Ep. 4: John Dudley
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Here's John Dudley's resume: He has earned medals on multiple continents with 45 top 3 professional finishes in competition archery. He was APA Rookie of the Year, IBO National Champion (2X), NABH National Champion, European Grand Prix Gold medalist, World Field Championship Silver Medalist, US Open Silver and British National Indoor Champion.
In summary, he's pretty good at shooting a bow. He's also a great guy. His family is one-of-a-kind (shout out to his wife Shazz, a true gem) and he has one of the country's best whitetail havens in his backyard in Iowa.
He joined me via phone to talk about so many things. Weirdly enough, the conversation didn't really land in Dudley's wheelhouse. We talked more about social media than we did anything else, but I think it led to some interesting topics. The impact of social media, how we decide who is influential and why the industry covets certain personalities. Oh yea, and whether hunters should continue the ol' grip and grin.
Be sure to listen to the Nock On Podcast, follow Dudley on Instagram and get educated on archery. You won't regret it
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| 0:00.0 | Schools out. Hey, do you remember that Alice Cooper? |
| 0:03.2 | Was that Alice Cooper? Schools out. |
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| 0:20.8 | We're talking knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them. |
| 0:29.0 | You want to build up a good hunting buddy, a good fishing buddy out of your kid? |
| 0:33.2 | Well, start me young by teaching them how to build a wildlife viewing blind, |
| 0:38.2 | how to gig a bullfrog, how to navigate through the wilderness using a variety of |
| 0:42.6 | orientating skills. They'll also learn how to climb trees, build emergency shelters, |
| 0:47.6 | hunt for fossils, gut fish, track critters and much more. |
| 0:51.6 | It's me, eaters first, but for kids. |
| 0:54.2 | And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. |
| 0:56.8 | I was just waiting until I had kids long enough to give me some expertise on the subject. |
| 1:00.6 | And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this a long time. |
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| 1:20.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:23.6 | Welcome to episode number four of the hunting collective. |
| 1:27.2 | I am Ben O'Brien coming to you from a table at my house in Austin, Texas with a beer in the hand and a phone in front of me. |
| 1:38.6 | Today we are calling the great and powerful, the one and only John Dudley. |
| 1:45.2 | I wish John was here. He was supposed to be here, but he couldn't at the last minute. |
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