Legendary Tracker & Big Game Hunter Rick Labbe - Stories & Strategies To Inspire All-Around Hunters

Big Woods Bucks team member Rick Labbe, a descendant of the famous Comanche Indian war leader Quanah Parker, is a legendary big game hunter and one of the best all around hunters in North America today. He lives life to the fullest, loving his family, working hard and hunting and fishing as much as he can. He's shot 7 whitetail bucks grossing over 170 inches, and over 50 bucks that weighed more than 200 lbs (and TWO 300 POUNDERS)! At least 26 of the 200 pounders were taken in the hard to hunt Northeast by tracking. He's gone a perfect 20 for 20 with his bull elk tags, harvesting mostly mature 6x6's and has taken 8 bull moose, 18 black bear (with 3 over 500 lbs!) a grizzly bear, more than 200 bobcats, hundreds of coyotes, 3 mountain lions, a wolf, and countless North American game. When he hunts the Northeast, he's partial to the ancient art of tracking, perhaps in part due to his Indian ancestry. He also enjoys archery hunting, spot and stalking, using his muzzleloader and running hounds. He's a great backcountry snowmobiler, he rides horseback, and he can fix most anything that breaks down. It's my pleasure to bring you this discussion with Rick Labbe!
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[@ronhuston5790]

I rarely listen to podcast but this I could not stop listening. It’s as if Rick has crammed 3 lifetimes into 1. Amazing.

[@user-ik8kx7yw2p]

Cant say Ive enjoyed any interview more than this one. Wish I was younger now and could chase deer through the woods like Labbe. Great job guys.

[@maxwelllepage5683]

I’ve watched/listened to a ton of KZbin deer hunting interview shows and this one ranks up there with the very best. Well done to both Pat and Rick.

[@HuntSuburbia]

Thanks! Rick made it easy

[@dustincyr6698]

Hands down the best podcast I’ve ever watched! A true Living Legend in the hunting world! Amazing bucks and stories Rick!

[@HuntSuburbia]

Wow thanks for the compliment!

[@spg1026]

Wish my Dad was alive to listen and comment about this podcast. Dad would have loved to have heard this podcast. It would have jarred his memory of Bucks taken long ago. Thank you both. Dad is listening right now I’m sure.

[@robertgreer5229]

Rick is great. Got charisma!

[@reedmitchell6716]

This series has been the Treasure chest of knowledge. Great Job my Friend.

[@paparomesoutdoors711]

Thanks for sharing Rick! Excellent podcast

[@darrelljones3382]

Great podcast and interview. So very sorry for your loss of your Mom, Rick. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ChadsNewEnglandTracks]

Rick reminds me of my friends uncle who recently passed away, he was also my friend always a pleasure to see and hunt with and boy he told the best stories and if you started trading stories you were locked in for a minimum hour 😂 bet this was probably one of the easiest podcast you ever had to do lol

[@TheREALLibertyOrDeath]

Ricks done it all, quite a guy

[@jeremywanless2450]

Fantastic video. Rick is the real deal.

[@woodchuckman1111]

What a great interview

[@CharlesCutler]

Exceptional interview! You do a great job Pat.

[@bushleague3472]

This was absolutely killer, Ricks raw enthusiasm is infectious. One thing, I would dearly love to pick this guy's brain a little more about still hunting western Whitetails. I'm from northern Alberta and do some tracking when the situation is prime for it, a little trail watching when I'm forced to, but I've been mostly still hunting the boreal foothills for almost 20 years... I bet this guy would be a very rare goldmine of wisdom on the type of hunting that I do.

[@tomfagro6744]

What a great interview! This is a guy I would love to know and learn from. The real deal!

[@HuntSuburbia]

Thanks, appreciate the compliment

[@onceaintenough]

Great Podcast! Rick is accomplished in life-all aspects! RESPECT!

[@HuntSuburbia]

Very true!

[@REDNECKROOTS]

Great sho. Great interview. Thanks guys. Sorry to hear boutvur mom 😢

[@panheadxp]

Hey Rock is awesome you on a good recovery it was scary to watch. When I seen Mike's car up on the side of your car basically at your window all I could think his bumper entered your cock pit. And when I seen Mike run up to your car I got a upset stomach. As a fellow racer and a big fan of you and the rest of the boys it hits home. Just glad your doing well. 👍

[@TheBowhunterinNB]

I am just North of Maine in NewBrunswick Canada, and I would love to hunt with these gentlemen

[@HuntSuburbia]

Maybe we'll run into each other some day!

[@Kbell6518]

I drove from the finger lakes out to huntstock this year. It was a great show and would love to see you bring the show this way

[@HuntSuburbia]

We're out that way this year in Vernon Center, NY July 19-21. Hope to see you there!

[@FindingSmallWinz]

This is a good podcast i says, very informative i says, no doubt i says

[@vicktdock]

Great interview. I only recently discovered Rick lives just a few mile down the road from me! I grew up hunting in Eastern Connecticut. Sure is different and much more difficult hunting up here. I have many acres to hunt from my door, woods are thick as can be. Finally shot one last year here. I'll bet Rick has parked right next to my house to hunt bobcats or even deer!

[@panheadxp]

Rick is great 😂

[@jordanfournier1719]

Great interview. I could listen to him all day every day!! Thanks

[@HuntSuburbia]

Thank you!

[@CharlesBeatyPrinceofPoachers]

With all you've done there's only one thing you haven't done, It's time to make a hunt with the Prince of Poachers !! How bout it Rick ??? And this podcasts, DITTO !!!

[@anthonyperotti151]

Luhr Jensen makes the Super Duper

[@jonmiller6933]

Great video he’s awesome

[@bobo44donemilking51]

Great stuff

[@wildnature8190]

Interesting video👍

[@cbmostert4791]

I love your experience and hereby invite you to come and hunt at lbg safari in south africa!!!

[@johnholt8785]

Great podcast Thank you guys !

[@HuntSuburbia]

Thanks for watching!

[@MimeswithRhymes]

Yep

[@chadbinette3201]

This is a real hunter , not the TV stars with face paint hunting in a farm where deer are raised till harvest like cattle. In when you say you got a deer they don't ask about antler score they ask "what did it weigh?"

[@christopherconley3650]

Listening to this as I walk into the stand. I can help you find your location in the fingerlakes. I live right in the center of the fingerlakes.

[@HuntSuburbia]

Email me! [e-mail]. Thanks!

[@christopherconley3650]

Sent

[@jasonrichards3373]

Rick is a game changer… as a Mainer he’s royalty here… btw… I wonder how he lost that portion of his finger on his left hand

[@HuntSuburbia]

If you listen to the whole thing, we talk about it!

[@FindingSmallWinz]

He paints a picture with his hands as he tells a story

[@JimBowSlice]

I live in michigan and the only way I've ever got a buck to break the buffer by rattling is doing it from the ground making noise like breaking sticks and stiring up leaves.

[@bobo44donemilking51]

Yup I live in central Michigan and I rattle from ladder stand and I have a string going down to some sticks on the ground for ground noise when I rattle

[@appalachian_restorations229]

Dropped the ball on this one. He wants to tell more deer stories and you tell him one more. 🤦‍♂️. His stories are better content than everything else out there

[@JGunit]

Wicked pissah huntah this guy is.

[@scottzipperer6146]

I like spot and stock but no snow in fĺ a harder

[@coltonzack8714]

where does this guy get his accent from

[@FindingSmallWinz]

Kawanna parker he says

[@frankgonzales2462]

This guy full of B.S. IF HE IS RELATED TO QUANAH PARKER I FLEW INTO SPACE AND WENT FLY FISHING!!!🤔

[@FindingSmallWinz]

@@frankgonzales2462u comment on every comment calling him fake and a lier. We get it pal, you dont like him or perhaps you have yet to track even a doe, i says you jealous i says theres no doubt about it

[@frankgonzales2462]

IF U BELIEVE IT YOU UR AN IDIOT!!

[@terrytummons8898]

He was filling those tags not his daughter 😂

[@frankgonzales2462]

Some of these stories are somewhat questionable?!!!? Entertaining though!

[@FindingSmallWinz]

He acutually did walk on a tree 6ft above a monster buck, i seen it i says theres no doubt

[@steveneddy9492]

You got to get ride of THOSE STUPID MICS YOU HAVE. Small clip on mics will do the trick..

[@bobo44donemilking51]

Look like ice cream cones lol

[@Stykbow]

if you've heard one tracker you've heard them all.....

[@jhuntley575]

What about tree stand hunters?

[@paulcoenen7918]

I learn something knew from every one, but yes they are similar 😊

[@frankgonzales2462]

Yea full of bullshit like this guy😂