Several years ago, I was in Alberta, hunting with Wally Mack, and the guides brought in a tremendous black bear.

He was literally twice as big as the biggest bear I've ever shot, which was two days before that.

I don't know what he squared, but once they skinned him out, they measured him nose to tail

and he was 8 feet 2 inches long.

And they brought him in across the back of a Honda four-wheeler.

His nose was hanging off on one end and nearly dragon on the ground,

as Pa's war dragon.

And on the other end, or across the other side,

his back paws were also dragon on the ground.

And I asked these guys,

how the heck did you get that bear up on there because he weighed too much

for the guide and his client to lift by a factor of about three right and he said

oh we got tricks we just use the winch on the front of the four-wheeler to hoist the nose up in the air.

First I backed it up to the bear, then we stood it on his tail, strapped the bear to the rack behind the seat, and then pulled

the winch forward down to the base of a tree and tipped the forewheeler back up on its wheels. And I realized these guys had more time with and more, oh I guess,

dependence on and almost kind of a partnership with their machines than I'd ever known in a hunter in the

lower 48 states where I grew up.

Now I'm a horse guy from way back and for a lot of years I pretty well revolted at the idea of using an ATV, but I've come

around.

Middle age tends to make you do that, and some of these machines are brilliant assets.

And there are ways to get the most out of them.

Now I want to welcome back to the show, my friend Tyler Freel.

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