Explore Exclusive Bold Bryant Land Brand with AB3 Adam Bryant III

People have different reasons for hunting. Some people look at it as a sport, some are doing it to provide food for their families, and others are doing it for relaxation. No matter how we perceived hunting, we have stories to tell, and it is not always about the harvest. Adam Bryant III, the CEO and Founder of Bryant Land, talks how his brand presents a wide range of exciting, entertaining, and informational content relevant to the hunting and outdoor world through social media and his channel. He likes developing something he can put his stamp on and can pass on to his kids through broadcasting or storytelling.

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Explore Exclusive Bold Bryant Land Brand with AB3 Adam Bryant III

AB3, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Just to let you know, he reached out to me. You don’t have to wait for me to invite you or connect with you on Facebook. If you think you’ve got some stories, if you’ve got some great lessons learned and if you’re a one kick-ass whitetail hunter, reach out to me at [email protected] and say, “I want to be on your show. I want to share some insights.” Let’s do it because this show is about people. A good friend of mine, Bianca Jane of Her Humble Hunt, had a great article on Instagram. It was all about, “We’re in this thing together.” It’s all common ground. When you’re sitting around the campfire, job titles and checkbooks go out the window. We sit around and talk about hunting. That’s what we’re going to do with AB3. Let’s start off with Bryant Land brand. What is that and where is it going?

Before I tell you about that, let me tell you a funny thing about Bianca. I was at the World Deer Expo. I was walking around and I recognized her from Instagram because we follow each other and been going back and forth. She was walking down an aisle and I was walking. We ended up walking beside each other. I looked and was like, “Bianca?” She was like, “I know you.” I was like, “@OfficialBryantLand?” “Yeah.” She gave me this big hug and the loudest scream in the middle of the aisle at the World Deer Expo. That was the first time we ever met each other and the first time we ever talked, other than back and forth on Instagram. I thought it was pretty funny to meet her like that. She’s on her way minding her business. I was minding my business. I looked over and saw her. She started screaming. It was fun though. She’s an awesome person. I had a good time talking to her at the World Deer Expo.

If you haven’t listened to her podcast, it’s Her Humble Hunt, hunting healing. It’s a two-part story. The lady was crying on the part of it and laughing on the other part. We had a good time. Take a look at that. We’re going to talk about why we hunt. She told her story in such a way that you’ve got to think about what hunting is and what it isn’t. Sometimes it’s 180 out of what people think it is. It isn’t just about putting the game on the ground, which we all love to do, but it’s more than that. Listen to Bianca Jane in Her Humble Hunt and you’ll figure it out, at least I hope you do. Thanks for that segue. Let’s go back to Bryant Land brand and unpack that a little bit.

Bryant Land is something that I’ve been kicking around in my head. My background is in sports television. I’ve been in broadcast television and sports television for many years. My daytime job is a sports television director. I direct live TV sports for Fox ESPN, mainly for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Milwaukee Brewers. I travel with those teams and do their television broadcast as a director. That’s where my background came in. I got into doing outdoor stuff naturally. I grew up in the country on a dirt road. I’ve always wanted an ATV. When I finally got a chance to get an ATV, ride in ATVs and being in the outdoors that led me into wanting to learn how to bow hunt. I ended up learning how to bow hunt. I killed a hog. I went out and harvested a deer and a turkey with a bow. I fell in love with it. It’s the same thing with duck hunting. Tying it all back to the media side, I would start playing around with cameras, recording some things with my hunts and recording animals. I was like, “It would be cool if I could tie all this together into something that I can put my stamp on.”

I started doing research and looking around. I started looking at hunting TV shows and stuff like that. They were cool and exciting. Some of them do tell stories, but they tell stories that end in whether or not they made the harvest. I saw a lot of that. I was trying to figure out how I can develop something that I can put my own stamp on. I wanted something with my name because I want to be able to pass this down to my kids, especially if they have an interest in broadcasting or storytelling. That’s how I came up with Bryant Land. We started putting stuff together, shooting videos and finding stories. What I found out in telling stories is that it’s not always about the harvest. There are people that come to this sport differently. There are people that look at it as a sport. There are people that it’s a 100% way of life. They provide food for their families. In the middle of all that, you have one spectrum where it’s just a sport and another spectrum where it’s their life. There’s a lot of stuff there in the middle. Bryant Land is about finding the interesting, funny and entertaining stuff in the middle, patching it all together and presenting it to everyone.

If anybody has watched a 30-minute hunting show, how many minutes of the film is in the show because you get sponsors and all that?

It’s usually 22 minutes of content and eight minutes of commercial time.

You’re trying to tell a story of a hunt. I roll up to Eddie’s farm, unpack the truck, put myself in a bunkhouse, go have supper, get up in the morning and go hunting. I hunt for three or four days. I might get something or I might not. Typically, you get the kill shot first and then you do all the B-roll. Is that how it is?

From what I’ve seen, you can get your B-roll along the way too. You may get some shots traveling. You may get some shots sitting around the camp and getting your gear ready. Hopefully, you go out and you’re successful. You get your harvest on camera, which is not an easy task from the few times that I’ve tried to do it myself. That’s pretty much how it goes. You take it back and you edit it. You put it together and you craft a story.

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That’s why hunting stories are hard. After you watch a couple hundred of them, they’re very similar. The only thing that changes for me is the environment. If you follow Jim Shockey around the world, which he has hunted around the world, you see different places. That’s interesting, but it’s one oak grove or one bean field. I don’t care where it is. It all looks the same to me. I’m being critical, and rightly so. How do you make it entertaining for the viewers? That’s got to be so hard for the people making the shows. I give you all the credit in the world because to compress and create a story in 22 minutes has got to be so difficult.

When I first got into filming hunts, that formula was something that I’ve been very adamant about staying away from, as far as that being the sole purpose. It’s very hard. God loves the people that do it. The people that do it do a great job of it, but it is not an easy task. It looks easy when it’s finished, but it is not easy to put that together. Doing it part-time because I still have my regular full-time job, I wanted to do something that would be good but would be something that wouldn’t be as taxing. What people don’t understand about those guys that are able to put together those good hunting shows is all that footage doesn’t happen from one hunt. They are hunting twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen or however many times up. The professionals are probably hunting way more than that. I don’t have that time because I have a family and a job. It’s very hard to do that. The people that do it do a great job. What we try to do is finding stuff in the middle.

Here’s a perfect example. I was connected to a mutual friend of one of my Gamecock Club members. I went to the University of South Carolina. One of our Gamecock Booster Club members hooked me up with one of the former players. He hunts. One of the stories that we talked about was how it would kill him during football season the conditioning and drills. He couldn’t go hunting because football season is right in the middle of hunting. When he did go hunting, so many of the things that he learned in football helped him become a better hunter.

Like what?

The biggest thing I remember from that interview is he talked about his breathing technique. He was a running back. He was saying that it’s pacing yourself and making sure you’ve got good breathing before doing warm-ups and going into the game that translated in the deer stand. You want to remain calm and have a good breathing technique right before you get ready to squeeze the trigger or let your arrow go and you release. It’s also conditioning. Hunting down the South, you’re going through thick pine forests, hardwoods and swamp bottoms. You don’t know how long of a walk you may have to get to your stand because it’s so thick or whatnot. Being in condition from football and keeping himself in condition, he’d be able to go out and hunt like that. Those are the things that I find interesting and other people as well will find interesting. You could turn on your favorite outdoor channel or outdoor media web page and you can find people sitting in tree stands, whispering about killing 140, 150-inch deer all day long. There’s nothing wrong with that. God loves the people that do that. For us, we wanted to do something different and dig a little bit deeper in that before you got to the tree stand.

In my first hunt, we killed four bucks on my buddy’s family farm. That was back in Wisconsin along the Baraboo River in 1966. You think about that and you go, “Holy fright.” I knew nothing. It was, “There’s a deer,” I shoot it, and that was it. There weren’t any horns. It was brown and down. This gets into the hunting tradition. I came out of New York. My dad didn’t hunt. When I was a young kid, we had a neighbor, where I grew up in Rhode Island before I moved to New York. He took me out and changed my life forever. I caught a trout, trapped raccoons and shot a grouse and rabbits. It’s everything. I was living the story of Outdoor Life, Old Man and the Boy is an old article that they used to have. That was it. I lived that. You start reading and you start journeying. In your mind, you go to some of these places in the Yukon, Ungava Bay or Alaska. All of a sudden, as an old man, I was standing there. That’s the journey. How does a young kid, left home at seventeen and standing on top of a mountain, looking down at this mountain goat that he dumped down a ravine? I just laughed. I had to be crazy. The guy was crazy. In the retrieval, we got him out. It was a complete shoot. We had hands and feet on the walls. That’s how we got down. We chimneyed down and chimneyed back up.

That’s part of it though.

That’s the journey.

You still remember that until this day.

I’ll never forget that because I’m going, “I could die.” It’s easy. That’s part of it. It’s the journey. Talk about the journey. Talk about the stories.

I’m just getting started.

That’s what we’re doing here. We’re telling stories. That’s why we hunt. It’s the stories that go on for days. I’ve been at it for so many years. I’ve had a hunt where I left a ten-day hunt. In five days, I told them, “Take me back to the airport. I’m out of here,” because it wasn’t good. You don’t get a refund for that. You pay your money and you go. I don’t care who you are or how much is your experience. When you know it’s going bad, stop the music and get out of that. That’s my advice. If it goes bad, say, “Get me out of here. I’m done. This is not where I need to be.” Drop it up.

That’s the thing for me. It’s fun. I have to force myself sometimes to remember that it’s fun. I get my director brain going and it’s like, “I’m going to shoot this. I’m going to put this camera here. I’m going to do this and do that,” or “I’ve got to edit this or edit that.” I’ve got interviews and stuff that I need to edit. It’s like, “I’m going to go outside. I’m going to put my target out. I’m going to put my gear on. I’m going to stand 20, 25 yards and there’s that deer. Make sure you make a good shot the first time. That’s the deer that’s out on your property,” or “That’s the deer that you’re going to shoot in Illinois or in Wisconsin or hopefully in Kansas one day.” It’s something to bring me back to the fun and the relaxation of it. I force myself to do that a lot of time.

Why don’t we get all wound up? Talk about why we hunt and why do we sometimes get completely wound up and it becomes a Cullen-McGregor cage fight. What’s up with that?

A lot of people like to talk about how competitive they are. I’m not one of those people that go around beating my chest about being competitive. When you’re in the stand or you’re in the blind, you want to come away with something. I listen to people all the time. They’re like, “It’s about the hunt. It’s about being outside.” It is, and you enjoy being outside, but at the end of the day, all hunts are better when you walk away with whatever you’re harvesting, whether it’s whitetail, whether it’s duck hunting or turkey hunting. Sometimes we get so charged up on, “I want to kill this buck,” or “I want to harvest this bird,” or “I want to make sure I make my limit,” and you lose focus. It’s a competitive nature. You want that good feeling. It’s a great feeling when you take down that buck that you want to take down, when you limit out or when you make that great shot on a hog or on a turkey. Sometimes those feelings blur and you get crossed up.

I’ve killed a couple of critters and sometimes my hands are shaking so bad. I hand my tag to another guy with my knife because I don’t want to cut myself. I say, “Will you notch this sucker out?” They’re looking at me going, “What is your problem?” “I’m excited about being here and doing this, I don’t want to hurt myself.”

When I took my first hog, my son was with me. We went on a hog hunt down in South Georgia with dogs, which I recommend. If you’ve never hunted hogs with dogs, you have to do. It’s one of those things that have to be done. I still remember it like it was yesterday. We were there and we had such a great time. We were taking pictures. He still talks about it. He still asks me about it. On the flip side of that, there are times where we went deer hunting on our property and we sat in the blind. We had conversations or hang out or whatever. We had a great time doing that. We didn’t shoot anything. We didn’t even attempt to shoot anything. We maybe saw one deer or two. She got spooked and took off, but we still talk about it. You do have to force yourself to remember that it is fun and that you’re having a good time. There is nothing like the feeling of making a great shot on an animal, especially with a bow. That’s a great feeling.

Why do you hunt?

Simply put, I hunt for fun and relaxation. I’ve been blessed to make a pretty good living so I don’t have the pressure of, “I’ve got to harvest these many deer,” or “I’ve got to harvest this animal so we can have something to eat or whatever.” For me, this is total relaxation. This is total fun. I go bowhunting because it’s fun and I enjoy it. I want to kill or harvest a big, mature buck, but when I’m out in the woods and with my bow, I’m getting to see animals and getting to be able to possibly take a shot on one. It’s pure fun and relaxation to get away from everything. When you’re in the woods, nothing else matters. All the stress from work or bills goes away. As Mike Tyson used to say, “It fades into oblivion.”

Let’s go from why you hunt to the hunting tradition. You said it wasn’t traditional you went to the cabin in the North that grandfather owned down and that whole thing. What’s your story?

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I grew up on a dirt road in South Carolina. I saw deer, animals, snakes and all that stuff. That wasn’t new to me. The hunting part wasn’t something that we did. My father wasn’t a big hunter. I came to find out a couple of years ago that my grandfather was a big deer hunter. I didn’t know that because I didn’t meet my grandfather. He passed away before I was born. Talking to some of my other relatives, they were like, “It’s probably in your blood because your grandfather was a big deer hunter.” I was like, “Who knew?” I didn’t know that before. It was strictly a process. I started out and got an ATV. I started riding ATVs and going on trail rides. I was riding ATVs in different places. I got fascinated with a bow and bowhunting. I was like, “This is pretty cool.” There’s something about having the skill of trying to bring an animal close to you and being able to take them with a bow as opposed to a rifle or something.

I went from bowhunting, getting excited about that, to duck hunting and waterfowl hunting. From there, it’s hunting different animals with a bow, whether it’s a turkey, whitetail or hogs. It was a progression. The tradition part wasn’t ingrained in me like, “This is what we do.” As I continue to get older, it’s something that I plan on to continue doing. I bring my son when we can and when time permits. He doesn’t work with his bow as much as I would like him to. If I don’t shoot every day, I at least try to shoot three or four days a week. He loves to go out and film with me. He’ll operate the camera with me when we’re out there. We have a good time.

That’s great because you’re establishing your own tradition.

It’s funny though because, on the flip side of that, my daughter wants no part of it. My daughter celebrates when we come back and we didn’t harvest anything. She likes the fish and she advocates predator hunting. When we go out and we try to get rid of the coyotes, she is very much a fan of that. Otherwise, she has nothing to do with it. I find it funny that she wants nothing to do with it, but whenever it comes time to eat, she’s one of the first people at her plate.

Will she eat venison, hog, gator or whatever?

Yeah. Hogs, alligator, frog, frog legs, gator tail or pork chops. I take ground venison and make stuffed shells, meatballs, spaghetti and all kind of stuff. She’s right there. She’s all about it. Maybe one day I’ll get her to come out with us.

It’s a matter of time. That’s for sure. Tell me about your whitetail hunt. You said you hunted in Wisconsin.

I went to Stanley, Wisconsin. It was fun. I went with an outfitter. It was a great time sitting in the stand and talking. It was a guy that I had known for a couple of years. It’s the second or third time I had hunted with him because a taxidermist recommended him. We’ve gotten together over the years. He guides, so it’s funny to listen to him talk about all of the things he’s seen as a guide, what clients come in and what they do and the good things they do and the bad things that they do. In the end, we got to harvest a nice Wisconsin whitetail. It’s one of the upsides of being in Wisconsin during the worst weather time of the year.

The weather gets nasty and that’s it. Did you see a lot of deer or did the wolves mess up?

I saw a lot of does. I saw a lot of young bucks cruising around, meandering around and fawns. Hunting in Georgia and in South Carolina, they always give us a hard time down here. In those areas in Wisconsin, you have such big, full-frame mass deer. It’s not only the antlers but the body size. Even on the does, they’re studs compared to deer down South where they don’t pack on as much weight because of the climate. Seeing those animals out there and seeing the differences is remarkable.

Have you ever hunted up in Canada?

No, I haven’t had a good experience with Canada for work. I got food poisoning in Toronto, but I don’t know. I’m curious about whitetail hunting in Saskatchewan and British Columbia because I’ve seen the shows or videos and stuff of people hunting there.

I’ve hunted in Wisconsin for a long time. Maybe a 200-pound buck was the biggest I’ve killed. He was pretty big. When I got to Saskatchewan, they told me, “Do not shoot the first big deer you see because he’s going to be bigger than any deer you’ve ever seen.” A yearling steer 280, 300 pounds and his rack looks so small. I took a small 150 class buck who was pushing 300 pounds. He waddled. He was all shoulders. It was like, “Don’t even mess with me.”

Did you take him with a bow or a rifle?

I took him with my rifle. That’s the thing that everybody warned me about. They said, “You’re going to see the biggest deer of your life.” It was no lie. The biggest buck I saw, it was evening. He was in a bean field and we were driving out. He was way over 300 pounds. His rack was a monster. He was triple the size of your deer down South.

I’ve been looking at some places in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and places like that, and reading a lot of information. It’s not so much like, “Don’t shoot the first deer you see,” but it’s like, “We let our bucks age. They’re mature and stuff.” I’m thinking like, “You wouldn’t want to shoot one of the younger ones if that’s their regulation or rule.” What looks like a young buck in Illinois or Wisconsin to me down here is like a mature buck. I’ve made the mistake of posting pictures of some of my deer in hunting groups. They’re like, “That’s a yearling,” or “Give him another year.” I’m sitting there looking at that deer, “If I see that deer, he is going down,” because he looks great to me. That’s something that I’ve been working on too trying to get better. I found a good article. It was talking about how to age deer on the hoof and stuff. I’m still trying to learn, understand and get better at stuff like that.

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Shout out for QDMA. If you’re not a member of QDMA, become a member because in their magazine every month, there are three or four deers and it says, “Age this deer.” They have four or five guys age these deer and give the reasons why it is and it isn’t. One of the best deer I had ever killed was sitting over my shoulder. It was one of the prettiest deer. He was a perfect ten-point. His brow tines were over six inches and a drop-dead gorgeous deer. I killed him too young. If I had let him grow on that farm, he would have been easy Boone and Crockett because he was 132 as a two-and-a-half-year-old deer. He was huge.

I see what you’re telling me. That deer is nice though. I don’t know if I would have let that one walk either.

It was the prettiest deer I’ve ever seen. Nobody has ever seen that deer and has said anything but, “What a pretty deer.” That’s why he’s on the wall. He’s the prettiest deer. His frame was everything. He was a young deer. Iowa has huge deers. Since I took him, would I take him again? In the right place, I would shoot him again. On that same farm, I wouldn’t. If I’m in Wisconsin on our farm, there’s no question. That sucker is going down.

That’s one of the things that I found very interesting. It’s the very strong opinions that people have on what other people should shoot as far as what they consider a good deer, an old deer or a mature deer. I’m in a lot of chat groups and hunting groups, mostly for entertainment and to learn. Some people are like, “You can’t shoot that deer.” Guys will post their deer and you can tell they’re super proud of it. The first couple of comments are, “Congratulations.” Probably about ten or so comments down are, “He looks small,” or “He looks like he only scored whatever.” It’s like, “Let the man be happy,” or “Let the lady be happy.” Why is there such a big hullabaloo about that? This is something you made me think about when you were talking about that deer.

Part of why we hunt is because it’s, “Look what I did. I was successful.” A lot of people need success in their life. I was talking to an educator for CRCS Outdoors. He’s got a great secondary education program for kids. He says that one thing that he’s seen is that kids don’t have a lot of opportunities to be successful in the light of older adults. Hunting is one thing that he sees. When one of his students goes out and harvests, kills or puts down a whitetail buck, that kid lights up because he did something. He was successful at it. If you play with athletes, when you crunch a tackle or you catch the pass, you know you accomplished something. It’s the same thing in any sports. When you pin the guy or get pinned, you’re in the mix. You’re in the game. Many people nowadays because of technology are competing against a digital foe. They can feel some success, but it’s not the same visceral as you and I feel when we harvest a deer or when we put a deer down. It’s not the same.

I don’t let that stop me. There’s the whole thought process of why people are the way they are. I don’t let that stop me. I still enjoy going out in the woods. I enjoy shooting my bow. I call it the bow therapy. It’s whenever I get a chance to shoot my bow. I live six months of the year in Wisconsin when I’m working in a small little apartment. I got a nice, hard black target seven yards away right down the hallway. I’ll stand there for twenty minutes and shoot my bow in the hallway if I don’t feel like going out to the range just to keep my form. I love it and it works for me.

What are you doing and how are you using Bryant Land brand for recruiting new hunters or new people to the outdoors?

We’ve done two trade shows in Georgia. From what I can see when young kids stop by our booth, if they’re not already into it, seeing me, my son or my daughter or and talking to them, their faces light up. We had a good fortune at that trade show being beside a nonprofit church. Their whole thing was taking fathers and sons and fathers and daughters out hunting. The people that stopped at their booth would stop by our booth. It was like continuing the conversation that they already had. That was one of the things that I found interesting and that I enjoyed. One of the things that we want to do going forward is to have camps and start working with different archery shops to have camps to get more people into archery, get more kids into archery and bowhunting. That’s something on the long-range goal list of Bryant Land that I want us to be a part of.

I ask everybody the same question. Here you are now. You hunt, go out there and mix it up. What do you know now that you surely wish you knew a few years ago?

I wish I had got into this a lot earlier. That’s the biggest thing that I look back at a lot of times. It’s like, “I could have been having so much fun if I could have gotten into this a few years ago.” Everything happens for a reason or at least that’s what they say. I’ve met some tremendous people. I’ve had a chance to be exposed to different things. I’m not a big world traveler person. I don’t have the urge to go to different parts of the world, but traveling for work and going back to these places to hunt has opened my eyes up to so much. It’s been so much fun. I wish I had gotten into it earlier. People talk about going to the beach and stuff. One of my best days was sitting in the tree stand in Wisconsin and it was cold. I don’t like the cold. The scenery, the snow, seeing the does playing in the snow and having that big deer walk by right before I was able to put a shot on him and things like that. It’s able to travel and hunt these different places in the United States. I wish I had got into it earlier so I could have enjoyed it earlier.

I’m thinking about 1966 and 2018. It’s a long time.

I’m a person that has a lot of respect for longevity, whether it’s longevity listening to guys talk about how much whitetail hunting they’ve been doing or listening to other directors that have had longevity in sports television. I respect longevity because any time that you can do something that you like for that long period of time, it is a wealth of knowledge. Being able to tap into that knowledge, it’s invaluable. It’s something that I enjoy doing. When you say 1966 to now, there’s no telling what stories, tales and deer that have gone from 115 to 140 in all those years.

I’m still alive to tell it. I’m still blessed to be on planet Earth. On October 30th of 2017, I rolled my truck three times.

How did you do that?

It’s black ice. I was in Wisconsin, crossing the Chippewa River, just North of Eau Claire. I was heading to my friend at KO Farms.

Were you heading on a hunting trip?

I was meeting him for breakfast because we had this one buck. It was a gorgeous, mature ten-point, very nice buck. We were going to team hunt him because we knew where he was. I never made it to breakfast.

Surviving that, be here and keep doing what you’re doing is truly a blessing.

Everything happens for a reason. I liked how you said that. It’s like this show. It’s having guys like you on, sharing stories and letting people know it doesn’t matter when you get started. There’s something special about hunting and spending time in a tree stand or a ground blind or being fogged in on the side of a mountain in British Columbia for three days. Fortunately, I brought a book. You could see outside to take a pee, but you couldn’t go more than ten feet or who knows where you’ll end up. They don’t quit. I don’t know Jim Shockey. I hope I meet him. We could hang out with him like we’re hanging out and the stories that he has. Jim Shockey is just one guy. There are thousands if not millions of men and women who go out there. They’re on nobody’s radar, but they’ve had the same experience you and I have had, sitting in the tree stand and harvesting a buck.

Some of my best moments were sitting in Buffalo County on the ridge, a mahogany buck there, a 160-class buck. I knew he was there. I couldn’t get on him. All of a sudden, the snowsquall comes through and the woods get absolutely silent. It’s in the fall. It was just a snowsquall. All of a sudden, all the color of the oak leaves and everything was white. The squall goes through and the sun comes out and starts hitting it. The snow starts dripping off these leaves and you go, “I’m in church.” I don’t know where you are with your relationship with God, but I was sitting and going, “I’m in church.” There wasn’t a sound and the mahogany buck didn’t come out. A whole flock of turkeys did. They were scratching and doing that whole thing and I went, “I’m alive to see this.” Even if you were sitting in there with five cameras, you couldn’t capture that the way the light was bouncing off. The setting light, the hues and everything, you could not capture it. It’s impossible. You live it. As I tell the story now, it takes me right back there and I go, “It’s a beautiful setting.”

When we were talking about my turkey hunt and how I didn’t get it all on camera, at one point, I was like, “I’m not worried about the camera.” I’ll remember that for as long as I’m blessed with my memory. I will remember everything about it. I can still see the ridge. I can see all five of them coming down. I can see all of them going back up the ridge after everything that happened. It’s the same thing in Wisconsin. I haven’t filmed any of my deer hunts, but I can still see everything vividly. Those are memories that as long as I’m blessed with having my right mind, I’ll remember that for as long as I live. That’s one of the great parts of it.

If you’re reading this, we’re going down a lot of rabbit trails. Why we hunt is to be able to share these stories. In some cultures, the only way history was transferred was through stories. That’s the way they were handed down, elder to son to daughter to everybody. We don’t do that. That’s one part of this show. I want people to share their stories so other people share their stories. When people come and ask why you hunt, you say, “Let me tell you a story,” and not “I’ve got to defend it because I eat what I kill. We give $37 billion a year back to the economy at Pittman–Robertson funds.” If you go to that park, Pittman–Robertson funded part of that park. We got the data. “Can we sit down and have a cup of coffee? Can I tell you the story of how I was nine feet from a grizzly bear?” It’s about telling stories. The more I’m convinced for hunting, it’s telling stories and seeing people’s eyes get wide. I’ve had some guys sitting in the airport and they go, “No way.” I go, “Whatever.” You talk about the Packers or something because they don’t get it and that’s okay.

Not everybody is going to get it. Not everybody is going to understand what it is you do. That’s fine too. You were there.

Are there any last comments for the folks? Tell them how to get a hold of you.

We’re on Instagram @OfficialBryantLand. We’re on Facebook at Bryant Land. Our website is BryantLandCountry.com. We still have some things on YouTube if you punch in Bryant Land. The big thing that we’re proud of is that we’re programming. We’re going to have two web shows. It’s Waterfowl Warriors, which is a show we did on Facebook. Another show is Outdoor Madness. Both of those shows will be available on demand on GEN7 Outdoors. We are very proud and very excited about that.

Shout-out for Jody Blackwelder. Whitetail Rendezvous is also on GEN7 TV. You can find me at anyplace. I’m creeping over 300,000 downloads and the show has grown organically. That’s bitching. That’s a Southern California word.

I appreciate you having us on. This was my first time doing a podcast, doing an interview. Usually, I’m the one behind the camera asking the questions. This has been a lot of fun. Thank you. I was talking about building traditions several years from now to be able to look back at this. Maybe we’ll be at ATA together and we’ll be telling more stories.

I look forward to it for sure.

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About Adam Bryant III

Bryant Land is the vision of Adam Bryant III. Proud South Carolinian and Gamecock. Adam has worked in the television broadcast industry for over 20 years doing every production job at some point. An accomplished sports television director and fanatic outdoorsman, Bryant Land is the result of Adam combining his passion for television with his love of hunting and the outdoors.

Through our Bryant Land channel and social media sites we will share a wide range of entertaining and informational content relevant to the hunting and outdoor world. Bryant Land will present information, people and stories to the world that may otherwise never have an outlet to see daylight. “Simply put, I am a guy that grew up on a dirt road in South Carolina that loves God, my family, bows, guns, hunting, ATVs, and lifted trucks. Television is my passion and I’ve worked in it since I was 18. Bryant Land is a combination of all those things, and I’m humbly presenting it to you.”