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Eastmans' Elevated

Episode 480: Finding Success With Sam Davis And Dan Pickar

Eastmans' Elevated

Brian Barney

Sports

4.7558 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Brian Barney sits down with Dan Pickar and Sam Davis. These guys lay down great seasons year after year and this episode is about how they make it happen. They get into the knowledge they've gained over the years. This leads them into some of the tougher conversations in bowhunting. They get into recovering animals, blood trailing, instincts and making the right decision. It's a great conversation and podcast this week, you don't want to miss it! Eberlestock - www.eberlestock.com Federal Ammunition - www.federalpremium.com Kryptek - www.kryptek.com Mathews - mathewsinc.com/ Silencer Central - www.silencercentral.com Zamberlan - www.zamberlanusa.com/eastmans onxmaps - www.onxmaps.com/hunt/app Outdoor Edge - www.outdooredge.com Sig Sauer Optics - www.sigoptics.com Stone Glacier Sleep System - www.stoneglacier.com Forever Barnwood - www.foreverbarnwood.com SecureIt Safes - www.secureitgunstorage.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Well, wrapping up the show, what a bunch of great recordings we got.

0:05.7

This is a lot of fun here, a lot of like-minded guys. And we did have a variety of guests, too, this week here at the Hunt Expo. But this was a good one.

0:15.0

It was, yeah, man. Sam Davis got fired up. He's one of my favorite human beings. He's a great bow hunter, and he's absolutely all in, always has been, and tell some

0:25.5

great stories on the podcast.

0:27.6

I will say I learned a little bit about Sam in the regard of how gritty he is and how

0:34.1

just unwilling to accept defeat, unwilling to, you know, come home empty-handed,

0:42.2

and what he'll do to harvest is inspiring, to say the least. Yeah. It made for a really fun conversation.

0:49.9

So most guys are used to hearing Dan on the Eastman's bow hunting journal, Life of a Bow Hunter.

0:55.0

We recorded this one for Eastman's Elevated, but it was the three of us that, you know, consistently put together good seasons, comparing notes and why we find success.

1:05.5

Like just average guys that love to bow hunt and have committed the last 20, 25 years to it.

1:11.8

And we're seeing the success from it.

1:13.5

And Sam, it's just year after year of great seasons.

1:17.1

And so really fun to pick his brain on it.

1:18.9

It really is.

1:19.9

And guys like him, I mean, it's inspiring.

1:22.5

The old verbiage, you know, iron sharpens iron.

1:25.5

And he's one of those guys that I look up to and I can

1:27.7

always learn something from him as well. So not only is it just an enriching conversation,

1:33.6

but, you know, stuff that I can personally take away too. And it's going to make me a better

1:37.2

bow hunter. Yeah, 100%. So Sam was working the Stone Glacier booth. He does a bunch of work and videos through Stone Glacier. Go check those out. I want to thank Stone Glacier for their support of the podcast. So I've been using their sleep systems. Man, I really like their gear. It's just such high quality. You can tell those guys are all hunters in there. It's designed for us. So I really like their sleeping bags. They have

2:02.0

the zero 15 degree and then they also have a 30 degree blanket, which works really good for like early

2:09.5

hot seasons, things of that nature. Like I use it for scouting mule deer, use it for antelope hunting,

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