Episode #1052: Charles Beaty
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver are joined by Charles Beaty, known to many as the “Prince of Poachers,” for another round of jaw-dropping stories from his former life on the wrong side of the law. Charles reflects on his past as one of the most notorious poachers in the country and the consequences that ultimately reshaped his life.
He shares the story of a time that pure evil from the spiritual realm came to his bedroom in the middle of the night, living and hunting in Mexico, missing his once in a lifetime whitetail buck, and the long, hard road of redemption.
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| 0:00.0 | Same deal, same sound, basically. |
| 0:08.0 | Charles ain't grow. Turn all things. We're up. There are a friend sitting here. |
| 0:21.6 | Don't just follow the crowd. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, boom. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome the Big Honker podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Brought to our friends at Boss Shot Shels. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Shaver. and with us today, The Prince of Poachers, Mr. Charles Bady. Charles, where'd you get that headband at? A friend, give it to me out of East Texas. Finally had one given to me after 30 years of putting feelers out. This old boy called me he was aren't you looking for a coral snake i said yes |
| 1:11.2 | because i got one i said i'll come get it he said i'll bring it to you he drove to see him and visited |
| 1:17.2 | and gave it to me now i've never seen a coral snake ever in my life right do you have you killed very many of them |
| 1:25.5 | never that one i saw in the kennedy to get away with that cop that first cop I took back out of retirement. But that was the only one I ever laid eyes on before. And it just shot so fast. I couldn't believe the speed of a green racer it left. I had no chance to get it. I leaped and tried to put a foot on it. Couldn't get it. How big are those things? Just a hair closer for you turns. Less than 30 inches. That one in the Kennedy I saw was pushing 30 inches. |
| 1:46.3 | Yeah, just pull it closer. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, just't get it. How big are those things? Hold that just a hair closer. Less than 30 inches. That one in the Kennedy I saw was pushing 30 inches. |
| 1:46.3 | Yeah, just pull it closer to you. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah, just a little bit. |
| 1:48.5 | Yeah, the one I saw in the Kennedy was clearly close to 30 inches. So not real big things. This one was 21. I had to sew the head and neck back on, |
| 1:58.2 | where they'd cut off an inch and a half or so. |
| 2:00.7 | But, you know, a 25-inch and a half or so but you know a 25 inch |
| 2:02.5 | coral snake would be perfect for a hat band are they very tall are they real real toxic like worse than |
| 2:07.7 | rattlesnake or not they get in a sleeping bag we can have any time to bite into you before you wake up |
| 2:12.1 | you know they can put their poison in and you're done what is it red touches yellow kill the fella |
| 2:16.1 | yellow kill a fellow. |
| 2:17.9 | Red and black. Red and black, venom, yeah. |
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