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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 229: The Atomic Oryx

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Karl Malcolm, Mike Ruhl, Jeremy Romero, and Seth Morris.

Topics discussed: Jewel and being attracted to snaggle teeth; Teen Wolf; how the Flip Flop Flesher no longer fleshes squat; White Sands Missile Range as the original introduction site of the African oryx; mildly radioactive Trinitite for sale; use of the word skookum; getting stuff your mom makes vs. getting Nike shoes, Doritos, and Michael Jackson jackets, or how Steve's parents didn't buy their kids stupid shit; the etymology or etymology; a broken horn hunt and a once-in-a-lifetime hunt; the ins and outs of hunting oryx in New Mexico; hunting hogs at the fence doors and other fence stories; dragging around 300 pounds of ice in coolers; the Amish machine gun; kid Steve being gifted a model 94 like it's a favor; that time when Seth stepped inches from a coiled up rattlesnake; 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.

0:35.7

Okay Carl Melcom set the scene for us here.

0:39.0

What's going on?

0:40.4

Well, we are here at Orix Camp 2020.

0:46.3

We're in South Central New Mexico at a camping spot that I have come to be very familiar

0:52.1

with and fond of over a number of years now.

0:55.4

I probably can't been in and around this particular spot for close to a decade of hunting of

1:03.0

variety of species.

1:05.1

And over the course of those hunts I have encountered Orix in this general area on a number of occasions.

1:10.5

So we're here just outside the periphery of the white sand's missile range in South

1:16.8

Central New Mexico, which is the place you want to be if you're looking for the widely

1:20.9

and elusive African Orix.

1:23.0

I think that you might have even expressed that one point here that you intimated that

1:28.7

you may have even seen one very near where we're at right now.

1:34.0

If you were to take a straight line distance from where our keysters are on these seats

1:38.9

right now, I have seen in Orix no more than 300 yards.

1:43.3

Totally.

1:44.3

Sit in right now.

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