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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's hunting seeple in Texas and this year is my
first father son white winged dove hunt with my boys
Michael T and Crockett and the thrill I have experienced
over preparing for this trip and talking with them about
why we kill, things, about conservation, about guns and gun safety,
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and our food source, how we get the foods that
we eat, and how removed we are from the historical
natural process of hunting for our food, killing it, preparing it,
eating it, storing that with I thought, you know, there's
so many lessons. This is rife with so many opportunities
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for lessons and every aspect of my life. I think
to myself, if I'm interested in this, if it's thrilling
and exciting to me, then it may just be interesting
to somebody out there that tunes into our show for
whatever reason. And I just felt, and you'll hear me
say this a few times during the show that I
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think there are a lot of folks out there that
say every hunting season, Dad gummt, I ought to take
my kid's hunting, but I don't know how to get started,
so we wanted to help you do that. It's our
interview with Ted nugent. We recorded it a few days
ago so that we'd have time to put it on
the air for you, and I hope you enjoy it.
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So there's a guy out there and he's an accountant
or a lawyer, an administrator, sitting in an office and
he's got a daughter who's nine and a son who's twelve.
I'm just painting a picture of our listener, and he says,
you know, I never went hunting as a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'd like to go, how do I get started? What
should I do? Why is this important?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, I've got all the answers. I communicate with those
kinds of people every day. You know, I just did
my six thousand and five hundred and seventy eighth concert. Yes,
that's not a typo five hundred and every one of
those concerts represents a hangout session, a literal or figurative
campfire before the concert and after the concert with working, hard,
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playing hard Americans. And I'm not kidding when I tell
you thousands and thousands of people who would have never
considered hunting or fishing, or trapping, or the shooting sports
or owning guns, I have baptized. Maybe it's maybe it's
well into the hundreds of thousands of people who see
the spirit the authority of we the people, managing our
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presser's resources instead of why we left England because the
king thought he owned the deer and we know better.
And I'm telling you, Michael, it cleanses their soul. I
can't tell you how many people joined me at my
hunting camps every year who never went hunting growing up.
Some of them don't start till they're in their sixties,
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and then they get their kids and grandkids involved, and
there is a glow factor. There is an awakening of
that not just the natural inner, pure predator within us,
but that resource steward, that real environmentalist who knows that
quality of life comes from quality air, soil, and water,
which can only come from quality wildlife habitat. And that's
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the conservation success story of North America, with more deer,
more turkey, more elk, more cougars, more black bears than
everyone recorded history, because we the hunting families, know that
those precious wildlife resources should always be valuable in the
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asset column instead of the liability column. Now I can
tell you how it becomes a liability when anti hunters
and animal rights freaks rear their ugly, soulless heads. But
I'm telling you the great outdoor lifestyle, not just the
am small miss small discipline, but that radar stimuli when
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all of a sudden, here comes a couple of mallards,
here comes a dove. My got it. I think it's
going to get in range. Once you've learned safe firearms
handling and that natural predator awareness. I'm telling you there's
not many things in life that are as gratifying. Not
just because you did a great job and you've dedicated
yourself to excellence. You made that shot and you brought
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home that sacred protein, but you know that you're keeping
that dove and that turkey and that deer and that
elk and that cougar and that black bear in the
asset column as a valuable, balanced resource. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, Michael,
it is the essence of life in many hunting families
across this country.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Baptized indeed, as a Baptist, I thought, well, that's an
interesting use of language because it has a sacred religious tone.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But I'd say you lived up to it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So that guy wants to get started, he wants to
go out on his first hunting trip, talk about your
hunting camps and kind of the basics he needs to
start getting because I really believe that a lot of
people are afraid to get started because they don't know
how to get started and they don't know who to ask.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And so Uncle Ted's here to help.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yes, I am, and I couldn't be more proud. Well,
we understand that intimidation because government, academia and the majority
of media have absolutely demonized what is actually perfect hunting
resource utilization. So you got to get past the propaganda
ministry to realize that the deer need to die, the
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doves need to die. There is no vacancy in the
support habitat. You've got to harvest the surplus during the
natural season of harvest to make room for next springs
production altogether. Now duh, but that's not taught. So yes,
Uncle Ted the rescue. First of all, most of the
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people who who have become hunters and fishermen and trappers
and Second Amendment enthusiasts have contacted me over the years
because they read my articles. Now, with Facebook, I like
thirty three million facebookers right now. If you go to
Ted Newton Official Facebook, you'll see that there is a
self evident truth, common sense logic celebration of harvesting the
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surplus and feeding your family with the greatest food in
the world. So read those articles. I write for the
Texas Trophy Hunters Journal I have for over a dozen years,
Texas Fish and Game. I write for over a dozen
sporting publications, and every week on my website and my Facebook,
I have my Deer and Deer Hunting Blognuge blog. So
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read those articles, pick up those magazines. Stop by the
local sporting organization. You have a conservation club in town,
Go by the sporting goods store and strike up a conversation.
I'm telling you, it really is not intimidating once you
realize that it's simple mechanics one oh one, like a chainsaws,
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ache knife or a blender. You just gotta make sure
you don't stick your hand in the wrong spot. You
gotta you gotta always be aware of your muzzle where
it's pointing, and learn about the mechanics of trigger and
loading and arming the weapon and what kind of animal
you use. But it really is quite simple. And here's
the proof. If the MotorCity med Man can do it, anybody.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But on the MotorCity mad Man, Hold just one moment,
you're talking to Ted Nugent.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We want you folks to grab your kids and go
have a hunting experience. And if it's the first one,
even better. Our guest is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Ted Nugent, and Uncle Ted is taking us through why
you should get out in the woods with your kids
this hunting season if you've never done it, trying to
make it a little bit easier for you and have
that experience has been passed down. It's part of the
American experience, is part of our heritage, and I don't
know that anybody is more in love with it and
is a better evangelizer than Ted Nugent. If you're telling
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people you know they're going on their first hunt, what
is the most accessible.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Game to go out? What style of hunting would you
encourage them to start with?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, the mourning dove is ubiquitous. I mean it's the
number one family hours of recreation and revenue generating hunting
species in the world. There are literally billions of mourning
doves across the country and they're delicious. Now, the trouble
with the morning dove is it's a very difficult target
to hit because they go sixty miles an hour and
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they dip and dive like nothing you've ever seen. So
you should start by getting to the trap range and
once again introduce yourself to the local sporting organization of
the conservation club, or at the local sporting goods store
and make friends with some fellow shooters, or join the
National wild Through Confederation. But that mourning dove on September first.
Across this country, there are more families in the field
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hunting doves then all other game combined, I believe, worldwide.
Because it's a pleasant weather condition early in the season.
It's a family recreational thing with a little grill. You
kill those doves and you take off those wonderful, delicious
medallions of breast meat and maybe wrap it and bes
of bacon, or just grill them up over some mesquite calls.
So it's a real social gathering and it's easy going
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and friendly. But again I cannot over emphasize the importance
of safety. Safety. Safety. There are no firearms accident, There
are only firearm handler negligence. So wherever that muzzle is
pointing should only be pointed in the direction of something
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you're willing to destroy muzzle muzzle muzzle safety safety safety
and monitor your newcomers, monitor the young people in your
family or even yourself. Muzzle muzzle muzzle, where is it
pointing only in a safe direction? But it's a lot
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of fun and you will miss a lot of doves,
and the ammal manufacturers wish to thank you for that.
But it's a lot of fun and it's available to
everybody if there's a lot of opportunities across this country.
For morning daw Honey, you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Know Ted NuGen is our guest.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I had a guy who's a boy Scout leader and
he said, hey, I know you're taking your boys on
their first hun. He said, what I teach kids you
kids that don't have fathers, don't have someone to teach them.
Is an easy way to do it is put a
light in the end of the barrel. I've never heard
this before. And he said, and then move things around
the wall. You take take the shells out of the gun,
and teach them how to lift up and follow like that.
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And he said, you train their eye, train them to
follow the dove that way. And he said he's had
great results.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Over the years.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Great advice from a great volunteer for youth y knows
that's how we do it. To our Ted Nutrient Camp
for kids. We just wrapped up our twenty seventh year
the Ted Nutrient Camp, the Kid's charity of five oh
one C three all volunteer youth charity, teaching the kids
about aim, small miss small, safe firearms, handling, the mystical
flight of the arrow, how to leave the wild ground
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better than when you got there. And it is a
high it is a turn on, Mike, And I got
to tell you everybody out there who wants to introduce
new shooters that light. They actually make a new training
device where they put a laser in the barrel and
so you know where it's pointing, and you find that
mechanical touch, how the butt stock fits your shoulder and
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your cheek, where the fore end can be lightly grasped
but not held tightly, and that trigger squeeze. And of
course safety, safety, safety, make sure that the gun is
unloaded and you're in a safe area, in an authorized
legal area. But I'm telling you, these kids learn the
mechanics of handling the firearm just like you would teach
them to handle a hammer or a saw or a chainsaw.
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Or any other tool, and it becomes it becomes natural.
There's a natural predator in all of us where the aim,
small miss, small discipline is a turn on because it's
a sense of gratification that you can learn to hit
that clay bird. But here's another piece of advice. When
you do load that shotgun for the first time, don't
throw clay birds. Put them on a safe embankment and
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teach the people to shoot with a stationary clay bird
so they see where the pattern is hitting, so they
can adjust their hand eye coordination to it to make
that improvise, adapt and overcome adjustment in their point of aim.
These are the kind of small details that will turn
kids on to want to shoot more versus missing those
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damn clay birds over and over again while you're learning
to handle the firearm properly. So a stationary target should
be the first box of shells, so you learn the
mechanics and the simple hand eye coordination of how to
grasp that tool.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Interesting point. I mean, my oldest Michael t can handle
a shotgun. Just got him twenty gauges and he's a
big boy and he's a strong boy. But for Crockett,
it is a struggle and he's you know, he and
I want him to have some early successes because I
feel like that's kind of part of you know, when
you first wing that bat. If you miss it, it's
good that first time you make contact.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, te balls start with the tea ball, so you
encourage them they can hit the damn bong.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, this is uh. I must say.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I haven't been so excited about anything in a very
long time. Do you have a lot of Do you
have a common list of questions? Dads ask you what
what are those as as they're coming on their first hunt?
Are the kids that are coming for their first hunting camp?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, I really do, especially with archery because our Spirit
of the Wild show has been number one on Outdoor
Channel for all these years because people can see the
giddiness exuding forth from Uncle Ted, from the mystical flight.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's infectious. You want to get caught up in it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, really, it really is all consuming. Let me tell you.
Let me tell you how beautiful archery is, Michael, I
tell you it's so beautiful that I'm going to recruit
more archers right now on The Michael Berry Show than
any moment in the history of man, because when you
come to full draw, doesn't matter if it's no old
long bowl recurve or a modern compound, or even a
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crossbow where you take that safety off and you get
those crosshairs settled, or that site pin settled, or your
natural instinctive hand eye coordination settled. When you are about
to release the mystical flight of the arrow, there is
no Hillary Clinton. Your mind, body, spirit, and soul is
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cleansed of all negativity and ugliness. There is no corrupt government,
there is no lying media. There is no scamming and
evil cannibalism in America where Americans prey upon their fellow Americans.
When you're about to touch off that mystical flight of
the arrow, it is you, your gifts from God and
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your intelligent capability of making the right choice. It's magic,
you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I never had an interest dead in archery, but I
started watching the show on the weekends, and I can't
remember what it is, but they it's two brothers and
they go out there, and I grew to appreciate how
much closer you have to be, how much more accurate
you have to be.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And what I love is this isn't some distance.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I mean you are up on the animal and it's
a whole different kind of hunt.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's it's amazing, it really is.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
That's why Fred Beher was such an important man. He
really went against the grain. Boy, we love people going
against the grain, don't we, Michael Barry, We do. We
think that is pure Americana when you go against the grain, which,
by the way, there is no grain in my life.
I've gone against it so long it's gone. My point being,
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Fred Behar went against the advancement of ballistic technology to
be able to make those really long shots like Roy
weatherby with developing the magnum loads where the ballistic coefficient
will allow you three four, five, six hundred yard accurate
deadly shot, which is wonderful. By the way, marksmanship in
that sniper discipline is a is a wonderful accomplishment every
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time anyway. But Fred Bhaar said, I don't want to
shoot him at long range. I want to get right
in their face, like our Aboriginal blood brothers, and understand
what it takes to overcome the miraculous radar of prey
animals that God created, not to let you get close
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enough to kill him. And by being an intellectual reasoning predator,
a strategizing predator. We can sometimes, not very often, but
occasionally we can put it all together. And with a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Of our conversation with Ted Nugent, who, as you may
or may not know, is on the Outdoor Channel. He
teaches hunting, he loves to hunt, He evangelizes about hunting,
and I wanted him to share a little bit of
that with you in hopes that more folks may get
up off the couch, go out into the woods and do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That which is natural. Our interview at Ted Nugent now
Michael Berryshell.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's our interview with Ted Nugent. We recorded it a
few days ago so that we'd have time to put
it on the air for you, and I hope you enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Ted NuGen is our guest. What will you hunt this fall?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I know you do the Sunrise Safari and you do
some big African hunts, but just personally for.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Your own enjoyment, what will be? What do you have
planned out?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, my life is basically dedicated to happy and safety
my labradors, so I've got to be diligent on the
small game quota from Mike Popsy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Otherwise out for.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Divorce if I don't take a hunting every day, it's
exciting to watch the dogs work, and they're great on
squirrels and grouse and woodcock confessant and quail and dove
and waterfowl are just amazing. So I do that every
day with happy and safety. And again, if you go
to my Facebook, you'll see that they are the happiest
dogs in the world, which makes me the happiest guitar
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player in the world. And Missus Nugent and I are
quality of life pivots on how happy our dogs are.
That's being said. I am also addicted to the mystical
flight of the arrow and the grounds that I get
to hunt Michael are so loaded with deer and hogs,
and up north we got a lot of bear in
Michigan and on Ontario and a New Brunswick, so I
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hunt bear every year with my bow and arrow. But
I hunt every day September, October, November, December, January and February,
and I kill a lot of deer with a lot
of hours per killed. But I really enjoy hunting white
tail deer with my bone arrow as much as I
do shooting the mallard over Happy in safetie. So this
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is the very special time of year. Summer is rock
and roll barbecue season, and fall winter is hunting barbecue season.
So I really have good balance in my life.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I would say. So.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I was reading one of your posts and you were
going to be off on a music tour, and you
sounded like the saddest man on earth that you weren't
going to be able to quote check my trap line
every morning, hunt hogs, exotics environments, or take my daily walks,
and my sacred swamps and woodlands. Woodlands are commune with
the precious wildlife that gives me so much life. I
love the fact that you are so in touch with
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a part of life that shouldn't just be a once
a year getaway.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And Michael, I'm telling you this now, Like I said,
I did fifty eight concerts this summer, the greatest tour
of my life. Thank you America for the greatest tour
of my life. Thank you Greg Smith and Jason Hartless
for the greatest band in the world, and my crew.
But just the other day I was down in El Campo, Texas,
hanging out with Michael Rodriguez. Over there a tough country
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and Mark and Kurt Pratka over there and at Mark's
Machine Company and working hard, playing hard America and Michael.
They live for the hunting season. And Michael Rodriguez has
three young children and they all want to start hunting.
So Uncle Ted I got as much thrill out of
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talking to the Rodriguez kids about the mystical flight of
the arrow and how to strategize for a good dove hunter,
a good deer hunter, a good waterfowl hunt. I got
as much of a thrill out of just talking to
these young kids as I do going hunting myself. So
there is a passion there, and it's it's ubiquitous across
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this land. Every state, every city is wall to wall
hunting families. That it's not just recreation, and it is
recreation because it truly does recreate our spirit and recharge
our bad But Michael, it's a lifestyle. It's how we
feed our families. Literally, we're talking billions, billions of wildlife
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meals every year, just our hunters for the Hungry Program
every year, Michael Right, two hundred and fifty million venison
meals to soup kitchens and homeless shelters two hundred and
fifty million meals of deer meat for our fellow needia
Americans every year. This is this is perfection.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, and you and I have talked about Camp Hope
for PTSD veterans here in Houston, and deer hunters bring
in every year. In fact, we just had to get
more freezer space. We had to have a commercial freezer
company take in more deer meat.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And that the America we love.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And I want to call on every hunter out there.
You're going to you're gonna bring back more this season
than you're going to be able to use, and think
about Camp Hope or a soup kitchen or somewhere else
that can use this meat so.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It doesn't go to waste.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And Michael, let me just clarify. I don't brag often,
but I'm going to brag right now. Wonderful human being
I am. And I know you're probably thinking, gosh, what's
he talking about. Well, I not only share venison, Michael,
which makes me a pretty good guy, but I actually
share the backstraps. Uh huh. Now, if I give up backstraps,
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I have a special place next to God.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That's true. That is true.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It is true. That's the sacred flash baby.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Now, where do you process you meet?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You know, we do a lot of butcher here. I've
got just a wonderful, wonderful friend here that works with
me on Spirit Wild Ranch, Chris Helms, and he is
a wildlife biologist deer hunting tsar and so we're able
to butcher up a lot of our game. But we
have Rob Fordson right here in Waco, and everybody's got
a good butcher around. There's so many in Texas and
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across this country that we do a lot of processing
at the commercial establishments Because we kill a lot of
deer and we host a lot of hunters. There will
be times where they have fifteen twenty deer hangar and
we just can't get around to doing it ourselves. But
I usually backstrap my own animals, regardless of the species,
because I love the backstraps and I like to I
consider myself a buck knife ballerina. You've probably never heard
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that term before. I am the buck knife ballerina. I
do a meat slicing ballet off the skeletons of herbivores
where there are no scraps left. The only thing my
dogs get off the backbone is some remnant licking because
I've got a way to take that buck knife and
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get every sacred shard, every every slim shrapnel shard. There's
a nice term slim, a medicine off the off the backbone.
And I like to backstrap myself because I like to
get ninety nine point of that sacred top of the filet.
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So there's a lot of great butchers out there, but
here's one. Here's one, Uncle Michael. Critical know your butcher.
Be sure you have an intimate relationship with your butcher.
Don't let him give you someone else's meat, because I
know everyone listening Michael has discovered the gut ballet where
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you get that carcass clean and cool, and you make
sure you get it in a cool place immediately. And
when you handle that deer carcass with that tender, loving care,
you want to make sure you get the meat from
your dear and you need to find a butcher who
will look you right in the eye and shake your hand,
a man of his word that gets you your meat
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that you handled with extra care. Because if you just
get a community slug of ground venison, God knows how
some of our neighbors might have mishandled that sacred carcass.
You know what I'm saying, You're going to put that
effort to handle that carcass with reverence. Make sure you
you get your meatback. Some butchers will get a one
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hundred year or more and just start packaging ground benison
from who knows which animal. Don't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
More of our conversation with Ted NuGen about hunting and
all things outdoors coming.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up next, The Michael Berry Show. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I'm guessing you've eat more venison than most people in
this country. Do you have a special a special way
you prepare, You have a special dish, you make a
special addition you make to it?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, I really do every meal at our home
is I use the word sacred because it adequately and
properly and responsibly describes how we look at our food
we have. We've had a rule in the Newton House
since today I was born. Michael, you don't go anywhere
near that trash can with your plate with foods on it.
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Don't you dare throw any food away? And you know
what I'm talking about. There is a curse, a scourge
in this country of waste and disrespect for food and
our sacred temples that we should be putting nothing but
good food in proper quantities and purporting portions into our
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sacred temple. So the ultimate is to get that carcass
cleaned properly, get all the body fluids out, rinse it
out real good, and get it in a cooler, because
how you handle that animal from the death to the
table is more important than what happens at the grill.
And then once you've got that properly handled carcass, I'm
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going to tell you there's no bad cuts of meat
and there's no bad way to prepare it. We're big
on garlic and butter, and we got some great barbecue
seasonings from all different establishments, but we use very little seasoning,
and we just like fire. We like to put a
little fire and singe the outside. I don't care if
we're talking ground venison or a quarter shank or the
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sacred backstraps. We like to singe it while basing it
or maybe even marinating it and dipping it some good
garlic and butter in your favorite seasoned oils and then
just singing it on the outside so it's still not
just red and pink in the middle, but raw in
the middle. You just want that meat singed and grilled
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quick and hot so that the essence of that venison
flavor comes out. And let me tell you, Michael, in
my travels, all the greatest chefs in the world come
out of the kitchen to meet Uncle Ted because they
watch our spirit of the loud show and they know
that I get it. They know that I not just
respect the game that gave us food, I revere it.
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And that reference should manifest itself at the stove or
at the oven, or preferably on the grill with actual coals.
But you really can't go wrong as long as you
have cleaned that animal properly and aged it at least
a few days, preferably a week or so in the
proper temperature somewhere between thirty five and forty degrees max.
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But if you haven't got a walk in cool, you
can also bone that carcass and put it in the
refrigerator in paper shopping bags, not plastic, but paper shopping bags,
or a glass dish with a cover on it. That
also is a proper aging procedure.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
And why is that? Why is the paper important?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Well, the plastic I'm not a big fan of plastic
any way, shape or form. I do believe that there's
some off gassing and that there's some effect it has
on food, and so we don't use plastic here. We
believe that the European system of hanging those birds in
a paper bag. We don't know what the science is
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behind it, but we know that it works. For example,
when we kill pheasants or ground us or doves, we
hang those birds in the cooler by the head without
gutting them. You do not take the guts out, you
do not pluck that bird. You hang it whole for
at least four or five days, preferably a weak European system,
which has always been wonderful. You hang it by the
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head till the head rots off, and when that falls off,
you know that that meat has broken down all the
enzymes properly, and it has been enhanced. And again that's
not a weird ted nugent thing. The greatest chefs in
the world will tell you that that foul has to
be hung, and that herb beifore or bovine has to
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be hung to have the proper breakdown of enzymes, and
various scientific procedures to enhance the ultimate flavor of that meat.
You know, all the greatest restaurants in the world they
only serve aged beef, right. That's because that enhances the
flavor and the overall taste of that sacred flesh. And
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that's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So you're not gonna eat the birds you kill that
morning that day.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Prefer not to. Now, we do have some traditions where
we'll I take my little old pocket knife out and
I'll carve those medallions right off the breastplate of a
dove and we'll throw those on the grill after, you know,
dipping them in some good oil and some good seasoning,
and we'll singe those dove breasts as a tradition. And
that's a great tradition where the families will process that
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dove breast and wrap it bacon, maybe put a little
hall apenion cream cheese inside. Wow, that sounds good, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It does.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Grill them up real quick, just as a tradition. But
if you think that tastes good, do it a week
later after hanging those birds. And again, turkey, pheasant, waterfowl, grouse, woodcock, doves,
No matter what the fowl, you hang that fowl hole
in a cooler, and I'm gonna tell you your taste budge
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will explode.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I have not tried that, but I now know I must,
Now you must. Now I know why you're best host
on Outdoor Channel for nine times.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Well, I tell it sixty eight years clean and sober.
And when you're clean and sober, you pick up on
the good information, you discard the bad information. And I've
been very fortunate and blessed to be raised in a
hunting family from birth, and so we have a genuine
heart and soul reverence for those renewable wildlife resources that
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bring us such quality of protein, such delicious food. You'll
see in my articles in Texas Fishion Game and Texas
Trophy Hunters and all the different articles I write every
week Deerandeer Hunting dot Com. I always refer to the
gift of the animal. When you do your job to
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the best of your ability and you kill that animal cleanly,
that is a sacred gift. That is sacred flesh, that
is sacred sustenance. It's the healthiest food in the world. Now,
let's not end that subject without identifying the self inflicted
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scourge of political correctness, where all this perfection, that I'm
talking about. There are freaks in our society that would
ban it, Michael, that would ban two hundred and fifty
million meals of pure natural on the hoof venison to
homeless shelters and soup kitchens. They would ban that, Michael.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm convinced they would ban anything that we enjoy that
has been passed.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, you know, you take enough lsd you smoke enough dope,
all of a sudden logic doesn't make any sense to
your now destroyed brain. So I've seen that all my life,
and we fight against it. But let me tell you,
the good still outweighs the bad and ugly in this country.
And I know, Michael Barry, that we're gonna have the
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greatest hunting season of our lives. I promise Sadie Happy
that I would.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well, it would be selfish if you kept your joys
to yourself, but I love that you share it with
so many others, including me and our listeners today. Ted Nugent,
thank you as always for being my guest, my.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Friend, Michael Berry. God bless you for allowing me to
celebrate it on your show. And that just proves that
we in the hunting world, we are blood brothers, and
we are the ultimate benefit for wildlife in this country.
God bless the hunting, fish and trapping families have the greatest, safest,
most backstrap infested the hunting season of your lives. Aim small,
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miss Small, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We'll see you at the Ranson Buddy Take you cared
to be Michael
It's hunting seeple in Texas and this year is my
first father son white winged dove hunt with my boys
Michael T and Crockett and the thrill I have experienced
over preparing for this trip and talking with them about
why we kill, things, about conservation, about guns and gun safety,
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and our food source, how we get the foods that
we eat, and how removed we are from the historical
natural process of hunting for our food, killing it, preparing it,
eating it, storing that with I thought, you know, there's
so many lessons. This is rife with so many opportunities
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for lessons and every aspect of my life. I think
to myself, if I'm interested in this, if it's thrilling
and exciting to me, then it may just be interesting
to somebody out there that tunes into our show for
whatever reason. And I just felt, and you'll hear me
say this a few times during the show that I
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think there are a lot of folks out there that
say every hunting season, Dad gummt, I ought to take
my kid's hunting, but I don't know how to get started,
so we wanted to help you do that. It's our
interview with Ted nugent. We recorded it a few days
ago so that we'd have time to put it on
the air for you, and I hope you enjoy it.
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So there's a guy out there and he's an accountant
or a lawyer, an administrator, sitting in an office and
he's got a daughter who's nine and a son who's twelve.
I'm just painting a picture of our listener, and he says,
you know, I never went hunting as a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'd like to go, how do I get started? What
should I do? Why is this important?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, I've got all the answers. I communicate with those
kinds of people every day. You know, I just did
my six thousand and five hundred and seventy eighth concert. Yes,
that's not a typo five hundred and every one of
those concerts represents a hangout session, a literal or figurative
campfire before the concert and after the concert with working, hard,
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playing hard Americans. And I'm not kidding when I tell
you thousands and thousands of people who would have never
considered hunting or fishing, or trapping, or the shooting sports
or owning guns, I have baptized. Maybe it's maybe it's
well into the hundreds of thousands of people who see
the spirit the authority of we the people, managing our
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presser's resources instead of why we left England because the
king thought he owned the deer and we know better.
And I'm telling you, Michael, it cleanses their soul. I
can't tell you how many people joined me at my
hunting camps every year who never went hunting growing up.
Some of them don't start till they're in their sixties,
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and then they get their kids and grandkids involved, and
there is a glow factor. There is an awakening of
that not just the natural inner, pure predator within us,
but that resource steward, that real environmentalist who knows that
quality of life comes from quality air, soil, and water,
which can only come from quality wildlife habitat. And that's
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the conservation success story of North America, with more deer,
more turkey, more elk, more cougars, more black bears than
everyone recorded history, because we the hunting families, know that
those precious wildlife resources should always be valuable in the
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asset column instead of the liability column. Now I can
tell you how it becomes a liability when anti hunters
and animal rights freaks rear their ugly, soulless heads. But
I'm telling you the great outdoor lifestyle, not just the
am small miss small discipline, but that radar stimuli when
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all of a sudden, here comes a couple of mallards,
here comes a dove. My got it. I think it's
going to get in range. Once you've learned safe firearms
handling and that natural predator awareness. I'm telling you there's
not many things in life that are as gratifying. Not
just because you did a great job and you've dedicated
yourself to excellence. You made that shot and you brought
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home that sacred protein, but you know that you're keeping
that dove and that turkey and that deer and that
elk and that cougar and that black bear in the
asset column as a valuable, balanced resource. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, Michael,
it is the essence of life in many hunting families
across this country.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Baptized indeed, as a Baptist, I thought, well, that's an
interesting use of language because it has a sacred religious tone.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But I'd say you lived up to it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So that guy wants to get started, he wants to
go out on his first hunting trip, talk about your
hunting camps and kind of the basics he needs to
start getting because I really believe that a lot of
people are afraid to get started because they don't know
how to get started and they don't know who to ask.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And so Uncle Ted's here to help.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yes, I am, and I couldn't be more proud. Well,
we understand that intimidation because government, academia and the majority
of media have absolutely demonized what is actually perfect hunting
resource utilization. So you got to get past the propaganda
ministry to realize that the deer need to die, the
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doves need to die. There is no vacancy in the
support habitat. You've got to harvest the surplus during the
natural season of harvest to make room for next springs
production altogether. Now duh, but that's not taught. So yes,
Uncle Ted the rescue. First of all, most of the
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people who who have become hunters and fishermen and trappers
and Second Amendment enthusiasts have contacted me over the years
because they read my articles. Now, with Facebook, I like
thirty three million facebookers right now. If you go to
Ted Newton Official Facebook, you'll see that there is a
self evident truth, common sense logic celebration of harvesting the
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surplus and feeding your family with the greatest food in
the world. So read those articles. I write for the
Texas Trophy Hunters Journal I have for over a dozen years,
Texas Fish and Game. I write for over a dozen
sporting publications, and every week on my website and my Facebook,
I have my Deer and Deer Hunting Blognuge blog. So
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read those articles, pick up those magazines. Stop by the
local sporting organization. You have a conservation club in town,
Go by the sporting goods store and strike up a conversation.
I'm telling you, it really is not intimidating once you
realize that it's simple mechanics one oh one, like a chainsaws,
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ache knife or a blender. You just gotta make sure
you don't stick your hand in the wrong spot. You
gotta you gotta always be aware of your muzzle where
it's pointing, and learn about the mechanics of trigger and
loading and arming the weapon and what kind of animal
you use. But it really is quite simple. And here's
the proof. If the MotorCity med Man can do it, anybody.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But on the MotorCity mad Man, Hold just one moment,
you're talking to Ted Nugent.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We want you folks to grab your kids and go
have a hunting experience. And if it's the first one,
even better. Our guest is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Ted Nugent, and Uncle Ted is taking us through why
you should get out in the woods with your kids
this hunting season if you've never done it, trying to
make it a little bit easier for you and have
that experience has been passed down. It's part of the
American experience, is part of our heritage, and I don't
know that anybody is more in love with it and
is a better evangelizer than Ted Nugent. If you're telling
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people you know they're going on their first hunt, what
is the most accessible.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Game to go out? What style of hunting would you
encourage them to start with?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, the mourning dove is ubiquitous. I mean it's the
number one family hours of recreation and revenue generating hunting
species in the world. There are literally billions of mourning
doves across the country and they're delicious. Now, the trouble
with the morning dove is it's a very difficult target
to hit because they go sixty miles an hour and
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they dip and dive like nothing you've ever seen. So
you should start by getting to the trap range and
once again introduce yourself to the local sporting organization of
the conservation club, or at the local sporting goods store
and make friends with some fellow shooters, or join the
National wild Through Confederation. But that mourning dove on September first.
Across this country, there are more families in the field
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hunting doves then all other game combined, I believe, worldwide.
Because it's a pleasant weather condition early in the season.
It's a family recreational thing with a little grill. You
kill those doves and you take off those wonderful, delicious
medallions of breast meat and maybe wrap it and bes
of bacon, or just grill them up over some mesquite calls.
So it's a real social gathering and it's easy going
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and friendly. But again I cannot over emphasize the importance
of safety. Safety. Safety. There are no firearms accident, There
are only firearm handler negligence. So wherever that muzzle is
pointing should only be pointed in the direction of something
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you're willing to destroy muzzle muzzle muzzle safety safety safety
and monitor your newcomers, monitor the young people in your
family or even yourself. Muzzle muzzle muzzle, where is it
pointing only in a safe direction? But it's a lot
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of fun and you will miss a lot of doves,
and the ammal manufacturers wish to thank you for that.
But it's a lot of fun and it's available to
everybody if there's a lot of opportunities across this country.
For morning daw Honey, you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Know Ted NuGen is our guest.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I had a guy who's a boy Scout leader and
he said, hey, I know you're taking your boys on
their first hun. He said, what I teach kids you
kids that don't have fathers, don't have someone to teach them.
Is an easy way to do it is put a
light in the end of the barrel. I've never heard
this before. And he said, and then move things around
the wall. You take take the shells out of the gun,
and teach them how to lift up and follow like that.
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And he said, you train their eye, train them to
follow the dove that way. And he said he's had
great results.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Over the years.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Great advice from a great volunteer for youth y knows
that's how we do it. To our Ted Nutrient Camp
for kids. We just wrapped up our twenty seventh year
the Ted Nutrient Camp, the Kid's charity of five oh
one C three all volunteer youth charity, teaching the kids
about aim, small miss small, safe firearms, handling, the mystical
flight of the arrow, how to leave the wild ground
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better than when you got there. And it is a
high it is a turn on, Mike, And I got
to tell you everybody out there who wants to introduce
new shooters that light. They actually make a new training
device where they put a laser in the barrel and
so you know where it's pointing, and you find that
mechanical touch, how the butt stock fits your shoulder and
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your cheek, where the fore end can be lightly grasped
but not held tightly, and that trigger squeeze. And of
course safety, safety, safety, make sure that the gun is
unloaded and you're in a safe area, in an authorized
legal area. But I'm telling you, these kids learn the
mechanics of handling the firearm just like you would teach
them to handle a hammer or a saw or a chainsaw.
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Or any other tool, and it becomes it becomes natural.
There's a natural predator in all of us where the aim,
small miss, small discipline is a turn on because it's
a sense of gratification that you can learn to hit
that clay bird. But here's another piece of advice. When
you do load that shotgun for the first time, don't
throw clay birds. Put them on a safe embankment and
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teach the people to shoot with a stationary clay bird
so they see where the pattern is hitting, so they
can adjust their hand eye coordination to it to make
that improvise, adapt and overcome adjustment in their point of aim.
These are the kind of small details that will turn
kids on to want to shoot more versus missing those
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damn clay birds over and over again while you're learning
to handle the firearm properly. So a stationary target should
be the first box of shells, so you learn the
mechanics and the simple hand eye coordination of how to
grasp that tool.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Interesting point. I mean, my oldest Michael t can handle
a shotgun. Just got him twenty gauges and he's a
big boy and he's a strong boy. But for Crockett,
it is a struggle and he's you know, he and
I want him to have some early successes because I
feel like that's kind of part of you know, when
you first wing that bat. If you miss it, it's
good that first time you make contact.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, te balls start with the tea ball, so you
encourage them they can hit the damn bong.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, this is uh. I must say.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I haven't been so excited about anything in a very
long time. Do you have a lot of Do you
have a common list of questions? Dads ask you what
what are those as as they're coming on their first hunt?
Are the kids that are coming for their first hunting camp?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, I really do, especially with archery because our Spirit
of the Wild show has been number one on Outdoor
Channel for all these years because people can see the
giddiness exuding forth from Uncle Ted, from the mystical flight.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's infectious. You want to get caught up in it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, really, it really is all consuming. Let me tell you.
Let me tell you how beautiful archery is, Michael, I
tell you it's so beautiful that I'm going to recruit
more archers right now on The Michael Berry Show than
any moment in the history of man, because when you
come to full draw, doesn't matter if it's no old
long bowl recurve or a modern compound, or even a
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crossbow where you take that safety off and you get
those crosshairs settled, or that site pin settled, or your
natural instinctive hand eye coordination settled. When you are about
to release the mystical flight of the arrow, there is
no Hillary Clinton. Your mind, body, spirit, and soul is
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cleansed of all negativity and ugliness. There is no corrupt government,
there is no lying media. There is no scamming and
evil cannibalism in America where Americans prey upon their fellow Americans.
When you're about to touch off that mystical flight of
the arrow, it is you, your gifts from God and
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your intelligent capability of making the right choice. It's magic,
you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I never had an interest dead in archery, but I
started watching the show on the weekends, and I can't
remember what it is, but they it's two brothers and
they go out there, and I grew to appreciate how
much closer you have to be, how much more accurate
you have to be.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And what I love is this isn't some distance.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I mean you are up on the animal and it's
a whole different kind of hunt.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's it's amazing, it really is.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
That's why Fred Beher was such an important man. He
really went against the grain. Boy, we love people going
against the grain, don't we, Michael Barry, We do. We
think that is pure Americana when you go against the grain, which,
by the way, there is no grain in my life.
I've gone against it so long it's gone. My point being,
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Fred Behar went against the advancement of ballistic technology to
be able to make those really long shots like Roy
weatherby with developing the magnum loads where the ballistic coefficient
will allow you three four, five, six hundred yard accurate
deadly shot, which is wonderful. By the way, marksmanship in
that sniper discipline is a is a wonderful accomplishment every
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time anyway. But Fred Bhaar said, I don't want to
shoot him at long range. I want to get right
in their face, like our Aboriginal blood brothers, and understand
what it takes to overcome the miraculous radar of prey
animals that God created, not to let you get close
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enough to kill him. And by being an intellectual reasoning predator,
a strategizing predator. We can sometimes, not very often, but
occasionally we can put it all together. And with a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Of our conversation with Ted Nugent, who, as you may
or may not know, is on the Outdoor Channel. He
teaches hunting, he loves to hunt, He evangelizes about hunting,
and I wanted him to share a little bit of
that with you in hopes that more folks may get
up off the couch, go out into the woods and do.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That which is natural. Our interview at Ted Nugent now
Michael Berryshell.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's our interview with Ted Nugent. We recorded it a
few days ago so that we'd have time to put
it on the air for you, and I hope you enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Ted NuGen is our guest. What will you hunt this fall?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I know you do the Sunrise Safari and you do
some big African hunts, but just personally for.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Your own enjoyment, what will be? What do you have
planned out?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, my life is basically dedicated to happy and safety
my labradors, so I've got to be diligent on the
small game quota from Mike Popsy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Otherwise out for.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Divorce if I don't take a hunting every day, it's
exciting to watch the dogs work, and they're great on
squirrels and grouse and woodcock confessant and quail and dove
and waterfowl are just amazing. So I do that every
day with happy and safety. And again, if you go
to my Facebook, you'll see that they are the happiest
dogs in the world, which makes me the happiest guitar
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player in the world. And Missus Nugent and I are
quality of life pivots on how happy our dogs are.
That's being said. I am also addicted to the mystical
flight of the arrow and the grounds that I get
to hunt Michael are so loaded with deer and hogs,
and up north we got a lot of bear in
Michigan and on Ontario and a New Brunswick, so I
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hunt bear every year with my bow and arrow. But
I hunt every day September, October, November, December, January and February,
and I kill a lot of deer with a lot
of hours per killed. But I really enjoy hunting white
tail deer with my bone arrow as much as I
do shooting the mallard over Happy in safetie. So this
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is the very special time of year. Summer is rock
and roll barbecue season, and fall winter is hunting barbecue season.
So I really have good balance in my life.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I would say. So.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I was reading one of your posts and you were
going to be off on a music tour, and you
sounded like the saddest man on earth that you weren't
going to be able to quote check my trap line
every morning, hunt hogs, exotics environments, or take my daily walks,
and my sacred swamps and woodlands. Woodlands are commune with
the precious wildlife that gives me so much life. I
love the fact that you are so in touch with
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a part of life that shouldn't just be a once
a year getaway.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And Michael, I'm telling you this now, Like I said,
I did fifty eight concerts this summer, the greatest tour
of my life. Thank you America for the greatest tour
of my life. Thank you Greg Smith and Jason Hartless
for the greatest band in the world, and my crew.
But just the other day I was down in El Campo, Texas,
hanging out with Michael Rodriguez. Over there a tough country
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and Mark and Kurt Pratka over there and at Mark's
Machine Company and working hard, playing hard America and Michael.
They live for the hunting season. And Michael Rodriguez has
three young children and they all want to start hunting.
So Uncle Ted I got as much thrill out of
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talking to the Rodriguez kids about the mystical flight of
the arrow and how to strategize for a good dove hunter,
a good deer hunter, a good waterfowl hunt. I got
as much of a thrill out of just talking to
these young kids as I do going hunting myself. So
there is a passion there, and it's it's ubiquitous across
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this land. Every state, every city is wall to wall
hunting families. That it's not just recreation, and it is
recreation because it truly does recreate our spirit and recharge
our bad But Michael, it's a lifestyle. It's how we
feed our families. Literally, we're talking billions, billions of wildlife
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meals every year, just our hunters for the Hungry Program
every year, Michael Right, two hundred and fifty million venison
meals to soup kitchens and homeless shelters two hundred and
fifty million meals of deer meat for our fellow needia
Americans every year. This is this is perfection.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, and you and I have talked about Camp Hope
for PTSD veterans here in Houston, and deer hunters bring
in every year. In fact, we just had to get
more freezer space. We had to have a commercial freezer
company take in more deer meat.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And that the America we love.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And I want to call on every hunter out there.
You're going to you're gonna bring back more this season
than you're going to be able to use, and think
about Camp Hope or a soup kitchen or somewhere else
that can use this meat so.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It doesn't go to waste.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And Michael, let me just clarify. I don't brag often,
but I'm going to brag right now. Wonderful human being
I am. And I know you're probably thinking, gosh, what's
he talking about. Well, I not only share venison, Michael,
which makes me a pretty good guy, but I actually
share the backstraps. Uh huh. Now, if I give up backstraps,
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I have a special place next to God.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That's true. That is true.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It is true. That's the sacred flash baby.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Now, where do you process you meet?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You know, we do a lot of butcher here. I've
got just a wonderful, wonderful friend here that works with
me on Spirit Wild Ranch, Chris Helms, and he is
a wildlife biologist deer hunting tsar and so we're able
to butcher up a lot of our game. But we
have Rob Fordson right here in Waco, and everybody's got
a good butcher around. There's so many in Texas and
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across this country that we do a lot of processing
at the commercial establishments Because we kill a lot of
deer and we host a lot of hunters. There will
be times where they have fifteen twenty deer hangar and
we just can't get around to doing it ourselves. But
I usually backstrap my own animals, regardless of the species,
because I love the backstraps and I like to I
consider myself a buck knife ballerina. You've probably never heard
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that term before. I am the buck knife ballerina. I
do a meat slicing ballet off the skeletons of herbivores
where there are no scraps left. The only thing my
dogs get off the backbone is some remnant licking because
I've got a way to take that buck knife and
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get every sacred shard, every every slim shrapnel shard. There's
a nice term slim, a medicine off the off the backbone.
And I like to backstrap myself because I like to
get ninety nine point of that sacred top of the filet.
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So there's a lot of great butchers out there, but
here's one. Here's one, Uncle Michael. Critical know your butcher.
Be sure you have an intimate relationship with your butcher.
Don't let him give you someone else's meat, because I
know everyone listening Michael has discovered the gut ballet where
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you get that carcass clean and cool, and you make
sure you get it in a cool place immediately. And
when you handle that deer carcass with that tender, loving care,
you want to make sure you get the meat from
your dear and you need to find a butcher who
will look you right in the eye and shake your hand,
a man of his word that gets you your meat
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that you handled with extra care. Because if you just
get a community slug of ground venison, God knows how
some of our neighbors might have mishandled that sacred carcass.
You know what I'm saying, You're going to put that
effort to handle that carcass with reverence. Make sure you
you get your meatback. Some butchers will get a one
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hundred year or more and just start packaging ground benison
from who knows which animal. Don't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
More of our conversation with Ted NuGen about hunting and
all things outdoors coming.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up next, The Michael Berry Show. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I'm guessing you've eat more venison than most people in
this country. Do you have a special a special way
you prepare, You have a special dish, you make a
special addition you make to it?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, I really do every meal at our home
is I use the word sacred because it adequately and
properly and responsibly describes how we look at our food
we have. We've had a rule in the Newton House
since today I was born. Michael, you don't go anywhere
near that trash can with your plate with foods on it.
(26:01):
Don't you dare throw any food away? And you know
what I'm talking about. There is a curse, a scourge
in this country of waste and disrespect for food and
our sacred temples that we should be putting nothing but
good food in proper quantities and purporting portions into our
(26:24):
sacred temple. So the ultimate is to get that carcass
cleaned properly, get all the body fluids out, rinse it
out real good, and get it in a cooler, because
how you handle that animal from the death to the
table is more important than what happens at the grill.
And then once you've got that properly handled carcass, I'm
(26:44):
going to tell you there's no bad cuts of meat
and there's no bad way to prepare it. We're big
on garlic and butter, and we got some great barbecue
seasonings from all different establishments, but we use very little seasoning,
and we just like fire. We like to put a
little fire and singe the outside. I don't care if
we're talking ground venison or a quarter shank or the
(27:09):
sacred backstraps. We like to singe it while basing it
or maybe even marinating it and dipping it some good
garlic and butter in your favorite seasoned oils and then
just singing it on the outside so it's still not
just red and pink in the middle, but raw in
the middle. You just want that meat singed and grilled
(27:31):
quick and hot so that the essence of that venison
flavor comes out. And let me tell you, Michael, in
my travels, all the greatest chefs in the world come
out of the kitchen to meet Uncle Ted because they
watch our spirit of the loud show and they know
that I get it. They know that I not just
respect the game that gave us food, I revere it.
(27:52):
And that reference should manifest itself at the stove or
at the oven, or preferably on the grill with actual coals.
But you really can't go wrong as long as you
have cleaned that animal properly and aged it at least
a few days, preferably a week or so in the
proper temperature somewhere between thirty five and forty degrees max.
(28:14):
But if you haven't got a walk in cool, you
can also bone that carcass and put it in the
refrigerator in paper shopping bags, not plastic, but paper shopping bags,
or a glass dish with a cover on it. That
also is a proper aging procedure.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
And why is that? Why is the paper important?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Well, the plastic I'm not a big fan of plastic
any way, shape or form. I do believe that there's
some off gassing and that there's some effect it has
on food, and so we don't use plastic here. We
believe that the European system of hanging those birds in
a paper bag. We don't know what the science is
(28:55):
behind it, but we know that it works. For example,
when we kill pheasants or ground us or doves, we
hang those birds in the cooler by the head without
gutting them. You do not take the guts out, you
do not pluck that bird. You hang it whole for
at least four or five days, preferably a weak European system,
which has always been wonderful. You hang it by the
(29:17):
head till the head rots off, and when that falls off,
you know that that meat has broken down all the
enzymes properly, and it has been enhanced. And again that's
not a weird ted nugent thing. The greatest chefs in
the world will tell you that that foul has to
be hung, and that herb beifore or bovine has to
(29:40):
be hung to have the proper breakdown of enzymes, and
various scientific procedures to enhance the ultimate flavor of that meat.
You know, all the greatest restaurants in the world they
only serve aged beef, right. That's because that enhances the
flavor and the overall taste of that sacred flesh. And
(30:01):
that's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So you're not gonna eat the birds you kill that
morning that day.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Prefer not to. Now, we do have some traditions where
we'll I take my little old pocket knife out and
I'll carve those medallions right off the breastplate of a
dove and we'll throw those on the grill after, you know,
dipping them in some good oil and some good seasoning,
and we'll singe those dove breasts as a tradition. And
that's a great tradition where the families will process that
(30:27):
dove breast and wrap it bacon, maybe put a little
hall apenion cream cheese inside. Wow, that sounds good, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It does.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Grill them up real quick, just as a tradition. But
if you think that tastes good, do it a week
later after hanging those birds. And again, turkey, pheasant, waterfowl, grouse, woodcock, doves,
No matter what the fowl, you hang that fowl hole
in a cooler, and I'm gonna tell you your taste budge
(30:54):
will explode.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I have not tried that, but I now know I must,
Now you must. Now I know why you're best host
on Outdoor Channel for nine times.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Well, I tell it sixty eight years clean and sober.
And when you're clean and sober, you pick up on
the good information, you discard the bad information. And I've
been very fortunate and blessed to be raised in a
hunting family from birth, and so we have a genuine
heart and soul reverence for those renewable wildlife resources that
(31:25):
bring us such quality of protein, such delicious food. You'll
see in my articles in Texas Fishion Game and Texas
Trophy Hunters and all the different articles I write every
week Deerandeer Hunting dot Com. I always refer to the
gift of the animal. When you do your job to
(31:46):
the best of your ability and you kill that animal cleanly,
that is a sacred gift. That is sacred flesh, that
is sacred sustenance. It's the healthiest food in the world. Now,
let's not end that subject without identifying the self inflicted
(32:09):
scourge of political correctness, where all this perfection, that I'm
talking about. There are freaks in our society that would
ban it, Michael, that would ban two hundred and fifty
million meals of pure natural on the hoof venison to
homeless shelters and soup kitchens. They would ban that, Michael.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm convinced they would ban anything that we enjoy that
has been passed.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, you know, you take enough lsd you smoke enough dope,
all of a sudden logic doesn't make any sense to
your now destroyed brain. So I've seen that all my life,
and we fight against it. But let me tell you,
the good still outweighs the bad and ugly in this country.
And I know, Michael Barry, that we're gonna have the
(33:00):
greatest hunting season of our lives. I promise Sadie Happy
that I would.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well, it would be selfish if you kept your joys
to yourself, but I love that you share it with
so many others, including me and our listeners today. Ted Nugent,
thank you as always for being my guest, my.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Friend, Michael Berry. God bless you for allowing me to
celebrate it on your show. And that just proves that
we in the hunting world, we are blood brothers, and
we are the ultimate benefit for wildlife in this country.
God bless the hunting, fish and trapping families have the greatest, safest,
most backstrap infested the hunting season of your lives. Aim small,
(33:39):
miss Small, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We'll see you at the Ranson Buddy Take you cared
to be Michael
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