a view from camp by Monte McCulloch
Come along with my brother Clint McCulloch and I as we walk down the lane and take a trip down memory lane on the Curran ranch on Rosebud Creek, Montana! Clint and and reminisce about all the adventures we have had, memories we have made and lessons learned while growing up and spending time on the Curran ranch! This is the final episode of season two on A View from Camp podcast! Be sure to follow us on Facebook and instagram and find out how your story could end up being a full episode on season three!
Join Troels and I as we chat about our Axis deer hunt with Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris on the Brochman ranch in Sonora, Texas! Troels and I compare Axis deer hunting in Texas to being on safari in Africa. We also discuss the conservation efforts in making exotics hunting in Texas a success, hog hunting in Texas, turkey hunting in Utah , saying goodbye to our kids and welcoming them home from a year in college, prairie dog shooting and getting stuck on the ranch. We also talk about the views from camp that are upcoming and producing season two!
Join Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris and I as we cruise down the road and chat about hunting, exotic game, conservation and raising kids so they grow up living an outdoors lifestyle! Had a great hunt with Dustin and we are headed to the processors with our Axis deer so we took advantage of some road time to record and chat about growing up in Texas and how hunting is a way of life there. We also talk about the exotics in Texas and how they have become a conservation success story for many of these animals!
Join Dustin McRae of Texas Safaris and I as we cruise down the road and chat about hunting, exotic game, conservation and growing up living an outdoors lifestyle! Had a great hunt with Dustin and we are headed to the processors with our Axis deer so we took advantage of some road time to record and chat about growing up in Texas and how hunting is a way of life there. We also talk about the exotics in Texas and how they have become a conservation success story for many of these animals!
Mike and I discuss everything from building fires to different camp methodology to influencing young men that are chasing your daughters! Camp jobs and being camp boss, there is always a job to do in camp! How that mentality translates into life!
Having a chat with my father in law Mike Enterline. We discuss the place they currently live and its history and what it was like growing up in an oil camp in Colorado living an outdoors lifestyle! Mike tells what it was like first camping and fishing in Colorado and how living that type of lifestyle drew him closer to his dad and brothers. He also tells about his first elk hunt, getting lost, spending the night alone in the snow as a 16 year old and how to help or not help people in need!
I have a chat with Uncle Joe! He tells the story about growing up in Montana, going to war and running a ranch on the Rosebud Creek! This story is about family, homesteads, the way of life, things He has seen and done and other shenanigans that happened along the way!
Lydia and I have a chat with Aunt Helen and Uncle Joe! They tell their story growing up in Montana, falling in love, getting married, going to war and running a ranch on the Rosebud Creek! This story is homesteads, the way of life, things they have seen and done and other shenanigans that happened along the way!
Andy Fauth and son Zach and I get some pheasant hunting in after school! We pick Zach up after school one day and get some end of the year pheasant hunting in! After the hunt we chat with Zach about his progress with bird hunting! We also chat with Zach about how hunting, camping, fishing and growing up living outdoors lifestyles has given him confidence in sports and other aspects of life! Zach tells about his first turkey hunt last spring where His sister and him shoot a double, both getting toms at the same time! Andy talks about growing up in Oregon and going crabbing and how it has been a great family activity that we all have shared in and enjoyed!We also joke about the fear of sheep dogs and how it runs in the family! It was a great afternoon spent with friends!
While Cruising around in the back pasture Troels, Craig, Little John, Dane the Danish dagger and I discuss how DDDC and growing up doing such activities has help shape us into the people that we are! We talk about growing up living outdoors lifestyles and how important it is to still get to do that! We talk about the importance for Craigs family to still get to go back to Montana and experience outdoors lifestyles while growing up in the city in Washington! DDDC is something we all look forward to every year! We talk about what it means to be a "free Trapper" and possible consequences! Another year of DDDC is wrapped up with everyone have a great time, successful hunts and lots of rewarding work done on the ranch!
The Danish Dagger heads to Daddy Daughter Deer Camp! Even though it started as DDDC we have allowed the boys to come along as they have come of age and some of our girls have grown and gone off to college! Troels' boy Dane earns the nickname "the Danish Dagger" and we are also joined by long time friend Craig Kovacich and his boy "Little John!" After the fire at the ranch last year and Covid restrictions the year before we are able to resurrect DDDC and what a successful camp it is! Craigs two daughters fill their tags early and have to head back to Washington to get back to school! We have all the kids set goals for deer quality for the first time and work hard for them to meet their goals. Each kid passes on several deer while trying to meet their goals and everyone has a successful hunt! We discuss the finer points of DDDC and how it helps these kids in day to day life as well!
It's a surprise Red fish birthday party! Tatia puts together a plan for me to go to Texas and surprise Steve Nail with a weekend of chasing Red fish and other shenanigans! Tatia sets the bait and under the pretense of meeting some other people out for drinks after work we surprise Steve with a planned trip to fish for Reds and anything else we can get to bite on the Texas coast! Steve and Tatia had moved back to Texas the year before so it had been a while since we had gotten together. We had a fishing trip planned but had to cancel it so it was a good surprise to get together and get a weekend away chasing Bull Reds, Listening to the World Series and reminiscing about previous trips and hunts! We fish the back water bays and Jetties near Port Aransas, Texas!
Stealing a sunny fall day on the snake river with my daughter Lydia! It's that time of year when it gets cold and you need to winterize the cabin and close it up for the year. But when you get those rare seventy degree days in October it is the perfect time to steal an extra day on the drift boat floating the snake river!My youngest daughter Lydia and I record and chat about Daddy Daughter Deer Camp, hunting, fishing and naming flies all while floating down the snake river! One of the best days of the year stealing an extra day of fabulous weather floating on the snake and creating the new game, Real fly name or made up! Only way it gets better than this is if we actually catch a fish!
Troels, Andy and Monte discuss land stewardship, land owners, picking camp/hunting mates and safety!Taking care of our public and private lands is on everyones shoulders who use the land. We discuss how taking care of the land and respecting private lands and the owners can open doors for more people in the future. Shooting of signs and leaving other target trash as well as crap(literally) is destroying our lands and public access! We are all need to be conservationists and do our part to take care of the land we love to use! Safety and picking the proper hunting/camping partners is of utmost importance!
Monte Tells about the first night spent alone in the bunk house at age 15! Being alone specially at night can put your mind tricks into high gear! Grizzly bears, escaped convicts, Freddie Kruger and wookalars all attack at night when you are alone!
Monte and two buddies Troels and Andy spend a week in the mountains in Utah looking for a bull elk with a muzzleloader. This was a premium draw tag for Monte that took sixteen years to draw!Warm weather slows the rut while the boys spend all week chasing elk enjoying each others company and having an all around good time!Finally the weather changes slightly the rut picks up and Monte has some success with the muzzleloader!
A conversation with my niece Freja Consson where we discuss the finer points of s'mores/O-boys, mud pies and building a fire!Freja gives her perspective on camping, fly fishing, Alpengirl camp, picking Huckle berries and spending time in the outdoors!
Dumping turkey juice down a friends neck is not the best way to introduce yourself to hunting with them, but it worked! Long time hunting buddy the Troels and Monte are scouting for elk and start the South Cache Muzzle loader elk hunt. reminiscing about initial hunts and the turkey juice episode as well as highlights of their hunts together with and with out kids. Opening morning for Monte's elk hunt and two days of scouting!
Back up cameras save relationships! In this episode Monte tells how it used to be before back up cameras came on scene. For those who have never had to back up a vehicle and hook to a trailer with out a back up camera this episode highlights the difficulties that we faced before they were standard issue! Also discussed are the benefits of the "ences" and how that can be beneficial in a relationship
A View From camp from Northern Sweden to an island in the Baltic Sea to Greece! Fredrik Consson shares his views on camping as a child growing up in Sweden and Greece. Rubber raft versus ferry, chainsawing blocks of sheep poop, spearfishing in Greece, cliff jumping and eating fabulous food not a bad way to grow up! Spending time with Fredrik's family in Crete and getting a fill of food and drink!
Host Monte McCulloch and brother Clint chat about what being at camp means and how it is a state of mind you can enjoy even from your desk at work! Initial camp jobs are identified and what it means in growth to transition from one job to the next. Spending time with Grandpa Bill fishing, setting up camp and becoming a man! How to identify when Grandpa Bill had enough and was bored. This was actually the first attempts at recording a podcast and how it is clunky and awkward to start but a lot of fun!
From Our Hammock perch at 10,000 ft at the top of Mount Naomi Annika and I discuss our views from camp! Annika discusses camps and how they have influenced her life. Daddy Daughter Deer Camp is discussed at great lengths and she reflects on how different activities in camp marked milestones in growth and responsibility!
