Episode 540: Rookie Season With Dillon Dietz

Eastmans' Elevated

Brian Barney

Sports

4.7 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Eastmans Elevated, Brian Barney sits down with Dillon Dietz. Dillon has created a great brand with Elk Don't Exist. He puts out a good podcast and has a new hunt series called The Rookie Season, Dillon and Brian discuss. Basically, Dillon takes out his adult buddies who have never hunted and then breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly. Along with all that Brian and Dillon talk about finding good hunting and how right now is actually the good old days. They also talk about perspective, helping others and bear hunting. It's a great podcast this week on EE. Eberlestock - https://bit.ly/Eberlestock-Eastmans Federal Ammunition - https://bit.ly/FederalPremium-Eastmans Forever Barnwood - https://bit.ly/ForeverBarnwood-Eastmans Kryptek - https://bit.ly/Kryptek-Eastmans Mathews - https://bit.ly/MathewsArchery-Eastmans MTN TOUGH - https://bit.ly/MTNTOUGH-Eastmans Outdoor Edge - https://bit.ly/OutdoorEdge-Eastmans onX - https://bit.ly/onXHunt-Eastmans Sig Sauer - https://bit.ly/SIGSAUER-Eastmans Silencer Central - https://bit.ly/SilencerCentral-Eastmans Stone Glacier Sleep Systems - https://bit.ly/StoneGlacier-Eastmans SecureIt - https://bit.ly/SecureIt-Eastmans Zamberlan - https://bit.ly/Zamberlan-Eastmans

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0:00.0	This is Eastman's Elevated Podcast.
0:04.1	I have on great guests that are really knowledgeable, consistently successful.
0:09.3	We're able to dive deep down the rabbit holes of these different subject matters of shooting, of physical fitness, of mental toughness and drive.
0:18.6	All the different skills that make up a complete hunter that you can become.
0:23.2	Here's your host, Brian Barney.
0:28.1	Hey, what's happening, guys?
0:30.5	Got a brand new Eastman's Elevated for you.
0:33.2	So this week on the podcast, I have on Dylan Dietz.
0:36.6	So impressed by Dylan, we've become friends over the last couple years, and he has a new show out.
0:42.9	It's called The Rookie Season.
0:44.3	That's great.
0:44.8	He sent me the first episode.
0:46.4	You can watch it on his YouTube.
0:48.2	He also does a great job on his podcast.
0:50.4	We have a great episode on there.
0:58.9	And, yeah, just a great guy with great insight and said we had a great conversation on the podcast today. I really enjoyed it. Always enjoy talking to this guy.
1:04.5	You guys will enjoy it too. We'll get right into it. I just want to thank a couple sponsors.
1:08.6	So I want to thank OnX. OnX absolutely changes the way that I hunt, the way that I scout.
1:14.9	I use it for trail running.
1:16.4	I made a post about it the other day.
1:18.5	Every place I travel to, I'm always looking for public land to go run, so it helps me there.
1:24.1	And it's really good to tell, like, access roads are tricky, but Onyx has done a great job of moving at marking access roads to be able to get to the public land, be able to tell private public, has aerial imagery, topography, it has a hybrid map of the two.
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