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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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On this episode of In Pursuit, Rich heads to Texas with Watkins and Scott for a whitetail trip that turns into a crash course in ranch life, management tags, and making good shots under pressure. They walk through the buck that got away, the hog that didn’t, and the perfect heart shot that somehow left almost no blood on that dry Texas ground.
They get into hunting over corn, how Stealth Rig and the crew manage 25,000 acres for better genetics and herd health, and what it feels like to leave knowing there were still tags on the table. If you care about bowhunting, meat in the freezer, and learning from both good shots and bad ones, this one is worth the listen.
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| 0:36.5 | Well, to that point, I'd kind of like thought, oh, I'd miss my broadside shot. So he was a little bit quartered away, and just knew you aimed a little bit farther back. And, I mean, it was about as perfect a shot as you could. Hit him right in the heart. He was liberated his heart. Hit him in the heart. and then somehow his arrow angled off either a rib or the shoulder |
| 0:55.3 | on the other side. After the broadhead snapped off, the arrow just poked through like the top |
| 1:01.0 | of his neck. You'll see the kill shot, but it was pretty cool. Out here, the stakes are real. Effective preparation starts with fitness, but it requires so much more. |
| 1:15.6 | This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. |
| 1:22.6 | Join me, Rich Broning, as we apply the decades of wisdom I've gained through training and competition |
| 1:28.5 | to hunting in the backcountry. |
| 1:31.6 | This is In Pursuit. |
| 1:34.6 | Brought to you by Mountain Ops. |
| 1:38.6 | In collaboration with Mayhem Hunt. |
| 1:41.7 | Jonathan Michael Watkins. |
| 1:43.4 | Not to be confused with Jonathan Tyler Walker, right? Same middle name we have. No. No, you guys. First name. No. No, we have the same middle name. Michael. Oh, really? The most Tennessee thing you've ever heard, Watkins, we just call him Watkins because him and his brother have the same first name. And now it's Waddy. Now it's Waddy. Now it's Waddy. Thanks, Tommy. Wadi. Scott, you've been on here a lot. And he's always behind the camera too as well. But you actually got behind the bow this week. I did. I tried to get behind the camera and behind the bow simultaneously yeah |
| 2:19.3 | and um there's heartbreak it was heartbreak we're getting at that too yeah there's a couple heartbreaks |
| 2:24.7 | um yeah so we had del brisbee last week well several weeks ago but to you guys is last week last week yeah, yeah. Man, it was fun. It was cool. You know, the one question I had was like, did he take off his sunglasses? When he came in, he didn't have his sunglasses on. Did you notice that? I didn't even pay attention. It didn't really, like, throw me off or anything. I didn't know that was his like his kick was sunglasses so yeah but |
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