Drop-Camp Ethics & Pilot Protocol with Zack Knaebel of Tok Air Service
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES
Intro: Live from the field, recorded standing under the wing of a Super Cub on a staging strip in Alaska.
Topics:
- Drop-Camp, DIY hunter prep & planning
- Lightweight gear
- Planning for good meat care
- Ethics & responsibilities of meat care
- Knowing the Regs
- Pilot protocol
- Don't bring too much weight
- Don't pressure or try to manipulate the pilot
- Don't expect to control the weather
- Don't beg to come out early
- Getting weathered in (temporarily stuck) happens. Plan & be prepared.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks this one's coming at you from the field today. I'm Joseph von Benedict with the backcountry hunting podcast and I'm standing here with my friend |
| 0:08.0 | Zach Naval. He's a crack bush pilot and the owner of Toke Air Service. |
| 0:14.3 | We're on a little staging strip in Alaska on the way out from a caribou hunt. |
| 0:19.6 | And man, just glad to have you here on the show today, |
| 0:23.2 | Zach, it's a pleasure. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to the staging strip |
| 0:26.5 | from your solo Caribou hunt, Joseph. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 0:29.9 | That was a interesting hunt. |
| 0:31.8 | It was a great hunt with some real highs |
| 0:34.8 | and some real lows that I didn't expect. |
| 0:36.6 | I learned some stuff on that hunt. |
| 0:38.7 | And some of it was, yeah, pretty profound stuff and thank you for helping me through that you gave me a |
| 0:46.7 | couple pieces of advice that counted when it mattered so I appreciate that you're |
| 0:51.6 | welcome all right so today we want to talk about some |
| 0:56.0 | things that you see DIY hunters arriving from the lower 48, some mistakes that you commonly see them make, as well as some |
| 1:06.2 | ethical considerations that you see and sometimes concern you and then some |
| 1:12.1 | responsibilities that you see hunters taking too lightly. |
| 1:16.4 | We've just talked briefly here between us about a few of those things, but off the top just hit us with you know some of the mistakes that you commonly see |
| 1:26.2 | that you'd like hunters coming to fly with you or other bush pilots to be aware of and |
| 1:31.7 | try and pre-correct so that you know these busy pilots |
| 1:36.3 | flying against all conditions and under a lot of stress sometimes you know have to |
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