Chris: I think there's a grouse.
It flew right back in here.
Jessi: Oh, right here, right here, right here, right here.
It's a good size grouse.
Chris: Yeah.
Jessi: If I miss the shot,
I could totally lose the bird,
and I can't waste those opportunities,
or come December, January, February,
I'm going to be sorely disappointed.
Chris: You got about three seconds to get on
him and kill him.
Jessi: Ow, dang.
Oh, come on.
Thank you, grouse. Thank you, grouse.
When it comes to hunting and fishing,
I will get my hands dirty.
I took off its head cause I want it to die fast.
Chris: Oh, good job.
Jessi: I don't want him to suffer.
I feel like this is an omen.
Winter is coming.
We need to get everything buttoned up so we can make it
through the rough winter that it always is.
Jessi: Great, there's that.
Chris: Ah, this is the one that I wanna use.
Should probably check this thing out,
it's been sitting up there a little while.
Just stretch it all the way out for me.
The fall in alaska's pretty short.
And the cosna's a really tough place to harvest fish.
Ice is coming, and once that hits,
we're going to have to pull our nets and stop fishing,
which means you have to do everything in your power in a
very limited amount of time to catch these fish.
Gotta make sure all the knots are tight but looks
like it's in good shape.
Jessi: And this is supposed to be tied, right?
Like that?
Chris: Yeah, make sure it's tight enough a fishy can't get out.
I think we should go, try dropping this thing in.
If the fish get in there, they're not getting out.
The fats that you find in fish are really healthy for you.
As we get into the colder days,
we're really gonna need those.
When you eat it, you can actually feel the energy burn
inside of you.
Especially when it's 40 and 50 below.
So, it's one of the best sources of fat that we really
want to chase after.
Okay. Yeah.
There's a small eddy up here on the river that
I'd like to get down to.
It looked like it was a pretty good fishing spot
from our side of the river.
See if we can work our way down there.
Just walk really carefully.
Jessi: The river is obviously coming downriver.
Is this the spot?
Chris: Yeah, look at this nice little eddy that's coming in.
Jessi: That eddy is a current, actually going up,
and its usually kind of a small area on the outer bank
and that's where we want to put the fyke net.
Chris: And we're gonna go one, two, and release.
Jessi: We want the fyke net in the pathway that the
fish is gonna take when it's going upriver.
Chris: And let it sink.
Jessi: The fish is gonna take that turn into the eddy,
exactly where the opening of the fyke net needs to be.
Chris: Perfect. That looks great.
(grunt)
but we gotta expect that the water's gonna come up too, so.
Jessi: Yeah, I mean if it comes up more than two or three feet,
we might, you know, be in trouble,
but I am slightly worried about the fyke net.
The river is rising right now, so if the river rises too much,
or if the bank gives away, we're out,
our only fyke net.
But I'm still gonna give it a shot because there is still a chance that tomorrow,
that thing's gonna be full of fish.
Chris: It is very important to catch fresh food out here.
We're always low.
And this is gonna be a way to get ahead.
Michael: This asphalt that we put down;
this is just a little blip in the history of humans.
You know, these liquid roads?
These are the realest road around.
Michael: The crisp part of fall is finally kicking in.
Frost every night.
This is prime time for moose.
I'm moving with a purpose.
My heart is just pumping hard.
I'm in the hunt mode.
And this right here, this frosty, freezing cold,
this is what gets them big bulls moving down here
to the river.
And today's gonna be a good day.
Narrator: With moose hunting season nearing an end,
michael manzo must track down a bull moose to
secure his lifeline of meat for the dark winter ahead.
Michael: My pursuit of new wild river,
this feeds it very well.
This is one of the slimmest rivers I think
I've ever hunted.
And I'm happy to be here,
but I would really like to come out of here with some moose meat.
That is the number one priority.
To subsist for the winter off what I catch in the fall.
The fog's starting to clear and I see a big bluff
relatively close to the river.
So, I'm gonna hike up there.
Get to sendin' some calls out and try to get on a moose.
A couple more hard frosts,
these leaves will drop off these trees.
I might be able to see another twenty yards in
and catch a moose that I otherwise wouldn't have seen.
Moose tracks.
They're here.
There's a lot of activity here.
This is a highway.
This is what I'm looking for.
The anticipation builds as this fog is set in.
You couldn't even cut that with a knife.
I just really want to see this landscape,
get my bearings and get my moose calls up above the
sounds of the water.
If I see a moose.
It's gonna be a safe but mad dash down this mountaintop.
As this fog recedes back from the cold frosty night,
all the peaks should be exposed.
I'll get my call up.
(imitating moose call)
I might keep my eyes peeled on this little creek here.
I can see good depth a couple, three miles up.
Looks like it's got some good flow to it.
I'm gonna get down to the boat and motor down here,
check out this creek.
Brittany: Living out here in mccarthy it's not super easy
to just run to the grocery store any time you need meat.
Brittany: Ahh, what do you hear?
What do you hear?
Look at that.
What do you think's in the cages?
Elovie: Bunnies.
Brittany: Bunnies?
Yay! You got us bunnies.
How'd they do on the four-wheeler?
Kaleb: Oh, they did great.
Brittany: Yeah?
So, normally in the winter, we have about 30 people here.
This last winter when covid started,
there were around 100 people,
which is a big deal when thinking about the fall hunts.
We may not have enough big game animals to feed that many people,
so I decided to start raising some of our own meat.
All right, you can open it.
Elovie: So pretty and nice.
Not even biting.
Brittany: Are you excited to see little
baby rabbits sometime?
My children are definitely too young to go out hunting on their own,
however they can begin to learn things like animal husbandry.
I have never built a rabbit cage.
I have never raised rabbits,
but I'm very eager to try both.
I'll be building these hutches with my six year-old, gilbert.
Hold this.
(drill whirring)
look at that.
And my four-year-old, elovie.
You do it.
Elovie: Whoa.
Brittany: Nice. 'kay, can you please not?
Hopefully no one gets hurt.
♪ I talk it out, talk it out, I talk it out, I talk ♪♪
brittany: But I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
I don't often get to use power tools, but when I do,
I like it.
This is not a kaleb rowland building.
This is a brittany rowland building.
And that means it will have some beautiful unique
qualities such as not being square.
Elovie: That looks too beautiful.
Brittany: Too beautiful?
There we go.
The frame is done.
The walls are the next phase.
Alex: If I'm not going to buy new technology to solve all of my inconveniences,
then what I have to do is change myself.
It's not really to define myself,
it's more to refine myself.
There's only a few days left of moose season.
After that, moose is off the table,
and I'll have to depend on whatever small game I can hunt.
If I get a moose, that's basically peace of mind for
the entire winter.
To do my moose calling,
it's a little better to have a megaphone.
Of course, you can, you know,
buy plastic ones at the store.
I don't have access to that, so, uh, birch bark will do.
Think that's good.
I've never done this before,
but it's always fun to try something new.
No matter, like, how tough you are, how smart you are.
This is working real good, I think.
You have to be ready to reinvent yourself.
Pull it tight.
My name is alex javor and we're in bear creek, alaska.
There's not too many places left in the world
where you can be free.
Living a really soft lifestyle in the city,
I wanted to see if I could just move out into the
wilderness and make it.
I could've lived off-grid in tennessee,
but I chose alaska for the challenge.
My main goal living out here is to wean myself off the teat of society,
to get all of my meat and a lot of my food in general
just from the land here.
Everything here is more extreme.
And that's what I like.
You also have to remember,
this place is always bigger than you.
Yeah, just like that.
Perfect.
I got a new tool I can take with me for the hunt.
Hopefully it'll, uh, be worth the time it took to make.
(animal call)
(clears throat)
ah, it's more like.
(animal call)
sipsey!
Hey. Hey. Sipsey!
For moose hunting, it's kind of a tough balance.
I'm walking a long ways, and then I also have to be
prepared to carry back thousands of pounds of meat if
I'm successful, so I need to travel light and fast
at the same time.
I need to make sure I have everything that I need.
One last thing, gotta make sure sipsey, hey,
look at him ready to go.
Sipsey.
Come here.
For the moose hunt, I think it's best if
I don't take sipsey.
See you soon, buddy, okay?
Sipsey might chase after it, rile it up.
It's just kind of unpredictable what a
dog might do.
But, it's kind of scary walking around without him.
Even with a shotgun or a rifle.
Come out here unprepared and at best,
you're probably going to have a really bad day.
At worst, you could end up dead out here,
and you're really never completely in control,
so you have to keep the faith.
Jessi: In town, social media or tv or whoever are telling you,
you need to do these certain things, like,
I don't have that type of pressure out here.
I have more dangerous pressures,
but I will take that every day over the dangers of being in town.
Chris: Whoa. Jessi: Oh, man.
Chris: Look how much this river's come overnight.
Chris: I'm thinking at least five feet since last night.
God, I bet the net is underwater.
Jessi: Holy smokes. I mean, everything's gone.
The bank's gone, where we were standing is gone.
I don't know how we're going to be able to find the fyke net.
Jessi: As the minutes tick by,
this river takes all of the bank away.
We need to find our, our net.
Chris: It's a constant battle with this river.
The cosna's fed by rainwater way upriver.
We're talking 50 to 100 miles.
Aw, man, love.
I don't know if we can get down there.
So, if it rained heavy three days ago,
this water's going up.
Okay.
Jessi: What am I gonna do if you go into the water?
Chris: Just stay put.
Whoa! That's deep.
Okay.
Just hoping I can feel the line.
But.
Jessi: Be careful, love.
Chris: Love, I feel like we lost it.
I found my line.
Jessi: Did you? Chris: Yeah. Jessi: Okay.
I'm mean, if the line's there, then it's likely there's still
a net there, right?
Chris: Yeah. I gotta get this net before we lose it.
Whew! Holy (bleep)!
That's cold.
Jessi: Big log coming your way.
Chris: I got it. Jessi: You go it?
Chris: Let's see if I can get it outta here.
All right.
Jessi: Well? Chris: Nothing.
Jessi: Nada.
Chris: Look where it's tied. Jessi: Way down there?
Chris: Yeah. I was worried we lost the net.
I'm not so bummed I didn't catch a fish.
I mean, I would love to catch a fish but losing the net
would have really sucked.
Just cause the fyke net didn't work today,
doesn't mean we're giving up.
Jessi: I got it. It's in my hands.
Chris: We gotta get fish for this winter.
Alex: I don't like depending on a complex system,
it's like if someone else fails on the other side of the world,
it'll make it hard for me to live.
Self-reliance is one of the most important values we
should try to honor.
I'm not trying to die out here,
I'm trying to stay alive.
Today I'm doing a reconnaissance of the north area.
For a new place to hunt moose.
This is as far as I've been to the north.
Before I left, I studied a topographic map.
Found some satellite photos of the area,
you know, you should have a big, nice,
open clearing up here, where I can see for
potentially hundreds of miles.
But this kind of forest, it's kind of the toughest (bleep)
alaska has to offer.
It's a doozy.
But I just gotta trust my compass.
I know that if I head 280 degrees,
I'm going to be heading the right direction.
Hmm. I don't know.
It's no country for a bull moose.
It looks like there was an apocalypse here.
I think this is maybe what I thought was the clearing on
the satellite images.
I thought that was tundra.
This is the remains of a forest fire.
This is the opposite of what I wanted to find.
As far as I can see, there's just these dead,
kinda gnarled trees.
So, you can see here the ash on the trees where they burned.
So, the forest fire, you know, obviously destroyed everything.
But it created just the right conditions for these blueberries.
Um, and they're really good.
So, I'm glad I wasn't here when there was a forest fire.
That was probably pretty terrifying,
but it created something new and good.
This is the kind of thing that I really enjoy about being out here.
The simple pleasures.
They're good, but there's really no point to try and
hunt up here.
I don't think animals like to come through this
any more than I do.
Is that a sandhill crane yakking?
Oh, yeah, look, look, look, look!
They're really close.
Tomorrow, I've only got one place left to hunt.
It's not a great spot, but it's pretty much my last shot.
That's pretty cool.
I've never seen them so low down.
Usually, they're really high.
They should be going south for the winter,
they're kind of heading east right now,
but I'm sure they know where they're going.
It's gonna be a lot of work to find a moose.
(imitating moose call).
Michael: Just like the river of life,
you never know what's around the bend.
And that to me is an addictive thing.
Your ears are stinging.
And the wind's going through whatever you're wearing,
your nose starts running.
Just deal with it.
My, oh my.
It's a bit on the noisy side, this river.
I'm not seeing a lot of moose tracks, so.
I think these moose stay up right near the major creek.
Hard luck creek.
It's quieter and they find little kettle ponds,
and little moose pastures where they can hang out.
I just have to see new rivers all the time.
I can't stop.
This ain't even a river, this is a creek.
Getting shallow.
Gonna go ahead and jump out right here.
This is in my blood.
Challenging.
Let's get it on.
And maybe a moose as well.
That what's around the bend mentality is kicking in.
But I don't want to push my luck too much on a creek named
"hard luck."
and I think I've gone far enough.
This river valley is a corridor for moose.
So, what I'd like to do, is I like to throw out a cow call
in one direction.
(imitating moose call).
And I like to throw out a bull tending run in a different direction.
(imitating moose call).
Everything increases your odds when you're throwing out calls.
But look at that sun.
Low in the sky.
Time to get home. It's been a long day.
Going downstream with the current pushing you,
sometimes it pushes you into something that you don't want to go down.
And it's harder to judge where the rocks are.
Gotta really be on your game when you're going down river.
As good as you can be, anyways.
I didn't even see that.
Yup.
Whew.
(bleep) this creek.
Jesus (bleep).
Too much of a turn with a 22-foot boat.
Every day that I stay out here later into the season,
it's quite the risk pushing moose meat.
These motors don't like running around in really cold weather.
I'm gonna feel that.
Hard luck.
So, I've got maybe at most two days of hunting left,
and then I gotta get off this river.
Brittany: I refer to my children as free-range children.
Elovie: Ahh!
Brittany: It's exactly how that sounds.
I let them roam around our property,
as opposed to if we lived in the city.
All right, little ones.
We need to decide how big the hole should be for the rabbits
to hop through to their nesting box.
If I lift this up, this is how tall it is.
This is two feet.
Elovie: Yeah. Uh-huh.
Brittany: Like.
Gilbert: No, that, no, that's too small.
Brittany: Maybe up to this one?
Gilbert: Yeah, up there.
Brittany: All right, you have to come over here,
and I need you guys to sit on these.
You guys are my helpers.
Hold your ears.
Elovie: Like this?
Brittany: Yeah. Both hands.
Gilbert. Both hands.
It's a lot of fun to have the kids around.
I really do love them, and I really do enjoy it.
And I love that they are capable of helping me,
even if it's not exactly how I want it to go.
Elovie: Yay! A little door!
Brittany: Ellie, can you hold that end?
I'm trying to push it, can you pull it?
There we go. That's not too bad.
Elovie: Not too bad!
Brittany: As any mother knows, it is really hard to get
anything done with the children.
Gilbert: Drill holes!
Brittany: No. You may not drill holes.
Hand me the screws.
Even if they sometimes actually hinders things.
Elovie: Yay! Brittany: Too loud.
It's a lot of fun to have them help.
This is how you get projects done as a mother.
A little bit of time here, and I little bit of time there, and
"oh, they're hungry again?"
kaleb: Do you need a hand?
Brittany: So, this is just shimmied a little bit,
can you square it up there so that.
Kaleb: Yup.
Brittany: Excellent. Tell me when.
Kaleb: Okay, you can screw it in.
Don't hit my fingers.
Brittany: No promises!
I hope these rabbits appreciate everything that
we're doing for them.
And they give us lots and lots of babies!
Elovie: Whee! Brittany: And that is done.
Kaleb: I like it.
Brittany: Thank you.
Kaleb: Gilbert! Brittany: Ugh.
Alex: I know that I really value challenges, even though you totally regret it
and you swear you'll never do it again.
Uh, but somehow I just keep doing stuff like this.
Uh, it's just my life.
Today's my last shot, but I've recon to north, west, east.
No good hunting areas.
And now's my last shot in the south to be able to find moose.
Not too many people do it like this.
I imagine that's why most hunters stick to places they
can get to with the vehicles.
I was really hoping this year I'd find a
better place to hunt.
I was hoping to find some ideal location.
I didn't find anything.
So, best I can do is return to my usual stomping grounds and
give it one last hail mary.
I'm going to leave my backpack here and just basically try to
get up to the top of that hill before I call it quits.
I just want to get a good look down this valley,
make sure that I'm not missing something before I head back.
Once I get into that thick forest,
it's real easy to get turned around,
so I'm just going to hang this coat up.
I don't want to give up yet, I need to be a little bit
stubborn here, and when I come back,
I don't want to waste another hour trying to figure out
where I put my stuff, kind of like writing a checklist
before you go to the grocery store.
Something to save you some time.
Of course, you won't get lost for hours in the grocery store
and want to kill yourself, but kinda same idea.
That's about it.
Those trees are kinda in my way.
I'm not gonna climb a tree, that's crazy.
I think this is about the best view I'm gonna get.
This is pretty much the end of the ridgeline.
Take a look on my binoculars to be sure.
As far as I can see, black spruce trees.
Basically, a wasteland.
Moose, they don't like thick woods like this.
It's pretty safe to say this is a place I can
scratch off the list.
That doesn't really bode well for me if I want to kinda
consistently get moose every year.
I might have to look into traveling somewhere else.
I had high hopes, they were shot down.
Of course, even though I don't expect to,
you know, there's some chance I could bump into a moose
along the way.
That's always a possibility.
So, I need to keep my eyes and ears tuned in.
You know, I don't want to just be staring at my feet in front of me.
There's one.
Right in the middle of the tree, about halfway up.
There's a grouse.
Usually, if you see one, there's always going to be a
second one nearby.
So, I'm going to go real quiet.
If I can get a couple of grouse,
tonight won't feel like such a failure.
Threw my earphones off just because I want to hear,
you know, in case they move...
Talking.
(gunshot).
(gunshots).
Ahh, I hope that one didn't get stuck.
But I don't know if the first one came down.
Oh, he did.
They're both down. Okay. Nice.
It's no moose, but, you know, it still kind of gives you a
little dopamine kick.
A lot of high-quality protein there.
They were relying on the camouflage so I wouldn't see them.
You know, their camouflage works great for other predators,
it's not much use against a man with a shotgun, of course.
This is, kind of on a larger scale,
a little bit disappointing, because I came out here
looking for an entire winter's worth of meat.
More importantly, I didn't find a good moose hunting area.
But, one night of dinner is better than zero nights.
Mostly, I'm just thinking about putting on some dry socks.
(imitating moose call).
Michael: If I come out of here empty-handed,
I won't regret it.
I'm here for the challenge.
I'm not here for an easy way.
My last day of the hunt is tomorrow.
I've been going at this for a good long while.
I've put away a lot of moose in my time and I've hunted a
lot of places, but this is the most sparse I've ever hunted.
It's one of the biggest-bodied cows I've ever seen.
Literally looked like a bull moose with no antlers.
That's a big hoof for a cow.
Look!
There's the bed right here.
Where there's a cow, there could be a bull.
It's where they bed down.
They're in estrus right now, it'll drive bulls to them.
So, I'm gonna camp here.
(imitating moose call).
Just below this bend right here is the bedding area for
the first moose I've seen all trip long.
A lot of tracks through here, cows with calves.
That tells me there's a bull close by.
I'm gonna stay right on a cot.
I'm not even gonna sleep in a tent.
Don't even wanna have a tarp.
I just wanna be dialed into my surroundings.
If something comes in, I got my rifle right here.
If it rains tonight, I don't give a crap.
I'm as close as I'm ever gonna get.
(imitating moose call).
To be sleeping here, stopped at many place as I have,
hiked as many miles as I have, without seeing a bull moose,
kind of makes me question myself.
Am I crazy? What am I doing?
I'm getting down to the crunch time here.
Tomorrow's gonna be big time, my last-ditch effort to come
out of here with a moose.
Chris: You're always fighting against mother nature.
And honestly, mother nature always wins.
So, we just have to find our niche and chase after it.
That's perfect.
Currently the river is down, so we think it's a good time
to get the net in the water.
Look at that.
We got a slow-moving eddy that goes through here,
so hopefully we get this set out just right and we can
catch some fish with it.
Jessi: All right, well, we're gonna have to do something here, love.
Chris: Yeah, fishing's just been a bust.
But cosna has different plans for us this year.
We got a long winter ahead of us.
Right now, I wanna focus on grouse.
I've been hearing 'em.
Let's get em!
The cosna river really hasn't been generous with giving us
fish this year.
But luckily the grouse are back in full force.
I love this little spot across the river.
There's just little tiny pebbles and sand,
and those birds love munching down on it.
Helps them digest their food.
Jessi: There's six grouse are across the river.
You can throw something or shoot over there.
And they'll usually fly over the river towards you.
They're in the tree. They're over.
Jessi: Four grouse just flew over the river and they're
right up here in these trees.
Chris: I see one.
Right here on this branch sticking out between the two birch.
He's kinda hidden.
(gunshot).
Get 'em, jess!
Jessi: No, don't go in the river!
Don't go in the river!
Damn it!
What am I gonna do, chris?
Chris: (bleep). (bleep).
Get me a stick.
Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick! I'm gonna lose him!
Jessi: I can't get down there, chris.
Chris: I can.
Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy.
I got him. I got him.
Jessi: Holy smokes!
Chris: There's nothing worse than killing a grouse and
watching it float down river.
Jessi: I'm right here. I'll help you up.
Chris: We're real big into "if you kill something or you
wound something you have to do everything in your power to
harvest that animal."
just take the grouse so it doesn't fall.
I'll work my way up down-river.
Give me a second.
Jessi: That was a difficult grouse, man.
Try to go get some more.
Chris: Did they all fly off? Jessi: I'm looking.
I don't think.
Chris: I bet they're still in the tree.
Jessi: I bet they're still here.
Chris: Oh, that feels good to get a grouse.
We've been having such a hard time with fish.
Jessi: Oh! Right here, chris.
Come here! Come here! Come here!
There's a spruce and he's almost at the top.
Chris: Okay, I see him.
Jessi: Okay, I'm gonna get ready so this doesn't happen again.
(gunshot).
Chris: Pop in the wide clearing.
Make sure this goes in nice and tight.
Jessi: Thank you so much.
Thank you, grouse.
Thank you. That's a big grouse.
That is a huge grouse, man.
Chris: Awesome.
If we can eat one grouse a day,
and we're only bringing one or two home,
we're not stocking up much.
We gotta come out morning and night and get as many as we can.
Jessi: Try to get a couple more?
Chris: Yeah, that'd be great if we get a couple more.
Jessi: Out here, it does seem like we have to work a lot
harder for our dinner.
But do I want to pay the price in town?
No.
Do I wanna pay the price out here?
Absolutely.
There's a grouse, right over there.
Him go left and me go right.
We gotta do everything that we can...
Gosh darn it!
To get as many grouse as possible to sustain us through
this winter.
Chris: Here, grouse, grouse!
(gunshot).
Michael: This has been one of the most challenging moose
hunts I've ever gone on.
This is the last day of the hunt.
First time I've ever got this nervous about filling my food
cache for the season.
Woke up all night from a cold rain.
I sent out calls every hour or so.
Before first light.
Just right there in the landscape,
with my rifle right next to me.
(imitating moose call).
I can't tell if my ears are playing tricks on me or not.
And then finally, the moose I had been waiting for.
Tricked this big fighter into a fight.
(imitating moose call).
Try to bring him right to the river's edge.
(imitating moose call).
Shh.
(gunshot).
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it's so dark out, I could barely make out his body.
Strong bull.
(imitating moose call).
A big warrior.
Put him down with the first shot,
it's been about three, four minutes.
He's still struggling to get his feeting underneath him.
(gunshot).
Just to be on the safe side.
I've seen a big bull moose get hit in the neck and jump right
back up five minutes later, run for miles.
I don't want an animal to suffer.
I'm not really here to hunt antlers.
I'm here to hunt whatever comes in the call.
But, now walking up onto it.
I then realize how big this moose was.
The size of a dinosaur.
Biggest bull moose I've ever shot.
Remarkable.
He's bigger than I thought he was!
Couldn't quite tell 'cause it was so dark.
First light, comes barreling in here,
scraping brush.
He's definitely in full rut.
His eyeballs popped out of his head;
he's looking for a fight.
I gotta get to processing.
It's gonna be a long day.
Alex: Come on.
Yeah, I got food in my hands.
In parts of the world that humans really should be living,
there's food growing on trees, right?
Here you go, sips.
You're used to getting everything you want.
I was a city person too, but after you've been kinda out
here for a while, you can't afford to be picky.
♪ I see the clouds start rolling in ♪
alex: I wanted a moose, but I didn't get a moose.
I got grouse instead.
I can be upset about that or I can appreciate it for what it is.
Chris: One. Two. And.
Jessi: Oh my gosh!
I don't have to be successful in a large hunt.
Look at that thing!
Some of the smallest things that I've succeeded out here
have meant the most.
Chris: The fyke net works!
Jessi: Holy smokes.
There's something incredibly special about being able to
just go out into the forest to provide for your family.
These are the moments that I wait for.
Gilbert: Can I? Brittany: Mm-hm. Yeah!
This is a fancy hutch!
I really appreciate kaleb's expertise.
In high school, I wouldn't really build things.
Kaleb: Oh, boy.
Brittany: Now, eight years into my marriage,
I know I can do it, and that's very exciting.
Does he like it?
Elovie: He love it.
Michael: You know, some folks, they're born on a certain river,
and they stay on that river.
They have a campsite, an established moose camp.
They go back to it every year.
But what's the challenge in that?
I follow my principles, and this was no easy hunt,
but it paid off.
Oh, man, I'm gonna feel that in the morning,
but I am done.
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(imitating moose call).
Alex: There's some quote from a book I read once.
You know, when a man has food in his mouth, all questions are answered.
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