Ep. 403 | Flintlock Muzzleloader Hunting with Clay Hayes

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Take your muzzleloader hunting to the next level by taking a step back in time with a flintlock. Primitive weapon, hunting, and bushcraft expert, Clay Hayes, sits down with Mark Boardman to talk about flint-lock hunting. They cover what makes them fun, challenging, rewarding, specific hunts, and how they work.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.7	All right, what is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here. Mr. Clay Hayes, next to me, we are reporting live, at least live to us. We're at Argolly H.Q in the great state of Idaho.
0:30.9	Yeah.
0:31.5	You spend a fair amount of time in this state, Clay. I've been around, yeah, a little bit.
0:35.7	Topic of today's podcast,
0:38.2	black powder,
0:39.1	like flintlock black powder,
0:41.6	primitive hunting.
0:43.1	You've,
0:43.5	uh,
0:43.6	you've been doing a fair amount of this,
0:45.1	Clay.
0:45.5	You've got a video on your YouTube channel.
0:49.1	At last,
0:49.7	I checked 1.8 million views.
0:52.9	Yeah,
0:53.2	it's doing good.
0:55.3	People are pretty interested in this one.
0:57.5	Yeah.
0:57.8	I mean, I've always been interested in muzzleloader hunting.
1:04.0	But my lord Clay, you know, even with like the most modern inline muzzleloaders,
1:08.7	I still have trouble getting those things going a little bit.
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