DIY Alaska Hunt 1957 "Rare Footage" | Mike Eastman Blazed Trails Forgotten

[@randysandberg5615]

Gordon Eastman and Jack O'Connor were two heroes of mine as a teenager of the 1960's dreaming of hunting in the North. I've been able to do it 9 times thanks to those two.

[@DrDanTDC]

In 1986 or so, I was 18ish. My dad borrowed 2 of Gordon’s VHS tape’s. One on fishing and the other on hunting. I about wore those tapes out. Lot of your videos are the same footage, I love it! Thanks for sharing.

[@jimboslice9472]

Wow! This is Historic footage. Thanks for passing it on Mike.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@danpickar5442]

What an adventure!

[@TrashHunt]

Keep this series coming, Mike. Your stories with the old photos interspersed is some of the best content on KZbin.

[@maxpinson5002]

I like to see all these old films and photos of the days back when people went hunting to go hunt, and carried just what it took to get the job done and not a boxcar load of toys People today get "bored" and need to be entertained every waking moment, as if being out in God's wilderness isn't the finest entertainment you can get. I never could figure being "bored " while hunting or fishing or camping. Thanks for the video

[@jtmarlin336]

I'm glad I found this channel I love all these old hunting stories I'd be really cool to sit down and BS with you and pick your brain about hunting the old way

[@perryknetter8577]

Great interview Mike always enjoyed the history of the early years

[@skidooklimer]

This is my favorite series on KZbin! As a kid growing up in Oroville,WA we didn't have but 2 t.v. channels on the old rabbit ear antennae system but every Saturday my dad would rent one of Gordon's movies on VHS and that's what drove me to a lifetime of chasing mule deer, elk and sheep. Thank you Mike for showing some of this old footage that you have and sharing these great stories.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@Keystoneexperience]

Iceman is helping us with the four state challenge in September!!! Always good to see him on the KZbin

[@Mtoutdoorsman]

Great story

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@philipdove1705]

They should release a blueray dvd set of all of Eastman outdoor adventures

[@arrowone4me]

Thank you Mike.

[@andrewmacaulay1585]

Excellent once again… to have the legendary jack 270 o Connor to measure the trophy’s…priceless photo to have . Times have changed… New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

As a kid I remember Jack coming to the house and talking with Dad many times also going groundhog shooting with him.

[@andrewmacaulay1585]

@@BlazedTrailsForgotten Thank you for replying… I’ve hunted British Columbia a couple of times years back but it was from watching your show and a few of jack brittinghams that inspired me to do this. Moments in life I’ll never forget. New Brunswick Canada

[@rickycrazyhunter8530]

Love these classic memories. I grew up watching Gordon's films and wish I was young again. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Thanks for watching

[@Tlambo64]

Great stuff!

[@darylkuk1886]

I grew up watch Gordon's movies. I still have a bunch that i break out every year before hunting season. Kind of a little tradition now days for me. Thanks for sharing

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Thanks for the kind words.

[@jamesmooney5348]

Thanks. Very cool.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Glad you liked it!

[@ADVENTURESOFBZ]

I could listen all day. And I live in Florida, so obviously I've never done anything like this. But that doesn't take away from the fact that I realize how special this is.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for more.

[@joemiller9314]

Super cool, love hearing the old timers tell their stories. Thanks for sharing!!

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Thanks for listening

[@beavercbearing4237]

Legendary stories 🙏🏽❤️

[@kenaidog6974]

Sheep hunting back then in Alaska was a cake walk.

[@nmelkhunter1]

Way neat! Thank you for sharing and keep’em coming!

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

You bet!

[@dougdillon1271]

Outstanding channel Mike! Love the history that you share. Keep it up!

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Share my tube tube and subscribe it helps me keep motivated.

[@trihall2273]

Thank you very much🎉 Excellent

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

You are welcome 😊

[@markoneill9064]

Excellent job, great to see footage taken by your Dad way back when. Those guys were keen, driving all those miles, how things have changed from back then till now. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Thanks, Now just jump on a jet and go.

[@justinwilliams5847]

Awesome video, what an adventure that would be. That's really cool they took the heads to Jack O Connor to have measured! Did you ever get to meet him? I've shot a lot of bucks with my 270 win and I've always loved his quote "if the hunter does his part the 270 will not let him down."

[@scottrobertson9452]

Mike, I have a copy of a vhs movie your Dad filmed called "Savage Wild". I belive some of it was filmed in the Yukon where this film clip talked about. ScottinPa.

[@tudyk21]

I hadn't heard of the Eastmans/Gordon until after the turn of the century. I knew about Jack O"Connor & Fred Bear from reading magazines. I missed out! Gordon Eastman was certainly on par with those two and many other hunting celebrities of that day!

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Dad know both but Dad would show his movies and live narrate them but didn't get into outdoor writing.

[@Hubert-f4l]

I remember watching these classics when I was a little man with my father On wkend nights after mutual Omaha wilð kingdom show. ....and that's wear my old man had an idea going up on the pipeline hunt but unfortunately he didn't ever get to see that hunting trip take place

[@TUCOtheratt]

5 days on gravel roads day and night would be a rough trip.

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

To say the least. Thanks for watching

[@tommytristate5381]

Mike: I am a big fan of your father and enjoyed his videos that I watched years ago. I seem to remember some of that footage was from his video in which he traveled the Alcan Highway with Ed Parisol (Not Sure Of The Spelling Of His Name) and went past broken down abandoned military vehicles on the side of the road. I remember the flat tire that they had to change. Was that from his video "Hunting The Northwest Territory"?

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

Yes, This is over 9 years earlier in Alaska.

[@tommytristate5381]

@@BlazedTrailsForgotten Thanks Mike. I look forward to more adventures.

[@northernmetis]

I'm looking for "wild, high and free" documentary I can't see to find it

[@montanamayhem5983]

Hey Mike, do you have any stories or footage of Donald Laubach and your dad?

[@BlazedTrailsForgotten]

That isn't footage I have.