Ep. 927: Brent's Manitoba Moose Hunt | 12 in '26

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. We've been traveling for two days. We're 154 kilometers from Thompson, Canada, where we're going to stay the night, and the morning I'm going to catch up. Float playing out with Craig McCarthy, with Northbound adventures, and we're going to see if we can't get a moose and we can't get him to up here in Northern Manitoba. It's a very remote place. It is as wild as wild gets in North America. Hard to believe that this is really taking place. And I don't know if I'll fully realize it until we get in camp. But I'm a long way from home. What you just saw was a clip from hunting bull moose in Manitoba, my 12 and 26 film sponsored by Multree and Onex.

1:00And what we're doing now is the companion podcast that's going to answer some questions and maybe show some things that didn't wind up in the final cut. And I'm joining with my good friend Josh Lambridge, Philmaker. Well, I'm excited to be here, Brent. I really love the film. It was, it was, did a great job capturing not just the hunt, but all the surrounding things to go with it, the scenery, the camaraderie, everything about it. It was just, it was information overload for a little while. I'll say, I'll say, but we're really excited to do this podcast because we've got some great questions from some of the viewers and we're going to give you an opportunity just to, you know, it's hard to catch a, how long was the hunt total? Oh, man, we were there for like, I think the whole trip was like nine days. Okay, so it's hard to capture all that in 42 minutes. Correct. And so we're going to give you an opportunity just to tell us more than we could see in the film. But it's a pretty different kind of adventure for you.

2:01Yeah. Growing up here in Arkansas, early on in your career, you spent a lot of time documenting other people's hunts. Yeah. And you kind of go into that in the film, but this time you're the guy carrying the rifle. So before we, we're going to, I've got a couple of things for you. Before we kind of dive into it. Okay. How did this kind of come about? How did you get the, how did you like, hey, I want to go to Manitoba. Man, it all started like in February a year ago. Okay. And get it long. My boss calls me and he says, we need to come up with an idea for a project. Some, some, some film projects that we're going to film throughout the year. And I need what's your dream hunt? And I'm like, I don't know. I'll think about it. Oh, I got it. I mean, it was just that that was how it went. I said, I want to go shoot a moose and in Northern Manitoba with Craig McCarthy.

3:02And now the response I was waiting here was like, uh, how about we do something in Missouri? You know, a little closer to home. The Garrett's response was, okay, get a hold of Craig. And let's start working out the details. And I'm like, so that again, and then from that, it just went from initial meetings with Craig and producer. And we just started getting the ball rolling and making a plan. And it came to fruition. That's incredible. Yeah. What was, what was kind of different about you, you know, I know you filmed quite a bit in Canada. Mm-hmm. You know, not necessarily in Northern Manitoba, but you filmed a lot in Canada. How is it different preparing for this knowing that you were going to be the shooter? Well, to me, being a cinematographer, which I don't claim to be, I was a cameraman. And I think there's a difference, you know, but prepping myself to go film a hunt like that.

4:03I just had to get the mindset that I'm always working. Right. That, you know, the hunt is not when you leave, walk out the camp door or the tent or whatever is the gun in your hand. When you're there to document the whole hunt, that's all of it. So you know, you've got to be on the ready. You got to, you're the first guy up in the morning. You're the last guy to go to bed at night. You're the last, you're most of your meals are going to be cold because you're filming everybody else doing all that kind of stuff. So it is a totally different situation that you had to prepare for. You just got to get your mind right that if it don't happen on camera, then it didn't happen. Right. That's the way you got to look at it. And I want to think I can't remember exactly Josh, but I think Dave Gardner shot like 20. Dave Gardner was your cameraman. He was a cameraman on this. It was me Dave Gardner and Craig McCarthy in this. Excuse me. Videoographer. Yeah, cinematographer. A shot of a man. Yeah, for real. And but I think it's like 26 hours of video or film that he shot.

5:08Wow. And that condensed that down to 42 minutes. I mean, that's, it's incredible, incredible. Well, that's awesome. Well, let's, let's go ahead and dive into into another clip here. Okay. Man, the amount of stuff it takes to do this is monumental, especially if we're trying to document and film like this. It's already going to be a good trip regardless. So a lot of folks ready to go with me, including. There are kids off. Yeah. Big Suits. Long time no see. Hey, brother. Good to see you too. Great. That's a great clip.

6:11One of the things that I noticed right away was how remote this place was. Yeah. Flying in and out. No road road systems. I mean, you, you fly in, live out of camp. And your boat becomes your primary way of getting around. Then the whole process that goes into loading these planes and getting everything off. And what, what were the logistical, what was the, the logistics of putting together a hunt like this? I mean, you think about there's always been in this business. And I learned it very early that you're either hunting or you're filming a hunt. And that is toe to totally different things. If you're just hunting, you're just going to, you capture what you capture. If you're trying to tell a story, then you've got to film everything. So there's going to be equipment and batteries and camera batteries and stuff that are going to take the place. Maybe of clothes of other things that you wanted to bring.

7:14I want to bring, you know, XYZ, but you don't have room for it. You got to make a choice between clean underwear and batteries. Batteries of batteries are going to win every time. And you're just taking, you're taking a bath in the creek, you know, and washing your clothes in the lake. And that's that, that kind of stuff goes into it. And it goes into the whole thought process of, okay, maybe I can wear a pair of bridges for three days. Right. You know, and I actually did a podcast about it about when I came back about the things that I would have done different. And I, I took way too many clothes and I would take, I would cut that back and just, you know, washing, washing in the, in the lake. Rinse off, dry, let it air dry and then go that route. But you really prioritize the things that you need to document because if you run out of lens wipes or if you run out of batteries or if you run out of, you know, your B cam, you got more than one camera there. Right. If you run out of things to document that, I mean, it's not, you don't, you don't call up FedEx and have them ship you another one in.

8:17Run down the best by. Yeah, because, you know, from where we took off there in Thompson, we were in that flow plane for another two hours before we. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, it was that, you know, not in a straight line. We went to several other camps and dropped some stuff off. But it was, you don't just, if you don't bring it, if you don't have it with you, you don't have it. Right. So, and usually one is none and two is one. So you, you usually you're doubling up. Right. So you could be sure that you have. On the necessities. Yeah. So one of the things that I know and love about you Brent is that you are, you really value relationships. Tell us how you met Craig. Oh, man, I went up on a bear hunt with Craig and his wife, Mel. And they're, they're placed in the middle of that. Yeah, North Mountain adventures there. And I guess it's kind of in the bottom third of Manitoba there. And they're family. Craig, Melanie, Hayden and Kirsten, they're just, man, they are just an outdeal outdoor family.

9:20They're, they're hosting that they have there. And the place they have to hunt is just beyond anything. And they're just good down to earth people. We hit it off, you know, right from, from the get good. The only, our only difference is, you know, we talk different and they have an accent and I don't. But we just became good friends. And then when this opportunity came up to be able to go on a moose hunt, there was one guy that I wanted to do it with. Yeah. And that, that's how it happened. Well, that's really cool. That's really cool. So when you're, when you're this remote, you said you're out there for nine days. What is a, what does a typical day look like when you're out there hunting? Well, hunting moose, man, you, you get up pretty early. I mean, it's not like a duck hunt where you're two hours before daylight. You get up right before daylight and kind of get a bite to eat. And you let the, you want to get some daylight where you can, you can see the shore, you know, when, when you leave the camp, you get out and you go in and we're going to different spots along the shore.

10:20And if weather's right and it's, and, and you can see, you know, you, you may be able to, you may spot a moose before you ever set up the call one. Now we didn't, we didn't see them the first two or three days we were there. So we would just go to different spots along the lake and call. And we'd set it into one spot and I talked to even in the film, you, I'm talking to Craig about it. You know, ask him how long he likes to stay in one spot after we do a call. And it's, right. I would think, you know, 45 minutes or, but he's like, no, two hours. And it's the way those, those bulls react to a call. It's just so slow and methodically. They can hear it a long ways, but they're usually not just, okay, I hear cow running over there. No, he's just going to start easing his way that way. And he may be a mile away from it or more, right. And just start easing his way. And we were there what, what time, what time of year?

11:20That was in late September. Okay. Is that, is that like peak for the rest? I think it's the kind of toward the end of it. Okay. Because everybody, we were the last hunt for that for Craig's outfit up there. His father's outfit up there. So in any time I was talking to someone and they'd say, oh, you're going to, when you're going to hunt this moose. And I'd say, oh, we're leaving. I think it was like the 18th or 19th of January. So our September or something like that. And they're like, oh, you're going late. I'm like, god, that seems early. Yeah. But you've taken to account the weather up there. And in October is opposed to how it is down here. I know there's quite a difference. So it was a tail end of the rut, but bulls were really active. And as you can see, it paid off. Yeah. So you traveled with your rifle on several different airplanes. There's a scene in the, in the, in the film where you want to go, just check your zero on it. Yeah.

12:20What, what, a lot of questions about what, what, what rifle you were shooting, what caliber. And why was it important to you to check the zero? Six-hour cross and 300 PRC, which was the largest round I've ever shot. You know, in a civilian rifle. And when I looked at it, and I thought, you know, that's probably a moose round. Yeah. As big as it is. But I cited him, my friend who lives here not far from my house here. And he actually works for SIG. He's an engineer for SIG here at the, at their Arkansas ammunition plant. He's got a lot of burns, who's a competitive shooter and just, man, he's just so knowledgeable about it. So, but he's got a little range at his house. And we went there, I went there and, and cited that thing in. And the whole time we were traveling, you know, from playing to playing, I'm looking out the window. And I'm watching them loads to, like, that guy right there is not concerned with my rifle stays on zero or not.

13:21But we got, that was the first thing that I wanted to do once I got there. And you can actually in Canada, in Manitoba, that is, you can hunt the same day you fly in. Oh, okay. Long as you don't use that aircraft to, you know, spot anything, which we didn't see anything. But you can, it's legal to do that. So, as soon as we got settled in camp, I mean, they push record and we started, we started hunting right then. Awesome. Awesome. Where, what distance did you have your rifle zeroed in at? I cited it in. It was, I could shoot out to 700 yards on a mass course. And we shot a hundred. If it's good at a hundred, Matt said it's good at 700. And I shot both at his house. And that was what we did there. Based on the ballistic calculator. Yeah, based on all that. We did it there once we got into camp. And it was good to go. Awesome. Well, that's cool. Let's go ahead and hit this next clip.

14:24We talked about this earlier and I've heard you explain it to other folks or talking about going and calling and then, like, at night and then leaving and coming back to that spot. Is that more of this, like, putting bait out? Yeah, pretty much. Unless he's right there, he's not, you're not going to get him right away. But he could be two miles. And if it's dead calm and he hears you and moves aren't fast, you know, when they're coming, he'll start grunting and slowly make his way there. So we leave in the morning. He's probably coming if he heard you. Right. And then when we go back in the afternoon or the next morning, he's probably, like, within a couple hundred yards of where you were calling from. What's your picture perfect weather for calling, losing the rut? What are you looking for? Below zero temperatures and dead calm. See, Celsius. Yeah. So 32 or under. Yeah. And no one is. Yeah. Now, I don't, I don't want to be presumptuous here.

15:41Yeah. I've spent quite a bit of time practicing a turkey call and a duck call. Yeah. And don't claim to be good at either one. Right. I think I could get that one down. I've got, man, I've got videos of folks with their kids blowing through a toilet putts, toilet paper roll. Like, how's my moose call on it? It sounds good. And Greg will be the first to tell you. It's all you got to do with a minimum amount of practice to call one up. And it was the thing that got me so much is something I just keep beating the hair off of is it's like make calling turkeys right now. Going back to camp, going to bed and getting up the next morning, going back and sent me by that tree and shooting him when he walks up. I mean, that is just so out of the. Out of the ordinary. That's what I kept thinking about. I mean, it's pretty amazing that you can put a call out.

16:42Yeah. And 12 hours later that misses. Yeah. Yeah, he's coming or 24 hours. It was when we would leave it and there's something in there. And I don't know if we're talking if we're going to get to something that didn't make it into the film that I wish would have. If it's a good time to cover it now. But one afternoon. And I can't remember now if it was the day after I think it was a couple days after. Then I actually killed a bull. We were going down that river, the same river. And we just pulled up on the bank and. Craig made a call and then we went on fishing down the river and as we left. Dave's filming him and Craig says there be a bull here when we come back. We laughed Dave laughed. I laughed Craig laughed. We went fishing when we came back and there was a bull there. Three hours later.

17:42Really? Yeah, we got some footage of him from the boat. And but I wish that would have made it in Craig saying that. But he because I mean, you like, oh, this guy's got a USB. Oh, that's awesome. It was pretty, it was pretty funny. I mean, you know, when you're throwing these cow calls out there. Was there ever any before you saw one respond to it like that? Was there any doubt in your mind that you're like, well, I mean, you trust the guy. I was a duck guide for so long that I knew not, if I've got a client with me, I'm not going to tell him something that's not true. You got to be honest. Absolutely. And I was just going to tell him that I was in the course of being in the wilderness, being outside dealing with nature. The truth is going to come out. Right. So I had to do nothing but trust what he said. And you know, I would be thinking, oh, we need to get up in my mind. I'm thinking we should get up and move. Right. And the next thought would be I should pay attention to Craig because he does this from live.

18:45Exactly. And that gets us wrong. He doesn't get paid. Right. Exactly. So I'm just going to be able to get up in the forefront of what we're doing. And I'm trying to learn. I learned so much from, you know, being a turkey hunter or a white tail hunter, you got to be patient a lot of times, you know, but I learned patients from him up there, especially when you're making a call that could have an effect 24 hours later. Sure. That was, it was really cool to see. So Craig mentioned, you know, his ideal calling conditions were, you know, zero degrees Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit, dead calm, why those conditions. Obviously the dead calm makes sense. I think it's the sound carries. And it's, they seem to be active during that time, you know, during with that temperature, they're most active. And obviously with the sound will go not just downwind, but in every direction. Now, was that from your first day hunting? That was. So first day was just calling weight.

19:45Yeah, calling weight. Okay. We got there that afternoon. We went over and across the lake. We never hunted that side of the lake again because of the wind. We were facing into the wind there and we were right on the edge. We had the lake right at the behind us, the edge. We were calling across that tundra or whatever technical term that is for that, that part of Canada there. And they had, you can see forever, but I mean, in that also in that instance, I mean, you can see that the wide open country, but something big as a mouskin just all of a sudden to slip up on you. Yeah. You know, so it was. Now, is this private land or public land? It's all public. It's all public land. Okay. And I'm not sure if it's native land or whatever they have a lease or. Or whatever it is, but it's like a concession that they hunt up. Okay. So, I mean, they're the only folks out in that part.

20:47Like, give us an idea of how big of an area you were hunting. It's as big as the world is. It's as big as outside. I mean, there was thousands of acre miles of what unnamed lakes and unnamed rivers and. Just wilderness, absolute wilderness. And it from the time you left Thompson in that airplane, that float plane flying it little over 3000 feet. Once, once those that's a part of civilization got behind the aircraft. There was, I mean, there was nothing. And it looked like it went on for absolute ever. I've not spent much time in the Canadian wilderness like that, but that's what everybody says. It's just, it feels like you're. It feels like you are a million miles from home and really you are. Like an uninhabited planet. Absolutely. And you're smelling your breathing air that it's never.

21:47Nobody's breathing. It hasn't got dark and so yet. But the time it gets dark and so they've been folks have been breathing it all over the country. They're breathing something that's been inside someone all over North America. And it's just a feeling. It's just all encompassing really. It's a little is it's if you like details and I love the details in places that I go and the small things and it's over. It's overwhelming. It really is. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Let's. Let's hit the next clip. Okay. Normal on a foggy morning. I just lay up until the fog clears or. No. I think it's just. It depends where you are. If the bulls have cows with them or not. Okay. Tell him who's hunting there. It's just like you could see nothing for days and then also. There's moose. And over the place. Yeah.

22:47Fam in the feast. Yeah. It's just. The way it goes. Oh lord. He's seeing something. Wait. I think I see a bull. Look up in the green over there. See up in the green? A pie? Definitely a moose. 100%. We're going in there. No. We got time. Oh. I see him. He's still left of the tree down the way. I'd stop since seven minutes.

23:49Yeah. Yeah. He just disappeared. Now that was that the second day or was that that's the first day there the very first day. Yeah. We were coming back from where we were set up across the lake and saw that and he saw that moose. And it's hard to see it. Man, I don't know that if you could even. Put a pause on it and zoom in on it on your phone or your computer. Whatever you're watching on and see that moose, but he was there. I can't see the paddles on him and he had a cow up in there. Okay. And that spot right there where eventually I shot the moose from probably another 40, 50 yards around that bend down there where I found where we were sitting when I shot that moose. But something that impressed me about that was there's nobody within miles and miles and miles where we are. And Craig says we got seven minutes. And but in seven minutes we were packed up and gone.

24:49Yeah. At five minutes till when we didn't have anything close enough, we were unloading and just standing there watching just to see what would happen. And there's nobody that would have known. Yeah. But me and Craig and Dave. Right. But it's by the book, man. I love it. Yeah, that's awesome. It's there just. I got to appreciate guys like that. Absolutely. I mean the integrity is what. Yeah. It stands out. Yeah, yeah. You know, 100%. And then you're using up and down the lake there. You're probably every brown spot is a. Every moose. Yeah, I saw this. There's one stump. I tried to kill for six days up there that I kept seeing through those by nose. And I yes, got to be a moose. No, still stump. What's a legal bull? Is there a. Is there a size requirement? I think it's got to have like four on the front, I believe. Okay. And then. I'm not exactly sure. I mean, we talked about it. Discussed the end. I don't remember now what it was. It was. Is it just incredible to be in those places and to be able to see that much.

25:50Right. And know that you know behind how difficult was it to see one? Well, it turns out it got pretty easy. As long as we stayed there the more we saw. Uh-huh. And. But you just didn't see them. Like Craig's described it. Some man were allowed to come around the corner. They'll just be. You know, walking them down the bank. Right. And then. I think it's a little bit of a way down there. Uh-uh. You know across the lake. You'll see them over there. No, when we started seeing them, we just rolled up on them and there they were. Really? Yeah, just as unconcerned with. Over the course of the hunt. How many moves did you think do you think you saw? I think we saw five different. Bulls. Including the one now. Been four bulls and then. One that had to count with it. Okay. Okay. So. Even one of the bulls that I killed. Wow. That I would have thought you would have seen more. But that's. Pretty amazing to see those. Well, you saw what you see is where they were in fresh tracks and evidence of them.

26:53And. Yeah. And you really got to play the wind up their man because I mean. One of the only creatures on the plants got a nose bigger than mine. And it's. I mean, I'm not. Me and you. and you got, if you don't play the win right, they're gone. That's what I was wondering too, because was that something you had to manage? 100%. I mean, you looked the win direction, we walked outside and we got in the boat, determined 100% where we were going that day. And also the main thing is, the term is where we weren't gonna go. We're not gonna go in there and just dust, this area was sent when we know that there's moose in this and we'll wait until. Was it pretty windy when you were there? It times it was more than not. Okay. It was more than not. There was a couple of storms that blew through and it was raining. I can remember, I can remember setting in the cabin and we had a Starlink system up there so we could, I called home when I was talking to my wife

27:54on the, and it was just raining, man, it's raining so hard, water's coming in on the floor and we're picking stuff up and setting it on tables. I told her I said, it's coming a storm. There's water in here, my stuff's getting wet and I can't think of any place. I'd rather be right now than right here. It was just that much fun. Yeah. So yeah, but yeah, it was windy. It was windy and it just played a lot but you really had to be smart about and just take your time. It's not a, it's a marathon, not a sprint. And every day that you're there, you're learning more about the environment, more about what the moose are doing by the tracks we're seeing and just, you know, playing the hands that were dealt. Interesting. As you, as Tybalyn on, you kind of picked, there was a scene in there where you talked about, is that a, you were asking him, is that a moose and he's looking, he's like, I don't think so.

28:55And he said, it looks like two Eagles. What, what was it? It was two Eagles. Yeah, Eagles up there are buzzing around like hummingbirds here. They're just everywhere. And it was way across the lake and they were setting close, affore enough apart from each other, separated enough that you thought resembled paddles. Because that's what you're looking for. And you're creating something new. You gotta look for those paddles. You see the paddles and then you'll see the moose. So that was to my untrained eye, that's what I was looking for. And then we looked and saw, oh, that's, those are Eagles there. And right after that is when we, I think first, yeah, we first got in there and saw where those moose were. Eventually where I would wind up killing one. Okay. All right. Hey everyone, big huge announcement. Me either live, the Christmas tour is kicking off again this year for the Christmas season of 2026. This time we're hitting the Midwest. Me either live, the Christmas tour kicks off in December

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31:00that I'm proud to be part of. All right, let's move on to the next clip. We've got a two-minuteer here and I think it's a good one. All everybody found a comfortable place on the log and sat down. We were like a bunch of crows sitting on the light line and I had my ballistics calculated out on my phone. I was ranging different places and just really passing the time because I didn't figure we were going to see anything until late. And all of a sudden Craig said, oh my gosh, there's a bull. Pregnant. How far? That's a shooter, Brent. How far is it? 460. Wings right on pretty well. 2.3. You ready?

32:00Yeah. You ready? Yeah. Oh. Oh. Damn. Shoot him again. Oh, he's hurt. Where's he? He's just, he's butt-faced in here, but. He turns one way or the other out, God. I can poke a quarter in with these hard quartering. Pretty sure you hit him. There's no doubt. Hit him again. He's going down. There you go. He's going down. Okay, it's him. Holy man. Weapons don't say. Oh, buddy.

33:00I think you put three in them. That's a good ball. I love it, man. I get to chills every time I watch that. I'm going to be a good ball. I love it, man. I feel there every time I watch that. Craig was so excited, and I was so excited. It was overwhelming. 100% overwhelming. And that whole sequence there. When we got there, it was early. It's like 2.33 o'clock in the afternoon. And that's the same point you recognize from where we were. The name four. And when we got there, I said, you know, the wind's blowing. And it's kind of warm. He said, they're probably not going to start moving until later, unless they're following a cow.

34:00He said, but it may be warm enough that they want to come get a drink of water to cool off. So we just set our stuff up. Got comfortable. Dave sat down with his camera. Craig sat right beside him. And I sat down on the other end of this log, and I've got that ballistics calculator out. And I'm thinking, okay, if Craig calls out 500, you know, I'm poking it right there and finding. And because I messed with that scope enough, Matt, and gave me a crash course on it. And we shot round after round after round. And he's calling out different distances. And I'm doping it in there. So I was very familiar with the process and was very comfortable with it. And so I'm just sitting there for nothing better to do than pass the time because Craig says, you know, you might see one, but it's probably going to be late, you know, when it kind of cools off. Right. And then all of a sudden, he jumps up and runs by me and says, there's a bull right there.

35:00And if he's a shooter, he's running back over here to get his by-nose and stuff. Dave gets his camera and stands up. I don't know what to do. So I just kind of run around and circles there for a second till Craig got back. And we got on the gun and the rest of it was, you know, I mean, he saw it happen. And when there was, he called out the distance to me twice. And because the first time he said, it's 460. Well, I dialed it in and I said, how far? Because I get off the scope and I look and I can see him. Right. And there's no way that things for me. It's way closer than that because it's huge. Yeah. I know I can see him. And he said, 460 twice is what he said, 460 twice. I'll never forget it. Okay, I trust him. You know, I got back on the scope and when I turned it loose, it, when I shot, I thought I'll be able to hear it hitting him. I shouldn't be able to. And it seemed like it took forever.

36:00But, wow, you can hear it here. And on the video, you could actually, I felt like I could hear it on the video. You can 100% you can. And then if you look, you can see it actually go through him. Oh, and hit those splice the water on the other side. Okay. So he took the first round right in the ballroom on his shoulder. On the right side and the other two. I wish we would have got a photograph of it. But the other two, you could have covered up with your fist. Really? Yeah, it was a little bit of a shot in the zero. Wow. And that's incredible. It was just like he didn't flinch. I mean, he just walked right up on the bike and laid down and died. Man, it was incredible. It was incredible to see that just that huge animal. I was amazed at how little he moved after that first shot. Yeah. He didn't know what hit him, but he wasn't too concerned about it at the moment. He just soaked it up, man. Yeah.

37:00And he got two more. And he didn't limp. He didn't do anything. I mean, he only hit him. He moved. But as far as like shaking or anything like that, he just, he told it all three of them up. I just plum out of sight. Now, you, you spent many, many years in law enforcement, working with SWOT. What are, what's your background with firearms? Well, I was also a firearms instructor. I taught at the state SWOT school down at Camden when they would have special classes down there for SWOT personnel. So you're very familiar with long-range shooting, how to handle firearms. Somebody, we had a guy that commented, hey, appreciate here and Brent, you know, full of excitement. But the first thing he says is, weapon on safe. Oh, yeah. Just letting everybody know. Yeah. That's a, that's a weapons instructor right there. Yeah, I think that's just a force I have it, which is a good habit to me. Absolutely. What were those feelings that, when Craig said, there's a bull?

38:01Man, it was just, I mean, the whole time, that whole hunt, I was thinking about how, you know, it's a grand adventure. For sure. It's also my work. There's a lot of responsibility to, that encompasses my portion of it, you know. That's always why I talked about being the camera guy, you know, winner lose. Right. If the camera, if the camera's recording, I've got all the shots, whether or not the hunter misses or not. Right. Now I'm in front of it. Now it's all on me, you know. Right. I know Dave's getting his part. Can I hold up my end of the bargain? And that's where the pressure comes from. And, I mean, but it is part of the story. Had I missed him? Had I made a terrible shot? It had just been part of the story. Luckily, I did not put three good ones in him and it was, it was absolute euphoria, really. What, when, did you see it immediately when you came around the bushes? Where you like, oh, there it is.

39:02When Craig said, there's a bull over there. And I'm sure you were full of adrenaline when you walked around those bushes. Did you immediately connect with them? Oh, yeah. I mean, we, you could see down the river where we were sitting. I didn't have to walk out. Okay. From where we were sitting when he, when, when Craig ran past me, he fast enough to set the grass on fire. You know, I didn't know if it was something after him or, or what? Should I keep up with him or outrun Dave? Right. What's going on? And he said, there's a bull and, you know, a good bull right there. And I looked down there and immediately he was like, it was like a painting. Wow. When he's, he's knee deep out in this river and just slowly walking out there and the sun shining on him and the water, the ripples are lit up from the sun. And this thing is, it looks like a movie. I'm getting chills now, Josh, just thinking about it. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I mean, the sky was blue. It was, it was absolutely unreal.

40:02It looked like a film. Wow. Wow. And when he said, four sixty, you immediately went into, I got a trust in him. Yeah. My first thing was there's no way. But he said it's four sixty and I made him, or I asked, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm how far? I want him to, you know, to make sure that's what it is. It's confirmed, you know, and he confirmed it four sixty twice. And I'm like, well, that's how far he is. And I love that you kind of had more or less immediate feedback of whether that animal was down or not. I mean, it was clear he was going down. Well, I didn't see it that way. Okay. Craig says you got him. He's going down and I'm like, bro, that thing was walking last time I saw him. Of course, Craig's looking at a lot of, he's looking at, right. He's seen Moose move that are shot good. He's seen Moose that are walking that are shot. Not good. Right. But I mean, his confidence was overwhelming, but it wasn't for Brent.

41:04Right. I was just walking out of sight. As far as I was concerned, that Moose is still walking. Because you shoot a deer and you think, hey, he's in trouble. You know, you can kind of tell, but I didn't know what to look for. And to me, it didn't like he was moving any faster or any slower than when he walked out before I ever shot him the first time. Okay. So did you wait, or did you guys go immediately after? Fourteen days we waited right there and that's what it felt like. I think it was 25 minutes. Okay. Because I was checking my watch. Right. And we got in the boat and went down there. And when he walked out of the river and walked up on the bank out of the river, he walked right past a rock that was sticking up. It was about the size of a basketball. Okay. But it was right on the edge of the bank, the flat bank where, and I think it was maybe two feet from the, from the edge of the bank down to the water. And just a cut bank straight and there's that rock was right there. So in my mind, when I saw him, I logged that in there and I think that's where that's the trail.

42:07I'll look and start looking for blood right there. Yeah. And we just started to float down there. Okay. And. Well, we've got it. We've got a next next clip coming up. So you sat there for 25 minutes. I can't imagine. Is the longest 25 minutes of my life. I can't imagine. Yeah. It was, it was absolutely brutal. Well, let's, let's watch this next clip here. He's laying right there right through here, Brent. Let's see the horn. 15 feet. Oh my gosh, he's dropped the, yeah. What an absolute monster.

43:07I don't know what to say, it is incredible. Absolutely incredible. Beautiful front on him. There ain't nothing bad about him. Oh my gosh. I don't know what to say. I'm just, thank you for the effort. Thank you. Thank you for your friendship, man. Thank you guys. This is already a success. Absolutely can't believe it. I just can't get over how big they are, man. I've seen pictures of Steve once Steve's killed, played, you see it, I've seen a G in pictures. I've seen one of the child taking, but the body on these things is just... The day that I killed a moose, I was absolutely not prepared for what that was like.

44:16That adrenaline dump was unlike anything I have ever seen because I glanced down the river before I went back to get my rifle and I could see him standing in the river. And it looked like a dinosaur. It looked like a school bus with antlers. It was huge. Awesome. I know, I know expert on moose, but it looks like a big one. Man, I was looking the way he was moving when he stepped up out of the river, onto the bank and just seen his high end going into the bushes. That was the end of it. I'm expecting this thing not to be where he was because he was literally 15 feet from the edge of the water. Really? Yeah, we literally walked off and just walked up and lay down and was dead as a hammer when we got there. But I was looking past him.

45:16I was looking over him. And Dave is sitting, if you can obviously see in the boat, Dave's cameraman. He's sitting in front of the boat and he's facing back and shooting back towards me and Craig. And I'm looking hard and Craig says, there he is. Well, I look over at Dave's face and he starts smiling. He looks back at the camera. So Dave sees him. I know Dave. I know Dave and I can tell he's like, man, we got him. Yeah. And Craig's like, there he is. And I'm like, no, he ain't. I can't see him. I cannot end this hunt until I can see this moose. Right. And I'm looking further. And when he said 15 feet, I thought 15 feet. And I looked down. And there he was. And the wide open. How I could not see that moose. I don't know. Most of the felt that tremendous sense of relief. Oh, gosh. I mean, you can see it on your face. I mean, you kind of gasp a little bit there. Oh, I did. 100% I did. And you know, it's.

46:17That's one thing that I love about how we film these things. There's no way I could recreate it that. Right. You know, if Dave had negated it, it wouldn't have gotten got. Right. But he did. And it really shows the raw emotion and just. Overwhelming relief that what we came there to do. We did. So walking up on this animal. Expectations versus reality. I was not prepared. I've killed deer before. I've been after bears. And when you get to him, you like, ah, man, he's good. He's nice. I thought he was bigger. I thought he'd be a little bigger. Yeah. You know, and not no disappointment or anything like that. That thing got bigger. The long rest that they're looked at. It was not. I had no comprehension of it. I've seen most one other time. And I was in Alaska.

47:17And it's if it's all in my cross a bay. Uh, same as what been a horse in a pasture. Right. You know, so I had. I was not prepared for how big they were. Any idea like how much that thing weighed Craig estimated to be 12 to 1400 pounds. Holy smokes. I know that when we, when we skinned and processed him, I brought all the meat back. We stopped in a Craig's cousin. I actually got a place in, uh, outside of Winnipeg. And we dropped a meat off there, but I brought the back straps home. Okay. And the back straps had two soft coolers. One of them weighed 51 pounds in the other one weighed my other one weighed 49. So I brought home with me 100 pounds. A back strap of back strap. Holy cow. Yeah, it was over 600 pounds of processed moose than me and my neighborhood and family and friends are still eating them. Not your friend Josh though.

48:18You will before you leave you. Um, so what, what, you know, you could tell by the look on your face when you finally see it. Yeah. I think that's what I think is the most important thing is that you can get a sense of relief, excitement, elation, satisfaction all wrapped up into one. When you walked up on it, what were the top three things that you thought when you walked up to? I was just grateful. Yeah. I was just been at the top three things that I felt was was grateful to every all three other grateful, grateful. I mean, it was from the opportunity that I have backed my way into for this career that I never would have dreamed of having to the people that made all that happen. You know, and it has been. I pulled a trigger, but I had the easiest part, right, you know. that film to the people that work in the retail stores and that under this umbrella that we all work for

49:23everybody plays a part in that and I'm grateful for every one of them and it truly is a blessing to be the tip of the spear to tell these stories and but it all it's all possible because of everybody behind the camera that's to do everything yeah and it was an absolute physical and literal thought of while I was there you you kind of immediately express your gratitude to Craig and and the other guys why is that important to you oh it's just important this is never I love being the center of attention and talking to a room and entertaining a roomful of people but my least favorite subject is me right I'm just I'm blessed to be where I am and have this platform but I think it's it's not to tell Brent's story it's to tell everybody's story right you know and everybody has a part everybody's got a story and everybody's story needs to be heard and I

50:29enjoy telling my part of it but my part of this story is just a part of it right there's a lot of parks and yeah everybody plays a part isn't it that's one of the things I really I really appreciate about you Brent is just yeah your your sense of gratitude appreciation you're a humble guy and based on all the the comments that I've read on social media and YouTube it's pretty obvious to everybody else so I appreciate you being a being a model of that so yeah what's it like process and I'm all that pig took us two and a half hours to get him skint and quartered up uh which is you know fairly quick for something that yeah big and the pack out like I said man was it was pick up a load of meat take four steps and load it in the boat right I mean it was just so easy uh it was skin on the bear skin on the deer you know times ten and uh easy as far as how we handled the meat how

51:41it is to the skin one you know laying down it's a lot easier skin and moose laying on the ground it is a deer to me oh really yeah I think so just because it's it's so much bigger you got a bigger handhold and between you know Dave did some film and then he set the camera up and he jumped in there with us so it took three of us two and a half hours of solid skinning and cutting to get it wow get it out and get it in the boat wow and I'm not sure I don't know what the next clip is but um the highlight of that whole thing or I wouldn't say the whole thing but one of the top highlights of it was when we got that moose back in the boat we were headed back towards cabin as probably a mile and a half I think what time and day did you shoot it oh it was probably three o'clock in the afternoon okay so you guys are going yeah it's just laid into the evening it's laid into the evening time we get there so the time we get loaded and everything done skint all the rib meat neck me everything

52:46cut off and loaded into the boat and and left there we had our headlights on in the boat and we start heading we've got 20 minutes you know of motoring to get back to the cabin I turned my Dave of course he didn't he's filming I turned my light out Craig turns his light out and then it's too dark to film but the our way is lit up by the the northern lights and I was sitting in the back and Dave was sitting behind was sitting right there beside me in the northern you can see that moose the moose handlers and on the bow of that boat up there and then the northern lights up above it and that's how we what lit our way back from where we skimped that moose to our cabin and it was unreal it was so the emotion was I mean it brought tears to my eyes how beautiful it was to be in that place in a place like that with two of my good friends and do something like that

53:48and share that with them it was right man it overwhelming is a theme from the time I got there to the time left and anytime I think about it and I'm not sure there has been a day go by that I hadn't thought about one portion of that trip or the other I mean not not to put it cheaply but that sounds epic it is it was it was you know outside of something with my children or grandchildren it was the event of a lifetime for me that's incredible um is that the longest shot on game that you've ever taken 100 percent you know growing up down here in South Arkansas um you have a scope on a rifle but any place I we were hunting the woods right now and now I never had a shot more than 150 yards you know and and I like to bow hunt so I hardly hardly ever hunt with a rifle anyway right and so that was by far and that's what was so important

54:51to me to to be prepared when I got there is as shooting with Matt and getting comfortable and dialed in with that scope and and changing distances that you know with a quick call out and swapping to different targets and putting the dope in the in the right in the scope and you mentioned dope a couple of times tell our listeners and viewers what that means well it's just well they've you know those scopes they've got dials on them and turrets on them and they're numbered and for wind and elev for wind and then elevation you know left and right and up and down depending on what those factors are you can put that into what's called a dope calculator on your phone and app you just put on your phone and then if it's coincides with the turrets on the scope and it tells you where to dial them in so that you're shooting for distance and and wind correction dope is a dope is an acronym for data on previous engagement and so you're using correct ballistics and from a known target from a known target and you know based on your round and your

55:57rifle yes the the velocity of that bullet you can calculate if it's zero to a hundred you can calculate how far you need to click for elevation yes waste smarter than me and it works really well and though like I said you know I made three good shots on that but I had real good equipment and real good information working in there yeah really all I did was control my try to control my breathing as you can hear in that clip yeah you tried to sell down you did a good job because I was like well Brent's huff and coming around that corner and then I heard you just kind of calm down and I just had to because he was dancing around and they're like he's a disco until I got it what power scope is on there do you do you remember yeah that is uh uh it was uh three by 18 by 50 I believe okay okay yeah so it's pretty pretty style hey everyone big huge announcement me either live the Christmas tour is kicking off again this year for the Christmas season of 2026 this time we're

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58:03live events and they will tell you we laugh our asses off we give away great prizes we put on a solid show that I'm proud to be part of okay we got another clip here here it is oh sweet this is yours Tim I wish you'd been here with me my older brother Tim took me hunting when he didn't have to when I was more in the way than anything else the only thing that would have made that moment better was to have watched him do what I just done it's a long way from the hayfield and Bradley County where I grew up to right here yeah it's a good place to be man yeah thank you anytime I put that in there just so you can get choked up trying to get me oh man your your brother Tim's been a real fixture in your life oh yeah long as you can remember from

59:07yeah from the stories you told yeah and that that that really comes through in the film and the time he invested in you mentoring you and hunting and as a brother and a friend and a hunting companion and that that was pretty meaningful to you what what what did Tim teach you that kind of came through in this hunt man he's taught me so much stuff that comes in my everyday life he's probably the most forgiving person I know and he is he can look at a situation where I'm ready to grab a hammer and start tearing stuff up and he's like just set back a minute let's let's reevaluate what what we really need to do there is no one on that I know or have ever heard of that has more integrity than than my brother he's always doing the right thing whether it's the easy easiest thing when

1:00:08it when it's not the easiest thing and he is he is an example of what a brother and a friend and a father is and he is a good man I I talked to him every day and I haven't talked to him today and it's absolutely driving me nuts because since you got here's a normal time that we called back and forth talking so I'm ready if you get out here Josh we can see if we could pipe him in but he is he is my buddy you know and we're tight what what would how would that moment have been different if Tim had been there he would that's the only thing that would have made it better I mean I was literally I would have loved have seen him do that he is he's the guy he's eight years older than me and when I was just little he was taking me everywhere and he decided when he was 16 and I was eight or 14 and I was four or six you know he's

1:01:17like I want to grow up and be a trapper in Alaska me too I want to do whatever he did you know and I want to put a track if I wasn't putting a track in my dad's tracks I was putting one in terms you know and everything that we just seem to be so close and it would have been a culmination of all the things that I have been so blessed to do to be able to share that with him and watch him do that that's the only thing that it made it better yeah yeah um you know I think there's been opportunities you know I've I've talked about on Beargreese just about I didn't grow up hunting and Clay and Newcombe is the one who kind of taught me how to hunt and came a friend and a hunting mentor how valuable is that to take younger people or people who haven't had that experience it is it's the only way we keep this going that's how valuable it is yeah you know if it stops with one

1:02:18generation it's done forever you can go it's easy to go back and count the generations that that got us to this point but the responsibility is on us now to keep it going and to show it to the next folks and there's I have always said you share a tragedy with someone you can cut that sadness by 50% you share a joy with someone and it multiplies it there's no end to the number that you can do the little multiply and that's that's what we got to do yeah and that's how valuable is and how important it is and we want to keep doing these kind of things and having these moments and sharing them we we got to share them yeah and and share it sharing them with the folks that are not already exposed to it get somebody else in a position to do the same thing and it's it's vital and as a kid I probably never thought about that sure as a young man I didn't think about

1:03:20as much but now it's at the forefront of a forefront of a lot of the things that I do I think I think it it has so many benefits you know relationally and you know just learning the sport and the ethics behind it but even just basic health being outside being in nature being in the sun I mean yeah there's so many benefits all the way around and if you can take someone and teach him that and teach him the value of hunting ethically and harvesting organic meat and I mean it that it pays dividends no we were watching we had a premier party I actually saw the two rough drafts before the final version came out in the final version we waited until that night to watch and I watched it over friends virus friends and family we all gathered up there huge television you know like a movie screen and and we watched it but before we watched it we we had Moose Chili oh nice yeah from that moose you know that's awesome and so it was that moose

1:04:24responsible not only for the entertainment of the evening but for feeding everybody at the table yeah you know so it was it was it was it was a it was a very special day a very special thing to see that come out and to have the the story in there showing showing my dad and and my brother it was the special special moment that's awesome let's let's move on to the next clip here extra and moose heart that is the first combination of that I've ever had ready yeah matter the so tender yeah we got some back straps too yeah there I'll cook all the heart and then we'll tie into them now picnic tomorrow with all this meat we got that coming

1:05:27good well let's go catch a fish heck yeah maybe some all-I for supper oh oh oh oh oh you found one man a little fella to get that guy out there to your grandpa there we go that's a good there he is it'll be a little treat for supper tonight I'm guessing him 15 pounds yeah right on oh I'm hurt don't you think

1:06:3214 at least my fish I say how big you was that's right so um I'm I'm a little jealous of that moves me to look pretty tasty yeah it was a heart good oh fantastic and I've eaten dear heart before I had never eat a bear heart believe it or not and I may if I'm luck fortunate enough to get one this year I'll try it but that that most heart there's some how big was that miss heart biggest about like about volleyball wow close to a volleyball it was humongous and I've got I've got some photos of it you know of me holding it and it's just unreal how big that thing is but we we uh I brought I mean I had to bring some of it home we were there for I think four more days three four more days where we and we ate from the time I killed at moose that's what we ate moose and something every right from then on and we still didn't eat all that heart really oh

1:07:33gosh yeah it's wow it absolutely what did it taste like I was expecting and I like liver I was expecting the texture of my organ like like a like a gizzard or a liver but it it was just tender it was absolutely tender and it was there was no people say and I'm not a fan of the phrase game right something tasting gaming I mean kune tastes like kune fish tastes like fish do taste like deer meat you know beef tastes like beef they compare everything to beef but it's I mean it is what it is there was no there was no strong taste to it right no iron tastes like you would kind of get what like you eat with liver sometimes you get kind of an iron taste to it it was it was just really good man and did it compare to any other game that you've had I don't know that I would be able to say oh that's moose heart right I took a bite and a blind taste test

1:08:37it just tasted like good seasoned fried meat for those who have never experienced it what's the feeling of eating meat that you harvested that day it's hard from that day it just it never gets better than that day it's like fish you know I'm not a I love fish I'm not a big fan of eating trout they don't just don't I'm with you they don't taste that good yeah but you catch a trout and you cook it on the bank of the river it's the best thing you ever eaten yeah and it's all got to do with environment where you are you know and true you're with experience yeah the experience okay here's a big question fried fisher miss man I asked Craig that he said moose and I probably have to tend to agree if it's fresh moose because the environment but you bet a trout with a fried fish and you will catch me every time did y'all did y'all catch while I we did and it that was one thing we didn't they was changing out of battery or something and we just kept fishing we

1:09:41were like Dave you're on your own we're fishing we're fishing for supper buddy and we didn't get that or it didn't make it into the film but we did catch some while I was great eating oh gosh yeah but the pike up there I mean that's we call it a jack fish down here but the jack fish we eat down here ain't like those up there that cold water man good clean taste it is so good yeah it's great oh that's awesome so we've got a couple comments I wanted or comments and questions that I just want to kind of run by you here okay um we have I'm not going to try to say all of these names from people who made comments but Aaron song 3913 said I heard that moose is the most tender meat it doesn't matter how old they are or young they taste very tender I don't know how you think's taste tender but the was the backstrap tender yes it was and the longer it the longer we had it hanging in camp the more tender it got did you leave it up the whole week we did we left it up

1:10:43for I think we were there three more days after I killed that okay after I killed that moose and it got yeah what day did you kill it on I forgot to ask that it was like the second full day of hunting but like the third day that we were there okay and it was nice and cool there as oh gosh yeah yeah okay yeah um Jordan palic 90004 said only one question I got why are they put in quartered meat in a plastic bags that was to get it out of the boat cross the sandy beach up to the place where we had it laid out to cool it didn't stay in plastic bags all right a few more questions did you like that style of hunt or would you prefer spot and stalk you know I would like to do the spot and stalk it would be hard to do that in that country there because of the limited visibility um but uh that's I mean that that's going to be my favorite because it's the only way

1:11:45I've done it so far I've been on one moose hunting trip and killed a moose so that was that would be my preferred would I like to try it absolutely and I'd like to try it my next one with archery okay okay um Quinn Scott said what's a big thing that you took from behind the camera to being on camera that's a great question I think one of the the things that I learned the most was patience being a cameraman you're always wanting to stretch that shot out as long as you can you know you think about a like a white tail hunt if you just showed the kill shot on a white tail hunt like an archery hunt that video would probably be it'd be stretching to do 30 seconds right you know from start to finish from the time you see him and there's a cameraman you're wanting to milk that time out to be able to tell that story so I think patience is is an extra

1:12:50sense of patience would be what I took from behind the camera to him front because I'm thinking about it but I'm also thinking about what Dave's looking right looking at you know and might give him time to get set and everything because he's I mean he's a professional he's he's two steps ahead of me where I'm at on on that part but it is conscious in my mind especially if you're filming a hunt the the time that it takes to get it right right okay great answer um you know you've you've had that moose meat quite a while now um Ethan Kenley said what's your favorite recipe you've made with your moose meat man we ground we have a bunch of it in burger um we have made meatloaf and tacos and burgers and everything you can imagine but probably my favorite is probably chili okay the other chili's good the steaks are great I'm not saying the steaks aren't good they are absolutely fantastic you chunk it up like into stew meat no it's or you're

1:13:53grind it grind it how do you ground like burger and uh but we did have some stew meat done and I've done recipes with that and I gave a buddy of mine uh a trytill and he fixed it and all for that moose and he said it was unbelievably good and after he told me that I thought thank I shouldn't gave it to but it was uh it's been really good there's been no way that we have fixed it that hadn't been good and literally anything that you would do with beef or deer meat you can do with this okay it's it's really good broad question here but um we got a comment that says what's the best part about moose hunting I can only I can only a test of this trip because I've only been once I was never a cameraman on another moose hunt I mean this this is my experience and the best part about it was being there sharing it with my friends it was you know when I when I go bow hunting I'm usually

1:15:00by myself unless I've filmed a vent and I come back and I like man Josh I wish you'd have been there yeah and saw this you know it may have something not even anything to do with the moose it may have been two squirrels fighting that fell out of a tree but on that hunt and to this to this very moment right now I can pick up my phone and text Dave or Craig and say hey remember when this happens you know how cool is that so I think that's probably my best part absolutely well we've got one more we've got one more clip here we want to show I hope no one asked which had a bigger effect on me the moose or the lights the answer might surprise them quick clip but the northern lights you you talked about there in that clip don't if someone were to ask yeah tell us what that meant to you like what what did it do you you talked about the being on the boat and seeing that and that being

1:16:04your your your life that you follow the home back to camp but it clearly did something to you you know from a little when I was a little boy I was reading adventure stories from in seventh grade I was reading Peter Hathaway Capstick you know death and the long grass about big game hunting in Africa and before that I was reading Jack London and adventure stories in Alaska and they talk about the northern lights and to me that would have been as foreign as listen to Neil Armstrong talk about walking on the moon something that I would never have dreamt I would have got to see and that has been over a lifetime you know I'm 60 years old and I've been thinking about that since I was 10 and then to be there and to look at it with my eyes there is no way Dave's camera could capture yeah all the things that went into that and it was an easy answer for me the the northern

1:17:08lights were a bigger had a bigger impact on me than that moose did because I will eat that moose and it'll be gone mm-hmm and then there will be no more moose but those lights will be in me forever and it was amazing to sit there and think that the same creator that made those lights made me so it made a very significant it was a very significant moment for me to sit there and see that and it was it has been so good ever ever been up yeah I'll think about them now and I can't quit smiling about yeah you know it was they were you ask a question we talked when you first got here about a lot of the clips that you see of the northern lights are sped up so you can see the movement right you can see the movement in them if you're just sitting there staring at them but it is almost like you could hear them it is an overwhelming experience to sit there and see

1:18:11that it was for me you know and I'm a I'm a detailed oriented person where I try to pay attention to everything except when Alexis tells me to do something apparently I'm not very good at that but it was very easy answer that that had the biggest impact on me and it was all good man that's great any final reflect reflections on the on the trip there was nothing bad about it you know it's hard going from getting all that stuff up there and air all the logistics that went into it I can't tell you how many meetings we had meetings after meetings after meetings on crepping and planning and I knew once I got there we got feet on the ground why we had so many of them because it is such a big undertaking but just the whole experience as a whole of I would there was I had there was

1:19:11no detractors even the long drive you know we Dave and I flew into Winnipeg and then drove like 10 or 11 hours to the northern part of Manitoba to catch a float plane to go in there to where Craig was so I mean it was once we got I mean it was Katie Bar the door you got to go yeah you know we got you got to load up and drive and then I mean it was effort it took effort to get there but every bit of it was fun every bit of it was you know new and refreshing and I got to share it with my friends and they just made it so good it was it will be with me forever and I hope to get to go back and do it again soon you know with a in a different place or with Craig or whatever I won't go with the bow and yeah I can just get that much closer yeah well thanks for sharing the film with us and and and talking talking with me today I appreciate it thank you for being here Josh I appreciate it thank y'all for being here if you haven't seen it yet check out the

1:20:1512 and 26 Manitoba Moose hunting episode that I did there on the Medieter YouTube channel it's been it's an absolute pleasure to do and I appreciate it and send your comments in anytime you see one of these when we do one of these companion podcasts your questions could could get answered right here on the air thank y'all for watching and y'all be careful thanks everybody you this is an iHeart podcast guaranteed human