JRB Channel Update; Bigfoot, Do I Carry? Wild Animal Encounters, 100k Subscribers

Hey guys, Joe here. Thanks for clicking that button again. I'm with the dog, and we're out in the middle of the woods, just by my house. It's 7 o'clock at night. I hiked around for maybe an hour, got here at dark, set up, and got a fire going and stuff. I'm at my shelter, my little lean-to. I haven't been here in some time, probably since my last video here, to be honest with you. I've been busy going up, doing bigger trips farther away and stuff. Thought I'd give you guys a little update a little update video. I haven't done a video in about three weeks I'm getting ready to go out again soon But I needed to put up a video and I figured we're out here might as well bring the camera anyway 2017 I haven't camped yet this year is gonna be good this year is gonna be probably my biggest camping year yet 2016 I ended up 57 nights out my goal was 50 so really happy about that that. I got to do a couple of different things last year that I hadn't done before. Last year was the first time I really tried fishing for trout. And by the end of my first real trip, I caught a good one, but that was about it. But by the end of the year, I've got the feel for how to trout fish. And hopefully this spring, 2017, I'm going to put that into use and actually catch more than one trout. But one was better than my years previous. We're always moving forward right always gaining I also went to Temagami is the same trip to be honest I had never been there before I met a couple of new people last year good some good friends so that's good too I brought some scotch with me I think it's about time to take a little swig of some scotch I got I bought um Lagavulin I think that's how you pronounce it like a Lagavulin, Lag avulin single malt scotch you can't have any I was generously gifted a gift card by one of the people that I met this year who live around me Clint my buddy Clint the dirty hippie who lives in a canvas tent on his mommy and daddy's property according to a lot of you but we've become really good friends and he gave me a gift card for the liquor store for 100 bucks so I was there and I was thinking, man, I can get a lot of really good craft, a really good amount of good craft beer for this hundred bucks. Go on, bud. Or I can get some scotch because I'm never in a million years going to buy myself a $120 bottle of scotch. But with this hundred dollar gift card, I wanted to pay 20 bucks and I'm like, yep, I want to treat myself. So Clint, this one's for you, bud. It is so smoky from the moors the peat bogs anyways back to talking uh this year coming up i have opportunities to do things that i have not done as well there's an opportunity to go to Norway to do some filming and and adventuring i'm hoping that pans out i'm hoping to find out soon if that's going to work or not uh there's an opportunity to collaborate with some big YouTubers there is going to be a fly-in fishing trip i'm not sure if it's solo or not myself and Mr. Sean James from Myself Reliance have been speaking together about possibly doing a trip in woodland caribou that's uh far north and then we we take both of our solo canoes strap them to a bush plane and get dropped off on a lake far in and either do a route and get picked up or do like a seven day trip out we'll see we'll see how that goes i do have access to some new land as well i've met i've um i've used it once now a generous subscriber offered me the use of his land to film on and camp on so i have that uh that's some new stuff that i can do some places that i that i'm allowed to go that are really nice that have good resources like a river with trout and salmon running through it um so that'll be really cool excited for that i always get a lot of questions on my YouTube channel, on my videos and stuff like that. And maybe I can address some of the most common ones here in this video. Do you carry a firearm? I do not. There's a few reasons why. Let me first and foremost say I am not against it at all. I would and I will. I live in Canada and my part of Canada and the majority of Canada, you're not allowed to just carry around a handgun. I know you guys in the States may think that's dumb, but it's just the reality here and it works fine for us um i have i have my restricted and my non-restricted your non-restricted is your long gun and your shotgun and stuff like that your restricted is going to be your handgun maybe there's a couple other things that fall under restricted as well maybe like uh i'm not sure i'm not going to go into it i'm not sure um but i have those i was never brought up hunting i was never brought up with guns or anything like that i did not have a male influence in my life i did not have a dad growing up so all these all those things that i i wish i would have learned i didn't But now I do have people to show me these things, and I am learning. But, yeah, no, I don't because I've never. I don't because I have not been allowed to. I don't because I don't feel like I need to. The only thing that really scares me, not even scares me, but gives me concern when I'm in the woods is it would be a man, people. This kind of ties in, really, to another very, very, very popular question that I get, which is what is the craziest experience I've had in the woods, or what um what is the worst animal encounter or anything like that and the reality the situation is there there hasn't been any bad ones at all i've come across bear black bear many times the most uh serious time was on alone when i when i was across just that short river from the black bear and i spoke to him and i stood there for i don't know 15 or 20 minutes talking to the guy and what they didn't show is i slept under an a-frame tarp nylon with both open sides maybe 50 feet from that spot my camp was already set up it was dark you know I was getting it was dusk um yeah so I slept there maybe 50 feet away 12 hours that night no concern I I really I was finding it I did not feel any aggression from that bear mind you this is black bear I'm not speaking on grizzly at all I have zero zero experience with brown bear grizzly bear I do not never come across I've never camped in grizzly bear territory when we were on Vancouver Island for the show they told us that they know sometimes grizzlies swim or swim over to the island but at that time there had been not one scene swimming over there were cougar but you don't see those guys this stuff is so smooth it's not even like like a whiskey really where you feel like this when you drink it it's really honestly like just smoke phenomenal i love it so again on alone that That was my closest, longest, most worrisome experience with bears and it wasn't even worrisome. We weren't allowed to have weapons on the show. I had my axe in my hand at the time and in my head if this bear charged me I was holding my ground and swinging my axe at his face and that is not what I wanted to do, but really that was my only option. Another question would be what about Sam Squanch, you see Sasquatch ever, do you believe in Bigfoot? I do not. say that i don't believe in him believe in it i it's a far stretch for me a very far stretch i've never felt seen heard experienced anything that i felt needed to be described as bigfoot mind you again i'm not camping in alberta i'm not camping in the mountains in the rockies montana wherever you know things like that um vancouver island was the only place that i've been that could have possibly housed bigfoot i i got a little turned around one of the days i was there and coming back to my camp man some of the tree roots you know that had fallen over and trees fall over and they they have that cavity or the roots pop up like there could have a size of a house in there like so very big i'm just walking by thinking like oh my goodness you know something's living in there but that's how big it was out there i digress some of you may notice that i grew pretty quickly lately. I did a really big video where I went out and camped for the night or the two nights and I built that lean to and stuff. And I was at about 90,000 subs. I put up that video and within a couple days, I was at like 110,000 subs. That video now is at 400 and something thousand views. For me, that's a personal best. My best video ever for view wise this is like a 575,000 or something. And I put that out two years ago. And this other video is at 400 something thousand. I put that out like a month ago. So it was a really, really, really big milestone for me to hit and I'm super happy about it. Super thankful for it, for 100,000 and for these big numbers now on these videos, man. So I put out that one video and since then I put out two videos. The one got like 70,000 views or whatever, which is really good because it was just me and a couple other guys goofing around in the woods. And then the next one I put up was with me and Scout camping out of the hot tent. And that one's at like 370,000 or something like that. Like super, super good numbers in three or four weeks. Like, again, so that, again, was a personal best. Again, I think that one even is beating the original, the two-night lean-to one. So thank you. I don't know what I've done to deserve it lately, but I'm very appreciative. I really am. 100,000 was uh never even a goal when I started nothing was a goal when I started when I started this I was just making videos to put in for competitions on a forum 100,000 seemed not even feasible but now this is it this is what I do now and it's all because of you guys I only have you to thank, thank you sincerely, it's crazy, it's crazy when you think about it I've met so many good people through it too I've become friends with a lot of the the good YouTubers on there, a lot of the people who just commenting, I've camped with people, people send me things I see people repping my patches, I love that when I see people, people like put a post to Instagram with my patch or on Facebook whatever, or my backpack that I that we sold, really cool. I know Mike from MCQ Bushcraft said he might be coming to Ontario this summer and he said he's going somewhere near where I live, so I'm gonna try, try to make that happen, try to get together with him for day or something, uh see if he can, if not no big deal but uh you know we've talked before and he seems like, seems like a nice guy, like he'd be up for it, I like his videos a lot. Who do I watch? I watch things other than bushcraft stuff a lot, um I do watch bushcraft and outdoorsy channels, I like TA Outdoors right now, I've been watching him a lot, British guy Mike, I think he's British over there, UK somewhere, Mike got a good sense of humor and his dad's a trip too, um so check him out, TA Outdoors, but the stuff I really watched, I really like is like like first we feet feast hot ones it's a really cool show they they have like celebrities and rappers and all sorts of people on there and they eat hot wings and answer questions it's really cool it's a good format I'd like to do that with the craft beer and interview people great great show I think YouTube's the jam nowadays man like some quality stuff being put out on there got a couple cool trips planned for the near future be doing two nights soon and then two nights at the end of the month with a group of people and then in February probably uh middle late February I'm going to do a solo five to seven day winter trip where I'll be snowshoeing across a bunch of lakes setting up camp getting uh until I get to my destination so I'll probably set up camp once get to my destination camp there for the duration and then hike back out camp along the way and get to the car again that should be fun after my last trip you guys a lot of people um offered up some good info about Scout for his hips which i really appreciate i looked into a couple things so we're we're trying some stuff and uh he's out with me now he's doing really good so in all honesty he is doing well for a nine-year-old dog i didn't want to come across that that he's like worse for wear or anything like that for nine years old he's doing well i just don't want to push it with his hips you know what i mean i don't want to make him walk through all this heavy deep snow where where it's struggling and putting strain on his hips he's got these big cysts on his on his joints and stuff too but he's a trooper he will come regardless if it hurts him or not he'll go i just want to put him through that i'm sure you guys can understand that i have a phone call with Malcolm from the Hidden Woodsman soon to talk about 2017 plans working together so that should be pretty cool i really like the guy malcolm's a great dude makes quality quality gear i got got his backpack out with me today one of my favorite backpacks it's the end of that we're supposed to get 10 centimeters of snow tonight we shall see how that goes i hope to drive up north soon and build a quinzhee and sleep in that it'll be fun hope you guys enjoy that video quinzhees like um like a quicker igloo almost you don't build the blocks you just mound the snow and hollow it out dig down for a cold well and then do a little um like a bed bench kind of thing but yeah well folks i think i've rambled on long enough i hope you enjoyed this video i wanted to get it out because i haven't had anything up in a long time and um yeah i wanted to talk to you guys i wanted to to say words to you hopefully you enjoyed it please please comment please reply to what i asked you please comment on what i've spoke about in this video let's use this video as a dialogue i know uh there's a lot of times i can't reply anymore because there's so many comments now and uh it's a good thing but i try to i try to read and comment and reply so yeah thank you for watching