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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 224: Size Matters

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Boone and Crockett Club's Justin Spring, Kyle Lehr, and Tony Schoonen, plus Phil Taylor and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: Apologies to a dude with a rotten whitefish; a child's marble in a turkey’s gizzard; Wonders of Wildlife and selling lures out of your dad's liquor store; is Steve's dad in the B&C record?; Boone and Nugent; deductions and hunter-based grievances with the B&C scoring system; how much Steve loves the word, "penalize"; bilateral symmetry as a display of health; scoring systems being a way for folks to argue about the size of racks; fair chase guidelines in the face of emerging technology; the evolution of the term trophy hunting, associations with its meaning, and is it too late to save that word?; brown bears vs. grizzly bears based on access to salmon and the Alaska range line; what "all time" means and Steve's suggestion of a "top 100" standard; Steve's gripe with B&C for not including javelina entries; a bison source herd at the Bronx Zoo; and more.

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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged bitten in my case

0:14.8

underwear list.

0:15.8

You can't predict anything.

0:20.4

Presented by ONX Hunt creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping system for

0:25.1

hunters download the hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play store nor you stand with ONX.

0:32.1

Okay, firstly we got to start out with two fish and related things.

0:41.4

Now we're going to get into the real meat of the show here with the two fish related

0:44.6

things on episode 2 2 2 which is a couple ago.

0:50.0

We just did episode 2 2 3 and someone pointed out that we should have commemorated it more

0:53.4

carefully because it was a rifle caliber.

0:55.9

So the 2 2 3 but the 2 2 2 episode which is also is there another.

1:01.3

Is there a 2 2 2 I believe there's a 2 2 2 yeah search that up.

1:08.0

I challenge the veracity I challenge the veracity of a man's email who wrote into say that he

1:15.5

snagged a fish in line or snagged a rod ice fishing in a hundred feet of water pulled

1:22.6

up the rod.

1:24.6

Reel up all the line and lo and behold on the end of it is a dead white fish and I was and

1:30.2

I think I most I somehow questioned the veracity of his tail and unless he went out that day

1:37.4

with a rotten white fish.

1:39.5

He sent him photographs that made me.

1:42.6

He said back him up so my apologies to his name is stew beard my apologies to Mr.

1:50.3

stew beard.

1:52.5

That looks like a legitimately rotten white fish you found on the bottom of the lake.

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