A View from Camp

Join Troels and I as we chat about our Axis deer hunt with Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris on the Brochman ranch in Sonora, Texas! Troels and I compare Axis deer hunting in Texas to being on safari in Africa. We also discuss the conservation efforts in making exotics hunting in Texas a success, hog hunting in Texas, turkey hunting in Utah , saying goodbye to our kids and welcoming them home from a year in college, prairie dog shootin...

Join Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris and I as we cruise down the road and chat about hunting, exotic game, conservation and raising kids so they grow up living an outdoors lifestyle! Had a great hunt with Dustin and we are headed to the processors with our Axis deer so we took advantage of some road time to record and chat about growing up in Texas and how hunting is a way of life there.   We also talk about the exotics in Texas and ...

Join Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris and I as we cruise down the road and chat about hunting, exotic game, conservation and growing up living an outdoors lifestyle! Had a great hunt with Dustin and we are headed to the processors with our Axis deer so we took advantage of some road time to record and chat about growing up in Texas and how hunting is a way of life there.   We also talk about the exotics in Texas and how they have beco...

Having a chat with my father in law Mike Enterline.  We discuss the place they currently live and its history and what it was like growing up in an oil camp in Colorado living an outdoors lifestyle! Mike tells what it was like first camping and fishing in Colorado and how living that type of lifestyle drew him closer to his dad and brothers.  He also tells about his first elk hunt,  getting lost, spending the night alone in the sno...

Andy Fauth and son Zach and I get some pheasant hunting in after school! We pick Zach up after school one day and get some end of the year pheasant hunting in! After the hunt we chat with Zach about his progress with bird hunting!  We also chat with Zach about how hunting, camping, fishing and growing up living outdoors lifestyles has given him confidence in sports and other aspects of life! Zach tells about his first turkey hunt l...

While Cruising around in the back pasture Troels, Craig, Little John, Dane the Danish dagger and I discuss how DDDC and growing up doing such activities has help shape us into the people that we are!  We talk about growing up living outdoors lifestyles and how important it is to still get to do that!  We talk about the importance for Craigs family to still get to go back to Montana and experience outdoors lifestyles while growing u...

The Danish Dagger heads to Daddy Daughter Deer Camp!  Even though it started as DDDC we have allowed the boys to come along as they have come of age and some of our girls have grown and gone off to college! Troels' boy Dane earns the nickname "the Danish Dagger" and  we are also joined by long time friend Craig Kovacich and his boy "Little John!"  After the fire at the ranch last year and Covid restrictions...

It's a surprise Red fish birthday party!  Tatia puts together a plan for me to go to Texas and surprise Steve Nail with a weekend of chasing Red fish and other shenanigans!  Tatia sets the bait and under the pretense of meeting some other people out for drinks after work we surprise Steve with a planned trip to fish for Reds and anything else we can get to bite on the Texas coast!  Steve and Tatia had moved back to Texas the y...

Stealing a sunny fall day on the snake river with my daughter Lydia! It's that time of year when it gets cold and you need to winterize the cabin and close it up for the year. But when you get those rare seventy degree days in October it is the perfect time to steal an extra day on the drift boat floating the snake river!My youngest daughter Lydia and I record and chat about Daddy Daughter Deer Camp, hunting, fishing and namin...

Troels, Andy and Monte discuss land stewardship, land owners, picking camp/hunting mates and safety!Taking care of our public and private lands is on everyones shoulders who use the land.  We discuss how taking care of the land and respecting private lands and the owners can open doors for more people in the future. Shooting of signs and leaving other target trash as well as crap(literally) is destroying our lands and public access...

Monte Tells about the first night spent alone in the bunk house at age 15!  Being alone specially at night can put your mind tricks into high gear! Grizzly bears, escaped convicts, Freddie Kruger and wookalars all attack at night when you are alone!

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Dumping turkey juice down a friends neck is not the best way to introduce yourself to hunting with them, but it worked! Long time hunting buddy the Troels and Monte are scouting for elk and start the South Cache Muzzle loader elk hunt.  reminiscing about initial hunts and the turkey juice episode as well as highlights of their hunts together with and with out kids.  Opening morning for Monte's elk hunt and two days of scouting...

Back up cameras save relationships! In this episode Monte tells how it used to be before back up cameras came on scene.  For those who have never had to back up a vehicle and hook to a trailer with out a back up camera this episode highlights the difficulties that we faced before they were standard issue!  Also discussed are the benefits of the "ences" and how that can be beneficial in a relationship 
.  Also the impo...