Becoming A Bow Hunter

  Brett Meldrum joins us this week for a good talk about his bowhunting adventures. With many years of hunting on his side, Brett decided to get into bowhunting! Being a full-time farmer he’s always out among the wild and has come to learn the patterns of his local critters!  Covered in the podcast: Brett’s 2021 Red deer rutSelf filming bowhunting Filming equipmentFallow doing fallow things Slowing down in the bush Future hunts Brett has planned!  You can Find Brett: @brettmeldrum085 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZiHsvRfus7s0nI03GMXdHQ Find Matty: @mattyafter @becomingabowhunter.podcast

This weeks episode is with Kody Mackay. Don’t let the age of 17 fool you! This dude has put in HOURS in the bush… Since he could walk Kody has been by his dad’s side out hunting as a professional shooter… Which quickly turned into Kody being a keen young hunter himself. With the combination of pigging with his dogs and going out with his bow, Kody has knocked a heap of super amazing Critters! Topics covered in the podcast:  Pig hunting with dogsTraining dogs for huntingHow can you tell if your dog has what it takesKody’s Fallow Buck from this years rut!Hunting mountain boars with a bowGetting the wind rightGoat commonalities Kody’s new job and adventure up to the Northern Territory!Whistling foxes Taking friends and newbies out bowhunting Find Kody: @kody.mackay Find Matty: @becomingabowhunter.podcast thebowhunterschallenge.com 

Jack Pogson from GetnOutdoorz.com joins us this week! Jack is a keen outdoorsman. If he’s not out bow hunting, filming or photographing animals, he’s camping and surfing at the beach! Topics of the podcast: Jack tells us his secret top and tail trick for making vanes last forever on your arrows! Hunting rush, including tracking, their mating season, eating habits and moreFilming and photographing hunts. Why Jack documents what he does! Get n Outdoors Jack’s brand. Why he started it, what’s on offer, how you can get involved and support a local Aussie outdoors Business  Hunting Buff in AustraliaAdventures that hunting gives you! Future endeavours  The book Jack mentioned was: RUSA Rusa timorensis By: Aaron Grant Find Jack: @getnoutdoorz www.Getnoutdoorz.com Find Matty: @becomingabowhunter.podcast thebowhunterschallenge.com 

This weeks episode is a recap of Matty's 2021 Red Roar hunt. Matty adventured for a 4 & 1/2 day hunt. The hunt was action packed and full of great lessons for Matty... Lessons he hope to pass onto you! Find Matty: @mattyafter @becomingabowhunter.podcast

This week Matty is joined by return guest Grant 'Randy' Rand from Kayuga Broadheads! Grant fill us in with some of his recent hunts as well as some of the tips as to why he thought this hunt was so successful! He then talks about the 2nd edition with the Kayuga broadheads... He explains what the new bleeder blades do and how to manage the weight change! Find Kayuga Broadheads: https://www.kayugabroadheads.com.au/ @kayuga_broadheads Find Grant Rand: @grant_randy_rand Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast www.bowhunterschallenge.com

This week Matty is joined by Emily Corbett (@emcorbett93). Emily is a keen new bowhunter who is not afraid to ask for help! She has studied bowhunting for the last few years and put her heart and soul into doing and learning more about bowhunting! Find Em: @emcorbett93 Find Becoming A Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast This episode is bought to you by The Bowhunters Challenge: www.bowhunterschallenge.com

This weeks episode is a recording of a live call Matty did explaining what the Bowhunters Challenge is all about. The program is a 12-week challenge designed just for bowhunters. If you’d like to know more details head to bowhunterschallenge.com Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast

This week matty is joined by Dylan Smith @_wilderlife_ Dylan is an avid outdoorsmen and someone who is taking living from the land by the horns and running with it! Dylan shares his experiences of hunting and cooking wild game as well as some great stories of fishing Murray cod. (since recording this podcast he has landed a new PB on the Cod). Dylan has been successfully learning to use a traditional bow and explains his reasons and though patterns behind jumping from a rifle to a traditional bow out in the wild! Find Dylan: @_wilderlife_ Find Becoming A Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast This episode is brought to you by The Bowhunters Challenge www.bowhunterschallenge.com

This weeks episode is a recap of the Matty’s recent successful Red Deer hunt! This recap breakdown Matty’s weekend of hunting and he tries to share in words what the first deer kill that took him 2.5 years to make happen felt like!  Find Matty: @becomingabowhunter.podcast @mattyafter

This week host Matty is joined by James Doumtsis (@jamesdoumtsisoutdoors). This episode is a recap on the Fallow Rut trip James took to Bulgaria in October 2019! James gives some awesome insights into the comparisons and differences of the Australian and Bulgarian fallow deer. He also explains how he will approach hunting Fallow in Australia differently now. Find James: @jamesdoumtsisoutdoors Find Becoming a Bowhunter @becomingabowhunter.podcast

This week host Matty is joined by Jay Moylan! Jay is on the Prime Archery Pro staff team for competitive archery! In this episode the boys uncover Jay's biggest idols and mentors in the sport of archery. Jay dives shares his biggest 'gold nugget' takeaways that each of these mentors passed onto him. Jay explains why he doesn't think you should use bow wax... And, Matty owns up to never having using it on his first bow. Towards the end of the conversation the boys get into the nitty gritty's of accuracy! Obviously it's a compliment of hours practising with good technique... However, Jay shares some of his biggest turning points in improving his accuracy! Find Jay Moylan: @jaymo_archery Find Matty: @becomingabowhunter.podcast @mattyafter

This week host Matty is joined by Ben Salleras! Ben is one of Australia’s most travelled bowhunters when it comes to hunting around the world. The boys dive into Ben’s origins and pull apart the turning points of his hunting while growing up around some of the greats in the early days of bowhunting in Australia. They talk about the strong desire/calling to learn of or history and understanding your home land. And, in turn the benefits of learning ‘bush craft’ from being in the wilderness and walking the bush with a bow! Matty and Ben talk about the maturing progression that bowhunters go through… This is very insightful as they both agree it’s like life and something you can never “master” but instead always pursue. Benny talks of some of his favourite hunts that his been on abroad as well as his dream hunts that he’s yet to do. They discuss his favourite meat of all of the animals he’s hunted, as well as Ben’s new found passion for cooking wild game! So much gets Unpacked in this episode!

This week Matty is joined y Luke Cameron (@cameronoutsidebowhunting). Luke tells us of his and his brothers experiences of hunting Northern Territory in Australia. Instagram: @becomingabowhunter.podcast

This week host Matty is joined by Bevan to cover all things around food safety in camp and meat safety when butchering your wild game! Instagram: @becominngabowhunter.pocast

This week host Matty is joined by Grant Rand to talk all about executing the perfect shot, perfectly executing a plan to get the critters down and how he and the boys from Kyuga Broadheads have been perfectly executing the release of their new broadheads.   Grant is one of the owners over at Kyuga Broadheads and gives us the rundown into the design and creation of broadheads! He explains how what seems like a simple job has turned into a 5-year business with the plans to only get bigger and better from here!   Grant also gives some of his insights for in the field based on some of his biggest learnings! Everything from the perfect execution for trail camera placement through to a perfectly executed plan to get more critters on the ground.   Find Grant “Randy” Rand: @grant_randy_rand @kyuga_broadheads www.kyugabroadheads.com.au   Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast https://www.facebook.com/becomingabowhunter.podcast/ https://becomingabowhunter.com/ https://www.youtube.com/beco

This weeks tip bit Tuesday comes to you from New Zealander Cam Henderson. The man behind The Hunters Journal (New Zealand hunting Magazine) Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast https://www.facebook.com/becomingabowhunter.podcast/ https://becomingabowhunter.com/ https://www.youtube.com/becomingabowhunter  

This week Matty is joined by the man behind The Hunters Journal (New Zealand hunting magazine) Cam Henderson! Cam is a passionate cameraman, outdoorsman and hunter and has found a way to make it his lifestyle and work! Cam released his first printed edition of the Hunters Journal 18 months ago and hasn't looked back! Through the Hunters Journal Cam has recently released a short film called 'Wildfire'. Wildfire is the adventures of Bowhunter Khan Adams through his 2019 Red deer and Sika deer ruts! Cam talks of some previous hunts his been on as cameraman and the tips and tricks he's learnt from filming some of the big names in the industry! Find Cam and The Hunters Journal: https://www.huntersjournal.co.nz/ @thehuntersjournal Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast https://www.facebook.com/becomingabowhunter.podcast/ https://becomingabowhunter.com/ https://www.youtube.com/becomingabowhunter

This weeks episode is a quick recap of Matty's red roar experience this year (2020) and the learnings that have come with it. Although the hun was cut short by 3 days due to the Corona virus pandemic Matty explains his sincere gratitude for getting to spend time in the bush hearing reds roar this year while so many unfortunately were not able. His biggest takeaways/learnings: PatiencePracticing depth perceptionDon't shoot through objects (haha)Use hind callsALWAYS break up your outlineWhen you're getting careless is usually the time you're bound to bump animals. Slow down and GLASS Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast https://www.facebook.com/becomingabowhunter.podcast/ https://becomingabowhunter.com/ https://www.youtube.com/becomingabowhunter  

This weeks Tip bit Tuesday is from Andre Alipate. Andre is one of the 5 co-hosts on the Red Stag Timber Hunters Club You can Find Andre Alipate: @trainhuntthrive @huntersclubnz https://www.facebook.com/TrainHuntThrive/ https://www.facebook.com/huntersclubnz/ https://www.thehuntersclub.co.nz/ https://vimeo.com/user79088075 Find Becoming a Bowhunter: @becomingabowhunter.podcast https://www.facebook.com/becomingabowhunter.podcast/ https://becomingabowhunter.com/ https://www.youtube.com/becomingabowhunter  

This weeks episode is with outdoorsmen and bowhunter Andre Alipate Andre has been hunting for as long as he can remember! The act of hunting was just seen as living for his family! The grew their own foods and harvested heir own fish and game for the family to feed! In todays episode Host Matty and Andre dive into: Some of the benefits of Crossfit when it comes to bowhuntingThe current state of the world and the hunting lock down that is happening in multiple countriesAndre's past in hunting and bowhuntingHow appealing living off the land is to the boysWhat is The Red Stag Timber Hunters ClubHow Andre got involved in being apart of a hunting seriesThe different dynamics of having a film crew when huntingWhat makes the hunters club different to other hunting series Where to get your hands on the seriesOne of Andre's favourite hunts of late You can Find Andre Alipate: @trainhuntthrive @huntersclubnz https://www.facebook.com/TrainHuntThrive/ https://www.facebook.com/huntersclubnz/ https://www.thehunter