Big Hunt Guys

Brady and Trail catch up and recap the opening week of archery deer season. Trail breaks down his deer hunt, the highs and lows of the first week, including the things that went right and the mistakes that were made. Trail also recounts helping his older brother take his first elk with a bow. They talk about the excitement, pressure, lessons learned, and what makes sharing a hunt and a first animal so memorable. This week's episode is a laid-back catch-up filled with hunting stories and the moments that make the season worth waiting for.

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Everyone knows I love to glass. There is a beauty in sitting on a mountain and picking apart every inch of terrain until something clicks. But in my opinion, the most overlooked part of glassing isn't your optics; it's your mind. In this solo episode, I crack the puzzle of why so many hunters glass "casually" and walk away saying there are no deer, when the real issue is they never gave their brain the chance to actually see.

In this episode, I cover:

- The mental side of glassing: why your brain can't run two attention-demanding tasks at once, and why listening to music/podcasts while glassing is quietly costing you deer.
- The Invisible Gorilla experiment: the classic inattentional blindness study, that's a near-perfect analogy for what happens behind the glass
- My full optics setup: spotting scope, stabilized binos, rangefinder, and how I run my tripod and panning head system for long glassing sits.
- Stop glassing for "bucks": why searching for the whole body of a deer sets you up to fail, and what small details (ear twitch, antler tine flicker, horizontal lines, color contrast) actually pop first.
- Why there's no "ideal" glassing spot: how to stop chasing the perfect vantage point and start using imperfect terrain to your advantage.

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In this episode of the Game Trail, Trail breaks down one of the most important parts of bowhunting: knowing when not to shoot. Trail talks through the shots he's comfortable taking on mule deer and elk, the shot angles and situations he will pass on, and how he determines effective range with a bow. Trail also gets into the mental side of it—because knowing your limits on the range is easy. Knowing them when a big animal is standing in front of you is a completely different challenge. Trail wraps up talking about why self-control is one of the most important skills an archery hunter can develop. Your maximum range isn't the distance you can hit a target. It's the distance at which you can consistently make the right shot, under real hunting conditions, on an animal you owe a clean kill.

Heads up: technical issues meant we lost our mic audio for this one, so please excuse the sound quality — we'll have it back to normal next episode!

How much does score really matter? In this episode of the Big Hunt Guys Podcast, Trail, Brady, and Lorenzo tackle one of hunting's most debated topics—scoring antlers. The guys discuss whether giving animals names helps or hurts hunters, the social pressures surrounding hunting, and why score has become such a dominant part of modern hunting conversations. Then they dive deep into the art of field judging mule deer, elk and antelope, breaking down the body characteristics, antler features, and mental shortcuts they use to estimate score before making a move. Whether you're trying to judge a mature buck from a mile away or decide if a bull is worth chasing, this episode is packed with practical field judging tips and honest discussion about where score fits into hunting.

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Trail, Brady, and Lorenzo sit down to discuss the complete journey of GOHUNT's newest gear, the GOHUNT down jacket and pants, and the packable rain jacket and pants. They cover why the project started, what they wanted to improve over existing gear, how extensive field testing shaped the final products, and the features they refused to compromise on. This is the behind-the-scenes story of designing gear for hunters, by hunters.

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