Packraft Caribou Hunting The Macomb Plateau In Alaska
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2022
- This adventure Sean and I go caribou hunting on the Macomb Plateau. We started the day before opening to hike in the 9 miles and 3000ft of elevation gain to get up to the plateau. Our plan to hopefully get a nice bull opening day and then pack it down the 8 miles to the Johnson river where we could packraft out to the Alaska HWY.
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Hey everybody.. I know this kind of content isn't what some of y'all like to see from me and I totally understand. While going out to do this hunt I questioned if I should even be filming it knowing some of my viewers might be repulsed by it. But.. as someone who eats meat and wants to more in tune with the natural world I feel that this is important to share. I try my best to be a respectful hunter. It's very important to me get a clean shot so they don't suffer. That's why we waited for the right moment to shoot. We also make sure to remove all the meat from the animal so nothing goes to waste. A single caribou will drastically cut down on the amount of meat I buy from the grocery store. That's why at the end of every hunt video I've made I like to show us processing and eating the meat, because that's the sole reason I hunt.
Thanks for reading. See y'all next time!
Don't put too much pressure on yourself to appease people as you will never be able to make everyone happy just keep doing you!
Respect, CZcams is just a fancy photo album yogo
I'd say a caribou in alaska lives a much better life than farm animal trapped in a factory farm. Much more ethical in my book.
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I eat shop meat and it makes me feel really guilty when I think of the lives of the animals I consume. I have been trying to live more pescatarian of late because I can forage my own seafood and catch ocean fish so I know it is harvested in moderation, with respect and with reverence to its life and role in the ecology I share with everyone and everything else. I am an animal person and have saved a lot of wild animals in distress in my life. I dont consider myself a hunter but I think I would rather hunt respectfully than support the slaughter trade. I have a 170lbs Bear compound hunting bow and this is the only weapon I would use to harvest an animal. Fire arms are just not giving the animal any advantage and makes it too easy for the hunter. Hunting for meat should not be this easy imo. It should be a challenge that matches the value of the life taken to match the challenges wild animals face to survive and flourish in the wilderness. I Had also decided long time ago that for every wild animal I harvest I will sponsor a deserted pet animal at my local shelter to pay the life I take forward.
Never heard of Macomb Plateau, but it looks another beautiful part of the state. I always enjoy watching your adventures and wishing I knew adventurous people to experience similar things. Thanks for taking us trail hikers/campers on a backcountry adventure and successful caribou hunt.
The mix of calm, adventurous, crazy and serious moments is so nice in your videos.
For me personally they are a "window" into a very different, but also very nice way of living. Thank you for sharing these parts of your life with us!
Thank you for bringing us along, I know how hard it can be to bring cameras along and try to get the right angle while hunting is challenging
Outstanding video. Paddle hard through those spooky eddy lines. I’m so glad you showed the steaks that we work so hard for! Nice work boys.
Always the high quality enjoyable content. I have a soft spot for animals, but totally understand that there's nothing wrong with this in any way and why it has to be like this. As you know, it's better than buying meat from the grocery store which comes from animals who haven't lived freely.
Thanks for the video ❤
wow that is alot of gear, cant beat the packrafts! Wicked vid guys
This is fucking sick, the fact that this channel is so under the radar is unbelievable. I give it 3 more videos and your at 1 million
Amazing depiction of what hunting in Alaska can be like - great work!!
This is of your best yet, keep up the good work!
EPIC as usual man!!! Makes me jealous and hungry at the same time.
Excellent work fellas!
Incredible video here Ian. Can’t wait to do something like this. Really enjoying your content!
How is this dude not blowing up!?!?!?!
One word… “Amazing”
Amazing dude
Amazing nature
Dude. You need a Honda that you can pack your caribou out on. On the Denali Highway, people drive in by Honda. I went camping there in like 2004 with Jenni Grunblatt and we saw 2 dudes on a Honda catch a caribou. Also is you use the caribou hide for mukluks, it sheds like crazy. Although early season caribou sheds less than late season caribou. I know that from experience. That's why new mukluks are gonna be land otter.
lovely!
Pretty underrated channel and super surprising you don’t have at least a few hundred thousand subscribers. I’m in the Fairbanks Area and enjoy seeing the cool adventures man.
I like the respect you show for the death of this animal. Also the life (and death) of it was way better than in captivity. So even as someone who eats plant-based, i can totally accept hunting for food to reduce the amount of meat you buy.
Just out of interest, how many meals does that amount of meat make?
Thank you for understanding. After processing all the meat we had around 100 pounds, so depending on the size/ type of meal we can make at least 100 meals.. Going off of the meals I like to make probably 150 - 200
That meat looks so good! And even im not sure how you hiked so far with all your stuffs! The bags must be bigger on the inside than the outside hehe
haha I don't know either! We had our sleeping bags, water bottles and packrafts strapped to the outside to make room.
Nice work! I'm wondering... did you guys descend Prospect Creek or the un-named creek to the north of Prospect to get to the Johnson? Prospect looks to be a bit harder to get to and less straightforward. Also, one or two days paddling out? Thanks very much!
Ian, another great video, good to see you back. Don’t worry about what others think or say, just do what makes you happy.
Hows the “real” job going?
Amazing video as always man!! Loved it! What drone are you using nowadays? Those shots are fantastic and was looking to upgrade!
Thanks man! I'm still using my dji mavic 2. Hasn't let me down yet!
Thanks for the video. How many other hunters?
We saw 2 other hunters up while we up on the plateau
I'm curious of the watch you're wearing, I've been looking for a new one.
The watch is a timex indiglo i believe, but the band is custom. My gramps made it.
Чё-то Я не понял... Что это было-то?
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Buddy… please
Remove the name of the place and the literal map you show To get there. Great video and great content but dude that’s how you ruin spots! I know a few guys that have been hunting there for years and it’s getting more popular and crowded and this certainly doesn’t help!
Just so terribly sad. I imagine these were mother and child. Both males/females have antlers. The grief of the remaining animal is so terrible. Wept so much seeing this. Unsubd.
You should tell more people on the internet your dumb feelings.
I've known YogoMan since Grade 5 and I grew up down the street from him. He's a good dude and an animal lover. He had a dog and a cat as pets growing up. People in Alaska hunt, trap and fish for survival. Rural people eating caribou is no different than city people eating lamb.
When I was little, it was simply called “camping.” And then years later CZcams came along and people (CZcamsrs) started calling it “bushcraft.” Which then became “wild camping.” Which then became “field craft.” Which now I guess is called “pack craft”? I’ll let you in on a little secret: Anyone that calls it “bushcraft” (or any of the afore mentioned variants) isn’t into camping, nature, wilderness &c. If you call it “bushcraft,” you’re into attention from other socially-delayed children on the internet. Here’s another one: People who like camping don’t take go-pros into the woods, set them up, walk back, then walk forward past the camera, then walk back for the camera, then walk forward and set it up again for another shot… Only CZcamsrs do that. I don’t want to blow your mind, but people who like camping just go camping, and enjoy their time in nature. They don’t feel a need to brag about it on social media.
Now I’ll extend an olive branch: Let’s say you do like camping (or at the very least playing “fort” in the woods) but you’re socially awkward and have a hard time making friends. That’s OK. That’s everyone. It doesn’t make you a bad person. You’re not deliberately malicious. We’re all lonely and wish we had friends. But if you’re lonely and wish you had friends to go camping with, making CZcams videos isn’t going to solve that problem. There’s a simple vicious-circle I think most young people aren’t aware of. I’ll be bries as I’m tired and hungry:
Poor social skills = difficulty making friends = lonely = use social media instead = don’t develop social skills = difficulty making friends… and so on. Social media is the *cause* of the problem that masks itself as the *solution.*
TLDR: Quit social media, put down the camera-phone, and spend time making yourself into the kind of person people want to be around. The rest will take care of itself.