Bowhunting talk with real field mileage.
Nock On Archery mixes bowhunting talk, shop-floor gear knowledge, and long-form conversations with people from archery, optics, hunting, and brand leadership. It is loose and story-driven, but the useful stuff is specific: quivers, stabilizers, arrows, broadheads, eyesight, tags, preparation, and fundamentals.
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Nock On Archery is a bowhunting and archery show that prefers lived experience over polished lecture. It sounds like people who know the gear, know the road, and still enjoy giving each other a hard time before getting serious. The episodes are heavy on practical detail. One conversation can move from a hunt story to bow balance, from broadhead flight to draw weight, or from a product tour to what preparation teaches in business and in the field. That wandering is part of the appeal. The show often circles into useful territory through stories rather than formal segments. Gear is treated as something to test, tune, carry, and trust, not just admire. Stabilizers, quivers, arrow spine, inserts, broadheads, optical clarity, cam systems, and fixed-blade behavior all get room to breathe. The conversations also keep coming back to fundamentals. When the stakes are high, the show argues through example that skipped basics tend to show up fast. Hunting is framed as process as much as outcome. Guests talk about scouting, tag strategy, packing early, calling biologists, sitting water, and staying with a plan once the opportunity appears. The show also has a shop-community feel, with listener Q&A, School of Knock references, and updates about where questions and education will go next. It is informal, but not empty. The strongest moments come when a guest’s field history or engineering background turns a small setup choice into a larger lesson about consistency. There are sales mentions and store references, but the heart of the show is still the practical conversation. Nock On Archery fits listeners who want archery explained by people who have actually shot, hunted, built, adjusted, and compared the equipment. It is warm, technical, occasionally blunt, and comfortable taking the side road if the side road teaches something.
Made for: For bowhunters, target archers, and gear-minded shooters who want practical setup advice, field strategy, and industry stories. It especially suits listeners who enjoy long conversations with enough detail to apply at the range or before a hunt.
What sets it apart: The show blends friendly archery-industry history with hands-on tuning and hunting preparation. Its strength is how naturally a story about a person, product, or hunt turns into usable detail about shooting better.
Nock On Archery podcast are educational archery tips from Pro Archer John Dudley, an accomplished professional, top level coach and technical expert. Get great insights to new products and industry trends.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed equipment conversations reveal how archers weigh design, performance, and practical constraints before committing to a setup.
John Dudley turns archery decisions into practical conversations about equipment, technique, and judgment. Discussions of bow design and engineering sit beside detailed questions about arrow weight, shaft stiffness, speed, torque, quiver placement, and tuning.
A coffee-cup drill becomes the reason you stop psyching yourself out at full draw.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose hunting conversation turns risky moments and shaky gear habits into a grounded case for fundamentals.
Pressure and preparation give the episode its shape. The host and Andy Stumpf look back on their first trip to NOM, from the crawl toward Andy's first bear through punishingly thick terrain to the way danger kept brushing up against laughter.
Bruce connects leadership with the preparation, responsibility and follow-through familiar to serious hunters.
Leadership here is a practice built on preparation, execution and stewardship, not a title. Bruce and the host link brand building to the habits of serious hunters: doing the research, putting in the practice, staying ready and performing when the opportunity comes.
A practical bowhunting Q&A on balance, wind, quivers, arrows, broadheads, and setup choices.
Knock on Archery turns a listener Q&A into a useful field check on bow setup choices once they leave the shop. Darren Cooper's Hoyt engineering background, including work tied to the cam and a half system, sits alongside his long shooting and hunting history with the host.
A practical podcast reset connects scheduling, listener questions, distribution, and the business behind free archery education.
Knock on Archery uses its relaunch as a practical status check, with the host laying out why guest booking, studio logistics, and video expectations had pushed the show away from the loose conversation that suited it best.
A grounded look at the numbers and judgment behind a forgiving hunting-bow setup.
Bow design comes through as a set of practical tradeoffs, with Danil, a Hoyt product design engineer, tying together speed, arrow weight, shaft spine, draw weight, and fixed-blade broadhead setup.
A loose archery conversation finds practical value in pin float, target pressure, and release setup.
Knock On Podcast 286 turns a goofy, unforced conversation with Aaron Schneider into a useful study of what happens when archery gets mental. The best thread is about pin float, nerves, and target perception: an 80-yard turkey can shrink fast once doubt enters the shot, while a…
A grounded look at fitting feed, food plots and harvest patience to a property's region, acreage and budget.
Whitetail management is treated as a question of where limited feed dollars can do the most good. Matt connects antler growth to regional nutrition, then considers when giving a mature buck another year may be worth the risk.
Traditional archery, from campfire stories to shot mechanics.
Competitive archery, minus the polish.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
John Dudley and Zak Kurtzhals reunite to discuss their long friendship and Zak's journey from intern to president at Hoyt Archery.
Sean Mowser discusses a bow raffle benefiting veterans and first responders through Black Rifles BRCC Gives.
John Dudley hosts Matt Moore, a wildlife biologist from South Texas, to discuss whitetail deer management based on a 14-year research project.
John Dudley hosts archer and hunter Aron Snyder on Nock On Podcast episode 286.
Connor Brockhouse remembers southwestern Minnesota antelope hunting booming in 2006–07 before harsh winters reduced herds.
Andy Stumpf comes in sideways right away.
Bruce Pettet says he has been Leupold's CEO for just over 12 years and traces his hunting start to an Oklahoma quail hunt with his grandpa when he was 8 or 9.
Nock On Archery frames this Q&A around Darren Cooper, a former Hoyt engineer and longtime shooting partner of John Dudley, now opening Rent Outdoor Gear plus archery in Boise at 966 South Vista Avenue.
Jared Lyle shares his story of leaving Matthews and joining Trophy Taker, leading to a discussion about taking the guesswork out of hunting tags and improving in western hunting.
An interview with Chuck Cooley, a licensed optician and professional archer, discussing archery eyesight and optical clarity.
"Mindset Monday" and "Vocabulary" anchor the 2026 School of Knock sequence.
"The first one that comes to mind is durability" ties Hoyt’s testing to dry-fire abuse and mountain hunts.
Nick Mundt and the host reminisce about their first meeting and hunting adventures in Montana.
Tyson Yates from Easton discusses arrow accuracy and his early archery experiences on the Knock-On Archery Podcast.
John Dudley and PJ Reilly discuss new archery technology and the launch of the Unite bow system at the ATA show.