Ep. 46: Donnie Vincent
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Donnie Vincent has spent a ton of time in wild places and in doing so has gathered a bunch of interesting stories and perspectives.
With his company, Sicmanta, he’s created three feature-length hunting films including his newest release entitled “The Other Side” and “The River’s Divide” which followed his hunt for a buck named "Steve" in the Badlands of North Dakota. In challenging the typical 30-minute TV show format, he’s creating hunting content in a different way and focusing on compelling visual story-telling.
We caught up in Las Vegas during SHOT Show for a conversation around the origins of his interest in wildlife biology, tracking tigers in Nepal, his longing for adventure and how modern hunters can benefit from critical thinking.
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| 1:40.8 | know-how. Get the book now. Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode number 46 of the hunting collective. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm Ben O'Brien. And I'm joined today by Donnie Vincent. Donnie Vincent is a biologist slash film |
| 1:58.1 | maker slash world adventure who creates some pretty awesome films. He has a new film out called The |
| 2:06.0 | Other Side, which is an hour and twenty minute long feature film about his bare hunting adventures |
| 2:11.8 | up north. It's a great conversation. Donnie is a sneakily smart dude and has been around the |
| 2:19.2 | world and done some amazing things and collected some pretty awesome perspectives in doing so. So it |
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