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613 Outdoors Captures Hunting Experience County Brothers’ Idea Turns Into Thriving Video Business

By JOSH WALFISH Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — When Chad Siever tried to explain what it felt like to be out hunting, he just couldn’t find the words to describe the sensations that came with his experiences outdoors.

For 30 years, Siever and his brother, Nathan, have been immersed in the hunting lifestyle in Rockingham County, and they would always struggle to put words to the experiences they had together in the fields. They decided to bring a camera out on a hunt to film the experience and show people what the brothers had difficulty explaining in words.

Those first few videos became the foundation of 613 Outdoors. The Timberville-based company began as two brothers wanting to share their hunting experience with friends and family, and has morphed into a full-fledged business that has a queue of 20 hunts waiting to be edited and posted online to their website and YouTube later this year into early 2018.

“When we come home at night or we talk to our friends and family, no one really truly gets what it is that we experience and what we do, so we thought let’s start videoing our hunts so we can share them with everybody,” Chad Siever said. “That’s where 613 Outdoors was kind of born. Our main driving force is to promote the sport of hunting and the outdoor lifestyle.”

The first few videos were instantly popular among the people with whom the Sievers shared them. One of the reasons Chad Siever believes the videos were so popular was that they connect with a brand of outdoorsman that television shows cannot fully engage with on a regular basis.

Although Siever said he loves watching the hunting shows that are broadcast on cable television, he said it is hard at times for the average hunter to relate to what they see on their screens because they don’t have the fancy equipment or don’t live in the part of the country where the animals are as

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Stacy Knighten, an employee at the Rockingham Cooperative in Harrisonburg, strings up a bow in 2014. Chad and Nathan Siever of Rockingham County, who have been hunting for 30 years, began bringing a camera on hunts to film their experiences. Those first few videos became the foundation of 613 Outdoors, a Timberville-based company that has become a full-time business for the brothers as they post hunting videos on their website and on YouTube. large as they show on television.

The videos produced by 613 Outdoors are designed to connect with a different audience and help people get a more realistic picture for what to expect on smaller, local hunts, he said.

“It is hard for the average hunter to relate to these monster whitetails that are being harvested on TV from the Midwest,” said Siever, who still works full time within emergency communications for Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. “We feel as if we can reach a whole different genre, per se, because we’re able to reach the average hunter because we’re going out and hunting

the same kind of deer that these folks are. We’re hunting local in Rockingham County and Shenandoah County.”

The local element to the business is rooted in the name of the company itself. 613 Outdoors is named for Virginia 613, a highway that runs through Augusta, Rockingham and Shenandoah counties where most of the core people that comprise the company met.

Most of the family’s property lies along the road, and Siever said he wanted to make sure a piece of their roots was always with the company in case it grew beyond their wildest dreams.

It also a vital component in the com-

pany’s motto, “Faith Family Harvest,” which describes the approach Siever has toward his business. The faith element of the motto could just as easily be described as an appreciation for the sport Siever and many others in this area love so dearly.

“It’s not just about harvesting an animal or the biggest buck or catching the biggest fish, for us it goes much deeper than that,” Siever said. “The opportunity to really be one with nature and a part of what God has created for us. Every morning when it breaks a new day, See OUTDOORS, Page 3

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Family Lives ‘Woods-To-Table’ Lifestyle, Consumes Every Deer, Fish Brought Home Outdoors

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it’s a special moment for all of us because we have the opportunity to soak it up.”

The company itself embodies the family portion of the motto with almost everyone in the Siever family helping out in some form or another. Chad Siever’s oldest child — 15-year-old daughter Natalee — helps her father around the property, checking trail cams and helping plant vegetations, and also assists in some of 613 Outdoors’ social media endeavors.

He said the bond he has with Natalee has been strengthened by their love of the outdoors and he cannot wait to share that same connection with his 8-year-old daughter, Nayomi — who Siever said will begin hunting next year — and his 14-month-old son, Neilan. He said he remembers when Natalee bagged her first deer and it’s a moment that helped put everything in perspective for him.

“She was 8 when she harvested her first deer, the emotions she, myself, my brother — he was in the tree filming while I was coaching her — it was unbelievable,” Siever said. “To watch her grow and mature into a young lady who has the same respect for the outdoors,

we have a bond there that’s very strong portunity to hunt that we often lose and one we’ll be able to share for the sight of the small things,” Siever said. rest of our lives.”

“When you spend a long day in the Siever and 613 Outdoors use the field, whether it’s been a good one or a slow day, when that sun’s setting word “harvest” in several different and you get to close out a day ways as it relates to their saying, ‘Hey, I was able core mission. There is to do something that the literal harvesting I love that touches of the animals and It’s not just about my heart and I the need to treat harvesting an animal ... have a passion the animals eththat I’m able to ically and use for us it goes much deeper share with my as much of the than that. The opportunity friends and my animal as you family,’ that’s can.

Siever to really be one with nature a special thing said his famand a part of what God has that we hope ily lives the many, many “woods-to-tacreated for us. more people get ble” lifestyle the opportunity and consume Chad Siever, to experience.” every deer or fish 613 Outdoors The company’s that they bring revenue comes from home. sponsorship deals with There also are the various companies to promote memories created by hunting as a family, which the company is try- products that fit within 613 Outdoors’ ing to collect with a campaign entitled ethos of “Faith. Family Harvest.” The “#MakingMemories.” Siever said those business, however, is expected to rememories are a more lasting harvest ceive an added boost from a mineral for families who want to create special supplement called Mineral Frenzy, moments with one another and help which the brothers have been using and tweaking for many years and is beput the world into greater perspective.

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Siever said they first started giving the mix to friends and family last year to use, and the feedback was almost entirely positive from the sample size, giving them the confidence to take it to a larger marker.

Siever added he consulted experts in game biology and did a lot of reading and research on creating a good mineral supplement while designing the mixture, but ultimately, he lets the deer be his focus group. He said he makes changes based on the feedback he receives from the trail cameras he has installed at the feeding stations on his Rockingham County property, but he has seen the overall health of the herd increase after using this product.

“The end product that we put out, the deer is telling us what they like, not so much a biologist or the scientific side of it,” Siever said. “What we’ve really seen is that once the does have dropped their fawns in late May, early June, throughout that six-to-eight-week period there, the trail cameras have told us these does are bringing their fawns back to these mineral stations two to three times per day. The fawns are getting this boost straight off the bat.

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Business Growing With New Supplement On Market Improving Quality Of Hunting Outdoors

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“The additional supplement that they’re getting through our product, we’ve seen a turnaround in the health of our deer overall.”

With a new supplement on the market that has proven in small samples to improve the quality of hunting in Rockingham County, 613 Outdoors is on its way to growing as a business. Despite still working full time, Siever said the behind-the-scenes operations of the company are a 365-day grind with all of the maintenance to properties and editing videos that need to be done.

Siever has received inquiries from people looking to join the 613 Outdoors team, but he said there is a long process to become a member. Every person listed as a staff member on the website has known Chad or Nathan Siever for a long time, and Chad said that chemistry is important to the success of the company.

“613 would be nothing without the people on our team,” Siever said.

“When we call ourselves pro staff, it’s not because our hunting skills are any better than anybody else’s; it’s not because we feel we kill bigger deer than anyone else or we’re better hunters than anyone else.

“We consider ourselves pro staff and

Alex Green of Waynesboro helps his dad, James White, hang a deer head on a display rack at the Izaak Walton League Big Game Show Sept. 9 at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds Stephen Swofford / DN-R

professionals by how we approach the sport — the amount of hard work, effort, respect and love that we put into it. I feel like that is what classifies 613

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Firearm Incidents For Hunters Going Down all Virginians.

First-time hunters, who haven’t ever had a hunting license, must take and pass the safety course first. All hunters between the ages of 12 and 15 must

By GREG MADIA Daily News-Record take the course each year even if they already have a license.

“Since we started, we’ve trained over HARRISONBURG — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries 600,000 people in hunter safety courses reports four fewer firearm incidents for and many of them hunt for a lifetime hunters this past year compared to the after that,” Dodson said. “So, that’s probably had an impact, but in the last previous.

“Hunting is relatively safe com- couple of years, we’ve implemented a hunter education course that pared to most other sports,” has more hands-on activsaid David Dodson, the ities with the firearms department’s hunter edand different firearm ucation program manHunting is types.” ager. “There’s been relatively safe Between July 1, the lowest-rate of compared to most 2015, and June 30, hunting-related in2016, there were 23 juries in each of the other sports. total hunting incilast two years since dents involving fire1960.”

David Dodson, arms with two fataliDodson said his VDGIF hunter education ties, Dodson said. Bestaff wants to keep the program manager tween July 1, 2016, and numbers trending in June 30, there were 19 the right direction. total hunting incidents inHunter education coursvolving firearms and one fatality. es are offered in many towns “Some rules apply to all firearms throughout the commonwealth and online so the classes are accessible to and some apply to just specific types,”

Four Fewer In Virginia In Past Year Compared To Previous

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For more information on hunting regulations in the commonwealth, contact the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (804-367-1000); or visit the Region 4 Office, 517 Lee Highway, Verona, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 540-248-9360 A copy of the department’s Hunting & Trapping In Virginia, July 2017-June 2018 can be obtained online at website www.dgif.virginia. gov.

he said. “But you teach all the different major actions and then our two biggest safety rules are keeping the muzzle pointed in a safe direction and never pointing it at anything you don’t want to shoot by being sure of your target and what’s beyond it.”

One way hunters avoid firearm-related incidents is by wearing the mandatory blaze orange or blaze pink during deer season. Blaze orange was made mandatory in 1987 and blaze pink made legal more recently.

And with deer season quickly ap-

proaching, the VDGIF is most concerned with tree-stand accidents.

Dodson said eight hunters fell from tree stands during the past year, including one that was fatal. Falls often result in head and neck injuries and broken bones.

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after falling.

There’s already been another treestand related death in Virginia this year, according to Dodson.

“The biggest risk to hunters are falls from tree stands,” he said. “And most of those can be eliminated if the hunter stays attached to the full-body harness from the time they leave the ground to the time they get back to the ground.”

Overall, Dodson maintained, hunting is a morethan-safe sport T he biggest risk and that hunters should to hunters are enjoy the seafalls from tree son. stands.

The hunting safety David Dodson, expert and hunter education his staff have program manager guided more than 600,000 hunters through its program since it started offering courses.

Last year, there were approximately 200,000 hunters that were active in the state.

“And there were 19 firearm injuries in the fiscal year,” Dodson said. “So that’s 9.4 injuries per 100,000 hunters.

That’s a pretty low rate.”

Another tip Dodson feels is vital for anyone who will hunt in a group is to establish a safe zone before starting. A safe zone is an area where no firearm can be fired.

Dodson said it’s also important for the general public to know that when driving, deer are more likely to be on the road this time of year.

“The biggest impact is that deer mating season starts here shortly. Deer travel a lot during mating season so they end up crossing roads from late October through mid November,” he said.

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What’s New For In Va. The 2017-18 Licenses A resident junior bear license — ages 12 to 15 — is now available for $6.50.

General Information Blaze pink may now be worn where there is a blaze-colored requirement.

Bear ■ All areas that had an August or September bear hound training season will have the same season dates.

Additionally, the season will begin earlier on Aug. 1.

■ There is a new three-day open [firearms] season in a number of counties in western Virginia. Hunting hours, bag and weight limit, weapon requirements, dog use, and all other open and general bear season regulations apply.

Deer ■ Muzzleloading either-sex deer hunting days have been changed for several counties west of the

Blue Ridge.

■ Earn A Buck has been established for private lands in Fauquier and Montgomery counties and for all towns and cities in Virginia, except Chesapeake, Suffolk and Virginia Beach.

■ Firearms either-sex deer hunting day have been significantly reduced for over a dozen eastern counties and eliminated on most national forest and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries-owned lands west of the Blue Ridge.

■ It is now legal to buy and sell the hair, hide, tail, sinew, skull, antlers, bones, and feet of a legally possessed deer or elk carcass or carcass part, any products made from these carcass parts, and deer or elk mounts. Deer or elk meat, organs, etc., cannot be bought and sold.

■ Air rifles for deer hunting have been restricted to .35 caliber or larger and their use is prohibited for bear and elk hunting.

■ Charlottesville, Boones Mill, and

Victoria have been added to the urban archery deer season(s).

Turkey Hampton and Newport News are no longer closed for fall firearms turkey season.

Small Game Sunday hunting for crows has been changed to Monday. The days are now Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Furbearers Raccoons were added to the list of species that can be hunted with electronic calls.

Quota Hunts Dismal Swamp bear and deer hunts are now first-come, first-served and no longer quota hunts.

Source: Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries, www.dgif. virginia.gov

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Locations for bear check stations are available on the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries’ website, www.dgif. virginia.gov or by calling (804) 367-1000 during normal business hours.

Bear information will need to be recorded on a Black Bear Check Card.

Do not record information on Deer and Turkey Check Card. Tooth collection is mandatory, and the tooth envelope is part of the Black Bear Check Card.

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“He was asleep when I shot, so I scared him to death,” Stoddard said with a smile. “I told him there was a

By PHIL D’ABBRACCIO deer, but I don’t think he heard me.

Daily News-Record “It’s exciting. You get a thrill from it.”

HARRISONBURG — Of all of Logan Eighth-year East Rockingham coach Dofflemyer’s hunting adventures, he Donnie Coleman, a Buena Vista native, holds the most affinity for his first suc- recalls being off from school on the first cessful one. day of hunting season growing up and The East Rockingham High School needing to return from hunts in time junior can still remember the first for football practice. deer he killed as a 6-year-old aside He sees a similar craving for the his grandfather, Nelson Dofflemyer, in sport from several of his Eagles, some the woods roughly 5 miles from ERHS. of whom take off from school on the Dofflemyer’s first shot missed, but the first day of rifle season. Coleman, a deer came running back full speed. former Turner Ashby assistant, said TA “I couldn’t even see it. I just pulled and Broadway have comparable huntthe trigger, because I was so young,” ing cultures. the junior said.

“Kids get excited this time of year, His second attempt connected, and especially in this area. You’ve got to he celebrated by throwing his grandfa- understand it’s kind of the culture you ther’s gun and jumping into his hunt- live in and you have to accept it,” Coleing partner’s arms. As soon as he got man said. “It’s a hobby and the kids enhome, Dofflemyer called his father, joy it, but it’s also kind of like a family Greg, who was delighted to learn the thing where everybody gets together son and grandfather could share such and does it, so I’m respectful of that as a moment. a coach, as a hunter myself. It’s cool.

Dofflemyer isn’t the only one of the “I like this time of the season.

East Rock football team’s avid hunters Leaves are changing. Important footwho still clings to the memory of his ball games. Hunting season right first deer kill. around the corner.”

Senior Peyton Lam, who mans the Last year was the first time in many Eagles’ right guard position next door years Coleman didn’t get to go hunting, to Dofflemyer’s right tackle post, was but his team’s conversations about a 13-year-old with his uncle in it have helped him get by and the woods in Shenandoah. some players occasionally “It was snowing real have brought him deer You’ve got to bad. I missed the first meat. time,” Lam said.

“I still kind of live understand it’s He reloaded, hit the vicariously through kind of the culture deer on his second try these guys with their and then took aim at a you live in and you hunting stories,” he second deer that was said. “I like to sit and have to accept it. standing right there. listen to ’em and have Donnie Coleman, Lam took that one, ’em tell us stories and too, picking up two kills East Rock coach situations. just seconds apart.

“You get to know the “It was real exciting,” he kids on a different level, and said. “I was kind of scared at the I’ll tell you, a lot of it goes back to same time because I had never shot one competition. They like to see who can before. All your emotions get going. It’s catch the most fish, the biggest fish, crazy. It’s hard to explain.” kill the biggest deer or whatever it is.”

The first buck for East Rock junior The players joke on one another Blake Stoddard, a defensive back, as they compete for the best trophies, goes back to when he was 8 years old and if someone misfires on a deer, Lam with his stepfather, Brian Stoddard, said, they get ridiculed for the rest of

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An 11-point buck bagged by Logan Dof flemyer’s father, Greg, hangs on his bedroom wall.

The East Rockingham High School junior shares his af finity for hunting with many of his ERHS football teammates. the season. Dofflemyer, one of the Eagles’ four captains, said his friends are the “first people” he texts after going hunting.

Just this month, Lam sent out pictures to his teammates after two bears, one of which came within 15 yards of his tree stand, came nearby during a deer hunt.

“I wasn’t expecting anything. I was halfway asleep,” he said. “I had never seen a bear in the woods before. I was kind of shaking. I was nervous. It kind of scared me.”

While the Eagles players primarily go for deer, some, like Stoddard, pursue See CULTURE, Page 9

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bears, too.

“It’s exciting,” said Stoddard, who wants to make a senior-year trip to Kentucky for a whitetail deer hunt.

“It’s more interesting than deer huntin’. Like once you shoot the bear, it’s more exciting going to find ’em. I guess you’re kind of nervous.”

While bear hunting can bring out those nerves, the players find that the sport typically has a calming effect on them.

Lam said he simply enjoys being out in the woods, where it’s “really peaceful.”

“I just like sitting in the mountains,” Dofflemyer said. “It’s relaxing, because nobody’s really loud. I’m by myself and it clears my mind.

“When we’re playing games, I get excited, and then when I kill a deer I get really excited. But I definitely get way more excited when we win the football game.”

Each of these Eagles dedicate some space in their homes to their kills, with Dofflemyer having a deer mount in his bedroom of an 11-pointer his father scored. In their basement, the family has a fox from Logan and 15 European deer mounts.

Lam has three deer racks in his bedroom, and the Stoddards have a spare room with two 8-pointers and a 27-pound turkey that Blake snagged in Keezletown.

Coleman said he’ll run into some scheduling conflicts as the Eagles go deeper into both the football season and hunting season.

“It’s something that I’ve adapted to as a coach, and you’d better, because you’ll lose ’em,” he said. “I know it sounds crazy, but some kids would say, ‘You’re not going to take my hunting time away.’”

A bearskin rug sits on display at the Cub Run Taxidermy booth at the Izaak Walton League Big Game Show Sept. 9 at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds.

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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources reminds big game hunters that successful hunters must field tag and transport their deer, bear, turkey or boar to a Natural Resources police officer or official game checking station for checking.

According to the division, this must be completed by the hunters themselves and is required of all hunters, including landowners.

A summary of the checking requirements follows, but hunters should check the game regulations for complete details: ■ Deer: The unskinned carcass or the fresh skin and head must be checked before it is transported beyond the county adjacent to the county in which it was killed within 72 hours from when it was killed or 24 hours from the close of the respective season, whichever comes first.

In Logan, McDowell, Mingo or Wyoming counties, however, the deer must be checked in the four-county area within 24 hours of the time of kill. Deer killed outside these four counties cannot be checked within these counties.

■ Bear: The unskinned carcass or fresh skin must be checked within 24 hours after kill and before any part of the bear is transported more than 75 miles from the point of kill.

■ Turkey: The unskinned carcass must be checked before it is transported beyond the county adjacent to the county in which it was killed within 72 hours from when it was killed or 24 hours from the close of the respective season, whichever comes first.

■ Boar: The unskinned carcass must be checked in the county of kill within 24 hours after kill.

For a complete list of checking requirements, visit www.wvdnr.gov.

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DGIF Goes Blaze Pink To Promote New Hunting Law HARRISONBURG — The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is partnering with Susan G. Komen of Central Virginia to promote a new hunting law while raising awareness for breast cancer.

The law, which took effect on July 1, allows the wearing of blaze pink for safety during the black powder and general firearm seasons in Virginia for deer, the DGIF announced in a release.

October is designated as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and is often associated with the

wearing of pink ribbons and clothing.

Combining the two campaigns provides DGIF an opportunity to promote safety and education while showing support for the “millions of women who have been fighting the ultimate fight,” the release said.

The state agency’s law enforcement division has changed its markings on five vehicles from gold to blaze pink for the month of October, according to the release.

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