Dan Treadway

The Red, the White and the Dead.

October 20, 2004
Well it's been a great hunting season here in Kenora Ontario. Started off with a nice 45" bull moose on opening day. My dad, brother Daryl and I were all together

calling in a meadow for the evening talking back and forth for about 45 min, the bull came crashing out into the open about 150 yards from me. Since then luck has stayed on my side bagging a bunch of ducks and fish as well as two nice 8 point bucks, a 10 pont and four does. All the time hunting with friends and family around the Lake of the Woods area. Enjoy the shots. Send me an email with your latest catch or kill!

You Might be a Redneck if...
Published in Freeze Magazine, December 2003

Dan Treadway can’t get much further from his element than Newport Beach, California, where he’s in town for meetings with his eyewear and clothing sponsor, Oakley. It’s late afternoon, and his boardshorts and flip-flops clash rather dramatically with the mountain-man beard that’s grown over the summer while he built houses in a small lakeside town in Canada’s Midwest. He’s clearly itching to get out of the "concrete jungle."

Dan’s grandpa was once attacked by timber wolves. He shot seven, killing the alpha male in midair as it jumped on him. It was the first time timber wolves are known to have "hunted" a human, and the alpha male was the biggest on record in North America.

Dan likes to kill things. He usually kills things with his rifle. The biggest thing Dan’s ever killed is a moose with a 54-inch rack. It was a big accomplishment, but since the record in Ontario is 68 inches, Dan wants to kill something bigger.

How close have you come to achieving your lifelong goal of ultimate redneck-ness?
Well, I’ve always said that a true redneck can open his freezer and find nothing but meat. Right before coming out here, I was moose hunting and shot two moose. We butchered them up, and my parents have some tenants living in their place, and I rent freezer space from them. I filled a full-size freezer up with nothing but meat.

You rent a freezer to store your meat?
So, to answer you question, I’m working my way up, for sure.

Shooting a bull moose can’t compare to stomping a cliff in the biggest permanent closer on Whistler, can it? There’s no adrenalin involved.
Oh yes, there is. The moose are coming out to call. It’s during mating season, so this 1000-pound bull with a 49-inch rack thinks you’re another moose calling him out over a mate.

So you’re instigating an interaction that could end badly?
It could, if you didn’t have a gun.

– By Micah Abrams, Freeze Magazine

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