Ep 1 / Welcome to The Frank and Squatch Show: Meet Your New Outdoor Buddies!

Whitetail Advantage & Boondocks hunting are thrilled to kick off the very first episode of The Frank & Squatch Show! Frank and Squatch, your dynamic duo of the outdoors, dive right into sharing their backgrounds and the wild stories that make them who they are. From Frank’s early days hunting with family in New Jersey to Squatch’s love for everything from deer to rabbit hunting, these guys are all about the thrill of the chase. They chat about the highs and lows of hunting seasons, gear setups, and some campfire tales that will have you chuckling and nodding along. So grab your favorite snack, settle in, and get ready to join these two characters as they embark on this exciting new adventure together!

Takeaways:

• In this episode, Frank and Squatch introduce themselves and share their hunting backgrounds, setting the tone for their new show.
• Listeners will get a glimpse into their hunting adventures, from whitetail tactics to bear hunting, making it relatable for all outdoor enthusiasts.
• Frank shares his experience with gear, including his saddle hunting setup, which has changed how he approaches his hunts.
• Squatch discusses the importance of scouting and understanding deer behavior, emphasizing the need for preparation before the hunting season begins.
• The duo highlights their camaraderie and support for each other, showcasing the brotherhood that's vital in the hunting community.
• Frank and Squatch humorously reminisce about their sketchy tree stands from childhood, reminding us to prioritize safety while having fun in the outdoors.

Episode Transcript

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Whitetail Advantage presentsthe Frank and Squatch show.
Where the outdoors comes alive.
Join Frank, the bow huntingtactician, and Squatch, the backwoods
storyteller, as they dive intoeverything hunting.
From chasing whitetails in thetimber to tracking elk in the mountains.
Gear talk campfire tales andlessons learned the hard way.
If it's wild, rugged, androoted in the hunt, you'll find it

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here.
This is the Frank and Squat show.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to the Frank and Squat Show.
Frank Mystica.
And you guys all know it's theold Squatch hanging out with Frank
on our brand new show, Frankie.
And why don't you do it?
What is it, Frank?
What do we call our show?
Yeah, we call it the Frank and Squatch.

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So I appreciate, I appreciateeverybody that's tuning in and I
like to give a big shout outbefore we start anything to Mr. Brett
Bovin and Mr. Mike Nitray forthis awesome opportunity giving us
our own show.
We are pumped and we'reexcited and we're ready to start
it.
What do you say, big man?

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I'll tell you what, Couldn'tfind two nicer guys.
We cut our teeth, you know,with Mike and, and Brett and you
know, we all work together asa big family here.
And it's just a beautifulthing that we can take care of each
other.
There's no animosity.
We're all big family.
We're that outdoor family.
So on behalf of the both of usguys, Brett, Mike, thank you, fellas.

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Thank you for being men,stepping up, understanding, and letting
us do our thing.
Yeah, man, we're pumped again.
I'm going to give them onemore, one more big shout out.
Appreciate you guys.
Appreciate the opportunity.
But if you want to start usoff, big man, you want me to.
Me to go first, however youwant to do it.
Well, why don't you give alittle bit of a bio on yourself for

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people that may not know us orhaven't seen us on either broadcast
before.
Give them.
Give them a little detail.
All right, so I am FrankMystica, also known as Broadside
Ambush on Instagram and Facebook.
Pretty much not on Facebooktoo much, but so just a quick little
background on me.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey.

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Hunted basically since I wasfive with my grandparents, my uncles,
my dad, everybody actuallymoved up to.
To Vernon, Sussex County.
That's pretty much where I.
Where I grew up, cut my teethgoing back and forth to our property
up in good old Sullivan County.
Became a big, big bow hunter,really big deer hunter.

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No matter whether it's gun ButI do like to get them with the bow.
But.
But I do love muzzleloader.
I basically cut my teeth alsoon rabbits, pheasant.
We.
We used to do a lot of smallgame growing up, but there's nothing
like deer hunting.
Squatch, I gotta tell you.
But I'm also, over the pastcouple years, became a big bear hunter.

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And, you know, that's.
That's basically like a littlebackground on myself.
I got a wife and two kids,live up in Wannage and just love
the outdoors, man.
Love to hunt.
Try to get the family involvedas much as I can.
Got good friends, good family.
That's pretty much my littlequick brief update on myself.

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What about you, big man?
So you guys, God made me thiscrazy person who just loves the outdoors.
I was born in 1975 in UlsterCounty, New York, and I've been in
the pursuit of the outdoors.
Just that driving two fang and claw.

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You know, started out, youknow, hunting deer, and I ended up
doing all kinds of small gamealong the years.
Turkey.
I was blessed with fourbeautiful beagles.
Got into rabbit hunting.
All four of my girls areretired now.
They're just house companions.
Missed the days of runningthem dogs.

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We had a lot of fun.
Avid outdoorsman, I predatorhunt on the downtime all through
the winter.
Love, love, love.
My, My most best thing is, isbow hunting.
I. I can't get enough of bowhunting, but I love all the seasons,
and I love to be able to riflehunt, muzzle loader, and anything

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with the outdoors.
Love fishing.
I get a lot of time, you know,through the summer, we fish.
My father and I. I had agreat, you know, big family that,
you know, also hunted.
We grew up with the uncles,and my grandfather was a key, key
role guy in that.
So was my dad.
And, you know, I've beenblessed, been blessed to meet such

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good people through theoutdoor community here, such as Frank,
Brett, Mike, Dave and Johnny.
And if anybody else I'mforgetting out there, you guys all
know I love yous.
And we're here to do the Frankand Squatch show.
We're gonna change things up alittle bit from what you guys are
kind of used to on thewhitetail advantage and some of the

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stuff that you've listened to.
We're gonna try to bring adifferent, different avenue with
stuff here.
So feel free to, you know,shout out in the comments like, you
have been good to see everybody.
And that's it for me, man.
You guys all know me, followme and stuff.
And if you don't, you should.
Yeah, you should follow Frankand you should follow Whitetail Advantage.
And you should follow theGarden City outdoorsman and the Boondocks

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guys too.
That's right.
Because we're all, we're allone big happy family man.
We're all great.
We all have fun.
We all love each other.
That's all that matters.
We all support each other, bud.
Yeah, absolutely.
We could take a second hereand just give a shout out to Shane
the blind hunter.
He's, he's joining us tonight.
We got Rusty Shackelford.
I hope I saying that right the third.

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Nice to speak you, Rusty.
And you know, we're going tostart out I guess tonight.
You know, why don't we, whydon't we start out, Frank, with talking
about your, your season inJersey has taken off.
You know, why don't youreiterate on what you did to get
started and how, how it's been going.
Give us some info.
Yeah, so I kind of started alittle late scouting this year, but

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I was able to get after itstarted some, some good bait sites.
Been watching a couple, couplegood deer on and off.
Been having some really goodbear on camera.
You know, basically just, youknow, my season prep was just getting
ready for the season.
Make sure my bow's all good.

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My, my gear was good.
You, I think you, you guys sawI took a lot of shots out of my saddle
this year.
Different angles, trying toget as comfortable as I can.
So I was ready for, for deerseason, you know.
And I mean, let me tell yousomething, it was here before you
know it.
Oh, you know, woman, I'mtaking family vacations out and out

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to Hershey and everything.
And the next minute I'm like,you know, calling Gerard from Racket
or hey man, I need some stufflike seasons here.
I'm behind like I got, I gottaget moving.
But, but, but I was able, youknow, to, to get some stuff from
Gerard.
He makes, he makes awesome products.
If you haven't checked outRacket or everybody, I mean, you'll

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know what you're missing.
Give him a shout.
He'll, he'll hook you up witheverything you need.
But it was just so.
Yeah, I mean it was herebefore, you know, it went out.
Opening day, I could only huntthe morning.
Unfortunately in the Saturdaymorning, I thought, believe it or
not, I thought I was going toget it done.
I went in there prettyconfident I was going to have a dough

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on the ground.
I think I even put out a videoby like 7:30, 8:00'.
Clock.
I was going to be Done.
Well, I guess that didn't happen.
Hey, you know what?
You know, I mean, I bit off alittle more Ankachu.
The.
You know, the deer, they.
They skunked me again.
Yeah.
I was all pumped, ready to go.

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Went out, and I. I Actuallythis year, I went out and I bought
a brand new Polaris 574 wheelto help me drag some.
Some stuff.
And, man, I just went outthere and I was like.
I was like, where dideverything go that I've been watching?
Like, I had two bucks show upin the morning, A small six, and

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I think it was a small six anda spike, and saw some turkey, and
that was it.
Actually.
I bumped the dough walking outbecause I actually met up with Mr.
Old Squatch there in the afternoon.
We.
We.
We went and had headed up tothis gun show that we go to every
year.
Had a blast.
The family.

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Yep.
And Sunday, I mean, I. I wasback at it big, man.
I. I went back out again.
My hopes were high, and it just.
It just never happened, man.
I don't know, like, the woodschanged or.
I don't know.
Something happened that Istill can't, like, put my finger
on yet.

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But it just.
It just didn't happen like Ithought it was.
So I ended up hunting.
Sunday.
I. I saw.
I saw a deer.
Couldn't.
Couldn't close the distance.
They kind of knew I was thereor something was up.
And I just kept after it, Squatch.
I just kept after it.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah, you did.

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And I think it was.
I think Tuesday, if I believeit was correct.
I was.
I was send.
I was making a call to you,Squatch, saying I got a deer down.
I finally got it done after Iwas getting skunked because I went
out Monday.
We had that storm blow through.
Yeah.
And I actually ended up seeingthem right before that storm hit.

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They came behind me, and theystayed out about 60 yards.
They end up going the otherway, unfortunately.
So I wasn't able to.
To get a shot at him or nothing.
And Tuesday, I mean, I kind of.
I kind of figured out whatthey were doing, where they were
coming from.
I said, all right, so I'mgonna take my saddle.
I'm gonna go sit.

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You know, probably another 70yards from from where I was sitting.
Yeah.
Set up.
I actually.
I went to work.
Got out.
Yep.
Drove straight there, Got upin the tree.
Within 25 minutes, I see.
I see my first doe pop out.
I'm like, here we go.
And there was this whole groupof eight there.

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So they Were all.
All pretty decent dose.
Yeah.
They come in.
I have them probably about.
I think I had them at about 10 yards.
Couldn't draw back.
They were that freaking close.
They were.
They were.
They were alert for some reason.
They were on it.
Yeah.
And I just waited.

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I picked out this one deer,and she walked by me.
Squat.
She came to the side of me.
Yeah.
She got behind a tree.
I was like, all right, Frank,now's your time.
But what I think of is, hey,Frank, she's behind that tree, but
there's.
But there's seven other deerstanding around her.
And when I came to full draw.
Yep.

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I. I think either they heardit or.
Or they saw me move and they all.
They spooked.
They all jumped.
Yep.
They went out to about.
Well, the one I shot went outto about 25 yards.
Yeah.
And she.
She stopped, and she wasactually quartering away from me.
Yeah.

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And I was like, it's not theone I want.
Shoot.
Because there was some reallybig nanny does in there.
I was like, all right, well,I'm gonna have to take the shot.
So I ended up putting that.
The sever right through her.
The sever hybrid 1.5 with thebrand new arrow Squatch made me from

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warhead arrow.
My reigns.
He never fails to disappoint, man.
I. I put it right through her.
I seen a hit, and I was like, yup.
Who's covered in blood.
I'm like, she's done.
Squatch didn't fail me again, so.
Because let me tell you, if Iwould have missed or whatever, I
would have been like, squatch,we need to talk, buddy.

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I ain't gonna let that happento you.
Frank, you know what?
I.
No, no, I know that.
That's why, you know, I callyou my own personal bow technician.
So whenever I have a problem,I'm like, listen, if it's arrows,
bow, gun, it doesn't matter.
Well, I mean, you know, wecall each other.
Each other's like,psychologists, too, because through
the frustrations.

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Through the frustrations,through the deer season, like, all
you guys experience.
I know everybody's beenthrough it here.
We will sit there, literally,and talk and try to figure stuff
out.
And if I didn't, I would begoing crazy or I would have to call
Ms. Cleo and ask for some kindof freaking, you know, magic potion
of what the hell's going on.
But that's the.

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The greatest thing abouthaving the brotherhood is you can
rely on your pals, yourfriends, your brothers.
You can say, hey, you knowwhat's going, what do you think I'm
doing wrong?
And we sit there and.
Yeah, but.
But get back to what you weretalking about, Frank.
I got off on a little bit of a tangent.
No, listen, listen, You're.
You're all good, man.
No worries.
But, yeah, I ended up puttingit through her.

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She actually.
I thought she went about 60yards, but she only ended up going
about 40.
And, you know, after that waspretty much celebration begins.
Called my wife.
I said, bring.
Bring my little man over.
And he came and.
And you saw the picture, Squatch.
He was.
He was happy and he wasexcited just to be part of it, because

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I try to as much as I can, Itry to get him involved.
Like, unfortunately, like, I.
Because of how hot it was, Iwasn't able to let the deer lay and,
like, have him track it withme like I wanted to.
Yep.
But, you know, there's alwaysknow, we got plenty of time for that.
So, you know, I just try tokeep them involved as much as I can.

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You know.
Made a few phone calls, and Iwas like, all right, let's get after
that buck now.
I was pumped, man.
It's awesome.
We had a.
We had a question here from Rusty.
He said, what's your tips forshooting smaller deer?
I was listening to anotherpodcast, and they said it's better
to shoot small spikes and fawns.
I don't believe that podcast.

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I'm not a deer biologist.
You know, I can tell you fromhistory of many years of being in
the woods.
I'm.
I'm 50, so, you know, there'squite a.
Quite a few years in the woods.
We had cousins from the citythat would come up and just lay anything
out that was brown.
Yeah, I never had a problemgrowing up seeing the amount of deer

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that I saw.
There was always bucks.
There was always does.
I mean, I didn't even get onboard to shooting mature deer until
about 12, maybe 14 years ago.
I think if you follow a lot ofwhat the biologists allow in your

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state, you're probably prettyclose to balancing out a herd.
I do know for a fact helpsbecause sometimes where you're hunting,
you will have a chance of deerbeing inbred.
Sounds funny, but it really.
Nature doesn't allow that to happen.

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So a buck that grew up with adoe or a doe family that's from that
same, you know, group of deerin that area, you'll tend to see
a reason why a buck will be onyour camera for most of the summer,
and then he disappears closerto the rut and that's just God's
way of making sure that theseanimals don't inbreed and that there's

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a success.
So what they might be gettingat on that podcast is maybe taking
a few of those deer out.
It'll help the other deermaybe come into rut sooner.
It may actually adjust theherd because now you're killing another
foreign deer to a new areathat might have meandered in so they

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don't get that cross breeding.
I mean, there's probably amillion answers out there.
That's just my take on it.
I, I say you're probably notgoing to do any harm if you shoot
a fawn.
I, I don't really condone it.
I don't like it.
It happens.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm, you know, I've done it.

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It's happened.
I, I try to.
I try to have as much respectfor my prey what I'm going after.
I, I don't consider myself tobe a trophy hunter, but I'm not just
a meat hunter either.
I mean, if I want meat, I'llshoot does.
Mature does.
Yeah, but you get to knowthese animals and it's, you know,
Frank and I were just talkingabout this, and, you know, we say,

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that's my buck.
That's so and so, or that's.
And then somebody else shoots it.
And, you know, it's funny howyou get attached to these animals.
So to go blow a fawn away or,you know, shoot a fawn with the bow
or something, that's not me.
But I, you know what, ifthat's what you got time for and
it's the only deer you see,maybe you only got a couple of days
out of work to hunt, andthat's the only animal came in.

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I don't begrudge you guys, man.
You know, obviously any kindof biology that's done with research
of the animals in your area iswell affected by how many are there,
you know, I mean, around here,I can take you to a spot, you'll
see 17, 20 doe at a time andnot one buck.
And they need to issue moredoe permits for that area in my eyes.

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So that's just my take.
What do you, what do youthink, Frankie?
No, I mean, I, I agree with you.
100, you know, and I'm justgoing to piggyback off what much
what you said.
Right.
I'm not a big fan of shootingfawns either.
Right.
I. I have done it, of course,but I think, you know, for me, I

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like to try to take out thosebig nanny do's who.
Yeah, me too.
Teach who.
Teach them everything, youknow, especially like when you're
hunting over a bait site.
Because I.
Last year was actually thefirst year I've hunted over a bait
site.
Yep.
And I learned a lot from doing it.
I kind of learned a lot oflike the deer's behavior, how they,

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you know, they'll circle thebait and circle the bait.
They'll check the trees andeverything first before they actually
commit.
Yeah.
So that, so that's, that'swhat I was dealing with earlier this,
you know, actually just acouple days ago.
But I was able to cut them offand get it done.
Yeah.
I'll just take that to believeit or not.

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Like I'm not too.
My own horn, but justexperience on how to, you know, just,
just watching them andlearning and saying, okay, this is,
this is what I got to do.
This is what I should do.
Yeah.
And I was just able to get itdone, man.
Yeah.
And you know, that's.
You made a really good point, Frank.
And I believe in the samething those 5, 6, 7, 10 year old

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does that are walking around.
I mean, I've got some.
You guys.
If you look back on, on, youknow, my, my Instagram page, you'll
see some of the dough hanging.
Yeah.
It's very rare for me to takea dough here that's not more than
150 pounds or more.
The average dough here isabout 180 pounds.
But they're all apple orcharddeer to eat.

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Well all year.
But I tried to get rid ofthose dough.
They're older and you know,you can take a buck.
A buck is weary.
A buck catches scent, he'llblow your cover and he's gone.
But not during the rut.
A mature doe that's five, six,seven, eight years old, man, I, I've

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done everything right.
And all of a sudden I'll hearthat dough blowing at me or she'll
just come out and pick herhead up and look at me and I'm like,
there's.
Yep.
I didn't even blink.
I mean, really, how in theFrank do you know, I'm here?
All I do is exhale.
I mean, I, I mean, you know, it's.
And you know, I believeheavily in sennis ass and earth.

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I, I use that religiously.
I've been using that for years off.
Great.
Can't.
Can't say enough good about that.
That earth set, I love thatcover set.
And you know, even with, withrack getter stuff I mean, his product,
the hot the trot, pulled alive eight pointer off a dough and

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brought that buck right intome last year.
And out of all the scents I'veused it, I' them just about.
That's the first time I everhad a live deer come in.
So, you know, you.
You sit there, you gotta fool them.
You got to get those big does down.
Don't be afraid to shoot a doe.
You know, don't.
Don't think it's like, youknow, you're any less or anything.

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You're getting rid of theseeducated deer.
They will teach the rest ofthe herd there is something there.
Even if they don't see see youwhen they stomp and they blow, they're
telling that other herdthere's a danger.
And you know what?
The best thing to do iseradicate the problem.
Get rid of that smart old doe,and I'll tell you what, you'll see

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your herd relax, and yourchances of getting that big buck,
it'll be even better.
Yep.
No, I. I couldn't agree more.
You know, and I.
Like I said, the one that Ishot, she was nice.
It wasn't the big ones I wasafter, of course, because it didn't
work out that way.
It was good eating.

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But, you know, the one thing Ihave to say is, again, I'm going
to go back to, like, what youwere saying about, like, the rack
getter stuff.
I used his sweet corn spray.
Yeah.
I've also used a caramelspray, and I sprayed before I even
got my saddle.
I sprayed that all around.
Let me tell you something.
When they came in, because Icompletely forgot to tell this.

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I'm sorry.
When they came in, they were literally.
Their noses were up.
They were on it.
Yeah, yeah.
And they literally were goingto, like.
I probably messed that up alittle bit by spraying it a little
too close to my.
To my stand.
But, you know, hey, it happens.
I'm still able to pull it off.
But absolutely, you know, and,you know, I. I'm.

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I'm a firm believer.
It's just like, when I cook,man, I always layer my flavors into
what I make.
So I may start seasoning apiece of meat with just salt and
pepper, and I let it cook.
Then I'll hit it with flavorsof the forest garlic, and then I'll.
I'll hit it again through theprocess of what I'm doing.
And if there's a broth or asauce, I layer the flavors into that.

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It's no different when you'rebuilding your hunt Right.
You're building your hunt.
And I'll tell you what, man,if you layer by starting out, you're,
you're cleansing yourself.
You're, you're keeping thatscent down.
Right?
I, and believe me, there'sguys out there and I'm thinking about
actually doing it this yearbecause I have a little fire pit
outside.

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I was thinking about smokingmy clothes because that's.
Yeah, that's an old schoolcloaking of your human scent.
Is that smoke?
The smoke doesn't spook themthinking about trying it.
But get back to what I was saying.
When you layer your success ofhow you're going to hunt, start out

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by being scent free.
Start out by using a goodquality attractant.
Start out with using, youknow, a tarsal gland or, or a, A,
you know, a hot to trot doe oryou know, something along that line
of a good quality deer urine.
You are going to increase your success.

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And you know, if it doesn'twork, so what, you know what, it
may work the next time you're out.
Don't be afraid to try new things.
I mean, if you're just one ofthose gloom and doom people, like,
I don't believe that.
You know, trust me.
Try different stuff.
Try.
And don't go by what we tell you.

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I mean, you can use whateverthe heck you want.
If it works for you, you know,it works for you.
That's all that matters.
You know, and once just like.
Yeah, go ahead.
No, no, go ahead.
I was gonna say the same.
Same thing that goes with camo.
Yeah, you know.
Oh yeah, definitely.
Yeah, same things.
Yeah.
But the, the other thing too,like I just want to touch base with

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is, you know, you're, you'retalking about, you know, with the
bait and everything.
Where you hunt in Jersey,baiting's allowed.
Where I am in New York, wecan't, you know, and it's.
My baiting is a 300 acre appleorchard with natural food on the
ground.
So I just kind of use thetransition zones to catch them going
in and out of that.
But you know, it's nice toyou, you, you got a nice place in,

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in New York that we're gonna,you know, hopefully get up to soon
and you know, check, checkthat out.
And you know, it's, it's cool.
You get to hunt both states,which is, is really cool.
So what's, when you get into asection of woods and you're just
starting out, let's, let's goback to like, let's say early July,

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you know, June July, you'regetting out there.
You're getting some ideas fromwhat you saw last year.
Give me some of the.
The early tactics, you know,like maybe, like, you know, I'm not
asking you to give away yoursecrets to everybody, but what's,
what's some of the stuff thatyou look for?
What do you do for your earlyseason stuff?
I mean, for.

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So for early season, I'llusually go in, you know, depending
on if I hunted there last yearor not.
Right.
So I kind of go based off ofwhat I seen last year, and I'll kind
of start there as like astarting point.
You know, I'll go there andI'll start, you know, hopefully the
grounds, like, what enough orwhatever, where I could see tracks,

(25:49):
where I can see droppings.
I'll look for, like, old rubsor something along those lines.
So I have a starting point andI'll just.
From there I'll go to.
Okay, like, where do I thinkthe food source is?
You know, so come here.
Like, if I.
If I'm looking up and I seeit, tons of, you know, white oaks

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or, you know, anything likethat, or if I know there's a cornfield
like, or something like, youknow, three, 400 yards away.
Okay.
Like, I know they're probablygoing to be heading there early season.
Where do I think they're betting?
If I don't already know, I'll.
I'll just start walking, andfrom there I'll just kind of see,

(26:36):
like, where do.
Where am I bumping the deer?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I know they're holding up here.
You know, again, they couldhave seen me before when I walked
in and moved a little bit, butat least it kind of gives you a starting
point of, of where to go orwhere to start from.
Right, Right.
And I'll just.
I'll just kind of go, youknow, based off that.

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And then, you know, I usually,just to get quick intel, I'll usually
throw some bait out, see if Ican get anything on camera that way.
I'll take some inventory of,you know, who made it or, you know,
how many deer are in the areathat I think or bears or whatever
I'm.
I'm targeting.
Okay.
Now.
Now I kind of know then I'lljust usually kind of go from there.

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Yeah.
Especially like a year likewe're having this year with the drought.
Yep.
I mean, last year.
Yeah, it did.
You're right.
Another key fact for peoplethat are maybe just getting started
out, and if, if you aren'tjust getting started out, bear with
us here because I try to hiteverybody, you know, levels of.
Of, of what they know.

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But you know, a water source, if.
If you don't have a watersource on your property and you got
a year like this year whereit's been very dry, if you guys check
out some of the.
The other guys that are outthere online and stuff, you'll see
them taking kiddie pools.
Little plastic kiddie pools.
Yep.
They'll dig a hole in the ground.
They place a small board in itjust in case like a squirrel or some

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kind of small animal gets inthere to get something to crawl out
on.
And they make water sources inthe woods, man.
And it's know it might be ahorse trough, it might be a kiddie
pool, anything.
And they'll run out andthey'll supply it with fresh water
every so many days.
And you know what?
It's a killing spot.
You know what I mean?
I call them spots Killing.
They're killing spots.

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Yep.
The one piece of property thatI hunt, I'm very fortunate.
There's a lake, there's like abeaver pond and then almost like
a swamp and.
And that's where I'm going.
Opening day.
You know, October 1st startshere in New York, Considering the
water sources.
Because my big deer are goingto be thirsty and you know, having

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trail cams up and stuff.
I've been seeing a few hereand there.
But it's one of the things Iconsider my, my surroundings.
You know, when I'm out in thewoods, what kind of season am I having?
You know, what's the weathermaking the deer do?
And of course, you know,Frank, like you've seen too.
Later on in the season youstart getting them goose eggs down

(29:09):
to zero.
Winds blowing 20, 25.
You know, the deer ain't goingto be out in some damn open field.
You know, they're going to bein the thick stuff.
So now we're changing ourtactics up, right.
We're going to switch.
We're going to head for thatthick cover and whatever else we
can find.
Yeah.
So you know.

(29:30):
What do you think Mr. Bovin'scomment there?
Did you guys hear about theoutbreak of ehd?
What do you think about that, Squatch?
Because I know that I've heardsome cases.
Yeah, I know, I know Ohio isgetting slammed really, really hard
right now, unfortunately.
That's.
That's Jason from Warhead.
He's down there in Ohio.

(29:52):
We, we ventured out to go seehim last year and hunt down there.
You know, they're getting hithard Right now, Ohio's really taking
a beating.
I think some of like the verysouthern edge of Jersey.
I know Michigan's got some.
It's.
It's blotchy.
I mean, thank God.
I think it's wet enough here.

(30:13):
We've.
We're keeping those midgeflies away from those, those swampy
areas, I hope.
Boy, I don't want to lose anydeer in 2020.
We got hit hard.
Yeah, but.
Yeah, unfortunately, man, whenyou get those droughts, those deer
go to those water sources andthose damn mid flies come out of
that mud and bite em and theyget that high fever.
Yep.

(30:33):
I think Rusty.
Rusty.
I thought he said somethingabout what was EHD and then he thought
it was like a thing of blue tongue.
It's not, it's not the same asblue tongue.
It's different because it'stransmitted by a midge fly.
When the ground gets very dry,the midge flies come out of that

(30:55):
swampy, messy mud.
And it's just that when thedeer goes to drink water because
there is a drought, they getbit by that mid fly.
Hey.
Hey.
Sorry, my beagles are barking.
You're okay.
The.
That's Dolly.
That's.
Hey, fresh.
Go to bed.
She's like, I want to be partof the show too.
She was barking at Dashbecause Dash was coming in to say

(31:17):
hello to me.
They all come up to go to thebedroom to go to bed.
So that's what you guys heard.
But the mid fly bites the deer.
The deer gets a highhemorrhaging fever.
They go back to the watersource just as if they had got hit
in the stomach with a stomach wound.
They bed down in the cool water.
It feels good to them, andunfortunately, they succumb to a

(31:39):
high fever, they pass out, andthey die.
And in 2020, the.
The one section of woods Ihad, I found over 10, 12 deer.
Some of them were bucks that Ihad watched for a few years.
I was pretty upset and.
Oh, man.
Yeah, Mike.
Mike.
Yeah, Mike, the.
The host of Boondocks Huntingand the Garden City Outdoorsman was

(32:02):
telling us on.
The group chat today.
Yeah, he sent us a picture ofone on the group chat today that
was pretty tore up.
Looked like EHD might have got it.
Beautiful buck.
We're hoping so too, Mike.
Hopefully it was maybe anarrow wound and it just died.
Hopefully it's not EHD down there.
Yeah, that would really.
That would really suck.
I mean, we got some raincoming, guys, so that's.
That's a big.

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That's a big help.
It'll knock it down.
Even if it is starting, it'llknock it down.
We might.
Might lose a couple.
I haven't heard.
And I knock on wood.
I'm knocking wood right now.
Haven't heard anything in NewYork yet, so thank God for that.
Good.
Yeah.
What do you want to talk aboutnow, bud?
I was actually going to askyou about your.
Because obviously you haven'tbeen out yet, except for I think

(32:45):
you went out once or twice for bear.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I just kind of wanted to see.
Because I do know that you'vegot a little something that not a
lot of people know about.
You got something in yourarsenal that you just bought not
too long ago that you'reexcited to use.
So why don't you go ahead andtell us like your preseason stuff
there, buddy?
Yeah.

(33:05):
Yeah.
So New York runs an early bearseason, of course.
Today I go out at 4 o' clockin the morning.
It's already 75 degrees inhigh humidity.
And I'm like, I must be atotal birthing idiot to go out and
want to hunt bear in amountain right now with this heat
and humidity.
And of course, the whole weekwe had cool temperatures.

(33:28):
But when the weekend rolledaround, when the season opened up,
it had to get hot.
But yours truly went out andI. I'm itching.
Itch.
I'm itching.
For my 50th birthday lastyear, my wife, my beautiful wife
bought me a Henry lever action4570 government.
I'm very familiar with the round.

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My father's hunted with it foryears in a marlin 1895 lever action.
I've carried it.
I've shot deer with his gunover the years when I was growing
up and I just always wanted my own.
And Marlin stopped making guns.
They've been bought out by Remington.
To me, it's just not the same.
I mean, they're okay if yougot one.

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They're awesome.
Shoot it.
I'm happy for you.
But the quality of the Henryrifle, when I looked those over,
had to have it.
So she bought me that for my50th birthday.
I've been making my customhand loads for it.
I came up with Hornady'srecipe of a 325 grain FTX with.

(34:30):
I'm shooting 45 grains ofpowder out of that bad boy.
And it's a compressed load.
You mill the cases down ten thousands.
For you guys that reload, I'm not.
You guys know what I'm talking about.
For anybody else, you'reGoing, huh?
You're looking at me likepeanut, you know, so.
It's a nasty gun.
It's a nasty caliber.

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I've always loved it.
Can't wait to shoot somethingwith it this year.
So I drugged my butt out ofbed, got up there, went around the
mountain.
Didn't see anything but somedeer, which was cool.
I mean, you know, it was niceto get out, get some woods time in.
It helps the soul.
And it was all right, man.
Like I said, you know, I gotout, but been using my cameras, the

(35:13):
early season stuff.
I deploy cameras.
I have cameras out all year.
I deploy more even than whenseason starts.
Doesn't always necessarilydictate where I go, but it helps
me keep inventory of what's around.
And Been seeing some prettydecent deer.
I have one that's gotta.

(35:34):
I gotta get them.
I have to get them this year, so.
Praying the good lord willgive me the strength to get them
the knowledge.
We'll see.
You know, I. I'm really gottabe careful.
I haven't gone in that.
That property at all thanstaying away.
And I got to be a sneaky squatch.
I gotta.
I gotta be just as sneaky asthey are when I go in.

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And I pun it with you.
You're pretty.
You're pretty.
Selfie.
Well.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
I. I try my.
Try my darndest, you know, to.
To do the best I can.
And, you know, it's alwaysgood to have you by my side too.
We had a great turkey season.
Yes, we did.
A lot of fun.
A lot of fun out there.

(36:17):
But yeah, I mean, early seasontactics, you know, like you.
You touched on nuts.
Nuts are a big thing, youknow, what are your acorns?
You're getting beach nut,beech nut for bear.
White oaks, the red oaks.
We've got everything this year.
So there's no shortage of foodhere for these animals.
There's.
There's so much food on theground right now.

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And I think that's why trailcamera pictures are a little sporadic
right now.
They were a little moreconsistent a couple weeks back.
Yeah.
A little bit spread out now.
And I think it's just becauseof the food source.
I think this.
This next full moon that comesout in October, it's.
It's gonna turn on, man.
It's.
It's really gonna turn on offfrom October 1st to the 14th.

(37:01):
So I got some nice, nicelittle stretch of time to get.
Get out in the woods and hunt and.
Guys, I work like a mule.
I'll do two jobs Myself, I'mlooking forward to just.
I don't even care if I see anything.
I just want to detune, man.
And I'm sure you guys all busytoo, and you can relate.
Yeah, yeah, man.
But that's about it for allthat with me.

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I mean, you know, did youhear, Frank?
Because I know you hunt New York.
Also, New York State just puta bill in where hunters are allowed
to use a crossbow all seasonlong now.
So from bow season, rifleseason, muzzleloader season, guys

(37:45):
can take a crossbow out.
So my.
My feeling is, and believe me,I shot a doe a couple years back
when it made a video.
I never shot anything with a crossbow.
I got two of them, and I wanted.
I wanted to try it.
You know, I was like, let'ssee what this is about.
So I just figured, what the hell?
If I get a chance at a nicedoe, I'll let it fly.

(38:08):
And, man, it worked out.
First night I went out withit, one came in, made a beautiful
shot on her.
She didn't go maybe 40 yards.
It was laying her dead.
Is it something that I reallywant to spend a lot of time with
in my hands?
Not.
Not really.
I mean, it's fun.
It's.
It's just like, you know,whether you go out with rifle, shotgun,

(38:28):
muzzle loader, you know, butto me, it's.
If you gotta use one, maybeyou're a little bit older, maybe
you got some shoulder issues,or maybe it's some kind of disability.
Maybe you need to use a scope.
And, you know, with crossbows,always usually have a scope, but,
you know, maybe you have a disability.
Like our good friend Shane.

(38:49):
He's.
He's a blind guy, and the guy's.
The guy's.
The guy's phenomenal, man.
He's got a little TV screen.
He's got a spotter with him.
A guy like that?
Yeah, man, let it rip.
You know, I mean, but for me, yeah.
Well, in moderation, maybe asI get older, I'll use one a little
more.
But I'm just a bow hunter.

(39:09):
I like.
I like shooting the bows.
It's a lot of fun.
I don't begrudge anybody, youknow, I mean, if that's what you
home with, it's okay.
I mean, I wish they would havekind of kept it basically the way
it was.
Like, there's a crossbowseason near the end of bow season,
and then you could use it therest of the season.
I get it.
It.
It kind of shortchanged guysthat couldn't draw a bow back.

(39:32):
Yeah.
Whatever.
What do you, what do you thinkthough, bud?
You know, I'm pretty much inthe same boat as you.
I was happy the way it wasthat you can use it.
You can only use crossbow.
Like there was like a week ortwo before rifle season, you know,
because I have done it in thepast when they switched it.

(39:53):
I've killed, I've killed a fewbucks with my crossbow upstate.
Yeah.
But I mean, I'm pretty muchwith you.
I mean I just, I'm notknocking anybody who uses it.
But for me I didn't get thatsame feeling or satisfaction.
And I just, I just prefer torather boha.

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I mean it can be frustratingat times.
You know, Squatch gets all,all my phone calls, even 11 o' clock
at night saying this freaking thing.
I don't know what's wrong with it.
What do I do?
You know.
But you usually, you know, areable to tell me how to fix the problem
and get me back on track.
But I mean I personally, Ithink they should have left it the

(40:35):
way it was.
But I mean teach its own, Iguess, you know.
So.
Yeah.
Nice to see our long timefriend Dave from Urban Pursuit.
He's got a podcast with Chrison Friday nights.
I think they're doing everytwo weeks now.
Every two weeks?
Yep.
Yeah, every two weeks.
Long time friends of both ofours, he says his fear, new and inexperienced,

(40:57):
just grabbing a crossbow,flinging bolts everywhere and landing
in people's yards.
I think your numbers will behigh this year that are wounded.
And yeah, Dave, I gotta agree.
I gotta say, Dave, you're.
You got a good point there.
It's kind of like just saying.
I'll put it to you this way guys.
Right?
So like you guys know I'm 50years old.

(41:18):
So go back to the when.
When the hell did I get mycertificates up there?
All right.
Late 80.
Late 80s.
Late 80s.
Let's just say that late 80s.
I got my certificateslaminated up on the wall.
God forbid I ever lost my license.
You needed them to get yourtags back in the day?
Yep.
When I took my bow huntersafety course here in New York, it

(41:43):
was an eight hour course.
It was all day when you tookthe written test.
After that, you had to beproficient in order for them to sign
the back of your certificate.
So you could hunt legally onstate land, you needed to shoot proficiently
from 20 yards, 30 yards and 40 yards.
And you had to be able to hitsomething the size of a tennis ball.

(42:03):
I took great pride inpracticing my ass off with the cheap
bare bow.
That I had back in the daywith, like, four different size arrows.
And the guy laughed.
The guy laughed at me, and hestopped laughing when I made my arrows
go right where they needed togo on the proficiency test.
And I got the back of my.
My certificate signed.

(42:25):
But, you know, and you had tofollow a blood trail, too.
Through the years with mylocal gun club, I helped in aiding
and teaching hunter safety.
When I had my 3D outdoor range.
We also gave hunter education there.
I would lay down the bloodtrail and try to educate hunters
with that point.
But what I'm saying is it usedto be a pride thing.

(42:47):
Like, you went and took a lotof pride in trying to make the best
shot.
You wanted to be an avidoutdoorsman and, and, you know, just,
you know, be the best that you can.
And now you're handingsomebody a crossbone, it's like,
well, hey, buddy, you know,you don't really need to practice.
You got a scope on that thing.
Let her rip, Tater chip.

(43:08):
You know, and it's like,still, you know, it's not easy.
It's not easy.
You got to practice with acrossbow, too, just like you do with
a bow or anything.
And to me, it's just kind oflike I kick in the nuts towards bow
hunters a little bit.
I'm just gonna say it, youknow, and like I said, guys, don't.
Don't get old yelling andscreaming at me and mad.

(43:30):
If you got a problem or youneed to hunt with a crossbow, I get
it.
God bless you.
Shoot what you can with it.
If you're just using it as ashortcut to get out in early season,
think about what you're doing.
Go get yourself a good qualitybow and practice with it, you know,
and.
And feel what it's like toactually experience the true meaning

(43:51):
of bow hunting.
And I've done it from bothavenues without.
With a stick and a string anda compound bow.
So you can't take nothing awayfrom me.
I've done it on both sides.
I am a real accomplished archer.
Yeah.
No, and I think another thingis Squatch, too, is I feel like crossbow

(44:12):
hunters take more risk, actually.
Not an animal.
They don't wait.
Always wait for the perfectshot, you know?
You know, because even.
Even in Jersey here, you couldstart using it.
Sue's bow season opens, so Ifeel like people take a lot further
shots that, you know, they'relike, oh, I know this bow can shoot

(44:35):
up to 80 yards, 100 yards,whatever, and they just.
They just let it fly or, youknow, they Take a frontal shop.
Because they, they figure, oh,this you got all that power.
Yeah.
You know, but I mean, that,that's just my take on it.
Well, you know, the otherthing too, Frank, it's like you were
hunting the other day andyou're like, hey, I had those seven

(44:56):
dough around me.
They knew something was up.
Yeah.
Because you've actually got toget here, get your arm back and say,
when you bring a crossbow up,it's like a rifle.
It's already caught.
Yeah, it would, they wouldhave been done.
I mean, I'll be, I'll be thefirst one to admit it, you know,
but.
Yeah, well, let's see, let's,let's, let's see how it goes this
year.
You know, New York State andtheir, their infinite wisdom of making

(45:19):
it be okay.
I, I hope and pray we don'tlose a lot of animals to wounds.
And yeah, the guys that areusing them, if you need to use them,
God bless you.
I hope, I hope you get your trophy.
The guys that are just usingthem to take a shortcut.
I hope you feel good aboutyourself and maybe someday you'll
pick up a bow and be proficient.
That's all I'm going to say about.

(45:40):
That, but couldn't say about myself.
So, walking around the woodsthe other day, bud, man, I seen a
stand that I built a long timeago and I was thinking, man, it's
still a damn good spot.
You ever get one of thosestands that are like, just super
sketchy?
I mean, what the hell?
Like, what's one of thesketchiest stands like, you, you

(46:01):
maybe built probably.
You probably built stuff withyour grandfather up on your property
and you're sticking like,well, I'm a hundred and something
pounds.
That ought to hold me pretty good.
Maybe I'll get back up there.
I mean, have you ever got upin some sketchy stuff?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I mean, I mean, I look atit now and I was like, how did I
survive my childhood?

(46:22):
Like, how did my, how did myuncles and everything allow me to
go up there, you know, like,because I remember being, you know,
going up there every weekendto our property with two by fours
and just nails and they'rejust like, all right, pick a tree.
And they're just, you know,and they're building this thing.
It's all, it's all crooked and lopside.

(46:42):
Sometimes it had like spiralstairs, like.
And you're just like, man, Iwould if I had to do that all over
again, like, I wouldn't do that.
Yeah, you Know, but I've also,also I've been on some sketchy lock
ons that.
Yep.
Yep.
I knew in the past, you know,now that I got kids, it's different

(47:03):
obviously.
But I took a lot of chanceswith, you know, like, you know, it's
so important that you changethose cables out every year and don't
leave them sit in the lock onbecause I mean, you know as well
as I do, they're like the riskof you falling out of lockdown's
way higher than like a ladderstand or whatever.

(47:27):
And I mean I've been on someand thank God nothing happened.
But I mean I, I've been onsome that like I would look and the
coating's gone and all youcould see is like the cord and you're
like, now you're thinkingabout it, you're like, what was I
thinking?
But back in the day, you werelike, you know, you, you had the
hunt, you wanted to hunt, soyou didn't, you're like, ah, I got

(47:48):
a safety belt, I'm fine.
Yeah.
You know, but you know, Iwouldn't do it now, man.
I got, I got, you know,beautiful wife and kids at home.
Like, I'm not, I'm not doingthat no more.
That's, that's why actuallyanother reason why I got into saddle
hunting because like, yeah.
It always, it always comes inand out of the woods with me.
Yeah.
You know, so I can, I canalways just inspect it from the house

(48:12):
or whatever before I go out.
And I believe it or not, like,I think I might even told you last
year, like I went on a lock onafter being in the saddle and like,
I felt unsafe.
Like, like, like no.
Yeah.
I'm used to being all liketight and tied to the tree and I
got in the lock on, I waslike, whoa.

(48:34):
You know, and that's all Iused to do.
And I was like, dude, like,what was I thinking?
Yeah, no, I, I, I totally understand.
I, I just started saddlehunting last year.
You, you helped me get into it.
You know, a lot of people, alot of people open my eyes to it,
you know, that are in our group.
I like the versatility of it.
I like the lightweightness ofit to get in and out.

(48:57):
Don't get me wrong, I like thesimplicity of climbing up my ladder
stand and.
Yep.
You know, I just sit down andI'm there.
But like you said, you know,you're, you're tethered to the tree
pretty much from the groundall the way up.
You can do the Same thing witha lifeline to a regular fixed, you
know, fixed tree stand and stuff.

(49:18):
But I mean, geez, man, you're right.
I, God, I had one.
I called my rabbit run stand.
That's.
Yep, that's.
That stand was in there like15, 16 years.
And I did the, the two armsaround the tree and bear hug it to
death and you know, bounce mychubby butt up and down on it, make
sure it didn't snap.
And if it passed that test, itwas good for all season.

(49:39):
You know, I'm like, ah, yeah,we're good, we're good.
You know.
But I took it down and then Ireplaced it with another stand.
So you know, I, I feel pretty good.
I, I've had some.
Oh my God, you ask anybodythat knew me growing up.
I used to go up 35 steps,those Z step cranking ones.
And I'm talk, I'm not, I'mnot, I'm not a tall guy.

(50:00):
But as far as I could extendmyself out, that's as far as I put
those steps.
And my buddy that hunts withme, we call him Silverback for a
reason.
He's about 6, 4.
He wouldn't even go up.
But he's like bro, that thingis in the freaking jet stream.
And I'm like yeah, but I killdeer out of it every year.
And he's like, yeah.
So that was just, that was anold lock on Lem.

(50:22):
It had the actual like barsthat like would come down for the
support for the deck.
It didn't even have cables andhad like a rope with Chinese finger
like the way it like lockeditself in.
And then I, I'd put a chainaround it and it's still in the tree
down in my grandparents old place.
It grew into the tree so badit I, I couldn't even take it out.

(50:45):
But yeah, I've, I've done somesketchy stuff with them stands, man.
I've, I've gotten in stuff.
It's probably do it.
So you know, being seasonstarting out for a lot of us guys,
think about you got peoplethat want you to come back home,
maybe you don't, but we wantyou back in one piece.
We want you to join our showand watch us each week.

(51:07):
So take that extra couple ofminutes and check your stands out,
you know, and make sure thatyou got a good quality safety harness
on.
Or if you're, if you're usingyour saddle, make sure your ropes,
your, your, your assist andeverything is good.
You know, check your AM steel.
Check, check out all Yourstuff, you know, like I said, it's,

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it's all fun and games to you.
You mess yourself up and youknow, the older you get, the older
I get.
God.
Not like I used to be, but westill get it done, you know, I mean
you just gotta make sure stuffis safe and everything out there.
But looking at the time here,bud, we're at like 8.
Yeah, 8:54.
So we, I don't know, we.

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We kind of touched on everything.
Yeah.
Actually I was gonna ask youone thing about the word on the street
is I heard do you got an E bike?
I did, I did.
It's a.
Be cool is the name of it.
Not, you know, I didn't makethat up.
It's a B, E, E, C, o, E O LBcool bike.

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It's a 750 watt rear motor on it.
Of course I bought it in camobecause, you know, I don't have anything
camo.
But yeah, it's.
I, I've.
I've been dipping and dabbingwith it here and there.
Pretty darn cool, man.
I used it.
Not as powerful as I wished it was.
You're talking to a guy thatrode dirt bikes and you know, I got

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my side by side.
So I think if I was expectinga little bit more out of it, but.
But if you pedal, the damnthing goes just about anywhere.
If you're out on the road withthe pedal assist, it has like one
through five.
I can do 32 miles an hour onthat thing.
And I am no athlete, butthat's crazy.
It's awesome.

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It's got about.
I think it's close to 60 milebefore you got to recharge it and
ask me how I know.
I, I left the house here withabout a half a charge and I went
out for a good tour and was onmy way back home and it was all downhill

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from the house and oh, thatsucker died on me.
And being it's almost ahundred pound.
Bike, I'm pretty sure I gotthat phone call.
Oh, dude, I'm telling youguys, don't run out of battery.
If you got a freaking electricbike, the battery pack on it things
like 45 pounds.
It's huge.
So when you gotta, you gottaactually pedal that thing and it's

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dead.
It'll let you know it's dead.
It's like dragging an oldCadillac around with you.
I just got handlebar mountsfor my bow.
They're really like an ATVmount, but I made them work and I
think it's gonna work out all Right.
To keep the bow on the handlebars.
It comes with a back rack.

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And the back rack's gonna havemy new arsenal backpack that my buddy
boy here Frank uses.
I had to get the same one.
Different, different color, different.
I don't know why I can't belike that, but.
No, I, I can't.
That's coming tomorrow, Frank.
So there will be pictures.

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I'm excited.
But the back rack on that,I'll be able to put the, the pack
and my saddle gear, myplatform and my sticks.
I got the XOP8 or to go on thebottom of my sticks this year.
Can't wait to try that out anduse it.
Yeah, that, that e bike'sgoing to be a game changer because
a couple of spots where I parkon the property, it's usually.

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It's almost a 20 minute walkfor me to get in.
So.
Hey, man, I'm just going tojump on that, cruise in nice and
silent.
I'm going to cable it to thetree so nobody can take it away from
me.
If somebody does wander inthere and be able to sneak in without
getting all sweatied up, man,I, I think it's.
I think it's going to work outpretty cool.

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It even came with like alittle cart that I can put you in.
Yeah, you can put you in the cart.
Like we could chase down deerin the orchard or something, you
know, but we'll have to see.
I don't know how that's goingto work, but it should be pretty
cool.
But yeah, it's a nice little tool.
I can't wait, you know, to getout there and just have that as an

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added bonus.
A lot of side work this yearhelped me get that.
So, yeah, I was happy to getit and you know, shout out to be
cool.
It's a, it's a pretty cool bike.
But we'll see.
You know, I've heard reallygood things about it, so we'll see
how it goes, man, you know?
Yeah.
Like I said, either that oryou can get pegs for me.

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Well, you could sit on the rack.
You can sit on a rack in the back.
Yeah, I could.
All right, listen, I'm not,I'm not, I'm not picky, okay?
I had, I rode Harley's.
I rode Harley's for years.
I was always a Harley guy.
I had, I had two bikes androde for over 20 something years.
And then I almost got killed acouple times, so I stopped.
But you know, like I said,man, it's all good.

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It's just another tool.
It's helping me get exercise too.
I do pedal it.
I'm not a fat ass that justuses the throttle control.
I do, I do use it for exercise.
So it's fun.
It's a lot of fun.
If, if you guys can affordone, check them out.
It's, it's a pretty coollittle tool, man.
Absolutely.
So just, just to reiterate,reiterate back, I saw some questions

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in the comments.
Is this their show?
Is this, you know.
No.
No, no.
So what happened was just tolet you guys all know, we don't do
the two shows with WhitetailAdvantage like we normally do on
Sundays and Tuesdays.
Yeah, we, we bought, broughtFrank on the team a little while
back and we just, we were alltalking one night and I said, hey

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Frank, you know, if you want,you know, maybe we'll get on doing
Instagram live or somethinglike that.
And Brett had mentioned, well,you know, Johnny's going to have
his show.
Why don't you guys do yourshow Frank and Squatch show.
And so we're, we're, we'regonna do it and see how it goes.
And we hope you guys all likedwhat we brought to the table tonight.

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I've seen a lot of people inthe comments tonight.
A lot of comments.
Very grateful to haveeverybody on Rusty new name.
I, I, if I, if you have beenon before, I'm sorry, I might have
missed you.
Glad to have you on, brother.
Welcome to the the crazinesshere at Frank and Squatch Show.
Make sure you check outWhitetail Advantage with Johnny Nitro

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and PSE Mobile hunter Dave andBrett Bovin the host.
And please also check out theGarden State Outdoorsman podcast
with Mike Nitray, Chasing theUnknown with Mike Nitrate and Boondocks
Hunting on, on their tour.
Those guys, you know, theywere the, they're the host of their

(58:00):
shows and you know, we were cohost and friends and like I said
before, you know it, not thatwe're like any big prize or patting
ourselves on the back or anything.
We're just average guys that hunt.
We love the outdoors and forboth parties to say, hey, you know
what, I think we should letthese guys run with it and you know,

(58:24):
do their thing.
We're grateful guys, you know,and, and you know, we're always there.
We're always there for youguys, you know, we'll collaborate
the hell out of everything.
We wish everybody the best ofluck, you know, for this upcoming
season.
Most of all, be safe.
Yeah, you know, but you know,that's that's about it.
Frankie, I don't know what youwant to add, but you're more than

(58:44):
welcome to put.
Put something in the outro too.
What do you think?
No, no, I mean, you prettymuch said it perfectly.
I just want to thank everybodyfor who came on tonight and took
the time out to listen to twoknuckleheads just about, you know,
about how their season is orwhat they're thinking and everything.

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And, you know, shout out againto Mike and Brett.
Appreciate you guys.
Like, they're two phenomenalteams that we're a part of, and it's
just awesome that we can alljust collaborate together and, you
know, really build the huntingcommunity is.
Is huge for.
For me and for.
For all of us, actually.
Yeah.

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And, you know, I justappreciate the opportunity.
And, you know, with that beingsaid, like, I just wanted to give
another shout out to Gerardover at Racketter.
You know, he's.
He's been a phenomenal part.
Part of us too, as well.
And if anybody's looking for ataxidermist, you know, I'm friends
with Mark too, from Buckshot Taxidermy.
He.
He does amazing work.

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And that's just what it's all about.
Just build it.
Building that, you know, that.
That foundation, thatfriendship and all becoming a family
man.
That's what it's all about.
It's.
It's really important.
And you guys know that I havemy faith, you know, in our creator.
And just something that we'regoing to start doing from now on
on the show is I'll close outthe show with a prayer and, you know,

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maybe some scripture for you guys.
I think it's really important.
We need to get back, you know,to God.
God gives us so much.
You know, we wouldn't have.
We wouldn't have any of this if.
If the mighty creator didn'tmake what was there, you know.
So, Frank, I know you got ourscheduled out outro on.
On deck.
Guys, I want to sincerely saythank you for joining the Frank and

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Squatch Show.
It was awesome seeing all youguys on here as always, and let us
close this episode out.
Frank, brother, thank you foralways being my.
My pal here.
My brother in the outdoors.
You're.
You're a hell of a guy.
Of course, brother.
You are.
So let's.
Let's close.
That's it for this episode ofthe Frank and Squatch Show.

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Before we go, here's areminder from scripture.
When I consider your heavens,the work of your fingers, the moon,
the stars, which you have setin place, what is mankind that you
are mindful of them.
That's from Psalm 8.
3.
4, guys.

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Until next time, stay safe,hunt hard, and always stand in awe
of the creator.
Good night, guys.
Thanks for watching theFranken squat show.
Good night, guys.
Have a good one.
Thank you, guys.
You've been listening to theFrank and Squatch show presented
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Until next time, stay sharp,hunt hard, and keep chasing the wild.