00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. A father’s gift. Reeve Hanson, world famous meat eater, sound engineer and the brains behind the sound…

On May 15, 1896 a tornado — now estimated as a F5 — killed 78 people in and near Sherman, Texas.  This was part of a multi-week tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest.  Pictured above is the first-ever photograph of a tornado, taken in 1884. — May 15, 1911: The U.S. Supreme Court dissolved Standard Oil and upheld the Sherman Antitrust Act. — And on May 15th, 1942, gasoline rationing began in 17 Eastern states as an attempt to help the American war effort during World War II. The main concern behind the rationing scheme was conserving scarce imported rubber,…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’m sitting there and he walks and he turns broadside and just like, all right, tank, whatever do you want to take the shot? And I’m like, I don’t like that branch, so I go even lower and wider do the same thing, and then he’s at two forty five. So we end up shooting. He does a little kick, slowly starts walking just like hit him again. So we hit him again and we were I’m like hey, I’m like, hey, I’m out of bullets. He’s like, I got one, so he hands me another one.…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: In November of twenty sixteen. Tommy Ballard was hunting for something more important than a deer or a turkey, and it’s that hunt that may have gotten him killed. That’s next on Blood Trails. It was the second Saturday of Kentucky’s deer season in twenty sixteen, and John Snow expected to spend it in his tree stand. The sergeant in charge of investigations at the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, had gotten up before dawn with his son, and the pair were just settling into their perch in the tree when he heard a familiar ringing. 00:00:40 Speaker…

(Continued from Part 2.) Winter housing When I bought this farm, there was an existing small barn and a two car garage sized shed that the door had broken off of.  The property was completely fenced, and cross fenced, and there were even a couple of water troughs, which had to be replaced because they leaked.  But, all in all, there was some structure to start with.  Back then, I had no plans to obtain dairy cows, but I probably would not have gone with large livestock without adequate fencing and buildings.  There is no water or electricity to the…

On May 14, 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution of the United States. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns — particularly the Ruger Old Army revolvers and the Pietta and Uberti brand clones of the Remington Model 1858. This provides a great opportunity to acquire un-papered…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Randall, Brody, Seth, Alex John, and Sarah. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. All right, we’re starting today’s show with the mailbag question. You can send your mailbag questions to Trivia at the meadeater dot…

00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nucomb and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast. Brought to you by to Covi’s Boots. I’m a cowboy boot man and I’ve been wearing to Covis for years, the most comfortable boot I’ve ever put on. Good boots for good times. Welcome to the bear Grease Render. We have many distinguished guests with us today and I’m going to jump right to our number one guests in the…

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On May 13, 1916 the Lafayette Escadrille, a volunteer American air force unit under French command saw its first combat at the Battle of Verdun. — May 13, 1958: The trade mark “Velcro” was registered. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. This is the final round of the contest. There will not be a “Round 125”! The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value). American Gunsmithing Institute…