EPISODE 338: Whitetail Evolution & Mule Deer Migration with Jim Heffelfinger
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Gritty Bowmen I sit down at the Western Hunt Expo with Jim Heffelfinger.
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED:
Heritage - Swiss German
Coatimundi - behavior, meat, hunting Arizona
Bear meat, heart meat, liver
whitetail evolution, fossils,
Gritty Book Club Recommendation: American Serengeti - Dan Flores
Columbian Blacktail, Nocturnal, Genetics
Mule Deer hunting, Coues Deer Hunting
Remi Warren - How do you kill a Coues Deer? Find rocky canyon to cover the sound of your approach.
Mule Deer Working Group - Landscape, Migration,
CWD - infected deer
Hunting is the best management for deer population
deernut.com
Deer of the Southwest
Arizona Game & Fish
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's a now Renella had a show where he cooked the testicles and he's like you just throw them in here with butter and you do this and you cook them and they pop and then you know and then you eat them. |
| 0:11.4 | Okay, I've done that like ten times and it's not particularly pleasing. |
| 0:17.4 | I've had bull I haven't tried there but you know I've had cattle bull. |
| 0:21.2 | I just they they're like rubber like they're they're maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've watched this show a couple times I'm like |
| 0:29.4 | you just chew for a long time and some kind of two to three million year old white tail fossils in Florida that are indistinguishable from today's white tail to three million. |
| 0:38.6 | There's a lot of concern around Mule deer. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, yeah, for sure and that's the the Mule they're working group that I'm a part of is is trying to work on some of those issues that are impacting Mule |
| 0:47.1 | during the west and highways and roads and all of that stuff you think about they have to traverse that twice a year and that particular migration route that was 150 miles. |
| 0:55.6 | They spend four months of the year in transit. |
| 0:58.4 | Okay, folks welcome to the Gritty Bowman podcast. |
| 1:02.4 | We are in that the western Hunn Expo and I am joined again by Jim Heffelfinger and do we ever establish the origin of Heffelfinger? |
| 1:14.6 | I don't think we talked about that Swiss German is it and I just that Christmas had did the genetic test and I know that on my father's side |
| 1:23.4 | my grandmother is English and and the Heffelfinger is Swiss German and I know my mother's side is pretty much all German so I did the genetic test and it comes back on three quarter German in one quarter English. |
| 1:34.6 | Nice. |
| 1:36.6 | No surprises there. |
| 1:37.6 | I need to go do that. |
| 1:38.6 | You know what's funny about those genetic tests are surprising. |
| 1:42.0 | You'll have someone come along maybe you can talk about this since you were a biologist and you know all about this genetic stuff. |
| 1:51.8 | I've done a bunch of genetic work with real geneticists but I've done work with them. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.6 | We'll have someone get the testing done. |
| 1:59.6 | Their parent comes out like I don't know 80% Greek and 20% like Turkish or something and then their child comes out like 80% English and 20% Irish and like a tiny bit of Greek. |
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