Ep. 226: The Life and Times of the Antler Man

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Jim Phillips, Corinne Schneider, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: never paying for an antler; Steve as an incidental shed hunter; Jim refusing to insure his horn shed; an important premonition; getting poked; guessing at the value of 16,000 antlers; a little man living in your body; zigs and zags; not counting brow tines; having a 400-ton rock collection; donating antlers for a sting operation; not getting with the program; enjoying the work; a lion hunter who also golfs; the arrogance of mullein weed; how Steve made his kids mule deer antler marshmallow sticks; far vs. close lookers; all the energy it takes; 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.
0:35.6	What you're about to hear is a visit.
0:37.5	Me, the Latvian Eagle, Spencer Newhurst, the flip-flop flesher, our beloved producer
0:42.3	Karin Schneider, visiting a man in three forks Montana known as the Antler Man.
0:48.5	He has a collection of 16,000 antlers arranged in a barn with an artist's eye for symmetry
0:55.4	and design combined with a genius sense for what's weird and interesting.
1:01.1	The guy has never bought an antler.
1:03.4	He found most of the stuff in the collection himself or traded antlers that he found for
1:08.7	peculiar oddities that others had that he just had to have for his own.
1:14.0	Walking into the door literally changed my life at change how I think about art, obsession,
1:20.0	big box, wildlife and compulsion.
1:23.4	So come along with us.
1:25.1	Walk into Jim's Horn House and three forks Montana.
1:28.7	Get your life changed.
1:31.9	Who runs this whole garden program here?
1:37.0	I do the weed and water and it's told not to wine.
1:42.1	That's a raspberry patcher.
1:45.7	Yeah, that's not going to have any round.
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