Outdoor Industry Icon Jim Shockey

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Jack Carr

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest on Danger Close is a true outdoorsman and renaissance man. He is an award-winning outdoor writer, wildlife photographer, videographer, naturalist, wilderness guide and outfitter. He is the host of Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures, The Professionals, Uncharted, and Shock Therapy on the Outdoor Channel.

He owns several outfitting territories in Canada's wildlands, including the Pacific Rim Guide Territory on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Rogue River Outfitting in the Yukon Territory. His work documenting wildlife has been widely recognized, and his television productions have won 15 Golden Moose Awards. He’s also an accomplished marksman, an official Member International of the Explorer's Club in New York City, and a retired Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (4CRPG) Canadian Armed Forces.

In college, Jim was an all-American swimmer and member of the Canadian National Water Polo team. A noted expert in ethnocentric arts of Western Canada, Jim opened the Hand of Man Museum of Cultural Arts and Conservation on Vancouver Island in 2019.

You can follow him on Instagram @jimshockeyofficial / Facebook @JimShockey / Twitter @JimShockey_ and find out more at jimshockey.com.

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast.
0:08.8	Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carr.
0:16.1	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Six Sour.
0:20.8	My guest today is a very special friend of mine, Jim Shachy.
0:24.2	You probably know him from Jim Shachy's Hunting Adventures, The Professionals, and Uncharted.
0:30.5	So he's been an icon of the outdoor industry of the hunting industry for a few years now.
0:37.4	And it was such a pleasure to get to talk to him. I also got to talk to him about this.
0:43.6	Now this is a novel. And as you're hearing the conversation, it's something pretty special.
0:49.5	And it's called Man of Sour's The Soul Catcher. And it's actually, I don't really know how to
0:55.6	how best to describe this, but listen to the podcast, check it out.
0:59.5	Jim sent this to me a few months back. And I wanted to make sure that I read it at a time when I
1:04.6	could turn everything off, take a breath, spend some time with it, and I'm so glad that I did,
1:09.8	because there's, I'm holding something special in my hands right here. So we talk about this
1:15.2	on the podcast. We talk about the state of the world. We talk about politics. We get into it.
1:20.0	And you might also might know, Eva Shachy, Jim's daughter, who has been fantastic to me,
1:24.8	as I entered this, this world of publishing and this world of really social media and outreach
1:30.7	and engagement and all of that. So you can find her online, quite a few places. And Jim is at
1:36.6	if you go to JimShachy.com. You can see everything that he has going on there. He is official Jim Shachy
1:42.6	on Instagram and he is Jim Shachy on Twitter and Facebook. So you can follow along with everything
1:48.6	he has going on on those platforms. So if you like what you hear, make sure you leave a review,
1:54.7	wherever you get your podcast. Leave a five-star review to help beat those so social media
2:01.2	big tech algorithms. And we'll keep doing these. So without further ado, my friend, Jim Shachy.
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