Gritty Podcast

Episode 28: Conservation with Ty Stubblefield. How are the current fires impacting our hunting ground? How can you help? Why should you help? All of these questions and more are answered in this podcast. Thanks to Ty Stubblefield and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers for their work.

RMEF Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

EPISODE 27: Elk Hunting-How Corey Jacobsen Does It! Part 1

Show Notes:

Elk Hunting Tactics - Strategies

What is the most important think you can't fake you have to put effort into for Elk Hunting? What's the one thing you need to be focusing on? "Confidence."

Which you gain from experience. That killer instinct comes from experience.

"It's all about channeling that adrenaline rush." "Channel that excitement into the thrill of the hunt." Corey Jacobsen

Corey's Typical Setup

"I want a fight! I want him coming in hot."

Closing the distance- Get as close as you can get. When you hit that point you can't go any further, stop and set up.

Shooting lanes- We say, "This is where we want the bull to come in."

Caller moves back 30-40 yards. Just to a point where the bull has to come into the shooters lane before seeing the caller.

The Caller lets out a simple cow call. Once the bull responds- as soon as he responds- no matter what he responds with the caller hits him with a challenge bugle. Be immediate. In fact we usually cut him off. Put that aggression and emotion into it.

"It works!"

EPISODE 27: Elk Hunting-How Corey Jacobsen Does It! Part 1

Show Notes:

Elk Hunting Tactics - Strategies

What is the most important think you can't fake you have to put effort into for Elk Hunting? What's the one thing you need to be focusing on? "Confidence."

Which you gain from experience. That killer instinct comes from experience.

"It's all about channeling that adrenaline rush." "Channel that excitement into the thrill of the hunt." Corey Jacobsen

Corey's Typical Setup

"I want a fight! I want him coming in hot."

Closing the distance- Get as close as you can get. When you hit that point you can't go any further, stop and set up.

Shooting lanes- We say, "This is where we want the bull to come in."

Caller moves back 30-40 yards. Just to a point where the bull has to come into the shooters lane before seeing the caller.

The Caller lets out a simple cow call. Once the bull responds- as soon as he responds- no matter what he responds with the caller hits him with a challenge bugle. Be immediate. In fact we usually cut him off. Put that aggression and emotion into it.

"It works!"

This is second part of a two part episode. Please check your library for the first available part. Thanks!

Show Notes Episode 26:

Kifaru International

Phelps Game Calls

Bowtech

MTN OPS

OnXmaps

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen Aron Snyder & Jason Phelps share their elk calling & hunting techniques LIVE at the Bowtech Factory Pro Shop in Eugene, OR. This is a two part series. Please check your library for the next available part.

Show Notes Episode 26:

Kifaru International

Phelps Game Calls

Bowtech

MTN OPS

OnXmaps

SHOW NOTES:

This week on Gritty Bowmen we meet with Jordan and Casey Harbertson of MTN OPS. These two guys are salt-of-the-earth, good guys who LOVE what they're doing.

Performance and fitness are very important to me. But I care less about performance and more about long-term health and wellness. I want to be elk hunting in the mountains when I'm 70 years old-- and I'm not kidding. So I'm not willing to sacrifice my health at the future age of 65 for increased performance today. I'm a huge skeptic when it comes to supplements. Instead of buying supplements I have tried my best to get all my nutrition from healthy foods. I really don't like meal replacements or performance enhancing products. I prefer a good elk steak with a pile of veggies, high fiber fruit and some water.

MTN OPS

SHOW NOTES:

This week on Gritty Bowmen we meet with Jordan and Casey Harbertson of MTN OPS. These two guys are salt-of-the-earth, good guys who LOVE what they're doing.

Performance and fitness are very important to me. But I care less about performance and more about long-term health and wellness. I want to be elk hunting in the mountains when I'm 70 years old-- and I'm not kidding. So I'm not willing to sacrifice my health at the future age of 65 for increased performance today. I'm a huge skeptic when it comes to supplements. Instead of buying supplements I have tried my best to get all my nutrition from healthy foods. I really don't like meal replacements or performance enhancing products. I prefer a good elk steak with a pile of veggies, high fiber fruit and some water.

MTN OPS

Show Notes:

Sitka Coldfront Jacket

First Lite Uncompahgre

Lost Park Parka Insulated Kifaru for windproof

Kuiu Chugach Jacket - Brian's Go To Rain jacket

OTTE

Swazi - Tahr "Look like an Ax Murderer"

Anker Battery Pack

Zebra Headlamps

MTN OPS- Casey Harbertson

Solomon Quest Boots - Not for a sheep hunt. "Damn Good Boot Though"

3 Arrow Tight Spot Quiver

Show Notes: Featured in this Podcast

"Experience in the field has caused me to change my views." Aron Snyder

"I like a quieter bow. A heavy arrow makes your bow quieter." Aron Snyder

"If you can shoot 280 feet per second that's plenty fast."

"I like seeing an animal with a shock wave like it got hit with a 50 cal BMG. It just makes me feel tougher I guess. So I like the heavy arrows."

International Bow Hunters Association- IBO speed

"Shoot what you're most comfortable with that gives you the best happy medium for speed, for kinetic energy for momentum the whole nine yards and not-like backpacks— not go in and say what's the lightest? Don't go in and try to get the fastest bow you can get. If you go in with your motive of trying to get the fastest bow possible— It's probably also the hardest to shoot."

Aron's Arrows Gold Tip-Chaos 200 spine stiff spine 11.6 grains per inch 3 fletch vein tech low profile Broadhead -NAP kill zone Grim reaper fatal steal 5.29 total weight

Brian's Arrows

Black Eagle Rampage http://www.blackeaglearrows.com/product-p/ramp-fletched.htm "Too many people are paying attention to the bow and not the arrow." Cory Miller Broadhead Slicktrick fixed blade 100 grain

http://slicktrick.net

Mechanical vs. Fixed blade

"Does it make me lazy if I shoot mechanicals? Well nobody is taking a rickshaw to work nowadays right? We all drive cars." Aron Snyder

I shoot Wack'em Broadheads Wackem exit. http://www.wacemarchery.com

Drop away Hamskea

http://www.hamskeaarchery.com/index.html

Lizard Tongue?

Whisker Bisquit

Aron has a Bee Stinger Stabilizer

http://www.beestinger.com

7 Pin Spothogg sight Tommy Hogg

http://spot-hogg.com/sights/

Prodigy from Bowtech

Shift Technology Lower or Higher let off

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen we meet with Jay Scott. Jay is the mastermind behind the Jay Scott Outdoors Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast. He has more than 50 podcast episodes with tremendous guests on a broad range of topics all related to western big game hunting and fishing.

Jay lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Jeanne. Jay has been a professional hunting and fishing guide in the state of Arizona for 16 years. He spends more than 120 days in the field guiding and hunting across the United States. And Jay is currently a Field Editor for Western Hunter Magazine and hunting editor for Elk Hunter Magazine. As well as being a hunter, Jay's other passion is fly fishing.

In today's podcast you'll hear us discuss the stigma that much of the DIY hunting community harbors toward hunting guides and the use of hunting guide services. Jay and I discuss the use of sponsorships--or, the paid promotion of products--We talk about their value and their sometimes negative impact on the hunting industry. And although we both promote health and fitness, Jay brings up a valid concern which I agree with--that some hunters place so much emphasis on fitness that they fail to learn fieldcraft, how to sit still for hours, how to read sign and track game, and other basic and not-so-basic hunting and fishing skills.

It was a pleasure meeting Jay Scott. I applaud his podcast and I look forward to hearing more great content from Jay and his stellar guests. I am Brian Call and I am your host. And without further ado, here is today's podcast.