As I am riding the train home from our adventure Caribou hunting in Northern Quebec, with Wedge Hills Lodge, I thought I would take some time to reflect on this trip and the entire season so far. The trip with Wedge Hills Lodge in pursuit of caribou was an unbelievable experience, but not only was this trip a winner, my entire season so far has been unbelievably successful, which really makes me believe that there is someone watching out for us!

Some Wired Outdoors Kids came to see us off!

Me, Kyle and Rob McCoy heading out on our 22 hour drive!

When we decided to do the tv show we knew we had one year to produce 13 episodes for our show, Wired Outdoors, that will start on Tuesday, September 29th at 6:30 pm on the Sportsman Channel. Anyone who has produced a hunting show will tell you that trying to produce 13 shows in less than a year is a very tall task. We knew that we had our work cut out for us, but I was confident with the team’s help that we could not only produce the episodes, but create 13 high quality hunting shows. That being said, we would still need a lot of things to go our way.

Kyle Connects on the First Caribou of the trip!

As I was sitting this past week watching a giant caribou in a herd of about 30 cows bear down on us at about 35 yards, I was thinking to myself, there is no doubt that someone above is watching out for us. Out of 31 caribou, we needed only one to come our way for Kyle to get  a crack, and here he comes. While in the end, the shot was just over the caribou’s back, the footage was awesome.

Rob McCoy connects on this awesome caribou!

While that particular hunt did not end with a caribou in the boat, we did take 4 beautiful caribou home with us. I was able to harvest a true giant. I have been extremely spoiled with taking this animal for my first caribou. But like any true hunter knows, the most happiness comes from seeing friends, family and loved ones experience successful hunts. I was able to watch good friends, Kyle Schwabenbauer and Rob McCoy connect on two awesome caribou, and too say I was happy was an understatement.

My first caribou.  I was definitely spoiled with this guy!

Looking back I reflect on shooting a great whitetail in Wisconsin during the first hour of the hunt, hunting with little Arianna Evans in South Dakota and closing the deal on a beautiful Merriam turkey on the last day, seeing Don Ott connect on his first black bear, spending an unbelievable week with my father in Alberta where we got two cracks at true giant whitetails, and spending a day with our friends from the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show and shooting 16 long range groundhogs. Very easily any of these hunts could have ended without success, with bad weather or not seeing any animals, but fortunately for us, they have all been successful with great footage.

Heading Home with Some Serious Bone!

From all of us at the Sportsmen Portal and Wired Outdoors, we would like to thank you for following us and making our dreams of bringing you a great show a reality. Without all of you this wouldn’t be possible. I would most importantly like to thank the man upstairs for watching out for me and the entire team. Not only has he kept everyone safe, he has sent some fantastic animals our way.

The first show is quickly approaching and we hope you will all tune in! Like we say here at the Sportsmen Portal, “Get WIRED!” For more information on the show visit WiredOutdoors.com.