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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This episode number one sixty seven

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Speaker 1: and today the show it is story time, as I'm

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Speaker 1: sharing all the details of my absolutely mind blowing, unbelievable

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Speaker 1: lasking cabal hunting experience and an update on my steal

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Speaker 1: in progress Montana public Land White to hunt. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by sit gear, and today it's just Dan and I

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Speaker 1: and I have got some stories to tell. But but Dan,

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Speaker 1: before all that, well, what's what's new with you? Mark?

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Speaker 1: Let's just cut the bullshit right now. Okay, nobody cares

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Speaker 1: about what's going on with me, especially when you're posting

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Speaker 1: pictures behind a giant cariboo and your social media feed

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Speaker 1: is saying, oh cool man, Look I'm in Montana in

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Speaker 1: a white you know, hunting white tail. When the coolest

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Speaker 1: thing I've done in the past two weeks is okay,

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Speaker 1: I checked one trail camera. My family got a new house.

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Speaker 1: My wife gets mad because my son has a running

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Speaker 1: nose and he wipes his boogers on it. My wife's

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Speaker 1: pregnant and she's about to pop. That's my life right there.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seconds. Really. Well, so you got a new house,

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Speaker 1: that's news. No, a new couch, couch, couch couch. Remember

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Speaker 1: that couch story, the browning points of the couch story. Yep,

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Speaker 1: that was the birthday present. So and my son, he's

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Speaker 1: in this mode. This is disgusting. And I'm sure all

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Speaker 1: boys at some point did it, but he is in

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Speaker 1: full blown pick your nose and eat it mode. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm slapping his hand away. I'm saying no, that's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: And he looks at me like I'm not even there,

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Speaker 1: just with these hollow eyes, and he picks his nose

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Speaker 1: that is disgusting. That is disgusting. Mac. He's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a troublemaker, Oh buddy, he already is he He just

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Speaker 1: doesn't give it. He doesn't care. He doesn't care, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of cool. I I see him as growing

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Speaker 1: He just he's that kid who just hey, man, I

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Speaker 1: don't care if you think picking boogers is eating him

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Speaker 1: his gross I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be happy

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Speaker 1: doing he I don't care, man, I don't care. Look

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Speaker 1: good for him, good for him, good for him. So

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking today we flipped the script a little bit

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Speaker 1: and this is the Wired to Hunt podcast. But I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna ask you a lot of questions about your trip,

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Speaker 1: your trips, you know, the caribou hunt with Ronella, the

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Speaker 1: Montana um, you know, the Montana adventures that you got

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Speaker 1: going on, and just kind of shoot from the hip

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Speaker 1: like we always do. Yeah. I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: plan because there's there's lots to share over what I've

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Speaker 1: been doing over the past few weeks and what's going

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Speaker 1: just like, I mean, do you want to hear about

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Speaker 1: my Alaska trip? No, nobody wants to hear about that.

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Speaker 1: Shut up here. This is that's just but before we

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Speaker 1: get into the Alaska trip, right, you what were you

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Speaker 1: talked about that a little bit and you never tagged

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Speaker 1: that did I tell you about how that went? No?

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Speaker 1: has been a pretty epic couple of weeks because that

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Speaker 1: Bob Marshall Wilderness up in northern Montana, and the Bob

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Speaker 1: And then we fished every day and um, man unbelievable scenery,

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Speaker 1: Seattle Fairbanks I think was like three and a half

428
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 1: hours or something like that. And unfortunately I didn't have

429
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: a window seat. I wish I did though, because I

430
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: was I was at an aisle seat, so I had

431
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: to look past two people through the window and I

432
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: was like over over the wing. But even with all that,

433
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: you could still see some just unbelievable mountains, just you know,

434
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: completely snow covered, massive peaks, all these glaciers that you're

435
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: flying like the whole trip, but especially when you're on

436
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: the plane. I just felt like I was living like

437
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: a Discovery Channel special. It's just like I just like this,

438
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 1: this isn't I kept of telling myself, this isn't a

439
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: movie mark, this is life. Like this is actually real life.

440
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, like I'm flying over glaciers like massive

441
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: tongues of ice coming off these mountain sides. Um just

442
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 1: just awesome. And um so that was. That was sweet.

443
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: And then we touched down in Alaska and I was like,

444
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: holy crap, I'm actually in Alaska, like we landed there

445
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, hey, guys, I just checked a

446
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: major item off my life bucket list. So I'm just

447
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 1: gonna turn around and go home. Now made to Alaska.

448
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: Um So, then the trans then it's time to take

449
00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: off from the transporter plane, right that that following morning

450
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: and head into the bush right yeah, And that was

451
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: that was really cool. Um So I was some of

452
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: the guys were being shuttled from the trans from town

453
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: to a wilderness airstrip on a bigger plane, like a

454
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: four person plane, and then then they would take a

455
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: smaller plane from that airstrip to our camp. But the

456
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,719
Speaker 1: two heaviest people, I was one of the two heaviest people. Um.

457
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: We got to fly straight from town all the way

458
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: to our camp area. UM in the little super cub

459
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: and super Cub is this really small plane. It's like

460
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous. UM seeing it for the first time,

461
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: there's just the pilot in front and then you and

462
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: it's like basically the pilots like sitting in my lap,

463
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: like my legs are on either side of him, and

464
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: it's just like glass all around me and one single

465
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: propeller and it looks like you could just like tip

466
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: this thing over with your leg if you kicked it. UM.

467
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: But man, that was so so cool. We we got it,

468
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: started flying, and very quickly you passed town and then

469
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: it's just nothing so versus all this is like muskeg

470
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: like swampy, tung jury marshy stuff that we're flying over.

471
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: And like the colors are like these reds and yellows

472
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: of these different willows and grasses and stuff. We're flying

473
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: over all this stuff, and then you start coming into

474
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: these hills and then eventually these big mountains. UM, and

475
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's there's all sorts of spruce trees

476
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: and aspens. They're starting to change colors and then these

477
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: massive above tree line mountaintops, just Barren Rock, um in Stone,

478
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of

479
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: um the Presidential Range in New Hampshire, like the White

480
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: Mountains up there Mount Washington for anyone familiar with that area.

481
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: This looked very much like that, like those types of mountains,

482
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 1: but like just imagine on a much much bigger scale.

483
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, we're flying over these in this little

484
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: super cubing. We're flying like fifty ft or a hundred

485
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: feet off the ground. They just buzzing around these ridge

486
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: tops and curling around stuff, and you can just see everything.

487
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a super super cool flight.

488
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: And that again was just like there's no way I

489
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: can describe it in words to like convey just like

490
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: I just on this flight in the entire time, I

491
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: was just in awe of the scale of everything, like

492
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,239
Speaker 1: the distance I could see, and these massive mountains off

493
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: from the distance, and these other mountains that I'm right

494
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: on top of, and you know, these beautiful rivers winding everywhere,

495
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: and and and not a single sign of human intrusion

496
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: or presence anywhere. I mean, it was just hundreds hundreds

497
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: of miles of open space, and I'm thinking, as we're

498
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: flying over here, like how many bears out here are

499
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: out here? Moose or caribou or whatever might be there

500
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: so much wildlife all around here. So the flight in

501
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: was super cool. Um. What was interesting though, is I

502
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: assumed like they would be dropping us off I don't know,

503
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: like a gravel bar or a runway that they've made

504
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: somewhere out in the world. It's just something. But that's

505
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: not the case. They land you on top of a mountain,

506
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: like a little ridge coming off of a mountain side

507
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: like it's like a fifty there's like maybe fifty words

508
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: of space, and they just stop on a dime like that.

509
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: They's they're flying down and then just like boom, they're

510
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: right there on the ground. Um, but that's the case

511
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: when the wind's good. I was the first plan to

512
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: come in there, and we had like really windy conditions

513
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: and it wasn't good. So we go flying in and

514
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: he's like, all right, that's what we're gonna be landing, Like,

515
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: holy crap, that's we're gonna land And he circles in

516
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: and comes down and then he comes in and then

517
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: the last second he pulls up and like cranks up

518
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: and pulls up, and then he looks back and he goes,

519
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: you don't get airsick, do you? And I'm like, I

520
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: don't know yet. He's like, because this is gonna be interesting.

521
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: So he ended up having to do that like four

522
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,479
Speaker 1: or five times. He makes these really tight turns were

523
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: completely on our side, spins around, and then comes flying

524
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: in and then tries to touch down in this fifty

525
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: mile or fifty ft like circle on the ridge and

526
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: can't do it, pulls up, does it over and over again.

527
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, while this is happening, there's he's scattering caribou

528
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: off the mountain, like there's cariboo everywhere, right, We're gonna land. Um.

529
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: So finally I feel like five times he's able to

530
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: get down, and it was like, wow, that was something

531
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: and um, and then you know, for the rest of

532
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: the another four or five hours or so, it was

533
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: just basically them shuttling in the other guys and all

534
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: of our equipment and um, you know, then it was

535
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: setting up camp. And meanwhile, while this is all happening,

536
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: we're seeing caribou coming over the hillside on the mountaintop

537
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: or skirting around us on the ridge. I mean there's

538
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: just cariboo everywhere, and um, we set up camp and

539
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: uh got ready and we're gonna go do a little

540
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: scouting once we all got settled. So any question before

541
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: move on? Yes, Yes, at this point, dude, like you're

542
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: telling me you're living something that I've been dreaming about

543
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: personally as well. Has reality at this point set in

544
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: for you at all? Or are you just kind of

545
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: overwhelmed with everything that's happening. Are you saying that right

546
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: now today or at that point? I mean, like at

547
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: that point, at that point, I mean, dude, you're living

548
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: a national geographic type television show at this point. You know,

549
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: it's like, well, ship, we can't land. While we're just

550
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: gonna skip off this mountain. Five times you had some

551
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful scenery in the entire world outside

552
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 1: and for me, I like every time. Do you remember

553
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: when we were coming back from that Elk hunt. Yeah,

554
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: and I was yeah that and just I was out

555
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: the window like a dog looking and remember and we

556
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: were driving even through Wyoming and I was just like,

557
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: oh my god, look there's Natalope, Like, oh my god,

558
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: look look look over there, Mark Martin. It was like, buddy,

559
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: I've been on this road like a hundred times, right,

560
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: so but for you, this is this is virgin ground.

561
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: You've never done anything like this. I mean, what was

562
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: going through your head at this point? Like I would

563
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: be shaking, yeah, I mean it was definitely like kind

564
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: of like you were on that wyoming drive. I was

565
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: just like there was so much going on that like

566
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 1: at times that you get caught up in like the action.

567
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: But I made a point like as much as I

568
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: could throughout the toll trip to just like try to

569
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: like remind myself, like this is such a special thing,

570
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: take it in. So I tried to find moments to

571
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: like sit off by myself and just like just look

572
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: around in silence or like just try to process it.

573
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: But I probably didn't even get to do do that as

574
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 1: much as I wanted to, because like, there was just

575
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: stuff going on. And the one thing, you know, probably

576
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: my biggest anxiety going into this trip. It wasn't like, oh,

577
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: am I going to get in a plane crash like

578
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: these things that can be dangerous. No, it wasn't that.

579
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: It wasn't like worrying about grizzly bears. It wasn't, am

580
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: I going to kill Caribou. Like my biggest anxiety was

581
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: probably it was more so like that the people stuff, like,

582
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, and am I going to be a good

583
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: fit with this group? Are they gonna like me? Uh?

584
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: You know, I want to make sure I can you know,

585
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: pull my own weight and you know, do all the

586
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: stuff that I need to do. Um. I don't want

587
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: them to feel like I don't know what I'm doing

588
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So it's like that people stuff. Um.

589
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: So because of that, like I was kind instantly and

590
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: I would I would do this anyways, but I was

591
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: especially trying to make sure I did a really great

592
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: job of like always be helping, always doing something. Like

593
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be that guy that was like

594
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: lazy and like sitting off by himself playing around. So

595
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: it was like whenever other people were doing stuff, I

596
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: was constantly trying to find a way that I could

597
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: help out. So because of that, I was I maybe

598
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: didn't get as much time just like sit and like

599
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: take stuff in because I was like can I help

600
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: you move this back? Can I help you cook this thing?

601
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: Can I help do this thing? Um? So I was

602
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: like running around like like a chicken with his head

603
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: cut off. Just trying to make sure I was, you know,

604
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: doing my part um, but still still I mean there

605
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: was still plenty of times to soak it all in.

606
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was just unreal. And we you know,

607
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: once we got everything set up, we're gonna go out

608
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: and do some scouting because that first day when you

609
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: fly in, you can't hunt on the day you fly in.

610
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: So we finally got our stuff around and you know,

611
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: now I'm learning a little about the TV side of

612
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: things too. So they got me all miked up and

613
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: they kind of talked through some of the things they

614
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: like to do and how they like to do this stuff,

615
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: and um, we start hiking up the mountain and we

616
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: were basicallynn hike up to a high point and sit

617
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: up there in glass and just trying to get a

618
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: get an idea of where these cariban are coming through

619
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: and where we might want to go back to the

620
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: next morning. And um, I found like it first when

621
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: you've got like, you know, there's me and Steve and

622
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: Doug up front, and then there's these other two guys

623
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: behind you walking along, and then there's two cameras they're

624
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: like running ahead of you or walking circles around you,

625
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: or like standing right next to you with the camera

626
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: in your face, and a couple of times I almost

627
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: like started to laugh. It just felt so absurd, so

628
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: I had to catch myself, like I got like a

629
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: half smirk on my face, like keep it together, Kenyan, Yeah,

630
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: act like you've been there before. But but yeah, the

631
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: scouting was good. We saw a lout of caribou and um,

632
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: you know, just got to have some good conversations with

633
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: the guys. And then on our way back to camp

634
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: that evening, Jana spotted the grizzly bear just underneath our camp,

635
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: just off the ridge. So we all go walking down

636
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: a ridge a little bit closer and we're watching him

637
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: with our buyos and stuff. Just one of the most

638
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: beautiful grizzly bears I've ever seen. Um. He was like

639
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: pure gold like sheny blonde gold like beautiful coat. Um,

640
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: and he was just feeding on blueberries and stuff. There's

641
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: berries all over the place, and um, he's feeding on

642
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: these blueberries. And he starts angling his way up the ridge,

643
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: getting closer and closer and closer, and we're all geeking

644
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: out on loving watching him. But he gets to maybe

645
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: like a hundred yards ninety yards and Steve was like,

646
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, we probably ought to get this guy out

647
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: of here, especially because of how close we were to

648
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: camp Um. So he starts yelling, making some noise, and

649
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: the bear looks up finally notices up there, but instead

650
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: of like spooking off, he's just curious, so he just

651
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: starts running towards us. Yeah. So then Steve was like

652
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: picking up rocks and throwing rocks towards it and yelling,

653
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 1: and finally he got to maybe I don't know, sixty

654
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: five or seventy yards or somewhere around that ballpark. And

655
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: then finally he does like, all right, real as, I

656
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: don't want to mess with these guys, and he turns

657
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: and runs off. But it was just a really cool,

658
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: you know, encounter, And like now I'm like, all right,

659
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: I've got like my lasket, Like this is everything I wanted.

660
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: I've seen tons of cariboo, I had my grizzle bear encounter.

661
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: I'm camped out on top of this wind swept rocky

662
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: ridge and I can see like hundreds of miles maybe

663
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: in every direction. That's all I need. I'm good, right, right, So,

664
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: then while you were on this little scouting mission, did

665
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: you guys, locate some cariboo and were you putting a

666
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: plan together on how to attack it that next day. Yeah. So,

667
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: so here's the thing with these caribo was like they're

668
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: they're constantly moving, and it was just like there's always cariboo.

669
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: So we kind of identified like a general path, like

670
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: a travel path, like basically where we were situated, there

671
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: was a almost like a pass in the chain of

672
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: mountains and some ridges that kind of kind of like

673
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: deer are funneled through topography by saddles in a mountain

674
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: or something like their saddles on a ridge. There was

675
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: a series of saddles and ridges that were funneling this

676
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: migration of caribou passed our ridge. Um, so we located

677
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: this general area where there's just constantly caribou trickling through,

678
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we knew that these these caribou

679
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: are there one day, they're gone the next so there's

680
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: gonna be different cariboo. But assuming that the migration continued,

681
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: assuming that we weren't at the end of the migration,

682
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: we knew that they should be back there the next day.

683
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: So we we found this general area and then the

684
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: plan was the next day to just go back up

685
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: to this little glassing knob and watch again. But that

686
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: was that wass as firm as a game plans we had,

687
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: But it's kind of all you needed. Um. I mean,

688
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: this is the most absurd hunting I've ever had in

689
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: my life. Like it's unlike anything else, unlike elk hunting,

690
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: unlike deer hunting, like by it ten times in that

691
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: there's just there's constantly animals. You're constantly watching animals, and um,

692
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't a question, to be honest, very quickly we

693
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: realized as soon as soon as we realized like okay,

694
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: yes we're in the middle of the migration. It's not

695
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: like the end of it, Like we're in it. It

696
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: wasn't a question of if we're going to shoot cariboo.

697
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: It was just which one you wanted to shoot because

698
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: there were so many. But I will say what we

699
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: found is that you know, when I when I went

700
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: into this, when um Janice was like telling me, yeah,

701
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: you know, there's we're gonna be hopefully intercepting the migration. Um.

702
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: And when I started thinking about caribou migration, I was

703
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: thinking of like Discovery Channel stuff where you see like

704
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: these massive ambas of like twenty thousand or thirty thousand

705
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: animals all together like pouring across an area. It's not

706
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: it wasn't like that. Um. It was like here's a

707
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: group of five, here's a group of twenty, here's a

708
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: group of fifty, here's a group of fifteen, and they're

709
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: all kind of strung out. Or you could like sit

710
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: on the mountainside and you could look on one ridge

711
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: and you see a group of twenty, group of fifty,

712
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: group of ten there. But like any different direction you looked,

713
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: you'd see a group of cariboo there and they're constantly

714
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: moving through or the bed for a little bit, or

715
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: they mail around feeding for a little bit. But it

716
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: wasn't like this giant wave them. It was just this

717
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: never ending kind of trickle and flow of different size

718
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: groups coming through. Um. So that was what we started

719
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: to see on day one, and we continued to see

720
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: that the rest of the way. Okay, so so it's

721
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: just one of those things where you guys just kind

722
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: of you you found out where they were, and then

723
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: you drop off the mountain to go intercept the basic

724
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: line of the path of the migration. Then yeah, and

725
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: there and there were you know, there it wasn't like

726
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: one single line, Like there's lots of different little directions

727
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 1: and stuff that different groups of them would go. But yeah,

728
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: I mean when it came down to a day's you know,

729
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: the three days that we were actually hunting, that basically

730
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: end up being what we did. We had this general

731
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: glassing section that we would go to and we would

732
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: explore different areas, but many times we ended up back

733
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: there and you could just watch over this large area

734
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: and you just sit in the hillside with spotting scopes

735
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: and binoculars and you just pick out different groups and

736
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: eyeball that group. You find different group, eyeball that group,

737
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 1: find different group, eyeball that group, and um, because there's

738
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: so many animals, you know, Steve was, we should be

739
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: pretty picky about what we're gonna shoot. I mean, there's

740
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: no reason to go off and shoot the first thing,

741
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: you see. So he kind of described the main things

742
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: that you're looking for in a good and mature bowl

743
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: and with a big you know, a big mature caribou

744
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: bowl is going to have so they kind of differentiate.

745
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: On a caribou. There's like these times and there's the

746
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: there's the tops, and there's the fronts. Um. So the fronts,

747
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: like those things that obviously come out from the front,

748
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: like these different little arms and hands of aniler that

749
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: comes out right above the kind of like a brow

750
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: time type thing. And um. And then there's the tops,

751
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: which are like you know, the tall main being that

752
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: goes up and then you've got those top times up there.

753
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: So good bowl would have like long tops and maybe

754
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: palmated tops. He'd have backscratcher points, which are these little

755
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: kind of flyers that come off the back of that

756
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: big main beam. And he'd have you know, big sweeping

757
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: fronts with good times, and maybe a shovel or two

758
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: which are these like kind of palmated I don't even

759
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: know how to describe it. But and the picture of

760
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: my bowl you can see one I've I've got a

761
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: single shovel on mine. You can see this flat kind

762
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: of palmated vertical sun of antlers that comes like straight

763
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: off his forehead. So we're looking for that. And then

764
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: also you're looking at, you know, in relative to all

765
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 1: the other caribou, So you need to establish a context

766
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: because they all look big. Um, So you kind need

767
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: to look at a bunch of them and then compare

768
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: this one to that one, this one to that one. Um,

769
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: so very quickly I realized like, we're going to be

770
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: pretty picky. And uh so day one, you know, we

771
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: we get up and we make some you know, cornolla

772
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: oatmeal in the morning and coffee, get around and then

773
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: we head back up the mountain and we're sitting there

774
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: and we're seeing all these cariboo again and we're glassing

775
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: and figuring stuff out, and finally we spott a cariboo

776
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: that that you know, looked good and Steve was like, yeah,

777
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: that's that's a good one. So he grabbed Doug and Doug,

778
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: let's let's go after this one. So they go taken

779
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: off after that one, and they took the two camera

780
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: and then myself, Brody and Jana stayed up on the

781
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: mountains side so that we didn't have seven people trying

782
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: to chase his cariboo, and we watched and glassed from above,

783
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: and they made a move on this group of cariboo.

784
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: But these guys, these balls were moving so fast across

785
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: the terrain that Steve and the crew they kind of

786
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: angled where we saw them. But within moments of like

787
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: them starting hike after him, these caribo were past that point,

788
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: we're moving way far to the left, so we watched

789
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: from above and watched them missed the cariboo by a mile,

790
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: and they're gone, and then they continued stalking in, thinking

791
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: they're getting on them, and then they finally realized that

792
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: they weren't. But another group of cariboo had moved in

793
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: and really another nice new ball came through and Doug

794
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 1: ended up not shooting that one, but we thought maybe

795
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: he would. But basically that whole morning was was watching

796
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: that happen, and um, they didn't end up shooting anything,

797
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: but super cool just watching it all happened. And meanwhile

798
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: I was just sitting up on the mountain watching other

799
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: animals and just kind of soaking it in and taking

800
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: pictures and stuff. And eventually they come back up and

801
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: we talked about what happened, etcetera, etcetera, and we're bs

802
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: and and stuff. And while we're kind of getting shied

803
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: around again, I'm glassing and I spot a new group

804
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 1: of bowls that popped out over another hill across the ridge,

805
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, there's some really good ones

806
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: up there. And after everybody looked like, yep, there's definitely

807
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: there's a really good one and so he's like your

808
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: turn mark. And at this point it was like a

809
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: roller coaster, um is the only way I could describe it.

810
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 1: And I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't shoot

811
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: one early, like I was thinking hoping I could shoot

812
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: a caribou on the last day, you know. So he

813
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: worked really hard and like had that whole experience and

814
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: then it finally happens. Um. And also again to like

815
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: my my only anxieties again were like related to like

816
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: the people related stuff. I just didn't know what the

817
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,959
Speaker 1: process was going to be, like you know with the show.

818
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: So did they determine who got first shot or was

819
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 1: it just kind of a shoot from the hip thing?

820
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: So I think Steve, I think Steve was just gonna

821
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: bounce back and forth between me and Doug on stocks

822
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: and then once we got a chance, then he would

823
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: then he would shoot one. UM. So Doug got his

824
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: first stock that didn't go. So then you know my name,

825
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: we got called for the second stock. UM. But I

826
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: don't know if I was mentally ready because I told Doug,

827
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey Doug, I want, I want, I want

828
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: you should have the first you should have the first shot.

829
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: You know you were invited on this trip. First, I

830
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: was a late edition. You've been thinking about this for

831
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: a year. Um, I want to make sure you get one.

832
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: So I thought, you know, I want him to shoot one.

833
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: And then also like I kind of wanted to let

834
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: someone else go through the whole thing and I could observe,

835
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: like you know, because it's not like hunting on your own.

836
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: You know, you when you're hunting on your own, you

837
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: make all the decisions. You do it your way. Um,

838
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: you got the deer year way, you process the deer

839
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: yr way, and there's no one, like, you know, no

840
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: one else to worry about. In this situation, it was

841
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: like you know, I was It was like I was

842
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: living in someone else's house. Do you know how that is?

843
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 1: Like if you go visit someone else's house and you're

844
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: they're staying at their place, like you're following their rules.

845
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: You gotta put stuff in the place they want to

846
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: put stuff, Like you're not going to sit on their

847
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: couch in the underwear, right, And like I get I

848
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: have like anxiety, a small amount of anxiety when I

849
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: stay at other people's house because like I don't want

850
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: to do something the wrong way or I don't want

851
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: to mess up their stuff or whatever it might be.

852
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: So I had like those kinds of feelings because I

853
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: just didn't you know, you just don't know what the

854
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: norms are. So for example, like if I were to

855
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: shoot one, um, should I just dig in and start

856
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: gutting it right away like I would, or to Steve

857
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: do the gutting because you know, that's how he likes

858
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: it on the show, or like you know, So all

859
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: these like little questions or the things that were like

860
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: giving me anxiety. So all that to say that, now

861
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's my turn to go. And

862
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: I was like not mentally prepared, Like I was thinking

863
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: Doug was gonna be the shooting today and I would observe,

864
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: and but no, it's like go time. So this whole time,

865
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: I've been clicking, you know, going up the hill of

866
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: the rollercoaster, click click click, click click click, going higher

867
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: and higher higher, and then like I'm at the top,

868
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: and then Steve says, all right, Mark, let's go. Now

869
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: I'm just off the edge flying down And from that

870
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: point on it was just a bulur. So we go

871
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: running down the mountain. I got two cameraman behind me,

872
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: running and we're like sprinting down because these bulls were

873
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: coming across the ridge and then they went behind this

874
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: big hill. But they're going to come over this hill

875
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: and drop into this flat kind of basin, and we

876
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: have to intercept them at that basin because if we

877
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: don't get to the basin before, it's not really basin,

878
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: it's more of a bench. If we don't get to

879
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: that bench on the ridge before they do, they're gonna

880
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: see us. So we have to get there before they

881
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: come over top of this hill. So we're racing our

882
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: way down there and I'm huffing and puffing and cruising

883
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: down there. We finally get to this little knob looking

884
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: over the bench and we we dropped down and start

885
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: glassing and we don't see the caribou um. So now

886
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: it's like, got crap. Did they like go around the corner,

887
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: go another way? But you know, a minute of glassing

888
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: maybe and all of a sudden, this is when I

889
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: did get that Discovery Channel moment where like you just

890
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: saw like trees pop out from the top of the hill,

891
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: and slowly these trees became heads and the necks and

892
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: then bodies as all these bulls came over the hill

893
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: and then they just started piling and they were in

894
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: one big, massive group, but maybe like fifty or sixty

895
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,760
Speaker 1: or something, I don't know, something like that. Those big

896
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: group coming down the mountain and are right in the

897
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: front is this big snowy white Maine big bull and Um,

898
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: so I lay down, I put my pack in front

899
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: of and put my rifle on the pack, and um,

900
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: there's there's several next bulls. So I'm not exactly sure

901
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: which of these bulls is like the best one. But

902
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: Steve's like it's that it's that front one. And I'm like,

903
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: look at him, like he looks really good, but the

904
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: one behind it looks really good. So they're coming across

905
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: to come down the hill. They're coming across the bench

906
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: and UM, I look over at Steve, Steve, do you

907
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: think we should try to cut? Should we try to crawl?

908
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: Kind of cut a little farther to the left so

909
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: we can intersect them at a closer distance. Um. And

910
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: He's like, wow, how far are you come from shooting?

911
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I'd like I'd look a shot

912
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: like two hundred yards would make me super happy, two

913
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: hundred less because you know, I don't gun hunt. A

914
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: gun hunt like a couple of days a year. Um.

915
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 1: And when I do gun hunt, I'm up in northern Michigan,

916
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: where the longest shot you're gonna get like sixty or

917
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: seventy yards. So I'm not I'm not a long raine shooter.

918
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: I'm not a long range rifle shooter. I've been practicing

919
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: at a hundred and two hundred yards with this rifle

920
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: that you honest let me borrow when I was out

921
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: in Montana, and I kind of went into it saying, yeah,

922
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: I know lots of guys take way longer shots than that.

923
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: I know, like three hundred or four yard shots are

924
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: like the norm for a lot of guys. But for

925
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: me to be comfortable, I'd rather do two hundred, Like

926
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: I just I don't need to stretch it. Um. But

927
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: Steve's like, well, what do you what do you want

928
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: to shoot at? I'm like, well, i'd be happy if

929
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: it's two hundred or less. And he's like, well, look

930
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: at your scope and look at the two hash marks down.

931
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: That's three use that. I'm like, and I'm not going

932
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm not gonna say no, I'm not

933
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: gonna like argue with him about it, um, but in

934
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: my hand like shit, fortunately though, and I just want

935
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: to stay up front, like before we went further, I

936
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 1: want to preface that, like everyone and Steve to everyone

937
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: was just like awesome about you know, Steve wasn't pressuring

938
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: me into doing anything I didn't want to do, and

939
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: I felt super comfortable and everything was great. But but

940
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: regardless like how you know how great they were about it,

941
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: I still felt like pressure, you know what I mean,

942
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: Like they weren't putting any pressure on me, but I

943
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: was putting pressure on myself. That's what I'm trying to say.

944
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: So you know, so Steve's like, you know, just put

945
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: that second hash on there. Um. Luckily, they kept angling

946
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: closer and I'm kind of waiting and they're moving pretty quick. Um.

947
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: And then I'm like I'm like, all right, I'm gonna

948
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: shoot one night when they stopped, Steve's like, well, they're

949
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 1: not gonna stop, Like like, oh crap, you're right because

950
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: they're they're moving on a pretty good clip. And then

951
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: he said, make sure you don't shoot two um, because

952
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: there's you know, they're they're they're all bunched together and

953
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: they're kind of coming in and out and I'm like, god, geez,

954
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: so I'm taking a longer shot than I've taken often,

955
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: and they're moving and they're like pasting in between, you know,

956
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: they're all they're all bunched up, and I'm like, jeez,

957
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: this is a debacle. But like in the moment, I

958
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: didn't really have time to think through this. It was

959
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: just like, this is a situation. This is happening. So

960
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: a long story short, got gun rested on my pack.

961
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 1: This is all happening. I'm gonna be taking this shot.

962
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: So I get the scope on it, and um, I ranged.

963
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: I got two thirty five I think was the last

964
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: range I took. So I put it right on him

965
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: and uh and then just shot like it just happened fast,

966
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: Like I was on him. He was moving as soon

967
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: as he came out from um behind another one and

968
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: I had an open shot, a shot and instant you

969
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: can see impact that you can see I hit him.

970
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: He stands there and then like and then he like

971
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: almost immediately lays down. So I'm like, awesome, like he's

972
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: going down. It's done. But then like it's not like

973
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm not celebrating, not excited, and just like proof and

974
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: then watching, but he hasn't like keeled over here. He's

975
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: lays there and then he stands back up, and I'm like,

976
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: oh god, no, what happened? So then I put another

977
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: shot on him, and this time he goes down, lays

978
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: down again, and then does some kicks and and he dies. Um.

979
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: But it was like a longer process than I would

980
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: have liked. I would have liked if it was like

981
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: one shot drops and he's instantly dead, you know, that

982
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: that shoulder shot that just knocks him right down. Um.

983
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: So like I'm feeling like a little bit crap. I

984
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: didn't have a great shot. Blah blah blah. But long

985
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: story short, after a little while, we walked down there

986
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: and check him out. My first shot was back a

987
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: little bit. My second shot wasn't. The heart knocked him,

988
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: you know, took care of him right right there. Um.

989
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: But you know, I think that first one, it was

990
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: just the chaos of the moment, the nerves, the moving shot,

991
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: all these things that maybe, um, you weren't ideal um

992
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: led to an ideal first shot. Luckily, the second one

993
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 1: I was able to recompose and make it happen. But

994
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: but I felt long the reason I mentioned all this

995
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 1: is that in that moment, I felt like horrible, Like

996
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 1: I wasn't excited. All I felt was like horrible about

997
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: that shot. Um, Like I was embarrassed. I felt like,

998
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 1: you know, all these guys watching and stuff being filmed,

999
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: and like, you know, Steve, this guy I really respect.

1000
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: I would I would like to, like, you know, show

1001
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: that I'm like adequate. Um, like what does he think

1002
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: about my bad first shot? Like all these things like

1003
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 1: running through my head. It's like I kind of embummed

1004
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: with myself for not being able to enjoy the moment

1005
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: and like instead of like in my head, I was

1006
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: like just all these anxieties. Um. But looking back on

1007
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: it now, like I can remember, like what an incredible moment.

1008
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: I remember walking up to this annual and just being

1009
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: like in shock and awe of like just the size

1010
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: and the beauty um, and just like wow, this this happened.

1011
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 1: Just Um, the whole thing was was a crazy roller

1012
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 1: coaster of like emotions and um, I just killed a

1013
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: cariboo on my first day of actually hunting caribou um

1014
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: and just big beautiful. I mean the coat is so

1015
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 1: silky and like full and this main I just kept

1016
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: putting my fingers in that white mane on his neck. Um.

1017
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: Just amazing and interesting. Caribou are the only uncle it

1018
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: hooved animal in North America that has a fully um

1019
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: fur coated nose. It doesn't have that rubbery nose like

1020
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: a deer or an elk or something like that. It's

1021
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: totally totally covered in hair um, you know, because of

1022
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: what a cool environment they live in. So I remember

1023
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: touching the nose and be like, wow, this is just

1024
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: like so cool, kind of like a mixture of like

1025
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: peach fuzz and like my goatee maybe covering the nose

1026
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: so um. And then these antlers, I mean, just like

1027
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: unreal how big these things are. Another fun fact about

1028
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: cariboo is they have the largest antlers in proportion to

1029
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: body size of any North American ungleland. So so yeah,

1030
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: so it's wild man when you when you know the

1031
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: deer is dead or the cariboos dead, you you are

1032
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: now able to celebrate this kill and you walk up

1033
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: to it and you just you're you're looking at it.

1034
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: What we're what was going through your mind? You know

1035
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: at the time where you bent over and you laid

1036
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: your hands on this animal for the very first time,

1037
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was. It was the two things.

1038
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: It was. It was still the the internal turmoil over

1039
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: over how the actual thing went down, UM mixed with

1040
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: just um, just like wow. I just kept saying wow,

1041
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: just like the whole experience. Every everything about this trip

1042
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: was like overwhelming, Like the landscape, the wildlife, um, you know,

1043
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,919
Speaker 1: just all the other things surrounding it was just overwhelming

1044
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 1: sense of just like bigness and like awe. So that's

1045
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: kind of what I was feeling. It was just like

1046
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: shock and awe and UM an appreciation too. I mean

1047
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: sitting there like I, you know, I always try to

1048
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: do this, um, you know, just kind of thank the

1049
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: animal or or whomever or whatever it might be, whatever

1050
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: powers above that brought this moment to be um and

1051
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: soide I tried to do. I did that and just

1052
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: was like, this is just such an incredible blessing to

1053
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: be here and to have this animal. So just a

1054
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: lot of all those things just kind of a huge

1055
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: mixed pot of all sorts of stuff going on. Now,

1056
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: how big because you've killed an elk before, so how

1057
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: big was this caribou compared to an elk that you shot?

1058
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 1: And then did any of those guys know roughly how

1059
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: old this this bowl was that you shot. So relative

1060
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: to a bowl elk, a bull caribou is smaller. So

1061
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: a big bull caribou might be like four pounds or

1062
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: four fifty or you know maybe maybe maybe a really

1063
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: big one would be bigger than that. Um. You know,

1064
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 1: bull elk could be you know, seven pounds and hundred

1065
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: pounds something like that. Um, So definitely smaller than my

1066
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: bowl elk from a body perspective, but still really big look.

1067
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: And also like because of the low quality diet of

1068
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: the food available for cariboo, they eat just lichen and

1069
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: stuff like that, these little tiny lichens up on the

1070
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: mountain side. Because of that diet, they have this massive,

1071
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: massive stomach, like this huge bloated stomach. So like his

1072
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: belly just looked like a beach ball or bigger, just massive. Um.

1073
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: It's really interesting in that regard. But the antlers were

1074
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: much bigger, So the antlers were bigger than my elk.

1075
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: So the antlers are huge, but the body was maybe

1076
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: a little bit smaller. Um. Now, as far as how

1077
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: old this caribou was, we didn't really know, but it's

1078
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: definitely mature, like definitely a big mature bull. If that

1079
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: means four years old or six years old or how old,

1080
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and nobody there seemed to be sure either, um,

1081
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: but definitely one of the most mature bulls we've seen,

1082
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: Like up until the last day, this was probably the

1083
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: top one or two largest carriber we saw the whole

1084
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: time until the last day. So so yeah, man, And then,

1085
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, like I mentioned earlier than I had, you know,

1086
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: those worries about okay, now what's the process, you know,

1087
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: like should I get going on gutting him right away?

1088
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,760
Speaker 1: Or do I need to wait for the camera crew

1089
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 1: or to Steve start? And then I helped so all

1090
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, you know, had me uncomfortable, but

1091
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: made it through. You know, Steve kind of led the

1092
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: way and stuff, and I helped out, and you know,

1093
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: we broke it down and all that was fine, and

1094
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: got them all gutted and quartered and packed away and

1095
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: that was cool. You know, again, similar to when I

1096
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: killed my elk, I was just like so like overwhelmed

1097
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 1: by the size of everything in there, Like just gutting

1098
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: this animal so different than gutting a deer, like you

1099
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: could stick out your arm all away to your shoulder

1100
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: and not get to the esophagus um. So that was

1101
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: interesting and just this massive, massive balloon of a stomach.

1102
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: But I got all that taken care of, packed everything up,

1103
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: and then we brought all the meat maybe fifty sixty

1104
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: yards away from the gut pile and set it down

1105
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: because we still had a couple hours of daylight left

1106
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: and we feared we'd sit up on the mountain and

1107
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: glass and maybe find another one for Doug. So we

1108
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: we did that. We got in the mountainside and we're

1109
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: looking around for for caribou and stuff, and again I

1110
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: spot something off in the distance and it's not a

1111
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: caribou though, it's a big old grizz Spot another grizz

1112
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: and a cup, so this is a big She was

1113
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: like huge and brown and like patchy, very patchy, like

1114
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: different colored tufts of skin or hair all over, but

1115
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: her her cub was very much like the other grizzly

1116
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: we saw, like really sheeny golden um, and man, he

1117
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: was just having a great time. He was like doing

1118
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,959
Speaker 1: somersaults down the side of the mountain, rolling over and over.

1119
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: At one point he ran over to a caribou shed

1120
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: and started like wrestling with the shed. Um. It was awesome,

1121
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: and so we started making bets, like she was running.

1122
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: They were running down the mountain like they were long

1123
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,919
Speaker 1: ways off, like a mile away from where we were,

1124
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: maybe maybe further, but they were running towards us. And

1125
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: Steve is like, what do you think do you think

1126
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: she could possibly smell that gut pile? Like, and so

1127
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: we started like placing bets on whether or not she

1128
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: knew about that gut pile, Like why would she be

1129
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: running right down towards us this whole way like a

1130
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: long ways. So we started wondering if she was gonna

1131
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: come all the way to that gut pile. So we

1132
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: watched her for like an hour coming down the hill. Um.

1133
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: But then finally she made it to a berry patch

1134
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: and then they hung up at the berry patch. They

1135
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: never did make it to the gut pile, but um,

1136
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:58,879
Speaker 1: they ate some berries. We watched him for a long

1137
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: time and finally she drops behind the hill and starts

1138
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 1: angling a gatting closer towards the gut pile and stuff.

1139
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: And then we're like, all right, you know, we should

1140
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: probably get our meat and get out of here before

1141
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: they do discover it. Um, So we hiked back to

1142
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: the meat loaded up, and then did the long hike

1143
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: back with a heavy pack. And that was that was

1144
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: a good load. I had a back quarter, front quarter

1145
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: and the skull and antlers on my back. Um, and

1146
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad it wasn't like a six mile hike because

1147
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: that was a pretty heavy load. So what did you

1148
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: do with the meat? Because you you guys were dropped

1149
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: in right. There wasn't a plane still there was there. Yeah,

1150
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: no no planes know anything. We were just out there

1151
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: all by ourselves. But it was it was cold. It

1152
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: was cool up there, so we just you know, we

1153
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: had everything in game bags, you know, like a cheese

1154
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: cloth type game bags, and we hiked back towards camp,

1155
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: and on a hillside above camp, we just kind of

1156
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: made like a cat and meat casher and just stacked

1157
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: everything up there against the antlers so they could get

1158
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: air to the to all sides of the meat and um.

1159
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: You know, during the day, it was probably in the

1160
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: forties or fft s prior forties, high forties most days,

1161
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: and super windy. It was very windy. Um. And then

1162
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: at night, you know, it could be down to the

1163
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: twenties or low thirties or something. So it was plenty

1164
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: cool enough for that meat to be fine there. Um.

1165
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: And then that night we caught off a hunk of

1166
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: that caribou meat and sliced it real thin and fried

1167
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: it up, and we all eat a little bit of it.

1168
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: And how did that taste? Really good? Really good? Just

1169
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: like elk? You know. So I don't really know how

1170
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: to compare it yet. Um relatively similar. Um, I don't

1171
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: know how different. Yes, different, but I can't quit put

1172
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: my finger on how to articulate the difference. Um, but

1173
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: pretty similar to elk and deer. Um. Maybe it just

1174
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: felt especially good because I was eating it on side

1175
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: of a mountain. So um. So yeah, man, great, great

1176
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: first day of hunting. And you know, my anxieties aside,

1177
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: like the stress around that unnecessary, Like I didn't need

1178
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: to be stressed out about stuff because you know, nobody

1179
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: was giving me a time about anything, but I was.

1180
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: I was putting that on myself. Um. But all that aside,

1181
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: it was just like unbelievable, super super cool experience seeing

1182
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: the bears, seeing all those animals actually getting killed caribou

1183
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: packing them off the mountain. Um, just just amazing. So

1184
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: that night it was just kind of like in awe

1185
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: of all that, and um and then U. The next morning,

1186
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,959
Speaker 1: I wake up day two, day three that we're out there,

1187
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: I put up my tent door and the very first

1188
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: thing I see is a grizzly bearing cub in our camp.

1189
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: Did you coop your pants? No? But I was like,

1190
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: WHOA good morning? Um, And like right away, I'm like

1191
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: grizzly and camp. I yell at out. Everyone's still in

1192
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: their tents, like still sleeping, and we're like getting around

1193
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: like grizzly and camp. And then when I see this

1194
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,439
Speaker 1: grizzlies right next to like the tent where the crew

1195
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: was sleeping, so like the other the camera guys. So

1196
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: then I started hollering at try to get it away.

1197
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: And then luckily he or she in the cub look

1198
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: at me, and then they bomp off the hill and

1199
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: then drop over the side. But over there where these

1200
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: grizzlies ran to, one of the crew members had a

1201
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: separate tent. He didn't sleep with the rest of them

1202
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: because um, he has night terrors, actually um so he so,

1203
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: so he he sleeps in the separate tent just so

1204
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: doesn't wake people up. So I see these bears go

1205
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: run off the hill and then all of a sudden,

1206
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: I hear him yelling. I'm like, oh no, like they

1207
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: ran right into him, and um fortunately they ran like

1208
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: thirty yards of him. But then when he started yelling,

1209
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: they turned and ran the other way. So no issues.

1210
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: But it could have been it could have been hairy,

1211
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: because you know, a sal in a cub type situation

1212
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: like that is never good to surprise, and she was.

1213
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: She was right in there, close to the tents. So

1214
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: that was an interesting start to the day. Um. And

1215
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention another crazy thing they happened was

1216
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: our very first night there. In the middle of the night,

1217
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: like amazingly heavy winds came through. Like I thought my

1218
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: tent was gonna get get crushed to the ground, or

1219
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: like the rain I was gonna get ripped off. Like

1220
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: I woke up several times in the night like so loud,

1221
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: my tent is like pushed down over top of my head. Um,

1222
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: like I thought for sure stuff was gonna get ripped out. Fortunately,

1223
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: we because of how windy had been during the day,

1224
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: we didn't. We staked everything, but then we also put

1225
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: big rocks over all the stakes too. Um, so that

1226
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: saved the day from our tents but the crew they

1227
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: slept in these big tps um like TP style tents.

1228
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: There's two of them, and one of them, like half

1229
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: of the stakes all came ripping out, So those couple

1230
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: of those guys had to wake up in the middle

1231
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: of the night and we're like out in these gale

1232
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: force wins trying to restake these tents. And then there's

1233
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: another guy that was sleeping solo and one of them,

1234
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: and that one in the middle of the night, like

1235
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: all the stakes came out in the middle pole like

1236
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: came out. So he had to for like two hours

1237
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: sit holding with all his might onto the center pool

1238
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: to keep the TPP flying away, and like he was yelling,

1239
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: but nobody else could hear him, so he had a

1240
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: rough night. Yeah, it was, I mean, like crip, I've

1241
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: never been in heavier winds than tent by fire. I

1242
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: mean it was it was out of this world. Um,

1243
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: So that was that was the tent. And then you know,

1244
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: day number three of the trip started with the grizzly

1245
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: encounter in the morning and then just more of the

1246
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: same the rest of the day. We just watched hundreds

1247
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: and hundreds of caribou, just like incredible seeing all these

1248
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: animals interact and flowing off the mountains and passing through.

1249
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: When you just glass all these different bowls up and

1250
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: look at him and watch them lots of times you

1251
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: see these bulls fighting and stuff. UM. Really cool. And

1252
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: then that day Doug shot at one. He killed that

1253
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: bowl and we packed that one off the mountain. That

1254
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: night started to rain. We record a podcast episode for

1255
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: Steve's podcast. UM. And then the third day, same deal,

1256
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: hike and all over the place, glass and all over

1257
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: the place. UM found a big bowl that Steve wanted

1258
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 1: to shoot. It was really far away. UM. So this

1259
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: time a couple of guys stayed back, and then me

1260
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 1: and Steve and the camera guys decided to go after him.

1261
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: And then we kind of went on a kind of

1262
01:02:57,600 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: wild goose chase, like Steve want to go after this

1263
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: once we go drop way off this mountain down to

1264
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: this deep drainage, and then we get to the bottom

1265
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 1: of the drainage and we spot some new bulls up

1266
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Speaker 1: at the top of the ridge. Again that looks really good,

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01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:09,479
Speaker 1: So we go all the way back to the top,

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01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: like sprinting out the side of this mountain. We get

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01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: situated there and these bulls dropped down in front of us,

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01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: and then Steve didn't like them so much, so it's like,

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01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: let's go back after the original one. So then we

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01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 1: go all the way back down to the bottom of

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01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: the drainage. And then at this point we spot another

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01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: group of bulls um and this one's halfway up that mountain,

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01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: and Steve ended up taking one of those, but um,

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01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:32,919
Speaker 1: super nice bull. And then it was just a heck

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01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: of a pack out of that drainage because now we're

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01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: at the bottom of this steep ravine and we had

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01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: to go straight up this really steep face that like,

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01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 1: that load nearly killed me, um because it was I

1281
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 1: took a back quarter and then I also found a

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01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: big moose shed, like a big moose shed, so I

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01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: strapped that on my pack. So I had a heavy load,

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01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: and um, this was a very steep hill. So that

1285
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: one I was like finally feeling it, like this is

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01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: our third care but we've packed out in three days,

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01:03:58,080 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: and that one I finally was like, Okay, I'm getting tired.

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01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: But a Fortunately Steve must have been feeling it a

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01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: little bit too, because he was taking breaks and so

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01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: I was able to take breaks with him, and that

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01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: that was good. So and then that night we had

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01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: like our meal scene. Um and uh, you know because

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01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: usually on the on the Meat Eater Show they do

1294
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: like a meal scene where they cook up something they killed.

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01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: And um, so we did an Asian hot pot. So

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01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: like this big boiling pot of like Asian broth mixture

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01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: with like onions and carrots and I don't know, all

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01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: these different things in there. And then we sliced up

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01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: caribou heart and cariboo backstrap and ptarmigan heart and Ptarmigan breast.

1300
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: So Tarmigan's kind of like a an Arctic like grouse

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01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: type bird. Did you guys shoot that while you were

1302
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: out there? Yeah? Shot one and Steve shot one and

1303
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: Brodie shot one. I think, oh coo. So so yeah,

1304
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: we we sliced all that up and then you screw

1305
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: you skew or a little sliceless meat on a little

1306
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: wooden stick and then you dip it in that broth

1307
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,479
Speaker 1: like fifteen seconds. Let it just see he really quick

1308
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 1: and they take it out, dip it sauce and eat

1309
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: it with your fingers and holy crap. And that was amazing.

1310
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: So all that had to be packed in right with

1311
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: that plane. So all the vegetables and all the utensils.

1312
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 1: So the production of the Meat Eator television show. Let's say,

1313
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 1: if it was just you and me going out there

1314
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: to drop, we'd probably have you know, less gear to

1315
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 1: take just because of the production. Right. Oh yeah, yeah

1316
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean there they had so much camera

1317
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: equipment and other stuff. Um yeah, just a lot of stuff.

1318
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: So quite a quite a production. But it made for comfortable,

1319
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: you know living situation out there because we had like

1320
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: a little tarp over our little meal areas so we

1321
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 1: could be you know, sheltered from the rain on that

1322
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: day it was raining all day, um, and the wind

1323
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. It's a nice little nook

1324
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: to sit in there and eat every day, and good

1325
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: food like different than like when we go backpacking our stuff.

1326
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: Like they had like real sandwiches and um, within mountain

1327
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: houses for dinner. But that what I really liked is

1328
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: they brought a massive bag of like candy bars, so

1329
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: there was like dozens of full sized snicker bars and

1330
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: kit cats and stuff. So so we ate pretty decent

1331
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: considering and so you were comfortable. This wasn't like a

1332
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: real it was. It was roughing it because you were

1333
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: way out isolated, but from a from a food and like, uh,

1334
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't like you were on a spike camp out

1335
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: in the back country, like with just the meal for

1336
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:32,360
Speaker 1: the day, right, Yeah, we had a little more food

1337
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: than I'm used to otherwise it's similar, but the food situation,

1338
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: we had more food available than usually. Like there's like

1339
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: they brought apples, so that was nice. So we had

1340
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: like lunch meet for sandwiches and apples, and then like

1341
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: granola bars and stuff like that, candy bars, and then

1342
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: every night, you know, you have a mountain house meal

1343
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: and in the mornings, yeah, they had they had they

1344
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: brought bagels like they'd fry bagels in a pot or um,

1345
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: there's some oatmeal and stuff like that. So so eating

1346
01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: it was fancier than than my elk huic, that's for sure. Awesome.

1347
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: And that was and that was it. The next day,

1348
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: we're supposed to get picked up early in the morning

1349
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: from the plane by the planes, but they ended up

1350
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: not coming to like super late, so we just hung out.

1351
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: We packed up camp and hung out all day on

1352
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: the mountain side, walking around or napping or reading or

1353
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: goofing around, and like I think the planes finally got

1354
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 1: there like six or seven at night or something, um,

1355
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: and it was started raining. It was raining and cloudy

1356
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: and windy and all that kind of stuff. So it

1357
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 1: took him a while to be able to get us,

1358
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: but they finally did got us out of there late

1359
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: that night and on the flight back, So on the

1360
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: super cub flight back to the town, I saw thirty

1361
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: to forty moose, like it was insane, like moose everywhere. Wow.

1362
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: So that was sweet, like big, big old paddled moose bowls.

1363
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean just it was sweet. So so when you

1364
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: were out there, um, you know, certain times of the

1365
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:57,919
Speaker 1: year Alaska, you know Alaska or northern Hemisphere even into

1366
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: Canada and whatnot, they have longer days. What was your

1367
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: What was the day like out there? How many hours

1368
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: of darkness was there? Yes, it was like daylight by

1369
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: about six in the morning, maybe a touch before six,

1370
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: and then it was daylight till almost ten o'clock at night.

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01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: So pretty pretty darn long days. Um, So what gives

1372
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: you about eight hours of darkness? The rest of the

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01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 1: day was daylight? Yeah, And you know another thing, I

1374
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 1: didn't really get to see it, but there we did

1375
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: have decent northern lights A couple of nights there. Um,

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01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,719
Speaker 1: I woke up my last night, I set an alarm

1377
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: to try to see him, and I did see them,

1378
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 1: but just like little slivers of it, like you see.

1379
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: It's almost like a green string wavering in the sky. Um.

1380
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: But I never got to see it the whole sky

1381
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: lit up. But I did hear they got some good

1382
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: time laps footage of it, so hopefully well get to

1383
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: see that. The last night, though, was funny. They had

1384
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: a time lap set up right by my tent and

1385
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: I didn't know it. So I wake up within the

1386
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: middle of night two, I am to go see the

1387
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: northern lights. So I wake up, get on my tent,

1388
01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: walk on my tent, take a piss, look up the sky,

1389
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: look for the northern lights, kind of see it, and

1390
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 1: then go to bed. Well, the next day I ended

1391
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: up taking a piss right in front of the time

1392
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: left of camera. So your junk is going to be

1393
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: on the next Mediator uh show possibly hopefully hopefully hopefully

1394
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: I pointed the other way. So you made it back

1395
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 1: to civilization, right, I mean, while you're out there after

1396
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: the you know, after the fact, after you've had this experience,

1397
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: you've got some time where you're in a plane, you're

1398
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: coming back to the civilization. Um, you're just kind of

1399
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:41,160
Speaker 1: you're you're you're thinking about everything that just happened. Has

1400
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:45,599
Speaker 1: this sparked any ideas from you as far as any

1401
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 1: additional adventure hunting scenarios that you that you want to take,

1402
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: whether it's in the States or somewhere else, Well, I

1403
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 1: definitely want to go back to Alaska again, Like I

1404
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: as often as I can, I'd like to get up there, um,

1405
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: because it's just I mean, we we're talking about this

1406
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 1: on Steve's podcast about the fact that in the Lower

1407
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: forty eight, like we are fighting now today too fixed

1408
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 1: mistakes that were made you know, a hundred and fifty

1409
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: years ago still or you know, fifty years or whatever

1410
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 1: might be, like whatever it might be, to wildlife populations

1411
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: and or habitat. Like we're fighting to try to protect

1412
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: the last vestiges of wilderness and open space that we

1413
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: have and to you know, continue to rebound populations or

1414
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: protect them at the at the place that we've been

1415
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: able to get these these animals back to now. But

1416
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: the Lower forty eight it's like repair mode kind of

1417
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, we we've really screwed things up here, and

1418
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: we're just trying to make it a little bit better

1419
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: and fix the small things we've been all to recover.

1420
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: So far in Alaska, it's still for the most part,

1421
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: like it was years ago. For I mean, the large

1422
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 1: portion of it is relatively intact, relatively still wild, relatively

1423
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, in harmony with it should be and where

1424
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 1: now it's just like, don't screw this up. So we

1425
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 1: screwed up in the lower forty eight and we're trying

1426
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 1: to fix it and keep it. We've got left in

1427
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: the last We've got this incredible thing still, this public

1428
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 1: land and this wilderness and these places that are just amazing. Um,

1429
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: We've got this liver of what it used to be

1430
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: still there, and um, it just has reminded me of

1431
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 1: how important it is to keep that the way it is. Um.

1432
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: Just knowing that there's somewhere that is still like that today,

1433
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: it's it's very reassuring for me. Its just it's good

1434
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: to know there's still a wild place. It's good to

1435
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: know that you can go somewhere and be hundreds of

1436
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: miles from anybody else and be surrounded by grizzlies and

1437
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: wolves and caribou and the night in the northern lights.

1438
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: It is like good for my soul to know that

1439
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,679
Speaker 1: that is there and available. Um, and I just want

1440
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 1: to fight really hard to make sure it stays that way. Amen,

1441
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: man Amen. So any other takeaways from from this trip,

1442
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: I mean, not necessarily just the adventure and emotional standpoint,

1443
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: but anything else that was just really cool, or you know,

1444
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: something that you want to tell the listeners that they

1445
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: should try to do something like this, or I guess

1446
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon's final thoughts. Yeah, so final thoughts. I think

1447
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: first and foremost, you know, the trip was incredible from

1448
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, being there in the wildlife and the landscape

1449
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: and killing the caribou and getting all this great meat,

1450
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: all those things were amazing, But just as important, if

1451
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: not maybe even more important, was, like I mean, I

1452
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: think this comes down to so often is the people

1453
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: to Like, just the group of guys I was with

1454
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: on this trip were so great. They were so welcoming

1455
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 1: to me, they were so much fun to be around.

1456
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: Um And like, so I just want to I appreciate

1457
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 1: that so much. I appreciate the fact that Steve and

1458
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: the guys invited me to go on this trip. Um.

1459
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable opportunity and I can never thank all

1460
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: them enough. Um, just the coolest guys in the world.

1461
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: So I would say number one. If you are not

1462
01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: watching The Meat either TV show or listening to The

1463
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: Meat either podcast, you really should be. They're doing awesome work.

1464
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 1: The guys behind the scenes are amazing guys, super fun guys. UM,

1465
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 1: so check out, Like, make sure you're following Dirt Myth

1466
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: on Instagram. The guy takes some incredible photos. Um. Chris

1467
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: Gil followed Chris Gil on Instagram. He's another terrific camera guy. UM.

1468
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,600
Speaker 1: Brodie Henderson and j honest, but tell us just did

1469
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: an awesome job of like keeping the train on the

1470
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: tracks as far as the whole production and everything. And

1471
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: then Steve. I mean I think most of most everyone

1472
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 1: listening knows who Steve Ronella is. But um, it was

1473
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 1: really cool to get spend more time with him. And

1474
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: he's someone that I've looked up to for a long time.

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01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: I've um, you know, modeled a lot of the ways

1476
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: that I try to communicate things, um, kind of around

1477
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 1: the way he has. Because I think he's just done

1478
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: a tremendous job of representing the hunting community in a

1479
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: positive light, and I think he's influenced the hunting community

1480
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 1: in a really positive way, moved us in a reaction

1481
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: that I think is very important. So, um man, I'm

1482
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: just gonna continue to be appreciative of what he's doing.

1483
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 1: And it was neat to be able to learn from

1484
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 1: him in person. And also, these dudes are way goofier

1485
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:16,800
Speaker 1: in person then you might expect, like just like constantly

1486
01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: laughing about stupid things and like making up songs, and

1487
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: Steve's got nicknames for everybody. He starts making up songs

1488
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:27,560
Speaker 1: about different people. Um, or like we were doing like handstandoffs,

1489
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: like seeing who could do handstand for the longest time,

1490
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: or who could do planks for the longest time, or

1491
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: all sorts of goofy stuff like that. So just like

1492
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 1: a really good time from a personal standpoint to um.

1493
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 1: But then as two other final thoughts, I think, just

1494
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:42,680
Speaker 1: to what I said there a second ago, this just

1495
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 1: reminded me again of of how fortunate and blessed we

1496
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: are that, you know, our forefathers and people that came

1497
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: before us had the foresight to protect some of these

1498
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: places and leave them as they were, or you know,

1499
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 1: or that did things to allow our wildlife popular lations

1500
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 1: to recover in the lower forty eight or to keep

1501
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 1: them great as they're in Alaska. Um So I would

1502
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: just I would encourage everyone to a educate yourself on this,

1503
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,719
Speaker 1: like read about the history of these places, read about

1504
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: these wild places, learn about what we have here. Realize

1505
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: that you, as an American have access to just this.

1506
01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: You have access to a unbelievable swath of landscape and

1507
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:26,599
Speaker 1: wildlife and experience like it's there for you. You don't

1508
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: need to pay anything to go in there and do

1509
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: these things. Um. Yet it takes planning. Yeah, it takes

1510
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 1: a lot of work. Yeah, it takes some money to

1511
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 1: get to places. Um, but it's there for you. So

1512
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: go see these places, experience these places, and then, um,

1513
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, when needed, stand up for these places. Um,

1514
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: you know, call your congressmen, write letters, tell your friends

1515
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: and family. These places are important. Um So I think

1516
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: that's that's what I would say. Yeah, very very very

1517
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: very important. So yeah, man, unbelievable trip. So what's next? Man?

1518
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: Real quick though, Before we move on, we need to

1519
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: take a second to thank our partners at White Tailed

1520
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: Properties for the support of the Wired Hunt podcast and

1521
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 1: our producer Spencer Newhart caught up with one of the

1522
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: White Tailed Properties land specialists recently to get a little

1523
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,679
Speaker 1: insight into the process of booking your first outfited hunt.

1524
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: This week with White Tailed Properties, we are joined by

1525
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: Tim Woods, a land specialist out of Central Ohio, and

1526
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: Tim is going to be telling us about what to

1527
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: look for when booking your very first outfitted hunt. Well,

1528
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: I guess I would say, if you're looking the book

1529
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: with your your first outfitted hunt, Um, first thing I'll

1530
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: do is, you know, maybe maybe not go right to

1531
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 1: social media. No, social media is big at this day

1532
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: and age, but you want to find an outfitter that

1533
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: is not out there pounding this chest a lot um,

1534
01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: you know, saying look at me, look what we can do. Um.

1535
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: You know from my experience, you know, being that you know,

1536
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 1: I am an outfitter, you know, and I see a

1537
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:06,640
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys doing last stuff on

1538
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,839
Speaker 1: social media, which is great, you know, they're they're promoting

1539
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: the sport and they're promoting their business. Um, but it

1540
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: seems like they need they need the hunters. You know,

1541
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: if you want to look for an outfitter that there

1542
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: is that doesn't do a whole lot of advertising because

1543
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: they don't need to because they've got the returning client

1544
01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: base that you know that they cater to and they're

1545
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 1: just from word of mouth. Is the best, you know,

1546
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 1: business model you can have as far as taking care

1547
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: of the people and treating them right, and they're always

1548
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: gonna come back, and if they can't come back, they're

1549
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: gonna have their buddies come in their place and so forth.

1550
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 1: So if you're looking at the book, your first first

1551
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:46,600
Speaker 1: outfitted hunt, uh, get some references from that outfitter and

1552
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: call them and see how they treated them, you know,

1553
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: whether they killed or didn't kill. If you'd like to

1554
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:53,879
Speaker 1: learn more and to see the properties that Tim currently

1555
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: has listed for sale, visit white Tail properties dot com

1556
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: backslash Woods that's you oo. D s Well. I got

1557
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: back late Sunday, well Sunday morning, like one in the

1558
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: morning and Sunday and then I slept for a few hours,

1559
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: got up, drove across the state to eastern Montana. Found

1560
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: the campsite in this area where I want to hunt,

1561
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: and now I'm trying to kill Montana whitetail. So trying

1562
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: to get that done. It's been a little bit. Uh,

1563
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be more challenging than I originally thought. Um,

1564
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: well super hot. It's like degrees, so I'm like just

1565
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: sweating to death every day. Excuse me with hiccups. Um.

1566
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: And then you know, I found a bunch of public

1567
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 1: land pieces when I just studied the maps and I

1568
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: was looking for public that again like what I was

1569
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 1: doing last year. I was looking for public land that

1570
01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: got down into this river bottom cover that was adjacent

1571
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: to alfalfa fields because I wanted food and I want

1572
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: to cover that I could hopefully get in between. So

1573
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: I found like five or six of these places on

1574
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: the maps, and then my plan was to get here

1575
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: Sunday night and drive around and glass them all that

1576
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: night and get an idea of which areas held you know,

1577
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 1: possible mature bucks, and then go hunt those spots. Well,

1578
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: what I didn't do in my like all these different

1579
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: things going on when I didn't plan for, was like

1580
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 1: drive time, so I didn't realize how spread out this

1581
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: stuff was. It didn't look that big on the map,

1582
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: but it actually takes like an hour or more to

1583
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: get between some of these places. So that's made it

1584
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: tough for me to like get down and explore some

1585
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: of these like farther southern sections. So um, the first

1586
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: night I explored kind of the northern side, and then

1587
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: the next morning I woke up really early and drove

1588
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 1: way down to the southern section and check those out,

1589
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 1: and nothing really looked all that great. Unfortunately, Um, a

1590
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff is all grazed, so like it's

1591
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,719
Speaker 1: just like graze to dirt almost from cows and sheep

1592
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: and stuff. So like three out of this or four

1593
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 1: out of the six properties that I thought would have

1594
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: potential don't like not even worth hunting at all. Another

1595
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: one there was I did see some d are in

1596
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: a neighboring alf alfa field, but it's pretty far away

1597
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: from the cover. Like these deer are pretty far away

1598
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: from the public, and there looks like they're heading into

1599
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: bed on the private too. I didn't know if they're

1600
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: gonna make it down to the public or not. A

1601
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: glass on the spoting skill for a long time and

1602
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: never sound quite make it there, So that's I don't know.

1603
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: The best spot that I found so far is the

1604
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: spot that fortunately is close to my campsite. And um,

1605
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: this there's a state land and then there's a few

1606
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,559
Speaker 1: sections of blm land that surrounds one alf alfa field

1607
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: where I saw a ton of deer the first night, um,

1608
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,840
Speaker 1: like fifty sixty deer or something like that, including two

1609
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: potential shooter box one for sure shooter another one that

1610
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: maybe um. And so that's where I've been hunting. Um.

1611
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the public land, like I'm not able to get

1612
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: in between the deer. It seems like there's betting and

1613
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: food on the private So these deer betting and then

1614
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: going right into the private there stay in the private

1615
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:58,759
Speaker 1: to bed. They don't have to come onto the public

1616
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: to bed like they did in that party hundred last year. UM.

1617
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: So last night I set up a stand um on

1618
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: one side of this as as close as I could

1619
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 1: get to where that food was, and I was hoping

1620
01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: that maybe these deer come out the other side of

1621
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: the cover towards us other distant half off the field.

1622
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: And I saw a bunch of deer, maybe like fifteen deer,

1623
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: but all does and fawns, and then two little year

1624
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: and a half of bucks. And went back into this morning,

1625
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: same place, left everything in the tree, same deal does

1626
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: and a couple of little bucks nothing nothing older than

1627
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:32,679
Speaker 1: a year and a half, A little little like four key,

1628
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: So that's been a little bit disheartening. I was hoping

1629
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: to at least get eyes on a mature bucks so

1630
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 1: I could be adjusting my stand location based on a sighting. Um,

1631
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:44,719
Speaker 1: but I don't have that. So I pulled my stand

1632
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: this morning, and as soon as we get done with this,

1633
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back in there and UM move a set.

1634
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get to that BLM land

1635
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: that's in there. It's it's land locked BLM lands. You

1636
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: can't actually access that anyway except for if you if

1637
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 1: you follow the state land all the way to the river,

1638
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 1: you can get in the river, and the river below

1639
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:08,639
Speaker 1: the high water mark is public access. You can walk

1640
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: the river. So I'm gonna walk to the river and

1641
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,679
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna follow that river bottom all the way

1642
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: to this BLM land and then pop up into the

1643
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: public again and try to get there. And that the

1644
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 1: piece I'm going to go into is directly behind this

1645
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: alfalfa field, so there should be a deer in there.

1646
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,680
Speaker 1: The issue is going to be my wind. Um, the

1647
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: wind is just not great. It's gonna be blowing to

1648
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: some deer, to some portion of the deer. So I'm

1649
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 1: hoping that I can stay low in the river to

1650
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 1: get past a good number of them with my wind

1651
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: hopefully not gonna blow because I'm gonna be down low,

1652
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna immediately get up and pop right

1653
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 1: into a tree, and I'm gonna know that stuff due

1654
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 1: south of me is gonna win me. But hopefully it's

1655
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 1: just that one line and then the rest of it

1656
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: will hopefully be Um Like, I have to make a

1657
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:55,679
Speaker 1: sacrifice to get in there. I only have a couple

1658
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 1: of days, so I gotta cut that risk reward. It's

1659
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: that risk award thing that we always talk about, exactly exactly,

1660
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: So it's a I gotta kind of swing for the

1661
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: fences a little bit here because I just don't have

1662
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 1: a lot of time. But I think it could be

1663
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:13,839
Speaker 1: a good spot. Um. I met the rancher who grazes

1664
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 1: the public land and the private land right next to

1665
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: what he owns that private land next to it, and

1666
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: he was a really nice guy with Chad for a

1667
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:22,840
Speaker 1: long time, and he told me his son in law

1668
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: I think, and a grandson are hunting his private land

1669
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 1: and they've been seeing a couple of big bucks, including

1670
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,559
Speaker 1: one he claims like twenty four inches wide, and another

1671
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:32,600
Speaker 1: one that either had a second main beam or a

1672
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: split brout town. I'm not sure what he was trying

1673
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,720
Speaker 1: to say, um, but big like there's a couple of

1674
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:38,799
Speaker 1: big Bucks in there that they're seeing, and that sounds

1675
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: like those are different than the deer I saw the

1676
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 1: first night. So I think if I can get into

1677
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: this spot without spooking a bunch of deer, I'm gonna

1678
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:50,919
Speaker 1: be potentially in a good area. Cool well Man. Hopefully

1679
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: the momentum kind of from the from the hunt in

1680
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: Alaska kind of carries throughout the rest of the rest

1681
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: of this little Montana North Dakota trip you're on. Yeah, dude,

1682
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm hoping so too. I'm feeling like a

1683
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: little bit like I don't know about how this is

1684
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: going so far. But tonight, tonight will hopefully be in

1685
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 1: the right spot, and then uh yeah, probably Thursday. Hopefully

1686
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:19,719
Speaker 1: I can get it done by Thursday, and then Thursday

1687
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,799
Speaker 1: and to move to North Dakota and try to refigure

1688
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: it all out again. And that's the fun part, right, Yeah,

1689
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,759
Speaker 1: it is. It is so and it's it is supposed

1690
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 1: to cool down Thursday, like Wednesday night, Thursday morning, Big

1691
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: cold friends coming through. Um, it's gonna rain a bunch,

1692
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: which will be a little bit of a pain, but

1693
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna drop like twenty degrees. So that's a good

1694
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: deer moving. Awesome. Well, good luck man, Thank you sir.

1695
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: So that's my story. That's what's going on with me.

1696
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:49,639
Speaker 1: Anything else in your side that you want to share,

1697
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: that's me fake crime. What about the what about the

1698
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: trail camera? You check the trail camera? Oh yeah, I

1699
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: mean I got you know. I talked about this big

1700
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 1: egg field with a buffer strip in it, right. Yeah,

1701
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: we shed hunted there and every every big mature buck

1702
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 1: that is in the area was on that trail camera.

1703
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: So um on on the one side of the farm,

1704
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: they all show up right in the middle of this,

1705
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: uh this egg field and uh um. If it wasn't

1706
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:29,600
Speaker 1: for my son coming here anytime soon, I would definitely

1707
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 1: be finding a way. I actually did a podcast with

1708
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: Scott Bestel recently where we talk about some early season

1709
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: hunting and he me and him get into a conversation

1710
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 1: of about hunting egg fields, standing egg fields in a

1711
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: scenario like what I'm talking about here, early early season,

1712
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: and the goal for me would be to you know,

1713
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: get in one of these trees and catch these deer.

1714
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: They're basically living in an eight acre egg field right now,

1715
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: that standing corn and with the big acorn drop that

1716
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: is happening right now, there's I have a feeling they're

1717
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: betting in the corn and then coming out to a

1718
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 1: couple acorn groves that are that surround this egg field,

1719
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,639
Speaker 1: and um, we're not in the in the corn. They're

1720
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:23,840
Speaker 1: not betting in the corn, but they're probably betting in

1721
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: some of these buffer strips in the corn. So it's

1722
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: roughly the same thing and making their way some of

1723
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: these acorn drop sites. And if if I was able

1724
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:36,919
Speaker 1: to do it, which I'm not, I would be somewhere

1725
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: in between these buffer strips and these acorn spots. So Dan, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

1726
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 1: please please find a way to hunt in October. You

1727
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:51,679
Speaker 1: have you have to hunt in October. Well, here's the deal.

1728
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: And you know this man, or you're gonna you're gonna

1729
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: know that. I know, I know. It's not it is not.

1730
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: It's not an excuse you have to do. You got

1731
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: to find what I have to do. If I if

1732
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you, I'm gonna send you a hundred dollars.

1733
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you a hundred dollar check. In the

1734
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: memo line it is gonna say babysitter and I'm gonna hire.

1735
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna I'm gonna send you

1736
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: a babysitter check, and you're going to pay for at

1737
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: least one night of babysitting on a good evening. And

1738
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 1: then you can and then you can show your wife.

1739
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: You can say, look, Mark sent me a hundred dollar check.

1740
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: I can't not use it. I have to hunte. Here's

1741
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 1: what the memo should say, hundred dollars. This is a

1742
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:40,120
Speaker 1: in a payoff. You should just write the check to

1743
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,839
Speaker 1: my wife and even want about it be like this.

1744
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 1: This is letting Dan hunt one night. Go buy yourself

1745
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: something nice, Sarah, go buy yourself something nice. That's exactly

1746
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: that's what it should be. Okay, I'll do that. I'm

1747
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:54,560
Speaker 1: dead serious. Dan. I'm gonna buy you a night of

1748
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: hunting in October. I'm gonna send you a check. First,

1749
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: ye first, old friend. October, you go into a good spot,

1750
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 1: kill one of those suckers. Yeah, I wish, I wish

1751
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: it was that easy. All right, we'll look for look

1752
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:14,759
Speaker 1: for it in the mail here when I get back. Okay, alright, alright,

1753
01:28:14,800 --> 01:28:17,560
Speaker 1: we'll see what we'll see if you if you address

1754
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: I think she. I think she'd be down for it

1755
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 1: if you give her the money directly to her and

1756
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:25,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't touch my hands at all. Alright, So do

1757
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: you want me to address it to her, like write

1758
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: write her a special like, write her a letter like

1759
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: dear dearest Sarah, Dearest Sarah, Sarah, congrats on the new child. Um,

1760
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 1: here's a hundred dollars bill as basically a bribe to

1761
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 1: let your husband go hunting one night in Oh. This

1762
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 1: will be amazing. All right, I'm gonna do this, and

1763
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: I just need you to report back to me on

1764
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: exactly how she takes it. And then we're gonna really

1765
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: hype up this hunt. Like I'm gonna want full documentation

1766
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: of the hunt. I want like Instagram stories every five minutes.

1767
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want you to do a full podcast debrief

1768
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: talking about how this all worked out. This will be

1769
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 1: like October fifteen. Episode will be like the post Dan

1770
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: Johnson October Hunt, and um, yeah, this is a good plan.

1771
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:19,640
Speaker 1: I like it. Okay, all right, Well, well, uh, the

1772
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: first thing is you have to write the check to

1773
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: my wife and then after that we'll see how it

1774
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: all goes down. Alright, dude, there is there is a

1775
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:32,080
Speaker 1: chance I'm not not joking that there's a small chance

1776
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:34,639
Speaker 1: that she would send the check back to you or

1777
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:38,600
Speaker 1: then you a text that it's uh that's worth that,

1778
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:44,599
Speaker 1: that's worth two. I have three kids now, man, remember,

1779
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 1: oh man, well you will soon. Yep. Well, dude, I say,

1780
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,120
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta shut this down. I need to

1781
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: scramble some caribou brains. Um, I gotta clean out the

1782
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 1: brain cavity area on the skull on my my boo here,

1783
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:02,639
Speaker 1: get that cleaned out so it doesn't rot. And then

1784
01:30:02,680 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: I need to take a nap before hunting. So it

1785
01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: sounds like a good day. Yes, that's that's the day's plan.

1786
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: So good luck with baby stuff. If you guys end

1787
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:18,600
Speaker 1: up having having him early fingers crossed, everything's great and

1788
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 1: healthy and uh let's check back in a week. Alright,

1789
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:27,200
Speaker 1: good luck man, And that's it. Folks. Thank you for

1790
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:29,799
Speaker 1: joining in for a little bit of story time today.

1791
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 1: Hopefully you enjoyed it. And before we go, I want

1792
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: to give a big things to our partners at Sick Gear,

1793
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: Yetie Cooler's, Matthew's Archery, Maven Optics, the White Tailed Institute

1794
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:43,639
Speaker 1: of North America, Trophy Ridge and Hunt, Terra maps, and finally,

1795
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:47,800
Speaker 1: of course, thank you all for listening. I appreciate your

1796
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:50,400
Speaker 1: time and your support. If you're hunting this week, I

1797
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:52,599
Speaker 1: wish you all the luck in the world, and until

1798
01:30:52,680 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: next time, stay wired to hunt. The broken bird beating

1799
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 1: beca