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The Hunting Collective

Ep. 144: Bear Grease Predicts the Weather, Connecting Hunting to God, and Elk Failures with Clay Newcomb and His Flashy Mules

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, Ben is joined by Bear Hunting Magazine's Clay Newcomb on an elk hunt in the Missouri Breaks. The guys talk about their trip, the landscape, becoming a hunting craftsman, and valuing your kids. Clay extols the value of bear grease and talks about how his faith in God translates to his hunting pursuits. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Brent Rees with me, the Ethers new podcast of this country live.

0:05.0

You ever wondered how to pick out a good dog, bowl up a mess of crawfish or catch cat fish

0:09.3

on a trot line?

0:10.3

Well, on this country life, I'm inviting you into my home, where in each episode I'll

0:14.8

be telling you the story of a good hunt, close call, a hard time, a good time, whatever.

0:20.0

And then we'll talk on some good country skills I think you ought to know.

0:24.1

Listen to this country life in the Bear Greece feed on the I Heart Radio F or wherever you

0:29.3

get your podcast.

0:41.0

The Hunting Collective is presented by Element.

0:45.3

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of The Hunting Collective.

0:53.4

I'm Ben O'Brien and I'm sitting in a biocreek in the Missouri Breaks for Clay Newcombe.

0:59.0

Hey Ben, how's it going?

1:01.9

It's going well.

1:02.9

Fair.

1:03.9

Fair to middling.

1:04.9

Fair to middling.

1:05.9

We're not sitting on a cactus which I just had to make sure I wouldn't.

1:10.2

I got to tell you the other day I sat down, we were looking for elk and I sat down

1:15.5

in the spot where we thought there might be elk and I looked right.

1:18.5

I'm going to say about two inches from my sack was a cactus.

1:24.5

I mean I was close to it.

1:25.8

There's a lot of cactus out here.

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