Craig Van Arsdale

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Craig Van Ardsale joins the podcast to talk about his hunting trip in Kazakhstan, and the sacrifices he made to spend more time in the backcountry. (Excerpt from Craig's trip) This trip had been on the books for a couple years now and it was time to go! I flew from Phoenix AZ, to San Francisco CA, to Istanbul Turkey, to Almaty Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 then a Domestic flight in KZ where we met our driver who would take us 6 hours via dirt road to the hunting base camp. The next morning we shot our rifles, ate breakfast and headed out on the ponies to our first camp location you see here! KifaruBecome a Patron!

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0:00.0	It's Monday morning everyone. Welcome to CaffarooCast couple days before Christmas.
0:05.2	My partner in crime Frank has left me to go visit his family in the hinterland and so I'm here solo.
0:11.4	And I've got a long time friend and a killing machine craig van Arnsdale on the podcast. Did I
0:17.2	pronounce that right? Is it van Arnsdale? Yeah, he did. Most people screw that up.
0:22.6	I've known you a few eight years probably I guess seven or eight years,
0:26.0	probably met you really just at the sheep show really. Yep, yeah, just kind of I think
0:30.0	you know, do each other through rock slide at the time and then met up. Yeah, I think it was
0:34.1	probably eight years ago. Did you been on a terror? How much hit have you shot in the last couple
0:38.6	years? Good lord. Well more than that, but you've been all over the world too. What are some of
0:43.8	the crazier trips you've gone on? Well, I mean not quite as much stuff as you have, but I guess
0:49.6	the crazier trips have been to winter Russia last year, just to film a trip for a friend of mine.
0:56.9	Punning tur. So we had a two species that's there one in the mid caucus mountain range and one
1:01.9	in the western range. What did you think was it what you thought it would be? You know, it's hard.
1:07.7	I mean, I guess I would have thought that the people would have been, I don't know, you know,
1:14.0	I guess the people are just incredibly nice over there when you go over there. So like there's
1:18.2	no issues. I mean, we haven't had a single issue on any of those puns. Everybody's super friendly.
1:24.0	You know, everybody's on the same page there. The terrain is crazy, you know, and the hunting is
1:29.4	incredible. Like there's just tons of animals. You know, you know, you're up there and you're like
1:33.5	trying to find them, you know, a sheep or something like that, and you go over there and there's
1:36.4	just heard the like 30 or 40 sheep. You know, finding the bigger one is really the only issue
1:42.2	they have. And then the communication obviously, none of those people speak any English most of the time.
1:47.9	Did they burn the accent in their yurt? They did that in Kazakhstan.
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