EPISODE 336: Be the Decoy with Branden VanDyken
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Gritty Bowmen I sit down with Branden VanDyken of Be The Decoy.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
Be The Decoy - Bozeman, Montana
Technology & Hunting
Tips on using the Decoy
Spot & Stalk techniques
Don't be a gopher. Don't pop up. Resist the urge to "play peekaboo".
Hunting Antelope in Montana
Taking wind for granted
Gritty Bowmen Goat Hunt Film discussion
Goat Hunt Cliff Safety
Rock Climbing - The advantages of bringing rope and paracord while goat hunting
Controversy of showing "too much" on Goat Hunt Film
Arrow weight in the wind
"Just get closer." 50 & under
Goat Hunt Review
Aron's Tradbow Elk Hunt
Total Archery Challenge benefits archery skills
Choosing to archery hunt, longbow, tradbow, Traditional Archery
@TheBVDecoy
bethedecoy.com
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| 0:00.0 | There's a certain element of just going out and having fun and flat out, you know, throwing a decoy on your head or |
| 0:07.4 | That's why I say use as many tools as you can regardless of what it is. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, Aaron went after this goat. |
| 0:13.7 | He's got a pack on and a bow on his hand and he's so focused on that goat. |
| 0:18.0 | He comes to the ledge and he's just like, you know, I've jumped stream bed and he jumped that and just kept chasing that goat. |
| 0:23.8 | Then as he came back and he was like, he had a hard time jumping back. |
| 0:27.3 | He's like, what was I thinking? |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.3 | So even to my goat, there's two trees, like two little, like they were going out the edge of the cliff and going out the edge. |
| 0:36.3 | I slid down, left my bow, like dropped my bow, slid 10 yards down to that thing on my butt, like baseball slid. |
| 0:43.3 | Amen for those trees on my feet to stop myself from going off. |
| 0:47.3 | Grabbed him by the horns, right as he did, you know that they do the straight leg at death push? |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.3 | Right as his butt went off of the cliff. |
| 0:53.3 | All right, folks. |
| 0:54.3 | Welcome to the Gritty Bowman Podcast. |
| 0:57.3 | We're here at the Western Hautex Bow. |
| 1:00.3 | I got Brandon Van Dyken with me and this is Brandon Van Dyken Podcast 2.0. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, we had a little glitch last time. |
| 1:09.3 | We did one at... |
| 1:10.3 | That's a really good one, I thought. |
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