New kid in the woods

Kyle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:12:02 +0000

At the ripe age of four years old I made my first kill. Running around in my Grandparents back yard I shot my first bird, with my red ryder bb gun. Any kid growing up who’s family hunted want a red ryder. Well I finally got one for Christmas that year and the first thing I did was run out into the woods and shoot a bird. From then on my family knew I was going to be trouble.
On my twelfth birthday my father took me out of school for an early weekend to go archery hunting. I never killed anything that week but I had my first encounter with a small doe but just could not get a shot off. I would eventually get one with the rifle on the very last day of the season that year. It was all down hill from then, a few years later I started shooting in long-range competitions with rim fire and small bore rifles. It was all a science to my father and I, from buying the right powered, cutting brass, seating bullets, and know wind directions. After a few years of this I started to dabble in trap, skeet and sporting clays and even joined my high school rifle team. My junior year I started taking a lot of technology class and mixed my love of the outdoors into as many projects as I could. As graduation came I decided it was time to try and make a living of the two things I loved the most, the great out doors and photography. Not knowing much about the business and no one in the filming industry I had to come up with a way to get my foot in the door. I meet a very interesting young man at the time, who since then has become one of my best friends Matt Roberson, who in my opinion, is one of the top waterfowl hunters on the east cost. Matt let me start filming and working for his guide service. I will be the first to admit at this time I knew very little about filming and much less about waterfowl hunting, but Matt let me stick around for a few years and I learned so much from him and the countless hours I spent in rain soaked corn fields to snow cover mountains chasing ducks and geese. Not long after that I ran into Corey Brossman. The very first time I meet Corey he was sicker then a dog that just eat your whole bag of Halloween candy in ten seconds. I spent the whole time asking his cameraman at the time different questions about how they do different things and trying to learn as much as I could from them to better myself. This past fall I decided I was ready to take that jump and get my foot farer in the door. I wanted to go from filming with a small handy cam to canon’s new HD mini DV camera. I had some questions and knew the perfect person to turn to, Corey. After a few phone calls and meetings, I was offered a job. Field producer for Corey’s show InnerLoc’s Out-there, with out batting a eye or thinking twice I took him up on the job. Now at the age of 21 I’m looking forward to sharing my stories and encounters with my medalist as I travel filming and hunting everything with InnerLoc and Corey.

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New kid in the woods