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Ep. 502: Hunting with Barstool’s Sydnie Wells

Published: 2023-12-11 10:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks Sydnie Wells, Brady DavisSeth Morris, Chester Floyd, Max Barta,  Austin “Chilly” Chleborad, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider

Topics discussed: Greasy traps and American elbow grease; blowing your middle three toes off; not being complacent about safety; hunter and dog safety; remove your duck tongues and submit them for science with DU's and The Lavretsky Lab's collab project, Duck DNA; gray areas in waterfowl regulations; Pat Durkin’s wolf-rational perspective and his article on a WI trail cam survey on deer and wolves; the new noodling: urbanites hunting rat with dogs; how nothing sounds better than your own jet boat and nothing sounds worse than someone else’s jet boat; never scoring your deer; would a blank kill a blank?; getting poison ivy from handling squirrels; Sydnie’s origin story; getting studio-shamed; critters on Sydnie’s hunt wish list; accidentally getting a big one; a horrific spearing accident; and more.

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Referenced Books

Noodling for Flatheads
by Burkhard Bilger
Steve Rinella references this book while discussing the media fascination with flathead noodling. He describes it as a book about how Southern culture still exists in the US and as an exploration of Southern culture. The discussion was comparing the past trend of noodling coverage to the current trend of urban rat hunting coverage.
Referenced at 00:56:25