In this episode, I am joined by Mike Defeo of Huto Lifestyle. He started making game bags a few years ago with the goal of creating a lightweight quality product for backcountry hunters like me. I found Mike because I was on a quest to find an alternative to packing around bulky heavy cotton game bags. So I have a bunch of questions for Mike about moving to synthetic game bags. We get into a great discussion on meat care techniques while on the hunt and in the backcountry. We provide some sugges...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 74
Save your deer legs! In this episode we're joined by Andy Moeckel - he’s The Flip Flop Guy. He’s pioneered the flip flop cooking method for deer legs over coal. I am co-hosting this conversation with my good friend and wild chef Jody Peck. Jody is the head chef for our all-wild food wedding and we have 6 deer legs on the menu. Andy shares his technique for cooking whole deer legs over the charcoal barbecue, and Jody is taking notes! The flip flop method is truly magic for serving deer legs and h...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 73
You will need to take notes for this one! Tons of good info, just in time for the hunting season. Hunting is a high-risk activity that takes place in remote wilderness settings. How can we reduce the risk and be prepared to respond in a first aid emergency? In this episode, I am talking to Cam Fenton about the most common injuries and life-threatening medical emergencies that hunters can encounter. He provides detailed information on how to treat them, what you should add to your kit to ensure y...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 72
Some fun storytelling in this episode. Both Miki and Ashley have set out to become hunters over the past few years. They share their respective journey's to their first buck harvest. I hope you enjoy it! This podcast was brought to you with the support of Seek Outside. @Seekoutside specializes in building ultralight reliable gear for adventures. Use the discount code to EATWILD at seekoutside.com For nourishing food on your next adventure be sure to check out West Coast Kitchen. Use the EATWILD ...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 70
In this episode, I’m hanging out with Jeff Senger, co-host of the web series From The Wild . He’s a lifelong hunter, and self-proclaimed "slaughterer" - he owns and operates an abattoir in Alberta. This guy knows a lot about harvesting and processing animals! We talk about perspectives on taking the life of an animal and focusing on doing it humanely and ethically. Our thoughts meander to the topic of wild cocktails and our passion for all things wild. This is a great chat with a really engaging...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 69
Today I am sitting with Spencer Greening La’goot, Indigenous scholar and Jesse Zeman, executive director of the BCWF to discuss a tough topic. The news of restrictions for resident hunters as a result of the BC Government losing the Yahey vs. British Columbia court case has the potential to cause polarizing views. Pitting resident hunters against Indigenous Nations in a perceived competition for “the right to hunt and conducting one’s way of life” is not only dangerous in its potential for hinde...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 68
In this episode, I am joined by Adam Foss. Adam is a filmmaker, photographer, conservationist and adventure hunter. Adam has dedicated time in the mountains filming wildlife and mountain adventures in addition to his remarkable personal hunting adventures. His passion is sheep hunting and he has a ton of knowledge and experience to share with us. We talk about how to plan for big adventures, critical gear that he relies on, where we can save weight and where we can add a few ounces to build a bi...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 67
In this episode, I’m chatting with Joe Eppele. Joe is a passionate hunter, star of The EDGE hunting show, and Grey Cup champion. This is the perfect episode if you're starting to think about brighter days ahead and what your hunting season is going to look like. Joe recaps his past year of hunting adventures - and what a year he had! As he tells stories about his last hunting season, Joe reveals what were his most challenging, and memorable hunts. In this conversation, I learned that Joe is an e...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 66
Join us on our annual elk hunting adventure! Tom, Tome and I have invited young Jay to join us for his first Northern BC elk hunting expedition. We are packing rafts into a remote wilderness area with a plan to find a few unhunted bull elk. We have packed our Seek Outside camp and two Alpacka Forager rafts a day's walk up the valley. If all goes well we will get into some elk and use the rafts to float back to the trucks. This was an extra special hunt and fun adventure. I hope you enjoy the epi...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 65
In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Chris Pryn and we are talking about Blacktail hunting. Chris is part of the Fargone Media production team, telling hunting adventure stories in BC. He is also the host of the Behind the Glass Hunting Podcast. Chris has been instrumental in driving membership and engagement with our local chapter of the BC Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. And occasionally I can talk him into helping me out as an EatWild mentor to share his knowledge and passion with new hu...
Nov 27, 2021•55 min•Ep. 64
This is the third and final episode of the Ramtastic adventure Sheep Hunting podcast series. In this podcast, I’m catching up with our crew after having re-entered our post-adventure lives and we debrief about the challenges that we faced as the trip progressed. After a hugely successful opening day, we had two rams on top of the mountain and we faced the perils of getting ourselves, and the meat off the mountain and down the river safely. We were confronted with lots of barriers in gett...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 63
Joined by great friends Jenny P, La'goot, and Scott, we set out on a fly-in, hike-up, paddle-out sheep hunt. In part 2 of the Ramtastic Adventure, we share our opening day sheep hunting adventures. We split up into two hunting parties for opening day with a plan to take a closer look at what we hoped were legal rams. Join us as we recap our respective hunts and what will no doubt be the hunt of a lifetime for all of us. This adventure was fuelled by West Coast Kitchen gourmet freeze-dried meals,...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 62
This adventure was, without a doubt, the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done. Joined by great friends Jenny P, La'goot, and Scott, we set out on a fly-in, hike-up, paddle-out sheep hunt. In part 1 of the Ramtastic Adventure you get to meet the team, hear about our hunt plan, and then join us on the hunt as we navigate our way into sheep country, try to survive the elements, and experience the hunt of a lifetime. This adventure was fuelled by West Coast Kitchen gourmet freeze-dried ...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 61
Some troubling news in the sheep hunting community. At least 12 illegal rams have been seized by the Conservation Officer Service this year. These rams did not meet the legal requirements and yet hunters still pulled the trigger. Thinhorn rams must reach either eight years of age or full curl in order to be legal for harvesting in BC. In an average year, 3 to 5 rams typically fail inspection as legal rams. So why are we making mistakes? I’m joined by Adam Janke of the Journal of Mountain Hunting...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 60
I am pleased to welcome Mike Bridger back on the podcast as part of our wildlife biologist series where we are talking about wildlife management of the big game species in BC. In this episode, we are talking elk just in time for elk hunting season. Whether you are a seasoned elk hunter or planning your first elk hunt, this episode is for you! In our conversation, we get to learn about the rewarding work that Mike Bridger does as a wildlife biologist in the North East of BC. Mike describes elk ha...
Aug 14, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 59
We are kicking off a series of podcasts with a focus on learning more about big game species in BC and how they are managed to ensure sustainable wildlife populations and hunting opportunities. In the first episode, I am pleased to welcome wildlife biologist Conrad Thiessen. Conrad has a very cool job in the Northwest corner of BC (Region 6). This is an area of relatively low road density and high wilderness and wildlife values, so he spends his workdays flying around in a helicopter, in spectac...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 58
Sheep hunting season is a few weeks away. I’ll be hauling heavy packs into the mountains and relying on my body to hold up to the rigours of the terrain and to have an injury-free adventure. With over a year of Covid living, my body is feeling the effects. I need to get in shape... FAST. Fortunately, my hunting partner Jenny P has been working with Emilie Whittemore to get her body ready for the sheep mountains. Emilie is a physiotherapist and strength and conditioning specialist, who believes i...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 57
The adventure hunting season is around the corner! I am getting excited, and that means the podcast is shifting focus to conversations on preparing and planning for the season. In this episode, I am having a beer with Kevin Timm, co-founder of Seek Outside, and we are talking ultra-lite tents and the ideal backpack for packraft hunting. Seek Outside (SO) is known for the single-pole tent with an ultra-lite packable wood stove system. The huge advantage of this system is that you can backpack a r...
May 29, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 56
The face of hunting in North America is prominently white. Is there a place for people of colour in the hunting community? Can we make the hunting space more inclusive? I think so, but we have some work ahead to make the hunting community more welcoming and inclusive. In this episode, I am joined by Jimmy Flatt the co-founder of Hunters of Color. Hunters of Color was founded by Jimmy Flatt, Lydia Parker, and Thomas Tyner in August of 2020 with a mission to share a love for the outdoors with ever...
May 13, 2021•51 min•Ep. 55
In this episode, I am sitting with my good friend Jody Peck of Wild Northern Way , happy that the spring foraging season is finally here. We are talking about harvesting wild plants from urban settings and the forest in a sustainable and ethical way, the seemingly daunting duty to process them the importance of finding fun ways to prepare them. We touch upon the ephemeral nature of the foraging seasons with the added engagement that brings and, at the same time, the stable nature of discovering ...
Apr 16, 2021•55 min•Ep. 54
If you’re a Vancouver Canucks fan, hunting enthusiast, or a passionate fisherperson you’ll enjoy this episode. I’m joined by Brendan Morrison, 15-year veteran and star of the National Hockey League. Brendan is a local legend from his years centring the West Coast Express line flanked by Todd Bertuzzi and Markus Näslund that generated some of the most exciting moments in Canuck history. Brendan Morrison has always been a passionate fisherman which has led him to produce and host the Reel West Coa...
Apr 09, 2021•53 min•Ep. 53
The iHunter App is an essential tool for the new Hunter. Apps like the iHunter tool have changed how I approach hunting entirely. E-scouting, orienteering, checking regulations, and recording where and how I hunted an area have all been improved with the innovations of the app world. The Hunter App brings together multiple essential app tools to make hunters more effective, safe and help hunters stay on the right side of private property boundaries and regulations. In this episode, I'm joined by...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 52
Are we losing our social license to hunt? Social license refers to the perceptions of the public that deem an activity as socially acceptable. The concept of an activity requiring a "social license" emerged in the 1990's as the natural resource industry realized they needed to build public and stakeholder support for resource extraction projects to be successful. A recent article published by Chris Darimont in the Society of Conservation Biology Journal applied the concept of social license to h...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 51
Sandra Riches is the Executive Director of the BC AdventureSmart program and she joins me on the podcast to talk about how search and rescue works in BC, using the AdventureSmart App to leave a trip plan, and the essential gear to make hunting and foraging adventures safer. There's lots of good info in this podcast to stay safe on your next adventure. Everything is "unprecedented" this past year, including the number of search and rescue calls for people on outdoor adventurers. More people than ...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 50
We survived 3 days of the storm and then another 5 days of being stuck in the tent waiting for the skies to clear. So that's about 192 hours with 4 guys sharing 36 square feet of real estate. We pulled it off and we are all still friends. Catch up with our crew as we debrief the Pole Bender Adventure. We reflect back on the decisions and the gear that kept us safe. Also, we share another near-disaster story as we make the flight out of the mountains. Lots of good info in this podcast if you are ...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 49
Cliffed out, rained out, blown out and snowed out: the pole bender adventure. In August 2019, I set out with my hunting crew on a caribou hunting adventure in the mountains of the Tahltan Traditional Territory in Northern British Columbia. Idyllic summer days strolling across the mountain tundra spotting caribou and goats, everything was going according to plan. But our plan took an unfortunate turn, and an unseasonably harsh arctic storm front blasted our camp with hurricane-force winds and 3 f...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 48
Cliffed out, rained out, blown out and snowed out: the pole bender adventure. In August 2019, I set out with my hunting crew on a caribou hunting adventure in the mountains of the Tahltan Traditional Territory in Northern British Columbia. Idyllic summer days strolling across the mountain tundra spotting caribou and goats, everything was going according to plan. But our plan took an unfortunate turn, and an unseasonably harsh arctic storm front blasted our camp with hurricane-force winds and 3 f...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 47
In this episode, I am catching up with my friend La’goot Spencer Greening. La’goot is a Tsimshian leader, storyteller and academic. In addition to being a passionate hunter and forager, La’goot generously shares his perspective around the importance of Indigenous knowledge and stewardship of the land. I wanted to ask La'goot about his perspective on ceremony around the hunt. This past hunting season I witnessed a range of ceremonies that hunters practiced after taking the life of an animal. At o...
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 46
Setting your sights on your first rifle - tips for buying the right firearm In this episode, I’m hanging out with Travis Bader from Silvercore. We’re breaking down the things to consider when buying your first firearm for big game. We get into some common misconceptions about firearms. We talk recoil and how to reduce the shock to the body. We discuss pros and cons of calibers for the new hunter who wants a rifle that can do it all. Travis is an expert in all things firearms. He is a gunsmith an...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 45
What species should a new hunter target for success? In this episode, I am joined by Mark Hall of the Hunter Conservationist Podcast. We are talking about a graduated approach to hunting species that builds confidence and skills for success. What are the most accessible hunts which offer the experience that help you progress to more challenging hunts? What can we learn from grouse and bunny hunts and how those lessons apply to your first buck or a 55" bull moose? Are new hunters taking on challe...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 44
