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.

Expectations and reality.

I've been traveling a lot lately and had the great fortune to meet and interact with families

from Tennessee to Pennsylvania and several other states as well.

The common threat among the majority of them was the eagerness of their youngans to

continue with mom and dad in the outdoors or the eagerness of mom and dad to get them out there.

We're going to talk about that this week, but first, I'm going to tell you this story.

Thank you. First, I'm going to tell you this story. Kyle Lankford is a police officer with the YDOT Nation Police Department in Miami, Oklahoma.

Now, it's spelled like it should be pronounced, Miami.

But if you call it Miami and you're referring

to the city in Oklahoma and not the one in Florida, the oakees are quick to correct you.

Now, Kyle has been in law enforcement for over a dozen years, and a decade of it was spent in patrol.

Now he's a resource officer at the local school and has been for a couple of years.

This story is about a hunt with his father and brother when he was a kid, and now he

passed that tradition down to his children.

I've talked enough about what we're going to hear, so let's just get in there and sort it out.

With Kyle's words and my voice, here we go.

As far back as I can remember, I can still hear the stories from my dad and Uncle Jerry

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