This'll make you feel old!
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flatcreek
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Watched last night and your right. 
Got to know about Clay from when he won the show Alone. Was glad to find his hunting videos. I don’t really watch hunting shows anymore but I watch his. It’s hard to find good traditional muzzleloader content. Especially western hunting. Haven’t seen this one yet. Thanks for posting!
Clay Hayes' award winning video "Untamed," created a decade ago, is a classic treasure that SO captures the essence of WHY many of us choose traditional methods of hunting. It's all bow, but to me captures the reason for traditional sidelocks as well.
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If he was a real hardcore dude he’d sleep under the treefall!? I think he might pass for hardcore. What beautiful country.
For those from other places - In the American West there are wilderness areas that have been set aside for recreation and hunting. They don’t allow any motorized vehicles within wilderness, even for maintenance. There is usually good reason these areas have been undeveloped, often because access is limited and the terrain is very rugged. These areas are often 100, 200, 300 square miles, and are open to the public (assuming you can get in). Not sure if he specifically said where he was in Idaho, but one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the contiguous states is Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness which is 3700 square miles or so, in Idaho.
For those from other places - In the American West there are wilderness areas that have been set aside for recreation and hunting. They don’t allow any motorized vehicles within wilderness, even for maintenance. There is usually good reason these areas have been undeveloped, often because access is limited and the terrain is very rugged. These areas are often 100, 200, 300 square miles, and are open to the public (assuming you can get in). Not sure if he specifically said where he was in Idaho, but one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the contiguous states is Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness which is 3700 square miles or so, in Idaho.
Oh...he's hardcore all right...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61137639-surviving-alone
It's the only season of "Alone" I watched as I was already familiar with Clay from a traditional bow forum and his early videos and shows, and I wanted to see him win. It took 74 days of wilderness survival, some of it in winter, in British Columbia for all of the other contestants to tap out or be "forceably" removed by the physicians that had occasional checkups to assess the health of remaining contestants, taking them out if their condition was becoming life threatening. Winning that contest is hard core.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61137639-surviving-alone
It's the only season of "Alone" I watched as I was already familiar with Clay from a traditional bow forum and his early videos and shows, and I wanted to see him win. It took 74 days of wilderness survival, some of it in winter, in British Columbia for all of the other contestants to tap out or be "forceably" removed by the physicians that had occasional checkups to assess the health of remaining contestants, taking them out if their condition was becoming life threatening. Winning that contest is hard core.
gosh dang. that's ruffing it
There was a time ---- ah, the good old days ---- can't do it anymore.
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Old? Ancient! He's about the age of my grandkids. They should be selecting my casket tomorrow Well, I hope not.
Well, I hope not.
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Yeah, my old hunting territory. One of my kids is still hunting in Idaho.
Antelope Pete
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If I had known this thread was started here I wouldn't have started one on the Media section. Anyway, I liked it and it's good to see somebody trusting these types of guns for real in the hunting/shooting media. He also has a new flintlock elk video.
Several years ago on one of the Sportsman channels, there was a show that ran several years called "Sasquatch - Mountain Man." Looks like it still might be viewable on Pluto TV. He hunted with bow and traditional muzzleloader.
Antelope Pete
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I'm not sure how to respond about that show without sounding bad or offensive. I'll just say the show had some integrity issues. I saw one episode where he was supposedly hunting deer with a muzzleloader and then showed him with an obvious cartridge rifle with what looked like some kind of amateurish, cartoon like muzzleloader photo shopped over the rifle. Another time he showed a deer he was about to shoot and after the kill it was a different deer. Then another time he was carrying a Hawken Shop rifle and then another scene where he had a Thompson Center type Hawken. He had an episode where he talked about his Hawken Shop Hawken and he didn't even finish it. The wood was raw and the metal not finished. I guess he thought it looked more primitive. Other than that stuff it seemed ok.
Well, you missed him constantly carrying a capped muzzleloader muzzle forward with his hand over the muzzle with the hammer down on the cap. Eventually, on camera, it snagged on brush and blew some of his fingers off.
But, all that said, it was kind of a breakthrough series to show traditional arms as real effective hunting tools.
At the time it beat Cabelas catalogs stating that roundballs were for "plinking" and the other falsehoods the modern muzzleloader mfgs and retailers were pushing to sell their products. While not perfect, it probably did more good than harm.
dang. blowed his fingers off. ugh that ain't good at all.
Hope he was good at doing math in his head
Antelope Pete
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Spikebuck. Actually I did see that one, think he was in Alaska or Canada. I forgot about that. For me it became a matter of if I can't believe what I know is fake how can I trust the rest.
Pond, Just making the Bow ,Arrows and the rest of a kit is Hardcore in itself.
At the end of the Day I will take a Fire and a Warm Bed.
Not so hardcore....
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