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Ep. 927: Brent's Manitoba Moose Hunt | 12 in '26 · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We've been traveling for two days. We're 154 kilometers from Thompson, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: where we're going to stay the night. In the morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to catch a float plane out with Craig
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy with North Mountain Adventures, and we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: if we can't get a moose hemmed up here in
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  Speaker 1: northern Manitoba. It's a very remote place. It is as
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  Speaker 1: wild as wild gets in North America. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: believe that this is really taking place. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'll fully realize it.
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  Speaker 2: Until we get in camp. But I'm a long ways
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  Speaker 2: from home.
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  Speaker 1: What you just saw was a clip from Hunting Bull
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  Speaker 1: Moose in Manitoba, my 12 and 26 films sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Moultrie and Onyx. And what we're doing now is the
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  Speaker 1: companion podcast that's going to answer some questions and maybe
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  Speaker 1: show some things that didn't wind up in the final cut.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm joined by my good friend, Josh Landbridge Spillmaker.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited to be here, Brent. I really love
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  Speaker 3: the film.
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  Speaker 4: It did a great job capturing not just the hunt,
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  Speaker 4: but all the surrounding things to go with it. The scenery,
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  Speaker 4: the camaraderie, everything about it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just, it was a information overload for a
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  Speaker 1: little while.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say, I'll say, but we're, uh, we're really excited to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: to do this podcast because we've got some great questions
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  Speaker 4: from some of the viewers and, uh, we're going to
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  Speaker 4: give you an opportunity just to, you know, it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to catch a, how long was the hunt total?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man. We were there for like, I think the
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  Speaker 2: whole trip was like nine days.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So we, It's hard to capture all that in 42 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: And so, uh, we're going to give you an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: just to tell us more than we could see in
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  Speaker 4: the film, but, um, it's a pretty different kind of
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  Speaker 4: adventure for you growing up here in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Um, early on in your career, you spent a lot
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  Speaker 4: of time documenting other people's hunts and you kind of
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  Speaker 4: go into that in the film, but, uh, this time
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  Speaker 4: you're the, the guy carrying the rifle. So, um, before we, uh,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to, I've got a couple of questions for
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  Speaker 4: you before we we kind of dive into it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: How did this.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of come about? How did you get, uh, how
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  Speaker 4: did you like, Hey, I want to go to Manitoba
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  Speaker 4: and hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it all started like in February a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Garrett long, my boss calls me and he says,
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  Speaker 1: we need to come up with an idea for a project. Some, some,
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  Speaker 1: some film projects that we're going to film throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: And I need, what's your dream hunt. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll think about it. Oh, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just that, that was how, that's
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  Speaker 1: how it went. I said, I want to go shoot
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  Speaker 1: a moose and, and, uh, Northern Manitoba with Craig McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: And now the.
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  Speaker 1: Response I was waiting to hear was like, uh, how
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  Speaker 1: about we do something in Missouri, you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: closer to home. But Garrett's response was okay. Get ahold
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  Speaker 1: of Craig and let's start working out the details. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, so that again, and if, and if from that,
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  Speaker 1: it just went from, initial meetings with Craig and producer,
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  Speaker 1: and we just started getting the ball rolling and making
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  Speaker 1: a plan and it came to fruition.
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  Speaker 3: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What was kind of different about you? I know you
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  Speaker 4: filmed quite a bit in Canada, not necessarily in Northern Manitoba,
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  Speaker 4: but you've filmed a lot in Canada. How was it
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  Speaker 4: different preparing for this knowing that you were gonna be
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  Speaker 4: the shooter?
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  Speaker 1: Well, to me, being a cinematographer, which I don't claim
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  Speaker 1: to be, I was a cameraman and I think, I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a difference, you know, but prepping myself to
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  Speaker 1: go film a hunt like that. I just had to
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  Speaker 1: get the mindset that, that I'm always working.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That, you know, the hunt is not when you leave,
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  Speaker 1: walk out the camp door or the tent or whatever
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  Speaker 1: with a gun in your hand, when you're there to
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  Speaker 1: document the whole hunt, that's all of it. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be on the ready. You got to,
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  Speaker 1: You're the first guy up in the morning. You're the
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  Speaker 1: last guy to go to bed at night. You're the last,
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  Speaker 1: most of your meals are going to be cold because
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  Speaker 1: you're filming everybody else doing all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a totally different situation that, that you
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  Speaker 1: had to prepare for us. You just got to get
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  Speaker 1: your mind right. That if it don't happen on camera,
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  Speaker 1: then it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the way you got to look at it. And,
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  Speaker 1: I want to think, I can't remember exactly, Josh, but
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  Speaker 1: I think Dave Gardner shot like 26. Dave Gardner was
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  Speaker 1: your cameraman. He was my cameraman on this. It was me,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Gardner, and Craig McCarthy in this.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, videographer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cinematographer. Cinematographer. Shout out to Dave Gardner.
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  Speaker 5: Extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for real.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's like 26 hours of video or
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  Speaker 1: film that he shot. And they condensed that down to
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  Speaker 1: 42 minutes. I mean, it's incredible, incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's go ahead and dive into another clip here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Man, the amount of stuff it takes to do this
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  Speaker 1: is monumental, especially if we're trying to document a film
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  Speaker 1: like this. It's already going to be a good trip regardless.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of folks ready to go, me included.
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  Speaker 3: You're Arkansas?
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  Speaker 2: It's been a.
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  Speaker 6: Long time, no see.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: You too.
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  Speaker 4: Great that's a great clip uh one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that i noticed right away was how remote yeah this
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  Speaker 4: place was yeah i'm flying in and out um no
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  Speaker 4: roads road systems i mean you you fly in live
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  Speaker 4: out of camp um and your boat becomes your primary
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  Speaker 4: way of getting around um and then the whole process
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  Speaker 4: that goes into loading these planes and getting everything off
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  Speaker 4: and um What, what were the logistical, what was the
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  Speaker 4: logistics of putting together a hunt like this?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think about, there's always been in this
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  Speaker 1: business and I learned it very early that you're either
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  Speaker 1: hunting or you're filming a hunt. And that is two
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  Speaker 1: totally different things. If you're just hunting, you're just going to,
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  Speaker 1: you capture what you capture. If you're trying to tell
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  Speaker 1: a story, then you've got to film everything. So there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be equipment and batteries and camera batteries and
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  Speaker 1: stuff that are going to take the place maybe of clothes,
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  Speaker 1: of other things that you wanted to bring. I want
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  Speaker 1: to bring, you know, X, Y, Z, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: have room for it. And you got to make a
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  Speaker 1: choice between clean underwear and batteries.
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  Speaker 3: Batteries are going to win every time.
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  Speaker 1: And you're just taking a, you're taking a bath in
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  Speaker 1: the Creek, you know, and washing your clothes in the lake.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that, that kind of stuff goes into it.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes into the, whole thought process of okay
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  Speaker 1: maybe i can wear.
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  Speaker 2: A pair of britches for three days right you know and.
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  Speaker 1: And i actually did a podcast about it about when
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  Speaker 1: i came back about the things that i would have
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  Speaker 1: done different and i i took way too many clothes
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  Speaker 1: and i would take i would cut that back and
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  Speaker 1: just you know washing the wash in the in the
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  Speaker 1: lake rinse off dry let it air dry and then
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  Speaker 1: go that route but You really prioritize the things that
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  Speaker 1: you need to document because if you run out of
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  Speaker 1: lens wipes or if you run out of batteries or
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  Speaker 1: if you run out of, you know, your B camera,
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  Speaker 1: you got more than one camera there. If you run
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  Speaker 1: out of things to document that, I mean, it's not,
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  Speaker 1: you don't, you don't call up FedEx and have them
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  Speaker 1: ship you another one in. Run down to Best Buy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, from where we took off there in Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: we were in that float plane for another two hours before.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, wow. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was out there, you know? Not in a straight line.
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  Speaker 1: We went to several other camps and dropped some stuff off,
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  Speaker 1: but it was, you don't just, if you don't bring it,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: With you, you don't have it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, and usually one is none and two is one.
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  Speaker 1: So you, you usually you're doubling up.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So you can be sure.
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  Speaker 5: That you have.
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  Speaker 2: On the necessities. To have, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So one of the things that I know and love
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  Speaker 4: about you, Brent, is that you are, you really value relationships.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us how you met Craig.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I went up on a bear hunt with
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  Speaker 1: Craig and his wife, Mel, and their place.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, North Mountain Adventures there. And I guess it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the bottom third of Manitoba there. And their family, Craig, Melanie, Hayden,
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  Speaker 1: and Kirsten, they're just, man, they are just an ideal
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  Speaker 1: outdoor family.
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  Speaker 2: They're wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: The hosting that they have there and the places they
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  Speaker 1: have to hunt is just beyond anything. And they're just
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  Speaker 1: good down to earth people. So we hit it off,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right from, from the get go. The only,
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  Speaker 1: our only difference is, you know, we talk different and
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  Speaker 1: they have an accent and I don't, but we just
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  Speaker 1: became good friends. And then when this opportunity came up
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go on a moose hunt, there
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  Speaker 1: was one guy that I wanted to do it with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that, that's how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: That's really cool. That's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Um, So when you're this remote, you said you were
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  Speaker 3: out there for nine days. What does a typical.
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  Speaker 4: Day look like when you're out there hunting?
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  Speaker 1: Well, hunting moose, man, you you you get up pretty
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  Speaker 1: early uh i mean it's not like a duck hunt
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  Speaker 1: where you're two hours before daylight you get up right
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  Speaker 1: before daylight and kind of get a bite to eat
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  Speaker 1: and you let the you want to get some daylight
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  Speaker 1: where you can you can see the shore you know
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  Speaker 1: when when you leave the camp you get out and
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  Speaker 1: you go and we're going to different spots along the
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  Speaker 1: shore and if weather's right and it's and uh and
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  Speaker 1: you can see uh you know you may be able
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  Speaker 1: you may spot a moose before you ever set up
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  Speaker 1: to call one now we didn't we didn't see him
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  Speaker 1: uh the first two or three days we were there
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  Speaker 1: uh so we would just go to different spots along
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  Speaker 1: the lake and call and we'd set into one spot
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  Speaker 1: and i talked to even in the film i'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to craig about it you know asking him how long
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  Speaker 1: he likes to stay in one spot after we do
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  Speaker 1: a call and it's right i would think you know
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  Speaker 1: 45 minutes you know or But he's like, no, two hours.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the way.
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  Speaker 1: Those bulls react to a call. It's just so slow
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  Speaker 1: and methodical. I mean, they can hear it a long ways,
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  Speaker 1: but they're usually not just, okay, I hear a cow
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  Speaker 1: running over there. No, he's just going to start easing
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  Speaker 1: his way that way. And he may be a mile
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  Speaker 1: away from it or more.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And just start easing his way.
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  Speaker 3: And you were there what time of year?
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  Speaker 2: That was in late September.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Is that, is that like peak for the rut?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the kind of toward the end of it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Cause everybody, we were the last hunt for that, for
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  Speaker 1: Craig's outfit up there, his father's outfit up there. So,
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  Speaker 1: and anytime I was talking to someone, they'd say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to, when are you going to hunt this moose?
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  Speaker 2: And I'd say, oh, we're leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like the 18th or 19th of
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  Speaker 1: January or September, something like that. And they go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're going late. I'm like, golly, that seems early. But
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  Speaker 1: you take into account the weather up there in October
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to how it is down here. There's quite
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  Speaker 1: a difference. So it was a tail end of the rut,
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  Speaker 1: but bulls were really active. And as you can see,
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  Speaker 1: it paid off pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: So, um, you, you traveled with your rifle on several
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  Speaker 4: different airplanes. There's a scene in the, in the, in
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  Speaker 4: the film where you want to go just check your
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  Speaker 4: zero on it. Um, what, what, uh, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: questions about what caliber, what rifle you were shooting, what caliber,
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  Speaker 4: and why was it important to you to check the zero?
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  Speaker 1: So Sig Sauer cross and 300 PRC, which was the
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  Speaker 1: largest round I've ever shot, you know, in a, in
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  Speaker 1: a civilian rifle. And when I looked at it, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's probably a moose round right there.
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  Speaker 3: As big as it is.
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  Speaker 1: But I sighted it in with my friend who lives
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  Speaker 1: here not far from my house here. And he actually
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  Speaker 1: works for SIG. He's an engineer for SIG here at
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  Speaker 1: their Arkansas ammunition plant. And Matt Burns, who's a competitive
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  Speaker 1: shooter and just a man, he's just so knowledgeable about it.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got a little range at his house. And
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  Speaker 1: we went there. I went there and sighted that thing in.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole time we were traveling, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: plane to plane, I'm looking out the window and I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching them load stuff. I'm like, that guy right there
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  Speaker 1: is not concerned whether my rifle stays on zero or not. But, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got, that was the first thing that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do once I got there. And you can actually
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  Speaker 1: in Canada, uh, in Manitoba, that is, you can hunt
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  Speaker 1: the same day you fly in as long as you
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  Speaker 1: don't use that aircraft to, you know, spot anything, which
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  Speaker 1: we didn't see anything.
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  Speaker 2: But you can, uh, it's legal to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So as soon as we got settled in camp, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Dave pushed record and we started, we started hunting right then.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Where, uh, what distance did you have your rifle zeroed
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  Speaker 3: in at?
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  Speaker 2: I sighted it in.
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  Speaker 1: It was, I could shoot out to 700 yards on
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  Speaker 1: Matt's course. And we shot a hundred. If it's good
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  Speaker 1: at a hundred, Matt said it's good at 700. And
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  Speaker 1: I shot both at his house and. That was what
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  Speaker 1: we did there.
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  Speaker 3: Based on the ballistic calculator?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, based on all that. We did it there once
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  Speaker 1: we got into camp, and it was good to go. Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hit this next clip.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this earlier, and I've heard you explain
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  Speaker 1: it to other folks, or talking about going and calling,
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  Speaker 1: and then at night, and then leaving and coming back
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  Speaker 1: to that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Is that more like putting bait out?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much. Unless he's right there, you're not going
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  Speaker 6: to get him right away. But he could be two miles.
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  Speaker 6: And if it's dead calm and he hears you, and
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  Speaker 6: moose aren't fast, when they're coming, he'll start grunting and
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  Speaker 6: slowly make his way there. So we leave in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: He's probably coming if he heard you.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And then when we go back in the afternoon or
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  Speaker 6: the next morning, he's probably within a couple hundred yards
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  Speaker 6: of where you were calling from.
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  Speaker 1: What's your pitch or Perfect weather for calling moose in
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  Speaker 1: the rut.
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  Speaker 5: What are you looking for?
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  Speaker 8: Below zero temperatures and dead calm.
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  Speaker 5: Celsius?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So 32 or under and no wind.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't, I don't want to be presumptuous here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I've spent quite a bit of time practicing a turkey
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  Speaker 4: call and a duck call.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And don't claim to be good at either one.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I think I could get that one down.
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  Speaker 1: I've got, man, I've got videos of folks with their
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  Speaker 1: kids blowing through a toilet, toilet paper roll. Like, how's
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  Speaker 1: my moose calling? It sounds good. And Craig will be
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  Speaker 1: the first to tell you. It's all you got to
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  Speaker 1: do with a minimum amount of practice to call one up.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the thing that got me so much
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  Speaker 1: is something that I just keep beating the hair off
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  Speaker 1: of is it's like calling turkeys right now, going back
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  Speaker 1: to camp, going to bed, and getting up the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: going back and sitting by that tree and shooting him
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  Speaker 1: when he walks up. I mean, it's just so out
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary. That's what I kept thinking about.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty amazing that you can put.
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  Speaker 3: A call out and 12 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Later that Moose is coming. Yeah, yeah, he's coming. Or
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  Speaker 1: 24 hours.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: When we would leave and there's something in there, and
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to get to something that,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: didn't make it into the film that i wish would
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: have if this is a good time to cover it
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: now but one afternoon and i can't remember now if
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: it was the day after i think it was a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: couple days after uh that i actually killed a bull
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: we were going down that river the same river and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: we just pulled up on the bank and craig made
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: a call and then we went on fishing down the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and as we left dave's filming him and craig says
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: there'll be a bull here when we come back and
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: we laughed dave laughed i laughed craig laughed we went
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: fishing we came back there was a bull there three
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: hours later really yeah we got some footage of him
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: from the boat and but i wish that would have
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: made it in craig saying that but he because i
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: mean you like oh this guy's got esp oh that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: that's awesome it was pretty it was pretty funny were.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: There ever any You know, when you're throwing these cow
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: calls out there, was there ever any, before you saw
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: one respond to it like that, was there any doubt
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in your mind that you're like, eh?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you trust the guide.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I was a duck guide for so long that I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: knew not, if I've got a client with me, I'm
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: not going to tell him something that's not true. You've
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: got to be honest because in the course of of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: being in the wilderness, being outside and dealing with nature,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the truth is going to come out.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: So I had to do nothing but trust what he said. And,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I would be thinking, Oh, we need to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: get up and move in my mind. I'm thinking we
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: should get up and move. Right. The next thought would be,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I should pay attention to Craig because he does this
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: for a living.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And that gets us wrong.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: He doesn't get paid.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's, You never guide the guide, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that's something I always keep in the forefront of what
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: we're doing, and I'm trying to learn. I learned so
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: much from being a turkey hunter or a whitetail hunter.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: You've got to be patient a lot of times. But
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I learned patience from him up there, especially when you're
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: making a call that could have an effect 24 hours later.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It was really cool to see.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: So Craig mentioned, you know, his ideal calling conditions were,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: you know, zero degrees Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit, dead calm.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Why those conditions?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Obviously the dead calm makes sense.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's the sound carries and it's, uh, they
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: seem to be active during that time, you know, during,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: with that temperature, they're most active. And obviously with the,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the sound will go not just downwind, but in every direction.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Now, was that from your first day hunting?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: That was. Okay.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: So first day was just call and wait.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, call and wait. Okay. We got there that afternoon.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: We went over and across the lake. We never hunted that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: side of the lake again because of the wind. We
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: were facing into the wind there and we were right
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: on the edge. We had the lake right behind us,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the edge. We were calling across that tundra or whatever
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: technical term that is for that part of Canada there.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: And They had, you can see forever, but I mean,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in that also in that instance, I mean, you can
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: see that the wide open country, but something big as
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a moose can just all of a sudden just slip
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: up on you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, so it was.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Now, is this private land or public land?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: It's all public. It's all public land.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if it's native land or whatever,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: if they have a lease or whatever it is, but
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it's like a concession that they hunt up there. Okay.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, they're the only folks allowed in that part.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Like, give us an idea of how big of an
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: area you were hunting.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: As big as the world is. As big as outside.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was thousands of acre miles of what,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: unnamed lakes and unnamed rivers and just wilderness, absolute wilderness.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And from the time you left Thompson in that airplane,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that float plane flying at a little over 3,000 feet,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Once those, that part of civilization got behind the aircraft,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: there was, I mean, there was nothing. And it looked
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like it went on for absolute ever.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I've not spent much time in the Canadian wilderness like that,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: but that's what everybody says is just, it feels like you're.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It feels like you are a million miles from home
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and really you are.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Like an uninhabited planet.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And you're smelling, you're breathing air. then it's never been,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: nobody's breathed it. It ain't got to Arkansas yet, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: by the time it gets to Arkansas, they've been, folks
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: have been breathing it all over the country.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You're breathing something that's been inside someone.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: All over North America. And it's just a, a feeling.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It's just all encompassing really. It's a little, it's, if
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you like details and I love the details in, places
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that I go and I, the small things and it's over, it's,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it's overwhelming.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: That's cool. Um, let's, uh, let's hit the next clip.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Normal on a foggy morning.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I just lay up until the fog clears.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Or no, I think it's just, uh, it depends where
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: you are.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: If the bulls have cows with.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Them or not.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: It's how moose hunting is. It's just, You could see
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: nothing for days. And then all of a sudden, there's moose.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Over the place, yeah. Famine to feast.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: It's just the way it goes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord, he's seeing something.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Wait, I think I see a bull.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: Look up in the green over there. Is he up
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: in the green, up high? Definitely a moose, 100%. We're
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: going in there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: We got time.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Oh, I see him. He's to the left of the
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: tree down lower. I'd stop in seven minutes. Yeah, they
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: just disappear.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Now that was that the second day or was that?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That's the first day there.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: The very first day.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were coming back from where we were set
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: up across the lake and saw that.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: He saw that moose. And it's hard to see it, man.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know that if you could even put a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: pause on it and zoom in on it on your
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: phone or your computer, whatever you're watching on and see
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that moose. But he was there and you could see
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the paddles on him and he had a cow up
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in there. And that spot right there where eventually I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: shot the moose from probably another 40, 50 yards around
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that bend down there is where I found where we
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: were sitting when I shot that moose. But something that
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: impressed me about that was there is nobody within any
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: miles and miles and miles of where we are. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Craig says, we got seven minutes. And buddy, in seven minutes,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we were packed up and gone.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: At five minutes till when we didn't have anything close enough,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we were unloading and just standing there watching just to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: see what would happen. And there's nobody that would have known.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But me and Craig and Dave.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: But it's by the book, man. I love it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It's there.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Just got to appreciate guys like that. Absolutely.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, the integrity is what, what stands out.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Um, I can imagine cruising up and down the lake there. You're,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: you're probably every Brown spot.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Is a moose. Yeah. I saw this, there's one stump
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I tried to kill for six days up there that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I kept seeing through those binos and I, that's gotta
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: be a moose.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: No, it's still a stump.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: What's a legal bull. Is there a, is there a
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: size requirement?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I think it's gotta have like four on the front,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And then, um, I'm not exactly sure. I mean, we
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: talked about it, discussed it then. I don't remember now
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: what it was, but it was just incredible to be
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in those places and to be able to see that much.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And know that, you know, behind that ridge.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: How difficult was it to see one? Well, it turns
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: out it got pretty easy. The longer we stayed there,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the more we saw. But you just didn't see them.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: like Craig's described, he said, man, we're allowed to come
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: around the corner and they'll just be, you know, walking
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: up and down the bank.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Way down there, uh, you know, across the lake, you'll
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: see them over there. No, when we started seeing them,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: we just rolled up on them and there they were.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Just as unconcerned with.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Over the course of the hunt. How many moose did
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: you think, do you think you saw?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think we saw five different.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Bulls.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Including the one, no, uh, been four bulls and then
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: one that had the cow with it. Okay.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Okay. Now that's including one of the bulls that I killed.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: That I would have thought you would have seen more,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: but that's a pretty amazing to see those. Well, you
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: saw what you see is where they were and fresh
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: tracks and evidence of them.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: And you really got to play the wind up there, man,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: because I mean, one of the only creatures on the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: planet's got a nose bigger than mine and it's, they
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: can mine me and you and you got if you
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: don't play the wind right they're gone that's what.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I was wondering too because was that something you had
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: to manage 100 i.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Mean you you look the wind direction we walked outside
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and we got in the boat determined 100 where we
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: were going that day and it also the main thing
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: it determines where we weren't going to go right we're
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: not going to go in there and just dust this
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: area was sent when we know that there's moose in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: this and we'll, we'll wait until. Was it pretty windy
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: when you were there? At times it was more than not.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Okay. More than not.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And there was a couple of storms that blew through
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and it was raining.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I can remember, I.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Can remember sitting in the, in the cabin and we
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: had a Starlink system up there. So I, we could,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I called home and I was talking to my wife
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on the, And it was just raining, man. It's raining
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: so hard. Water's coming in on the floor and we're
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: picking stuff up and setting it on tables. I told her,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I said, it's coming a storm. There's water in here.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: My stuff's getting wet and I can't think of any
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: place I'd rather be right now than right here. It
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: was just that much fun, you know? So yeah, but
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it was windy. It was windy and it displayed a lot,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: but you really had to be smart about And just
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: take your time. You know, it's not a, it's a marathon,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: not a sprint.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And every day that, every day that you're there, you're
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: learning more about the environment, more about what the moose
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: are doing by the tracks we're seeing and just, you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: playing the hands that were dealt.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Um, as you, as Ty went on, you kind of picked, you, you,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: there was a scene in there where you talked about
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Is that a, you were asking him, is that a moose?
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: And he's looking, he's like, I don't think so. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: he said, it looks like two eagles. What, what was it?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: It was two eagles.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Eagles up there are buzzing around like hummingbirds here. They're
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: just everywhere. And it was way across the lake and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they were sitting close, far enough apart from each other
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: or separated enough that you thought it resembled paddles. Right.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Cause that's what you're looking for. And you know, Craig said,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you gotta look for those paddles. You see the paddles
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and then you'll see the moose. So that was to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: my untrained eye, that's what I was looking for. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: then we looked and saw, oh, that's a, those are
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: eagles there. Okay. And right after that is when we,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I think first, yeah, we first got in there and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: saw where those moose were eventually where I would wind
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: up killing one. Okay. All right. All right.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Let's, uh, let's move on to the next clip. We've
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: got a two-minuter here. And I think it's a good one.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Everybody found a comfortable place on the log and sat down.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: We were like a bunch of crows sitting on the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: light line.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And I had my ballistics calculator out on my phone
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and I was range in different places and just really
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: passing the time because I didn't figure we were going
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: to see anything until late. And all of a sudden,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Craig said, oh my gosh, there's a bull.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: How far?
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: That's a shooter, Brent.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: How far is.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: It?
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: 460.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: Wind's right on pretty well.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: 2.3 You ready?
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Hit him.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Shoot him again.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, he's hurt.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Where's he at?
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: He's butt facing you.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: He turns one way or the other. I got him.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I can poke quartering, but he's hard quartering.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Pretty sure you hit him.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: There's no doubt.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Hit him again.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: He's going down. There you go. He's going down.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Can't see him.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Holy man.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Weapons on safe.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, buddy.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I think you put three in him.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: That's a good bull.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I love it, man.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I get the chills every time I watch that. Craig
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: was so excited and I was so excited. It was,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: it was overwhelming. Yeah, 100% overwhelming. And that whole sequence there,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: when we got there, it was early. It's like 2.30,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: 3 o'clock in the afternoon. And that's the same point
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you recognize from where we were the day before. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: when we got there, I said, you know, the wind's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: blowing and it was kind of warm. He said, they're
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: probably not going to start. moving until later unless they're
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: following a cow he said but it may be warm
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: enough that they want to come get a drink of
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: water to cool off so we just set our stuff
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: up got comfortable dave sat down with his camera craig
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: sat right beside him and i sat down on the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: other end of this log and i've got that ballistics
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: calculator out and i'm thinking okay if craig calls out
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: five hundred you know, I'm poking it in there and fine. And,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and cause I, I messed with that scope enough, Matt
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and gave me a crash course on it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: And we shot.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Round after round after round, and he's calling out different
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: distances and I'm doping it in there. So I was
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: very familiar with, with the process and was very comfortable
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: with it. And so I'm just sitting there for nothing
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: better to do than pass the time because Craig says,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you know, You might see one, but it's probably.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Going to be late when it kind of cools off.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Right. And then all of a sudden he jumps up
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and runs by me and says, there's a bull right there.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And he's a shooter. He's running back over here to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: get his binos and stuff. Dave gets his camera and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: stands up. I don't know what to do, so I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: just kind of run around in circles there for a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: second until Craig got back and we got on the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: gun and.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: The rest of it was... I mean, you saw it happen.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And when.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: There was, he called out the distance to me twice.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And because the first time he said, it's 460. Well,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I dialed it in and I said, how far? Because
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I get off the scope and I look and I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: can see him.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, there's no way that thing's 400.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: It's way closer than that. Because it's huge. You know,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I can see him. And he said, 460 twice is
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: what he said. 460 twice. I'll never forget it. okay
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: i trust him you know and i got back on
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the scope and when i turned it loose it when
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: i shot i thought i'll be able to hear it
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: hit him i shouldn't be able to and it seemed
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: like it took forever but wham you can hear it
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: hear it you and on the video you.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Could actually i felt like i could hear it on
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: the video.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: You 100 you can and then if you look you
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: can see it actually go through him oh and hit
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: those splash the water on the other side okay so
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: he took the first round right In the ballroom behind
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: his shoulder on the right side. And the other two,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I wish we would have got a photograph of it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: But the other two, you could have covered up with
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: your fist.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, right in the zero. Wow.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's incredible. It was just like he didn't flinch. I mean,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: he just walked right up on the bank and laid
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: down and died.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Man, it was incredible. It was incredible to see that just...
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: that huge animal. I was amazed that how little he
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: moved after that first shot.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, just like he didn't know what hit him,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: but he wasn't too concerned about it at the moment.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He just soaked it up, man. And he got two
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: more and he, I mean, he didn't limp. He didn't
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: do anything. I mean, when it hit him, he moved,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: but as far as like shaking or anything like that,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: he just, he toted all three of them up.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I just plumb out of sight.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Now you, you spent, many, many years in law enforcement, um,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: working with SWAT. What are, what's your background with firearms? Oh, well,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I was also a firearms instructor.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I taught at the state SWAT school down at Camden
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: when they would have special classes down there for SWAT personnel.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: So you're very familiar with long range shooting, how to
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: handle firearms. I, somebody, uh, we had a guy that commented, Hey,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I appreciate hearing Brent, you know, full of excitement. But
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: the first thing he says is weapon on safe.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Just letting everybody know.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: That's a weapons instructor right there. Yeah, I think that's
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: just a force of habit, which is a good habit
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: to be in.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. What were those feelings when Craig said, there's a bull?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Man, it was just, I mean, the whole time, that
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: whole hunt, I was thinking about how, you know, it's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a grand adventure for sure. But it's also my work.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of responsibility, uh, to that encompasses my
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: portion of it. You know, that that's always why I
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: talked about being the camera guy, you know, win or lose.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: If the camera, if the camera's recording, I've, I've got
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: all the shots, whether or not the hunter misses or not.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Now I'm in front of it. Now it's all on me.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I know Dave's getting his part. Can I hold up
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: my end of the bargain? And that's where the pressure
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: comes from. And, I mean, but it is part of
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the story. Had I missed him, had I made a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: terrible shot, it had just been part of the story. Luckily,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I put three good ones in him, and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: it was absolute euphoria, really.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Did you see it immediately when you came around the bushes?
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Were you like, oh, there it is, when Craig said,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: there's a bull over there? And I'm sure you were
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: full of adrenaline when you walked around those bushes. Did
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: you immediately connect with him?
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, we, you could see down the river from
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: where we were sitting. I didn't have to walk out
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: from where we were sitting when he, when, when Craig
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: ran past me fast enough to set the grass on fire,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know if it was something after
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: him or what should I keep up with him or
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: outrun Dave or what's going on. And he said, there's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a bull and you know, a good bull right there.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And I looked down there and immediately it was like,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it was like a painting. I mean, he's knee deep
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: out in this river and just slowly walking out there
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and the sun shining on him and the water, the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: ripples are lit up from the sun and this thing,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: it looks like a movie. I'm getting chills now, Josh,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: just thinking about it. It was one of the most
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: beautiful things I've ever seen. I mean, the sky was blue.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: It was absolutely unreal.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: It looked like a film.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: And when he said 460, you immediately went into.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I got to trust him. Yeah. My first thing was
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: there's no way. But he said it's 460.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And I made him or I asked, you know, how
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: far I'm wanting him to, you know, to make sure
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Confirm, you know, and he confirmed
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: it 460 twice. And I'm like, well, that's how far
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: he is.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: And I love that you kind of had more or
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: less immediate feedback of whether that animal was down or not.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was clear he was going down.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't see it that way.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Craig says, you got him. He's going down. And I'm like, bro,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that thing was walking last time I saw it. Of course,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Craig's looking at a lot of, he's looking at, right
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: he's seen moose move that are shot good he's seen
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: moose that are walking that are shot not good right
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: but i mean his confidence was overwhelming but it wasn't
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: for brent right when he walked out of sight as
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: far as i was concerned that moose is still walking
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Because you shoot a deer and you think, well, he's
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: in trouble.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: You know, you can kind of tell. But I didn't
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: know what to look for.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: And to me, it didn't look like he was moving
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: any faster or any slower than when he walked out
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: before I ever shot him the first time. Okay.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: So did you wait or did you guys go immediately after?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: 14 days we waited right there in that spot is
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: what it felt like.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I think it was 25 minutes.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Because I was checking my watch.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: And. We got in the boat and went down there,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and when he walked out of the river and walked
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: up on the bank out of the river, he walked
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: right past a rock that was sticking up.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: It was about the size of a.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Basketball, but it was right on the edge of the bank,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a flat bank where, and I think it was maybe
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: two feet from the edge of the bank down to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the water, just a cut bank straight, and that rock
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: was right there. So in my mind, when I saw him,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I logged that in there, and I think, That's the
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: trail I'll look and start looking for blood right there.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And we just started to float down there. Okay.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got our next clip coming up. So you
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: sat there for 25 minutes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: It was the longest 25 minutes of my life. I
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: can't imagine.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely brutal.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Well, let's watch this next clip here.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: He's laying right there, right through here, Brent. See the horn?
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: 15 feet.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he's right there.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: What an absolute monster.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to say, that is incredible.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Absolutely incredible.
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: Beautiful fronts on them.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: There ain't nothing bad about it. Oh my gosh.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to say.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just, thank you for the effort.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your friendship, man.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Thank you guys.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: This is already a success. Absolutely can't believe it. I
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: just can't get over how big they are, man. I mean,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of Steve, one Steve's killed, Clay and all.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I've seen a jillion.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Pictures.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I've seen one that y'all have taken, but the body
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: on these things is just... The day that that I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: killed a moose, I was absolutely not prepared for what
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: that was like. That adrenaline dump was unlike anything I
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: have ever seen because I glanced down the river before
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I went back to get my rifle and I could
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: see him standing in the river. And it looked like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a dinosaur. It looked like a school bus with antlers.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: It was huge. Awesome.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I'm no, I'm no expert on moose, but it looks
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: like a big one.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Man, I was looking the way he was moving when
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: he stepped up out of the river onto the bank
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: and had just seen his hind end going in into
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the bushes.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: You know, that was the end of it. I'm expecting
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: this thing not.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: To be where he was because he was literally 15
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: feet from the edge of the water.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: So he literally walked off and just collapsed.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: He walked up and just laid down and was dead
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: as a hammer when we got there. But I was
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: looking past him. I was looking over him. And Dave
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: is sitting, if you can obviously see in the boat,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Dave's the cameraman. He's sitting in front of the boat,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: and he's facing back and shooting back towards me and Craig.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking hard, and Craig says, there he is.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Well, I look.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I look over at Dave's face and he starts smiling.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: He looks back at these, he's back on the camera.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: So Dave sees him. I know, I can, I know Dave,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I can tell he's like.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Man, we got him. Yeah.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: And Craig's like, there he is. And I'm like, no,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: he ain't. I can't see him. I cannot end this
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: hunt until I can see this moose.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking further. And when he said 15 feet,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I thought 15 feet. And I looked down and there
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: he was in the wide open. How I could not
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: see that moose.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Must've felt a tremendous sense of relief.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can see it on your face. I mean,
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: you kind of, you kind of gasp a little bit there.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, I did a hundred percent.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And you know, it's, that's one thing that I love
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: about how we film these things. It's there's, there's no
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: way I could have recreated that.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: You know, uh, if, if Dave hadn't got it, it
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have gotten got. Right. But he did.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: And it, it really shows the raw emotion and, just
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: overwhelming relief that what we came there to do, we did.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: So walking up on this animal expectations versus reality.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I was not prepared. I've killed deer before. I've been
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: after bears. And when you get to them, you're like, ah.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Man, he's good.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: He's nice. Thought he was bigger.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I thought he'd be a little bigger, you know?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: You know, and not no disappointment or anything like that.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: That thing got bigger the longer I sat there and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: looked at it. It was not, I had no comprehension
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: of it. I've seen moose one other time, and I
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: was in Alaska, and I saw him across a bay.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: So he might as well have been a horse in
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: a pasture.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: So I was not prepared for how big they were.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Any idea how much that thing weighed?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Craig estimated him to be, 12 to 1400 pounds.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Holy smokes.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I know that when we, when we skinned him, processed him,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: brought all the meat back, we stopped in a Craig's cousin.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I actually got a place in, uh, outside of Winnipeg
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: and we dropped the meat off there, but I brought
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the back straps home. Okay. And the back straps had
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: two soft coolers. One of them weighed 51 pounds and
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the other one weighed 49. So I brought home with
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: me 100 pounds of backstrap. Holy cow. Yeah, it was
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: over 600 pounds of processed moose that me and my
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: neighborhood and family and friends are still eating on.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Not your friend Josh, though.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: You will before you leave here.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: So what, what, you know, you could tell by the
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: look on your face when you finally see it, just
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: this massive sense of relief, excitement, elation, satisfaction, all wrapped
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: up into one. When you walked up on it, what
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: were the top three things that you thought when you
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: walked up?
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I was just grateful.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: And that is that the top three things that I felt.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: was was grateful every all three of them grateful grateful
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: great i mean it was uh from the opportunity that
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: i have backed my way into for this career that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: i never would have dreamed of having to the people
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: that made all that happen you know and it has
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: been i pulled the trigger but i had the easiest
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: part right you know um from everybody that that saw
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: that film to the people that work in the retail
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: stores that under this umbrella that we all work for,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: everybody plays a part in that. And I'm grateful for
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: every one of them. And it truly is a, um,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a blessing to be the tip of the spear to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: tell these stories. And, but it all, it's all possible
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: because of everybody behind the camera that do everything. And
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: it was an absolute physical and literal thought of, while
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I was there.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: You, you kind of immediately express your gratitude to Craig and, and, uh,
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: the other guys.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Why is that.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Important to you? Oh, it's just important to, uh, this
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: is never, I love being the center of attention and
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: talking to a room and entertaining a room full of people.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: But my least favorite subject is me.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just, uh, I'm blessed to be where I am
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: and have this platform But I think it's not to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: tell Brent's story. It's to tell everybody's story. And everybody
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: has a part. Everybody's got a story, and everybody's story
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: needs to be heard. And I enjoy telling my part
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: of it, but my part of this story is just
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: a part of it. There's a lot of parts, and
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: everybody plays a part in it.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: That's one of the things I really I really appreciate
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: about you Brent is just your your sense of gratitude
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: appreciation you're a humble guy and based on all the
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: the comments that I've read on social media and YouTube
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: it's pretty obvious to everybody else so I appreciate you
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: being a being a model of that so yeah what's
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: it like processing an animal.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: That pig took us two and a half hours to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: get him skint and quartered up uh which is you
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: know fairly quick for something that yeah big and the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: pack out like i said man was it was pick
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: up a load of meat take four steps and load
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: it in the boat right i mean it was just
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: so easy uh it was skinning a bear skinning a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: deer you know times 10 And, uh, easy as far
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: as how we handled the meat, how it is to,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: to skin one, you know, laying down is a lot
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: easier skin of moose.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Laying on the ground. It is a deer to me.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, really? Yeah.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I think so. Just because it's, it's so much bigger.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: You got a bigger handhold. And between, you know, Dave
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: did some film and then he set the camera up
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and he jumped in there with us. So it took
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: three of us two and a half hours of solid
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: skinning and cutting to get it out and get it
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: in the boat.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure, I don't know what the next
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: clip is, but the highlight of that whole thing, or
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say the whole thing, but one of the
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: top highlights of it was when we got that moose
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: back in the boat and we were headed back towards
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the cabin as probably a mile and a half, I think.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: What time of day did you shoot it?
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Probably three o'clock in the afternoon. Okay, so you guys
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: are going late into the evening. Yeah, it's late into
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the evening time we get there. So by the time
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: we get loaded and everything, done skint, all the rib meat,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: neck meat, everything cut off and loaded into the boat
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: and left there. we had our headlights on in the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: boat and we start heading, we've got 20 minutes, you know,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: of motoring to get back to the cabin. I turned my, Dave,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of course he didn't, he's filming.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: I turned my light out.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Craig turns his light out and then it's too dark
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: to film, but the, our way is lit up by the,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the Northern lights. And I was sitting in the back
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and Dave was sitting behind, was sitting right there beside
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: me in the Northern. You can see that, moose the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: moose antlers and on the bow of that boat up
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: there and then the northern lights up above it and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: that's how we what led our way back from where
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: we skint that moose to our cabin and it was
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: unreal it was so the emotion was i mean it
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: yeah it brought tears to my eyes how beautiful it
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: was to be in that place in a place like
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: that with two of my good friends and do something
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: And share that with them.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: It was, man, overwhelming is a theme from the time
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I got there to the time we left. And anytime
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I think about it, and I'm not sure there has
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: been a day go by that I hadn't thought about
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: one portion of that trip or the other.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, not, not to put it cheaply, but that
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: sounds epic.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: It was, it was, you know, outside of something with
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: my children or grandchildren, it was the event of a
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: lifetime for me. That's incredible.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Um, is that the longest shot on game that you've
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: ever taken?
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: A hundred percent. You know, growing up down here in
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: South Arkansas, um, you have a scope on a rifle,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: but any place I, we were hunting, I hunt in
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the woods, you know, and I don't, um, I never
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: had a shot more than 150 yards, you know, and
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: And I like to bow hunt, so I hardly ever
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: hunt with a rifle anyway. And so that was by far,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and that's what was so important to me to be
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: prepared when I got there is shooting with Matt and
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: getting comfortable and dialed in with that scope and changing
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: distances with a quick shot. call out and swap into
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: different targets and putting the dope in the scope.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: You mentioned dope a couple of times. Tell our listeners
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: and viewers what that means.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Well, it's just those scopes, they've got dials on them
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and turrets on them, and they're numbered. And for wind
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: and then elevation, left and right and up and down,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Depending on what those factors are, you can put that
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: into what's called a DOPE calculator on your phone, an
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: app you just put on your phone. And then if
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: it coincides with the turrets on the scope and it
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: tells you where to dial them in so that you're
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: shooting for distance and wind correction.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: DOPE is an acronym for data on previous engagement. So
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: you're using ballistics from a known target and based on
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: your round and your rifle, the the velocity of that bullet,
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: you can calculate if it's zeroed at a hundred, you
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: can calculate how far you need to click for elevation.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Yes. Way smarter than me. And it works really well.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: And though, like I said, you know, I made three
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: good shots on that, but I had real good equipment
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and real good information working in there. Really all I
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: did was control my, try to control my breathing. As
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you can hear in that clip, I tried.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: To settle down.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: You did a good job because I was like, well,
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Brent's huffing, coming around that corner. And then I heard
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: you just kind of calm down.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: I just had to because he was dancing around in
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: there like he was at a disco until I got it.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: What power scope is on there?
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Do you remember?
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a 3x18x50, I believe. Okay, okay.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's pretty stout.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, we got another clip here.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Here it is.
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, sweet.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: This is yours Tim. I wish you'd been here with me.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: My older brother Tim took me hunting when he didn't
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: have to. When I was more in the way than
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: anything else. The only thing that would have made that
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: moment better was to have watched him do what I
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: just done. It's a long way from the hay field
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: in Bradley County where I grew up to right here.
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: It's a good place to be man.
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Anytime. I put that in there just so you could
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: get choked up.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Trying to get me.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Your brother Tim's been a real fixture in your life.
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: As long as you can remember from the stories you told.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: And that really.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: Comes through in the film and the time he invested
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: in you, mentoring you and hunting and as a brother
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: and a friend and a, and a hunting companion. And, and, uh, that,
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: that was pretty meaningful to you. What, what, uh, what
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: did Tim teach you that kind of came through in
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: this hunt?
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Man, he has taught me so much stuff that comes
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: in my everyday life. He's probably the most forgiving person
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I know. And he is, um, he can look at
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: a situation where I'm ready to grab a hammer and
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and start tearing stuff up. And he's like, just sit
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: back a minute and let's, let's reevaluate what, what we
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: really need to do. There is no one on that.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: I know, or have ever heard of that has more
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: integrity than, than my brother. He's always doing the right thing,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: whether it's the easy, easiest thing to win it when
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: it's not the easiest thing. And he is, um, he
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: is an example of what, A brother and a friend
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: and a father he is. And he is a good man.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: And I talk to him every day. And I haven't
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: talked to him today, and it's absolutely driving me nuts.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Because since you got here, it's a normal time that
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: we call back and forth and talk. So I'm ready
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: for you to get out of here, Josh.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: We can see if we.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Can pipe him in.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: But he is my buddy, you know, and we're tight.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: What would.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: How would that moment have been different if Tim had
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: been there?
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: That's the only thing that would have made it better.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was literally, I would have loved to
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: have seen him do that. He's the guy, he's eight
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: years older than me. And when I was just little,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: he was taking me everywhere. And he decided when he
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: was 16 and I was eight or 14 and I
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: was four or six, he.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: He's like, I want to grow up and be a
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: trapper in Alaska. Me too.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do whatever he did. And I wanted
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: to put a track. If I wasn't putting a track
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: in my dad's tracks, I was putting one in Tim's.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: And everything that we just seemed to be so close.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: And it would have been the culmination of all the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: things that I have been so blessed to do to
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: be able to share that with him and watch him
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: That's the only thing that would have made it better.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: You know, I think.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: There's been opportunities, you know, I've I've talked about, uh,
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: on bear grease, just about, I didn't grow up hunting
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: and Clay and Newcomb is the one who kind of
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: taught me how to hunt and became a friend and
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: a hunting mentor. How valuable is that to, to take
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: younger people or people who haven't had that experience?
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: It's the only way we keep this going. That's how
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: valuable it is. You know, if it stops with one generation,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: it's done forever. You can go, it's easy to go
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: back and count the generations that got us to this point,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: but the responsibility is on us now to keep it
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: going and to show it to the next folks. And there's,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I have always said, you share a tragedy with someone,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: you can cut that sadness by 50%. You share a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: joy with someone and it multiplies it. There's no end
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: to the number that you can, that'll multiply. And that's,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: that's what we got to do. Yeah.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: And that, that's how valuable it is and how important
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: And we want to keep doing these kinds of things
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and having these moments and sharing them.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: We, we got to share them.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And, and share, sharing them with the folks that
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: are not already exposed to it, get somebody else in
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: a position to do the same thing.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: And it's, It's vital.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And as a kid, I probably never thought about that. Sure.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: As a young man, I didn't think about it as much.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: But now it's at the forefront of a lot of
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the things that I do.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: I think it has so many benefits, you know, relationally and,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: you know, just learning the sport and the ethics behind it.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: But even just basic health, being outside, being in nature,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: being in the sun.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: There's so many benefits all the way around, and if
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: you can take someone and teach them that and teach
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: them the value of hunting ethically and harvesting organic meat,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it pays dividends.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: No, we were watching. We had a premiere party.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: I actually saw the two rough drafts before the final
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: version came out, and the final version, we waited until
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: that night to watch, and I watched it over friends
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of ours, friends and family. We all gathered up there.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: huge television, you know, like a movie screen and, and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: we watched it. And, but before we watched it, we,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: we had moose chili from that moose, you know?
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: And so it was that moose responsible.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Not only for the entertainment of the evening, but for
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: feeding everybody.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: At the table, you know?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: So it was, it was, it's a, it was a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: very special day, a very special thing to see that
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: come out and, uh, to have the, the story in there,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: showing my dad and my brother, it was a special,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: special moment. That's awesome.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: Let's move on to the next clip here.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Night strap and moose heart.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: That is the first combination of that I've ever had.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: Ready?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Man, it was so tender.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: We got some back straps too.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're... I'll cook all the heart and then we'll
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: tie into them. We got a picnic tomorrow with all
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: this meat we got. That gum is good.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go catch a fish.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: Heck yeah, maybe some walleye for supper.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, there he is.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 8: We found one.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: Come here, little fella.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Get back out there. To your grandpa.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: There we go.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: There he is.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: It'll be a little treat for supper tonight.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: Is he good?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing him 15 pounds.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, right on.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: Don't you think? Yeah, for sure.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: 14 at least.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: My fish, I say how big he was.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: So I'm a little jealous of that moose meat.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: It looked pretty tasty.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Was the heart good?
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, fantastic. And I've eaten deer heart before. I had
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: never eaten a bear heart, believe it or not. And
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: I may, if I'm fortunate enough to get one this year,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I'll try it. But that moose heart, there's some.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: How big was that moose heart?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: As big as about like a volleyball. Wow.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Close to a volleyball. It was humongous. And I've got
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: some photos of it, you know, of me holding it.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: And it's just unreal how big that thing is.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: But we.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I had to bring some of it home.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: We were there for, I think, four more days, three
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: or four more days. And we ate, from the time
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I killed that moose, that's what we ate, moose and
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: something every night from then on. And we still didn't
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: eat all that heart. Really?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh, yeah.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: It's huge.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely huge.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: What did it taste like?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: I was expecting, and I like liver. I was expecting
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the texture of an organ, like a, like a gizzard
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: or a liver, but it was just tender.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely tender.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: And it was, there was no, people say, and I'm
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: not a fan of the phrase game, something tasting gamey.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, coon tastes like coon, fish tastes like fish,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: deer tastes like deer meat, you know, beef tastes like beef.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: They compare everything to beef, but it's, I mean, it
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: is what it is. Um, There was no strong taste
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: to it. Right. No iron taste like you would kind
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: of get like you eat with liver sometimes. You get
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: kind of an iron taste to it. It was just
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: really good, man.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Did it compare to any other game that you've had?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would be able to say, oh,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: that's Mooseheart.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: I took a bite and a blind taste test.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: It just tasted like good.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: Seasoned fried meat.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: For those who have never experienced it. What's the feeling
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: of eating meat that you harvested that day?
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: It's hard from that day. It just, it never gets
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: better than that day. It's like fish. You know, I'm
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: not a, I love fish. I'm not a big fan
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: of eating trout. They don't just don't, I'm with you.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: They don't taste that good to me, but you catch
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: a trout and you cook it on the bank of
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the river.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: It's the best thing you've ever eaten.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: And it's all got to do with environment and where
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: you are, you know, and who you're with.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: The experience.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the experience.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Here's the big question. Fried fish or moose? Man, I
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: asked Craig that. He said moose. And I probably have
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: to tend to agree if it's fresh moose because of
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: the environment. But you bait a trap with a fried
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: fish and you will catch me every time.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: Did y'all catch walleye?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: And that was one thing we didn't. Dave was changing
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: out a battery or something and we just kept fishing.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: We're like, Dave, you're on your own. We're fishing. We're
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: fishing for supper, buddy. And, uh, we didn't get that
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: or it didn't make it into the film, but we
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: did catch some walleye. Walleye is great eating.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: Oh gosh. Yeah.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: But the pike up there, I mean, that's the, we
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: call that a jackfish down here, but the jackfish we
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: eat down here. Ain't like those up there. That cold water, man.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Good clean tasting.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: It is so good.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: So we've, uh, We've got a couple comments and questions
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: that I just want to kind of run by you here.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to try to say all of these
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: names from people who made comments, but Aaron Song3913 said,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: I heard that moose is the most tender meat. It
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter how old they are or young. They taste
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: very tender. I don't know how things taste tender, but
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: was the backstrap tender?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, it was.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: And the longer it, the longer we had it hanging
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: in camp, the more tender it got.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: Did you leave it up the whole week?
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: We left it up for, I think we were there
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: three more days after I killed that. Okay.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: After I killed that moose and it got.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: What day did you kill it on? I forgot to
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: ask that.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: It was like the second full day of hunting, but
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: like the third day that we were there.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: And, uh, it was nice and cool there.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: Um, Jordan Pollock.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: 9,004 said only one question I got. Why are they
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: putting quartered meat into plastic bags?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: That was get it out of the boat, cross the
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Sandy beach up to the place where we had it
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: laid out to cool.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't stay in plastic bags. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Um, few more questions. Did you like that style of
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  Speaker 3: hunt or.
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  Speaker 1: Would you prefer a spot and stalk? I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to do the spot and stalk. It
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  Speaker 1: would be hard to do that in that country there
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  Speaker 1: because of the, limited visibility. But that's, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be my favorite because it's the only way
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  Speaker 1: I've done it so far. I've been on one moose
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  Speaker 1: hunting trip and killed a moose. So that was, that
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  Speaker 1: would be my preferred. Would I like to try it?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And I'd like to try it. My next one
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  Speaker 2: was archery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Um, Quinn Scott said, What's a big thing that you
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  Speaker 4: took from behind the camera to being on camera?
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the things that I learned the
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  Speaker 1: most was patience. Being a cameraman, you're always wanting to
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  Speaker 1: stretch that shot out as long as you can. You
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  Speaker 1: think about like a whitetail hunt. If you just showed
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  Speaker 1: the kill shot on a whitetail hunt like an archery hunt,
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  Speaker 1: that video would probably be, it'd be stretching to do
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds. Right. You know, from start to finish, from
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  Speaker 1: the time you see him. And as a cameraman, you're
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  Speaker 1: wanting to milk that time out to be able to
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  Speaker 1: tell that story. So I think patience is, is an
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  Speaker 1: extra sense of, of patience would be what I took
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  Speaker 1: from behind the camera to in front, because I'm, I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it, but I'm also thinking about what Dave's looking,
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  Speaker 1: looking at, you know, am I giving him time to get,
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  Speaker 1: set and everything. Cause he's, I mean, he's a professional. He's,
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  Speaker 1: he's two steps ahead of me where I'm at on,
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  Speaker 1: on that part. But it is conscious in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're filming a hunt, the, the time that
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  Speaker 1: it takes to get it right.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Great answer.
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  Speaker 4: Um, you know, you've, you've had that moose meat of
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: quite a while now. Um, Ethan Kenley said, what's your
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  Speaker 4: favorite recipe you've made with your moose meat? Man, we, we,
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  Speaker 4: We have a bunch of it in burger.
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  Speaker 1: We have made meatloaf and tacos and burgers and everything
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine. But probably my favorite is probably chili. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The chili is good. The steaks are great. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying the steaks aren't good. They are absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: You chunk it up like into stew meat?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Or you grind it? Grind it on the ground like burger.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But we did have some stew meat done, and
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  Speaker 1: I've done recipes with that. And I gave a buddy
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  Speaker 1: of mine a tri-tip and he fixed it off of
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  Speaker 1: that moose. And he said it was unbelievably good. And
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  Speaker 1: after he told me that, I thought, dang, I shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 2: Gave it to.
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  Speaker 1: Him. But it's been really good. There's been no way
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  Speaker 1: that we have fixed it that it hadn't been good.
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  Speaker 1: And literally anything that you would do with beef or
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: deer meat, you can do with this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. It's really good.
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  Speaker 3: Broad question here.
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  Speaker 4: But we've got a comment that says, what's the best
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  Speaker 4: part about moose hunting?
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  Speaker 1: I can only attest to this trip because I've only
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: been once. I was never a cameraman on another moose hunt.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is my experience. And the best part
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  Speaker 1: about it was being there, sharing it with my friends.
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  Speaker 2: It was great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I go bow hunting, I'm usually by
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  Speaker 1: myself unless it's a filmed event. And I come back
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, Josh, I wish you'd have been there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And saw this. You know, it may have something, not
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: even anything to do with the moose. It may have
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: been two squirrels fighting that fell out of a tree.
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  Speaker 1: But on that hunt and to this very moment right now,
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  Speaker 1: I can pick up my phone and text Dave or
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  Speaker 1: Craig and say, hey, remember when this happened.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how cool is that? So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: probably my best part.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we've got one more. We've got one more clip
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  Speaker 4: here we want to show.
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  Speaker 1: I hope no one asked which had a bigger effect
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  Speaker 1: on me, the moose or the lights. The answer might
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  Speaker 1: surprise them.
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  Speaker 3: Quick clip.
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  Speaker 4: But the Northern Lights, you talked about there in that clip.
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  Speaker 3: Don't if someone were to ask.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us what that meant to you. Like what, what
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  Speaker 4: did it do? You, you talked about the being on
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  Speaker 4: the boat and seeing that and that being your, your,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: your light that you follow home back to camp, but, um,
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  Speaker 4: it clearly did something to you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, from a little, when I was a little boy,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading, uh, adventure stories from in seventh grade.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: I was reading Peter Hathaway, cap stick, you know, death
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: in the long grass about big game hunting in Africa.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: And before that, I was reading Jack London and adventure
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: stories in Alaska. And they talk about the Northern Lights.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, that would have been as foreign as
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  Speaker 1: listening to Neil Armstrong talk about walking on the moon.
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  Speaker 1: Something that I would never have dreamt I would have
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  Speaker 1: got to see. And that has been over a lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm 60 years old. And I've been thinking
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: about that since I was 10. And then to be
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: there and to look at it with my eyes, there
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  Speaker 1: is no way Dave's camera could capture all the things
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: that went into that. And it was an easy answer
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  Speaker 1: for me. The northern lights had a bigger impact on
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  Speaker 1: me than that moose did. Because I will eat that
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  Speaker 1: moose and it'll be gone. And then there will be
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  Speaker 1: no more moose. But those lights will be in me forever.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: And it was amazing to sit there and think that
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  Speaker 1: the same creator that made those lights made me. So it, it,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: it made a very significant, it was a very significant
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: moment for me to sit there and see that. And
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: it was, it has been so good. Every, every bit
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  Speaker 1: of it. I think about them now and I can't
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: quit smiling about it. You know, it was, they were,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: You ask a question, we talked when you first got
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: here about a lot of the clips that you see
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: of the Northern Lights are sped up so you can
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: see the movement. You can see the movement in them
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: if you're just sitting there staring at them. But it's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: almost like you could hear them. It is an overwhelming
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: experience to sit there and see that.
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  Speaker 2: It was for me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a detail-oriented person where I try to pay
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: attention to everything except when alexis tells me to do
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: something apparently i'm not very.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Good at that but it was.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Very easy answer that that had the biggest impact on
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: me and it was all good man.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 4: That's great any final reflect reflections on the on the trip.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing bad about it you know it's hard
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: going from getting all that stuff up there and all
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: the logistics that went into it. I can't tell you
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: how many meetings we had meetings after meetings, after.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Meetings on prepping and planning.
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  Speaker 1: And I knew once I got there and we got
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: feet on the ground, why we had so many of them,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: because it is such a big undertaking, but just the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: whole experience as a whole, uh, I would, there was,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: I had, there was no detractors, even the long drive.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: You know, we, Dave and I flew into Winnipeg and
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: then drove like 10 or 11 hours to the northern
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: part of Manitoba to catch a float plane to go
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: in there to where Craig was. So, I mean, it was,
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  Speaker 1: once we got there, I mean, it was, Katie, borrow
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: the door. You got to go. You know, you got
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: to load up and drive. And then, I mean, it
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: was effort. It took effort to get there. But every
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: bit of it was fun. Every bit of it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: you know, new and refreshing. And I got to share
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: it with my friends and it just made it so good.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: It was, uh, it will be with me forever. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope to get to go back and do it
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  Speaker 1: again soon, you know, with, uh, in a different place
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: or with Craig or whatever, but I won't go with
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: a bow and just get that much closer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thanks for sharing the film with us and, and, uh,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: and talking, talking with me today.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you for being here, Josh. I
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank y'all for being here. If you haven't
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: seen it yet, check out the 12 and 26 Manitoba
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: moose hunting episode that I did there on the meat
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: eater YouTube channel. Uh, it's been a, it was an
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  Speaker 1: absolute pleasure to do and I appreciate it. And send
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: your comments in anytime you see one of these, when
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: we do one of these companion podcasts, your questions can
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: get answered right here on the air. Thank y'all for
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: watching and y'all be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, everybody.