Montana Wild Podcast

Today Zack sits down with friend Riley Foster who is a seriously talented marksman and who recently won the Light Hunter Division, making him the first shooter to win all three divisions in three consecutive years. He's a wicked shooter and you can learn a hell of a lot from Riley. We also talk about his company R3 Development, which makes carbon bipod legs for Ckye-pods which turns it into one of the best competition and front country bipods you can buy. We also discuss coyote hunting and some of the things Riley has learned from years of killing yotes.

Zack recaps his weekend shooting the NRL Hunter Hornady Precision Hunter match down in Price Utah. Listen as Zack talks about being one stage away from the win, how the match went, and some of the gear that he thought was helpful having in his kit.

Zack Boughton and Brady Miller from GoHUNT recap a week of rifle bear hunting in Montana. From a hunt breakdown to things learned and a little talk about rifles, this is a great episode.

Zack sits down in the garage with Rhett Walters, AKA the Shooting Stallion. Rhett has shot hundreds of precision rifle matches and recently won the NRL Hunter Pro-Am match. We do an after action report and break down what went well and what went sideways. We discuss applications to hunting, missing wolves, dusting bucks and why you should buy a good suppressor. Oh and jack some weights.

Today we're back with Shawn Melland talking about his latest film "Thin Air". This film looks at Shawn's detailed preparation in coordination with coaches such as Bo Sandoval and how he focuses that work ethic into killing big bulls. We also dive into his new partnership, Work Built, providing training to those looking to hit the next level in their performance regardless the final output.

Zack sits down and catches up on topics such as application season, staying in the right mental state year round for hunting success, gear maintenance and more.

We sit down with Colby Adamek from Sierra Bullets and talk big buck hunting. Colby and Zack had just wrapped up a 6 day backpack hunt for mule deer and recap the hunt and discuss what it takes to try to kill old mountain muleys.

Zack Boughton, Jared Miller, and Travis Boughton talk about the first few days of their archery hunt from September. With one bull on the ground there's lots to hear and you can now watch the film of this hunt on the Mathews Archery YouTube!

Zack and Jared give a mid hunt update as they're out on the prairie chasing antelope with their bows.

The boys get together for a mid summer update to catch us up on the going's on getting ready for hunting season and they answer some of the most requested questions from the listeners.

8 days in to a planned 10 day bear hunt over in Idaho, the boys sit down to record a podcast and come to the realization that the cutthroat fishing is currently much better than the bear hunting. They recount the positives and negatives from their backpack hunting and discuss how success is defined when making hunting content.

The man, the myth, the legend! Our friend Joel Turner blessed us all with a solid knowledge bomb on this podcast. They covers all the topics from target panic, terminal ballistics, bear defense and Joel shares some methods for how to practice the mental aspect of shot execution.

Eric Stecker, COO of Extreme Group, joins us while at the Defiance Anti Social NRL Hunter match in Belt, Montana for a deep discussion that touches on life, purpose, owning our mistakes, family and eventually the guys talk about the future of Defiance Machine and McMillan Stocks.