What Daniel Boone and the Long Hunters Can Teach Modern Day Deer Hunters with Clay Newcomb 

Over 20yrs ago, I was elk hunting in SW Colo, chasing a bull elk, I ended up 10miles from my truck in a place called groundhog in bad snow storm. I stumbled upon a camp with a group of hunters from nw Arkansas. They were kind enough to give me a ride (5mph) back to my truck. They were out of brandy because they gave me the last slug. Next day I returned with two quarts of chirstian brandy. Seems like yesterday, fine folks.

I think what Clay is getting at is, the older you get the more you appreciate the spiritual aspects of being in the outdoors. I think that is the case for many aspects of life. The older we get, the more we look for deeper meaning in the things we do.

Great book. Get it!

Great podcast, guys! We are all making our judgment of yesterday's resource harvesters with the selfish self-righteousness of hindsight. What will our great grandchildren say 100 years from now when they talk about how we today squandered all the natural gas and petroleum? My Great Grandad and his three oldest boys, one of which was my Grandad, worked in the pineries of northern Michigan and helped cut off the last large tract of White pine known as the Deward Tract. It was 80,000+ acres of property owned by one man, David E. Ward. I have classic old family photos of raw boned stout men with huge sleighs laden with huge diameter pine logs pulled on iced roads by teams of strong horses. I am proud of those men and my families part in what became an historic era........and yet I have shown these photos to people that looked at them and cussed those shown as greedy S.O.B.'s that stripped the land without thinking of the future generations. I guarantee you 99% of these men were glad to be there, mainly because the work would make a few more mortgage payments happen! Had we lived in that era, we'd likely do as they did and think nothing of it. Thanks for this video, it was very interesting to this old Roscommon County retired woodsman.

49:25 I have been moving towards more "adventure hunting" for whitetails. Most western big game hunting opportunities are expensive and either take forever to draw or are mediocre. You can add the same sorts of adventure to whitetail hunts pretty easily and have more fun than our normal day hunting. 1:12:00 land managed for one aminal is generally being mismanaged. The focus on whitetails is just as bad for the resource as timber mgmt. or cattle production when viewed across the country. If we are only looking at loblolly in Clays part of the world he has a point. Very few hunters are doing a good job of managing the overall ecology of their properties.

I did not know this show was live! How cool!!!

Great podcast, am ready to make some longer trips this year

If you think about what they were selling the hides for and that was buckskin pants that’ll tell you where they preferred to place a lead ball and that’s definitely head shots. Those holes in the hide would’ve been devaluing the hide.

Squire Boone Jr. founded a settlement in Shelbyville Ky where I live!

As a deer hunter and descendant of William Patrick Vaughn ( longhunter and friend of Daniel Boone) i can say this is very interesting.

1:00:00 what if we tied sales to tags? An example you can sell 2 tagged deer through a licensed processor.

I was trying to capture the reading recommendations... it would be cool to have a reading list

i hope clays mules are in the barn