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Ep. 303: All Up In Your Airspace

Published: 2021-12-13 10:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Papa Janis, Nephi Cole, Dave Willms, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. 


Topics discussed: Papa Janis praises Jani for being a good dad; lobbyists; explaining the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation; the death of Otto Schneeloch's parents and the life of his triangular shaped bullet idea; who's got Steve's old Winchester Model 94?; shooting sports injuries on par with that of billiards; the number one rule of safe gun handling; how you can bid on Pete Alonso's signed bat, VIP tickets to Trampled By Turtles, skin real estate on Spencer, Seth, and Chester's arms, Steve's speargun, Corinne's handmade squirrel jewelry, a tour at Doug Duren's farm, plus Buckman Juice, and other prized items at MeatEater's House of Oddities Auction; a corner crossing court case in Wyoming; should MeatEater's Access Initiative funds go toward step ladder apparatuses that enable hunters to cross corners?; the public domain of air space and the airspace above water; how there's no law in the books that expressly prohibits or allows corner crossing; how revisiting fence lines opens up a big 'ole cans of worms; when cows and bulls get it on through a fence; Alec Baldwin and the tragedy of what happened on the set of "Rust"; talking firearm safety with your kids; exactly why you can't find ammo in the store; the infrastructure bill; funding to Pittman-Robertson; delisting wolves to relist wolves; Your Mountain Podcast; and more.


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Referenced Books

Life and Death at the Mouth of the Musselshell
by H. Duane Hampton
Steve Rinella mentions reading this book recently while discussing firearms accidents in historical times. He notes that people in earlier eras seemed to have more shooting accidents and were 'just trying to figure stuff out,' citing examples from this book about incidents at the Mouth of the Muscle Shell.
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Dying to Hunt in Montana
by Tom D. Donovan
Steve Rinella mentions he 'bought recently' this book but 'couldn't finish reading' it. He describes it as 'an exhaustive catalog broken down by cause of death of everyone they can find in the history who has died hunting' in Montana, including deaths from grizzly bears, exposure, and various hunting accidents. He uses it to illustrate the historical prevalence of hunting accidents, particularly in the 1930s-1950s.
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