- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
A little over 20 years ago, my buddy Tim and me decided to try and make a varmint hunting video. DVD's weren't even so common yet. We had the first 2,000 copies made on VHS tape 
. It was a different time and a different world back then. The second run of that first video were 2,000 DVDs, not VHS, a sign of how quickly things were changing.
But that first video actually made us some pretty decent money and we had an absolute blast doing it. So we kept making videos for awhile. Made four in all. It was a blast. Absolutely glad we did it. But I was also really burned out on it by the time we released the fourth one in 2007.
And 2007 just happened to be a really good time to get out of making and selling DVD's but especially coyote hunting DVD's. Our success inspired a LOT of guys to do what we were doing and a lot of them were making much better videos than ours by then (ours are all super amateurish). But none of those guys were making any money from it. Most of them called me while making their DVDs and then after. They all flat told me they were losing money. Too many of them all at once watered down an already dwindling (DVD) market. Youtube was starting to strangle all kinds of hunting DVD sales. No money in it anymore, I was burned out, time to quit. And glad we did, when we did.
Anyway... I had not watched any of them for quite a few years. Last weekend me and Tim were waiting out a snowstorm sitting in my LJ and watched one. I realized I ought to just dump them out to youtube.
So here is the last one we made. Released in 2007. Our best one, I think. I'll get the other three uploaded in the next month or so.
- DAA
. It was a different time and a different world back then. The second run of that first video were 2,000 DVDs, not VHS, a sign of how quickly things were changing. But that first video actually made us some pretty decent money and we had an absolute blast doing it. So we kept making videos for awhile. Made four in all. It was a blast. Absolutely glad we did it. But I was also really burned out on it by the time we released the fourth one in 2007.
And 2007 just happened to be a really good time to get out of making and selling DVD's but especially coyote hunting DVD's. Our success inspired a LOT of guys to do what we were doing and a lot of them were making much better videos than ours by then (ours are all super amateurish). But none of those guys were making any money from it. Most of them called me while making their DVDs and then after. They all flat told me they were losing money. Too many of them all at once watered down an already dwindling (DVD) market. Youtube was starting to strangle all kinds of hunting DVD sales. No money in it anymore, I was burned out, time to quit. And glad we did, when we did.
Anyway... I had not watched any of them for quite a few years. Last weekend me and Tim were waiting out a snowstorm sitting in my LJ and watched one. I realized I ought to just dump them out to youtube.
So here is the last one we made. Released in 2007. Our best one, I think. I'll get the other three uploaded in the next month or so.
- DAA
