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Ep. 307: Talking About Things That Are Not Sexy to Talk About

Published: 2022-01-03 10:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren, Jim Heffelfinger, Richie Baker, Ross Copperman, Sean Weaver, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: The Doug Duren Fact-Checking Alert App; Jim's sticker and the correct pronunciation of "coues"; Steve as a punt gun enthusiast; "rice breast" ducks; how Steve, Jani, and Corinne share the world's greatest doctor; very late duck migrations in 2021; canada geese benefitting from urbanization; how Cal was born with his mustache; FirstLite's new waterfowl line coming at you in 2022; "Typha"; the Shakespearean drama of Washington State's Fish and Game Commission; undermining the theory that rattlesnakes don't rattle anymore because people killed off all the ones that rattle; animals with Covid; when a Funeral Director's assistant writes in with hot tips on how to butcher a deer in the field to avoid disease; PFAS and EHD in deer; Jim's testicle stories; it's not a dog eat dog world; when Doug wrote a mean email to Steve; the CWD creep; mandatory testing?; a really nice buck...that's a doe; piebald deer and deer with fangs; a round of Trivia to bring in 2022!; and more.


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Referenced Books

Coues' Check List of North American Birds
by Elliott Coues
Jim Heffelfinger discusses Elliott Coues' book about birds, mentioning that Coues included a footnote in this book explaining how to pronounce his family name (Coues vs. Cows). This came up in a discussion about the proper pronunciation of Coues deer.
Referenced at 00:00:08
The Deer of North America
by Leonard Lee Rue III
Referenced during a discussion about deer biology and arteries. The speaker mentions that 'In Leonard Lee Rue's seventy eight book The Deer of North America, he estimates that a white tail shot in the femoral artery will only survive about eighty to one hundred and twenty seconds.'
Referenced at 00:00:08