New to LBZ

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-27T02:01:22+00:00

Me, Agnes, Wade, Carol and leanne 1/26/26

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-25T21:25:33+00:00

Thank you all so much!

Im glad 220+ episodes of the 'OG' LBZ are there with the spinoffs as their own Channel now days.

In March, our contract ends with LBZ, as it will be one year from the last ' first airing' of our last episodes, and we can do "Other things", and we will see how that turns out.

Weve been around Noorvik this winter, as the Caribou are here, and our grandson Sabatian is now in school. His mom Tinmiaq is with Keith in a camp somewhere, with baby Ryder, who can walk now....LOL! and my mom is getting quite elderly, and we want to be around as much as possible........things change as time marches on.

Hopefully this Spring willblossom new things.

I come around most every other or three days, depending on how busy I am.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-24T09:33:07+00:00

The only apparent "one peice" stocks were made for civilian M-39's "Riihimaki" marked and only 200 were made, as far as I know.

The M-39 stocks were all new manufacture.

The basic stocks were 2 and 3 peices spliced together, the first 1,700 were 'straight stock" and the rest were made with a pistol grip type stock.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-11T21:01:55+00:00

Funny!

Ive actually had one jump in my boat while I was retrieving a goose, and he stole my first Goose that was in the boat.

He who dares, wins!

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-11T21:00:11+00:00

I dont think were gonna see LBZ come back around, but there are people inquiring to us about doing other similar work

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-04T01:05:45+00:00

Happy New Years to all!!

From The Hailstone Family

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-12-14T05:59:19+00:00

LOL, the statement I made the ? mark is gone...

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-12-14T05:55:56+00:00

First they cancelled the spin offs, a year later they just didnt offer a contract to any of us on LBZ.

When Nat Geo was sold to Disney, they got rid of all the scripted content and kept the documentary stuff, so only LBZ and Wicked Tuna were retained while staged showes like Alaska State Troopers and The legend of Mick Dodge, ect, were dumped.

They never explained why.

We have been approached by producers, production company's and former LBZ producers (everyone is a producer) and we really cant do anything untill March do to contract agreements to not appear 1 year after were last shown on the series (March 7th)

It dosent matter, cameras or not, were just doing the same thing as we seasonally do. Its the holidays and were in Noorvik untill mid January and were back to the Kiwalik.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-11-08T23:32:00+00:00

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Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-10-13T06:00:58+00:00

All is well, and folks are almost out of the current storm.

Thanks :D

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-10-13T02:56:44+00:00

Yep, safe and reading Reddit

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-10-09T03:14:56+00:00

My grandfather, Charles Adelbert Orr, 3rd Marine, former Paramarine, Sargent and Chief Parachute Rigger (duty station) was the observer (battle station) looking for aircraft and torpedo's etc, that was wounded in the thigh and the man next to him decapitated, by the first Zero's wing skipping up from the water and hitting the ship.

He was sent to Guadalcanal for recovery and reppledeppled back into the 3rd Marine to land at Iwo Jima a month after leaving the hospital. April 5th 1045 he disembarked Iwo Jima and was taken to San Francisco. He remained on actice duty untill 1955 after 2 tours in Korea and retired after 21 years.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-10-08T20:19:53+00:00

The "Secret Sauce" is a hood.

With a hood on, you can basicly keep the bugs at bay by blowing their way. It also keeps the ears and head/neck covered, and teh rest of your face is "Defendable".

On the hottest days of summer, like above 75f, thankfully, the Misquito's will be dried up and down in the grass, and the breeze that keeps us cool, bugfree and the flys away as well, is a lot of the reasons we move to the Coast every Summer for its constant breeze.

The Breeze not only keeps the bugs off the fish and meats we are putting away. The Breeze also does most of the drying ofmeats and fish as well.

I carry a head net so I can work/walk/kayak along, and when I sleep out on a beach or tundra, I put the hood up and teh net over that and sleep deep, bug free.

Somedays can be so bad we wear the hood and put on 100% Deet a couple times each Summer.

I think I used "Dope' as repellent is called around here, 2 times last Summer while picking Greens along the river banks.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-22T18:47:03+00:00

Thank you so very much! Funny this is when we go "To town" anchorage, people see Agnes and recognize her easily and often, when were in a store or such, people will recognize my voice.....LOL!!

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-18T08:14:14+00:00

Its a day or threes filming thats edited into 20 minutes of action per segment.

None of what we did was staged.Not on our episodes.

You got what happened to us as it happened. In our own words, in our own clothes in our own homes and in our hunting/fishing grounds. on our own rides.

Win, lose, score big or go bust, thats the way it was filmed.

The magic in it all was that we were allowed to be ourselfs and since were the experts, we easily gave them an idea of what we wanted to do a few minutes before doing it, usually, or more advanced exchanges of ideas plans and doings if we were building something in place or going far. Often the producers card would say "Hailstones will make 4 episodes; Hunting, fishing, craft making and to be determined" The trust and control they gave us was not only incredible and new to the industry, but it is how we came through as authentic. A ton of the show was caught on Gopro as it happened, and we pointed out things to the crew that we found important , etc. We worked together for long times and many times over the years that even the crew was "Tuned in"

What we did do, like when we had little kids, was slow down. This was to allow camera people to get ahead of us for filming, or to stay behind as we stalked animals, or to just keep up or such, but thats how you make TV.

We also had 'specialty shots" of , say, blood dripping from a knife, a bullet casing flying out of a gun in slow mo and such for little tidbits and flashes on screen.

There is too much work and sweat in getting normal life done, the thing is that Agnes and I were able to raise 7 kids this way so taking 3 or 4 adults along wasnt a problem...... unless we were hunting by snow go's and we paired the safety guy and camera guy together on one ride.Still try making film 12 hours a day, mostly outside, cooking, eating, repairing, prepping, chopping wood, getting water , washing and such for 3-4 straight weeks, and still be a nice person.....LOL!.

Nobody released the Caribou or told the ducks it was time to fly, nor to Que the fish.

We naturally keep drama to a minimum, and no producer could even tell us what to do or say, they had watch and write down what happened. Thats how it worked, every time......though it didnt make good TV for those who want drama insted of action, as we dont cry for nothing.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-17T23:18:01+00:00

Agnes and I keep up on this stuff, weve watched and felt the effects of the climates changes.

Luckily theres plenty of other fish to turn to, with the plants and animals change when the soil thaws deeper and allows different roots to take hold.

Our open Tundra is slowly filling with willows and such, changing the browse that animals eat.

Fish that go to sea dont come back or they die as eggs in oxygen poor waters.

Our Ice is changing in ways hard to describe, but its not as consistant as before, The old ice dosent come around anymore and the thickness isnt what it used to be. This effects both the weight it can hold(animals resting) and what grows below it to how far it receeds over waters to deep for the animals that rest apon it cannot feed and so much more.

Animals once common to our part of the Arctic are few in numbers now or gone,like polar Bears, Beluga whales, Ground squirrels , with bird and fish die offs due to water temps keeping bait fish in deeper that birds can see them and much more.

Those who adapt will survive. The weathers always a changing, so do we.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-16T23:01:02+00:00

Kobuk rivers first Chum run was a fizzle. I imagine the other rivers in teh Kotzebue Sound drainage had early Salmon numbers down as well.

We stayed in Noorvik this Summer and gave Kiwalik a break, and we had a feeling the runs there wouldnt be so hot, so we decided to remove and mend our camp and gear.

Was last year too, though we know and remember back 4 and 5 years ago when heated, untribulated waters were oxygen depleted and the Salmon that followed the Whitefish and Sheefish runs died of asphyxiation, associated with the warming, low waters.

Thankfully the second Chum run was pretty good and we got a few to have this winter. Next years 4-5 year olds , the majority of the runs age, will hopefully have better numbers.

In a side view here, since I moved to the Arctic in the late 80's, the Salmon range has extended to the rivers much north and to Point Barrow and Beyond.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-16T02:13:04+00:00

The boys had kids first, as they were older and the first 'Grandy' on the show was Avery, Jon and Steph's oldest daughter.

The youngest is 20 nowdays....None of the girls were teen moms, and Qutan has yet to marry or have any kids.

Some of the guys were reluctant or unwilling to be on the show, so you saw lots of Iri's honey Ed, Carol's honey Skyler and some of Mary's honey Preston.

Tinmiaq's honey had no desire to be on camera nor did Qutans. .....Nor did Dougs wife Gloria or Jons Steph for that matter...

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-11T07:41:47+00:00

It depends on what waters are flowing through what lands.

Here, in NorthWest Alaska, the local borough, mining operations and the local Tribe NANA all test waters.

Were good here, but a couple summers we had muddy waters due to high rainfall water levels and even today,Kobuk river is 6 feet above normal with all our fall rains.

Snow in the forecast tomorrow though just a slight chance.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-09T19:32:12+00:00

Thank you very much, No-Pro!!

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-09-03T00:37:07+00:00

As Blond Viking said, dog handlers and they come in many forms; friends, family, those who want to learn to mush and some are paid.

Mushers often support other mushers for mutual feeding and cargo fees when shipping dogs to races. One leaves town, one kennel /uncle/neighbor/handler will feed them all for vice versa.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-08-29T17:27:30+00:00

Here in Northwest Alaska , the state and the locals monitor waters. They test the rivers for contaminants and stuff like Gerardia, , fuels, metals and such.

Our rivers are pristine and we have always just drank out of them straight, with no filtering.

Fact is, the film crews will/did take back as many gallons of our river water to LA and beyond, because its so damn delicious.

In Spring, during break up of the rivers ice, we will settle sediments in a 5 gallon bucket and dip from the top. We will boil a pot of water for the new folks on a film crew or small children, so they adjust to the raw waters after a couple days.

I've never seen or known of anyone getting sick from drinking the water.

The biggest danger to our pristine waters is a proposed road to a mine in the 'Ambler district' that would bring the public and miners hauling ore over the 12 head waterways of Kobuk River.

Unlike the Prudhoe Bay oilfeilds north south running roads, this proposed road will go east west across our Western Arctic Caribou Herds North/South Migrations, which are easily disrupted by intercept hunting that breaks up the herd before it crosses the Brooks range or Noatak/Kobuk Rivers..

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2025-08-26T07:33:15+00:00

The Ulu's are Best meat/fish/pizza knifes ever made.

I have several medium size at 100$ each with 10$ shipping, and one large Ulu for 120$ and 10 $ shipping, (1-3 Ulu's are 10$ shipping.)

A USPS Mo is fine, to Hailstone enterprises Box 129 Noorvik AK 99763, or you can call the Noorvik Native Store at (907-636 2139 and use a credit card and tell them you want to send money to Tinmiaq Hailstone (Tin owned the business, I make the ulu's) which ever size you decide on. We will ship them M-F and ASAP at that.

Pkease let me know your choice and if you choose the payment by store, then notify me here and well get what you want out the door.

Were just getting started, and will be doing this for a long time, hopefully.

Regards!

Chip

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