Dall Sheep Hunting with Nahanni Butte Outfitters: The Last Hunt 

+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

Thanks for watching, and for the kind words, Daniel.

Very well said.

+First 4 Outdoors [Matt Griffith] Thanks for watching!

+Ian Padron Thanks for watching!

+Hunting Film Creatives Thanks for watching!

+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!

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.

That was clearly a flyover from a giant Canadian goose.

It was either that or a zipper.

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).

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.........

+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!

Not to most Canadians it wasn't.

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 RU-vid comment chain!

Nope, it's just a KUIU sticker stuck on the leg of his existing tripod.

Yeeah!

+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.

+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.

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.

Jason shoots a custom Boswell rifle, chambered for .300 WSM.

+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)

It did, and as far as we know, it still is.

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.

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.

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.

By law, the meat always gets packed out.

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EoiKFVPMa44.html

That would be nice. Unfortunately, it's not the route that the Canadian government chose.

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.