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DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire

Sportsmen"s Empire

The DIY Sportsman Podcast focuses on covering hunting and gear-specific topics for the do-it-yourselfer. Hosts Garrett Prahl and Bobby (Boudreaux) Boswell draw from their backgrounds in engineering and wildlife biology, respectively, to provide a unique perspective which compliments their real-world experience hunting whitetails, turkeys, hogs, and western big game with everything from homemade bows to firearms. This podcast is brought to you by the Sportsmen"s Nation - Outdoor Podcast Network.

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01:20:57

Big Woods Hunting Tactics with Steve Sherk

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/06/16

On today's episode we have Round 2 of taking to Steve Sherk from Pennsylvania as a guest. In the last episode with Steve, the discussion focused more on summer scouting and trail camera strategies. In today's episode, we're taking that information and transitioning into fall. Steve starts out with the story of his buck last year, how he used information from scouting to capitalize, and even how he shifted his strategy according to what he was seeing amongst multiple bucks he was following. Then we

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01:03:46

Summer Hunting Strategy with Steve Sherk

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/06/02

On today's episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Steve Sherk is on as the guest. Steve guides deer hunters in the vast national forest land of Pennsylvania and gathers annual observational data from a huge multitude of trail cameras in addition to visual sightings from boots on the ground scouting year round and hunts in the fall. Steve and Garrett finally met in person for the first time recently at a Spartan Forge retreat. With summer right around the corner, Garrett asks Steve about scouting and

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00:23:34

Wisconsin Turkey Double

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/05/19

On this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett talks about his recent weekend trip to hunt public land in WI in which he shot two birds on back to back mornings. For the first bird, terrain layout and tree type played a massive role in the setup, because the bird appeared to be roosting in a place where his most likely travel after fly-down was likely to be in one specific direction. The second bird required a bit more trial and error to try and locate and roost, but the set up was driven

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00:33:44

Turkey Roosting and Hunting Strategy

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/05/05

In this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett gives two hunt breakdowns from his recent Iowa hunt with Shane Simpson. On the first hunt, which ended in a successful setup, Garrett discusses the hunt details. However, perhaps more importantly, he dives into the decision making process of the access and set up pre-dawn, knowing exactly where to best position on the terrain for pulling the bird into shotgun range and not hanging up. On the second hunt breakdown, Garrett describes a similar

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00:38:45

Commitment to Traditional Archery Hunt

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/04/21

On today's episode, Garrett dives into his plan for filling a traditional tag this year, along with the detailed steps to build confidence along the way. In the past, Garrett has hunted with a traditional bow and even built a bow to hunt with. However, due to confidence and repeatability issues had largely kept it just "for fun" the past couple of years. But that doesn't have to be the case. There are many fantastic resources and training tools available to the modern archer, and there is no reason

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01:02:27

Turkey Hunting Basics

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/04/07

In today's episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett talks turkey hunting. But instead of picking a particular topic and doing a deep dive on it, this one is more high level. There are a lot of guys who've just been getting into turkey hunting, and apart from being able to watch videos online, might not necessarily know what they might be doing right or wrong, or what gear is seen as essential vs just nice to have vs gimmicky. Some of the topics and items I'll cover might seem pretty basic to

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01:38:46

Spring Scouting with Rendell Erik

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/03/24

On today's Episode I have Rendell Erik on again as a guest. Today's discussion is focused on post season scouting. He's got a goal of hitting the 300 mile mark this season, and at the time this episode drops, he's already pretty close to if not over 100. Instead of spending large amounts of time on ultra vast landscapes, Rendell Erik casts a net over dozens of smaller properties to keep tabs on. In this podcast, we discuss what he looks for, how he stays efficient, how he qualifies a public property

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01:01:12

Ice Fishing Essentials with Sean McVeigh

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/03/10

On today's podcast we have a little change of pace. One of my friends, Sean McVeigh recently took up ice fishing, which has been something I've done now for a couple decades. Being so new and not really being sure of all the ins and outs, Sean and I had talked quite a bit about how to get started. This included defining what the bare necessities are and what the pros and cons are for various levels of equipment. Ice fishing is another one of those things where it seems like you can spend as much or

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00:38:41

Benefits and Pitfalls of Spring Scouting

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/02/24

On this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett discusses six benefits of spring scouting but also six pitfalls of spring scouting. It's never a bad idea to get out in the woods and cover some ground in early spring before the woods green up. But there is a risk to putting too much stock into certain aspects of what you learn. In years past, Garrett had chosen to hunt areas almost entirely off of intel gained in the off-season, which can be fine during certain times of the year, but could be

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00:44:57

Biggest Lessons from the 2021 Hunting Season

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/02/10

On today's podcast I'm going to discuss some of the biggest lessons learned through the 2021 season. Now that the season has been over for several weeks, I've taken time to reflect and write these things down for myself, in the hopes that I can make improvements for the next year. In the episode, I talk through my list and give some specific examples, along with what I'm doing this next year to improve. I tried to focus on items that most people can hopefully learn from as well. Some topics are

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01:01:40

Jared Shaffer's Incredible 2022 Season

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/01/27

On today's Podcast we have Jared Shaffer on the line. He's a past guest and good friend of mine. Even though he's located out in West Virginia we end up seeing each other a fair amount through work with Tethrd. Jared has had an absolutely phenomenal season, shooting 5 bucks across various states, plus filming each of his family members filling tags, plus shooting a giant sika stag, and a bobcat. Jared and I discuss some of the specifics of his hunts, but also dive into what, if anything he did

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00:35:02

Iowa Muzzleloader Hunt Recap

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2022/01/13

On today's episode I'm discussing my recent Iowa trip. This year I'd gone down there to do a late season muzzleloader hunt, as it's still a somewhat easy tag to draw, but gave more time than the shotgun seasons, with less hunting pressure. I'll discuss the initial strategy, what changed, what things I wasn't expecting, where I located bigger bucks, hunt strategies employed, and things I would do the same or differently if doing it again in the future. DIY Sportsman is Powered by Simplecast

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01:46:25

BS Session with Paul Putera

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/12/30

On today's episode we once again have Paul Putera. If you didn't listen to the last episode, we discussed some of the tools and techniques that Paul uses for hunting, and it was full of a lot of great info. This episode is more of a BS session in which we discuss a variety of topics. Discussion areas on this episode include tag strategies, broadhead and arrow setups, shot selection and tracking dogs, proficiency tests, staying warm in colder weather, saddle hunting platforms, and tips for efficiency

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01:47:48

Detailed Strategies and Tools with Paul Putera

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/12/16

On this week's episode I have Paul Putera on as a guest. This isn't Paul's first time on the podcast, but he's always fun to listen to and dive deep into the weeds on his very in-depth style of scouting and hunting, which seems to always bring him success in the some of the seemingly vast areas in the northeast. Paul's already taken a couple of great bucks this year by dry ground tracking them back to their bedrooms and setting up close. In the episode, Paul and I talk a bit about some of those

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01:20:58

Late Season Hunting Strategy with Johnny Stewart

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/12/02

On today's podcast I've got Johnny Stewart on again as a guest, and we're talking about Late Season. Now, some might call Johnny somewhat of a rut and Late Season specialist, because his job doesn't give him a ton of free time in the early season. So he'll often hunt until the bitter end in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, or even Iowa, and has killed a number of good deer during that timeframe. We discuss big woods, like the national forest that we walked together during the Spartan Forge veterans

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01:02:54

Being Consistent on Public Land with Brian Dombrowski

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/11/18

In this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett sits down with Brian Dombrowski of Wisconsin, who he originally met while hunting public land on an out-of-state trip. Brian hunts many different habitat types but really enjoys tackling bigger parcels or timber or marshland, where he's been able to take several nice deer over the years. His methods and descriptions of hunting marshes differ a bit from the typical media we here describing them. In addition to talking about Brian's year round

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00:53:25

Hunt Breakdown with Rendell Erik

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/11/04

On today's episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast we have a great guest, Rendell Erik. We'll be diving into the finer details of his public land Iowa hunt from this year, where he shot a giant, which is also a becoming a fairly regular occurrence for him it seems. One thing that becomes very apparent is the attention to detail for all of the little things, like access, wind, thermal pull, picking the right tree in the right spot the first time in, figuring out what the hottest food source was that

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00:57:54

Hunting Clothing Review

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/10/22

In this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett discusses clothing. Instead of talking about layering philosophy or how to stay warm on stand, Garrett goes into more detail about very specific garments that he's been using new in 2021. These reviews include likes, dislikes, and the best times and areas for application. Clothing discussed in the review include almost all of the new offerings from Thlete, the Savanna and Windbrace sets from Scentlok, the IWOM XT, the new Sitka Incinerator bibs,

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00:25:11

Navigating the October Lull through Pre-Rut

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/10/07

In this episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett talks about how to navigate the vast amount of changes that occur between the beginning and the end of the month. Changes include food sources, amount of available security cover, hunting pressure, and hormones. Garrett reviews data of daylight mature buck sightings from the 2020 season in locations near doe bedding throughout the month, and how it compares to sightings before mid-month. Strategy wise, being successful in early October requires a

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01:11:40

Hill Country Hunting Strategy with Jake Bush

DIY Sportsman - Sportsmen"s Empire ·

2021/09/23

On today's episode of the DIY Sportsman podcast, Garrett interviews Jake Bush about hill country bucks. Jake has lived and hunted in both New York and more recently southern Ohio, and has been able to find a great degree of success scouting, locating, and patterning bucks in the big woods hills. They breakdown each portion of the season and talk about strategies for each. Jake discusses why a less commonly sought after wind direction is actually his favorite for setting up because the wind and

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