The Hunter Apprentice

Join Mike, and special guest Robin Routledge, as they chat important updates on the regulations for BC hunting, conservation issues around the province and updates on the Wild Sheep Society of BC. This episode is chalk full of great information on the research and reasoning behind some of the regulation changes as well as how you can get involved with different conservations organizations around the province of BC! See below for a few links of how you can make a difference!

http://nprg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Region-7B_2020-2022-Proposed-Hunting-Reg-Changes.pdf

Wild Sheep Society – https://www.wildsheepsociety.com/

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Mike dives straight into a point by point method of how he strategizes his mule deer hunts. Mike has taken a number of mule deer his bow, with his most notable accomplishment coming 3 seasons ago when we connected with his Pope & Young Mule buck. Listen in on how Mike scouts his locations and how important crop type and landscape is! Also on the docket is how to play the wind, clothing suggestions, and weapon choice. Playing the wind is Mike’s top priority in any spot and stalk strategy for many reasons, second is landscape and movement concealment. Mike covers different landscapes as well such as agriculture, coulees, and treestand hunting for mule deer. This episode is chalk full of goodies, and if you’re new to bow hunting or new to deer hunting, this is the episode for you! Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to follow us!

Show Minute Markers:

* 0:00 – Intro* 1:15 – Episode Contents* 1:45 – Hunting agricultural landscape* 4:00 – Field Food Sources* 5:40 – Wind Direction* 8:20 – Clothing Selection* 9:30 – Stalking Strategy/ Mule Deer success story* 14:20 – Stay low and go slow* 15:20 – Sun Position* 18:10 – Do you take your boots off on a stalk?* 19:40 – Hunting in the coulees* 22:20 – Playing the cover in the rolling hills* 26:10 – Treestand hunting* 30:00 – Weapon of choice * 32:00 – Episode Re-cap

Mike dives straight into a point by point method of how he strategizes his mule deer hunts. Mike has taken a number of mule deer his bow, with his most notable accomplishment coming 3 seasons ago when we connected with his Pope & Young Mule buck. Listen in on how Mike scouts his locations and how important crop type and landscape is! Also on the docket is how to play the wind, clothing suggestions, and weapon choice. Playing the wind is Mike’s top priority in any spot and stalk strategy for many reasons, second is landscape and movement concealment. Mike covers different landscapes as well such as agriculture, coulees, and treestand hunting for mule deer. This episode is chalk full of goodies, and if you’re new to bow hunting or new to deer hunting, this is the episode for you! Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to follow us!

Show Minute Markers:

0:00 – Intro1:15 – Episode Contents1:45 – Hunting agricultural landscape4:00 – Field Food Sources5:40 – Wind Direction8:20 – Clothing Selection9:30 – Stalking Strategy/ Mule Deer success story14:20 – Stay low and go slow15:20 – Sun Position18:10 – Do you take your boots off on a stalk?19:40 – Hunting in the coulees22:20 – Playing the cover in the rolling hills26:10 – Treestand hunting30:00 – Weapon of choice 32:00 – Episode Re-cap

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Mike and Jimmy dive into they reasons they’ve upgraded their gear instead of trying to save a buck. “Spend twice as much, buy half as much”. Quality gear is worth it’s weight, literally. Hear about some bad experiences that led to upgrade purchases, and why being in shape for hunting season is less stressful on your body. With Mike’s Human Kinetics degree in Kinesiology, we offers some great tips in helping you focus on the right goals as well as how to increase your “performance cup” ability. This is a great episode you don’t want to miss!

Mike and Jimmy dive into they reasons they’ve upgraded their gear instead of trying to save a buck. “Spend twice as much, buy half as much”. Quality gear is worth it’s weight, literally. Hear about some bad experiences that led to upgrade purchases, and why being in shape for hunting season is less stressful on your body. With Mike’s Human Kinetics degree in Kinesiology, we offers some great tips in helping you focus on the right goals as well as how to increase your “performance cup” ability. This is a great episode you don’t want to miss!

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Pursue the Hunt in launching a series focused on women and hunting. This has been a growing topic in the hunting industry. Mike interviews Lana Hamilton and Caitlyn Bellamy, both local to the Peace River Region. Lana, while experienced in hunting now, wasn’t the case early on prior to meeting her husband and Caitlyn only recently passed her hunters course (CORE) and just harvested her first big game animal last season in 2019! These two ladies bring a unique perspective to hunting and it’s an episode where you’ll hear A LOT of LAUGHS and some great stories!

Pursue the Hunt in launching a series focused on women and hunting. This has been a growing topic in the hunting industry. Mike interviews Lana Hamilton and Caitlyn Bellamy, both local to the Peace River Region. Lana, while experienced in hunting now, wasn’t the case early on prior to meeting her husband and Caitlyn only recently passed her hunters course (CORE) and just harvested her first big game animal last season in 2019! These two ladies bring a unique perspective to hunting and it’s an episode where you’ll hear A LOT of LAUGHS and some great stories!

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Host Mike Friesen chats with Jordan Walsh, host of The Riflemen about this recent trips to New Zealand for stag and tahr and Africa for dangerous cats and plains game. Jordan lays out the challenges of tahr hunting in the mountains of New Zealand and the excitement of tracking lions. Lion hunting is often a controversial hunting topic, but just like ungulates, predators also need to be managed legally. Jordan provides some great insight to cat hunting in Africa and some neat cultural experiences. This episode is full of hunting abroad experiences and challenges as well as some cool stories and insight into running your own hunting tv show!

Mike and Tony are talking about their previous mountain goat and stone sheep hunt together and also about Tony’s new book launch “Boondock Church”. Their trip was full of excitement and challenges and maybe some reasons why you shouldn’t follow your pastor into a treacherous rock canyon with waterfalls!

Mike and Muc chat all about elk hunting and calling to help improve your odds in the field! With over 15 years of elk guiding experience, elk calling workshops as a Cabelas Pro Staff, and over 200 successful elk harvests for his clients, Muc has established himself as an elk hunting pro. This episode is everything you’ll need to understand about elk pre, mid and post rut, calling techniques and elk behaviour!