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The Hunting Collective

Ep. 78: Cal's Jorts, Notched Tags, and Elk Opener Stories

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show we’re telling elk hunting stories with our favorite MeatEater crew members Ryan Callaghan, Sam Lungren, and Joe Ferronato. We're slinging tales of success and failure on opening day in Montana, plus the story of Cal's weekend wedding adventures. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out.

0:07.0

It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch

0:12.0

when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go,

0:18.6

oh, sorry! Well, how do you do that? Look no further. We've got a book that will provide the answer

0:25.1

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0:32.4

Chock full of fun activities and adventures that will help build serious outdoor kids. We're talking

0:38.7

knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them. You want to build up a good

0:47.3

hunting buddy, a good fishing buddy out of your kid? Well, start him young by teaching them how to

0:53.0

build a wildlife viewing blind. How to gig a bullfrog. How to navigate through the wilderness using

0:58.9

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1:04.6

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1:11.6

And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. I was just waiting until I had kids long

1:15.3

enough to give me some expertise on the subject. And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this

1:20.8

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1:26.6

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1:33.5

It's for kids eight and up. Catch a crayfish, count the stars, raise some serious outdoor kids with

1:40.2

some serious know how get the book now. Oh, how's it going everybody? Ben O'Brien, the hunting

1:46.7

collective episode 78. We're back again. It's elk season. We're going to do some a little bit

1:52.2

different for this show rather than the format we've been going with lately. I just feel like we

1:56.9

haven't told enough hunting stories lately. And we had we got you hyped last week for elk season.

2:02.3

We talked to a bunch of cool hunters from around. But now we've pulled in three of our favorite

2:08.8

meat eater hunting fools. And we got Ryan Cal Calahant. We got Joe Faranado,

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