Appalachian Story of Learning how to Hunt growing up in the mountains.
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- Growing up the mountains of Appalachia and learning how to Hunt and appreciate the wildlife. This is a way of life in Appalachia. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts
Enjoyed this one Donnie! I come from a family of hunters and am married to one now. My husband was about 5 years old the first time his daddy took him hunting. He's not a trophy hunter, but more of a put the food on the table hunter 🙂I love those old shells you find. I agree with you hunters are among the best conservationists.
Thank you my friend. Thanks so much for the comment.
I love the music your family makes.
Thank you both for the work you do to preserve and share the Appalachian culture, history and knowledge.
My paw paw used to take me squirrel hunting on them foggy mornings he knew were every hickory, beech tree in the mountain was. In the spring we would snag sucker fish out of the war reek and mom a mamaw would can them ...then paw paw would put the hoop nets in the river and catch catfish. He always took fish to the widow women of the community or the people who needed a little bit extra to get by. He was a good man I miss him every day.🙏
I sure you muss him my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Your papaw and mine sounds alike. He grew up in horse lick in Jackson county.
This reminds me of a couple things my grandma use to say. When it came to food she'd say "Eat all you can, and can all you can't". And if she ever heard anyone complaining about something being old or worn she'd say "Use it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without". I miss you grandma.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Great advice. My girlfriend. Complains about my cooking. Hurts me a little bit.
But I noticed she eats it. Ha Ha.
Your Grandma sounds like she was a great lady. Gotta admire that kind of attitude - even if you have the money.
I'll add - I'm gonna remember her sayings - makes me feel smart.
This is how we learned to shoot and handle a gun safety by squirrel hunting. So that means a country boy can survive. Super job Donnie 👍👍👍
Thank you my friend. That's exactly right.
I'm going squirrel hunting the 17th hand full of us get together for opener every year generally spend 3 days together
@@treerat6959 We use to do that years ago every labor day weekend. Thanks for sharing my friend.
A lot of people think you just go to the store for food I teaching my grandchildren to fish and hunt now they need to no these things keep them videos coming
@@johnfugate3432 And preserve what they catch,kill,grow 👍
I have skinned many squirrels and rabbits to eat because of what my grandpa taught me/ I’m 70 years old now but I still know how to hunt them and cook if I need them
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I learned from my dad who learned from his. I've got several kids that are just old enough to get out with me and am passing it along. We garden, fish and raise hogs. We don't always have the money to get what we want but we never go hungry.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Money isnt everything. I just want enough for my needs. And my needs are simple.
All I want is enough to eat and clothes on my back. And some kind of roof over my head.
Oh and a reliable. Car or truck. To get around in. And Gods blessing.
Dont really need a TV. Nutthin but trash on TV. Unless you watch Andy Griffith show. Or Carol Burnette. Etc back when TV was. Clean. Oh and Hee Haw.
I grew up in East Tennessee, my dad taught
my brothers and me to hunt, been doing it my entire life, nearly 59 years. Taught my son, now he's 24. We hunt deer , turkey , small game. He'll teach his kids. Pass it down. Wild, natural meat, super healthy.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Grandpa told me he used to put opossums up,and feed them corn for a few weeks before they eat them.He grew and hunted about everything they eat when he was a young boy. His Dad died when he was about 11 years old,wasn't much time for playing, had to take care of his family. Momma and four younger sisters. Thanks Donnie for stirring the Memories 🙂.
Your so very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I knew old timers did the same with ground hog.
Makes it taste better and it fattens em up puts more meat on the table without having to take more than ya really need.
Hey, Donnie! A few comments.
1. I love that you don't identify the Southern Appalachians only with East Tennessee, but as a larger 5-state region.
2. My daddy was the oldest boy of 11 children in Southern West Virginia. His daddy was a farmer, so my grandmother taught Daddy how to shoot and he usually put meat on the table for the family.
3. I remember growing up in West Virginia during the 1950s and 60s. It was still unusual to see deer because they had been hunted for food so heavily during the Depression and WW2. Now when I go back to visit family, it seems like I have to dodge them on the road!
Thanks again for these great videos!
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
You’re exactly right.. I live in north west Georgia ..and I’ve hit 2 deer already… one was a albino solid white .. first one I’ve ever seen in real life… but I know exactly what you’re saying…
Same here Stephen , I was born in 1951 in hill country of Middle Tennessee and if you saw a deer it was like seeing a flying saucer. All we had to keep out of the garden was the cows now I have to build an 8 ft bob wire fence to keep the deer from eating everything.
Oh how the deer are plentiful now days. Love it
@@KarstRats yeah and so are my tomatoes with 8 feet fence . BTW I leave all persimmon trees and acorn bearing oaks , pears , apples and such for deer
On my 6th birthday I got a used 22 rifle for Christmas, one of the best memories ever. That was 59 years ago. I would be afraid to guess how many squirrels and rabbits that little rifle took. They were all ate except the ones that had wolves in them. I still have that little rifle.
I know the feeling my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Oh man does that bring back some good memories. My dad hunted and fished and I was a tomboy and I loved to go with him and he taught me how to hunt and fish. Like you said he started me out huntin' squirrels. I got my first shot gun a single shot 20 gauge when I was 16. Then he took me deer hunting with him. Country folks can survive!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
You shot squirrels with a 20ga?? Apparently he didn't like skinning them with a knife.
@@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 😅
I still have people in Tennessee that hunt to fill their freezer every year. Deer and turkey!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
yes we do. I don't trophy hunt, I freezer hunt. saves 1000s on meat costs over winter,
@@SmEiF- To many people don't know how to hunt and live off the land anymore, and that's just sad. My family had to, and I tell you, ain't nothing better than cooking on a wood cook stove! Best food I've ever ate!!!🙂
@@hopebhamby3162 couldn't agree more, I live on a nice little 30 acre hollow on the side of a mountain. last piece of land that size in private hands in my city, got a nice little deer population, lucky enough my neighbors feed em and I harvest them lol, works out fantastic, fat does and bucks, once a buck hits a certain age we take em out to allow the next ine to move in and reproduce and keep the line inbred free as much as possible, went from a 4 to 6 deer group to now last count on a big group of em together at once was 26 and no site of the buck that was just females and yearlings during a feeding restock time of the week from one of my neighbors food spots, they know I hunt them and take care to keep em repopulate more then I take. we got black bear and elk pass thru now also. cougar once well 2 of em together. then about 12 coyotes which I'm about to start trapping and take en out the picture, cant have em harassing my baby deer, lost one yearning to them I luckily but unluckily caught them dragging it off mama deers took 2 coyotes out and I found the yearling on tge brink of death 100% gonna die, ended it faster for the poor little dude and then salvaged as much as I could, ya hate that it happens but that yearling meat is the best way to eat deer meat if it was not so brutal to harvest basically baby deer its the best, it doesn't have the over power game taste and its as tender as most beef cuts, the tenderloin is something that I imagine God's eat on the regular, I felt had for little deer dude but he was absolutely the most tasty shit ever. had another incident where one got shot by a friend I let hunt, he shot threw a doe took it out and took out a baby deer right behind him he didn't see, one shot 2 kills, I heard it went to em seen 2 deer and was in disbelief, also ate it and it was better then yearling but again kinda mean if ya do it for no reason but the meat. if its a happy accident then by all means enjoy those guilt ridden succulent loins of the gods. and give thanks to the poor lil dudes.
@@SmEiF- I unfortunately don't live out in the country anymore, sounds like a nice place you got, but I have family that have a little extra sometimes, and I'm sure glad to get it! 🙂 I love a good deer burger! Have room for a garden though! Didn't get moved in time to put one in this year, but have enough canned food to last for awhile!
This is how my ancestors did. I was raised kinda like this too. I used to help dad hunt squirrel when I was just 3. My job was to scare them out and chase to where he was hid then he would jump out and shoot them. We would squirrel hunt early. Nothin better than fried squirrel brains and eggs for breakfast, then later mom would fry up squirrel for dinner and make gravy and biscuits. Sometimes dad would make Brunswick stew he called it. Said it was supposed to have chicken and greasy bacon but he used squirrel. Man it was good. He made turtle soup the same way.
I still garden and can every year but I need to get back to hunting. The stuff in the store costs too much. I worked in a butcher shop for years and none of that stuff is half as good as deer or rabbit or squirrel.
In highschool my math teacher would pay us to shoot ground hogs from his field and let us keep em! I don't think he ever knew what we wanted em for.
I'm glad I learned what skills I could. I wish I knew more, but all the old people are dying so we just have to figure out how to take care of this land like they did, and the land will take care of us.
Great story. Thanks for sharing my friend.
OOH Mr. Laws, nothing like a good ole pot of butter or pinto beans with onions, neckbones or ham hocks, fired taters (in bacon grease of course) and onions and a big ole pan of corn bread! Now that my friend is some good eating. I grew up on that kind of suppers and us kids loved it. I remember long ago, my poor Grandma was in a rest home, she had dementia real bad. I would ask her how she was and what she did today and she would say " Well, I had to get up real early and fire up the wood stove so I could make those girls some biscuits for breakfast." They were dirt poor and my momma's side of the family grew up in the foothills of southern Ohio. My momma and aunts remembered that real well. Poor Grandma, wish I had taken the time to learn from her before she passed. Once again, Thank you for the memories. I really enjoy your channel.
You are making me hungry friend. Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing.
Home biscuits and gravy
The deer were all shot out during the depression
@@bobbyarnette1911 Just about, Along with a lot of other animals to.
Snapping turtle soup is really good too
Enjoyed this Donnie! Yes sir that’s the way we lived in SC as well. My dad & grandpa taught me and my brother how to hunt, fish & grow a garden when we were very young. We still hunt, fish and grow our own food and raising our own animals for food. Thanks for sharing, we love to visit Tennessee we are actually gonna be up there next week on vacation!! GOD Bless!!!! 🙏🏻😇👍🏻☀️
Thanks 👍 my friend. Thanks for sharing your story.
Welcome! Hope you have a blessed journey.🙏🏻🕊🌲
Once again, sir, you have documented a history about which so few know. I always watch your videos with deep respect for what you are doing and I learn something new every single time. Thank you for your work!
Your are so welcome my friend.
This story is exactly the way I was brought up. My mother worked all summer canning and preparing for the upcoming winter. I'm so thankful for the lessons she taught me and for all my childhood memories. Thank you, Donnie, for keeping these precious memories alive, for a little while I get to go back in time where life was simple and I can be a child once again.
God 🙏 🙏 🙏 bless.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Dearest Donnie, The Mountains are Calling, and I must go....I am a Yank from Boston living in Ireland. I will tell you, the only accent I can even stand is Irish or Southern. My soul came here for a reason. Folks do not understand, and the stereotypes grow old real fast. Our "People" had it right all along, and folks today unfortunately, are going to find this out the hard way. Thanks, D, a gem.💚
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Pamela, do people hunt with shotguns in Ireland? Just wondering.
@@1boortzfan You cannot own guns here. Farmers do. Yes, rifles/shotguns.
@@1boortzfan I don't think they are allowed to own any.
I ain't from the mountains but farther south. But we learned the same way from grandads and dads and currently trying to pass on to my kids. Great videos glad to hear people passing on how it really was.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Im from the deep south thats how we lived daddy and my grandpaws taught us how to hunt and fish at an early age,we were taught to farm how to smoke meat for the winter just pure country people,im passing it down now to my kids and grandkids
I learned how to keep house and cook from my Grandmother’s and Mother but my food still doesn’t taste as good as their cooking. There was just something special about sitting down at Grandmother’s table and her dishing up all her good food for you to eat. Those were the best times. Grandmother always had green beans cooked in the summer time and soup beans on the winter time. There was always a pot on the stove all day long. She also always had a pan of cornbread on the table. There was always something to eat at Grandmothers. Now that my Grandmother’s have passed on my Mom takes care of all of us still. We know that anytime we want to eat we can go to Mom’s house. I’m so thankful to have lived in Southeastern Kentucky all my life.
I would have liked to taste it my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Then you're not using enough lard.
I respect greatly the way you present this way of life, relationships with the land and animals, guns and hunting. I grew up at the end of this era,and have watched the distorted perspective presented by popular culture of this way of life. Thanks for the thought and effort that went into this video.
Your so very welcome friend. Thanks for the comment.
Here in East Texas it’s the same thing! Lots of country here has been logged out and the landscape has changed a lot but we still are blessed to hunt and fish and gather our groceries of the land that Gods blessed us with. I really enjoyed the historic pictures and your stories! God bless
Thank you friend.
Got my first rifle at 12 years old . Went out by myself at 13 hunting. Kill some game grind it home and clean it and mom would cook it..
Good eating I bet. Thanks for sharing my friend.
It was a little flatter up here in Wisconsin, but growing in the late 40s and early 50s, we had the same lifestyle. Mostly German and Scandinavian families. Self sufficient family farms, went hunting and fishing with my old bachelor Uncles. We had a lot Venison in our area. Those were the best days.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Same here I'm a badger boy myself, my dad wasn't a big hunter but taught me the fundamentals and I shot up being a very good woodsman learning things here and there from old timers. Some things I learned wasn't sporting but it put food on the table and in the freezer. I would take game to an older gent he sure loved squirrel and rabbits he would regularly pay me a dollar or two to buy shells with he said but hell a box of 22lr at that time was selling for 39cents for 50 rounds. I ran snares in the fall and winter for rabbit's . I fished lot's in the summer and a bit in the winter to replenish more fish. Garden was canned, pickled or ate fresh we drank water seldom having soda or cool aid.
@@treerat6959 wow. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, I've always felt that the gun that won the west was the shotgun. Seeing all the old shotgun hulls you find only seems to reinforce that. My grandmother lived in town in WV and was a widow but she had people that would see after her bringing her squirrels when they were in season. To me there was nothing any better than a plate of those biscuits and sweet squirrel gravy that she used to make.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for this. It brings back a lot of memories of hunting with my Dad. Fried rabbit, biscuits and gravy for breakfast were often on the menu.
Your welcome friend.
Donnie have you ever done a video on gensang? I bought my first guitar digging one summer and fall.
Not just yet my friend. Good ideal.
When I was a teenager we would dig ginseng and yellow root . We would sell it and take some of the money and buy our hunting license and our shells to get us though hunting season. Good times.
Got my first gun when I was sixteen and 51 years later I still have it. I loved it that much and have added many more to my collection. I spent every available day when I was young hunting with my friends or alone in my WV mountain home woods. Most of my best memories are those days. My farther always told me never take a life without stopping for a moment and thinking about what you have done. He said that animal like you only had one life and you just took it. He also told me never kill anything for fun eat what you kill or let it go. Country life is the best I wouldn't want to live any other way.
Well said. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Good morning Tennessee! ☀️
Good morning!
All of your videos are always so good. This one is one of the best you've done. The pictures brought back a lot of precious memories for me. Awesome presentation my friend. 🤗💕
Your welcome my friend.
Grew up in Ohio family owned land in West Virginia used to go down there couple times a year come back with a couple of deer squirrel turkey great memories thank you for sharing I love these videos
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Loved it. My grandfather instilled in me the love of hunting from the time I could walk. Taught me all about the critters we hunted, the woods ,how to track and so forth. I was proud to pass that on to my children and others. Thank you, brother Laws. Your videos are very much appreciated.
Your so very welcome.
I was lucky enough to grow up being raised by my grandmother in the Ohio Valley. She was one of 13 children, 4 girls and 9 boys. All hearty farmers, a lot living well into their late 90s. She and my great aunts and uncles told me so many wonderful stories of my ancestors. I miss them everyday and the simpler ways of life.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I think all the rural people of America are very similar.
Some of these things that were a way a life are turning into a lost art. Thanks for keeping this history alive.
Your very welcome.
My grandfather taught me how to hunt Black and Tan hounds….he has been hunting them for 60 year he started when he was 10
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another awesome video, I grew up the same way and loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it.
This fascinates me so much, I am from Puerto Rico which is an island in the caribbean and is also associated with the U.S. I am a proud born and raised Jibaro, which is a Puerto Rican hillbilly. Jibaros are countrysiders specifically from the hillside mountain regions who are poor self subsistence farmers that plow the land in a traditional way in order to feed their families. And I got to say, the Appalachian hill folk are so similar to us Jibaros. In Appalachia, traditionally the Mules are used to plow land, in Puerto Rico the cattle are the ones used to plow. Back in the day, me and my dad would hunt in the forested hills of Gurabo which is a mountain town in Puerto Rico, we'd hunt green iguanas and feral pigs in order to bring food to our families aside from our own grown crops.
Our grandparents telling us old myths, cryptids and folklore story tales when we were kids. We even have our own historically traditional moonshine called "Pitorro" which is also illegal and instead of it being whiskey it is Rum made straight out of our stills, straight out of our grown sugar cane. As well as our Mountain music called "Musica Jibara". The Appalachian hillbilly culture is so beautiful with its roots and traditions which remind me so much of my Puerto rican Jibaro roots as well. I believe both are amazing in their own unique ways and In all honesty I believe being a Hillbilly is not something to hide but something to embrace and be proud of.
I love your videos man, keep it up!🙏🏽
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
I recently discovered your videos and I’m so glad I did! I grew up in the border country, mom’s side is Unicoi county Tn., and dad’s is Mitchell county Nc. I’m so glad these stories are being preserved like this, I feel like I’m sitting on the porch or by the wood stove with a neighbor or family member watching your videos. My grandmother has a little story about her in a book titled Fetch it Rusty. It’s about her getting a grouse with a .22 lr when the men folk missed with shotguns!
Welcome aboard my friend. Please enjoy the channel and thanks so much for your story.
My Dad loved to hunt and he taught me. And I have an Uncle that was with me when I shot my first big Red Squirrel aka Fox Squirrel. Stevens 311 double barrel 20 gauge.
Wow. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Love the video ! You’re right , hunters are conservationists ! Keep game healthy !
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hunting provided people with their food for centuries, and seems to be an art being lost. Very sad!💖
It is sad. Thanks for sharing my friend.
The deer were disseminated to the point of extinction, as they were hunted year round. The deer had to be reintroduced from other states to get them started again. Just about all the animals were drastically reduced or killed.
@@dukeman7595 Your telling the truth my friend.
Squirrel hunting with my granddad, I remember carrying three or four squirrels by the tails. I must have been little, because they were all I could carry. My grandmother would make squirrel and dumplings for supper and invite the neighbors and family. Loved them all so much.
Sweet. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Dumplings sound good never had em that way my grandad cut my knuckle good pulling hide off both pulling he cut down the back and pulled
@@robertayoder2063 Sorry to hear that my friend. Thanks for sharing.
@@donnielaws7020 o no big deal not make me quit hunting skinning ect he had knife in hand as we both were pulling
I learned from my dad. He'd take us kids up to the mountain to target shoot. I got my first 22 rifle at age 8; from my dad. Then, he gave me a 12 gauge double barrel shotgun when I was 10! (It's propped up in the corner next to my bed😏) Then, I inherited my Grandfather's antique take down model 300 Savage when I was 12, and he outright gave it to me way before he kicked the can! (Also propped up behind the door) 😂💖
These make really good bedtime stories! So nice and relaxing. Keep 'em coming!
Blessings,
Washington State 🌲🙏🇺🇸
Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.
300 Savage is a good round
My mom and dad couldn't understand my love of nature and the animals, or my instinctive need to hunt and fish. They were from a different generation. My Gramma Novinger understood me. God bless her soul! I love her, miss her and pray for her about every day.
WOW Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. I know what you mean. God bless you.
Man that made me so hungry I can remember when my mom used to fry them squirrels and make gravy out of squirrels we'd have graving biscuits From it Friday squirrel or rabbit
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Heartwarming. Grandma was born in Mtn. City Tenn. 1916.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
WOW that is really saying something no government help no other federal help that's awesome
Thanks for sharing my friend.
This is like a time capsule of how I grew up here in Kentucky..thank you so much for the stories and memories Sir
Glad you enjoyed it.
Donnie. I would just like you to know I enjoy watching your videos so much sometimes they almost bring a tear to my eyes.
Half the population of the US forgets where we came from and our heritage.
I was born in a small town upstate NY. When I was a young boy, I hunted, fished, trapped and made maple syrup.
I also went to school. Lol
I wish you well.......
Thank you so much my friend. Most look down on us country people. Thanks for sharing.
Rural people have very similar lifestyles and values, across America.
I think of my grandma when I watch these.
Thank you for your time.
Your welcome friend.
Great video. The picture of the boy with his gun over his shoulder makes me think of my Sears & Roebuck 20 ga. I used to hunt with. Just so folks know, squirrels make the best gravy for biscuits in the world. You take my Mama's fried squirrels and gravy and my "aint" Nez's buiscuits, and you have a meal to rival Thanksgiving.
I bet that taste good my friend. Thanks for sharing.
My daddy started my brother and I squirrel hunting when I was about 9 years old. We had to kill the rabbits out of the garden. Man that was good eating.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
It was the way of life that had to be ☺️. There should be no dislike of the ways of life back in those days 👍. Even though I want born until the 60's my parents made sure to let us try skunk, squirrel, raccoon and several other wolf meats, to know what they tasted like. I don't remember those days but I'm sure it was good food 😃. Thank you for another wonderful story of the days of old Donnie 🤗
Your welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing your story.
I'm pretty sure if you ate skunk you would remember it.
You just got another sub from Ky.💯🇺🇸👍😀
Welcome my friend. Enjoy the channel.
This video goes good with morning coffee
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Well 2 people disliked this one but I can’t figure out why . I took out an old paper shell the other day and it was Old Winchester with the paper patch over the end crimp and it fired just like it was supposed to do 75 years ago when it was made .One thing I remember that the hill folks did years ago when their grandmama was crippled . They couldn’t afford a wheelchair but 2 stout grandsons would carry her in a straight back chair right up to the grave site or into church and set the chair down and she never had to move .That picture of the dog and the boy with the long Tom over his shoulder sure brings back memories.thanks Donnie
I always get disliked for no reason. Thanks for sharing my friend.
It was a way of life for me growing up!!!
Yes it was Bill thanks.
That’s a awesome video buddy… I grew up hunting in the winter and fishing in the spring and summer… I remember walking the hillside in the spring..with my dad picking poke salad …I miss those days.. weird how the times has changed… if my dad was alive now he wouldn’t recognize this wicked world… thanks again buddy… awesome stories…
Thank you and thanks for sharing my friend.
Did you ever "bark" squirrels...shoot a .22 at the limb they rested on? Saved a lot of meat and the hides.. This was back in the day when you didn't have to worry about accidentally shooting somebody a mile away, the woods was thick and you aimed for the lower ranches anyway. Great story.
Oh yes. I learned that on my own over they years my friend along with other animals.
today everyone thinks there meat comes from the store, they have no idea what it take to survive
So true. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I was born just outside of Kingsport, TN in 1942. I ran every mountain around there, 'bout 500 times! I live right near Florida now and I darn sure hate it. Got too much family here now to be able to go back to them hills....As I said, I HATE IT HERE, but can't leave. Sad situation. How I loved hunting squirrels and groundhogs, and have eaten a sho-nuff bunch of 'em. I sure do miss it!!! If you are up there, DO NOT LEAVE. You'll never really be happy again!
I hear you friend. No place like home. Thanks for sharing.
So glad I found this channel thank God for good o boys like you👊👍
Welcome aboard my friend. Thank you for them kind words.
I'm glad I found this channel to, this the way I was raised dad would take me hunting with him when I was around 7or8 and one day we was squirrel hunting on our way home , when the dog trees again, I was ten years old he gave me the 12 gauge long time 36 in barrel and told me go kill the squirrel I was so excited when I found the squirrel I just throw up and shot it I had been shooting a 20 gauge dad always said the gun killed on both ends it kicked me down but I was so happy you couldn't have slaped the smile off my face , thanks for bringing these memories back
@@jodygriffith2948 Your welcome. Thank for sharing my friend.
We have so much abundance these days and it is only right to give thanks to God each time we sit down to eat. How much more so back in those days? The Lord provided and the people only took what they needed. That, too, was only right. Thx. ( fan from NJ )
Amen friend.
Hey Donnie, lots of great memories. Thanks for posting. I grew up in Morgan county. From the looks of your footage, you were a little further east than that. Keep making these videos. Those of us who remember old-school East TN appreciate them.
Glad you enjoyed it.
There was a Federal law which came about in 1937 known as the Pittman Robertson Act which placed a Federal excise sales tax on the sale of hunting, and fishing licenses, the sale of guns, and ammo, sale of fishing gear. The purpose of the tax which was initiated by hunters, and fishermen was to promote fish, and wildlife conservation, as well as promote hunters, and fishermen's access to hunting, and fishing. Well what would you guess?? Leftist groups such as PETA with the assistance of leftist politicians, and government bureaucrats have tried several times over the years to 'raid' these funds to use the money in ways that is in opposition to wildlife conservation, and the benefit of hunters, and fishermen. Thankfully, on each episode the NRA (among other groups) became aware and put a cease fire on the theft. There is nothing new in the leftist's game book..
That's a shame to. They will never stop. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I learned from my grandmother who lived in the hallers of North Carolina😎
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 😎👍
Great video 👍. I come from a family of hunters. I’ve never had a problem with people hunting animals for food or other purposes. I get upset with people that hunt just to kill. I have no problem with this video. Keep up the good work 👍
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
My dad liked to dove hunt in the huge fields of Mills River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.
Oh those dove were good. He'd slowly boil the breast til the juice became thick and the meat was tender. Serve it over rice. Yum.
Deer hunting was fine in the lowlands that were just an hour or so from us.
The mountain deer fed on acorns and whatever they could find. In the flats deer ate from the huge field crops of corn and grain. The deer grew fat and the meat was tender and tasted good.
Fishing in the mountains was a big thing in my family. Trout fishing and catfishing in the creeks. Bass and brim in the small ponds and "lakes".
I'm 66 years old now. Daddy's been dead about 4 years now.. He lived to be 89.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love you sir so much, and I love animals and I fully understand. Your videos are a real blessing. I watch them every day. Thank you from my heart.
Wow, thank you friend.
People can complain and have an opinion about eating wild game til they're blue in the face. They complain because they got restaurants in the cities they live in so they can feel superior to others. But i say let their belly button start touching their back bone and they'll be less opinionated. Donnie, you made me hungry watching this video. Pass the squirrel dumplings!!
Amen friend.
DONNIE LAWS I JUST LOVE YOUR STORIES. REAL STORIES TO KEEP US INFORMED HOW LIFE USE TO BE IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. IT MAKES US UNDERSTAND THE APPALACHIAN PEOPLE IN A BETTER WAY AND COMPASSIONATE FEELINGS FOR YOU ALL!! GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP THE STORIES GOING BECAUSE I LOVE TO HEAR THEM!!!!! THANK YOU!!! YOUR NEIGHBOR FROM PUERTO RICO!!
Your so welcome my friend. Please take down there.
I remember the first gun that my grandpa tried to give me was a brake action 4.10 single barreled shotgun. I tried to keep it but my momma didn’t let me!
That's sad my friend. That's part of growing up here. Thanks for sharing my friend.
one thing I miss from living back east hunting squirrels I miss my mommy making fried squirrel and home biscuits and gravy
YUM. Thanks for sharing my friend.
just checking on your neighbor just wanting to see if you had a good thanksgiving and i hope you have a good christmas you continue to do these shows because her educational and your videos remind me of home so whenever i get homesick for the hills you can find my hometown metcalfe county and counties in appalachia a lot of people don't understand our way of life how we talk they want to correct that how we talk and and everything and i feel that people correct how we talk we lose a little of our heritage as mountain people that's why i holding on to the way i talk and hold on to the way i do things and because i go back to the old mountain way of doing things the old native american way of doing things I'll go back to those ways because the new ways ain't going nowhere new ways ruined everything make everything hard for everybody i just wanted to see how you're doing my good friend you take it easy have a good christmas
Thanks for asking my friend. I'm doing just fine and hope you are as well. Thanks for sharing and Have a merry Christmas my friend.
One of your best!!! Wish I could get in touch with you! We love the same things!
Maybe one day! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I loved to hear my grandma tell me stories about my granddaddy hunting and how they raised their own livestock. Grandma said granddaddy looooved his huntin dogs. I’m so glad she shared with me these familiar stories. I can still here her lips smacking over pinto beans and cornbread haha!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
So I just arrived in Robbinsville NC though the tail of the Dragon all the way from lake county Ohio and this new Appalachia video came up. In the Smokey mts right now. Perfect
Have fun my friend and be safe on the Dragon.
@@donnielaws7020 yes sir. Crazy pulling a trailer up it. The bike is next. Tx
I am proud to be born and raised in these mountains, raised on the land and wildlife. I would not trade that for anything. Healthiest food on the planet far as I am concerned.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I learned from my pap and grandad, i am teaching my god son now, using a single barrel 12.
Good luck. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I have been binge watching since I found your channel the other day & I'm hooked!My people came from Kentucky & Tennessee Thanks for sharing😊
That is awesome my friend. Enjoy.
@@donnielaws7020 😊
I do like your appalachain story of learning hpw to hunt growing uo in mountain im a hunter to i like your old pitcures
Thank you friend.
Good times good family, great faith and resilience.
Thank you frriend.
Wait a minute! Women once cooked !? 😄 Jokes aside,, Fine video boss
Thanks for sharing my friend.
That's how I learned to hunt here Arkansas and taught my kids
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love listening to you and all the stories! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
You are so welcome
Sure brings back memories
Thank you.
I have lived in these mountains for 54 years. We always have a freezer full of food, and a pantry full of canned veggies from the garden, that's old school life in the South.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yep. I remember. Thanks for the video.
Thanks my friend.
Memories.🙏
Oh yes my friend.
Great video. It's a reminder how hard our grandparents worked to make our lives easier.
So true! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie, I have woods on three side of my property. I Love to sit outside on a nice day and watch the squirrels jump from one tree to the next. They are full of energy. The red tailed hawks are a beautiful bird. No one hunts here so he woods is full of animals. I feel like it is security in a way, in the event things turn real bad, they woods could supply my meat source. We are blessed by the good LORD to have these resources and I am grateful every day. Thanks for sharing, Donnie. Yoru friend ,Louise
The woods was my grocery store
Most everyone at one in these mountains.
This is how I was raised. Simple times. I miss it so much.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Perfect timing, Donnie.
Thank you. Hope you enjoy my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 : Its always a treat. Im north of you in WI but I can relate to a lot of your videos and stories. Back when I started hunting we had no turkeys up here but tons of partridge, and some pheasants further south. Deer season was way different, if you saw 4 or 5 deer that was a "good" season back in the 70s.
Nowdays you can shoot 4 or 5 deer a year and we have turkeys from Madison to the tip of Lake Superior. Our partridge population has crashed, not exactly sure why that is because we have tons of poplar (popple) trees. Ducks and geese are plentiful. Hardly anyone traps much these days so our coyotes are thicker than thieves, we used to run them with dogs in the winter months and that was a lot of fun.
We dont have the huge public spaces like you guys do but still have quite a bit of public land, but in the "old" days No Trespassing signs were rare and you could just walk around and deer hunt pretty much anywhere as long as you were being ethical and not littering and such.
These days theres too many slobs and we even have trouble with groups of kids going out and randomly shooting animals at night, they do it for thrills and all the animals go to waste, in the past 15 years there have been numerous groups of kids caught and prosecuted but really, its basically a slap on the wrist. If I were the judge I would ban them for life, no more being able to hunt or fish ever again, but society doenst like to punish criminals any longer.
@@repetemyname842 That's a shame I would have banned them for sure. Good story my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Howdy Donnie- we grew up in the woods hunting squirrels and later we did a lot of night hunting for raccoons. There weren’t a lot of them around back in them days but now we’re over run with them. Thank you for sharing this. Take care and God bless y’all
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
There are people who might not like the idea of hunting animals, and then there are people who have never been hungry a day in their life. Hungry people will hunt animals. Survival wins out every time.
So true. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I think most people object to hunting for sports, and not to hunting for meat. Personally, I despise people that hunt just to kill something - they're not hunters, but killers. If you eat what you kill THEN you are a hunter.
My 2 cents.
@@juneroberts5305 Well said my friend.
Amen DL AMEN!SPEAKING SOME PURE TRUTH!!❤Appalacia&I HATE YOTIES!GOT SOME KIDS THAT GOT A MIGHY MADON BOUT EM!
Had About 6 Families Ice Fishin&Heard Em a Hunt Howlin!
Out Burst 5 Deer&A20+Pack& Took 3 not more n 50-60yrds away&Enough Said Brother.
We Had A Whole Bunch a Younguns&Touched Some Hard!
But even Ice Fishen You Always Pack.
Started a Shootin@5.@10,Dad ssaid from now on Son,You always a Go Packin.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
This is a superb teaching video and oozes with common sense! Really however it is an Amercan story.......especially to the whole of the South and thus it's hard to limit it to the Appalachians.......I look upon many of these old and beaten single shot shotguns and cheap made double barrel gun sold by the likes of Sears and Roebuck and others and I wonder the stories they could tell and the families they have fed only now to be resting unappreciated in some pawn shop, gun store, antique mall or some other sad grave site in modern America, a people who have lost touch with their past.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Thank you my friend. You are doing a good work here..........not only in educating the blind but also in providing good memories back to those, whom like yourself were blessed to live it.
@@wayneroberts4144 Your so very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Old Man, you made me miss my Grandaddy
Sorry my friend. I know how you feel.
A Big Part of The Bucket List Needed To Grow Up In The Georgia Mountains, As well as the Appalachian Mountains. Hunt, Fish, Tracking, Field Dressing Your Kill. If you grew up doing this, as I did, God Has Really Blessed Your Life.
Thanks for sharing my friend.