kind of tell us about how this all happened you guys going up there the
Northwest Territory and I think the Canadian wildlife guys got
ahold your dad to make a promotional deal he wanted that to open it up the
next year for hunting and this was year before they opened up for hunting we
were to go in with the Outfitters an outfitter of Alberta that had horses and
he was gonna build some cabins in the camp and trail his horses in and he
didn't know whether he could winter him in there or not it was a long trail in
there it begins with a legendary pioneer in the wildlife filming wilderness
adventure and fair chase trophies define him the son adds to the legacy and
becomes the voice for a generation of hunters today the third generation
pursues trophy big-game in places where success comes from skill determination
and grit now 60 years of hunting tradition comes down to one defining
moment we're the Eastmans we've been filming and hunting for over 60 years and three generations
and these are just a few of our adventures
this is Eastman's hunting TV it's big-game hunting and it's as real as it
gets you know back then it wasn't like today where you can get on a jet plane
and before you know it you're in Yellowknife and we're meeting the
outfitter up there at that time it was a adventure just getting there the road to
Buckley ended at Ross River and across from a Senate cabin is Warner
and his wife remember when you stayed at Warner
place oh yeah I've seen you guys on television yeah yeah how big he
was when I was there I think there's about like that we stayed there a few
days at Warren then we took off your dad was smart
enough to go with Warren Johnson in the Super Cub and we went with Stanbro it's
all pastel soft colored very easy to look at and usually there's fog and
clouds hanging around the peaks beautiful country
how did you decide determine to go on that plane to Abraham I mean here you
are in this vast area well as kind of a biblical deal I thought they told us we
did good hunt whatever we wanted whatever we needed they wanted us to
show the people what the north territories held in the way a game was
unbelievable that big band to sheet there in the plains Abraham that we
missed well obviously had never been hunted
every afternoon there was a thunder and lightning storm then they'd clear up
I actually think them sheep thought our rifle shots for thunder my they all
jumped up they missed the whole band how do you miss 18 sheep the sheep are
looking around like what was that noise these are bad camera moves I'm going
back and forth trying to find a dead sheep
there wasn't any seemed like it took forever I'm still looking for a sheep
the second salvo they really moved them on they missed him standing that's
pretty tough to do part of the band went to the right whoops
shot again still no dead sheep I had a hair-trigger in that gun of mine
bears so shot I don't think he aimed and it scared me and I pulled the trigger on
my now i don't know where the first shot went and your dad he said I mortgaged my
house to get us guys up here everything I've gots in this and you two guys make
fools of yourself out there is it Gordon the public wants to see those sheep get
away they want to see two guys like me and Ed make fools of ourselves and them
all get away I was actually watching the movie myself I was glad that those two
fools didn't get any help you know Danny was right about about those guys missing
those sheep everybody loves that they all took good sheep in fact dad took a
boone and crockett sheep but that wasn't what it was about they were up there for
the adventure to look at the country to see if it was huntable and these guys
were fair chase their day about the time your dad got mad cuz he wasn't in the
movies no one evening we see something's wrong with him so I said what's wrong
I'm not in any of the movies it's just you and Purcell all the time I should be
in some of the movies we said okay tomorrow orange starting out in the
morning cooking breakfast we'll run the cameras you show us how that was good
looking guy you know that cold black hair so we get up in the morning your
dad is combed his hair and he is perfect like he's going to a party and we're
gonna show how we cooked breakfast out in the woods you know he told Purcell and I
you two dumbheads look into the camera when I'm making
movies you're dead get down and he's gonna say no this is we're cooking some
pancakes here we're gonna have some cheap steak here we chop that cheaper
meat your dad but do about four words you need look right up in the camera and
go just like that and look back down and we didn't know what to do so we just get
doing me he cooked breakfast and said well how was it though said worthless you
can't use any of it you never quit looking in the camera you know where we
shot that rainbow where we were walking through the base of that rainbow that
was 11 o'clock night I just walked outside there and I
walked over there and I seen that rainbow I run back in and said come on
you guys quick we're gonna walk through it we're gonna walk through a rainbow
and he said you nuts they came out there and that George they see it and then
they grabbed the cameras boy it was a it was like it wasn't real
while they're there two riders came in one named Larry Coulter who wrote for
Guns & Ammo the other one was Duncan Barnes and at
that time he wrote for Sports Illustrated they were brought in to see
how good the hunting was and hopefully do some stories to promote the Northwest
Territory they also witnessed dad making an
exceptional stock on a huge Ram and dad was able to harvest that Ram and it
eventually went boone and crockett and then dad was there for another two
months and finally got out of that country just before the snow really
started piling up it was a 30-mile walk back to the Goblin Lake
it was a long walk I can still remember how tired we were we got back
and they were putting the last piece on the cabin roof now cougar logs cabin is
down degree monument to that mountain man and it'll be here for a hundred
years now after he's gone Northwest Territory was the greatest wildest
country had ever felt it was a greatest adventure I'd ever had and you know
it'll be there long after I'm gone like I thought
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