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To another Knock-On Podcast and this is going to be a really cool one because for those of you who have followed me as a hunter, I can tell you that most of all the ninja skills I've learned as a hunter has come from what I was taught starting at age 9 from my Uncle Kenny.

And I've got my Uncle Kenny with us today so how are you man? Well I'm fine, I'm starting over again.

He gets all serious when he knows he's on air but no you you definitely implemented all the grass roots things for me when it comes to hunting and learning to outsmart white tails

because down there where you're at in Mississippi I grew up down kind of in the Mississippi Delta and my uncles from Natchez Mississippi and those deer are as smart as they come I think.

Yeah I think I think that history that I see is that we've hunted these animals with so many different variations.

We do, we use drives, archery rarely never got proper until the early 70s and so most of it was gun hunting we've had rifles.

I think personally I think the deer have just been hunted and pushed so hard that over time they have probably gotten a little bit sharper than I've seen Midwestern deer but I will say that the more people that hunt certain counties in the Midwest the more those deer become activated and a little bit pay more attention to the things that are going around them and more hunting pressure.

It's just you just really I'm not saying that the deer down here are that much sharper because you have to go through extreme decenting paying attention to what you drive you know how quiet you are it just goes on and on and you kill a trophy deer down here it's so especially with archery tackle it's it's gotten to be a very big challenge and it's not that killing hard anymore if you want to go with a rifle but I think that's a good thing.

It is pretty difficult to kill the boat so and I was like my father was you know I was instrumental in me being a hunter because all we did then was to turn out dollars and get on the stand and he never did bow hunts so long and that was just it just got just one little challenge and then I went into that and of course you came through and grew up and had a chance to hunt and

you were smart enough to go north and find bigger deer and you know and land it you know you can manage the year up there with the far edge of Jauha but it's a tradition in the South no question.

Well I know that when I I kind of went just to give everyone a little background when I started when I first got a rifle I had probably only shot a few deer at that point but needless to say one day I thought my grandpa would be proud if I.

Kind of shot all the deer that I saw because I had a pretty good actually put me out one day in the rain and I was out there for about five or six hours in the rain keep in mind I'm nine years old and you know I saw a pretty good deer and shot it this was my first time with the rifle because before that you guys just gave me a shotgun with a slug and or with but with buck shot back then actually and I saw

deer and shot it and stayed really quiet and stayed up in that gum tree and then saw another one shot it will by the time you came you know we started picking up deer and we ended up picking up three and I thought he was going to be excited about that but he was he was really disappointed.

He just said well how do you think anyone else out here is going to have any any any opportunity if you're just out here slaughtering everything so he was pretty disappointed and then if he if you knew my grandpa he came out of a came out of the Korean war he was pretty a lot of brothers he was pretty hardcore wasn't a Kenny.

Well yeah yeah there he was black and white there were no gray areas to him you cross the line you know there were consequences and he didn't waste any time initiating the consequences and but that's the whole way we came out of the depression

and things were hard and there was cutting dry and you know I will say this he was hard he was hard on me but I did look back now and think without any question that that discipline that military discipline is probably the reason I'm still alive.

Okay because there was just there was no way his mind that you quit whatever you were doing you just had to do more and so I think there was a little bit of that and there's a lot of that in you too and you don't know it but you know he kind of got your attention snatched you around a little bit when you could and but at the same time I don't think it was anything except trying to get you prepared for what might happen somewhere.

So I was born in the road and in my case while it took 50 years you know I was you know I was prepared to go through whatever you know happened to you just you just just a life lesson that there's nothing wrong with just the family.

That's what the military is about he was a military guy and that's just the way it was you know.

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