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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 518: Trapping Lynx on the Home Range

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Carmen Vanbianchi, Brooklyn Stevens, Jen Lewis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: Starting your euro mount business at 17 because you like saving other peoples’ memories; babysitting the skull and and using dental picks; get your skull cleaned by Brooklyn at 406.boneworks; when the crazy driver who passes you on the road is Cal hauling a trailer; the Apex Belt system and the best duffle bag ever made by FHF; coining the term “bob kitten”; culling barred owls; are you invasive if you move somewhere on your own?; how lynx can end up in weird places; how old man faces and baby faces are the same; tail differences; the hurt on the lynx population; critters escaping fire; looking for tracks at high speed; when the community comes together to help you get road kill deer to lure lynx; the strong smell of gusto; males vs. females going into traps; how getting a mortality signal from a collar makes your heart sink; minimizing stress; K-holes; how a fisher can whoop a lynx; Steve’s list of gripes; how to play Home Range's Trap-a-Cat fundraiser game; and more.

Outro music: "The Ballad of Steven Rinella" by Jon Theis.

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0:00.0

Get ready for the best thing ever done on the blood-soaked story of the white-tailed deer skin trade of the 1700s.

0:07.0

It's called Meat Eater's American History, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775 told by me Stephen Ronella and my good friend

0:16.8

clay nucum from the Bear Greece podcast this audio book is the first installment

0:22.0

in meat eat's American History series.

0:25.0

It's a bizarre tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman

0:29.0

and the forgotten trade in the skins of North America's favorite big game animal, the white-tailed deer,

0:35.0

featuring the exploits of Daniel Boone and a host of other long hunters

0:39.0

as they forced their way through one of the most violent, inspiring, and bad-ass periods of American history.

0:46.7

It's out now and available wherever audio books are sold.

0:50.2

That's Meat Eater's American History, the Longhunters.

0:53.0

1761 to 1775, available for download now. This is the Meat Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severelybitten and in my case underwearless.

1:14.4

We call it The Meat Eater Podcast.

1:17.2

You can't predict anything.

1:18.9

The Meat Eater Podcast is brought to you by First Life, whether you're checking trail cams, hanging deer stands,

1:24.4

or scouting for elp, First Light has performance apparel to support every hunter and every

1:29.4

environment. Check it out at First Light.com. F I R S T L I T E dot com.

1:38.8

All right we got more women in here than normal.

1:42.4

By a long, normally number is just krin.

1:44.0

Everybody knows how lame that is.

1:50.0

Today we're joined by probably for the millionth time Carmen Van Bianchi.

1:54.8

How many times have been on the show?

1:58.0

Maybe this is number five?

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