our our friend
- 41:39Speaker 1: here is getting an extra beat every now and again. Yeah,
- 41:42Speaker 1: and yeah, he's burning through it even faster because of
- 41:44Speaker 1: his problem. No, yeah, I mean that's what I'm telling you, guys,
- 41:47Speaker 1: say that the people that suffer from that severe venturacle
- 41:50Speaker 1: techiardia might be pronouncing that wrong, but that that's like,
- 41:55Speaker 1: that's the the bad symptom of it is that your
- 41:59Speaker 1: hearts doing too much work that it shouldn't be doing,
- 42:03Speaker 1: and it's gonna wear out faster sooner. Yeah. Do you
- 42:07Speaker 1: want to talk meat? Yeah? I can do another meat one. Yeah.
- 42:13Speaker 1: We can come back to this cataton thing too, if
- 42:15Speaker 1: you guys want to. I can just reach like a
- 42:18Speaker 1: real quick paragraph paraphrase paragraph from Wikipedia on the history
- 42:22Speaker 1: of it, please, so we could at least know so.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Roxanne Quimby, co founder of like Cal, said, bird's bees,
- 42:31Speaker 1: like soaps and whatnot. Yeah, have sticks stuff began purchasing
- 42:35Speaker 1: land near back to State Park in two thousand one
- 42:37Speaker 1: before formally announcing their plans in two thousand eleven, and
- 42:40Speaker 1: the land would one day become part of a national park.
- 42:43Speaker 1: But there was state and federal opposition to those to
- 42:46Speaker 1: those plans, and so they changed the focus to doing
- 42:48Speaker 1: a national monument, which could just happen through uh the
- 42:52Speaker 1: Antiquities Act and the proclamation by a president. So they
- 42:56Speaker 1: did that on um well, August six. They donated land
- 43:03Speaker 1: valued at sixty million, plus twenty million in additional funds
- 43:07Speaker 1: for operations and then a commitment of twenty more million
- 43:11Speaker 1: in future support to the federal government so they could
- 43:14Speaker 1: keep the thing going. So then August August sorry, Obama
- 43:22Speaker 1: proclaimed thousand, five d sixty three acres of land as
- 43:26Speaker 1: the Canada Woods and Waters National Monument. So that's only
- 43:31Speaker 1: beef with what was his name, Bruce, I can't remember
- 43:36Speaker 1: with with with with you know him right in that
- 43:40Speaker 1: they bought it up, so they didn't buy it from
- 43:43Speaker 1: the state. So that's totally like, that's totally in the gates. Yeah. See,
- 43:47Speaker 1: it's such a confusing world. This is the monument issue
- 43:50Speaker 1: is incredibly confusing, and the issue from my perspective, is
- 43:55Speaker 1: always that each one is much more of an individual
- 44:00Speaker 1: versus let's say wilderness. Right, people have a basic understanding
- 44:05Speaker 1: of wilderness. Uh, probably because of the name. They're like, oh, yeah,
- 44:08Speaker 1: it's a whild what what flies and what doesn't fly?
- 44:10Speaker 1: And what flies and what doesn't fly? Right, And most
- 44:13Speaker 1: folks who go outdoors can be like, oh, yeah, wilderness.
- 44:17Speaker 1: I think you can't ride your bike in there is
- 44:21Speaker 1: and you can't operate heavy machinery, you can't have a chain.
- 44:24Speaker 1: Virtually true. Virtually true. You're right, Um with the monuments. Uh, gosh, man,
- 44:34Speaker 1: I have no excuse not to be fully up to
- 44:39Speaker 1: date on this story. But I believe because of the
- 44:43Speaker 1: nature of you're going from private land, uh, acquired by
- 44:50Speaker 1: the federal government. Um, that came with some strings attached. Yeah,
- 44:55Speaker 1: I'm sure so that may all right? Damn it, yeah,
- 45:00Speaker 1: damn it should should have been more well r at
- 45:02Speaker 1: on this one. Well, you know what, you know, I
- 45:04Speaker 1: could go in. I have the power to go in
- 45:06Speaker 1: and make it. This conversation never happened, and that the
- 45:09Speaker 1: letter never came. You're just going through your mail. But
- 45:13Speaker 1: I'm not gonna because I'm just gonna leave it over
- 45:15Speaker 1: to the fact that like, um, it's a tricky, complicated
- 45:18Speaker 1: world out there, you know. Yeah to the gentleman that
- 45:21Speaker 1: road in, yeah, check that out man. Maybe the feller,
- 45:24Speaker 1: the b guy that bought up all the land, whoever
- 45:27Speaker 1: used to own it, was like, come on, come all,
- 45:29Speaker 1: hunting fish all you want. So maybe that's what's going on. Yeah,
- 45:34Speaker 1: it's it's possible. I um, there are ways, uh to
- 45:41Speaker 1: make some changes, Like let's walk through this one as
- 45:45Speaker 1: it just to explain like a way that a public
- 45:47Speaker 1: land thing can become public. We haven't talked about Sabanosa,
- 45:51Speaker 1: Am I saying it right? Sabanosa? Okay, Now, in New Mexico,
- 45:55Speaker 1: you have a wilderness area that was completely landlocked, and
- 46:02Speaker 1: landlocked is and landlocked means we had a a federally managed,
- 46:07Speaker 1: publicly owned wilderness area that you couldn't get to because
- 46:14Speaker 1: any road there was no road access to it. There
- 46:16Speaker 1: was no way to walk into it without crossing private property.
- 46:22Speaker 1: So the wilderness area was basically a playground for anyone
- 46:25Speaker 1: who happened to own a joining land. There was no
- 46:27Speaker 1: legal way for you to like park your car and
- 46:31Speaker 1: walk into the wilderness. And because it's wilderness and you
- 46:34Speaker 1: can't fly in and land a helicopter. There was no
- 46:37Speaker 1: way to get there. Yeah, unless you wanted to pay
- 46:43Speaker 1: uh an access fee or uh perhaps going with an
- 46:49Speaker 1: outfitter that was operating off of one of those private holdings,
- 46:53Speaker 1: so you could pay your way in. You could pay
- 46:55Speaker 1: your way in. But think of, man, it was off
- 47:01Speaker 1: to the work and stuff. It was cut off to
- 47:03Speaker 1: the work and stuff and what and think of the
- 47:06Speaker 1: incentive to keep that stuff locked up at your landowner.
- 47:10Speaker 1: You get an extra ultimately twenty thousand acres. Yeah, it's
- 47:15Speaker 1: like I own a hundred acres, but actually I opened
- 47:18Speaker 1: one acres because only me and a select few neighbors
- 47:23Speaker 1: can get into this block in this chunk land. So
- 47:25Speaker 1: a guy, this is a cool story that just happened.
- 47:29Speaker 1: The guy owns one of the there's a guy that
- 47:31Speaker 1: owns one of these ranches that borders the wilderness aary,
- 47:35Speaker 1: the Sabinosa Wilderness. They owns one of these ranches, and
- 47:38Speaker 1: his ranch is a bridge. There's a bridge between this
- 47:42Speaker 1: wilderness area that the public owns but can't access in
- 47:46Speaker 1: the road and public easement. Yeah, he comes to the
- 47:50Speaker 1: federal government and says, I'd like to give you guys
- 47:56Speaker 1: this ranch I would like to donate this ranch to
- 47:59Speaker 1: the American people so that the American people can access
- 48:07Speaker 1: their piece of land that they're now not able to
- 48:10Speaker 1: get at. It took a little wrangling and Senators you
- 48:16Speaker 1: Doll and Heinrich from New Mexico got involved in helping
- 48:20Speaker 1: to orchestrate this deal, and Interior Secretary Zinkie got involved
- 48:26Speaker 1: and how to orchestrate this deal, and it just became official.
- 48:30Speaker 1: The ranch is now the property of the American people,
- 48:35Speaker 1: managed for them by the federal government, and it is
- 48:38Speaker 1: now an access point and trailhead to go into the
- 48:42Speaker 1: sabinas the wilderness area. Yeah, I believe it's managed by
- 48:45Speaker 1: the BLM. Is who's in charge of that wilderness they
- 48:50Speaker 1: I was just hunting to patch a ground not long ago,
- 48:54Speaker 1: and there's a lot of like equipment ship laying around
- 48:57Speaker 1: out in the mountains and a body mismy. He's like, dude,
- 49:01Speaker 1: this used to all be private. It was purchased by
- 49:04Speaker 1: the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation willing seller, willing buyer. It
- 49:08Speaker 1: went up for sale. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation took donor money,
- 49:13Speaker 1: which is what the kind of their specialty. They took
- 49:15Speaker 1: donor money bought the whole damn place and handed it
- 49:19Speaker 1: over the BLM to manage. I didn't even know this.
- 49:23Speaker 1: I've been hunting on it. Didn't even know that it
- 49:26Speaker 1: was like r M e F purchase to become public land.
- 49:31Speaker 1: Public land has there's like some complicated stories there, man,
- 49:34Speaker 1: very complicated. Yeah, And and unfortunately on whatever side of
- 49:38Speaker 1: this um, whether you'd like to see everything privatized or
- 49:42Speaker 1: everything public, you can tell a pretty convincing story on
- 49:47Speaker 1: either side, because nothing's totally black and white. Yeah, there's
- 49:50Speaker 1: a guy I want to have on the podcast I've
- 49:52Speaker 1: been reading up on lately who um Uh. His deal
- 49:59Speaker 1: is is that public land doesn't really exist. His deal
- 50:05Speaker 1: that like public land basically any public land that was
- 50:08Speaker 1: traditionally grazed by livestock people is basically like a collaborative
- 50:13Speaker 1: ownership between the grazer and the government. And there's no
- 50:16Speaker 1: real such thing as public land as we understand it now.
- 50:19Speaker 1: He thinks it's all a sham and it is this
- 50:21Speaker 1: coming out of the basis of he comes out of
- 50:23Speaker 1: the egg industry. Okay, but it's not like a land
- 50:27Speaker 1: has no value until it is cultivated type of thought. Yeah,
- 50:30Speaker 1: that kind of I think he I think he comes
- 50:31Speaker 1: out of that angle. Okay, I'd like I want to
- 50:33Speaker 1: get I want to contact him and have him on um.
- 50:37Speaker 1: You know, I don't like. I like, even if he's right,
- 50:41Speaker 1: I don't really care, right, I don't like like if
- 50:44Speaker 1: someone said, you know what, I've looked and looked and looked,
- 50:48Speaker 1: and it turns out that you should be able to
- 50:51Speaker 1: enslave other individuals. I've I've studied the Constitution, and it
- 50:55Speaker 1: turns out if you read it the right way, the
- 50:56Speaker 1: way I interpret it, there's no problem with you going
- 51:00Speaker 1: over to your neighbor and enslaving him at gunpoint. It's legal.
- 51:05Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like, okay, sweet, I'm gonna go and
- 51:08Speaker 1: and enslave my neighbor now, right, Like, I don't really care,
- 51:13Speaker 1: because it would still be it's just like, you know
- 51:15Speaker 1: what I mean, convert still be like, well, yeah, that
- 51:19Speaker 1: might be true, but I'm not going to do that. Right,
- 51:21Speaker 1: But I still like to talk to the guy that Sabonosa.
- 51:24Speaker 1: There's a bunch of groups involved in that. And uh,
- 51:27Speaker 1: I gotta go down there and and uh kind of
- 51:32Speaker 1: take a quick tour of the place when Zinki visited,
- 51:35Speaker 1: and and uh it's sweet country in there. So you
- 51:39Speaker 1: had a look. Oh yeah, yeah, I had to look.
- 51:41Speaker 1: See Now did you go down there? Were you, like
- 51:44Speaker 1: in the company of the various political figures who were
- 51:48Speaker 1: gathered down there? Yes, yeah, yeah, so I was invited
- 51:52Speaker 1: down through you know, really a bunch of mutual friends,
- 51:57Speaker 1: uh all of us UM and uh the National Wildlife
- 52:03Speaker 1: Federation New Mexico Chapter UM has been a big part
- 52:06Speaker 1: of that. UM back Country Hunters and Anglers UM uh
- 52:14Speaker 1: and so so many groups at that point because it's
- 52:17Speaker 1: been going on for over ten years, UM that I
- 52:21Speaker 1: really shouldn't be listing anybody because lots of lots of
- 52:25Speaker 1: folks involved. But really you do all Heinrich, the county
- 52:27Speaker 1: commissioners blm um, they've they've really made it happen. So yeah,
- 52:34Speaker 1: but gorgeous country odd ab uh invasive species but uh
- 52:39Speaker 1: cool cheap country in their big elk, big mule deer.
- 52:44Speaker 1: One of the volunteers kind of took me aside and
- 52:47Speaker 1: they're like, hey, here, you're mule to you're gay. Yeah,
- 52:50Speaker 1: check this out. And I was like, oh my goodness.
- 52:53Speaker 1: So one of New Mexico Senators, Heinrich, who was involved
- 52:58Speaker 1: in this while he was a senator. He went in
- 53:01Speaker 1: to uh when National Forest was he hunting in It's
- 53:06Speaker 1: the big name brand one that everybody we hunted it
- 53:08Speaker 1: before him. Yeah, I'm sorry, I just kidding. Yeah, one
- 53:11Speaker 1: of New Mexico senators while a senator went into the
- 53:14Speaker 1: HeLa on a on a permit draw muzzloader hunt and
- 53:18Speaker 1: killed a bull out with a muzzloader. Bad country. He's
- 53:22Speaker 1: an end user, which is damn rare. Yeah, not many
- 53:26Speaker 1: dudes in the Senate. Paul Ryan likes a hunt a lot.
- 53:28Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really know what all hunting
- 53:30Speaker 1: Paul Ryan does. I know Paul Ryan likes to hunt
- 53:33Speaker 1: a lot. Um tim it's important. Hinrich likes the hunt. Yeah. Yeah,
- 53:40Speaker 1: Paul Ryan is a big bow hunter. Yeah, big time.
- 53:44Speaker 1: I don't know how much time he has for it now,
- 53:45Speaker 1: So I got that guy spends a lot of time
- 53:48Speaker 1: sort of situations out. Sounds like his neighborhood's pretty tough.
- 53:54Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to him sometimes about hunt and yeah,
- 53:58Speaker 1: and Heindrich likes it a bunch. No, just started listening
- 54:02Speaker 1: to the podcast going backwards through him. That's cool. He's
- 54:06Speaker 1: on the fish Shack and episode. Okay, never mind, all that.
- 54:09Speaker 1: The guy's a sushi chef and you wanted to comment
- 54:11Speaker 1: on something. We're talking about salmon making sushi and sashimi
- 54:16Speaker 1: from your salmon, and how it's hard to get it
- 54:20Speaker 1: the way that that that it is in a sushi restaurant. Yeah,
- 54:22Speaker 1: and we're also talking about how most people won't do
- 54:25Speaker 1: it with the coho that we had caught and that
- 54:28Speaker 1: we were doing it with. Ye, and we're like, is
- 54:31Speaker 1: it not the way? Yeah, We're like, is it not
- 54:35Speaker 1: the way? It isn't a sushi restaurant because of what
- 54:38Speaker 1: something we're doing, or is it because it's a coho
- 54:42Speaker 1: and you'll never get it? To be right, I felt
- 54:44Speaker 1: we felt like I've gotten a pretty good slice on it.
- 54:49Speaker 1: It looked good, the presentation was nice. Just wasn't the same.
- 54:53Speaker 1: That was a little different. But I'll point out I'll
- 54:55Speaker 1: point this out to as a prelude to this guy's comment, Um,
- 55:00Speaker 1: salmon have a high parasite load. And this is no
- 55:03Speaker 1: joke Like I used to. Usually stuff like this, people
- 55:05Speaker 1: start talking about food safety and all this. I usually
- 55:07Speaker 1: brush a lot of that off and I pay the
- 55:09Speaker 1: price for it. But I usually brushed all that stuff off.
- 55:12Speaker 1: But it's no joke. Salmon. If you're eating raw salmon,
- 55:16Speaker 1: you need to freeze that salmon and thought out they
- 55:17Speaker 1: need it row. It's come from a guy who's eating
- 55:21Speaker 1: pounds of it. Not done that way. But I've had
- 55:23Speaker 1: a lot of people who are not hysterical and who
- 55:26Speaker 1: are not sky is falling kind of folk who have said, bro,
- 55:31Speaker 1: you gotta freeze it. You'll get sick. It's real. Oh yeah,
- 55:35Speaker 1: I think I've been on the flip side of that coin. Anyways,
- 55:38Speaker 1: this brother is saying this, and this is a great tip.
- 55:41Speaker 1: I just I called my damn brother to tell him this.
- 55:43Speaker 1: This guy's name is Kaido, it's a nickname. He's a
- 55:45Speaker 1: chef and hunter from Michigan. He says, here's where you
- 55:49Speaker 1: boys are screwing up. You need to take a sam
- 55:53Speaker 1: This is for making sushi and sashimi out of salmon.
- 55:56Speaker 1: You need to take that thing and cover it in
- 56:00Speaker 1: kosher salt for eight minutes, absolutely no longer than ten minutes.
- 56:06Speaker 1: Packet in salt in order to pull the extra water out,
- 56:13Speaker 1: then freeze it, then slice it. What he's saying is this,
- 56:18Speaker 1: When you freeze that thing, the water expands, the cell
- 56:24Speaker 1: walls burst, because of water comes out. That's why when
- 56:28Speaker 1: you vacuum seal a piece of salmon, right, you vaccal
- 56:32Speaker 1: there's no water in there, whatever whatever, hell, but whatever
- 56:35Speaker 1: your vaccal, there's no water in there. Putting your freezer thought,
- 56:41Speaker 1: there's a few tables of water and you're like, where
- 56:42Speaker 1: did that come from? It's being liberated from the fish
- 56:46Speaker 1: through the freezing process, and it leads to a mushy
- 56:49Speaker 1: quality product. He's saying, you gotta suck a bunch of
- 56:54Speaker 1: that water up out of there by packing it and salt,
- 56:57Speaker 1: pull some of the extra water out, and that is
- 57:01Speaker 1: what gives you that firm buttery what he describes as
- 57:05Speaker 1: the amazing buttery texture. Mm hmm. I can taste this. Yeah.
- 57:11Speaker 1: I think One question about it though, is that after
- 57:14Speaker 1: you take it out of the salt, Yes, do you
- 57:18Speaker 1: just absolutely rinse it? Rinse it right? Yes, because you're
- 57:22Speaker 1: never gonna I mean, how you gonna brush it off?
- 57:25Speaker 1: And let's say if he says it skin flay. Also,
- 57:28Speaker 1: you think I'm getting I would. My guests would be Kaido.
- 57:33Speaker 1: Can he has to rewrite in now? Yeah? Mom, guessing
- 57:38Speaker 1: that he's he's got to be skinless. I don't know.
- 57:41Speaker 1: I don't know. I can see both ways kind of
- 57:43Speaker 1: right back in. Dude, Well up, no, not skinning it.
- 57:48Speaker 1: And but I'm gonna listen. I think he's onto something.
- 57:51Speaker 1: I know exactly what that something Gunn is talking about. Okay,
- 57:56Speaker 1: what was the two things you were going to bring up? Oh,
- 57:59Speaker 1: this is just having your ear to the railroad tracks. Yeah, exactly.
- 58:03Speaker 1: Dry aging or just aging meat? Is it necessary? Does
- 58:09Speaker 1: it actually make a difference, um my experience? If I
- 58:17Speaker 1: think it's always better to let things relax for as
- 58:21Speaker 1: long as you can stand it, at least twenty four hours,
- 58:24Speaker 1: I'm gonna butt in at least twenty four hours because
- 58:26Speaker 1: that's how long read it takes for the brigamoret. It's
- 58:30Speaker 1: too enter and then leave. Yeah, however, I've done it
- 58:38Speaker 1: immediately to several hours after, just based on what's happening
- 58:42Speaker 1: in life. And it's not like that's meat that is
- 58:45Speaker 1: not good as far as the aging goes. You mean,
- 58:51Speaker 1: like aging of a couple of hours doesn't matter. Like,
- 58:55Speaker 1: it's not like that's meat that I then think is
- 58:58Speaker 1: not any good. Oh no, it um it uh. It's
- 59:07Speaker 1: not like don't even go through the trouble if you
- 59:10Speaker 1: can't hang the thing in your garage for twenty days.
- 59:15Speaker 1: I'm tracking no, ye, sorry about still probably real good
- 59:20Speaker 1: depends on the animal, yes, but in general, think of
- 59:25Speaker 1: it in extremes. I think of extremes if you shoot
- 59:30Speaker 1: something and butcher and you're eating an hour later. It
- 59:34Speaker 1: has a metallic taste and it is very tough because
- 59:39Speaker 1: it's still in rigor. Yeah, and for me almost it
- 59:42Speaker 1: almost gives me not really like a belly ache, but
- 59:45Speaker 1: sort of like a gurgly just kind of an off stomach.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Whatever it is that it's going on in there, it
- 59:53Speaker 1: seems like and again it could be just uh, random occurrences,
- 59:58Speaker 1: but unless you had two of you, yeah you would,
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: you'll never know. Never know. When I eat meat it's
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: too fresh, I just get I don't get sick. I'm
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: just like, man, something just wasn't quite right. I'll definitely
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: eat it. But it's not a let's they say it's
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: not as good, and then do you need to have
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: a climate controlled situation. I've never personally had that, um so,
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: but I'm always afraid to answer people's questions on an
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: age all kinds of Let me let me tell you.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: My brother ages me so so he he lives in Alaska. Um.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: He's Ali was hunting in September and has been up
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: in Alaska in September. Um, you have cold nights, very
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: warm days. Everything's all wet. There's flies everywhere, meat bees
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: around everything. It is not conducive to like yard hanging.
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: It's not conducive to garage hanging. All you do in
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: Alaska is beat flies off stuff. Right just you're not
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: gonna hang it. Just it doesn't work out. September hunting
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: in Alaska. Agent meat like in your garage is gonna
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: happen unless you built the cooler and you can ring
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: up some little dorm fridge. But you're not gonna hang
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: a moose in there. So he when timing out his
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: wild meat calendar, he doesn't think like, oh, I gotta
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: have last year's moose and caribou all eating up by
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: September first, because then I'll have my new moose and
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: my new cab when I'll start eating them. He times
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: that where he wants to have last year's all eating
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: up at some point in the winter because his moose
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: has been freezer aging, which I believe, and some people
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: freezer aging. What do you mean, well, stuff deteriorates in
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: a freezer. It just takes a long time to do it.
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: You will never all out, but two years you will
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: never pull out. Let's it's two thousand seventeen and you
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: find a piece of meat from two thousand fifteen in
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: your freezer. You will never find a tough piece of
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: meat that's two years old in your freezer. Well, I
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: think the same thing is having to meat that the
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: guy just explained is happening to that fish. Yeah, it's
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: breaking down, yeah, you know, because the water molecules are
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: there and freezing. It is breaking down the like the
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: you know, on like the molecular structure, you know, And
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: the longer it's in there, the more it happens, and
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: things just slowly break down. M hm. And then uh,
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: that's the problem when you find mab coming out of
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: the permit frost. Well, unless you have one of those freezers,
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: that's uh. Like, what's that crazy ice cream? I think
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: it's called dipping dots. It's got I've got an uncle
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: who sells it at a or it's my wife's uncle.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: He sells dipping dots at an amusement park that he owns.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: And they when they started, when they became a purveyor
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: of dipping dots. They to have a special freezer that
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: doesn't just stop at zero. It's like negative thirty or
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: negative forty, because there's such high fat content in the
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: dipping dots that if you just free hold it at
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: zero or thirty two, it's it's gonna go bad real fast. Right,
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: So he's got a special freezer that goes down to
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: negative thirty or negative forty, right, just for these ice
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: cream Well, he's like, yeah, side bonus of that is
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: I was able to throw a few elk steaks in there,
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: and five years later, still go my deep freeze. I'm
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: looking at I'm looking at the thing right now. My
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: deep freeze runs at negative fifteen, which is quite a
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: bit colder than my kitchen. Do you have it maxed out?
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: I'm gonna start doing that. I was trying to find
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: like the efficiency level, but I'm gonna quit. I got
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: a lot of fish in their man, and I'll just
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: to keep my fish cold. I do some other age
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: and stuff. When is too old to cold? No, too
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: old in your freezer. I personally looked at something and
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: been like, Nope, I'm gonna throw it away, just physically
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: cannot do no. My sister him doesn't allow for things
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: to get anywhere near the point at which I would
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: call him into question. But I could say that my
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: brother Matt once found some seven year old elk meat
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: in a freezer and enjoyed it. Not his elk, mind you,
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: he found it in a freezer. I've never had a
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: problem to it with. And the oldest stuff I've always
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: eaten has been elk, just because when I was living
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: in Colorado, it's like everybody had elk in their freezer,
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: and oftentimes would be at someone's house and they'd go, oh,
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: look at that, you know, and you'd end up with
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: some three or four year old elk. Never had a
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: problem with that, but I do think that fish, oh
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: you can get there, dude. Like Oh, for instance, last
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: night we ate the last package of blue cat from
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: UH from Kentucky and that was half ago. Yeah it
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: was still good, it was edible. We enjoyed it, but yeah,
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: it wasn't quite the same. I my like I was saying,
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: how I keep fishing my big deep freeze. I high
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: prioritized fish. So my the peak fish for me, peak
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: fishing the freezer for me is August Lay July August,
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: when I'm at my cabin lot fishing lot in lot
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: sam in the hell. But whatnot dude around now, I'm
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: very much like looking to be having that stuff getting
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: wrapped up. In fact, I'll be. I think I pulled
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: out my last salmon and just smoked it. I saved
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: one piece, I think, because I do, not because freezers
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: don't stop activity. Yes, I've had big chunks of bear fat.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: I froze big chunks of bear fat, fixing to render
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: it later, and had bear fat actually go rancid in
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: a freezer. Yeah, the fat. Question Number two on this
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: is call fat. Now that's something. Sorry, you guys have
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: hit Do we just blow a fuse? Um? No, I
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: think that your freezer just just turned off, but not
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: like off off. It just turned off, as in you
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: gave me a look. I thought we blew the fuse.
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: Oh sorry, about to pick that back up? Go ahead,
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: cow call fat? Can I can I touch on something
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: more about aging? Oh? Yeah, for sure, I also age.
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: Here's again, I can't tell you like the scientific proof
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: any of this stuff, but this is based on a
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: shipload of anecdotal evidence and experience and observations of trusted
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: close friends. I will also pull a piece of meat
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: out of my freezer. Let's say on a Sunday, I
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: might though a block of meat out. Oh then rinse it, thought,
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: rinse it, padded dry paper towels, put a big roast
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: on a rack, set over a dish, and put that
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: in my fridge. No one that I'm gonna cook it
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: in five or six days. So here it's already been butchered, frozen, thought,
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: And now I'm doing a fridge age on it. Mm hmm,
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: which I feel like it's helpful. I think you can
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: because you asked, can you age too long? Right? Yeah,
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: we're hanging out with a chef and we actually tried
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: some of his meat and after we carved through many
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: layers of really inedible stuff, is that what it was?
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: And um and this and this was in a you know,
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: uh um, climate band humidity controlled but um, and it
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: wasn't that the meat was bad. It was taste tasty.
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: It was way different. You know, it's just not like
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: you're eating a deer steak anymore. But there was so
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: much loss due to drying that you're kind of like,
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: all right, well, now I have like of this meat left.
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: He found the too long. Yeah, he found it too long.
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: But at the point is, you can go a long
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: time without going too long. But when you're cutting the
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: hoping it was an odd d shoulder, When you're cutting
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: open the clod on an audad shoulder in order to
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: get a piece of meat the size of a a stick.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: As a jolly rancher, it's like you've lost a lot, Yeah,
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: from from and then so mule deer. I just I butchered,
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: uh the mule dear that I got the in October.
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: And then I butchered two front shoulders, just the quarters.
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: Um uh that Scott Robinson got about ten days earlier.
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: And this was just on Saturday. And the difference in
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: the front shoulders, um just that ten days difference between
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: so mine mine hung twenty five days, his hung thirty
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: five days. Um. The shanks on his, I was, you know,
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: kills me to leave any meat in there. But there
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: they had reduced so substantially at for most folks probably
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: wouldn't be worth digging out that slivery good meat. So
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: I've seen tenderloin's uh just vanished, Oh yeah, from hanging
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: too long. My old man who tells me that when
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: he was young, younger, they would hang dear until it
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: had inches of mold on it. I don't know if
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: he was exaggerating inches instead of be covered in mold.
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: And you'd cut that away and eat the meat off
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: from underneath it. And do you think those were whole
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: deer they had? Now we one time hung we one
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: time hung a calf elk and never froze it, just
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: ate it and that thing after hanging it was like
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: the perfect winter in the garage. And after a while
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: you could jab your finger into the meat. I mean
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: like you could literally burrow your finger into the meat.
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: They got that tender. Just perfect conditions blow a little
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: bit below freezing at night, not much above freezing here
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: in the daytime. We was ate the whole sun bitch
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: hanging there. Yeah, because you know the feeling on knees. Um.
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: You know some majority blow free using nights um. You
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: know basically what you're describing. But you know that those
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: hind quarters were still. They weren't like frozen hard to
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: the touch, but you wouldn't call him soft. Yeah. I
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: killed a bowl in Kentucky, bullock in Kentucky. And because
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: we were leaving from there to go to somewhere else
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: to hunt. I had to have a processed, and the
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: processor says, oh, I hang him for ten days. And
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: he hung that out for ten days, and those suns
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: bitches were still tough. Mhm. It was only later I
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: threw him the freezer and forgot about him for a
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: few months and started snacking on him. They were good. Yeah,
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: all right, if you want to bring up a call fat, yeah,
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: call fat. Uh. I know the you know, the show
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: obviously has covered it. And because you guys have used
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: it in some cooking specials and done it some cooking,
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: done it in a lot of social media pictures. Yeah.
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: I got interested in it because when I was working
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: on my book, where I was talking a lot about
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: a Scopier, the great you know, famous master chef, French
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: master Chef August Scopier. Who who comes up? Who's brought
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: They bring him up in the movie Apocalypse. Now you
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: know when when uh, Captain Willard in Chef get off
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: the boat to find a mango, find a mango and
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: get attacked by a tiger, and Chef is like, never
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: get off the boat, never get off the boat. He
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: is explaining to Captain Willard that he studied sauces. He
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: was a saucy a and culinary arts school in New
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: Orleans and mentions the scopier it's a beautiful movie, best
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: movie ever made, the best movie ever made. So anyhow
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: call fats so oh no, no quick. I got interested
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: in because the scofier cooks with it, duh, like sausages
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: and stuff like that wraps me like the same way
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: you use the turkey bag now or whatever. Just wrap
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: steaks and rolls and other stuff in the call fat
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: to prevent moisture loss and add fat. So I'm doing
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: uh this this coming weekend. I'm I'm I think I'm
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: gonna smoke, I think, or just try to slow roast.
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: I brought out that the onlier I got this year.
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: I brought up the neck hole, which we lead into
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: a CWD conversation. But I'm sure these folks will be fine. Uh,
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: and I'm gonna wrap that in the call fat is
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: the plant and I got it is this is like
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: super This thing is not started to rut. It's like
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: super thick call fat um. But the main questions are,
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: how do you get the call fat out um in
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: one piece? Uh? Is it worth cleaning? Is it worth
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: dealing with. I don't like the taste of deer fat.
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: I personally like the taste of deer fat. I just
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: think it's to be next to nuclear hot in order
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: because as soon as it cools down, it is like
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: paraffin wax. Yeah, it's like that Simpsons were Homer drinks
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: candle wax in order to better compete in the hot
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: Pepper eating cut is exactly. You cannot get that off
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: your tongue, your teeth. Yeah, but when it's hot, I'll
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: eat it so um. Yeah, call fat, get it out?
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: How to get it out? How to get it out?
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: You're gonna tell him? I think you should. You're you're
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: the expert. Uh well, Yanni. I heard Yanni explaining to
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: someone there day, and Yanni's explaining, only even begin to
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: think about it. When you're shot is forward of the diaphragm.
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: It's gotta be where everything's clean. It's like you open up,
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: you're shot, enters and exits forward of the diaphragm. Doesn't
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: matter where, but somewhere forward of the diaphragm, because you
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: don't want any Everbody's gonna be all nicey nice in there.
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: And when he brings up a point too, so you're
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: gonna obviously got it to get the call fat when
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: you go to gut it and don't, like, don't get
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: all the way through your gutting to the point where
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: you're cutting the track and yanking the guts out. At
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: that point, you're too late. You're gonna get blood all
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: over the call fat. You're gonna roll it out into
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: the dirt and the grass. You need to just open
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: the lower half like from the you know, diaphragm down
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: you're treating this as an autopsy. Open that up and
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: then say, okay, now I'm gonna take the time to
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: get my call fat. Yeah. You can't butcher like they
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: do in the Mel Gives the movie Apocalypto, or like
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: how they butcher in the movie Red Dawn. In movies
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: and movies, when someone goes to butcher gut something, people
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: that would definitely know better, like in the case of
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: Apocalypto was the Mayan hunters um or in the case
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: of Red Dawn, there was lifelong hunters who were trained
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: up in the ways of Jet Smith. But when people
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: want someone to butcher something in the movie, they like
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: to use a big knife and have people jab stuff
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: because it's dramatic. They don't show what how you'd actually
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: do it, which is surgical surgical, Like I said, you're
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: performing a nice clean autopsy. Yeah, when I first started
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: dealing with TV folks, they'd be disappointed when they saw
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: how you want a knife you'd actually use. You'd be
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: like they'd be like, oh, but could you do with
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: a machete. They're just like, yeah, like really you do it.
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: That's a little teeny thing. Oh slow and easy, you know,
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: just stab it. So, um, yeah, you shoot it. Everything's
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: for the diaphragms, there's no mass. It's laying on its back.
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: This doesn't work with the gutless method. Um, you unzip
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: it very carefully. First, just cut through the hide all
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: the way up and then lift the abdominal lining or
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: the abdominal muscles. Cut those open all the way up.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: But before you cut the diaphragm back, you should open
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: it up and just everything is wrapped up in lace
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: fat or call fat. It's just this spider web cobweb
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: looking membrane of fat that is a literally a sack
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: around Yeah, the sack around the guts and on a
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: good animal and good condition, it's like, holy sh it.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: There's a lot of fat in there on a bad
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: animal and not a bad animal and animal and poor
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: physical condition, who's exhausted as fat reserves. It's just it's
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: like non existent. It's like really a thing. It's like
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: a way they store fat. Agreed. But it's fun to
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: mess with. So because we're always talking about it, it's
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: like part of why I like it is it's cool looking,
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: it's fun, it's cool looking, it's interesting. It's a throwback
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: to a bygone arrow. When people use it more often,
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: it's a good history lesson, it's good anatomy lesson. Um.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: But anyways, I'm always talking about it. I'm always like
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: kind of celebrating it, and it has like really appealing
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: visual qualities and people are like, dude, I need to
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: get some call fat. But I'll point out it's like
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: it's a fun, interesting, educational thing to mess with. But
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: it's it's tallowe yes, So is it worth it? It's
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: fun to mess around with. Yes, I am looking at
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: this call fat as it's gonna be super pretty beautiful
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: and it's providing a bunch of lubricant to meat that
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: doesn't have it for a little membrane. Yeah, And it's
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a relatively long cook on a
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: big chunk of meat. So as any thoughts, um, Yeah,
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: because you got pinned down on this, you were saying
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: at Thanksgiving this year, I got pinned down a bottom
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: the airport there to day, but a stranger. Yeah, And
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: to that, I want to say that, Look, man, I
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: think we're still maybe we've done it more than the
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: average joe, but we're still kind of beginners with the
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: whole call fat thing too. And I think we're learning
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: because like that you did when we were on a
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: falling neck, right, we chopped up a bunch of guts. Yeah,
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: we had some tender loin in there too, and yeah,
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: heart kidney, and then we wrapped and call fat and
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: roasted over the open fire. But we use, like, you know,
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: four square feet of call fat to wrap up two
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: pounds of meat. It was too much call fat, right,
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: if you had to do it again, would you do
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: it with less? But I did because it just makes
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: it strong or strong or stronger. Yeah. But so so
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: my point is that we're like learning, and I think
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: we're gonna learn like different things to do with it
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: and proper amounts and sort of like the way to
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: cook with it, and you know high heat, low heat,
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: dada da da da, and you know maybe you roast
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: in your neck over three hours in it. We're gonna
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure we'll learn something from this side. No,
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: how did you guys do on the kidneys? I have
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: not I have not nailed that. I think that they're
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: good when they're better on younger animals by far. Like
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: I've got to the point where like an old deer,
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: do you noticed deers like old I don't mess the
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: liver because the liver is so strong. I like it
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: on young animals. And if you look at like any
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: cookbook that's talking about like cooking with kidneys, they're insistent
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: on young animals. People eat like lamb kidney. We shot
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: a lamb in New Zealand. Have feral sheep in New Zealand.
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: We shot a lamb New Zealand. Holy ship. Long as kidneys,
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: everything is so good liver, but they just get stronger.
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: I think the older deer have a stronger liver. You
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: don't know, It's funny because it's just like rediscovered what
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: we already knew when we were kids, Like pull the
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: livers out of dere But Jared's like fawn liver. When
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: you shot a six months old deer in the fall,
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: it was like that liver was the money the shoot
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: older deer. My mom would soak the liver and lemon
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: juice to try to pull some of the funcation out
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: of it to recover cover the call fat fats covered. Oh,
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: I want to add another scofier thing. And I did
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: this when I was working on my book about a scopier.
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: I did it with a wild pig bladder scope would
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: take bladders and rinse it out and then soak it
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: in a little bit of a vinegar solution. Then you
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: take a little game bird it's a squab, like a
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: flightless street pigeon or game birds or any kind of thing,
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: and take all kinds of good stuff to eat, like
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: chop up onion, garlic, mushroom, other stuff like make like
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: a mere poi carrot and put a game bird inside
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: the bladder and pack all that that that mere poi like,
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: pack that around it, all that sauteed carrot, mushroom, onion, garlic,
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: all that stuff, and just pack it all the way
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: around there and tie the bladder shut and then just
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: put that bladder with the bird living inside of it,
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: poach it and broth, and the bladder turns like a
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: rainbow color, and you just keep you're poaching the bird
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: at a low temperature inside the bladder, and eventually, when
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: it's time to eat, you snip open the bladder and
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: take out the bird and all that stuff that you
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: were cooking inside that bladder. So it's just like a
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: way that you were He was like, because they weren't,
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: you know, in his time, you weren't dealing with like
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: synthetic liners and stuff. You're just used looking for like
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: in that case, you're looking for a non per non
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: permeable membrane and the original Suvi Yeah, exactly exactly. In
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: the in the absence of Suvie bags, he was using bladders,
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: and I cook birds that way. It's fun. They're beautiful.
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: Oh dude, yeah, look about it. Oh yeah, here's the
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: guy Yanni was talking about um carrying combat gauze. Yeah,
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: which is something used for like catastrophic injuries. Combat gauze
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: when you just dealing with a like a accidental gunshot injury,
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: severe puncture, get yourself wildly with an axe. Yeah, we
- 1:22:04Speaker 1: were talking about how you put it over the wound,
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: and an E M T who's dealt with a number
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: of gunshot wounds in his day. Fellow named Nate rolled
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: into be like no, no, no, no, no, no no,
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: you got it all wrong, and he sends us a
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: video about how to apply combat GUSS. You pack pack
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: the wound channel full of combat gus. The video, which
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: is on a rubber fake arm, is disturbing. Yeah, he's
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: packing the rubber fake arm and it makes you feel naxious.
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: He produced his own video. It's like he's like putting
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: it over. It doesn't do ship. You pack jamming in there,
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: jamming in there. So you tell your buddy bite this stick.
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: Make people watch that video before they go on the woods.
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: Bite you on this stick while I pack your wound
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: full of gauze. That's why that hatchet is going to
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: take another stick and jam your wound full of gauze
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: with a stick. No, my finger, with your fingers that
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: have late tass gloss, probably the right. I would use
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: a stick. I would get a sharp stick and jam
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: it full of gauze. So there's that ready for this one?
- 1:23:32Speaker 1: Bring it positive or negative? Neither? All right? Vexing started
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: hunting four years ago. It's a fellow name is Zack.
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: I've only had the chance to hunt two of those
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: dear seasons. Now I understand all the legal stuff behind
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: harvest and a dough. However, the ethics behind taking the
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: dough that is around six months old has me in doubt.
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: I had a chance to take a younger dommet, passing
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: her before I felt like she was too young. And
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: overthinking this, how do you view the ethics of hard
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: and harvesting legal but clearly young animals. You're overthinking it,
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: but you can really think on it because it's a recruitment, right.
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: If you look at it, the young ones are the
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: youngs that are are the animals that are likely the
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: most likely to not make it through the winter. So
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: quite possibly you could be taking an animal that will
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: very well die. Yeah, So if you look at it
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: from that perspective, that's like a freedough. It's better than
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: removing a proven breeder. Correct. Definitely, your big does are
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: the ones that we are most likely going to make
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: it through the winter. It's a anthro pomorphousicism problem, yes,
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: it is. It's anthropomorphism at at its best. If you
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: look at it from a food perspective. You don't get
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: that much. Yeah, you know, there's not as much meat.
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: And that's why I like to shoot big bucks. You
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: know what they say, big racks, big meat. But yes, yeah, no,
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: I got a couple of problems with shooting the young one.
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: It's done have anything to do with her not having
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: like or him having uh, you know, enjoyed a full life.
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: It's uh one, Yeah, you get like a white tail
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: dove fun. I mean you're looking at it, maybe you well, yeah,
- 1:25:32Speaker 1: thirty pounds a yield. Maybe it depends on it's how
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: late in the it's a big in the you know, September, noah,
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: but it's could be half of if you shot a
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: you know, a year old. Oh yeah, man, and then
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: to the uh, you know what those young animals are
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: just so mild people. Some people like that though. Yeah,
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: they don't like your flavor. Yeah, if you like skinless
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: chicken breast, then you know six months those white taild
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: does or for you Germans Man, we learned this. They
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: want to buy when they buy red deer out of
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: Scotland went on, they want to buy ruddy stags. They
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: like him high. That's what they call it. Remember the
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: boars out of Texas. So he's saying, too, they get exported. Yeah,
- 1:26:23Speaker 1: the stuff Americans don't want to touch. Yeah, so Mary's
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: in Europe as like, yeah, send us all the ruddy
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: old boars, we like them, high flavorful old mual to
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: your back is I mean, I gave away of the
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: elkay shot this year, and I'm not giving away any
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: of the mule to your back high shot this year's
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: too good. Uh. From the deer's perspective, it doesn't matter,
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: Like a five year old buck is gonna be like,
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: just shoot me. I don't care anymore. It's like from
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: the deer's perspect of you're you're killing him. He's dead,
- 1:26:57Speaker 1: all right. They want to live. There's no there's like
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: they're not trying to A young one's not like, oh,
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: on the prime of my life or just getting started life. Like,
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter where I think it comes from.
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: Where the where the prejudice against your Where the idea
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: that you shouldn't shoot fawns or does comes from? Because
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: you have to start to step back and look at
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: the history of wildlife, or in this case, the history
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: of deer management in this country, where in the early
- 1:27:24Speaker 1: late eighteen hunters early nine hunters, we had like wiped
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: out white tailed deer in a lot of areas and
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: it was a long road to recover the species and
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: bring it back to hontable numbers. We were able to
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: keep hunting deer during the recovery because we just harvested box.
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: So I want to grew up where you like your
- 1:27:45Speaker 1: tag was good for like a buck, it was because
- 1:27:48Speaker 1: you were trying to You were harvesting deer, shooting deer
- 1:27:51Speaker 1: to eat, and shooting near for whatever um while still
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: growing the population. Because when you shoot a box, you
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: just you're removing one animal from the cool and as
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: long as you have enough box left to make sure
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: all the does get bred, you're fine. The key was
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: saving your breeding age does, because if you shoot a buck,
- 1:28:12Speaker 1: you're removing a deer from the population. When you kill
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: a dough, you're killing her in every fond she will
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: ever have. So once we got to recovery with deer
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: and we got to where we've had, by some estimations,
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: too many deer, and we started to say, man, now
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: we got the opposite problem. Now we've got too many
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: deer and they're causing a lot of conflicts with agricultural
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: producers and car insures and people who have landscaping, and
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: you know, we now have an obligation to lower to
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: lesson deer numbers and also to control spread of disease
- 1:28:45Speaker 1: and all kinds of other issues why you might want
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: to cut your dear population back. We started to say, hey, guys,
- 1:28:51Speaker 1: the whole not shooting dough thing, well, never mind. Now
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: we're killing doughts. We're trying to lower deer numbers. And
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: then there's been a lot of resistance to that. It
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: still hangs out in some areas, it does. It. It's
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: different growing up in I mean you talk about it
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: a lot, right, Like all of a sudden you went
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: from Michigan to Montana and it was like, I can
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: kill how many deer? I mean, Um, when I first
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: started rifle antelope hunting, I I mean I shoot five
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: a year. I think we used to go out, well,
- 1:29:24Speaker 1: me and my brother would had all analop hunt. We'd
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: have six tags in our pocket, two buck tags, four
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: door tags, three tags per right, and then that big
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: winter kill happened and those days are over. Um, And
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: then yes, you know, Sam, you could pick up you
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: could the law really is you can shoot a total
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: of seven deer in Montana, so one buck. There are
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: some additional buck tags now but uh and then uh
- 1:29:52Speaker 1: six dollars. Well in the Southeast as last states, you
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: can kill a deer day too, dear day limited deer. Yeah,
- 1:30:00Speaker 1: carry the same tag around for the whole season. Doug
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, Doug Dring. He still has he still has
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: people in his community here, like they just will not
- 1:30:10Speaker 1: shoot a doll. They'll shoot every buck they ever lay
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: their eyes on. Yeah, but they won't shoot a doll
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: just because of growing up. But like Doug when he
- 1:30:20Speaker 1: was growing up, when he was a little kid, if
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: you saw a deer track, you went home and told
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: your mom dad about it. It's amazing. Now they've got
- 1:30:27Speaker 1: fifty year per square mile on good habitat. So yeah,
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: I think this is uh yeah, it's more of a
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: it's your personal ethics uh out there and it's just
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: you so do you feel good about but the you know,
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: those those tags exist for a reason. It's part of
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: the management plan. Yeah, if you have faith in your
- 1:30:50Speaker 1: state phishing Game agency and state fishing game agencies are
- 1:30:54Speaker 1: not infallible. But I um am taking all things and
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: considered and looking at all the alternative options. Um right now,
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: I can say that like a good if you want
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: to be an ethical hunter, a good starting place is
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: to follow the rules as set forth by your state
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: phish and Game agency and if they're teams of biologists
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: have made a determination that you're not gonna be hurting
- 1:31:25Speaker 1: anything by shooting a dough, and you might be helping
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: something by shooting a dough. I wouldn't. And you want
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: to shoot a doll, and that's in line with your
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: personal plan, I wouldn't let any kind of other noise
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: come in and influence your decision. I think we diverged
- 1:31:38Speaker 1: a little bit because really the question really was about
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: the age of that dough. Oh yeo, yeah, what I
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: said that? I said, No, we touched on that and
- 1:31:48Speaker 1: a lot, a whole lot more. Yeah, I said, they
- 1:31:50Speaker 1: don't get like more wanting to get shot as they
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: get older. You know, like doll is never gonna be
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: like oh bro, last year I would have run away,
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: but now you know I'm too. But to wrap it up,
- 1:32:06Speaker 1: there are no ethics about shooting. There's no there's no
- 1:32:10Speaker 1: like ethical issue about shooting young deer or young squirrels. Yeah,
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: do you ever met anybody says I'm not gonna shoot
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: a young squirrel. That's just something that never happens. And
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: in pheasants, it's like people get cited about shooting older pheasant,
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: but the younger ones are good. The older ones holy smokes.
- 1:32:33Speaker 1: But I definitely yeah, you gotta cook them. But it's
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: still cool when you shoot a real old one. As
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: far as table fair, the youngsters, birds of the year,
- 1:32:44Speaker 1: bird of the year born that spring, all right, I
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: still got a giant stack of mail here in my hand.
- 1:32:51Speaker 1: But uh, we should do another loose Ends sometime. That
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: was fun, dude. We got limitless loose ends, a lot
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: of questions, good stuff. I love the audience, man, We
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: had the best audience in the world. Yeah. When we
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: did a post on the first Light facebook page last
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: year that I really had been meaning to write it
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: like a follow up thank you on and it was
- 1:33:21Speaker 1: kind of on one of the things that we tackled tonight,
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: Like I had gotten home at ten thirty at night
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: and took all the food and trays out of my
- 1:33:30Speaker 1: refrigerator and stuffed at full of boned out elk because
- 1:33:34Speaker 1: there was just nothing else I could do with it
- 1:33:37Speaker 1: at that point in the evening, and so I was
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: just cooling it down as fast as I could, you know,
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: eighty or ninety degrees on a basically in August all
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: count right, and took a picture of it, and we
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: put it up on our social media, and um, there
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: were some folks out there that we're living. It was
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: like our most highly controversial post. And I absolutely love
- 1:34:03Speaker 1: that because people were just like, that's not how you
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: treat me. Other folks like, yeah, I've been there, Like
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: you gotta cool it down somehow on great. Yeah. So yeah,
- 1:34:12Speaker 1: the the audience, from my distant position of not knowing
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: the situation, I will tell you that that's not how
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: you treat me. Yeah, No, it is not ideal. It
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: is not ideal. We gotta improvise, especially when you're doing yourself,
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: you dude, we've had it so bad. We had like
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: throw meat in the creek. Yeah, and you just cringe
- 1:34:34Speaker 1: right flies, and then you're thinking about like sediment working
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: its way and in the meat and just it's like
- 1:34:42Speaker 1: in the eighties were like hunting doll sheep. It's like
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: in the eighties during the day, you can't see because
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: all the smoke from fires, burning flies on everything. We're
- 1:34:52Speaker 1: just in the middle of the day. It's starting to
- 1:34:53Speaker 1: stun to come up, we just go down and sinking
- 1:34:55Speaker 1: the creek, or go up to a snow field, burying
- 1:34:58Speaker 1: in the snow. Spent most of our time just trying
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: to manage meat. Not ideal. So I'd be like, hey,
- 1:35:04Speaker 1: you can't throw meat in the creek, but the picture
- 1:35:07Speaker 1: would have been way worse. It was just it covered
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: in fly eggs. Yeah. I love the fans and the
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