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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of the Semper Doggin podcast.
Basham and I are getting together here first time in a while, do a little recording, and
tonight we've got a decently special guest, I guess you could call him.
If you call him that.
Yeah, I don't know, I mean, we might be scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to figure
this guest out and who to get on here, but we've got one for you guys.
So tonight we are going to be talking with my middle-est boy, Colton Roarvik.
Colton, how are you tonight buddy?
I'm good.
Doing alright?
Yeah.
Are you nervous?
Kind of.
Yeah.
Well, you better.
How old are you Colton?
I'm 12.
Well, you better scoot up to the mic there so we can hear you.
There it is.
12 years old.
So for the listeners a little bit, me and Bryce were kind of going over and over and
over about what we were going to do for our next podcast.
I had this thought with Bryce really pushing this youth hunt and with Nicky doing such
a good job and putting together prize packages and everything, I thought we would do a youth
spotlight and what better person to do it with than somebody that's won quite a bit.
He's right there in the household, easy to get to and furthermore, it goes right along
the lines of what me and Bryce talked about in the very beginning and that is creating
memories and what better way to create a memory between the dad and his son than to get him
on a podcast and talk about it.
Yeah, man.
I'm pretty pumped about it.
So the hunt that Bastrom just referenced there that Nicky and I have been putting a ton of
work into is the Indiana State Youth Hunt and when this episode airs, that hunt will
be tomorrow.
So this episode is going to come out on Friday, July 12th and that hunt is going to be on
July 13th.
That is the Indiana State Youth Hunt, the UKC, Indiana State Youth Hunt.
So we're going to dive into that here in a little bit as far as when all that is going
to be, all the information for times, deadlines, the events that are going on, what all we've
got going for prize packages there.
But like Bastrom said, we kind of wanted to get somebody on here who's been in the youth
series for quite a while.
He knows what he's doing.
This kid was hunting before I came along and it's just been really fun to watch him grow
in how he's been hunting and the dogs that he's handled.
And you know, when I came along, I mean, heck, he wasn't what, eight years old?
Something like that?
Yeah.
So, you know, I think he was eight, just getting ready to turn nine and now he's 12.
So been around for a few years and Colt, why don't you tell us a little bit about like
your first memories of you hunting?
Do you remember like the first time you went hunting or who you went with?
Yeah, I was with my grandpa.
It was me, my grandpa, my brother, and we went to the woods hunting with a leopard dog
we had named Shady.
And back then I didn't even have a light.
You didn't have a light?
What would you hunt with?
I had to walk by my grandpa.
He had a belt light.
And you just had to walk right next to him?
Yeah.
For the listeners, let's break it down to which brother?
Because we know y'all the Brady bunch and y'all got plenty of them.
So Wyatt.
So that would have been Wyatt.
So Wyatt's the oldest of the brothers and you got Colton.
He's the middle list, that's what I call him.
And then you got Owen, he's the youngest.
And you guys have been hunting as a family for a long, long time.
There's pictures of you guys being toed around on your mom's back, like little possums.
Did she used to to you through the woods?
I don't remember.
You don't remember?
Yeah, for Owen, yeah.
I know she used to to Owen around, but I figured she would have done the same for you.
I don't know.
All right.
So Coon hunting is in your blood.
Tell us a little bit about maybe your grandpa and the dogs that he used to run, maybe the
line of dogs that he used to hunt and he started with.
Wabash River Coon hounds.
He was into red bones.
Do you remember the red bone that he did a bunch of winning with?
There's one named Tarzan.
That's the only one that I can remember his name.
That's the one I was thinking of Tarzan.
Yeah.
So how did you get into Walker dogs?
Because as long as I've known you, you've been a Walker man.
That's just the first dog I got.
So OK, so you hunted the leopard that your grandpa had to Shady.
That's the one you kind of say, actually, that's my first dog I had.
OK, and she was a multi-purpose hound, correct?
Correct.
You could take her to all the events and you can compete in everything.
Is that something that you like to do?
Do you like to compete in all the events?
Yes, yes, I do.
OK, so guys, when we say all the events, when we go to these UKC hunts, Colton is the kid
that will have us paying entry fees for everything.
And that is the bench show, the water race, the trein contest, the night hunt, the field
trial, all the above.
Colton is going to be in the middle of the action.
So Shady, could you enter her into all those events?
Yes.
And which one was she best at?
The water race.
Water race.
That's interesting.
That's Basham.
What was your favorite event whenever you were going to the youth hunts?
Oh, I'm a lot like Colton, except for there was one.
The roll cage.
You have not mentioned it.
The roll cage.
Yeah.
I don't know what that is.
See, that's before his time.
Yes, it is.
So what the roll cage is, Colton, is back whenever I was young, UKC hunts, every UKC
hunt was like what you're about to experience at the youth days.
It was an all day event.
You had field trial.
You had training contests.
You had bench shows.
You had it all.
And then we had the roll cage.
And what you would do is you'd take a roll cage, a circular cage with a cone in it, and
you'd spray a dot on the ground and you'd take 10 foot tape measure and you'd put it
on the dot and then you'd make a circle all the way around the dot, spray painting a line
and you'd hold the dog outside of the circle.
And when the judge said, go, you turn your dog loose and the dog that could get the roll
cage out of the circle, the fastest was the winner.
So we had this old blue tick and he never lost a roll cage contest because what he would
do is he'd take off running and he hit that roll cage right where the metal hits the dirt
and that roll cage would fly in the air and literally it'd be out of the ring in about
a second after we turned him loose.
That's like jumping a cue ball at a pool table.
Yes, exactly what it looked like.
Exactly what it looked like.
But the first time I remember Colton was actually at the EKC hunt up at Russ Beller's silo.
Funny story.
I'm going to jump in here.
You met Colton before I met Colton.
Yes, I did.
He was hunting Shady.
Yep.
It was me, him.
I don't remember.
Oh, no, no.
It was me, him, Van Cleek and his boy and oh, kickstart my heart.
Nick Brady, Nick Brady, Nick Brady and his boy.
And Nick was hunting his dog.
They didn't last too long because he shot through the world and got over on a busy highway
and his boy was only like, what was he?
Colton at that time, like three or four.
So I mean, he was young and I was hunting a rock.
Is that when Jocelyn was handling for you?
Yep.
That's when the champ Colton, do you remember that hunt?
Yeah, I was like my third hunt.
Well, dive into it for us.
What do you remember about that?
What do you remember about Basham the first time you met him?
And don't think just because you're on the mic, you can't speak your mind.
You just go and tell it how it is.
I didn't, I don't really remember him.
How do you not remember this guy?
He's big, he's loud, he's obnoxious.
How do you not remember him?
I don't know.
It wasn't a very eventful hunt.
It really wasn't.
We cut the dogs loose and Nick Brady's dog shot through to the right.
Shady and Rock and another dog.
No, Van Cleek was actually the following night.
Van Cleek wasn't that night.
We were hunting a red bone, a leopard, rock and Nick Brady's dog.
We went into the first tree.
They had a coon, but oh Shady decided it was hot.
And Shady wanted to be down in the creek cooling off instead of up on the tree.
So Colton was like, what do I do?
I said, well, buddy, I said, if it is, if the dog would come up here and bark on the
tree, I said, I'll let you go on and handle it.
But Shady just kept running in the creek cause it was, it was scorching that night.
And the next night we got poured on, but that night we treat that cone and then we made
two, two more charcoal trees, but that was it.
Yeah.
So, so that was your third hunt.
And since then you went on to take this coon hunt and stuff pretty serious, huh?
Yeah.
Like if you had to rank coon hunting against their other sports that you play wrestling
and football, where would you put coon hunting?
Number one.
Number one, out of everything.
If you had to do everything else, you'd be a coon hunter?
Yes.
Do you think that's genetic or do you think that's just because your mom and I now hunt
so much?
Uh, both probably.
I mean, I like it.
It's enjoyable.
Really fun.
You like having a big dog.
Yeah.
And you're pretty competitive.
So guys, I asked Colton before this podcast started to write me down a list of some of
his biggest accomplishments and we're going to, we're going to dive into some of these.
But first let's switch things up.
Let's, let's go on to something.
We got that.
Um, actually it will go with what you were saying.
Cause I was going to, I was going to dive into his accomplishments.
I wanted to get to one area before we really get to go for it.
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
What, what was your first ever win and what really stands out?
Um, I think it was out like, um, my first win.
I think there's that green castle.
Okay.
Hey, that's where I got my first win.
Look out.
And what dog were you hunting?
Probably Hannah.
You were hunting Hannah.
Okay.
Do you remember anything?
No, nothing in particular.
Yeah.
What was your, what is the biggest or the wind that really sits, you know, in your mind?
Like for me, it was, I was 13 years old and won the Kentucky state youth championship,
you know?
And, uh, you know, I was hunting a dog named Harvey looked more like an overgrown beagle
than he did a freaking coon dog.
And he was meaner than a one-eyed snake.
I promise you any dog that got on the tree with him, it was over.
He was like a little pit bull.
He'd run everything off of it.
But that was my, that was one of my first big wins that I ever had.
It stands out pretty predominantly.
You got a hunt that stands out?
No.
I got a whole list of hunts here, a big hunts that you won and not one of them is memorable.
I don't remember.
Oh my gosh.
This kid, I'm telling you, welcome to a life in my household.
I'll be like Colton, when's your birthday?
I don't remember.
I know my birthday.
Oh boy.
You know what, Bryce, you know what it is real quick.
I think it's more the new age kids.
If they say they don't know or they don't remember, they feel like that they don't have
to talk.
Jocelyn's the same way.
I'll be like, why didn't you do the dishes?
Oh, I forgot.
Oh, why didn't you do this?
Oh, I forgot.
I actually didn't don't remember.
All right.
Well, let's go.
Let's talk about Hannah for a second.
Well, that's how you got Hannah and why she is so special to you.
Well, I was hunting her.
Brooklyn would let me hunt her for a while and then we bought her.
Okay.
Do you liked her enough that you convinced your mom to buy her for you?
Yeah, pretty well.
I really like her.
What did you like about her?
She treated me good.
Okay.
So she's accurate.
Yeah.
Does she have a good mouth?
Yeah, I could call her pretty easy with her 27 different barks.
She does have 27 different barks.
Guys, there's one dog that I cannot for the life of me call.
If I took her to a hunt, I'd be screwed.
And that's Hannah.
I feel like she sounds different every time I unsnap her.
You got to learn it.
It kills me.
Okay, so with Hannah, you took her as a fourth grader at nine years old and you qualified
her for the tournament of champions.
Yep.
Did you put all five of her wins on her yourself?
Well, before we bought her, she had a couple of wins, I think.
But you put the five on her that year for TOC, right?
Yeah.
And was that a bunch of youth events?
Yes.
Okay.
So guys, that's one of my first memories of Colton is when I first met Nikki, the TOC
was rolling around and he had a dog qualified and I had went down with Basham the year before
and hunted a dog for Basham at the TOC.
And I was supposed to hunt another dog this year, but Nikki couldn't make it down to TOC.
And Colton had told me that he'd worked really hard to get this dog qualified for TOC.
So we went down there to Kentucky and Colton at nine years old hunted in the tournament
of champions and he drew a stiff cast.
He drew world champion legs with Zach Burden.
He drew Cody Maine with Trip, American power trip, and he drew one more dog that was a
nice hound.
And one of my favorite memories, Colton, do you remember my favorite memory about this
hunt?
Yeah.
All right.
Tell us what it is.
Because this cracks me up.
So we got to the woods, got our dogs on, collars on, and when we went to cut them, we snapped
them loose.
But hold on.
What did you cut them loose at?
A tree line.
A middle of a bean field.
And then what?
Well, when we cut them, I immediately struck my dog.
Guys when he says immediately, I mean the brass snap didn't have time to close yet.
And he yells Hannah struck.
Oh man.
And I looked at Cody Maine and I looked at Zach Burden and I'm like, oh boy, oh boy,
what are they going to do here?
And Hannah just kept it on going horse racing down there to the wood line and they never
said a word.
Them guys never said anything.
And part of me thinks, you know, they were just looking out for a young kid and I was
very grateful for it because he was nervous.
He was shaking in his boots.
You couldn't get him to stop shaking.
You know that and in the UKC realm, you know, it's harder.
I think you learned, we won't go into the specifics, but I think you learned a few different
ways to interpret the rules that world hunt that you went up there with me on.
And in the UKC realm, it's a little harder honestly to minus a dog for babbling because
the way the rules state is it's where a track is evident and then in the middle of a bean
field as long as she keeps it going for the biggest majority.
I mean, how do you say that that dog isn't running a can?
Right.
Yep.
So it's a little bit harder to minus some in the UKC, but gosh, that was just one of
my favorite memories is, is I kept telling him, I was like, you have to get her on the
paper and boy, did he put her on the paper.
So after that you went on and with Hannah, you made her a grand night champion.
Yep.
And then you took her to the duels, the duels at autumn Oaks and do you have any luck there?
Yeah, I won my cast.
The night before I went to a slam hunt.
I won that.
So I got 45 bucks.
Oh man, that's the first cash one where I got paid.
High time in there.
Yeah.
And then as in the Walker class, I got, I lost immediately.
Oh, you say you lost in the show.
So the way that the duels works at autumn Oaks guys, if you don't know, you have to
be a dual champions.
You have to be a champion on the bench and a champion in the woods and you draw out against
dogs of your breed.
So you drew out with three other Walkers and were you the only kid on that cast?
Yes.
And he went ahead and put it on them, huh?
And I was the night before I was also the only kid.
Oh, when you made your $45.
Yes.
What did you do with that $45?
Did you spend it wisely?
No, probably not.
Probably a couple of cheeseburgers.
Bought some ice cream because autumn Oaks has the best ice cream.
And probably a t-shirt from a vendor.
A t-shirt?
If you bought ice cream at autumn Oaks, you didn't buy a t-shirt, ice cream, cheeseburgers
now, because that ice cream ain't cheap.
It's like $7 for a full cone.
Like the big one.
Man, that's a lot.
So okay.
Speaking of which, what are you hunting at Duel's this year?
Nothing.
Well, Spitter Spot needs a handler.
Oh, does he?
Yes, he does.
Spots a champion on the bench?
Yes.
Oh boy.
He's a champion, Grand Knight.
Huh.
Well, what does that have to see if I'm recovered yet from the wedding?
The wedding's on Tuesday.
Wow, man.
You got two nights after that.
It's going to be a party.
Cole, are you excited for the wedding?
Yeah.
Like, how excited?
Like a 9.5 out of 10.
I'll take it.
Man, Colton, I wouldn't be.
I'd tie a rope around his neck, hook a freaking brick to it and throw him in the creek across
the river.
Cole, you're not that mean, are you?
Depends.
It does depend.
All right.
Let's get back to the dogs.
Okay.
So you've won all that with Hannah so far, but it keeps going.
So you then in 2022, you were the first kid to do what in UKC history?
I won both categories of the Spotlight Series, the show and hunt portion.
Okay.
And explain to the listeners how that works because that is not a one day event.
So there's like throughout the year, there's a race for the most cast wins and you get
points for each cast one and it's the same with the show.
You win the show, you get points and I won both of them.
So they're pretty neat.
Yeah.
Now, I mean, that was not just in Indiana.
That's all over the country, right?
Yes.
Do you remember how many states you went to compete in this?
Kentucky, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, I think there was.
Was West Virginia in there?
Yes.
Well, no, not West Virginia.
You don't know Illinois, Illinois.
Okay.
Yeah.
So you were the first kid to win both of them in the same year guys.
That was, that was pretty neat was, you know, he, he got awarded that and he got these two
big trophies, he's got two big jackets and it's one of my favorite pictures.
He's got his party in the back mullet flowing a nice button up shirt got Hannah all posed
up there.
I mean looking good.
Were you feeling good that day?
Yeah.
What else happened that day?
Cause something else happened on that same exact day where you got awarded all this stuff.
Uh, I won the bench show.
Where at?
The youth national, the 2022 youth nationals.
So there's like two different age range.
13 you're considered a senior and then 12 and under you're a junior.
So I think I was what 10.
Yeah.
I think you're 10.
Um, and I won mine, my half and then, uh, Katie would from lives in Peru.
She won the, uh, the senior.
Yeah.
So they awarded that spotlight series at youth nationals.
So right after he went out and won, got his rewards for his youth Nash or excuse me for
a spotlight series, he goes out on the bench and he wins the youth national championship
on the bench.
Oh, Peru swept it.
Peru had a clean sweep.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So then let's see here.
I'm going to try to read his handwriting.
Oh, what?
What did you win in 2023?
I think at youth nationals was it youth nationals?
It says Indiana grand champion male.
Oh, that was the Indiana state.
Yeah.
The, the, yeah.
The Indiana state youth.
Yes.
That's when that was.
I won the, uh, grand champion male.
So last year at the Indiana state youth, you won the grand champion male.
Yep.
All right.
The judge was Tiffany Adkins.
So you remember that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Lord help you.
And then I think in the same year you were the AKC reserve Indiana state champion.
Yeah.
That wasn't a youth hunt, right?
Um, no, I don't think so.
So reserve state champion for the AKC Indiana state.
Look out.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
So, so obviously, you know, Colton was brought up in this coon hunting world.
I think whenever you really look at people in our sport where it was handed down generation
to generation, I think, you know, we've talked about it up at autumn Oaks.
You know, the Elbrans are notorious for that.
You know, they had a picture of Nikki and Andy in strollers at autumn Oaks, you know,
and their dad is obviously very predominant in the UKC world and the coon hunting world.
And to be able to pass it down, like they have to Colton and Owen and all the girls,
you know, with all their wins, you know, I think it's pretty special to be able to take
a hobby and pass it on to your kids and for them to enjoy it like you do.
And I think it's pretty remarkable.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
So obviously this weekend or this last weekend, there were, there's three generations competing
across the country.
So we kind of divided and conquered and Curtis went down to North Carolina and him and Andy
went down there and they were showing in the saloon dog days and Peyton, which is Andy's
daughter, she was showing down there.
And so Curtis won reserve, Andy won the whole thing.
And then Peyton was the overall youth.
So they had a clean sweep down there at saluda coon dog days.
And then Owen hunted in his first youth event this last weekend and he got champion male
in the show and he won grand champion male.
And then he took all wheelie bar squealy bar out and he was the overall high scoring junior
division champion.
So we had three generations this weekend going out and competing, bringing home a little
bit of hardware.
Well, Colton's sitting back there shaking his head.
Yeah.
Cause Owen sitting in the kitchen, he just grinning ear to ear, like a possum sitting
up in the first fork of a tree.
He likes here.
He's got his stuff, but there's one more win that Colton just put a notch in his belt.
And I'm going to let him tell you about it because when I got the call about this, I
don't think his head fit in the door when he come home for the next week.
Thank you very much.
Mr. Mike seats.
Yeah.
Uh, I won the, uh, kids world in Brazil, Indiana.
So tell us a little bit about that.
What all did that entail?
Cause that was a full day event in order to secure that championship, that world championship.
Yeah.
So he had to make sure he could, he had to correct you there.
Oh, he's corrected me 10 times.
He's like, you only got fifth in the world.
I got first.
I'm a world champion.
You're not.
It's still going on.
It says it in the name kids world.
All right.
Well, tell us how that went.
Well, I did not win the hunt.
Um, start, hold on, start at the very beginning.
Cause you handled a dog that day that you'd never handled.
Yeah.
Uh, Reba, I think it's like something rocket Reba.
Um, she, uh, she's a water, she's a bencho champion, night champion, field champion,
water champion.
And how did you acquire Reba for the day?
How did you get hooked up with her?
Uh, cause Mike seats.
So she's an English email.
We know Mike's going to be toting around a good English dog.
Yeah.
So let's start with the first event of the day.
What was it?
As the bencho I got, uh, with Reba, I went in, I got champion female, a show, I think.
Um, are you struggling to remember?
Yes.
Okay.
So you, you, you won your class in the bench.
Yeah.
Uh, it was the water race, which Reba was the only dog that swam.
So you won the water race.
Yeah.
So win this world championship.
It was an accumulation of points.
Correct.
It was an all around event.
So you needed a dog that could do all the events.
Yes.
Okay.
Let's go on to the field trial.
What happened there?
Well, I was the only dog in my, uh, I was the only champion dog.
I, I didn't get a treat.
I got lined, so I technically won, but then, um, the next round with all the dogs that
won their heat raced, uh, Reba got second one, I think.
Then she ran into the pond cause it was scorching hot.
I heard it got dangerously hot that day.
Yeah.
One dog went into shock and laid in the pond.
Yeah, that was a bad deal.
True.
It was like, it was like 92 degrees or something that day in the middle of the day in the sun.
Nikki was texting me saying, God, these dogs are just, they're getting so hot.
Okay.
So then you went to your, the night hunt and you didn't have any luck there.
No, she, uh, so I, we cut the dogs.
Um, both dogs got struck and treated.
Then Reba was struck, she wasn't struck, but I could hear, but she was 500 and a, um, and
a holler and the judge couldn't hear.
So they recut their dogs.
Then they got one got struck and struck and treated.
Then the other one got, was struck.
So, but they both had plus on their first trees.
Um, and the second, the dog that got treated again was circled.
Then the dog that was, the dog that was, uh, just struck in, never got treated.
Uh, Reba, we finally got to a field to where the judge can hear and then I struck her in.
Then we walked closer to her.
Then I struck my dog.
I mean, treated my dog.
Then we went to her and she left the tree.
Oh no.
No, no, no.
Terrible news.
But at the end of the day, you would accrued enough points to win the kids world championship.
Yeah.
Cause you got one point just to enter.
Okay.
So you got a point to enter and then you got a point for all your wins in the show and
in the water race and in the field trial.
All right.
Well, there was a train contest, but you didn't get any points.
Okay.
Well, how'd you do in the train contest?
Well, I didn't do it.
Oh, you just didn't do it.
No.
Okay.
I wasn't there for that hunt.
That was one hunt that I didn't get to go to.
What was I doing that night?
You're at a cattle show.
Oh, that's right.
I went up to a cattle show with Curtis that day up in Michigan.
We had to divide and conquer.
I forgot about that.
You didn't conquer though.
Well, I mean, you just divided.
There was nothing for Kurt and I to conquer.
We were just there observing.
Oh, I got you.
Okay.
So are there, is there any other than being a world champion and a state champion and qualify
for the TOC is what is next?
What's the next thing that you want to put a notch in your belt?
I want to qualify for TOC TOC again and win that.
Okay.
I want to win all of it.
All right.
Well, let's think like short term here.
Like what is the hunt that is going to be tomorrow when this comes out?
The Indiana State Youth.
Okay.
And let's, let's talk about that for a minute.
So what dog are you going to be competing with in the Indiana State Youth?
Four different dogs.
Okay.
Four different dogs.
So they're doing the, now guys, they're doing the Indiana State Youth as a round robin event.
Okay.
Now this round robin event is not based upon the dog.
It is based upon the handler.
So you can use a different dog for every event if you so choose.
So at 2 PM on Saturday, July 13th at the Miami County Fairgrounds in Peru, Indiana, we are
going to be having the bench show 2 PM.
At 4 PM we're going to be having the water race.
At 6 PM will be the training contest and at 9 PM will be the night hunt.
So we have four different events that you can accumulate points in and Colton is telling
us he's going to be using four different dogs.
Break it down for us, Colt.
Who you got?
Well, the bench show.
I'm hunting wallbash river lost highway.
Meaning showing.
What did I say?
Hunting.
Oh, showing wallbash river lost highway and wipe out bull wheels.
Okay.
So you're showing a national champion at the Indiana State Youth.
Do you think that's fair?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, whatever.
Breaking out the big guns, I guess.
And then you're showing a registered dog wheels.
Yeah.
Why are you laughing?
Because he's ugly.
What?
He just called my dog ugly.
Bash him.
Have you seen him?
I mean, hey, you told him when you asked his opinion of me at the very first time, you
said, keep it real.
You said, keep it real and don't hold back.
So he's only keeping it real and not holding back.
Yeah.
I guess.
Goodness.
I should have, I should have foreshadowed what was going to happen.
He just called my dog ugly.
Hey, I'll just have you know.
He showed against five other dogs this weekend with Owen Handlin and he won.
How does that make you feel Colt?
Makes me feel like I'm a win.
All right.
Maybe other people don't think he's ugly.
Okay.
All right.
So what about the water race?
Who are you handling in the water race?
I don't know if I'm handling in the water race.
I might be.
Oh yeah.
Reba.
How can you forget the dog that has got you so far?
Well I was thinking of different dogs.
Okay.
So you're handling Reba in the water race.
Yep.
Team CNR.
Go ahead and tell the listeners about team CNR because I've about had enough of this
team CNR stuff.
Team Colton and Reba.
I mean, do you have any special plans for team CNR?
Yeah.
We're going to make shirts and I'm going to give you one.
You're going to give me one?
No, no, no.
You're going to wear it.
Hey Colton, you got to make him buy one.
Yeah.
And if you don't, I'm taking your credit card.
Oh boy.
Ooh.
Man.
Yeah.
He told me after he won.
I'll buy it for you.
He told me after he won the other day at Redbone Days, he said, Bryce, we won.
We're getting shirts made.
All right.
So the training contest, who are you going to put in that?
Sadie won a John.
What's his last name, Bryce?
Old John, the Redbone man.
John, his dog's name is Sadie.
Gosh, it's slipping my brain too.
He lives right up here next to us.
John, I'm sorry if you're listening to this.
It's – does it have an S?
I'm sorry.
It's John Strout?
No.
That's not it.
No.
Oh well.
Move on.
All right.
What about the night hunt?
Wheels.
Hunting old wheels, huh?
Do you think you have a chance in the night hunt?
Oh yeah.
He's on a win streak.
He is on a win streak.
He's looking our area.
You hunted him.
I hunted him.
Last time I hunted him, we won.
Last time you hunted him, you won.
Owen just –
Yup.
Owen just won two –
You know what happens if you lose, don't you Colton?
Yup.
It's Bryce's fault.
It's always my fault if something goes away.
Yup.
Well, I mean somebody's got to keep the dog hunted up, you know.
And Colton's going into this planning on you doing the hard work, you know, and keeping
this dog hunted up.
You know, he says he's smart.
He's back here pointing at his head.
He says he's smart by having you do all the hard work.
I guess.
Bryce just drives me to the woods.
It's really just me.
I mean –
Yup.
This kid, he's a fibber.
All right.
Striking and trailing my dog.
All right.
Well, so he's going to be hunting for – or utilizing four different hounds in the Indiana
State Youth this weekend, guys.
We hope that every one of you listening who has a youth will come out to the Indiana State
Youth.
We're giving away $2,000 cash money.
Yup.
Simper Doggins putting up $500 of that.
Yes, sir.
Let's go over – go over your sponsors.
Let's give them a good shout out.
Yeah.
Simper Doggins is going to be putting up $500.
Colt, will you help hold that up for me so I can see that?
Sorry, guys.
I've got to have Colt hold this up for me so I can see all of our sponsors.
We have so many of them.
Okay.
Simper Doggins putting up $500 cash money.
Froggy Bottom Outdoors.
They've donated $500 in prizes.
We've got Bob O'Neill and his wife, guys.
They have been a huge contributor to this hunt.
Bob O'Neill and his wife are putting up $1,500 cash for this event.
So the way this is going to work, you're going to have $500 to your bench show winner,
$500 to your night hunt winner, $500 to your overall round robin winner, and there's going
to be one more category where there's going to be $500 given away, and I'm not giving
that out yet.
So you're going to have to show up and see what that's going to be.
Next on the list, we have Next Level Superior Premium Pet Food.
They are donating 10 bags of dog feed to this hunt.
JC Call, Scott Christensen, he just sent me a box of squallers today.
They're coming.
Along with him and Alan Holden.
Alan helped us out with those squallers as well.
Real quick, real quick, real quick.
Let's take a second.
Everybody say a prayer for Alan Holden.
I know you just brought him up and not to try to bring a down moment, but it just struck
in my head that he's in the hospital and needed our prayers.
He had, I believe he had an appendix bust on him and they had to do emergency surgery.
So I know everybody's going to be listening to this in two days.
Just going to say a quick prayer for Alan Holding and his family in hopes that he will
get better and get back with us and get to seeing him in some of these hunts.
Yeah, absolutely.
Big Al, he's a big supporter of the youth events.
So Raptor E, Family Farmstead, Wabash River Coon Hounds.
That's Nikki and I.
Nikki has put in a ton of work and a ton of effort into this.
I can't say that I've done nearly as much as she has, but guys, she loves these youth
and she loves these youth events and seeing this stuff continue on in the tradition.
So Nikki has poured her heart and soul into this.
I can't say thank you to her enough.
We got Team Money, Kevin Cable, Angie Cable.
They have helped out a ton.
They've donated some stuff to us.
Lindsay Morrow, she chipped in for the food for the kids.
Thank you, Lindsay.
Tippi River Hunting Supply, they donated a few things.
The Cunda family, Kim and Doug Cunda, they've also donated as well as Stone Nickel Coon
Hounds.
So I want to say a big thank you to all of our sponsors.
We could not put on this hunt without them.
There's a lot that's going on.
So I'm very excited about this event that we have coming up.
Like I said, when you guys hear this, that event will be tomorrow, July 13th up in Peru,
Indiana.
So I know there's another big youth event going on out there that day.
Pro Sports putting on their youth event.
I've been seeing what Scott Engel, Greg Maynard, those guys have been sharing.
So they're going to be putting on a great event as well in Ohio.
But we really hope that anybody who is local here to Indiana or wants to travel, get some
UKC wins on their dogs.
It is a UKC licensed event.
So there will be wins going to all your dogs and all of the events.
We hope you guys can join us in Peru, Indiana for the Indiana State Youth Hunt.
Colt, are you excited?
Yeah.
Basham?
I mean, I'm excited for you guys.
I've got to work.
I know.
I wish you were coming up.
I wish you were bringing the champ.
I know.
I took a, I just couldn't.
Up here at Toyota, they're having a seven day shutdown.
And so I took a short call up here for a week.
So I'll be working.
All right.
Well, Colt, is there?
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
I was just going to ask Colt, if there's anything else we forgot, we need to cut for.
I don't know.
What does it say?
I went through the list.
Well, I, you know, I'm going to go ahead and ask Colt.
Well, a big shout out to Colton and everything that he's done in his career so far in the
coon hunting world.
Big shout out to Curtis and Nicky and to getting the kids into hunting.
I think it's the biggest thing is just nowadays there's just not an exposure for the youth.
And so whenever I was thinking about what our next podcast would be, I thought it would
be very telling, very, it would go right along with the Indiana State Youth Hunt to go ahead
and have a podcast, do a youth shout out.
That's why we got Colton on here.
You know, this right here and solidifying our future is by getting the youth involved
and making it bigger and better for them, figuring out ways to get them involved and
get them excited about a hobby, a tradition, a lifestyle that we all love.
Absolutely.
I couldn't agree more.
You know, I love taking these boys out, you know, Owen has started to start hunting with
me a little bit more again.
Wyatt, he's been starting to hunt with me a little bit more.
You know, he went through a spell there where he didn't want to be in the woods, but he's
been starting out getting out with them dogs and to have all three of these boys out there
with me in the woods.
I, it's a great feeling.
So I love it.
I love it.
Something that we can do as a family.
She goes with me all the time and you know, I just look forward to watching these boys.
She's usually sleeping though.
Yeah.
She likes to sleep in the back seat of the truck when we go, but she's out there.
It's a family event.
You know, it's something we can all do.
We're getting ready to load up and head to Iowa in a couple of weeks.
Youth Nationals is up there in Iowa.
So it'll be taken.
I think Colton and Owen, is that right?
Yep.
Okay.
When is that?
Not this weekend with the Indiana State youth, but next weekend.
So it's next weekend.
Yep.
That's, that's up in Iowa.
So we're going to be making the seven hour trip up there to Iowa, keep these kids in
the woods and see if we can't do a little good up there at Youth Nationals.
Sounds good.
Big shout out to our sponsors, Froggy Bottom Outdoors and Never Satisfied Off-Road.
Joey Goforth.
Thank you for allowing us to do what we do.
Absolutely.
Hey, I got a story before we leave.
I'm going to see if Colt wants to tell it or if he wants me to tell it.
Speaking of our sponsors and Froggy Bottom Outdoors.
It's one of my favorite memories of hunting with Colton is with one of our sponsors, Shane
Smith.
Oh my gosh.
Are you going to tell this story Colt or do I need to tell the story?
Because this is a podcast that, you know, maybe this isn't so much for the listeners,
but this is, you know, how Basham and I talked about preserving memories and one day that
we'll be able to look back at and listen.
And this is a story that I want to be recorded.
So I'll give you the option.
Either you can tell the story or I can tell the story.
You can tell them.
Okay.
Here we go.
Let's get this up.
So we are out hunting with Shane Smith.
It's me, Nikki, Shane and Colton on a cold, ballistory winter night.
We are, we're over at one of Shane's woods and we drove the Ranger over to Shane's
house or from Shane's house to the woods.
And if anybody has ever went hunting with Colton before, you will know that he is not
the most graceful in the woods.
It's like he's walking around with two left feet.
He likes to fall down and he spends a lot of time looking for earthworms while he's
down there.
He's laughing cause he knows it's true.
The kid spends more time on the ground than he does on his feet.
So we had just got done shining a tree and we're walking back to the Ranger and it is
an open field.
There's no obstructions in our way.
They're corn stalks.
This was a cut corn field.
There was about, I don't know, a foot of corn stubble left and there happened to be some
water in the corn field.
Yeah.
Six feet.
Well, what Colton is exaggerating about is it was only six inches of water and Colton
had managed to somehow instead of walking through the rows of corn, he got tripped up
on some corn stalks and he went face first into this puddle of water.
And I say puddle, it was probably a 50 by 50 area.
And then he tried to stand up and bash him.
Would you know it?
It happened again.
He went right back down and it's freezing cold.
There's ice on the ground.
And he stands up a third time and he slips and he falls again.
This kid looked like a fish out of water drowning in six inches of water in the middle of a
corn field.
The third time when I fell, I got a corn stalk to the chest.
He took a corn stalk to the chest.
So then he's crying.
He's cold.
He's wet.
And we're in Shane's ranger.
So he had, I mean, I can say it's cold, cold and he's soaking wet head to toe.
The poor kid, he's he toughs it out all the way back to Shane's house.
The hunt was over for the night.
Didn't have nothing home to ride in.
So luckily I had a towel in the dog box.
This kid had to strip down, he wrote home and nothing but a towel.
Cause he couldn't stand on his two feet in the middle of a corn field.
I love it.
So I always get a kick out of that.
Me and Shane laugh about that quite regularly.
So it's definitely a good way to end this podcast in the fact of just sharing those
memories and putting them out there and keeping them alive and Colton, we will always know
you as butter feet.
Yep.
Old butter feet.
They also call me butter feet.
When we're at restaurants, they also call me butter fingers.
You know, he's butter fingers too.
Your butter something.
We're just going to call you butter.
Little, little butter ball.
We're just going to call you butter.
That's his new nickname, butter.
All right guys.
Well for me, Basham and old butter ball, we appreciate you listening to the Sipper Dog
and podcast.
Guys, I'm good.
Basham, you good?
Until next time guys, don't trim all butter ball.
You good?
Yeah.
All right guys, we're going to sign off here.
We'll catch you at the next dog in Tuesday.
See ya.
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