The struggle as a dad teaching your kids to hunt and embrace the suffering is so hard when you don't want them to suffer. Love the real side of this episode!
Easily one of the best episodes Meateater has published because of the quality of this Father/Daughter relationship. It's easy to tell how close they are and how much quality time they've spent together to get to that point. Awesome work on that dad's part. 🙌
Opened the comments to say this exact same thing. MeatEater has put out some incredible videos, but this one is just on another level. The pure emotions and clearly genuine relationship and bond is absolutely beautiful to see between a father and a daughter. Well done.
My daughter is 5! Both of us cant wait for her to start hunting. I’ve been taking her with me since she was 2 and she loves it. Especially when we see elk. 3-4 more years and she will probably be doing hunter safety. Already got a custom rifle built with arca rails and everything setup for it to be on a tripod!
Tony is my absolute favorite in the MeatEater crew. He doesn’t skimp on real life issues like mindset and stress in his podcasts, and he’s absolutely raising those kids right. Keep it up Tony!
My first baby is coming in a couple months and it's hard to watch this without tearing up because I can't wait to be able to do this stuff with my children some day
Good to know I wasn't the only one to tear up. Her excitement after she let that beautiful shot go and his absolute pride in her just struck me. I wish my girls would hunt with me.
This video is easily and without any comparison, the best MeatEater/hunting video ever made. So many of the feelings and conversations are a mirror of me with my daughters. I completely agree with and understand the comment about how you don’t wanna hunt for yourself anymore you just wanna hunt with your daughters. I feel the exact same way. Thank you for making this video.
I really can't wait to be able to be showing my son the ropes when he's old enough. I think this really resonates with a lot of us parents who were shown by our parents and now have young children of our own. Being able to share something we were taught and learnt that we are now proud and passionate about with the next generation and them hopefully with the generation that follows them. I can't be anymore thankful then that.
This was the most true, wholesome, awesome video i have seen in a long long time!! It’s truthful, got the kids out and real life!! We need more videos like this, uncandid! Awesome, loved it!! Let’s see more of this. Best I’ve seen in years, if not ever!!!
Been trying to have a child going on 4 years now. This entire episode had me on the verge of tears. The happiness of spending time with your kid in your happy place has got to be one of the best feelings in the world. The “thanks for taking me.” Killed me at the end. I can see why everything you do for yourself doesnt matter because her appreciation trumps everything. I hope one day I get to experience that.
Loving the everyday-hunter content Tony Peterson is bringing to Meateater. Great learning and fun watching the big wigs whack a spike every now and again like the rest of us
Great hunt! Been taking my 12 year old out for his first hunts behind the trigger and just having the opportunity and means to get them out is a such a blessing.
It takes 10 years plus to draw a black bear tag for Zone A as a resident, yet one farmer complains about crop damage and the DNR (does nothing right) brings in professional trappers to erraticate any bears coming through the area? Bears can smell for over seven miles, pretty hard to determine which one is a "nuisance bear". It's unreal, I wish the Wisconsin DNR would have an overhaul and actually listen to the people of this state. Good hunt, good on you for getting the kids out hunting and passing on the traditions. Love all the Meateater videos, keep up the great work.
@lifeblaze I’d like to encourage you to talk with the DNR and get involved in the DNR and Farming regulation process. DNRs across the country are often forced to do things because of other, more politically powerful, groups. Rather than berating the DNRs and reducing their ability to champion better ideas, help them get political support for the ideas.
More like this please. This is so relatable. I like watching the meateater stuff but I can’t afford to do a nonresident big game western hunt spot and stalk every year. Hunting in a blind with my kid is where I am at in my happy place. Even the part where he breaks down the deer in the back of the pickup. My kids love skinning and grinding deer and makes them appreciate where their food comes from. Good stuff Tony.
Reminds me of taking my 8 year old son into the woods squirrel hunting and being worried that he hadn't come back to camp after dark. I'd head out to find him, and he'd be halfway back. You said i could hunt till a half hour after sunset, so I did. No fear. That was always Tony.
21:05 that time comes for every hunter. You still want to go chase game, the hunting season still gets your blood pumping, but you're more exited for the next generation of hunters to have those experiences you had at their age. It's perfect and means you have come full circle as a hunter, father and outdoorsman. Hunting is such a traditional and enjoyable experience the only better thing than goin yourself is to take someone with you. Great video, thanks for the content!
Love to hear you talk about hunting relating to your daughters- the balance of hard work and not to much work. Wanting the hunt more for them over self. Great episode.
I've always had great respect for Tony as a hunter. But seeing the way he interacts with his child was inspiring and heartwarming. Much admiration here.
So freaking awesome. As a dad and seeing how happy she is it's amazing. I have 4 daughters and one of them is interested in hunting this is definitely going to make me take time to take her out hunting!!!!!
All the videos without Steve have more a of normal human experience feel about them. This one is rich with the feelings of hunting with a significant person in your life, whether it be a child, best friend, significant other, etc. Thanks for bringing us along and sharing this deeply human with us, Tony.
I don’t hunt. Not because of any opposition to it, I just wasn’t raised in it. I fish and I take my daughters fishing but this is a whole other level of beautiful. I love this. That bond, her excitement, her toughness
By far the best episode The Meateater crew has put out. Nice to see families involved. Next up, Mark or Steve with their kids. We have seen Clay and Tony. Thanks everyone involved and yes that poor Spike buck lol
Keep up the good work. You are definitely on the right track with your daughters. Although my daughter turned 36 this month, and lives half way across the country, we always try to schedule at least one hunt together each year. My first hunt with her was with a subsonic 22 rabbit hunt with her in a snugly. At 12 she got her first 3 big game animals, one with a bow. In the years since we’ve gone on many dozens of hunts, 90% self guided on public land. This year she burned 20 points on a bull elk tag in Colorado and we got to spend another week together hunting. Although she was successful, the most important part was the hours of reminiscing about the good times, hard times, and boondoggles over decades of hunting together. You will not regret the time you are putting in to make the hunts fun and successful.
I wish I would have been able to see that forest through the trees. I pushed mine a little too hard to embrace the suck, and they both kind of checked out instead. If I could go back and do it over, I would make it as easy as I needed to in order to keep them engaged.
That's Hunting... But She Is Still Excited to Go AGAIN! Great Success Dad... She's Got the Drive And Interest gonna B An Avid Hunter For Life Thanks To U!!! Makes a Harvest All The More Meaningful When u Had to Work For It! Better luck Next Season!!!
This video is awesome. When you show the loading of the crossbow you can do that by only touching the front of the bolt to keep your hands out of the strings firing path.
I'm taking my daughter out in a couple weeks. She's four, which is the age I started tagging along with my dad. She's pumped out of her mind. I hope I do as good a job as Tony at being encouraging and patient.
I guess I’ll be the guy to point out that neighbor that complained about crop damage. I know hogs are terrible on crops but I don’t know how much damage black bears do. Maybe they just didn’t want people hunting bears. Anyway it’s amazing that you guys got to have this experience together. My son and I went on our first bear hunt this spring and it was one of my best experiences ever. Mostly because of the great bonding time.
Thank you brother for showing this side of hunting. I’m trying to be this way with my daughter. Her mom’s side of her family are mostly against it. This gives me some ideas of how to go about it with her in the future. The first run did not go super well 99% my fault but this makes me look at the situation a bit differently
My little girl is 9 in January and wants to go so bad, tough being in PA and only having public to hunt. I’m overly afraid of taking her and it being a disappointing experience, hopefully all goes well next year! Thanks for this video
Mine got her first animal ever this year a nice buck, after many mornings and evenings she never gave up and kept wanting go back finally a shooter walked out and she dropped him! Could hardly keep her in the tree she wanted to go get him so bad all those emotions rolled right into her cooking the hamburger up for us to eat ! Keeping the next generation out there is our duty
Isnt that just WILD that youre looking at five years of points to draw a bear in that unit and then the usda kills fourteen bears in a week over crop damage that wont even touch the amount of value of those bears.
@danielblair6592 id be interested to know the policy in this district, but listen to the meateater pod, theyve covered usda trappers extensively. Crop damage insurance in wisconsin is right up with auto insurance for deer... the insurance has the money and the money says kill them.
Growing up, I would spend the night at my grandpas or uncles house every weekend, just for a chance to get up early, and trounce through the woods, or fish. But I can’t get my kids out of the house hardly at all!
agreed... Just not in it for myself anymore... My two kids tag out and I'm done... The Boy killed 2 in archery season at 16. My daughter harvested a 6 pointer in Pa rifle opener and she just turned 15... I'll hunt till the end, but for me.... It's all about the kids.
I love how she's a tough girl who wants to kill deer and blood trail it, but turns right back into a teenage daughter at the 10:18 mark! The same reaction I would have gotten from mine!
Were you guys in C or A? I had a tag in C this year. Glimpsed one, which was all I was hoping for from my first-ever black bear hunt! I have 7, 5, and almost-3 year old daughters. Keep up this content -- I wanna know what Lila likes about going so Gwen, Lu, and Mags will want to come with me!
Why the cross bow? Had mad respect till I seen that … now I’m all conflicted. I bought my daughter a mission bow by Mathews, crossbows are closer to rifles than they are to real archery. Super glad she is in the woods and you are getting her out there just don’t know why you choose to cut the corner with the cross bow vs actual bow??
I believe you are overthinking it. Make them be part of all of it so they can make an informed decision about hunting. Then, respect that decision. You can not compare them to yourself at that age.
That "thanks for taking me" will keep u going for so long. Love to hear it
The struggle as a dad teaching your kids to hunt and embrace the suffering is so hard when you don't want them to suffer. Love the real side of this episode!
Well they baited the bear. They didn’t hunt the bear, so I don’t know how much easier you could make it for anyone.
Easily one of the best episodes Meateater has published because of the quality of this Father/Daughter relationship. It's easy to tell how close they are and how much quality time they've spent together to get to that point. Awesome work on that dad's part. 🙌
Opened the comments to say this exact same thing. MeatEater has put out some incredible videos, but this one is just on another level. The pure emotions and clearly genuine relationship and bond is absolutely beautiful to see between a father and a daughter. Well done.
My daughter is 5! Both of us cant wait for her to start hunting. I’ve been taking her with me since she was 2 and she loves it. Especially when we see elk. 3-4 more years and she will probably be doing hunter safety. Already got a custom rifle built with arca rails and everything setup for it to be on a tripod!
Nothing more beautiful than a dad and daughter hunt ❤
Tony is my absolute favorite in the MeatEater crew. He doesn’t skimp on real life issues like mindset and stress in his podcasts, and he’s absolutely raising those kids right. Keep it up Tony!
What an amazing Father and Daughter experience, Raised Right!!!!!
My first baby is coming in a couple months and it's hard to watch this without tearing up because I can't wait to be able to do this stuff with my children some day
Good to know I wasn't the only one to tear up. Her excitement after she let that beautiful shot go and his absolute pride in her just struck me. I wish my girls would hunt with me.
Same here me and my wife are due in march
I'm in the same boat. Got my first due the end of April. I am so stoked.
Same here, due in May and I can't wait to teach him everything
Congratulations. Next adventure starts soon bruv. 😊
The fact she was ready to go blood trail (such an amazing thing to hear)and you showed her the best way to do it is amazing!!
This video is easily and without any comparison, the best MeatEater/hunting video ever made. So many of the feelings and conversations are a mirror of me with my daughters. I completely agree with and understand the comment about how you don’t wanna hunt for yourself anymore you just wanna hunt with your daughters. I feel the exact same way. Thank you for making this video.
I really can't wait to be able to be showing my son the ropes when he's old enough. I think this really resonates with a lot of us parents who were shown by our parents and now have young children of our own. Being able to share something we were taught and learnt that we are now proud and passionate about with the next generation and them hopefully with the generation that follows them. I can't be anymore thankful then that.
Such a great episode, so awesome. Its awesome to see this parent and child bond like this. Making such great memories together. Love it
This was the most true, wholesome, awesome video i have seen in a long long time!! It’s truthful, got the kids out and real life!! We need more videos like this, uncandid! Awesome, loved it!! Let’s see more of this. Best I’ve seen in years, if not ever!!!
you are a hell of a dad! good f****** job man. greetings from germany
Tony is a true Midwesterner and fantastic father! Nothing wrong with taking a spike and celebrating the harvest!
Been trying to have a child going on 4 years now. This entire episode had me on the verge of tears. The happiness of spending time with your kid in your happy place has got to be one of the best feelings in the world. The “thanks for taking me.” Killed me at the end. I can see why everything you do for yourself doesnt matter because her appreciation trumps everything. I hope one day I get to experience that.
Loving the everyday-hunter content Tony Peterson is bringing to Meateater. Great learning and fun watching the big wigs whack a spike every now and again like the rest of us
Great hunt! Been taking my 12 year old out for his first hunts behind the trigger and just having the opportunity and means to get them out is a such a blessing.
It takes 10 years plus to draw a black bear tag for Zone A as a resident, yet one farmer complains about crop damage and the DNR (does nothing right) brings in professional trappers to erraticate any bears coming through the area? Bears can smell for over seven miles, pretty hard to determine which one is a "nuisance bear". It's unreal, I wish the Wisconsin DNR would have an overhaul and actually listen to the people of this state.
Good hunt, good on you for getting the kids out hunting and passing on the traditions. Love all the Meateater videos, keep up the great work.
@lifeblaze I’d like to encourage you to talk with the DNR and get involved in the DNR and Farming regulation process. DNRs across the country are often forced to do things because of other, more politically powerful, groups. Rather than berating the DNRs and reducing their ability to champion better ideas, help them get political support for the ideas.
More like this please. This is so relatable. I like watching the meateater stuff but I can’t afford to do a nonresident big game western hunt spot and stalk every year. Hunting in a blind with my kid is where I am at in my happy place. Even the part where he breaks down the deer in the back of the pickup. My kids love skinning and grinding deer and makes them appreciate where their food comes from. Good stuff Tony.
Reminds me of taking my 8 year old son into the woods squirrel hunting and being worried that he hadn't come back to camp after dark. I'd head out to find him, and he'd be halfway back. You said i could hunt till a half hour after sunset, so I did. No fear. That was always Tony.
He’s keeping it going in the best way. Good work sir!
He’s keeping it going in the best way. Thank you sir!
So cool to see a father commenting on his son’s hunt with his grand daughter! What a legacy you have built Mr. Peterson.
@brymcdowell3052 It was just, so much fun!
21:05 that time comes for every hunter. You still want to go chase game, the hunting season still gets your blood pumping, but you're more exited for the next generation of hunters to have those experiences you had at their age. It's perfect and means you have come full circle as a hunter, father and outdoorsman. Hunting is such a traditional and enjoyable experience the only better thing than goin yourself is to take someone with you. Great video, thanks for the content!
Love to hear you talk about hunting relating to your daughters- the balance of hard work and not to much work. Wanting the hunt more for them over self. Great episode.
I've always had great respect for Tony as a hunter. But seeing the way he interacts with his child was inspiring and heartwarming. Much admiration here.
So freaking awesome. As a dad and seeing how happy she is it's amazing. I have 4 daughters and one of them is interested in hunting this is definitely going to make me take time to take her out hunting!!!!!
I loved this video. thanks so much for sharing this experience with your daughter.
All the videos without Steve have more a of normal human experience feel about them. This one is rich with the feelings of hunting with a significant person in your life, whether it be a child, best friend, significant other, etc.
Thanks for bringing us along and sharing this deeply human with us, Tony.
I don’t hunt. Not because of any opposition to it, I just wasn’t raised in it. I fish and I take my daughters fishing but this is a whole other level of beautiful. I love this. That bond, her excitement, her toughness
Also my exact position, it’s so cool to watch.
By far the best episode The Meateater crew has put out. Nice to see families involved. Next up, Mark or Steve with their kids. We have seen Clay and Tony. Thanks everyone involved and yes that poor Spike buck lol
Keep up the good work. You are definitely on the right track with your daughters. Although my daughter turned 36 this month, and lives half way across the country, we always try to schedule at least one hunt together each year. My first hunt with her was with a subsonic 22 rabbit hunt with her in a snugly. At 12 she got her first 3 big game animals, one with a bow. In the years since we’ve gone on many dozens of hunts, 90% self guided on public land. This year she burned 20 points on a bull elk tag in Colorado and we got to spend another week together hunting. Although she was successful, the most important part was the hours of reminiscing about the good times, hard times, and boondoggles over decades of hunting together. You will not regret the time you are putting in to make the hunts fun and successful.
I remember hunting with my Daughter, fun times & a few taken. Now it's all about my Grand Daughters
I appreciate the struggle Tony verbalized...how much to push/help your kid...make em earn it, but not have them hate hunting. Great hunt!
I wish I would have been able to see that forest through the trees. I pushed mine a little too hard to embrace the suck, and they both kind of checked out instead. If I could go back and do it over, I would make it as easy as I needed to in order to keep them engaged.
THAT was a great video! I don't even have kids, but the pure joy from both of you, each in your own way, is so fun to watch!
That too much or not enough is the thing I have wrestled with my kids . When you get parenting figured out you’re a grandparent. Great video
I feel the same way hunting with my kids. I haven’t filled a rifle deer tag in eight years. I get more joy from seeing my kids harvest deer.
Man as a dad of 2 daughters who love to hunt and fish I relate to this so very much! Great video.
That smile is worth every second
What an awesome episode!! Need more relatable content like this!
Cause you’re the dad😂❤ These are memories she will forever have.
The bantering between him and his daughter is great. Reminds me of my family.
That's Hunting... But She Is Still Excited to Go AGAIN! Great Success Dad... She's Got the Drive And Interest gonna B An Avid Hunter For Life Thanks To U!!! Makes a Harvest All The More Meaningful When u Had to Work For It! Better luck Next Season!!!
Good job, Tony and Meateater. Fantastic.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. May your troubles be less and your blessings be more and nothing but happiness come through your door 😊
This is an awesome story. One of the reasons i skip the big animals and success of other shows is that meat eater works to bring family together
This is so awesome to see, such an inseparable bond being nurtured by some serious untainted quality time.
Reminds me of my Daughter who is now 24.... Took her out bow hunting when she was 15 and weve gone out twice a year every year since😂
This might be my favourite episode
This video is awesome. When you show the loading of the crossbow you can do that by only touching the front of the bolt to keep your hands out of the strings firing path.
Magic
I'm taking my daughter out in a couple weeks. She's four, which is the age I started tagging along with my dad. She's pumped out of her mind. I hope I do as good a job as Tony at being encouraging and patient.
This is the type of young lady who will grow up strong & right & that will lead us in the future.
My favorite hunts are with my daughter. Great video!
That was heart-warming!
Tony is he best. Also she humbled him so good haha.
One of the best episodes
Outstanding to teach the young people about hunting
This was a great video, I really enjoyed it
I guess I’ll be the guy to point out that neighbor that complained about crop damage. I know hogs are terrible on crops but I don’t know how much damage black bears do. Maybe they just didn’t want people hunting bears. Anyway it’s amazing that you guys got to have this experience together. My son and I went on our first bear hunt this spring and it was one of my best experiences ever. Mostly because of the great bonding time.
Thank you brother for showing this side of hunting. I’m trying to be this way with my daughter. Her mom’s side of her family are mostly against it. This gives me some ideas of how to go about it with her in the future. The first run did not go super well 99% my fault but this makes me look at the situation a bit differently
Very wholesome.. With this kind of video I'm always wondering if the kid is being pushed.. Definitely not the case, you're raising 'm right good sir!
"Special guys don't brag about themselves!"
Well said kiddo
Awesome video. You’re definitely doing it right
My daughter shot her first deer this year and the emotions were the same. Such a cool experience to go thru with your kid
'Cuz you're the Dad! - Classic line
My little girl is 9 in January and wants to go so bad, tough being in PA and only having public to hunt. I’m overly afraid of taking her and it being a disappointing experience, hopefully all goes well next year! Thanks for this video
Mine got her first animal ever this year a nice buck, after many mornings and evenings she never gave up and kept wanting go back finally a shooter walked out and she dropped him! Could hardly keep her in the tree she wanted to go get him so bad all those emotions rolled right into her cooking the hamburger up for us to eat ! Keeping the next generation out there is our duty
“Cause you’re the dad.” I wonder how many times I’ve heard that from my three daughters. 😂
Great job Dad!!
Some of my best memories are hunting with my kids. Wish we had pop up blinds back then, would've made things easier lol
Isnt that just WILD that youre looking at five years of points to draw a bear in that unit and then the usda kills fourteen bears in a week over crop damage that wont even touch the amount of value of those bears.
I dont think they killed them. Just trapped and relocated.
@danielblair6592 id be interested to know the policy in this district, but listen to the meateater pod, theyve covered usda trappers extensively. Crop damage insurance in wisconsin is right up with auto insurance for deer... the insurance has the money and the money says kill them.
@danielblair6592 point being widnr should open the tags if the bears need to be killed.
Growing up, I would spend the night at my grandpas or uncles house every weekend, just for a chance to get up early, and trounce through the woods, or fish. But I can’t get my kids out of the house hardly at all!
Great one!
"I'm kind of a deer hunting expert" I'm breathing some rarified air
Awesome 👍👍
There is a great dad!
Lol the blood smear on the face 😂😂
"Cuz you're the Dad!" Atta girl.
The control she had to whisper after the shot!!!
Hollow stump with a thin peice of wood works for us typically 👌🏼
agreed... Just not in it for myself anymore... My two kids tag out and I'm done... The Boy killed 2 in archery season at 16. My daughter harvested a 6 pointer in Pa rifle opener and she just turned 15... I'll hunt till the end, but for me.... It's all about the kids.
Amazing 10/10
Congratulations
Awesome video
The Great White Hunter strikes🎉
JO JO IN VT 💞
I love how she's a tough girl who wants to kill deer and blood trail it, but turns right back into a teenage daughter at the 10:18 mark! The same reaction I would have gotten from mine!
Pretty cool
You jerk I mean Daddy was hilarious just like my daughters so many funny memories thank you
Congrats
Cuz you're the dad explains everthing
Were you guys in C or A? I had a tag in C this year. Glimpsed one, which was all I was hoping for from my first-ever black bear hunt! I have 7, 5, and almost-3 year old daughters. Keep up this content -- I wanna know what Lila likes about going so Gwen, Lu, and Mags will want to come with me!
Why the cross bow? Had mad respect till I seen that … now I’m all conflicted. I bought my daughter a mission bow by Mathews, crossbows are closer to rifles than they are to real archery. Super glad she is in the woods and you are getting her out there just don’t know why you choose to cut the corner with the cross bow vs actual bow??
I believe you are overthinking it. Make them be part of all of it so they can make an informed decision about hunting. Then, respect that decision. You can not compare them to yourself at that age.
Looks like winning.
That is a daughter that loves her daddy, you can just see it.
I see you were in the neighborhood.
I wish we could bait bear in VA
You can't bait bear but you can Bait the squirrels. If the bears eat the squirrels food is that your fault?
They really should just compensate farmers. Wildlife belongs to ALL the people. One farmer doesn’t get to remove it for everyone else.
17.10 ish.
I have 3 daughters and I’m in the same boat!!!! Verbatim.
If you had boy's would it be a different situation? I have 3 girls and no boys, trying to get a better perspective on how they feel about it.
What is the liquid smoke attractant you are spraying?