Clint Galloway - The story of the 215" Buck!

We are joined by Clint Galloway  from Louisiana who just shot a 215" Buck out of Kansas.  Clint shares the story of this hunt along with some of his other tremendous bucks like his 164" from Ohio and 165" out of Kentucky.

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  and I seen  a doe out there  and then I kind of got a glance of a buck pushing her around. I picked up a monocular and I looked at him and as soon as I did I knew it was him. Wow. So, uh,  started getting everything ready. And, uh, she kept, she started coming pretty much straight through me.  And about every 10 yards, I'd range her and, uh, finally picked a spot where I felt like she was going to  be at a distance.

So I get up and I range her and I range her.  Redbone, what would you say if I could tell you that you could kill a buck on a certain day? I would say you're crazy. There's no way to predict how the bucks are going to move. Well, you're wrong. There's a new camera out called Wyzeye Technologies. These guys can predict the actual deer movement, exact time that a deer is going to come through.

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Let's talk about current events, Redbone.  Okay. Well, the youth hunters had a pretty good weekend this past weekend in Missouri. Uh, according to the, uh, uh, news release from the Missouri department of conservation, uh, young hunters, ages six through 15, harvested 13, 923 deer in Missouri. During the youth portion of the deer hunt.

Top County was Franklin with 285 Howell with two 73 Texas with two 65 and rest of the counties around our region. Alex Carter County had 100 Douglas County, two 18. Howell County, 2 71, Oregon County, 1 59 Ozark County, 1 31 Ripley 201. Great season for the Ripley County Hunters. Uh, Shannon County at 128.

Texas County, 2 66.  And right. County one 96th. Congratulations to all the kids, guys. And there were some, and there were some big old bucks taken down by the kids. I mean, my social media was flooded. Yeah. I was just going to say the same thing. There's a lot of really good bucks. And sound like Shannon County.

If I remember last year's totals, I believe Shannon County was only in the eighties or nineties last, last year. Yeah. So even they went up. So that's great. Yeah. I think numbers were up overall. Yeah. But Alex, as you mentioned just a little while ago. It couldn't have come at a better time for the kids.

Exactly. The, the, the rut, man, the rut, the deer are two to three weeks ahead here in the Midwest from my observations, and I can say, uh, my 60 years and my 50  years of hunting whitetails, I've never seen this rut, the rut, this active and this consistent this early in my history, in 50  But I think we can contribute to, uh, acorns, a lot of acorns, and we had a super cool spell about three weeks ago, if you remember that.

Right. Two or three days of it, it was really cool. Yeah, and then of course we had, then we had all the rain, which, Continues to knock the acorns down.  And, and I remember,  Right, I remember Dr. Deere himself saying that when the acorns are wet, and because they're, uh, it helps the deer digest them faster, and they have, um, more, um, what's the word I'm looking for?

Uh, appetite to want to go eat them because it's easier for them to eat because the shells are softer. Yeah, shells get softer. Yeah.  And there's more protein. They're getting more protein, which gives them energy. Mm hmm. So you contribute that as well. Uh, raffle season's coming up here in Missouri, November 16th.

I'm looking forward to having the Wise Eye owners, Daryl Monk and their father, with us. He's 86 years young and we're going to try to put him on a big old Missouri buck and my wise eyes are showing some decent bucks and it'll be a big one for him. Hopefully if they're consistent and I'm looking forward to that hunt.

All rifle hunters get, you need to be shooting your rifle, shooting that good hornady ammunition, make sure they're lined up, getting ready for, it's coming up here in about 10 days. Yeah, the time is now to be getting ready. All right, Alex, what's up?  Talk a little high school football and, uh, people are going to hear the show on Saturday, but we're recording on Wednesday.

Uh, so, uh, district semifinals, Friday night,  Liberty Eagles have got the Houston Tigers again. I think that the Liberty Eagles are going to have a tougher game than they had the last time. Well, last time they only won six to nothing. Read our script. We've got to come up with new plays and we've got to make some changes.

We'll Well, the Thayer Bobcats, the Thayer Bobcats get number one ranked, undefeated Bear Grove  on Friday night at their place. Obviously us being a four seed, them being the one seed. Now, this is a team that's only lost one game in two seasons, and that was the state semi final game last year that they lost to the team that won the state championship.

Oh, they got their work cut out for them then. We're slow. Go ahead, Wayne. Well, I say they got their work cut out for them, and you know, it's uh, but like they say, you know, hard work, continue doing what you're doing, 60 minutes, gotta put it in, and a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then. If Thayer can pull that win off, that will be probably a big upset.

Oh, it'll be a huge upset. Like I said, Thayer Grove's been ranked number one every week of the season, including the preseason.  And they're for real. So, anyway, by the time people hear this Has Dexter, Dexter, Missouri still, uh, been unbeaten? Uh, yes, they are. They're in the district semifinals as well. Well, congratulations to the Thayer Bobcats.

Now, I've been watching them very closely. The Thayer Bobcats have done nothing to get better and better. As they played throughout the year and, um, and a. Taylor's got it going on and I, I wish them the best. Well, that's what happens when you start, you know, four freshmen on your defense  and you start three offensive linemen that are freshmen.

I mean, they're only going to get better and, uh, and they're hungry. It's a really hungry group. Yeah. Really hungry. And like with Liberty, they started off, you could seem like there was some disorganization. Um, you know, we noticed even though they were still winning, um, but boy, they got better and better and better.

And they, they, uh, started performing as a unit. Not as individuals, and that's where I saw the biggest, uh, you know, uh, difference with Liberty as the year, you know, the season progressed. Well, as a coach, that's what you hope for. Yeah. You hope they get better every week. Well, guys, the last three games, we went downhill.

We had 12 penalties in one game. Yeah, that can be an issue. We lost over  85 yards the last game we played against, uh, Springfield Catholic. I believe we had eight penalties. There's some issues. Yeah, that'll do you in right there. Gotta clean that up.  Our passing's gotta connect. Our passes, we gotta make our passes more accurate.

You know?  You know, you mentioned the penalties,  you mentioned the penalties in Thayer's game with Clever last week. There were only four penalties called in the entire game, two by each team.  It was one of the cleanest games that I've seen in several years.  No, Liberty needs to get those refs over there. 

Well, it's time for us to take a break here and Alex, before we go to the break, tell us about our guests coming up, because we got a dandy. Yeah, my buddy Clint Galloway, I met him this past year, my dog's barking in the background, I apologize for that, I'm on my back patio, met him this past year at the World Deer and Turkey Expo and this guy, him and I stayed in touch a little bit here off and on and all of a sudden I started receiving text messages.

Alex, check out my buck I killed in Kansas, and he sent me these pictures, and I, I, my jaw dropped. Yep. He killed a 215 and 1. 8 non typical with his bow, and the story of how he killed him is very impressive, and he's out with an outfitter, which is outfitter's his friend. And, uh, he told the outfitter, Well, I'll tell you what we're gonna do.

We're just gonna save it for him to tell the story.  Everybody's gonna learn something from this. When they go to listen to this show.  It's time we take a break, everybody. When we come back, we got Clint Galloway. Mr. 215 of 1 H, non typical that he killed. We're gonna talk about his buck and how, what techniques he used to kill him.

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Legacy Farmland Specialists presents. Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors, segment two of our show. We did not get to talk about the Chiefs or any of the NFL, but the Chiefs are still unbeaten. Uh, a lot of good teams out there, and we'll talk more about that on next week's show, but We'll get right to the subject here.

We want to welcome our guest, Mr. Clint Galloway. Mr. 215 and 1 8. He is from Louisiana, and this guy's a white tail hunter, and he just killed a buck of a lifetime. Welcome to the show, Clint. I appreciate you having me, Alex. Yes, sir. Tell us about yourself real quick, Clint. Uh, you're from Louisiana. What town, and how many years you been deer hunting?

Well, I'm from a small town called Franklinton, Louisiana. It's about 60 miles, 70 miles north of New Orleans. Uh, I've been hunting since I was 8 years old. Probably been bowhunting since I was about 12, 13. And, uh, just been fortunate enough to be able to hunt in several different states in the last Probably  25 years, I guess, and uh, really kind of kicked it up a notch in the last four years and trying to go around where the big bucks are because they definitely not In Louisiana where I'm from,  , you definitely have killed three super studs.

And, uh, what, what's your best three deer so far that you killed? So, I just killed this two 15,  uh, in Kansas. I killed a, uh,  killed a 1 66. And, uh, Kentucky last year, during the village season, killed a, uh, 165  in, uh, Ohio. I think that was the second. Second week of the season, uh, about three years ago.  That's been my three best. 

I know Redbone and Wayne's chomping at the bit to ask questions too here, but go ahead guys, your turn. Yeah, I was just gonna say, he definitely has been going to the right places to find big monster bucks. Kentucky, Ohio, and Kansas. Right. So, uh, what made you decide you wanted to start venturing out into other states, Clint?

Well, I've always just kind of, uh, been like a member of a hunting lease. We have a lot of hunting leases in Mississippi, uh, Louisiana. I mainly hunt locally in Mississippi and, uh, a little bit in Alabama. But I met two guys about, uh,  I don't know, four or five years ago when  we, uh, they had joined the hunting leaf we was in and, uh, up around  Scuba, Mississippi, and become real good friends with them and they, they had already kind of been doing the traveling hunting thing and kind of found out who to hunt with, who not to hunt with, so they saved me a bunch of money.

Yeah, there you go. But, uh, just kind of got on what we call, we kind of call it the traveling team. Yeah. You know, Redbone, you were saying, uh, We're doing it every year. We try to go on two or three months a year. Wow. Yeah, Redbone, you were saying, you know, what got you into, you know, traveling and that. And my first thought was, you must have a great spouse.

That's probably what got him into it.  Is a spouse that understands that you're going to go off and spend money. 

It's hard to keep a spouse when you like deer hunting as much as I do. Yep. That's what I'm saying. You got to have an understanding spouse. That's what allows it. Well, more, more about you, Clint. What, at what age were you when you, when you harvested your first deer? Uh, let's see. I think I was around, I was around 10.

I killed my first good buck at 15.  Okay. And, uh, little place called Columbia, Mississippi.  But, uh, yeah, about 10 years. I don't know if it's been today or gone long. I got a question for you. I'm letting these guys talk, but I've got a question. What do you think is the biggest secret to killing giant bucks?

What is the biggest secret you can share right now that's helped you kill these big bucks? One thing you could say. Well, I mean, just be honest with you, you know, there's a lot that goes into it, but, uh, reparation by, uh, People, you know, people that, you know, got these plates and you go on it, they got, they do that.

They have to do a lot of preparation. Now, you also have to practice and be ready to  be able to do what you got to do and, uh, scent control, I would say scent control is a big one. So, would you, would you agree, Wayne, Wayne Redbone, would you agree and, and, and,  It's, you know, you got to go where big deer are just that.

So you got, you got, you got to go, you got to go where they're at. Yeah. That's why I just, that's why I just said, that's why I just said Dwayne, when you were, when you asked that question, I said, Number one, you got to go where the big bucks are. And this goes with what Alex has been preaching for years is you're only as good as the dirt you hunt.

Exactly. You know, so if you hunt dirt where good dirt, where you got big bucks, your odds are definitely course increased. Um, you know, I, I do have one quick question for you. Uh, Clint, you said that, uh, you, you harvested your first good buck. Uh, in Mississippi when you were 15,  now not being from Mississippi or familiar with that, what do you consider being a good buck?

You know, what size was that buck that you got  as a kid?  He was about, I would say he was around 120, 120. Well, that is, that's a good buck, especially for that area. He was a good deer down there. Yeah,  definitely. Yeah, and for a 15 year old, absolutely a good buck. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, so, so what kind of bow are you shooting right now?

I actually, uh,  shooting a Raven crossbow. Okay.  I've had elbow surgeries and  shoulder injections and stuff like that. I just can't pull back a compound much anymore. I mean, I've shot mast units before over the years. Yeah. Here lately, just been using that Raven crossbow.  Well, that Raven crossbow and Wayne will tell you this.

We've done our homework and research, uh, Raven crossbow is probably one of the best, uh, crossbows that's on the market today. Uh, they're also one of the prices, aren't they, Wayne? Yeah, they're definitely, they're definitely a sweet bow. Um, I, we're going to, we can tackle a little bit more of this, uh, but we do have to go to break right now. 

Yeah. We do need to go to break. We'll be back with more of Alex Rutledge and his friends on American Roots Outdoors right after this. Hey y'all, it's Tyler Farr and you're listening to my good buddy, Mr. Alex Rutledge on American Roots Outdoors. 

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presents.  Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors.  I am calling via phone from my home. Redbone and Wayne are in the studio. And our guest Clint is calling from on the road. He travels on the road. And one thing we didn't ask him in segment two, Redbone, Wayne, is what is your profession? What is your profession? 

Well, I am, I'm an electrical contractor. I own my own electrical contracting business and, uh.  Also put in on standby generators. We have a course y'all know, we have a lot of hurricanes down here and kind of tapped into that force,  try to  pay for these hobbies. I got,  I'll sit down. Do you just, you're, I know Alex said you travel a lot.

Are you, do you travel just in Mississippi or do you do out of state stuff too? 

Well, uh, I go wherever the money's at, brother, I tell you that. Uh, yeah, we try to, I try to stay here, uh, locally. I got two daughters. I got one in college. She still lives with me and  still got one in high school. So I gotta kind of stay around for them. I'm actually right now, I'm, uh, over here by Toledo Bend doing a Starbucks. 

Oh, wow. We are about, yeah, about four or five hours away from the house right now. But we should be finishing up a little bit.  After this phone call, we'll be headed back home.  Yeah.  So, we know a little bit more about you and your passion for whitetail hunting, and I know you rifle hunt as well, correct?  I do. 

And now, do you travel to other states when you rifle hunt as well?  I have. In fact, I hadn't been, usually go to Texas a little  bit, hadn't been there in a couple of years. And, uh, when we go over there, that's usually rifle hunting, but, uh.  Once we get done with eating, you know, the hunts that I go on, I just kind of hang around and hunt on these hunt leashes in Mississippi and Alabama that I'm in. 

Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, right now we're at, again, the third segment of the show. Tell us about how your hunt came together. You go to Kansas, you're hunting in Palmer, Kansas, you're hunting with an outfitter. What's the name of the outfitter's name?  So, we booked, uh, we got booked with, uh,  MRA, it's Monster Rack Adventures, uh, owner's Ray Petro. 

And, uh, we booked this hunt last year, of course, and,  and luckily we, uh, me and my buddies got drawn,  got tagged and all that good stuff there, and, uh,  and about, I guess about a month before we was leaving to go up there, I got a phone call from Ray and told me he had this big deer on. On video  and said that he would like for me to hunt him and I said, uh, no problem. 

I never really thought it would actually come to pass, but, uh, you know, more as the hunt. You know, got into the hunt and started seeing what was kind of going on. I  started feeling a little bit better about it, but still wasn't 100 percent of course. So, so you, you contribute some of the success to using trail cameras as well, the outfitter? 

Absolutely. Uh, they, uh, I think they had gotten one picture or something of this deer back in the summer.  Yeah, I wonder if those outfitters, I wonder if those outfitters are using any of the Wise Eye cameras? You know?  I think they use Spartan cameras actually. Absolutely. Yeah, we need to get them hooked up with Wise Eye.

Oh, they're being handicapped.  Go ahead, Wayne. I said they're being handicapped if they're using Spartan, so we'll have to get, uh, get them familiar with some Wise Eye cameras here.  That could be why they only had one picture of camera companies out there. Right. That could be why they only had one picture.

The trail carrier helped you find the deer. The outfitter found him, and he put you in the area where he was at. So, the first day of your hunt, you're saying that you went in, and you started seeing activity, and you started seeing what you want. So, What day of the hunt did you see the buck?  I started hunting, uh, so, let's go back up a minute, so on the video, you know, I had this video of this deer making a scrape under  one of them, uh, I think it's a pure white tail scrape rope. 

And, uh,  so that, that stand location, I was hunting, uh, corn had not been cut yet, it was about a,  probably about a  little small acre, five acre corn field. That butted up so it had a swell in it and then it had a bigger cornfield. And I was hunting up against the CRP where the scrape was.  And, uh,  seen a pile of deer the first evening.

Uh, watched two good bucks fight. Seen about a 140  tall tern at eight point come in. Worked the scrape.  And then, uh, that was, uh, that was the first hunt. That was Saturday evening. We got there Saturday morning, started hunting Saturday evening.  Sunday, seeing some deer. Monday and Tuesday, wind started blowing about 30 miles an hour with 60 mile an hour wind gusts. 

And the hunting really wasn't that great. It was hard to hang on to that tree.  And then, uh, and then Wednesday come, we hunted about three hours in the morning and it started pouring rain.  So, uh, and then, of course, the wind switch got colder.  And we We looked at the weather all day long and finally realized we could probably get in at about 3.

30. So we went ahead and left, went out there,  and I told the owner that the deer had been coming out in the opposite corner of this cornfield. And if there was any way we could hang a stand there,  it would be great.  We went in with a, with a deer, with a lock on,  and as soon as we tried to get across this, uh, creek bed, we actually, we actually bumped this, uh, this big buck. 

He was already in the cornfield.  At 3. 30 that evening. So we bumped him out of there.  So we, uh, we changed plans. I just went ahead and got back in the same stand I'd been hunting, hunting him at, and, uh,  of course, nothing really happened that evening.  So the next morning I went to a different stand, same farm, different stand, just with some, you know, thick brush and stuff,  running to 12 o'clock.

Walked out, on my walk out,  I was walking out across a big soybean field. On my walk out,  I seen the buck about 450 yards in the edge of the wood line coming in and out of the soybean field with a doe. I  called, uh, I called Jacob, that's the, the outfitter's son, he,  uh, he does a lot of work for me up there, real doe getter. 

He, uh, talking to him, and he said, you need to be, you need to get back in that stand. You've been hunting.  So, uh,  funny story is, is, uh,  you know, my buddies and all, they rode with me, so I had to get, they wanted to go to the gas station and get something to eat. So, I had to get, we got down, went, went and got something to eat,  and I decided that I was going to buy some tampons. 

and put some dough and heat on them and drag them in behind me. Girl at the checkout,  I said, I just told her, I said, look, don't ask no questions. You don't even know what's going on.  So on my walk in, I coated these ten, so I had about four of them tied together and had a rope tied to them, and I drugged that behind me on my way in. 

Well, that's exactly the route that the, uh,  When the buck and the doe come out, and then I think, when I think the buck is about 150 yards away in that, in that back corner of that cornfield,  and they come in on exactly that scent trail.  So that, and that was Thursday. That was, uh, that was Thursday evening.

Actually, that was Halloween evening.  All right, so clan if we can if we can  Go ahead. Go ahead.  Yeah, i was gonna say if we can let's let's end the story right there and pick up from there Because we need to take a break Uh, so let's pick up the story from right there when we come back from this break You're listening to american roots outdoors with alex religion and his friends We back in just a minute.

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Hornady ammunition presents.  Welcome back to America routes, outdoor segment four of our radio show.  And again, our special guest is Mr. 215 and one eight, Clint Galloway from Louisiana. He shared his success story. Of killing a huge non typical last week in Kansas. And he's sharing, uh, some of his tricks that work for him.

He's not with an outfitter out there and this store is truly amazing, Blaine Redbone.  Yeah, it really is. And, and, you know, I like the fact that he kind of went old school, right?  Yeah, I kind of went old school with it. So, uh, Clarence, go ahead and pick up from where you left off at the end of the last segment. 

All right, so, uh, so, when I first seen, I first seen the doe, I'd been seeing deer all evening, uh, but around, I guess around five minutes to six,  I looked back to my, um, my left, back in that back corner at cornfield, and I seen  a doe out there,  and then I kind of got a glance of a buck pushing her around, I picked up a monocular, and I looked at him, and as soon as I did, I knew it was him.

Wow. So, uh,  started getting everything ready, and uh, she kept, she started coming pretty much straight to me,  and about every ten yards, I'd range her. And, uh, finally picked a spot where I felt like she was going to  be at a distance that I could, uh,  and I arranged her, I arranged that spot at 40 yards. Well, of course, she got there. 

And as soon as she did,  she picked that nose up in there.  And of course, my wind was blowing directly to her. Oh,  and, uh, so I thought I, at that point, I thought it was over with, uh,  but amazingly enough, uh, she made a 90 degree turn  and you would not believe that she walked straight to the scrape that I hung those tampons over and started licking them, licking that uh, scent off of them. 

Well.  I figured, I figured he would follow her, but I was going to shoot him at 40 yards right there.  But he didn't, he didn't follow, he kind of cut the corner off and kind of walked in between where I was wanting to shoot and where she was at, at that scrape.  With all this going on, I done forgot what I had ranged.

So, uh,  he's sitting there. And, uh,  basically at this point, he's looking dead at me. I just, I guess he, he's seeing something he don't like.  I had I on a deer like that, I had to make sure of my distance, so I, I pulled my range to finder out ranging. He was at 31 yards  and I just laid my head down on the stock of that Crossbo. 

And, uh, I had him in the cross areas and I was just waiting and waiting for him to turn. He's sitting there looking dead at me and I just knew he was fixing to do one of them, whip around and it'd be gone.  So I just, I made an executive decision, and I just  thumped that arrow right in his chest, right, right about where his limb fight goes down in his, uh, sternum. 

It was a straight on shot,  so, uh, I knew what my equipment would do.  What broadhead are you shooting?  I shoot a two blade Rage.  Two blade Rage, just like the Swacker. Yeah.  How far did the deer go after you shot him?  He went, well, he almost didn't make it out to cornfield, so the cornfield was about,  He was probably  He liked to went down at about 30 yards, but he ended up going about  45 yards and died in that swell between the two cornfields.

Wow. All right. So, Clint, how, how long? It was, it was, uh  Yeah, what was the time lapse from the time you saw him back in the corner of the cornfield until you pulled the trigger on the crossbow?  Uh, I would say no more than five minutes.  Oh, wow.  Whoo!  Which probably seemed like 30 minutes.  I'll be honest with you, I really didn't have time to get nervous and shaky. 

I was going to save all that for after the shot.  Five minutes probably seemed like a day.  Yeah, especially when you forget, you know, what you ranged your spot at. Yeah, you're sitting there looking at you, you know, you got a 215 inch deer sitting there staring you in the eyes, and you don't even know how far he is.

You got an idea, but you want to make sure you don't want to miss it. You don't want to mess that up. You don't want to do that to the animal. You know, your story reminds me of another story of Stan Potts, his big non typical. He killed, I can't remember, like 223.  And he shot it kind of quarter and two and done the same thing. 

And, uh, you know, we don't promote shooting straight on shots, you know, as a whole. But, uh,  if you know what you're doing, uh, it's everybody's choice to do what they want. You don't get it in more 40 yards. You proved the point. You made the shot. You made it happen, right? Alex, I was gonna tell you this. I wouldn't  Never done it with a compound.

I would have never done it with a compound bow. Uh, I guess  i've been shooting I've been i've killed a bunch of deer with this raven. My daughter's killed once with it  I just, I just know what they, I know the impact that they make. And I was,  I was pretty confident that, uh,  that I could kill him that way.

Alex, I was going to bring that point up, um, that our new listeners, one thing they need to pay attention to what he said. One of the statements he said in that whole story right there is he knew his equipment. How, how often do we talk about on this show? Know your equipment, know your anatomy, and he proved right there the point that he knew his equipment, he knew what he could do, he knew the anatomy of a deer, and being an experienced hunter, he knew he could take that shot. 

Well, he knew where the bottles was at, and that's why we encourage everybody to read and study the bottles on deer.  Yep, knowing the anatomy. We've got a couple minutes left here, a couple minutes left here in this segment, and we'll wrap up the radio show. I just want to conclude this. I think, from listening to Clint's story, uh, number one is, uh, you know, uh, have the passion to kill these big deer.

Number two, you've got to go where the big deer are at or you're not going to kill them.  Number three, trail cameras helped find this deer to get Clint put on that deer. Number four,  Clint did not give up. He stayed in the stand and, and he, he got a visual on this deer  and he listened to the The people he was hunting with and took their advice.

Also, Clint stepped out of the box and done something, uh, that, that's old school. He went and bought some tampons. And put his deer lure. We didn't talk about the deer lure. What kind of deer lure was it?  It was, uh,  pure whitetail, uh,  uh, doe and heat, doe estrus. Pure  whitetail, doe estrus.  Yeah.  Well, it's an amazing story. 

It is, you know. So, so people can learn from this. You know, don't give up. And, uh, if you're having somebody, listen to what they're telling you. Take their advice. They live there. You know, if somebody comes to hunt with me, or if I go hunt with somebody, I'm definitely going to listen to them.  But, uh, you know, we want to congratulate you, Clint,  for this giant.

You know, you've done something  a very small percentage of the people have ever done. A free ranging, 215 inch deer.  And when you realize that, You  really realize this? Yeah. Look, I don't, I don't take it for granted. I, I know how hard it is to kill a, to kill an animal. That's, you know, this big. And,  and I really appreciate  all.

Congratulations. You're probably less, you're in the top 5% of the people that's ever killed a deer over 200 inches. That deer hunt.  You saw that? Yes.  What's that?  Only 5 percent of the deer hunters out there have probably had a chance to kill a 200 or has killed a 200 inch deer. That's my guess. Yeah, I knew it was pretty low.

I knew it was pretty low, uh  Uh, best friend I hunt way back home, he asked me if we were still gonna be able to kill 100 inch deer in Mississippi when I got home this year. Yeah, you might have ruined it for the rest of your life.  Yeah, I probably told him I was just gonna take up squirrel hunting again and not even worry about killing the deer back home. 

Alright, so one final question before we wrap up, and we need to wrap up pretty quick here. Is the deer head going on the wall?  It is going on the wall. Okay. So, uh,  uh, at MA, uh, Jacob, he's a, he's a taxidermist.  He got everything prepared for me to bring back home so I could ride it around the hood of my truck,  down and all that good stuff. 

Alright. Now is the outfitter, do they, do they want a replica of it? I got, I got the horn, I got the,  I think we are gonna actually going to do, try to do a replica of him. Uh,  he was telling me somebody he knew in Missouri that would do that, but, um, but I have the, I have the antlers at my house right now and, uh, I'm gonna go back, try to go back up there during Turkey season and hunt with 'em and, uh. 

Bring the horns back to him and and then hopefully get the deer head back next year.  And those Kansas deer are big bodied deer, too. That one looked like he was. Do you have any idea what he weighed?  We didn't weigh him, but they estimated probably somewhere between 250 and 260.  Wow, that's a big deer. Wow.

All right, Alex. When they aged him, they actually aged him at four and a half years old. So, I mean, he wasn't an old deer. Wow. Oh, my. Wow. Wow. Did those guys, did those guys do, uh, any kind of mineral supplements or anything there in Kansas?  They do, they put, uh, they put out, like, uh, mineral licks and stuff. Of course, you can see it in Kansas, and, but, I mean, back in there, so much, so much crop everywhere, I mean, I don't, you really don't even have to. 

Put anything out, but he was mainly just hunting scrape lines and, you know, pinch points and all that good stuff. Wow. Yep. So what do you gotta say, real quick, in 30 seconds, 30 seconds, what do you gotta say to anybody out there who's listening to your show to give them advice to kill deer like this? Say it in 30 seconds. 

What's that, you asking me that question? Yep. Yeah, you're our guest,  . Yeah, I would, I would You're the guy until the two 15 . Yeah.  I would, I would say, uh,  you know, if you go on a hunt with an outfitter, don't guide them. Don't guide the guide. They know, they know what they're deer doing.  Uh, and just consistency.

Uh, I.  I'm not a believer of moving around in stands. You put me in a stand, I'm gonna hunt there the whole week. Uh, I've had a lot of success doing that.  There you have it, everybody. Clint Galloway, Mr. 215 and 1H. Not officially scored, but a huge non typical. Congratulations again, Clint, and, uh, thank you for being a guest on our show.

Uh, this show will be distributed to nine AM FM networks and on our podcast, which airs in 19 countries. If you guys want to learn more about Clint Galloway, you can find him on Facebook and social media. And I'm sure he'll be glad to talk to y'all. And again, congratulations. And remember this, Clint. We say this every show.

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Take it to a holler, take it to a feel, across the creek, up a big old hill. Good morning, the Ammunition Presents. Welcome back  to American Roots Outdoors. This is our bonus segment. And if you're listening to this, I'm sure you've listened to it on one of your favorite podcast carriers. Again, our special guest is Clint Galloway, Mr.

215 1 8. His book hasn't been officially stored, but it's a huge non typical he took in Kansas last week, and his story is amazing, Redbone Wayne. That was a great story that he shared during the radio, uh, you know, portion of the program here. And, um, the fact that again, he had the patience, he used the knowledge that he had, he knew his equipment and he knew the anatomy of a deer just, and, and, and using the right equipment just kind of closed the deal.

Yeah. And I think the patience to me was the most, most impressive part of the story because he hunted that stand for like four days. Right.  And didn't see this deer until the third day. Yep. And Clint, I got a question for you. You said it took, you know, your estimate was about five minutes for that deer to come in.

So  how were you able to keep your stand quiet from your legs shaking? 

To be honest, I didn't even know if I had legs at the time.  I just, I knew what, I knew what this deer was going to be. Uh, just by seeing pictures and everybody talking about him. So, uh, when I seen that he was out in the same cornfield that I was in, I  just got, I got 100 percent focused on what I needed to do to be prepared.

To shoot him when he closed the distance on me. And, uh,  and like I said, I was gonna, I was gonna worry about the shaking and the, and the adrenaline rush after the shot. You know, I wonder, Mike, and, and, uh, Alex, if him seeing the pictures prior to the going in the stand may have made, helped him not have as much buck fever as opposed to, you know, I'm looking for a one 40 and holy cow, here comes a two 15. 

You know, the mindset might be a little different.  Yeah, I don't I don't think so, because I think I would have had butt fever from the time I saw the picture  until I saw the deer. And then it would have got worse. So, uh, but Clint, let's talk about I mean, they sent you pictures of this deer and said, this is the deer we want you to hunt.

So what did you do between Mm-Hmm? that time and the time that you went to Kansas to actually get on the hunt and get on the deer. What did you do to prepare yourself  for this hunt and for a chance to harvest the steer? 

Well, I mean, I've, I've used all kinds of cover since and stuff, uh, but I, I found one that I really like. It's, uh, called Thief. Okay.  And, uh, they actually sell it, uh, I think a guy, somebody in Missouri, uh, somebody in Missouri makes it, but, uh, I think they, uh, they sell it. And,  uh, I washed all my got it. I got the whole package.

So I washed all my clothes in the same  detergent, put them in a box, put them away.  Uh,  Of course, I had the field spray, I used it,  and, uh,  just listen to what I was, listen to, you know, the people that knew best up there along what to do, but as far as preparation, you know, just,  of course, practicing my shot, and, uh, 

taking care of my scent. So you took extra precaution to be mentally, just getting mentally prepared just in case, you know, I did get an opportunity.  So, so taking that time to maybe, uh, uh, to make sure you were going to be set free, I mean, took a little extra precaution there. 

Yes. When we arrived there that Saturday morning,  uh, first thing we did, we, we pulled, pulled our bows out and shot them. Mine was actually shooting. A little low so I had to make some adjustments, but I would definitely recommend  Anytime you're traveling You know,  12 15 hours away with your equipment  I I would definitely uh get out and shoot just to make sure everything's still on, you know  Yeah, I think that's where arriving like a day early can really pay off 

I have a question for you if I may uh jump in here  still on that big deer. Did you tip your guide? Well, You  Absolutely. 

We, uh, we didn't buy him a new truck or anything, did you?  I'm trying to get an NIL deal out of him. 

Wow. That's fantastic. But anyway, no, uh, yeah, we, we, we, we, we try to give our guys and all a good tip regardless if we kill or not. I mean, they're, they're out there working for us trying to, trying to get it. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but, you know.  Well, that's Southern boy in you. All Southern boys are classy, man.

Not saying Northerners not, but as a whole, the Southern boys always show respect, the majority of them. And they appreciate, you know, when they help with people. Right, right. I got one more question. Will you be going back to Kansas to hunt again?  I absolutely 100 percent oil. Uh, I will be putting me in for the draw again next year.

Hopefully I'll get it.  Awesome. Well, and, and I got one last question and if you can make the story short, because I know we're a little limited left on time here, but being from Ohio, you scored a one 65 out of Ohio, you said, where was that at? And exactly how did that lay down? Short, uh, if you can shorten the story a little bit. 

It was in, uh, Conchobton County. Oh, great county. I don't know if you're familiar with that. Oh yes, I've hunted down there many times. I was hunting with, uh,  hunting with Whitetail Crossing, uh, which is the same outfitter I hunt with in Kentucky.  And, uh, I was hunting in a 50 acre,  I was hunting in a patch of woods on the backside of a 50 acre cornfield.

I think the whole property was 50 acres.  And, uh, we had to walk in the whole way from the road. Uh, it was a narrow 50 acres. So it was, uh, it was about a three quarters of a mile walk in.  And, uh,  I guess about the third day after I was hunting that area, the deer had been shot the first week of both seasons,  and, uh, they missed. 

Some guys, I think, from West Compton  was hunting. So, from the time they missed to the time I shot them, it took that deer seven days to show back up. Wow.  Yep.  That's why they get big . They get smart. I watch, I almost got that. At that time, that was the biggest fear I've ever hit. He had a, uh, he had a drop time back in velvet that he had broke off,  and I had some two good, good buddies with me from Mississippi and I ain't gonna watch it.

I about got butt naked in the woods that night. It was the.  True.  Yeah. That you were lucky to get 'em moving then, right? Was Naked Hunting with Clint Galloway.  . . That sounds like a TV show. That sounds pretty good right there, right?  ? Yeah.  . Sounds like title of a TV show right there.  Alright guys, time to wrap it up here on the bonus. 

I'm here my backyard. The chickens are crowing. The Turkey are yelping. My ducks are quacking. We're gonna wrap her up here. Hey, plan, again. Thanks for being a great guest on the show. Congratulations on an absolute giant. Remember.  Teach your boys to become men,  and teach your girls to become ladies, and Trump  2024.

Wayne Redbone. And also remember, when your roots run deep and strong, there's no reason to fear the wind. 

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