The Slayer Hunting Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Wind and weather will get you every time, but a dedicated hunter never gives up. Steve Raudenbush with Mnt2Coast Outdoors is one such hunter. His YouTube videos have attracted thousands of views, and as a filmmaker and hunting enthusiast, he’s particularly attune to the sport’s challenges and victories. 

Fall 2022 was a particularly eventful season for Raudenbush, who was keen to chase down Roosevelt elk in Washington and Idaho. Modern outdoorsman that he is, Raudenbush is a savvy e-scouter and even uses an e-bike to traverse old logging roads. He’s not afraid to sleep rough, though. He’ll hike into a decent area with little more than three days’ worth of food and his Seek Outside Cimarron tent. The reward? A symphony of surround-sound bugles all night long. 

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, host Tommy Sessions gets all the details of Raudenbush’s Fall 2022 archery season, hunting big bulls in Washington and Idaho. Stick around until the end to hear which Slayer products are Raudenbush’s favorites in the field. 

Elk hunting articles:

- E-scout to maximize success on out-of-state elk hunts

- Star of The Wild Race lands a 6x8 bull on her first elk hunt

- How to speak the language of elk

- Elk hunting with pack animals: Part I

Slayer calls related to this episode:

- ArchAngel acrylic elk call

- 200 Series Gladiator

- Slayer mouth reeds

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What was it like the first time an elk responded to your call? Drop us a line at podcast@SlayerCalls.com to share.

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

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If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

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RMEF World Elk Calling Content finalist Joe McCarthy knows a thing or two about bugling for bulls. He's been hunting elk along the ridgetops and drainages of Idaho's mountains for decades. 

McCarthy shares his expertise on reading the language and emotion of bulls, cows and calves, from mews and chirps to barks and bugles. For new hunters, McCarthy explains the classic rules of archery elk hunting: choosing your location, calling, and staying downwind. But those rules? They're all meant to be broken, if it means you'll be eating elk steaks by the end of the hunt.

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, host Tommy Sessions talks with Slayer Calls CEO Bill Ayer, Slayer PRO Tanner Hardy and Slayer product innovation lead McCarthy about the language of elk and the secrets of successful bow hunts.

Elk hunting articles:

- 7 tips for your first archery elk hunt

- How to choose your first elk call

- E-scout to maximize success on out-of-state elk hunts

- Star of The Wild Race lands a 6x8 bull on her first elk hunt

Slayer calls related to this episode:

- ArchAngel acrylic elk call

- Swagger handle

- Enchantress push button call

- Slayer cow external call

- Slayer mouth reeds

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What was it like the first time an elk responded to your call? Drop us a line at podcast@SlayerCalls.com to share.

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

Ron Boehme has been a judge for the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association for 25 years and is the creator of The Hunting Dog Podcast. He’s an expert when it comes to knowing which breeds work best in the field and what qualities hunters should look for in a canine hunting companion. 

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Ron wasn’t introduced to hunting and gun culture until he was a teenager. However, his passion for the sport quickly blossomed, and it wasn’t long before he began searching for the perfect hunting dog. Through trial and error, Ron’s discovered some of the most important secrets to identifying the best breed and dogs, which he shares in his popular podcast. 

Today, Ron is recording his eighth season of The Hunting Dog Podcast. Over the years, he’s interviewed hunters from around the world about their breeds, the game laws in their area and training tips. He’s brought on representatives from Pheasants Forever and Ruffed Grouse Society to talk about habitat and forest restoration and grass restoration. But he says the common thread of his interviews and each episode is that every person he talks to is a “dog person.”

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, you’ll hear about Ron’s background, as well as his insights and tips for selecting and training the right hunting dog for you. 

Follow Ron Boehme and The Hunting Dog Podcast on Instagram: @thehuntingdogpodcast 

Get your bird dog fix on Slayer Calls:

- Why I Duck Hunt: The magic and grace of labrador retrievers at work

- Think You Have Hunting Fortitude? Wait ’til You Meet Hayden.

Check out The Hunting dog Podcast:

- The Hunting Dog Podcast

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What’s your favorite memory from hunting with man’s best friend? Leave a comment or drop a line to podcast@SlayerDuckCalls.com to tell us all about it. 

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

Victoria Hannah has hunted all her life, so she’s well aware that when it comes to waterfowling, women are in the minority. Now she’s sharing her enthusiasm with others in the hopes of not only keeping the sport alive, but altering its current demographics — making room for more women in the field.

Victoria’s passion for hunting is evident. In the past, she’s pursued anything from deer and doves to black bears and pintails. In her own words, “If you can hunt it, I want to come with you.” But while she’s hunted all her life, Victoria admits there were times she felt intimidated, aware of the fact she was the only woman hunter in her group of friends. Now she’s working to make the sport more inclusive and approachable — particularly for other women. 

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, Victoria shares stories from the field as well as her tips and goals for helping others overcome their hunting insecurities.

Follow Victoria Hannah on Instagram: @victoria_blalock

Make hunting less intimidating for anyone on Slayer Calls:

- Duck Identification Part 1

- Duck Identification Pat 2

- How to choose a duck call

- A Hunter’s Guide to Waterfowl Guns and Ammo

- 9 Things Every New Duck Hunter Really Needs: Resources and Gear

Resources for women hunters:

- The Sisterhood of the Outdoors 

- Women’s Outdoor News

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Have you had good luck bringing others into the hunting fold? Leave a comment or drop a line to podcast@SlayerDuckCalls.com to tell us all about it. 

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

Hunting buddies Matt Carey and Hayden Martin didn’t grow up in hunting families — but they’ve spent the past few years living for duck season as adult onset hunters.

Matt and Hayden bring creativity and problem-solving to their hunts. Matt’s not just a hunter but a photographer who shoots birds — and his hunting adventures — with a camera. Hayden’s a disabled outdoorsman with a birdy hunting dog he’s trained to be a duck-retrieving machine. The pair work together to get out in the field, document their hunts and soak in the natural world together from the duck blind.

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, Matt and Hayden share what drew them to duck hunting, how they overcome the challenges of adaptive hunting together in the field, and how they’re working to bring other new adult hunters into the sport. 

Follow Matt Carey on Instagram: @of_the_field
Follow Hayden Martin on Instagram: @haydenpmartin
To learn more about hunting with FSHD muscular dystrophy, visit Hayden’s website.

Pick up more hunting tips for new waterfowlers on Slayer Calls:

- Duck hunting on public land: 5 tips for success
- When you’re waterfowl hunting on public land, don’t be *that* guy
- How to choose a duck call
- How to clean and maintain your duck call
- How to avoid duck hunting mistakes (and what to do instead)

Learn more about adaptive hunting:

- Adaptive Hunting Database, NRA
- Down to Westlake, Hayden’s website
- “Think you have hunting fortitude? Wait ‘til you meet Hayden,” Slayer Calls

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What’s your top advice for adult onset hunters who are new to the sport? Leave a comment or drop a line to podcast@SlayerDuckCalls.com to tell us all about it. 

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Eating the wild game you harvest doesn’t have to mean tearing into a yearlong supply of jerky.

Allie Doran, the wild game chef behind Miss Allie’s Kitchen, has been perfecting wild game and venison recipes to make the most of the meat that fills her freezer after each hunting season. Allie experiments with flavors and preparations that turn even the most reluctant meateaters into fans of her wild game recipes. Her speciality is easy-to-make weeknight meals for busy families.

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, Allie shares with host Bill Ayer her controversial tip for cooking the perfect duck, elk and venison that doesn’t taste gamey. They tackle the science behind some common wild game cooking myths. And Allie gives Bill pointers for smoking, braising and barbecuing when he hits the grill for the fifth time this week. 

Find easy, everyday wild game meals from Miss Allie’s Kitchen on Slayer’s Recipe Feed. Check out the recipes Allie has posted already, including her blackberry bourbon sauce:

- Pan-seared duck with blackberry bourbon sauce
- Duck tacos with orange and cabbage slaw
- Braised duck legs with parsnip puree

Allie is the author of Venison Every Day and founder of Miss Allie’s Kitchen. You can sign up for her free venison cooking tips and recipes on her website.

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Does your family have a tried and true method for cooking tender game meat? Have you whipped up a duck dinner using one of Allie’s recipes? What’s the worst-prepared game you’ve ever tasted? Drop a line to info@SlayerDuckCalls.com to tell us all about it. 

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

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Your first hunt can make or break your impression of hunting — either turning you off the sport or turning you into a fanatic.

New hunter Jason Matheson chats with Bill “Duck Slayer” Ayer about his first duck hunting experience in his 20s — the one that convinced Jason waterfowling wasn’t for him — and the duck hunt in his 40s that completely changed his mind. 

Creating a positive experience on a first hunt is crucial to preserving the sport of hunting. Bill shares the ways he sets first-timers up for success when he takes them hunting. Jason reminisces about the parts of his elk and duck hunts with Bill that got him addicted to the sport of hunting. Spoiler: One includes a hungry bear, and the other includes totally going rambo.

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We want to hear about your first hunt! Have you been going since you were a kid, or did you learn to hunt as an adult? What about that first experience made you want to hunt more? Drop a line to podcast@SlayerDuckCalls.com with your stories and memories of your first hunt. 

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. 

Slay with us! Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Duck Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

He’s obsessed with superior craftsmanship. He’s passionate about preservation and hunting heritage. And he’s got a lucky DR-115 duck call that he just can’t manage to lose. 

Meet the man, the legend, the mastermind behind Slayer Duck Calls: Bill Ayer.

For Bill “Duck Slayer” Ayer, creating the perfect duck call quickly moved from a hobby to a full-blown obsession. After spinning up more than 50 prototypes over the span of a decade, Bill handcrafted the duck call that could do it all. Folks told him it was one of the best calls they’d ever blown. With a supportive hunting community behind him, Bill turned his obsession into a business: Slayer Duck Calls.

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We want to hear about your family’s hunting traditions! Did your grandpa pass on a classic shotgun? Did your dad take you out at the crack of dawn to sit in the blind? Drop a line to podcast@SlayerDuckCalls.com with the stories, memories and traditions that make up your hunting heritage. 

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. 

Slay with us! Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Duck Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

The duck hunters at Slayer Calls are the ones you might see out hunting every day of duck season. During a recent morning hunt, they limited out long before a nearby group of hunters. The difference? How they read the ducks.

The type of land, weather, time of year and even specific flock of ducks impacts the way serious duck hunters build blinds, set up their decoy spread and call in ducks. These longtime duck hunters discuss the ways they read ducks and make adjustments, including what calls they choose and how they blow them.

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, Slayer's Tommy Sessions talks with Slayer Calls CEO Bill Ayer, Slayer PRO Tanner Hardy and duck hunter Collin Cooper. For these guys, every day of duck season is another opportunity to wake up early and do the thing they love.

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Duck calling and hunting tips:

- Call the Wild training

- 7 killer late-season duck tactics

- Duck calling tips for beginners

- A hunter's guide to waterfowl guns and ammo

- 5 tips for success hunting on public land

Slayer calls mentioned in this episode:

- Drake Slayer, Double Reed

- Drake Slayer, Single Reed

- Suzie Slayer — bocote wood

- Pearly Gates Cutdown

- The Ranger, Double Reed — open bore design

- The Ranger, Single Reed — open bore design

- Slayer Cutdown 00

- Honker Slayer Goose Call

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What helped you figure out how to read ducks? Drop us a line at podcast@SlayerCalls.com to share.

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Her first-ever elk hunt. On public land. On opening day of rifle season. And she lands a 6x8 bull.

The Wild Race star Jessica Ann grew up whitetail, turkey, small game and predator hunting in Wisconsin. She added waterfowling to her list of passions a decade ago. When she got bariatric weight loss surgery in 2020, she set a goal for herself: Go on an elk hunt and, in Jessica's words, "don't die."

Traversing the steep Idaho terrain and taking down a massive bull checks that goal off Jessica's list. But that's not all. By the age of 30, she's made a name for herself as an outdoorswoman, hosts her own hunting show and runs a nonprofit to teach kids safe and ethical hunting practices from a young age. 

In this episode of The Slayer Hunting Podcast, Slayer's Bill Ayer and Tommy Sessions talk with Jessica Ann about landing her TV show, starting The Wild Race Foundation and, of course, that wild first elk hunt.

Connect with The Wild Race's Jessica Ann:

- Video of Jessica Ann's Idaho elk hunt

- Jessica's Instagram

- The Wild Race on Instagram

- The Wild Race on YouTube

- The Wild Race website

- The Wild Race Foundation

More for elk hunters:

- Slayer Podcast: How to maximize success on out-of-state hunts

- Elk hunting tips for beginners

- Troubleshooting your elk hunt

More for duck hunters:

- Slayer Podcast: Call more ducks, kill more ducks

- A hunter's guide to waterfowl guns and ammo

- Clothing tips for staying warm and dry on your duck hunt

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How do you give back to the hunting and outdoors community? Leave a comment or drop us a line at podcast@SlayerCalls.com to share.

Thanks for listening! We’d love to have you back, so subscribe to The Slayer Hunting Podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Listen to The Slayer Hunting Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to feed your obsession between episodes.

If you’d like to support Slayer Calls, 10% of each purchase goes to organizations that protect the environment and wildlife, support conservation efforts and preserve America’s hunting heritage. Grab a gift card for the hunters in your life to celebrate everything from birthdays to holidays to the start of duck season. 

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