#2059 - Adam Greentree
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Adam Greentree is an Australian bowhunter, photographer, and outdoorsman.https://www.instagram.com/adam.greentree
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I'm loving your country. Yeah, it was good. Um, it's good to be back. Yeah, you were here. Uh, you did another one of those wild back country elk hunts, which you haven't been able to do because of COVID for three years, four years, four years. Wow. And five years since the last podcast. Did you document the whole thing, like you did the last time in your internet stories? I did. Yeah. Yeah. I tried to capture as much as I could. Sometimes it's hard because you're stuck in the moment. So the last thing you want is like a phone in your face, right? It does fuck with it, right? Yeah. So I couldn't capture it all, but I tried to at least mention everything that I was going through, but there was like one stage I just felt like I was in the war and I actually slipped between two fallen down trees and it, I nearly broke my legs like straight across the front of my shins. Oh shit. And it's like, I didn't capture it. And I'm sort of hurting. So you don't get to see the whole story, but I reckon I at least give the people 80% of the story, you know, what happened? Well, you almost broke your legs. Well, I was fucking rooted for starters, like stuff like this is day 26 or something like that. What does rooted mean to your people? You didn't know what it means, right? Yeah. Really? Yeah. It's guessing. Rooted means really exhausted. Oh, okay. Like just, you're fucked, you know. Right. And I was coming back in the dark, you know, you're trying to, you know, conserve everything as you go on. So you're trying to use your headlight as less as possible as well, like you're out there for a month. Right. So a lot of the times your headlight, yeah, torches turn right down if it's on at all. So it's turn right down and I'm coming back down the mountain to camp. Pretty much stepped on one bit of dead fall, like a big fallen pine tree, and then slipped off it. And then there was another pine tree, only like a foot apart. So I went between the two of them and all my body weight come over the top of it. And then, yeah, like I just remember, I like these bruise the bones because it was hard to walk, you know? Oh boy. But it's like at that point, you feel like the whole world's against you, right? Really, really tough trip. Like, and I think a lot of the over the counter guys went through that this year. It was a really difficult UFL. Was that because of the heavy snowfall? So I think because of winter kill for long, and then a lot of the other states are not doing any over the counter anymore. So that pushed more people in the Colorado. And then Colorado shut down some units and limited units because of the winter kill. So there was a lot of hunters jammed in the areas. I think the bulls didn't come down. So I think a combination of a lot of things. Colorado's just reintroduced wolves, which is just it's such a shell game. Because when there's like stipulations to reintroduce wolves, like Renelle has talked about this before, like they reintroduce wolves. And then the idea is when the wolves get to be a certain population, then they will allow hunting. But then the wildlife protection groups come in and they sue to make sure that you don't open up wolf hunting. So then they only can issue depredation permits to ranchers and people don't like the idea of hunting wolves. And I get that. But you shouldn't also like the idea of rampant wolf populations that are invading into people's communities and eating their dogs and threatening children. Like the reason why Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood and all that shit, there was a story because they used to eat kids. It was happening. Yeah, they ate people for a long fuck a time until people got wise and said, you know, we should probably kill these fucking things. And that's what they did for the longest time. And then the greenies got in, like, we need to bring the wolves back. And it's generally people that have zero experience with real wildlife predators. And there should be a balance, you know, there should be grizzly bears. There should be mountain lions. It's not like anybody wants to eradicate those things, but reintroducing wolves, especially what they did with Montana, they took those big-ass Canadian wolves and brought them down. Well, like, you know me, like, I do think there needs to be a balance. And I think people, hunters, are part of that balance as well, you know. And I think a big part of that, you know, is keeping everything in check, you know. So if the elk population's too big, then there should be more tags. Like it's a really good system over here in that sense in America. And then if there's a winter kill, like there just has been in this last season, then yeah, limit the tags
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Adam Greentree is an Australian bowhunter, photographer, and outdoorsman.https://www.instagram.com/adam.greentree
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