Yukon Men.......

[Born Hunter 17,910]

Anybody else watched season 1?

 

Follows the village of Tanana in the Yukon. Proper subsistence survival living! It follows a few familys through the year, fur trapping for their income, hunting for meat, fishing for winter food and their dogs feed, collecting drift wood and more. They hunt black bear, grizzly, wolf, lynx, wolverine, beaver etc etc! Even shows how dangerous their world is when one man doesn't make it home from the annual goose shoot and how their community deal with such a tragedy.

 

Best series I have watched in a long time but i don't think it's shown in the UK. Probably far to real and brutal for most the fannies in Britain to deal with.

[Paid 935]

Sounds interesting, where have you watched it ?

[antg 1,816]

sounds good.

we have to put up with shit tv over here.

[graham4877 1,181]

Anybody else watched season 1?

 

Follows the village of Tanana in the Yukon. Proper subsistence survival living! It follows a few familys through the year, fur trapping for their income, hunting for meat, fishing for winter food and their dogs feed, collecting drift wood and more. They hunt black bear, grizzly, wolf, lynx, wolverine, beaver etc etc! Even shows how dangerous their world is when one man doesn't make it home from the annual goose shoot and how their community deal with such a tragedy.

 

Best series I have watched in a long time but i don't think it's shown in the UK. Probably far to real and brutal for most the fannies in Britain to deal with.

DL'ing it now! :thumbs:

[graham4877 1,181]

have you been watcjing Alaska: The Last Frontier i've only seen the first 3, then it stopped, but on checking now, its on season 2

[Born Hunter 17,910]

My mate who is clued up about all this stuff told me about it, he's watched the last frontier and said it's good too but not as much hunting/trapping as Yukon Men.

 

I've been watching it with XBMC.

 

[graham4877 1,181]

My mate who is clued up about all this stuff told me about it, he's watched the last frontier and said it's good too but not as much hunting/trapping as Yukon Men.

 

I've been watching it with XBMC.

 

sounding even better now!!

[Matt3699 142]

 

 

It looks interesting alright. Anyone got a good link to watch it?

 

Check out the comments on that YouTube video too

 

Not saying I agree with hunting endangered species. But when you are living in those conditions you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm sure killing the odd lynx is nothing compared to the damage us lot in the advanced world are doing to the environment with our pollution and all the rest.

 

I'm going to go and live with them.

[IanB 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTnz5U4iUNo

 

 

It looks interesting alright. Anyone got a good link to watch it?

 

Check out the comments on that YouTube video too

 

Not saying I agree with hunting endangered species. But when you are living in those conditions you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm sure killing the odd lynx is nothing compared to the damage us lot in the advanced world are doing to the environment with our pollution and all the rest.

 

I'm going to go and live with them.

 

Problem being half of the people over there who actually go out and do trapping or live the lifestyle will think its a load of dramatised bullshit, even if it is entertaining to a lot of people, just watching that clip... why would you have a foothold set to catch, then have to piss about with branches and snares to help remove it, you'd have the kit ready if you had a trap line out and lived in yukon trapping and a huntin! Like anything its played up for the camera, but I'll give it a watch all the same..

[Born Hunter 17,910]

Stan's 21 yr old lad joey goes bear den hunting......... which involves him crawling head first down a bear's den with an AR-15 and a torch!!!

 

First winter was so hard he had to cull and eat his entire dog team!

 

Just a few snippets.

[Born Hunter 17,910]

Problem being half of the people over there who actually go out and do trapping or live the lifestyle will think its a load of dramatised bullshit, even if it is entertaining to a lot of people, just watching that clip... why would you have a foothold set to catch, then have to piss about with branches and snares to help remove it, you'd have the kit ready if you had a trap line out and lived in yukon trapping and a huntin! Like anything its played up for the camera, but I'll give it a watch all the same..

 

See what you think to it Ian, but give it a fair shot.

 

There are bits where ya think they are drum it up a bit for tv but on the whole I liked it.

 

Edited; I don't know much about fur trapping, how would a pro have dealt with a lynx in a foot hold?

Edited November 29, 2012 by Born Hunter

[Matt3699 142]

I have no idea how you would deal with a lynx or something similar in that situation. A gun would ruin the chance of selling fur and f**k getting close enough to stick a knife in. I don't know.

 

But I agree that it's been hyped up for entertainment. It's made by the discovery channel, which has gone to shit along with the history channel.

[Paid 935]

I agree the discovery channel has gone to shit. Some real pants on it now. But this at least looks a bit better.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

 

 

 

 

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

 

By Robert W. Service 1874–1958

 

 

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;

The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;

Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,

And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

 

When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,

There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.

He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,

Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.

There was none could place the stranger's face, though we searched ourselves for a clue;

But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.

 

There's men that somehow just grip your eyes, and hold them hard like a spell;

And such was he, and he looked to me like a man who had lived in hell;

With a face most hair, and the dreary stare of a dog whose day is done,

As he watered the green stuff in his glass, and the drops fell one by one.

Then I got to figgering who he was, and wondering what he'd do,

And I turned my head — and there watching him was the lady that's known as Lou.

 

His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,

Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.

The rag-time kid was having a drink; there was no one else on the stool,

So the stranger stumbles across the room, and flops down there like a fool.

In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;

Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands — my God! but that man could play.

 

Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,

And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;

With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,

A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;

While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? —

Then you've a haunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars.

 

And hunger not of the belly kind, that's banished with bacon and beans,

But the gnawing hunger of lonely men for a home and all that it means;

For a fireside far from the cares that are, four walls and a roof above;

But oh! so cramful of cosy joy, and crowned with a woman's love —

A woman dearer than all the world, and true as Heaven is true —

(God! how ghastly she looks through her rouge, — the lady that's known as Lou.)

 

Then on a sudden the music changed, so soft that you scarce could hear;

But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all that it once held dear;

That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a devil's lie;

That your guts were gone, and the best for you was to crawl away and die.

'Twas the crowning cry of a heart's despair, and it thrilled you through and through —

"I guess I'll make it a spread misere", said Dangerous Dan McGrew.

 

The music almost died away ... then it burst like a pent-up flood;

And it seemed to say, "Repay, repay," and my eyes were blind with blood.

The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,

And the lust awoke to kill, to kill ... then the music stopped with a crash,

And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way;

In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;

Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm,

And "Boys," says he, "you don't know me, and none of you care a damn;

But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true,

That one of you is a hound of hell. . .and that one is Dan McGrew."

 

Then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark,

And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men lay stiff and stark.

Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew,

While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou.

 

These are the simple facts of the case, and I guess I ought to know.

They say that the stranger was crazed with "hooch," and I'm not denying it's so.

I'm not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two —

The woman that kissed him and — pinched his poke — was the lady that's known as Lou.

 

Sorry guys I got a bit carried away there but Robert W. Service was the only poet who ever did it for me and he painted an eloquent picture of life in the Yukon around the gold rush years. They were, and are tough men alright!

[IanB 0]

Problem being half of the people over there who actually go out and do trapping or live the lifestyle will think its a load of dramatised bullshit, even if it is entertaining to a lot of people, just watching that clip... why would you have a foothold set to catch, then have to piss about with branches and snares to help remove it, you'd have the kit ready if you had a trap line out and lived in yukon trapping and a huntin! Like anything its played up for the camera, but I'll give it a watch all the same..

 

See what you think to it Ian, but give it a fair shot.

 

There are bits where ya think they are drum it up a bit for tv but on the whole I liked it.

 

Edited; I don't know much about fur trapping, how would a pro have dealt with a lynx in a foot hold?

 

They will just .22 it in the head, they all carry them.