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Speaker 1: time to go wild dot com. My name is Clay Nucleman.

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Speaker 1: I'm the host of the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. I'll

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Speaker 1: also be your host into the world of hunting the

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Speaker 1: icon of North American wilderness, the bear. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation,

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Speaker 1: but will also bring you into some of the wildest

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Speaker 1: country on the planet Chasing Bear. Welcome to the Bear

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Speaker 1: Hunting Magazine Podcast. We are here at the global headquarters

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Speaker 1: of Bear Hunting Magazine. Jedas right outside, probably gonna be

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Speaker 1: barking a little bit. It is October the twenty six October,

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Speaker 1: and I have with me in the office too of

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Speaker 1: my really good friends that have done a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff with me over the years. I got Brent Reads

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Speaker 1: here sitting at about eleven o'clock, and I got Ryan

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Speaker 1: Grab sitting about one o'clock. They're sitting pretty close to

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Speaker 1: each other, awkwardly close, but I'm glad at six. But no,

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Speaker 1: these guys. These guys traveled up. Brent traveled up from

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Speaker 1: central Arkansas. Ryan traveled up from western Arkansas to meet here,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about Saskatchewan. What we're gonna cover

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Speaker 1: in this podcast is the last three years Brent, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: and I in a conglomerate of other Arkansans and a

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin I I by the name of Mark Cuddyback have

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Speaker 1: have traveled to Saskatchewan. Martin just the last two years,

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Speaker 1: but all of us the last three years, we've traveled

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Speaker 1: the northern Saskatchewan to hunt with Bear Pro Safaris and

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Speaker 1: Colby Morrison. And this hunt has become something really unique

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Speaker 1: for me. I mean, I get to travel a lot

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Speaker 1: with Bear Hunting Magazine to a lot of different outfitters,

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Speaker 1: and I've hunt with some of the best outfitters in

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Speaker 1: the world. I really do. The Saskatchewan hunt has become

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Speaker 1: so fun primarily because of the boat ride on the

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Speaker 1: first year, the sixty mile boat rode. So these are

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Speaker 1: the iconic moments that have made Bear Prosafaris what it is.

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Speaker 1: The iconic boat ride, sixty mile boat ride and high

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Speaker 1: water high seas the first year and then the second

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Speaker 1: year seventeen, the the hunt for the color face bear,

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Speaker 1: which became a pretty well known hunt because it's bear

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Speaker 1: came in touched my era Brent video that the video

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Speaker 1: moving views on YouTube. But that hunt was like as

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Speaker 1: far as bated bears bear hunts going the north, that

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Speaker 1: was one of the most spectacular hunts of all time.

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Speaker 1: Number one, I missed a huge probably probably Boon and

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Speaker 1: Crockett class bear with a tread bow. We saw you're

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Speaker 1: rubbing the salt and still, and we saw we saw

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Speaker 1: bore breeding the south. We had this big color phase

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Speaker 1: bear come in and run these other bears off, and

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Speaker 1: so bear prostafaris to us is this unique, unique place.

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Speaker 1: But before we get going with that, I want to

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Speaker 1: I wanna hear from you guys. So Brent, Brent w Reeves,

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Speaker 1: uh not. Brent's filmed with me for several years, written

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Speaker 1: some articles for me, done some bare recipes. But Brent,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about yourself. That's a that's

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Speaker 1: such a dumb question. Every podcaster asked, tell me about yourself.

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Speaker 1: You already, oh man. I grew up in South Arkansas

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Speaker 1: and I've been in career wise, I guess law enforcement

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Speaker 1: you know, all over. I've been fortunate enough to to

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Speaker 1: be taught by some really good videographers and uh and

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Speaker 1: then I've pretty well told Clay how to do everything

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Speaker 1: what Ryan didn't tell him. Yeah, that's that's right. I

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Speaker 1: and you killed the bear. On the fourth day. It

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Speaker 1: So it was by accident. But your history with me

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Speaker 1: Bear Association, which at the time I was running, you

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Speaker 1: bear here in Arkansas coming up to me. I sent

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Speaker 1: And then the next year, next year, you called and said, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: many times I've saved you life and I've I've been

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Speaker 1: very good, So Ryan Grab, right now, let me let

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Speaker 1: Ryan Grab. When I have a question about bear hunting

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Speaker 1: I believe this is true that nobody has killed more

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about collective weight, Like, however many bears

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Speaker 1: mean we were Ryan could hear them Jason Aldeane playing

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Speaker 1: that go around. Oh yeah, that was you're right. I

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Speaker 1: something really unique about being really familiar with the world

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00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: that you live in. Like all of us are outdoors

429
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: money and I mean we're contoisseurs of this Arkansas outdoor

430
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: life that we live. We really are. And to go

431
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: up there and to really know nothing, you know, I

432
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: mean like I'm asking I'm asking Colby, like what kind

433
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: of tree is that? I mean, like I feel like

434
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the city people that you know come

435
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: with me somewhere and they see a wide oak and

436
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: are like, what kind of tree is that? All three

437
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: of us, it's been our whole lives in the woods

438
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 1: and gone, you know, adventures hunting or whatever. But that

439
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: place up there is like testosterone and steroids at a baby.

440
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean it is, it's there's you just you can't

441
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: describe it really, and it's it's a It is not

442
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: majestic beauty. Like I've had a lot of people say,

443
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: is it beautiful up there in Order Saskatchewan. It's absolutely beautiful.

444
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: It is not majestic beauty. Majestic beauty would be I

445
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: would define it like rocky mountain beauty, big grand vistas

446
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: and rock formations and stuff that's just really really visually appealing.

447
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: This this to me, is like a rugged, nuanced beauty,

448
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: and the beauty is in the fact that there's this

449
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: massive expanse of wilderness. But what what you typically have

450
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: on the ground is that reindeer moss. Is that what

451
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: they call it. It's liking. I mean, it's like white.

452
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: It's almost like you're walking on the moon. And then

453
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 1: jack pines, which are these small coniferous trees evergreen. The

454
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: biggest they get is about six inches at the base.

455
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: Part of the reason we hunt on the ground up

456
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: there because the trees ain't big enough to get I

457
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: guess you could maybe lean the ladder stand on some

458
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: of them, but yeah, and it probably bend over if

459
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: the wind blows, you will be so in Yeah, you couldn't.

460
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: And that that is the northern boreal forest. I mean,

461
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: that is the boreal forest. And those trees grow for

462
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: like four months a year. I mean that's I guess

463
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: technically because they hold their needles throughout the winter. They

464
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: actually are going a little photo census throughout the winter.

465
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: But I mean the reason that those trees don't get

466
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: big is because they don't grow there. They've they've been

467
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: They're designed to live in heavy snowfall. And so to me,

468
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: the beauty the appreciation of that place is realizing that

469
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 1: every creater that's here is an extreme survivalist. I mean,

470
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: like down here where we live in these kind of

471
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: mild latitudes, like you got a pretty big lee way

472
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: of ecological niche that you can live in, if I

473
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: could describe it that way, I mean like they're specialists here,

474
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: but like not that specialist in terms of like how

475
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: an animal adapts. But man, when you get up that

476
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: far north and then you gotta go through eight months

477
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: a hard winter, seven months of hard winter, five ft

478
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: of snow. Yeah, I mean there's not a whole other

479
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: can live. Well, there's there's three, there's four things. There

480
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: are four big game animals in northern Saskatchewan black bear, moose, caribou,

481
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: and wolf. And that's it. That is it. Now there's

482
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: some small game species, but I mean that's that's all

483
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: that's there. And and what is the king of the

484
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: north Woods trick question. Bears? I mean they dominate the landscape.

485
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: I mean the moose, moose populations. Moose is a low

486
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: densey animal. I mean you don't you don't see a

487
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: lot of moose. The caribou up in that part of

488
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: the country, Colby says are rare. Yeah. And now wolves,

489
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: now that's a different story. But there's there's more bears

490
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: and wolves. But per like if you were just doing

491
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: a population density the Northern Woods, black berry is the

492
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: dominant animal, no doubt, way more bears than you know

493
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: people probably could even imagine up there. Yeah, no doubt.

494
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: Have you ever have you done any research to what

495
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: the density what the population density is in that area. No,

496
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: I don't know the specifics of that or even if

497
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: they have a well some of these bears that Kobe's

498
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: hunting right now are collared. They're doing a study up

499
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: in that part of the world right now, and I

500
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: guess it's a population study, but I don't know the

501
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: details of it. But you know, population density is a bear,

502
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Like a high population of bears

503
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: is a bear. One bear per square mile. High population

504
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: of deer is like forty five deer per square mile.

505
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: So when we say, oh, man, there's a high population

506
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: of bears there, we say that relative to other things,

507
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean high high density of bears

508
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: in Arkansas, it's like one bear per square mile, which

509
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: that's a good bear population, and it's actually the same

510
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: up there, if not even there's just so much ground

511
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: that you know, there's there's bears are spread out, and

512
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: bears are load inst the animals they're not like white

513
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: tailed deer, they're not they're not a herd animal, you know,

514
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: they're not gregarious. But but there's a there's a ton

515
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: of bears up there, and we see exaggerated our situation

516
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: a little exaggerated in that we're hunting bated bears. So

517
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: these bears are coming in from a lot of different places,

518
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,719
Speaker 1: you know, but those bears don't act like to do

519
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: in Arkansas. You know, these bears too are places Kobe's

520
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: access and that has probably never been hunted, never been bated.

521
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: In fact, next year he's going to a totally different

522
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: water system. It's probably never been bear hunted before ever. Yeah,

523
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: you know that's something that was hard for me to

524
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: grasp when you told me how big the area is

525
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: that he hunts, and it was I can't even remember,

526
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: to be honest, it was over a hundred thousand square

527
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: miles and even twice that much. It was. It was

528
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: more than an outfitter could hunt. Oh gosh, you yeah,

529
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: in a lifetime. Yeah, and so and and and I'll say,

530
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: and as this pertains to other Canadian outfitters, Kolbe is

531
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: not unique in that situation. I mean, these these Canadian

532
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: outfitters have vast areas that they can hunt, and most

533
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: of them, a lot of them, are the only people

534
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: that are hunting them. I mean, so um, you know,

535
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: just as a plug for other outfitters as well, there's

536
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: a ton outfitters that have some crazy good wilderness highning.

537
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: Only certain ways to access a lot of this, A

538
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: lot of it you can't. There's no way to get

539
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: in there too. Yeah, you couldn't drive. You couldn't drive,

540
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: you could fly on a float plane. Everything in Canada's

541
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: access by water because there there, you know, it's a

542
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: aracial glacial formed regions. So there, I mean, you look

543
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: at a aerial photo or satellite photo on Google Earth

544
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: of any of those Canadian provinces and it is littered,

545
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: I mean littered with lakes, river systems, unbelievable amount of

546
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: water it's flowing out of Canada. And so that's the

547
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: way they get in there. They don't have dirt roads,

548
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: that just little pig trails that go every direction up there. Yeah,

549
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: so we have established that this is a wilderness hunt.

550
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: That being said, we drive to our camp. The last

551
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: two years we've driven our pickup trucks right to camp. Uh.

552
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: This year we stayed in wall Pence. The year before,

553
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: we stayed in these little wooden takedown cabins that cold

554
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: be made. And the government actually wouldn't let him use

555
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: those this year because of fire danger and they were

556
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: afraid those things would burn and they needed to he

557
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: need to be able to pull evacuate quickly, so they said,

558
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: you can't have those semi permanent structures and so we

559
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: had wall tents. We we so we do drive right

560
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: into camp and then we take the trucks down to

561
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: a boat ramp and get in there and go hunting.

562
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the schedule of the hunt.

563
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 1: Ryan kind of like like daily, like a daily routine

564
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: that we would do. Well. You know, it's uh, you

565
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: get up there and it don't get well, I guess

566
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: it don't get dark completely, but probably the darkest it

567
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: gets is two o'clock and the sun's rise and by

568
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: what three in the morning, So kind of misses your

569
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: mental state up, you know, trying to sleep when there's

570
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: daylight now coming through the tent wall. But you know,

571
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: we sleep in in the mornings, eat some breakfast, and

572
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: we'll get out, you know, late morning and do a

573
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: little fishing. And the fishing is spectacular. Most these places

574
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: fish don't know what they've never seen tackle, but you know,

575
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: do fish and have good time, hang out with the guys,

576
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: come back, eat, uh, you know, lunch, noonish or so,

577
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: and then we'll have a little seemed like bowshoot and

578
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: make sure everybody's you know, on target, and we gather

579
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: our stuff and off we go, you know. In the

580
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: trucks to get down where the boats are parked. And

581
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: you know, some guys ain't got as far as boat ride,

582
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: but some of us are going it seems like the

583
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: other side of the earth to get to some of these. Yes,

584
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: I mean, some of the really good baits are within

585
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: two or three miles of the of where we're putting.

586
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: So it's not always there's not a necessarily a correlation

587
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: with the big bears are way back there. I mean.

588
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: But the thing is Kobe goes up there in the

589
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: off season two and looks for these places where bears

590
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: naturally travel. I mean, some of these places bears if

591
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: used for generations that are beat down, like he's narrow

592
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: razorback rich cops will have a game trail on it

593
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: that is beat down, like you know, deep trenches, and

594
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, bears travel them a lot. Sometimes they're in

595
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: pinch pointing around the end of the lake or between

596
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: the marsh and a ridge top or something. He strategically

597
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: puts these baits where guys can you do have good success,

598
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, And that's a key right there. Nothing about

599
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: what he's doing is based on convenience. Hey, he wants

600
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: to see his hunters. You know, shoot bears. He loves that,

601
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: and I thought it was It's interesting and I've I've

602
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: tried to pry as much as I could out of

603
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: Cobit about how he chooses where its baits odes are.

604
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: He tries to spread them out. I've noticed at least

605
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: three to five miles up art right, that seems to

606
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: be the trend. And he likes putting these baits on

607
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: in areas where there are bear trails. And there are

608
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: bear trails up there right, I mean, which you don't

609
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 1: see that much around here, and uh, he he puts

610
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: them like on waterways, you know, these bears. You there's

611
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: creeks that are smaller feeder creeks that are running into

612
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: these lakes and rivers, and he'll put baits up these

613
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: creek systems there. Even though it's relatively flat there, there

614
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: is some topography. There's some you know, small rises, kind

615
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: of rolling hills. I'm glad you mentioned now. He told

616
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: me that he looks at contours topo maps and he

617
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: will follow on contour too. And a lot of those

618
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: game trails bear trails where you want to call them.

619
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like for the folks that haven't

620
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: seen it, it looks like a cow trail in a pasture.

621
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's just flat beat out and it's dirt,

622
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: and it's his wide you know, eight some of them

623
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: ten inches wide and beat down. And it's when you

624
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: think about the four big animals that you said to

625
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:12,479
Speaker 1: live there. How long and how old are those you said?

626
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: You said a hundred years, ten thousands? I mean that

627
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: basically the current time frame that we live in. You know,

628
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: ten thousand years ago was when the ice Age kind

629
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: of turned, you know, the Plisto scene turned into the

630
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: modern era. The glaciers are treated. All the current animals

631
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: that we have in North America all of a sudden,

632
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: we're here, you know, not really all of a sudden,

633
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: but they were here. So I mean, yeah, so these

634
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: not much has changed in the last ten thousand years. Yeah,

635
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool, you know. And this is an unaltered

636
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to interrupt you, but let me just

637
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: say this, and then this is an unaltered ecosystem. Like

638
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: down here, there is no such thing as an altered ecosystem.

639
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: It was yeah, fifty years ago. I mean, that's what's

640
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: cool about these kind of hunts. Yeah, I was just

641
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: gonna say, you know some of these these bates that

642
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, drop the first guy off while we're waiting,

643
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: you know what, castarat out just where he pulled the

644
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: boat up and catch four or five pike just within

645
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: five or six minutes, or you know, wally or something.

646
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: It's just you don't find that down here where we're at,

647
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: you know, true wilderness. Yeah, and and that's that's what

648
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: you've got to appreciate. And there's all different factors of

649
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: these hunts that give them value. Like if you're white

650
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: tail hunting in the Midwest, I mean you're not really

651
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: Wilderness is not really what you're valuing on that hunt.

652
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: Your your value in the white tail deer and his

653
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: antlers and big bucks. When you go to Canada on

654
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: a baited hunt, it's not a typically a test of

655
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: physical endurance. It's not like a rocky mountain elk hunt,

656
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: where really the limiting factor and the thing you're after

657
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: is is you know, testing yourself up against this mountain.

658
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: Like every every hunt has this angle that makes it valuable.

659
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: When I hunt right here close to my house, I

660
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: love it not because I have trophy deer right here.

661
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: I love it because I walk out of my house.

662
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: Tell my kids buy while they're playing basketball, jump in

663
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: my truck. Drive a minute, get up my truck, and

664
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: go hunt and be home at dinner. You know. I mean, like,

665
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: so that hunt has value to me. This hunt has

666
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: value because of wilderness. It's not it's not a technical hunt.

667
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: I mean. And I want to talk a little bit

668
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: about hunting bears over bait, because it's massively misunderstood. Even

669
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: in the hunting community. People are like, I hunting bears

670
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,280
Speaker 1: over donuts. Man, don't knock it till you try to

671
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: come hunt with us and tell us that it's like

672
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: hunting bears in a in a you know. I mean,

673
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: it's it's just a it's a unique hunt, and it's

674
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: not just for the kill that makes it unique. Well,

675
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: I had a different I had a different opinion of it,

676
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: only because I had never done it. Not it wasn't

677
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: a bad opinion, you know, I've not against it at all.

678
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't against it at all, But I thought, you know,

679
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: how easy can that be? It's like catching catfish in

680
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: the bathtub. Not that I have. You would be selective

681
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: on animals, you know too? Then bears a bear don't

682
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: know what we are. We pose any threats, so you

683
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: can sit back and and watch bears for days and

684
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 1: most of the time and try to, you know, wait

685
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: on that bear that you're looking for, right, And that's

686
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: that's a massive key for hunting over bait, is it

687
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: allows you to be highly selective, highly selective, and that's

688
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: a key for conservation. That's a key for all kinds

689
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: of different stuff. But I was just building this episode

690
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: of Bear Horizon, which will probably be out about the

691
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: time this podcast comes out, so go to Barony Magazine

692
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and check it out. Brent Reeves and I

693
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: we watched more bear behavior in six days of bear

694
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: hunting up there then the average hardcore woodsman will see

695
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: in a lifetime, probably three lifetimes and six times as

696
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: much as we did in the last two years up there,

697
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: because we hunted like two days now. We that's the

698
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 1: key feature of this video and you haven't even seen

699
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: it yet. We gotta watch it. It's it finished exporting

700
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: here is that we saw bears, breeding, bears, fighting bears,

701
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: interacting with us bears, doing everything that bears do. And

702
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: there's no other big game hunt where you get to

703
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: watch and see animals for as longer period of time

704
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: at close distance. And I mean when I say close distance,

705
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: I mean like ten yards on the ground, not looking

706
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: through a fence. I mean like there is no other

707
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: big game hunt that is like this, and so that

708
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: is an angle into this bated thing that a guy's

709
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: got to look at, like if you're trying to evaluate

710
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, a hunt man white tail deer hunting. I

711
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: love it, absolutely go bonkers over it and always have

712
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: and always will. Man, that big buck when I see him,

713
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: typically I'm watching him for a very short period of time.

714
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: I mean he enters my life for like seconds before

715
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: hopefully I'm able to harvest him or not. Last year

716
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: I didn't even see a shooter buck. This year I've

717
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: encountered one, and we won't talk about that, but alert

718
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: the what I'm saying is is that these bated hunts

719
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: are really unique. Get to watch these animals and and man,

720
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: there's something that you just you come away with a

721
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: deep appreciation when you get to watch them. Yeah, we

722
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: were on like day four or five, I can't remember,

723
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: and we had bears to contend there was not There

724
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: was one hour maybe when we were on bait that

725
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: we didn't have bears out in front of us, and

726
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: it wasn't a bear that you wanted to shoot. I

727
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: can remember making you laugh. You turned around and looked

728
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: at me at one point and I just said, Bory,

729
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: I didn't mean it. I was just trying to be funny.

730
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: We got tired of watching bears. It was the I

731
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: don't know, man, it was like watching Channel two for

732
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: a while there. It was this is a good place

733
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: to actually talk about the specifics of our hunt. So Brent,

734
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: Brent was with me, Brent was filming, were hunting for

735
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: five days. Kolby took us down a creek and when

736
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: I said creek, it was like seven yards wide, like

737
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 1: a small cook. Didn't go down it. He went left

738
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: and right. Yeah. Yeah, oh man, look at the drone

739
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: footage and you'll see what we're talking about from the video.

740
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: But Kobe and this was a pretty unique bait. There

741
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: was a creek that was navigable. Yeah, it's a good word.

742
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: I didn't quite set right. Uh about five miles he

743
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: could take his boat, his inflatable boats. Oh jeez, we

744
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: gotta talk about we got a lot to talk about um.

745
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: And so we went five miles. It took forty five

746
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: minutes of just zigging and zagging and dodging limbs, and

747
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: we went way back in here to this bait. He

748
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 1: had very very as far as you can take the boat.

749
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: Brett and I hunted there for five days, and within

750
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: ten seconds of us sitting down the first day, two

751
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: bears were coming. And that was a trend every single

752
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: day when we sat down, and you'll see it in

753
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: the video every time I do my interview first day,

754
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: because we did it real strategically this time. Every single

755
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: day I did day one, this is what's happening day

756
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: to day, three, day four, day five. That's how the

757
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: video lines out. Every single one of those clips, there's

758
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: a bear within ten yards of mean while I'm talking. Yeah,

759
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like we were just you know, messing

760
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: around getting ready. We were son. We would sit down

761
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: and I mean scramble to get our gears. What was coming.

762
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: We knew what was coming, and I just knew that,

763
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, probably the big shooter was gonna walk in,

764
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: and so I mean we were just scrambled get everything together,

765
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: and man, the bears would be there. And we watched

766
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: bears for eight hours a day for five days. I mean,

767
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: there was hardly a was there a two hour section

768
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: where there wasn't a bear in front of us a seconds,

769
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. I don't think there was an

770
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: hour there wasn't be in front of That's true. That

771
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: bait was phenomenal in terms of seeing bears. I think

772
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: maybe the most bears we saw in a day would

773
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: have been like seven or eight. This was also a

774
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: brand new never started it three weeks ago, three weeks before.

775
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: So these these bears have never never been hunted. They

776
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: they probably never Kolbe was probably the first human they

777
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: ever smelled. Yeah, so we're hunting off the ground, We're

778
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: we're just immediately just bears all around us. And so

779
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: it's late June. The bear rut okay, typically, oh man,

780
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: we could get into a big deal about the bear rut. Bears.

781
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: Bears have a unique reproductive methodology called the lady implantation,

782
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: which means the Souths get bread in the summer, but

783
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 1: they don't start gestation until the winter, early winter, late fall,

784
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: once their bodies have decided whether they can rear young

785
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: or not. Bears are low density animals, so they need

786
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: this big long window of ovulation and ability to breed.

787
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: Of the salves come in like a white tail rut.

788
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: A dough is in heat for like three days because

789
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: she's got a bam get bread, so that that fawn

790
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: is born at the exact time for the highest probability

791
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: of fond survival. A bear low dense, they animal. If

792
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,479
Speaker 1: a bear had a sal bear had a three day heat,

793
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: she may not get bread. So they have these long,

794
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: longer heats, long spans of time. They get bread. And

795
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: so everything about when everything about a breeding cycle has

796
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: to do with fawn arrival or cub arrival in this situation, right,

797
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: so when that animal is gonna pop out, well, they

798
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 1: they bears regulate when their cubs are born because that

799
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: that fertilized egg doesn't attach to the uterine wall until

800
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: a specific time, usually in early November, and the cubs

801
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: are born hairless, underpound in the den January. Bizarre. You

802
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: couldn't have off that up if you were writing the

803
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: science fiction novel. I'm trying to forget it now. So

804
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: that brings up a long road here, boys to say

805
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 1: that June is definitely in the window of bear breeding.

806
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: So all these bearriers are at the space and Brent

807
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: and I just know that any day, any hour, any

808
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: second for five days. We just know the next flash

809
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: of fur that we see is going to be this

810
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: tank bore that we've come to Saskatchewan hunt that that

811
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: in itself, for it's been extended that long time, was

812
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: worth the price of admission. I mean you were fueled

813
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: up before we ever got in the boat to get there.

814
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: I mean because you just knew today was the day. Yeah,

815
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: we just knew what We've seen it before. Yeah, we've

816
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: seen it happen, and we've seen it happened fast there.

817
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: You know, we got spoiled. The first two years we

818
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: hunted up there were killed on the first day the

819
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: first two years were there. Yeah, and target and you

820
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: know the the big the color face bearer we killed

821
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: last year up there. I mean that was a bear

822
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: wasn't even on the and they didn't even have pictures

823
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: of right, he just showed up and showed up. So

824
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: that that's the experience that we were looking you know,

825
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: to repeat. Yeah, in in the logistics of this bait,

826
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: Kobe didn't have a camera out at the time. Just

827
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: the logistics of it. It's hard to understand, but there

828
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: was so we put up a camera when we got there.

829
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: Almost all Kobe's baits have have have cameras on them.

830
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: This one didn't, so we didn't know exactly what was

831
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: coming in there. But there was so many bears. I mean,

832
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: it was just like, there's for sure a shooter board

833
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: coming in here. Within the first day when we get there.

834
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: One of the first bears that is there within ten

835
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: seconds of us sitting down is a nice color face

836
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: bear that probably most bear hunters wouldn't have passed. I

837
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: mean it was I don't even want to say the

838
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: size of it because I don't know, and it was

839
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,439
Speaker 1: a that weight. Really isn't how you evaluate these spring

840
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 1: bears because they're thin. They're coming out of the probably

841
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: probably a four year old boar, three to four year

842
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: old boar. I mean, nice bear, beautiful like blaze orange color.

843
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: You guys have to watch this video again. It's's he's

844
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: so pretty. So this bear comes in like right off

845
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: the bat. And and we basically watched this bear every

846
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: day for five days, and we just keep waiting in

847
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,479
Speaker 1: the in the big board just doesn't come, doesn't come,

848
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: doesn't come, doesn't come, and uh, and it doesn't really

849
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: make sense because the places covered in sous and uh,

850
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: and we saw three different color phrase boars that were

851
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,479
Speaker 1: just I mean just right. And I have very high

852
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: standards when it comes to bear hunting. I mean I do.

853
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: And uh So, if I was just wanting to take

854
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: home a good, good boar, it could have easily done

855
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: it the first first day. But I was I was

856
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: waiting for a tank that so I went up there

857
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: and it just it didn't come. And that's the that's

858
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: the that's just hunting. That's just that's just part of it.

859
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:20,280
Speaker 1: It wasn't everybody was seeing, not everybody, we were seeing

860
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: big bears. Ran ended up killing a big bear spoiler,

861
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to him. And just to cut to

862
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: the cut to the chase of what happened to me

863
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: is on the final day, well on day for Brent,

864
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 1: I actually said, I'm not going to shoot that bear today,

865
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: but I might tomorrow. And what was also in the

866
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: back of my mind was Brent had a tag and

867
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: if I killed early, Brent wasn't gonna get to hunt.

868
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: And uh and so in the back of my mind,

869
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'd like to get this done. That wasn't

870
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: why that was in the front of life done. Yeah,

871
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: and so anyway, the final day after watching the bear

872
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: all week, shooting a traditional bow, shooting a takedown recurve

873
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 1: fifty two pounds inches um Man, with a traditional bow,

874
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: you just can't take anything for granted, nothing, I mean,

875
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: And and that to me is the way that I

876
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: have balanced the scales in some way. Every hunt that

877
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: I do, there's an angle in my mind that I

878
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: want to limit myself. And on baity bear hunts in Canada,

879
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: typically I do it with a traditional bow. It's just

880
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: why I want to roll, It's just what I want

881
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: to do. In Oklahoma two weeks ago, when I killed

882
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: the big bear, I did not want the weapon to

883
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: be the limiting factor of that hunt. The limiting factor

884
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: of that hunt was just getting that bear in front

885
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: of you. So some people are like, why don't you

886
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: used to trad bow clay Man. I love trad bows

887
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: and that's my primary weapon right now. But every hunt

888
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: has a little different angle, and you that's the beauty

889
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: of hunting, as you can cherry pick where you want

890
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: the limiting factor to be. And so shooting a trad

891
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: bow and a I made a bad shot on the bear.

892
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean, what was so hard was that we'd watched

893
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: this bear for so long. It was such an easy shot,

894
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: probably ten yards. And the truth is is I was.

895
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: We can watch the video again. I hit the bear

896
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 1: at the back edge of the scapula, which is the shoulder,

897
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: So I hit him about three inches high and just

898
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: slightly forward, and if it had been lower it would

899
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: have been per Really, it was only about that far high.

900
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: You guys have to watch the shot. But I smacked

901
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: that bear right in the shoulder and he ran off

902
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: with my era and uh, the bear is still out

903
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: there being a bear today. I mean it didn't. It didn't.

904
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: It didn't get any penetration, just stuck in that scapula.

905
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: And man, I gotta say all the things that I

906
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: gotta say here. It was a terrible experience. Made me

907
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: evaluate all the different things that you know, was was

908
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: I practiced up? Was I ready mentally? And all those

909
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: questions it all just boils back down to just human error.

910
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't win them all. I had actually

911
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: been on an amazing traditional archery streak. That was the

912
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: first bear I've ever shot and not recovered ever. Yeah,

913
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: I was about that one bear. In all all these

914
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: years of bear hunting, I've never lost a bear and

915
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: U and actually been on a tremendous streak of with

916
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: white tails and bears with a treadbow. And it's this

917
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: is what I told Misty, my wife. I said, if

918
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: you ride bulls, you're gonna get your teeth knocked out.

919
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: If you shoot a traditional boat, you're gonna miss stuff.

920
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: And it just comes with a turf. It was. It was.

921
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: It was a roller coaster, you know that whole time

922
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: we've sat there and when it comes in and you decide, okay,

923
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it, you know, and we're rolling video. Man,

924
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,800
Speaker 1: it is some of the best stuff I've ever shot.

925
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: And it was from all the different actions and of

926
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: the bears that we got what bears being bears, and

927
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: then we decided to, you know, pull the pin on

928
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: this thing and get it done, and it just didn't

929
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: work out. It was it makes you appreciate more that

930
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: the times that we had before, that the success we

931
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: had before, because you know, we appreciate I mean, I

932
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, I think about those hunts all the time

933
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: and how much fun we had in the interaction we

934
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: had with each other and the bears. And but even

935
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: though the kill is not the the the reason you

936
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: travel up there. You know, it's it's everything combined. But

937
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was a letdown, and it

938
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: was a letdown. It was a life lesson and a

939
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: hard one. But the reason you can't appreciate the good

940
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: unless you get some of the bad the year before

941
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: that also, everything everybody in camp, I mean it was done. Yeah,

942
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: everything worked every great. Yes, I mean it really made

943
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: you appreciate how good that hunting was before, and the

944
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: hunting was excellent this time, you know, and you know

945
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: sometimes the shot just we struggled so well. Listen to this,

946
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, the old adage, and I've heard it on

947
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: a few in a few places, even the last few

948
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: days on social media. Don't take anything. Don't shoot anything

949
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: on the first day. Wait is that right? Don't shoot

950
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: anything on the first day, you wouldn't take on the last.

951
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,439
Speaker 1: Don't pass anything on the first day, you wouldn't shoot

952
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: on the last. I passed the bear on the first day,

953
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: shot him on the last day. I walked away with

954
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: a bad taste in my mouth from that. I truly

955
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: did it. Just it just didn't feel right, and I

956
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: kind of evaluated my motivations for shooting that bear. You know,

957
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: it really wasn't what I came up there to shoot

958
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: and I shot him and it and it didn't turn

959
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: out right. And let me tell you how I applied

960
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: this into my life later. Is the exact same thing

961
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: happened in Manitoba in August. Is that I on the

962
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: first day of the hunt. First day I hunted, I

963
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: filmed the guy. The first day, I had a color

964
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: phase bear come in that probably two people in North

965
00:58:55,280 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: America would have passed me and Rhyan. Now I was waiting.

966
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: I really wanted a big, heavy, like four plus pound

967
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: fall bear. This was This bear was gorgeous, and I

968
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: passed him on the first day and then because I

969
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: felt like the hunt was gonna be pretty easy. We're

970
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of bears in any way, the last

971
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: day came in in the outfitter. It was like that

972
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: bear is coming in there. He's still there. If you

973
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: want to go hunting, you can. And I knew that

974
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: if I went in there, I would shoot that bear

975
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: and it would have It was a bear that anybody

976
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: would have been proud of. And I actually regretted not

977
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: shooting him on the first day. Okay, but because of

978
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: that Saskatchewan deal, I said, no, I ain't even going

979
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: back in there. Put me over on this other place.

980
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: We hadn't even been where. There. It was a bear

981
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: that I really wanted to type, a bear that I

982
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: really wanted to hunt, was there, and I went over

983
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: there to that bait. The final day of the Manitoba hunt,

984
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: sat there and never saw the big bear. Came home

985
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: without it with a with a with tag my pocket.

986
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,439
Speaker 1: And so I actually felt good about that. I really

987
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: did even did out. Yeah, it did it. It felt

988
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: good to come away losing because I lost twice. I mean,

989
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: I went to I went to Saskatchewan, came over with

990
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: a tag in my pocket, went to Manitoba past bears

991
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: was playing it conservative, came home with a tag in

992
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: my pocket. So man, it's it's it's no fun coming

993
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: back from I've rarely come back from Canada with a

994
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: tag in my pocket. Yeah, well that is not that

995
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: is not the um. The primary goal, I guess is

996
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: to go up there and fill one. So it is

997
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: so a sobering Yeah yeah, to come back with it.

998
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: But you know the what's good about that it was

999
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: your choice. You know, you made that decision and for

1000
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: whatever reason internally, you know you did you did you

1001
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: feeled your tag. Yeah, your conscience tag or whatever you

1002
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: want to call it. You did that. So yeah, you

1003
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: didn't come home empty handed, you know. And he's probably

1004
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: so nervous he just couldn't pull back. And I was nervous.

1005
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't tell you. My legs were shaking. Yeah it was.

1006
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: And I think that what that had a lot to

1007
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: do with it. I really do, man, I really think

1008
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: because I've seen you snapshoot at a at bears before

1009
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: and it was just money. Yeah, I've seen you, you know,

1010
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: three yards. You know, it's hard to miss one at

1011
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: three yards, but at twenty five yards when you shot

1012
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: that bear the second time last year, I mean, it

1013
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: was it's definitely easier to shoot when your brain doesn't

1014
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: have time to catch up with your your the mechanics

1015
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: of your physical body, like just to just to shoot bam,

1016
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: you know. And that that's a big factor. And that

1017
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: to what I'm like, in traditional archery, you go through

1018
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: these stages and I kind of felt like I was

1019
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: on the honeymoon stage the last three years. I mean

1020
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:10,919
Speaker 1: I was just it was like, what's the big deal,

1021
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: what's the big deal? And then and then now I'm

1022
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,439
Speaker 1: I'm I'm getting a little bit panicky when the deer

1023
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: walks up or bear walks up because of partly for

1024
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: missing that bar in Sasketch. But that that is the

1025
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: beauty of traditional archery. I mean, if I if I

1026
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: didn't want the weapon to be my limiting factor, I'd

1027
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: be shooting the compound bow. And that that's just the

1028
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: game I want to play right now, and it may change.

1029
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: Just because you would have had a compound don't mean

1030
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: you would have killed it off. That's true. That's true.

1031
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: Slapped in the face with a dead red reality up there,

1032
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: you can still feel it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know

1033
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean it anything could happen with any

1034
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: weapon they the So that's what I'm working on. What

1035
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: I learned up there from that miss was I really

1036
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: have to pick a spot. That's so easy to say.

1037
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: It's so easy to say, pick a spot, small man.

1038
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: You gotta have a machine for a brain to pick

1039
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 1: a spot when you shoot an animal the traditional bow.

1040
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: And I'm still learning how to do that. Uh oh,

1041
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm still learning now. Going back to me being nervous,

1042
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: like the anticipation of seeing this bear walking, and we

1043
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 1: watched it for thirty minutes before took the shot, and

1044
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I was nervous as a cat.

1045
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I do love that that

1046
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: I still get excited when I shoot a bear. And

1047
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: will you also add in the fact that regardless of

1048
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: the outcome, the world is gonna know one way or

1049
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: the other because I'm sitting back there with a camera.

1050
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: And as soon as I did it, I knew that

1051
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: I could not make an episode about it. I knew

1052
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: that I could not, you know, I had to come

1053
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: out with it and and just and and hopefully somebody

1054
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: will learn and something from this. Nothing else is just

1055
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: just realities. Yeah. Yeah, So two days ago, two days ago,

1056
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about man. Two days ago, I missed a

1057
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: for around here, a whopper white tail buck, A good one.

1058
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: I mean, not like a one fifty, but for around here,

1059
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: a good one. Best deer I've missed in a long time.

1060
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: I will stand by my statement that I believe I

1061
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: hit really close to where I was aiming. Just a

1062
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: deer onen't there. When the air I got there, I

1063
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: text Ryan and Brent and tell him I missed, and

1064
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: I made the statement on text. I said, Man, I

1065
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: watched that deer for twenty minutes before I shot, and

1066
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: Brent goes, You're not very good if you have time

1067
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: to think about it, I've noticed that you don't perform

1068
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: real well. And that is when I drew the line

1069
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: in the sand and I was like, too soon, Brent,

1070
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: we can no longer to be friends. I said, I'm

1071
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: still in the tree. The dust hadn't even settled from

1072
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: where that buck kicked up, the leaves running off, And

1073
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: Brent's like, yeah, you're not very good when you have

1074
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: to think about it. You know, he volunteered the information,

1075
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: right right, and like we said, you know, he could

1076
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: name the episode, you know, if he makes one out

1077
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: of it, Missing this Year's Shooters this year. Yeah, that's

1078
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: a good. Uh. We we got a deal going here

1079
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: where well we should we tell the name of your podcast, Brent.

1080
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. No, yeah, yeah, the tagline of this podcast,

1081
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: missing this Year's Shooters. That's the inside generale no so

1082
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: ms ms A bear. It's all all h A journey

1083
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: of traditional archery and the discipline of traditional archery. That's

1084
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: what I love about it, I mean, and so to me,

1085
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: that's just where I'm at. I want to I want

1086
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: to do it with a treadbo. That being said, I'm

1087
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: going to Manitoba. I'm carrying a compound bow tomorrow, going

1088
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: to Manitoba, and the limiting factor is not I don't

1089
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: want it to be the bow, you know, so I'm

1090
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: gonna take it. But man, Ryan tell us, uh, tell us, uh,

1091
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 1: the phone ringing Citro Nella, Alabama. No mosquito is there.

1092
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: So so on the on the day that I shot

1093
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: my bear, I get a text on the garment and

1094
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 1: reach from Ryan and he says, just shot a big one.

1095
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: And so on day five is when you killed your bear.

1096
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: Give us, give us just a little rundown of the

1097
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: high storm. Well, I shot my bear on the fifth day,

1098
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: and you texted me while Brent and I were waiting

1099
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: at the boat. Yeah, it was a stif day, you know.

1100
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: The first day, Uh, he took me under to a

1101
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: different bait, which I had my heart set going to

1102
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: where I was going to hunt the rest of the week.

1103
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: But I went to this first bat and just seen

1104
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: I think it was a younger sale, probably twohundred pound sale.

1105
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 1: That evening it's the only bear i'd seen. But the

1106
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: next day I asked him, you know, if we could

1107
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: go back to where I'd killed the year before, he said, absolutely,

1108
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: which was a lot longer boat ride. So I took

1109
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 1: plenty of pain mids for the boat ride to get

1110
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: there because the wind had been blowing. But now I

1111
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: just kidding, but uh yeah, he took me to this

1112
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: bat and before I could even get settled in the

1113
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 1: blind of bears coming in. And but you know, that

1114
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: evening I'd seen I don't know, three or four bears,

1115
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: one really nice probably probably close to three hundred pound

1116
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: bour come in right off the bat. And as I've

1117
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: setting there, I'm trying to film self film h just

1118
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: over the know, here comes a big bear, a really

1119
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: big bear comes in, commits to the bait and about

1120
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: twenty five yards and he just does not give me

1121
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: the right angle. But in the meantime, I've got this

1122
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: other board circling within arms and reach. So I'm trying

1123
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: to shoot, you know, out of the looking over your

1124
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 1: shoulder bear trying to sniff you over here. Yeah, I've

1125
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 1: got a whopper just right out front that I'm waiting

1126
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: to get broadside, and this other one's you know, in

1127
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: my pocket, and no one stick set him. But anyway,

1128
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: this this bear never get a shot head. It ends

1129
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: up running a smaller bear off the bait and just

1130
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: kind of disappears for the evening. And which that's that

1131
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: first day was what a day? And it was that

1132
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: a two Monday. Monday was the first day. Yeah, Monday

1133
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: was at the other bait. Tuesday, I didn't get shot.

1134
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: Wednesday that same bear come in and the smaller bear, no,

1135
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: the bigger bear. Man, I've missed my days up. Yeah,

1136
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: I don't want me read anyway. I end up getting

1137
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: a shot at this bear I've seen the day before,

1138
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 1: which was a big bear, and I end up with

1139
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: him shoot right and dream I forgot about that Ryan. Huh.

1140
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: Now we can talk about Ry with a compound bow

1141
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:36,719
Speaker 1: and everybody in camp the shot and shot and shot

1142
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: every day, you know, so everybody's dead on and I

1143
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: don't know how, but I shot, you know, just low

1144
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 1: and I was sick about it. Hey, And let me

1145
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: just tell you I was shocked when I heard that.

1146
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean Ryan grabbed it and miss bears with a

1147
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,639
Speaker 1: compound bow off the ground. Yeah, I was down and out,

1148
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: but he wasn't that scared. And what's worse than that

1149
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 1: is he ended up coming back in later that evening

1150
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: and he stayed hid behind the barrel, wouldn't give me

1151
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:13,879
Speaker 1: the right shot again, And finally he goes to mosey

1152
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: off at about thirty yards broadside. Again, I shoot and

1153
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: shoot right and dream and I'm ready to we're going

1154
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: to end the podcast on this. But yeah, I forgot

1155
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: it too. I forgot you missed it twice. I'm glad

1156
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:38,799
Speaker 1: because y'all haven't been giving me a hard time. Round

1157
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: two starts today. Yeah, but the I think it was

1158
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: the next day, wasn't there maybe an hour and a

1159
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: really nice bear comes right in. We'd actually moved the

1160
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: barrel up there just a hair closer to you. I'm

1161
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: doubting myself, you know. And but anyway, this other bear

1162
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: comes right in, does what I want him to. I mean,

1163
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: I just center punched him. He actually run a half

1164
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: circle behind me and died just down there at where

1165
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: they pulled the boat up. But also while this is

1166
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 1: going on, I'm filming the whole week, self filming and

1167
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: get all the spectacular footage. I shoot this bear thing. Man,

1168
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 1: I've really done something, you know. And as I'm doing

1169
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 1: a little post hunt interview there, I noticed that red

1170
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: dots not light and needless to say, I didn't get

1171
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: any of the the bear coming in the shot anything,

1172
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 1: and I just it would have been a full episode

1173
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: to Bear Horizon. You robbed the people. I didn't. I didn't.

1174
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: I thought I'm leaving Canada without a scalp because he

1175
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: was gonna take Oh man. It was it was like

1176
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: getting somebody kicking sand in your eyes when you were down.

1177
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: Because Ryan was like, I killed a big one. I

1178
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: was like, yes, at least we got we got one

1179
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: good bear. Ryan's filming, and then like ten minutes later

1180
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 1: he said, but I didn't get oh man, I wish

1181
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,599
Speaker 1: I had. Hey, your last year's video that you self

1182
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: film has a hundred two views on YouTube. Yeah, this

1183
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: is incredible. The same same spots probably could have been

1184
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 1: some of the same bear as you saw. It might

1185
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: have been the bear end up killing this year. You know,

1186
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: I had not seen that bear that whole week, you know. Okay, see,

1187
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was a new bear. See. That's

1188
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 1: what's so unique about this kind of honey is that

1189
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 1: we set on just a red hot bait for five

1190
01:12:55,160 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: days and never saw just a whopper whopper bear. You said,

1191
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: on a red hot bait, and there were three whopper bears.

1192
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 1: And by a whopper, you know, a three hundred plus

1193
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 1: pound spring bear is a big bear. And the and

1194
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: the big one that you missed was probably in the

1195
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: four hundred pound range, okay, pushing for yeah, so I

1196
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: mean that's that's a monster spring bear. Monster spring bear.

1197
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: And then the one, the one you killed. How how

1198
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: big you think it was? I want to say it

1199
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 1: was three. You know, time was winding down, and I

1200
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: mean it was a good bear, right and uh, you know,

1201
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: I just decided to see if I could miss that

1202
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: one too, but yeah, it hitn't even Yeah, so it

1203
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 1: was a it was an awesome hunt that Ryan was

1204
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 1: was in. He was in his favorite little spot over there,

1205
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 1: did really good, had a lot of action. And then

1206
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: the sixth day, final day, Brent was up to bat.

1207
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:02,600
Speaker 1: And here was my deal. I shot that bear on

1208
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: the fifth day and actually had another full day to hunt,

1209
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:07,680
Speaker 1: and I just didn't feel right about it. There's no

1210
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:11,560
Speaker 1: that in Saskatchewan I could have continued to hunt. I

1211
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: still had an unfilled tag. But I told Brent, I said,

1212
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: my hunt's over, I'm done. You're up to bat and

1213
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,719
Speaker 1: uh so Brent actually went in where you killed your bear,

1214
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: and I knew for sure we were going to get

1215
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: a bear. Oh man, I mean I had a great feeling.

1216
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean we had one full I mean all it

1217
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: takes up there is an afternoon had been destroyed from

1218
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. We set for

1219
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 1: six hours and saw one bear that wouldn't even hardly

1220
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 1: come into the bait. And so it's just you just

1221
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: never know. So Brent got to hunt one day and

1222
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: and he could have shot this smaller bear that was there,

1223
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't what we were after. So go back.

1224
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to go back against Brian didn't if

1225
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna go about out of errors. Yeah, I'm gonna

1226
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: have to get some new arrows. Yeah. Well this it's

1227
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: it was a phenomenal hunt Bear pross Safari's Northern Saskatchewan,

1228
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: and we're probably gonna end up probably end up back

1229
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: there this year, some conglomeration of us. We're not sure,

1230
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 1: rights not sure if he can go. You know what

1231
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: I'd like to say is there's nobody doing what Kobe's

1232
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,640
Speaker 1: doing up there that we're aware of. That's you know

1233
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:34,679
Speaker 1: a lot of these outfitters, you know, it's places it's

1234
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: baited year after year after year. Some of them may

1235
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: not be that far from you know, access road or something,

1236
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: but Kobe takes you somewhere away from you know, the

1237
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: norm and put you on fresh bears. And he don't

1238
01:15:56,200 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: take no shortcuts. And you know, it's it's it's amazing

1239
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: us in what he does, the hard work that him

1240
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: and Dustin do, and you know, I'm amazed at their

1241
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: woodsmanship and you know, like I said, their work ethic

1242
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: and you know, there's nobody else I would go with

1243
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: the fare. I don't think that he spoiled me. Yeah, yeah, man,

1244
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: I have a ton of respect for all these bear outfairs.

1245
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: It's a tremendous amount of work. I mean, those guys

1246
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:29,800
Speaker 1: are just made of steel. They really are. Yeah, they're

1247
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: they're purpose driven. You know. I was talking to Okay

1248
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: out in California, UM about doing about some bear hunt

1249
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 1: by some film and stuff the other day and this

1250
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: is before the Arkansas opener, and told him, you know,

1251
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: we had a bear bait going and he put it

1252
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: pretty good, and he said he couldn't think of any

1253
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:53,520
Speaker 1: other hunt where you have more sweat equity and involved

1254
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:58,840
Speaker 1: and invested in something than than abated bear hunt. You know,

1255
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 1: I love all types of bear hunting. I love spotting

1256
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: stock hunting in the West. I mean, there's just something

1257
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:08,719
Speaker 1: special about it. There's something special about hunting with hounds.

1258
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: There's something special about hunting in in these big woods.

1259
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: The way we do. You couldn't really call it spotting stock,

1260
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: but almost like spotting stock. But the hardest hunts that

1261
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: I do in terms of volume of work, are baited hunts,

1262
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: you know, and and not taking anything away from a

1263
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:31,519
Speaker 1: spotting stock hunt, takes a ton of skill. It's technical.

1264
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 1: You gotta be in good shape. But man, bear hunts

1265
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: a lot of work. You know. I've helped you a

1266
01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: little bit in the past on a few baits, like

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Speaker 1: right before we get into camp, you know, a couple

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01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: of days early and we would bait, you know, and

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01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: I would film some stuff for you or maybe totally

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01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: little bait in or whatever. But this year, with me

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01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,599
Speaker 1: and a friend of mine, we started that that bait.

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01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: That's when I really realized, Man, this this ain't nothing easier.

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: But what I tell you, you know what he said,

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Speaker 1: the dream is free, but dream is free, the hustle

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01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: is sold separate. I ugh, like that. But it's true,

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01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, and it's you gotta stay on

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01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 1: if you wanted to work, you gotta stay on top

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01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: of it. And usually bears here, Um, you gotta do

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01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 1: some work to get to them, to get where they are.

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01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,639
Speaker 1: You can't just drive throw a loaf of bread out.

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01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: They're just gonna take some logistics. You gotta do a

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01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 1: lot of things right to kill the older, mature, bore

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01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: over bait, especially in Arkansas, Oklahoma. I mean, that's the

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01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:40,719
Speaker 1: best way I can describe it is that you gotta

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01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: do a ton of stuff, right. You gotta do a

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01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: ton of stuff right. Yeah, we almost destroyed the Polarish

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01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: Ranger having to get into this place they get, they

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01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: get the bait to get just to get the barrel

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01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: in there. I mean, it came out looking like something

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01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:59,679
Speaker 1: the climates were driving around when we were we got

1291
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 1: those hounds. It was terrible. That's where the bears are.

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01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: You got to get to them places, right, It's all

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01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:11,719
Speaker 1: about location. Well, we'll have another podcast at some point

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01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: with Ryan and maybe probably Brent too, but about Arkansas

1295
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 1: bears and about what we're doing and how we're targeting

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01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: these bears. You know, bears are so cool because they're

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01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: so diverse. I love hunting over bait, and I will

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01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: never not love hunting over bait. I also love going

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01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: out in the mountains national forest and just hunting them

1300
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: one on one. I love. I'm probably gonna end up

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: out in Tennessee later this fall hunting over hounds. I

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01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: mean that there's such a diverse animal. They cover such

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01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 1: a wide geographic range they cover, they overlap so many

1304
01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: different types of hunting cultures. I mean that it's just

1305
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: such a unique, unique animal to be able to hunt.

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01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:56,759
Speaker 1: Whatever is happening ecologically in North America, it's beneficial to bears.

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01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,640
Speaker 1: You show me a bear population that's in decline, a

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01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: black bear population that's in decline in North America, they're

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01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: just they're just not I mean, they're there where they're

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01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 1: they're they're expanding every direction out of Arkansas, in the

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01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: eastern Oklahoma, southern Missouri, western Mississippi, northern Louisiana, northeast Texas.

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01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up in southeast Arkansas, and if

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01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:22,719
Speaker 1: you wanted to see a bear, you had to drive

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01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,599
Speaker 1: a long ways away. And I got a buddy works

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01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:30,719
Speaker 1: for the US Fish and Wildlife service down Felsenthal National

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01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 1: Wildlife Refuge. You want to see a bear, He'll just

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01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: go out and show you one. They're covered in bears everywhere. Yeah,

1318
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: So this is a great time to be a bear hunter,

1319
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, and I think for bears are kind of

1320
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: overlooked in some ways. And that's what we're trying to

1321
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: change your Bear Hunting magazine, And we're trying to educate

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01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: two people to about the conservation angle of this type

1323
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: of hunting. I mean, spring bear hunting is strategically half

1324
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: in during fawning times. So you take a bear out

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01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: of that population, it's one less bear that's gonna be

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01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: able to target a moose fawn or a caribou fawn

1327
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: or a whitetail fawn. I mean there's we use the meat.

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01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:15,600
Speaker 1: I mean, bear meat is fantastic when it's handled and

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01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: cooked correctly. We use the hide, we we we take

1330
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: the skulls. I mean, there's all these wildlife commodities we've

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01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: rendered down the fat, there's all these things that we

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01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: do with bear and we're learning more every day. I mean,

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01:21:29,439 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I've made it a mission and what I

1334
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:35,719
Speaker 1: do to try to learn more about how to utilize

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01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:39,360
Speaker 1: this animal that we that we love, value, appreciate, and

1336
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: so you just can't be a bear hunter in ten

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01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: and expect this to continue unless we're pretty dern educated

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01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: and even articulate. What I want to do with bear

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01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,599
Speaker 1: any magazine, and with this podcast and with our videos

1340
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: is to put words in people's mouths that they can

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01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: then begin to say. And not that I'm the one

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01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: that started it. I mean somebody told me how to

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01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: say it, but just just this idea that if we

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01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: want the bear hunt for charismatic megafauna, for big predators

1345
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 1: to continue in the politically correct, urbanized, civilized, concrete ized

1346
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,600
Speaker 1: society that we now live in, we're gonna have to

1347
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: get super smart. And even in this world of social media,

1348
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: which I don't have a good answer to, it'd probably

1349
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:28,519
Speaker 1: be better if we never, none of us ever put

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01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: anything on the internet about bear hunting. But that's just

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01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I mean that's kind of like saying, well,

1352
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 1: it'd be better if nobody drove cars, because people would

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01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 1: dyeing car x those one wouldn't be depleted. And it's like, well,

1354
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 1: we've kind of we're too far steeped in blood. We

1355
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: can't not drive cars. The world knows we bear hunt,

1356
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 1: so we might as well get educated and and our

1357
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: goal is to put out some quality media that has

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01:22:53,040 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 1: a a a solid perspective on to portray it as

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01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,080
Speaker 1: it actually is and in the right way to what

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01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 1: we think is the right way to do things. Yeah,

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01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: for the for the species in the sport. Let's yeah,

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01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: species first. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Hey, check out

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01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: the Bear Hunting Magazine YouTube channel and watch this episode. Uh,

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01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,680
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be the most recent episode about Saskatchewan.

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01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: I don't even know that. I hadn't even named it.

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01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: It swinging a mis swinging in this swing too soon, brother,

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01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:38,680
Speaker 1: um so, but you'll be able to watch you'll be

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Speaker 1: able to watch this episode. Hey, check out our print magazine,

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Speaker 1: Shameless plug Man, We've got an awesome print magazine. We're

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Speaker 1: the only bare hunting magazine in the world, only print

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Speaker 1: barhunting magazine in the world, and you know, check it out. Subscribe,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to podcast. Check out our YouTube channel. Man.

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Speaker 1: Keep the wild places why because that's where the fays live.