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"\"&lt;p&gt;A bird in the hand is worth, well, in this case it\\u2019s worth 2,000 belly laughs, and for a couple of reasons. First, a quail hunter uses his bare hand to catch a quail that inexplicably flew directly at him, and it was caught on video. Second, the video is posted in the most unlikeliest of places: &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/user\\/theaustinstonechurch?feature=watch\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;A church&amp;#8217;s YouTube channel&lt;\\/a&gt; among gospel messages. We found out why, but first, check out this incredible video of Senior Pastor Matt Carter making an amazing catch while on a quail hunting trip with NFL quarterback Colt McCoy in South Texas:&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/NFjFptZ1wGI?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When GrindTV Outdoor contacted &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/austinstone.org\\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;The Austin Stone Community Church&lt;\\/a&gt; on Monday to get the story, Travis Wussow, executive director of teaching ministries, asked us, \\u201cDo you think it\\u2019s real or fake?\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Initially, we thought it was real, then thought maybe it was staged, but then thought it was real since it was posted on a church YouTube channel.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_74135\\\" style=\\\"width: 229px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/05\\/holding-bird.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\" wp-image-74135\\\" alt=\\\"holding bird\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/05\\/holding-bird.jpg\\\" width=\\\"229\\\" height=\\\"292\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/05\\/holding-bird.jpg 254w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/05\\/holding-bird-235x300.jpg 235w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/05\\/holding-bird-70x90.jpg 70w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Photo of Matt Carter holding the quail he caught in the air with his bare hand is a screengrab from the YouTube video&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cIt is totally real,\\u201d Wussow said. \\u201cWhile filming [the church uses creative storytelling, including films, to spread the gospel], inexplicably this bird takes off and stupidly flies right at Matt, and he grabbed it. It\\u2019s unbelievable&amp;#8230;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI was there and watched it happen. It\\u2019s totally unbelievable.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The friendship between McCoy, who was recently traded from the Cleveland Browns to the San Francisco 49ers, and Carter began six or seven years ago when the two started hunting together. McCoy went to church at Austin Stone, where Carter is a pastor.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The two eventually collaborated on a biblically based book for men entitled, &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/austinstone.org\\/therealwin\\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;\\u201cThe Real Win: A Man\\u2019s Quest for Authentic Success.\\u201d&lt;\\/a&gt;\\u00a0You can see a plug for the book at the end of the video.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cWe went back and forth, and decided to put it on our site,\\u201d Wussow said about the church\\u2019s decision to put the hunting video on its YouTube channel.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;As seen in the video, Carter was alerted to the flying quail, being told, &amp;#8220;Coming at you.&amp;#8221; With three cameramen surrounding the bird as they got three angles, the quail flew straight at Carter, who nonchalantly transferred his shotgun from his right to left hand, then stuck out his right hand to snag the quail.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;McCoy then said what he no doubt has told many of his wide receivers over the years: &amp;#8220;Sweet catch.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span itemprop=\\\"video\\\" itemscope itemtype=\\\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/VideoObject\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"name\\\" content=\\\"Hunter uses bare hand to catch flying quail\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"thumbnailURL\\\" content=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2016\\/05\\/nfjfptz1wgi.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"description\\\" content=\\\"A bird in the hand is worth, well, in this case it\\u2019s worth 2,000 belly laughs, and for a couple of reasons. 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