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Bear Grease

Ep. 178: The Donnie Baker Story - Nightmare (Part 1)

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Clay Newcomb interviews Donnie Baker of Dixon, Missouri who was convicted of illegally killing a 204 4/8-inch white-tailed buck on the Fort Leonard Wood Military base in 2009. Donnie opens up about the details of the kill, how he falsified its location, and the unbelievable attention the buck received within the community. He then tells how he was arrested and interrogated by the Missouri Department of Conservation. This episode is a roller coaster that will make you think about how you cast judgment or mercy on people. Clay later interviews Dr. Misty Newcomb to discuss how, as a society, we choose whom to forgive and whom we not to forgive. Also don't forget, "Meateater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)" is now available for purchase!

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0:00.0

Get ready for the best thing ever done on the blood-soaked story of the white-tailed deer skin trade of the 1700s.

0:08.0

It's meat-eaters American history, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775.

0:15.0

Narrated by me, Clay Newcombe, and my good friend Stephen Ronella,

0:19.0

this audio book is the first installment in Meat Eater's American History series.

0:24.8

This is big.

0:26.0

It's a wild tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman and a forgotten trade in the

0:31.5

deers of North America's favorite big game animal.

0:35.1

Featuring the story of Daniel Boone, the long hunters, and the Native Americans that were

0:41.0

involved in the deer skin trade. This era is what became

0:45.6

the foundation of American deer hunting and we have compiled a never before

0:51.7

compiled amount of data.

0:55.0

We've researched stuff that's never been researched before.

0:58.0

I'm serious, this is groundbreaking stuff,

1:01.0

and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

1:03.0

It's out now and available wherever audio books are sold.

1:07.0

That's Meateaters American History, The Longhunters,

1:10.0

1761 to 1775 available for download now. This is the best thing we've ever done. Get it. After a ball game one evening under a streetlight was first time I seen him.

1:29.0

The first time I seen him I was 100% sure he two hundred inch deer which I've never seen

1:34.0

a wild deer with two hundred inch and still at that time wanted to kill this deer

1:38.0

right. We're slipping into the year twenty four behind the dulled whack of a bow string as a steel-tipped arrow arches

1:47.6

into the throat patch of a 204 and 4-eighths inch drop-ttime Missouri Whitetail Buck. This might sound like a moment of

1:57.5

celebration, but you'd be mistaken if you thought that. For this Archer it was the

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