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New Season of TRCP’s Life in the Open
Sara Gabbard
TRCP’s Life in the Open begins its fifth season on VERSUS Country with a combination Sitka Blacktail deer hunt and salmon fishing trip in the heart of Alaska’s 17 million acre Tongass National Forest on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. EDT.
The series of adventures where the road ends and life in the open begins will air Sundays at 9 a.m. EDT with encore daytime airings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. While TRCP’s Life in the Open occasionally features exotic dream destinations, like Africa where TR once hunted for an entire year, its focus remains on publicly accessible places, where average hunters and anglers can experience some of the best sport found in North American.
Travel along with Ken Barrett and his guests this weekend as they test their grit against Alaska’s harsh elements and phenomenal wildlife. Then watch as Ken encounters the biggest bull elk he’s ever seen while hunting public land on Montana’s Custer National Forest.
You’ll see whitetail deer hunts in Tennessee and Wisconsin and a hunt for opening morning turkeys in eastern Kansas, where Ken and Chevy representative Kevin Messmer team up to take a big eastern gobbler. Another show features a classic combination mule deer and pheasant hunt in far western Kansas, where Ken’s guest misses his first shot but redeems himself a couple hours later, when he takes a heavy antlered, thick bodied, corn-fed bruiser of a buck.
Add to these trips a do-it-yourself hunt for javelina on public lands in New Mexico, where Ken’s first attempt at calling the little pigs solicits some surprising results and what can only be described as a hair-raising experience.
Then it’s off to Africa to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt’s great safari in 1909-1910 with guest Steve Kelly, Assistant General President of the UA, for a plains game hunt. You’ll have to tune in to see how Kelly does on critters like kudu, gemsbok, hartebeest and warthog, with his brand new Sako .300 Win Mag.
And there’s more, including great striped bass fishing on the Chesapeake, quail hunting in Texas and Florida, duck hunting in the famed rice fields of California and some early season sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge hunting in Montana.
Besides showcasing great hunting and fishing, TRCP’s Life in the Open educates viewers about issues and policies effecting our hunting and fishing traditions and legacies, while highlighting our nation’s conservation history, especially history made by Theodore Roosevelt.
