Hey folks this is Brent Reeves with the meat eaters new podcast this country life

you ever wondered how to pick out a good dog bowl up a mess of crawfish or catch catfish

on a trot line well on this country life I'm inviting you into my home where in each episode I'll be telling you the story of a good hunt, close call, a hard time, a good time, whatever.

They will talk on some good country skills I think you ought to know.

Listen to this country life in the Bear Gries feed on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. guest. I'm your host Brent Reeves. From coon hunting, the trot lining, and just general country living,

I want you to stay a while as I share my stories

and the country skills that will help you beat the system.

This country life is proudly presented as part of

Meat Eater's Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the Airways

have to offer. All right, friends, pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing

or two to teach you. Trapping in TNT. Trappin, a controversial subject in some places these days, but like it or not,

Trappin was and continues to be an important and effective method of predator nuisance animal control and land protection.

As a kid, I followed my older brother Tim around learning the the does and the don'ts, just like he followed our Uncle Dob around learning from him.

Now you've heard me talk about Uncle Dob before. He wasn't our uncle, just a long time family

friend that like the rest of us Reeves boys would rather hunt

fish and work a condition none of us ever really got under control. Trapping in

Beaver Control stories this week on Meadiers this country life podcast.

But first, I'm going to tell you a story. It was the winter of 1985 and while I was enrolled in college at the University of Arkansas at Monticella,

I worked as a nighttime and weekend dispatcher

and jailer at the Warren Police Department.

In a town less than 7,000 people, there wasn't usually a whole lot happening on Sunday morning

so when the entrance door swung open with a bang and a mud-covered man stepped up

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