Old Mountain Hunter: Ora Lee Provence

Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This is one of the most unique podcasts we’ve ever recorded and I doubt we’ll ever duplicate it. Ora Lee Provence was born in 1927 in Crawford County, Arkansas and has made a living off the land his whole life – currently he’s 91 years old and still lives in the same hollow in which he was born. On this podcast we’ll hear about Ora’s life growing up in the rural Ozarks Mountains and his early introductions to hunting. He talks about his methods of deer hunting in the Ozarks. We’ll also hear about his incredible season in 1965 when he harvested two bucks off public land, one scored 165” and the other 186” and had double droptines! Ora and his wife Mary tell some incredible stories. Also, Mrs. Mary tells her favorite way to cook deer meat and the best way to freeze sweet corn so you can eat it all year. Be sure to check out Bear Hunting Magazine at www.bear-hunting.com and use code BHM5 for $5 off a one-year subscription.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
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0:29.8	My name is Clay Newcomb, and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast.
0:35.0	I'll also be your host into the world of hunting the icon of North American
0:40.3	wilderness, the bear. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you into
0:47.3	some of the wildest country on the planet chasing bear.
1:04.7	This is a very special episode of the Bear Honey magazine podcast that I doubt that I will ever be able to replicate with another guest.
1:07.9	I had the opportunity to sit down with Ori Lee province of Crawford County,
1:15.0	Arkansas. Ory is 91 years old. His name is Oro Lee Province, but he goes by Ory. I got
1:21.8	to sit down with Ory. I've known Ory for about 10 years or so, and I was introduced to him because of the legend that he was in the region that he deer hunts, because of some deer that he killed back in the 1960s.
1:37.3	And so I went and did a story for a regional Arkansas hunting magazine about ORI Province and the two big bucks
1:46.7	that he killed in 1965 on public land in the rugged Ozark Mountains.
1:54.2	Ory is a unique man today because of the life that he's lived.
1:59.8	Ory was born in 1927 back in the same holla that he now, he still lives in.
2:06.7	And basically, he's lived off the land his whole life, from logging to chicken farming to growing tomatoes.
2:15.2	Ori has managed to never have to get a job in town except for a short time in 1954.
2:22.8	ORI is an old school human, and I really have just a special place in my heart for guys like him.
2:30.9	I think growing up in Arkansas, I don't know if it was my dad or if it was,
2:37.0	I believe it was a combination of things, but my dad definitely had a lot of respect for these old
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