Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 2 p.m.
Mike and Dan talk with Outdoor Channel videographer Ben LaLonde.
- Chased his dream job
- Works for the Outdoor Channel
- News was the stepping stone to bigger things
- Thought about the Travel Channel
- After 12 - 15 applications with no call he was starting to wonder
- One email changed his fortune
- 2 months later he was hired
- First assignment was Hawaii
- In Alaska chasing dangerous game
- Thinking about grizzlies made him a bit nervous
- 150 miles into the Arctic Circle
- Most embarrassing moment
- Bad rain gear leads to hypothermia and dehydration
- Pee color is important
- A good exhaustion
- Looking through the lens
- Working with Dr. James Kroll aka Dr. Deer
- Watching the way nature works is simply incredible
- Everything fades away
- Being behind the lens is different than being behind the trigger
- https://www.facebook.com/ben.lalonde.5
Archery Trade Association show 2018
- 4 hard days
- Attendance was down
- Not as many vendors
- Garmin Xero bow sight was the wow factor of the show
- Dan liked Con Quest Scents doe in heat test kit
- Mike liked the PSE Stealth Carbon riser bow
- Mike also liked the Primos see through blind
- Native Blinds concept
- Fourth Arrow Camera Arms new products
- Wynd Scents new products
- Carbon Express AtlAtl
- Rambo Bikes
- Got our hands on a brand new bow that the public has never seen
- Danny breaks a crossbow