I always wanted to produce my own hunting show but wasn’t willing to give up my hunting season to do so. A couple of years ago I discovered podcasting and thought what a great way to do a hunting show. At the time there were no hunting video podcasts out there. It seemed everyone who was producing their own hunting videos were searching for a way to profit from them and podcasting (or giving them away) wasn’t exactly the right venue for them. I’m a cinematographer / editor by trade and I love what I do. If I’m not on a paying gig, I do this stuff for fun. I also live to hunt. One night while watching Survivorman it hit me... why not do a hunting show like that? I could film myself and produce it as a podcast. It didn’t matter to me if it ever made a dime. If I only got a couple of episodes out of it or it bombed, who cares? It would be a blast to combine the two things I’m most passionate about and make my hunting experience that much more challenging!

   The first season I did kind of half-assed. I mounted a camera on my bow and bought a tree mount for a second camera. Some days I only went out with one camera and just kept it in my jacket pocket. I’d pull it out every now and then if I saw something worth filming or thought of something witty to say. I was lucky enough to arrow three deer that season and got them all on video. I waited until the end of the season to start editing and was surprised at how much useable footage I actually had. When I started posting the episodes on iTunes I was amazed at the response. Apparently I had hit a nerve with all the do-it-yourself weekend warriors out there who were going through the same struggles of hunting public land.  Surprisingly, the most popular episodes are the ones where I don’t get anything.

   Huntin’ Junky is a show about real hunting. It isn’t about having a guide set me up over a food plot to kill a monster out of a perfectly managed herd. Now don’t get me wrong, I love to watch hunting shows like that and dream about going to those places to get a 170 class wallhanger. And I would jump at the chance to go to the Milk River with those Realtree boys to spend a week sitting over an alfalfa field (that’s an open invitation, Mr. Jordan). But I want this show to be about the rest of us. I want to encourage those guys who are thinking about getting into the sport to see its not something thats unattainable. There are plenty of hunting opportunities right in your own backyard. Too many people get obsessed with antler size and trophies. They seem to miss what hunting is really all about. What I want people to get out of this show is that the experience is the reward.