Four walls, cramped cubicles and fluorescent lights made the founders of BOSS desperate for change. That meant quitting mainstream America and starting a production company in a town of about 5,000.

Some wondered if they’d smoked dried leaves during an offbeat, made-for-TV hunting adventure. Most people don’t ditch a steady job working for an international conservation organization to go it alone.

But when your creativity suffers because you’re churning out TV shows faster than a coonhound on a hot trail work isn’t fun anymore, and hunting is just a job.

So four guys fled their 9 to 5s, figuring they could eek out a living with their hands if they had to. Like they did before thousands of hunters watched their work on TV. One welded. One wrote about fishing. One farmed. One worked in a lumberyard.

Today, they’re still trading tales in hunt camp and sitting low at their editing bays polishing stories not yet told.