Brian Dennis - Buck Grits changing the way we look at Deer Feed

Brian Dennis joins us to discuss the benefits that Buck Grits can play to enhance your deer herd with its state of the art technique in extracting the germ from the kernel.  a healthy deer can produce more milk, bare Twins and grow bigger antlers..... but is it just for Deer?

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[00:00:00] Yeah. So another great thing about buck grits that will tell the listeners. We don't use the outside part of the kernel, a corn kernel. We just use the inner part. If you ever watch a squirrel eat a piece of corn, this is what they're eating. So that's where all the fat and the protein's at in a piece of corn.

And one thing I also noticed too, is whenever my deer were in there previously, when I was feeding, When they would go in there and eat buck grits, they would eat and they would mosey on about 25 yards and they would lay down and watch him. Like they were guarding him or protecting him. It was so good.

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Wise Eye Technologies presents Welcome to American Roots Outdoors. We are calling via phone from the Archery Trade Association show in Indianapolis, Indiana.

And our show topic today is buck grits, the importance of keeping healthy deer on your properties where it is permittable. And you know, as you know, most of our listeners in the Ozarks, we are in the CW zone area. And our special guest today is the [00:02:00] National Sales Manager for Buck Grits, Mr. Brian Dennis.

Welcome to the show, Brian. Thanks for having me on, Alex. Yeah, first of all, we're going to talk about sports, and I know you're a big NFL fan, too. So is Redbone. And, uh, what about those Chiefs? Guys, Brian, what do you think? I'm going to have to plead the fifth, Alex. You're going to plead the fifth? I'm going to have to plead the fifth.

Yeah, well, I won't plead the fifth. I'll tell you how it is and uh, I know they didn't tell us how it is, but they didn't play the starters last week in the game against Denver. And it was absolutely horrible. If our backups can't do any better than that, we're in trouble. No, I'm not really a team fan. I'm kind of a players fan.

So you know, I'm a fan of all different players on different teams. Gotcha. So you like different teams, but you're not just a Chiefs fan. That's correct. Yeah, what about Bo Nix? I'm a huge [00:03:00] Bo Nix fan. The quarterback for Denver. I think that kid has got Superstar written all over him. He does. I'm a huge Josh Allen fan.

I can't help it. What about Braden Daniels? Oh, Jaden Daniels? Jalen Hurts. Look at all these, you know, we got a lot of great quarterbacks in the NFL. But, uh, you know, what I want to say here is that I really think the Chiefs, if they've been holding out, just trying to get along and win games. And I've heard some talk that they've been holding back.

And when it comes to Super Bowl time, they're going to show everybody what they're really made of. I hope that's true, but if it's not true, I think that the Chiefs are going to be facing the Detroit Lions. What's your thoughts, guys? That's a good possibility. I think I watched that, uh, one of their games a couple weeks ago, and man.

When I saw that, I thought if Kansas City Chiefs were playing them, they'd probably get beat. Yeah, I watched the Lions and the Vikings this last Sunday night. What a [00:04:00] game that was. Yeah, well, I was hoping it was gonna be, but the Vikings just laid a great big goose egg. Yeah, that's what I was saying. What a game.

Here, we thought it was gonna be like a spectacular, just, almost like Super Bowl type game. I prepared all day long. I made a big pot of chili. I was ready to cook some popcorn. I mean, this is gonna be a great game. And it ended up being a dud. Uh, Detroit is that good. I would not be surprised, and I'm a, I've been a Chiefs fan since I was five years old, but I would not be surprised if the Detroit Lions are not the Super Bowl champions.

That's what I'm thinking. I second that. Yeah, they just look really good. Yeah, I'm gonna say they're they're they're the team to beat I think you know I thought it I do not see any team in the NFC even give them really giving them a run for their money No, especially since they got home field Exactly

So, high school football, uh, high school basketball, not football, high school [00:05:00] basketball, what's the Thayer Bobcats doing? Well, they're still winning they beat Gainesville by 25 last night and Well, as we record Wednesday, that was on Tuesday. Uh, but yeah, they continue to roll. They're eight and two now ranked number three in the state in class three.

So all is good in Bobcat country. Yeah. Liberty Eagles. It seems like they're struggling. They took a pretty good beaten by the Hartville kids over there. And they Hartville put it on. It's pretty bad. I think they beat us over 20 some points. Yeah. Well, Hartville is really good. They all, we played with them till the first half.

And it was like, after the first half, you know, it kind of faded out. It happens. It does. What about girls basketball? You know, it, the girls basketball, nobody is really standing out, at least in our immediate listening area that I'm aware of. Uh, just a lot of teams are beating up on each other. There's a lot of [00:06:00] parody in girls basketball across southern Missouri right now.

Well, that's Pooler Sports, and we just want to wish all the teams the best of luck on Friday nights. Any teams that may be playing in tournaments, whether it's boys or girls, high school basketball curriculars. And, uh, what I want to touch on is, you know, last week, Brian, if you listen to the show and you know about it, is we had a deer biologist, uh, from Missouri, Missouri Department of Conservation, talking about CWD.

And what we're going to talk about today on the show on segment two is when we're going to kick it off, is talking about CWD, but we're also going to talk about, uh, buck grits. Thanks And, you know, before they ruled our county, Shannon County, a CWD county, I fed buckwrits for the last five and a half years.

And you fed it over in Butler County for how many years? For over a year now. And we're going to talk about the health of the deer. You know, and the thing is, when [00:07:00] feeding deer, where it's legal, is that you can monitor your deer and tell if you have healthy deer or sick deer. And especially if you're running the Wise Eye Data Cam.

Yeah, for sure. You know, I run the Wise Eye Data Cam as well. I get pictures on it numerous times throughout the day. And it's fun to have the opportunity to watch one of God's creatures having deer on camera. Yeah. Getting the ability to feed them and watch how they progress as they grow. Yeah. Not only in body size, but also antler growth.

Yeah. So, is it legal to feed in Butler County now? I don't think it is. I don't believe so. Yeah, you quit feeding, you fed up to it. Yeah, but from the past year, we're going to talk about what you've seen you experienced feeding butt grits. And to the people listening that can feed butt grits, we want to encourage you and educate you on why we think it's important to feed them.

And, you know, and we're going to touch on these things that we feel that can [00:08:00] help you with your deer herds in your area. And with that said, Alex, it'll be a good time for us to take our first break of the day. We'll be back with more American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends in just a moment.

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Welcome back to America Reach Outdoors, segment two of our show. We are sitting in the lobby here of the convention center downtown Indianapolis.

I'm sitting here with a very good friend of mine, Brian Dennis, who I've known for over 30 years. Over 30 years. From Poplar Bluff, Missouri. But what we want to talk about Uh, Brian is also the National Salesman Director of Sales for Buck Ritz, and we're going to talk about who is Brian Dennis. Tell us who Brian Dennis is, where were you, where were you born, and talk about your roots in the outdoor industry.

So actually, you know, I was born in Poplar Bluff, raised there my entire life, still live there today, and I grew up in a [00:10:00] family business in the sporting goods world, and about 14 years ago I left the business and became a sales rep. So I've had the opportunity to meet a lot of wonderful folks, create relationships that have been long lasting, and obviously, you know, Alex is here as a major supporter of Buck Grissom.

We definitely thank him for that, and it's awesome to have him as a mentor. So, I mean, I look up to guys like Alex that have been doing this much longer than I have, and it's been a blessing. Well, I appreciate those kind words, and I think what you're really known for, Brian, is when, back in the day when I was with Hunter Specialties, is me coming doing in store promotions, talking turkey, uh, doing your turkey promotions and stuff like that at Dennis Outdoors.

You're known for Dennis Outdoors, and it was very famous, very popular. We'll spend just a little bit of time on that, you know. Dennis Outdoors, family owned. Yeah, yeah, it was family owned business. Obviously, it's no longer in business. My dad's retired. But it sure was fun to have the opportunity to work with all the great [00:11:00] customers that most of them became friends.

And it's one of those things that I've kind of transpired that into what I do today. Exactly. And you're excellent at sales. So here you are now, you've created your own business too. You've got your own rep agency. Talk about that. So, uh, Back last year, about this time last year, the very first of January, I started integrity sales.

So I set out to create an environment with people that I work with. That's a really strong environment. We work with manufacturers who align with our values. So we, we definitely have strong Christian beliefs and we want somebody that's honest and obviously the word integrity says it all. Well said, man.

What a great name for a business, Redbone, Wayne. Yeah, you know, I would, I would like to just add something that, uh, we were talking about a few minutes ago, and I think you need to put Legendary Dentist Outdoors. I mean, that place was legendary all over southern Missouri. It was. It was a key spot to [00:12:00] go.

Yeah, every Definitely a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, and dedication, that's for sure. Yeah, and I want to say this, if I may interject real quick. And I know you're, you're chomping at the bits, Wayne, to ask a question or say something. How many bows, I want the listeners to hear, what's the best year of bow sales that you ever had?

You know, it's really hard to, to say based on breaking it down. So we've sold a lot of youth bows and Just off the top of my head, one year we sold like 1, 132 bows. Somewhere in that vicinity. That's a lot of bows. What do you think of that, Wayne? I like that. That means that, uh, not only were you popular and a place to go, but you also, you must've had a great reputation too.

Used to in the, in the fall, usually probably starting in close to August. I would stay there at the store and work till two or three o'clock in the morning. I'd go home and sleep till 6 30 or 7 and i'd be back at the store again a lot of people don't really know that I did that but I would do that [00:13:00] for Probably 90 days throughout the season just trying to stay caught up.

So customers had the equipment they needed when they were ready to go deer hunting Yeah, like I said, it was a legendary store in a in a hot spot and people just go there and hang out I mean, that's that's how popular of a place it was. You know what if we if we had a coffee machine there, they'd never leave That's why they never sold chairs Yeah, you know Redbone Wayne It seems like as we progress throughout the years, and now I'm 60 years old, and you know, you're seeing more and more crossbow hunters now than ever in history.

Missouri legalized it, a lot of states did, and if you don't mind, touch on the crossbows. You know, it's amazing to actually see the crossbow environment evolve where it has today. I remember, you know, just a handful of years ago, When, uh, Raven crossbows came out, I'm going to touch on [00:14:00] Raven because it's one of the most insane things in the archery history that's ever been done.

So here you got a guy that's never been in the crossbow industry, got together with maybe an engineer and a designer, and they literally built the first crossbow of its type. And I can remember being there the first ATA show when that product was launched. They sold more crossbows. In three days than most manufacturers in this building doing an entire year.

Wow. So they really changed the crossbow industry as a whole and you've seen other companies, you know, kind of follow suit and bring out unique products very similar, but it was a game changer in the, in the archery world in general. Yeah, well, I would agree and continues to be because now you got guys getting back into archery with the crossbows that had given up archery for physical reasons or whatever the reason might be and something new.

[00:15:00] And it's like, okay, I'm all about it. And they're priced good. You know, it's funny you say that. It actually did bring in a lot of new people to the archery world. And yeah, they may have went out and bought a 400 crossbow to get started because they thought, you know, I hadn't bow hunted a long time, but I'm a big gun hunter.

I'll just go out and buy me a crossbow and give it another, another shot. And then after they bought that, they're like, you know, I think I'm going to get back into archery where I started at. And then they turn around and go back into the vertical bow side and find my new math to use a new Hoyt or whatever brand they purchased.

And it gets them back into it and it revives their, their spirit of, of, of bow hunting. And the next thing they do is they're bringing new kids in the sport, which is what we desperately need right now. We need these kids that are playing video games at home. We need them out hunting and fishing and being part of the tradition.

Wayne, I know you're a big crossbow hunter. Wayne loves the 10 point crossbow and that company's been around many years and you sold some 10 points, I'm sure. I did. You know, back in the day, this was way before Raven [00:16:00] ever existed. You know, 10 point was, 10 point and Wicked Ridge were our number one selling crossbows.

And the reason why was durability. They made such a durable product, high quality. It wasn't terribly expensive what you bought. Yeah. Tell you what, great subject matter here. When we get back, we're going to get into the gist of Buck Ritz. We're going to go to a break. When we come back, we'll be talking with Brian Dennis.

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What is Buck Ritz? And tell us about the roots, American roots of creating Buck Ritz and where it is today. So the awesome thing is, you know, Alex Rutledge was contacted by Adam Thomas from CMO Milling [00:18:00] Corporation, the parent company of Buck Ritz. And they, they asked Alex if he would help pioneer the brand.

And help grow brand awareness to get the company started. So CMO milling is one of the larger corn milling companies in the United States and they mill corn, uh, Really on the food grade side of the business, but also in alcohol categories and things like that. So they were able to figure out how to use the corn germ and the hard endosperms.

So during the milling process, they extract every piece of the corn kernel and use them for different Parts of the business. So when they created that, they literally created a monster. I've been feeding deer and been in the hunting industry my entire life, and I have never seen a feed product work like this.

So out of the blue, one day in 2023, Alex calls me and he says, Hey, he goes, you need to try this product. It's called Buck Ritz. So Alex says, Hey, go over to Hirsch Farm and Feed in West Plains, Missouri, and [00:19:00] go buy you some. So I walk in, they got like a little small foyer area before you come in the store.

They had eight bags of butchers left on a pallet. Well, at that time, this was way before my knowledge of how many bags are on a pallet. And if I may interrupt, you were saying, oh, there we go. Another deer feed. That's exactly what I thought. I thought, this is just another, another deer feed. You know, it can't be any better than anything else.

So I go in there at Hirsch and I purchased the last eight bags they had on the pallet. Well, lo and behold, there are 80 bags on a pallet. So they had already sold 72 20 pound bags. I ended up, uh, purchasing these, went out and put a 20 pound bag out, and before morning It was gone and I hadn't fed deer in six months.

One thing that I noticed about the product is they ate it completely clean. They were even eating the dirt in order to clean up the remnants of the grits. And then I started feeding it [00:20:00] more and more. And then out of the blue, of course, Adam Thomas reached out to me, courtesy of Alex, and kind of the rest of the story.

I'm the director of sales around the company, but it's by far the Most incredible feed product in the business and I've worked for some other competitors and there's nothing like it. Wayne? Well, that's one of I was gonna say he I agree 100 percent with what he was just saying with as far as they How they eat it.

I mean Alex and I can also testify There was not a cur not not I can't say kernel because it wasn't kernels, but there was not a grit left on the ground When they would get through there. I mean, they were digging and pawing at the, the dirt to try and find just anything because that dirt is soaked up.

I, I kind of like the aroma of the Buckgrits and they were just pawing at the dirt trying to find anything they can for days afterwards.

Yeah, I was just going to add, you know, I think the, the, the most interesting part of, [00:21:00] of what, uh, uh, What Brian just said was, excuse my voice, I've got a little frog, yeah, I've been going for a while. But anyway, what, uh, I think the most interesting part of what he said was, he didn't even work for Buckgrit at the time.

No, I sure didn't. He said, this is the best product I've ever seen. I need to go to work for these guys. That's kind of how it worked, right Brian? So I test deer products, deer feed products and other things all the time, just in my spare time here and there. And when I got to witness what I've seen, I was sold.

Yeah, he called me, I'll never forget it. Alex, this is mind blowing. Yeah, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So another great thing about Buck Grits that we'll tell the listeners, we don't use the outside part of the kernel, the core kernel. We just use the inner part, if you ever watch a squirrel. Eat a piece of corn.

This is what they're eating. So that's where all the fat and the proteins at in a piece of [00:22:00] corn. And one thing I also noticed too, is whenever my deer were in there previously, when I was feeding, when they would go in there and eat buck grits, they would eat and they would mosey on about 25 yards and they would lay down and watch it.

Yeah. Like they were guarding it or protecting it. Cause it was so good. Well, I've never seen another feed product that deer do that. Yeah. You know, and I want to interject if I may. We're doing this show, and our show is based in Missouri, and we're not, uh, we're not wanting to encourage anybody to break the laws with any type of feeding.

We want to obey the rules of the rules and regulations of the MDC or any state that doesn't allow you to feed this. We're not telling you to break the law, but we are telling you, if you can feed it, that it's the best thing you can do for your deer herd. to help treat a healthier deer herd. And I've seen it, I've fed it for five and a half years.

I know what I saw and what I've seen. [00:23:00] Now I can't feed anymore because we are CWD County. And CWD is a huge concern and if you don't care, uh, we got about a minute left here in this segment. What's your thoughts on CWD? And be honest. You know, I've got a lot of mixed emotions about CWD. Obviously, you know, when we had hogs in Missouri, The conservation department got a lot of federal grant money and government funding and things, and I kind of wonder if some of the same things are happening throughout this ordeal with CWD, but I don't know.

Everybody says follow the science. I question it. How's that? Wow. Redbone? Why? Yeah, well, I think a lot of people No disrespect to anybody, but Right, and I think a lot of people are the same way, you know, and, and I think it comes with the times we live in. We're skeptical that our government is actually doing something to protect, I mean, it's kind of like, you [00:24:00] know, we're skeptical Washington, D.

C. is looking out for our best interests, and I think a lot of people are skeptical that the Missouri Department of Conservation or the Arkansas Game and Fish, or wherever you live, He's actually doing things to protect our hunting rights in our, our animal herd. Yeah. And I'm not, I hope they have our best interest at heart, not just, I hope that's not the case.

Yeah, absolutely. I think everybody does, but I do think that in Wayne, I think you agree that we are somewhat skeptical. Yeah. And I, I think that should go without saying you should always be skeptical of anything where they're coming in saying we know better. So, I mean, we just got to look back just a few years ago.

I mean, look at the whole COVID thing. You know, there's reason to be skeptical about anything that goes on, but the, uh, I know in Ohio before C they had concerns of the CWD. So what they did before CWD actually hit. is they gave out what they call urban tags at the time to decrease the deer [00:25:00] population. So there was one year where you were allowed to shoot 15 does in an urban area.

Um, and so I got, do you, people agree or disagree? There's always that fight amongst hunters. Is that the way to go or not the way to go? Is there too many does or not too many does? But what it came down to is actual, you talk about following the science, actual trail cam footage of the deer when I first started this hunting, this one area where they were just skin and bones.

All these does four years later after we harvested, I mean, lots and lots and lots of deer out of this one area. Um, they were fat, they're healthy, they were having twins again. We the first year I started hunting there, there was a lot of does weren't even having babies at all. And now that all the ones that were having them were having, we had a lot of twins being born that we just weren't having five years ago.

So by, by reducing the herd, it made the herd healthier, but it, and it also, the also benefited that. Is it increased the buck activity because now bucks didn't have to just walk a hundred yards to find [00:26:00] another doe. So they were cruising more, they were more active during daylight hours. The rut was actually a rut because they needed to try and find a doe.

So they were traveling a lot, they were fighting, the fighting was heavier, they responded better to, uh, like rattling and grunting and that than they did. Earlier when they just didn't have to go anywhere Well said well said great information. We're gonna go to a break everybody when we come back segment four of the show coming up Uh, we're talking with brian dennis with integrity sales the sales manager for butt rich Don't go away.

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How is it going to improve the deer herd other than just antler growth and say health wise? What are other attributes that you can give us by using this? So it comes down to health and nutrition, you know, just like if Just like a human if you're out eating Snickers candy bars and you're eating unhealthy And then you make a change in your diet and you're having steak and eggs or bacon and eggs for [00:29:00] breakfast.

You'll enhance your physique, your muscle growth, and deer the exact same way. So what I've noticed, you know, feeding buck grits is most deer will increase their body weight 20 to 30 percent and sometimes more based on how much you feed. And then also, you'll also see huge differences in antler growth.

And then if anybody's feeding this time of the year, like Wayne had said, you'll start noticing that does are having, having, uh, two deer, having triplets just from the health of your, your deer herd. So it's definitely really, it's an impressive product. Another great thing that most people don't see is turkeys, you know, turkey populations.

They, they take a beating on predators and things like that, and buck grits is great for turkeys. It's really small, it's easy for them to eat, it's highly digestible, and then with buck grits also, coons and other animals have a hard time eating it because of size. So they have a [00:30:00] hard time picking it up, especially a raccoon.

So when guys are feeding corn, They're raccoons that eat them out of house and home. Hey, I got a question for you. I don't want to interrupt. How many bags of regular corn would a person have to feed to get the equivalents out of one 20 pound bag of butt rich? Have you broke that down? They'll have to, they'll have to buy two or three bags of corn, equivalents in size.

150 pounds of corn to get the equivalents out of one 20 pound bag, Redbone Wayne. Think about that. Yeah, that's really amazing, and I'm really interested because I know a lot of people, you know, they can't feed, they want to put feed out for turkeys, I'm glad to hear you talk about the fact that the coons and the possums and those animals are not going to invade your butt grits so much because it's so much trouble and it's harder for them to eat.

What about quail? You know, we've got a big movement to get quail started back up in the Ozarks because now they're almost non existent. Would butt grits be good for the quail [00:31:00] population? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It should be, yeah, it should be great for that, and you know, I've been listening to different people while I've been on the road this week, and I hear people talk about how their family raises chickens to get eggs in order to provide for their family, and this would be great for like a chicken meal to feed their chickens, and it would cost a whole lot less than purchasing chicken meal at a feed store.

You know, another thing, Brian We're seeing chickens laying more eggs, and the chickens are healthier. Yes. Yeah, another thing, Brian, that we've used, that I use it for at my house, and I know my father in law does too, is, uh, we just put it in our bird feeders. Because come springtime, I'm telling you, the, uh, the songbirds and that, they go nuts over that stuff.

And, uh, you want to keep songbirds in your area, just put, uh, the buckrets in the, the bird feeder. They, they love it. So, Hey Wayne, another thing, you know, we actually have a bag formulated and branded just for backyard bird grits. We haven't really pushed it too hard just from having to keep up production [00:32:00] on, on buckrets, but we do have a 20 pound bag.

It's the exact same bag, just with a blue backyard bird grits label. And at some point in time, we'll get more aggressive with it. So. A customer will be able to buy butt grits in a backyard bird grits bag. So that's, that's coming soon. Probably in later 2025, if not early 2026. Redbone. Yeah. I just, you know, the scope of what these guys are doing is kind of amazing.

Uh, fact that, uh, and, and, you know, we like companies, Alex. that think outside the box. And I think just the invention of Buck Grits was people thinking outside the box and to see that they're gonna, you know, maybe expand into, you know, bird feed for your backyard birds. I mean, that's a company that's always growing and looking to be innovative.

Yeah, and they are. You know, Seymour Milling is, you know, Scott City, Missouri. It's over there in our KPE listing area. And, uh, We truly appreciate them being a part of what [00:33:00] we're doing here with American Roots, and we believe in their products, and Wayne and I have fed it for years now, and, uh, up until they told us we couldn't feed no more, but, uh, we do feed the birds that, and the birds can come and eat it, and our chickens, but, uh, again, we want to encourage everybody, if you are legal to feed, Thanks.

But rich, we encourage you to try but rich and I promise you, you'll be emailing us, you'll be following them on Facebook, making positive comments because it will help the animals on your property. Not just deer, but turkey and also your farm chickens and the quail, et cetera. And we've had a great show with you, uh, Brian, you've been a great guest as always, you know, so.

Thank you. We're going to wrap it up here in about a minute, minute and a half here. Uh, what have you got to say to all the listeners out there across the country? We air 19 countries, five radio stations, nine AM FM networks. [00:34:00] If people's interested in butt grits, how can they learn more about it? An easy way to do it is go to our Facebook page or Instagram page, but also go to www.

buttgrits. com. You can get all the information you're looking for there. If you've got any questions, drop us a message. But one of the things too, I got to thank my buddy here, Alex Rutledge, if you have got a son, daughter, niece, nephew, make sure that you take the time to take that young one out, teach him the sport of hunting, fishing, just make sure you pass her tradition down.

I mean, our Our hunting and fishing sport is, is growing smaller and smaller. There's not enough people to replace some of us that do it today. So if y'all get the opportunity, make sure you take that next kid hunting or fishing. I think it was well said, Redbone Wayne. What do you think? Yeah, I do too. I think it was very well said.

But I do have one more question before we wrap. On your website, do you have before I started feeding buck grits and after I started feeding buck [00:35:00] grits pictures? from customers. Currently, we don't have a photo bucket set up, but here in the here shortly, we will. So it takes a while to gather this kind of information, especially, you know, before hunting season throughout the year.

But we're working on putting that together. And then also, hopefully here in the near future, we'll actually have where a consumer can go on the book grids website and purchase it. I want to give a shout out to, uh, all of our partners and our radio partners and help support us, you know, Casey's Tree Service, Bonnie's Outdoors, Dalton Pallet, uh, name some more.

Legacy. Legacy Farmland Specialist. Hornady. Yep. Eagle Seed, Eagle Seed, all of them, uh, all these companies, yeah, yeah, Arnie Ammunition, yeah, Monty's Outdoors, you're faithful, you're a faithful listener, and, uh, you know, [00:36:00] Phillips Truck Repair, you know, Peddler's Market. LP Iron and Dirt. We got a lot of them. We missed you, uh, Jolly Cone at Van Buren.

They're supporters sometimes. And we appreciate everybody supporting us and Ride On Optics, you know, they're new now with us. They come back and let us help work with them. We're here busy with Trent Marsh. We're going to get him on the show sometime to talk about Ride On Optics. They got some cool stuff coming out.

But uh, that being said, Wayne, you're going to wrap up the end of the show here and talk about the bonus segment. And if you want to listen to more just because the show ends on the radio show doesn't mean that this actual show is ending, just go to the uh, your favorite podcast carrier, type in American Roots Outdoors, click like, subscribe, follow, whatever it asks you to do, and you'll get not only the radio segment, so if you missed any of it today, just uh, log into the podcast, you'll hear the entire radio segment along with an extra bonus segment.

Remember, teach your boys to become men, teach your girls to become ladies, and always remember, be awesome. [00:37:00] When your roots run deep and strong, there's no reason to fear the wind, so you never gotta worry what the wind might do. American Roots, thank you for joining us for today's American Roots Outdoors Radio with Alex Ru.

You can find us on Facebook. Look us up on the worldwide web@americanrootsoutdoor.com. We'll be back again next week on this great radio station.

Welcome back to America Reach Outdoors. This is our bonus segment of the show. And if you're listening to this, you're listening to it on a podcast carrier. We're in [00:38:00] 19 countries. And we reach a lot of people and we're talking with Brian Dennis, uh, sales manager or Buck Rich, the owner of Integrity Sales Rep Group.

And, uh, we're talking about CWD and Buck Rich, and we've had a great show today. And, uh, Wayne, I'm going to turn it over to you and Redbone. You all talk about the recap of the show and talk about other things that Brian wants to talk about, about the future. Yeah. Thanks for tuning in to the bonus segment here on the podcast.

And, uh, Brian, I know one of the things we'd like to touch base on is, we talked about the past of how Buckrits came to be, what they're doing now. What is the future? What are some of the things that Buckrits is looking to expand into? Well, Wayne, we can't hardly do that. We can't tell the competitors what we're going to do next.

We've got to keep a few things under wraps, but we're always looking towards the future, looking at, uh, A way to help increase, uh, growth and health [00:39:00] for all animals alike. So, well, but we have to keep a few things in our back pocket. I understand that. I understand that. You know, one thing that, you know, you talked about the chickens and that, but livestock, I'm sure that that's something that is also, uh, the Buckets is used for, isn't it?

For the farmers? It can be. I think we actually have a program where we actually do some things for some livestock, uh, companies. So that's, that's out there as well. It's not under the Buck Ritz brand or something like that, but we do make a lot of products for that as well. Yeah, you don't have to be a hunter to, to, to get an enjoyment and satisfaction and, uh, um, appreciation for the Buck Ritz brand and, and the, some of the services that's offered.

Hey, I forgot one thing. My squirrels love Buck Ritz. I got some poping young squirrels at home. I don't know if you can measure by the width of their tail, the length of the tail, but dude, them things got tails on them look like panthers. Their tail is so big. Yeah. Well, squirrels. Uh, and I would imagine what you talk about.

You know, put if they're squirrels or enjoying your butt grits and you talk [00:40:00] about fried squirrels and biscuits and gravy. Mmm. I mean, I thought it was the big ol That would be pretty good right now, I'm getting kind of hungry. Yeah, there's some big ol muscular squirrels running around, been eating butt grits for the last six months.

Mmm, mmm, mmm. Look at the thighs on that thing. So every time my squirrels run away, they look, they look back at me and they, they look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. They're so muscled up and big and then if they could talk, they'd probably look at me and said, I'll be back. I'll be back. I'll be back. I'll be back.

All right. So, uh, give us, you know, for folks that didn't hear the radio show, uh, Brian, give us a little bit of a rundown again of Buck Grits, the product. So Buck Grits, the product is obviously made by Simo Milling Corporation and we mill, you know, each corn kernel down and we've got a proprietary system that allows us to separate the parts of the corn kernel.

So we separate it for all different uses in the food industry, the alcohol world, and then obviously in butt grits, but we extract the germ and the hard [00:41:00] endosperm. And then we blend those two together at the right percentage mix, not only for protein, but also for fat content. So both of those are vital in health of deer, turkeys, doves, just anything like that.

Yeah, and I guess one of the, one of the beauties, and we've actually sold butt grits back when it was legal to. to feed in our immediate listing area. And we did some promotions with HirschFeed and Slow Buck Grits. One of the big selling points, I think, is the fact that the deer don't have to eat those hard outside kernels on the corn.

Because, I mean, they will eat it, but if they've got an alternative that's not as hard for them to eat, They're going to eat it. And that's one of the things, I think, that makes buck grits so, uh, so attractive. So one thing I didn't touch on earlier, so I, I watched deer a lot. I, my, whenever I was feeding before, they were right out in front of my office at my house.

So I was sitting by the window working. And one thing I always noticed with different feed products is deer [00:42:00] would always go eat some kind of broadleaf plant after they ate a feed product. But with butt grits, they don't have to do that because the digestion is not a problem. It's real easy for them to digest.

Amino acids. Yeah, it's the amino acids in it. Yep. It's very easy for them to digest. So it doesn't require that they go eat something else like, you know, some kind of broadleaf or plant in order to help digest another type of feed. Another thing about butt grits too is a lot of feed products that are on the market today Have a chemical called urea in it.

So what it does, it allows it to test at a higher protein level, but it's not a very D it's not a very good digestible protein. So deer have a hard time absorbing it and use it in their body. But with bug grits being a hundred percent all natural, they can absorb and use all of it. Yeah. They're selling point number two.

All natural. It's all natural. 100%. We don't add anything to it. We don't add urea to it. [00:43:00] We don't use dried distiller grain. It's all 100 percent natural. None of it's processed. That's kind of like companies that will, uh, if you look at the back of a can, it talks about like saturated fat, fat content, carbs, and bad carbs, good carbs.

There's no artificial sweeteners or flavors in it. It's 100 percent natural. Oh, that's awesome. Now, people that are allowed to feed, if they want to get buck grits right now, how do they go about it? The easiest way to do it is, uh, send us a message on Facebook or send one through our, uh, Our website, you'll come to my email.

We'll make sure that we refer them to their nearest dealer account, or we'll figure out a way to get them some butt grits. I want to say something. I want to say something in closing here before we wrap it up. Uh, when you buy butt grits, do you know what you're doing? You are supporting the American farmer.

That's growing that corn. So keep that in mind. Oh, [00:44:00] absolutely. And, uh, so Brian, we'd be remiss if we didn't say, how was your deer season this year? Well, I have been so busy with the new rep agency and You never had a good day. I never spent a single day in the tree stand. My tree stand was my office chair looking out the window, seeing if I had any deer in my yard.

Hey, I will, I will make one point. I heard one of you guys say something about the amount of deer that's in an area. And one thing that I can tell you, I did not have a single rub in my yard, which tells me that my buck and doe population is off. I have, I have way too many does, and the bucks don't have to chase.

So there's no rubs, no nothing around my house. And that's unusual. This is, uh, last year I saw it real late, like in December. This year I have not seen a single one. Well, you ain't feeding. Well, I'm not feeding, but also They don't have to bring out their aggression, right? There's way too many does. Yeah, that's a problem we have in Missouri, correct?

Southern Missouri especially.[00:45:00] 

Yeah, it definitely goes back to what I was saying about the, get your buck to doe ratio down, your, your bucks will be more aggressive, they're gonna wanna, uh, the, the chase will be increased, they're gonna, uh, cruise more during daylight, shooting, shooting hours and that, and, and, It also will allow you to have better response when you're, you know, uh, rattling and grunting and that you'll get a response that when, like I said before, when they, all they gotta do is turn their head and like, Oh, there's another dough, you know, there's no, there's no reason for them to be aggressive.

There's no reason for them to cruise to another, uh, piece of property. So shoot some dough, shoot the doughs, shoot some doughs, everybody. Well, season's over now. Uh, they can still, uh, crossbow season's over. Archery season's got to the 15th. I guess. January 15th, it'll be over. But, uh, now's the time to go out and harvest some does.

And if anybody still archery hunting, carry some binoculars with you to glass the deer before you shoot to make sure you're [00:46:00] not killing a buck without the antlers. Yep. And what a great show. Again, I want to thank you, Brian, for being a great guest and a good friend. You know, and, uh, uh, uh, it's an honor to work with you with such a great product with Buck Rich and a great company.

Hey Alex, I thank you guys for having me on, and it's always a pleasure to work with you. It's been good being friends with you, and I look forward until I hit the grave. Oh, same way, man. We're going to work together until we die. And again, thank you, Wayne Redbone, for what you do in the studio, and our editing, and everything you do, and uh We just wish everybody a safe, safe week, weekend, and go Chiefs.

You didn't go Lions. Well, go Chiefs, they're on the buy this week. Teach your boys to become men. Teach your girls to become ladies. Take your kids, share the great outdoors, God's creation. Don't let them sit in the house and play biddy. Let them get dirty, let them [00:47:00] not wear their shoes, get dirty feet. And learn to do things of God's creation.

And always remember. When your roots run deep and strong, there's no reason to fear the wind. 

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