Chris Weist joins Dalton this week to talk about whitetails and making the transition from modern compound to traditional bowhunting.  Chris is a very accomplished mountain buck hunter from Pennsylvania, and this year he's going all in on trad!  The guys talk about the foundations of successful bowhunting and the added challenges of the stickbow!

Super fun episode this week!  Dalton and PaPa Lewis man the booth at Etar for a few days of way more fun than should be legal!  Dalton sits down with a few listeners for some really cool hunting stories and the important nuggets that made it work!  This was fun to record, fun to edit, and we think it'll be fun to listen to as well.  In fact, it was so fun there will probably be more coming down the pipe!!

This week Robert Carter joins Dalton for a great talk on woodsmanship.  We focus pretty heavily on hunting in the mountains and we've been asked for a flatlands specific episode.  Robert was the first fella that popped in our heads!  Robert talks about the importance of burning boot leather and how you can't learn this stuff sittin' on the couch!  He also drops some hard truth bombs in regards to the reality of gaining woodsmanship and what it really takes to become a successful bowhunter.  Great episode you will not want to miss!

Going back to the well with another woodsmanship episode!!  Great knowledge to learn or review, especially this time of year as our minds really start to get cranked up for fall, and we start to strategize about the upcoming season.

On this weeks episode Alan, Nathan, and Dalton talk everything from past experiences to woodsmanship.  Lessons learned play a big part in our success in life, and bowhunting is certainly no different.  They also make us who we are as people and as hunters.  Great episode to kick us off as we start to gear up seriously for the upcoming season!  

This week, our friend David Tetzlaff  joins us on the podcast.  David is the co-editor of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.  He's a self described late onset hunter, but David has had many adventures around the world with bow in hand, and is a very accomplished writer.  We talk about everything from learning something new everyday, reading and writing, mentors, taking ownership, and big cats.  How's that for a spectrum!  Great episode you'll not want to miss!

This week John Schneider joins us for a great conversation about all things bowhunting.  John hales from Canada and is the host of the Food Afield Podcast.  He's been a traditional bowhunter for decades and spent his early life guiding for bit northern whitetails in Canada's bow zones.  He's an avid fly fisherman and farmer in addition to being a dedicated traditional bowhunter.  We talk about Canadian bruiser bucks, defining you own success, managing expectations, and the traditional bowhunting journey.

This week we're going back to the well a bit with a rerelease of Woodsmanship episode 50.  It's almost July, and the gears are starting to turn for the upcoming bow season.  Alan shares his thoughts on past lessons learned, subtleties, and adapting through the seasons progression.  This is about as good of a way to kick out brains into whitetail gear as we can think of, and some great things to keep in mind as we start to strategize on the upcoming chess match!

This week our friend Michael Arnette of Tall Tines Archery joins Maribeth and Ethan to talk about "why you hunt".  This is a difficult topic to articulate, but one everyone should give some thought to.  Sustenance, conservation, knowing where your food comes from... those are all very important topics and byproducts of what we do as hunters.  But drilling down to a deeper level, and being able to articulate that to non-hunters is challenging.  This episode will hopefully give the listeners a little pause and challenge them to contemplate their WHY.  

This week Gene Hopkins and Russell Lantier join us for an episode of Back Trails to talk about the pioneers of modern bowhunting.  By the late 1800's, bowhunting was almost completely a thing of the past.  There were a few men that kept the flame alive and were able to pass along the knowledge that was almost forgotten.  Along the way pioneers like Will and Maurice Thompson, Ishsi, Will Compton, F.S. Barnes, Art Young, Saxton Pope, Glenn St.Charles, and Fred Bear led by example and paved the way for those of us that have come to love the simple art of traditional bowhunting.