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With the Detroit Lions kicking off early in Munich, Germany on the exact same morning as Michigan's Opening Day of firearm deer season, Jim Costa, Jon Jansen, and Heather Park hear from Michigan hunters trying to balance both sacred traditions.
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00:04so i'm sensing a bit of a theme on the text here and i'm getting a kick out of it
00:10hey john please
00:11quit calling sitting in a tree stand hunting it's target practice gonna call yourself a hunter go
00:16walk the woods till you find something come on brother hunting from a tree stand get real yeah
00:21all right tough guy another says sitting in a tree is called hunting you aren't hunting you're waiting
00:30okay i'm a better more pure hunter than you are yeah it removes all this scouting i mean i would
00:35prefer to bow hunt um and that's generally what i do even at the start of rifle season but
00:40it's always nice to reach out and touch them uh but yeah some people are echoing that this is kind
00:46of the ideal situation with the lions playing in germany you can keep an ear on the game yeah and
00:52handling your business yeah yeah uh it says i'm actually listening in my stand right now one but
00:58in great job i'll be watching from the stand the greatest of both worlds darren hanging out
01:02ah good luck darren uh it says john don't forget to bring external power you can keep the phone
01:07charged to watch the game all day from the blind ken and south lion sure yeah an extra battery uh
01:12it
01:12says already harvested my target buck during archery season so i'll be watching from camp or finding a
01:17breakfast spot near camp while everyone else is out okay jarrett uh watch it without sound in the
01:23blind only issue is cell service in the woods it can be an issue depending on where you're at
01:29certainly but at that point i'm i'm not worried about the game right opening day is greater than
01:37one of 17 that's the priority yes would be yes um yeah and another person points out that uh
01:45you know they'll follow on the phone and they'll stop hunting around noon for lunch maybe catch the
01:50end of the game depending on you know where it's at yeah there you go let's go to john on
01:54a cell john
01:55good morning good morning how are you guys good how are you john great we have a family farm up
02:02here
02:02in brown city up in the farm and uh we have a lot of hunting land and we have uh
02:08multiple elevated
02:09heated deer blinds um i'll be bringing my ipad out for some reason it seems like the lines always
02:16play on either opening day or the second day i don't know why but it's not going to change anything
02:22i mean i'd rather sit on the couch in front of the tv eating chicken wings and drinking beer but
02:29but you're going to do it to stand instead yep and the deer blind comfortable waiting for big daddy
02:34you walk by all right have you been up there scouting at all oh yeah i've been off for a
02:39few weeks now well a couple weeks um bow hunting and and yeah we got some big bucks running around
02:44we got multiple wireless trail cameras so we know what's out there well good luck uh excited uh if
02:51you if you if you bag the big one let us know i appreciate that i will thank you thanks
02:56john
02:58at the ultimate touchdown celebration mon ross st brown in germany goes in for the game winner
03:07and you you get the the big buck that walks by at the same time do you have one that
03:12stands out for
03:13you one buck one buck no they all i mean i i like them all oh i didn't know if
03:19there was like a
03:19signature no no i don't i don't i don't have anything that i have hanging on the wall okay um
03:23i have you
03:24know i have some racks around but oh do you yeah yes but no um to me it's more about
03:36the meat than
03:37than it is anything else so wouldn't necessarily call myself a trophy hunter for one if one walks
03:42by sure i'll get it really excited but i have a friend of a friend that i think it was
03:46over a 20
03:47point they neared a record or close to a record in michigan uh-huh the thing i only saw a
03:52picture
03:52it was massive yeah yeah now you've never hunted jim right no i've never hunted surprise
04:01heather's never hunted no greg you would be a trophy hunter because the meat to you would
04:07be irrelevant i would never be a trophy hunter are you kidding me no she doesn't want to kill an
04:12animal i am that no i'm just saying if you were it wouldn't be for the meat i wouldn't be
04:21eating it
04:21but if i'm going to kill an animal somebody better be eating that meat oh sure yes it wouldn't go
04:26to
04:26waste no yeah i mean you could bring it home for colin it's not hanging on my wall heck no
04:32anyway
04:33carry on so i'm not a big fan of venison i can eat it i just got a disgusting look
04:39from john i i
04:40really like it in chili because sure the little aftertaste isn't quite there there's just some
04:45little aftertaste with it kind of like lamb a little bit for me yeah it depends i mean you certainly
04:50can't overcook it yeah like i remember it'll get tough friends growing up they would hunt and then
04:55always bring in like the venison jerky and stuff like that so i'm familiar with it but i mean i
04:59just never went because it was never in my family right that's kind of how it is i think it's
05:03just
05:03one of those things it's almost like working on a car you're probably never gonna work on your car
05:08unless you were shown how to do it by either a father or grandpa uncle yeah was it so your
05:15your
05:15dad was a big hunter no how so how did you get into it um it's just something i always
05:19wanted
05:19to do there's a lot of things that i do that you know my dad never did or my and
05:24my brothers
05:24would never so what age then um well my grandfather had a farm down in southern indiana and used to
05:34go
05:34down there and you know plink cans for a little while and then you know shoot groundhogs and you
05:38know other little furry creatures um i didn't shoot i didn't actually go hunting and and harvest my
05:46first deer until i was in the league no kidding so not at michigan you didn't know i wondered if
05:52there's like a teammate or something that no no a lot of fishing but no i didn't get a chance
05:56to
05:56actually go hunting until i was until my rookie year did you go with redskin teammates then um i
06:02actually went with our head physical trade trainer um kevin and he we i lived out in the country and
06:10he was like yeah let's go um and so he he took me out and you know showed me after
06:15we harvested one
06:16how you know i had watched a bunch of stuff but i had never done it myself that's something that
06:21you need to have somebody show you how to do it the appropriate way um and then since then yeah
06:27it
06:27was always me and and cory ramer um center from wisconsin or casey robach also was center from
06:33wisconsin there's a trend here yeah offensive linemen midwest guys yeah yeah but but out in
06:41virginia too it's the rules are a little bit different it opens up september one oh wow um and
06:47because of all the development that's going on there you could harvest two a day oh like they want to
06:52get rid of they want to thin the herd yeah yes not get rid of but thin the herd oh
06:55is that like
06:56manage to say that yes yes yes you don't get rid of that callous
07:02all the anti-hunters are are yeah yeah get rid of them yeah that you're murderer
07:07get canceled over it anyway 248-539-9797 with opening day on sunday we the natural tie-in is how
07:15it
07:15impacts those hunters who are also big lions fans and what they're going to be doing on sunday
07:19mm-hmm and all week long right i mean it's it's it's it's two weeks of rifle season and you
07:27know
07:27it's it's all obviously a lead up to you know thanksgiving and and the thanksgiving holiday
07:33yeah a lot of people have that that that time off some people won't actually go on opening day
07:37maybe they will this year because it's on a sunday um but it's just a matter of how much time
07:43you can
07:43get off work text coming in it says the gamey taste comes from not properly gutting and cleaning
07:49the day the deer venison is actually delicious it is uh says it's the poor man's chili venison chili
07:58uh says few strips of backstrap and three eggs breakfast of champions
08:04these people who talk smack about how you hunt probably drive fords and eat hot dogs in one bite
08:11yeah says still takes time and effort to gut the deer and get the meat that's what it's about the
08:15meat big e in a tree well it's also you're you're scouting and you know there's a lot of individuals
08:22that will you know put out food plots um because it's you know it's not recent until recently that
08:27you can actually you know leave uh entice them uh speaking of gutting the deer you know what it
08:35reminds me of is wasn't there a show that you did with rieger with a fish you were teaching
08:39how to gut the fish no we didn't gut the fish we cleaned the fish sorry sorry and it was
08:45actually
08:45on the desk right next to heather there that doesn't bother me at all i could totally do that
08:50oh you could clean the fish i think if you walked me through it okay that doesn't bother me at
08:55all
08:55no i grew up fishing we have a new show coming up here heather's gonna clean a walleye for us
09:02i think i could do it i mean it wouldn't be done well but i think that i could handle
09:06i think yeah although i don't like look i wouldn't want to look at its little face i just like
09:11oh we
09:11could chop that off yeah there you go now i don't remember how rieger did did he do okay fine
09:16yeah
09:16yeah and it was a little bit of a cheat code because instead of the fillet knife i used an
09:22electric
09:23fillet knife which makes it so much easier zip zip zip yeah yummy the golf cart of knives yes
09:31uh let's get to randy in livonia randy good morning hey good morning how you doing
09:38i'm doing well uh first off as a uh livonia chippewa that lives and works in ann arbor
09:43you guys are a great morning show for me thank you gonna fire up yeah fire up but yeah so
09:49i've
09:49been hunting up in the up ever since i was 13 and uh this year we uh forget we have
09:54a game plan to
09:55uh cut the morning hut uh short and we have a we have at deer camp we always set up
10:00a big old tv
10:01or a uh like a projector and uh so you know get in the woods crack it on before that
10:08and probably
10:09around nine o'clock get back to camp and uh you know of course watch the game celebrate and make
10:14our way back in the woods when we can would you be out there all week oh yeah yeah i
10:20got you know
10:20monday through thursday off okay there you go yeah awesome randy thanks for listening yeah have
10:27a great time good luck good luck you too yeah thank you got a texter says uh chad in the
10:32truck going
10:32hunting for the first time in my life i'm 42 this sunday oh good for you never too late to
10:37pick up a
10:38great hobby sean the mailman says if you enjoy hunting there's a small part of you that's a
10:42legit psychopath but thanks for the venison anyway uh okay at the thought of i guess killing something
10:51is the the psychopath point i don't know or putting meat on your table like he said thank you for
10:55that
10:56yeah it is a thing that is that needs to happen because of population right yeah like i've seen a
11:01ton
11:01of them on the side of the roads this year and been fortunate they didn't run out in front of
11:04me
11:05like four or five already this year yeah yeah and and this is the time of year with a rut
11:10hey be
11:11careful because they come out of nowhere especially you know you're driving before the sun comes up
11:15don't see it or late at night a big old buck what's that can't they see the headlights
11:22that's what they're chasing and uh this one says john did you ever want to take spurrier hunting
11:27matt in a truck i got a big opinion on this there's no way you can hunt with a visor
11:34on
11:36why not absolutely unacceptable masculine wise well you don't wear visors you're not a visor i know
11:43you're not a no i'm not a have you ever worn a visor uh if i lost a bet yeah
11:49i can't picture you
11:51with the visor you wear a hat all the time yeah i can't picture you with the visor yeah yeah
11:55that i'd
11:55have to pair that with the crocs so spurrier hunting you would you would go with them or you
12:00wouldn't um i love taking people to the outdoors whether it's taking them fishing for the first
12:08time taking them hunting for the first time i think it would be hilarious now i can't stand the
12:13man but i think it would be hilarious to see him first of all try and get into a tree
12:20stand he'd
12:21probably be a ground blind guy okay but that's fine there's no shot there yeah uh but that would
12:27be hilarious and then to watch him you know zipper a deer would be hilarious what do you mean zipper
12:34a
12:35deer uh well when you oh turn them all the way down to sure the privates yeah i got the
12:43imagery now
12:43it's like an autopsy okay then had there no interest zero all right we'll get to your news the two
12:50grand slam deer john and ross tucker all in the next hour it's 97 one