PC 364 - An EXPERT in BOW DESIGN & DIY STRATEGY

Nock On Archery

Nock On Podcast

Sports:wilderness, Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

I sit down Dan’l Anselmo who is an expert in Bow Design & DIY hunting. He is a lead R&D engineer for 21 yrs and has seen some of the best evolutions in archery gear. He’s been part of projects specializing in Limbs, Cams, Risers and materials. Dan’l is a 3rd generation DIY hunter who has a healthy resume of Big Elk & Massive Mule Deer. I’ve known Dan’l since his first year at Hoyt and have a tremendous amount of respect for his deep understanding of the mechanics of the compound bow. We jump into subjects that I feel aren’t discussed enough about the “why” of certain design characteristics and gear choices. We also jump into some of his tactics of hunting the west during the opening weeks. He has some great information that he shares about tagging big deer that’s handed down to him from the yoda Randy Ulmer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Knock On Archery podcast where we bring all archers and bow hunters together from all walks of life with the goal to educate, empower, and inspire you to be better both in the field and on the range.
0:15.1	Danil!
0:16.3	What is up, my man?
0:18.8	How you doing, John?
0:20.1	So I've got Danil here from Hoyt. How come Danil is put on the end when it's real? Is it Dan Oll L? You have the L with the N? Or is that just what we call you? No, it's there. It's D-A-N-A-N-apostrophe L. So. Why didn't they put that in your email they cut your name short they
0:41.3	dand you um i've had issues with that my whole life some computer systems won't take it like
0:47.8	i often i often it doesn't like it so often i I will go by Dan. It just makes it easier.
0:57.4	Okay. Well, give us the rundown of, I'm trying to remember when you started Hoyt.
1:03.6	Was it like 05 or? It was the September of 2004. Four. Okay.
1:11.5	Nice.
1:12.3	Was I,
1:13.8	let's see,
1:16.7	I wouldn't have quite been at Darren's house yet.
1:17.4	No. No.
1:19.1	I think that was a year or two later.
1:21.0	Yep.
1:22.3	So what was your first position?
1:25.6	Product design engineer.
1:28.0	Yep.
1:28.9	So you came in, did you come in kind of maybe the year the spirals and the cam and a half
1:35.6	was two years in or so or three years in?
1:39.7	Yeah, Cam and a half, I believe, was 2003, product launch of 2003.
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