Chase Rice loves hunting and fishing as much as the next country boy. In fact, the singer has been hunting since he was a kid in North Carolina.
It wasn't always legal either. Speaking with Hook & Barrel, Rice reflected on shooting doves from powerlines as a kid.
"My brother and I would go shoot doves off the power lines, which is very illegal," he said. "Then, when I got to be like 11, my dad would take us hunting to keep us out of trouble. We'd deer hunt on the back side of the Biltmore property, and I just fell in love with it."
But Rice stopped hunting as a young adult when he went to college at the University of North Carolina. He pursued football, then NASCAR then country music.
"From 2010 to 2015, I didn't hunt at all, just partied my a— off," he said. "Then in 2015, my brother called me and asked if I wanted to go out west to Montana and kill elk with a bow. And I'm like, 'God, that sounds crazy. OK, I'm in.'"
Chase Rice And His Bird DOg
It was like riding a bike. Rice fell in love with the sport again. He started spending more times outdoors. In 2020, he adopted a bird dog named Jack.
"I'd never had a dog in my life," Rice said. "My parents always said, 'No dogs, they get hair all over the house.'"
That got him into bird hunting again.
"I'd duck hunted maybe once a year for my whole life, and it was fun, but I'd never really gotten into it," he continues. "And I always wanted a dog, because I knew if I got a dog I'd be diving headfirst into duck hunting."
"I can be in a blind and not have a gun, not shoot a single bird, and I don't give a s—t. Cause when everybody's done killing birds, that's when my job begins, working with the dog," Rice said. "I love killing birds. I've got birds all over this house now, but every duck in this house is something Jack retrieved."
