“In the beginning, when I first started hunting, I didn’t really know the land, right, because I worked in the mine for so many years. I’ve always wanted to hunt, do all these cool things the hunters were doing, traveling distances and so forth. So when I first started hunting, I asked people, the locals, like ‘where’s the best place to go hunting?’ You know, and so I slowly started engaging and hunting with the guys.

The way I hunt, and a few of us now versus a large number, is when I hunt here in town it’s always we’re trying to keep it traditional. Right? Meaning we travel by snowmobiles, it's not every hunt we bring home a kill, just because we’re tracking their tracks, we’re following them. You know, you get that sense of smell of where they were. So you’re basically tracking the animals versus hunting up on the winter road, which I’ve done in the past. I’ve only done it once and told myself ‘I’m not hunting there again’. It’s just fast paced. You know, you could leave here, drive for a few hours, you could easily get a kill the same day or same night, right? And you can get them in numbers. And the butchering itself is, depending on what you want, you don’t have to take home, you can leave which I don’t believe is a great idea but most people do it.

Apart from that, I don’t like sitting in the vehicle too long, you know, it’s cramped, its just uncomfortable, and to me, it's not hunting. You’re not out in the elements. You’re not, you know, just driving on the road and you know, shooting caribou versus what we do is, we’re out there in the elements, we’re out there in the cold, we’re traveling for hours. Some days, we have to overnight. You know, you get the machine break down and you have to work, you know, you have to be the mechanic on the spot.

Ya, I don’t know what it is about being out in the wilderness, it just makes me feel mentally comfortable, I guess. Everyday life you’re at home and dealing with this and that. Out in the woods its just, I don’t know, I just feel at home. It’s cool, I like it.”