Becoming a Bowhunter

This weeks episode is a recap of the Matty’s recent successful Red Deer hunt!

This recap breakdown Matty’s weekend of hunting and he tries to share in words what the first deer kill that took him 2.5 years to make happen felt like! 

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This week host Matty is joined by James Doumtsis (@jamesdoumtsisoutdoors).

This episode is a recap on the Fallow Rut trip James took to Bulgaria in October 2019!

James gives some awesome insights into the comparisons and differences of the Australian and Bulgarian fallow deer. He also explains how he will approach hunting Fallow in Australia differently now.

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This week host Matty is joined by Jay Moylan! Jay is on the Prime Archery Pro staff team for competitive archery!

In this episode the boys uncover Jay's biggest idols and mentors in the sport of archery. Jay dives shares his biggest 'gold nugget' takeaways that each of these mentors passed onto him.

Jay explains why he doesn't think you should use bow wax... And, Matty owns up to never having using it on his first bow.

Towards the end of the conversation the boys get into the nitty gritty's of accuracy! Obviously it's a compliment of hours practising with good technique... However, Jay shares some of his biggest turning points in improving his accuracy!

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This week host Matty is joined by Ben Salleras!

Ben is one of Australia’s most travelled bowhunters when it comes to hunting around the world.

The boys dive into Ben’s origins and pull apart the turning points of his hunting while growing up around some of the greats in the early days of bowhunting in Australia.

They talk about the strong desire/calling to learn of or history and understanding your home land. And, in turn the benefits of learning ‘bush craft’ from being in the wilderness and walking the bush with a bow!

Matty and Ben talk about the maturing progression that bowhunters go through… This is very insightful as they both agree it’s like life and something you can never “master” but instead always pursue.

Benny talks of some of his favourite hunts that his been on abroad as well as his dream hunts that he’s yet to do. They discuss his favourite meat of all of the animals he’s hunted, as well as Ben’s new found passion for cooking wild game!

So much gets Unpacked in this episode!

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This week Matty is joined y Luke Cameron (@cameronoutsidebowhunting). Luke tells us of his and his brothers experiences of hunting Northern Territory in Australia.

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This week host Matty is joined by Bevan to cover all things around food safety in camp and meat safety when butchering your wild game!

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This week host Matty is joined by Grant Rand to talk all about executing the perfect shot, perfectly executing a plan to get the critters down and how he and the boys from Kyuga Broadheads have been perfectly executing the release of their new broadheads.

Grant is one of the owners over at Kyuga Broadheads and gives us the rundown into the design and creation of broadheads! He explains how what seems like a simple job has turned into a 5-year business with the plans to only get bigger and better from here!

Grant also gives some of his insights for in the field based on some of his biggest learnings! Everything from the perfect execution for trail camera placement through to a perfectly executed plan to get more critters on the ground.

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This weeks tip bit Tuesday comes to you from New Zealander Cam Henderson. The man behind The Hunters Journal (New Zealand hunting Magazine)

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This week Matty is joined by the man behind The Hunters Journal (New Zealand hunting magazine) Cam Henderson!

Cam is a passionate cameraman, outdoorsman and hunter and has found a way to make it his lifestyle and work!

Cam released his first printed edition of the Hunters Journal 18 months ago and hasn't looked back!

Through the Hunters Journal Cam has recently released a short film called 'Wildfire'. Wildfire is the adventures of Bowhunter Khan Adams through his 2019 Red deer and Sika deer ruts!

Cam talks of some previous hunts his been on as cameraman and the tips and tricks he's learnt from filming some of the big names in the industry!

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This weeks episode is a quick recap of Matty's red roar experience this year (2020) and the learnings that have come with it.

Although the hun was cut short by 3 days due to the Corona virus pandemic Matty explains his sincere gratitude for getting to spend time in the bush hearing reds roar this year while so many unfortunately were not able.

His biggest takeaways/learnings:

• Patience
• Practicing depth perception
• Don't shoot through objects (haha)
• Use hind calls
• ALWAYS break up your outline
• When you're getting careless is usually the time you're bound to bump animals. Slow down and GLASS

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