The Stickboys Podcast

On this episode we discuss something that is often overlooked, bow hunting big bucks vs bow hunting deer.  We all love to dream about that big trophy buck slipping into bow range, but depending on where you live or hunt or what your perspective is will define what the word "trophy" means.  Any deer taken with a bow and arrow under fair chase is more than qualified to be called a trophy.  It's easy...

This week we sit down with Crispin Henry of Atlanta, Georgia.  Crispin is a great guy and a great hunter.  He's taken some really nice bucks in the suburban Atlanta area from places most people would never think about hunting.  Crispin shares some of the insights he's learned along the way and goes into some of his tactics.  If you're hunting urban areas or would like to, Crispin is a wealth of kn...

On this episode we're joined by our good friends and fellow Stickboys Alan Altizer, Aaron Miller, and Nathan Killen.  The guys go over the aspects of the October Lull and what that really means.  We discuss strategies and how to find and hunt deer during this challenging time frame.

This week Alan Altizer sits down with us as a follow up to last week podcast on marginal wind in mountainous terrain.  This week we discuss how to use marginal winds in flat terrain.  The features may be more subtle and have different factors to influence micro wind currents, but they are there!  Learning how to use them can be key to figuring out how to take advantage of a mature animals weakness...

This week we sit down with our buddy Alan Altizer for a deep dive into utilizing marginal winds to hunt mature bucks.  Alan goes in depth explaining this much overlooked tactic, and explains the advantages along with all the little details you should consider when exploiting this to get close to that bruiser buck!  If you're serious about hunting whitetails with a stickbow, and if you're reading t...

If you haven't heard, our buddy Nathan Killen is officially part of the crew now!  Nathan has been a great buddy of ours for a while now and has always been a big part of what we do at The Stickboys,  and now he's official!  This week we catch up and talk about the upcoming season, some things we've got in the works, and dive into some of the subtleties of mature buck behavior.  

This week we had the extreme pleasure to sit down with the one and only Larry D Jones of Oregon.  Larry is 79 years young and has a literal lifetime's experience of bowhunting, and is still getting after it to this day.  We talk about his recent scouting trips for his upcoming elk hunt, as well as a much anticipated opportunity to chase Alaskan/Yukon moose this coming fall!  Larry started bowhunti...

This week Nathan Killen joins in on the other side of the mic to chat with our good friend Alan Altizer about heading west to chase elk.  Alan goes over some great things for the new elk hunter to consider, from the perspective of an eastern mountain whitetail guy with a lot of western experience as well.  If you're thinking about getting your feet wet in the elk hunting game you should really che...

This week our buddy Aaron Miller joins us for another Woodsmanship episode.  Aaron is an outstanding traditional bowhunter.  But more importantly, Aaron is a hardcore student of the whitetail and is extremely detailed about collecting data and learning from his encounters.  On this episode, Aaron dives deep into scrapes and moss position, as opposed to moon phase.  If you enjoy listening to knowle...

On this episode the Ethan's sit down with Trent Wengerd of Wengerd Archery.  Trent has done some pretty amazing adventuring with bow in hand and this week he shares some of those tales with us.  If you like good hunting stories, you'll want to check this one out!  If you don't like good bow hunting stories..... well.... who doesn't like good bow hunting stories?!!

This episode we sit down with our ol'buddy Tom Jenkins of Zipper Bows.  Tom is a heck of a hunter with a wall full of big whitetails to prove it, but more importantly he's a great guy to share camp with, shoot the bull with, and have as a friend.  We chat about some past hunting trips, big bucks, and quite a bit of good natured ribbing!

This week we sit down with our buddy Jake Downs.  We've had a lot of comments recently from guys wanting to hear about how to get started making your first out of state or "adventure hunt".  We couldn't think of a better guy to talk to than Jake!  Just a normal guy talking to normal guys about how to get started down that path.  Great conversation with a hardworking, family oriented, regular Joe t...

This week we sit down with our friend Ryan Rothhaar.  Ryan grew up learning the intricacy's of whitetail habits from one of the most knowledgeable hunters to ever pick up a stickbow.  We discuss keeping the main thing - the main thing and how fundamentals a basics kill deer.  Just like in sports, you always fall back on the basics, and hunting mature bucks is no different.  This episode is full of...

This week Dalton sits down with our ol'buddy Clay Epperson.  If you follow Clay you'll know that he's heck on swine!!  Clay spends a lot of time slipping the through the inky blackness of the East Texas Piney Woods and this week, he and Dalton dive deep into what it takes to get an arrow in a wild pig at night with a stickbow!

This week Ethan and Josh sit down with good friend Norm Johnson.  Norm is a longtime PBS member and has served as councilman and vice president, as well as president.  He is the founder of Blacktail Bows, and living in Reedsport, Oregon, is an avid blacktail deer and Roosevelt Elk hunter.  We discuss chasing blacktails, rocky mountain elk, Roosevelt elk, and high country mule deer!  Good times and...

This week we sit catch up with Bubba Graves and Ben Pinney on their recent Alaskan adventure for bears.  These guys have been friends for many years and as is so typical through the PBS, have shared some pretty epic adventures. This one however, very well may take the cake!  Join us as Ben and Bubba give us a play by play on their recent trip for both brown and black bear in the land of the midnig...

The traditional bow hunting community is full of great people, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better guy than Nick, and he's as down to earth as they come.  Nick has put his time in with a bow and arrow chasing game, but after only three short years he's been able to make the transition into strictly trad and has become a phenomenal shot with he recurve as well.  Dalton and Ethan H. sit down...

This week we sit down with Dick and Yote Robertson for a great conversation!  We discuss raising kids in the outdoors, sons "passing the torch" back to their dads in time, hunting Dall Sheep, and striking while the iron is hot!  It's a great visit with a couple of genuinely great guys that love traditional bowhunting as much as anyone, and after decades still have the burning desire!  Tune and and...

This week we sit down with our buddies Vance Henry and Eric McKee and discuss their upcoming Alaskan Moose Adventure.  Eric and Vance hatched an idea of heading North to pursue the massive Alaskan/Yukon Moose at a recent PBS banquet.  While these guys are very experienced bowhunters with a lot of adventurous hunts under their belts, this will be their first trip into the land of the midnight sun. ...

This week we sit down with Mike Mitten of Herd Bull Productions.  Mike is a highly successful traditional bowhunter, author, video producer, and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.  We Mike's passion for solo hunting wilderness and cover a variety of aspects including self reliance, woodsmanship, mental toughness, spiritual rejuvenation, balance, and family.  This is a great conversation and...

On this episode we sit down with our good friend Alan Altizer to talk about one of our favorite topics, woodsmanship!  We go over everything from spring time preparations for the upcoming fall and  making sense of scents, to armadillo chaps!  Learning is always better when you can laugh along the way!

This week Dalton and Ethan sit down with our buddy Curt Cabrera of TradLife Films.  Most of our listeners will be familiar with Curt and his channel.  Curt is deadly on turkey with a stickbow and manages to get outstanding footage of his hunts with stick and string every year.  Curt sits down to talk how he is so consistent on turkeys, but we also touch a bit on parenting and his lovely daughters'...

You'd be hard pressed to find a more knowledgeable bowhunter when it comes to turkey than Joey Buchanan.  Joey has chased wild turkeys all across the country and Mexico, and he's completed the grand slam with, and without a blind, and with a bow and calls of his own making.  He has done all of this because of his love of hunting wild turkey with a traditional bow and arrow, precisely our kind of g...

This week we sit down to chat with our old buddy Jim Eeckhout.  Jim is the exactly the kind of guy we had in mind when we launched the podcast!  He's down to earth, humble, and an absolute killer with a stickbow.  Jim has had some pretty incredible adventure and he does it the way it should be done, for the love bowhunting.  Jim's long track record of successful bow hunts speaks for itself and it...

This week we sit down with a living legend in traditional bowhunting and traditional archery, Ron LaClair.  Ron is one of the pioneers of the sport we all cherish, and has seen a few things along the way!  Ron has had a direct hand in the founding of everything from state and national organizations, to national shoots that are attended by thousands each year.  Ron shares stories from the early day...