Braxton Byers How to create a YouTube Hunting Channel

Welcome to another edition of Whitetail Rendezvous. We're heading back down to Texas today and we're going to talk to Braxton Byers. Braxton, also known as FollowHisArrow, is the husband of Jessica Taylor Byers who calls herself FollowHerArrow. Braxton Byers How to create a YouTube Hunting Channel. They're quite a couple down there. They're dynamic people in the great state of Texas. Braxton and his wife, Jessica, with a couple of other folks, are starting a YouTube series called Breaking Wild. Their mission as a team is to provide a resource for others to learn how to be successful hunters. Braxton, welcome to the show.

Braxton: Thank you, Bruce.

Bruce: So let's just talk about Breaking Wild for a few minutes here and tell the listeners that...probably the age group starts in the late teens and goes up to the oldest segment over 65 people all over North America. I don't know how many people listen every day but I know we're represented throughout North America so let's share with them what's happening with Breaking Wild.

Braxton: Okay, yes, Breaking Wild is a YouTube series that the HomeCookinHunter got started or had a dream of in his mind. He wanted to set something up with different people around the United States, not only to be a hunting show but to teach people if someone didn't know how to field dress a deer, they could go to our channel and not just see the hunt or the kill but see steps on field dressing your deer, what to do with the meat after you field dress it and also cook the meat.

So we have...there's five of us spread out across the United Staes that are putting this YouTube series on. We have FromFieldToPlate in California who is an awesome chef with wild game, Fatal_Impact_Films out of Kentucky who is an excellent producer and predator caller. Again, the HomeCookinHunter out of Tennessee does cooking episodes, processing episodes and things like that. Then they picked up me and my wife Jessica out of Texas who mainly just do a lot of hunting. We don't even know the processing side of the animals. We take ours to the meat lockers and get ours processed and pick it up.

So it's a series that we're all learning on also and we're going to show everybody our mistakes and how we teach each other in the field.

Bruce: You mentioned you had five states. I had California, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. Was there another state that I missed there?

Braxton: No, that's it. It's me and my wife are both in Texas.

Bruce: Okay, okay, five people and four states. Got it. Got it. So on the hunting side, what makes you feel that you can bring that to the table at a pretty good level?

Braxton: The people that I've grown up around from the time I could walk, people that...my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I wanted Realtree Monster Bucks tapes. All I wanted to do was to sit there and watch hunting shows if I couldn't be outside. I was extremely lucky growing up to be able to go hunting. My dad took me where he went hunting or fishing, I was right there alongside him. We had access to ranches that were well-known ranches that had hunting guides and professional hunters that came into them so I had always been around people in the hunting industry and I just soaked up every little thing I could to learn everything about it. I've always, always been a hunting fanatic so I've always just soaked it up like a sponge as much as I could and listened to everybody and the different ways of hunting and producing big whitetails.

Bruce: Now you said in your bio you started bow hunting at the age 13. Was that with a recurve or a Jennings compound? Take us back to 13 years old and how you get started bow hunting.

My dad...actually, when I was around eight years old my dad bought his first bow

Braxton: That was with a compound. My dad...actually, when I was around eight years old my dad bought his first bow.