Ryan Furrer Podcast

I had the pleasure of sitting down again with legendary bowhunter, author, conservationist, outdoorsman, master storyteller and now he can add member of the Traditional Bowhunters Hall of Fame to his elite resume, Mr. Gene Wensel. His name is synonymous with traditional archery and fair chase hunting for all the right reasons. After moving his family to the Bitterroot Valley of Montana in the earl...

In this episode I sit down with a man of many different talents. Chad Slagle. He's singer, songwriter, bower, backcountry traditional bowhunter, and I can't forget also a proud West Virginia hillbilly.  Born and raised in the Mountains of WV, he worked at his dad's local sport shop when he was young. Learning the ways of all things hunting, and fishing. It set the stage for a lifeti...

In this episode I sit down with writer, author, film producer and a man with what I feel has the best handle ever (Herd Bull), Mike Mitten. Mike is a bowhunter who has been bowhunting for over 50 years.  Mikes shares his passionate bowhunting adventures through his books, his magazine articles, and his YouTube channel. From his 3-week solo trips in Alaska, to hunting big mature whitetail bucks on...

Hey everyone! After a long break, I'm back.  This episode is to get everyone caught back up with the Ryan Furrer Podcast. Where I've been, what's been going on, and the future of the podcast.  Also, I sit down and chat with my good friend, PA big woods, big whitetail, public land hunter, Tyler Brown. AKA Stretch.  Stretch goes over all things public land.  Gear choices, long sits, s...

After a long pause- we're back.  And I'm happy to be joined by one of my friends and mentors. Mr. Ben Moyer.   Ben is a lifelong outdoorsman, outdoor writer, conservationist who has spent the biggest parts of his life in the woods and streams of-as he coined it, "Northern Appalachia".  As he sees it, Appalachia could be split into 2 different regions culturally. I never really...

Well, if you are into being "politically incorrect" you'll likely enjoy this episode.  I had the pleasure of sitting down with Matt Rinella. I mean Dr. Matt Rinella.  Yes, if you think that last name rings a bell, it's because Matt is the brother of Steve Rinella, who founded the now very famous Meateater brand. Not to be outdone as a "founder' of sorts, Matt has foun...

"You Ain't No Crabber!" HA! Now this, was some great discussion! We rolled up our sleeves and did some deep divin' (well, not that deep because as we learned in this podcast the water quality of the Bay doesn't lend itself to clarity). Even so, we got into the nitty gritty details of what's going on with the water quality with, 2 guys who spend, let's just say, A...

The Ashby Foundation- with Rob Neilson, and Rob Hummel.  Yep! You guessed it, arrow penetration.  Fixed vs mechanical. Slow and heavy, vs light and fast. If this topic is not thee most argued topic in all of archery hunting, then I don't know what is. I know year in and year out it comes up on social media when you undoubtably will see one side of the industry "professionals" toutin...

Hey folks!  Another great episode of the Ryan Furrer Podcast..  The Pennsylvania rifle season is freshly behind us. If you're like me and you tuned into social media during the 12 days of the gun season, you probably saw a variety of post, ranging from hunters either giving praise while sitting behind a big buck. Or hunters giving criticism to the Saturday opener and not seeing a deer on publ...

Hey! Another great episode in the books at RFP.  My good friend and National Deer Association- Director of Conservation. Certified Wildlife Biologist,  the "Deer Nerd"- Matt Ross. Should we question science!? If you ask me- hell yeah you should. If you didn't question the science, would it actually even be "science"? Science needs questions constantly in order for it to &q...

This one happened fast folks.  And I must say, it was ( I think) a great episode!  I kid you not when I say it happened fast. I stumbled across Mike on social media about 2 weeks ago, thought wow, that's pretty cool he's finding wounded animals with a drone. Good stuff! Fast forward those 2 weeks, Mikes been finding deer everyday, some times multiple a day.  His social media following ha...

Whoa!!! This is a GOOD one, and I'm not trying to be biased. It's just good.    If you're a hunter who likes to "follow" along with the who's, who of the hunting side of social media and Youtube. Then this episode is for you. So, if you are one of those people, then I'm sure you have heard of Meateater, right? How about "Wired to Hunt"?  Yep. My next gu...

Hey everyone!  Welcome back to another episode of the Ryan Furrer Podcast. It's been a while. But this one was well worth the wait.  Tim Gillingham! What can I say!? They guy has been around Professional Archery for a long time. The last 20 years or longer Tim has been traveling the Country shooting his bow, working for arrow manufactures (Gold Tip) while constantly growing the sport of Arche...

With turkey season over and not much hunting going on a lot of bowhunters/ shooters turn their summertime efforts to honing their archery skills in the way of 3-D archery.     3-D archery is essentially walking through the target course, standing at a pre-determined spot or "stake" acquiring the target or in this case the lifelike 3-dimensional animal, picking your spot, and in some clas...

If you've been around turkey hunting or more so, turkey calling for as long as I have then the name Matt VanCise probably more than rings a bell. Yep.. Matt was calling on the "big stage" with some of the greatest ever 25 years ago.   The likes of Mark Drury, Denny Gulvas, Matt Morrett, Dick and Chris Kirby, Preston Pittman. The list goes on.   Aside from sounding like a hen turkey...

If you're an avid turkey hunter but consider yourself as just a semi-avid podcast listener you've probably heard of my next guest, "The Wild Turkey Doc". Dr. Mike Chamberlain. That's how poplar "doc" is in the turkey world.  In fact, the day Doc and I recorded this podcast I was his 3rd podcast of the day and 5th for the week. And rightfully so. His level of know...

On this episode I'm joined by one of my childhood hunting and fishing buddies Mike Squires and one of his buddies who is now my new buddy,  Darren Hudock.   Mike and Darren met by chance as they were trapping coyotes on the same farm. Soon after that talked turned into hunting them. Then it wasn't long and they were both running some of the best infrared rigs money can by to hunt coyotes...

Look. We all as hunters like to hear stories and see pictures of the giant bucks that roam the Midwest, there is no denying that.  But for me, there is just something about those bucks that roam the hills and hollars'  of the big woods in the East and those hunters that year after year are successful in pursuing  them.  David Miller fits that bill.  David is the founder of the Appalachian Ran...

Hey all! This episode I recorded with my good friend and the man behind the scenes of the Ryan Furrer podcast Mr. Rob Harrity.   If you like a podcast with many different rabbit holes and good stories, this one is for you.  Seriously, lots of rabbit holes. We started off with shed hunting, or lack there of in Rob's case,  then made every turn, bend, up, and down you could from there.  I'...

In this episode I'm joined by President and CEO of the TRCP ( Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership) Mr. Whit Fosburgh. Whew! What a great discussion we had. Lately, I've really been thinking about all the different conservation non-profits. (NGO's) Let's be honest, there are A LOT of them. Let's be more honest.  Sometimes it's really hard to discern between who...

Hey Folks! In the episode of the Ryan Furrer Podcast I am joined by my good friend Mr. Josh Hillyard. Not only is Josh the Whitetail Community Specialist for the outdoor hunting apparel company First Lite . But if you have ever listened to Mark Kenyon's "Wired to Hunt" Podcast Josh is probably more famously known  simply as "Furter". All kidding aside- Josh is a great dude...

Hey everyone. Happy New year! I Welcome back to The Ryan Furrer Podcast. It's a new year and 2022 is going to be a BIG year for the Podcast!   We have a lot of new episodes/ guest along with some of our favorite returning guest in the works.   Hopefully you have been finding the past episodes enjoyable/ educating and entertaining. More on that later!   In the meantime- let's get right to...

If you're from Pennsylvania and like big bucks... Well, I guess you don't have to be from PA. Actually where you reside doesn't matter- what does matter is that you like to hear about someone who shot a big buck! And if that is the case, this is the perfect episode!  It just so happens Sam Musi is from PA. He also killed a big buck. You may recognize it as it made a pretty big splas...

This is a not only a great episode of all the Pennsylvania hunters out there, it's a great episode for all hunters in any State as it give you great insight on how your State agency conducts business. Yes, I said it, "business"  at the end of the day, it's a business, it has to make money.  On the topic of money, that's one of the first things we covered.  Bryan walks us t...

Here you go folks! The first episode was so well received we had to go back and see what Steve was up to. If you like hunting big mountain bucks on public land this show should tickle your fancy.  If you missed the first episode you can go back just 2 shows to episode 23 and  give it a listen. I might mention, it's definitely worth doing so.  If you have been following Steve's social med...