Dall Sheep Hunting with Nahanni Butte Outfitters: The Last Hunt
2016 ж. 27 Қаң.
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KUIU's Jason Hairston and Brendan Burns travel to the Northwest Territories to hunt Dall Sheep with Nahanni Butte Outfitters. See the last hunt in a region becoming a national park, and watch as two fantastic rams are taken in unprecedented detail.
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RIP Jason! Thank you for all you did for us hunters! We will miss you!
Well done guys, Thank you so much for sharing. You know you did it right when the guy or gal at home watching gets emotional. I love the products and love the Films.
+WHITEBONE CREATIONS HUNTING Thanks, and glad to hear the film is resonating. I worked really hard on it, and it's good to know people are connecting! -Blaise, Producer
Decided to watch this again. RIP Jason. Brendan keep up the good work and video content.
Sad that Jason was hurting so bad. Amazing that you’d never know.
probably the best hunt video ive ever seen on tv or the internet. the hunt, the camera work, the editing postproduction all were epic congrats.
Congrats on the great rams. And thanks for sharing the experience via this video, it's one of the best I've ever seen.
Awesome video, even better hunt! Those are 2 beautiful rams. Can't wait to wear you're gear in my Dall hunt in '17.
Great stuff Kuiu! You keep pushing it and innovating it and it's working. I dig it.
That's beautiful country, excellent video. Congrats on the two fine Rams!
man, kuiu hunts are just different. i wish Jason was still around. ive been a sitka guy for years. im now a kuiu guy and i do believe they make the best gear with no close second. great video. perfectly filmed.
Great video, RIP Jason!
Amazing video as always and two beautiful shots
I've had nightmares about places like this. I'm glad to see you guys thrive in environments like this.
Stunning. Memories to last a lifetime. Congrats. J from UK
Absolutely stunning footage gentlemen!! It's watching videos like this that make me realize how much I love hunting! I can't wait to see more videos from you! Keep up the great work!
Great hunt! Definitely a 1 in a million hunt!! Congrats Jason and Brendan!
Such a awesome video, great work Kuiu!
I was refreshing to see a hunting video so artfully done. I appreciate your reverence for the animals you hunt. The music score was beautiful. Thank You Again KUIU.
Thanks for watching, and for the kind words, Daniel.
Jason your production was excellent. Beautiful country, reminds me when I shot my Dall, brings back fond memories.
Beautiful and well done guys! Thanks for the watch!
What an amazing hunt, and the way in which it was captured and delivered was as good as it gets. Thanks for sharing.
+First 4 Outdoors [Matt Griffith] Thanks for watching!
A superb ram, good job! Bighorn mass broomed, it doesn't get any better for a dall sheep. As a sheep guide myself I congradulate you on very spectacular trophy!
AWESOME VIDEO GUYS!!! Congrats o everyone that was part of it. Two dream rams for sure.
Awesome film! Very well put together. One of the better online
What a privilege to even see that area.
One thing about the KUIU hunts. I can feel heart in them. There is an emotional connection that's not in most of the other brands...
Very well said.
Incredibly well done film guys. Too freaking awesome.
+Ian Padron Thanks for watching!
Beautiful landscape - very very good film. We filmed in South Nahanni last year, one of the best hunting grounds on the planet!
+Hunting Film Creatives Thanks for watching!
Great stuff. Can't wait until August.
Heading up to NT in August for Mountain Caribou.Hope I'm ready.
Such a great example of what a hunt is actually like, without all the post production and slow-mo kill shots.
wow, beautifully shot film, stunning scenery and underlying current of emotion that it was the last hunt in that beautiful bit of country but the privilege you felt to have been able to do it and harvest a couple of old warrior rams came through strongly. Well done team Kuiu. Now when will it be easier for us to buy your kit in the UK?!! Keep up the good work
+UK Hunting Thanks for the compliments--we worked hard on this one, both in the field and in the studio. What can we do to make things easier for you? We can't control the VAT issue, obviously--but if there's some other barrier preventing you from getting our gear, give our customer service team a call, and they will solve it for you!
amazing hunt you guys...
Rest in peace Jason , have fun hunting in the sky .
Holy crap...... what an epic.
That is some sheep country I would love to hunt. Steep but not worried about your next step.
In 7 weeks I will be there! So Nahanni. With mostly KUIU gear and my 7 mag. Wearing myself out with workouts. You almost cannot train too hard. What a rush and what a shot you made Jason. He was dead before he hit the ground.
Good luck and good hunting--make sure you allow yourself some time to taper over the last two weeks, because you CAN train too hard! Hope you come back with a good ram and a better story.
Roger that taper.When I lived in Alaska we'd go after work and climb Flat Top. But in Dallas no hills much less mountains. So I am using the stairs at home and doing up lunges after up lunges - 300 aside with leg curls and knee lifts in between sets. Been running 2 + miles per day for 40 years. Lots of hi rep moderate weight upper body every other day and crunches (100) every day. One thing nobody I've found talks about is the back (lots of rowing) You must take care of your back or else.
I hunted on the Yukon border with this hunt block after it was made a park. When the wind blows in the Yukon all their sheep head for the NWT.
Rest easy Jason. Your legacy lives on.
Awesome footage! Great hunt!
Awesome hunt! Very sad that country can no longer be hunted.
The thing to Remember is the People own the Park NOT the Government . We decide what is to be done on our land . The Government owns Nothing and they have to get our permistion .Nor can they sell any of our land to other countries . great sheep and great video thank you and all the best of luck in the future . stay safe and happy
16:27... did someone rip ass? lol I knew you guys were serious about cutting weight for the hunt. that is commitment. props to the editor of this fine production for cutting right there and leaving it a mystery haha
It was either that or a zipper.
Awesome hunt...sounds like that Mountain House was working at 16:28
That was clearly a flyover from a giant Canadian goose.
Awesome
FANTASTIC WISH I COULD GO ON A HUNT LIKE THIS WHERE DO I GET INFORMATION
I love KUIU gear. I've started putting together my set. As for the hunt. I wanna see you guys carry out the game. That's half the fun. Any chance you can add that videos?
Not retroactively, of course, but we do try to incorporate it to some degree. It just depends on whether it works well for the shape of the video's story!
@@kuiuultralight thanks for the reply. I love the hunt, the stalk, the shot, and then the pack out. It's all fun.
@@kuiuultralight -- Showing the hunters packing out the meat might work REAL WELL for all the non-hunting people who may watch your videos and may not know that you do that, to me, it looked like the 4 of you went down the hill with nothing more than the "Trophy Horns" at 13:00, and there are plenty of people who rightfully believe that wild animals are NOT the sole possession of hunters to do with them what they please, or that Lands in their Nation are not the sole playground of foreigners to exploit them for their own purposes. AND if Kuiu Hunting showed more consideration in acknowledging that a lot of this "Great Hunting" that you do occurs in your obscure "Neighbour to the North" (a sovereign nation) I might not use the word "foreigners" to describe you, but you never seem to do that, instead, to soothe the emotions of your often very patriotic countrymen, you seem to imply the Yukon and the Northwest Territories are some sort of "obscure, un-organized political region" to the north of the continental USA. Many Americans do not realize that Canada is every bit as advanced as your country, has a GDP just as large on a per-capita basis (and 10th largest in the world out of 200+ nations) we actually have 35 million citizens (not just a few thousand) we took one of the 5 beaches on D-Day in 1944, fought our way beside you and the Brits through France and sent a large contingent of combat troops to Afghanistan for 10 years after the Sept 11 2001 attacks in your country. At least your films show we are not covered in snow 12 months of the year.........
awesome
Did the bullet on that second ram nick a rock and fragment before impact?? Holy...
Awesome vid! Anyone know if those are the pro pants or the Talus hybrids they're rocking?
I think these are the now-discontinued Alpine pants, actually. In fabric weight, they were similar to the Kutana pant. However, the Pro pant is most similar in terms of the feature set (knee pads and pocketing).
Nice shooting
Man I need to get me a sheep one of these days (years).
Yeeah!
I would do anything to go on a hunt like that. heck id do anytjing just for the gear and just hunt where i live.
Wait is this the "headless valley"??? In the Northern Territory??? Cool.
Great video, I'm looking for a new camera to record my hunts. What camera do you use/recommend?
+Lane We shot this primarily on the Sony a7s, with long lens stuff by the Canon SX60. Some of the interviews and slow-motion stuff was shot on a Sony FS7. The a7s is probably the most versatile choice, as long as you are comfortable with manual focus.
Great, thank you for the response!
Отличная охота, молодцы.
Two things govern your success beyond good equipment. 1) Being in superb physical and mental condition. And there is plenty on line about how to get in sheep shape. But you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And love to climb and climb some more.Best if you want do this as much as you want to take a ram. I just love it. If you are not in excellent aerobic shape, forget it. 2) Riflemanship. Not talking about marksmanship here. You may have to shoot from a very awkward position at a fairly long range. So, just shooting from the bench at the range is not going to get it done. Last ram I took was 800 ft below at a 40 degree angle. 384 yds line of sight. Some times you just cannot get any closer. I use mostly KUIU stuff. So does nearly every other serious sheep hunter.It's pretty good.It's super light. Sitka OK too.
What would you recommend for a three layer system in Colorado? September thru December can be mix of warm weather, rain, snow, and wind. I want a 3 layer system that can go from 20 degree to 70 degree weather. I want one system. Even if I go home to Illinois to hunt tree stand whitetail in harsh weather. I can be tough when it comes to pushing limits with weather, but I should also be in a solid one system too. The Army has been information packed on packing lighter. Shoot me straight on a top layers and pants.
Hey Matt, give our Customer Service team a call at 855-367-5848--they can talk with you at length about the specifics of the conditions you're likely to see, including terrain and brush types, and make recommendations based on that. There are so many factors that a conversation will work better than a KZhead comment chain!
Nice film, great ram (I'm half way in). I can't understand why the Canadian government wanted to make it into a national park. I can't believe more than a couple dozen people ever went there yearly when it was a concession. Would more or fewer people use the park now?
No body will use it. I hope Trump opens the Wrangles back up.
People use it for wilderness recreation all summer long. Nahanni is practically a household word in Canada as one of the many natural symbols of this country.
CanadaAuroraBorealis it is a beautiful place and Canadians should be proud of it. But where we were was a 2 hour bush plane ride and a 9 hour Argo trek. My guide said we were the first people in that part in years. We were right on the border of Nahanni on the Yukon side.
That rock by the creek looked like it had a gold vein going through it. I did a double take.
@ 15:22 in the video Brendan is using a tripod with the Kuiu name on it. Is that a prototype we might have available in the near future from Kuiu?
Nope, it's just a KUIU sticker stuck on the leg of his existing tripod.
For the Canadians watching this vid, If you shop at MEC, you supported the loss of this hunting area and park expansion, as they were major proponents and provided funding. World class mountain hunting, lost forever.
Which caliber and ammo were you using on the second ram?
+gucabo cb The caliber is .300 WSM, and Steve Boswell (the rifle's builder) set it up to use a 168-grain Barnes TTSX bullet.
All parks should be required to have hunting
Great hunt guys - sad such a beautiful wild place is designated a park <
Not to most Canadians it wasn't.
What size packs did you have on in the video?
+Cole Pitcher Jason brought an Icon Pro 7200; Brendan isn't here today for me to confirm, but I believe he used the same size.
Not sure if someone else has asked but what caliber did you use?
Jason shoots a custom Boswell rifle, chambered for .300 WSM.
When KUIU hunting to indonesia?
RIP Jason
It is totally amazing what big money can all buy. Those animals still only have the make-up and the senses they had a thousand years ago but the hunters, wow do they ever throw the equipment into their quest.
You're right, the equipment has come a long way! We can tell you though, money can't buy the fitness it takes to chase these sheep around the mountains; if you haven't done the work, you're not going to coast along on your equipment, no matter how good it is.
Have to be in sheep shape!
Not really if 8-10 people split the load equally
Two things govern your success beyond good equipment. 1) Being in superb physical and mental condition. And there is plenty on line about how to get in sheep shape. But you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And love to climb and climb some more.Best if you want do this as much as you want to take a ram. I just love it. If you are not in excellent aerobic shape, forget it. 2) Riflemanship. Not talking about marksmanship here. You may have to shoot from a very awkward position at a fairly long range. So, just shooting from the bench at the range is not going to get it done. Last ram I took was 800 ft below at a 40 degree angle. 384 yds line of sight. Some times you just cannot get any closer. I use mostly KUIU stuff. So does nearly every other serious sheep hunter.It's pretty good.It's super light. Sitka OK too.
RIP Jason 😢
Did this place become a national park? If so is it still a NP, with the neg regs I know things have changed the last two years.
It did, and as far as we know, it still is.
Which gun were you using?
+Will Babb Jason shoots a custom Boswell ultra-lightweight rifle chambered with 300 WSM. You can read about it here: blog.kuiu.com/2013/01/28/boswell-custom-rifle-kuiu-slr-edition/#sthash.wHVa0wDO.dpbs
+Will Babb Brendan is shooting a Red Rocks Precision Sheep Rifle in 6.5-284 (www.redrockprecision.com/mountain-rifle.asp)
Old and heavy 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Do you guys bring the meat back or just keep the head for trophy?
By law, the meat always gets packed out.
Where do you keep the meat fresh at and away from bears?
There aren't a lot of bears in this area due to the elevation. Even if there had been, the hunters will usually have the bush plane (or helicopter in this case) come in and take out the meat, head, and pelt, so it's generally not sitting out too long.
So what do they do with the dead Rams ???
The hunters carry out all the usable meat in their packs, along with any pieces (like head and pelt, for example) they'd like to keep for mounting. This is the law--it's illegal not to carry the meat out and use it. The bones, organ meats, and offal are left for the bears. The meat is either frozen and taken home by the hunters, or donated to someone local who needs it. As little as possible goes to waste.
Isn't there a way to preserve the beauty of the land and be allowed to hunt in it too?
That would be nice. Unfortunately, it's not the route that the Canadian government chose.
So, when the government made an offer to buy, was all that land seeded to Nahanni Butte? I thought it was all public and they had concessions or area they guided in. Did the government just buy out the guide rites and then convert the land to a park. Shame that happened. What’s the point in that, especially an area so remote.
They had concessions to most of the area--it was public, but not a national park at the time. During the transition, it was technically a national park, but they were allowed to continue hunting there until their new area rights began.
What I would do to have you're job 😭
Any waterfowl camo yet???
Alfonso, our Vias and Verde 2.0 patterns work pretty well in almost any environment since they operate on principles of breaking up the outline. Verde 2.0 is especially versatile, and we have a lot of people report excellent results with it for waterfowl.
KUIU Ultralight Hunting we're to make a a Mexican hunting video in Spanish video is there any laws against using your stuff in our video ?
You can put as much of our gear in your video as you want--in fact, we encourage it! Just don't put any logos or text in that would lead people to believe that we are a sponsor, or that you're directly affiliated with us. Good luck!
Hey Alfonso, you might be interested in our new pattern: kzhead.info/sun/eNOie6qOh3-XZ2w/bejne.html
Lol.. At 16:26 .. Were ganna get him.. Fart!!!
Guys still hunt there
Jason's ram looks like his daddy was a bighorn. I killed a 14 1/2 year old ram but it was no where near as big as yours.
any one watching this in quarantine
👍👍👍👍👏👏 Brazilian ok
Was that a fart at 16:28? Lol
Loved the vid and it is truly a shame the park has taken away more industry from the deh cho. The park is a beautiful place but my personal distain for the national park system and the lack of respect for traditional land use rights is appalling. And now they want to put a park in the sahtu as well.
Just like Jimmy Carter looking up the Wrangles. Stupid. Now NOBODY knows what is going on in there.
Crappy hit near the end of the video. Too far back on the spine. That sheep suffered for a bit.
It's a shame hunting isn't allowed. The U.S. did the same when they outlawed hunting in the Wrangell Mtns. With the stroke of a pen vast areas are now off limits. You can't even fly into the Wrantells to observe. Ridiculous.
Jajajaja la verdad a esa edad no tienen nada mejor que hacer ? el pobre animal no tiene ninguna posibilidad, cual es la gracia ? ojalá dedicaran esa energia a cuidar la naturaleza y que prospere para que la puedan ver las próximas generaciones...
Can more people go on this hunt with you next time? Lame!
BRAVO Donald Trump, I now see you in a new light, and I have new respect for you.
Sad these animals were living their best life in an untouched place in the world and you alpha masculine men had to come in and take their lives for the sake of fun, sport, and trophy. Very sad.
Stunning. Memories to last a lifetime. Congrats. J from UK
Stunning. Memories to last a lifetime. Congrats. J from UK