Ep. 779: Canadian Moose, Case Knives, and Old Rifles | MeatEater Radio Live!

Summary

The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 779: Canadian Moose, Case Knives, and Old Rifles | MeatEater Radio Live!

Date: October 17, 2025
Host: Brent Reeves (with Seth, Corey, and Phil)
Guests: Craig McCarthy (North Mountain Adventures), John Pantuso & Tom Taylor (Case Knives)

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of MeatEater Radio Live! finds Brent Reeves and the crew holding down the fort at MeatEater HQ during peak hunting season. With the office running on a skeleton crew, they dive into hunting tales, gear talk, adventures in Canada, and a fun "show and tell" segment with old rifles and knife stories. Special guests join to discuss the realities of guiding in Manitoba and the legacy of Case Knives, capturing the spirit and humor fans expect from the show.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Seasonal Updates and Project Announcements

• MeatEater Season 13 premieres October 20, 6pm MST – new episodes every Monday for seven weeks.
• Teasers for upcoming episodes, including Alaska backcountry bear hunts, Africa, Texas turkey hunting with Luke Combs, and another muzzleloader hunt.
  • Seth: “If you watched the last Muzzleloader hunt that Steve did, you’ll have to watch this one to see if there’s any redemption.” [04:32]
• MeatEater Sheds on YouTube is a hit, especially the Jeff Foxworthy episode.
• Announced the MeatEater Live Southern Tour for December, hitting places like Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Fayetteville, Dallas, and Austin.

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2. Personal Hunting & Fishing Stories

• Montana Elk Bowhunting:
  • Corey shares the grind of a tough archery season with little luck despite close encounters:
    “The number of giant bulls that I’ve had under 100 yards, I just can’t do anything about.” [08:20]
• Fall Fishing in Montana:
  • Seth details a switch-up from hunting to a memorable smallmouth bass trip at Fort Peck, landing a six-pounder.
  • Seth: “Fall fishing…for anything is awesome, but fall smallies is one of my favorites.” [10:03]
• Brent’s Canadian Moose Adventure:
  • Dream hunt in Northern Manitoba with Craig McCarthy's North Mountain Adventures, planned over a year.
  • Challenging logistics: float plane drop-offs, plywood shacks counted as non-permanent camps, wild country, northern lights.
  • Moose taken with a .300 PRC at 460 yards; one backstrap weighed 49 lbs, the other 51 lbs!
  • Brent: “From the time we left the bank on that float plane till we got back, it was just one incredible adventure after another.” [10:53]
  • Craig (on guiding): “It’s probably the most fun I have all year...It’s something I’ve loved to do since I was ten or twelve.” [15:47]
  • On guiding logistics: Multiple flights required just to get in lumber and boats, often two to three hunts before making up the costs. [21:14]
  • Caribou and bear guiding, with family involvement in both guiding and the local rodeo scene.

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3. Show and Tell: Old Rifles & Gear Table Finds [27:24]

• Corey: Showcases quirky finds from the office "free table"—old boots, fishing boots, DVDs, elk calls, musket nipples, turkey call striker, and a handmade wicker basket.
• Seth: Brings in a Winchester Model 55 rifle (1931), inherited from his great-grandfather—used to feed family and friends during the Depression.
  • “It was my great-grandfather’s...He bought this to feed his family and neighbors during the Depression.” [33:00]
• Brent: Shares video of net fishing for catfish with his brother on the Arkansas River. Explains the “barrel net” method and cheese-based bait.
  • “We’ve probably caught...I don’t know how many pounds of fillets, and we ain’t sold the first one yet.” [35:30]

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4. Listener Q&A [38:09 and throughout]

• Hunting tips:
  • Still-hunting bears—look for fresh scat, food sources (acorns and white oaks in the east), and hunt when the ground is wet for stealth.
    • “Find out what they’re feeding on...acorn flats or anywhere there’s a bunch of white oaks.” – Seth [41:20]
  • Best use for fox pelts: hanging display or fur trim for a coat/scarf.
• Notable experiences:
  • Seth recounts visiting Boston and Salem; describes the historical feel and the Halloween “circus” atmosphere in Salem.
    • “It was a circus...thousands of people dressed up like witches.” [40:33]
• Moose hunt highlights:
  • Hardest part: walking on the spongy ground, but the magical ride back with the moose in the boat under the northern lights.
    • “We turned our lights out and actually drove back to camp by the northern lights—with that moose in the boat.” [44:46]
• Oldest Guns Used:
  • Most hosts used classic lever guns or hand-me-down bolt-actions dating back to the Depression era or early/mid-20th century.

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5. Craigslist Comedy: Oddball Hunting Finds [47:28]

• Corey: “Hunting Smokepole”—seller posts a deer, not the gun (“shows results!”), and a never-used porta-potty pitched as a hunting blind.
• Seth: Farmhouse for sale as a “handyman’s dream”; entertaining notes about needing work, cash only.
• Brent: 50% off sale featuring a wall-mounted pike (with lure) and vintage wooden snowshoes—“That is foreign to me.” [54:02]

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6. Case Knives Deep Dive [56:39]

• Guests: John Pantuso & Tom Taylor
• Case has been crafting knives for 136 years; the mini trapper pattern in partnership with Brent is back in stock.
• New product: the modernized Crossroads Barlow—classic pattern updated with G10/richlite handles, S35VN steel.
  • “Generational” value—knives handed down, built and finished by multi-generation employees.
• Brent’s Knife Factory Story: Meeting Dave Jackson (50+ years at Case), who built the first knife Brent ever bought for his dad—“It was really cool to be there and talk with the man that built the knife that I gave to my dad.” [66:32]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Brent, on the staff holding down HQ: “This place is like a ghost town, except for us—the dedicated.” [02:36]
• Corey, on hunting: “Gone out 11 days now and it’s just either been raining or sleeting...just makes me appreciate bow hunting and the grind of it all.” [08:02]
• On giant moose backstraps: “One of them weighed 49 pounds and the other one weighed 51.” – Brent [13:39]
• Craig McCarthy: “Our main flights are otters...You can usually put about 3,500 pounds in a plane—plywood, 2x4s...never on one flight.” [21:14]
• Seth, introducing his family rifle: “It was my great-grandfather’s...from what I hear, he bought this to feed his family and neighbors and friends during the Depression.” [33:00]
• On meeting the man who built his first Case knife: “I handed it to Mr. Jackson—he pulled it, looked at it, and said, ‘Oh yeah, I worked on that knife,’ and handed it back to me.” – Brent [66:32]
• Craig McCarthy, on guiding: “I think at day 18 or 19 is when you quit caring how you look.” [20:08]
• Craigslist gold—Corey: “Porta potty. Hunting blind or extra at the pool...never used, but cleaned out.” [49:03]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:17] – Show kick-off, introductions
• [03:12] – MeatEater Season 13 preview
• [07:43] – Live tour announcement
• [07:51] – Montana hunting and fishing stories
• [10:53] – Brent’s Canadian moose hunt adventure
• [14:47] – Interview: Craig McCarthy, North Mountain Adventures
• [26:37] – Show and Tell segment (free table, old guns)
• [35:08] – Brent’s barrel net catfishing video
• [38:09, 41:06+] – Listener Questions (bear hunting, gear, old guns)
• [47:28] – Craigslist hunting finds
• [56:39] – Case Knives interview (John Pantuso, Tom Taylor)
• [69:08] – More listener Q&A (headlamps, mounts, early season hunting clothes)
• [76:20] – Closing round—Oldest guns used for hunting

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Recurring Tone & Language

Easygoing and humorous, peppered with hunting jargon, working-man wisdom, and heartfelt stories of family and tradition. The hosts engage in light ribbing, honest gear talk, and plenty of “insider” knowledge, always keeping things relatable for listeners whether seasoned outdoorsmen or newcomers.

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Summary Takeaways

• Hunting is never just about the kill—it’s about camaraderie, family, hardship, tradition, and the wild places that define us.
• Old gear, family heirlooms, and classic brands like Case Knives hold places of honor at the table (sometimes literally), each with a story in tow.
• Adventure is alive and well—whether in the backcountry of Manitoba, the free table at MeatEater HQ, or a “smoke pole” ad on Craigslist.
• New seasons and old friends: The outdoor community thrives on shared experiences—be it epic moose hunts, kids’ first fish, or a bear camp gone right.
• Podcast tradition: The show mixes real tips, wild tales, and meaningful moments—rooted in authenticity and love for the outdoors.

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Transcript

[Brent Reeves]

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[Phil]

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[Brent Reeves]

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[Brent Reeves]

Welcome to Meat Eater radio live. It's 11am Mountain Time. That's 12pm for our friends in Brent, Alabama, or as my mama Slide would say, Brant, Alabama. It's Thursday, October 16, 2025, and we're live from the Meat Eater headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. I'm your host, Brent Reeves, and I'm joined today by meat eaters Magnum PI Seth. Seth Amphetamine, Morris and Corey. Balsamic Vinegar Caucus.

[Corey]

That's right. Balsamic.

[Seth]

I haven't heard that one before.

[Corey]

No, that's new.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, I just. You kind of led me into that while ago when you were talking about that. That new sauce that you had for. And since we're talking about it, what were the ingredients for? Corey said balsamic vinegar.

[Corey]

A little reduced balsamic vinegar. And some huckleberries.

[Brent Reeves]

And huckleberries. Reduce that down, put it on steak.

[Seth]

That sounds good.

[Brent Reeves]

Nice job. Nice job. We have got some good stuff coming our way this today. I want to hear about what you guys have been doing recently and I'm probably out of tune on what comes next.

[Corey]

This is your show, man.

[Brent Reeves]

This is our show.

[Corey]

And we're live.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it's hunting season. This place is like a ghost town. Except for us, the dedicated. It's just me, Phil, Corey and Seth running this whole thing today.

[Seth]

Yeah, they can thank us for Radio Live. Yeah.

[Corey]

I had to start the fire in here this morning.

[Phil]

Yeah, that's as I could thank us for just keeping the entire company afloat.

[Corey]

Yeah, you know, yeah.

[Phil]

Frankly, you're right. Yeah.

[Seth]

I legit turned the lights on this morning in this place.

[Brent Reeves]

But it's good. This is the time where we're all busy and everybody's out getting content that we'll be able to enjoy later. And speaking of content, Meat Eater Season 13 this Monday.

[Seth]

Monday.

[Brent Reeves]

Monday.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

This coming Monday, October 20th, 6:00pm Mountain Standard Time. New, new episodes, it says here, will be every Monday for the next seven weeks.

[Phil]

That's right.

[Brent Reeves]

Seth, you were involved in. I was all of that. Just about.

[Seth]

I was, yeah. I was there for all of them. Except the spearfishing one. I wasn't there for that one.

[Brent Reeves]

You have a most memorable event from any of the shows that's coming up.

[Seth]

Trying to think, you know, the. One of the cooler episodes I thought was the Alaska Bear hunt. Just that that back country stuff up there in interior Alaska.

[Brent Reeves]

Right.

[Seth]

Is so cool. I just love that country.

[Brent Reeves]

Which. Do you know what order that'll be? Which one that'll be? Do you have any idea?

[Seth]

I. I don't know.

[Corey]

I do know. I believe it'll be episode four. Episode four, Four weeks from this Monday.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay. Yeah, a lot of good stuff. Africa, Alaska. Where else?

[Seth]

Africa, Alaska, Texas, Turkey hunting down there with Luke Combs. Africa, Montana. Muzzleloader hunt.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh yeah.

[Seth]

If you watch the, the last Muzzleloader hunt that Steve did, you'll have to watch this one to see if there's any redemption.

[Brent Reeves]

Ah, your little teaser.

[Seth]

Or see if the same stuff happened. Who knows?

[Corey]

A lot can go wrong with those old school muzzleloaders.

[Brent Reeves]

So meat eater season 13 is coming out this Monday. It'll be. And it'll go for seven weeks. Every Monday a new episode. And Meat Eater Sheds is coming out or is out right now. I think the last episode.

[Corey]

Yeah, the Jeff Foxworthy episode, which has.

[Brent Reeves]

Been a hit, but it has been really popular.

[Corey]

Check that out on the Meat Meat Eater YouTube channel.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. You know, I've got, I got my own shed from the folks at store more. And I'm putting together a studio podcast studio that I'm going to be recording my stuff out of. Right now I'm recording in a bedroom upstairs in my house. And these folks were kind enough to work with us and be a partner with Meat Eater. Now I've got a full fledged studio out in the backyard and or as Alexis calls it, Brent's house, where I'll be staying, where all my toys will be and I'll be out there. But I'm excited about working with those folks. Matter of fact, they, they issued or posted on their Instagram page today a video of them delivering that thing, which was an event all in itself.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it was pretty cool. Cool. You can see that on I think my Instagram, but the store. More Instagram Too. It's s t o r mor, I think buildings, but it's.

[Corey]

Yeah, they look like some high quality little storage units, man.

[Brent Reeves]

The electrician got actually wrote on the fuse box when they hooked electricity up Brent's house. That's how well they labeled that. That connection there.

[Seth]

So custom.

[Brent Reeves]

It's nice. Very nice. Tony Peterson. He's got a windows. He's got a show. Is it dropping today?

[Corey]

It just dropped five minutes ago on the Meat Eater YouTube channel. Yeah. Whitetail hunt in Iowa. Oh, it's an emotional roller coaster.

[Brent Reeves]

Really.

[Corey]

Yeah, you should check that out for.

[Brent Reeves]

The deer and for Tony.

[Seth]

Oh boy.

[Corey]

For Tony, mostly deer. Really didn't know what was going on.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay, we've got. What else we got going? Oh, the Meat Eater live tour this Christmas that they say it's a southern tour. I say they are dipping their toes in the South.

[Seth]

It's like the shallow south.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, the shallow south. But it's a move in the right direction and who knows where the next one will be. We're going to be in like five different places or six. Birmingham, Alabama will be there on December 17th. Nashville will be the next day on the 18th. Memphis the next day on the 20th. Fayetteville, Arkansas, which is sold out on the 20th. And then Dallas and Austin on the 21 and 21st. And Austin being the. Being the final show there. But it is. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be fun. It's going to be me, Steve, Yanni, Dr. Randall and Clabo.

[Phil]

Fun.

[Brent Reeves]

And it should be a. Should be a fun time. I'm looking forward to getting out and seeing folks.

[Corey]

Yeah. Well, Seth and I'll make sure the lights are on and Phil, make sure the lights are on. We'll be here tour in the South.

[Brent Reeves]

So hunting season. Corey, tell me a hunting story, man.

[Corey]

This fall we're just about to wrap up Montana's archery season and it's been a grind for me at least. I just haven't been able to pick my ideal weather. Just, you know, don't get to pick your weather as they say. And gone out 11 days now and it's just either been raining or sleeting and I just haven't been able to get into too many fired up elk. I say that because I've been pretty spoiled the last couple years actually having some amazing encounters on public land. But this year's just been a little bit tougher, which just makes me appreciate bow hunting and the grind of it all. And luckily, rifle season opens up a week from Saturday. So I can't wait to watch one fall over at 200 yards. The number of giant bulls that I've had under 100 yards, I just can't do anything about.

[Brent Reeves]

No one get any close encounters getting them called in close or they're just, they're not leaving.

[Corey]

No, I had a few certainly close encounters, just not I yet have yet to draw my bow back.

[Brent Reeves]

Did you say where that was at? Because I can't remember if you told me where that was.

[Corey]

By that tree under the sage brush.

[Brent Reeves]

The brown tree. Yeah. Okay. All right, well, I'll be looking for that.

[Corey]

It's been good, though, but I'm excited about rifle season. Season.

[Brent Reeves]

What about you, sir?

[Seth]

I actually haven't hunted once so far.

[Brent Reeves]

Really? Did you quit?

[Seth]

No, I didn't quit. I, I, My fall kind of got all messed up. I had a lot of plans to do some, a lot of fall fishing this year, so I wasn't, you know, doing any practice at all with the, with the old bow. And then some stuff. One thing led to another. Stuff happened with the boat. Couldn't use the boat. Still can't use the boat. So I ended up getting out on a buddy's boat, though. We just, me and some buddies did.

[Brent Reeves]

Not sell some pictures.

[Seth]

Yeah, we did a, A big fall fishing trip to Fort Peck.

[Brent Reeves]

Where's that at?

[Seth]

Central Montana.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay.

[Seth]

Yep. Went out there, caught a bunch of smallmouth, Some nice ones. Biggest one was six pounds.

[Brent Reeves]

Nice.

[Seth]

Yeah. But no, it was, it was fun. Just fall fishing.

[Brent Reeves]

Right.

[Seth]

You know, for anything is awesome, but False Molly's is one of my favorites.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, everybody that killed a moose this year, raise your hand. That's right. It was me. Nice, incredible adventure in northern Manitoba with some friends of mine that we're going to talk to in a minute. But when a little lead into it over a year ago, Garrett. Garrett Long asked, my boss asked me, he said, what's, what's your dream hunt? And I just spit out there. I like to kill a moose in Canada. And he said, okay, find an outfitter, because you got to have an outfitter in Canada. And I'm like, sir? He said, yeah, let's, let's start working on it. So a year later, it all come to fruition, and we went to me and Dave Gardner, cameraman for meat eater, contractor, and good friend of mine that I've been hunting with for probably five years now on different projects. We go up there, and it was from the time we left the bank on that float plane till we got back, it was just One incredible adventure after another. And I think, Mr. Taylor, we want.

[Seth]

To pull up pictures.

[Brent Reeves]

Do we have some pictures?

[Phil]

We do have some pictures, yes.

[Brent Reeves]

Moose.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

Look at that handsome rascal. Yeah.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

And that moose.

[Seth]

That is a nice moose, Brent.

[Brent Reeves]

It was. It's an. It's just an incredible encounter. Had all come about. I don't want to give it all away because it was just so, so cool, but I will. Anyway. We. He surprised us. Just slipped out in the river while we were waiting and.460 yard shot. That's a ham or a shoulder. I can't remember which that is, man.

[Seth]

So you guys were. You were hunting out of cabins like you're staying in cabins up there?

[Brent Reeves]

We flew. Flew in on a float plane.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

And they dropped us off and we had a cabin there. And the cabin is a plywood floor and plywood walls and a tarp over the. Over the top. Because you can't have a permanent structure. I think it has a roof. A roof. It's counted as a permanent structure. So. So Craig and them built this thing earlier this year, I think, and. Or last year. We'll ask him about it in a minute. But we just fly in there and then we were headquartered and hunted out of that thing, out of a boat and wound up killing that thing by boat like a mile and a half from where we were staying.

[Seth]

Gotcha.

[Brent Reeves]

And straight through the woods. It was probably three quarters of a mile, but it's just. Man, it's wild country. The northern lights were shining on us and it was just.

[Seth]

So were you guys caught going out and calling for him?

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, Every day. Yep, Every day. I killed that moose on the third day of third day. I was there the second full day that we hunted. And then everything else. I mean, we had the biscuit and everything else was the gravy that we shot after that. And it's. I'm really proud. I think it's going to be really good. It was fun from start to finish.

[Seth]

What's the legal requirements for a bull moose up there? Is there. Is there. Does that. To be certain, with brow tines like Alaska's, you know, some units you have to have like four brow tines or.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. You know, I don't know. We can ask the man here in a minute because when he stepped out there, he said, that's a shooter. And that's the last thing I remember remembering.

[Seth]

That's all you needed to hear.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, that's all I needed to hear because that one picture that Craig put. I mean, that Phil Put up there of the back strap. Can you put that back up there?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Corey]

That is massive. It's the size of a deer.

[Brent Reeves]

That's one backstrap. Now, I brought all this. I'm bringing all this meat home. I brought. We dropped off everything at a meat processor, the meat station in Ericsdale, Manitoba, and I to get processed. And Craig's going to bring that down to me later. But that is one back strap. And I brought both back straps home in one. In each. In each soft cooler. One of them weighed 49 pounds and the other one weighed 51. I was talking to Alex Zimmer last night that runs the meat eater store here in Bozeman, and he said that he cut up a antelope and had 64 pounds of meat. I thought, my gosh, yeah, two. Two back straps weighed almost twice as much as.

[Seth]

That's great.

[Corey]

Incredible. It's really, really good and delicious too, I imagine.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, man. We started eating on it. We was gnawing on it that night. The night killed and we ate it every night for supper. Then it just got better and better. Which brings me to the guy I want to talk to about it. Mr. Craig McCarthy. Craig is. Craig, are you there, buddy?

[Corey]

There, I'm here.

[Brent Reeves]

There. There he is. Craig and his wife Melanie and their family run North Mountain Adventures. It's a guide service there in Manitoba. Is that southern Manitoba where. Where you would be for.

[Craig McCarthy]

You're set. Central Manitoba.

[Brent Reeves]

In central Manitoba. And then his father has a concern, a guiding business for Moose up in the northern part. And that's where. And Craig guides for him up there. And that's. That's where we went up there. Craig, great to talk to you, my friend. You've been a friend of mine for going on several two years now, I guess, but we just had a wonderful trip up there and I appreciate. Appreciate you coming out here today.

[Craig McCarthy]

I appreciate you inviting me.

[Brent Reeves]

What. Tell us about. About the guiding life. It's not. It's not easy, is it?

[Craig McCarthy]

It's actually. It's probably the most fun I have all year is what I'm guiding. But yeah, sometimes you got to be away from home, but that's just part of the job. Yeah, it's something I've loved to do since I was. Since my parents started doing it when they. I was probably around 10, 12 years old, helping out. And it's just progressed from there and now it's a huge part of my life and my family's life.

[Seth]

Craig, I got a question for you. What. What all like, what Hunts do you offer up there?

[Craig McCarthy]

We do black bear and white tail deer out of our home and we started doing. I started guiding for caribou up north, which is an addition this year. And yeah, then I guide for my parents and anybody else that needs help.

[Seth]

Cool.

[Corey]

Do any fishing trips up there too? Or are you just, just hunting?

[Craig McCarthy]

You know what? We can, we have good walleye fishing and pike fishing 10 minutes away from here, but that's. Usually we just offer our cabins and people come and stay and go fishing. If they need a nice shack or something, I have them here that they can use and.

[Seth]

Yeah, that sounds fun.

[Corey]

Yeah, that's an adventure.

[Brent Reeves]

See the ice fishing thing, that's totally foreign to me.

[Corey]

I bet.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

No idea.

[Seth]

You don't get too many opportunities to do that down in Arkansas.

[Brent Reeves]

No, not, not many at all. And the water's clear, baby. Where we were at up there, we caught, caught some walleye. We caught some pike. That's right. Pike, isn't it?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

And the pike up there, that mean they're just like a, what we call a jackfish at home. But our gar. And oh yeah, up there, man golly, in that clear cold water, they were so good. We ate them. Craig fillet them out and took the bones out of them and we had those one night with some, with some moose and it was nice. Fantastic. But you're not, you're a second generation guide now. Fallen, you know, with your dad and your dad's still active. What about your kids, Hayden and Kirsten? He's got two kids that are like tier one rodeo kids right now.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

Will they be joining you, you think, in the, in the garden business?

[Craig McCarthy]

I think it's probably pretty much a guarantee that Hayden's gonna follow. He's an avid outdoorsman, my daughter is starting to be, but she's heavy in the role with her mom when everybody comes out for cooking and baking stuff and. Yeah. Bugging the guys.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, they're absolutely, they're a fun family. Craig, that, that cabin there is where. Is on Craig's where his home place where he lives. And that's where we were when I bear hunted with him when I met him last year and killed a big old 440 pound chocolate bear up there. We were staying right there and man, for bears, they're just, they're just, they're everywhere up there. Johnny, I think Johnny filmed a, filmed a bear hunt up there with you this year, is that right?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yes, Sir. He shot a 389 pound black, I believe on the third night of his hunt.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, that's.

[Seth]

That's fantastic.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it's also not £440. Sorry, Johnny. And he also. Y'. All. Y' all went on a caribou hunt with, with Yanni too.

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, we just. That was two weeks before you came up.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, yeah, Craig was, Craig was hunting up. They were in. Now I'm going to pronounce this wrong, but it looks like none of it. Is that right? Nunavut, how you pronounce it?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, we were on the, we were in Manitoba on the Nunavut. Close to the Nunavut border.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, they were. They were up there and then. So when I met Craig and when I went up there at the end of September, he had been away from home was like 26 days at that point. Is that right?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah. When I got home was 26 or 27 days gone.

[Seth]

Dang. It's grind.

[Brent Reeves]

You clean up well, buddy, because you don't. You didn't look as clean when I saw you as you do right now.

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, I think at, at. I think at like day 18 or 19 is when you quit caring how you look.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, it was a great adventure. The, the, the. Dave captured some outstanding stuff. I think it's going to be really good. I think the folks are going to enjoy that video or film, whatever you want to call it. It'll be a, a feature one next year. So it's going to be a like a 45 minute deal. So cool. It'll be good. But Yanni's, Yanni's bear hunt, Yanni's caribou hunt and my moose hunt will all be stuff that'll coming out next year when, when it's time for it to come out there. So it was, it's incredible now where we flew into was like two hours away from. There's like a two hour ride in there to where. To where we were camped. No roads. How are you getting all. What's the. Tell me the logistics or describe to the folks that might not know the logistics about getting how hard it is to get just plywood in there because you got to fly it all in, right?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, you bet. We obviously otters are our main. Are the main flights that we use because they can hold a lot of weight. So it depends on how far the camp is for how much fuel they need. But usually you're looking at. You can usually put about 3, 500 pounds in a plane. So plywood's got to be flown in two by fours. Two by six is the whole works, which you can Never get on one flight. So it's multiple flights in to build one camp. So your turnarounds probably two to three hunts before you can, you know, start getting your money back.

[Brent Reeves]

So it's just not. The whole process is hard. It's, it's. Everything about that is hard and, but it's, it's so worth the effort. It was just an incredible. To think about how hard it is to get boats out there. I mean, because you got to fly boats in, you got the boat motors, gas, and it's an ongoing back and forth of, of, of, of supplies back and forth, you know, and then you got, you know, the most. The moose that we killed there, all the meat that you got to take back on it, you know, and there's other camps with other moose. So it's just, and it's just a, it's a big deal getting all that stuff in and out of there. More, even more so than I, than I realized about it.

[Seth]

How do you get boats in there? Are the otters on floats? Do you strap into the floats or how, how's that work?

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And as soon as you put a boat on, any size of boat, you reduce your weight by 25 instantly. Even though the boat doesn't weigh that much. It's just the, the wind and the drag stuff. Yeah, you betcha. But we, yeah, flew every single boat in on pontoons one boat at a time. And yeah, you just plan well.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, you can hear me talk a lot about, actually describe in detail that hunt. My podcast last week was the first part and the one that's coming out tomorrow is the second part of that hunt and I think folks will enjoy it. I hope so. It was, it was so much fun. I think the most rugged thing we did was sitting in that seat on that 30 or 40 year old airplane or whatever. They, they obviously put all the design thought into making that thing safe to get you from one spot to the other. But how you got there, if you were comfortable or not, I didn't really care.

[Seth]

No, sure.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

But it was, it was so much fun, Craig. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. I mean, I've talked to you nearly every day since then, since we got back home. Looking forward to you coming down in the States later on in hunting season and, and doing some hunting down here and hopefully I'll get to, get to see you then.

[Craig McCarthy]

Yeah. Next week. Colorado.

[Brent Reeves]

Yep.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

It'll be fun. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you being here and thank you for everything. For, for helping Me. I appreciate it.

[Craig McCarthy]

Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks, Greg.

[Seth]

Thanks, Craig.

[Brent Reeves]

Man, they're, they're great folks that, that whole family. I just absolutely love them.

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[Brent Reeves]

Next segment is show and tell. I wish I had that on the cd.

[Seth]

Whoa.

[Corey]

Meaning the show.

[Brent Reeves]

Spencer brought a rock.

[Corey]

What else did you expect? I feel like you probably could put out an album by now also.

[Phil]

Yeah, when this show ends, I'll put out like either just a big medley of everything or like a playlist or something. I'll post it on the Reddit you guys can download it for those freaks that want to listen to that in their spare time.

[Corey]

I think there's a few of them.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, man, that's.

[Seth]

I love all of you.

[Brent Reeves]

It's more popular, you know? All.

[Seth]

All four of you.

[Brent Reeves]

All six of us.

[Corey]

All right.

[Brent Reeves]

Show and tell, everybody. Show and tell. Just like kindergarten for me, which was like three years, is where you bring something to school or to show all your pals what something you want to show and talk about. So, Corey, you're first in line.

[Corey]

All right. Then I was going to bring in some boring stuff like a giant elk shed or a mountain lion skull, but I decided instead. I made a quick trip over to our office. Free table.

[Brent Reeves]

Tell the folks what the free table is.

[Corey]

Well, it's exactly what it sounds like. If anybody's got some old gear that they're not using anymore or, you know, sometimes there's some partnerships, hats and hoodies that might end up on there.

[Seth]

Sometimes people use that free table as just a place to get rid of shit that they don't want.

[Corey]

That's Yanni. Yanni's got all sorts of old clothes in there. I mean, if the. If the local goodwill won't take it, Yanni puts it.

[Phil]

There's a pair of boots that's falling apart on the free table. They came from Yanni.

[Corey]

Well, speaking of old boots that are falling apart part here, I got a pair of size 10 Corker wave fishing boots, which. These are actually great. It's got. It's a felt sole, but it's removable. You can put a rubber sole on there.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Phil]

Which.

[Corey]

I might snag these a size 10, which is right up my alley, so. Thought that was pretty cool. I just grabbed one of those. What else do we got? I got. There's A D. Couple DVDs up there. The first one I snagged was the Will Ferrell and John Hetter. I probably pronounced that wrong.

[Phil]

I think it's heater.

[Corey]

Heater hit. Blades of Glory. It doesn't look like.

[Brent Reeves]

Can we take a poll in here who we think?

[Seth]

Yeah. Who put that there?

[Brent Reeves]

Put that on there.

[Corey]

I thought it would have been Phil, but he already said no.

[Brent Reeves]

My first choice would be Dr. Randall.

[Seth]

That's what I was gonna say.

[Corey]

Oh, could be.

[Seth]

I feel like Randall might hold on to something like that.

[Phil]

I don't know if Randall's a big. A big.

[Corey]

A big heater head heater header.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Classic film, though. If anybody has a DVD player, I think that's probably the problem these days. Primo truth Big Bowl 16.

[Seth]

There we go. That's what I'm talking about.

[Brent Reeves]

Are you in this one?

[Corey]

I think I'm in big bowls 17 because. And 18, but not this one. I had to look it up like.

[Brent Reeves]

The six degrees of Kevin Bacon or whatever that thing is. The elk shed that you had that you thought about bringing in is in one of these with you and Will Primo.

[Corey]

It would have made a preview In Big Bowl 17. Yeah. I actually tripped over that shed when I was calling it a bowl for Wilbur. Almost knocked me down, it was so big. There is. Speaking of Primos, the Terminator elk bugle sitting up there. There's actually another bugle sitting up there right now. They're pack bugle. But this is the Terminator if anybody ever remembers that.

[Seth]

Is it a built in reed?

[Corey]

It's got that blue reed to it.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah. Oh. Oh.

[Corey]

It's not condition.

[Brent Reeves]

Look out the window.

[Seth]

They're coming.

[Corey]

And a hoochie mama. More primo stuff. The cow call that ruined elk hunting.

[Brent Reeves]

Is there some. Is there some more to that? The cow call that ruined it just.

[Corey]

It's so simple to use. It's kind of like the can, if you ever remember. The can. Just so easy to use. And then everybody started squeaking on them. I think I have nine of these. No kidding. Because I found so many of them in the woods. Oh, it's one of those that should fit in your pocket or obviously around your neck and somehow it falls out of your pocket.

[Brent Reeves]

I got you.

[Corey]

But I have so many of these just as a collection. It's pretty funny. Got some musket nipples.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, you should see a doctor about that.

[Seth]

I was looking for some musket nipples.

[Corey]

Well, there you go. It was on the free table. The H and S strut striker.

[Brent Reeves]

Yep.

[Corey]

Turkey call.

[Seth]

Was there a.

[Corey]

Was there a pot with that half of what you need? No. No pot up there. No pot on the free table.

[Seth]

That's gotta be Yanni.

[Corey]

Oh, there's a rodeo.

[Seth]

Rope.

[Corey]

Rope and rope. Garrett Long.

[Phil]

Yeah, that's gotta be.

[Seth]

That's gotta be Garrett.

[John Pantuso]

Yeah.

[Corey]

I thought that was pretty cool.

[Seth]

There was.

[Corey]

There was a pile of them up there. And there's just one left.

[Brent Reeves]

Humanity.

[Corey]

That's. And then this really cool wicker basket.

[Brent Reeves]

I don't know.

[Corey]

I bought one of these at World Market the other day. It was 30 bucks. So I'm.

[Brent Reeves]

What are you putting in that?

[Corey]

I put a.

[Phil]

It kind of looks like a turkey fan.

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[Phil]

Yeah. Probably could decorate that for.

[Seth]

You could put a turkey fan on either Side.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, look at that.

[Phil]

That'd be great.

[Craig McCarthy]

Okay.

[Seth]

You could use that as a decoy.

[Brent Reeves]

For real? Yep.

[Phil]

All right.

[Brent Reeves]

Do some reaping or weather vane.

[Phil]

So, yeah, if you want to get a job at meat eater hq, you too could have access to all this killer gear.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it'll still be there when you get.

[Phil]

Yeah, because nobody wants it.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Some of this stuff's been under.

[Seth]

Under employment perks. It says access to the free table.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, it does.

[Corey]

You never know, though. I swear, when Steve comes in and drops off a pile of stuff, I know it's a good day.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, he was selling the swing set. The. Or giving away a swing set the other day that also included an in reach.

[Corey]

Right?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Oh, I missed that part.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was that. You got to read the whole thing.

[Seth]

So I stopped at swing set. He should have swapped those and led with the inreach. Yeah.

[Corey]

So that's what I brought in today.

[Brent Reeves]

Nice job.

[Seth]

Thanks, Corey.

[Phil]

Somehow, a lot of effort, despite you grabbing something off the free table. Still more effort put into it than Ryan Callahan usually does.

[Corey]

I know. I thought about sharing my phone case.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay. Seth, what you got?

[Seth]

I got a. I got an old Winchester rifle.

[Brent Reeves]

Where'd you come by this unit?

[Seth]

So this. This was. It's. Yeah.

[Phil]

Sorry, It's.

[Seth]

It's empty.

[Craig McCarthy]

I figured.

[Seth]

Trust me, it's empty.

[Brent Reeves]

I'll just stand back.

[Seth]

This is a. It's a Winchester Model 55. Ran the serial number. Built in 1931.

[Brent Reeves]

Nice.

[Seth]

This was my great grandfather's rifle.

[Brent Reeves]

Really?

[Seth]

And he. From what I hear, he bought this to feed his family and neighbors and friends during the Depression.

[Brent Reeves]

Was he hunting or robbing folks?

[Seth]

He was hunting.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay.

[Seth]

He shot. From what? I don't have an exact number, but what I'm told is he shot a pile of deer with this.

[Brent Reeves]

Really functional. Can you shoot it?

[Seth]

Yeah, you can? I haven't shot it yet. I just recently inherited this.

[Brent Reeves]

You got to kill a deer with it, man.

[Seth]

Yeah, I would love to kill a deer with it.

[Brent Reeves]

It was your great grandfather?

[Seth]

Great grandfather, Yep. And then when he passed away, it got handed down to my great uncle. And he had it for a while. There's actually some of his old hunting license. Pennsylvania hunting licenses in here from the 80s.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, man, that's really nice. That's a legacy item there.

[Seth]

Yeah. So it's pretty cool. It's chambered in. It says 30 WCF, which is 30. 30 when WCF is Winchester center fire.

[Brent Reeves]

Center fire.

[Seth]

So, yeah, that's my show and tell. Item.

[Corey]

That's a beaut.

[Brent Reeves]

I like it.

[Seth]

I'd like to take this up to southeast Alaska and shoot a bear with it.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Now, you're from Pennsylvania, right?

[Seth]

Yes.

[Brent Reeves]

You got to go back and kill a deer, too.

[Corey]

Yep.

[Seth]

Yep. That'd be cool.

[Brent Reeves]

Deer season's just getting ready to start out there, isn't it?

[Seth]

Mm. Yeah. The archery season just started, and rifle season starts the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which I'm going back for.

[Brent Reeves]

So I'm going home pretty well after we get done here today, because tomorrow I've got to do what I brought on a video show and tell that.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Let me bring this up here that Phil can. Can show us. This was filmed last March. This is my brother Tim and I. What we like, how we like to catch catfish. And you hear my brother Tim narrating in the background.

[Corey]

That's a pile of catfish. Look at him.

[Brent Reeves]

It's surprise. It surprises both do is get catfish.

[Seth]

He should narrate your. Your film.

[Brent Reeves]

He should. He should narrate everything. Brent just pulled Kimmy's net. We're going to pull br.

[Seth]

Exactly.

[Brent Reeves]

I had to say about the same amount in there, but we'll. Of course, we don't keep all. We throw a lot of them back, but if, like, we're doing a fish fry or something, we can. We'll. We'll skin them all. And we. We did for that one. That one was our first foray into net fishing. We both got commercial fishing licenses, and we've probably caught I don't know how many pounds of fillets, and we ain't sold the first one yet. We give fish away to friends and family, but we also eat a lot of it, too. Yeah, but it's just so much fun to do that. And that's a. It's a barrel net, and that net is shaped around a. A roll of concrete reinforcement wire. So it's pretty thick. And you roll it over, and there's a mandan in Louisiana that makes them force, and it's welded together. And then that net is slipped over the top of it, and it's got two throats on the inside of it where fish go in to go after the bait. And the bait we use is in the shape and the size of a block of Velveeta cheese. And it's actually soybeans and cheese mashed together in that block.

[Corey]

I'd be one of those catfish trying to get.

[Brent Reeves]

And you just put that in there and then. And then lay it on the bottom where you think catfish would be.

[Seth]

And that looks like it works.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, let me tell you, the surprise in my brother's voice when we pulled that first one up, it was beyond anything. It was. It surprised us both. And then we had two more just like.

[Seth]

Do you ever get bycatch in there?

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, you'll catch some. Some buffalo, which we like to eat those, too, in there. And we've caught turtles in there before. And during different times of the year. Like in the summertime, you got to check them regularly. And it's about an hour and a half from our house where we fish. So during the winter time, the cold months, there's more oxygen. And the fish, or the survivability of them is. We had never lost any fish in there. We check them before. You're mandated to.

[Seth]

Yep. Like.

[Brent Reeves]

But he put some nets out Wednesday. He's back checking them today. And then when I get home tonight in the morning, I'm gonna load the boat up, we're gonna go and run them again.

[Seth]

Cool.

[Brent Reeves]

And try to put some fish. But that's. That's our show and tell. That's. It's just a lot of fun. Fun way to catch them.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

And I'm a better barrel net fisherman than I am a cane. Cane rod fisherman. But it's a lot of fun.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

It looks like you got it figured out.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, that's good nose. Or channel cats. And that's in the Arkansas river where we. Where we catch those at.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

Phil.

[Phil]

Yes, Mr. Reeves.

[Brent Reeves]

Listener feedback, if we got any. Yes, go through.

[Phil]

If you guys have any questions for. For Brent, since he's not here very often, he flew in just for. Just for you guys. So get those questions in. But we have a few. Garrett Sprenger wants to know how your east coast trip was. Seth, any highlights?

[Seth]

Oh, yeah, it was great. Yeah. At a wedding in York, Maine. My cousin was getting married, so we flew into Boston and spend a day there checking out all the things in Boston. Saw the tea party. Bunker Hill. Yeah. Just hung out downtown and Paul Revere's house. Saw that.

[Phil]

Oh, really?

[Brent Reeves]

Cool. That's one part I've never been to.

[Corey]

Same.

[Brent Reeves]

I. I'd love to go up there.

[Seth]

It's. I was impressed with Boston. I'm not a city guy, but that city was, like, clean and. And quiet and. And was. Yeah. It was, like, pleasant to be there.

[Corey]

Are there still cobblestone streets?

[Seth]

There's a few.

[Phil]

Yeah. Boston's cool because you're walking through skyscrapers, and all of a sudden you'll walk upon some old building. It's been there since, like, the 1600s.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Phil]

So it's fun.

[Corey]

That's cool. Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Go visit.

[Seth]

So from there, went up to Maine, York, Maine, which from Boston, New York's about an hour drive. And was right on the coast there. Did the wedding thing. Stopped at Kittery Trading Post. Just check that out. Which is like this big outdoor store just right there in Maine. In Kittery, Maine. They got some first light for sale there.

[Brent Reeves]

Nice.

[Seth]

Actually hit up the. They. They had a big old bargain bin there for some fishing baits, so I. I stocked up.

[Brent Reeves]

You could have brought some back to the free table. Oh, buddy.

[Corey]

Yeah, there's always some baits up there. Stuff that obviously doesn't work.

[Brent Reeves]

It's just the right Fishermen ain't fishing. That's probably it.

[Seth]

And then I. On the way back to Boston, I stopped in Salem, where the witch trial stuff went down.

[Craig McCarthy]

Scary.

[Seth]

Let me tell you. This time of year in Salem. It's a weird place. It is a weird place. It was cool, but very busy.

[Brent Reeves]

My wife.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Very loves that. That. Spooky, scary movies, all that. I'm out, bro. Yeah, I don't like none of that.

[Seth]

I'm not. I was.

[Brent Reeves]

I.

[Seth]

We went there with, like, the intentions of, you know, seeing some historical stuff and reading some plaques, that kind of stuff, you know?

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And it was just. It was a circus.

[Brent Reeves]

Just the people you talking about? Yeah.

[Seth]

The pe. There was. I mean, thousands of people there.

[Brent Reeves]

Really dressed up like witches and.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Really?

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Must be the upcoming holiday, I guess.

[Seth]

Yeah. I mean, I thought it wouldn't have been crazy busy being early October, but I can't imagine what it's like on Halloween. But it was cool.

[Corey]

Extra spooky.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. I'm out.

[Seth]

All right.

[Phil]

Matt is looking for tips for still hunting fall black bears. Pennsylvania doesn't allow baiting, and I finally found a spot with some bear trails. How do you know you're in the right place at the right time?

[Brent Reeves]

Well, you can look for bear scat.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

And the fresher, obviously, the better. And find out what. I mean, find out what they're feeding on this time of year. I know in Arkansas now it's. It's acorns. Yeah, acorns.

[Seth]

That's why I was gonna say acorn flats or, you know, anywhere where there's a bunch of white oaks. Still hunt through that. Especially, like, white oak stuff adjacent to thick mountain laurel or, you know, good cover the wind. Yep. Get the wind. Right. Just slip through the woods quietly. It's nice to. If you're going to do that in PA where there's a bunch of leaf duff on the ground. Try and pick times where it's like wet, damp, rainy kind of slip. Slip through quietly.

[Brent Reeves]

I know that when this last. This last bear season in Arkansas, Bear John was hunting public land and he was still hunting like that. And he was. You got to look up in the trees. Do. Because the first bear that he encountered was already up in a tree knocking acorns out.

[Corey]

Oh, really?

[Seth]

That's cool. Wow.

[Brent Reeves]

So that's something to keep in mind when you're slipping around.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

Good luck, Leland.

[Phil]

I'm going to pose this to Seth. But open field. Best practical use for fox furs. Do you have a lot of experience doing anything with fox socks?

[Brent Reeves]

Fox.

[Phil]

Fox socks, socks and socks.

[Seth]

All my. I have foxes just hanging up in my. In. In my house. They're just pretty.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Red foxes and I have a gray fox too, hanging up. But I mean, you. They're. They make like a. A nice red fox makes pretty cool trim around like a coat.

[Brent Reeves]

Coat.

[Seth]

A coat hood or something like that or collar.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Seth]

But you can kind of do whatever you want with them.

[Corey]

Really.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. I just like the natural pelt hanging up like.

[Seth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Corey]

Scarf, maybe.

[Seth]

Scarf. Fox scarf.

[Brent Reeves]

Blindfold.

[Seth]

Blindfold, sure.

[Brent Reeves]

It's all good.

[Phil]

Let's see here. We have. There's a lot of questions for you, Brent.

[Seth]

Just.

[Phil]

They want more details about your trip in. In Manitoba. Steven asked for just like a specific highlight. The best part. That's his. His dream hunt. And then Al was asked specifically about the landscape.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay.

[Phil]

Some major differences about other places you've been or what you're used to. What'd you like? What'd you dislike?

[Brent Reeves]

The highlight? I tell you the. The thing that was hardest to get used to is walking on that spongy ground. The smile of my back. It took me about two or three days to get acclimated to that. And just because it's not. You think it's easy like walking on big shag carpet. But it'll. If you're not used to it, it's. It'll. It'll play on the small. You back a little bit. But the landscape was similar. The trees were shorter, I think, than. Than I. Where I was at in Saskatchewan. Bear hunting or filming for Clay several years ago back in the bear hunting magazine days. So we were a little farther north on this hunt. But the. The highlight I think would probably be after we killed that moose. We had it all loaded in the boat. Craig was obviously Driving the motor. And Dave Gardner, our cameraman, was sitting beside me, and the moose was all in the front. And we had headlights to drive by, but it was kind of dusky dark. The sun wasn't up, but you could kind of still see a little bit. And the northern lights were on top of us. So we turned our lights out and actually drove back to camp in that boat with that load of moose.

[Seth]

That's so cool.

[Brent Reeves]

By the. By the northern lights.

[Seth]

Dang.

[Brent Reeves]

And they're. Dave took a picture, and you can see the silhouette of the elk antlers in the front of the boat and. Yeah, I'm sorry. The moose antlers in the. In front of the boat and then the lights, and it was just.

[Seth]

Dang.

[Brent Reeves]

That's cool. Yeah, it was. That. That would be probably the highlight.

[Seth]

Is there grizzly bears up in that country?

[Brent Reeves]

No, about now, we were like. We wasn't that far from Churchill. I'm not going to say the mileage, but it was just a little over 100 miles from Churchill, where they have those polar bear.

[Seth]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Expeditions or whatever. Oh, and there wasn't any seals there. But I even said that in a podcast there. There wasn't a fence to keep them from coming down there to see what a moose tastes like or a guy from Arkansas either. But we. We didn't see any. There's black bears there.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Brent Reeves]

We didn't see any. Saw wolf. Had an opportunity at a wolf. Had a good opportunity at a wolf.

[Corey]

I've heard that before.

[Brent Reeves]

And it stay. It's still an opportunity. It still was an opportunity. A wolf, and I absolutely missed him. Oh, it was terrible.

[Corey]

Sounds like an adventure.

[Brent Reeves]

It was. It is what it is. Luckily, the moose is a lot bigger. I hit him.

[Phil]

All right, I'll do one more quick one before we move on to the next segment, but people are asking how the Buck Hunter trip was that Randall and I went on.

[Brent Reeves]

It was a lot of fun.

[Phil]

It was a lot of fun.

[Seth]

It was so.

[Phil]

It was so much fun. I got a lot of footage I need to start sifting through, and we're going to put together a little video that's mostly about Randall and his journey competing in the big Buck Hunter Amateur Open Tournament. But we also. We got an interview with the creator of the game, which is. I mean, he was an awesome guy. The community there, it was unbelievable. Like, everyone. Like, they're playing for real money, but everyone's just having a blast, you know, it was. It was a really cool environment. A lot of stimuli just surrounded by arcade games and Loud music for. For 10 hours a day. But it was. It was a lot of fun.

[Seth]

So is the. The guy who made Big Buck Hunter, is he a. A real big buck hunter?

[Phil]

No, he. He is not. But there were a lot of people there who were real hunters. A few of their pictures, they were grip and grins.

[Brent Reeves]

And that was my question.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

What was the percentage of hunters there to just game players?

[Phil]

It was hard to say. I mean, we didn't interview Everybody. There were 128 players, but. But man, all the best players lived in like the middle of nowhere in Saskatchewan. So we kind of just assume that those people probably do some real hunting. But I don't know. I'd say it was probably around like 20% hunters, 80 non hunters.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Phil]

So they're. They're scattered in there.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Can't wait to watch.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it's going to be fun. All right, our next segment is called Craig Listing. And Corey kind of pulled this rabbit out of his hat or this is a good one.

[Craig McCarthy]

Another.

[Brent Reeves]

Any other orifice you can name.

[Phil]

And the hat is my favorite.

[Brent Reeves]

The hat is probably the best thing. And so what we did was, Corey, Seth and I, last night, our homework was to find something unique on a Craigslist somewhere in the US and we did that and got some screenshots of it. We're going to show. And Corey, you're. You're on. You're in the box, man.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Brent Reeves]

What'd you find, Phil?

[Corey]

Which one you got first there?

[Phil]

Okay, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I'll pull it up here.

[Corey]

I. I'm gonna share two of them just because they're so, so great. It was fun. I definitely. This one was yours, right, Corey?

[Seth]

Yep.

[Corey]

I definitely went down the Craigslist rabbit hole last night with a couple whiskeys. This one's just funny because it's. I can't really tell what they're selling, but it's titled Hunting Smoke Pole.

[Seth]

Smoke pole with scope mount.

[Corey]

Obviously a rifle.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

It's a muzzleloader because that's what I call a gun is a smoke pole. Got a picture of a dandy white tail buck on a tailgate there. But there's no picture or anything of.

[Seth]

Oh, it's a. It's a traditions Buck stalker.

[Corey]

Okay. Traditions Buck stalker.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Be great to have a photo of that. I feel like if you're trying to sell something, but look what it does to you.

[Phil]

He's showing you the results first.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

It will make a deer lay down in the back.

[Seth]

50 caliber size. Size 50, yeah.

[Corey]

Oh, that's everything you need.

[Seth]

Condition excellent.

[Phil]

Excellent.

[Seth]

We'll take his word for it.

[Corey]

Yeah, but a smoke pole. 325 bucks. Yeah, that was.

[Brent Reeves]

Where's that at?

[Corey]

Somewhere between West Virginia and East Virginia.

[Brent Reeves]

Okay.

[Corey]

From somebody from Montana. Doesn't know. That was great, though. Okay. And then this one really caught my eye. It is advertised as a hunting blind or an extra at the pool. But it's a porta potty.

[Brent Reeves]

Where would be great? Cell phones.

[Corey]

Don't fall in.

[Brent Reeves]

Don't fall in.

[Corey]

Hunting blind, extra at the pool. Guests who are messy for businesses. I'm not sure what kind of business inquiries.

[Seth]

A weird post.

[Brent Reeves]

That's to do your business.

[Corey]

Never used. I mean, it does look very clean on the inside. This was in Florida, which that was the first place I looked for funny hunting. Craigslist ads, right? Not sure why, but it says it's ready to go. Never used.

[Seth]

Clean.

[Corey]

Never used. But it's been cleaned out.

[Phil]

So never used for relieving yourself or never used for hunting.

[Brent Reeves]

There you go. Well, grammar matters.

[Seth]

It's.

[Phil]

I do.

[Corey]

I would love to see this in the woods and all. Said you just throw open the door.

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[Brent Reeves]

Then in both directions.

[Corey]

Ah, so that was random. Obviously. Pretty good stuff.

[Brent Reeves]

All right, Seth, what do you got, buddy?

[Phil]

Let's see. I don't remember which one you use.

[Seth]

The mine's the farmhouse with acre. There it is. Farmhouse with acre. 39, 500. Which I felt was fair. Anyway, the description is what kind of attracted me to this post. Old fashioned farmhouse high in the private mountainside, West Virginia. Need work as is. And now this is confusing.

[Brent Reeves]

Need drama.

[Seth]

I read this as 4ft 2 inches by appointment only. No RTO. I don't know what that is. Cash only. Must sell quickly. My loss is your gain. Near Rock, West Virginia. Great hunting spot and four wheel trails.

[Corey]

Cool selling point.

[Seth]

Selling point.

[Corey]

Yep.

[Seth]

Oh, this. This here grabbed my attention. It says, country road. Take me home.

[Corey]

All right, I'll just make it.

[Brent Reeves]

That'd be a great song.

[Seth]

And then he reiterates, again, it needs work. And it says, again, it needs work and a handyman dream as is. Seriously interested buyers only.

[Corey]

The Bob Vila special.

[Brent Reeves]

What's RTO stand for?

[Seth]

I don't know.

[Brent Reeves]

You can't have any of that.

[Phil]

People with more Craigslist experience might be able to answer that.

[Brent Reeves]

No. R.T.O.

[Phil]

What does R.T.O. stand for? Return. Return to office.

[Corey]

Nope, that's not recovery time objective.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, that sounds good. I don't know.

[Seth]

But the where? He says, well, hunting property. I like that. And then he adds country road. Take me home.

[Corey]

Yes, lovely.

[Brent Reeves]

That's classy.

[Corey]

Yeah, it's a good tune.

[Brent Reeves]

That's like it. That's marketing right there. I like it.

[Corey]

It does sound like a dream and.

[Seth]

A nightmare handyman dream.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, I'm. I'm not a handyman. I don't like to do that stuff. But if you want. Why, there are handyman.

[Seth]

Yes. But if you want a. A. A great hunting spot. Farmhouse with acre. I don't know if you meant to.

[Corey]

Say acres with acre.

[Seth]

Not. It's. There's no. The acres are not listed here, so.

[Phil]

Rto the chat. The chat's yelling at all of us. Mostly me, because I wasn't reading it. It means rent to own.

[Seth]

No rent to own.

[Brent Reeves]

All right, all right.

[Corey]

This guy sounds like he's in a pickle and he needs cash now.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's his money. He needs cash now.

[Seth]

He needs. Yeah. Called JG Wentworth.

[Brent Reeves]

All right, this is. This is what I found on my first perusal last night was.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Now, this is in Council Bluffs. Near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Oh, man, this guy. It's 50% off all of this stuff that you're seeing. And I highlighted two things. That big old pike right there with a. That's a jack of diamonds spoon bait hanging out of his mouth. Now, that is. That is in Canada. That's like the Gordon Lightfoot of fishing baits.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

They. You can catch everything that's called.

[Seth]

That's called millions of pike.

[Brent Reeves]

You can catch it. Anything on there except pneumonia. I mean, it is. That's what we fished with when I was bear hunting up there is what we fished with when I was with Craig two weeks ago, and we caught some pike and walleye. And so if you can't catch a fish, you can buy one and hang on your wall and the next thing. Which is not going to be that big of a deal to y', all, but to the folks that know me, I first thought that was for, like, twin papooses, that you'd put that in there like babies on your back. But that's snowshoe.

[Corey]

Those are snow shoes.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. That is foreign to me.

[John Pantuso]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

But they're made out of wood, and I thought it was really cool. And that'd be cool hanging up in a. In a hunting cabin or wearing them because it's snowing outside right now. But anyway, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Everything is 50 off. You're actually losing money by not going to buy this stuff.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Brent Reeves]

You don't want to lose money.

[Seth]

Now, does it. Does he say how much each item is or just everything's 50 off.

[Brent Reeves]

You just. I mean. I mean, what are the. What are the. Would you need? Yeah. That seems to lure my wife into every shoe store.

[Phil]

Bogo.

[Seth]

That's what got me in that. That fishing bin. Kittery trading post.

[Brent Reeves]

50 off. You just start picking up stuff.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

So anyway, pretty cool. Craigslist items. You can find everything on there. He was also selling a washer and dryer in there, but.

[Corey]

Oh, really?

[Brent Reeves]

I was more impressed with that dead fish and the snowshoes.

[Corey]

50 off. Heck, you get the washer for free.

[Brent Reeves]

It's like, oh, yeah, well, you're. You're. You're going paying for one snowshoe, right, left or right, the other one comes in.

[Seth]

You can probably turn those around, make a profit.

[Brent Reeves]

I like it. I like it.

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[Brent Reeves]

Now, the next folks. We're ready to go though, aren't we, Phil?

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

I want to talk with my friends from Case Knives, John Pantuso and Tom Taylor. They were the folks that reached out to me at first when I first did a podcast and just organically mentioned Case Knives. And these guys have been. They come on as the whole, as a sponsor for the show, but they've become dear friends of mine and my family's. We've been out there to visit with them and talk to Them and I talk to these guys almost daily, but absolutely weekly. And they're just. They couldn't be better. I've been on some events with them and been to shows that were sponsored by Case, and. And it's just a. It's a big family group of folks, and I just absolutely love it. And they're from your neck of the woods, Pennsylvania. But in Bradford, Pennsylvania, coming to us live, there is Tom Taylor on the right and the T moo Josh Allen on the left. That is John. Hello, boys. Hey, thanks for.

[Tom Taylor]

Hey, guys. Thanks for having us.

[Corey]

I was.

[John Pantuso]

I was wondering how long it was going to take you to crack that one. One brand.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, man.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Thank you guys for.

[Corey]

Thank you guys for having us on.

[Phil]

It's good to be here.

[Brent Reeves]

I've been sitting on that one just waiting and waiting. But you could absolutely do stunts for that guy, especially before you got your hair cut. But you guys are out in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Case Knives are making pocket knives for a hundred. And how many years now?

[Tom Taylor]

136.

[Brent Reeves]

136 years.

[Seth]

Wow.

[Brent Reeves]

We went out there last summer. Summer or last year. Alexis and Bailey and I went out there, invited us to come out for a maiden Bradford event that they have out there, and they took us on a tour of the. Where they make all the knives. And a Case pocket knife that I tote in my pocket goes through, like 167 steps from the time the raw materials come in there to that knife goes out the door. And there's all the people that work in there, and they got a humongous American flag in the background on it. And when I was in. I was in there, I asked the guy that was giving me the tour, Tony DeFazio, who's an engineer. Is that right? Engineer with Case.

[John Pantuso]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

He was giving us the tour, and I asked him if I could film in there, you know, for like, social media stuff. And he said, yeah, man, you film anything you want to. He said, but make sure you get that big American flag that's hanging on the wall back there.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

Because we're really proud of that. And I'm. I'm just proud to be here and connected with y', all, associated with you. Tell me what y' all got going on that's new out in Case right now.

[Tom Taylor]

Well, I was just looking on Craigslist to try to buy that hunting blind.

[Craig McCarthy]

No, but.

[Tom Taylor]

But seriously, we got a lot of good stuff going on. We just launched a cool new product, Crossroads Bar. It's our hunting hunting season around here. So making sure all of our partners have the right hunting knives. I know our dads are always asking us, you know, for new equipment to use, but.

[John Pantuso]

Yeah, yeah. And obviously, like, you know, Christmas is already around the corner.

[Brent Reeves]

Right.

[John Pantuso]

So the gift giving season, I mean, who doesn't love getting a knife as a present, you know, and it's our product, especially like Brian. You can attest to this. It's. It's generational.

[Brent Reeves]

Right?

[John Pantuso]

So, yes, you know, you got dads buying knives for their sons and so on and so forth.

[Seth]

So this is.

[John Pantuso]

This is our kind of a busy season right now, but.

[Brent Reeves]

But we love it.

[John Pantuso]

We could sell knives every day.

[Seth]

It's great.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, I'm happy to report that they were at once sold out about a month ago, but they're back in stock now. My. The Brent Reeves signature case mini trapper is back in stock here at. In the media on the online store. And they'll be getting them in the Bozeman store here in the next couple of days. Few days, but nice. You can get them now on the. On the store. And that is an incredible tribute to my family. Not to me, but to my family's relationship with case knives and now the relationship that we have with the folks that make them. And I just couldn't be more proud to. To call you guys friends, first of all and business partners, secondly. So it's just. I appreciate it so much. I know that, I know. I know that. We have a text thread, these two guys right here, and me and my wife have a text thread that it.

[Tom Taylor]

Goes back, shout out to Alexis. We love Alexis. Give her a shout out.

[Brent Reeves]

That goes on periodically. And we. We have a. We have a good time. The Barlow, y' all just came back out. Tell us about the Barlow and the history of the. The Barlow and how that's the Barlow pocket knife, which should be common knowledge to folks probably my age and older. And it may. Y' all may not know what I'm talking about, but tell us about the Barlow knife.

[John Pantuso]

So the, The Barlow we. We call like the knife. The Barlow is a pattern, right? So like the trappers of patterns, mini trappers pattern. The Barlow is probably one of the oldest jackknife patterns, you know, that even predates case. Right? And so everybody knows, you know, our product, we make pin together with the bone handles, brass liners. We use stainless carbon steel. But recently, last year, we started a new product line called the Crossroads. And so now we're reintroducing the Barlow pattern with sort of like a modern touch to it. So it's screwed together kind of like a modern flipper would be. And it's got some more modern materials. Like, the handles are rich, light and G10, so they're super light and they're pretty strong and durable as well. And it's an upgraded steel too, so it's S35VN. So it's got super good edge retention, corrosion resistance, and it doesn't take away from what we, what our bread and butter is, which is the, you know, your, your favorite, the. The mini trapper with the bone handles. I mean, we're always going to do that, but this just gives us sort of a different product offering for those that are looking to carry a pocket slip joint, but with something that's a little bit more modern.

[Tom Taylor]

Yeah, our slip joints will be around forever. But just putting a modern spin on a traditional pattern, keeping that heritage of the 136 years, but, you know, just bringing it into, you know, 20.

[John Pantuso]

26.

[Brent Reeves]

Absolutely.

[Corey]

It's beautiful knife.

[Seth]

Yeah. I got a question for you guys. Like, how many different knives do you like? Different styles of knives do you make?

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, that's a big a lot.

[Tom Taylor]

I think there's. I think it's in the 20. We call them patterns. So there's 20, 22 different patterns we make of slip joints. Then we've got fixed blades, We've got some modern flippers. If you walk through that factory, I think you'd be amazed at not only the people that are working there, but just the operation and the amount of intricacies that go into every single different knife.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

[John Pantuso]

I think, like, with all the different. Because we love using natural materials.

[Seth]

So.

[John Pantuso]

So bone we use from a zebu cattle, which is from South America. So we use that bone on quite a bit of our stuff. We like using woods as well.

[Brent Reeves]

Buffalo horn.

[John Pantuso]

Buffalo horn. And we've done a lot of other abalone, a lot of other really like, pretty natural materials. So, I mean, with all the different bone dye variations we do, there's probably what, like 6 to 700 different individual SKUs that we make.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And like you mentioned that Barlow was. That predates case. But like how many patterns or whatever you want to call them or are did like case come up with.

[Tom Taylor]

Oh, I don't know an exact number, but there's a lot of them. Just like the copper lock, the Sod Buster. Sod buster junior.

[John Pantuso]

The rust lock.

[Tom Taylor]

The rust lock.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Tom Taylor]

There's definitely pattern specific case that are trademarked.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

I know that you mentioned about walking in. How incredible is to walk in and see all the different knives in the factory. And I was like my wife Alexis in the hobby lobby. I had to touch everything in there. I couldn't go buy a shelf without laying my hands on it. It was. It was absolutely incredible.

[Tom Taylor]

We had a guy following Brent taking the fingerprints off.

[Seth]

They.

[Brent Reeves]

They weighed me on the way in and weighed me on the way out, make sure I didn't still stick my pockets full. But there was the. The people was really. Was what was really heartfelt. And I met a man in there and I talked about this on the. On the podcast. I'll tell a real quick story. When they invited us to come out, I wanted to take some knives out there that were special to me. So I. I took the first knife that John sent me in the mail for the. Just like, hey, we appreciate what you said about our knives. So I took that knife and then I took one that I bought for my dad when I was 14 and I got that. Got that knife back after he passed away. So I carried that knife and we went in the factory and the first guy that they introduced us to that's working and there's a man by the name Mr. Dave Jackson. I think he worked like 53 years and at that time he had worked like 51 years. So I was talking at the. Introduced me to him. I was thinking, I started doing a little math in my head and I pulled that knife out of my pocket. And on case knife there's a. If you open up the blade on the tang, which is right next to where it clips into the. Into the knife itself, there's always codes and dots on there. Then you can tell from what. When that knife was made on there, if you have a key to it. So I handed. I pulled that knife out of my pocket and I handed it to Mr. Jackson. I said, would. Would you have worked on his knife? And he pulled it, opened it up and handed and said, oh, yeah, I worked on that knife and handed it back to me.

[Seth]

And that's cool.

[Brent Reeves]

It was really cool to be there and talk with the man that built the knife that I gave to my dad. The first knife I ever bought. I gave it to him. And then I got that back. And to take it on that, on that.

[Seth]

That's cool.

[Brent Reeves]

Big circle of taking it back out there was really cool. And he went there. I talked to several folks, man, they've been working there like 30 years. Over 30 years and generational employees. It truly is one big family out there.

[Seth]

That's cool.

[Brent Reeves]

It's really cool.

[Corey]

Yeah, they're beautiful knives. My son Marshall has a knife that his grandfather gave him. Marshall always asks about. It's a case knife. I couldn't tell you which model it is, but it says grandfather and grandson on it. Oh. And that'll be his first hunt knife. Hopefully in about three years when we get to go deer hunting, he'll get to break that out. He asks about it all the time.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Brent Reeves]

It's awesome, man. It's good stuff. Well, I certainly appreciate you guys being on here. Anything else we need to cover before we move along? You guys got anything? Marissa?

[John Pantuso]

Oh, Brett. How did you like. I do. Gotta ask.

[Phil]

How.

[John Pantuso]

How did you like that. That ridge back when you were processing that move stuff in Canada?

[Brent Reeves]

Man, let me tell you. You see the pictures?

[Corey]

I did see that.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. I'm gonna put those pictures up on my Instagram so folks can see it. It was. The first thing is. I don't know why we didn't call that knife the Razorback, but after that being said, that being said, Craig was very impressed with that with that knife, and Dave Gardner as well. And Dave. I don't know how many moose he skinned, but he skinned a lot of elk, but they were very impressed.

[Seth]

We.

[Brent Reeves]

I went. We went through that whole moose, and I didn't have to sharpen it after we were cutting meat on it. Cutting meat up on it. The third day, and I finally put it on a wet rock, but it was really good, really held the edge and really easy to use. And, yeah, I loved it. But I'm. I'm saying, you know, Razorback, Ridgeback, it could have. I think. I think we missed the opportunity there.

[Tom Taylor]

We'll see what we can do there.

[Corey]

Might be too late.

[Brent Reeves]

All right. Thank you, guys. I appreciate you so much and look forward to talking to you probably before I get home today.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Plan.

[Corey]

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, guys.

[Tom Taylor]

Thank you, guys.

[Corey]

Appreciate it. Take care.

[Seth]

Thanks, guys.

[Brent Reeves]

Thank you. Oh, man, those dudes, they're. They're great people, and they're. They're a lot of fun. A lot of fun. If we got any more listeners.

[Phil]

Yeah, we can do a few more. This is from Keegan. Guys, have a favorite headlamp? Anything you want to.

[Brent Reeves]

I do.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Have it, Brent.

[Brent Reeves]

I do. I've got. My friend Michael Roseman makes Sunspot Lights. Lights. And Steve loves them as well, but he also makes one called a Ben Oak light. And it's like a head just. Just got the straps that go on your noggin instead of having the. The. You know, the Helmet. Yeah. And I actually used it up in, in Manitoba on that moose hunt. And I'll put some pictures it up there. But that's, that's my favorite. You can get them from sunspot hunting lights.com I think it is.

[Corey]

We had them at the meteor store for a hot minute, but I don't know if we do anymore. That might be my favorite headlamp too because I was bear hunting, black bear hunting in Montana with Clay and his son Bear John. And we had a grizzly bear that I had bumped three times and she seemed like she was just kind of hanging around us. Plus we had a dead bear on the back of our backs.

[Brent Reeves]

Right.

[Corey]

And when the sun went down, my little black diamond headlamp was doing great. At least being able to see one step ahead. But then Clabo broke out that big coon light. Holy cow.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Seth]

That was really comforting for his country.

[Corey]

It felt like the sun came back up.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. Sunspot lights. That's the reason it is.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

I need to get one of those.

[Brent Reeves]

That's my favorite.

[Phil]

Cool. Thanks. Devin just wants to let us know does his 8 year old son Dylan caught his first fish yesterday. Big northern pike. He's watching the show.

[Seth]

Congrats.

[Phil]

Congrats.

[Brent Reeves]

Congratulations, Dylan.

[Seth]

That's awesome.

[Corey]

At the last.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, not the last.

[Phil]

I'm sure it won't be. This one's just for me. Brian asks, do y' all let your wives decorate the shoulder mounts around the house for Christmas? I don't know why we have to, you know, relegate that to just the wives. You know, I, I'd love to do that too, but do you guys decorate your mounts for holidays?

[Brent Reeves]

Alexis tried to put a Santa Claus hat on a deer. I had one time and I said, nope, we're not doing that. Oh, disrespect.

[Phil]

Tough.

[Corey]

It's. I agree. It's a little disrespectful.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Corey]

But my wife have a funny agreement where I get to put them pretty much wherever I want, but she gets to hang stuff. Yeah. My elk has a Rudolph Christmas ornament hanging on it since last Christmas.

[Brent Reeves]

Right.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Corey]

Too awkward to reach without a ladder, so.

[Brent Reeves]

And I'm not judging, folks, that's just, that's just my opinion. I don't do it. But you can if you want to. Yeah. And be wrong.

[Phil]

This one's for Corey from Chase. I don't know if you have an answer, Corey, but he seems to think you will. What clothing type is best for early season archery, hunting, polyester, lightweight, merino or Some type of blend.

[Corey]

Oh, merino all the way.

[Phil]

For temps in the like 70 to 90 degree range.

[Corey]

Yeah, I'd say merino all the way. I mean, there are some great synthetic polyesters. First light makes the Yuma, which is great, too, but you just can't beat first lights. Wick. If you like the hoodie like I do, keep the sun off your ears and all. Not. Or you can just get the quarter zipper, the long sleeve, but lightweight merino. I always have a backup in my backpack just in case I get too sweaty. If it's that hot, you probably don't need a backup. But this time of year, that's always against my skin.

[Seth]

Well, that's the nice thing about merino is when it's 70 to 90 and you're hiking around the elk woods, you're not going to stink. But you will stink. Synthetic.

[Corey]

Synthetic gets pretty ripe after half a day. Where merino will last you a little spicy. Spicy to the nostrils.

[Brent Reeves]

Get a little spicy.

[Corey]

Stings the nostrils.

[Seth]

I like merino for everything every time of the year.

[Brent Reeves]

Me too.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Hot, cold in between.

[Corey]

Base layer, mid layer.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Go merino.

[Phil]

Really quick one from Russell. That was from Chase, by the way. Russell's asking what caliber you use for your moose. He says, sorry if this was asked, but he had to leave the show to help a youth deer hunter.

[Craig McCarthy]

Great.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, that's a good reason to live. But it was a 300 PRC and I had to shoot that rascal three times with it. All three of them were. Then was in the bowler room. And it. He acted like he didn't even phase him. It was tremendous. Tremendous round. It performed wonderfully. And I got one of them back. The tech, the guy that's tanning the hide, found one of them.

[Seth]

Oh, cool.

[Brent Reeves]

So that'd be a little. Little nugget of gold I'll get to keep.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Along with the antlers and a nice little mushroom.

[Brent Reeves]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Good.

[Corey]

Cool.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. 212 grains of let, stop and lay down.

[Corey]

Stay.

[Phil]

Cameron's asking if you guys put in for eastern elk quota hunts. Have you ever done that any?

[Seth]

I. I put in for Pennsylvania.

[Corey]

Yeah, Seth and I were just looking at some. Yeah, I was just showing Pennsylvania bulls. Good lord. Those are on a different level compared out here.

[Brent Reeves]

But no, I got a draw for them. Pennsylvania.

[Seth]

Yep. Yeah. And I know Kentucky. That's probably your best odds of getting tagged, right?

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Seth]

I don't. I don't know the other state. There's a handful of states that have, you know, Eastern elk. I should say elk in the east. They're not eastern elk, but yeah, there's. And seems like more and more states are starting to have seasons and more and more states are starting to have elk these days. So they do well back east. They do real well in Pennsylvania. I know that. They get big.

[Phil]

Let's do one more here. I thought this one was fun. This is from Leland. Again he's asking what the oldest rifle that you have used to harvest game is. If you know the answer to this question.

[Brent Reeves]

It'd probably be a.30 30 Winchester. 30. 30. I think that's probably killed more deer than CWD in. In South Arkansas where I grew up. It was a.30 30 lever action rifle, whether it was a marlin or a Winchester.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Brent Reeves]

And that was probably. And it was. My oldest brother Tim is his brother in law and it was his grandfather's gun, I think. So it was like three generations that and I got to borrow it and. And kill a deer with it.

[Seth]

My first deer rifle was a Husqvarna.308.

[Brent Reeves]

Really? Yep. The chainsaw folks.

[Seth]

Yep. Same company, they used to make rifles.

[Brent Reeves]

I did not know.

[Seth]

I don't know the year of that rifle. I still have it.

[Phil]

Had.

[Seth]

It had a straight red or straight four power redfield on it. And yeah, I killed a lot of deer with that thing until I bought a different rifle.

[Brent Reeves]

But that was a steel rival you bought after that.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Real loud.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

So loud.

[Seth]

Had to put oil in it. But no, I should. I'd never looked up the year of that rifle, the Husqvarna.

[Brent Reeves]

I never even heard of it. So that gives me something.

[Seth]

But I'm sure that's the. That's the oldest rifle that I've ever killed something with.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Mine's a lot less exciting. It would have been an old.243. That was my dad's. That would have been my first big game harvest which would have been an antelope when I was 12. I couldn't tell you the brand, but I do remember it was a.243.

[Brent Reeves]

Still got it.

[Seth]

Nice.

[Corey]

My father does.

[Brent Reeves]

Yeah. Little man Marshall. Get on that.

[Corey]

That'd be a great first gun.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Brent Reeves]

Well, if he shoots at half as good as he writes a book, it's going to be outstanding.

[Corey]

Watch out, Stephen Rinella.

[Brent Reeves]

He's coming for you, Bill. Is that it?

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Let's go and call it there.

[Brent Reeves]

We're going solid show. We're going to put the cork in it or pull the plug or whatever it is. Alexis and Bailey get it. Daddy's coming home. Thank you, boys.

[Seth]

You got a plane to catch?

[Brent Reeves]

I got a plane to catch. Thank y' all for being here. Thank everybody for tuning in and listening. Hopefully, I'll be back soon. Do it again. Thank you, Phil.

[Corey]

Thanks, guys.

[Seth]

Thanks, bro. Thanks, guys.

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[Brent Reeves]

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