Team FMP

Anthony Dixon

ANTHONY DIXON

My past is just that. This is what I am. And where I’m going is unknown. I have been dedicated to killing and filming animals for the past nine years. My love for putting them on the table is what drives me, as well as the matching of instinct between man and animal.

The intensity of this kind of hunting is the driving force.

The game of hunting is always changing for me. There is no wrong way to kill, just different ways.

I used to wonder how I was going to kill them. Now I wonder how I can do it with an artistic style and value so people can get enjoyment out of watching it on the big screen. At the same time, I want to push hunters to experience something different, something that stimulates their thoughts and their hunts and in the long run changes them.

I hope I can keep on changing FMP. I never want you to put your finger on what FMP is or isn’t. I would ask you to be open to this way, open to life and the taking of it.

Shawn Monsen

SHAWN MONSEN

The idea of being a hunter for me came on a stormy day when I was quite a bit younger. The clouds had just opened up and my mom was dragging me by my arm through the wet grocery store parking lot. As we entered the store I was whisked up and placed in the cart, only to be pushed around the store as my mom gathered the food for the next week. Whew! I think the gathering skill is necessary still today in this modern world and I do tend to use those dodging and scouting skills to this day. It is a bit upsetting though when you go to a specific side of the hill, I mean isle, and the item you knew was there at one time is now moved three isles over!

I wouldn’t pin my love on archery, deer hunting, and being in the outdoors on one specific event in my life. I would say it was multiple opportunities that I experienced growing up in Utah. I think the caveman-like instinct is engraved in us, in all of us. Hunt something.