The outdoor industry is full of folks waiting for the next best thing. To know how to set yourself apart and be successful, Tim Kjellesvik, host of The Thinking Woodsman podcast, shares his wealth of information on what makes you saleable, marketable, and promotable in the outdoor industry. His article called Five Ways to Set Yourself Apart in the Outdoor Industry answers questions on how you should run a business in this space. He also…
It’s amazing what whitetails teach us all the time and how much the experts think they know about them. When it comes down to the push and shove, they know some stuff, no question about it, but when you put the whole thing together, all these moving parts have to be very successful year after year. Dillan Porter of Trophy Whitetails R’Us grew up around whitetails and he said he can’t imagine anything different.…
Art Helin gives a breakdown of the seminar he gave at Iowa Deer Classic about the seasons of deer vocalization used during all four phases of the Rut to harvest mature bucks. He talks about the different types of calls used, and why they were effective and why they weren’t. He also shares insights with land management and says it’s broken down into four different parts: food, water, cover, and sanctuaries. He believes the last…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: The idea of DirtNap Gear came about as I sat watching another one of my wife’s reality shows and dreaming of the Outdoor Channel. With my passion and love of the outdoors and bowhunting I realized it was time to develop a line of broadheads that performed to the highest standards. I designed the DirtNap Gear line with one thought in my mind…boobs, wait scratch that, penetration and…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: Naked & Afraid Survivalist – Huntress Samantha Ohl I am also a Survivalist that is on Discovery Channels Naked & Afraid. My main reasons for going on Naked and Afraid: I am a BIG introvert but I wanted to challenge my abilities, mentally in being able to handle the pressure of people. Naked and Afraid takes “survival of the fittest” to the next level. I have served the United States…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: Exclusive interview Bow Hunters Union – Bill Hoffman What is your mission statement? Bow Hunters Union constantly strives to improve regulations for all hunting archers while promoting the future of bow hunting via their support of youth archery programs nationwide. Bill Hoffman is a lifelong resident of Michigan. If you took a guy who loves to hunt and fish and then made him a professional magician with a decade long…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: Exclusive interview Casey & Hope Hutchison We are both very enthusiastic outdoors people that happened to cross paths at the right time in our lives. Hope comes from a small town in Southeast Kansas, while I grew up in the middle of Colorado Springs AKA a city boy. I have been hunting for a better part of my adult life. I quit drinking at the young age of 25 and…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: Five Trends shaping hunting in 2017 Reid Vander Veen grew up in small-town farm country in Iowa where he ran, swam, kicked, and sticked his way through every stream and forest he could find, spending nearly every waking minute outdoors. He is currently on the Field Staff for RAKS Big Game Supplements and enjoys volunteering and being involved in his community. He is a contributor to Wild Open Spaces… http://www.wideopenspaces.com/five-trends-that-will-shape-hunting-in-2017/…
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: Discover Alps Outdoorz Exclusive interview Colby Smith Colby Smith loves hunting Whitetails… with Alps Outdoorz products ALPS Brands established ALPS OutdoorZ in 2007 with the mission of developing affordable, performance-driven hunting gear. Ten years after releasing their first group of hunting products, ALPS OutdoorZ has grown to offer packs, furniture, gun cases, sleeping bags and ground blinds. ALPS Outdoorz is a proud… Brought together by a shared passion for wildlife…
