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2017 Archery Elk Complete Season This includes episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 that make up the 2017 archery elk complete season.

Chapters 1-5 of the 2019 Archery Elk Season.  Listen to 'em all in one click.

2019 Elk Ch 5 "Luck of the Draw" There is a saying I've always repeated in my head during encounters with big game: "Don't look at the antlers!" It's a reference to keeping your composure and staying focused on executing the shot- without the distraction of what the rack looks like. It totally makes sense, and in many situations I've been left yearning to know more about the rack following the enc...

Stand alone short essay I like fishing downstream. Swinging flies for Steelhead is a welcome seasonal transition following months of facing and casting upstream for trout. It’s an entirely different tempo, two-stepping your way down a run. The casting and presentation is different, not to mention that some days even the fly rod is different. Two hands holding cork now. Cool!  I recently took a day...

2019 Archery Season Ch 4 "Reckless Precision" It was September 24th now, the final full day of my final trip of the season. I was well aware of the circumstance- that this would be my last opportunity for archery success in 2019. Looking back I realize I'd been in this same position two years prior, just before taking my best bull (which is described in SKYLINES Episodes 2017 Rut Reports) Although...

2019 Archery Elk Chapter 3 "High in the Mountains"  Hi there folks this is chapter 3 of my 2019 essay. I'm jumping back in time a little bit with this chapter, reflecting on the circumstances that led me to the mountains where chapters 1 and 2 took place. So it's a bit of skipping around in timeline but it all ties back in with where we left off in chapter 2.   Dry hole cost. It’s a phrase that a...

2019 Archery Elk Ch 2 "Crown Point" The bull gave a small jump and kicked up his tempo, although with no idea of what/if anything had happened. My arrow had just zinged beneath him and I think he had a sense of some sort of close shave. He and the cows around him continued their frantic scurry off the exposed ridge. I didn't have time to consider what had happened to foil what should have been a s...

2019 Archery Elk Chapter 1 "Belly of the Beast"  Howdy folks, this is Bryan Huskey and we're going to kick off my first essay of the 2019 archery season. I hope you enjoy the ride! Chapter 1 Belly of the Beast   I've always LOVED storms. Late summer thunder storms in particular. But any kind of weather that's remarkable is worth remarking in my book. As a little kid on the Oregon coast, I can reca...

Stand alone essay I've cut my teeth fishing trout and steelhead, but a breaking point occurred that turned my focus to the world of bass and other warm water angling opportunities. I could not be happier with what's happened since. 

We dropped over the edge with leaps & bounds. Striding down the steep slope, we moved quickly as possible yet all the while careful not to dislodge rocks or anything that would roll down the hill and turn into a god dam avalanche. Regardless, apx mid way down, the bull heard us. And screamed a bugle across to our side, in almost- well, no I'd say it was an actual throwing down of the gauntlet. Ada...

If you've never raced in one form or another, you should. Once in your life pick something... and race it. Practice, plan, train, prepare mentally and physically. Give your mind and body a chance to feel primal and perform something at it's absolute hardest- BUT DO IT FOR FUN!!! Sure racing is not for everybody. But if you've ever been half way curious how you'd stack up in the pine derby... or a...

The Jeep pushed confidently through the soft sand, closer and closer to the turquoise sliver on the horizon. From fifty feet back it looked like a solid and capable rig. From twenty feet out, you could certainly tell this vehicle had been around the peninsula a few times. If you were walking up to it at a used car lot, you'd be spinning around and ducking the greaser salesman in wrinkled slakes st...

Bryan Huskey's 2018 archery elk complete season. Chapters 1-7. 1.5 hr run time Accompanying Video 

Standing now with a bright splash of red at my feet and much better defined tracks as well, I felt a giant weight lifted off my shoulders. It was like hitting a reset button on the circumstance, and about anything was better than the hand of cards I'd been holding just moments earlier. Over an hour had lapsed since my shot, yet I still moved with great care and caution to be quiet. Given that I wa...

How far had the bull walked through the shot? I was hugging the left boundary of the shooting window as it was, and as he walked further to the left getting a closer encounter with the cow he was checking, my arrow was already on it's way when his vitals disappeared behind the screen of chop stick pine bows. I was certain that my arrow had passed cleanly through the window, without trimming and po...

Later that day, an hour or so of glassing distant ridges and with the luck of a few rogue bugles I'd identified a small herd with a nice bull holding court among them. I'd taken a huge loop in efforts of having a shot at this bull and the wind gave me the firm middle finger. Even beyond the middle finger, we refer to the full hand of fingers we call the eagle. But as the sounds of hoofbeats faded,...

It was an absolute pleasure to wake and emerge from my tent already miles and thousands of feet above from where I'd previously camped at the truck. In the grey light of morning, I sparked my micro burner stove to make instant coffee and oatmeal. Although chilled in the cold morning air, I removed my puffy vest and packed it into my Eberlestock along with provisions for the day. Not long out of ca...

For the third week of September we as a family had banked all our resources for me to have five full days to hunt. This was it- I really needed to make something happen this outing as getting me back up here again was not going to be easy for any of us. So as I'd complained earlier, I was over the miles long commute into the prime hunting areas and had indeed prepared this trip to pack a camp up a...

Pulling into my camp/parking area now on my second trip I was both thrilled and relieved to find no other rigs or sign of people. I mean after all it's totally understandable that other hunters would stumble into this place and I'd overlap with their time in these mountains.

Three years strait. That's a hell of a slump buster, and these past 3 years of success were doubled up, representing harvest of both deer and elk following a dry spell of mind-bending frustrations and crazy bad luck stacking up on my hunting efforts, to the level I eventually, (albeit reluctantly) proclaimed I'd been cursed! Because for a decade in the early two thousands my hunting efforts were p...

Hey, I'm your host Bryan Huskey,   and as eluded to in my introduction of this podcasting effort, content here is going to range across a variety of topics and interests. Now for the most part, all of these subjects share a few common threads; that they relate to adventure,   and are my own experiences I'm sharing with you first hand. Today I want to share my experiences with competition, racing a...

Hi there, I'm Bryan Huskey. In addition to the stories I've shared here so far, I also have a lot fishing related content I'm looking forward to sharing. What I'm going to start of with here is the backstory a phrase in fishing that's become very popular all around the globe relating to catch & release practices. It's called keepemwet. If you've looked at many fishing photos on social media you've...

It had been almost 20 years since I'd gone deer hunting with a rifle, and this switching of gears from archery elk season to targeting deer proved to be super fun. I roamed all new parts of regional public lands, places that I'd never seen or necessarily even knew were public. That alone became addicting, and within a handful of days in the field I'd had so much fun I declared the effort a success...

Have you ever been lost in the wild? I mean to the point where you come to a realization that makes your heart literally skip a beat- and then begin to race- and you can't slow it down. Truly scared. It's certainly happened to me a few times. Each time I've regained the comfort of resolve in one form or another, before it got too far into the night. And each time it instilled a sense of respect th...

Hi there! I'm Bryan Huskey, a photographer, filmmaker, and general outdoor ding dong in Boise Idaho. At this point- many of you who are listening are probably my buddies, but for the new folks that have stumbled in here, here's a little intro to get a feel for who I am and what to expect from this podcast.  First off- seriously thanks for listening! The response to this first series will have a lo...