Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reaves. From Coon Hutton to

Trot Line and in just general country living, I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast and the airways have to offer. All right friends,

pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a finger to teach you.

My journey is a Coon Hunter, part two. We're back this week with more

tales of coon hunting and coon dogs. The banditos we chase are

curiously smart creatures and their survival instincts of slipping away from

hounds as the body is legendary as it gets. The continuing struggle of my

exploits along with observations and lessons learned are up next on Meet Eaters

of this Country Life podcast. But first, I'm going to tell you a story.

About three years ago, someone sent me a walnut ad for lack of a better term

that they'd seen on Facebook and some hunting group. The post had a had a

number listed and it said looking for someone to get coons off a deer lease

in central Arkansas. Like Doc holiday in the movie Tombstone, when drunk Johnny

Ringo challenged the herbs to a duel and they ignored him prompting him to

shout, wretched slugs. Don't any of you have the guts to play for blood?

Doc holiday calmly said and they all say it with me. I'm your hookah berry.

That's just my game. Well, that's just how I felt when I saw that ad. I broke

a nail tapping the numbers out on my phone to talk to the man and offered the

services of me in my Coonown, Whaling. I talked to him and in short order, he'd sent

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