Alex Nadeau and I are in the tent alongside a creek in the Yukon high country. We tell the amazing story of our first-night connection with a huge bull Moose and then we get into a discussion on staying positive while in the field on long hunts. You can watch videos from this trip on our new YouTube channel, John Schneider's Wild Life. 

Alex and I share some of the tips and tricks we've learned about staying comfortable while glassing and performing other sedentary activities when we're hunting. Cold and discomfort can affect your success in a huge way. More time spent on the mountainside glassing means more likelihood that you will spot the animal that you are after. 

There is a definite skill involved with staying in a positive mindset in the wild. Loneliness, stiffness, and other discomforts will all present themselves as obstacles to success we're hunting...at some point along the way. Here are some ideas to help you spend more time in the field. Enjoying the adventure. 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

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Sitting in a tent alongside a small river in the Yukon Territories of northern Canada on a rainy afternoon, Alex tells us the story of his recent successful sheep hunt.

Maybe you will never get a chance to hunt thinhorn sheep in your life, but it is pretty cool to hear the story from someone who does just that on a regular basis. The Yukon is a special place.

Also in this episode is an update from me on the show rebrand and where we are headed on our journey of wild food exploration. I've purchased a boat, or I should say that we have purchased a boat. It is an emotional story that is best told by Sass herself. You can head over and subscribe to our YouTube channel "John Schneider's Wild Life" and catch up on the episodes there to hear the whole story. 

Thanks for sticking with us on this re-brand break. We're back and we'll post new episodes on a slightly reduced schedule until I can afford to hire some content managers as part of the team. Cheers!

John

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This is a good episode! I recently had the chance to chat with Pope & Young Club's past President, Jim Willems. Jim is an outstanding traditional bowhunter whose passion for bowhunting takes him far and wide. He's taken numerous world-class animals with his recurve and speaks eloquently about taking back the word "trophy hunter". That discussion alone, and hearing his take on hunting big bucks and bulls, is enough to make this episode great, but then we get to talking about ways that folks can access hunting opportunities around them.

It is one thing to pick up a new bow and get geared up and proficient with arrow accuracy, and then it's a whole other thing to actually get out hunting. Hopefully, this episode helps you with that. Welcome to the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey...brought to you in cooperation with the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.

This episode is also brought to you by the fine folks over at Novem Archery. I am shooting one of their finger tabs right now, and I like it a lot. 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

First off, May, Kevin, and I are at a favourite stream for a few days of fly fishing and wild food fun. The weather has been tumultuous, and the stream is running wildly and is the colour of skim chocolate milk! The fishing is challenging and even getting up and down the mountain river to the next hole is not without its hardships. The raging currents have changed the riverbed. The water is high on the banks, leaving sheer drop-offs along our path. It is a fun trip!

Fly fishing in tough conditions requires adaptive fishing strategies and perseverance. We talk about some of those strategies and get into a few fish. Enough for a wonderful fish-fry breakfast and some smoked Rocky Mountain Whitefish. 

May is with us for the first leg of this fishing trip and caught a little bit of the fly fishing bug. A few days after we were home, I got a call from her that she wanted some assistance in choosing her first gear. So, we headed to Reid's Fly Shop, and the owner, Reid Otto helped her select a beautiful combo that she'll be able to pass down to next generations of fishers. 

Enjoy!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Clay Newcomb was super helpful to me when I wanted to publish a story in Bear Hunter Magazine about my big bear in '21.  At the time, he was the owner of the magazine and I didn't know it then, but he was mostly complete with his discussions with Steve Rinella and the Meat Eater company. It wouldn't be long after that that the magazine was sold, and he became a full-time content creator for Meat Eater and the Bear Grease Podcast

Clay took some time out of his day to join us on the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey podcast. I wasn't certain which series this interview belonged to. I know Clay from his youtube videos where he close-hunted black bears with his traditional archery gear. We did chat a bit about bows, but mainly I was interested in his take on hunting tools and the philosophy that we share when it comes to deciding on which equipment to take with us in the field.

I do hope you enjoy hearing some of the behind-the-scenes stories from Clay Newcomb on the path he took and how he became a part of the Meat Eater crew. 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Here is a delightful episode from a day spent fishing in the East Kootenays of British Columbia with Paige Johnstone and Lisa Tink. 

This starts as a lovely day on a small stream. It was so nice to be back in BC and spend time with friends. I had planned this episode immediately after I met Paige last summer while fishing with Curtis Hall. The little stream we fished is in Paige's backyard. She grew up here, long before she became a fly fisher. 

Paige has been fishing for three years now. Her attraction to fly fishing though goes back to when she was a young girl fishing with her father and watching folks fly casting elsewhere. Then she met Curtis, a professional fly fishing guide, and the rest is history. She is now very accomplished for someone relatively new to the sport. She talks like a guide and acts like one too. I'm not surprised though. Paige reminds me of me...she wants to figure something out and then does it. Unlike me, however, she does things very well indeed! 

As we fished up and down the shady little stream, she offered advice to Lisa and showed off a few of her special fishing spots. It was simply wonderful. Then the conversation turned towards some issues that she's faced in her fly fishing journey. As a teacher, she is good at verbalizing her thoughts, and it was really interesting to listen to her and Lisa chat about issues that newcomers to the lifestyle might face. I love this episode, and I hope you will too!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This episode is a good one. Johnathan and his family have a wonderful story of how they have grown 3Rivers Archery into the company that it is today. We chat about that origin story and all of the ways that this family-owned business can help you get started with your own traditional archery journey. There are some incredibly innovative aspects of the 3Rivers Archery website that will help you make equipment decisions that are right for you. 

We also spend a good amount of time hearing about Johnathan's best hunting memory...it is a unique one. Now I am stoked to give this hunt a try. If nothing else, just to be able to make Gator Nuggets! 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Humanity and its preoccupation with fear, carrying bear spray, and why we hunt big animals. A little bit of everything in this episode including exclusive information on some plans that Shawn James has for his show, My Self Reliance. 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Part one of my recent conversation with Shawn James. For those that don't know, Shawn is the creator of the My Self Reliance channel on YouTube. He has over two million followers, while our channel is pretty close to that...at almost 200. 

In this episode, Shawn and I chat about the current state of hunting, and social media, and perhaps dish out a little controversy with our opinions on such things. It was supposed to be a discussion on his spring hunting success, but happily turned into something equally interesting and perhaps more insightful. 

Of course, whenever Shawn is on the show I have to be a fanboy and ask for some details of what is happening behind the scenes with his YouTube channel. Shawn is always gracious in sharing what he is thinking as he produces his videos and what future plans he has for the project he is working on. 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Tim Lewis has written six books and published many articles, mostly to do with traditional bowhunting. This week on the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey Dr. Lewis joins us to discuss the topic of following up after the shot on big game. Getting to the point of getting a shot at a deer or other large animal is difficult. Now we have to do the right things in the correct order to be able to recover the animal for the freezer.

Following up on a recent article that he published in the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine "Traditional Bowhunting 101 column", Tim and John discuss blood trailing and a few other good habits you need to know after making the shot.

Sorry for some of the distortion when Tim speaks, it was not a great connection at times. But still, the quality of Tim's wisdom and the words he speaks makes it easy to pay no attention to the odd glitch in transmission. I did my best to clean it up in post-editing.

You can get Tim's books at 3Rivers Archery or by emailing him directly at [email protected]

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.