Ep. 123: Working in the Hunting Industry
Cutting The Distance
MeatEater
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week's Pendlton Whisky Q&A took us down a rabbit hole! "How do I get into the hunting industry?" Dirk has a great conversation with hunter, entrepreneur, and good friend, Jon Gabrio. They recap Jon's black bear and elk hunt from last year, then take a deep dive into working in the hunting industry.
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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. |
| 1:42.9 | Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance podcast. |
| 1:47.1 | This week's guest is a longtime friend, John Gabriel. |
| 1:50.3 | He's the owner and operator of Apex Advertising. |
| 1:54.6 | Welcome to the show, John. |
| 1:56.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:57.2 | Appreciate you having me on. |
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