Ep. 029
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | This is the meat eater podcast. We're in |
| 0:03.9 | Paduca, Kentucky. How far out of Paduca? |
| 0:07.6 | All about six miles. Okay. We're at the homestead of the gentleman who just clarified our distance from Paduca, Kevin Murphy |
| 0:18.0 | lives here not far from what rivers down there the Clarks River |
| 0:22.8 | There's so many rivers wrong you can't keep them all straight lives down from the Clarks River. It's got horses |
| 0:28.1 | 16 hunting dogs a |
| 0:32.5 | Grudge that in my that that I gave an organization grade of I believe a D plus your very generous Dave D |
| 0:41.9 | Plus he would have gotten an F but it was at least still standing in there |
| 0:47.7 | The dogs Kevin owns are |
| 0:50.8 | small game dogs and we just spent |
| 0:58.2 | Three or four we just spent four days |
| 1:02.5 | In and around |
| 1:04.7 | Western Kentucky |
| 1:07.5 | hunting for |
| 1:10.3 | A variety of small game with dogs we hunted squirrels |
| 1:15.4 | We hunted Eastern cottontails and today for the first time ever my life we hunted |
| 1:23.9 | swamp rabbits which is the largest of the cottontail family and they are giants |
| 1:33.4 | Five pounders |
| 1:35.4 | All the rabbits of age there's no doubt they would average over five pounds |
| 1:39.0 | You've weighed a lot of them last year we weighed |
| 1:41.6 | 12 rabbits at the same location and they all averaged above five pounds the smallest one was four and a half the larger one top |
| 1:49.0 | Just a little bit above six pounds with a digital turkey scale. So it wasn't a bathroom scale. It wasn't you know |
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