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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 126: Wild Horses

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Tempe, AZ- Steven Rinella talks with Wild Horse and Burro Coordinator Dr. Tolani Francisco, along with wildlife ecologist Dr. Karl Malcolm, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects discussed: kids and the fundamentals of bow shooting; the Pueblo Revolt; the brief and glorious lifespan of the equestrian buffalo hunters of the Great Plains; where feral horses end and wild horses begin; the Blitzkrieg Hypothesis; horse fat in your ceramics; mustangers; wild horse holding yards and adoptions; the flameout of a Navajo horse hunt; dying while stuck in the mud; the baddest mofos of the Pleistocene; the NY Times has a big miss; mountain lions as wild horse predators; poleaxing; and more.

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0:00.0

This is a meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten in my case underwearless meat.

0:16.0

We can't predict anything.

0:20.0

Janus, I ordered but have not received a little kitty compound bow for my eight year old.

0:38.0

And I can't decide I didn't have one of those when I was eight.

0:43.0

I can't decide, Carl would be interested to get your perspective on this.

0:47.0

I can't decide if it's like, right, should he be shooting like a stick bow to learn or should he just like jump in because this is how it works with a site pin in a compound.

1:01.0

Like are you wasting time messing around learning fundamentals with a traditional bow.

1:10.0

Like are you just like messing around in order to get to the real thing or is it better to be like this is where it's leaded this is where it's heading.

1:17.0

So just do this now learn how to shoot a compound and a pin and eight years of age.

1:24.0

I got one major issue that you said that I'm taking for granted the fact that this is where it's headed.

1:31.0

Yeah, I feel that that's where it's headed.

1:33.0

Okay.

1:35.0

Well, you could you could line up.

1:36.0

You could line up.

1:43.0

Yeah, I just mean that one like in four years, five years when he's ready to hunt with his bow, I just feel like we'll have landed at a compound with pins.

1:57.0

And we will not have landed at a traditional bow just basically down like who is what is old man shoots the beard that he would be a pierist.

2:09.0

Like that he would develop a pierced sensibility and defiance of his old man right at the age of 12.

2:18.0

So I'm just jumping him into I just bought him a car.

2:21.0

You're like bank fish in with night crawlers and he's casting upstream to rising fish only with dry.

2:27.0

So do that lady when he realizes that in fact doesn't like his father.

2:31.0

But at 12 he's still going to like me.

2:35.0

Not I think you could you could also I'm sure secure the right equipment for him to be dabbling with a variety of different options.

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