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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 027

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Las Vegas, Nevada. On this SHOT Show two-part special, Steven Rinella talks with Kenton Carruth and Ryan Callaghan from First Lite, Janis Putelis and Helen Cho from MeatEater, Jason Nash from Federal, and Bill Dermody from Savage. Subjects discussed: Shot Show; First Lite receiving Outdoor Life's Open Access Award; Oregon dickshines and false patriotism; Steve and Janis's armed takeover of Yellowstone National Park; chronic wasting disease; Steve's wife's repeal of the Rinella household bear meat prohibition; Trichinosis from bears; the weird and disgusting worm in Janis's Coues deer head; out-of-the-box Savage rifles; Chuck Hawks; the AccuTrigger; ammo shortages; the break-in and cleaning process of rifles; copper vs lead; budget vs match grade loads; the best all-purpose caliber; and the fluctuating regional popularity of various rifle calibers.

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0:00.0

Thanks for joining the meat eater podcast. We're in Las Vegas, Nevada, as something called shot show.

0:09.1

Some folks might call it shit show, but it's shot show. It's a chaotic, hectic convention

0:17.1

dedicated to

0:20.4

all things

0:22.4

shooting and hunting

0:24.3

related. It's an annual thing in Las Vegas. It's like

0:28.1

it's

0:31.6

I'm here with Janice Piotales. Helen Cho. What's wrong?

0:35.5

Helen? Nothing. Just looking at Ryan. Helen Cho.

0:43.1

Kent and Karoo from First Light, Ryan Callahan from First Light.

0:47.3

Someone take a stab at explaining shot show. After two days, I

0:51.0

I know what it stands for. I don't know to stand for two shooting hunting outdoor and

0:55.5

trade. You can't get a shot. It's just too much. If they wouldn't let any people in and I could just

1:06.3

go around on you know like a while ago there's a big scandal because Oprah Winfrey wanted to

1:12.9

go into some store in Paris and she had him like close the store. I'm not up on my Oprah.

1:18.2

No, it's old. I just remember hearing this. She had to close the store so she could shot privately.

1:23.4

I would like to have a day to spend it shot privately where it's just all the people who run all the

1:31.2

booths but no other people are allowed except me to go in and walk around and find out about what

1:37.4

I want to find out about without anybody else being there except people who I needed

1:43.2

where I would push a button in the person with materialized and tell me about what I want to

1:47.6

tell me about. That's what I want. That's my kind of shot show. That is a Steve show. But

1:54.4

hurting down these corridors is just it's just too much. We think about it, Kale.

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