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EP. 498: The Truck Broke Down & The Hunt Got Real
Jun 24, 2026
1h 03m 09s
EP. 497: Why Most Hunters Never Learn From Their Failures | HOS
Jun 17, 2026
22m 02s
EP. 496: One Thing The Best Hunters Do
Jun 10, 2026
1h 08m 05s
EP. 495: The Hunt That Broke Everything He Thought He Knew | Ty Jennings | Discomfort Is The Strategy
Jun 3, 2026
1h 21m 05s
EP. 494: Hunting Dead Ground | The Mental Game of Finding Whitetails
May 27, 2026
1h 16m 38s
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() EP. 498: The Truck Broke Down & The Hunt Got Real | There's a version of hunting where everything goes according to plan. The rig starts, the weather cooperates, your deer or elk are exactly where you left them. That version of hunting isn't what Blake Ledger and I talked about on this week's episode. Blake's a guy who hunts with traditional archery equipment, chases deer and elk in country that earns every inch of access, and has a relationship with hunting that goes a lot deeper than punching tags. When we sat down together, I wasn't expecting the conversation to go where it did -- but that's the thing about talking to people who actually hunt hard. The real stories always surface. Blake told me about a breakdown that happened mid-trip in the middle of nowhere. Not a dead battery, not a flat tire -- a full vehicle failure at the worst possible time, in the kind of country where that actually matters. What unfolded after that wasn't a disaster story. It was a testament to what hunting communities actually are when things go sideways. People showed up. Problems got solved. The hunt continued. We also spent a serious chunk of time talking about time. Not time management in the corporate-seminar sense -- actual hours in the field, boots on the ground, eyes on animals. Blake's a believer, like I am, that you cannot shortcut your way to understanding a piece of ground. Trail cameras help. Scouting helps. But there's a kind of knowledge that only accumulates when you've watched a particular drainage long enough to know what it does in a particular wind. That doesn't come from an app. The conversation shifted into the mental side of hunting -- the anticipation that builds before a season, the way a hunter's mindset evolves after years of close calls and missed shots. Blake's had both. He talked about visual confirmation and how trail cameras changed -- and didn't change -- how he thinks about hunting. There's a version of the scouting game where cameras become a crutch, and a version where they sharpen your decisions. The difference is the hunter using them. This is the kind of episode I started this podcast to make. Two guys who love the woods, talking honestly about what it actually takes. No shortcuts, no highlight reel -- just the real thing. Listen in. You'll leave with something useful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 03m 09s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() EP. 497: Why Most Hunters Never Learn From Their Failures | HOS | Failure hits different in hunting. When a quarterback throws an interception, there's film. A coach. A coordinator breaking down every footstep and finger placement. The feedback loop is immediate, structured, and relentless. When you blow a shot at a giant buck, you drive home alone with your thoughts and a pile of questions that don't have easy answers. That's the part nobody really talks about. Not the failure itself, but what comes after. The silence of it. I've watched hunters handle blown opportunities in two ways. Some bury it. They chalk it up to bad luck, move on, and repeat the same mistakes the next time a buck steps into the wrong lane. Others spiral. They replay the moment so many times it becomes more about self-punishment than actual learning. Neither one makes you better. What actually moves the needle is treating a failed hunt the way an athlete treats film study. Structured. Intentional. Without ego. That's what this episode is about. I wanted to pull apart the process of reviewing a hunt, not just emotionally processing it, and give you something practical you can use when things go sideways. Because they will go sideways. That's hunting. The question is what you do with it when they do. I work through four questions that I think every hunter should be asking after a failure, whether that's a missed shot, a bad stand decision, or a deer that just evaporated before you could close the deal. These questions aren't about making yourself feel better. They're about pulling real information out of a frustrating experience so it actually means something next season. The hardest part of all of this is that hunting doesn't give you instant feedback. There's no referee. No stat line. No slow-motion replay from three angles. You have to build your own system for reviewing what happened, and most hunters never do that. They just wait for the next opportunity and hope the outcome is different. Hope isn't a strategy. If you want to grow as a hunter, you have to get honest about where things broke down. That means getting past the emotional weight of a failure fast enough to actually examine it. Not dismiss it. Not wallow in it. Examine it. This episode is for the hunters who want to get better every single year, not just the ones who get lucky.SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 22m 02s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() EP. 496: One Thing The Best Hunters Do✨ | deer huntinghunting as a craft+3 | Chad | — | — | deer huntinghunting techniques+3 | — | 1h 08m 05s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() EP. 495: The Hunt That Broke Everything He Thought He Knew | Ty Jennings | Discomfort Is The Strategy✨ | hunting mindsetground hunting+3 | Ty Jennings | — | — | huntingground hunting+6 | — | 1h 21m 05s | |
| 5/27/26 | ![]() EP. 494: Hunting Dead Ground | The Mental Game of Finding Whitetails✨ | huntingwhitetails+4 | K.C. | — | — | huntingwhitetails+6 | — | 1h 16m 38s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() EP. 493: Why Mature Bucks Live Where You Won't Go | HOS✨ | hunting strategymature bucks+3 | — | — | — | mature deerhunting techniques+3 | — | 21m 15s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() EP. 492: Why Most Hunters Are Doing Too Much and Enjoying It Less✨ | huntingburnout+4 | Greg Litzinger | — | — | huntingdeer+5 | — | 1h 15m 03s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() EP. 491: What Years of Hunting One Buck Actually Teaches You✨ | deer huntingmature bucks+4 | Tom Murphy | — | — | deer huntingmature buck+5 | — | 1h 15m 01s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() EP. 490: Why You Blow It When It Finally Happens | HOS✨ | hunting pressuremental preparation+4 | — | — | — | hunting mistakespressure management+4 | — | 22m 29s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() EP. 489: Why I Chose the Harder Way to Hunt✨ | hunting commitmenttraditional gear+3 | Kolton Schenker | — | — | huntingtraditional gear+5 | — | 1h 13m 29s | |
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| 4/15/26 | ![]() EP. 488: The Longer You Do This, The More It Gives Back | Find Your Tribe✨ | huntingjiu-jitsu+4 | Will Coggin | Veterans Mat Collective | Blue Ridge Mountains | huntingjiu-jitsu+6 | — | 1h 16m 46s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() EP. 487: Big Buck Hunting on Public Land | The Reality vs. Expectations✨ | big buck huntingpublic land+4 | Vince Battiata | — | — | big deerpublic land hunting+7 | TactacamSAVE15 | 1h 12m 40s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() EP. 486: The Most Beneficial Part of Hunting People Avoid✨ | self-assessmenthunting challenges+4 | Chad Sylvester | — | — | huntingself-assessment+5 | — | 1h 12m 54s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() EP. 485: Why Most Hunters Quit Too Early | The Grit Formula✨ | gritmental toughness+5 | — | Spartan Forge | — | huntinggrit formula+6 | Hawke OpticsTFTS15 | 22m 13s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() EP. 485: Why Most Hunters Quit Too Early | The Grit Formula | HOS | I started thinking about something I’ve run into a lot lately—not just in the woods, but on a jiu-jitsu mat, and honestly even going back to my wrestling days. It’s that moment when things get hard and your brain starts trying to talk you out of it. Not because you’re in real trouble… just because you’re uncomfortable. I’ve felt it getting smashed by guys half my size, I’ve felt it sitting in a tree when nothing’s moving, and I’ve definitely felt it in a few other places along the way. And the more I’ve paid attention to it, the more I’ve realized that moment—right there—is usually where things start to go one way or the other. So this episode is really about that. About staying composed when it would be easier not to. About figuring out how to keep going without panicking or making a bad decision just to feel better. Because whether it’s hunting, jiu-jitsu, or anything else, the people who stick with it a little longer tend to be the ones who end up where they want to go. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 485 The role of grit in hunting and life Lessons from Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and wrestling Angela Duckworth's research on grit and success Practical ways to develop mental toughness The importance of a clear top-level goal SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 22m 13s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 | ![]() EP. 484: The Deer Hunting Rules That Don’t Actually Work✨ | hunting rulesdeer movement+4 | Tony Peterson | — | — | deer huntinghunting strategies+6 | — | 1h 35m 15s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() EP.483: I Hunted 3 States in One Season—Here's What I Learned✨ | traditional archerybody mechanics+4 | Rendell Erik | — | — | traditional archeryhunting+5 | — | 1h 32m 34s | |
| 3/4/26 | ![]() EP. 482: The Bucks That Disappear (And Why Most Hunters Never Figure It Out)✨ | hunting strategiesmature bucks+3 | Brian Dombrowski | — | WisconsinIllinois | deer huntingtrail cameras+3 | — | 1h 37m 08s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() EP. 481: Trust Your Gut or Trust Your Gear? | Nathan Killen✨ | deer huntingtraditional archery+4 | Nathan Killen | — | — | deer movementthermals+5 | Tactacam | 1h 37m 20s | |
| 2/18/26 | ![]() EP.480: The Long Game: Mature Bucks, Mindset & Fitness✨ | mature bucksmindset+5 | — | — | — | deer huntingtraditional gear+5 | — | 1h 42m 37s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() EP. 479: Losing the Noise to Find the Hunt Again | Tim Palmer and I sat down in that quiet stretch after the season—the part of the year where the noise fades and you’re left with what the year actually gave you. We talk winter weather, ice fishing, and why water deserves more respect than most people give it. We get into this past season—what went right, what didn’t, and how Tim shifted his approach away from pressure and back toward enjoyment. There are stories from the high country, close calls, grizzlies, and the kind of lessons you only learn when things don’t go perfectly. A lot of this conversation lives in the mental space—trusting your prep, staying present when it counts, and understanding how mindset can either free you up or get in your way. This one’s about reset, perspective, and remembering why being out there matters in the first place. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 479 Letting go of pressure can bring the enjoyment—and performance—back into hunting. Time in nature has real therapeutic value when you allow it to slow you down. Mindset often matters more than tactics when things get tense or uncertain. Trusting your preparation frees you to stay present when it counts most. High-stakes moments expose mental weaknesses faster than physical ones. Reflection after the season is how real growth actually starts. Resetting your approach can be the difference between burnout and longevity. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 25m 02s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | ![]() EP.478: Standing On The Shoulders of Legends | No Shortcuts | On this episode of Truth From The Stand, I’m sitting down with Joe Miles, and we’re digging into the kind of hunting that doesn’t get easier with better gear—cold sits, traditional bows, and the work it takes to stay honest in the woods. We talk longbows, confidence at the shot, and why preparation matters more when you strip things back instead of piling them on. Joe shares what drew him deeper into traditional archery, how projects like Brothers of the Bow shaped his perspective, and why legacy and authenticity still matter in modern hunting. We also get into the reality of public versus private ground, work ethic in the field, and even what it’s like stepping into truly dangerous game—where mistakes don’t get forgiven. This one’s about doing things the hard way on purpose, and what you gain when you do. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 478 Cold weather exposes preparation gaps fast—wind, not temperature, is usually the real enemy. Traditional archery rewards discipline; expensive gear means nothing without consistent practice. Confidence at the shot matters more than equipment, especially when buck fever hits. Events like Winter Strong create learning through shared scenarios, not shortcuts. The appeal of longbows and recurves is growing because they reintroduce challenge and intention. Authentic hunting culture values grit, work ethic, and legacy over brand-driven influence. The best hunting stories—and growth—come from friction points, not easy paths. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 22m 51s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | ![]() EP. 477: Is Hunting Being Watered Down | This week on Truth From The Stand, I’m sitting down with Chad Sylvester for a conversation that started light and ended up digging pretty deep. We talk about whether hunting has become watered down, and what that question really means in a world shaped by technology, influence, and constant noise. Somewhere along the way, we get into old boots, old lessons, and the kind of hunting experiences that leave a mark because they’re earned, not curated. We unpack how modern tools, social media, and shifting expectations have changed the way a lot of us experience the woods—and how easy it is to lose sight of why we started hunting in the first place. Chad and I get honest about influence, ego, motivation, and the tension between chasing outcomes and honoring the process. At the heart of it all is a reminder that woodsmanship, awareness, discomfort, and humility can’t be watered down—and that the best parts of hunting still live in the friction, the uncertainty, and the quiet moments when nobody’s watching. This one’s about reconnecting with what matters, questioning our motives, and remembering that the hunt is supposed to shape us—not the other way around. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 477 Hunting can feel watered down when friction and challenge are removed. Real growth comes from discomfort, effort, and earned experience. Woodsmanship and reading nature are skills that can’t be replaced or diluted. Influence can be driven by ego—or by a genuine desire to help others. Self-reflection reveals why we hunt and what truly motivates us. The dilution of hunting reflects broader cultural shifts, not just technology. The deepest value of hunting lies in connection, struggle, and personal growth. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 19m 38s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() EP.476: Effort Over Outcome | Two Buck Season | Travis Keith | On this episode of Truth From The Stand, I sit down with Travis Keith, and we wander through the overlap between hunting, wrestling, and the kind of mindset it takes to stay in the fight when things don’t go your way. We talk about tracking—both deer and personal progress—the role mentors play whether you realize it or not, and how most of the real learning comes from the hunts that don’t end the way you planned. Travis shares stories from recent seasons, close calls, and creative ways he’s gained access to overlooked spots, along with the unexpected generosity he’s found from other hunters along the way. It’s a conversation about patience, effort, faith, and listening to your gut—about remembering why you picked up a bow in the first place and how the woods have a way of giving back if you’re willing to slow down and pay attention. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 476 Tracking skill, effort, and mindset often matter more than gear when it comes to recovering deer. Wrestling and hunting share the same foundation: discipline, resilience, and learning through discomfort. Most real growth comes from failed hunts, missed opportunities, and honest self-reflection. Mentorship and community quietly shape better hunters, even when lessons come indirectly. Patience, faith, and trusting your instincts can open doors that strategy alone can’t. Creative access and adaptability often lead to overlooked opportunities in pressured areas. Hunting is ultimately about the journey, gratitude, and the people you meet along the way—not just the kill. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 51m 49s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() EP. 475: When a Mature Buck Vanishes | What to Do Next | Jace Allen | On this episode, I’m sitting down with Jace to talk about what the season actually looks like when you strip away the highlight reel. We get into chasing specific deer that seem to vanish overnight, the mental grind that comes with late-season decisions, and how scouting, fitness, and intention all start to overlap when you’ve been at this long enough. We talk about the moments that don’t make social media—the near misses, the unexpected encounters, and the quiet wins that only mean something if you were there. At its core, this one’s about staying present, trusting the process, and remembering why the chase still matters when the outcome isn’t guaranteed. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PODCAST 475 Targeting mature, homebody bucks requires patience, flexibility, and a long view. Scouting—especially for acorns and seasonal shifts—is the foundation of consistent deer encounters. Late-season conditions change deer behavior, demanding adaptation rather than force. Fitness and longevity matter more as the years stack up, both in the woods and in life. Trail cameras help, but understanding movement and timing still wins hunts. Unexpected encounters often become the most meaningful moments of the season. Camaraderie, reflection, and enjoying the process matter more than the final outcome. Link in Bio: SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 29m 14s | ||||||
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