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Area man hunts, films for new Wild TV show

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Jordan Mulrooney, a Mount Hope native and current Bagley resident, is one of the pro staff featured on the “Wicked Tine Outdoors” show online and new to Wild TV beginning July 3.

By Correne Martin

Starting July 3, some 19 million people will be able to watch a new hunting show, “Wicked Tine Outdoors,” featuring Mount Hope native and Bagley resident Jordan Mulrooney, on Wild TV-Canada’s Hunting and Fishing TV Network. The formerly Internet-based show captures the full story about what hunting is truly about for blue-collar Americans like Mulrooney who juggle family, friends and work along with their passion to get out into the woods.

“Every one of us has a job, juggles kids around and rushes out of work to get to their tree stand,” said Mulrooney, who’s married with one young son. “We make hunting fun to watch. We enjoy being out there and we joke around but we also have some really awesome videography and first-hand footage.”

In addition to hunting whitetail deer, mule deer, bear, elk, wild hogs and more via gun, muzzle loader or bow, the pro staff on the half-hour show demonstrates for viewers a lot of the behind-the-scenes action such as planting food plots, glassing and stalking, hanging tree stands, fixing stands, picking up sheds, getting permission to hunt on people’s land, and even cooking their own game. They appear in front of the camera and work as filmmakers too, sharing stories of growing up hunting and their escapades in rural Wisconsin as well as around the country, in states such as New Mexico, South Dakota and even Canada. Some of the guys are the down-and-dirty aggressive kind, while others, like Mulrooney, are more fringe hunters who challenge themselves from the perimeter.

About 15 Wisconsin hunters comprise the pro staff on “Wicked Tine Outdoors,” including a number of southwest Wisconsin natives. Aside from Mulrooney, Brad Schneider hails from Potosi and Luke Narvaez comes from Boscobel. Others are from places like Prairie du Sac, where creator Sherman Raschein lives, and Oregon, Wis.

Also part-owner in Mulrooney Logging with his dad, Rich, Jordan has been following in his dad’s footsteps as a hunter since he was a young boy, hunting alongside him as well as a cousin for most of his years.

He’s taken about 10 large bucks—one over 160 inches, one pushing the 150s and some in the 140s. He’s killed a mule deer and generally does about one out-of-state hunt a year. This year, he’ll do two.

“When you harvest an animal, and you’ve done all the work, you get more of a rush out of it,” Mulrooney commented. “You scouted that animal and you learned about that animal. If you make mistakes, you get better.”

A few years ago, the local man was traveling the United States in competitive archery and he thought he might have the chance to go pro in shooting bow. But when that didn’t work out, he and his good buddy, Schneider, started filming their personal hunts, both bow and gun deer. They were soon approached by Jay Weber, one of the original organizers of “Wicked Tine Outdoors,” about jumping on board to start up a show. Of course, they agreed and the rest is history.

Initially, the episodes began airing online at wicked tineoutdoors.com and on the show’s Facebook page. Three- to five-minute clips relating to each episode also aired. Word spread quickly through social media and now, with nearly 2,000 Facebook followers and some good work promoting the show, Wild TV has picked up “Wicked Tine Outdoors.” Fox Sports Network as well as Fox 47 are two networks the guys would like to contract with next.

“We’re getting as much footage as we can. We’re getting sponsors (one of the big ones being Smartphone Scope Mount), and the likes, shares and views of the show keep growing,” Mulrooney said. “Every bit helps us get more exposure on TV.”

Thus far, Mulrooney has done a lot of filming for “Wicked Tine Outdoors,” for which he uses a Canon EOS 70D, a GoPro, his iPhone and a standard camcorder and takes about 20 to 30 hours of footage to make one episode. “I actually get pretty pumped out there filming,” he said.

This fall, Mulrooney will do more hunting and appear in front of the camera more.

“Right now, we don’t really know how big this is going to be. But people seem to like it and think it’s a good quality show,” he added. “We want to portray the show so that viewers can relate to us and have fun watching us.”

To keep up with what’s happening on the show, or to watch episodes, check out wickedtineoutdoors.com or find them on Facebook.

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