KIFARUCAST

Trevon Stoltzfus returns to the podcast with Frank Peralta to discuss his latext Ibex hunt, and the current state of hunting television shows.

Outback Outdoors was formed when a group of hardcore western hunters decided that the same old big game hunting videos and TV were no longer good for the hunting industry. Bringing decades of varied hunting experience as well as a fresh perspective to the table, the Outback Outdoors team spends hundreds of days each season behind, and in front of, the camera capturing their adventures.

With over 40 years of experience in the outdoors, this is not the usual collection of weekend warriors with big trucks and handi-cams. Instead, our team consists of solid industry professionals with collective experiences in all aspects of outdoor media including outdoor writing, hunting seminars, producing big game hunting videos, outfitting and guiding, along with years of personal success in the field.

The Outback Outdoors team has a goal to provide outdoor enthusiasts with exciting and fresh web-only big game hunting videos, with the proper emphasis on entertainment along with sharing the tips, tactics, and bowhunting gear we use for success.

Outback Outdoors wraps our dynamic deer hunting videos and bowhunting videos in an adrenaline charged web-only package with a western flair. This is not to say the Outback Outdoors team only hunts the west; but rather, they take their western bow hunting style with them, which puts an exhilarating and entertaining twist on the typical Eastern and Midwest hunts you’re used to seeing.

Trevon Stoltzfus

The Rock - An Ibex Adventure

Some adventures call to you from far off places, but some call you back to where you started it all. Trevon Stoltzfus travels back to his roots and The Rock, or the Florida Mountains, in southern NM where the transplanted Bezoar Ibex call home and hold the title as the toughest animal in the US to bowhunt.

Brian Pence, Jon Pynch, and Austin Orgain join the podcast to discuss competition shooting.  If you have any questions on reloading or precision shooting in general be sure to reach out to one of these fine fellows.

Brian Pence - Reloads

Jon Pynch

Austin Orgain

Precision Rifle Series

The Precision Rifle Series is a yearly points race for several series including the PRS Bolt Gun Series, PRS Gas Gun Series and the PRS Club Series. The intent is to provide a national framework as the aggregation point for local, regional and national matches, tracking of scores and the growth of the practical, long range rifle discipline. By providing structure and governance the growth of the discipline has been exponential since the PRS was launched in 2011 thanks to the exceptional coalition of the match directors, shooters and sponsors participating in the PRS.

The outlaw nature of the sport has made this a very unique collection of matches in all of the series. Matches are run very differently, focus on different fundamentals and include a vast number of stressors, no two matches are the same! This provides for regional variances that are unique and very challenging. Texas and Oklahoma matches are far different from the west coast and east coast matches and allow the shooter to really test the full extent of their capabilities by participating in various series, styles and regions.

Born out of Military, Law Enforcement and Hunting scenarios, the practical application of the precision rifle is the underlying theme for all series. Whether you are looking for a local club to join, wanting to compete with America’s favorite rifle the AR-10/15 or you want to test your self against the best shooters in the nation and the world, the Precision Rifle Series has a spot for you.

South Cox returns to the podcast to discuss everything from raising kids to camp food

Since 1987 Stalker Stickbows has integrated exquisite craftsmanship with a devotion to the sport of traditional archery. I welcome your interest in the most exciting and durable bow you will ever shoot.  Furthermore, I extend a sincere hand of friendship to those of you who share my love for a sport that reflects a profound respect for the great outdoors.  It has been my goal to create more than just a beautifully handcrafted and powerful bow. I believe that our customers are friends who are asking us to create a trusted hunting or shooting companion that they can rely on… a partner as durable as they are…one who will be with them for as long as they have the will and the strength to draw both breath and the bowstring. My bows are built to be as enjoyable to shoot as they are beautiful.  I believe that you deserve nothing less when the chance of a lifetime shot presents itself. This is my commitment to value…and is the philosophy that puts backbone into every bow that I proudly build with both your name and mine.

Stalker Stick Bow video

Stalker Stickbows

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Stalker Stickbows

Ultrarunner and hunter, David Hoff, joins the podcast to discuss hunting partners and long distance running.

Fred Bohm Outdoorsman, hunter, writer, photographer, inventor and owner of Sage & Braker talks with Aron Snyder and Frank Peralta about hunting, photography, and pooping!

Fred Bohm

We are all in this together whether we know it or not. Some of us understand this when young, some never do. My realization struck me like a brick in the face early in August 2014. I can’t think of the event that caused it, but I knew that my life would never be the same because of this awakening.

We are blessed with time on this earth and there is no guarantee we will be given another breath. Some die in a bed, insides rotting of cancer, others never make it out of their mother’s womb. You’re reading this and I’m writing it, so our time isn’t up. Make it count. Don’t let others decide how you are going to live it, and for the love of God, Allah or science, don’t let the rat race trap you into a life you never intended.

So this is me. These stories are intended to share with you a part of what makes my life worth living. Most will be about hunting. All will involve people and creatures I love.

So I invite you to take this walk with me. Through the woods, through the fields, through whatever adventures this great world throws at me. You will learn more about me as I learn more about myself. And I hope in the process to get to know some of you as well.

// Fred

Sage & Braker

Crafted at the Highest Caliber

We live, breathe and make everything at the highest caliber possible. In our products, in our pursuits and in our vision. And we’re proud to pass that caliber of craftsmanship to you.

Our Story

I have to admit, I didn’t start this company with the purest of thoughts. I started it to escape an industry that I really didn’t like, to spend more time in the outdoors and of course with my family.

But as often happens, when you pour your heart into something it starts to take over. It starts to create a life of it’s own. It gives you opportunities that you never thought were possible. Make a living for my family? That’s cool. But to have an opportunity to help preserve the lands that I love so much? Never. How the hell could that be possible. That’s for the big guys, the Patagonias of the world, not the small Sage & Brakers out there.

But I said the hell with it. Even if it was a couple of hundred dollars a year to a good cause, I had to at least try. After all, it has to be more than just about me. I’m on this earth for a short time, but maybe the good my company could do would outlive me. Affect more people than just myself. Meh, who knows?

Then not more than half a year later it was solidified. The only thing that has made me weep in the last 15 years came into this earth as a beautiful baby boy. Atlas. And like my father before me, I now bear a tremendous responsibility. I am here to point him in the right direction, to show him the values that I hold so dear. And I realize that I have to SHOW him these values, not tell him about them. I don’t remember a lick of advice my father gave me, but I remembered what he showed me by his example. That is what formed the man I am today, and Atlas’s moral fiber will be learned the same way, by example, not by well meant advice.

The way I run my company will be the way my son will learn his work ethic and how to treat other people, whether I like it or not.

So I have a responsibility. To him, to the community I love and towards keeping our public lands in their most raw form around for his generation and the ones to follow. To give him the same opportunity to sit in the middle of nature and just listen. Not to the busy streets, to the beeps and chirps of a cell phone and not to the news on the television blaring the destruction of mankind. To search his soul the same way I continually search mine.

Just a company right? Just a way to pay the bills?

I did that before and it stole a part of my soul from me. A mistake. A costly one, but one that has set my path straight.

So what does this have to do with you?

Everything. You are the foundation of this company and without you guys there is no reason to have it.

A small company, yes. A small impact, perhaps at first. But I’m not a fella that likes to back down and I’m pretty sure you’re not either. We can do this together. I encourage each and every one of you to reach out to me and I promise to listen.

~ Fred Bohm

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Kevin Estela, Writer, History teacher, semiprofessional adventurer, and wilderness survival educator, joins the podcast to talk about land nav, essential equipment to carry always, animal signs and trapping, and bug out bags...if you get lost in the backcountry, or if it’s the zombie apocalypse, this is the guy you want with you.

Kevin Estela

Kevin Estela first fell in love with the outdoors as a child. Entertained by the WWII survival stories his father endured in the jungles of the Philippines, Kevin wanted to learn more. Kevin grew up hiking, kayaking/canoeing, fishing and hunting in New England and spent his free time outside or reading about survival and wilderness skills. Over the years, his childhood interests became stronger and developed into his lifelong passion. Kevin’s passion now includes sharing what he knows with his students, family and friends.

Kevin is the Owner and Head Instructor of Estela Wilderness Education. He brings extensive educational experience to the courses and material he offers. Kevin is a regular contributing author for RECOIL and OFF-GRID Magazine, American Survival Guide, American Frontiersman, Survivor’s Edge and other magazines through Beckett Media, Engaged Media and Athlon Outdoors Media with over 100 published print articles. He is the author of many online articles for various websites and he is the top-billed Contributing Author for the website of Discovery Channel Host, Joel Lambert.

In addition to outdoors education, Kevin has been a Full-time High School History Teacher since 2006.

(excerpt from http://kevinestela.com/)

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Phone: (860) 214-3629

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Prometheus Design Werx

Aron has put a lot of miles on his feet over the years, and subsequently suffers from foot pain.  Dr. Scott VerBurg, the man who helped relieve the pain joins the podcast and talks orthotics and boot choices.

Scott VerBurg

Scott is certified in Prosthetics and Orthotics by the American Board for Certification. In 1999, he graduated from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Orthotic and Prosthetic program in Chicago. Scott completed his clinical residency at Becker Orthopedic in Troy, Michigan, and moved to Denver in 2001. He opened the Longmont Office of OPS in 2006.  Scott offers complete prosthetic and orthotic services with considerable experience in lower extremity orthoses, spinal, and lower limb prosthetics.  He specializes in geriatric services, especially difficult fittings, and sports medicine, and has worked extensively with the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  His goal is to provide the highest level of care, service and education to his patients and their referring physicians as well as working efficiently with insurance providers and third-party payers.

Orthotic Prosthetic Solutions

With over 30 years providing Northern Colorado and the Front Range with Orthotics and Prosthetics care, we are dedicated to our patients and to our community.  All of our Practitioners are ABC certified and educated from accredited schools.  We are qualified to fulfill any of your needs.  From locations in Fort Collins, Longmont and Scottsbluff Nebraska, to coverage in Wyoming and across the front range we have a facility for you. We have full labs at all of our locations and do our own fabrications.  Certified practitioners do all their own modifications neverrelying on technicians to modify patient molds.  Having everything built in our facilities gives us tremendous quality control making sure everything we deliver is the best.

Aron and Frank recount their British Columbia Bear hunt.  Aron makes sure he gets his fiber, and talks about notable gear used on the hunt, including arrow setup.  Also, Aron and Frank compare sizes... (bear sizes).

Primitive Outfitting

Poison Dart Bows

Rocky Mountain Specialty Gear

Aaron Neilson, owner of Global Hunting Resources, and host of Trijicons World of Sports Afield, joins the podcast to talk about his big game hunts from around the world.

Trijicon’s World Of Sports Afield

Dave Ziegman, research and development at Yeti Cycles and avid traditional bow hunter, joins Aron and Frank to recount their adventures shooting the 3d course at American Bowmen.  Topics discussed include bow setup, cut charts, and Franks inability to listen.

Yeti Cycles