Ep. 14: Casey Butler

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Casey “LaVere” Butler is a success story. A few years back he decided to leave his 9-to-5 job at a steel mill to do something crazy: create a hunting and fishing YouTube channel. With no assurances he'd make anything of the idea, he took the leap and started Hushin. His friends Eric Chesser and Brian McElrea joined him and together in just a few short years they have created one of hunting's most unheralded media powerhouses. They have a dedicated audience that follows their every move as the crew creates semi-live content from the field. It's raw and unedited, something new to the space.

There's more to Casey than just his branded content. He's a family man, raising four kids with his wife in the mountains of Idaho, and a guy who truly enjoys the experience of hunting. To say Casey comes off as a "regular guy" is no slight. It's easy to relate to his honest approach to capturing his hunts and Hushin's diverse fan base is evidence that his message resonates.

I met up with Casey and Ryan Callaghan from First Lite to chase free-range axis deer in Sonora, Texas. We had a kickass few days dodging chiggers, rattlesnakes and ticks tracking rutting bucks in 100-degree heat. Afterwards we sat down to discuss the dangers of hunting the Lone Star State, success and failure in bowhunting, winning the mental game, and covered some deep topics on life, death and what we can learn about both in hunting. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Schools out. Hey, do you remember that Alice Cooper?
0:03.2	Was that Alice Cooper? Schools out.
0:08.4	Humb that Alice Cooper song and then think about this. My new title.
0:12.4	Ketch a crayfish, Count the Stars.
0:14.8	Chock full of fun activities and adventures that will help build serious outdoor kids.
0:20.8	We're talking knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them.
0:29.0	You want to build up a good hunting buddy, a good fishing buddy out of your kid?
0:33.2	Well, start me young by teaching them how to build a wildlife viewing blind,
0:38.2	how to gig a bullfrog, how to navigate through the wilderness using a variety of
0:42.6	orientating skills. They'll also learn how to climb trees, build emergency shelters,
0:47.6	hunt for fossils, gut fish, track critters and much more.
0:51.6	It's me, eaters first, but for kids.
0:54.2	And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career.
0:56.8	I was just waiting until I had kids long enough to give me some expertise on the subject.
1:00.6	And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this a long time.
1:04.8	We've got projects and activities for the whole family to do together and for kids to try out on their own.
1:11.0	Go to the meater.com to order your copy today available wherever books are sold for kids eight and up.
1:19.2	Hey everybody, welcome to the hunting collective.
1:24.6	I'm Pinot Brian. And after a long break, we're back at episode number 14.
1:30.2	And we're joined by none other than Casey Butler.
1:34.2	Casey is the founder of Get Hushin's YouTube channel, content house that he and his buddies,
1:42.4	Brian and Eric run out of Utah on Idaho respectively.
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