The Boys Are Back In Town

After being gone for several months we all finally get back together and catch up on the latest life events.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to West Alabama Woodsman Podcast. I'm Clint. I'm Jason. I'm Jake. Hope you enjoy watching.

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Up front, up front, bigger, bigger.

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Oh, so why do we live in Alabama?

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I don't know. Because we're stupid. You know it's snowing. Montana. Montana. It is snowing. Snow. They're getting six inches of snow this week. We need to go where I want to be. We need to go there.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

I want to be laying in a pile of snow doing a snow angel right about it.

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If we didn't have all these family and friends, I'd I thought of when I was out there in that gardener every day. I thought I always thought to myself, I don't ask Ashley, we need to move about 300 miles that way.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

If I didn't like y'all so much, I'd go up here and make me some new friends. I know.

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Oh Lord, how mercy.

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I think I'd find some friends of her.

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No doubt.

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Job.

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I've always said if I moved anywhere it'd be Louisiana, but after this week's heat, now I'm good. That'd be worse than us. I'll go North.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

You can't get away with that. The food is good.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Yeah, but I mean, I can cook it enough to make it.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

I mean, I can cook it, but still.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Louisiana would be fun. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Yeah, you got all somebody's always got shrimp and crab. And fresh fish.

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Fruit soft shell crabby fried.

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You can walk up to some of them shrimp boats and hold a five-gallon bucket out and they'd dump it off in there. Yep. A lot cheaper than we can get it here. And it'd be so good, man. Shrimp be that long.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

We could do something with them.

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Oysters, fresh or collie.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Or them on the grill with a little parmidan and button.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Man, and a jalapeno, a pizza jalapeno, man, that's a man just take porter cocktail sauce. I like the porseradish cocktail sauce.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

I like them that way, but I like them on the grill better. Yes. Love them. I love them. My wife loves them. Yeah, most girls don't like oysters, but she does.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

My wife will eat them baked. But anyway, baked, but she won't cook them raw.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

She'll eat them baked too.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Mine will eat them, but you gotta have enough cheese and bacon and stuff on them that you can't even taste it. I just like that parmesan and butter.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

That is good. Very good. One of the best places I've had them is I think Dusty's in Panama City, which I've not been to Panama City but once. But I've had, you know, baked oysters and raw oysters, several different places, but it seems like Dusty's was my favorite. And I mean they are an oyster bar.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

I I don't, I'm not the the beach, I mean those hole-in-wall places. That's the places that I like. Yeah. I know the the that Papa Rocco's on Gulf Shores. We went there, I wouldn't go there in the summer, but we went there, we had a dog test in Alberta. Like a year, maybe a year and a half. I think it was a year ago. Yeah, a year and a half ago. And we went to Papa Rocco. Of course, it wasn't that busy down there in February. So man, we went in there. I think we ate like two dozen of them baked oysters, and I think they're uh what they're called, but they got like Rockefeller? No, well, I think she got Rockefeller, and then I got the uh the hop ones. Um I know what you're talking about. Like uh jalapeno good lord jalapeno, uh cocktail sauce, parmesan, butter.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Bring oysters by the dozen and beer by the bucket.

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That's right.

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Yes, a big bucket.

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A big bucket.

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Big bucket.

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You don't want them bucket with five and he wants one with ten. Yeah, well, we don't need one. Just bring me a five-gallon bucket. Yeah, five gallon bucket.

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You know they bring in buckets of beer out there at the table, and you know they'll burn like Yeah, I ain't got that thing too small. We need a big bucket.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

I got my bucket.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Where'd y'all at? That's right. Heck yeah.

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That's good stuff.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Well, back to us missing the past three months of doing any podcasts.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Yeah, life got a little busy on us, didn't it?

SPEAKER_00 4:22

It did. It did. It got a little hectic. Um, Jake, you went to EMT school and congratulations past it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Congratulations, buddy. Having fun. That's even more important. We got a new podcast.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Wow, you had your son. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought y'all said something about Sean. Oh, no. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

What happened to Sean? Yeah. Clint had a little baby. I don't, yeah, I didn't know. Clint and his wife, they don't sleep anymore. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

And yeah, and we may neither does buddy. We may hear him cry here in a minute, so hear baby in the background crying, don't pay it any attention.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

No, EMT, it was not as bad as I thought it'd be. Is uh the worst part was getting off work, driving to Birmingham, staying in class for five hours, and then driving home, getting home at midnight, and having to get up at four or five in the morning and go to work. Yep. I was very tired. So I know you're tired.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

I mean, that's that's not even the worst about EMT school. It's the time studying. The studying, yeah. I mean, you can do the class and do the work and do the rotation, but that time you got to build build in for studying, there's no time for nothing.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Yeah, I mean, y'all literally did not see me for 12 weeks. That's what I was about to say. When I saw you Sunday at your party, that was only the second time I had seen you.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

Mm-hmm.

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And the last time was at the turkey banquet. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

I mean, I literally I'd study all weekend.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

That's all you did.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

It helped. I mean, I did really good.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Sometimes, let's see, no, sometimes you gotta life's gotta go on hold for, you know, a little bit. I ended the classes. You know, my work's been ridiculous here lately. You know, we've had it had a guy out last week, and I didn't have Trevor to cover for me then. So I had to be the cover man. So I was getting there at 5 30, 6 o'clock, closer to 6. And I didn't leave not every day last week. I didn't leave I think I left 5 was the earliest I left. You know, it'd been one of the 6 o'clock days for you know, several days, and it's you know just rough, it's hot.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Them 10, 12 hour days out there in this heat is it's pretty bad. It'll work on you. It whooped me today. I know it did.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Especially when you go take a lunch break and then come back. I swear it's 20 degrees.

SPEAKER_02 6:53

I swear it's 20 degrees. I know I know it is. I was I said I was at home, and of course my garden booming right now. We're getting all that crap out of there. Saturday, I scott I got on the mower Saturday morning, 6.15. I got off of the mower at 9.25. Then I had the weed eating edge. Blow everything off, and then I had stuff to well by this time it was like 11 o'clock. I went straight to the garden and started picking peas. Well, I tell you what, when it had 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock mark, it's a whole different ball game. Cause son, it was hot.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah, I was I was hot, you know. I think I started I think I got to the first one at 6 40 this morning. And by the time I got to about 10 o'clock, I'm like, okay, but man, it's like 11 o'clock hit. And then my afterburners kicked on it. I was standing on the side of that hill. I don't like to scroll to about 2.30 today. Thinking about jumping in. Yeah, that. For sure.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

With a block drive to your foot.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Yeah. I got down there to the edge of the water and I'm and I'm thinking, I don't want to chunk this weed eater.

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I know it, man. I know.

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With a block.

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Undoing the latch on your ball and driving down 11 so it'll pop off. Let it go.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yep.

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And it's rough.

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Y'all may find that trailer on the side of Highway 11 or the Tobridge Road or maybe in the middle of Norport one day. That's a good chance. Oh man. And if you see it with no truck attached to it, just take it. Mind you on.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

And you know, it's been pretty nice up until this point. Up until about a week ago. Yeah. You know, we got like four or five inches of rain the week before, then last week, you know. It fluttered too bad. And now it's bad. And it's gonna stay like that. It ain't going back down. It'll be like this till October.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yep. Maybe September.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

September will be hot, but it won't be as well. You know, you'd be it'd be kind of be getting. Sometimes those first two weeks. September would be 50 degrees at night, 55 degrees. I mean, that's or and that's 25 degrees cooler than what we're getting up to now. So I take it.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

When you gotta pre-crank your truck before you leave in the morning or cool it off. You gotta cool it off.

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Even at night.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Look, I didn't even cut my truck off on half the yards I cut today.

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I would.

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Left it running.

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You get a little bit of relief.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

It don't take long for it to get hot.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

It's gonna be like a sauna.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Heat waves coming off the gun. And whoever put a black seat on a lawnmower, I want to whip their ass. Whoever put a black seat on a lawnmower needs their foot up their ass. Because I sat on that stomach today and I could feel it my ass like steaming. It'd be stinging. Steaming. Like boiling the sweat off of me. It was so bad. God, it was so bad.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

I got I used my four-wheeler, you know, use my four-wheeler sits in the garage, but I had to spray my yard trying to get rid of all that bahia and stuff out there. Bahia and some of that clover. It wasn't too bad yesterday because I waited the late yesterday. We went ate at the neighbors and come back. And I said, I gotta get I gotta spray this yard. I'm sick of that, I'm sick of that bahia.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

And I got it out.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

Cut it twice a week. Yeah, I'm having to cut, I cut mine every five days. And if I wait, if I wait six days, I got all that, you know, I got all that.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

And you ain't gonna get it on the first pass.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Uh-uh. You better run it over twice. And look, and I'm running my I got my set of blaze on it. When I cut the grass uh a few days Saturday, I that blue blazing had three hours on. They're brand new. It's off. So I had to use so then when I got home today, I had my I'd washed out my sprayer when I got finished yesterday. Washed it out, you know, and flooded everything all the, you know, got all the stuff out of it, herbicide out, and wash it out real good. Today I let it let it dry overnight, and and and today when I got home today, I had to get my foil wheeler out because I had to take my sprayer to the barn and put it up. Man, I put I mean I wasn't in there five minutes. And you're talking about them black seats? I got on that thing and I was like, oh that's hot. Hot, hot goodness, a black seat. Blister that ass. Man, you ain't lying, do you? Well, a good thing about uh, I guess we're talking about them cool nights in September. Get shoot doves again.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Yep. That's what I've been trying to get done here the past couple weeks. It just ain't happening.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

So have I.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I got mine done. I've not been able, either the rain or not been able to get away from little man and mom or busy just doing other stuff.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

Well, my my trip my tractor was down for three weeks.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

What's wrong with your tractor?

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Well, I I got when I was bush hogging my pastor, started bush hogging my pasture, trying to get my my trees in. We planted like 600 pine trees. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was trying to get those cleaned up in the middle so we know where they are and they don't get ran over and all that stuff. But because I didn't want the pasture to look so bad, you know, because I'm letting the, you know, I gotta wait till let trees grow. It's I can't do that. I don't want to look that bad. So I was bush hogging on Sunday morning, just pulled the tractor up there at 10 o'clock, parked it, went to church, come back, got something to eat. I was back on the tractor at like 1.30, it wouldn't crank. Click. I said, good gracious. So all right, so I went and got my truck. I said, battery, I cleaned all the connections, starter, battery. Still couldn't get it to do nothing. I said, okay, I went around and got my truck. Wouldn't jump it off. Hmm. The battery must be way too far gone. So took the battery out, took the battery out of my truck, put it in there, crumped the tractor up, took the battery out, put it back in my truck. I said, the battery's gotta be bad. So went to Napa Indomopolis, and maybe a few days later, because that's where I was working at. Well, I went to Napa, got me a new battery. It was a little bit lighter cranking out, but he said it should be fine for that tractor. All right. So went home, put the battery in there, it didn't crank. I got something else wrong. So took the battery out of my truck, again, put it back in there, tractor started fine. Good gracious. All right. So I charged the battery. The new battery that just got. So, well, maybe that's what it is. So then we're going on another day. So I got out there the next day, put the battery in there, hooked it back up, tightened it all down, made sure everything was clean, tractor started up. Cool. Did some more work on it. Went out there the next morning, it wouldn't crank. I was like, oh my Lord. Maybe something's wrong with the charging system. I I I don't, you know, slightly. So I told uh asked the the mechanic at work that he's been working at SD Bund for 40 years, or probably more than 40 years now, I don't know. And uh he said, you probably got a bad battery. How you know? He said, just consider what you said. You you don't have to charge a battery every time you you use it. He said, check your battery when you get home. You got a tester? Yep. One home, check the battery. Ooh, bad. I said, the brand new one. Brand new. I said, what's the chances? So I had to take the battery back. By this time I was back working until it's colour. So I was like, okay. So I called Nypa in the moments and said, hey, I got this battery, man. I I I it's it says it's bad. He said, well, just bring it back down here and we'll check it, look at it, and we'll we'll get you another. So I did that last week. He said, we don't have another one. So it took me like several days, like then the following week to take the battery back down there, and he was like, no problem checking. I had my receipt. So then it was like another week before they got a battery. And that was that was last week. Like he called me, like he calls me last Wednesday. He said, Hey, we got your battery in here. The interstate man come in here, we got your new battery. I said, All right. Well, I'm in Tusclosing. And it's just hell. And Demopolis ain't just a quick little drive. No, and even from my house in Green County, I mean it takes me 50 minutes to get to Demopolis. I mean, it ain't, you know, you can't get there real quick. So anyway, I was like, Jeremiah was like, I can go to Demopolis on uh Tuesday. I said, can you please go by there and just get my battery? I'll call them and tell them that you're gonna pick it up. He said, Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Well, my boss calls me yesterday, 3 o'clock. Hey, the old plant's not running tomorrow. Can you just you just go to Demopolis and uh work with Curtis? So I had to call Jeremiah. Hey, I got the battery. Then I'll pick it up tomorrow. Okay. So I went in there and got my battery this morning. When I when I went through Demopolis and took it back. When I got back home, I put it in the tractor. I was like, if this thing don't work, I'm gonna put that mug in neutral and let it roll down that hill. Let it roll flip over in that ditch, you know. But I put it in there and it fired right up. So I said, praise the Lord. I jumped in and fired that mug up. I mean, a little simple problem took me three weeks. Three weeks. It was three weeks. Because I bought the battery on the ninth. And which, you know, once we can we we did it, we had to go to St. Louis. You know, we had a hundred retriever tests in St. Louis. And we we went up there and do that because we left on like a Thursday and come back on a Sunday. So that kind of shot, you know, that was a weekend ago. Well, they ain't open on Saturday. Oh, as a matter of fact, I didn't- Why are they not open on Saturday? I don't have any idea, but last Friday, maybe two Saturdays ago, I was going down there to take my battery back. Well, I said, well, I said I won't have any other time to do it. I'll take the battery back Saturday tomorrow. Looked on my phone, sitting in the chair Friday, and said, Oh, they're open tomorrow, 7 to 3. Perfect. I got out, I was down there at 7 o'clock. On the door, it says, Close Saturday and Sunday. I was like, I just drove down there for nothing. That'll make you mad too. That'll make you mad, man. I should have called, which I did. I I thought I asked, told the guy Wednesday or Thursday. I said, if I can't come get it Friday, come down there Saturday. And he didn't, you know, he didn't say anything, so I was okay. Like maybe they're open on Saturday. So but I looked on the looked at the map and the map opened 7 to 3 on Saturday. They ain't open on 7 to 3 in the mouse. Anyway, I got it fixed. So thank God. I mean, just a little simple project. Turned into three weeks because of work and family stuff, you know. You just can't watch it. When I did go to St. Louis, so this while I was I was gonna go to Cabela's because she was staying at, she was had class from like eight o'clock to three every day that Hunter Retriever school. I said, I'm gonna go over here in Cabela's. I whipped up in Cabela's on a little side street and it said dive bomb industries that way. And I was like, hmm. Oh yeah, I forgot you went over there. Dive bomb die this, man, this is something else gotta be. Dive bomb industry. I kept rolling on around that. I went all the way, it was at the very back of Cabela's in St. Louis. Dive Bomb Industries. And if you like to duck hunt, you need to go and dive bomb. And those guys were so nice, and they were great. I've got that same butt duck you bought. They were I they were so nice I walked out of there with $300 worth of crap.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

They were real nice.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

And then they actually were open on uh they was open on Saturday. They was open on Sunday too, because Ashley's like, ooh, I would like to go in there. Or maybe, oh, this was Saturday afternoon when she got finished. I want to go in there. So then we walked out of there with like $150 worth of crap when we left. So we $450. $450 a dive bomb. Yeah, that's a cool, that's pretty cool. Did you even make it in Cabela's? I did go into Cabela's. I did go in. It was pretty cool. They had some of those old vintage guns. I know y'all like them, them old brownings and stuff. They had a ton of those in that vintage, a little vintage room in there, but they had pretty cool stuff.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Like wooden waters used to have.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Like they used to have.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

I can't believe they closed that room. I can't either. I like stuff like that. That was my favorite place to go in there.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

It's probably a good thing for me because every time you went in, you walked out with something.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Kyler too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

And if I could buy it, I'd call Kyler and make him go buy it. He called me one day.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

I think it was a Saturday. He said, uh Zane Tyron called me. He said there's a new B AR in the uh used gun section. You need to go look at it. I went and looked at it. Sent him a picture. He said, You gonna buy it? I said, I don't know. I think about it. He was there an hour later and bought it.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

I told him, I said, Kyle, you're an idiot if you don't go buy that gun. And he did, he went and bought it.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

I do. I wish I'd have bought it. I don't have one of those, but I do, I do like those rifles.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Oh man, they're so cool. They are very cool. Such a cool gun. Yeah. And you know, they got the tribute out now, which is the the Mark II B A R that I guess they kind of brought back to mimic the one from the the Belgians from the 70s and 80s. Yeah. Got all the cool engraving on the open the mule deer and the whitetail and very neat.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Don't they have uh didn't they have one of those browning bars that were was it a safari edition? Like some of the big belted cartridges.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I don't know what I looked at one at Mark's Outdoors the other day after I took my national registry test. I was that close.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Weren't they like didn't they have like a they had a bunch of engraving on it? Silver and stuff on the size of it. I'm talking about it. No, it's just it's just wood engraving.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Well you had a I'm sure they do have one. Yeah, it depends on which grade you got, I think. You know, the Sephora was like a grade two or something, or then you get like a three and a four, you had like nickel plates and it's like.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

I guess that was the wood and stuff on it too, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Well like the over and unders.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Right. Yeah. Yeah, they had different grades of all those good ones.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

That's cool stuff. That's one rifle I don't have. I don't have a lot of rifles. I think I got shotguns.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

I think I've got like six shotguns.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

Well, I got more than that. I got 520 gauges. I got 520 gauge. Why not? One of them is Izzy. So Izzy has she's got a I found uh they had those little Benelli Monte Feltrows in Woods and Water. They had a went in there one week and they they had a come with a youth model stock, a short stock, and an adult stock. I was like, it was like $1,200. I was like, man, I need to buy that. I need to buy that for her. Had all the stocks. Had both of them together. Went back in there a week later, was gonna buy it. I don't know, did Tyler or or or uh John say I we don't have any more of those? All I got is the youth model. And I'm like, give me the youth model. It was like I don't know, it was probably like I don't know if it's the same price or a thousand bucks or what, but she got the youth model.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

I don't have a I don't have Benellies. I don't I don't think I've I've got Browning and Bretta.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Yeah. I've got two Benellies. I got a Super Black Eagle 3 and a uh You do, you got the three? And I got the uh M2.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

I got a Super Black Eagle 2 and I have a 12 gauge and I got an M220 gauge. That's what mine is 20 and bottom lane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I turned hunted that thing for years.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

That is a I think I bought that one in Arkansas. I think I got mad one day.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Because you couldn't hit shit.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

No. I will say that when I bought my Super Black Eagle 3, I went like dug hunting like four or five times, and I didn't drop, I didn't cut a damn feather. And I patterned it, and it was like six inches high and like four inches to the left. I sent it back. They fixed it and sent me another gun. And after that, it was just never had a problem.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

It's crazy how those guns will do that.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

You know, I had a I I got I I've got I've heard people say they're made that way, and some people say they're not. I think Trevor, uh Trevor's super black eagle three is. I just like I don't like the way it unloads, but for another time, but it it uh it it didn't mount very good. Almost like, why is this thing every time I mounted, it was like pointed off to the that way and down. I thought, how the hell do you fix that? Anyway, that gun come with it come with like six shims in it. Well, I ended up having to shim that gun, push it back to the right and up. Deadly. I mean, it is deadly.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Mine came with shims, but every time I tried to shim it, I couldn't ever get it. And I got very very aggravated.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

It does it well, shimming it doesn't always move the pattern.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

I got so aggravated.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

Sometimes it could, but it doesn't always, and somebody may correct me about that, but it doesn't always, you know, usually it's a gun problem. So like that little over and under that little ATI over and under that I turkey hunt with 120 gauge. Shot low and to the left. And I bought Trevor and Cody one for Christmas. And uh both of the I don't know Cody said he ain't doing all that. He just goes hunting. So I can't do that. But Trevor shot his and he has shot low to the left, also. So I think he put a dot on his, I put a uh put a rifle sight on mine. Those uh True Globe gobble magnum gobble garb or something like that. And it fixed it.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

That's why I put on mine.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

I'm not really a rifle sight person on a shotgun for turkeys, and I'm not a dot person all that I I just don't because a lot of times y'all know as well as I do. You he walks in there and he gets squirmed. You ain't got time to you ain't got time to be aiming and all that, you know, and I and people argue with me about the red dots. I shot red dots for about two or three years, and I just I just ain't a dot. I just ain't a red dot. You do? I I'm not a I'm not a red dot person.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I had one on mine. Uh for I've shot a gun for one year that had a red dot on it. And I liked it. Don't get me wrong, it was very convenient. But and the thing about the red dot is though, if you throw up whether you shoulder or not, you put a red dot on him, you're gonna he's dead.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

That's the good thing about it. But I was always scared I'm gonna get on him, battery be dead, or I'm gonna knock it off because that does nothing. There's nothing stopping me between there's nothing gonna be between me and that turkey to keep me from going to it. And I may knock that scope off.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Because I filled my gun up with dirt crossing a creek. And I crossed the creek one time. After I I shot the turkey across the creek, now this creek, both sides of this creek was uh was our property. I shot him across, had to climb down, it's a big creek, come back up, and I got to the other side, I got to look and I filled the whole magazine slap full of mud.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Don't know how I did it.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Man, it didn't think every year I go to Florida. If I have to do any crawling, it is funny. And that you know, it ain't like in those fields, it's real everything's real sandy. It's not like being at the beach though. It ain't like be it's like real fine, fine gray sand. And it will be in there like bag house dust, vacuum cleaner dust.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Like you did. I had to I have mine shot high when I got that brown and gold hunter. It shot hell it shot that high. The pattern was, and I ended up buying that whatever true glow gobble dot, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

And he brought it down and got it right. Yeah. But was we talking about the the iron sights or the rifle sights or the red dot? The thing with the rifle sight is like you said, you if it's gotta be quick, you may not pull a shot off.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Yeah, I think I know I missed a I missed a turkey back in April close to my house, about two miles from the house. And he came in there. I mean, this turkey was, I mean, it was just one that you could get in there real easy on. You know, he was over a little ridge, you know, and and I just I was down in a bottom and I just came up to that ridge, and he was down in that bottom, he's less than a hundred yards, and I just sat down and I never said another word. There he comes. And I mean it was just pretty open hardwoods where he was at, and I was in some in some pines that had been burned. Hay bailer caught on fire a few years ago and burnt them up, and and it was real pretty in there, and and I and I'm just sitting there just like this. Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? You know, five minutes had gone by and I said, Where is he? I could hear him drumming. Where? So next time he gobble, he's like right there at 30 yards, and I'm like, How did he get there? How did he get there and I didn't see him? So, you know, by this time, you know, he was he's behind a brush top. And I still couldn't you know, I looked up and couldn't see, and there was deer, it was like two or three deer. They had been looking at me because I had been fidgeting trying to find him where he was at. But finally he gobbles again, so now he's gotten behind me. So finally I turned my head this way, and I'm like, all right, it's like it's that's now or never. So when I turned around and tried to get on him, and the gun was about half sideways, and it was a swing and a miss. You know, but you can't, you know, you can't glide everything, just it just doesn't work that way. It ain't you know, and I'm used to like shooting stuff in the air, you know, and getting close. Yeah, and you you don't aim when you shoot stuff in the air, you don't aim. I mean it's just yeah, I mean you just it'll you you know if you do it a lot, you know, it's just instinct. You know, and that's shooting a rifle is not instinct. You know, you you better be aiming. And you know, turkey was I don't know, 40 yards. That just you just they just don't they don't fit my style most of the time because I'm bad about missing.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

I like just to beat on end, but you know, if you gotta adjust and do something else, man, that's what you gotta do.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

And you know, it's just that's what I used all the way up until a couple years ago when I bought that 870 youth model. Yeah. I put that red dot on it and I won't I won't swap.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

Is that what you still hunt with? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Mine's not a normal, it's not just a dot. When I bought it, the guy said it's a dot with a circle. And if that circle around the dot is over his neck and head, yeah, you should kill him unless you pull. Yeah. So it gives you a little more room. It kind of circles your pattern.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

The one I had, you could change it. It had three or four different crosshairs, it had uh it had the round with the dot in it.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

I think that one's still on my AR.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Okay, that's the one I give you, yeah. Yeah. And it may have had something else. I can't remember what.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

I have something else. Maybe it's just been a plain dot. You can swap it to a dot, crosshairs, and then crosshairs with the circle.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Maybe that's what it was.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

And you can also do the brightness and change the color.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

I've got a 10 millimeter pistol that has a has one of those on it. One of those burrs. I guess a burrow sight or something.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

I don't remember what that one is. I don't either. It's sided in.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

Burris or maybe a vortex.

unknown 31:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

What it is.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Did I send y'all a picture of that deer I got on camera? Already? That deer's gonna be wicked. Really? He got double main beam on his right side with three points coming off the normal main beam. The other one kind of goes up, and then this side, it's got a big cluster halfway down, and it's got up, back, down, straight out, and then two more points on it. He got some junk in the trunk on there. He's gonna be weird. Where's that at? He's gonna be. I think he's gonna look really he ain't done, he ain't even close to done growing. Oh Lord no. He won't be finished growing. He might grow some more stuff off that other main bean, too. Maybe he'll hang around September.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

Maybe he'll hang around.

SPEAKER_01 32:39

End August. Had him on camera three times so far.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

There's a lot of people got been doing cameras and feeders that down around my house.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

I I turned all mine off. Ain't no sense of me getting excited too much this year right now.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

I left that one out because I had a lot of Codies and I was trying to see what was coming through there.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Yeah. Now if I go set some more about how I do want to set some more traps out.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

I need to put some traps in the ground.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

I would like to do that. That garden's whooping me right now.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

That heat's gonna whoop you if you put them traps in the ground.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

That garden's been whipping me lately. But I did today. I said, I didn't actually said, Are we gonna pick any more in that car? I said, hell no. You gonna look see what's out there? I said, Nope. I said I didn't pick it three times. I ain't going back out there.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Bush hogging less beer. That's what I did today. I said the hell my garden. I just well, it it it I mean I I I'm picking stuff out of it, but as far as keeping it maintained and tilled.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

You don't you don't have time.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

I don't have the time, and it's either in this mud hole down there right now. You can't even do anything, and that crabgrass or whatever you want to call it growed up in it.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

I never even got to plant mine because I was in school.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

I never had time. You definitely didn't have time.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

But I got peas getting ready to pick. Corn's pretty dang close. I mean, it's within a couple days. I got purple silk.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Really?

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Purple.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

What kind of corn is it?

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Whatever sweet corn, I don't know. I don't know if it's peaches and cream or which one it is, but I like that peaches and cream now. Like they're like where it would be like some stripes in the stalk. Or even even on the tassels, it's like a purple color. Mm-hmm. I ain't never seen it. But like the silk is like purple.

SPEAKER_02 34:35

Well, how you know what what color is it gonna turn when it starts to turn?

SPEAKER_00 34:39

I peeled one up the other day and this they're really close to pick.

SPEAKER_02 34:43

I guess they're gonna turn purple. I don't know. Yeah. But uh Silver Queen and Peaches and Green. And I really like the Silver Queen, but I don't know if I don't like the Peaches and Green better. I like Silver Queen. That's uh that's good now. Is it a white corn or yellow? The uh Peaches and Cream is like both. It's both. They got white and yellow. And some of them will have like just a few whites and all yellow, or it'll be all white and have a few yellow in it. But I I I like it. It's pretty good, but we cream all ours anyway, so that's the only way we eat it. You don't but keep a few of them. Keep a few on the cob.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

I love McCorn on the cog. See, you don't like it.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

How do you cream it? Well, you've got a little creamer you run it through. Oh, okay. I mean, you gotta you gotta do it by hand. But you know, I remember doing it as a kid, you know, we cut it off with a knife. Cut it off with a knife, then scraped it. But I got this little thing that Ashley got somewhere. She's got a stain, bought a stainless one from the yard sale when she goes that longest yard sale every year. Got one stainless and I got one wood. And it's got a little, just got a little knife that sits up there like that, then it's got teeth in front of it. Can you crank the handle? No, you don't crank it, you just push it across it, and it'll cream it and and cut it off. It's got a little hole in the wood or the piece of stainless that goes out in the bolt. You know, just do that four or five times and we do vacuum chill it and freeze it.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

And it's and that's that's I like to eat it like that. She won't eat it on the call. Really?

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Oh, I like putting it.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

I'll eat it out of the garden like that.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Yeah, I will too.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

That's my favorite way to eat it.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Peel the silk off of it and eat it. We grill it a lot.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

I didn't just wrap it up.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

That's good. But easy, you know.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

I like that smoke on it. Yeah, just good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

I'll wrap mine in full with butter and put some cayenne pepper on it.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Something. I like it two-step. I like it on there too. I thought it was a new two-step the other day. It was all purpose. Didn't have any salt in it.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Oh, yeah. Blue can? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

Low sodium, the low sodium. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's the same flavor. It's the same. Tasting. Yeah, they got salt in them. Um. Because you can make something that's real salty.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

That Tony Satcher is too is real bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:12

You can go on that website, the Cajun Two-step or Stephcracker, whatever it is, and they got like kits you can buy. They'll have all three of those seasons, you know, the regular, two-step, the fire, and then the salt free, and then you'll get like two of the like two of every hot sauce. It's like a whole kit. It's like 70 bucks, and you get two balls of bloody merry mix. And then you get like a bag of fish fried, some apps. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

He wasn't listening after you said bloody merry mix. That's all we needed to hear. But it uh he was sold. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

60-70 bucks. You get this whole kit and it comes in a big box, and it's them old marg mix is pretty good too. Oh, that's right. So you just get you get two Bloody Mary and a margarita mix all in that kit. That marg mix was good. That jalapeno margarita?

SPEAKER_02 38:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

Shout out to Stalecracker.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

He he he's man, I tell you what, he's he's done a lot for the cooking world. I mean, when he because uh, you know, and the videos have gotten so big. There's there's several people that do cooking videos, but I'm telling you, he is the He's an entertainer. He is the king. He is damn sure the king of of cooking videos. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

He's but he he he doesn't do just the cooking. You know, he does the I'm gonna call it to make a wish hunts and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

He does do that, and he does like the whiskey tasting every Wednesday for something, and he's gonna auction it off for whenever that's yeah, he's gonna auction it off and like for a one of those track chairs and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

I was about to say, I think he bought a kid a track chair last year.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Mm-hmm. He bought Sheldon one.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Yeah, because you guided him on the deer hunt, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Mm-hmm. Yeah, Sheldon's the one that Steelcracker guides around a lot, and he he bought him the track chair. He bought him a uh a 308, I want to say it was, and then got bought him the the whole assembly where Sheldon can shoot it blowing through that or either sucking or blowing through that straw. So he he's got the little thing that mounts on the scope that he can sit there and look at the phone and he can kind of he can't move a whole lot with his hands. He can just move it enough to get it get the crosshairs on a deer, and he pops on that tube and it fires. Pretty neat, very neat, very, very neat.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

That's cool for somebody that's never been able, would would never any other way would never get to experience that. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Yeah, he's pretty shelled and he's he's very witty. I think this, you know, we did that.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Can't he talks?

SPEAKER_00 39:48

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Um this was his last year to be able to do the the Youth and Veteran Hunt. Disabled Youth and Veterans Hunt, because he'll be 18 uh sometime this year. So we won't get to take him next year, but or part of that program we'll get to. We may we may get to take him anyway.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

Yeah. So well he he'd probably be good to have there. You know, good to have there. Some of those younger kids that are there that are hunting, you know, give them a little hope. You know, although Sheldon's the way he is, and you know, I can do that too. Give them a little bit of hope.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Yep. Yeah, I really enjoy doing that hunt with him.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

Jack in January. The uh Joey Richardson, the Pickens County game warden, he has talked to me the last couple of years, and he he he does that uh he does some hunt, a big hunt over there, and he's been trying to get Izzy and I involved to do that the last couple years. He said, you need to do it, man. He said, you need to do it. He said it'd it'd be great.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

It's an eye opener for sure.

SPEAKER_02 41:04

You ain't kidding.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

It is so maybe Tommy's got his big thing, he does. He he's part, I think he's big in with the he got his force down at 40. We talked about before Tom Roycox. Well maybe we need to hook up with him and see if anything we can do with that. Get involved with him, helping him do that. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

I guess he does it all. He does I guess he does deer hunting and fishing and turkey hunting, all and does everything with that, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_00 41:36

Mm-hmm. Sure enough.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

That would be good to to be involved in with something like that.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Yeah. Maybe we can get in touch with him again and maybe get something lined up with that. Yeah. Oh, what else y'all got? Oh.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

We don't know we we talked. Did we ever did we talk about all our turkey hunting stuff? Yeah, we did it with Dylan Man. That's right, that's right. From Bike Will. It was good to see him Sunday too.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'd see I don't guess I'd seen him since.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

I uh I found a turkey lease.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Did you?

SPEAKER_01 42:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

He grinned like he's gonna keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

He's gonna let us go. Thousand acres. Huh? Thousand acres. Where at?

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Over yonder. Hey, look, there's a bunch of turkey leases around here.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

Hey man, have you have you? Well, I say that. It's hard to all be a leash whether you pay for them or not.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Have you have you priced any of that stuff? Like a turkey, like a turkey lease? Yeah. I paid it. For Westerbelt?

SPEAKER_01 42:52

No, not Westerbelt.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

You ain't getting it for $11 an acre no more.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Mine, I got, I got very, very, very lucky with mine.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

I mean, you know, it's it's about you got a thousand-acre lease through Westerbelt, whether they got new turkeys or not, or whether it's got a bunch of hardwoods or not, it this is about $3,500,000 for 45 days. I don't know if we got 45 days anymore, but pretty close. I moved it up next year, I think. Yeah, I saw that on social media, but I didn't know if that was I didn't know if that was reputable because but they don't come out with the regulations of July. Yeah. July 31st or August 31st.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Yeah, right. As of like last week, they hadn't even released open a day dub season for this year.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

That's right. That's right. I don't think they knew that till July 31st.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

I thought it was the 7th or something. Did they not release it? I don't know. Maybe someone just told me that.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Last week they had not released it. But they may Have released it by now.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

There ain't no way it's the seventh. That's a Monday. I don't know where I got that number.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Give it a GTS.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

I bet it's gonna I bet it's gonna be the 12th because that's the second week of September.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

And spectacles. Get my old man stuff on here. Let's see. Season and bag limit. Season and bag limit's not available. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

And you on the outdoor Alabama app?

SPEAKER_03 44:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

I bet he is. He's gonna have a heat scroll. I bet them horse flies are tearing him up too.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

What you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 44:38

I'm surprised he's out right now. It's five o'clock, six thirty. My bad.

SPEAKER_02 44:42

You know, I saw a deer a couple of days uh a couple of days ago early in the day. Well, I mean it was like two o'clock in the afternoon. Lord, you're gonna have a stroke out here.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

He need to find him a swimming pool. You ain't lying. Oh, I could have jumped in one today. But hella down swimming pool feels like a bathtub right now.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

Yeah. You're gonna get cool off. You're gonna well I I took a cold shower before I come over here.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

I took a cold shower when I got home from work.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

And it wasn't real, real cold. It didn't feel cold. So if it ain't coming out of the ground, cold. The ground must be warm too.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

That last yard I was at, they had a yard hydrant out there by the shop. And I went over there and grabbed the hose and got it about right here, flipped it on. By the time it hit me, it was nothing but hot water came out of there.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Oh, you ain't lying. It was like you were in the in the shower. Had to let that thing cool off a minute. It did.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

It sure did. Trying to get all that grassy stuff off my face. Soon they got to the end of it, and it had some pressure. Golly, it had some pressure. Golly. But like Kyler said this morning. That hood was spraying 40 foot. You ain't good.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

He got some pressure over there. But I think he's pretty close to that. We know what his pressure is.

SPEAKER_01 46:03

They said they have to check it.

SPEAKER_02 46:05

It's gotta be 80.

SPEAKER_01 46:07

They said they what does it need?

SPEAKER_02 46:08

Don't it need to be 40?

unknown 46:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

You gotta check it before they do his plumbing.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Because if not, they'll have to put a regulator on it. Yeah, put a pressure regulator on it. You know, they got a uh there's a tank right there. That's probably why it's like that.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

That and it comes downhill the whole entire way downhill.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

Yeah, thank you. He did inch and a half or two inch pot.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Inch and a half, and then it necks down off the T coming to the spigot.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

So I think everything so it's all that water, and then when it finally necks down, it's it build it's building some head pressure.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Yeah. Good gracious. How far it ain't very far off the road though, is it? Isn't it just right there where his little shop is?

SPEAKER_01 46:53

It's probably 70 yards. Yeah, 70, 80 yards. I need to go back over there look, I hadn't seen it. They should have it closed in this week. Walls and roof. Well, they're getting with it.

SPEAKER_00 47:06

And I'll get over there and pull some wire.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

I gotta go over there Friday and help him with someone.

SPEAKER_00 47:11

You know how hot it's gonna be in that thing? Ain't gonna be nowhere moving. And there ain't no shade around that building either.

SPEAKER_02 47:21

And it's black. Be cooking. It's gonna be an oven.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

We have to work at night.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

You ain't lying. Get over there at four in the morning. Plenty of hydration materials. You don't want to get in there and fall out.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

High quality H2O. Yep, no doubt. Well, Jake, you got a verse for us this afternoon? We'll close this mug out.

SPEAKER_01 47:49

Luke 6, 28. Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

That's gonna hit hard. Man, that's a that's a that's a hard one right there. Hard thing to do.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

Hard thing to do.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Lord have mercy. Thank y'all for watching.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

Let's get out of here. That concludes our show today.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

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