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INTRODUCTION: Hello friends and welcome to the Glaze Family Outdoors website. Our family grew up hunting, fishing and learning a deep appreciation for the outdoors. Our father taught us, his father taught him and we're teaching our youngin's as well. Our family has always been close and it's not just the brothers who are part of our hunting camps, it's uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces...and a lot of friends as well. For many years now we have been taking our video cameras into the woods with us to film our hunts. Sometimes we go as a pair, one hunter and one cameraman but most of the time we do it all ourselves. What do we mean by that? Well, one person filming themselves as they hunt. Oh we've come up with some whopper ideas to make this easier, some good and some just flat out ridiculous but we've tried them all and we're developing some tried and true methods. After collecting many years of video footage we starting putting them together into movies and after a few years we're starting to get better and better at it. We have a long way to go, but if the Glaze boys can do it, you can too. So, explore our site, check out our contraptions and watch some quicktime movies. If you like what you see, visit our store and pick some stuff up for your home viewing and in-field hunting pleasure. We'll be doing even more videos in the coming year as well, including our yearly hog hunt down in the Florida panhandle. To see our past hunts down there check out the Black Hog Down series. It's a combination archery (our preferred method) and rifle (our preferred method for filling the freezer fast). We hope you enjoy what you see. Let us know what you think and we'll keep you posted on upcoming news including where you might be seeing us on the television next year. God bless and remember; hunting season is family season. Get your family out there with you and teach your younger generations the love and respect we're sure you share with us when we sit on God's front porch (thanks Primos). PRODUCTION DETAILS Ok, here's the deal. We're just a bunch of blue collar guys, we work day jobs (most of us are brick layers) and we do EVERYTHING ourselves. That includes paying for everything. We don't have any sponsors, but we'll be honest, if someone wants to sponsor us we'll take it, we don't get free hunting trips and our video equipment was mostly bought at a department store. This is strickly a do it yourself project from learning how to film (through many years of trial and error), learning how to edit (after buying the software) and learning the best ways to get decent footage. So here's the point. If we can do it, anyone can do it. None of us went to college (actually, between us we might have one high school diploma and one GED) and none of us took classes to learn any of this. That only means to us that with a little bit of motivation and some serious time and effort you can make movies too. And we want you to. We want to see them!!! We're addicted to hunting videos as much as we are to hunting...well ok, almost as much. One of these days we're hoping to make a video showing how to make a video the way we do... Also important to note is that WE ARE NOT TROPHY HUNTERS. If someone wants to bag that trophy buck with "huge mass, a split G4 and double brow tines" then fine, we have no problem with that. For us, the trophy goes in the freezer...then in our belly. We're not poor, but we're far from rich and game meat goes a long way in offsetting grocery costs. So, you will see that if the animal we're hunting is legal, we're taking it. So don't expect to see us on managed ranches paying $5000 for a trophy buck. We can't afford that (like a vast majority of hunters) and wouldn't pay that for a set of antlers when a 4 point from the state game lands fills the freezer as well as a 14 point from a private ranch. Again, we're not saying people shouldn't hunt trophies, we're just saying we're like most of you reading this...blue collar guys who love to hunt and need the meat. THE THREE TURKEYS You may see some references to the Three Turkeys either on the DVDs or on the website. It started when Bob Jr., Tom and Ottie were waiting for Roy get get set up so they could film the narration segments for Black Hog Down 1. They couldn't decide what they were going to call the production "company" and Roy blurted out "You turkeys gotta come up with something. There you go, Three Turkeys." And that was that until recently when after a few years of doing the movies everyone realized that it's a huge family affair so the name was changed to Glaze Family Productions. Ottie doesn't mind, he's been around us his whole life and aside from the Pennsylvania accent he's one of us now. GFO HUNT TEAM The core members of the GFO Hunt Team are Bob Glaze Jr., Roy Glaze, Ottie Stratton and Tom Glaze. They are most often joined by Rod Glaze, Danny Glaze and David Jurmanovich but you'll see a large and diverse cast of characters on the videos. GFO PRODUCTION TEAM Just about every hunter films themselves in GFO films so the cameramen in most cases are the hunters themselves. GFO is truely a family affair with Bob, Roy, Tom and Rod handling most of the production issues from artwork to video editing to directing and producing all of the videos. Everyone has a job to do and everyone has their areas of input and expertise. Sure there are some arguments but in the end we all trust each other to do their parts and do them well. FAMILY TREE Well let's see now. There are sure to be the questions about how we're all related to each other so we'll try to explain: GLAZE FAMILY Bob Sr. - That's our dad, we call him Pappy and OB (Old Bob) for short, he was married to our beautiful and wonderful mom, Eileen. Pappy passed away in November of '05 (see OUR PAPPY). Brothers: Bob Jr. - He's the oldest boy, there are six in our family...five boys and one girl. The girl (Jan) is the oldest. Roy - Roy is responsible for all of our video editing and much, much more. Rod - Rod does our website and artwork. He's a studio artist in Chicago in the advertising business (trust us, you've seen LOTS of his work). Russ - Russ comes with us every once in a while, we wish he could come with us more. Ron - He doesn't hunt much anymore so we don't get him in our movies. But with seven kids and quite a few grandkids he's busy enough for all of us. Cousins: Tom - Tom, or t-man, is one of the core hunters in GFO. He and Bob live up on a mountain in Pennsylvania where all they have to do is walk across the field to start hunting. Lucky so-and-so's. Ed - We're hoping to get Eddie out with us to film soon! He's Tom's older brother and one heck of a guy...then again, he's a Glaze so that goes without saying. Danny - Danny (sometimes Butch) is another cousin who you'll see in our movies. He loves to hunt and loves to hang out with the family. We'd have him with us on every hunt if he could get more time off of work. So, here's the breakdown: Bob Jr., Roy, Ron, Russ and Rod are all brothers and sons of Bob Sr. Tom and Ed are brothers and sons of Uncle Ed (Bob Sr.'s brother) Danny is the son of Uncle George (also Bob Sr.'s brother) Hope that clears it up! HUNTING GEAR Since we have no sponsorships (yet) we use various brands but we'll try to list what we use most. We're certainly not opposed to sponsorship and using one quality brand though so if anyone is interested in what we're doing just send us an email and let's talk! Treestands/Blinds The vast majority of our treestands and blinds are from Big Game Treestands. They're sturdy, reliable and easy to set up. We use hang-on stands, ladder stands and blinds. Bows Most of us shoot Mathews bows. One of us shoots a Hoyt. It's all a matter of preference. But if there's a bow manufacturer that wants to give us all new bows we'll be happy to take them and use them in our movies :-) Arrows Most of us are using the Carbon Express arrows. Except Roy, he still uses aluminum shafts and Razorback 5 broadheads...he bought them quite a few years ago and still has some left. That guy KNOWS how to get his money's worth! Broadheads Muzzy is our broadhead of choice...with one exception (see above...but even he'd switch under the right circumstances). Guns We mostly hunt archery so when it comes time to pull out the guns we shoot what we have. For most everything we use 7mm rifles. We have some Remingtons, Winchesters, Savage Arms and a few others and they're all great. OUR PAPPY You'll have to excuse and induge us here. We lost our dad last year. He is the reason any of us do this today. His father taught him and his brothers and him taught us. He was an amazing man who made a huge impact on anyone who was ever around him. Over the course of his life he was a brick layer by trade but also a hunter, fisher, cattleman, trapper, guide for mountain lion hunts, fence builder (in some of the roughest country in Arizona) and even a race car driver and mechanic (with his brother, our Uncle Ed). His stories were fascinating and his vast knowlege of just about everything outdoor and construction related with staggering. We miss him everyday. I've personally (this is Rod writting this by the way) come to believe that if God has a game warden, Dad was appointed to the position as soon as he reached the pearly gates.  |