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Fist Full of Dirt

FFOD040: Original Deer THUG, Jimmy Riley

Fist Full of Dirt

Ronnie Strickland

Hobbies, Hunting, Deerseason, Fistfullofdirt, Turkeyseason, Fishing, Outdoors, Howto, Leisure, Turkeys, Land, Toxeyhaas, Cuzstrickland, Sports, Wilderness, Mossyoakproperties, Deer, Cuz411, Information, Realestate, Mossyoak

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fist Full of Dirt Podcast we’ll get some tips on hunting whitetails from one of the original Mossy Oak Deer Thugs. Jimmy Riley of Giles Island will share some of what makes them successful at growing and taking big, mature bucks.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Fist Full of Dirt, the official podcast of Mossyoke Properties.

0:10.0

Whether you own a small farm, lease land, or just love hanging in your backyard.

0:15.0

We're all about the outdoor lifestyle and how to get the most from your time in God's great outdoors.

0:21.0

Now here's your host, Roddy Kuz Strickland.

0:24.8

All right, Lorraine, we're back in the Camo Cave.

0:27.8

Welcome back.

0:28.8

Business as usual. We just, yeah, we had two great parts with Tim Wells, the slot master, and he killed Big Louis right after our podcast.

0:37.6

I saw that on Instagram. Good for him.

0:40.0

Good gracious a lie. Boy, he practices what he preaches.

0:43.4

But, you know, if nothing else through the years,

0:46.2

I tell people all the time my cheese meter goes off real easy.

0:49.3

I can tell if somebody's really good or just, you know, putting on a front, that's not no big deal.

0:56.1

And we're going to talk to a guy today that I'm telling you, he grew up hunting the real world. He'll probably say that. He'll probably use that terminology, but he was good.

1:07.0

I was working at a sporting goods store in Natchez, Mississippi, Rec Sporting Goods, and I loved it.

1:12.0

And we were like the Golden Eagle Archery

1:14.7

dealer of the year in this tiny little store. I had tons of bow hunters, tons of

1:19.8

turkey hunters. It was just a mecca back then. It was so much fun. But this dude he would win we'd have a we've started having a we had a big buck contest but we started having a big turkey contest where we'd weigh it and

1:33.8

measure the beard and all that stuff and I think he won it. If he didn't win it every

1:37.8

year I know he wanted two or three times so he was a turkey thug before he was a deer thug.

1:44.2

It's Jimmy Riley who runs and manages Giles Island,

1:48.4

who is, and Giles Island's become a mecca for big deer.

1:52.2

You know, it really has, which kind of freaks me out because

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