Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.

From coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons.

This country life is presented by Case Knives from the Storemore Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcasts that Airways have to offer.

All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

I've got some stories to share.

Bears, Bait bait and broken hearts.

It's that time of year again for me.

Time to get busy prepping for the upcoming hunting season,

and there's no better way for me and a bunch of my friends to start it off than bear season.

I got a lot to cover, so let's get to it.

Arkansas Bear Camp 20 and 25 started in the blistering heat one month before opening day.

We'd move the whole kit and caboodled north from the Washtal Mountains to the Ozarks.

We're trying a new area where we have more options making the bear hunting better,

if only by giving us more places to choose from.

Now, as the crow flies, we weren't moving about 125 miles northwest from our old stomping

grounds, the place where we'd been doing bear camp since I'd begun attending over 10 years

ago.

As you all know, I was Claybow's cameraman for several seasons back in the old

bear hunting magazine days until being invited to join the inner circle of the camp

and get a bear myself.

Now, since then, I've taken multiple bears here in what was once known as the bear state

and an even larger specimen with my friends Craig and Melanie McCarthy in Manitoba last year.

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