September 17, 2025 • 58 mins
Shane, our amazing guest, is not just a hunter; he’s a blind hunter who’s defied the odds and continued to pursue his passion for hunting after losing his eyesight. He shares his incredible journey of how he adapted to his new reality, including the innovative technology he uses to hunt, like a special camera setup that helps him aim. We dive into his inspiring story about overcoming challenges and the importance of support from friends and family in keeping his spirit high. Shane’s humor and determination remind us that with the right mindset, no obstacle is too big to tackle. So grab your gear and join us as we explore the wild world of hunting through Shane's unique perspective!
Shane, an inspiring blind hunter, joins us to share his incredible journey of resilience and determination. This episode dives deep into Shane's backstory, revealing the tragic accident that led to his blindness and how he turned adversity into triumph. With a casual and witty tone, we explore how Shane adapted his hunting methods, including the innovative technology he uses to hunt successfully. He discusses the importance of having a reliable spotter and how their communication is vital for aiming and shooting. Listeners will appreciate the humor and camaraderie as we joke around and share hunting stories, showcasing the brotherhood that comes with the sport. Shane's positivity and relentless spirit serve as a reminder that challenges can be overcome, and nothing can stop a true hunter from pursuing their passion. Tune in for an episode that blends humor, inspiration, and practical hunting advice while demonstrating that the thrill of the hunt transcends physical limitations.
Takeaways:
- Shane's journey from losing his eyesight to becoming a successful hunter is truly inspiring, showcasing his resilience and determination.
- Despite the challenges of hunting while blind, Shane adapted by using technology and a trusted spotter to help him aim and shoot accurately.
- The importance of family support in overcoming adversity was a key theme in Shane's story, highlighting how motivation can come from loved ones.
- Shane emphasizes that hunting is about the experience and community rather than just the kill, which resonates with many outdoor enthusiasts.
- The innovative technology Shane uses, like a camera attached to his rifle, allows him to continue hunting and share his adventures with others.
- Throughout the episode, Shane's humor and positive outlook serve as a reminder that challenges can be faced with a smile and a good attitude.
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(00:02):
Welcome to the WhitetailAdvantage podcast with your host,
Brett Bovin.
Thank you for tuning in andenjoy the show.
(00:23):
I am the official host of theshow, but I also have co host Johnny,
Dave and Squatch here tonightand an honorary host tonight, and
Frank excited to have him partof it.
But I'm not the real person incharge tonight.
This is the real in charge.
What is up, everyone?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, hunters of all species, we
(00:46):
have an amazing guest tonight.
I'm not going to do the wholeput your quarter in the slot machine.
We're just going to jump into it.
This dude I've been talking toall week, I can't wait to hear his
story.
I'm sure you guys can't either.
So without any hesitation orfurther ado, I present the blind
hunter, Shane.
What is going on, brother?
Hollot there, you guys.
(01:08):
Good, man.
Congratulations, by the way.
Last weekend here in Michiganwas a liberty hunt.
You smoked a respectable buck, man.
Yeah, I'm gonna make the joke.
He never seen it coming.
I heard him.
I hit him, though.
Yeah, you did.
(01:28):
And you got it all in video.
So those of you who want tofollow Shane the Blind Hunter01 on
Facebook, go on there, checkout his video.
It's.
It's amazing, man.
First, that's the first deerthat you've shot on video too.
Is that correct?
That's it, man.
That's.
That was awesome, dude.
That second shot folded himand he didn't go anywhere.
(01:50):
I was gonna say the nextpictures that you sent out, you were
having like a.
Some steak wrapped in bacon,it looked like.
Oh, yeah.
Man.
That's.
That's awesome, brother.
Well, hey, welcome to thewhitetail advantage.
Yeah.
How.
How are you doing?
What's your story?
We can't wait to hear it, brother.
(02:10):
All right, I'm gonna start outwhere to make it easy.
Light out.
Know how I hunt.
Obviously that must go with my attachment.
Right, man.
So for those of you guyswatching this or listening to it,
Shane is showing us his rifle,which is crazy.
(02:32):
It's got a.
Got the scope on it with avideo attachment.
That is.
That is awesome.
So he's got like a screen setup to this camera or through his
stroke and set it up and his spotter.
Now it's your spotter thatreally tells you how to aim, where
to go, and then it's up to youto squeeze the trigger.
(02:53):
Right?
And I got.
At night.
Really?
It's got night vision on it too.
You said nice.
So we're having a little bitof Audio trouble here.
We're trying to figure thisout here real quick.
Is there a TV going on insomeone's background?
Not on this end, no.
(03:14):
No, not here.
All right, well, we're gonnafigure this out.
We're gonna fight through it.
So, Shane, tell us your story, brother.
First goat.
No, we can.
(03:35):
We can't really hear you here, Shane.
On this end now, it's a littlebit better.
Does anybody else hear likethat in background noise, though?
Yeah, I hear it.
Yeah, sounds like a TV or something.
Everybody mute your micsexcept for our guest.
Can you hear me now?
All right, say it again.
(03:55):
You hear me?
Yeah, we can hear you now.
Does that matter?
That's better right there.
Yeah.
As you see, my biggest buck inthe background here, I shot him with
my hunting buddy.
Someone I think 2000, openingday of, I think with 2011, dropped
him at 240 yards.
(04:16):
No kidding.
Yep.
Nice buck.
That's a very nice one there.
Eight point.
I don't know nothing about it.
Scored or nothing like thatbecause I don't take pictures.
I'm not into the trophy hunting.
They're nice, they're fun,they're awesome.
But I'm a meat hunter.
Oh, absolutely.
(04:39):
Like I always say, you can'tboil the horns, man.
You can boil them for as longas you want, but you can't eat them.
Oh, yeah.
Every time I try boiling them,it's still hard.
That's right.
So tell us about yourbackground there, Shane.
How'd you grow up?
Grew up hunting and fishing or.
Oh, yeah.
For long as I can remember.
Like I said, I sat in a deerblind with my dad since I was old
(05:03):
enough to go out with him.
I started deer hunting myselfwhen I turned 13 and was 15 or 16.
So 98 or 99 is when I become asuccessful deer hunter.
Got my first dove.
I like that.
Oh, yeah.
And in May 2nd of 2020 is whenI lost my eyesight.
(05:29):
I had an accident.
Got burnt from here to here.
No kidding.
It took and cut my left eyeout through in the trash in July
17th of the same year.
22, I think it was, is when Ifound out how to do the 22 or 23.
I got the attachment for mygun and that's when I went out and
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shot that bucket, little spikehorn I had on there 187 yards and
dropped.
Him in his tracks, man.
Outstanding.
Last year I got lucky enoughmy buddy wanted to take me up to
my cabin in up and go deer hunting.
Unfortunately, I didn't get adeer anymore.
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It's a little bit harder tohunt in the up for deer.
Those wolves really destroyedthe population up there.
Well, if you can hunt in town,where my cabin's at, you can shoot
them all day in my yard.
I mean, I got a lot up there,and there's like six or eight apple
trees.
Oh, nice.
They've gone right through the yard.
(06:30):
Right on.
So being an avid hunter allthose years, then after your accident,
losing your eyesight andeverything, how did.
How.
How did that go, transitioningback into hunting?
It was hard.
It was hard.
I mean, I. I'm not.
(06:51):
I wanted to quit and give up,like, sound like most of you guys.
So I put forth the effort,figured out what I had, and that
little attachment I justshowed you, it cost me 100 and got
me back out in the woods.
Being successful.
Outstanding, man.
That's.
I mean, it takes.
Obviously, it takes a goodbuddy and somebody I can trust to
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be my eye, to know what I'mshooting at, what's behind my target,
all that good stuff.
Brett, you had a question?
Yeah, I just want to make sureI heard that right.
You said you got burnt.
That's what caused you to loseyour eyesight.
Yeah.
Can I ask how that, like, wasit just like.
Like a bonfire type thing, oryou just want to keep that to yourself?
(07:36):
Oh, I was cleaning my drink,and when I dumped it in there, there's
some type of chemical reaction.
And I had a couple nephews anda great niece there, so I bet she
does turn my head and took the hit.
So that's what makes it gothrough what I'm going through.
(07:57):
I saved my great niece and mytwo nappies from being hurt, man.
Out.
True hero right there, brother.
I mean, and then to overcomeeverything that you've had, you know,
that you've had to go throughgetting back into the woods.
Like, how was it going out onyour first hunt after your accident?
(08:20):
First hunt was.
Aw, I didn't.
Missy.
I wasn't able to shoot 2020because I didn't know the technologies
and all the laws yet.
But when I was going out, mybuddies would take me out every year
and listening and watching,and they're like.
I would tell them, dude, wegot something coming in behind us,
(08:41):
and walk around, I'd point outwhere it's coming out at, and it
was either.
After a while, I could tellthem if it's turkeys or deer and
where they're going to comeout at.
Man, that is.
That is awesome, dude.
So, you know, hunting yourentire life, having your Accident
(09:02):
now you can't see.
I mean, I could only imaginethe difficulty that, you know, happens
after that.
Like, even the struggle ofwanting to get back in the woods.
So many people would havewanted to quit.
Quit and just gave up on everything.
What kept you positive andmotivated to get back out?
(09:23):
My mom and dad.
I mean, my dad's passed away,but the way they raised us.
Life's a bit knocked down.
Man.
That.
That right there shouldmotivate people who.
(09:44):
Or having issues or trying tocome up with an excuse not to go
out.
Like, Shane, you're a livingexample that, you know, you can,
you know, adapt and overcomeis what we used to say all the time.
And my hunting body took mefishing, ice fishing, to fish, like,
(10:06):
ha.
And now I'll be able to catchmore fish than you.
I looked at him like, well,when are you gonna start catching
them, dude?
Because this is easy.
I know we were talking earlierabout fishing, and I don't know if
everyone knows I'm, like, theworld's worst fisherman.
(10:29):
I was in Oregon this past weekor two weeks ago.
Did everyone was going outthere fishing, pulling in smallmouth
or whatever, and I'd castright to where they were, dude, for
like, half an hour, and just nothing.
Like, I cannot fish or Icannot catch a fish.
I can fish all day.
I'll throw a bobber out there.
I'll throw whatever, but I just.
(10:51):
I can't do it.
And you're.
I think I got you beat there, buddy.
I think I'm probably the worst.
I still tie my own hook on andput my own bait on my hook, man.
Wow.
So it's like we were talking,you know, your.
But you're always keeping yourbuddies busy, unhooked, you know,
(11:12):
taking the hook to your fishfor you.
They can't even buy the line.
Like, that's.
That's me when I fish with my kids.
And then they're like, dad,why don't you catch a fish?
And it's like, you know what?
I'm trying here?
But you always try to play itoff like, oh, yeah, you know, it's
just for you.
Just for you.
Secretly, I'm like, man, damn it.
Like, I want to catch a fish, too.
So I'm gonna have to gofishing with you sometime, man, and
(11:33):
see how it's done.
There's.
We always gotta have somebody.
So we got a comment here from Ethan.
The Lord wants a relationshipwith you all.
God has a plan, and it's sucha gift to hunt.
Have a great day, folks.
And no Truer words have ever been.
Ever been spoken, man.
(11:54):
Like going out.
I don't go to church a lot,but every day I'm out in the woods.
It's.
That's my church right there, man.
Seeing the woods come to lifein the mornings and then as it's
getting dark, just.
It just comes to life even more.
And it's amazing.
It's a true blessing to beable to get out there all the time.
And it is so.
(12:17):
Oh, go ahead, Shane.
I'm sorry.
Two trail seasons ago, buddywent up to brown trout come from.
I spent.
Brett got a 20 inch browntrail in about a half hour.
No kidding.
After three, three or fourdays of solid, man.
(12:38):
Yeah.
Brett, we're gonna have to gofishing with Shane so he can teach
us how to do it.
I got a 100 way of riggingyour lawyers too.
Really?
Yeah.
Back to you.
You won't get no nice.
So tell us some.
Tell us some hunting stories.
(12:59):
We have people wanting to knowhow you do it.
Some of your craziest huntingstories before your accident and
after, like how's it comp.
The challenge is what?
Way more fun now.
Is it?
I mean, I got into crossbowhunting, I don't know, 10 years before
(13:20):
I.
Or not crossbow, but lost my son.
And everybody always told methat is the hardest hunting there
is.
I laughed at it 45 minutes andshot a dog.
Next night I went out, shotanother doe plus two doe tags.
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And that following year Ibought a brand new bull from a buddy.
Went out, shot it three times.
It was hitting good for me.
Went bow hunting, shot a five man.
So I'm gonna have to go up toReed City where you're at and start
hunting up there because Imean, man, you got him loaded up
there.
His A point was taken rightbehind Paris.
(14:04):
Really?
Right on.
That's.
Okay.
North of space.
When I was late teens, me andmy cousin used to hunt up a Marion
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all the time.
And camping during deer seasonwas a regular tent.
Oh, that was fun days.
Oh, those.
Yeah, those are.
Now are you down to do that again?
Oh, yeah.
I still can still hunt fish.
I mean I'm going to a mud dog.
Sad day.
Nice.
So really, after youraccident, it never slowed you down?
(14:49):
No, not at all.
That.
See, that is outstanding.
That, that right there isreason enough for everyone to get
out to continue hunting.
Don't let.
I mean, I almost gave uphunting due to a shoulder injury
(15:10):
and I have no reason now togive up.
I mean like talking with you,talking with some other people who
have Lost limbs and stuff like that.
They'll do backcountry huntingand everything.
Like, if there's a will,there's a way, brother.
And you are living for thatfor sure.
Huh?
(15:32):
Cosmo with a new bolt.
Yeah.
So, yeah, Shane just had a newpackage of warhead napalms, the crossbow
bolts.
So I can't wait to see himstick a deer with that here.
No.
This coming weekend here inMichigan is that early doe season.
You going out for that one,too, brother?
(15:53):
Oh, yeah.
You gonna use rifle or your crossbow?
If I get my crossbow, sightingit soon enough.
Right on.
Because, yeah, I can't waitfor you to.
I can't wait to see what youpost on that one because you hammered
that buck earlier, and nowit's time to get a dough, man.
You're stacking meat in thefreezer for sure.
Status?
(16:18):
I don't know.
Three, four pounds plus all my tenderloins.
Man.
So we're still getting alittle bit of audio issues here.
We're gonna still try tofigure this one out, so apologize
for all the listeners and theviewers right now.
But, hey, we can still pick it up.
(16:39):
We can still hear them, sowe're just gonna fight through it,
brother.
It's live.
That's right.
That's right.
It's live.
So, yeah, it's live.
And we're just gonna adapt and overcome.
Just like your huntingabilities, man.
It's not Gumrex.
We.
Even when I was first burntand stuff, all doctors and stuff
(17:00):
told me I need to be a motivator.
Oh, dude.
Absolutely.
One of my eye doctor clinics,he come the first bum down and depressed.
He's like, you come in gloomy.
He's like, how are you so happy?
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I just got.
Dude, it's all a mindset, man.
And that's.
That's the biggest thing thatyou as, you know, a visually impaired
hunter, I mean, like, youcan't see.
Like, you even said they tookyour left eye and threw it in the
trash.
Like, you can't see anything.
As you can see, I'm open.
I'm in.
(17:47):
You're out there killing moredeer than us so far this season anyways,
you know?
But it's still early on, soI'm pretty sure we're out in a start
stacking them up here when we can.
Yeah, well, most of us haven'tbeen able to hunt.
Wow.
True, true.
Now, your season alreadystarted, right, Frank?
(18:09):
And losing the eyes for it.
Right.
I'm gonna gouge my out tonightwith a spoon.
Pain.
I've Ever been to.
Oh, I bet my face hurt fromhere to here.
(18:31):
The whole head just hurt onthe left side when they cut my eye
out.
Oh, man.
Wow.
And to see that you're stillout there getting after it, that.
That's awesome.
One thing I.
Driving swamps.
What's that?
Driving swamps.
Oh, yeah.
I miss doing that.
(18:52):
Oh, I can only imagine.
But I'm working on gettinganother scope of my 1, 2.
So at a good spot, I gosquirrel hunting now.
There you go.
Yeah.
Nice.
Brett, you had a question?
Yeah.
I just want to say, listeningto your story on and you fighting
through adversity.
(19:13):
Let me just ask you guys, howmany of you guys wanted to just give
up hunting just because you shot.
You shot at a deer and youmissed or you never found them again
and you're just like, oh,this, I'm done.
I can't.
I did this.
I go through that every year.
I think, yeah, like, everytime, like something like that happens,
I'm just like, I can't.
(19:35):
I'm done.
I can't deal with this mentalstress anymore.
And I think for you to evenconsider doing that now, listening
to his story so far, it's justlike, you better just shut the up.
Go being a little and go out there.
I mean, like, like Johnnysaid, I mean, it's.
(19:57):
You're going through.
You've gone through a lot.
How.
How many years now total haveyou been blind and hunting?
A little over five and a half,but three.
Three years hunting, fiveyears blind?
Yeah.
Wow.
So you're really pushing through.
Through it.
And it's not really a lot oftime to get over a disability like
(20:18):
that, to be right back at it.
I mean, I was out the sameyear I lost my sight.
Sitting in the bind.
I just wasn't shooting.
Yeah.
Oh, I'd have been soundshooting like a.
You do anyways, Dave.
I'd be like, the d. What arethe DNR gonna say?
I can shoot at night.
And I'd be like, I didn't knowit was night.
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And I just want to ask anotherquestion here.
Am I going to be the only onethat doesn't hunt during the dough
season coming up?
Probably the only one that'snot gonna hunt all year.
(21:01):
Brett.
The sad thing is he's going tosee more deer than you do.
(21:22):
Yeah.
It was nice joining you guys.
So.
So what.
What's your goals this year, Shane?
This hunting season?
Peg out.
Right on.
Have fun.
That second one is always mynumber one goal, to have fun now,
(21:46):
like.
Try to get into it.
Oh, Absolutely.
I mean, did watching yourvideo, talking to you like you're
having fun out there.
And that's what's important, right?
Going out there, having fun,joking around.
I mean, we all.
We all joked around on thisshow a lot.
And tonight I. I really wantedto hear your story and with your
(22:10):
accident and how you got backinto hunting and what motivated you
to get back into it and youranswer of family, you know, your
mom and dad and just going outhunting and getting back after it
like that is outstanding, man.
Yeah, that's just.
My dad was a hunter.
He got me into it and Icarried on the tradition.
(22:32):
You know what that is?
That's called redneck DNA.
Yep.
That's just the drive.
It's a different breed ofpeople, man.
Yep.
You know what I mean?
Tuesday, two five gallonbuckets of potatoes out of the garden.
A bunch more to pick.
I can.
All my own food.
(22:53):
I'll have videos in squash.
This one is going to be for you.
My next video.
Okay.
Me processing my own deer.
Oh, hell yeah.
Nice.
I look forward to it, my man.
There's a few of us that stilldo it.
A very small few.
I've skinned a few blind too.
(23:15):
Nice.
It's a little longer process,but I actually.
Everybody says I do it better.
Nice.
You know, you definitely gotto be more careful.
Oh, yeah.
Hell, I still shot my own.
Nice.
Wow.
I mean, you see your hairmissing on mine.
I thought you were show up.
(23:35):
I was gonna say I wouldn'tshave your balls if I were you.
That's just scary.
Shane.
Just be careful because wedon't need you being blind and limbless
or something.
Just.
Yeah, watch what you're doing.
Be careful.
I actually ain't cut myself yet.
I used to work as a prep cookand cooking stuff, so.
(23:58):
Oh, okay.
I know how pretty good.
I'm sure, I'm sure.
I went to school at Kalamazoofor the blind people down there where
Brett lives.
Oh, okay.
Oh, nice.
Don't be giving out where Ilive, everybody.
Right?
(24:18):
You're gonna.
You better be careful.
You're gonna have like 50blind people out in your front yard
looking for you.
You're gonna come up there.
Walkers.
I'm gonna.
You're hear the click clackingthe stick.
Are you there, Rory?
That's a Family Guy episode ifI haven't seen.
(24:42):
Sorry.
I'll find you.
Don't run.
All of a sudden, you hear apink golf cart take off out of the
back of the garage withspinners on it.
(25:02):
Yeah.
Italian butt.
So go yeah, sorry.
When we first started theshow, it was a little patchy with
the audio.
Do you want to go over yourrifle one more time?
Because it was.
(25:22):
Oh, yeah, I can.
Give me a minute.
I got my one buddy here.
He took care of it for me, so.
Oh, yeah, no worries.
That's no problem.
What caliber do you shoot?
I got a.450, a.270, a.30, 30,and two sixes.
There you go.
Nice.
Now, is it the buddy thatyou're that's with you tonight?
(25:43):
Is he the one that helps youout with all your hunts?
No, he's more my camping,fishing buddy.
Right on.
I mean, if he wants to.
Come on, man, and, you know,we can talk to him, too, and he can
explain.
You know, he can make fun ofBrett, too.
Yeah.
(26:04):
Always looking for new blood.
Is that a savage axis?
Can't tell.
It's a savage screen.
Does need adjusted.
Canna deal.
I don't know how to be honestwith you.
Do a trick shot, shoot throughyour back door.
(26:28):
We'll tell you where it's aiming.
So that's a camera?
Yeah.
And it's.
It's on the scope?
Yep.
That's cool.
That is pretty freaking cool, man.
That is freaking cool.
Holy Brett.
We could set that up on a tripod.
You could stay right in bedand just use the tv.
(26:48):
Oh, my God.
What?
He's sitting.
He's like this.
Because he's already thinking of.
He's like, I can use that on the.
I could not even leave the bathroom.
So you.
You point the rifle, then Shane.
And then he look.
He looks at the camera.
(27:09):
Yeah, he looks at this littleTom Tom screen, and it shows my crosses
in it and everything that myscope sees.
Then he tells me where to lineup and when to shoot.
Man, that is cool as hell, man.
You.
You're working with a shooterspotter scenario, huh?
That.
No, because, you know, we usedto do something like that, running
(27:33):
sniper missions and stuff,where you, you know, shooter spotter
and then the communicationbetween them.
Now, do you guys have, like.
I'm assuming you guys haveyour own, like, lingo on, like, you
know, when to shoot, where,how to aim it.
Like, I mean, I'd love to getyour buddy on here.
You can hop on and explain, like.
(27:55):
You want to explain a littlebit about it, Chris, I don't know
anything.
I say he don't know much about that.
Okay.
But if what my buddy does likethis, I mean, it's no different than
when you draw down.
You look through the scope,you See the crosshairs?
Yeah.
The only difference is, like,if you watch my video when I shot
today, my head straight upaway from the gun.
(28:16):
Yeah.
Well, because the screen'sright in my eye, and he's looking
came around, he'll say, laugh,laugh, laugh.
Little up.
Very little.
One way or the other.
And then hold it, shoot.
And I'm not the same buddy inyour video.
And buddy I got here now he'snot my same buddy in my video.
Doing it with me.
(28:36):
Okay.
Okay.
That's your fishing buddy.
Yeah, fishing.
Camping.
We do a lot of camping,fishing together.
That's cool.
So he's the one that's alwaysbusy taking the fish off the hooks
for you.
No.
Pulling fish off.
There you go.
Make my comment.
(28:59):
All right.
That is awesome.
And got four set screws on it,so I can take it off and put it on
any scope.
Awesome.
Nice.
That is cool.
So, yeah, you're definitelygonna have to get some footage of
you smoking a deer with that crossbow.
(29:21):
Man, that's gonna be prettyawesome to see.
Oh, yeah.
I got at least 80 acres ofcorn behind my house right now and
40 across the road.
Oh, man.
In the 80 behind my house.
That's actually.
I say 80, but that dude gaveme permission to hunt a half mile
deep and all, but 80 acres ofa half mile deep.
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Mile wide.
Oh, man.
Nice.
Justin commented here.
Oh.
I got my son, the atn, and Ican watch him as he lines up the
shot.
Yeah.
And the technology that wehave now for youth and disabled hunters
is just unbelievable.
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And being someone who, youknow, I mean, we've all missed shots,
you know, all of us witheyesight miss shots, and it's like,
man, I might have to take that.
You know, take that camerathere and go hunting with Dave sometime
and have him walk me onto acouple of deer or something.
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I'll do it from the truck.
Does it have wi fi?
I'll do it from my bed.
The other dude commented aboutthat one's Bluetooth to your phone.
Yeah.
That's just a scope, and theycan look through it.
So I'm going with one of them next.
But I had to go.
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My chief figure out becauseI'm a cheap ass.
If it works, who cares?
Oh, absolutely.
And clearly.
I wanted to figure out howit's gonna work before I spend a
thousand dollars on the scope.
Oh, for sure.
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If I can't can't do it, thenwhy spend that kind of money to do
it?
Yeah.
Hopefully pretty sweet.
Because you can record most of them.
You can record at the same time.
Yes, you can.
Yeah.
I mean they've made treestands that are electronic now.
Like they can elevate you upthere for you.
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So like we've in the huntingcommunity or we've really.
I don't know if we say it, Idon't know if I want to use the word
adapted, but we've reallyhelped the, the disabled get out
there and hunting and share inthis amazing sport.
If you want to call it a sport.
I mean, it is a sport, butlifestyle is what I like to call
it.
Oh, absolutely.
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Oh, it's definitely a lifestyle.
Yeah.
You're either in it or you're not.
Huh.
I, I got a question I'd liketo ask is.
I know it's tough as a regularhunter that's, you know, we go out
and we ask for permission.
You, you were just saying howyou, you get permission.
I mean, do people like stressor worry about when you say, hey,
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I'm, you know, I can't see,but I have a spotter And I mean,
are they just more willing tobe like, oh well, you know, that's
awesome, let's get you outthere or do they have a lot of questions
like, hey, you know, I mean, Idon't know if I want to allow that.
How does that work out foryou, Shane?
The one behind my house.
I've had permission.
I've lived here for 30 plus years.
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Okay, forever.
But a lot of people is morethan willing to say, hey, no, go
take out there, get him out there.
Nice, good.
Open.
Because they want to see thisAssassin, the disabled.
Yes.
Well, yeah, and it's justcountry folk are different from city
folk.
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I mean I live literally liketwo and three quarters miles away
from Hawkins by.
Oh man, I have many nights.
I don't remember Hawkins bar,me and Dan.
Man, that's awesome.
So you're going out, you'regetting permission to hunt all this
land.
You're successful.
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Like, what's your secret?
We're over here strugglingearly season and you're over here
stacking up deer.
Dude.
I guess luck of the blind guy, man.
It's good friends and knowinggood areas.
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Yeah, yeah.
The good friends.
I mean, I went out mushroomhunting foundation three morale mushrooms
by myself.
Wow, really?
No, Yeah, I mean I got to siton the ground, drink a beer and finger
the ground.
But I'll find them.
Let me know when you're going.
I'll lay down on the ground.
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Well, that's a small littlemushroom tip.
We don't need that one.
Wow.
This One's got a weird growthon it.
What's that?
Scientists?
Yeah.
You guys do pretty good upthere this year for morels.
A lot of people.
I know I did.
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I mean, me and my buddy, mymom went out and found probably 75
and an hour and a half or so.
Man, that's not bad.
That's actually pretty good.
Yeah, back when I could see, Iused to find 100 plus in 45 minutes.
Wow.
Yeah, we used to go up northto Chase and find a shitload of them.
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Yeah, I got over between ReedCity and Everett.
That is amazing.
Yeah, over by Hersey a little further.
Cat Creek.
Oh, okay.
I know where Cat Creek is.
Yep.
So that's cool right there.
Just.
I know a spot back up there on10 that is all pine trees that you
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can go pick black morels in.
Oh yeah.
Right on now.
So it's been a lot warmer here.
It's been.
I. I was joking around with my buddies.
Yeah.
My buddies earlier today andit's like, man, this is like perfect
fishing weather when youshould be getting ready for deer
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hunting.
I mean, it's almost 90 thisentire week up here.
Yeah.
Now you've been going outfishing and hammering the salmon
or small mouth or anything.
No, actually I was a lazy assand didn't buy my license this year.
Man.
Sounds like Brett.
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Now he'll buy the license.
He just doesn't ever go outside.
Didn't buy the license.
I went to my cab and me and mybuddy we did ceiling in the kitchen.
I went up there for the 4th ofJuly because they had the Freedom
festival.
Oh yeah.
And that's a big.
I used to do tree work all thetime so that it's a logging competition
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and stuff up there.
I love it.
Oh yeah.
Just sitting there smellingthem chainsaws all day.
There ain't nothing better.
Yep.
Cutting wood.
The best thing about cuttingwood, man, is it gets you warm.
You know, you heat up in thesummer cutting it and then you warm
up all winter burning it.
Oh yeah.
I was always taught it keepsyou warm three times when you burn
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it.
Yep, yep.
This is a 1908 Wood Cooks Hookright here.
Oh, it works.
That's cool.
Good food.
Oh, I bet.
I mean, that's a nice littlecabin you got right there.
This is my back room, my house.
Oh, nice, man.
Nice.
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Yeah, I'm sure it's a lotbetter than your tent to use out
there in a Brokeback mountaintype setup.
Right?
That movie.
You love that movie.
Yeah, Literally.
I don't know.
I got I got two.
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Room three.
Room two, queen size, 10 by10, screened in front porch.
Nice.
Living the dream, brother.
Living the dream for sure.
Well, I figured I went blindand went retarded.
I mean, retired.
I might as well have fun.
Yeah.
Yep.
Absolutely, man.
Hey, Johnny.
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Yeah?
Do you know how to scare theout of a blind guy?
I do not leave the plunge inthe toilet.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So I have a lot of friendsthat are missing limbs and stuff
like that and we with them, right?
My buddy Tony lost his ledgeand when we're drinking, I'll take
(37:59):
his lead and we'll hide it andstuff like that.
Does anyone ever mess with youlike that?
No.
I buddies, I do it to them.
I'm the one doing it to them.
That is awesome.
Like.
My CNI stick and go hide thaton me.
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That's like, what is he gonnado, right?
Little cones, kid toy cones.
He'll set them in lines in thefloor so when I walk through, I step
on them.
But.
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So my buddy had a blind dogand he would mess with it and rearrange
the couch that he always jumped.
On.
And he would like slide itover by a foot so the dog would jump
and just completely miss it.
Like, I'm not telling yourfriends to do that because that'd
just be wrong.
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But I mean, if they were tomove your furniture that.
To move your over three feet.
But it sounds like you have anamazing friend and support group.
And I feel like a lot ofpeople that give up on hunting and
(39:23):
just like have that pity partyfor themselves, they don't have that
support group that, that Ialways call it a family support group.
It doesn't have to be yourwife, your kids, your parents.
It doesn't have to be thattype of family.
But your.
Your friends, your.
Your hunting family.
These dudes are all my hunting brothers.
You're now my brother.
I mean, that's.
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That's the type of people thatyou need to support you in all of
this.
And actually, you guys try toget on here purposely because I thought
you all the coolest.
I mean, don't text back, but.
Are you on our group text too?
Because.
Holy.
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He must know something.
No, my fit phone when he don'tdo it.
Was that.
Yes.
Was it before noon?
He might have been sleeping.
It took him two weeks torespond to me.
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He just does that to make himsound busy.
I mean.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's what I thought.
And then everyone knows, youknow, I'll text you all the time,
Shane and I Text all the guys.
Like, they're like, oh, what's.
What's Johnny up to?
He must not be working today.
No, I'm at work collecting a paycheck.
But I'm still gonna around andtalk to you guys.
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And when I was around, myphone, because I.
Like I said, I did hezard treeremoval down by Grand Rapids all
the time.
Okay.
I got pictures on me where Icut a maple down in grand rapids
down.
I'm 6 foot 7, the tree'staller than me laying down the side.
No kidding, man.
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So doing that type of work, Ididn't play on my phone when I was
working.
Right.
Well, I work with High Voltageevery day, so I guess I shouldn't.
There's times where I'll beworking on a battery or something,
short it out and really notice it.
I'm like, God damn.
Like, I shouldn't be messingwith my phone, but.
(41:33):
I used to move houses out inSpokane, Washington.
Right on, man.
And when I say move houses, Ididn't do these double wide.
I moved 19, I think the newestone I moved was 1960.
Really thick built house.
Yep.
So if you ever watched megamovies, I did that type of nice.
(41:56):
So now, how old.
How old are you, Shane?
Because it sounds like to usyou've lived one hell of a life already
and this is just a wholenother chapter for you to write.
42.
Oh, so you're the same age as me?
Yeah, man.
You're old.
Yes.
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Brett.
Yeah, Brett's still a little baby.
I mean, yeah, he just got hislearners from it.
Yeah, he's like a baby with apituitary gland disorder.
I turned 32 next Friday.
Ginger Vita.
I can't believe I was Benedict.
(42:44):
Tucson, Arizona, when he wasborn, man.
Nice.
Yeah, it's.
This is.
This is that brotherhood, thatfamily that I was talking about?
We give each other, we havefun, but at the end of the day, you
know, we've got each other's backs.
(43:05):
Even.
Even Brett, man.
I'll help him drag the deerout of the woods.
I'd move a couple trees whilehe's dragging it or something, you
know, I'll point.
Action.
What's that?
I'll point him in the right direction.
You're gonna tell them wherethe deer's at.
(43:25):
You.
Maybe you can teach them howto gut a deer.
Yeah.
That'S easy.
Just don't hit the guts.
That stinks.
You'll only do that once.
It only happens once.
All right, Shane?
Unless you remember whatyou're doing.
Right, right.
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Yeah, You Hit that drop once, you.
You'll.
You'll remember it and youwon't do it again, that's for sure.
I can see fingers in there.
Grab my knife up my fingers.
Yep, exactly.
Now, have you ever done thegutless method where you keep all
the guts in?
Yup.
Lay them on the side, skinthem from the back down.
Yes, sir.
(44:06):
Deal.
All right.
So, Shane, we're wrapping.
You know, we're coming up intothe hour already and got a couple.
Yeah, we're.
We're about 50 minutes into it here.
Now, what animal would youlike to hunt?
Like out of any animal?
North America, South America, Africa.
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What animal would you like toharvest one day?
Buffalo.
A buffalo?
New one.
No.
American buffalo.
Mother American buffalo.
Bison.
Yeah.
Bison.
Yeah.
Now, what weapon would youlike to use?
Oh, I want to do that with anold percussion cap, muzzleloaded.
Oh.
Oh, that is awesome.
(44:51):
That's the first time in theshow's history that we've ever had
someone say a buffalo.
You know, an American buffalo.
And with a.
With an old cap gun.
That would be awesome.
Yeah, an old Hawkins.50 cal or.
Oh, yeah, I got one in my gun cabinet.
Nice.
I got a.45 Hawkins.
(45:12):
Yeah, I love that old fish.
Good gun.
I got an old.22 pump with.
Not to go on barrel too.
Really nice.
The guy that bought that wasfive years old.
It cost his last stand.
Really full blood in you.
That's pretty cool.
So now, have you ever givenany thought, like before your accident,
(45:36):
were you a waterfowl hunter oranything like that?
I've tried it.
I've done it.
I mean, I've ate goose.
I don't like them.
They're tough.
Like what the DNR just didthis year with goose.
I do not like with them havinga bag limit of five Canadian geese
(45:56):
a day.
No more than three times yourpossession limit.
But then this spring, they goout and poison the geese because
there's too many of them.
Yeah.
Yep.
There's something wrong with that.
There's too many of them.
Take the possession limit off me.
That hunt is hun them.
Yep, absolutely.
I couldn't agree any more with that.
I mean, they're everywhere andthey're a nuisance bird.
(46:19):
And it's a great introductioninto hunting for a youth or someone
who's just getting into it.
Oh, yeah, because they're everywhere.
It's.
They're.
I don't want to say it's easybecause I've been deuce hunting and
I've miss shots all day withthem, but it's Great.
There's so many of them.
You can go out there, you cansee them on a regular basis, and
(46:42):
you can hunt them pretty well.
What are you shooting at them?
12 gauge?
Yeah.
Yep.
14 inches in front of their head.
That's.
That's why I started doingthat leading up.
Oh, Brett has a question.
He's slapping his arms like a goose.
He wants somebody to shoot him.
No, no, I have a. I have aserious question here.
(47:07):
Is that German shepherd thatwalked behind you?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is a Casey.
Oh, I love German shepherds.
I'm sorry.
I get like a boner from them.
I don't know.
I got a question.
Brett, you can see.
You didn't know that was aGerman shepherd.
(47:30):
Okay.
He's got to ask the blind guy,was that a German shepherd?
Yeah.
Hold on a sec.
Let me look.
There it is.
Yep.
Yep, that's him.
Old and I've been trained himto be my CI dog.
Oh, nice.
He works with my stick with aleash and with his harness.
(47:54):
Nice.
Down trails through the woods.
Walk me to the porta potty byhimself and back.
That is awesome.
I got four beagles that'lldrag your ass through the woods after
rabbits if you ever want totry that.
Probably got 20 of them do the same.
(48:16):
I got a great day.
Now take up all the space onthe couch so you can't sit down.
Yeah.
That'S the extent of my dog.
Yeah, I've always liked Jimmyshepherds, but I've liked my bird
dogs and my hunting dogs.
Yep.
Oh, absolutely.
Rabbit beagles.
(48:37):
I never got into them muchbecause I knew too many people that
had them or let me take their dogs.
Rabbit hunting.
Yeah.
So I didn't get into them, butI had quite a few good bird dogs.
And like, I've always liked myGerman shepherds.
Yeah, they're nice.
Awesome.
It's hard to beat a good dog, man.
I love animals.
Love them dogs.
Oh, absolutely.
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Two trial seasons ago when wetrout fishing, I told him, he got
mad at me because it wasbedtime, and I told him to put his
dukes up, and he stood up andpunched me in the mouth.
Gave me a fat lip.
That's awesome, man.
Give me a hell of a fat lip.
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That was your dog, not yourhunting buddies.
Huh?
Huh?
That's probably your huntingbuddy blaming it on the dog.
Yeah.
One of my favorite huntingstories is me and two buddies went
small game hunting.
And I was.
I'm tired of shooting everything.
So I grabbed my buddy's.38special pistol stub nose six shot
(49:45):
going small game hard.
I'm just.
I wasn't gonna shoot.
Nothing to do.
One on the left, one on the right.
They had 12 gauge pumps.
We kicked up a grouse andnobody shot at us.
I go boom, boom.
And I shot the grouse.
Wow.
Luke, you would never do that again.
About a half hour later,kicked up another grouse and they
(50:05):
just let it fly.
So I go boom, boom.
And I shot another grouse.
Ain't a fluke on that.
See.
Yeah, I try that this yearnow, right?
I got a body part to take mephaser hunting.
I.
You know what?
Just hold your shoulders andwhen they stand up, I'll duck down.
(50:32):
If you do that, man, you gottahit that one on video because that
would be awesome.
Yeah, well, that's why Iwasn't able to get crossbow bolts
because I spent my money ongetting that insta360 camera.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, they're great.
It's cool.
Well, now you got to use that,that camera and those bolts and film
(50:54):
it, man.
That's gonna be pretty sweet.
I'm for sure gonna.
I got a nice be over the hillthat built a nice plant for a minute.
Go down hour before dark andyou know me back up here with daylight.
Man, that is awesome.
I planted pumpkins for himover the hill and sweet corn for
(51:15):
them to eat too.
And then the neighbors plantcorn all around me, so my little
food plot didn't do nothing.
There's a little bit ofdiversity with those pumpkins though.
Those whitetail tear into somepumpkins, that's for sure.
Especially late October.
Yes, sir, they love them.
That's usually when you canfind them on people's porches and
take them back into the woods too.
(51:39):
Now, Johnny.
Yes, sir.
Independent hunt next month.
I don't know if I'm going toor not.
I.
So I always do the liberty hunt.
This year I was only able toget out for a couple hours.
I had my kids with me and theywould rather go fishing than hunting,
so I got to work on them with that.
(51:59):
But no, I. I usually do do itwhen I do that.
I have a little 14 acre parcelthat I go to that's private.
In the middle of a golf course.
Oh, nice.
And I only use archery there.
That's all I can do.
But anymore, that's all I huntanyways is just archery, they say.
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Honestly, I mean, I was onewhen I was.
You could see I was.
I didn't want that close 100yard shot with the deer rifle.
That was just too easy.
I wanted that.
I mean, I can.
I can max out a thousand yardrange finder behind my house.
Wow.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Hunting got so easy, you tookyour eyes out and made it challenging
right then.
(52:40):
Still didn't.
Still didn't matter.
I got witnessed.
Well, I shot a deer at 450yards with a 30.
30.
Wow, man.
Show off.
Two steps and fellow venet.
Damn, that's impressive.
That.
That is impressive, man.
I won a $50 bet one timebecause the dude said I couldn't
(53:03):
hit a rocket.
500 yards within three shots.
My third 30, I hit the second bullet.
Nice, man.
But I'm the same as you, Squash.
I've owned that gun since Iwas 15.
Yeah.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, that's right.
You know, you get used to howthey function and how they shoot
and what you can do with them.
Absolutely.
Right.
Yeah.
I know how that gun works.
(53:25):
I'm getting my scope back onit so I can take it back out.
There you go.
Perfect.
Right on.
Parents bought it for me as anearly Christmas gift when I turned
15 or 16.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like I say all the time, man, you.
I look at that thing and Ijust think about the history I have
with it and it's like the time flies.
(53:46):
You can't believe how fast itwent by.
You've been holding that gunthat long, huh?
I know.
Johnny said we're gettingclose to the hour mark.
I want to say something beforeJohnny when he wants to wrap it up
is Shane.
I just want to say thank youfor being a fan of the show and.
And being.
And welcome to theBrotherhood, man.
This is what we've set out to do.
(54:07):
I started this by myself acouple years ago and then it grew
up into what it is now andinvited Dave Squatch and Johnny to
be a part of the team.
And now we've grown into more.
A larger team.
But not even that.
Just to look outside of thebrotherhood that we've created here.
I mean like we've done oncountless episodes.
(54:27):
Now you see us and listen tous fucking with each other and everyone
that listens to the show andtunes into the show.
That's what brotherhood is to me.
Brotherhood as core is we witheach other, but we're also there
for each other.
So just because you're blind,it doesn't mean we're not gonna not
with you.
So you're not off limits.
(54:50):
Okay.
Skin.
Exactly.
I love it.
Yeah.
But I just wanted to saywelcome to the brother, man.
And thanks for being a part ofthe show, man.
Oh, thanks, man.
Yeah, so let everyone knowwhere they can find you.
Shane.
Oh, right now I got smallstuff on YouTube as the blind hunter
01 with no blind hunter 1 withno spaces.
(55:14):
And then you can find me onFacebook with the blind hunter 01.
I mean I'm just starting outwith content, so you ain't gonna
find a lot.
But we all gotta startsomewhere, brother.
Right?
That's what I think.
Everybody started from the beginning.
That's it.
(55:34):
That's where I started at.
I just subscribed, man.
I'll say.
I'm doing it right now.
Yeah, I've scribed the ones Iknow of on your guys' right now,
the Whitetail Advantage.
And I subscribe to you, Squatch.
Thank you, buddy.
Thank you.
Speaking of Squatch, leteveryone know where they can find
you.
As always, you can find mehere Sundays and Tuesdays on the
(55:56):
Whitetail Advantage.
You can also check me out,listen to me.
On the Boondocks OutdoorsGarden State Outdoorsman with Mike
Nitray and the rest of a bunchof guys over there.
You can always find me onInstagram and you can also tune into
my channel Outdoors and morewith the Squatch.
Dave, you can find me here onTuesdays because I don't do Sundays.
(56:20):
You can also find me onInstagram, Facebook and on YouTube
as PST Mobile Hunter.
Brett, where can they find you?
Sleeping White Tailed.
I was waiting for it.
Find us on social media.
Everywhere.
That's White Alvan.
(56:41):
We're everywhere.
Popular.
We're famous.
We're Joe Rogan.
Famous Joe Rogan.
He's gonna fight you now for that.
I'm gonna pay to see it.
Yeah.
No, you can find us on socialInstagram, Facebook page and YouTube.
And for everyone who'swatching, our very top left hand
side, old Frank, our newestaddition to the Whitetail Advantage.
(57:04):
Instantly regretting it, right?
Never.
Never.
Where can they find you, brother?
On Instagram.
Go buy it.
Broadside Ambush.
Frank, you also find me onFacebook and also on Boondocks Hunting
and Garden State Outdoorsman.
And for you, East Coasters,there's a couple truck stops with
(57:26):
his name and number you cancall too.
So you'll find them there.
Yes, sir.
Glory hole Text messages.
That's right.
That's right.
Number.
Wrong.
Right on.
Well, that you know.
(57:47):
We're gonna call it for thenight, guys.
I appreciate everything.
Shane, thanks for coming on.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for having a laugh withus, man.
And.
And Frank's watch.
Dave and Brett, thanks forletting me host tonight.
That was pretty awesome.
And Brett, go ahead and playthat out.
(58:11):
Thank you for tuning in toanother episode of the Whitetail
Advantage podcast.
We hope you enjoyed the show and.
We will see you next time.
Welcome to the WhitetailAdvantage podcast with your host,
Brett Bovin.
Thank you for tuning in andenjoy the show.
(00:23):
I am the official host of theshow, but I also have co host Johnny,
Dave and Squatch here tonightand an honorary host tonight, and
Frank excited to have him partof it.
But I'm not the real person incharge tonight.
This is the real in charge.
What is up, everyone?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, hunters of all species, we
(00:46):
have an amazing guest tonight.
I'm not going to do the wholeput your quarter in the slot machine.
We're just going to jump into it.
This dude I've been talking toall week, I can't wait to hear his
story.
I'm sure you guys can't either.
So without any hesitation orfurther ado, I present the blind
hunter, Shane.
What is going on, brother?
Hollot there, you guys.
(01:08):
Good, man.
Congratulations, by the way.
Last weekend here in Michiganwas a liberty hunt.
You smoked a respectable buck, man.
Yeah, I'm gonna make the joke.
He never seen it coming.
I heard him.
I hit him, though.
Yeah, you did.
(01:28):
And you got it all in video.
So those of you who want tofollow Shane the Blind Hunter01 on
Facebook, go on there, checkout his video.
It's.
It's amazing, man.
First, that's the first deerthat you've shot on video too.
Is that correct?
That's it, man.
That's.
That was awesome, dude.
That second shot folded himand he didn't go anywhere.
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I was gonna say the nextpictures that you sent out, you were
having like a.
Some steak wrapped in bacon,it looked like.
Oh, yeah.
Man.
That's.
That's awesome, brother.
Well, hey, welcome to thewhitetail advantage.
Yeah.
How.
How are you doing?
What's your story?
We can't wait to hear it, brother.
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All right, I'm gonna start outwhere to make it easy.
Light out.
Know how I hunt.
Obviously that must go with my attachment.
Right, man.
So for those of you guyswatching this or listening to it,
Shane is showing us his rifle,which is crazy.
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It's got a.
Got the scope on it with avideo attachment.
That is.
That is awesome.
So he's got like a screen setup to this camera or through his
stroke and set it up and his spotter.
Now it's your spotter thatreally tells you how to aim, where
to go, and then it's up to youto squeeze the trigger.
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Right?
And I got.
At night.
Really?
It's got night vision on it too.
You said nice.
So we're having a little bitof Audio trouble here.
We're trying to figure thisout here real quick.
Is there a TV going on insomeone's background?
Not on this end, no.
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No, not here.
All right, well, we're gonnafigure this out.
We're gonna fight through it.
So, Shane, tell us your story, brother.
First goat.
No, we can.
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We can't really hear you here, Shane.
On this end now, it's a littlebit better.
Does anybody else hear likethat in background noise, though?
Yeah, I hear it.
Yeah, sounds like a TV or something.
Everybody mute your micsexcept for our guest.
Can you hear me now?
All right, say it again.
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You hear me?
Yeah, we can hear you now.
Does that matter?
That's better right there.
Yeah.
As you see, my biggest buck inthe background here, I shot him with
my hunting buddy.
Someone I think 2000, openingday of, I think with 2011, dropped
him at 240 yards.
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No kidding.
Yep.
Nice buck.
That's a very nice one there.
Eight point.
I don't know nothing about it.
Scored or nothing like thatbecause I don't take pictures.
I'm not into the trophy hunting.
They're nice, they're fun,they're awesome.
But I'm a meat hunter.
Oh, absolutely.
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Like I always say, you can'tboil the horns, man.
You can boil them for as longas you want, but you can't eat them.
Oh, yeah.
Every time I try boiling them,it's still hard.
That's right.
So tell us about yourbackground there, Shane.
How'd you grow up?
Grew up hunting and fishing or.
Oh, yeah.
For long as I can remember.
Like I said, I sat in a deerblind with my dad since I was old
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enough to go out with him.
I started deer hunting myselfwhen I turned 13 and was 15 or 16.
So 98 or 99 is when I become asuccessful deer hunter.
Got my first dove.
I like that.
Oh, yeah.
And in May 2nd of 2020 is whenI lost my eyesight.
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I had an accident.
Got burnt from here to here.
No kidding.
It took and cut my left eyeout through in the trash in July
17th of the same year.
22, I think it was, is when Ifound out how to do the 22 or 23.
I got the attachment for mygun and that's when I went out and
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shot that bucket, little spikehorn I had on there 187 yards and
dropped.
Him in his tracks, man.
Outstanding.
Last year I got lucky enoughmy buddy wanted to take me up to
my cabin in up and go deer hunting.
Unfortunately, I didn't get adeer anymore.
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It's a little bit harder tohunt in the up for deer.
Those wolves really destroyedthe population up there.
Well, if you can hunt in town,where my cabin's at, you can shoot
them all day in my yard.
I mean, I got a lot up there,and there's like six or eight apple
trees.
Oh, nice.
They've gone right through the yard.
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Right on.
So being an avid hunter allthose years, then after your accident,
losing your eyesight andeverything, how did.
How.
How did that go, transitioningback into hunting?
It was hard.
It was hard.
I mean, I. I'm not.
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I wanted to quit and give up,like, sound like most of you guys.
So I put forth the effort,figured out what I had, and that
little attachment I justshowed you, it cost me 100 and got
me back out in the woods.
Being successful.
Outstanding, man.
That's.
I mean, it takes.
Obviously, it takes a goodbuddy and somebody I can trust to
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be my eye, to know what I'mshooting at, what's behind my target,
all that good stuff.
Brett, you had a question?
Yeah, I just want to make sureI heard that right.
You said you got burnt.
That's what caused you to loseyour eyesight.
Yeah.
Can I ask how that, like, wasit just like.
Like a bonfire type thing, oryou just want to keep that to yourself?
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Oh, I was cleaning my drink,and when I dumped it in there, there's
some type of chemical reaction.
And I had a couple nephews anda great niece there, so I bet she
does turn my head and took the hit.
So that's what makes it gothrough what I'm going through.
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I saved my great niece and mytwo nappies from being hurt, man.
Out.
True hero right there, brother.
I mean, and then to overcomeeverything that you've had, you know,
that you've had to go throughgetting back into the woods.
Like, how was it going out onyour first hunt after your accident?
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First hunt was.
Aw, I didn't.
Missy.
I wasn't able to shoot 2020because I didn't know the technologies
and all the laws yet.
But when I was going out, mybuddies would take me out every year
and listening and watching,and they're like.
I would tell them, dude, wegot something coming in behind us,
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and walk around, I'd point outwhere it's coming out at, and it
was either.
After a while, I could tellthem if it's turkeys or deer and
where they're going to comeout at.
Man, that is.
That is awesome, dude.
So, you know, hunting yourentire life, having your Accident
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now you can't see.
I mean, I could only imaginethe difficulty that, you know, happens
after that.
Like, even the struggle ofwanting to get back in the woods.
So many people would havewanted to quit.
Quit and just gave up on everything.
What kept you positive andmotivated to get back out?
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My mom and dad.
I mean, my dad's passed away,but the way they raised us.
Life's a bit knocked down.
Man.
That.
That right there shouldmotivate people who.
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Or having issues or trying tocome up with an excuse not to go
out.
Like, Shane, you're a livingexample that, you know, you can,
you know, adapt and overcomeis what we used to say all the time.
And my hunting body took mefishing, ice fishing, to fish, like,
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ha.
And now I'll be able to catchmore fish than you.
I looked at him like, well,when are you gonna start catching
them, dude?
Because this is easy.
I know we were talking earlierabout fishing, and I don't know if
everyone knows I'm, like, theworld's worst fisherman.
(10:29):
I was in Oregon this past weekor two weeks ago.
Did everyone was going outthere fishing, pulling in smallmouth
or whatever, and I'd castright to where they were, dude, for
like, half an hour, and just nothing.
Like, I cannot fish or Icannot catch a fish.
I can fish all day.
I'll throw a bobber out there.
I'll throw whatever, but I just.
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I can't do it.
And you're.
I think I got you beat there, buddy.
I think I'm probably the worst.
I still tie my own hook on andput my own bait on my hook, man.
Wow.
So it's like we were talking,you know, your.
But you're always keeping yourbuddies busy, unhooked, you know,
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taking the hook to your fishfor you.
They can't even buy the line.
Like, that's.
That's me when I fish with my kids.
And then they're like, dad,why don't you catch a fish?
And it's like, you know what?
I'm trying here?
But you always try to play itoff like, oh, yeah, you know, it's
just for you.
Just for you.
Secretly, I'm like, man, damn it.
Like, I want to catch a fish, too.
So I'm gonna have to gofishing with you sometime, man, and
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see how it's done.
There's.
We always gotta have somebody.
So we got a comment here from Ethan.
The Lord wants a relationshipwith you all.
God has a plan, and it's sucha gift to hunt.
Have a great day, folks.
And no Truer words have ever been.
Ever been spoken, man.
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Like going out.
I don't go to church a lot,but every day I'm out in the woods.
It's.
That's my church right there, man.
Seeing the woods come to lifein the mornings and then as it's
getting dark, just.
It just comes to life even more.
And it's amazing.
It's a true blessing to beable to get out there all the time.
And it is so.
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Oh, go ahead, Shane.
I'm sorry.
Two trail seasons ago, buddywent up to brown trout come from.
I spent.
Brett got a 20 inch browntrail in about a half hour.
No kidding.
After three, three or fourdays of solid, man.
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Yeah.
Brett, we're gonna have to gofishing with Shane so he can teach
us how to do it.
I got a 100 way of riggingyour lawyers too.
Really?
Yeah.
Back to you.
You won't get no nice.
So tell us some.
Tell us some hunting stories.
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We have people wanting to knowhow you do it.
Some of your craziest huntingstories before your accident and
after, like how's it comp.
The challenge is what?
Way more fun now.
Is it?
I mean, I got into crossbowhunting, I don't know, 10 years before
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I.
Or not crossbow, but lost my son.
And everybody always told methat is the hardest hunting there
is.
I laughed at it 45 minutes andshot a dog.
Next night I went out, shotanother doe plus two doe tags.
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And that following year Ibought a brand new bull from a buddy.
Went out, shot it three times.
It was hitting good for me.
Went bow hunting, shot a five man.
So I'm gonna have to go up toReed City where you're at and start
hunting up there because Imean, man, you got him loaded up
there.
His A point was taken rightbehind Paris.
(14:04):
Really?
Right on.
That's.
Okay.
North of space.
When I was late teens, me andmy cousin used to hunt up a Marion
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all the time.
And camping during deer seasonwas a regular tent.
Oh, that was fun days.
Oh, those.
Yeah, those are.
Now are you down to do that again?
Oh, yeah.
I still can still hunt fish.
I mean I'm going to a mud dog.
Sad day.
Nice.
So really, after youraccident, it never slowed you down?
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No, not at all.
That.
See, that is outstanding.
That, that right there isreason enough for everyone to get
out to continue hunting.
Don't let.
I mean, I almost gave uphunting due to a shoulder injury
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and I have no reason now togive up.
I mean like talking with you,talking with some other people who
have Lost limbs and stuff like that.
They'll do backcountry huntingand everything.
Like, if there's a will,there's a way, brother.
And you are living for thatfor sure.
Huh?
(15:32):
Cosmo with a new bolt.
Yeah.
So, yeah, Shane just had a newpackage of warhead napalms, the crossbow
bolts.
So I can't wait to see himstick a deer with that here.
No.
This coming weekend here inMichigan is that early doe season.
You going out for that one,too, brother?
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Oh, yeah.
You gonna use rifle or your crossbow?
If I get my crossbow, sightingit soon enough.
Right on.
Because, yeah, I can't waitfor you to.
I can't wait to see what youpost on that one because you hammered
that buck earlier, and nowit's time to get a dough, man.
You're stacking meat in thefreezer for sure.
Status?
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I don't know.
Three, four pounds plus all my tenderloins.
Man.
So we're still getting alittle bit of audio issues here.
We're gonna still try tofigure this one out, so apologize
for all the listeners and theviewers right now.
But, hey, we can still pick it up.
(16:39):
We can still hear them, sowe're just gonna fight through it,
brother.
It's live.
That's right.
That's right.
It's live.
So, yeah, it's live.
And we're just gonna adapt and overcome.
Just like your huntingabilities, man.
It's not Gumrex.
We.
Even when I was first burntand stuff, all doctors and stuff
(17:00):
told me I need to be a motivator.
Oh, dude.
Absolutely.
One of my eye doctor clinics,he come the first bum down and depressed.
He's like, you come in gloomy.
He's like, how are you so happy?
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I just got.
Dude, it's all a mindset, man.
And that's.
That's the biggest thing thatyou as, you know, a visually impaired
hunter, I mean, like, youcan't see.
Like, you even said they tookyour left eye and threw it in the
trash.
Like, you can't see anything.
As you can see, I'm open.
I'm in.
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You're out there killing moredeer than us so far this season anyways,
you know?
But it's still early on, soI'm pretty sure we're out in a start
stacking them up here when we can.
Yeah, well, most of us haven'tbeen able to hunt.
Wow.
True, true.
Now, your season alreadystarted, right, Frank?
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And losing the eyes for it.
Right.
I'm gonna gouge my out tonightwith a spoon.
Pain.
I've Ever been to.
Oh, I bet my face hurt fromhere to here.
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The whole head just hurt onthe left side when they cut my eye
out.
Oh, man.
Wow.
And to see that you're stillout there getting after it, that.
That's awesome.
One thing I.
Driving swamps.
What's that?
Driving swamps.
Oh, yeah.
I miss doing that.
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Oh, I can only imagine.
But I'm working on gettinganother scope of my 1, 2.
So at a good spot, I gosquirrel hunting now.
There you go.
Yeah.
Nice.
Brett, you had a question?
Yeah.
I just want to say, listeningto your story on and you fighting
through adversity.
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Let me just ask you guys, howmany of you guys wanted to just give
up hunting just because you shot.
You shot at a deer and youmissed or you never found them again
and you're just like, oh,this, I'm done.
I can't.
I did this.
I go through that every year.
I think, yeah, like, everytime, like something like that happens,
I'm just like, I can't.
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I'm done.
I can't deal with this mentalstress anymore.
And I think for you to evenconsider doing that now, listening
to his story so far, it's justlike, you better just shut the up.
Go being a little and go out there.
I mean, like, like Johnnysaid, I mean, it's.
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You're going through.
You've gone through a lot.
How.
How many years now total haveyou been blind and hunting?
A little over five and a half,but three.
Three years hunting, fiveyears blind?
Yeah.
Wow.
So you're really pushing through.
Through it.
And it's not really a lot oftime to get over a disability like
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that, to be right back at it.
I mean, I was out the sameyear I lost my sight.
Sitting in the bind.
I just wasn't shooting.
Yeah.
Oh, I'd have been soundshooting like a.
You do anyways, Dave.
I'd be like, the d. What arethe DNR gonna say?
I can shoot at night.
And I'd be like, I didn't knowit was night.
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And I just want to ask anotherquestion here.
Am I going to be the only onethat doesn't hunt during the dough
season coming up?
Probably the only one that'snot gonna hunt all year.
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Brett.
The sad thing is he's going tosee more deer than you do.
(21:22):
Yeah.
It was nice joining you guys.
So.
So what.
What's your goals this year, Shane?
This hunting season?
Peg out.
Right on.
Have fun.
That second one is always mynumber one goal, to have fun now,
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like.
Try to get into it.
Oh, Absolutely.
I mean, did watching yourvideo, talking to you like you're
having fun out there.
And that's what's important, right?
Going out there, having fun,joking around.
I mean, we all.
We all joked around on thisshow a lot.
And tonight I. I really wantedto hear your story and with your
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accident and how you got backinto hunting and what motivated you
to get back into it and youranswer of family, you know, your
mom and dad and just going outhunting and getting back after it
like that is outstanding, man.
Yeah, that's just.
My dad was a hunter.
He got me into it and Icarried on the tradition.
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You know what that is?
That's called redneck DNA.
Yep.
That's just the drive.
It's a different breed ofpeople, man.
Yep.
You know what I mean?
Tuesday, two five gallonbuckets of potatoes out of the garden.
A bunch more to pick.
I can.
All my own food.
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I'll have videos in squash.
This one is going to be for you.
My next video.
Okay.
Me processing my own deer.
Oh, hell yeah.
Nice.
I look forward to it, my man.
There's a few of us that stilldo it.
A very small few.
I've skinned a few blind too.
(23:15):
Nice.
It's a little longer process,but I actually.
Everybody says I do it better.
Nice.
You know, you definitely gotto be more careful.
Oh, yeah.
Hell, I still shot my own.
Nice.
Wow.
I mean, you see your hairmissing on mine.
I thought you were show up.
(23:35):
I was gonna say I wouldn'tshave your balls if I were you.
That's just scary.
Shane.
Just be careful because wedon't need you being blind and limbless
or something.
Just.
Yeah, watch what you're doing.
Be careful.
I actually ain't cut myself yet.
I used to work as a prep cookand cooking stuff, so.
(23:58):
Oh, okay.
I know how pretty good.
I'm sure, I'm sure.
I went to school at Kalamazoofor the blind people down there where
Brett lives.
Oh, okay.
Oh, nice.
Don't be giving out where Ilive, everybody.
Right?
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You're gonna.
You better be careful.
You're gonna have like 50blind people out in your front yard
looking for you.
You're gonna come up there.
Walkers.
I'm gonna.
You're hear the click clackingthe stick.
Are you there, Rory?
That's a Family Guy episode ifI haven't seen.
(24:42):
Sorry.
I'll find you.
Don't run.
All of a sudden, you hear apink golf cart take off out of the
back of the garage withspinners on it.
(25:02):
Yeah.
Italian butt.
So go yeah, sorry.
When we first started theshow, it was a little patchy with
the audio.
Do you want to go over yourrifle one more time?
Because it was.
(25:22):
Oh, yeah, I can.
Give me a minute.
I got my one buddy here.
He took care of it for me, so.
Oh, yeah, no worries.
That's no problem.
What caliber do you shoot?
I got a.450, a.270, a.30, 30,and two sixes.
There you go.
Nice.
Now, is it the buddy thatyou're that's with you tonight?
(25:43):
Is he the one that helps youout with all your hunts?
No, he's more my camping,fishing buddy.
Right on.
I mean, if he wants to.
Come on, man, and, you know,we can talk to him, too, and he can
explain.
You know, he can make fun ofBrett, too.
Yeah.
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Always looking for new blood.
Is that a savage axis?
Can't tell.
It's a savage screen.
Does need adjusted.
Canna deal.
I don't know how to be honestwith you.
Do a trick shot, shoot throughyour back door.
(26:28):
We'll tell you where it's aiming.
So that's a camera?
Yeah.
And it's.
It's on the scope?
Yep.
That's cool.
That is pretty freaking cool, man.
That is freaking cool.
Holy Brett.
We could set that up on a tripod.
You could stay right in bedand just use the tv.
(26:48):
Oh, my God.
What?
He's sitting.
He's like this.
Because he's already thinking of.
He's like, I can use that on the.
I could not even leave the bathroom.
So you.
You point the rifle, then Shane.
And then he look.
He looks at the camera.
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Yeah, he looks at this littleTom Tom screen, and it shows my crosses
in it and everything that myscope sees.
Then he tells me where to lineup and when to shoot.
Man, that is cool as hell, man.
You.
You're working with a shooterspotter scenario, huh?
That.
No, because, you know, we usedto do something like that, running
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sniper missions and stuff,where you, you know, shooter spotter
and then the communicationbetween them.
Now, do you guys have, like.
I'm assuming you guys haveyour own, like, lingo on, like, you
know, when to shoot, where,how to aim it.
Like, I mean, I'd love to getyour buddy on here.
You can hop on and explain, like.
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You want to explain a littlebit about it, Chris, I don't know
anything.
I say he don't know much about that.
Okay.
But if what my buddy does likethis, I mean, it's no different than
when you draw down.
You look through the scope,you See the crosshairs?
Yeah.
The only difference is, like,if you watch my video when I shot
today, my head straight upaway from the gun.
(28:16):
Yeah.
Well, because the screen'sright in my eye, and he's looking
came around, he'll say, laugh,laugh, laugh.
Little up.
Very little.
One way or the other.
And then hold it, shoot.
And I'm not the same buddy inyour video.
And buddy I got here now he'snot my same buddy in my video.
Doing it with me.
(28:36):
Okay.
Okay.
That's your fishing buddy.
Yeah, fishing.
Camping.
We do a lot of camping,fishing together.
That's cool.
So he's the one that's alwaysbusy taking the fish off the hooks
for you.
No.
Pulling fish off.
There you go.
Make my comment.
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All right.
That is awesome.
And got four set screws on it,so I can take it off and put it on
any scope.
Awesome.
Nice.
That is cool.
So, yeah, you're definitelygonna have to get some footage of
you smoking a deer with that crossbow.
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Man, that's gonna be prettyawesome to see.
Oh, yeah.
I got at least 80 acres ofcorn behind my house right now and
40 across the road.
Oh, man.
In the 80 behind my house.
That's actually.
I say 80, but that dude gaveme permission to hunt a half mile
deep and all, but 80 acres ofa half mile deep.
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Mile wide.
Oh, man.
Nice.
Justin commented here.
Oh.
I got my son, the atn, and Ican watch him as he lines up the
shot.
Yeah.
And the technology that wehave now for youth and disabled hunters
is just unbelievable.
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And being someone who, youknow, I mean, we've all missed shots,
you know, all of us witheyesight miss shots, and it's like,
man, I might have to take that.
You know, take that camerathere and go hunting with Dave sometime
and have him walk me onto acouple of deer or something.
(30:28):
I'll do it from the truck.
Does it have wi fi?
I'll do it from my bed.
The other dude commented aboutthat one's Bluetooth to your phone.
Yeah.
That's just a scope, and theycan look through it.
So I'm going with one of them next.
But I had to go.
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My chief figure out becauseI'm a cheap ass.
If it works, who cares?
Oh, absolutely.
And clearly.
I wanted to figure out howit's gonna work before I spend a
thousand dollars on the scope.
Oh, for sure.
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If I can't can't do it, thenwhy spend that kind of money to do
it?
Yeah.
Hopefully pretty sweet.
Because you can record most of them.
You can record at the same time.
Yes, you can.
Yeah.
I mean they've made treestands that are electronic now.
Like they can elevate you upthere for you.
(31:30):
So like we've in the huntingcommunity or we've really.
I don't know if we say it, Idon't know if I want to use the word
adapted, but we've reallyhelped the, the disabled get out
there and hunting and share inthis amazing sport.
If you want to call it a sport.
I mean, it is a sport, butlifestyle is what I like to call
it.
Oh, absolutely.
(31:51):
Oh, it's definitely a lifestyle.
Yeah.
You're either in it or you're not.
Huh.
I, I got a question I'd liketo ask is.
I know it's tough as a regularhunter that's, you know, we go out
and we ask for permission.
You, you were just saying howyou, you get permission.
I mean, do people like stressor worry about when you say, hey,
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I'm, you know, I can't see,but I have a spotter And I mean,
are they just more willing tobe like, oh well, you know, that's
awesome, let's get you outthere or do they have a lot of questions
like, hey, you know, I mean, Idon't know if I want to allow that.
How does that work out foryou, Shane?
The one behind my house.
I've had permission.
I've lived here for 30 plus years.
(32:33):
Okay, forever.
But a lot of people is morethan willing to say, hey, no, go
take out there, get him out there.
Nice, good.
Open.
Because they want to see thisAssassin, the disabled.
Yes.
Well, yeah, and it's justcountry folk are different from city
folk.
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I mean I live literally liketwo and three quarters miles away
from Hawkins by.
Oh man, I have many nights.
I don't remember Hawkins bar,me and Dan.
Man, that's awesome.
So you're going out, you'regetting permission to hunt all this
land.
You're successful.
(33:16):
Like, what's your secret?
We're over here strugglingearly season and you're over here
stacking up deer.
Dude.
I guess luck of the blind guy, man.
It's good friends and knowinggood areas.
(33:37):
Yeah, yeah.
The good friends.
I mean, I went out mushroomhunting foundation three morale mushrooms
by myself.
Wow, really?
No, Yeah, I mean I got to siton the ground, drink a beer and finger
the ground.
But I'll find them.
Let me know when you're going.
I'll lay down on the ground.
(34:00):
Well, that's a small littlemushroom tip.
We don't need that one.
Wow.
This One's got a weird growthon it.
What's that?
Scientists?
Yeah.
You guys do pretty good upthere this year for morels.
A lot of people.
I know I did.
(34:21):
I mean, me and my buddy, mymom went out and found probably 75
and an hour and a half or so.
Man, that's not bad.
That's actually pretty good.
Yeah, back when I could see, Iused to find 100 plus in 45 minutes.
Wow.
Yeah, we used to go up northto Chase and find a shitload of them.
(34:41):
Yeah, I got over between ReedCity and Everett.
That is amazing.
Yeah, over by Hersey a little further.
Cat Creek.
Oh, okay.
I know where Cat Creek is.
Yep.
So that's cool right there.
Just.
I know a spot back up there on10 that is all pine trees that you
(35:03):
can go pick black morels in.
Oh yeah.
Right on now.
So it's been a lot warmer here.
It's been.
I. I was joking around with my buddies.
Yeah.
My buddies earlier today andit's like, man, this is like perfect
fishing weather when youshould be getting ready for deer
(35:24):
hunting.
I mean, it's almost 90 thisentire week up here.
Yeah.
Now you've been going outfishing and hammering the salmon
or small mouth or anything.
No, actually I was a lazy assand didn't buy my license this year.
Man.
Sounds like Brett.
(35:46):
Now he'll buy the license.
He just doesn't ever go outside.
Didn't buy the license.
I went to my cab and me and mybuddy we did ceiling in the kitchen.
I went up there for the 4th ofJuly because they had the Freedom
festival.
Oh yeah.
And that's a big.
I used to do tree work all thetime so that it's a logging competition
(36:09):
and stuff up there.
I love it.
Oh yeah.
Just sitting there smellingthem chainsaws all day.
There ain't nothing better.
Yep.
Cutting wood.
The best thing about cuttingwood, man, is it gets you warm.
You know, you heat up in thesummer cutting it and then you warm
up all winter burning it.
Oh yeah.
I was always taught it keepsyou warm three times when you burn
(36:33):
it.
Yep, yep.
This is a 1908 Wood Cooks Hookright here.
Oh, it works.
That's cool.
Good food.
Oh, I bet.
I mean, that's a nice littlecabin you got right there.
This is my back room, my house.
Oh, nice, man.
Nice.
(36:54):
Yeah, I'm sure it's a lotbetter than your tent to use out
there in a Brokeback mountaintype setup.
Right?
That movie.
You love that movie.
Yeah, Literally.
I don't know.
I got I got two.
(37:14):
Room three.
Room two, queen size, 10 by10, screened in front porch.
Nice.
Living the dream, brother.
Living the dream for sure.
Well, I figured I went blindand went retarded.
I mean, retired.
I might as well have fun.
Yeah.
Yep.
Absolutely, man.
Hey, Johnny.
(37:35):
Yeah?
Do you know how to scare theout of a blind guy?
I do not leave the plunge inthe toilet.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So I have a lot of friendsthat are missing limbs and stuff
like that and we with them, right?
My buddy Tony lost his ledgeand when we're drinking, I'll take
(37:59):
his lead and we'll hide it andstuff like that.
Does anyone ever mess with youlike that?
No.
I buddies, I do it to them.
I'm the one doing it to them.
That is awesome.
Like.
My CNI stick and go hide thaton me.
(38:19):
That's like, what is he gonnado, right?
Little cones, kid toy cones.
He'll set them in lines in thefloor so when I walk through, I step
on them.
But.
(38:39):
So my buddy had a blind dogand he would mess with it and rearrange
the couch that he always jumped.
On.
And he would like slide itover by a foot so the dog would jump
and just completely miss it.
Like, I'm not telling yourfriends to do that because that'd
just be wrong.
(39:00):
But I mean, if they were tomove your furniture that.
To move your over three feet.
But it sounds like you have anamazing friend and support group.
And I feel like a lot ofpeople that give up on hunting and
(39:23):
just like have that pity partyfor themselves, they don't have that
support group that, that Ialways call it a family support group.
It doesn't have to be yourwife, your kids, your parents.
It doesn't have to be thattype of family.
But your.
Your friends, your.
Your hunting family.
These dudes are all my hunting brothers.
You're now my brother.
I mean, that's.
(39:44):
That's the type of people thatyou need to support you in all of
this.
And actually, you guys try toget on here purposely because I thought
you all the coolest.
I mean, don't text back, but.
Are you on our group text too?
Because.
Holy.
(40:05):
He must know something.
No, my fit phone when he don'tdo it.
Was that.
Yes.
Was it before noon?
He might have been sleeping.
It took him two weeks torespond to me.
(40:26):
He just does that to make himsound busy.
I mean.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's what I thought.
And then everyone knows, youknow, I'll text you all the time,
Shane and I Text all the guys.
Like, they're like, oh, what's.
What's Johnny up to?
He must not be working today.
No, I'm at work collecting a paycheck.
But I'm still gonna around andtalk to you guys.
(40:48):
And when I was around, myphone, because I.
Like I said, I did hezard treeremoval down by Grand Rapids all
the time.
Okay.
I got pictures on me where Icut a maple down in grand rapids
down.
I'm 6 foot 7, the tree'staller than me laying down the side.
No kidding, man.
(41:09):
So doing that type of work, Ididn't play on my phone when I was
working.
Right.
Well, I work with High Voltageevery day, so I guess I shouldn't.
There's times where I'll beworking on a battery or something,
short it out and really notice it.
I'm like, God damn.
Like, I shouldn't be messingwith my phone, but.
(41:33):
I used to move houses out inSpokane, Washington.
Right on, man.
And when I say move houses, Ididn't do these double wide.
I moved 19, I think the newestone I moved was 1960.
Really thick built house.
Yep.
So if you ever watched megamovies, I did that type of nice.
(41:56):
So now, how old.
How old are you, Shane?
Because it sounds like to usyou've lived one hell of a life already
and this is just a wholenother chapter for you to write.
42.
Oh, so you're the same age as me?
Yeah, man.
You're old.
Yes.
(42:18):
Brett.
Yeah, Brett's still a little baby.
I mean, yeah, he just got hislearners from it.
Yeah, he's like a baby with apituitary gland disorder.
I turned 32 next Friday.
Ginger Vita.
I can't believe I was Benedict.
(42:44):
Tucson, Arizona, when he wasborn, man.
Nice.
Yeah, it's.
This is.
This is that brotherhood, thatfamily that I was talking about?
We give each other, we havefun, but at the end of the day, you
know, we've got each other's backs.
(43:05):
Even.
Even Brett, man.
I'll help him drag the deerout of the woods.
I'd move a couple trees whilehe's dragging it or something, you
know, I'll point.
Action.
What's that?
I'll point him in the right direction.
You're gonna tell them wherethe deer's at.
(43:25):
You.
Maybe you can teach them howto gut a deer.
Yeah.
That'S easy.
Just don't hit the guts.
That stinks.
You'll only do that once.
It only happens once.
All right, Shane?
Unless you remember whatyou're doing.
Right, right.
(43:45):
Yeah, You Hit that drop once, you.
You'll.
You'll remember it and youwon't do it again, that's for sure.
I can see fingers in there.
Grab my knife up my fingers.
Yep, exactly.
Now, have you ever done thegutless method where you keep all
the guts in?
Yup.
Lay them on the side, skinthem from the back down.
Yes, sir.
(44:06):
Deal.
All right.
So, Shane, we're wrapping.
You know, we're coming up intothe hour already and got a couple.
Yeah, we're.
We're about 50 minutes into it here.
Now, what animal would youlike to hunt?
Like out of any animal?
North America, South America, Africa.
(44:28):
What animal would you like toharvest one day?
Buffalo.
A buffalo?
New one.
No.
American buffalo.
Mother American buffalo.
Bison.
Yeah.
Bison.
Yeah.
Now, what weapon would youlike to use?
Oh, I want to do that with anold percussion cap, muzzleloaded.
Oh.
Oh, that is awesome.
(44:51):
That's the first time in theshow's history that we've ever had
someone say a buffalo.
You know, an American buffalo.
And with a.
With an old cap gun.
That would be awesome.
Yeah, an old Hawkins.50 cal or.
Oh, yeah, I got one in my gun cabinet.
Nice.
I got a.45 Hawkins.
(45:12):
Yeah, I love that old fish.
Good gun.
I got an old.22 pump with.
Not to go on barrel too.
Really nice.
The guy that bought that wasfive years old.
It cost his last stand.
Really full blood in you.
That's pretty cool.
So now, have you ever givenany thought, like before your accident,
(45:36):
were you a waterfowl hunter oranything like that?
I've tried it.
I've done it.
I mean, I've ate goose.
I don't like them.
They're tough.
Like what the DNR just didthis year with goose.
I do not like with them havinga bag limit of five Canadian geese
(45:56):
a day.
No more than three times yourpossession limit.
But then this spring, they goout and poison the geese because
there's too many of them.
Yeah.
Yep.
There's something wrong with that.
There's too many of them.
Take the possession limit off me.
That hunt is hun them.
Yep, absolutely.
I couldn't agree any more with that.
I mean, they're everywhere andthey're a nuisance bird.
(46:19):
And it's a great introductioninto hunting for a youth or someone
who's just getting into it.
Oh, yeah, because they're everywhere.
It's.
They're.
I don't want to say it's easybecause I've been deuce hunting and
I've miss shots all day withthem, but it's Great.
There's so many of them.
You can go out there, you cansee them on a regular basis, and
(46:42):
you can hunt them pretty well.
What are you shooting at them?
12 gauge?
Yeah.
Yep.
14 inches in front of their head.
That's.
That's why I started doingthat leading up.
Oh, Brett has a question.
He's slapping his arms like a goose.
He wants somebody to shoot him.
No, no, I have a. I have aserious question here.
(47:07):
Is that German shepherd thatwalked behind you?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is a Casey.
Oh, I love German shepherds.
I'm sorry.
I get like a boner from them.
I don't know.
I got a question.
Brett, you can see.
You didn't know that was aGerman shepherd.
(47:30):
Okay.
He's got to ask the blind guy,was that a German shepherd?
Yeah.
Hold on a sec.
Let me look.
There it is.
Yep.
Yep, that's him.
Old and I've been trained himto be my CI dog.
Oh, nice.
He works with my stick with aleash and with his harness.
(47:54):
Nice.
Down trails through the woods.
Walk me to the porta potty byhimself and back.
That is awesome.
I got four beagles that'lldrag your ass through the woods after
rabbits if you ever want totry that.
Probably got 20 of them do the same.
(48:16):
I got a great day.
Now take up all the space onthe couch so you can't sit down.
Yeah.
That'S the extent of my dog.
Yeah, I've always liked Jimmyshepherds, but I've liked my bird
dogs and my hunting dogs.
Yep.
Oh, absolutely.
Rabbit beagles.
(48:37):
I never got into them muchbecause I knew too many people that
had them or let me take their dogs.
Rabbit hunting.
Yeah.
So I didn't get into them, butI had quite a few good bird dogs.
And like, I've always liked myGerman shepherds.
Yeah, they're nice.
Awesome.
It's hard to beat a good dog, man.
I love animals.
Love them dogs.
Oh, absolutely.
(49:00):
Two trial seasons ago when wetrout fishing, I told him, he got
mad at me because it wasbedtime, and I told him to put his
dukes up, and he stood up andpunched me in the mouth.
Gave me a fat lip.
That's awesome, man.
Give me a hell of a fat lip.
(49:23):
That was your dog, not yourhunting buddies.
Huh?
Huh?
That's probably your huntingbuddy blaming it on the dog.
Yeah.
One of my favorite huntingstories is me and two buddies went
small game hunting.
And I was.
I'm tired of shooting everything.
So I grabbed my buddy's.38special pistol stub nose six shot
(49:45):
going small game hard.
I'm just.
I wasn't gonna shoot.
Nothing to do.
One on the left, one on the right.
They had 12 gauge pumps.
We kicked up a grouse andnobody shot at us.
I go boom, boom.
And I shot the grouse.
Wow.
Luke, you would never do that again.
About a half hour later,kicked up another grouse and they
(50:05):
just let it fly.
So I go boom, boom.
And I shot another grouse.
Ain't a fluke on that.
See.
Yeah, I try that this yearnow, right?
I got a body part to take mephaser hunting.
I.
You know what?
Just hold your shoulders andwhen they stand up, I'll duck down.
(50:32):
If you do that, man, you gottahit that one on video because that
would be awesome.
Yeah, well, that's why Iwasn't able to get crossbow bolts
because I spent my money ongetting that insta360 camera.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, they're great.
It's cool.
Well, now you got to use that,that camera and those bolts and film
(50:54):
it, man.
That's gonna be pretty sweet.
I'm for sure gonna.
I got a nice be over the hillthat built a nice plant for a minute.
Go down hour before dark andyou know me back up here with daylight.
Man, that is awesome.
I planted pumpkins for himover the hill and sweet corn for
(51:15):
them to eat too.
And then the neighbors plantcorn all around me, so my little
food plot didn't do nothing.
There's a little bit ofdiversity with those pumpkins though.
Those whitetail tear into somepumpkins, that's for sure.
Especially late October.
Yes, sir, they love them.
That's usually when you canfind them on people's porches and
take them back into the woods too.
(51:39):
Now, Johnny.
Yes, sir.
Independent hunt next month.
I don't know if I'm going toor not.
I.
So I always do the liberty hunt.
This year I was only able toget out for a couple hours.
I had my kids with me and theywould rather go fishing than hunting,
so I got to work on them with that.
(51:59):
But no, I. I usually do do itwhen I do that.
I have a little 14 acre parcelthat I go to that's private.
In the middle of a golf course.
Oh, nice.
And I only use archery there.
That's all I can do.
But anymore, that's all I huntanyways is just archery, they say.
(52:20):
Honestly, I mean, I was onewhen I was.
You could see I was.
I didn't want that close 100yard shot with the deer rifle.
That was just too easy.
I wanted that.
I mean, I can.
I can max out a thousand yardrange finder behind my house.
Wow.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Hunting got so easy, you tookyour eyes out and made it challenging
right then.
(52:40):
Still didn't.
Still didn't matter.
I got witnessed.
Well, I shot a deer at 450yards with a 30.
30.
Wow, man.
Show off.
Two steps and fellow venet.
Damn, that's impressive.
That.
That is impressive, man.
I won a $50 bet one timebecause the dude said I couldn't
(53:03):
hit a rocket.
500 yards within three shots.
My third 30, I hit the second bullet.
Nice, man.
But I'm the same as you, Squash.
I've owned that gun since Iwas 15.
Yeah.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, that's right.
You know, you get used to howthey function and how they shoot
and what you can do with them.
Absolutely.
Right.
Yeah.
I know how that gun works.
(53:25):
I'm getting my scope back onit so I can take it back out.
There you go.
Perfect.
Right on.
Parents bought it for me as anearly Christmas gift when I turned
15 or 16.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like I say all the time, man, you.
I look at that thing and Ijust think about the history I have
with it and it's like the time flies.
(53:46):
You can't believe how fast itwent by.
You've been holding that gunthat long, huh?
I know.
Johnny said we're gettingclose to the hour mark.
I want to say something beforeJohnny when he wants to wrap it up
is Shane.
I just want to say thank youfor being a fan of the show and.
And being.
And welcome to theBrotherhood, man.
This is what we've set out to do.
(54:07):
I started this by myself acouple years ago and then it grew
up into what it is now andinvited Dave Squatch and Johnny to
be a part of the team.
And now we've grown into more.
A larger team.
But not even that.
Just to look outside of thebrotherhood that we've created here.
I mean like we've done oncountless episodes.
(54:27):
Now you see us and listen tous fucking with each other and everyone
that listens to the show andtunes into the show.
That's what brotherhood is to me.
Brotherhood as core is we witheach other, but we're also there
for each other.
So just because you're blind,it doesn't mean we're not gonna not
with you.
So you're not off limits.
(54:50):
Okay.
Skin.
Exactly.
I love it.
Yeah.
But I just wanted to saywelcome to the brother, man.
And thanks for being a part ofthe show, man.
Oh, thanks, man.
Yeah, so let everyone knowwhere they can find you.
Shane.
Oh, right now I got smallstuff on YouTube as the blind hunter
01 with no blind hunter 1 withno spaces.
(55:14):
And then you can find me onFacebook with the blind hunter 01.
I mean I'm just starting outwith content, so you ain't gonna
find a lot.
But we all gotta startsomewhere, brother.
Right?
That's what I think.
Everybody started from the beginning.
That's it.
(55:34):
That's where I started at.
I just subscribed, man.
I'll say.
I'm doing it right now.
Yeah, I've scribed the ones Iknow of on your guys' right now,
the Whitetail Advantage.
And I subscribe to you, Squatch.
Thank you, buddy.
Thank you.
Speaking of Squatch, leteveryone know where they can find
you.
As always, you can find mehere Sundays and Tuesdays on the
(55:56):
Whitetail Advantage.
You can also check me out,listen to me.
On the Boondocks OutdoorsGarden State Outdoorsman with Mike
Nitray and the rest of a bunchof guys over there.
You can always find me onInstagram and you can also tune into
my channel Outdoors and morewith the Squatch.
Dave, you can find me here onTuesdays because I don't do Sundays.
(56:20):
You can also find me onInstagram, Facebook and on YouTube
as PST Mobile Hunter.
Brett, where can they find you?
Sleeping White Tailed.
I was waiting for it.
Find us on social media.
Everywhere.
That's White Alvan.
(56:41):
We're everywhere.
Popular.
We're famous.
We're Joe Rogan.
Famous Joe Rogan.
He's gonna fight you now for that.
I'm gonna pay to see it.
Yeah.
No, you can find us on socialInstagram, Facebook page and YouTube.
And for everyone who'swatching, our very top left hand
side, old Frank, our newestaddition to the Whitetail Advantage.
(57:04):
Instantly regretting it, right?
Never.
Never.
Where can they find you, brother?
On Instagram.
Go buy it.
Broadside Ambush.
Frank, you also find me onFacebook and also on Boondocks Hunting
and Garden State Outdoorsman.
And for you, East Coasters,there's a couple truck stops with
(57:26):
his name and number you cancall too.
So you'll find them there.
Yes, sir.
Glory hole Text messages.
That's right.
That's right.
Number.
Wrong.
Right on.
Well, that you know.
(57:47):
We're gonna call it for thenight, guys.
I appreciate everything.
Shane, thanks for coming on.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for having a laugh withus, man.
And.
And Frank's watch.
Dave and Brett, thanks forletting me host tonight.
That was pretty awesome.
And Brett, go ahead and playthat out.
(58:11):
Thank you for tuning in toanother episode of the Whitetail
Advantage podcast.
We hope you enjoyed the show and.
We will see you next time.
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