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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"For that now. Of course, now you've got cell phone and GPS. There's one GPS. And that's what really ruined the honey up here. If you didn't know where you were going, they couldn't follow you. We put false tax, put those eyes and we'd have the road go over here. We just shut the, we go there every morning. I know the big tree. We shut the light off and we just go to wait for you to turn off the river, and you go through the Woods, go about two miles back in there, and then you hear them out there still out there falling at trail and kicking their engine up and everything. But and then people got the GPS. And then they started telling all their friends, you know, the friends had never even been here before. Of course, when you got to coordinates, you're going to go straight to that hole. Yes. And I don't know why some holes are better than others, but they are. You know, some holes down here, killed ducks, and if you get to it first, and that's what the race is. I'm too old for that. We've got a boat now that Dennis is son in law, put it to 6 o'clock boat. So we don't have to go up at 4 o'clock no more. And you know, they take care of her. Like I used to take care of the other old men. And that's like all these bands. I didn't kill all these ducks, but the old man didn't want to go chase down the cripples and everything. Mister Jim has a lanyard that hangs down to the middle of his chest. It's lined with duck bands from the back of his neck all the way to the two hanging duck calls around the middle of his torso. If I was guessing, I'd say there are 50 plus bands. Duck bands are aluminum bands on the feet of ducks that have been captured by some game and fish department and tagged. When a hunter kills a banded duck, it is a major trophy and they're able to keep the bands. You gotta kill a lot of ducks to even get a single band. Somebody who has a bunch of bands, it indicates that they've done a lot of duck hunting. So that's what this whole band thing is about. Here's mister Jim. David and I would go get the ducks, and I keep that knife there. And I get a band of duck, I've got cut the band off and put our say a word. You know? And after this man, and at the end, they see all my bands getting, there's old men started cranking their motors up. And they went and got their own ducks, but it was fun. Oh man, I can't tell you. I don't know if you have something you like like we love duck honey. I mean, I deer hunt. I squirrel hunt. I catfish your river catch my limit every day. It's unbelievable. I mean, the resources here. Mister Jim stinson is an old school Arkansas duck man, and they aren't making them like him anymore. I just loved hearing him talk. I'll tell you another guy that I love to hear talk, and that's bear Greece's own Brent Reeves. He's a long time low country river bottom duck man himself. He was a water foul God for 26 years. When I first met Brant, and I'm certain I'd send him in undercover. I called him a hillbilly, and he said, I quote, I ain't no hillbilly. I'm from the flat land. We had hillbillies moan our grass. True story. And to Gary newcombe semi shrouded but sometimes not so shrouded disapproval, I did quite a bit of commercial grass mowing, even after I had a college degree. Anyway, Brent has uncountable great duck hunting stories. This is just one. And hey, Brit's gonna bring up the specific name of a famed Arkansas game and fish own wildlife management area in Arkansas. Typically, I wouldn't call out a place by name, but trust me, this place has been found out. You'd be better off exploring if you're looking to explore someplace else. But to you waterfowls, this story will mean more when you hear where it's at. Here's Brent telling me a story called the green head carpet. Gosh, I have so many memories, my brother and I over the 26 years that we ran guide service in the little community of raydale Arkansas, which is south of Stuttgart, and it's right on the Arkansas river where our lodge was, my brother and I, we had some guys who were decoy makers, and they came they wanted to come over and they wanted to trade some goose decoys for a duck hunt. So we thought, oh, said my pretty good deal and they were, man, they were just, they were super nice guys and, yeah, we did the deals that y'all come on, just bring some decoys and we'll hunt two or three days. So I remember it was back in about 1994 or 5, I guess, and we were hunting Buckingham flats in by made a Buckingham flats is like 400 acres in its kind of tip cornered to the southern end of the bow me to wildlife management area. And it didn't get a lot of hunting pressure at that time. There were several times on weekends when there was a lot of ducks when we'd pull in to buy meet up to the Buckingham parking lot, and there might not be any other vehicles there. And especially during the week, there was no kind of pressure whatsoever. So this particular time it was like a Tuesday or a Wednesday, these guys came over and we scheduled it that way just to ensure that we wouldn't have a lot of crowds. So we get over that day and we get all our stuff and we walk in and there are no other vehicles in the parking lot when we get there. So when we walk, it's probably a half a mile walk in there to the hole. It was what we called the sit log hole. And it's narrow as part about 25 30 yards wide at the widest part. It was about 50 or 60 yards wide and it was probably a 150 yards long. The wind that day was perfect. It was coming out of the south, and it was blowing right straight from wanting to that hole to the other. And we got there and we got set up, we threw out probably two dozen decoys. It was before Christmas. It was like in the first part of December. I remember there were still leaves on the trees, and it was a perfect morning there was no clouds, but ducks were not flying at daylight. They just, they didn't do anything, so we're just sitting there having coffee and talking about things that duck hunters talk about when they're standing next to a tree and the flooded timbre. And 7 38 o'clock, wherever the ducks had been on whatever rice field they had been on, they all decided it seemed like it wants to come back to the timbered rest. And you could hear them coming. We were in mid conversation. I don't remember if it was my brother, one of the other guys said, hey, y'all, y'all hear that. And
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. Like the South American singer? Yeah. Oh. Okay. That's how I learned Spanish. All those songs. I'd like to begin my apology. Where's she from? Mexico. Hey guys, I thought you were welcome to the burger center. That's why we're here. Yes, welcome. This is the Christmas edition of the barret east render. Can we call this one the bear grease reindeer then? Oh, got it. Play on words there. I will submit that to Hayden. The bear grease reindeer. If there was a burger right here, it would be mounted up on the floor. Man, what a group we have today. We have, we have the standard, the standard 6, it got Brent reads, my left, wearing a fine pair of overalls, and I'd say a 20% war down bear grease hat. Josh Lambert spill maker, wearing a lamb bridge. Wearing the land bridge mustache himself. Misty Newcomb. Good to be here. To your left to your left, Isaac Neil. Assistant to the producer of berry's podcast. Yep. Just happy to be invited. And to your left is the believer himself, Gary newcombe. Good to see you. But who didn't know who you couldn't have expected, who was going to be here, is the one and only juju nukem. My mother. And I'll introduce the second, the second person after this. You figure that part out, right? It is so fantastic to have you here. I am really glad to be here. I'm honored to be here today. With the annual Christmas party of bergeries. Why don't you tell us what you've brought for us all? Oh, I brought some Christmas cookies like I did last year. And I'm just happy to be here and send merry Christmas greetings to all your listeners and let them know I'll do read all of their comments and I get on to play. If he does something wrong, are ignore something. So have I ever been wrong in a comment? Oh no, but sometimes you don't answer them. So great to have you. Hope y'all all have said Christmas. Gigi has brought the Christmas spirit on us today. Yes. Okay, the second guest that we have very special guest, I first time guest on the bear grease podcast, the one and only Bailey Reed. Welcome to batteries. This is Brent Reeves daughter. That's my buddy. How are you? Good. What are you doing for Christmas this year? Opening presents? Wow. Nice.
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Well, man, this is a monumental burgers render for me right here. I got lots of people here that usually we have a group that's all the same. But during hunting season, I usually do something a little different. This is, this is one of those different ones. All right? So the only regular is Gary believer nukem. Does anybody here know why he's his nickname is believer? Absolutely. Tell him Scott. He believes in the Black Panther. That's right. Steve, meat eater made a hat. That's like a bestselling hat. People wear this hat all over the country. And it says, believer, and it has a Black Panther walking across a log with a moon behind it. Looks awesome. And it says on the meteor website inspired by Gary newcombe. It's a Gary nuclear special. Yeah. Good to see you then. So everybody else, every one of you have been on the bear grease podcast before. But never on a render. I don't think any of you ever been on a render. So to my left, my good buddy, Scott Brown. I talk about you all the time, Scott. Do you hear, do you
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Are personal to me. Some of these guys I've known my whole life and others are relatively new friends, but I love them all. This first story comes from my friend from western Arkansas Randy long legged step. I've known Randy since grade school and we were the founding members of an elite invitation only club in our high school. We called the timber scouts. Basically all we did was go camping. Never any alcohol just could claim fun. Randy's hunt took place on public land in Arkansas. And I think you'll be surprised how it ends. So a lot of your hunt stories are probably going to be about really great hunters to put a lot of preparation into their hunt and really go after a deer. They've seen on camera or seen my story is not that at all. To put some context in my story, it kind of starts with work. I work retail and work a lot of hours in the fall, especially toward holiday season, and this particular year, I think 2015, we had inventory in middle October, so it really cut down my ability to go scalp for good hunting places, or even really to go archery hunting. Moza loading season was right in the middle of inventory week. And I just decided I needed, I needed some relief from work, needed to get out and just kind of enjoy a day off after working for so many weeks and days in a row. And I mentioned it to Scott Brown, who I worked for at the time, who I consider to be one of the best hunters around. And he thought about it for a while. I didn't ask for a place to go, but he just suggested. Hey, I know where you should go. There's this great place that usually produces good bucks and you should know how to get there because we'd gone the previous turkey season and listen for turkeys up in the saddle. I said, you know what? I think that's a good idea. I don't have anywhere else to go, so I'll go give that a try. So when day was over, I got off at like 8 o'clock at night. And got home and rushed to put all my hunting gear together. And I'm usually real meticulous about having everything planned out and ready. I grabbed my powder, my extra powder, and my slugs, and I keep them in those little particles, tubes, and I went to bed. I got up early the next morning with what I thought was enough time to get out there, get on the top of this saddle on the mountain. On a guy out there, I'd forgotten that there was a bunch of down pine trees everywhere. You had to kind of snake your way through to get to the spot where you start to climb up the ridge. And the ridge was very, very steep. So I kind of slowly made my way up because it was really warm that weren't in two. So it realized how out of shape that I was also climbing up that and I started realizing that I could start to see the first little crack of daylight coming and I wasn't in that flow spot yet. And I wasn't going to make it because I didn't know exactly where it was with a headlamp on and I was going to pick a tree and do all that stuff in the dark and I said, you know what? I need to make something happen right now. So I kind of stopped where I was looked around and I noticed a really defined game trail. I mean, you could write a mountain bike through this trail. As much as it was getting used, I thought, okay, let me check the win. So check the win and it's like, okay, perfect. I can get above this trail a little higher up the hill and watch the trail, and that trail is headed to that low gap I was going to get to. And this will just have to work. And I'll just have to pray that I've got a good enough view on the sun comes up that I could get a clean shut off. But I know I can at least hunt that trail. So I did all the work, getting up in the tree and getting my stuff, and then once I got up there, I think I was smart enough to actually bring an extra shirt to change into, and then I pulled the Gary newcombe and sprayed myself down with the scent cover. And then I sat there for a few minutes, and as I said there, the sun start come up. And I kind of got mad at myself. I was like, you know, I've ruined this hunt already. I'm sweaty. I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I don't even know if I'm gonna have a good shot. This is gonna be a waste of my time. But I'm here, so let me just, I'll just enjoy being outside. And I sat there for about two hours with nothing, didn't hear nothing, thought, you know, I'm gonna give it one more hour, and then it'll take me about 45 minutes to climb out. And then I'll go home. It's like, this is just gonna be a bust. I just probably would have killed one if I'd been in the saddles what I thought. And not more than 5 minutes later, I heard the loudest what I would call a growl, but it wasn't really a growl. It was just a loud noise. And I had no idea what kind of animal did it. My first thought was, all right, there's about to be a bear walk down this trail. It's gonna go from a deer hunt to a bear hunt. So I turn aim a gun, start looking down the trail and out of the corner of my eye, I start to see three doors kind of walking the top of the ridge right above me. Just grazing their way around, it kind of ease in through, and I'll watch them until I had to swing around the other side of the tree and watch them until they went completely out of sight. And they never winded me, which is they should have, but they didn't. So I thought, well, that's pretty good. But a lot I need to focus my attention back on this bear that's going to come down the trail because there's still something down there. I don't know what it is. So turn my gun around, and I'm watching. And on the corner of my eye, I see movement again. And that's when one of the biggest bucks that I've ever seen by hunting walks out. Just a big body 8 point buck walks out. And I'm like, oh, this is great. Like I'm on him. I already know where those dough went. So I moved my gun to where he should have went. He walks right into it. I squeeze the trigger and nothing happens. I forgot it was a double safety gun, and I hadn't undone the other safety. I quickly under the other safety, he's moved by that point, so I have to swing around the other side of the tree. I've got one more chance to shoot this bug. I point the gun where those doughs had gone, and he walks right into the perfect spot, and I pull the trigger. When you hunt with the muzzle loader, you never know what you're gonna get when the smoke clears. When the smoke cleared, he was down on the ground, doing his final kicks, and I was like, oh, I got him. And then he quit kicking. I thought he's down. I've killed this big 8 points, the biggest one I've ever killed. So I texted two people immediately. I texted clay nukem and Scott Brown and told them that I've killed this big buck on this mountain. Well, while I'm texting Scott, that deer starts to kick just a little bit. And when he does, he's on such a steep slope, he starts slotting a little. And then he would stop. And I'm texting this to Scott, he's like, well, you better go ahead and reload, just in case you need to put another shot in him just to finish him off, and that's when I made it a realization that I made a huge mistake. I had grabbed two tubes of slugs in no powder. So I had nothing that I could finally dispatch this deer with. And then I'm starting to panic because as he kicks a little bit, he slides further down the mountain. At this point, he's even with my tree standings under my tree stand. And I'm convinced that it's a, it's a fatal shot. He's going to die, but the humane thing to do is to put him down why you see him. So I call Scott and I'm like, hey, you know where I'm at. I need some more powder. You're going to have to bring me some powder. And he forms me, well, let that deer get down the hill away from you. Climb out of your stance, stay up, good distance away from him, but don't lose sight of him. I'll find you in the Woods, and then we'll take care of it. No sooner than a hang up the phone, he makes one more kick and just really starts sliding off down the hill. It's almost like he's on a sled. And then all of a sudden, he just disappeared.
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"And I think you'll be surprised how it ends. So a lot of your hunt stories are probably going to be about really great hunters to put a lot of preparation into their hunt and really go after a deer. They've seen on camera or seen my story is not that at all. To put some context in my story, it kind of starts with work. I work retail and work a lot of hours in the fall, especially toward holiday season, and this particular year, I think 2015, we had inventory in middle October, so it really cut down my ability to go scalp for good hunting places, or even really to go archery hunting. Moza loading season was right in the middle of inventory week. And I just decided I needed, I needed some relief from work, needed to get out and just kind of enjoy a day off after working for so many weeks and days in a row. And I mentioned it to Scott Brown, who I worked for at the time, who I consider to be one of the best hunters around. And he thought about it for a while. I didn't ask for a place to go, but he just suggested. Hey, I know where you should go. There's this great place that usually produces good bucks and you should know how to get there because we'd gone the previous turkey season and listen for turkeys up in the saddle. I said, you know what? I think that's a good idea. I don't have anywhere else to go, so I'll go give that a try. So when day was over, I got off at like 8 o'clock at night. And got home and rushed to put all my hunting gear together. And I'm usually real meticulous about having everything planned out and ready. I grabbed my powder, my extra powder, and my slugs, and I keep them in those little particles, tubes, and I went to bed. I got up early the next morning with what I thought was enough time to get out there, get on the top of this saddle on the mountain. On a guy out there, I'd forgotten that there was a bunch of down pine trees everywhere. You had to kind of snake your way through to get to the spot where you start to climb up the ridge. And the ridge was very, very steep. So I kind of slowly made my way up because it was really warm that weren't in two. So it realized how out of shape that I was also climbing up that and I started realizing that I could start to see the first little crack of daylight coming and I wasn't in that flow spot yet. And I wasn't going to make it because I didn't know exactly where it was with a headlamp on and I was going to pick a tree and do all that stuff in the dark and I said, you know what? I need to make something happen right now. So I kind of stopped where I was looked around and I noticed a really defined game trail. I mean, you could write a mountain bike through this trail. As much as it was getting used, I thought, okay, let me check the win. So check the win and it's like, okay, perfect. I can get above this trail a little higher up the hill and watch the trail, and that trail is headed to that low gap I was going to get to. And this will just have to work. And I'll just have to pray that I've got a good enough view on the sun comes up that I could get a clean shut off. But I know I can at least hunt that trail. So I did all the work, getting up in the tree and getting my stuff, and then once I got up there, I think I was smart enough to actually bring an extra shirt to change into, and then I pulled the Gary newcombe and sprayed myself down with the scent cover. And then I sat there for a few minutes, and as I said there, the sun start come up. And I kind of got mad at myself. I was like, you know, I've ruined this hunt already. I'm sweaty. I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I don't even know if I'm gonna have a good shot. This is gonna be a waste of my time. But I'm here, so let me just, I'll just enjoy being outside. And I sat there for about two hours with nothing, didn't hear nothing, thought, you know, I'm gonna give it one more hour, and then it'll take me about 45 minutes to climb out. And then I'll go home. It's like, this is just gonna be a bust. I just probably would have killed one if I'd been in the saddles what I thought. And not more than 5 minutes later, I heard the loudest what I would call a growl, but it wasn't really a growl. It was just a loud noise. And I had no idea what kind of animal did it. My first thought was, all right, there's about to be a bear walk down this trail. It's gonna go from a deer hunt to a bear hunt. So I turn aim a gun, start looking down the trail and out of the corner of my eye, I start to see three doors kind of walking the top of the ridge right above me. Just grazing their way around, it kind of ease in through, and I'll watch them until I had to swing around the other side of the tree and watch them until they went completely out of sight. And they never winded me, which is they should have, but they didn't. So I thought, well, that's pretty good. But a lot I need to focus my attention back on this bear that's going to come down the trail because there's still something down there. I don't know what it is. So turn my gun around, and I'm watching. And on the corner of my eye, I see movement again. And that's when one of the biggest bucks that I've ever seen by hunting walks out. Just a big body 8 point buck walks out. And I'm like, oh, this is great. Like I'm on him. I already know where those dough went. So I moved my gun to where he should have went. He walks right into it. I squeeze the trigger and nothing happens. I forgot it was a double safety gun, and I hadn't undone the other safety. I quickly under the other safety, he's moved by that point, so I have to swing around the other side of the tree. I've got one more chance to shoot this bug. I point the gun where those doughs had gone, and he walks right into the perfect spot, and I pull the trigger. When you hunt with the muzzle loader, you never know what you're gonna get when the smoke clears. When the smoke cleared, he was down on the ground, doing his final kicks, and I was like, oh, I got him. And then he quit kicking. I thought he's down. I've killed this big 8 points, the biggest one I've ever killed. So I texted two people immediately. I texted clay nukem and Scott Brown and told them that I've killed this big buck on this mountain. Well, while I'm texting Scott, that deer starts to kick just a little bit. And when he does, he's on such a steep slope, he starts slotting a little. And then he would stop. And I'm texting this to Scott, he's like, well, you better go ahead and reload, just in case you need to put another shot in him just to finish him off, and that's when I made it a realization that I made a huge mistake. I had grabbed two tubes of slugs in no powder. So I had nothing that I could finally dispatch this deer with. And then I'm starting to panic because as he kicks a little bit, he slides further down the mountain. At this point, he's even with my tree standings under my tree stand. And I'm convinced that it's a, it's a fatal shot. He's going to die, but the humane thing to do is to put him down why you see him. So I call Scott and I'm like, hey, you know where I'm at. I need some more powder. You're going to have to bring me some powder. And he forms me, well, let that deer get down the hill away from you. Climb out of your stance, stay up, good distance away from him, but don't lose sight of him. I'll find you in the Woods, and then we'll take care of it. No sooner than a hang up the phone, he makes one more kick and just really starts sliding off down the hill. It's almost like he's on a sled. And then all of a sudden, he just disappeared.
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"My name is clay nukem and this is a production of the bear grease podcast called the bear grease render where we render down, dive deeper and look behind the scenes of the actual bear grease podcast. Presented by F HF gear, American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. Did Isaac get new boots and what's happening to brin's feet. Wow. Let's start with Isaac. Those are different than the ones before. Look at this. Wow, they've got some kind of metallic kind of looks like mallard metallic. Well, I'll tell you what happened. I was at the Delta waterfowl expo and Little Rock, and I straight surfed across the bathroom floor. There was a layer of moisture that I hope was from a recent mopping. But I doubt and just stop myself by banging my shins right into the urinal. That's either like. Because I had him. I had leather leather sole boots on. Right. So I went for the hybrid. I got some rubber sole. Those are what we'd call rough out boots. Would you have known that miss nukem? No, sir. Okay, so there's two sides to that. There's the smooth finish side and there's the rough out. So those would be rough out nice, nice Isaac. Now, let's talk about branches. I mean, what's happening? You know where your Crocs were? Yeah, no. I was trying to figure out why you own them. I deserve somebody gave them to me. Those are very popular. They say, hey dude. Hey dude, they're hey dudes. I believe they are now owned by Crocs, so technically on brand for Brent Reeves. Hey, there you go. I don't know. They have a funny look with your overalls. They're not a funny look. You were just wearing a pair of rumors. Funny. Let's try to make up. Other people, a little more diplomatic. Okay, all right. I am wearing muddy rubber boots. You're right. Feelings hurt, so easy. Welcome to the burger surrender. This is a fantastic day. Yeah, I'm kind of just looking around at the footwear. Yeah, Brent definitely wins the kind of preppy guy in the overall award. Yeah. With those. And we got to skip over our guests, but he's got a nice solid pair of program type brown boots, misty's wearing her extra tough rubber boots, which is great. Isaac with his rough outs and Gary Newcomb with his sportives. Trail running shoes. Great to see everybody. We have a fantastic podcast aligned. I would like to introduce my father Gary newcombe to my right. How you been? Okay, great. Great. Great, great. Maybe even better than great. I hope you enjoyed this whole call your podcast and have some insight for us. Well, I didn't know. It was just no, I'm kidding y'all liked it a lot. You're right. Isaac Neil. Yes, sir. Assistant to the regional producer at the bear grease podcast. Glad you got to see me today. Good to see you, man. Isaac's Isaac tells me today that he's got an appointment for a new tattoo. You want to share with us what that tattoo is? Maybe give me a little bit of credit for it. Yeah, by all means, misty's gonna love this too, 'cause I had this idea. I think there is some level of planning on this one. I had the idea yesterday morning. During church and then I texted the tattoo artist, but I thought, I don't know what about church inspired it, but it popped into my head, you know? I want to get a possum in a raccoon. So I think I'm gonna get a big possum in Iraq and on the backs of my legs.
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"This first light? You have any boot cut pants for Isaac? Oh no. I wish I could. Hey, what would you say to a guy who says, I like to buy my stuff at the last minute and at full price. Like, is this a good opportunity for them? No. If that guy would need to wait to the 5th of August. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Roll the dice. I don't know if it's going to show up in time. Wait till I just wait if I was. Okay, cool. But if you want, if you want a good deal, and to get it in plenty of time for the season, now's the times. Season opener sale. Gary? Look how our main man here is dressed in overalls. This is kind of like Dunlap, stole right here. You know, this is an antiquated way. Don't forget myself. This is all hot tech stuff yourself. And this is all you need is overalls. Right. And a good attitude and perfect balance. I have all those. And white teeth. And you wear quite a bit of first light. Yeah, I do. All the time. Well, we're just begging them to make us some overalls. Cut that out. I got it. Don't cut it out. Don't cut it out. If I get in trouble, I'm going to blame you though. You got it. The last render. So we always, every now and then describe the structure of our podcast for anyone who might be new. Every other week, we have the bear grease render, which is where we gather up a group of people to talk about the real bear grease, which is our documentary style podcast, which we do every other week. So we produce a weekly podcast. So this week on the render, we are going to be talking about our gas station, taxidermy, roadshow podcast. Very fun. It was very entertaining. Oh man, me and Isaac, when we kind of built this idea. And by Bill this idea means I called Isaac and was like, this is what I'm going to do, and he was like, great idea. But it just means a lot when he's like, great idea, do it. So when we built this podcast, I was like, yes, ma'am. I was like, this is going to be good. Why is that dog barking? Tess. That's loud. I can't take dogs, barking. He says that. They're always barking. So I was excited about this because it was just a different style of podcasts and we've ever done. But it was a lot of fun. It was a primarily in the field content. We had two feature guests, one of which was misty Newcomb. Who couldn't be here. He was going to come, but he wasn't able to. Okay. But so we're going to talk about that a little bit later. Fascinating character I've met him before. Old JB shreve. Introductions. We're going to go counterclockwise this time to my right. Josh landbridge spill maker. Still as a stone. The bear grease audio bad boy himself, Josh Bill miker. Gary newcombe to his right. Gary, how you been, man. Excellent. Excellent. You got a lot to say on this podcast? You know, I can't wait. You're gonna tear the bubbling over. Good. Jubilation. Good to your right, misty Newcomb. Great to see you, misty. Always. Have you guys? You know, I've said a lot. I think I have about an average amount to think.
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"Cool. That's pretty cool. Wow. The pictures are beautiful. To your left. Gary newcombe, the one. Good to be here. And then to my dad's left misty. Hey. My wife. Hi there. Good to have you, Missy. Good to be here. Hey, I got to tell you. I actually, when I didn't tell dad what I was going to do on this podcast. And I called him after I thought maybe he'd listen to it and I said, you probably didn't like that one very much, did you? I thought he might be like, why'd you go tell all this stuff? Yeah. But what did you say, dad? I said, I loved it. I mean, I do the same thing. But when I do something really stupid, which I have a propensity to do that. Game laws. No. But anything. I mean, I don't go to all my buddies and go something really low IQ I did. I mean, that's between me and me. Sometimes you just don't tell. Yeah, yeah. And I've heard stories like looking down the barrel of that good. Okay, there's no sense. What kind of talking about two different things?.
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"Friends were veterans. These are people who fought in World War II. These people love their country, right? The most outstanding members of the community, okay? One of the guys down the road of veteran, he was a car salesman, mentored me all through growing up, he lived with his wife and his wife died and he fished all the time. Couldn't eat that many fish, but he fished. I remember some days he'd fish 270 days a year because he kept the track of a notepad. How many fish can eat? He sold his fish. He would encourage me to go sell my fish. To the illegal outfit that he sold his fish to. Was there any restaurant? No, it's a fish dealer. A fish market. Okay. And he would even advise me on how to negotiate the deals. Do you understand? These are not people that would have identified as poachers. Right. I don't know why. Oh, moving fish around? Dumping them into all their lakes. You name it, man. It was just everywhere, but there's certain lines. There was like lines you didn't cross. I remember I don't want to name the guy's name. So I'm friendly with this kid. The guy shot way more wood ducks than he was allowed one time. And did a very sloppy job of cleaning them and just breasted some wood ducks and dumped them out in the Woods, and we found them and told our old man about these wood ducks. There weren't cleaned. In my old man went over there and confronted the guy. That was something you do not do. Waste the game. Yeah. Don't do that. Yeah. But he would do all biomedical and do all manner stuff you weren't supposed to do. Yeah. But it was like a spirit of the law led with the law. I really appreciate Steve opening up about his past. It takes some guts to do that and his intent is just to be honest. He norah have nothing to hide. I have no doubt that people who've been involved in hunting and fishing their entire lives and if they've seen a few winters can relate. I know I can. And at the end of this podcast, I'm going to tell you my darkest secret. It's really not a secret. But here's Steve on ethics. It's a relationship with the game laws it's hard to understand. I'll point out to people now. People are like, we have all these conversations about hunting ethics. I'm like, man, here's a good way to get 95% of the way there. Follow the walls. We've codified our ethics in this country to large measure, they change their time at any given time, our ethics are mostly codified by law. If you want to be an ethical hunter, that typically means, don't break the laws. Yeah. But my God, were they loose with the laws? Growing up, and I was because I was brought up that way. I had to later realize out of getting on board with the program. Getting aboard the game management program that we're on in this country. The journey we're on with conservation, the journey around with gay management, getting on board with that. And also, quite simply, frankly, when I was in my 20s, out of fear of being in trouble. Yeah. Then I'll be in trouble. Cleaned up our act. I got the scared out of me by game word one time. Who I knew was on to me about something. And that scared me pretty straight. You don't want to tell that story. Well, I really don't. Let me tell you what he asked me. You weren't allowed to use snares where I lived on land for land animals. He asked me if I'd have been set and snares. I told him no. He then went through over a hundred traps in the back of my truck, looking for one that didn't have a tag on it. He didn't like check one. He was like, I'm going to look through this bundle. And I'm going to find a knot tag trap and I'm going to give you a citation and you didn't find a not tag trap to my surprise and his. Because it just fall off sometimes. But I knew that guy knew something I'd done. That kind of scared you straight. On that stuff, I had a fur buyer who would push snares on you. Catch Morgan. License for bar. He's like, hey, why don't you take some of these? Bringing stuff in, right? Just pervasive and there's no way you would, there's no way no one where you grew up and how you grew up. There's no way you didn't have all those the same experiences. Yeah, you know, I had an interesting interesting experience in my dad was Gary newcombe, who he always says he didn't grow up in a hunting family, and I don't like it when he says that because he did. My grandfather was a big quail hunter and bird dog trainer. What he means to say is he didn't grow up in a big game hunting family, which he didn't. And so he was kind of a first, he learned how to bohan on his own and did all this stuff. And man, he was pretty straight laced and kind of came into the hunting space and realized that he was the only guy around that was actually trying to obey game laws. And he just had just kind of the right mix of following the rules and he was a banker. He was in a community that he felt like he needed to be an upstanding citizen, which was good. And man, we came out of the shoot with a very. I mean, I wasn't afraid of the game warden. I was afraid of my dad. So it's kind of a different story. And so I never wantonly broke game laws, even though I did, just because I was a dumb kid. A couple of times and coon hunting while we were coon hunting twice deer were killed on coon hunts. Steve said, well, here's the full story. I've never in my life set out to kill a deer illegally ever, but one night, deep in the winter, when I was 17, we were on a coon hunt. I saw the glowing eyes of an erect eared critter that hovered about 20 inches off the ground. I immediately whispered to my buddy with the 22 rifle. Kyle shoot that thing. Within seconds, a shot was fired, and the glowing eyes went out. A bond retrieval. It wasn't a coyote at all. Turns out it was a bedded dough deer. And it wasn't even legal to shoot a cow at night, but I didn't know that. Rather than calling the game warden, which would have been the right thing to do, call an old Jimmy Martin. We stuffed the deer in our dog box and went home and scanned it. A second time, I was hunting with someone older than me on his land. And again, I think I was 17. We saw a pair of eyes on the hill, and I said, there's one of your cows. He said, that's not a cow. That's a deer. I said no, you're wrong. That's one of your cows. He proceeded to pull out his 22 pistol, take aim and drop the animal from over 75 yards away. We walked up there, and he was right. It was a deer. He loaded the deer in the truck, drove to some dude's house that needed some meat, and no questions were ever asked. He dropped the deer off. Since that time, I become more adept at identifying animals by going eyes. I'm ashamed of these things and.
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"Let me restate that all this talk of breaking game laws is in a celebration, a justification, or a stunt, but rather a crisp look into reality for the purpose of getting it right in the future. In modern times for us to protect this immensely valuable wildlife resource we have on this continent, it helps if we're just honest with ourselves. This next clip is from the bear grease render, and it's my father Gary newcombe talking about his experience of stepping into the big game hunting world at the age of 26 in the mid 1970s. And so I was introduced to Bo hunting, and I immediately fell in love with it, and I got to watching people. And I saw nobody. Now take this literal, I'm telling you like I saw it. I knew nobody that wouldn't kill an illegal beer. And I'm like in a state of shock. I'm not gonna do that. I didn't have uncles that taught me that. I didn't have a dad that taught me that. Now, if you run up against Josh and he's a city boy out enjoying honey, you know, two or three times a year. Now he's not going to kill anything illegal. He read the regulations and just did what it said. Yeah, yeah. But the diehard hunters, I'm telling you from my perspective, you got to keep that in mind. My perspective. They all killed illegal stuff. So where do you draw the line? I killed one person. I killed 50 people. I mean, you kill and stuff. It's illegal. And where is it bad? It's bad with one. It's bad with ten. It's bad with 30. The prevalence of wanton violation of the law in the past is remarkable. But I feel like we've turned a corner. Of all the laws while life laws are tough to enforce because hunting is done in secluded places, often alone, in animals don't speak English. They can't tell on us. There are various gradients of poaching and all are bad. There are serial poachers that leave the house with the intent to break the law. There are those who are typically law about it, but they make the odd exception to egregiously break the law. There are opportunistic lawbreakers who violate out of convenience or to take advantage of a unique situation. There are those who are simply ignorant of the law, and then there are people that flat out make mistake or misjudgment in the field. But if laws are broken, the intent or the context really doesn't matter. No one has an excuse. I'm still on the search for understanding our functional ideologies around game laws. In the last couple of episodes, we've talked with game wardens undercover agents and hunters trying to nail down our collective doctrine. And doctrine isn't what we say with our mouths is what we actually do. Most people would tell you that their law abiding, but when you really dig in, you might find places where they don't always hold to the letter of the law or more commonly where in the past they didn't. And sometimes people just mess up. And the more time you spend in the Woods, the greater chance this would happen to you. We forget we didn't know, we justify it this one time, or we just flat ignore a law because we think breaking it won't hurt anyone or the resource. I think we've got to be honest with our worst selves if we'll ever live consistently in our best selves. I hope these stories will fortify a culture of putting the resource first. Breaking the law is an easy thing. And here is an example. Once during muzzleloader season, I was walking to my deer stand in the pre dawn darkness and I planned to put on my hundred orange vest in the tree. You see, I got dressed at the tree trying to do all the sink troll stuff. On the way in, I dropped my orange vest on the ground and didn't realize it until I was 25 feet high. The orange was like way back towards the truck. I was on private land with no other hunters, and I was bow hunting during Muslim season. I continued to hunt with just my orange hat, which didn't meet the square inch orange minimum. And that morning, I proceeded to kill one of the largest bucks of my life with my bow. Technically, I was in violation of the law, and my poacher by the law, yes, but by every rational thinking human on Planet Earth, I don't think so. It would have been more dangerous to crawl out of the tree and walk to get the orange at daylight than it would have been to stay in the tree and walk out midday. Have you ever left your tree stand up longer than you were supposed to on public land? Have you ever gone fishing for the first time with the spring only to realize you didn't auto renew your fishing license? Have you ever dipped your toe across a fence boundary that you didn't have written permission to access? Have you ever party hunted as a water Fowler, which is basically a group working to get the collective limit of everyone on the hunt? Have you ever wasted meat? My intent and asking these questions isn't to soften our ideas about the law, but rather to strengthen them. And ultimately, I hope this conversation makes us be introspective about ourselves. That being said, and I'll stand by this statement, I don't have a history of intentionally breaking game laws. I've dedicated an incredible amount of energy to the point of paranoia to not break them, even before I was in the outdoor industry. I've never had a wild streak, and I grew up in a very law abiding family, which I'm proud of. But by sheer volume of exposure, running around with the odd ruffian, being a dumb kid and just being human, I've made some mistakes. Here's Steve rinella describing the culture of how he grew up. I used to be reluctant to talk about some of this stuff because of a fear of getting in trouble, like elements of hypocrisy, whatever. Sure. We broke laws all the time, okay? I could sit, I could sit here and just give you dozens of occurrences. Let me give you a couple for instances. In the spring, the rivers had come up and sometimes the rivers had come up so high that it would flood out the muskrats. Out of their bank dense. It wasn't muskrat season. You were not allowed to shoot muskrats in Michigan. You had to trap them. But we couldn't resist the temptation. We go all the 22 and go out in the flooded swamps. And get mosques and just add them into the furs we sold the next year. Yeah, okay. 'cause who's gonna notice like some 22 holes and some of them. I remember in high school, my party air kearn. He's no longer with us. My buddy Eric Cameron dip and smelt. He caught a steelhead, not a lot to do that with a net, stuck it in his waders. And carried around in his waiters in the boot of his waiters for the night. I'm talking like a ten pound fish. Never in a million years we had to let that fish go. But there was some stuff we would never do. Would no way know how Jack White a deer. Spot a lot of deer. We were Jack Lake rabbits, which is illegal. But never a deer wouldn't go over a bag limit, but you had to be 14 to hunt with a rifle. I started hunting with a rifle when I was 13. I shot a dough, my mom came out and put her tag on it. I would have gone down. I would have gone down and told that story in school. It just. Right. It wasn't like you were being secrety. It was just it was like, the attitude was, how many deer are we allowed as a family? Tell us that, and then just leave the rest to us. Yeah, right? And that's functionally the way that it was enforced too, am I right? It was like, I don't know. We weren't checked by people. I could go on and on. Like, stuff that stuff that I'm ashamed about and I'll point out, my dad was, as I mentioned, my dad was a veteran..
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"Is that it engulfed that mountain. Wind started to blow, tree started to shake, rain started to pound the ground, lighten and started to crack and what did I do? Man, I put my boots back on and I took off in almost a run. Straight for that turkey. I thought, holy cow, what an incredible cover to get close to this turkey. And as I'm moving through the Woods, I'm carrying my shotgun, am I right hand in a bolt of lightning strikes so close? I literally threw the shotgun and laid face first on the ground and was just praying that I didn't get struck by lightning. I laid on the ground and I promise you I threw that shotgun and laid there until the bulk of that storm passed by me. And you know how a thunderstorm is, you know, the peak of it passes and then it still raining behind it and it's a little bit less. Well, as soon as the peak passed and the thunder, the lightning was kind of a way for me. I went and found my shotgun and man, I just walked right up. This still black dark. It's still two hours before daylight. And I just walk right up to where I believe that turkey is and get set up and I am soaking wet. My gut is wet, but man, I am in the game. Well, daylight comes. Birds start chirping, crows, start crowing, and that turkey's there. I know it. I heard him goblin before the thunderstorm. He does not say a word. He doesn't say a word. Fly down time comes. And I don't dare Yelp at this turkey very much at all, but I put my diaphragm call in and I did a clock and probably a three note Yelp and I put the call up. I was done. Indirectly, man, I knew I was so close to that I would see this turkey fly down. I'd never saw the turkey flat down. Just right at about fly down time. I see that sucker is wet as a Labrador retriever that just jumped out of a river from retrieving a mallard duck. He comes walking up the hill, big old beard, just swinging, and he was kind of skirting around me going up the mountain, and I kind of wield to my right just a little bit, never gobbled and man he raised up his old neck. Boom. Killed that turkey. Man, I have rarely been so proud of a turkey. And I went and got him and it was just a big gobbler, and I hiked him out of there, put him in the truck, and I took him to bear John's school, and I got him out of school and a bunch of the kids from his class came out and I killed what I called the lightning bird. But I never would have done it without bears help of telling me right where that sucker was roosted. I'll never forget the a lot and bird. This next story, though, is from my dad, Gary newcombe. It's important to know going into this that when he killed this bird very few people were using bows to kill spring turkeys. And if they were, they were using blondes, which is something that he didn't want to do. Here's old Gary believer Newcomb. Well, you know, years ago, I don't know what ten 15. I had that black max Matthews bow. I'm pretty sure you had your old green truck. You were in high school and back then we had quite a few turkeys. And I killed, I'd usually kill a turkey, just about every year. And then I'd bow hunt. Bo hunt for turkeys. Bow hunt for turkey. So I went out and had my bow in that morning, nothing was goblin. It just looked like a dead morning. And so I went in an area that I knew how it was quite a few turkeys. And started climbing a mountain, got kind of tired and I thought, well, this looks pretty good right here. I think I'll just sit down, take a break and actually set up, you know, may not blinds or anything, but just sit on the ground and place where I could actually shoot. In some sitting there on the side of this mountain up against a good tree which gave me a little camo, had some brush out around me and so I just, I'd call just normal calling, I'd call and sit there and you know, 15, ten, 15 minutes later, it was real dry. And I heard what sounded to me like two turkeys. In one of them sounded like a big turkey. So in my mind I had a I had a gobbler, big goblin or Jake coming in. They came in about 20 yards above me, and they just kept walking, you know, they walked to the west, you know, I'm kind of looking to the north and they did it just by the textbook. That was what was so interesting to me. I mean, it's like, I figured this O gober was probably a professor. He was teaching his young guys what to do. Don't calm down hill to a call. You'll get shot. So they go down, you know, out of sight. I never did see them. I could just hear them. And they dropped down to my level. And then the big gobbler just came in. The other bird didn't come. I don't know what to do was. So I had my bow ready, had everything ready to shoot, but the birds coming straight at me. So I don't get a shot. Well, there's a log on the ground, you know, 18 inches tall or so. Foot and it ran about ten, 15 feet running down the mountain, and there was a brush at one end, but there was an opening at the top side up here. So I'm sitting there in this bird put on a show like I've seen very few times. And he came in and he got the strutting, but when he got to that log, he wouldn't cross it. Just like the textbooks say. So he started going up and down that log and I noticed as he on the log? No, no, he's not on the log. When you repeated it to me the other day, you said on the log. He wasn't on the law. He wouldn't come over the law. He was on the other side of the log. And he would strut up, which I didn't have a shot because he's looking at me. Then he had turned and he had strut down. And so when he, when he made his turn and started down, I had a shot. And so I watched him do this two or three times. And I mean, he's close. I mean, he's ten 15 feet away. So once I saw his pattern, then as soon as he came up and he made his turn, and I'm like this. I'm full draw. And then once he started down that log, I just shot his head off almost, you know? I mean, it was pretty simple. And so once I shot him, I shot him right at the base of the.
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"I painted that when I was in high school, gave it to my grandfather that hung in his office till he died. You swing slightly to the right and I have all my stone points, most of those I found on my property, although windowsill. On the windowsill, this is where I got my computers here. I'm just kind of swinging around. And then I have my white tail wall. I've got, you know, I kind of quit mountain deer, but I've got maybe 6 white tails mounted and then probably 12 racks. But this is the, this is the coolest part to me. This is the legacy section. And there are three photos up here. There are 16 by 20, like high quality photos with lights on them. And the far left image is James Lawrence in the late 1970s. Is that what that rifle? Is that right? Yes. It's a hawk and muzz loader as I understand it. And James Lawrence is somebody that I've just always really looked up to and I consider him a mentor and somebody that's kind of like family to me. So there's a big picture James and then that rack right there beside it is a deer that James killed on public land in the 1960s. And man, it's not a huge rack. I mean, it's a beautiful rack with big old brow tines. But when I go to James house, I was there two days ago. And I see his wall full of white tail antlers. I am mesmerized when I think about the hours and time that he spent hunting to kill those deer back in that time where he did in national forests in Arkansas. So there's James. The middle picture is my father in law, Steve Schultz, who has been one of the most influential ever in my life. He really is. Steve is also the pastor of our church. Steve was a falconer. And that picture was taken when Steve was, I think, in 1980. So basically the same time period as James holding a foul. He's holding a red tail with a mallard hen duck. And this is a super cool photo. And it's real neat for me to see these guys when they were like my age. You know? So there's Steve Schultz. And then the picture to the right, many people have said that this man looks like Elvis Presley. Have you heard that? I am, I see it. And it's the coolest picture. It's the coolest picture of Gary newcombe. And it was the first deer that dad ever killed and he's got this buck in the back of the truck. He's got his old bow. What kind of dad? Yeah. And he's mustachioed. He's got a nice mustache, and then that beer is right there. I've got a mounted deer right beside that photo. And that deer is the deer that killed. What do Brent and I have to do to get our pictures up there? Man look like you could have been in the almond brothers. Bring one. Yeah. Yeah. The liquid now. What do you remember about that deer, dad?.
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"The dogs struck and I really don't remember the sequence of events, but the dogs ended up on a, the coons typically, if they're on the creeks, they go right to the top of the mountain and tree. And I remember that trace and trooper trade on top of that mountain and we walked up there. And at this point, I still didn't think much about coon hunting. You know, it was just going out in the dark with these dogs, and it was cool. But nothing was that unique about it. Man, when I saw those dogs treed and we shot that coon out and those dogs ended up at the bottom of the mountain after the coon kind of jumped out and it was like the most exciting thing I had ever been a part of in my life. And I was like, I think I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna get into this. And then Nick's dad came to us and said, hey, y'all need to have some coon dogs. Y'all need to get some coon dogs. He went to the Arkansas Democrat gazette and the printed version of the gazette, which all there was at that time. And there was a litter of blue tick, registered bluetick coonhounds for sale, about an hour away from where we lived. On New Year's Eve. About 1994, I think we drove in cunninghams total mom minivan kind of van. Hour and a half, and bought a pair, we were going to buy one dog, and when we got there, the dogs were the dogs were a $100 apiece. And Jeff kind of ham knew how to roll. He picked out the dog we wanted. We started to walk away. He turned around and he said, I'll give you $50 for another dog. And the guy said, deal. And so who got the $50 dog and who got older? Jeff paid a $150 for a pair of dogs. I remember we get when we got back in the truck, Jeff said, I could tell that family needed an extra 50 bucks. It was they were like, and it was New Year's Eve. He said, those kids will have a better Christmas. I'll never forget that. He actually said that. That's good stuff. New year's come after you. Did I say new year's Christmas Eve? Okay, I didn't want to. But let's change this everything. I'm sorry, did I say New Year's Eve? It's okay. It's okay. Christmas Eve. It was Christmas Eve, 1994. Pretty sure. Incredible. And we get these dogs, and then here's where I'm gonna speed this story up a lot. We name the dogs Macy and Maddie. My dad, Gary newcombe wanted me to name them after the president during that time. We won't mention his name. After his wife and daughter,.
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"Well, is anybody else here ever had machine catch on fire? I did. I did see in Mina Arkansas. I pulled up to the stoplight right there by the what's the train there downtown, what's that? I can't remember what that gas station is right there. But I looked over and there's an old man and I see smoke coming from under his hood, and within two seconds there were flames rolling out and he's at the gas pump. And I see him get back in the car and try to start it. So he could drive it off. And he's in the car and somebody comes running out of the gas station, grabs him out of the car and reaches in and puts it in neutral and they push it away from the from the gas pumps and everybody was trying to get the heck out of it. One time, I had a 1991 Jeep Jeep Cherokee, it was the year was probably 2005, 2006. Was it red? It was a good one. Was it red? It was kind of burgundy ish. And one day I was driving to the U of a and I see, I'm in fade Arkansas, driving down college. And I see smoke start to come out from underneath the hood. And I just go, oh man, that's not good. And I was within about a half a mile from an O'Reilly's. And the kind of downhill and so I just thought, I'm gonna make it till round. Ride this thing out. And so I just made it into a car was Jeep was driving fine. I pull Endo rallies and there's more smoke coming out from under the hood and I pop it, open the hood and there is a pack rat nest on top of the hood that is in flames. Oh my gosh. I mean, just like when I open the hood, it was like, yeah, that's what I needed. Oxygen. And so it just and so I run into the O'Reilly's and there's like people in line, you know, and everybody's just standing there being quiet like white and I go, hey, my jeeps on fire in the parking lot. And I promise you the guy behind the counter. I mean, it was like he could have cared less. He was just like, he just kind of people won't be able to see what I'm doing. I'm acting like I'm a 60 year old man that doesn't care. And he was just like, what? And I was like, my Jeep is on fire. Do you have a fire extinguisher? Water or anything? And he was just like. Well, there's the bathroom over there. There's a toilet. There's a picture. There's a picture over there. And I just run behind the counter, grab this picture, run back to the bathroom and put it onto the sink. And get the pitcher only about halfway. Getting Gary newcombe and I run back outside and just douse the Jeep. And luckily it never fully caught on fire. It just, it just kind of burned all the hoses on the top. But that pack rat nest burned up. You've had some bad luck with pack rats. Destroy your life. Yeah, I had one. I had one vehicle burn up on me in 79. I had no 69. Volkswagen had bought the year I graduated out of school..
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"Thing. I can't, I can't say it. I'm like Gary newcombe keep his bag. Although I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take whatever's in this and my muzzle loader. That's part of the reason I gave it away because I was looking for a reason to give it back to you. Josh, stoned it. This is what I always dreamed of. Believe it. A picture of why. Yeah, just a giant picture. Giant portrait of a big Cheshire cat, grinning. Clay nukem. That is a museum quality frame from someone you know very dear to us. And I'm serious. That is probably a $300 frame job on that. It's an excellent frame and what I like about it, Josh is that it was given to us. It's a wonderful picture. By a very skilled photographer. My hands like 14 inches big. Yeah. At least. At least. It's bigger than Josh's torso. Like when I just took a picture of it. Giant picture of my face. And so it was like high quality was given to us. I'll sign it for you right now. It just always felt a little big in our House, almost idolatrous, you know? You can see one thing that, okay, for the record, we did not ask for this nor did it. If the artist of this portrait sees it hanging in my shop. I'm nervous a little bit about that. It's a little bit about that. So second thing, the one thing that we have learned is that wherever you put it in a room, those eyes, buddy, they follow you. When clay was traveling like that statue of Jesus we would take place watching whenever the kids would get in trouble when they were little and clay would be on the road. I would just point to the wall. Can you turn it away from me? I like it. I like that you're wearing the Arkansas baron, but association. The reason that little grin is there so big is I had just killed a beautiful white tailed buck that had a four inch drop time on Christmas Eve. Really? Yeah. So that's all water wish. It is a Christmas photo. That photo was taken Christmas. I tell you what that's good for. Like those little darts is a little sucker. A lot of dictators make everybody put their picture on the wall and they're wherever. That or the fact that that misty, you really need to keep that, that's the kind of thing if you don't want to put it out like your egotistical, you put it in the attic and think what the little grand babies. Right. I mean, they'd go see that's been in our attic for about a decade. It needs to be in the area. Three or four decades. So years old. Ten years old. I killed water witch in 2011. Well, that's a highlight of my life. Fantastic. I just want to give everybody a clause. Thank you for great job on the gifts. Really put your heart into it. And Josh, sorry about keeping your emotions so long. I've also got all your gear with it, okay? Great..
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Talk about that. Rusty, I don't know if I told you the whole situation where that dough. Man, let me say as well. I was absolutely thrilled to go back in where we did and kill that deer. A hundred back in there when I was in college. I think about that spot to this day. A fall doesn't go by where I don't think about that spot back there. I took Justin. Really? Yeah, because it was when I cut my teeth bow hunting over here. I mean, I left Gary newcombe's camp. Camp nukem. And was flushed out on my own, you know? And I found that spot on topo map before Onyx when we actually went to the store and bought a big three by three topo map. But I hadn't been back there. I just moved. I've done other stuff here. So to go back in there and even just to kill a dough, thrilled. I'm serious. That's the highlight of my season. I've killed three pretty good bucks. I told Justin this, there's a, one of my arrows is still in a tree over there somewhere. Because I missed a deer up there at like 40 yards in my era stuck in a tree and I just left it there for the anthropologist in 10,000 years. When I was in school years ago and yeah, yeah, that's going to be my segue. But I want to talk about this dough real quick. This dough came in. We were up just under 30 feet. 103 feet. We were real hot. Because that's why you beat a deer's nose, boys. Get up real high. Hang out with the birds. Past all the way around us and actually drop down into the kind of head of this hollow and I was hanging as absolutely far to the left as you could in a tree saddle. I've got my feet just like on the side of my platform and I'm just like hanging off and this dare steps out to 30 yards and I knew it because I had ranged openings and I just knew it was about 30 yards..
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"gary newcombe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"They feed here. And that is just not the way it is and those aren't going to wash down mountains. Yeah at all. It's just not. So. But you shoot the pram Bo. Yeah, shooting a prime 6. I'm shooting G 5 dead meat broadheads. I like them. They fly good. It's an expandable head. I used for years. I was fixed blade, hardcore. This year, I started shooting those and they shoot good. You told me 15 years ago to only use expandable. I remember. That was back in the day. And then he went all fixed place. See when I met clay and started hunting with him. He was all fixed blade. So he talked me out of expandable. And that was going back to expand. The season's second politician. Why don't we go through all the places where I've flip flopped in my life according to all of you guys as my buddy. My buddy Chris Roberts when he first started hunting with me, dad, I was hardcore scent control, keep your clothes and plastic bags, use bacon, soda, use. I know, you know, don't put on your clothes on your truck. I mean, hard core. That is. I can't tell you. You do not do that anymore. How many times I wrote? I did that. This morning. We don't want to have this conversation. I wrote in Gary newcombe's Jeep for years in my underwear to the stand. That was just that was just a practical job. Yeah. Oh no. Yeah, I believe Josh. Well, I really, I don't know, this is the platform for this debate, but I basically going back to what I said about dad, dad was just methodical with everything he did. And that's the reason he was a good bow hunter. Was, he's still here. He's still with us. Terry was around. Have you written off in this liberation? No, about 12, 13, 15 years ago. About the time you didn't hunt and were off away. I just scratched all saint control. All set control and went straight up woodsman, Josh. And turns out, I kill more deer now than I did then. I don't know if it's a spurious correlation, meaning a correlation that's really not connected. Maybe I've gotten better places to hunt. Maybe I've got a smile here. That doesn't mean we don't know what a correlation is clay. Yeah, yeah. Now you say you went woodsman. It's just hot in the wind. Like if there's a south wind, you hunt in a place where the deer are going to be north of you. It's just that simple. If there's a north wind, you hunt in a place where the deer are going to be south of you. And you just play the wind. Because what I found was I would do my scent control to the highest level that I was possible that was possible for me in my skill set to do. And I'd go hunting in dear would still smell me. So I was like, why am I devoting my whole life to this? And now, dad, you tell them why you do it, though, because there's a good argument for using sync control stuff. I like to say that it's a hoax, and it is the biggest way for outdoor companies to sell you a product that you have no way of knowing if it works or not because you can't smell that good with your nose. It's the perfect is a good business to be in. Wow, bold statement. It's just true. I mean, it's like, I'm gonna sell you a product and you don't know if it works or not. And most of the time it doesn't because you're in sync control and they're still smell you. But we see what I'm saying. You know, baking soda works. And you know if you wash your clothes and laundry detergent. I mean, you know you're putting all kinds of things. You know, I've got some soap that's unscented, and it smells less than it than my scented soap. Okay. Let me tell you something's fast. I will. You're worried about your clothes. I'm worried about your soul. But since we don't care about it, listen, I don't even know who you are. I don't know. This is this. A deer isn't scared of your shirt. He should be scared of you and you smell like a human. So it essentially be like putting so you're trying to wash the human off of you. It would be essentially like taking a burlap sack and filling it full of cow dung and then being worried about the burlap sack like scent control on the burlap sack. It's like, you're not that burlap sack is not gonna spill out. You know what? Okay, okay. What if what if, instead of trying to wash the send off, I just go like a full on 14 year old boy and just blast myself with axe body spray. You can't smell the human for all the axe body spray. Like this is covered. Yeah, yeah, cover it up. We go cover it. Chocolate acts. I do. I do believe in some cover sense. I've seen some cover sense that worked pretty good. Or confused or slowed dear's spook response down. To this day, every hunt this week I tried out some new stuff. This Dan Fitzgerald dear dander, and I would pour it out on the ground underneath my stand so that when deer cut my wind, they would smell human, but they would also smell an attractant, a deer related attractant synthetic stuff. And I have seen that slow at deer's spook response down enough and I've seen them walk through it to not necessarily with this stuff. I didn't see it happen this week. Okay, so I've seen it work with dough extras back when we could use real dough estrus. And even the synthetic stuff I've had a dough come directly downwind. I had poured big swab of dough estrus onto the ground. So that dough sent strong, unnaturally strong doses on the ground. A deer cuts my wind, the dough just locks up and just goes into holy cow, what's happening? I smell a human, but then she's like, and I smell a deer. And kind of freaks out for a while, and then moves on through past your scent. I've seen it happen. Not common. Most of the time they spook. Gary, what do you think? That's the whole thing I've been wanting to hear. I'm not what I'm saying is not the whole truth. I know that. We know that. Let's hear that. So why would you use saint control? Tell me what it would work. If you're a terrible hunter, is it raising? I'm being asked with you. I mean, when I first started hunting, I really didn't even hardly know what a deer track looked like. You know, I just knew some guys told me about it. Taught me how to shoot a bow. They couldn't kill deer. So I looked at it like a chess game. I thought this is going to be like chess game. And I thought, you know, I've got to be clean. I've got to be able to shoot my bow. But as time went on, I saw very few deer that I spoke. I mean, I can not. I had a Big Ten point that I knew where my wind was going. And he came under my stay in and by the way, I was asleep. I was sound asleep and I looked open when I bought every 5 minutes I looked at and so I knew he was going straight into my win. I mean, so I'm not a stupid about wind in about cent. And I knew he was going to. He was going to spook in a minute, 'cause I had a dough come in and hit my wind. And I was only about 18 feet up, but anyway, if you're 20 to 24 feet and you're in pretty flat ground, you can get away with lots of stuff and usually when you're hunting big bucks, you don't know which way they're coming from. I mean, you think you know. But they'll surprise you. So why not be cleaned if you've got the energy and the time in the desire to do it? Maybe it'll work. Well, it will help. And if you listen to John he says, if you're wearing a beard, you got long hair, forget it. Go hunt, however you want to because it don't work. I would love to.