Predators in the Yard

We're talking about the latest incident with a predator attack in the yard as well as the all-new Chene turkey film, The King. Don't miss it this week! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome back to the Hunting Roots Podcast. I'm Brody Swisher. This is episode 233, I believe it is. And today we've got Rimbo back in the office. Rimbo, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 0:16

I'm doing pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Taking a little break, and uh it's spring break here for a lot of folks in in West Tennessee. Uh I guess getting ready to kick off this next week. Some people have been on this week. Our boy Aiden has been on this week for spring break. Next week, I guess it's officially the time. Springtime's here, Rimbo, and we're fired up that it's all things good this time of year. If you're a turkey hunter, you love the outdoors. I mean, I say if you're a turkey hunter, it springtime is go time for life just coming back around again and just a renewal of life. We talk about that every year, but it's happening. Um you look out there, dogwoods blooming, the little uh yellow flowers everywhere, and just stuff popping up. Our pear trees out there, getting it on, just just coming back to life. I love this time of year. And again, it's especially good if you're a turkey hunter like you and me. Isn't that right?

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Absolutely. Uh again, this is episode 233. This podcast is brought to you by our good friends at Onex Hunt. OnxMaps.com is the website. Go check it out. Get that app in your phone. You can go to the website and check it out, or just pull up that app store right there on your phone, dump it in, get it, and uh I promise you, if you're a hunter, fisherman, or just someone who easily gets lost driving around town, maybe that's your boo, your spouse, your girlfriend, whatever, this is the app. Remy, you're you're pimping a pretty cool on X, as we speak of Onyx. You're just kind of flexing your shirt there. You've got that, I don't know how you describe it, it's a charcoal shirt, uh, on X Hunt logo patch across the front, a patch, just logo, and it's got that slogan that I wish, I've said it so many times, I wish I thought of it first. It says know where you stand, and I love it. That's probably one of my favorite t-shirts. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

This is probably my favorite t-shirt or I have.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Favorite one you own. It's one of my favorites, and I don't even have one. I don't remember how that worked out that you got the cool shirt. And I mean I got some good ones too, but I think the s the sweetest Onyx swag we ever got is all came in little boy sizes or mediums, or sh mediums, I guess I would say, for you. Uh so I need I need one of those. I need to get get on the website and see if I can round me up one up in a a large, or maybe even an XL. We'll see. But good stuff. Love the crew at Onex. OnexMaps.com. Again, it's a website. Go check it out. See more all about it. I'm telling you, it's it's the hunting app you need to have in your phone for all things scouting, hunting. Just uh again, we say it, you you need to get out there and put boots on the ground, but this will help expedite the process and help you cut to the chase when it comes to a scouting tool right there from the palm of your hand while you're sitting on the couch on the recliner. Your favorite chair, just sitting there in the evenings, you can do some serious scouting. Sitting on the toilet in the morning, pull your phone up, you can do scouting right there. Literally scouting your hunting spot from the crapper. That's pretty good stuff. That's pretty good technology, isn't it? Do you ever do that?

SPEAKER_02 3:27

No.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

No, you don't. I didn't think so. Me neither. I don't know how I would even know such a thing. No, it's good. Love that app. Also, big thanks to the crew at Moss Yoke, Mossyoke.com. Go check out that one as well. Lots of great content popping up, whether you're hunting, fishing, whatever. It's always some good content going up there at mossyoke.com. And then uh obviously they've got all kinds of new things popping up. I think they they just launched their new, I don't know if they call it the deluxe coat or something. It's like this barn coat jacket thing. It's it's sweet. Uh the new Jake's Vest, if you're a young, a young Jake, young youth, um, they've got the new Jake's vest and it's pretty sweet. It's kind of a nod to the old school, old school design. It's got the patch. Awesome. Are you too old now for Jake's Vest? Are you you kind of I am I think we've talked about that a little bit?

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Smalls.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

You're going into adult smalls. Um may just have to call you smalls these days. I don't know, but yeah, you've kind of grown out of that. I thought we we talked about that a little bit, whether your your mossy oak youth vest you've been wearing, if you're gonna get one more year out of it. Have you tried?

SPEAKER_02 4:34

I've already tried it on, it's like way too short.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

You've tried it on this year?

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'd I'd like watched one of the uh turkey videos this year and I was like, It got you. I'm gonna go in the go and get my turkey vest and got all my stuff out and It gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Yeah, you watch a one you watch a video or so, and even if you're not turned on yet for you know to turkey mode, you watch the right video, I should say. Some of them get you and you're like, eh, you know, it's such a horrible video, or just such qualities crap, or just not a good hunt, and then you're like, oh yeah, that's turkey season, blah. It's it's it's not good, you know, that's the the ugly side of turkey season. You watch some of those late season ones that are uh, you know, feast or famine, you know, whatever, you know, it's whatever. And it's like that didn't get me. But then you watch the right video, and all of a sudden it's like, oh, here we go. You know, I watched that Primos film and I was like, yep. Um, you know, that just lit a fire for me all the way around, nostalgia-wise, but the right one does it. Which one did it for you? Do you remember what it was?

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Maybe one of the hunting public ones.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Have they even started posting? They're just posting old stuff, right? Last year's kind of, yeah. That seems to be the norm now. Guys will hold on to those videos, and it makes sense because they'll hold on to those videos from last year, they're late season hunts. Because when you get in late season hunts, I think people are tired. They're either tagged out, burn out, uh, just tired of turkey hunting or watching it, you know, because we've been living it for, you know, months and months and and I say months and months, a month of turkey hunting, or maybe maybe several months, depending on where you've you know, where you've been traveling. But and I just don't feel like people are watching it. You know what I'm saying? It gets late in the season, you're just kind of like, man, I'm tired. I mean, I'm doing my own hunts. I don't really have time to watch somebody else's hunts, and end of seasons come, you're already looking for something else, and you're just kind of burnt out. And I don't think, you know, I think that viewership just goes way down. And so they save those videos because nobody's watching turkey videos anymore when it comes to late May and June. They save those late season hunts and they save them for the next year. So I think that's what some of those have been popping up.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

It's pretty smart.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Yeah, good concept. I'm anxious to see though, Aiden and I were talking about this morning, like the hunting public. You know, usually we see their first videos pop up uh around this time. It usually coincides with the Mississippi Youth Turkey season, which started last Saturday. And it's usually who you see on there are boys, Polk boys, Polk's and the Thrash boys, and those are always a trip because those dudes are just we love 'em, obviously they're friends. Um but it's just it's fun to see them, but they're also entertaining, you know. They're they're they're fun guys and uh it shouldn't be long now. Uh little little youngest Polk Ben Polk, he he's coming up in the ranks. I mean the older boys are kind of I think they've probably tapped out, you know, beyond the youth season anymore.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

But little Ben's coming on, and so that should be good.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Yeah, because the others they'll be there's uh excuse me. The oldest is already not able to do youth hunt anymore. Is a little sweet able to?

SPEAKER_01 7:40

That's what I'm wondering. He's gotta be right around that 16-ish. I think he is right around 15, 16. He's probably still hanging in there. Well, checking with them. But hopefully, hopefully those guys, you know, make it on the hunting public videos again. They're doing the pushing and scouting and um accommodating those guys. And so hopefully those videos are popping up. If they haven't already, I haven't been on YouTube in a bit. So uh those are some of the first videos of the year that are fresh, that are live, kind of semi-live as the season unfolds. And so always good. But like you said, all it takes is one one video just to light the fire. One good video to light the fire, and then the next thing you know, you're pulling out your cald, you're pulling out your vest, you're going through, cleaning out the crap from your uh vest from last year, finding granola bars that are just like disintegrated and just a you know thing of mush or you know, cereal bars that are mush.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Pulling out that tall timber Gabriel.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Tall timber Gabriel comes out, gets some chalk, just has to yawn on that sucker, and and man, it's yeah, it's right back there to it. And I I'm deliberately kind of not doing all that stuff because I was talking to a guy at the at the ballgame the other night, and it's just like man, it's kind of just semi-depressing when you you you if you start watching some of these videos, you get fired up and then you're like, oh wait, it's it's uh we still have a month. It's March 10th or it's March, whatever it is. March, you know, and and then and then you realize we got a month. We still got a month.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

That's Tennessee though.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

In Tennessee, yeah, right, in Tennessee. So, um I don't know. We we didn't make it back down to Mississippi this year with our buddy Doug. We we missed out on that. We should have tapped into it. It's just been so busy. March has been so busy with all the stuff we've got going, new stuff this year. Um which is not a good excuse. We need to get out and make it happen uh on some youth hunts for you while you're still a youth. Um but you know, if you if you get carried away and you start getting calls out too early, and then just like, man, we've still got a long time. And that's what hurts the most about this change in Tennessee to pushing the season back to mid-April. It just good gracious, it's a long time. And you start watching everybody hunting and you feel like good gravy, man, these guys have been hunting for a month and we we just now getting started. And um it's kind of tough, kind of depressing that that that's the way it rolls out, but um I'm not gonna complain. I mean, it's it's when we do start our season, it's right in the middle of it. It's right in the good stuff. It's not like you have that early season hand up stuff. No, you got birds that are doing bird things, and a season kicks off full rut in the turkey woods, and so I I like that. All good. Man, you just looked out the window and you thought you saw what?

SPEAKER_02 10:19

A bobcat. It was it was our cat. Our just regular house cat.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Yeah, it's just that stupid, and that's how fat that cat is, and it could be resembling a bobcat.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

It was just like the way it was walking, like prancing or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

It's that little sneaky bobcat drop.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

But even though like its colors resemble a raccoon, I just thought it was a bobcat for a second.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

It's gonna get shot one of these days. Not by me. I don't know, it could be, but I mean I it's gonna get shot one of these days for looking like too much of a raccoon. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 10:55

I think the tail just doesn't look like a raccoon.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Well, yeah, but it's it's it's the body.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Everything else looks just like a raccoon and I feel like somebody would shoot it if the tail wasn't so like cat like and she didn't have a collar on.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Yeah.

unknown 11:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Hey, let's talk about predators today because we do have several situations we need to talk about that have been have gotten ugly. But while we're talking about videos that uh a minute ago we talked about videos that that kind of light the fire, I saw this one pop up. I want to play just the first part of this. Um and we're gonna watch this in just a little bit. This is the uh Shin Gear presents what they're calling a film called The King. I love that, The King. The King is coming. Um and it's uh let's see, came out just a couple days ago. Uh again, Shin presents a film called The King. I think it's like 20 minutes, and uh it's got some of our friends in it and different folks we know. Shin Gear, based out of Memphis, right here in our own backyard. Love that. Uh good crew of folks, and like I said, we hadn't even we hadn't even seen this, but just let me let me give you this first. I just watched this first little teaser or intro. Uh call it a trailer, if you will, and pretty, pretty hot. Let's uh let you guys listen to it. You guys go check out this film.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

If you had to write up the perfect Eastern wild turkey hunt, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 12:25

The perfect Eastern hunt for me is you know, early spring. Uh the woods are still uh not a lot, but not big. You have a little hint of spring when you look down the ridge side. I'm gonna get him hot ridge. I'm gonna get him listening to it. Turkey starts gobbling surprises when he gets fired up a slip in there. 125 yards for this. Get set up on goblin dude. Hit him with a couple little tree notes. He's gonna drop. And his accomplices are gonna start jumping back at me. I can tell he turns. I hear him fly down. Hits around, I hit him with a couple more.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

It's just every second, your heart's in your throat, and you don't know where he is.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

I got my safe off. I'm freaking shaking like a leaf.

SPEAKER_04 13:11

You can literally hear his footsteps from those leaves coming. It's gobbling wow, everybody's shaking, and all of a sudden just as I wake completely calm. He's just looking for what he thinks. Oh, it's supposed to be, and it's not there. I gotcha. And that that's what that's what I would think could be here.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

That is the intro for the king. Uh need to check that one out. Um pretty hot stuff. I like that.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Just you just hear that. And that lights the fire. And I don't know who's doing stuff down there for Shin Gear, but man, they've they've had uh heck of a crew that does their production stuff and just a really really good quality. You can talk about quality stuff, just just everything. Good creatives down there. And that's one that lights the fire. The King of Spring, the Wild Turkey, and again, about a 20-minute film. It's got lots of familiar faces in it. Daniel Hayes, uh Carrie Wicks, it's got Dave Owens, um Harold Knight. My gosh, man, what a lineup of folks. I think Hunter Wallace from Rolling Thunder is in the mix there. And so just a cool, cool lineup, cool film. We're gonna have to go watch that one. Crank up some popcorn and beverage of choice. What would it be?

SPEAKER_02 14:41

Dr. Pepper.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Dr. Pepper. So Dr. Pepper do it. Give me that.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

I'm good. Dr. Pepper?

SPEAKER_01 14:47

What does she say?

SPEAKER_02 14:48

I don't really know.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

It's good and nice. Good and sweet.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

All right.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

You don't you wanna move on? You do y you do it so good. I don't know why you don't want to do it. Anyway, there's a Dr. Pepper commercial. You just have to get Remy sometime to say it for you. He sings it really well. We won't make him do it on the podcast because that is kind of embarrassing. But Dr. Pepper, beverage of choice with some popcorn and this new movie from Shin Gear. That is definitely on the list of things to knock out and get done, checking those out. Cool stuff. And again, all it takes is just that right film to put you in the mood, light you up, and maybe you're already there. But if not, go watch this one. We're gonna do that. We like it. Hey, let's talk about you. We mentioned the cat out here that looks like a bobcat. And we're kind of I think you're kind of uh where we all are right now. You you see something out there and like, ooh, bobcat. And and you just immediately go to predator mode. Why are we in predator mode as we look out our windows here the last 24 hours?

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Because a coyote had attacked and killed one of our rooster chickens yesterday. Was it one or two?

SPEAKER_01 15:53

Somebody told me it was two.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

And I thought it was two, and I couldn't find it wa so they're like silky chickens, and I couldn't find two of the silky chickens because they I thought both of them got attacked, but then I put them back in their cage because of course the coyote might come back and get them.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

He's coming back.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

And I'm like, We have two white ones, and I couldn't find a white one, and I looked everywhere, and then when I was looking in their cage, I saw the second white one laying in the nesting box. So it was only one rooster that got killed.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Oh, that's too bad. How many how many roosters do we need to get killed? Because you've got like five.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

We have three.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Three more or three or two now?

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Two now, but we had three. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Until that's not a bad deal because roosters needed to get gone.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yeah, but that was the one we liked though.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

What did you call him?

SPEAKER_02 16:44

Trump.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

You called him Trump. Yeah. So have you named all the roosters and stuff, pol you know, politicians and stuff?

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Yeah, Easton, he named all of the silky chickens politic names or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

Oh yeah. That could be dangerous, but Trump got taken out. Uh it finally happened. Uh I mean not finally happened, but like the the real Trump. I mean, they tried to take him out a few times, and now the the chicken Trump is is gone. What's crazy about it we've had this happen a lot of times. I mean I can't even begin to uh think how many times I mean how many we killed out there out back. I mean, I know we've killed I know we've killed thirteen. I keep saying thirteen, it's gotta be more now. That's thirteen, just foxes, though. I'm thinking of just foxes alone, grays and red foxes. We've killed thirteen, maybe more than that.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

I've said that number for several years now, but we've killed at least one coyote probably back there.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Yeah, we killed a coyote, trapped a coyote last year. Aiden trapped a coyote back there last year. The coyotes are tougher. A lot of people say the coyotes uh are the easy ones, and foxes are the tough one, you know. The smart old fox, wise old fox, he's witty, he's uh not witty, he's wise, uh and and just he's he's slick. But we've always done more on the foxes. I mean, that's been the easiest thing for us to catch every year is foxes, and the coyotes have been the toughest or bobcats, uh, because we got them both and um and the foxes are the ones that we usually see. And the stunt that mom, you know, we had yesterday, the way mom told about it, I thought she probably saw a fox and thought it was a coyote.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Yeah, she told me that it was a fox, and then she changed it to coyote, and I'm like, okay, which one is it?

SPEAKER_01 18:27

Really? She was like, I know it wasn't red fox. And I said, Well that's fine, it could have been a gray fox. And she said, No, it was big. It was like a big dog, it wasn't a little gray fox. Because gray foxes are small. Even a big one's pretty small. Uh so I'm gonna give you know, give her the benefit of the doubt that it was a coyote, but she said, I mean, she's sitting there at the table working.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Cricket's just on the bed sleeping, not even being a good watchdog.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Yeah, her watchdog is not doing much watching, just laying there sleeping on the bed, uh, by the door, but not looking out the door, snoozing. But mom hears this chaos. Now, with the chickens are pretty noisy on any given day. They're pretty, you know, they're especially when they're laying an egg, they're making all kind of ruckus. They get to fighting and they're making noise. But apparently, you know, when when you can tell. I mean, I've had it happen before up where you just hear this craziness. It's like they're all doing their noises like Yeah, they're they're scattering, they're they're flying. You can just hear something that stirred them up. You can kind of tell when something got in them, and you'll know it when you hear it. And I've heard that before when a fox came up in the front yard right here by the front porch by the cars. Well, apparently mama hears that yesterday, and she looks out the window, and there it is. Ten yards from the deck, if that.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

And it's got a rooster in its mouth.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

And I don't know, I mean, I love your mom to death. Not a killer. She's not a killer, so I I don't know. I wasn't here, but I should have been down there. Where were you?

SPEAKER_02 19:56

I was in my room.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Did you hear her screaming about it?

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Or where did you get in the book and I just heard like chickens and then I heard Ricky barking and then I heard mom yelling at the coyote and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

What was she doing? I would have loved to have heard that.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

She was like yelling like, get out of here, go.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

She's yelling. She like instead of like Instead of getting a gun.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Instead of like quickly getting a gun real quick and like shooting it, but like you can't judge her on not doing that. She's never like shot an animal at all.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

So we gotta work on that.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

We gotta work on that. Because she did say, I didn't have a gun. I'm like, the gun's right there in the corner. We always keep a gun. In fact, I get mad if we don't have a gun in that living room, that great room somewhere by the kit. It's just a great room. So for y'all that have never been to our house, it's uh just a great room. It's got our living, you know, or uh yeah, our living room, our little couches and TV are over in kind of one half of the room, and then the other half is the dining corner, and then the kitchen. It's all just one big room. And if there's not the AR somewhere in there, I'll get ticked off. Especially when I'm in panic mode and there's a coyote out there, a fox or a bobcat, and they're standing out there and and ravaging chickens, and I'm like, where's my gun? And somebody's moved it. They've moved it back to my office back here or somewhere else, and I'm like, oh my gosh. I just when I lose my cool, that's usually you can count on that. And when there's a gun's gun and there's an animal to be shot, and my gun's not around.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

She could have at least got a 22 gun and tried to just hit him with that. I mean, I know that's not gonna do a whole lot. Kind of like not do the damage that an AR would, but like still.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Well, it's at least yeah, it's at least a pop gun and it would kill a coward if you hit it good, but but I don't even think that's what I'm saying. She doesn't know. I mean, you know, she's shot some guns and stuff before, but from gun to gun she's not gonna oh, yep, racket back and pop drop one in, and you know I'm saying she's not gonna get you know uh She doesn't know how to do it like Yeah. Well she's not like uh Reba McIntyre on the movie Tremors, you remember? She's like that's my new seven millimeter magnum, bolt action, blah blah you know. Uh yeah, she's not rednecked like that. And but we need to give her those lessons. We need to give her that, hey, drop this AR back, pull it back, let it go, pop it, you know, bump feet up there, and just let it roll. And she'd be too scared. Well, it don't kick at all. So I mean anyway, we've got to get her a lesson in that and and you know the 22 as well, so she can just sit there and at least rack off some shots when something like that happens. But the thing was ten yards behind the house. I mean, there's no excuses for that. I mean, I could hit that. I mean, that's close enough. I miss a lot, but I feel like somebody could have popped them at ten yards.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

You just gotta get that. Like, even if there's not an AR or any kind of like good rifle in the house, you just gotta get a you gotta get a uh semi-auto 22 pistol and just let it eat.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

This guy right here. I mean, uh this is why we keep this right here. If I need a quick little action, I mean that's a rat-a-tat-tat. It ain't much to it, but it it'd get the job done if you need to.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

And um that thing doesn't work half the time.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

I know. A little twenty-two, what is this thing?

SPEAKER_02 22:58

22 pistol.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

I know it's a 22 pistol, but it's uh 22 Ruger. And I don't hate on Ruger because I like Ruger guns. This little thing here has just kind of jacked up. LCP2 is what it's called. It's super loud though. Yeah, well, it's because it's tiny, you know, it's smaller than the palm of your hand. I got it for just trapping, you know, my trap gun, so I could just pop them, you know, stick in my pocket. And it is, you can stick in your p you know, jeans pocket, but it does kind of but every other shot doesn't want to shoot. So I don't know. So yeah, so coyote gets in, so he kills one rooster, and I mean it just ran off. So mama's yelling at it to run off, and she sticks her head out the door and yelling at it, and then did she did she let cricket out or not?

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Cricket, so when she opens up the door to stick her hat out to yell at it, cricket, like I'm pretty sure went under her legs and starts running outside.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

But did Cricket see the coyote?

SPEAKER_02 23:49

No, she's so stupid she went left and the coyote was right, which is actually a good thing because that coyote would have beat her up.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

I don't know, man. That'd be a pretty good scrap. Hell Mountain Cur, she's she's I think she would not win, but I don't know. She's she's full of whiz and vinegar and I mean just she's scrappy. But a coyote, I mean, quite coyote is a wild, I mean, a killing machine, so yeah, if it came down to it, I'd say that the coyote is faster, quicker, and would probably kill her.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

Cricket, she'd run away.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

She'd be dy she'd die trying though, probably, 'cause she's I mean, she got a little scrapped last week on that squirrel hunt and she never backed down. Um but anyway, so you know, mama drops the ball on getting a coyote killed ten yards from the back door, grabs a chicken, mom's just yelling, not shooting, but yelling. And and the cow, she said the coyote wasn't real tore up about it. It just kind of trotted on not real scared.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

So it's that's like the problem. Like you want it to like run away like it's really scared, but to know that it's only trotting around, it's probably like that coyote has done this thing before.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

He's done it before and he'll do it again. Now I don't think coyotes are as bad. I don't think coyotes are as bad as foxes for consistency. Like I think a coyote, he may come back and check things out at night, but man, foxes get stupid when when they kill and then they'll be back. And when it's like they get in kill mode and they'll just come all day long. I've seen that before. We've shot several like that. You look out there and you see them and they get one, like, oh, you run them off, and then an hour later, here they come back. When they find that food source and they're hungry and they're feeding, you know, their their babies or something, I don't know what it is, they'll just come back stupid. Middle of the day, uh, with you out in the yard. We've had them, you know, we've told that before, but we've been out in the yard shooting bows and hanging out in the yard, and a fox attacks chickens while we're in the yard.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

You gotta draw back that bone and shoot them.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Well, I I missed one doing that. I was shooting that longbow that time. I think we've told that story, but I was shooting a longbow and fox attacks chickens in the backyard. I slip back in the backyard and I'm standing by a tree waiting for it to come up, and it runs up and grabs a chicken, chases the chicken less than ten yards from me. And I'm sitting there trying to scramble to put the arrow on the string and get it all together, and I mean it's a longbow, and I'm, you know, I'm good to hit something at ten yards at all. And it's on the run, and I slung at it, but I mean it came up within ten yards of me, grabs a chicken, and of course they just didn't, you know, wouldn't pay much attention. He was so focused on the chicken, didn't see me, didn't care, whatever. And I remember he grabbed a chicken at 10 yards from me, less than 10 yards, grabs a chicken in his mouth, and I'm trying to shoot, and I'm like, and I just finally yell at him. He because he grabs a chicken, starts to leave, and I'm like, hey! And all he had to do was run. But he drops a chicken. I guess I scared him so much. He drops a chicken and runs. Chicken's like, what in the world, dude? Like just disorienting, staggering the sideways.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

I think that chicken's still alive.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

No way.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Yes, I'm pretty sure. Like, because uh we have one really old chicken. White chicken? Huh?

SPEAKER_01 26:58

White chicken?

SPEAKER_02 26:59

No, it wasn't a white chicken.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Oh, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

Um, it was like it's got like uh I don't think it's a Rhode Island red, but like it's got like a little bit like light red and some white and uh buff? No, that's what it is. Buff warpingtons are yellow. Um but and it's been around that chicken's been around for like six or seven years, but like I'm not joking, seriously.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Yeah, but yeah, that would be that would be within that time frame.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

I think um that might be the chicken though.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Yeah, could be. We've got some oldies out there that probably need to go in the pot because they're not they're not putting out quite as good either. But um anyway, crazy stuff. We've seen it all back here. Foxes have been the norm. We've shot them, we've trapped them um two years ago. No, I guess it was last season in the season, back at the boneyard, about a hundred yards behind the house. We we we throw some scraps and rib cages and stuff, kind of give those opportunities and uh at predators. And I remember shot the bobcat one morning, five minutes apart, shot a bobcat and a fox. We've talked about that before. Um but when they're hungry, they're hungry and they're gonna be there. And I just think about it, man. This this particular coyote, I'm thinking about it, if he comes up and he's he's working on chickens in the yard and he's not, you know, he don't care, you know he's out there. Any turkeys, he's gonna be after them. You know what I'm saying? If there's turkeys on the landscape, that coyote's at least gonna try. Now, whether they're very successful, I don't think they are uh at full-grown turkeys. I don't think they're just really successful. I feel like they they run in and they they you know, blow them, they scatter them, the you know, turkeys fly up in the trees and then they hang out in the trees for the rest of the morning until the coyote's gone. I've seen that a lot, and I don't ever really see them catching them like a bobcat might. But you can dang sure bet that he every you know, every chance they get, every chance they get, they're gonna be trying to to get 'em. And when you do have baby turkey, we've got those polts out there, the young ones. That's that's pretty easy pickings for 'em, you know. And so you gotta get them off the landscape. And I just thought about that. Mom's like, Man, it's a tan. He was a tan. She just remembers how tan the kite was.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

She said it looked like a German shepherd. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

The size of a German shepherd, but which is not that big. You know how sometimes people exaggerate stories and embellish stories, whatever. But either way, she's got it. And so I just thought about that. I was like, man, you know, she said y'all need to kill that thing. And I thought about that, you know. Yeah, because you kill that thing, and then that's just one less killer running around the woods. I I thought about that, you know, a lot. You know, when we think about bad dudes, and you think there's a killer on the loose, and you got a serial killer or just some crazy person that's running around. When you get that person out of there, that's a that's a relief. And it's like, okay, good, we're not worried about that. That's a bad dude off the streets. And it's the same thing with these coyotes. I mean, when you take out a coyote that's running around your yard killing chickens, that's a big deal to take him off the landscape. And we need to do more of that. So we need to get out there and try to kill him.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

We just need to do more trapping. I don't feel like we have done any trapping at all.

SPEAKER_01 30:14

Well, we hadn't this year other than some coon traps. So yeah, we need to get the coyote traps out for sure. Especially going in this time of year. And we need to get the coons and coyotes need to, as we go into you know, spring turkey season, uh, another push. Everybody does it during the winter time, but man, when these polts start hitting the ground, that's when, you know, for the sake of the eggs and the sake of the polts, we need to have, you know, the bobcats and the foxes and the coyotes trimmed back.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

We're getting so many chicken eggs that we don't need a get a coon or a possum even trying to get in the nest and taking some.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Yeah. I mean, they're just they're bad news. You know, the possums, the coons, the skunks. They're bad news on those eggs. And so again, I don't think you need to let up on those. Um you know, I d I don't think you need to let up. I think you need to keep after all those nest raiders and then the cows as well. They're just they're just stone-cold killers. And you got stone-cold killers in your backyard, that's not a good deal. Because if they're up here, they're out there, they're doing their thing, and they're just killing your critters, your small game, your turkeys. Um and so we need to get back on it, Rimbo. We need to be relentless because they are relentless. And um anyway, I I hate to see it happen right here in the yard. We gotta get after it. No more mercy. We've been we've been slack on them. Like you said, we hadn't done it in a while, and and we've it's showing. When they start showing up in the backyard, that means we're not doing our job out there managing the predators. But at least they got a rooster that we're probably gonna put in the pot anyway. We're gonna eat that sucker, aren't we?

SPEAKER_02 31:48

No, we're gonna try to give it away to some of our friends that have a farm.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

That wants a rooster.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

Yeah. We're gonna try to give it to Hayden, but they already have two roosters that are fighting.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

Don't need another one. Well, it's here. It's an awesome time of year. Uh I'm anxious to get out there. I do want to get out. We need to get out and make a few cowouts and then listen for turkey. We do that a lot. We'll go listen for turkeys and then when we hear them or don't hear them, then we squeal on that little predator call a little bit. Try to kill some coups. We'll do that in these next couple days. Got a trip to Florida coming up to speak and an event down there coming up soon. That's gonna be a good time. And then, man, just it's boom, boom, boom. From here on, it seems like it's just stuff happening. Good times coming, and so looking forward to that. Hey, I want to share uh a little passage with you as we wrap this one up. And I shared this with our youth students. We've been talking about Sodom and Gomorrah, and we talk about Lot and how Lot kind of kept getting over there closer and closer, and and it says in you know, chapter 19, uh, or actually back in 18, I guess, he's talking about um where was it? He maybe it's 17. Good gosh, I don't know where. Anyway, it was somewhere in here. Abraham Lot, no, it's is it 13, chapter 13? Lot of 14. Yeah, 13. You know, Abram at that time he was Abraham was Abram. And he and Lot go up and it's like, hey, we're we're our herds are getting too big. I've got cattle people everywhere, you got herdsmen everywhere, they're not getting along. Listen, Lot, you go your way, I'll go mine. You pick that land, I'll go this way. If you pick this way, I'll go that way. And what does Lot do? He looks up and it's like, man, that looks good down there. He looks up to the land towards Sodom Gomorrah, and he's like, That looks good. Even though knowing good and well the land and the people of it is exceedingly sinful, wicked people. But it's like, I'm gonna go, I'll take that. Doesn't care what Abraham thinks, he doesn't even offer to Uncle Abraham, hey, well, why don't you do it? I mean, you got you're you're my elder, you pick what you think's best. He gets a little greedy, he picks the good-looking stuff, even though it's in the direction of the sin. He picks the place towards Sodom, and it says he he pitched his tents towards Sodom. Don't laugh at me. You've watched that video before. Excuse me, you carry on. You're laughing because of the preacher that one time tried to say pitched his tents towards Sodom. And instead of saying pitched his tents toward Sodom, I think he said pinch instead of pitch. He said pinch his yeah. And you can figure that one out on your own. So I'm real careful, especially when I was teaching the youth and preaching through this, I kept I had to really remind myself. Yeah, I was real careful that not say, you know, when I kept trying to say pitched his tents towards Sodom. I would oftentimes say he set up his camp or he set up his tent instead of saying pitch. And so for fear of saying pinch and going south on that. But anyway, Lot does that. He chooses what looks like the best land, even though it's towards sin, it's uh the sinful area. He pitched his tents towards Sodom, and then it's a slow, slippery slope that he he gets closer, he gets closer, and then we got to talking last night about the doom of Sodom in chapter 19, and and Lot went from pitching his tent towards it and just kind of setting up towards it, to now in chapter 19, verse 1, it says the the angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. He's Lot's now not just set up towards it, not just moving closer. He's literally at the gate, sitting in the gate of Sodom. And you know the story probably that um, you know, God's like, hey, I'm fixing to destroy this place. Sodom is horrible, uh, it's full of sin, wickedness, everybody there is just ridiculous, and can't even find 10 people. You know, Abraham trying to strike a deal, like, hey, look, what if we can find 50? What if we can find 45 righteous people? Would you spare the city? He said, sure, I'll do that. I got you. He said, what about 40? Okay, sure. And it gets down 30, 20, and then Abraham finally comes back. Hey, listen, Lord, one last time I'm gonna ask you, I'll quit bothering you. What if I can just find 10? He couldn't find 50, now he's down to 10. And the Lord's like, okay, sure. You find 10 righteous people, I'll spare the city. And he can't do that. Can't even find 10. So he's gonna he's gonna wipe Sodom and all these awful people. You know, you talk about how awful they are. We we live in an awful time now. Um you think it's bad now, but I mean it it was really bad then. Um these these angels come to town and and the men of the city, they're so nasty, they're so awful, they're so perverted. Um the men surround Lot's house. Got these angels inside, and they surround the house. Um, and it says the men of the city, both young and old, all the people from every quarter, they surrounded the house. And they called out to Lot and said to him, This is chapter 19, verses 7, or uh verse 4. So they called out to Lot and said to him in verse 5, where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out so we may have relations with them. This is homosexual men, perverted men wanting to have these two men, these angels that came to town, say, Hey, bring them out so we can have relationships. We want to mess them, we want to rape them. Men, old men, young men, men from every part of town wanting to rape these men, and it's just awful. Um, and this is the sin that Lot has allowed himself to get into. But the beauty of this whole situation is God's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna spare you, Lot. You need to get out of here, you need to run. And look again in verses 16. This is what I want to focus on here, this passage from verse 16. Fast forward. They're getting ready to literally torch Sodom off the face of the map. All these evil people in it, the whole, everybody's dying because they're none righteous. They're so exceedingly wicked. And they're telling Lot, hey dude, you need to get out of here. It says in verse 15, take up your wife and your two daughters who are with you and get out of here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city. Verse 16 said, But he hesitated. Okay? Lot hesitated. They're like, get out of here, we're fixing them. Smoke the city, everybody in it. You get your wife, your daughters, and get out of here. Lot says, it says that Lot hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him, and they brought him out and put him outside the city. Dude, we do that all the time, do we not? God is telling us to do something. God's leading us to do something, and we're like, uh, we hesitate. We say, maybe in a little bit, Lord, or maybe not today. We procrastinate, we hesitate, and we're like, I I don't think I'm gonna do this right now. Lord, how about tomorrow? Lord, I hear what you're saying, but I'm not ready. We hesitate. And it says, so the men, they literally grab him hand, grab his hand, take his hand, and they're literally taking him. Get out of here. I'm pulling you out of here. You've got to get out of here. And why would they do that? It says it there in the second part of that. It says, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him. They're literally taking him by the hand, leading him out of the mess, leading him out of the sin. Lots allowed himself to get in that. Lot's chosen to move closer and closer. Now he's in the middle of it, living with this nasty, wicked, grievous people. And God's like, hey, I'm gonna take you by the hand. I'm leading you out of here. Why? Because his compassion was upon him. And the compassion of the Lord is upon him, the compassion of the Lord is on us. That's why he walks us out of some nasty situations, some poor decisions we make, sin that we allow ourselves to get in the middle of, and he guides us out because his compassions fail not. His compassions are new every morning, and he loves us, and we need to hold on to him instead of hesitating and instead of saying, hey, not right now, God, I'm gonna do something else. Not right now, I'm doing my own thing. We need to take his hand and like, listen, dude, he's he's leading us. Let's get with it. Let's get out of this mess. Let's not let ourselves get into this mess. His compassions are so good. And just a good word for you guys today. I hope you are encouraged by that and just know that. And um, hang on to him and watch the deceit of the devil. Watch out for that, because that's what he wants to do. He wants to take you down the slippery slope like he did Lot. He he moved him closer. He just started to fix his eyes on it. He looked at it and said, that looks pretty good. That area, that land, I like that. Yeah, it may be wicked, yeah, it may be bad people there, but I'm okay. I like it, it looks good. And then he pitches his tents towards it. Now he's sitting up camp towards it, and he finds himself in the middle of it. Awful place to be. Don't let yourself get there. It's an easy, easy thing to do. Start taking those gradual steps, but Satan wants to jack you up when you get all up in the business of sin. And so don't go there today. Don't let yourselves be a part of that, and uh don't fix your eyes on that. Word, word, word. Yeah. 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