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How to Whittle Like a Professional With Tom Bonamici Jun 28, 2021

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Tom Bonamici is a craftsman. With a background in product design and architecture, he has produced bags and clothing for several companies including his own. He's a custom wood worker specializing in furniture and timber framing construction with all wood joinery. Tom also happens to be the best person to have on a hunting trip if you forget your titanium spork. In this episode, Tom gives us some really solid advice on how to whittle useful items in the backcountry. What tools to bring, what wood species to use, and some great tips for making spoons, tent stakes, and gambrel hooks. We also cover gear repair and modification so that you can customize your favorite equipment to perfectly fit your needs.
Tom's Tool Recommendations
Saw - Silky KatanaBoy
Hatchet - Robin Wood Carving Axe
Knife - Morakniv Woodcarving 120

SIG Hunter Games with SWAT Team Leader and Outfitter, Dustin Parent Jun 21, 2021

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We just wrapped up the first ever SIG Sauer Hunter Games at the Queen Mountain Guest Ranch in Evanston, Wyoming. This competition was meant to challenge each hunter's shooting, glassing, and physical abilities with realistic hunting scenarios. At the Hunter Games, Dustin Parent served as the range safety officer for Team Wolverine and is the perfect person to go over this competition with. Dustin has served as a law enforcement officer for the past 19 years and is the commander of a 26 man SWAT team. He is also the co-founder of Northern New England Outfitters and guides for trophy moose, bear, deer and turkey. In this episode, we break down a successful competition and talk hunting and guiding strategies as I prepare for my own moose hunt this fall.
Dustin Parent
Northern New England Outfitters on Facebook
Book a Trip with Dustin
SIG Sauer Hunter Games
Results and Competitors
SIG Sauer Hunting
Team Wolverine
Elite Guide: Mike Kimmel (Python Cowboy)
Competitor: Most wins in UFC history, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Competitor: UFC Trainer Bo Sandoval

"Get out of the truck," & other advice from Aisling Meehan & Caitlin Ferdyn Jun 14, 2021

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What do you get when you ask two people with no hunting experience listener submitted hunting questions? Turns out, some surprisingly good advice. This week, I'm at the Queen Mountain Ranch in Evanston, Wyoming getting ready for the SIG Sauer Hunter Games, where celebrity and SIG elite guide hunters will compete for the crown. But before the competition starts, I had the chance to sit down with Aisling Meehan & Caitlin Ferdyn, event planners at SIG Sauer. I get their take on learning to archery hunt, tag strategies, e-scouting, and hunting new areas. Our biggest takeaway: you might have to do some walking if you want to be successful.

SIG Hunting on Instagram

Learn more about the Hunter Games

Elk, Mules, Lions, and Tenacity with Kirk Skovlin Jun 07, 2021

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The best word I can use to describe Kirk Skovlin is tenacious. He's the hardest worker I've ever met, and is something of a local legend here in Northeast Oregon, known for his grit and determination in everything he does. Kirk is an excellent bow hunter and artist. He's been packing horses and mules into the wilderness for decades and has some crazy backcountry stories to tell. I learn a lot about hunting every time I talk to Kirk, and our conversation in this episode is no different. Join us as Kirk tells some of his best hunting stories about cougars, elk, and mountain goats from a full life lived in the wilderness.
Kirk Skovlin's Art
Kirk on Instagram

Jim Akenson, Wilderness Biology and Archery Regulations May 31, 2021

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Jim Akenson has led a full and adventurous life. He and his wife, Holly, spent over two decades living in the extremely remote Frank Church Wilderness where they served as caretakers for University of Idaho's Taylor Research Station. While at Taylor, Jim and Holly studied bighorn sheep, cougars, bobcats, wolves, and made countless contributions to our understanding of wildlife biology. For the past 5 years, Jim was the Conservation Director for Oregon Hunters Association, and recently became their Northeast Director of the Board. As a hunter and naturalist, Jim is the perfect advocate for western hunters and is probably the best person to explain all the proposed changes that will likely impact archery hunting in Oregon.
Buy Jim's book - 7003 Days: 21 Years in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
From Caxton Press
From Amazon

Modern Mapping with Lorenzo Sartini, CEO and Founder of goHUNT May 24, 2021

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Lorenzo Sartini has wanted to work in the hunting industry since he was a kid. An avid hunter himself, Lorenzo saw a need for convenience in the way western hunters research and plan for hunts with filterable data to accommodate their personal goals. In 2013, he founded goHUNT, the premier and full suite of western hunting products. A goHUNT Insider membership helps you research applications, maximize tag opportunities, and build your multi-state hunt calendar as full as you want it to be. But their newest offline mapping feature puts them over the edge. goHUNT is the only hunting platform that offers real 3D maps, with filters and features that specifically cater to western hunters. This technology has changed the game for me, and I think you'll enjoy hearing the story behind its development.
GoHunt.com
GoHunt on Instagram

Guiding and hunting New England with Christi Holmes & Jill LaPlante May 17, 2021

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It can be intimidating for people new to hunting and fishing to get into these sports. Women, in particular, often have to deal with the added barrier of being the only female at the range or fly shop. My guests today, Christi Holmes and Jill LaPlante, are two avid outdoorsman doing the work to break down those barriers and mentor women interested in hunting and fishing. Both engineers, Jill and Christi each started women's Northeast hunting groups to promote and empower women to become more involved in the outdoors. Christi is a registered Maine hunting and fishing guide who founded the group Maine Women's Hunters, and Jill founded the group New England Sportswomen. We talk turkeys, dragging deer, and the differences between western and eastern hunting and guiding.
Christi Holmes
On Instagram
Maine Women Hunters
Jill LaPlante
On Instagram
New England Sportswomen

Living Alone in the Wilderness, with Aubrey Barton May 10, 2021

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Only 11 people live year-round in the 2.3 million acres of the Frank Church Wilderness, and Aubrey Barton is one of them. Aubrey is the caretaker at Indian Creek Ranch, where she homesteads alone through long cold winters and blistering hot summers. With only 2 weekend trips a year into town, Aubrey is as capable and self sufficient as they come. She grows and harvests hay, packs horses, hunts bear and wolves, runs a trap line and is all around kicking ass in the largest continuous wilderness area in the lower 48.
Aubrey on Instagram

Family Ranching with Adele Schott May 03, 2021

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My little sister, Adele Schott, is tough. She's raising kids and cows all at the same time. With her sons, 2 month old Ira and 2 year old Hank in tow, Adele and her husband have recently started a ranch of their own. Mother's Day is just around the corner, and in this episode, we cover what it was like growing up on a ranch, how to raise the next generation of good land stewards, and the best way to cook a burger.
Adele on Instagram

Elk Hunting the Communist Soviet Union with Bruce Wassom and Pat Juhl Apr 26, 2021

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One year ago, I recorded the first ever episode of the 6 Ranch Podcast on the wild and scenic Snake River with Bruce Wassom, founder of Rogue Jet Boatworks. It seems only fitting that I chat with Bruce a year later after running jets up the Salmon through the Frank Church Wilderness. And this time we're also joined by Bruce's good friend, Pat Juhl. Pat's passion is mule deer, having served both as the CEO and chairman of the board of the National Mule Deer Foundation. Bruce and Pat have hunted all over the world together, their most memorable expedition being a hunting trip to the communist Soviet Union just before the fall of the USSR in the early 90s.
Rouge Jet Boatworks
Mule Deer Foundation

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