* Triston Cole, Former State Representative (R) Mancelona

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Speaker 4 (00:46):
Good morning world, Good morning Michigan. A very pleasant rifle
season to you. It starts at dawn Saturday morning, the
morning you can hear Don drageld As. JP McCarthy used
to say. We celebrated on this because of well, what
it does for Michigan's economy, and what it does for
our ecological system, and what it does for well our

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hearts and spirits and souls too, going back because it
means the holidays are here. And for Tristan Cole, it's
a family affair of a former state representative, the Republican
from Ernest Hemingway Country and Mancellona is on our radio stage,
our at and T line right now. I don't know
where we find him at exactly this moment, but in
the past he's been with us, rifle in hand, family

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members around him out in the northern Michigan wilds. Welcome
back to the airwaves.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Good morning, Michael Patrick and listeners out there this morning.
I'm standing in front of my small fireplace, stroking my beard,
looking at trail tim pictures, debating where I'm going to
send my girls, son in law and some friends in
the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Wait a minute, that sounds like you have a hunting
party sort of call them. Is that true? Who's going
with you?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
That is true? I'll be out with all three of
my daughters, my son in law and friend Andy from downstate.
That's only shot a couple of deer. In fact, you
shot one with me a couple of years ago. And
we've got a series of blinds scattered throughout northern Michigan,
some public, some private, and we've got some fantastic deer
on camera that will be chasing over the next hours, days,

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and weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Funny that they're called blinds because there are places from
which you can see the deer but they can't see you.
Is that why it's called that?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It is? It is we use these little pop up
blinds are fairly inexpensive. They shelter, you know, you're from
the element slightly. They're not insulated, they're not heated generally,
but they do conceal movement, and that is something that's
absolutely critical to be successful bagging deer is to conceal movement.
Deer's eyes are spectacular and then of course there's the

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nose and the smell. So they're placed downwind from where
we expect deer to appear.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Seven three am, if you want to put a number
on it, is when the official season will start tomorrow
morning at sunrise, first light they call it. And then
five forty pm after dark you better take it inside
or even when you get close to dark.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Right, that's right. And so Chad Stewart, the DNR biologist
for white tail deer in the state of Michigan, put
out a statistic on Facebook yesterday that says there will
be about forty six thousand deer killed over the next
few hours and days, and that's about one every second
or so, according to his statistics that he put out there,
putting a dent in the nearly two million deer that

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roam across the state of Michigan that sometimes find themselves
in front of our cars and bumpers and eating our.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Hostas a deer license tops out at about seventy six
dollars at the high end, as I understand it. For
young people, it's as little as zero, but you do
have to have one.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
You do need a license. Generally people buy a combination tag,
which is a two tag combo good for two bucks
or two dos in the Lower Peninsula or two bucks
in the Upper Peninsula. There's some different dough rags up there.
They're twenty dollars a piece for those basic tags.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
What's the weather like this year? I know we had
some light snow earlier on. What are the conditions from
a hunting standpoint.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
We did it's actually going to be good. The winds
could be a little shifty. Remember back to that nose
factor of being successful bagging a deer. But the temperatures
are good. That's not going to be too frigid cold
like it was fourteen degrees at my house the other day.
But it's not going to be seventy degrees either, which
is really bad. It suppresses deer movement when it's really warm.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Speaking of suppression and deer movement, one percent more people
took place in hunting last year. Your effort to take
legislators hunting and bring people new into the sport doesn't
go unnoticed, then there's some measurable results.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, thank you. It's something that all of a sportsmen
need to do, is take a kid hunting, Take someone
that's never hunted before. I'm working on a young couple
right now to introduce them to the sport of hunting.
It is a declining participation sport overall. That's due to
just changes in demographics and where people are located geographically
and historically within their families. There's you know, gaps with

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hunting and gathering, and I just can't encourage people enough
to get outside and spend time trying to bag a deer,
a grouse, a pheasant. Maybe they're squirrel hunting, maybe it's
something bigger and they want to go after black bear,
alker moose in other states.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
You were a publican legislator. Did the recent passing of
former Vice President Dick Cheney make you think of hunting
in the worst possible way?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, safety is always utmost concerned. Know your target, what's
beyond it. Always, always, always keep that muzzle pointed in
a safe direction. Something that when I was a hunting
guide for fourteen years, I just pounded into the heads
of all my hunters. Be cognitiant where that barrel is pointed,
to teach every every single firearms if it floated one
hundred percent of the time. And yes, you know, I

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recall Dick Cheney the hunting accident in Texas. I did
get to see him speak when he was in Treverse City, Michigan,
a number of years ago.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
A good shot means the deer doesn't suffer much. Is
that true?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
That is true? So deer have they feel differently than
humans when there's you know, a shocking traumatic hit like
a bullet or a broadhead. When it goes to the deer,
oftentimes they don't react at all, or they react because
it startles them. Sometimes they just fall right over and
it's super quick. Sometimes they run a short distance and

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it's over that way. Generally, it's a very very fast
and super ethical.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
The Detroit News says that the Michigan State Police there
are six hundred and nineteen active missing persons cases, and
they say keep your eyes open if you're a hunter,
because you often go to places that no one else
ever will.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, that's it was a really good point. I read that,
and like that poet that they put out. It is
important that we pay attention to our surroundings. Look in
some of the abandoned buildings that we come across, deep
in the forest, deep in the woods, look inside those.
We do have some missing people in the state of Michigan,
and who knows there could be someone here from another state.
In old deer blinds, places that people may seek shelter

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for a short period of time.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
What is the ritual for someone who takes their first year?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh? That one good one. There is there is, and
it's pretty universal. In fact, I get after people that
don't do this. Typically, you take your first finger and
you get a dab of blood on that and you
put streaks on their cheeks. That's generally when you see
that in pictures, that means there's been a first deer
killed and then.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
You're supposed to report it. I guess digitally, but some
people go to are there still buck poles?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
There is the manselon a buck pole here in my
little town. They've been running for seventy one years as
a bull. It's generally the first day or two of
season Manslona, it's the first two days. I'm actually sponsoring
buck pull in bell Air and I've done prizes at
Mancelon and bell Are both this year. It's a place
to go and listen to stories, see multiple generations interacting

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recalling Hunt's past present, you know, people that have passed away.
You know, I always think about my grandpa. My grandma
just passed away a few days ago, and I got
to share a picture of a big buck that I
killed a couple of weeks ago, and you know, she
was in rough shape, but she could see the picture
and she said, Oh, your grandpa would be proud. And
it's one of those things that is generational and really

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really matters inside.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Families, inside the culture of Michigan and the heart of
Tristan Cole Bless you and your family and thank you
for your spirit back in the wild again in Northern Michigan.
You're listening to Michael Patrick Shields.

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