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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 038: Maverick County, Texas. Steven Rinella talks with ranch manager and hog trapper Ben Binnion, along with Chris Gill and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Maverick County, Texas. Steven Rinella talks with ranch manager and hog trapper Ben Binnion, along with Chris Gill and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: the music of Shearwater; why Steve won't plug Janis's t-shirt company anymore; the importance of trail cams; whitetail antler potential; high-fence vs unfenced whitetail properties in Texas; buck identification; how to age a deer; the question of carrying capacity; helicopter surveys; how Texas allocates deer permits; trashy does and fecund bucks; the Founder Effect; why deer are like people; managing vs farming game; and the biodiversity of Texas whitetail country.

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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten and in my case underwear

0:15.3

you can't predict anything

0:40.5

you

1:08.3

music within that intro and the trees fall down and your tree fallin' and there's an intro song.

1:14.9

That's a band called Sheerwater. That song is from an album, Jet Plain and Oxbow. I'm friends with

1:22.4

that musician. He's very undecided about hunting. I've taken him fishing and he enjoyed being out

1:32.4

there but he said I just don't view fishing things the way you do. He's a wonderful musician and

1:42.5

the reason he's here is where the good hosting comes in because for a long time that musician was

1:46.6

based out of Austin and we're in Texas right now. See how seamless that was? We're in Maverick

1:52.9

County which is is it fair to say that this is like this is ground zero this is like the

2:04.9

base this is the heart and soul of like the whole Texas white tail big-bought world.

2:13.3

Is that fair to say? Yes. Yeah for giant white tails. That was the voice of

2:18.9

El Ocho. Ben Benion. Benion? Benion. So it's the same sound as your first name? Yeah it sounds

2:29.3

like he's stuttering a little bit. Ben Benion. Yeah. Does the voice of Ben Benion? We're going to get to

2:34.8

him a minute. Also here's Chris Gil. Chris. Chris already warned us he doesn't have much to say.

2:44.1

He's just sitting in and listening. And Janice Prattellis at this point in the show I normally

2:51.3

plug Janice's t-shirt company but I'm not anymore because he won't make me my purge flies.

2:57.7

Oh I asked Janice. You're going to get him from here another guy. I asked Janice. Probably about

3:06.5

18 months. 18 months ago. I think it was shot show 2015. To make me a couple purge flies. I'm talking

3:14.5

about flies used for yellow perch. You take a little bit of hook, take a little bit of bucktail,

3:22.0

you take a little bit of thread. I'd make it myself but I gave my damn. What's the the bobbin?

3:28.7

Bobin? Yeah. I gave my Bob and do a buddy mine. I used to tie a couple of flies now and then I just

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