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Cutting The Distance

Ep. 121: Must Be Nice Hunting Out of State with Jeff Bynum

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

New year, new me! Ever felt like "It Must Be Nice" when you see other hunters take to the field out of state? Dirk has a great conversation with financial adviser Jeff Bynum about how to afford those out of state hunts that you feel like they are just out of reach. 

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0:00.0

Hey, American History Buffs. Hunting History Buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume

0:05.1

of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition titled The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840,

0:13.6

we tackle the Rocky Mountain Beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellows like

0:19.9

Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Coulter.

0:23.6

This small but legendary fraternity of Backwoodsmen helped define an era when the West represented not just unmapped territory,

0:31.4

but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions.

0:38.3

We explain what started the Mountain Man era and what ended it.

0:42.5

We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the Mountain Men ate,

0:46.0

how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore,

0:49.7

how they interacted with Native Americans,

0:52.1

how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed

0:56.4

descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as

1:03.7

our previous volume about the white-tailed deer skin trade, which is titled The Long Hunters,

1:09.8

1761 to 1775.

1:13.2

So again, this new Mountain Man edition about the beaver skin trade is available for pre-order now wherever audio books are sold.

1:21.8

It's called Meat Eaters American History, The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840, by me, Stephen Rinella.

1:42.3

And we're back with another episode of Cutting the Distance podcast.

1:46.3

I'm Dirk Durham, and this week's guest is somebody I've got to know over the last few years and really enjoy his company.

1:56.8

The first time I met this guy, he kept tagging me on Instagram with these ridiculous videos.

2:07.6

There's these freaking weird redneck videos.

2:10.4

He kept on tagging me and sending me in my DMs.

2:13.5

He was sliding into my DMs with these ridiculous damn redneck videos.

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