What a lovely tale of wealthy degenerates wondering around in the woods murdering animals. Love how this guy tries to come off as pious and a man's man. Disgusting
Dealing with hunters lifelong it seems very few would fit that requirement. Guides being top of the heap, along with prominent club/organisation types.
Amazing story and well told! As a guide of nearly 20 years, I’m very familiar with this type of client. Staying professional under those circumstances isn’t easy so kudos for keeping your cool while also fighting off a grizzly. Certified badass!
Doing a little guiding, mostly of punters that had been unsuccessful elsewhere (animals were heavily hunted, unlike the farmed ones in current times) clients like that were familiar. The parallels were apparent when later a deck hand for big game fishermen. The latter was enhanced by a mentor telling a common additive to the first drink of the day for painful clients. Applied about 2 hours offshore, it was excellent to bring on seasickness. So it was either abandon the (prepaid) trip of lean over the side a lot feeding fishes and actually having something to moan about. And keeping them company, being sympathetic (they stopped whinging at their possible saviour) and knowing they had another 4-6 hours of it. And several times when back on shore and recovering in the bar, they were grateful enough for the sensitive nursing back to life to provide a tip. Never managed to figure out an equivalent recipe for hunting camps that didn't risk poisoning them, tempting as it could get. The condition isn't restricted to paying clients, many hunters have it to some degree.
@@johnmead8437 A big part of being a good guide is convincing people that suffering is fun and leading by example. I was just as cold and miserable as everyone else in those moments but a big smile and a few well timed jokes can raise moral in profound ways. People are generally stronger than they realize, they just don’t get tested much in today’s world. On occasion you definitely get people who need more discomfort than some. Entitled, demanding, ungrateful clients who bitch about trivial things that are out of your control are another story, I rather enjoy seeing them suffer a little even though you still maintain professionalism. Guiding people in wild places in uncomfortable conditions can be a very unique view into who people really are.
This guide is the real deal. Good watch. I was a fishing Guide for 30plus years. Only ran into 4-5 customers that were a problem. But not as bad a problem as dealing w/cull customers in dangerous conditions like Rick had w/this one. Thanks for the watch Rick.
Went on a moose hunt 4 years ago to New Foundland. One of the other guys that was in camp at the time insisted he should only have to pay half price since he spotted the moose he got before the guide did, Some people are real a-holes
I'm currently finishing a trip to see my family on the south west shores of newfoundland. Ran into some family guiding some people from New York. They only took the antlers and wanted to leave the meat to rot. Horrible to see. Yes people are assholes
@@NicoChantYes that is wasteful and they are not ethical hunters. Most hunters do not waste meat. However, nature wastes nothing. Many animals will be fed by any carcass left behind. Is it less worthy if it feeds other animals ? Just some food for thought. Have a nice day 😊 I love animals but understand hunting to eat and as a management tool especially in the case of large predators. It's best for bears to retain their natural fear of humans. For their benefit and ours. Bears who lose their fear of humans can be dangerous bears and if they come to see human habitation as a food source, they often end up being euthanized because they pose such a danger or if they actually hurt someone.
@@metalmamasue3680 The recycling factor is valid. IN a land where "big game" species are introduced overpopulated noxious pests causing major ecological damage, we have guides & recreational hunters demanding salvage of meat and limiting what is killed. When killing everything they saw would not significantly affect the pest population. Clients don't have a monopoly on being problems. UA-cam & TV is riddled with them.
I’m from the north of England and I was brought up with the rule if you kill an animal it goes on the dinner table and some of the scraps go to the dogs !!!!
Use to guide in my youth, sounds like he had a real prick for a client. They were right to tell him basically not to come back, sometimes it's not worth the trouble. I can imagine if he was with you when the bear attacked, he would've blamed you for that too.
What an amazing story and a true reality of weekend warriors. You sir have the patience of a saint. Obviously this so called hunter should have stayed at home. I loved hearing you tell the story and can only hope you’ll have many more to share with us all. Bravo sir BRAVO
Went to East Anchorage back in the early 80s, knew a guy named Al Burnett that was a hunting guide. In hind sight, wish I had pursued that as a career!
Now if he had taken his whiny hunter with him to recover the gut-shot moose and had the same angry bear attack, the right thing to do, in that case, is to step back a few paces and allow your client to have a bear encounter.
I can easily picture this man, dressed up in 1830’s attire, complete with a beaver fur hat with tail, buffalo skin trousers, and snowshoes, with a large bear fur coat, like the one wore by Jeremiah Johnson(Robert Redford). Awesome looking beard!💪
This is a fascinating story. I teach firearms instruction and I have had students who do not like to be inconvenienced with Weather issues and they want a gun with all the bells and whistles so they don’t have to have ability or practice.
I know people exactly like you're referring to, its pathetic to witness. I often see people who own a gun and have even been through CCW courses and still have no business being anywhere near a firearm. It's like they didn't retain anything even the most basic rules for owning and operating a firearm. I am sure you have seen some wild stuff as an instructor.
Bears are insectivorous, brown bear actually build the mound on the carcass,let it rot till its maggot covered,essentially farming maggots which are protein packed. More protein pound for pound than the meat of the carcass itself.
@@mikehawkhovers9872 Yes all bears can carry parasites which is why you must cook the meat thoroughly. Many hunters have learned this the hard way by getting trichinosis or some other parasites and getting very sick. You can also get it from under cooked pork. A family friend got it from undercooked summer sausage and was very sick.
I like this guy story time because I don’t think he’s embellishing at all. I think it’s real deal no bullshit let’s hear more of this. These stories are captivating for me. I’m a hunter haven’t had much access to bears, but they are definitely a force of nature.
I'm hoping at the very least, this unethical and inept hunter was educated well on his mistakes and inconsiderate behavior. I don't need to know his name, I hope among guides his name is shared so others don't have to put up with his poor sportsmanship. I'm not even a hunter but I grew up in a hunting family and I know better shot placement into vital areas. As well as how not to be a shitty human being to others.
That was not a hunter you were dealing with. That was a suburban boy looking for a mommy . Well told story . Don’t accept clients who won’t get their feet wet 😂
I ain't even done watching this account of one of the craziest hunting stories I've ever heard in my life... Makes you appreciate life when you cheat death... Yes sir... Yes mam! Epic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That was fascinating. I am not experienced in that field of work and survival to your best ability on that day.I like stories but non fiction is the best kind. Thank you
What a Karen for a hunter! I’m glad you made it out okay, Buddy! You should circulate that douche bags name around to all the guides, so no one has to put up with him.😂
Rick shared this with me “I was shooting a 338 Winchester Magnum. I also sometimes carried a 375 H&H, but that was when I was specifically guiding for bear”
Great story and I’m glad Rick is alive to tell it. But, just as an observation, he should have made sure his client had everything he needed in case Rick became incapacitated. The client does sound like a real last place winner. EDIT: Rick does have an awesome beard. One that would probably make Grizzly Adam jealous. 🤠
I am 17, I encountered my first, and only Grizzly in Wyoming in an elk camp just over two years ago, It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced. I was collecting water for the camp cook and I could hear the snow crunching and the bear snapping its jaws so her teeth were making this ominous cracking sound. She was a pretty good distance from me and I got my handgun out. I didn't have bear spray or anything but I did have that gun, so I got it out and I was shaking like an idiot and this bear is just standing off with me. I started trying to yell and whoop to scare her away, and she kind of paused for a minute, so I thought she was about to leave and then she started to charge at me. She kept charging like 15 feet and stopping. She got about 50 feet before I shot my first round off, I shot it up into the air because we are not supposed to shoot the bears if we can prevent it. At this point she is thumping her feet into the ground and making these barking/growling noises just as he described in the video, at me and I was shaking like crazy, I don't even think I was breathing. She comes at me again, and I shoot again, and at this point I can hear the hunting guides trying to get over here to me, (the water was a pretty good distance from were are camp was set up). She's charging me again and I shoot one more time, and I can see my bullet hit the tree beside her. Finally, one of the guides got up to me and when she saw the bigger man and then the other guides she whooped a few more times and turned and ran off. So, that was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I always wanted to see a grizzly, but I did not expect it to go like that. She was a magnificent animal, and I am so glad I did not have to shoot that bear. This happened August of 2022, just through Shoshone pass. I do not believe there is documentation on the incident, but it is not far from the Big Horns, where in recent years have seen several grizzly attacks in the elk camps.
That’s a pretty crazy story but not unlike many others that can be heard from hunters, especially archery/early season hunters here in Wyoming. In your last paragraph, you mention the Bighorn Mountains. I believe that is incorrect. The Bighorns are a good ways away from grizzly country, and although a few roamers have been seen, including one that Game and Fish killed this past spring, there are not significant numbers of grizzlies.
@@lancekrystoff9619 I believe I was thinking specifically of the case of Mark Uptain. I'm pretty sure it was a pair of bears, I remember hearing about it a few years back. The places I have been on the Bighorns have a big bear presence, but it's areas that are like 5-7 hours in the mountains on horseback, no it's not necessary a publicly accessible area, most of it is outfitter camps, and stuff like that. The area is probably better described as Absaroka.
@@LyddleMetalHeadAbsaroka is more likely the case. The Bighorns hold black bears, but any grizz are transient and not in large numbers at all. There was one that was killed by Game and Fish on the West side last Spring.
You guys need to keep all your bears up there haha. There was one last year I believe that wondered all the way down just north of Kemmerer around lake viva naughton and one was caught on a trail cam about 13 miles from the UT border. No thanks!
This is a crazy story! Thankyou for sharing! Wow. And this client really sounds like the worst client imaginable. I hope nowdays guides would not go outside alone if their client develops an extreme case of lazyness. I mean that is hunting, what did he expect? That someone puts a world record moose into a small fence from him to shoot? I really enjoyed this story, could be a series of episodes, too.
Steve from the channel “facts by how to hunt” tells mostly Sasquatch stories but as a world famous guide he also has told stories like this aswell. Especially about guiding for wealthy hunters who are bad people who want everything.
What a great story fom a very handsome man! (I can say that cause Im a senior ). Praise God it turned out that way ! Wonder if the Texan ever tried hunting again lol!😂
I know this guy is telling the truth because I see this way too often in not just hunters but also fisherman. Mainly hunters and fisherman who travel for these or use a guide. Also seems to be older males who are wealthier for the most part. I live in Alaska and prior to living here I use to travel up here every year to fish the salmon runs. I am only 35 so been coming up here since my 20's and even from the beginning I felt this desire to be on my A game and not look like a knuckle head, while also showing the utmost respect to the land, the water, and the locals. Unfortunately most that travel up here for fishing and hunting and even some locals don't take that same approach. They leave trash and broken line and leaders and hooks all over the river banks, they trample vegetation that is used for fish to mature into adults, they truly act like vultures and I am not sure of a better way to describe it. I see grown men and even sometimes women racing to a certain place to stand on the river, they'll think maybe you're headed to the same spot they want so they go completely off a trail and trample through healthy vegetation to get to a spot on the river before you do. To me that is odd very caveman like behavior, that is not the behavior of a civilized adult who was raised properly and has perspective on life. What I deem as "trophy hunters" which is what Rick is describing in this video are insufferable people, they aren't hunting to fill their freezer with food for the year. They're hunting so they can sit in their mansion with their buddies and talk about their trophy kill over a $2000 bottle of scotch. Their trophy kill might I add that they didn't skin and process or pack out. That's most times why they pay upwards of $20,000+ for a guide all they want to do is pull the trigger. They don't want to do any of the work to find it, they don't want to do any of the work to harvest it, they don't want to pack it out, they don't want to spend two full days cutting it into steaks and vacuum sealing it, they want to be placed directly in front of it and pull the trigger and that's it. Hunting and fishing the right way with integrity, dignity, respect, and hard work is a therapeutic to the core life changing experience, people who hunt how Rick is describing miss all that and never gain perspective to carry with them throughout their life. It is pathetic and sad all at the same time.
The ONLY reason to hunt is for food. My father rammed that message into my head since I was a little girl. I'm 61 now and thankful he did. I've had plenty of thanksgiving dinners with a turkey I hunted down, deer steaks for my children's dinner and even a bear roast one time. I'm forever grateful he taught me how to process the animals too so I could fill my freezer. Now excuse me while I take some deer ground meat out of the freezer. I have a hankering for some good chili.Oh, and PS He even taught me how to make my own bullets.😊
@@jamierupert7563 I agree, for food first and foremost. They always say don't pass up on an animal on day one of a hunt, that you would love to see on the final day of a hunt. The goal should be to fill your freezer. Unfortunately the people like Rick is describing in this video will never see it that way, they need the trophy kill they didn't earn the same exact way they need the $400,000 Ferrari, the same way they need the Mansion with 13 bedrooms when only 2 people live in the house. These type of people will never be happy because they never gain perspective in life or take in any of the most important lessons in life. It's always more more more, they'll never be happy. This year they need a record moose or they're pissed, next year they'll need a record elephant in Africa or they'll be pissed, entire time they learn nothing its just another story for them to exaggerate and brag about.
We get the same Aholes come into South Dakota and expect to be treated like royalty because they're throwing us peasants a few shekels. The ONLY people happy to see them are the liquor sellers and the "pheasant reserves" with their tame birds. For some reason I'm the designated magnet for Aholes from Tennessee. I should have my brain CAT-Scanned to see it emits a signal or something. Before COVID, every year I'd hear stories from animal shelters or game wardens about hunting dogs abandoned and left on their own until someone finds them. Stories of dead or wounded dogs were not that rare. Angry hunters get mad a dog for some reason and shoot it. These swine treat everything and everyone like disposable tissues. Lots of stories about rich guys from down South buy an expensive brand new shotgun when they arrive, then leave it when they're done. This may sound like exaggerated but I wish it was but its not. I even left out how bars ship in extra strippers from Minneapolis, Denver and Kansas City to "entertain" the "sportsman". The Covid crash seems to have slowed down some of the wanton and hedonistic types of "hunters". We didn't miss the shekels either, well the liquor stores did.
@@jamierupert7563Total BS. It’s completely valid to hunt in order to eliminate destructive pests(eg prairie dogs) and to control predator populations (eg coyotes). Food is a big reason , but there are many others. You’re ignorant.
When this guys beard goes in the woods, the bears pack the spray.
😂
Do you know anyone with that kind of tough reputation in the wild?
When he walks into the room, Chuck Norris, pees his pants 🤣
The "HUNTER" sounds like a worse nightmare that the bear attack. Love how well you told the story.
Goes hunting, doesnt want to get his feet wet, forgets water. Its gonna be a bad day haha
What a lovely tale of wealthy degenerates wondering around in the woods murdering animals. Love how this guy tries to come off as pious and a man's man. Disgusting
As a lifelong hunter I can tell this story has the ring of truth. No matter if your hunting quail or grizz leave your ego at home.
Dealing with hunters lifelong it seems very few would fit that requirement. Guides being top of the heap, along with prominent club/organisation types.
@@johnmead8437
Why?
This guy knows how to tell stories. Can we get more?
I met him when I was on a work trip to Alaska recently. I would love to hear more stories from him as well. Maybe next time.
@@TheBudgetSportsman I would LOVE to hear more stories from Rick- hope you can make it happen.
Ask him about bigfeet or anything unusual he felt in the bush. Awesome gentleman and no B.S. from him, for sure...
His shaving skills are poor tho. Grizzly Adams 🙂
@americanshad8396 Well iv got size 23 feet. It's a Welsh record. (UK). Any good?
I can't believe you would protect your clients privacy!!! He needs plenty of harassment!!!
Incredible story, especially hearing about time slowing down and his vision turning. That client was a coward all around.
I give you guides so much credit for doing what you do and not breaking noses!! Real Men!!
Love you dad! Great story
That’s your Daddy for real?
@@onetake721 yes
Do you have any other stories like that to share?
He sounds like an incredible man! I could hear him tell stories all day.
You're papa is an excellent storyteller!
Amazing story and well told! As a guide of nearly 20 years, I’m very familiar with this type of client. Staying professional under those circumstances isn’t easy so kudos for keeping your cool while also fighting off a grizzly. Certified badass!
Doing a little guiding, mostly of punters that had been unsuccessful elsewhere (animals were heavily hunted, unlike the farmed ones in current times) clients like that were familiar.
The parallels were apparent when later a deck hand for big game fishermen. The latter was enhanced by a mentor telling a common additive to the first drink of the day for painful clients. Applied about 2 hours offshore, it was excellent to bring on seasickness. So it was either abandon the (prepaid) trip of lean over the side a lot feeding fishes and actually having something to moan about. And keeping them company, being sympathetic (they stopped whinging at their possible saviour) and knowing they had another 4-6 hours of it. And several times when back on shore and recovering in the bar, they were grateful enough for the sensitive nursing back to life to provide a tip.
Never managed to figure out an equivalent recipe for hunting camps that didn't risk poisoning them, tempting as it could get.
The condition isn't restricted to paying clients, many hunters have it to some degree.
@@johnmead8437 A big part of being a good guide is convincing people that suffering is fun and leading by example. I was just as cold and miserable as everyone else in those moments but a big smile and a few well timed jokes can raise moral in profound ways. People are generally stronger than they realize, they just don’t get tested much in today’s world. On occasion you definitely get people who need more discomfort than some. Entitled, demanding, ungrateful clients who bitch about trivial things that are out of your control are another story, I rather enjoy seeing them suffer a little even though you still maintain professionalism. Guiding people in wild places in uncomfortable conditions can be a very unique view into who people really are.
This guide is the real deal. Good watch. I was a fishing Guide for 30plus years. Only ran into 4-5 customers that were a problem. But not as bad a problem as dealing w/cull customers in dangerous conditions like Rick had w/this one. Thanks for the watch Rick.
You meet some interesting people as a guide. Some good, some bad. Glad you made it out safe!
Excellent story, thank you.
Please post more stories from this hunter!
Went on a moose hunt 4 years ago to New Foundland. One of the other guys that was in camp at the time insisted he should only have to pay half price since he spotted the moose he got before the guide did, Some people are real a-holes
Those people didn’t get punched in the face growing up for saying/doing something done. Maybe you should have given him the pleasure
I'm currently finishing a trip to see my family on the south west shores of newfoundland. Ran into some family guiding some people from New York. They only took the antlers and wanted to leave the meat to rot. Horrible to see. Yes people are assholes
@@NicoChantYes that is wasteful and they are not ethical hunters. Most hunters do not waste meat.
However, nature wastes nothing. Many animals will be fed by any carcass left behind. Is it less worthy if it feeds other animals ? Just some food for thought. Have a nice day 😊 I love animals but understand hunting to eat and as a management tool especially in the case of large predators. It's best for bears to retain their natural fear of humans. For their benefit and ours.
Bears who lose their fear of humans can be dangerous bears and if they come to see human habitation as a food source, they often end up being euthanized because they pose such a danger or if they actually hurt someone.
@@metalmamasue3680 The recycling factor is valid. IN a land where "big game" species are introduced overpopulated noxious pests causing major ecological damage, we have guides & recreational hunters demanding salvage of meat and limiting what is killed. When killing everything they saw would not significantly affect the pest population. Clients don't have a monopoly on being problems. UA-cam & TV is riddled with them.
I’m from the north of England and I was brought up with the rule if you kill an animal it goes on the dinner table and some of the scraps go to the dogs !!!!
Brilliant reenactment, telling of the story. My hat is off to you, sir clearly you are a straightforward man! Much respect.
Use to guide in my youth, sounds like he had a real prick for a client. They were right to tell him basically not to come back, sometimes it's not worth the trouble. I can imagine if he was with you when the bear attacked, he would've blamed you for that too.
Incredible storyteller .....Some men are just built different
I know I would like to hear more of this guy’s guiding stories!!
Thankful you lived another day to be the husband and dad I am sure you are!
I’m amazed at the laziness of the whiny so called “hunter” lol Love the way this guy tells a story 💯👌 Great video!!!!!
Really sorry about this guy smoking ya from Texas. Not all are that way Sir. Glad you made it, one heck of a guide!
This gentleman’s solo bear attack could have been much worse. Imagine if that Texas client had joined him.
What an amazing story and a true reality of weekend warriors. You sir have the patience of a saint. Obviously this so called hunter should have stayed at home. I loved hearing you tell the story and can only hope you’ll have many more to share with us all. Bravo sir BRAVO
Was it Phil Shoemaker who you guided for. My hats off to you sir for not knocking the Texan out cold.
Sounds more like he was working for Phil Driver to me.
That's not my definition of a true Texan as I am one. That, my friends, is the definition of an AH!
Must of been one of those Cali Texans lol
Damn straight, my friend!
I think many people believe most texas oil man would fit the stereotype .
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What a fabulous story teller. Thank you for sharing with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great narrator. Great details. Keep making more of these fascinating stories.
I wouldn't encourage a man to keep making stories about facing a bear face to face. Be a short book.
@@cndurbin91
Yes indeed! About two chapters long.
Went to East Anchorage back in the early 80s, knew a guy named Al Burnett that was a hunting guide. In hind sight, wish I had pursued that as a career!
Now if he had taken his whiny hunter with him to recover the gut-shot moose and had the same angry bear attack, the right thing to do, in that case, is to step back a few paces and allow your client to have a bear encounter.
I can easily picture this man, dressed up in 1830’s attire, complete with a beaver fur hat with tail, buffalo skin trousers, and snowshoes, with a large bear fur coat, like the one wore by Jeremiah Johnson(Robert Redford). Awesome looking beard!💪
I was thinking the same thing as speech pattern isn’t of this era. Seems like a really cool dude.
@@rojoloco3911he was a frontiersman in his past life.. and in this life lol
Client sounds like a nightmare. Good story, enjoyed it
No, the guide sounds like the nightmare.. The client sounds like a pain, but who's paying who???
@@frisk151did we watch the same video? Lol how is this guide a nightmare? Smh
@@monte4150I think we found the client 😂
@@hurricaneaquatics lol, to funny
Rick can tell a story! Thanks for sharing.
This is a fascinating story. I teach firearms instruction and I have had students who do not like to be inconvenienced with Weather issues and they want a gun with all the bells and whistles so they don’t have to have ability or practice.
I know people exactly like you're referring to, its pathetic to witness. I often see people who own a gun and have even been through CCW courses and still have no business being anywhere near a firearm. It's like they didn't retain anything even the most basic rules for owning and operating a firearm. I am sure you have seen some wild stuff as an instructor.
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
Bears are insectivorous, brown bear actually build the mound on the carcass,let it rot till its maggot covered,essentially farming maggots which are protein packed. More protein pound for pound than the meat of the carcass itself.
Interesting. Never heard that before.
Bears are Omnivores
Thus, besr meat has so many parasites?
@@mikehawkhovers9872 Yes all bears can carry parasites which is why you must cook the meat thoroughly. Many hunters have learned this the hard way by getting trichinosis or some other parasites and getting very sick.
You can also get it from under cooked pork.
A family friend got it from undercooked summer sausage and was very sick.
Just because they occasionally eat insects does not mean they are insectivorous, they are omnivores.
I like this guy story time because I don’t think he’s embellishing at all. I think it’s real deal no bullshit let’s hear more of this. These stories are captivating for me. I’m a hunter haven’t had much access to bears, but they are definitely a force of nature.
Wow! His description of the charge was like I’ve never heard before. Amazing.
Brilliant story, thank you sir .
Give us some more stories! This guy is great
Great story! I couldn't imagine going through that for a self-centered client like that. I give him credit! Thanks for sharing, Nate.
What a fantastic story 🫶🏼
He told this story so well i felt as if i was there. He did an awesome job
Wow this is a fascinating storyteller!
Kinda wish he named and shamed that client “hunter” haha. Great story nonetheless, this guy can really tell one
I'm hoping at the very least, this unethical and inept hunter was educated well on his mistakes and inconsiderate behavior. I don't need to know his name, I hope among guides his name is shared so others don't have to put up with his poor sportsmanship.
I'm not even a hunter but I grew up in a hunting family and I know better shot placement into vital areas. As well as how not to be a shitty human being to others.
His name starts with a P & ends in a Y
There's nothing like grizzly country adventures!
Wow!! What an incredible story!!
That was not a hunter you were dealing with.
That was a suburban boy looking for a mommy .
Well told story . Don’t accept clients who won’t get their feet wet 😂
Bro. Rick is a great Brother and friend. Loved this video.
Crazy story! Really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing your experience. Maybe you can share a few more soon.
I ain't even done watching this account of one of the craziest hunting stories I've ever heard in my life... Makes you appreciate life when you cheat death... Yes sir... Yes mam! Epic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I wana hear more stories from this guy , he’s great dude, great story voice, truly
What a story !
Fantastic story and fantastic delivery. Your knowledgeable details make everything more real
Great story from a great story teller!
That client is exactly why I’m no longer a fishing guide and would never guide big game trophy hunters.
Genius...great story! Glad Rick made it out.
Uncle Rick! My 3rd favorite story of yours ❤
😮 I must hear the top two!!!
bro this is not your uncle 😂 this is literally my dad and he has no nieces or nephews
That was fascinating. I am not experienced in that field of work and survival to your best ability on that day.I like stories but non fiction is the best kind. Thank you
Spent 25 years in Alaska and had similar experiences with Mr. Grizz while up there. This guy is the real deal....the Texan....all hat and no cattle.
Wow, great story! Very knowledgeable guide, I’d love to hunt with him!
This is one bad ass guide!!!!!
I don't even hunt, but this was fascinating to listen to. Thank you.
An amazing story. Thank you.
What a Karen for a hunter! I’m glad you made it out okay, Buddy! You should circulate that douche bags name around to all the guides, so no one has to put up with him.😂
Absolutely awesome storytelling. What an experience you’ve lived! What rifle, and caliber did you use? Love hearing about these details
Rick shared this with me
“I was shooting a 338 Winchester Magnum. I also sometimes carried a 375 H&H, but that was when I was specifically guiding for bear”
Thank you for that story.
Very cool story. Thank you for sharing.
I hope that guy was blacklisted. What a jerk!
This is the coolest story I’ve heard
Great story and I’m glad Rick is alive to tell it. But, just as an observation, he should have made sure his client had everything he needed in case Rick became incapacitated. The client does sound like a real last place winner.
EDIT: Rick does have an awesome beard. One that would probably make Grizzly Adam jealous. 🤠
Amazing how big a a**hole some people can be. Good job. Aorry u had to go through that by yourself.
Fantastic story, thank you for sharing!
I am 17, I encountered my first, and only Grizzly in Wyoming in an elk camp just over two years ago, It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced. I was collecting water for the camp cook and I could hear the snow crunching and the bear snapping its jaws so her teeth were making this ominous cracking sound. She was a pretty good distance from me and I got my handgun out. I didn't have bear spray or anything but I did have that gun, so I got it out and I was shaking like an idiot and this bear is just standing off with me. I started trying to yell and whoop to scare her away, and she kind of paused for a minute, so I thought she was about to leave and then she started to charge at me. She kept charging like 15 feet and stopping. She got about 50 feet before I shot my first round off, I shot it up into the air because we are not supposed to shoot the bears if we can prevent it. At this point she is thumping her feet into the ground and making these barking/growling noises just as he described in the video, at me and I was shaking like crazy, I don't even think I was breathing. She comes at me again, and I shoot again, and at this point I can hear the hunting guides trying to get over here to me, (the water was a pretty good distance from were are camp was set up).
She's charging me again and I shoot one more time, and I can see my bullet hit the tree beside her. Finally, one of the guides got up to me and when she saw the bigger man and then the other guides she whooped a few more times and turned and ran off.
So, that was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I always wanted to see a grizzly, but I did not expect it to go like that. She was a magnificent animal, and I am so glad I did not have to shoot that bear.
This happened August of 2022, just through Shoshone pass. I do not believe there is documentation on the incident, but it is not far from the Big Horns, where in recent years have seen several grizzly attacks in the elk camps.
Wow. Glad you made it out. Thanks for sharing your story
That’s a pretty crazy story but not unlike many others that can be heard from hunters, especially archery/early season hunters here in Wyoming.
In your last paragraph, you mention the Bighorn Mountains. I believe that is incorrect. The Bighorns are a good ways away from grizzly country, and although a few roamers have been seen, including one that Game and Fish killed this past spring, there are not significant numbers of grizzlies.
@@lancekrystoff9619 I believe I was thinking specifically of the case of Mark Uptain. I'm pretty sure it was a pair of bears, I remember hearing about it a few years back.
The places I have been on the Bighorns have a big bear presence, but it's areas that are like 5-7 hours in the mountains on horseback, no it's not necessary a publicly accessible area, most of it is outfitter camps, and stuff like that.
The area is probably better described as Absaroka.
@@LyddleMetalHeadAbsaroka is more likely the case. The Bighorns hold black bears, but any grizz are transient and not in large numbers at all. There was one that was killed by Game and Fish on the West side last Spring.
You guys need to keep all your bears up there haha. There was one last year I believe that wondered all the way down just north of Kemmerer around lake viva naughton and one was caught on a trail cam about 13 miles from the UT border. No thanks!
This is a crazy story! Thankyou for sharing! Wow. And this client really sounds like the worst client imaginable. I hope nowdays guides would not go outside alone if their client develops an extreme case of lazyness. I mean that is hunting, what did he expect? That someone puts a world record moose into a small fence from him to shoot? I really enjoyed this story, could be a series of episodes, too.
I met Rick on a recent work trip to Alaska. I enjoyed his story and wanted to share it here. I’m glad you enjoyed it also.
That’s about what the “hunter” wanted, a caged hunt.
That wanna-be “Hunter” is an absolute joke, i’m sure he tells the same story VERY DIFFERENTLY!
That folks is how you tell a story
Great story teller!!!
What an amazing story!
Wow, that was a great story!! Thanks for sharing.
Riveting story by a wonderful story teller! Thank you.
Omg! Wow! Glad you are ok and glad that guy left.
Great story!!
Great way to start my morning listening to this amazing story 👌🏾🔥 glad you are doing well sir
Great story!
Man awesome story!
Steve from the channel “facts by how to hunt” tells mostly Sasquatch stories but as a world famous guide he also has told stories like this aswell. Especially about guiding for wealthy hunters who are bad people who want everything.
This blokes a legend
Glorious beard. Phenomenal storyteller. Badass human being. You have my never-ending respect and admiration.l, good sir.
Awesome story.
Epic Tale.
Epic Beard.
Absolute Legend.
What a story and what a nightmare of a client. Thank the good Lord you’re ok
Great story telling. Very immersing
That was a great story, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Your story is every hunters dream. It is always like that, when you dont expect you see the biggest animal
What a great story fom a very handsome man! (I can say that cause Im a senior ). Praise God it turned out that way ! Wonder if the Texan ever tried hunting again lol!😂
This guy is a great story teller.
I know this guy is telling the truth because I see this way too often in not just hunters but also fisherman. Mainly hunters and fisherman who travel for these or use a guide. Also seems to be older males who are wealthier for the most part. I live in Alaska and prior to living here I use to travel up here every year to fish the salmon runs. I am only 35 so been coming up here since my 20's and even from the beginning I felt this desire to be on my A game and not look like a knuckle head, while also showing the utmost respect to the land, the water, and the locals.
Unfortunately most that travel up here for fishing and hunting and even some locals don't take that same approach. They leave trash and broken line and leaders and hooks all over the river banks, they trample vegetation that is used for fish to mature into adults, they truly act like vultures and I am not sure of a better way to describe it. I see grown men and even sometimes women racing to a certain place to stand on the river, they'll think maybe you're headed to the same spot they want so they go completely off a trail and trample through healthy vegetation to get to a spot on the river before you do. To me that is odd very caveman like behavior, that is not the behavior of a civilized adult who was raised properly and has perspective on life.
What I deem as "trophy hunters" which is what Rick is describing in this video are insufferable people, they aren't hunting to fill their freezer with food for the year. They're hunting so they can sit in their mansion with their buddies and talk about their trophy kill over a $2000 bottle of scotch. Their trophy kill might I add that they didn't skin and process or pack out. That's most times why they pay upwards of $20,000+ for a guide all they want to do is pull the trigger. They don't want to do any of the work to find it, they don't want to do any of the work to harvest it, they don't want to pack it out, they don't want to spend two full days cutting it into steaks and vacuum sealing it, they want to be placed directly in front of it and pull the trigger and that's it. Hunting and fishing the right way with integrity, dignity, respect, and hard work is a therapeutic to the core life changing experience, people who hunt how Rick is describing miss all that and never gain perspective to carry with them throughout their life. It is pathetic and sad all at the same time.
The ONLY reason to hunt is for food. My father rammed that message into my head since I was a little girl. I'm 61 now and thankful he did. I've had plenty of thanksgiving dinners with a turkey I hunted down, deer steaks for my children's dinner and even a bear roast one time. I'm forever grateful he taught me how to process the animals too so I could fill my freezer. Now excuse me while I take some deer ground meat out of the freezer. I have a hankering for some good chili.Oh, and PS He even taught me how to make my own bullets.😊
@@jamierupert7563 I agree, for food first and foremost. They always say don't pass up on an animal on day one of a hunt, that you would love to see on the final day of a hunt. The goal should be to fill your freezer. Unfortunately the people like Rick is describing in this video will never see it that way, they need the trophy kill they didn't earn the same exact way they need the $400,000 Ferrari, the same way they need the Mansion with 13 bedrooms when only 2 people live in the house. These type of people will never be happy because they never gain perspective in life or take in any of the most important lessons in life. It's always more more more, they'll never be happy. This year they need a record moose or they're pissed, next year they'll need a record elephant in Africa or they'll be pissed, entire time they learn nothing its just another story for them to exaggerate and brag about.
We get the same Aholes come into South Dakota and expect to be treated like royalty because they're throwing us peasants a few shekels. The ONLY people happy to see them are the liquor sellers and the "pheasant reserves" with their tame birds. For some reason I'm the designated magnet for Aholes from Tennessee. I should have my brain CAT-Scanned to see it emits a signal or something.
Before COVID, every year I'd hear stories from animal shelters or game wardens about hunting dogs abandoned and left on their own until someone finds them. Stories of dead or wounded dogs were not that rare. Angry hunters get mad a dog for some reason and shoot it. These swine treat everything and everyone like disposable tissues. Lots of stories about rich guys from down South buy an expensive brand new shotgun when they arrive, then leave it when they're done. This may sound like exaggerated but I wish it was but its not. I even left out how bars ship in extra strippers from Minneapolis, Denver and Kansas City to "entertain" the "sportsman".
The Covid crash seems to have slowed down some of the wanton and hedonistic types of "hunters". We didn't miss the shekels either, well the liquor stores did.
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@@jamierupert7563Total BS. It’s completely valid to hunt in order to eliminate destructive pests(eg prairie dogs) and to control predator populations (eg coyotes). Food is a big reason , but there are many others. You’re ignorant.
Great story
Pretty great story!! Do you have any more stories?
This is my friend Rick who I recently met on a trip to Alaska. I’ll see if I can get anymore stories from him on my next trip.
1) Hunter gets award for biggest dbag on planet.
2) Brilliant story and story teller.
Joe Rogan needs to see this. It'll blow his mind away.