Ted Nugent on California Game Management

[CRA]

Uncle Ted telling it like it is on the Rogan podcast!!! Listen at 1 hour 41 minutes into the interview until 1 hour 46 minutes!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yp6ZdCIE3k

[Mike Leonard]

The Motor City Madman certainly nailed that to the wall!!!

Shameful, they call it game management, and we pay these guy's salaries!

[david]

It is so amazing how he can rattle off numbers and long lists of historical events and names etc. faster than I could read them off a sheet of paper. He has an impeccable memory along with deeply researched data. He truely is an amazing person. Maybe he will run for president someday. I have never seen any one that could debate him or intimidate him.

Cat Catch Fever.

[CRA]

I'm sure most of us have lost a great hunting partner. Ted's song Fred Bear will bring you in some deep thought memories of that, or those people when you listen to it. I know it does me. For those that don't know who Fred Bear was, he is to archery as Ben Lilly or Dale Lee was to hound hunting.

David, I know you appreciate great music and well-written lyrics.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7dzmZY708&t=636s

[Mike Leonard]

CRA,

You are so correct, Fred Bear was the icon that rocketed bow hunting to the huge place it is today. Many great archers out there, but Fred's talent, and vision to made it what it is today. In a modern world of high velocity rifles and sniper tested optics many young people are taking up the challenge of getting close with a stick and string. Ted Nugent, Fred Bear's number one fan, has done a ton for archery and shooting sports. Like him or hate him, you don't have to wonder what he thinks about a subject. Rock on Ted!!!

As a side note I killed my first big mule deer buck at 13 years old with a 40# recurve and a Fred Bear wood arrow, and Bear razor head. I hunted for nearly 30 days missing many shots, but I was having a ball trying to get close, and finally I did, 10 yards! What a thrill, and it made me a confirmed life long bowhunter.
Although I never got to meet Fred, my Dad did when he filmed his little hunting film, ( Badlands Bucks) in the 50's.

I later got to meet and watch Howard Hill, and although he was getting up in years he could still make amazing shots with his stick bow.

[david]

I still have not picked my jaw off the floor from the first time I saw slow motion footage of Fred Bear instinctively dropping a pheasant out of the air with an arrow. There are many who can do that now. But back then, I was the only bow hunter I knew of, and even the thought of it was beyond me.

There was no compound bow and the high tech new fangled looking bow was the recurve. We are blessed that there remained a very thin line of people who preserved the sport for us: Ishi, Pope, Young, Pearson. Bear was influenced directly or indirectly by them all. And then there was Ted Nugent. I wish we could get Ted together with Ishi. Wow.

[Mike Leonard]

Ha! Ha!

David I saw those pheasant shots too, and boy did it cost me. I decided I was going to duplicate that shot. Instead of pheasant I used sharptail grouse as my aerial targets. Holy smokes you talk about a bunch of lost arrows! I sailed them this way and that way, and due to the fact that sharptail unlike pheasant who flush up a bit before leveling off the grouse just pretty much takes off flat and it was a ballistic game of trying to draw, establish lead, release and follow thru.
Was I successful? No, I ran out of arrows. I dug around in the stubble field until I finally found one , and then with vengeance in my heart I stalked as close as I could to a setting grouse , plunked him on the ground and lo and behold he flew off with my last arrow! I walked home head hanging and wondered what kind of paying chores I could get to help me buy a few more arrows at the local Coast to Coast store. LOL!

I never tried to shoot flying birds again but later after some instruction by another very well known archer John Shultz I got where I could occasionally arrow a thrown Frisbee with a flu flu arrow.

[david]

Oh man. That is a good story Mike. Hahaha. He flew off with your last arrow. That story needs to be an episode in a movie. Lol

[david]

I had no idea how close Ted was with Fred Bear. This has been educational for me. They met in 1951 when Ted was little. They did a lot of hunts together and remained Freinds until 1988 when Fred died.

https://youtu.be/_-d_-wjCyGE

[Mike Leonard]

David,

If you get a chance see if you can find a video of Fred's old Movie ( Badlands Bucks).

Being in North Dakota you wouldn't have to go far to be right in the area where Fred was hunting along the Little Missouri between Medora and Marmarth. My first archery deer was just taken not far from where Fred hunted. My Dad and Uncle were there to help direct them into some good deer areas.

Not many archery deer hunters in that area back in those days but Fred really opened the eyes of some of those old timers who thought it was impossible.

Uncle Ted is a bit older than me but what a thrill it must have been later to find out the guy in the little old archery shop in Grayling he was sharing cherry pie with, would become the most dynamic force ever in the archery hunting world!

Ted has spent a good deal of time in the woods with hounds and believes in the sport. In this video he really rips the Fed. for the mis-handling of the cougar situation in California, and other places on the have banned hound hunting. Not allowing sport hunters to manage the numbers but expecting us to pay for Federally paid hunters to exterminate problem lions that they bury in a hole.

Look at all the lost state revenue and also take a good look at the deer herd in California. great habitat but deer are now hard to come by.

[mark]

Another thing worth noting about Ted is he has stated for years that he never played with drugs or alchohol. Thats pretty amazing to me considering the times and business he was in. He claimed that women were his weakness lmao.

[SASS]

Another thing worth noting about Ted is he has stated for years that he never played with drugs or alchohol. Thats pretty amazing to me considering the times and business he was in. He claimed that women were his weakness lmao.

Great point Mark, how is that even possible being in RocknRoll in the 60's, 70's, and 80's??? Shows remarkable fortitude and will. I hope he is our next NRA President when our current one decides to step down.

I think many of us feel the same about women, I know I get a reminder of that every month hahaha

[Mike Leonard]

Ha! Ha! Mark, Ted said he was allergic to smoke and a couple of other things, but skinny girls wasn't one of them. LOL!


I also heard Ted say a couple of years ago that Sammy Hagar got him to sipping a little of his Cabo Wabo tequila now and then, but that never came up.

[CRA]

Ha! Ha! Mark, Ted said he was allergic to smoke and a couple of other things, but skinny girls wasn't one of them. LOL!

Lmao!! Mike, I know what quote you're talking about but I'll not write it.

Best line of Ted's interview is him saying this,

" Ignorance bounces off me like personal hygiene off Micheal Moore. It has no impact on me whatsoever. What a swine, a subhuman mongrel"!!!



I've laughed at that since he said it.

[scrubrunner]

Go Uncle Ted, I love him! I love his political views and hunting philosophy.
On his show one time a smallish buck walked up. Ted said he was going to shoot it because it was a management buck. Then he ask, do you know why it's a management buck?
It's a management buck because it's legal, its 25 yards, broad side and I have arrows.