FIRST EVER Filmed Hunt for King Eiders in Greenland - The Journey Within, Waterfowl Slam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Mark Peterson concludes his quest for the North American waterfowl slam in a single season. This week he is joined in Greenland by Matt Gindorff, a senior consultant at Worldwide Trophy Adventures as he finally gets his hands on the 43rd and final species, the King Eider. Upon arrival, Mark and the crew must ride out 5 days of quarantine but they are also the first to ever capture this hunt on film. As he pioneers the Cook Islands and sets the standard for waterfowl hunting in Greenland, Mark comes to find out that this hunt was worth the wait.
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43 Species - Going after list
Birds harvested in this episode:
✓King Eider
Birds already harvested:
✓Greater Snow Goose
✓Lesser Snow Goose
✓Blue Goose
✓ Atlantic Brant
✓ Greater Scaup
✓ Wood Duck
✓ Mottled Duck
✓ Blue-Winged Teal
✓ Black-bellied Whistling Duck
✓ Canvasback
✓ Sandhill Crane
✓ Lesser Canada Goose
✓ Ross's Goose
✓ Speckle Belly
✓ Hooded Merganser
✓ Lesser Scaup
✓ Ring-necked
✓ Northern Pintail
✓ Northern Shoveler
✓ Green-winged Teal
✓ American Coot
✓ Common Eider
✓ Long-Tailed Duck
✓ White-winged Scoter
✓ Black Duck
✓ Common “Black” Scoter
✓ Surf Scoter
✓ Barrows Goldeneye
✓ Ruddy Duck
✓ Tundra Swan
✓ Gadwall
✓ Redhead Duck
✓ Common Merganser
✓ Cackling Goose
✓ Red-breasted Merganser
✓ Harlequin
✓ Pacific Brant
✓ BONUS Aleutian Green-winged teal
✓ Mallard Drake
✓ American Wigeon
✓ Common Goldeneye
✓ Bufflehead Drake
✓Fulvous Whistling Duck
Birds left on the list:
None
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00:00 Intro
Check out the first episode of the 2022 quest for the South America Waterfowl Slam! First episode premiered on 8/24/22 th-cam.com/video/pIPDG0ZnyFA/w-d-xo.html
What a great accomplishment mark! I’m sure there is a lot of memories with all 43. Can’t wait to see your trophy room with this grand slam!
You and me both! I can't wait to get all the mounts back. I'll make a video when its done!
If I had never waterfowl hunted before seeing this video, I would be chomping at the bit to go shoot at some Ducks after watching this. Makes me want to go to Greenland really bad! Great job Mark! Awesome crew!! Seems like you guys had a great time!
Thanks for watching and it was an epic hunt and journey.
Yep my favorite hunting channel...I love the amount of effort put into each video
Thanks for watching Ben, and thanks for the comment. We do put a lot of effort into each video. Glad it gets noticed.
Great Hunt and video! Definitely a bucket list hunt for me!
Thank you! I highly recommend it!
What a video!! Wow that a waterfowlers dream those kings are beautiful so jealous keep up the good videos
Stumbled across this on my recommendation page. Awesome content, gained my follow
Thanks for the comment and glad you found me! Thanks for the Sub.
23:00 I laughed pretty hard😂 Great hunt and series mark! I really enjoyed it! Congrats!
Thanks for watching.
I used that exact spinner (blue / broadbill) here on Long Island. The wings blew off in the wind, and the salt water destroyed the battery connections. It may be good on freshwater, on the Mainland, but not in salt water.
Great video and awesome accomplishment!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.
Hail to the king, baby!
That’s insane! Awesome hunt and video.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a blast.
Congrats on the completion of your journey. If I am not mistaken, I believe you left the cinnamon teal you harvested in Sinaloa off the list above. Was the Sinaloa trip not in the same year as your Greenland hunt?
Ahh good catch, I must have just left that off the description.
One of the best hunting videos I've ever seen. Very original. The quality compared to other youtube channels is unmatched. The shooting was very impressive. That's coming from someone who competes in clay shooting.
That means a lot to not only myself but my field producers and editors as well. Thank you and please share it out there. It really helps.
Peep that greeters hoodie! Backwater all the way out in Greenland pretty wild
Thanks man.
Congrats on the feat! I do have to say that was the most anticlimactic hunt i have ever seen though! Roll up on a bird that probably doesn't have a whole lot of human interaction, in a giant yellow boat, barrel rested and sniped. Not how i had imagined it, not how i imagine how a hunt goes. But an amazing accomplishment non the less!
There is a bit more to it that "rolling up" the actual hunt with Eider hunts such as this is to approach the bird the correct way. The art is in the approach and not the shooting.
@@ljp200 think you missed my point! Its not an art to drive a boat up on birds that don't get a lot of pressure, they are not easily spooked. As i said the accomplishment is still a huge one. The rest of the hunts in the video where amazing, but i stick by what i said, it was anticlimactic to see him drive up on a bird and shoot it, there's little to no fair chase in that, kinda like spotlighting deer imo. Might be legal to do some places but doesn't make it fair chase.
Mark that was an amazing accomplishment congratulations! That had to be super emotional moment getting the number 43 once again congratulations!
It was, so much was going through my mind I didn't know what to say!
Don't know why , but hunting from a moving boat and basically shooting ducks on the water isn't what I call duck hunting. Not tearing you down about it, to each his own, but that's where the term " like shooting ducks on the water comes from".
Here in Alaska I live in kipnuk it's a small village when Me, My Dad, and My Uncle went hunting for king eiders flock after flock that day in the ocean by Nunivak Island .We caught 123 king eiders, 24 black brants, 35 emperor geese.
Limits?
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I’ve always wonder if the thing on the kings beak was hard is it?
Congrats on another great slam can't wait to see what's coming.
Thanks 👍
Nice shooting
Thanks for watching!
why no canvasback?
do you eat eiders? cant imagine they are palatable seeing as they eat clams etc
I am not quite sure, but you can eat anything! However I did not eat mine I froze all of them to be mounted.
Yea you threw a lot of cash at a adventure, but ground sleucing them from a boat does not make a hunt in my books. You give real hunter a bad name!! Billy in Canada
I’m just trying to figure out what the intro song is
Long live the King, but I need to check with editors on that.
I can’t find the king song either
some of that looked cold :)
Ohh it was really cold! lol
Who you use for a guide ?
Why not stay in the USA for the SLAM?
I tried but the season and some birds it would have just been even more complex. I also wanted to showcase different places to hunt certain species. Thanks for watching.
What “long love the king” song is that?
Great question, I'd have to ask my editor. I'll try to find out.
Thank you, sir. I just got back from hunting kings in Greenland with Frank. Had an awesome trip!
What is the title of the long live the king song
Super excited for this one bittersweet awsome hunt but last one what other slams you got planned mark?!
Well I don't want to give to much away but the one I know for sure coming is the North America Deer Slam. There are so many different species of deer. That will be a cool one.
How about something with the different birds in Argentina or Australia :)
@@MarkVPeterson thatd be sweet! Dont give too much away for sure super excited for tonight's episode!
@@MarkVPeterson Seagulls, eh? Maybe your next slam challenge can be garbage birds: seagulls and cormorants would be a good start.
43? what do you consider 43..don't you mean 41/42 with the emporeor?
The 43 in my slam is the following:
King Eider, Greater Snow Goose, Lesser Snow Goose, Blue Goose, Atlantic Brant, Greater Scaup, Wood Duck, Mottled Duck, Blue-Winged Teal, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Canvasback, Sandhill Crane, Lesser Canada Goose, Ross's Goose, Speckle Belly, Hooded Merganser, Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, American Coot, Common Eider, Long-Tailed Duck, White-winged Scoter, Black Duck, Common “Black” Scoter, Surf Scoter, Barrows Goldeneye, Ruddy Duck, Tundra Swan, Gadwall, Redhead Duck, Common Merganser, Cackling Goose, Red-breasted Merganser, Harlequin, Pacific Brant, Mallard Drake, American Wigeon, Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead Drake, Fulvous Whistling Duck and 44 would be BONUS Aleutian Green-winged teal.
@@MarkVPeterson and yet no euro widgeon....slacker.... JK - good job. Lifetime quest for my son and I!
@@justnashp2293 Thanks.
Cómo puede uno matar a esos animales tan majestuosos en lugar de admirar su gran belleza?
I hate to think what this trip cost.
I think my consultants at WTA are working on a hunt listing so you could check it out for yourself.
They made you quarantine for 5 days what a joke.
thumbs up just for using Jeffrey martin song on this video.
Thanks Stephen. It's a great song.
Wtf is that?! It’s not even hunting your just pulling up in a boat and shooting them that’s garbage 🗑
I take it you don't hunt or have never hunted waterfowl before.
Mehhhhh all this video shows is that you should’ve planned better, flying to Greenland on a private jet for a king??? Got them in the us
Does no one care that sea ducks taste worse than mergansers?
The fact that you had to put all the quarantine, masks and testing bs in this HUNTING video is the reason I will never subscribe to you sir.
Thanks for watching. I am sorry you feel that way. To complete the slam I had to follow the rules. It was a special hunt.
But what do they taste like?
Hunting from a motor vehicle is not hunting. Its just not fair.
Imagine traveling across the globe to waterswat a duck😂
Imagine rippin in a guy who just killed 43 species of ducks in one season and pushed through hard to make it happen.... solely because your a jealous troll who probably shoots hen mallards all fall. LOL. Shut the He11 up
@@jameshansen1490 rippin on him is a bit extreme, pointing out the fact that he went trough all that work to toss fair chase out the window though is justified. what Mark did is incredible but not how you would have thought it would have been done.
Guys a better shot then you could ever dream to be. Go back to sucking your thumb in the corner
You obviously didn't watch the whole video, he shot another one flying. Douche
@@kellygunner1 Yeah i did and that was great to watch but maybe that's how the first one should have been!
I hunt and I get the thrill of the hunt but I have to know.... Am I the only one that thinks it's weird to travel this far and spend this much money and waste that many resources just to shoot a new type of waterfowl? There's ducks and shit in the USA my guy.
its more about the grand slam than just the duck. and there are few places you can go to shoot that specific duck.
I wish if I can join you adventurous life😢
wow you are such a badass!!! you could get just as much adrenaline playing with the gators lol... you just love to kill shit
Dear mark I see myself in your videos..my dream my kind of life..alasssss..I can't do all but can see myself in you
Thanks for watching! I hope you're able to go on some adventures!
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!! T minus 29 hours!
You sound excited. lol
Why didn’t you just hunt kings in Alaska?
I didn’t realize St. Paul was still closed! Carry-on good sir!
Too many hens taken on a trophy hunt
This trip must have cost a fortune…. Great video!
If you want to go on the trip it’s usually a $7500 trip without airfare.
@@MarkVPeterson Dang it was $5900 in 2019. My buddy and I were going to be the second group to hunt Greenland but the outfitter changed quite a few things before we made it there so we cancelled.
That's awesome. That's my ultimate bucket list bird. So, was st Paul island not an option, or was Greenland just the "best" option? Great run. Excited to see where you go from here.
Shawn, at the time St. Paul island was closed because of Covid-19. Greenland was a the only option and it was a miracle it came together. All credit due to my consultant at WTA Matt Gindorff. worldwidetrophyadventures.com/
@@MarkVPeterson
Definitely agree there with how difficult it was to come together but it happened and was great. Thanks for sharing
This. Looks. Like. Hunting. For. Rugged. Hunters..... these. Look. Like. Large. Size. Birds. At. Med. To. Long. Range.... and. Might. Be. Good. Conditions. For. The. Rem. Auto. Ten. Or. My. Good. Old. Mag. Ten. With. A. Load. Of 2.s. or. Bb.s. if. Your. At. A. Loss. For. Words. Something. Like... outstanding... fabulous. Marvelous...unbelievable..might. get. Your. Meaning. Across. Understood. Here... have. A. Nice. Day....
Bringing the birds back to US, did they have to go to a USDA approved facility or are birds coming from Greenland exempt ?
Interesting he’s the first one in Greenland and has no gag reflex ;) awesome birds!!
Funny David! I have amazing consultants who made the whole trip a possibility for me.
Absolutely unreal - what a journey “
Thanks it was an unreal experience!
Whitetail Cribs brought me here
Thats great, my trophy room is going to be adding this for sure!
Good thing there wearing camo in a yellow boat
Yeah that is a bit odd isn't it. It was the only boat we could find to rent to take us to locations.
You gotta come here to coastal Alaska for sea ducks, Aiders around Kodiak island, plus it’s just an awesome area!😉👍
You bet I will be back to Alaska. Thanks for the invite.
C'mon man it's pronounced Loo-Poled. NOT LEE-A-Poled. Really???
Watching this video and seeing some of the crap they made us do for covid was wild
Couldn't agree more!
I like how you skipped Charles Summerville in Alaska, and went to Greenland for king's instead!
Didn't skip, just timing and then Kings were gone when I needed to hunt. Greenland was my only option.
kun je niet even wachten dat de eenden in de lucht vliegen en schieten
Mark , I have to say that your channel is one of the best!!!
Congrats for your achievement, my friend!!!!
One question.., has anyone ever killed all species of ducks and geese ?? If not, I think you are the right one…. It’s time…
The GREATEST SLAM EVER!!!!!!
My regards from the other side of the Atlantic, from Greece.
Thank you for your kind words that means a lot. I am not sure if I can even find an answer to your question. There are so many species of waterfowl across the world and clarification of fowl changes internationally. It would be hard but I like your idea! haha
@@MarkVPeterson Yes I know, some birds are strictly prohibited !!! At least you can go on with the game birds…
I’m sure that nobody ever done it, no one…
Imagine all these birds on your walls. Each bird will be a unique story.
By the way , you have the best trophy room….!!
The decoration is amazing.
Your passion is impressive
Did you drive up and shoot that bird? If so to each their own I guess.
The first bird we drove for miles to find one, then later on in the episode we set up decoys and shot some from the shore. That was an epic hunt regardless.
Гарне полювання, видовищне, влучнi пострiли навiть заздрю.
Дякую за перегляд.
Great hunt!
Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it.
Why didn't you go to Alaska
Very cool hunt !
Looks extremely cold too,
but im sure it was worth it !
You got that right! It was well worth it.
Cool little duck hunt
I’m not hating but why did you hunt in a bright yellow boat?
It was the only boat available to rent to get us from place to place.
How did you retrieve those Eiders?
We had the water taxi boat to retrieve most of them. Great question.
Do you have an estimated price on what this trip would cost?
The cost of this trip is $7500 give one of my WTA consultants a call today at: 1-800-346-8747
What a joke ...
What subspecies of common Eider are those? Great kings, but those common eiders have me drooling...
Can you send me a timecode of the video so I can be sure to answer your question correctly?
@@MarkVPeterson
30:30
They are either a Hudson bay eider or northern eider. Wonder if Greenland gets any Faroe Eiders. That would be a treat. They are not Pacific eiders as those are in the bering sea of Alaska.
@@darinnoorda1626 Greenland recognizes them simply as "Somateria mollissima" (Common Eider) There are many different subspecies of common eiders based on their geographical location and I believe these would be Husdon Bay Eiders.
What a beautiful trip! thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for watching!
Ridiculous restrictions
You bet.
Know I’m not going to win that giveaway… but I might as well try!!!
You never know Ethan. I hope you do win!
@@MarkVPeterson ME TOO!!!
I shudder to ask...How do they taste?
I did not eat the king Eider I directly froze them because I am mounting them for my man cave.
How does this not have +100k likes
I like the way you think! 👍🏼 smash it!
Hi Mark, Can you please confirm that you used a semi-auto on your trip. 2 shells chambered only? Some people are saying that one can not use a semi in Greenland on this type of hunt. Is this true?
That was sic great job guys.
Thanks Jerome! Make sure you watch them all!
Awesome video, what a dream!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
What an adventure.
You got that right.
Yeah you call that sporting? I wouldn’t even be excited about that. Anyone can be in a big boat and drive up to them.
Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much 😀
Only bird i didnt see on the list, canvasback?
You can watch the hunt for the Canvas Back here: th-cam.com/video/98sqK5NkiGA/w-d-xo.html
@@MarkVPeterson yeah i saw that you went on a can hunt, i just didnt see it on the list, but i appreciate the reply
How did you prepare all those eiders?
The outfitter I went with handled all the cleaning and prep. The Kings I froze and saved for taxidermy.
@@MarkVPeterson so...... you didn't eat the ones that are not destined for the wall?
One of my bucket list birds awesome video!
If you're a waterfowler it should be on the bucket list. So cool!
@@MarkVPeterson indeed
Well now you gotta get the sub species and they opened up the season on trumpeter swans in one of the lower 48 still got a ways to go
Thanks for the comment.
@@MarkVPeterson loved the series I'm bummed it's over I was really enjoying it.
@@MarkVPeterson how hard is it to get the birds back from Greenland
@@benburress9481 It wasn't terribly hard when your on a private jet. I am sure a normal airline would be a little more complex but as long as you tag them with the Federal Migratory Tags you should be fine.
@@MarkVPeterson what outfitter did you use and what's their rate?
Could of just killed one in the states😂
not during covid...
جميل جداا 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
What a bunch of nonsense for a flu
Very very impressive
Thank you.
what was the long live the king song towards the end of the video?
Its a good one isn't it. I think its just that, Long Live the King but I need to check with my editors on that.
@@MarkVPeterson did you ever figure out what song that is? Can’t seem to find it anywhere
That music sucks so bad. Had to mute it.
no steller eider?
There is no legal season for the Steller Eider.