Hunters Horn - TN Mountain Bear Hunter Eldridge Cutchall
Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever heard a hunter's horn blown? Eldridge Cutchall is 85 years old, and is a lifelong hound hunter from the mountains of East Tennessee. Clay is joined by Tracy (TL) Jones and they go to visit Mr. Eldridge at his home in Green County, Tennessee. Eldridge talks about bear dogs, his old hunting buddies, and what he's learned as a hound hunter. Overall, the emphasis of the podcast is about the lifelong tradition of hunting with hounds, its value, and the old-time hunters that we still have with us. Be sure to check out First Lite's film called "Newcomb" this week on their YouTube channel.
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| 1:35.1 | My name is Clay Newcomb and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast. I'll also be your |
| 1:41.6 | host into the world of hunting the icon of North American wilderness, the bear. |
| 1:47.7 | We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you into some of the wildest country on the planet chasing bear. |
| 2:16.0 | Well, in our family, when my grandfather died, we started a tradition that anybody in our family that was a hound hunter when they die, we bring the hunting horn to the graveside service. |
| 2:20.8 | And the last thing we do before we bury them is my son blows that horn and it's symbolic to us that as we lay them to rest that we're calling |
| 2:27.4 | their dogs in for, long time. see and to sit down with my friend Tracy Jones. |
| 2:51.7 | Tracy Jones is a houndsman, longtime houndsman, and Tracy took me over to a man's house that he |
| 3:02.1 | deeply respects and I do now as well after I met him. |
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