Ep. 133: You're a cool dude, Buck.

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Anchorage, AK - Steven Rinella talks with Alaska Master Guide Buck Bowden, along with his brother Danny Rinella, Chris "Ridgepounder" Gill, Dirt Myth, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: becoming Buck, or a boy mangles himself with a knife; digging for money with nine fingers; hunting and visiting the obscure; candyass horses from lower-48 and their rough and rangy Alaskan counterparts; the big money makers in fur trapping; eating wolverines; cutting your teeth on sheep, moose, and grizz; becoming a Master Guide; lessons learned from three bear attacks; what makes a good hunter?; divorcing yourself from societal momentum; and more. To learn more about the ideas and materials referenced in this episode check out the show notes here.

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0:00.0	This is a meeting eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten and in my case underwear.
0:15.3	Let's move on.
0:16.3	We eat our podcast.
0:17.3	You can't predict anything.
0:19.3	First thing I want to talk about, I want to revisit some of your time earlier today.
0:30.8	Danny, I didn't know that when you, I knew you shot a meal to your out of a tree with your
0:41.3	recurve.
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	I don't know that you weren't a tree stand.
0:44.8	You literally climbed up and shot it off the branch of a tree.
0:48.3	No, like you're not into the whole safety harness scene and all that.
0:53.4	You're just like sitting up in the limb of a tree with a recurve.
0:56.2	Yeah, I mean, I was mostly out of necessity, but that's so old school, man.
1:02.4	Well, I was in Cottonwood.
1:03.7	You know, and had these giant horizontal branches.
1:06.0	I mean, it felt, I was kind of surrounded by branches and we were all tucked in there.
1:10.4	And it wasn't, I never felt like I was going to fall out of it.
1:14.3	So how'd you like, nobody ever does.
1:16.8	Yeah, I think it catches people by surprise falling out of trees.
1:23.9	So how did you like pull back and swing the bone, everything up there?
1:28.4	Just standing on a branch.
1:29.4	Yeah, standing on a big big, I've done a lot of that actually.
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