Steven Rinella

10 mile radius.

We had a lake and so I grew up fishing in the lake, grew up trapping muskrats, got real into fur trap when I was a kid.

But yeah, I was just totally immersed.

It was never like a thing that, it was never a thing you decided to do.

It was just around.

It was, to kind of give you a sense of like what that, what the community was like or how it was perceived is I remember

I remember waking up in the morning and hoping to look out my window in the dark, hoping to see those rain and blowing so that we didn't have to go hunting.

And I remember feeling real guilty for feeling that way.

I feel like, oh, I hope it's real windy so I don't got to get up.

And I'm like, man, I shouldn't feel that way.

That's terrible.

Yeah, it was just baked in, man.

It was baked in.

Everybody around there hunted.

I got a friend who's an outdoor writer, Pat Dirk, and he was talking about Wisconsin right across the lake from us, very similar.

And he said, in this community, he said, if you're not a deer hunter, you sleep with one.

And it was just a thing.

People just did it.

People did it.

Everybody did it.