Ep 141 / Manitoba Hunting Insights: Secrets from the Experts

Welcome to the Whitetail Advantage Podcast with. Your host, Brett Bovin. Thank you for tuning in and enjoy the show. What is up, guys? It is Brad Boven. And welcome to the Electronic Campfire. It is Tuesday, March 25, 2025. And we're just going to leave it short for today's intro. We're not politically correct. We cover a variety of different topics. Our Sunday show, it's our laidback roundtable segment. But it's a Tuesday show, so a state specific show.

Bring a guest that lives and hunts in that state. Tonight we're covering Manitoba. Now, I know they're not called states, they're called provinces. But I'm just used saying states. Anyways, first off, Michael, I want to say. Yes, we're just joking. Just joking. Okay. Anyways, Johnny's not here for tonight. So we don't have the hunt, befriend or kill. So if anybody has one of those, you know what? Michael, come up with three animals for hunt, befriend or kill for our guest tonight.

And Dave and Squatch. And we're ready to breed them off. Anyways, like I said, put your cord in a slot machine. Help share a show. Enough of me checking, talking. Let's bring everybody in. Squatch, how are you? What's up, boys? Dave, what's up, buddy? Phone away in your Grindr account. Thank you very much. It's actually yours. It's yours. I'm trying to give them your personal number. Robert, thanks for coming on the show. I'm sorry you said yes. So am I. How's it going, guys? I'm good, brother.

So usually, like I said, we usually do befriend or kill. But you know what? Actually, since Michael's taken forever to come up with three answers or three animals. I'm going to come up with three. Off the top of the dome, you have a whale, a caribou and a lion. You have to hunt, befriend or kill. All right, so hunt. I'll go with. I'll go with. Hunt caribou, kill, be a lion. And befriend will be a whale. Nice. Yeah, because I want to hunt a caribou too. Come on up. Me too. Dave, Squatch.

We'll get you guys one. As soon as Michael comes up with three other ones. I guess it's going to be a. Possum, a raccoon and a beaver. Let's just get this out the way. Robert, have you ever tried possum before? I have never tried posum. I've only seen one Fum. And that was alive. Lots of dead ones on the highway when I was traveling, so I've never eaten a fossum. That's Michael's infamous question. Yep, it is. Every, every person that comes on, we get them at our house.

So I'm just going to shoot one, freeze it and send it to Michael. He's got the forest. So, yeah, I had a better idea. I want to trap one, throw it in bed with Brett so he gets his ass out of bed and goes out hunting in the morning. Oh my God. You guys actually really know little critters. Well, they're nasty little things. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Robert, what's that giant pole behind you? Golf club? That's my golf club.

Yeah. No, that is a. That's a narwhal tusk that I obtained from hunting up in Nunavut. Oh, I don't know. Probably. Well, 21 years ago, actually doing some work up there. And I walked down to the local marina where some guys are working on a boat asking where I could catch the mark to char.

And in their best English that they could speak, they said, donno hunt whale. So I'm like, well, how do I do that? So they said, come back at 3:00. And so I walked down to the pier at 3 o'clock and game wardens are standing there and they're all mad at me, thinking I wanted to go shoot whales and I just wanted to participate. And it turns out that they were cool with it. So the game warden made me buy a marine mammal license which cost me five bucks. Oh, wow.

And said I had to pay for the fuel, which cost me, I think it was like 32 bucks worth of fuel. And I hunted whales with them for 16 hours. We got three whales and I shot personally two ring seals while I was with them. It's a pretty cool adventure. So are there, hands down, the best hunt that I've ever experienced? Right there. That just sounds awesome the way they. And when we're hunting them, they're.

They're on the front of a 16 foot boat which is like a 16 foot canoe with a 40 horsepower or 60 horsepower on the back, three men in it, and the guy on the front spears the whale, chases them down, spears the whale and has a rope tied to the harpoon which is tied to a buoy. And that buoy drags behind the whale until the whale gets tired, where he'll porpoise, I believe it's called.

And. And when they get tired, they'll sit there and rest and you shoot them in the back of the head with the whatever you have for a rifle. Yeah. And then they, they quickly tie it to a rock and the tide goes down. You've got about eight hours to work on that whale. Chop it all up, tide comes up, everything's gone. So it's really cool. So for anybody who doesn't know like what are we talking weight wise? On one. On one.

If I was to guess, and I never did this research but if I was to guess, I would put them somewhere around the 4,000pound mark. Yeah, I was guessing, I was guessing five, but yeah, yeah, probably closer to that. You know, I might be wrong. They might be £9,000, they might be £2,000. They're bloody big. They're freaking cool looking though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I did eat, not the pm but I did eat the seal raw when I shot my seal. But I couldn't stomach eating the blubber from.

Oh yeah, I can't, I can't handle fat on a pork chop, let alone a whale. So. Nope. But the seal was delicious. Brett, tell them about your opportunity that you almost had to go up in club seals when you were a younger. Laugh. He was going to be able to write tickets up in Alaska. So when I was a junior getting entering senior year of college, I was looking at possible job opportunities in law enforcement because that's, everyone knows that's what I was getting, I got into.

And I was really looking at becoming a state trooper out in Alaska. And I was this close pulling the trigger and actually doing it. But I stayed at home and I almost fought Willie Wills penguin every day. I can't stand as well as squat. She says it the best. You should have went to Alaska. No. Yeah. I wouldn't have came back to be honest. My wife knows if anything ever happens to her, I'm gone. I'm just gone. I've done Alaska a couple times and it's, it's something else. It's amazing.

And everything I was doing like they were offering a $5,000 sign on bonus on top of a $50,000 move relocation benefit package as well. You had great pay, you had great retirement and great benefits. Everything was set up perfectly for you. And I don't. I haven't looked to see what their situation is. Now I'm assuming they're doing the same thing. Over the counter moose. Over the counter blacktail persitka deer. Hey, smart move Brett staying in Michigan. Yeah, that's why we're friends with you.

You're the brains of the bunch. Yep. You had to. You had the brains to make this all just a big ball of wax and coming together. Okay, so what are you gonna say, Dave? I was just gonna say, in hindsight, it worked out for you. You got beautiful kids and a wife. You know, you could have freaking arrested. You could arrested Chili, Willie the penguin. It's club seals every day of your life. Yeah. Yes. Justin's agreeing with you. He said yes. You should have my dream state to live in.

If I could only talk my wife into it. Lol. Yeah, my wife's from Tennessee. I want to move down there, but she's against it right now. No way. Let's take a side note real quick here. Michael has our three animals for each and every one of us. We'll start off with Robert right here. I'm assuming that's a bison, a 50 red squirrels and an eastern turkey. Hunt bison. Yep. Kill the turkey and you gotta friend the 50 squirrels because they'll drive you crazy, so. Yeah, they will.

You'd have to kill them or befriend them. Dave, you have the bobcat, cougar and skunk. I'm definitely killing the skunk because I. Don'T want nothing to do with that. I'd be friend to cougar and then I'd hunt the bobcat. That was a good one. Squatch otter, chipmunk, cognac bear in a goldfish. What was the last one? Kodiak bear. Oh, Kodiak bear. All right, so I'm gonna friend the chicken, I'm gonna fight the ostrich, and then I'm gonna kill the grizzly bear. Yeah, that'd be awesome, dude.

Hunt a grizzly or a Kodiak. It's not a grizzly or. It's Kodiak. Yeah, well, here. Here is Cody. A grizzly. There is Kodiak. Yeah. Well, I think the Kodiak is bigger than a regular. Cool. It is. Kodiak is. He's hiding behind the gun there. Kodiaks are there. They're bigger. Yeah, they're big. They're big, big, big. Michael, the three he gives me, what. Does he give you? Did you get goldfish, Salamander? Hang on, hang on. A wolf, an eel and the last one. I 50 German shepherd puppies.

No, it's worse. Oh, my God. A naked mole rat. What the. Michael? A naked Arab? Is that what he said? Naked mole rat? It might as well be an Arab. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, please. Yeah. I'm honestly going to be friend the wolf. I'm going to kill the Naked mole rat and hunt the eel. There you go. There you go. I was blowing. Well, he didn't do a bad job for standing in for Johnny Nitro. Yeah. Thank you, Michael. Yeah. You got a comment here from Brian Brink? Yo. What is up, Brian?

Brian, that's my cousin over there. What's up, Brian?

So, Robert, can you give a little background about yourself, brother? Background about myself in the hunting world, obviously. Grew up hunting with my grandparents, my parents, my whole life. I was around 18, 19 years old. I started outfitting with my uncle as a bear guide in northern Manitoba.

Probably did that for a couple, three years, and then opened up my own outfitting company that was really small on year one and got astronomically big on year two where it sprawled from Manitoba, Allwood, Alberta. When we were guiding for moose, elk, bear, whitetail, archery, flying bear camps, back mountain elk hunts, I probably missed a couple animals. Waterfowl, upland bird. So did that until 9 11. And then after 9 11, it kind of trickled down pretty bad with the economy there.

So at the time, I had a wife and young kids at the time. So pulled out of that, went back to my trade. And when I was working on the trades and being became an owner of a company and started to be able to go on some of these big guided hunts myself, I realized that I missed outfitting a lot. I found that I was actually outfitting the outfitters on these hunts a lot of the times.

And so then I started brainstorming what I wanted to do and I decided to open up just a small outfitting camp here in Manitoba where I'm only taking six bear hunters out a year. My area is like 600 square miles, something like that. It's rather large. We've got some tremendous bears walking around there. And I'm currently, knock on wood, hopefully this goes through. I'm currently looking at taking over an outfit here in Manitoba to take out about 34 caribou hunters a year, so. Oh, nice.

Man. One way or another, we're gonna make it work. It's just red tape stuff. See if you know the difference. What's the difference between a reindeer and a caribou? I think it's just the region. I'm not 100 sure, but I think it's just the region. So, like I thought Brett said, one's. On a sleigh and the other ones are in the woods. I'm surprised Brett didn't say one's got a red nose and rides in Santa's sleigh. Yeah, I'm not sure on that like you have the woodland terrapin caribou.

The mountain caribou. But I think a reindeer is. Is nothing more than a caribou. Up in the very very north tip of Alaska. That area there I'm guessing. Or Greenland, Iceland. They've got caribou there too. So that would be my guess. I don't think they're a different subspecies of animal. I might be wrong. Yeah. I think. Didn't Johnny say one was domesticated or something? Yeah, Johnny said one was domesticated. Well same thing. Same thing.

Yeah. So side of the fence region would be on the side of the fence. Yeah exactly. It says reindeer are shorter and stouter and more sedentary than their long legged caribou cousins. Well I can tell you something right now. Caribou are not long legged. That's. This is. I'm. Look man, I'm just reading it off of Google. Google's wrong. I don't believe everything I read on the Internet. They say squatches aren't real. And I'm sitting right here in front of you.

Yeah. So do you have like the big migrations going through your area or are they pretty much just woodland based? No, they're barren land caribou. They're central Canadian barren land. Okay. If I was to say I think 300000 walk through something like that. So it's pretty good. We don't get you know, we don't get those migrations where you. You look up and there's caribou for tens of miles. Yeah. Just a line of them for miles.

Yeah. You get the you know the pods of 5, 6, 312 and it's when it's really good it's those pods are. You know you'll have one and then a half mile later you'll see another pod coming and it's kind of constant. I have seen it where there's pretty much you know anywhere you look you could see 2, 300 caribou at a time. But the last few years it's been you know five or six here go around the river bend, one over there. You might not see any for three or four hours.

And then all of a sudden there's 50 like but there's more enough to. To get some Booners out of there. So and so 50. You do a lot of like this. You do a lot of spot and stock with them. Is that pretty much how you hunt them? That's how I hunt. That's how I hunt them. When I'm putting clients out I usually put them up on a. On a ridge type thing. And when I say clients, all the clients that come up to the camp are resident hunters from Manitoba.

And we basically rent the camp out with all the fixings for them to use. So you give them little dots on the map where there's a hill or a rise or something, and then they just sit on that rise and. And wait. And you don't have to wait long, but while they're doing that, I'm usually cruising around on my boat and I'll go to the very far end of the lake where I'll hunt and then I'll hunt my way back. And I usually get my animals just while I'm fishing.

Honestly, I. I'll be fishing and go, oh, there's a big one. Let's go after that one. And as long as you can shoot a fair distance, you're. You're good. Justin. Coming. I'm repping the wa merch here in Florida. Justin, you're amazing, dude. Michael's got a question for you, Robert. He asks, have you ever hunted elk? I have hunted elk pretty much my entire life as an adult anyways.

I killed my first elk with a bow when I was probably 19, 20 years old. And then I just actually shot one last year, a nice one in New Mexico. So, yeah, I house hunt elk in Colorado and as well as Manitoba. There's a good draw here. So, yeah, hunted elk my whole life. Guided elk as well. Now if you're, if you're listening to this on the audio version, you have to go over to YouTube and check out this video real quick. And look at Robert's wall. There's just monster deer after monster deer.

This is. Look at that. Go this way here. Oh yeah, that one's cool because I like how that one, it, like, it starts to form like your regular typical beat and then it just kind of goes, shoot straight up. This one here. Yeah, I like the, the characteristic of the main beam, like how the. That the an are. I shot that buck in his bed with my muzzle odor at two yards. I snuck up on him. He. He was, he was bedded down, grunting at some does that he had with him.

And I went on, I guess you guys would call it a bluff. It was just like a high field and then dropped down into the valley. And I was walking across that field. My father was on the highway and he was signaling me which way the deer was. So I, you know, I'd walk this way on the field, walk that way on the field. And then he would drive by and. Okay, it's right there. So I, I kick my boots off and I did the stalking walk in the mud and snow. And I come to the edge and I could hear him grunting.

And I'm looking for him and he's literally two yards from me. I didn't even put the gun up to my shoulder. I just shot. So. Hey, Brett, did you notice he said he shot that deer three yards away in its bed. Not lying in his bed. He might have been lying. Those are words of wisdom to live by when you're actually hunt. Get out of bed to kill deer not sleeping because you had too much tippy cow the night before. Hold on here. I'm not sure which one he is. I think he is that one, actually.

I, I might have had too many pops the night before. And I, I went to my stand and, and, and just laid down in the Snow. Was about minus 30 and I just laid down. I slept there for a couple hours. And when I woke up, looked around, that buck was standing there trying to check me out, see what I was. Because I was in the middle of a field, basically, and, and I, I ended up shooting him from my bed. See, Brett, it can be done. It can't be done. But he did say he was laying on the snow.

He wasn't like, yeah, not from the. Bed in your house. Not. Not from yours. I'm not sure how it made it up that morning, but it was. It was a rough morning, that's for sure. Well, what are you doing then, Robert, up there in Canada that's giving you that high success? What are you looking for? Area is a big thing. So I've been, you know, we're lucky here. So I'm showing you these bucks on the wall here. And, and honestly, these are the ones that didn't make the cut.

The bigger ones are downstairs. I got a few Booners down there. One of them's like 200 inch. But we have a couple regions in Manitoba, and when I say a couple, we have quite a few regions that really hold some really big antler deer. So I, I lucked out on, on the area that I hunt. It was basically given to me by the government when I was getting into outfitting at 19, 20 years old there. And I was. It was an archery area.

So you all know when you're guiding for archery hunters, you put a lot of miles on the ground trying to figure things out. And I didn't have things like Hunt X back then. I would literally paint a picture on. I'm very Dry. Everything I do, I draw. So I would draw the field and I would draw what I think the wood lines are that lay on that field and I would start walking trails and I would draw on that wood line where I thought the trails would come out and intersect.

And yeah, so that's, that's basically what I did back then. And then of course, you know, year after year you tweak and you add and, and I'm finding after 30 years of hunting the same area, I tweak where my stands are. But when I say I tweak them, I'm moving them 20, 30 yards. I'm not moving them 800 yards. It's. I figured it out 20, 30 years ago and I now I just kind of bump along. So yeah, I want to say that I'm, I'm good at it, but I'm, I don't personally believe I am.

I just think I put a lot of time on the ground and I rely on a lot of information that I gathered 20, 30 years ago. So are you archery hunting, rifle hunting? Do a mix of both? Well, back in the day I was archer hunting a lot. So in Manitoba, up until I think it was about 15 years ago, you're allowed to get whitetail tags. You would get an archery tag that you could shoot a buck or a doe on muzzleloader tag season and rifle.

And about 15 years ago they collapsed it to one buck tag and you could buy an antlerless and maybe another antlerless or something like that. I'm not a huge fan of deer meat, so I don't generally go for that. But because of that I want to say I'm still a bow hunter, but I'm technically not because I rarely shoot an animal with my bow these days and I don't because I only have one tag. So if I go out there with my bow and I see a 160 plus he's getting an arrow thrown at him.

I go out there with my muzzleloader, same thing. I go out there with my rifle, same thing. But I don't want to burn my tag on a 145, 150. You know, if it's a 145 four by four, he's getting an arrow. Yeah. But I have an opportunity to shoot a 200 inch deer and, and we all want to hunt the brat and the ruts rifle season. So yeah, I could be a die hard and hunt the whole three months with my bow. But I also like shooting things at 800 yards away as well. So I'm with you. Yeah. I hunt the seasons.

I, I don't generally stay inside when it's crappy out. I, I, I hunt a lot. So. Yeah, yeah. And, and then I'm working during the day. Like in rifle season, I, I live two hours away from where I hunt. So literally come home, play hockey, midnight, jump in my truck, drive the two hours, sleep in my truck, wake up, hunt the morning hunt, drive back back at work for like 10:30, 11:00. Soon as the, if I can sneak out in the afternoon, I'll be back out there.

But usually I, I'll do that morning hunt because that's what I find is the better opportunity. So meanwhile, I think I shot more deer in the evening. I. Do you utilize trail cameras? I do, I do more for bear. I used to do a lot of trail camera hunting. 10 plus years ago I kind of got out of it and, and maybe now with the cell phone cameras, but we don't have great cell phone service up here. I found that checking my trail cameras obviously is exciting.

You get to go there and pull your card and, and it's like, it's like Christmas every time you pull a card. But I found I was just putting my feet on the ground too much during that pre rut season there. So I just said, you know what, I know what's here and I really don't care if there's a 180 compared to a 1 70.

I have my minimum that I'm going to shoot for size and it's usually 1 60, you know, and you'll shoot the 1 55s in there, but you'll also shoot the 165s in there and you might sneak a 170, 180 out of there once in a while. I know there's big deer in the area, so I don't necessarily need to know that he's walking down at that exact trail because I know where the does are. I know where the food is. Yeah. So. So it's a yes or no. I, I kind of did it a lot and I pulled away from it.

Yeah. Yeah. I noticed when the old SD card style cameras, I was used a lot utilizing them a lot. And it did help my strategy on attacking, you know, the deer and getting on them sooner maybe in the early preseason. And you know, I was able to get setups where I wanted them. But of course, deer around here anyway, they'll change their patterns up a little bit the further to get, you know, into the winter and, and the stuff I was learning from a camera that had an SD card.

I was actually teaching a deer a little bit more about myself. Yeah, I try to, I would try to leave the camera alone as long as I could, but now with the advances of having the cellular cams, I leave them out all year. You know, I, I do a lot of like, you know, watching when fawns are born. I'm watching what predators are around and I'm watching how to deer, you know, mitigate through the property through all times of the year and that helps. And I'm not touching anything. I'm.

I'm staying the hell out of there. I'm leaving things alone. And I, I totally get it, man. Where you are, you don't have a service. You know, it's. It's a shame sometimes it's. It's a rough thing. I, I got a couple of mountain spots that don't have good service either. And it's kind of like I. Like you said, I know what's there. I know they're big and I know where they're moving. So you know what? Just got to go back to the old ways and, you know, hunt it the best way that you can.

And that's, that's important. You know, a lot of guys rely on it too much. You know, when I personally hunt black bear for myself, I like not having a trail camera because I like not knowing if that makes sense. Like I'm still not going to shoot something smaller than 400 pounds, but I don't necessarily want to know that there's a 400 pounder there. And if there's a 400 pound black, maybe I don't want to know that there's a 400 pound chocolate. I just want to be excited to see something come in.

So when I'm hunting for myself, I generally don't use trail cameras for black bear either. Right, right. So one thing I did learn, going back to Michael's comment about the elk, one thing I learned this year is we were pig hunting.

We've got a pretty good population of wild boars here. We're pig hunting and we were using a cellular camera and elk eat them. Elk eat the antennas off of cellular cameras. And I mentioned it to the farmer that that's happened and he's like, oh yeah. Every single camera I have that has an antenna. The elky the antenna off. So, yeah. Wow. So food for thought, if you're in elk area, because those cameras are expensive, lock up your. All right, we're gonna take a quick.

We'll Take a quick two minute little video break and we'll come back with John with Squatch a segment. Hey, go ahead and season your meat with something great. Try flavors of the forest broncolor made with only the finest ingredients for the finest wild game. Go ahead and use promo code whitetail to save 15 on your next purchase. Go check them out. Hey guys, how are you? It's the squash from the Whitetail Advantage. Hey listen, have you guys tried Wreck Broadheads yet?

Well, if you haven't, you're really missing out. I've been shooting wreck now for over a year and. And I'll tell you what. They fly straight, they fly true and they're deadly. Deadly on a deer. You can get the HXPS, you can get the FX4s. Or you can just get the regular HPS guys. Take it from the Squatch guys here at Whitetail Advantage. Can't go wrong with the Wreck Broadheads. If you tune in, you watch our show, you can use the discount code for REC WA15. That'll give you 15% off your purchase.

And you guys tell them that the Whitetail Advantage and the Squatch sent you. Thanks so much for watching. Stay tuned. The show is going to be great. Squatch out. Hey, you guys have a passion for the outdoors. You faith based and love bow hunting. Go check out bow adits. It's B O W A DX Genesis 273 says take your bow and a quiver full of arrows. Go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.

While we all love to go out and hunt wild game, we'd love to also wear it and represent what we believe. So go check out BO at it. Use promo code WHTADV10 to save 10% off your next purchase. That's WHTADV10 at checkout. Tell them the Whitetail Advantage crew sent you. I would like to apologize to you, Robert and everyone listening and watching the show right now. Squatch is an idiot because he unmuted his microphone and you could hear the. I unmuted it. Yeah, because you're an idiot.

Your deal there. I heard something. Oh yeah, sorry about that. He was coughing up the come out of his throat and he kept unmuting himself and I was muting him back to mute him. But then he was unmuting himself like a dumbass. I just want to say I'm sorry. I heard moaning. It's my mating call. Yeah, brother. Dude. I. I apologize too. Sorry guys. I didn't know that was happening. It's okay. We. I guess we still love you in some capacity, in some fashion. You don't love me.

You just can't live without me. No, I just tolerate you because you're on the show. He just uses you for your body. And more. Anyways, no, we're on a new segment right now. What? Not now.

We're on Squatch's segment what not to say to a game warning. All right, Mr. Robert, so what we do here is I played a game warden and I want you to come up with something that would. You would just not ever think of saying to a game warden. So I'll give you a scenario. We'll put you in a little scenario and you know, eager to hear what you have to say. So let's start out this one by saying I saw that Norwal you shot or fished for out there.

And you know, we noticed you were a little inebriated when you were out on the bow of the boat trying to get them. And you actually didn't shoot them. You actually slipped and hit them with a six pack of beer and knocked them out. You know, and that's illegal where you. Where you're doing that. So we need to know what you have to say for yourself about all that. Chances are that's probably a true story. Probably happened actually. You know what?

In my younger years, I. That there's probably a lot of truth to you catching me have a six pack on the. On the boat. I don't really do it so much anymore, but back then I. I did it a lot. So I'm sorry. You can go. You as long as you. Yeah, yeah, okay. You can go now. You want a beer? Oh my gosh. All right. So I'll throw another one at you. Oh, boy.

When you were in your travels where you hunt up in Alaska, did you remember, happen to come across a young lad, red hair, very inexperienced, asking you a bunch of questions on how do you actually kill animals up there and how do you go about it? And you took him along. I think you took him along on the trip we saw him with you and you actually put a gun in his hand. Now he swears up and down he doesn't use a gun and he hadn't taken any safety classes.

What do you have to say for yourself about taking our young lad, Brett Boven with you on this trip? Well, if you. If you didn't. If you didn't say a name and, and I'm sorry if anybody from up there is watching this right now, but if you didn't say the name, that, that Is quite close to my experience hunting mountain goat in Alaska with a little redhead who is very inexperienced. I'll just call him Brett, but just call him brat. Yeah, I, I wouldn't be lying if I said I didn't make him cry.

True story. It might have been Brett. He cries a lot. He does cry a lot. He cries a lot, right? He cry. He cries a lot right now. Yeah. He's crying right now saying, why did I bring these two on this show? Yeah, crying out the deal, you guys. Why did I bring a guy that clears his throat in the middle of the break when I thought I was muted? I have a friend who's, who's probably tuned in right now and, and she was with me on that trip and she'll vote for me.

But I, I had that guide crying on the top of a mountain. Oh, man. Well, that's all I got, but thanks for playing along. Y. Thank God that segment's over. All right, let's move on now. Robert, let me. I like asking this to start off the questions with the States. What's the terrain like there? A little bit of everything. We don't have mountains.

We have what's called the riding mountains and the Duck mountains, which is nothing more than basically, you're rolling hills around the Paw Paw area there. Southern Manitoba is prairie grass style oak thickets, a lot of poplar trees. But it's for the most part very flat and crop fields with river bottoms that we hunt. And then when you get mid Manitoba up, it starts turning into birch trees and poplar trees.

And then when you get a little bit further from that north, north and northeast, it turns into boreal forest where it's just nothing but pines and swamp and water. Until you leave Manitoba and go to Nudit where it's just nothing but water and rock. So we have a little bit of everything. Nice. Now, I was looking here, I, I was able to get on the website there, if it ever loads on my laptop here. The regions there looks like you have six regions in Manitoba, north of 53.

Western, Parkland, Central, Interlake and Eastern. Yeah, okay, sure. And. It all depends on what you're in, what you're doing. So I think the regions that you're looking at probably are from a fishing map. We have, I don't know, 30 plus area hunting areas. If you're hunting migratory birds, they split the province into four. If you're hunting big game and upland birds, they split it into about 30 some region.

And then the map that you're looking at is probably More for the fishing community, which is those six. I think there's six. Go back to your. Your story about making that guy cry. Stephanie commented, we had the guy. We had to guide the guide in Alaska and wipe away his tears. Oh, my gosh. So.

So, you know, I. I feel sorry for the guy a little bit. He was a young guy. He was just getting into was. I. I call it day one, but technically it was day two. So I flew into Alaska. And I can't remember the fellow that you had there from Texas. He can attest to this. So when you go to Alaska on a trip like this, you take everything.

You get your little gear list, you take everything you laid on the living room floor, kitchen table, whatever you're putting it on, and you look at it and you go, okay, I got to cut this in half. And you cut it in half, you pack it all up and you get onto the plane and I'll tell you a little bit here. So we're what. We're getting onto the plane in Manitoba to fly to Alaska. And I looked at Stephanie and I said, you have your credit card on you? She's like, yeah, why?

Said, do you have much of a limit on there? She's like, yeah, why? I said, because I didn't bring my wallet. Oh, boy. So I'm going to. You know, I've got my. I got my driver's license and my. And my passport with me, but I don't have any means of payment, so. And we're going on a mountain goat hunt. Like, you need some cash. And I. And I had nothing. So, anyways, we go on this trip, we get into our hotel room.

I take that same kit, I lay it out on the ground in the hotel room, and I cut it in half again. So we fly into our camp, you land on the ocean. We're on Kodiak island, by the way. We land on. On the ocean bay on Kodiak Island. And there was a base camp set up because the outfitter was getting ready for some Kodiak hunts in the following week. And we were doing black blacktail, Sitka, I guess they're called Sitka deer. And I was hunting mountain goat. So as soon as you land, you meet the guide.

You look at the mountain that you're going to climb up, and it is the. It looks soft and pillowy when you're. When you're looking at it from afar, but I've been there before, so I know what it's all about. And I looked at that kit that I have to carry. And I dumped it on the ground and I cut it in half yet again. So now I'm literally like what, a quarter from when I started off of weight.

And you put that kit on your back and it still weighs, it feels like it weighs a hundred pounds because the train sucks. So we make our way up the mountain, get above the tree line, find a place to set up camp on the side of a hill, set up camp, wake up in the morning, and I look up the hill and there's literally a twelve plus hundred pound Kodiak standing where we want to hunt. I'm like, okay.

So he starts working his way down to us and the, and this kid outfitter, I won't throw his name out there. I was gunning, but I won't. Nice enough guy. So he's like, well there's bears here, so there won't be any goats here. And I'm like, well there's bears everywhere on this island, so there's got it. The goats got to live somewhere. Yeah. And we see another, see another Kodiak up there, a female.

And above her, about 880plus yards away, there's, there's a goat standing there and he's big, like really big. So I don't want to shoot 800 yards at him. They have a rule not to shoot anything further than 200 yards. Me being a prairie boy, shoot 500 yards all the time. And, and I, all my rifles that I do this are all custom sniper rifles that a guy here builds. And I let that go, come down to about 500 yards, said to everybody, okay, I'm ready. You ready? You're ready?

Everybody's ready, Send it. Take the shot. Goats don't flinch when you shoot them, so you can't tell if you hit him or not. But now he's running, so I figured I hit him or hit a rock beside him. And he does a J hook and he's running back up the mountain. I take another shot and he disappears. And I look at everybody, I'm like, did I hit him? And the guy's saying, yeah, I think you hit him and whatever. So we go up this hill, it's about 480 yards up this hill.

And we get to the top and the mountain. Let's see if my camera's here. The mountain is like, I want to say about a 45 degree going up where we're where we shot from. And the other side is like that. And he was standing on the top and he fell off the back side of that Mountain. And with the rangefinder, I figured he was around 12, 50ft straight down, and there's no way to get to him. Wow. So. So the guide is radioing the outfitter. The outfitter is going, he's done. He. It was his choice.

He pulled the trigger, cut his tag. The hunt's over. And I said, well, that's fine, but I could see him. Let's go get them. And they're like, nope, it's not safe. I said, well, it's safe because on the far mountain, there's a tent on the top of the far mountain. And so they got there. So all we need to do is get to that tent somehow and come back down. So after this poor guy is caught in the middle and the outfitter's saying, no, no, no. And I'm saying, fuck you. Yes, I just spent 10k on this.

Exactly. I'm going to get this goat. And they're, you know, they're. They're fighting back and forth. And this. The poor kid's caught in the middle of. On his inreach, texting both people and trying to tell, relay the story. And I finally, I said, here's your choice. Either we walk down and get it, or I'm taking a helicopter down and get it. And he goes, well, you're not allowed to fly a helicopter to pick up game in Alaska. I said, no, but a game warden can. And I paid for this hunt.

And that's where my next call's going. So, long story short, four days of hiking. Three or four days of hiking. Three days. Three more days of hiking in the pouring rain. I got my goat, man. But it was. Well, for 10 grand, I'm getting that shit too. Yeah. So I lost the cape, obviously, with the slippage and whatnot, but I've got the horns. I could pick up a cape and mount it.

But then to kick it all off after that, the outfitter wanted to pull the pin on the hunt because he knew there was some weather coming in. And I said, no, fuck that. She has deer tags and we're going to hunt deer now. And we ended up spending 18 days in the rain in a tent on Kodiak island with no food. And she eventually killed a. A Sitka deer, which, by the way, is the best tasting meat that you could probably have in North America. Really? Well, yeah, it's good.

Like, it's good enough that I flew the meat out for myself instead of leaving it with the outfitters, which I don't eat deer. So. Yeah, man, you heard that right. I don't eat. Yeah, I don't like it. You can mail it to me. You know, I shoot enough moose and elk and, and caribou and I don't have to eat deer. Robert. That's one of my Alaska trips.

The other one, I shot a Kodiak there and I got into crazy good shape to do it and I ended up shooting my Kodiak like 200 yards from my tent and never left the tent in five days. Damn. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Yeah. All I see is ass right now. I lost my train of thought right now. That usually does it to you. It does. Sidetracked. Get off. Twist it up. Robert. What, what are the license fees there for. For non residents? I. A block bear and it's going to be very similar to a whitetail.

Might be 250 bucks Canadian. So that's. I don't know, what, 140 bucks US maybe. Yeah, it's not, it's not bad. No, it's not bad. You do have to go through an outfitter if you're not. Yeah. They call it a non resident alien. So there's non re. There's resident, which is myself. There's non resident Canadian, which is anybody in Canada. And then there's non resident alien, which would be anybody outside of Canada.

So anybody who's outside of Canada who wants to hunt big game has to go through an outfitter in Manitoba. And I think for probably for most of the provinces, to be honest, as far as I know anyways, I think you can hunt deer in Ontario over the counter as a non resident. I pulled up the Manitoba book for 2024 and it looks like for a non Canadian resident, it says it's $237.25. That's like fucking amazing. Yeah. Oh, that's great. So that was for a non resident Canadian or non resident alien.

All it says right here is non Canadian resident. Okay. So that. That would be the alien. Yep, yep. Yeah. Yeah. It's not very expensive and I think there's a hundred dollar allocation fee as well that comes along with that. When you go through an outfitter, they. Because they allocate the tags to the outfitter. So it's $337 US which is. I think the dollar is like a $50 right now comparison. So it's multiply that by 09 or 0.69 and you got your number.

So in order for one of us from the States to book a hunt up there in Canada or at least Manitoba, we have to book through a licensed lodge or an outfitter authorized to outfit. I wonder, I'm curious on why that like here in, in the States we can just go by and over the counter tag in a different state and just go, huh, is that. Yeah. And I got something specific that you have to do. I mean obviously you have to do, but it's a reason why.

Well, yeah, it's a, it's a resource, it's a source of income. So just like when I'm going down in New Mexico for the most, and I'm not going to say you have to, but for the most part you're going through an outfitter. For a lot of the areas down in the states, you have to go through an outfitter. For me to go to Alaska, I have to go through an outfitter. It's the same thing. It's just a way for the province or the region to make money off of their renewable resources. That's all it is.

Now, do they offer basically non guided guided hunts outfitters, do they offer that or is that. No, no, you. In Manitoba, I can only speak for Manitoba, but in Manitoba I legally have to take you to what's called trails end. So jump in my truck from the camp, you can, we can drive down the highway together. And if that trail that leaves the highway is your, your walking path to your tree stand, I can leave you at the side of the highway.

But if it is a gravel road, I have to take you down that gravel road. They don't want non residents walking the earth here for whatever reason. So yeah, you have to be dropped off basically at your tree stand and picked up from your tree stand. Okay, gotcha. Michael's got a question for you. He asks, what's your gun laws up there?

They're not as bad as you guys think. You know, we up until, let's see, there's multiple levels to this. So you know, we're not allowed to have things like machine guns. We have a long laundry list of prohibited weapons. Now, especially with the last government that's in power, they used Covid to ban a whole lot of weapons in Canada. And they were able to do that because when Covid hit, they put Canada in a state of emergency.

And when they were able to do that, they are basically allowed to write their own laws without a vote. And as soon as the Liberal government did the state of emergency, the next thing they did was push their gun ban through. So they banned pistols. What? So I own pistols. I'm allowed to own pistols. I can take them to and from the gun range. And that's pretty much it. Now I can't sell a pistol to a friend of mine, I can't buy a pistol off him. I can't buy another pistol in Canada to date, ever.

And if I die, that pistol gets destroyed. It can't be handed down to my kids. So because I had it prior, I'm grandfathered. But I can't do anything with it other than drive back and forth, you know, a direct line basically to the gun range. The rifles. If you're buying a normal style hunting rifle, you can get away with anything. Like, so you're basically. You, you guys are banned for AR platform style rifles. Yeah, but, yeah, but this is.

Okay, this is, this is a sniper rifle for the, the Canadian military. It's called the PGW timberwolf. Nice. It's chambered in a.338 Lapua. This is what I use for deer hunting, by the way. And there's nothing wrong with owning this gun because technically it's the same as a.270 bolt action or a.300 bolt action.

What they've done is they've come up with a rule in that gun ban that you're not allowed anything over 10,000 jewels and 10,000 Jews of power is if I was to guess, maybe, oh, 7,000 foot pounds of energy maybe. So that clean slate wipes out things like a.50 caliber BMG. Okay, so not that anybody here needs to have that. Nobody needs to have a gun like that. But I want one. I actually had one ordered when that band was coming through and I had to cancel my order.

But it does take away some of the guns. Like, and I don't want to say this for a fact because I don't know the math behind it, but I believe like a 416 Rigby would be wiped out because it's too powerful. But don't quote me on that. But, but you get the idea. There is some African style hot firearms that we're not allowed to have anymore. Now you're not allowed to carry a pistol when you're guiding? No, really, we've never been able to do that.

There'd be a few people that would have a permit if they were in, you know, polar bear areas, stuff like that. You used to be able to get a permit for that. But you know, just like when you have any permit with any bunch of civilians, there's gonna be one jackass bringing it into a bar being an kibosh. Right? So, so yeah, we have, we have some stupid rules with Firearms.

But if you are the average hunter, there's, and I want, I don't want to, I don't want to praise the fact that this gun law is in existence because I don't want you guys to think, oh, he's, he's, I'm against the gun laws in general, but I'm also, I understand that all these rifle hunts that I go on, I can buy a gun and go on that hunt and do great with it. So it's a tough one.

I think how you fix the problem in Canada myself, this is my personal opinion, is don't ban the guns for people who are legally allowed to own them. Punish the people who aren't allowed to have them. Sure. Oh, if I am legally allowed to have this gun and I use this gun to commit a crime, like a violent crime, well then I'm done. And if I am now done and I'm banned from having a gun and I get caught with another one, it throw me in jail for 20 years.

Like I don't care, like I'm being an idiot now. So, and I, I, I stand with this kind of thing with your, with your second amendment down there. I'm not, this is a tough one. I, I, I'm not opposed to the second amendment. I, I think there needs to be some sort of guidelines with the second amendment. But I also think that the second amendment ruling for the gun portion of it is this is your right to have your gun, but you have also have the right to lose that right. So, you know.

Yeah, yeah, it's kind of that way here. Yeah. So, yeah, with the felonies you have, you any kind of felony, you're done for with guns for life. Is that how it works there? Okay. Yeah, yeah. You can't even have them in your house. Yeah. Even if they're not yours. They just, I got a full carry, I got a full carry concealed permit for New York State. I can't carry any the statutes in New York City or Albany, but I can carry anywhere else in the state full carry conceal.

We got a lot of nut jobs here too, though. Well, and there's nut jobs everywhere. And you know, I don't, I don't ever feel the, the need here to carry a sidearm other than it'd be cool. But you know, don't get me wrong, when I go on my northern trips, I got my shotgun in my truck pretty much all the time because you have no way to defend yourself and you're 400 miles from anybody. So, yeah, there's A shotgun. And it's not for, you know, it might not be for people, but it's.

Again, I would use it against people, heaven forbid. Because if you protect yourself in Canada with a firearm, you better have a bullet hole in you some. Oh, yeah, yeah, you're gonna get. You're gonna get thrown in the clink even then. So I gotta ask you this question, and please don't take offense to it, but how would you feel. How would you feel if you were to become our 51st state? That's a loaded one. And I say it's a tough one because it would be beneficial for me as a company owner.

Yep. I. I have friends that are in the states that make way less money than I do and live higher on the hog than I do by a lot. So, you know, you guys have more earning power and the price of your products are a lot cheaper than. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, and with the tariffs and crap and social media and people are throwing BS knowledge out across the world out there. They don't read anything. They just, oh, somebody posted this. And they. And they just add fuel to the fire.

But yeah, you know, a fully equipped bass boat here. Well, rick, you're pushing $200,000, $180,000. Where down there? I could buy a fully equipped bass boat for $80,000. So your, your buying power is a hell of a lot better. I wouldn't like it for the fact that Canada would get swarmed with hunters and fishermen. Like, it would just. It would be crazy. I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind your tax dollars fixing some of our roads. You can't fix your own road. We got horrible roads.

Our roads aren't that good, man. But they tax the hell out of us for it. Yeah, they tax us for it. So you think. So you think they, they don't. You don't pay Canadian taxes. We get tax. Like, I'm pretty much. I'm pretty much in a. In a. I'm somewhere in like the 46% tax bracket. So. Geez, basically, basically 50 cents on my dollar. Earned dollars going out the window. Plus in Manitoba, third. 12 cents. 12 cents for every dollar I spend gets taxed.

That doesn't include, you know, a bottle of booze is getting taxed or fuels taxed really hard. If you're a smoker, Jesus. Like, you're paying 25 bucks plus for a pack of smokes here. So, you know, case of a 2, 4. A beer here is $56, I think. Oh, yeah. So. And that's all tax. Money. And it just seems like everything you do, they're taxing. They just implemented a new capital gains tax which, you know, for me, I own a business.

If I sell that business and I make $2 million off that sale, well, I can only be tax free for the first 250. And after that I think it goes up. Don't. It's like 60%. Like, it's crazy. So, yeah, we, we pay taxes. Yeah. But. Yeah, you do. You know, Canada is also an amazing place to live. Sure. Provided you get away from the mess. Like if you get out of the city and get into and stuff like that, it doesn't get much better. Like I could. It doesn't take me.

I could drive for a half an hour out of the city and not see another person type thing. So that's not a bad thing. Yeah, that's like the up here in Michigan, we call it the up. I mean, yeah, we. I love it up there. It's amazing. I basically grew up there, growing up as a kid and I just love it up there. It's beautiful. It's still busy up there for me. Yeah, it's busy up there for you. Yeah, the up to me is still busy.

I rode off a truck on the up coming back from that hockey tournament that I'm going down to. Oh, wow. Yeah, I hit a deer square and took my rat out and. Yeah. See from our point of view, from Dave and I and most like and Johnny as well, going up there is like vastness of just nothing. You see it, you see one person basically every 30 miles and seems like. Yeah, well, Robert, you should, you should come on the trip with me that I'm doing next week if you want to see vastness, because I am.

I'm taking my truck up the winter roads, hauling some boats to that camp, and I'm estimating it's going to be eight hours of driving on the highway, six hours of driving on gravel, and then probably 12 hours of driving on a winter road. So, man, and you got to bring all your own fuel and food and whatnot, place to stay. So, yeah, it'll be an adventure. Before we get to a rapid fire segment here to round up for tonight's show, we got one last question for you from Michael.

Looks like he's asking how much is your ammo? Well, I shoot some pretty high end stuff, so I believe a box of like my 28 noslers, for example. A box of 20 is 170 bucks. Wow. My 338 lapua, anywhere from 200 to $300 for box of 20. Yeah. You know, if you get into like a 6.5 or, you know, 36, you're probably paying 57 bucks a box somewhere in there. Yeah, that's in the neighborhood here. I pay 76 bucks a box of 20 for Sierra match for my 338 lapua. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't.

You squeeze the trigger like when I say that down in. I literally take two shots. Do you reload at all? I do. I'm really busy, like, so that's hard. Yeah. It takes a lot of time reloading. I, I run a company. I, I fish bass tournaments and walleye tournaments. I hunt a lot. I outfit, I play hockey. I, I'm busy. So. So, so no. Yeah. And you know, back in the day when I used to skeet shoot, Olympic seat shoot, I used to reload all that.

And it got to the point where I just started buying pallets of shotgun shells. It just, I just didn't have the time. Well, hell yeah. We're wrap it up with tonight's show with some rapid fire segments. Okay. About six, seven questions for you. Besides hunting, I know we kind of talked about hunt hockey. Do you have any other hobbies or interests? Yeah, I'm, I'm big into fishing and we have a thing here in Manitoba.

I'm sorry, this is rapid fire, but we have a thing here where we chase all the different species of Manitoba. And I'm, I'm really big into that. And the last couple years I've gotten pretty or fairly serious with the, the bass fishing tournaments and stuff. So sweet. I have a buddy that's in the bass fishing. He loves that. He's my go to. If I need to know anything about bass fishing, I'll go right to him. I'm walleye and river fishing. I'm trout. Lake Erie. Lake Erie. Walleye.

I honestly, I'm, I'm, I'm with you. Switch. I, I, I like trout. Trust where it's at. Lakers, big browns, rainbows. I agree. 100. Yeah. BBCs. I go to Squatch. Like, I like catching all fish, but we have probably the best walleye fishery in the world. Oh yeah. 30 minutes from my door and I fish it a couple times. And you know, they're catching 32s, 31 inchers there right now pretty consistently and I could give a crap. Yeah, they're biting early now under the Detroit River.

We're going next month back out. But yeah, Mike said c bass. Yeah. Michael said I'm a striped bass and porgies Porgies. Porgies. Porgies are like the sunfish of the ocean. Michael, come on. And sea bass. Justin said we used to come up there and when I was a kid, did a guys trip to Lake N. Nassing. Lake Nassing, that must be in Ontario. But nippus things was awesome. Call off walleye and pikes. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna guess that's in Ontario somewhere. By Timmons or something like that.

That would be my guess just by the name in itself. Yeah.

What wild game animal is on your bucket list to hunt? I. I'm. Well, I'm. I'm chasing mountain lion right now. I've killed one before, but for whatever reason lately, I want to hunt muskox. I don't know why. Yeah, I'm going to save all my African stuff to when I'm older and can't walk, but I'd like to do a doll sheep. Yeah, I shoot big, big moose here in Manitoba. I. I do want to go to Alaska and Yukon and shoot a moose there. But I shoot. Well, you saw in the.

In the picture there, I. I shoot some cranker moose like that. That guy there is not big. Like, the ones downstairs are big. So. So, yeah, mountain caribou and dull sheep and mustox would be next on my list. And I kind of want to go back for another Kodiak, because that's fun, man. Heck, yeah. Yeah. What is a wild game animal you want to try eating? Wild game animal that I want to try eating. Well, I've tried it, but I. I want to eat my next mountain lion for sure. Oh, okay.

Mountain lion's really good. I heard from a couple people it's really, really, really good. Really good. What is the st. What is the top state or province that you want to hunt next? Well, since I say musko, actually, you know what? Northwest Territories is probably where I want to hunt next. Mountain caribou, muskox, and probably a moose up there or something like that. Doll. Doll sheep. Doll sheep's expensive, though. Is it? Yeah. Oh, 40 grand. Oh, what's a. What's Kodiak? I know.

Kodiak bear hunts are freaking ridiculous. You know what? I got lucky. I. I booked my trip with the outfitter years and years ago, and at the time, I think he was selling his hunts for about 12 grand and. Yeah. And he. Holy expensive or holy cheap? Holy cheap. I was seeing him for 40, 50 grand. Yeah, they're not that much, but when I. It took me about four or five years to draw and he held the price for me, so. I. I shot my Kodiak for 12, 500 bucks, I believe.

Holy. I think the tag was four grand, though. The tag was really? Yeah. All right. You get a family member and a non family member. All right. I, I thought about this one. I thought about this one before. You're asking the question. So a family member.

My dad passed away when I was on a moose hunt a couple years back, so I'd like to. I'd like to hunt with him again. And then I lost two really good friends who I hunt with. So one fellow's Eric Crook. He's from the Michigan area there. And there's a Manitoba legend by the name of Randy Bean who passed away from cancer last year. And he is, he. He's a hell of a man to be around. So I'd like to hunt with him again. That's awesome. That's cool, man. That's really cool.

Nice. Michael says from, for his non family member, it'd be Donald Trump. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Michael, I'm gonna give you some advice. If you're gonna hunt with somebody, make sure they could pack out their meat. Yeah. Justin wants Joe Biden. I do a lot of my moose hunting with that girl that posted on here, Stephanie. And my knees are shot from hockey. So when I shoot moose or when she shoots a moose or caribou, she carries every ounce of meat out of the woods for us. Wow. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, there's, there's. If you look at our social media page, there's her carrying quarters and moose out while I'm just standing there. Last question here. How do you think we, as fellow hunters can improve, could or should improve the hunting community? Well, yeah, that's a tough one. I'm going to answer that for Manitoba alone. So Manitoba has two groups of hunters. They have white hunters and then they have the indigenous hunters here in Manitoba.

And if you go extremely far north, the indigenous hunters are really respectful of the land and, and whatnot. The issue that we're seeing here in our province is the, the ease of equipment. Now with indigenous hunters, they don't have any. When I say they don't have any rules, there is some, some rules, but they don't have license fees, which is fine. They don't really technically have seasons. They could hunt whenever they like. And I just feel that it's being taken advantage of really bad.

And it's not so much that it's taking advantage of the olden days was the land will provide. Well, unfortunately, our population and the equipment of that we're using nowadays, it's just not the case. So we need to. We need to find a way to meet in the middle somewhere and, you know, honor their. Their treaties and whatnot that they have here in. In Canada and still not slaughter our animals type thing work together. But it's. That's a. That's a real big topic, but it's a problem here.

Well, Robert, I just wanted to say. Excuse me. Thank you so much, man, for coming on our show. Man, I got tickled. What the just happened there? That's what happened to me before. Yeah, me too. Before you. Before you go. We talked about something in our little preview meeting here. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna take you for a walk here before you cut me out. That's right. I got. We gotta see this. So right now, listening to the audio version, he's taking us downstairs to his.

I'm just gonna call it trophy room. Well, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to flip this phone on here. Can I do that? I don't know if you can. Okay, we'll do it. We'll do it differently. So I said downstairs or upstairs that we have the ones that didn't make the cut. So there's a. There's a Booner there. This one here, this one's actually a buck that my dad shot. Wow. Wow. He's pretty awesome. Yeah. And up there you got a tremendous 4x4.

He's. I honestly, I can't remember what he scored, but he's in. He's in the high 150s. He's a great 4x4. There's a 57 inch bull moose up there. Yeah. And awesome. This one here is kind of funky. And he didn't actually make book. And he's huge. Yeah, he's got a lot of mass. Yeah, he's got the webbing. And then this one has 202 inches of horn on him. Wow. So he's. He's. That's my pride and joy right there. Yeah. Up until I shot this guy here, which I just threw on the couch.

He's like 64 inches wide. He makes Boone and Crockett here in North Manitoba. He was number two in the province when I shot him that year. Yeah, he's pretty. Pretty cool. And then if you look up here, you like this? If you look. So I've got the. How do I do that? There's a deer up there and there's a moose here. And there's a void here. Yeah, that's my 173 that fell off the wall. Oh yeah, he's downstairs. He's broken. Oh my gosh. That's. And when that happened, you gotta get fixed.

Yeah. When that happened, my girlfriend was home alone and it happened in the middle of the night, so. Oh, I'm sure she was not in person. Out. Yeah. Yeah. Reaching for your 338. Yeah. There you go. Well, thanks for that tour, man. You just. Amazing freaking work, man. And then you got. You know, I've got a cabin as well that looks just like this. And then I've got my shop that has all my elk and caribou antlers up in there. And I even got some in my office now too. So that's awesome.

I need more pieces to hang things. Robert, thank you so much for taking us a tour of your house and your. Your collection of deer there. Amazing work, man. That's awesome. For people that want to reach out to you and follow along your journey. How can they do that, man? If you look at. Well, you can just search me on Facebook. Pretty much everything goes on Facebook. Just Robert Carpiac with a K. And then my outfitting company is Target Species Outfitting here in Manitoba.

So targetspecies.com and you can, you can book a hunt if you like. But we're pretty much sold out indefinitely. So. Wow. Like we. We have. We only take six guys out. I wanna, you know, just like the fellow that you had, I think his bogan, I believe from bc. Yeah. You know, he. He and I are very similar in. In the fact that I have a region, it produces tremendous animals and 600 square miles. And I'm only taking six bears out of there a year.

Everybody has an opportunity at pretty much a 375 pound plus bear every spring. So I kind of want to keep it that way. So I don't want to shoot it out. So six is where I'm keeping it. If I want more tags, I'll buy a different region. There you go. There you go. Simple as that. Dave, how can people reach out to you? Excuse me, I'm on all the social media. I'm on of course Whitetail Advantage, Facebook, Instagram and of course on YouTube. And also like to do a shout out to Xop for coming on.

And yeah, man, PSE archery as well. So Squatch, how about you, man? All right, I'm gonna do it a little bit backwards. You find me in my YouTube channel outdoors and more with the Squatch, of course on Instagram under the same title. You guys all know you can find me here 8 30s on Sundays and Tuesdays with Brett and good old Dave and good old Johnny and Mr. Bovin. And you can also catch me on the Garden State Outdoorsman with Mike Nitray and Frank Mystica.

I'm looking forward to a special day that we got coming up with the Boondocks. I'm just going to leave it at that. Well, thank you guys for coming on the show. Robert, thank you for coming on the show, man. Greatly appreciate it, man. Yeah, it was awesome, bud. Very. That's awesome. Have a great rest of your night, guys. Good night. See ya. Oh man. Thank you, Robert, for coming on the show. We greatly appreciate it. Now that's going to conclude another episode of the Whitetail Advantage podcast.

I want to say thank you to everyone that's tuned in for tonight's show. Last couple of things that this show made you laugh, made made you think, gave you a new perspective. Please hit that like and subscribe button. If you're listening this on the audio version, please give us a five star review. And also we want to hear from you guys. Is there something more that you want us to do? Anything less you want from us? Anything you want us to possibly do differently? We love honest criticism.

Please let us know what you'd like from us. We do have some videos coming up with products reviews, hunting videos. We do have all that stuff coming up. So. So if that's something that you're looking more forward to from us as well, we do have those in the in the works. So be patient with us on that. Audio version of our podcast gets released on Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:00am Eastern Time. So stay tuned for that. And thank you to all the men and women in the military.

Thank you all the police officers, firefighters, nurses, the doctors, basically everyone in public service. I want to say thank you to your service last but not least with that coordinate slot machine and see everyone next time.

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Whitetail Advantage podcast. We hope you enjoyed the show and we will see you next time.