Ep. 293: This Country Life - Rabbits, Dogs, and Car Hoods
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Brent's cutting the pups loose on this one and they're chasing rabbits. He's talking about the four different ways he grew up hunting them, one of which may surprise you. The way a dog almost immediately knows the rabbit's direction of travel and already done all the heavy lifting for you is an interesting deep dive. Brent's also sharing a great lesson through a listener's story and describing a field expedient way to field dress a cottontail. All of that for the low, low price of nada, which is what you'll receive should you want to return this episode after you listen. It's "This Country Life" time, y'all get easy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves. |
| 0:09.1 | From coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while |
| 0:14.0 | as I share my experiences and life lessons. |
| 0:17.7 | This country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eat Eater's Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. |
| 0:27.3 | All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. |
| 0:31.2 | I've got some stories to share. |
| 0:40.1 | Rabbits, dogs, and car hoods. |
| 0:45.7 | Dogs of all kinds stir my soul more than anything when it comes to hunting. |
| 0:51.1 | Rabbit hunting with dogs is what I do the least, but may be my absolute favorite. |
| 0:52.5 | It's easy to do. |
| 0:56.1 | The dogs don't have to be world champions, and it's exciting and fun. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm going to tell you all about it, but first, I'm going to tell you a story. |
| 1:11.0 | The story this week comes from our man on the scene, Ron Osman. |
| 1:15.5 | Ron has been a faithful listener of the show and sent this story in a while back, |
| 1:19.7 | and since we're chasing rabbits this week, I thought I'd include it here. |
| 1:23.7 | So in Ron's words and my voice, here we go. |
| 1:32.9 | November 1975, I had just passed my Pennsylvania hunter's safety course and would be allowed to start carrying a gun and hunting with my father and our small pack of bassets and beagles. |
| 1:39.9 | In Pennsylvania, a junior hunter had to be 12 years of age before he or she could start hunting, |
| 1:45.7 | and my birthday was on the 12th of December. I assumed that my father would take me to the store |
| 1:51.1 | to buy a hunting license on my birthday, and I would start hunting after Christmas when the |
| 1:56.4 | second small game season started. He just told me to remember my birthday was November the 12th this |
| 2:02.6 | year. Now the license department asked no questions and they issued me my first official hunting |
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