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Speaker 1: name is Clay Nukeleman. I'm the host of the Bear

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Speaker 1: Hunting Magazine podcast. I'll also be your host into the

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Speaker 1: world of hunting, the icon of North American wilderness and bear.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but will also bring

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Speaker 1: chasing bear. Welcome to the Bear Hunting magazine podcast. I

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Speaker 1: we are at the global headquarters of Bear Hunting Magazine.

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Speaker 1: Me and my good buddy Colby Moorehead just got back

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Speaker 1: from the wilds of Northern Manitoba. We got back two

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Speaker 1: road trip and an empic hunt. So what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: ciffics of what happened. We're not holding anything back. We're

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Speaker 1: the hunt that were relevant, like shop placement because Mr

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Speaker 1: Moorehead made a very unique shot that turned out great

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Speaker 1: and I think we can all learn something from it. Right,

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Speaker 1: And uh, we're gonna talk about fall bear hunting. Way

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Speaker 1: about our friend Corey Grant and all trained bear hunts

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Speaker 1: at Bear Hunting Magazine. A big part of what we

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Speaker 1: do is represent outfitters bear hunting outfitters. A lot of

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Speaker 1: them are from Canada, and so Corey Grant is a

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Speaker 1: longtime Bear Hunting Magazine advertiser. He uh, he has been

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Speaker 1: an outfitter since nineteen. The former owner of Bear Hunting

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Speaker 1: Magazine hunted with Corey Grant back in the mid two

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Speaker 1: thousand's and killed the Boone and Crocket bear with him,

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Speaker 1: and so the magazine has a lot of history with Corey.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time that I've hunted with Corey,

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Speaker 1: We will also spill the spill the beans about how

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Speaker 1: my hunt went, which I can't I cannot tell yet exactly.

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Speaker 1: partook in some world class walleye fishing um which was

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Speaker 1: a new thing for me. I fished quite a bit

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Speaker 1: spectacular views the Northern lights pretty often photos on Quarry's phone.

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00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: They were just phenomenal. Yeah yeah yeah, So the let's

428
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: go like so the first day, so our plan was

429
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: is that Kolbe was gonna hunt and I was gonna

430
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: try to hunt with him and film and so this

431
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: will be your first bear hunt. So this is the

432
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: first day, Corey Texas to a spot that's got like

433
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,479
Speaker 1: a two man stand and uh, just just walk us

434
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: through the Yeah. Yeah, so it was screwed up just

435
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to our bid go. Yeah, so

436
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: it was I mean, at least by this time I've

437
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: seen three bears, just none none up close. And so yeah,

438
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: we got in the stand. Corey set everything up, you know,

439
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that the that the bears would

440
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: stay in the area. Um, whenever we're there. It seemed

441
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: like there was quite a bit of bait out and

442
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: so yeah, we would have We had a bear come

443
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: in first, and he was pretty cautious. Um, but you know,

444
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: he was more interested in the in the corn than

445
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: he than he was with us, and he would come

446
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: back and check us out every once while he stood

447
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: at us lunch with you know, which was cool. And

448
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: we had a second bear come in and then that's

449
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: when it got really cool to see them interact with

450
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: each other and that you know, each bear had its

451
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: own bubble that it was comfortable with giving other bears

452
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: room and then they would um, you know, they would

453
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: vocalize and chase each other a little bit. Um. And

454
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: what was really cool is whenever the big bear was

455
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: coming in, um, the one that we that I actually

456
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: got that it. Um, they just started acting acting out

457
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: like you knew something was coming. They were just really uncomfortable. Uh.

458
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 1: And so all of a sudden he walks under the

459
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: stand and and you just you watched him walked by,

460
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: and you could just see how white he was, you know,

461
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 1: and uh, all of a sudden he goes up by

462
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: a barrel and Clay looks over. He's like, he's not

463
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: fitting in that barrel. So, yeah, he was just he

464
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: was a really big barrel. Would you say, were you

465
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: guessing around three fifty? I mean we think he was

466
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: three fifty and I would say he was minimum three fifty. Yeah,

467
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: he looked pretty heavy. Had Clay noticed he had really

468
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: really big pads on his on his paws, and so

469
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: he just he was in there, and then he chased

470
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: a few of the smaller bears off a few times,

471
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it was clear that this was

472
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: was a good specimen to take out a good a

473
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: good mature board to harvest. And so I, uh, he

474
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: came back from chasing a bear off and he was,

475
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: you know, standing up, and he was just quartering towards

476
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: me and then he uh, I was like, as soon

477
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: as he turns, there's my shots. So I drew and

478
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: then he turned and I kind of got in my

479
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: my shot cycle, and then he started walking and it

480
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: was like, I couldn't put an arrow back, so I

481
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: hit it a little far back. It was still middle,

482
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: but it was about eight inches went about eight inches back.

483
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: It was a straight gut shot, and uh, I just

484
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: felt terrible. As as soon as the arrow left, I knew,

485
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't the shot that I, uh, that

486
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: I had planned on. And so we've been patient, We

487
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: watched steam, we took our time, but you know, in

488
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 1: the end, it was one of those things where it

489
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: was just, you know, it was a bad judgment call Um.

490
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: And so then he he ran off for what about

491
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: thirty forty yards something like that, and stopped out in

492
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: the woods, and then one of the other bears that

493
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: we had been watching came out and chased after him.

494
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 1: Um went out there and stood up at him, and

495
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: then we didn't hear anything else side of the bear,

496
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: and the other came back and fed until Corey came

497
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: and picked us up, and uh that I had a

498
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: lit knock on my arrow and it was just mocking me.

499
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: It's like, made a bad decision these twinkling alternating red

500
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: and green knocks and just watched out there. Yeah, so

501
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: I was. I was pretty hard on myself for the

502
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: time it took for core to get out there, and

503
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I was like, you know what,

504
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: it's just time to shift gears from uh, you know,

505
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: the shot was bad, So now what's the right right decision?

506
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: And so it's like, no matter what it takes, we're

507
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: gonna find this bear, you know. And so I just

508
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: had to have that hope that we were recovering well.

509
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: And so there's two there's two things I want to

510
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: talk about about this, which is a shot. But before

511
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: we talk about the actual shot, because we've said it

512
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: was far back, um, which that's gonna be important, I

513
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: want to talk about the decision to shoot this bear.

514
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing with a bated bear

515
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: hunt where people mess up, is that they shoot a

516
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: lesser bear when they could shoot an older bear. And

517
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: there's like, so this these were the first bears that

518
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: you've ever seen from the stand, and now you've you

519
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: have been tutored by the Bear Hunting Magazine vlog. You've

520
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: been tutored by Bear Hunting Magazine for several years. So

521
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: I would assume that you're above the typical grade. Now

522
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: it really is hard. I mean, like the first glimpse

523
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: that you see a bear, I mean you're like, man,

524
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: that's a big bear. I mean like the first time

525
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: I saw the bear that walked in first, I was like,

526
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: I mean in my heart, it was like that's a

527
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: big bear. And then immediately saw his ears and head,

528
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: and I was like, just an average bear. I mean,

529
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: immediately you're able to interpret it. A lot of it

530
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: has to do with scale, A lot of it. It's

531
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: multiple factors. If you lean on just one factor to

532
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: judge bear, you'll end up messing up. Like all these

533
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: bears were fairly tall. They weren't short bears. They weren't

534
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: like two year old bears. There were probably three to

535
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: five year old bears. We had these two bears that

536
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: came in for both of them boars, and we could

537
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: tell there were boars, and and I'll tell you I

538
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: leaned more on this hunt for whatever reason, on telling

539
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: the bear was a board by seeing the hair that

540
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: hanged down on the front of him, off of the

541
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: off of their sheath. You could see this like three

542
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: or four inch hair that would hang down off about

543
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: the middle of their belly, you know, and that was

544
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: pretty visible. But the but a boar is typically just

545
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: gonna be taller, you know, just he's just gonna look

546
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: taller and lankier. The sALS are squatty and short. Um.

547
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: But you can tell a younger bear by a narrower head,

548
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: a more immature head. A big board is just gonna

549
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: have a big, blocky, rottweilder looking head, you know. Um.

550
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of other factors too. I mean,

551
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: we saw several mature looking boards that probably only weighed

552
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: in the two five pound two fifty pound class, that

553
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: had a lot of features of big bears, and I

554
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: can see somebody shooting them thinking they were shooting them

555
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: three and fifty to four and a pound bear. They

556
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: just weren't. And so you need things for scale, you

557
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: need you know. What we used on this one was

558
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: the barrel. A lot of these bears went and laid

559
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: down by a barrel that was laid over and I said,

560
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: do you think you could fit that bear into the barrel?

561
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: I had an old bear outfitter tell me that one time.

562
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: He says, when you see a bear that won't fit

563
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: into a gallon drum or you don't have a hard

564
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: time putting it there, kind of a graphic image shoving

565
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: a bear in there. But he's like, that's a shooter.

566
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: So these two bears that came in, when they laid

567
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: down by the barrel, and you're like, they would easily

568
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: fit in that forty five gallon drum when but more

569
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: than that, there were other features. I mean, they're there.

570
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: Their paws and feet weren't huge, ears and face were narrower. Um,

571
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: they just weren't that big. Bear didn't have a big

572
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: drooping belly. So when we saw this bear came in

573
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: beneath us, immediately noticed just how thick it was, and

574
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: it was just a notch bigger than these other bears,

575
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: which these other bears would have been shooters in many

576
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: camps across North America. They really would either one of

577
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: those two bears. This bear came in, he had big

578
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: when he when he was walking away from us, I

579
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: watched him walk and I saw his pad kind of

580
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: come up and I saw it and I could tell

581
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: that it was over five inches probably six inches wide.

582
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it just looked like a just a huge

583
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: pad and that's what I was like, Man, that's a

584
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: that's a big bear. But it was a nuanced difference,

585
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: like if you just would have glanced at it, like

586
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't have noticed. But anyway, he went overlaid

587
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: by the barrel. He was he was just bigger than

588
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: all these other bears, but made the decision to shoot it,

589
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: and uh, and then it was on. So those are

590
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: just a few few tips there about judging bears that

591
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: might be helpful, but it's it's a challenge. I mean,

592
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: even for me, I've seen a lot of bears taking

593
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: a lot of airs, are right, it's still a challenge

594
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: to really judge um. So moving to the shot. We've

595
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: we've written articles, we've talked about shot placement for years

596
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: and years. Bears are one of the hardest big game

597
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: animals to get a good clean shot on for multiple

598
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: reasons that we've talked about so many times. They've got four,

599
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, two to four inches of hair all over

600
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: their body, which exaggerates their size. So they're really not

601
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: as big as they look. Number one. Number two, especially

602
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: in the fall, they've got two to four inches of

603
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: fat over a good portion of their body, which the

604
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: fat is going to be non vital area. So there

605
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: again exaggerated to really how big they are, so their

606
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: vitals and where you're trying to hit is smaller than

607
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: what it looks like. Number three. They're solid black, and

608
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: a solid black animal doesn't show the features of the

609
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: animal in the light like a short haired, light colored

610
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: deerwood like you could see where you'd see the shadows

611
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: on a deer's shoulder or where it came up, you

612
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: could see where the hip came up, like the light

613
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: just shows up better on a black bear. It's just

614
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: like you're just looking into a shadow. So it's hard

615
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: to like just pick out the exact spot that you

616
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 1: want to hit. Number four. Their bottles are slightly different

617
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: than the white tails. Not not a lot, but slightly different.

618
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: There's slightly further back and you can and it was

619
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: proved this week that you can shoot one way back

620
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,720
Speaker 1: and you've got a really good chance to find an animal.

621
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: We've published an article in BARONNY magazine several years ago

622
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: called middle of the middle where a lot of these

623
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: Canadian outfitters say that shoot a bear in the middle

624
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: of the middle, like literally from from the shoulders to

625
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: butt in the middle and then up and down vertically.

626
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: If you were just to pick the spot from the

627
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: top of the back to the belly the middle, which

628
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: on a white tail that would be way back, I

629
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: mean way back in the guts. But on knee cropsy

630
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: that I've on on multiple bears, I have seen that

631
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: the lungs extend back beyond the midpoint of the bear,

632
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: and then behind those lungs lay the liver and a

633
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: lot of other good stuff. And so by aiming at

634
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: the middle of the middle, basically you have the most

635
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: room for air of any shot on the bear. If

636
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: you're for ing just to the right, you're really in

637
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: the sweet spot of where you want to be. If

638
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: you're forward of eight inches to the left, back into

639
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 1: the guts, you're still you're not gonna hit liver and

640
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: and lungs, which you did not, but you're still gonna

641
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: kill an animal. I talked to an old Sasketchman outfit

642
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: here one time that told me, he said, he said,

643
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: I have found almost every gut shot bear that we've

644
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: ever had clients take. I personally had not recovered a

645
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: bear that was gut shot quite like yours. And so

646
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: while we're in the stand of telling Klobe this, I'm like, man,

647
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't the best shot, but I think we're gonn

648
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: to find that bear. And uh. And so to cut

649
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: to the end of the story, and and I mean,

650
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: you hit just like basically right in front of the

651
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: hips of that bear, passed all the way through using

652
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: the four blades slip trick, brought it super sharp, good broadhead,

653
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: passed all the way through. We found that bear. It

654
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: took some good blood trailer. I mean, no doubt about it.

655
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: There was not a lot of blood. Like if you

656
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: had just stumbled out there and just started wandering around

657
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: looking for blood like, probably wouldn't have found it. But

658
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: we blood trailed that bear and it probably took forty minutes.

659
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: And and I do not believe the bear run more

660
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: than twoundred yards. Uh. The bear was bleeding and there

661
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: drops of blood on the ground at first, and then

662
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: he quit bleeding like that, and pretty much we were

663
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: then following places where he had rubbed on the trees.

664
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: So what we started doing we learned is wed. You'd

665
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: kind of see tracks where the bear, you know, fresh

666
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: not not like tracks in the mud, just like scuffed leaves.

667
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: We could tell the animal to walk through press down vegetation,

668
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: and you'd kind of go, well, I think he went

669
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: that way, and you'd you know, kind of crawl ten

670
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: feet and look kind of underneath a leaf and you'd

671
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: see a smear of kind of this dark, you know,

672
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: dark red blood. I mean it almost wouldn't even blood,

673
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean, just looked wet. But we kept following that.

674
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: I mean we found the bear, yeah, pretty during easily. Yeah.

675
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: I believe the bear did not live very long. I

676
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: mean I think the bear was dead within thirty minutes.

677
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: So the point of all that is to say is

678
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: that if you're gonna air on a shot on a bear,

679
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: air to the far back of the animal. I wounded

680
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: a bear in Saskatchewan this year by shooting too far

681
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: forward his shoulder. I mean the bear is still out

682
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: in Saskatchewan right now, being a bear. I didn't even

683
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: hurt him, party got any penetration. If I had been

684
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: four inches towards the back of the animal, I would

685
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: have taken that animal. So just as an encouragement to people.

686
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: You know, if you shoot one far back, don't track

687
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: it right away. Yeah, give it some time. Uh, but

688
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: just take your time on the blood trail, don't get

689
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: in the hurry, and you'll find that bear. So so

690
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: when we found it, uh, the bear kind of circle

691
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: back around the direction that had came. It came from

692
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: behind us, but when it ran out, it ran out

693
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: away from us, and I kind of had a feeling

694
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: that it was gonna want to get back in the

695
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: direction I did, and sure enough it did. It circled

696
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: out in front of us and then started heading back

697
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: towards the spig swamp behind us. And uh, I wish

698
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: you hadn't made it to that big hill. Yeah, yeah,

699
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: it went downhill and uh but we walked up to

700
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: the bear. What was it like? Man, it's great for me.

701
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: It was more of like relief. You know, you don't

702
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: want to like because it seemed like he had gone

703
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: down pretty quickly. You know, the last thing you want

704
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: is to injure an animal and have it out there

705
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: suffering or or whatever is going on inside of their mind. Uh.

706
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, it was just like instant relief. It

707
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: was like, oh, thank god, It's like it was one

708
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: of those things where it's like you told me dead

709
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: bear and I wasn't gonna be like excited until I

710
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: saw it myself. I was like, are you sure, man?

711
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a stuff? So no, it was.

712
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: It was fantastic and I was glad that there are

713
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: other people with me whenever I got there. I think

714
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: that's the important thing about hunting is just like the

715
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: other people being with you. If I if that had

716
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: happened on my own, it wouldn't have had the same

717
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: value to it is as the collaborative the collaborative nature

718
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: of you know, you and Corty being there and like

719
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: working just as hard, if not harder than me to

720
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: find the bear. You know, there are a few points

721
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: like I saw you like on your hands, just like

722
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: looking low seeing if you can find stuff. And man,

723
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that I could have found the bear

724
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: on my on my own, just like you know, I

725
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of a lot of experienced blood trailing,

726
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: but it was it was cool to see people that

727
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: have been through and down several blood trailers to to

728
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: watch the process. And I think there's there's almost a

729
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: point of of a mentoring inside of that respect, whenever

730
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: you're watching people that have done things more than you,

731
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: and like you're just trying to take in whatever you

732
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: can so that you can improve for the next time.

733
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: And I bet you I never make that same shot again. Yeah, Yeah,

734
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: I thought I was erring on the side of caution,

735
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: and I guess I just got in my shot cycle

736
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 1: and I didn't think that that bears just started walking

737
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: and it was it was just too late. Well, that's

738
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: there's something to learn from that, because that is a

739
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: critical things when you initiate that shot cycle. You pull

740
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: the bow back. Now you'd actually held the boat for

741
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: probably thirty forty seconds, maybe longer. It was a while.

742
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: You held the boat for a long time, but then

743
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: mentally you executed the shot cycle because you were thinking,

744
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: when the bear turns fully broadside, I'm gonna shoot, yeah,

745
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: And that's really where a guy's got to then kind

746
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: of complexify a shot cycle. And then I'm gonna shoot

747
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: if he stops, if he is turned right, And so

748
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: you shot in the bear was still walking. So that's

749
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: what happen you probably I told you. I think initially

750
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: you said, man, I was like way off, and I

751
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: was like I don't think you were. I think you

752
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 1: probably hit right where you're aiming. Bear was just moving,

753
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, and that comes with experience inside of bow

754
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: hunting is managing that moment of truth. And that's what

755
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: we talked about, you know, like uh and Matt, I

756
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: was impressed with how calm you were. I mean, like,

757
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: I think I think I was more nervous than you.

758
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: I man, when I'm in a tree stand with somebody

759
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna shoot, I'm like nervous as a cap. It's like, ye,

760
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: my heart was pumping. I was filming. It was fun.

761
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: But so I mean, I guess just more cognizance in

762
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: the moment and just like really being sure, you know,

763
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: because we've all every bow hunter has made that same

764
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: mistake and so you just you just wear and luckily

765
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: on this one it didn't really matter. I mean, if

766
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: you'd made a great shot at the bear, would a

767
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: run forty yards rather than two hundred, which really was inconsequential. Um,

768
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: so it was awesome bear. We didn't weigh the bear,

769
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: it was so far back in the bush, weren't able

770
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,959
Speaker 1: to like bring the animal out whole. But we really

771
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: believed that Wade three fifties. We bore. Um, it was

772
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,479
Speaker 1: a good one. Scored the skull eighteen four or something

773
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, six ft nine square, it was. It

774
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: was six and a half foot six and a half

775
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: foot from those to tail green hide, so you know,

776
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: green hide stretched out six and a half foot and

777
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: then the wingspan was seven foot so square. You take

778
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: the length of the bear nose to tail divided by

779
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: the width of the bears, basically the average of those two.

780
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: And uh so it was a super bear, I mean,

781
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: super duper bear. So that was day one and I'm

782
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: gonna speed us along here because so now Colby's hunt

783
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: has done and he's gonna film me. Um. And the

784
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: first afternoon that I hunted, we were sitting on the ground.

785
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: I told Corey that I wanted to hunt on the

786
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: ground and I was gonna hunt with the re curve,

787
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: and you know, the it's a little you know, I

788
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: continue to learn every time I'm going to hunt, because

789
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: you're constantly like gauging, like how good the hunting is,

790
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: what your expectations are for the hunt, what you would

791
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: like to bring home, like as far as like the

792
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: best possible scenario, and then kind of the reality of really,

793
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: what are your chances for bringing that home? I mean,

794
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: like I kind of taking a complex look at the

795
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: whole hunt, and like, for instance, like if we had

796
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: hunted with you the first day and it had been

797
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: like super tough hunting and we hadn't seen a bear,

798
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: they would have calibrated me to be like, buddy, you

799
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 1: better take advantage of every opportunity that you get. But

800
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: when it's as awesome as it was on the first day,

801
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: it kind of sets you up to think, man, this

802
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: is this is we're in, We're in the chips. You

803
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: know this is gonna be good. This is the first

804
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: bait that we sat on. We killed the top notch bear,

805
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: so we've got four days left to hunt. I can

806
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: be picky, like that was what I thought, and I

807
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: don't regret thinking that. Okay, So the first day we

808
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: went into this bait, we knew what was there. We'd

809
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: seen church A pictures. We knew there was a color

810
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: phase bear there. We knew he was a good one,

811
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 1: didn't know exactly how good. And basically the first couple

812
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: of hours we're a little bit slow, but at about

813
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: eight o'clock gets dark, about nine o'clock. At eight o'clock

814
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: bears just started piling in. We're on the ground, and

815
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: the first bear in was a nice boy that I

816
00:45:54,600 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: would say most clients of any Northern Canada bear out

817
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: for probably was shot. I mean it was. It was

818
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 1: a nice boar, older board, kind of had squatty ears.

819
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: He was one of those boards that I think can

820
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: fool you and make you think you're shooting a foreigner

821
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: pounder because he wasn't a young bear. Um. But I

822
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: didn't want to shoot that bear. And then the second

823
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: bear that came in was his color face bear, and

824
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: oh he was he was. He was spectacular just just

825
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: the coloration of him. But he was not as big

826
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: as your bear. And so in my mind I really

827
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: valued size and age of the bear over color of

828
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: the bear. I'm probably the first person ever at Corey's

829
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: camp to pass up a color face bear like that

830
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: because it was good size. Yeah, I mean it was.

831
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: You know, at the time I said it was a

832
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: six ft bear, but it probably was like a six

833
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: three six four type bear. Um. I don't think it

834
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: weighed three under pounds. I could be wrong. I posted

835
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: a picture on Facebook a minute ago and I looked

836
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: at that bear and I was like, dang, that's big bear.

837
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: But in my heart of hearts, I don't think it

838
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: weighed three and pounds. And in my mind in the fall,

839
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: I was wanting to shoot at least a three or

840
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: pound bear. So when I saw the bear, I immediately

841
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm not gonna shoot that bear.

842
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, because when I was in

843
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: Saskatchewan two months ago, I learned something that I hope

844
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: I don't forget. We we we hunted the whole week.

845
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: In the first like minute of bear hunting, I'm not

846
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: kidding you, in Saskatchewan, a color face bear Cameman. I

847
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: mean the first day we got there hunting with Bear

848
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 1: Prosafaris Colby Morrison. I mean, we sit down and here

849
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: comes a color face bear and it's a nice bear.

850
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: It's probably, I don't know how big, it was two

851
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: durn thirty forty pound spring bear, which is a good bear.

852
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: And we end up watching that bear all week. For

853
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: five days. We see that bear every single day. I

854
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: passed him on the first day, and then on the

855
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: last day of the hunt, I decided to shoot that bear.

856
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: And I ended up shooting that bear and wounding it,

857
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: and it just left a terrible taste in my mouth

858
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, but really more internally because I felt

859
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: like the old saying that we've heard hunters say our

860
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: whole life, don't pass up anything on the first day

861
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't shoot on the last for people say that,

862
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 1: but so you could you could switch that old proverb around,

863
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: you know, and say, why shoot something on the last

864
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: day that you didn't shoot on the first, you know.

865
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: So it's like that bear. I didn't want to take

866
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,439
Speaker 1: it then. And then at the end of the hunt,

867
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, rather than going home at the hand,

868
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot this bear. And I did made a

869
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: bad shot, and it just, you know, I think there's

870
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: a lot of lessons to be learned inside of hunting

871
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: that are broader than just what happens in the natural,

872
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, and and I and I just I just

873
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: didn't feel right about it afterwards, not not just that

874
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: I wounded the animal, but it was just like I

875
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: felt like I kind of compromised my value system. So

876
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: we passed this. But well, when I saw this by

877
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: this bear was almost identical to the Baron shout in Saskatchewan,

878
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: and I just kind of had this like taste in

879
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: my mouth. It's like, I don't want to shoot that bear.

880
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: Just it wasn't rational, it was like internal, you know.

881
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: And uh I used to not really listen to that

882
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: voice very strongly as a young hunter, but I do now.

883
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: And I was like, I turned to Kolbe, who was filming,

884
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: and I just said, I don't think I want to

885
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: shoot that bear. Did that surprise you? Well, you know,

886
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: I was on the ground step and stand, so it

887
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: looked big to me, so, uh, yeah, yeah, I was surprised.

888
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: So so this is my first day to hunt. This

889
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 1: bear comes in. This is the bear we're there to kill,

890
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: and I decided to shoot it, and uh we watch it.

891
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: Another color face bear comes in, a color face Sal,

892
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: beautiful color face Sal comes in. And then another big

893
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: black south. So at one time we had four bears

894
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: within twenty yards of us. One of the bears was

895
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: we We said, there's different class sifications of the way

896
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: that bears respond to you when you're on the ground.

897
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: There's some that are just curious and they'll come over

898
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: to you, maybe get seven or eight feet from you

899
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: and kind of booger off after they get a good

900
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: look at you and smell you. And there's others that

901
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: are what I classify as highly interested, which those are

902
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: the ones you kind of gotta watch. And one of

903
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: the boards was highly interested in us, and he I

904
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: don't know how many times he circled around came very

905
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: close to us, but probably six seven times in an hour,

906
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: maybe more than that. It was. I mean, he just

907
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: kept coming in a different side of what they do, yeah, differently,

908
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: And what they always do when they do that is

909
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: the first time they'll come to like this buffer zone

910
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: that they have in their mind, and then next time

911
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: they'll come two foot closer, and then next time they'll

912
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: come two foot closer, and I mean the cycle ends

913
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: when they're in the blind with you. You know, you

914
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: don't you don't let them get to that situation. And uh,

915
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: it's all we had was a bow. He can't carry, Uh,

916
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: you can't carry pistol or anything. So it wasn't have

917
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: a gun. I had bear spray and uh, the bear

918
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: when he came in he could kind of lower his

919
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: head and look at you in the eye. I mean,

920
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: I didn't like that bear, and so I had the

921
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: bear spray out and I don't know if you can

922
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: see it on film. But after about two times of

923
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: them doing that, I dug the bear spray out, and

924
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: a couple of times I almost just popped him just

925
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: because he was getting pretty close. One time I talked

926
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: to him and he walked away. But so we at

927
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: one point it was a amazing evening. I mean, like

928
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: this bear will be coming in from this side, and

929
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: we'd be kind of looking over our shoulder because there

930
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: was another bear, you know, eight yards from us over here,

931
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: and two bears fighting out here. I mean, it's a

932
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: just a cluster of bear activity, which is super fun.

933
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: So this is the day number two, and then I'll

934
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: go back to the calibration of the hunt. This adds

935
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: to the the It adds to the story that this

936
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be an easy hunt. Maybe not easy, but

937
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some opportunity to be picky, you know,

938
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: be picky. And so I'm feeling good. We come back out.

939
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: You killed the big one on the first day. Second day,

940
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: I passed up this bear, and then third day comes,

941
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: we sit in the same spot as we did not

942
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: before and didn't see a single bear, didn't see a

943
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: single bear. Scump skunked, and so they were like dang,

944
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: the only skunk in northern man So and then at

945
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: that point, that's when I was kind of like, maybe

946
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: this is gonna be harder than we thought, because then

947
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,479
Speaker 1: I only had two days left, five day hunt. Spent

948
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: one day hunt with you. Thanks for that. Yeah, I'm

949
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: glad I did. And uh so, to make a long

950
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: story short, and hunted the next two days after that, Um,

951
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: the next night we actually saw six bears and a

952
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: shooter bear came in, I mean a dark thirty I

953
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: mean it was like it was it was light enough

954
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: to be able to see a silhouette up against some

955
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: of our reference points for us to go, that's a

956
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: good bear, but it's too dark to shoot. Didn't shoot him.

957
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: So we saw lots of action that night, saw a

958
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: lot of our activity, but didn't kill a bear. And

959
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: then here we are at the last day and I

960
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: still like, killed a bear and we don't really have

961
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: just a I mean we had tons of options. I mean,

962
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: Corey's got tons of baits, tons of bears coming in

963
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: and bears like coming in that we haven't seen yet

964
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: camera Like what happens with these bears in the fall though,

965
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: is even if there's not hunting pressure. What they end

966
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: up doing is they turned nocturnal. I mean even on

967
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: these baits that have not even been hunted this fall.

968
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: So it's not from hunting pressure, but it's just like

969
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: the lunar cycle and just the way that they start

970
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: to respond to falled inning, that's that they get more

971
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: and more nocturnal. So we had some really big bears

972
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: of a nocturnal and anyway, finally on the last day,

973
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,479
Speaker 1: I hunted by myself. We're trying to be a little

974
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: more incognito rather than bringing in two people. Uh, these

975
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: bears are pretty sensitive to people. Been in some places

976
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: in the far North where you could bring your family

977
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: in there and have a picnic, and these bears don't

978
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: seem to care. These bears did. They were pretty concerned

979
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: about us being there, you know. So we were trying

980
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: to watch our scent and watch the wind and I

981
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: was running an os onyx and you know, we were

982
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: doing some stuff to try to help our scent. Anyway,

983
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: in the final day came and uh, we bumped a

984
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: wolf off the bait. And this was a new bait,

985
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: so I had to I guess we had I hunted

986
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: three different spots, four spots counting yours in a five

987
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: day hunh um And I said, in the final day,

988
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: and I had a nice, like really nice bore come in,

989
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: but just he just wasn't. He just wasn't what I

990
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: went up there to kill. Watched him feed mostly even

991
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: and had a south come in with three cubs right

992
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: at dark, which is fun to watch them. And then

993
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: in the sunset the Manitoba evening and house over and uh,

994
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: so I didn't kill a bear. I didn't kill a bear,

995
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: And I don't like that that that puts a cramp

996
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: in my my systems. Uh. I mean, you know, with

997
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: the magazine, I mean I make a living gathering bear

998
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: hunting content and we've got some great content. But I mean,

999
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: you always hope to bring on a bear. And now

1000
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: this is two hunts in a road in Canada that

1001
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: I have not brought home a bear. So in five

1002
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: years of traveling extensively with Bear Hunting magazine, that's never happened.

1003
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I've almost killed bear on every hunt except

1004
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: for Alaska. Um And uh, once I went to Alaska

1005
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: didn't kill a bear. I've been spotting, I've been hunting

1006
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: in Montana twice without killing bear. I've been to. Yeah,

1007
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 1: I was Quebec one time. I didn't kill a beart

1008
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: so the odd hunt don't bring bring home a bear.

1009
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: But so but I felt good. I left and I

1010
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: felt like I hadn't compromised my value system. We could

1011
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: have on the last night. Corey said you could go

1012
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: back to where you saw the color face bear on

1013
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: the first night, and he gave us that opportunity. The

1014
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: bear was coming back in. We had pictures of the

1015
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: bear there um and we really could have gone back

1016
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: in and probably killed that bear. And I just said,

1017
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: nahn't want to do it, because that's the exact same

1018
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: thing I did in Saskatchewan. Passed the bear on the

1019
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: first day, came in on the last day, shot it

1020
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 1: didn't turn out good, and I was like, nah, I'm

1021
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. If I passed that bear, I'm

1022
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: not gonna take it on the the last day. So went in,

1023
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: didn't kill him. So I was super impressed with Corey.

1024
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: Grant all trained Baron hunts like. He's very he's very managed,

1025
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: he's very ordered. He's a man of his word. If

1026
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: he says he's gonna do something, he's gonna do it.

1027
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: His intent really is to get people on Big Bears,

1028
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: his intendance to give you a first class northern experience.

1029
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: He's a veteran um. I mean I say that because

1030
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: I've been in camps that weren't well managed, and most

1031
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,359
Speaker 1: of them are. I mean I kind of cherry picked

1032
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: my hunts these days and just go with people that

1033
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 1: I really feel like a gonna gonna represent our magazine

1034
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: well and stuff. And I mean Corey totally fits in

1035
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: that category. And and I'd highly recommend him to anybody

1036
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: that's wanting to Northern Canadian hunt and to go back

1037
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: and to it. We're gonna end this quickly here, but

1038
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: the fall hunt is pretty awesome because these bears are

1039
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: getting ready to go to sleep for six months and

1040
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: they're eating like crazy. They've got a lot more weight

1041
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: on them than the spring bears do, and their coats

1042
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: are absolutely fantastic. I mean, they are getting ready to

1043
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: go survived the northern winter coach or I think they're

1044
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: better than spring coats. They're thicker, they're finer um and

1045
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: uh no, we didn't see any rubbed bears at all.

1046
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: Bears were all fully fully haired out. Underbellies were fully

1047
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: haired out. Yeah, slick shiny coats I mean l primo coats. Um,

1048
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: I don't think we saw that. No, No, I mean

1049
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: and we saw I don't know how many bears, bears

1050
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: about twenty bears. Um. So we left that night, got

1051
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: out of the stand, got in the boat, motored back

1052
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: to the camp. Colby was like, let's go home, and

1053
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, if you drive. So we uh

1054
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: we got to the truck. We realized there was a

1055
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: break lad out on the truck. Okay that we didn't

1056
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: notice before. So we drove all the way from Northern

1057
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,439
Speaker 1: Manitoba northwest Art and saw with a tail lie out

1058
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: and we did get pulled over three times the trip.

1059
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: The first guy, the first state trooper, was in South

1060
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: Dakota and the first thing he said was he saw

1061
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: the first light sticker on the back of my truck.

1062
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: And then Colby was wearing the first light and so

1063
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Speaker 1: was I. Cobe was still at his get up from hunting.

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Speaker 1: I mean he had like cannabs on his rubber boots.

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00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: Is uh first light shirt? Anyway, this this cop comes

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00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: to our truck and he's like, I like that first

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00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: light here. I was like, wow, this guy's and then

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00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 1: he saw the deer horn hanging from my key chain

1069
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: shows you how perceptive they are. And he was like,

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00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: he was like scanning our truck. He's like the first

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00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: light deer horn. And then he saw my my crested

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00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: arrows in the back of my truck and he's like

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00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: your traditional bow hunter. And I was like, this is

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00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,479
Speaker 1: a good cop. This guys like totally dialed us in. Yeah,

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00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: and uh. I was like, yeah, I'm a traditional boy.

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00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: So he's like he's like real professional. It's like, sir, um,

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00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: did you have a cruise control cruise control set? And

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00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, and he was like, we're going

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00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: eighty six miles per hour, but what saved this was

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00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: from eighty mile per our speed living South Dakota, so

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00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: that wasn't terrible. And he was like, yeah, my cruise

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00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: control is said and I said, man, we're coming home

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01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: from Manitoba. We just we just got off this hunt.

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: And then Kobe and this is where our strategy rolls

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01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: into how to get out of a ticket on the

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01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: way home from a hunt. Colby is like, yeah, man,

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01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:14,919
Speaker 1: I just killed my first bear. You want to see

1088
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: the picture and bam, the situation it's like flipped flipped,

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01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: and so Kobe pulls out the phone starts showing in pictures.

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01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: The guy started talking to us about hunting, and I mean,

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01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,479
Speaker 1: we knew we were in the clear. Yeah, And then

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01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: he kind of surprised us when he said, sir, do

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01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: you mind stepping out of the car and going back

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01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: with me from my cruiser to the cruiser? And I

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01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: was like, well, that's not customary here in Arkansas or

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01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: Texas the whole time, what's going on? And I was like, oh, okay, uh,

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01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: And so I get out, go to his cruiser, sit

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01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: with him in the car. Like when I got to

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01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: the door, I'm like, you want me to like get

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01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: in here? And uh he was like yeah. And so

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: I sit in the cruiser with him and we talked

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01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: about hunting for twenty minutes. I'm serious, it was a

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01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: whole I didn't know how long it was. I mean

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01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: it was I was maybe my exaggerating was I don't

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01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: feel like it. I mean, we we talked about hunting

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01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: in South Dakota. We talked about him hunting back in

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01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 1: the western part of the state and trying to find

1108
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: deer in the east, talking about hybrid whitetails, milled deer.

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01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we had extensive conversation. I told him about

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01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: Bare Hunting magazine. Uh. Anyway, we had a good conversation

1111
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: and he's just like, I'm just gonna give you a

1112
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: verbal warning. He said, we really just want you to

1113
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: slow it him a little bit. Now it's like ten four, buddy.

1114
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: And so then but so then on the way home

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01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: after it got dark, we did not get pulled over

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01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: for speeding. If that cop is listening right now, officer

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01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: in South Dakota. We did pretty much keep it under

1118
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: control the rest of the way, but we did get

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01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: pulled over for the tail lights. Yeah, and so Colbe

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Speaker 1: and I are both concealed carry permit holders. And so

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01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: what we learned was the second you see the lights,

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01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: get your license concealed carry permits out, got the registration out.

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01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: It turns out my proof of insurance was out of date.

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01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: I am insured, for the record, but I didn't have

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Speaker 1: the actual proof of insurance. So we had two driver's

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01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: license to concealed carry permits, the registration. So we hand

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01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: him this like massive amount of information and he's like

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01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: trying to process, like what all this stuff is, and

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01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: we're like, we're both concealed carry permit holders. And he goes,

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01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: do you have a gun in the truck, and we go, no,

1131
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: we don't. We just got both because we just came

1132
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: from Canada. Canada handguns in Canada. I mean, we're just

1133
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: like overwhelming him with information like before you even asked

1134
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: for it, and don't have a gun. The owner of

1135
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: the truck has to be in the passenger So I'm

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01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: driving both sets of yeah, yeah, yeah. So so Coby's driving,

1137
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm in the passenger seat and like he and then

1138
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: Colby's gone, it's his truck, but he's driving blah blah blah,

1139
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: blah blah. And then right when all that, like the

1140
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: moment that he processes what he's got in his hands,

1141
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: Colby is like, I just killed my first bear. And

1142
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: then every single cop was like highly impressed with that.

1143
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: We're like really the picture and we were like man,

1144
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: and then I turned, you know, I chime in, I'm like, yeah, man,

1145
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: we've been driving. We just came from Northern Manitoba going

1146
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: to our and they're like really you drove all yeah,

1147
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 1: And then they all wanted to know what was in

1148
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: the ice chest. Okay, the other thing that threw them

1149
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: off was the Oriyan ice chest in the rack on

1150
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: the back of the truck that covered our license plate.

1151
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: Oh man, if there's one tip for traveling, I would say,

1152
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: even if you have a truck and if you've got

1153
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: room for it in the back of the truck, don't

1154
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: put in the back of the truck. Put it on

1155
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: the rack on the back covers the license plate. Because

1156
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: it just the cops are just like, it's not illegal,

1157
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: it's them off, throwing them off. It's just one more

1158
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: thing they had to ask. And Orange bright Orange. Yeah.

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01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: The cop in South Dakota was like, what kind of

1160
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: ice chest is that? And I was like, oh, right, man,

1161
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: it's really nice ice chest. Man. In Tennessee, they make

1162
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: kayak to you can sell them down the river and

1163
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: be good. Oh man, I'm serious. I told him the

1164
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: whole story of O Ryan and so. But then they

1165
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 1: go every single cop asked if the bear was in

1166
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: the ice chest and we were like, yep, he yess

1167
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's totally and they all of one

1168
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: of them, I think, wanted to see it. He didn't.

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01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: He didn't quite We didn't quite get there. But it

1170
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: was like his next question was gonna be like, can't

1171
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: I see it? He didn't and it was it was frozen.

1172
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: The whole balled up. But so anyway, overwhelmed them with information.

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01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: We made it home. Um, but we had one more stop.

1174
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: It's just the second stop. Yeah, that was the second stop.

1175
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: The last one went about the same the last one went.

1176
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we nailed this guy. It's like we got

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01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: pulled over and like forty minutes ago. Yeah yeah, like

1178
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: we're like, we know the tail lights out, Yeah, we

1179
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: know the man's killing our time. Yeah yeah, I was.

1180
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 1: We were trying to get home to see the family.

1181
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: But so overall, epic road trip, epic hunt. You got

1182
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: your first bear, he had your first northern bear experience,

1183
01:04:56,200 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: the first trip to Canada. Um as for my first time,

1184
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm with all terrained bear hunts. Corey Grant super impressed.

1185
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: Would love to go back. Hope to go back and

1186
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: uh man, awesome, awesome hunt. I want to go back

1187
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: on a moose hunt. Yeah, he's in a super mooser. Yeah, yeah,

1188
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: that would be that would be very epic. Corey has

1189
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 1: like twelve moose tags I think that he uses every

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01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: year and he he killed a Boone and Crockett like

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01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: sixty in Canada. Moose they kill some super nice moose.

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01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: Canada moose. Canada moose are the smaller moose. I mean,

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01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: the Yukon moose are the big moose that are in Alaska.

1194
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: In the Yukon, Canada moose are the most that are

1195
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: just all across most of Canada. A big Canada mooses,

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01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I get big, but the average Canada

1197
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: moose is probably in the forty forty inch range. I

1198
01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 1: mean they're not a giant moose. And then a small

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: loss moose is the Shiers moose was Sharers moose are

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01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 1: the moose center in the lower forty eight Shiers moose

1201
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: would be like in Idaho and Montana and Maine. Man

1202
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: this Maine is not a Sharers moose. Main is a

1203
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: Cannaba Monson bture. But neither here nor there. He's got

1204
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: a good moose hunt for sure. All right, Hey, thanks

1205
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: for listening to the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. You'll be

1206
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,919
Speaker 1: able to watch this hunt in Colby's Hunt on Bear

1207
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: Horizon on our YouTube channel. And for those of you

1208
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: if somebody's listening to this that has not seen our

1209
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: YouTube channel, that's where most of our content is going

1210
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: right now. Video content. But we also have two channels

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01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: on Carbon TV. We've got our from the Global Headquarters

1212
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: blog and we've got our Bare Horizon series around season five.

1213
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: This is the fifth year that we've um takee video

1214
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: to all our hunts across North America and you'll be

1215
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: able to watch Colby's whole hunt. So hey, check out

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01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 1: baron a new magazine. If you're not a subscriber, check

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01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: it out. Every single one of you needs to get

1218
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: this magazine in the mail. Why wouldn't you want to

1219
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,439
Speaker 1: get it in the mail every other month to your house.

1220
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you strike to your house. You get to

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01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: hold it in your hand print magazine or businesses, businesses

1222
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Speaker 1: put outduring the coffee table. Yep, yep, yep. So all right,

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Speaker 1: until next time, Keep the wild places wild, because that's

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Speaker 1: where the bears live.