Nock On Archery

PC 299 is with a lead designer Eric Gilmore from Sitka Gear. He and I recap a new archery lifestyle pant we have worked on for a few years that is coming to the market today. Eric is a master at textiles and we talk about the concept to creation for this awesome new pant that eliminates a quiver belt. We also talk about his personal experience with a tension based release. 

Podcast 298 is with Jeff Janis a former NFL receiver best known for his Hail Mary catch with the Green Bay Packers. Jeff is an avid Bowhunter and naturally gifted in archery. We recently spent a few days building bows, refining his technique and getting dialed in for triple digit shots. Jeff has an awesome story working his way up from a small town to the big time NFL through relentless work and dedication. We were able to sit down for a quick podcast prior to him catching his flight home.

One of my top trusted archery friends is Mike Slinkard who is an industry veteran and great Bowhunter. For this podcast we have our annual turkey season strategy and also get into some deep archery and bear hunting topics. 

Jay Scholes, Founder of the Outtech Sales Organization. He has spent over 43 years working direct with manufacturers, selling archery equipment and helping to grow archery and bowhunting across the globe. Jay is one of the few in the archery industry that has the broad wealth of archery experience, or who has witnessed more change across all archery categories. He has had decades of boots on the ground both at shoots, in shops and at the factories. In this podcast, we take a trip down memory lane talking products, people and places. It was a real honor to podcast with Jay and I am excited to be connected with him again.

This podcast is with two awesome friends from Black Rifle Coffee Co., Logan Stark and Special Forces SGT Major Charlie “Tyr” Martel. We sit down after a ridiculously fun few days at the School of Nock and battling the frozen tundra of Iowa. These two guys picked up archery in the past year and are diving deeper and deeper by the day. We recap an amazing experience of building bows, learning proper shooting techniques while rolling some smoke on the Traeger Grill. Logan is the Editor in Chief for many of Black Rifles famous content videos. Tyr heads up charitable givebacks for BRCC and is an amazing guy and possibly related to an onion in that the more layers you peel off the better it gets. He is a library of awesome stories and we get him to share a few good ones. Both of these gentlemen have an amazing past in foreign lands and have found tremendous joy in archery and how it's the perfect Zen from the days on the battlefield. They voice their opinions on how archery and bowhunting is so therapeutic for Veterans.

In this podcast I sit down with the founder of Bourbon Barrel Custom Calls, John Mulligan aka Johnny Utah. We get into the spirit of Turkey season talking about his passion to bring a seriously rad new concept to the Turkey market. I have had a longtime passion for chasing turkeys in the Spring and also have always enjoyed others who share that passion. Johnny Utah is a cool cat with some fun stories from the industry.

In a recent R&D trip to Arizona, I sat down with Archery Legend and PSE founder Pete Shepley. Pete is flying high after a stellar 50th year as a company. However, he has so many more interesting adventures to talk about in addition to archery. In this podcast I get Pete to open up about his friendships with some of the prestigous Russian aviators and astronauts and also his years flying competition stunt plains. As always there’s plenty of stories about archery along the way and we get into discussion about what makes shooting archery so fun and the creation of target archery.

Podcast 292 is with Sean DeGrey of the Total Archery Challenge. As we head into the 2021 season we discuss this years events as well as some exciting new additions we have made to make these experiences even better! 

Podcast 291 is with an awesome buddy of mine codename SG-which i think stands for shredded guns (i made that up). He is fairly new to archery but a Veteran on the battle field and recently retired from the Teams searching for the similarities in his former military career and bowhunting. He recently flew out to HQ and got set up with a new bow and a few days of lessons. For this podcast we wanted to do a follow up about how he is doing after a few weeks of applying the new training back home. We start out with some friendly heckling but then go into deeper details about the parallels of archery, firearms, bowhunting prep and spec ops training protocols. We talk though technique and get his takeaways from our time training together. We cover topics specific to efficiency in archery, grip pressures, getting faster by slowing down, perishable skill sets, goal setting and more. 

Podcast 290 is with Pro Board Shaper Josh Hall and his wife Torie. These two are a west coast couple specializing in surfing the waves and super clean eating. Josh started archery a few years ago and I met him at the Nock On Experience TAC event. He then became a Bowhunter, shot a great bull that fall and keeps pushing. Torie is an author of The Mexican Keto Cookbook, which is awesome and also specializes as a nutritionist. She has recently dove deeper into archery and bowhunting as this couple continues to know where their food comes from. They both came to the School Of Nock for a weekend of lessons, instructions and good eating.