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Ep. 224: Size Matters

Published: 2020-06-07 09:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Boone and Crockett Club's Justin Spring, Kyle Lehr, and Tony Schoonen, plus Phil Taylor and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: Apologies to a dude with a rotten whitefish; a child's marble in a turkey’s gizzard; Wonders of Wildlife and selling lures out of your dad's liquor store; is Steve's dad in the B&C record?; Boone and Nugent; deductions and hunter-based grievances with the B&C scoring system; how much Steve loves the word, "penalize"; bilateral symmetry as a display of health; scoring systems being a way for folks to argue about the size of racks; fair chase guidelines in the face of emerging technology; the evolution of the term trophy hunting, associations with its meaning, and is it too late to save that word?; brown bears vs. grizzly bears based on access to salmon and the Alaska range line; what "all time" means and Steve's suggestion of a "top 100" standard; Steve's gripe with B&C for not including javelina entries; a bison source herd at the Bronx Zoo; and more.

 

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Referenced Books

Great Rams
by Bob Anderson
Discussion about Boone and Crockett publishing books. The speakers mention volumes 3 and 4 of the Great Rams book series, which B&C published in collaboration with Bob Anderson. This is described as a pictorial book about sheep hunting with well-defined characters and stories.
Referenced at 00:00:00
Idaho's Greatest Mule Deer
by Ryan Hatfield
When discussing whether there's a book equivalent to Great Rams for mule deer, the speakers mention this book by Ryan Hatfield. They note it contains stories of great mule deer, including one about a hunter who shot a 'squirrely looking buck' that turned out to be a record-class deer found in his garage 30 years later. The book's cover is described as hilarious.
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