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Ep. 029

Published: 2016-02-19 03:04:00
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Paducah, Kentucky. Steven Rinella and Janis Putelis talk with Kevin Murphy, a small-game aficionado. Subjects discussed: shotguns vs rimfires for squirrel hunting; chasing swamp rabbits; training up a squirrel dog; a toothpick trick for extracting fur or feathers that were dragged into the meat by a shotgun pellet; Butchey Badtoe, the squirrel head eating cur; coulees, guts, hollows, and other names for drainages; four types of squirrels; rabbit drives and how to pick your shooting lanes; squirrel broth dumplings and other methods of cooking squirrel; and squirrel hunting with Daniel Boone.

 

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Referenced Books

Home Ground
by Barry Lopez
Steve Rinella recommends this book to Kevin, describing it as 'a glossary of landscape terminology' compiled by Barry Lopez. The book contains passages from literature explaining various landscape terms like 'hollow,' 'coulee,' 'draw,' and 'gut.' Rinella mentions it while discussing regional terms for drainages and geographical features during their squirrel hunting conversation.
Referenced at Not precisely marked but occurs during squirrel hunting discussion about landscape terminology
None
by None
Kevin Murphy mentions reading a book about the devastating 1937 flood in Kentucky that preceded the damming of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. He specifically references reading about 'unidentified children that were never identified, found in back eddies' as a result of the flood. The book appears to be a historical account of the flood that inspired dam construction in the region, though the title and author are not mentioned.
Referenced at During discussion of Land Between the Lakes history