Hunt Backcountry Podcast Archive — Archery & Bowhunting

Luke joins us to share what he learned as he spent 20+ days pursuing elk in the mountains outside his home. We discuss what he observed before the season, how elk behavior changed after opening day, what he noticed about elk vocalization throughout September, and how his rifle season compared to his archery season.

Scott Gillespie of Rocky Mountain Big Game Recovery joins us to discuss the use of tracking dogs to help hunters recover big game animals in the Rocky Mountain West. We discuss how hunters can find a tracking team. When to contact a team. What it costs to have a tracking team help recover an animal. And much more.

Trevor Thompson joins us on the Hunt Backcountry Podcast to share his experience getting into hunting and traditional archery, his journey of becoming an assistant guide in Alaska, and how his prior experiences as a SEAL, skydiver, base jumper, and backcountry skier relate to his hunting pursuits.

Sneaking in on two bull elk that are fighting, then arrowing one of those bulls on your first-ever bowhunt? That sounds too good to be true, but that is exactly how Stephen Follett's first archery hunt concluded this fall. Stephen joins us to share that story and the lessons he learned on his first-ever archery hunt.