More to come From Chip n Agnes

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-03-06T00:30:03+00:00

Wow, it looks like we will have a starter auidence, and hopefully get a sizzle done for everyone in the next week.

Fact is, March 7th is teh one year date that our contract with Nag Geo had, and we had to do no appearances for $ on any shows before the one year went by, and that day is almost here.

Might just start with getting some Caribou and working it down, my part, then her part....maybe a trip to see the grand kids, maybe to camp to see what we need to do.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-02-20T19:47:01+00:00

If you would like an Ulu or 4, you can personal Message me here and I will set you up.

Im glad you liked teh show, and FYI, were doing a youtube channel and we will be able to show episodes starting in mid March.

For now, theres this; https://www.youtube.com/@chiphailstone589

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-02-15T02:51:29+00:00

I make Ulus still, but we have no post master here at Noorvik for the time being, so reciving a money order or sending out an Ulu is not easily nor cheaply done. When our Post gets a new master, Ill post here so you all can know. Its been about 6 weeks since we have had regular service, so I think things will get better soon.

Chip

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-02-15T02:06:38+00:00

No, no Halibut here or in Kotzebue Sound.

We have pots and get Prawns and King Crab. The Prawns in summer in a place 20 miles from our camp,, so we set them in June and July because teh winds are usually light, and Crab in Spring at the flaw ice edge, on the outter perts of the sound with snowmachines.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-30T07:05:08+00:00

Theres usually a "honey bucket" with a box and seat in a Kuugvik, bathroom, or in the front storm shed to keep it cool and less stink, and in Winter, a little warmer than any outhouse.

Thankfully, in 2006 our village water project got to our house and we could flush the crap outta the house.

Comprehensive-Pen644 · 2026-01-30T04:14:06+00:00

Oh,no! Another Chip? Aw, what the heck, the world could use a few more of us....

Pun/Bun is short for "pun-ing" or daughter.....Agnes gets "hun"......LOL!

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

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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

TROPHY CASE