The Stickboys Podcast

This week Brian Wessel joins Alan and Ethan for a great conversation a bout faith, family, friend, balancing life and bowhunting.  Brian has traveled extensively bowhunting critters from Alaskan grizzly bears, African game, and everywhere in between.  Brian is a very humble guy that loves everything about bowhunting, and definitely loves the pursuit of game with the bow and arrow for pure and simp...

This week Alan and Ethan talk about what happens following the shot.  Lots of things happen in an incredibly short amount of time.  the guys talk about things to look and listen for and all the little clues gathered to make important decisions for retrieving animals.  Good woodsmanship discussion that probably doesn't take place enough!

Episode 21, re-release On this episode we sit down with two of the most knowledgeable woodsmen we know.  Alan and Nathan discuss in detail the skills we can all improve on to become better woodsman.  If you're new to traditional bowhunting or hunting in general, or a seasoned veteran you can gain a lot of information from this one! 

This week Alan goes over lots of great woodsmanship lessons pertaining to early season.  It's almost here, and this is some timely information you don't want to miss!!

Allan and Ethan are joined this week by Flip Pallot and Don Davis.  Don and Flip have been friends for years and have chased all kinds of critters from pigs with a bow to tarpon with a fly rod.  As Don likes to say, "he enjoys sticks and strings and sharp feathered things"!  Topics were wide ranging from the changes Florida has seen over the past decades in culture and habitat, the challenges of t...

Time is drawing near and soon those bachelor groups we've all been watching will start disbursing, antler will turn hard, testosterone will increase, and food sources will start to change.  As bowhunters, our job is to figure out how deer will adapt and relocate them.  There are a lot of subtleties that effect how animals move and use their surroundings.  On this episode Alan and Nathan discuss wh...

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 th...

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...

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...

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 Can...

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 ke...

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...

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...

Our buddies Tom Jenkins and Brad Hawkins join us this week to talk about their recent trip to Manitoba Stickglingers for Canadian black bear!  Ryan with Manitoba Stickflingers is well known in the traditional bowhunting community and Brad and Tom's recent hunt definitely lived up to expectations!  If you're gearing up to head into bear camp, or have ever wanted to, this episode's gonna get you fir...

This week Dalton sits down with our friend Jamie Holler.  Jamie and his tracking dog Spud have tracked more deer than probably any 5 people you know combined!  Jamie is a wealth of knowledge and shares some of his insights learned over hundreds of tracking jobs with Spud.  Things that would have been impossible to have seen unfold without the help of a solid tracking dog, and some of them may surp...

This week Maribeth sits down without the guys to talk to Melody Haege about bowhunting from a ladies perspective.  Melody is the host of the Gone Before podcast, mother of 5, writer, instructor, teacher, and of course a traditional bowhunter.  Melody brings a unique perspective to bowhunting and this is a great discussion about everything from life and raising children in a hunting family, to disc...

This week's episode  is with our buddy Brian Koelzer.  Traditional bowhunting has been a huge part of Brian's life since he was a kid.  And even though he has an impressive collection of trophy's to show it, he's a very down to earth and humble guy that deeply loves chasing critters with a stick and string.  His favorite thing to chase though are big mule deer bucks and this week he sits down with...

On this weeks episode, our friend David Hoff of Colorado is back on the podcast with us to talk about his love of hunting lions and raising lion dogs.  David is a very accomplished stick bow hunter and we talk all about one of his passions.  From training pups to chase mountain lions, some of scrutiny lion hunting is under these days, and of course a few good old fashioned lion hunting stories, Da...

This week Nathan and Ethan sit down with Trevor McGurran.  Trevor is very much a "fly under the radar" kind of guy that just loves to chase critters with a stickbow!  Growing up in central Montana, Trevor loves spending his time chasing elk and whitetails in particular, and he's killed some good ones!  We talk bout bucks, bulls, bears, adventure, the future of bowhunting and even some of the histo...

This week Ethan is joined by our friend Michael Arnette from Tall Tines Archery and they sit down once again with Harold Fahrenbrook to talk about some of his Alaskan adventures.  Harold is a taxidermist from Colorado and 39 years ago he started guiding sheep and bear hunts in Alaska with Johan's Alaskan Outfitters.  Harold has a lifetime of experience in the remote Alaskan bush in both guiding an...

This week Ethan and Nathan sit down with our buddy Jeff Lander of Primitive Outfitting in Canada.  Jeff guides for moose, mule deer, and bear in British Columbia and Alberta.  Jeff has a wealth of experience on both black and grizzly bears.  We chat about all aspects about hunting bears from shot placement to habits and patterning.  We even talk a little about the banning of grizzly bear hunting i...

This week our buddy Curt Cabrera sits down with Dalton to talk to our friend Joey Buchanan. And if you're a serious turkey hunter, especially if you chase them with a stickbow.... do you really need more than that....?!  Joey talks about his approach to hunting gobblers with a bow, lots of lessons he's learned along the way from both failed and successful hunts, and of course lots of funny stories...