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2018 High Country Mule Deer Hunt: Day Six Arrows

Brian Broderick joins Aron and Frank on the podcast to discuss Day Six Arrows.
Day Six Gear
Born out of necessity, Day Six designs and builds specialized equipment for hunters. As the hunting industry steers away from quality and towards quantity, Day Six remains focused on gear that will perform in the worst of conditions.
Our goal is to identify holes in the market where quality gear is needed and provide solutions to fill those gaps. Everything we design is for our own use, we are just making extra for others who also want good gear.
The system that fails the consumer is the wholesale-retail system. Other manufactures simply can't offer the quality that is possible due to the way their business is built and structured. The cost of manufacturing has to be kept low to allow for the retail markup when it hits the shelves at dealers.
We have purposely configured this business to deliver our customers a superior product at a fair price utilizing the Consumer-direct model.
 
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2018 High Country Mule Deer Hunt: Gear and Tactics

Fresh off their epic Mule Deer hunt, Aron and Frank cover the gear they used, glassing techniques, and lessons learned after over twelve days in the field.

2018 High Country Mule Deer Hunt

Aron and Frank provide a day by day account of their high country mule deer hunt.  An incredible amount of blood sweat, and tears went into this hunt.

2018 Hunting Season With Brian Call

Brian Call and Aron Snyder get together to discuss their upcoming hunts for 2018, including Aron’s upcoming high-country mule deer hunt.

HAMSKEA

Andrew Munsell, co-owner of HAMSKEA, joins the podcast with Aron and Frank.  Discussions include, Accuracy, optics, tuning, and a healthy dose of squirrels.
 
HAMSKEA
HAMSKEA Archery Solutions LLC is a company for archers by archers. It is owned and operated by Andrew Munsell and Shawn Greathouse. Each are passionate tournament archers and die hard bowhunters. They live and breathe the sport of archery. That passion is the foundation of HAMSKEA ARCHERY SOLUTIONS. In their constant drive to be better, more accurate archers themselves, they saw a need in the market for products they couldn’t find anywhere else. So they began to design, develop, and manufacture the products they were looking for.
All of the products that they create come directly from their own shooting experiences and needs. They are designing the products all archers need to maximize their accuracy! It is their mission to unleash the passion of archers and bowhunters everywhere. They do this because they love the sport, they live to shoot! They hope their products help each of you to find that same passion.
 
Andrew picked up his first bow and arrow at the age of eight and hasn’t put it down since. Growing up in Illinois introduced Andrew to big game hunting through the pursuit of whitetail deer. After college, he moved out west (California, Arizona, Colorado) which presented its own set of bowhunting challenges.
Longer range shots, steeper terrain and a greater diversity of animals fueled his desire to become as proficient as possible. Bowhunting is the fundamental core of Andrew’s archery passion, but Andrew also follows and participates in as many types of archery as possible. Through his experiences he has acquired a vast amount of archery and bowhunting knowledge. This coupled with his background in aerospace engineering enables him to separate the products that work from the ones that don’t.
In his spare time, he likes to help his fellow archers and often has them over to the house for shooting lessons along with tuning and string making sessions. Andrew also writes about his archery experiences as published in several regional and national periodicals

New License System With Harold Fahrenbrook

Harold Fahrenbrook returns to the podcast to discuss the current state of affairs at the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Ultralight Backpacking

If you are having any trouble finding the right information on gear to pack for this seasons hunt, give this episode a listen.  Learn from two people who spend most of their time outdoors and have refined their gear list based on experience, not opinion.
Kevin's gear list is available on his blog..check it out!
 
Who am I?
I am Kevin Underwood, a husband, father, and hunter from Oregon. Big game hunting has been my passion since before I was old enough to hold my own tag, and it continues to be so today. Over the years I have been fortunate enough to spend a very large amount of time hunting in the western US, as well as thousands of hours research and fine tuning the gear involved around the pursuit of hunting.
Hunting has so many things to offer both in terms of recreation, and in terms of personal development. The struggle, the failure, the success, and the self-confidence that it has brought to my life over the last 20 years has been immeasurable. Naturally, I want to share with you something that has made such a drastic impact for the better in my life.
 
The Problem
Over time however, I’ve noticed the trends as social media has swept through our culture. The lines between helpful and worthless as well as between genuine and contrived have become blurred at best. At the same time, hunter numbers are at all time lows, and few people are finding the real connection they seek between nature and society.
Finding solid information and genuine people to glean information from is all but impossible for those wanting to take their first steps down a path into the woods. Hunting is a complicated discipline that can take a lifetime or more to master, yet it has become impossible for the beginner to navigate the cloudy waters of overloaded information while trying to find the meaningful help that they need.
It is estimated, in the meantime, within the next 15 years hunters will no longer be able to financially support the conservation model we have in place currently. The straightforward, but laborious solution is for the hunting community to extend its arm and to help along those interested in partaking in the hunt. I believe in this process completely, but I want to do more.
 
My Solution
As I continue to help and engage with new hunters on a face to face level, I also want to provide content to those out there who I have never met, in hopes that they will come to enjoy the thing that has shaped so much of my life and world view. By providing what I have spent years learning for myself, I believe that the passion for the natural world will continue to spark the interest of others. My hope is that this interest will continue to grow the community of hunters around the world, and bring that community just a little bit closer together. It is a small bit in the larger picture, but if it can push us all the slightest bit in the right direction, then it will be worth the effort.
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John Dudley Returns

John Dudley returns to the podcast to discuss his latest Total Archery Challenge experience, including his arrow setup.  Also included is everybody's favorite topic...FOC!
 
This Video explains the Nock On Arrow Series including the Nock On Axis and FMJ. Both of these shafts are only available at nockonarchery.com and are the perfect combination of match grade quality, heavy hitting accuracy and affordability all bundled into one complete package
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For more in depth info on archery be sure to check out Johns Nock On Podcast

Calvin Halladay

Calvin Halladay, one of the owners at Sheep Mountain Outfitters, and Aron Snyder discuss the outdoor industry in todays social media world, how to watch out for misinformation from instafamous hunters, and then go into their personal experience regarding what makes a great optic, along with their glassing techniques in the field.
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Ike Eastman

Ike Eastman and Aron Snyder discus how uncomfortable hunting can be, the basic skills everyone going into the backcountry should know, plus some good hunting stories including that one-time Aron asked Frank if his farts burn...epic.
 
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