KODIAK ISLAND BLACKTAIL HUNT | PUBLIC LAND | THE HUNTER'S QUEST with Hunter McWaters
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Hunter McWaters from The Hunter's Quest podcast adventured to Kodiak Island with some good friends in search of Sitka Blacktail!
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Awesome video, praise be to God!!!
Amen!
“Glory to God is right! And if you ain’t thanking the Big Man upstairs … you’re wrong.” Awesome truths right there, alone. Not to mention Psalm 37:4 :). Thx for adding these boys, Mr. Gritty!
Absolutely! That verse has gotten me through a couple tough hunts.
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 Shoot (pun intended)…just navigating the general ups and downs of life :).
@@gwhunt1023 for sure!
Saweeeet, that double header was sick. Man Toby Macs song was rolling through my head as it was unfolding. He’s never early, He’s never late. Loved the content👍🏻
Haha good song. Thanks for watching James.
Absolutely love how this captures the raw and real feels of hunting, the lows and the highs! And I love how you guys give glory to the maker of all creation who blesses us with these incredible experiences! Praise the Lord! :D
Well said! Thanks for watching. :)
Need more raw hunts like this. My man got the army issue jacket and his gun tied to his pack with a shoe lace this is my style. No sponsorships, no cover ups just raw hunting. Love it 💪
haha yea Ned is legit! he is a veteran as well.
Amazing what can happen when you humble yourself to the Lord. Great video gents. Well done.
Couldn’t have said it better.
That was freakin awesome! I love DIY hunts. The double take down on the last day says it all. That’s what hunting is all about! Keep up the good work.
Thansk man! Yea it all paid off in the end!
I loved this hunt. I really liked that it was done in the early season.
It’s a great time to go to Kodiak! Get an early jump on the season!
Probably the best scene shots on deer caught on camera, vapor trails and impacts were epic. Your tenacity and faith won the day. Congratulations!
thank you sir! It was a great hunt right till the end!
Knew the minute I saw that smoke trail that they were using Hammer Bullets! Awesome! Definitely on my bucket list.
Got to love those hammers
Love that Double! Great hunt guys. Never give up, ever
Love it as always Brian!!! Looked like a good crew of guys and some great commentary and camera work... But those kill shots!!!! The smoke trail on the double! EPIC!!!
Got to love those hammer bullets!
Love the video! Been following Hunters Quest for a few months now, and really enjoy the real conversations and the faith aspect.
Take this with a grain of salt but I enjoyed the last half of the video the most.
Seems like Hunter could relax more and not "over produce" the footage. Felt really genuine.
I think Hunter will find HIS style as he keeps filming hunts.
Keep it up man!
Thanks man, yes it’s a process still learning. And I learned even over the course of this trip.
Epic hunt. Very cool to see Alaska so green and lush. Really liked the film and love seeing new content. Keep it up fellas.
Thanks man! Yea it’s a really nice and unique time to go to Alaska.
This just adds fuel to the fire for my planned sitka hunt! Ex vid!
Sweet man, hope you have a great hunt!
Ya it was a very good video guys. Hope to see more with him. And some nice shooting guys. Keep it up
Thanks Tom!
Awesome hunt incredible last day double, all glory to god thanks for it.
100% thanks for watching !
Great video, last hour last minute best feeling Never give up fight for every second way to go guys 💪🏻💪🏻👍👍
Yea man, got to hang tough!
That was freaking awesome congratulations to all you guys!!!
Thanks Collin!
Great film, so cool to see Kodiak in the fall in all its green glory. Great bucks and good job.
Beautiful time to be in the alpine!
Excellent job, my husband and I loved it,
thanks so much for watching!
That one buck was a stud of a Sitka Blacktail.
11th biggest recorded kill on Kodiak
That was crazy, love the double buck takedown
Yea that was an epic day!
Pretty dang neat guys! Congratulations!!!
Thank you Ashley!
That was absolutely thrilling. To have doubled down like that at the last possible opportunity… and on such fine animals - truly awesome. Well done and congratulations.
Thank you sir. It was such an awesome feeling to end the trip like that.
Liked it.
Thanks Mike!
MIKE! will you join me on my podcast?
Ned's target panic had me on the edge of my seat, but you guys pulled it off. Nice work.
haha that was a big deer! he has a deep breathing sequence he does.
Right on!
🙌🏻🙌🏻
Great job, boys! what an amazing hunt. The highest highs and the lowest lows Thanks for sharing with us!
You said it! Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
That was a fun watch man! I am so glad that you’ve combined your two passions together, Hunter. Keep shooting 🎥 🔫
Thanks Abhi! Miss you bro.
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 miss you too bro! Come to Europe soon. Keep up the good work 👍🏾
@@abhinavinsearchofthelost would love to!
Great job on his first video. Absolutely an incredible hunt can’t wait to see more. DIY hunts is the only way to go.
Thanks for watching and commenting, dale
Rock on … way to stay gritty 🤘🤘
Till the bitter end!!
You're flying with Roland in Seahawk Air. The first Time I flew in that Beaver was 1986 on a great float trip. We got weathered in 2 days and we were running out of food when we saw Roland come down to pick us up. Looks like he rebuilt that Beaver a few times since then but its still the same color. Best pilot ever.
Yea he is a great pilot! Highly recommend.
Grizzly...😆
That my friend is a Kodiak Brown 🤎
Like comparing 6.5 Creedmoor to a Winny Mag. 🤣😉
Awesome shooting, beautiful bucks, those.vapor trails were epic!
Thanks man! Yea it’s those hammer bullets!
Great film Hunter! Like how your first partner respected his rifles range and made a stalk to shoot inside 400. And one heck of a grind to the very end!
It was! Thanks for watching
Super awesome hunt guys. Great footage, great shot. God bless yall! Loved seeing the DIY.
Thanks brother.
Nice job! I can't wait for more content. Alaska is beautiful, I hope to get there someday for a hunting adventure. Living in western Washington, I can understand the fog frustration! Good bless
Thanks man!
A buddy and I hunted goats out of that same lake about a week after y'all left. Cool to see someone else's perspective on it. We were wondering where all the damn deer went!
they hide in that rain for sure!
Well done man, way to keep positive to the end.
Thanks man, came down the wire!
Great episode....can't wait for the rest.
thanks for watching!
Very nicely done! Kodiak looks like a beautiful place!
Thanks. Very much so
Love this video. I could see the jacked up excitement on the two of you planning and executing the double. Gritty boys these guys need more airtime!
Thanks dude!
Holy shit boys. A double, unbelievable. What a great finish to a hunt. Way to stick with it. I really thought this was a gritty film. Very well done indeed. Fantastic hunt guys. Congratulations. 👍👍😎
That means a lot! Thanks so much for watching. Glad you liked it.
Great hunt 👍 Always a feeling when your hard work and planning all come together. The wouldn’t be the same without long days glassing.The mental struggle of coming up empty handed is what make the double even more rewarding. #stay gritty
Certainly had to stay gritty on this one! But it paid off!
One of the best video hunts on the channel!
Wow Thansk Chris!
Awesome footage! Those are some great looking bucks.
Thanks man! Great hunt
Phenomenal film 🎥 there Hunter. I can tell the Gritty influences and appreciate the Did You Knows.
What a beautiful place that the Lord has made with the painted sky, the snow capped mountains 🏔 and the lush green all around. Speaking of I walked on the tundra and it sucks. Looks easy but it’s super spongey.
Congratulations on the double. Praise God that second buck was deaf and didn’t bolt out of there. Congratulations to Tommy as well with the first buck down the day or two before. 🦌🦌🦌
Thanks brother. Yes sir God is good.
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 you are welcome brother and Amen 🙏🏻 God is good all the time. All the time God is good. 😇
@@TheWVgoodguy22 yes sir
Good footage and reality of keeping a good attitude for the entirety pays off
Yea it does!
What a great film guys!
Makes me want to go to Alaska.
I enjoyed the little insight into the hard work put in with load development and such.
Thank you
Thanks for watching bro!
Randy newberg would be proud of you guys nice double
Hahah yea I hope so!
Love seeing the trail the bullet takes to it's intended target. Not sure if it's smoke or if its a vapor trail, pretty sweet either way, great footage of all 3 kills
It's ACTUAL vapor from the machining process because Hammr bullets are made on a lathe
Got to love those hammers
@@jackbuendgen389 that makes sense, now I know, thank you
THE VAPER TRAIL ON THE DOUBLE SHOT WAS FUKN LEGIT
Hahah yassss
Awesome!
Thank you!
Awesome guys
Much appreciated
Excellent DIY hunt. Great video
Thanks Bob!
Awesome adventure with such a sweet ending!
Thanks man. Yea that was a great way to go out!
That’s was impressive
Thank you!
Great job man loved it, take notes from mr. Brian we need more people with his western hunting skills and videography
for sure! I am learning a lot and soaking it all in!
Awesome double
Thank you!
Wow. Great hunt. Way to stick with it and not give up. 👍
We were feeling the pressure!
That was a great video keep it up the content was excellent
Thank you so much
Rad trip. Is it just me or did it look like you boys took those bucks with bottle rockets. Vape trail footage is the best part of the 21st century
Yea I love those hammer bullets !
Great film, excited to see what you guys do together.
Thanks! Me too
Love it
Thanks brother!!
Great hunt, 2 at the end , great job
Thanks Chris!
nice-very nice😊
thank you!
Great video thank you! Finally got a little time to relax and watch some hunting videos. They never fail to get me excited for my own hunts in the future. I'm currently getting excited for it turkey season coming up. Thanks again.
yea man! now is the time to plan and dream! thanks for watching.
Very cool hunt! Pretty awesome to see a Kodiak blacktail hunt when it's green on the island. Most hunts on Kodiak you see are filmed in the snow or at least when everything is brown and winter like. Very cool to see it at a different time of year. Great hunt!
Very unique time to be there. Gorgeous.
Well done!
🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love the work man. You’ve got me longing for September
Same!
Awesome footage, Hunter! That one deer is a stud, I don’t think I’ve seen a black tail that size before
yea, we could not believe it when we walked up on that thing!
Awesome double!
God is good!
Amen! He sure is
Unreal video!! Can't wait to see more from that crew 👊
thanks brother! appreciate you watching and following along from the start!
God is good!!! Sweet hunt 🦌🦌🦌
…all the time! Amen!
Nice job, that was fun to watch
thanks for watching!
That was a beautiful video
much appreciated!
Sweet video. Well done fellas!
Blacktails don't get near the love they deserve IMHO. My annual Northern California (far Northern California, the real Nor-Cal, Siskyou County CA) blacktail hunts rival my annual Colorado mule deer and elk hunts. They truly are some awesome animals.
And the meat… so good!!
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 so good!
@@brettd530 yea man!
Love it! One of the best hunts I have seen.
Wow.. thank you!
Awesome double !!
Great job on the camera Hunter !
Thanks man! What a great hunt.
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 keep up the great content.
I loved the episode, keep 'em coming !!
@@spottenstock8722 thanks man, I certainly will!
such an awesome video and so great blacktails congrats
🙏🏻
Praise God. His name is above every name. The heavens declare His righteousness. Hunting in faith, awesome! You ever heard of Gary Keesse -Faith Hunt.
Amen my friend. I have not.
Man, I was sure feeling bad for Ned and Hunter almost on the last day. Way to give it to God and put in a last bit of extra effort to get it done within almost a minute of each other! That was a nail-biter at the end! 👊
Nails were bitten… haha thanks Suzanne!
Good stuff
Thanks!
I was just there last fall and took a nice brown bear We hoped to get into the deer too, but a massive storm came in and we got out just in time. I really want to go back on a strictly deer trip. I love the alpine that time of year. Love the way you guys were tenacious to the end. Never give up! That psalm is my life verse. Congrats to you guys. Tim from Homer, AK.
sounds like you had a great hunt too! thanks for watching, yes august is a great time to go!
Awesome work! Great video with some great footage, love it!
Much appreciated
Love these series 👊🏻
Thank you for watching
Awesome Video man! Keep up the great Content
Thanks Elliott. Appreciate you bro!
Great video👍. We’ll filmed and great results
Appreciate it Bill!
Nice work!
thanks!
Awesome video
🙏🏻🙏🏻
Really enjoyed that hunt thank you. Glad everyone got a deer. Awesome country. Great/lucky double up on last day - it would be great to know what range the deer were shot at. Your memories forever! Well done!
hey Dave, thanks for watching and commenting! the Shots were just about 220 yards!
Great watch vapor trails were great. Next time let’s call em brown bears we don’t have any grizzlies on kodiak
My mistake
nice
Thanks!
You need to thank the animal to for giving its life to you
I hunted Afognak just north of Kodiak in October and got my ass absolutely handed to me by the terrain. That underbrush is no joke.
Haha yea it can be brutal. I heard Afognak is brutal!
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 If you ever hunt it, look up Ban Island on ONx and then cross that thing off with a giant red X. That climb made me want to sell my bow and pick up knitting.
@@SellsZac lol noted!
Great job guys! I've done that hunt a few times too. If you have anyone trying to figure out logistics I'd be happy to help.
Such a fun hunt!
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 beauty of living here, I get to combo it with goat
@@jeffreywieber7400 dude. That’s amazing. Jealous. You live on the rock or mainland?
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 mainland. Y'all are welcome to hit me up for any unguided hunts.
Beautiful weather, green emerald isle. Now try envisioning being there in late April with wind and snow and and rain and hip boots with snow shoes brown bear hunting. How bad were the bugs, no seeums are horrible 😂. It's an expensive hunt, but is beyond reach for a lot of people. Roland is Santa Claus to ALL hunters.
That sounds intense man. The bugs yo high in the alpine where we were weren’t bad. The constant wind also helped… but I bet April is wild up there!
And yes Roland is the man.
Hey guys, any idea what bear fence that was? Was it one of the UDAP fences? Live in SE. AK and I'm looking to get one to put around the skiff when leaving it unattended, have had bears chew gas lines and tanks before. I think it would be good to leave around basecamp like you did too when I spike out.
Unfortunately I am not sure. I rented it from a place on Kodiak through our air service … I’m sure you could get that info with a few calls. Sorry I’m not more help.
Was that Tommy's first buck? I noticed he was being shown how to skin it. Pretty cool experience if Alaska was one of his first deer hunts. The scenery in Alaska looks amazing. I will be taking advantage of in-laws on Kodiak one day for sure.
It was I believe only his second or third big game animal. It is an amazing trip for a newer hunter and he did great.
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 That is awesome I know he is hooked for life. Super cool for him to be able to learn from people with a bunch of experience.
@@jesselost05420 yea! And him and Ned have been friends since like 1st grade or something
@@thehuntersquestwhuntermcwa3475 That is even cooler. Congrats on the successful hunt and buzzer beater bucks!