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Traditional archery, from campfire stories to shot mechanics.
The Push follows traditional archery through the people who live it, from bowhunters and self-bow builders to barebow competitors and gear testers. It mixes campfire-style interviews with practical talk about arrows, shot control, tournament pressure, and bow history.
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The Push is a traditional archery podcast centered on long, easygoing conversations with people who shoot, hunt, build, study, and compete with simple bows. Its center of gravity is the recurve, longbow, barebow, and bowhunting world. The show is friendly, but it is not vague. Guests are invited to tell origin stories, then the conversation usually finds its way into gear, form, mindset, pressure, and field experience. Some episodes are deeply technical. A monthly Trad Lab conversation with Cody Greenwood, for example, gets into FOC, EFOC, fletching setups, arrow nodes, and tuning myths with the patience of people who have actually tested things. Other episodes lean into competition. Joel Turner appears in a conversation about Vegas barebow success, head-to-head shooting, triggered versus non-triggered technique, and the argument around possible rule changes. The show also keeps a strong bowhunting lane. Meredith Poroznik’s episode covers family hunting roots, whitetail stories, elk-season pressure, equipment preferences, shot process, and being a woman in a male-heavy bowhunting industry. Del Hilberry’s episode brings in primitive bowhunting, self bows, fire hardening, filming hunts, and the jump from hunting bows to barebow competition. The Beyond the Archer format stretches beyond equipment and scores. Justin Rokohl’s episode includes military service, intense combat memories, and the way archery sits inside a larger life story. The history material gives the show a wider sweep. Its History of the Bow series uses conversations with subject matter experts to trace the bow from early humans through Bronze Age, Iron Age, medieval, Native American, and modern traditional bowhunting contexts. The show can wander. That is part of its texture. A guest story may detour into old letters, a campfire theory, a bow inscription, or a hard-earned shooting lesson before it loops back to the point. For committed archers, that looseness feels useful rather than messy. The Push is strongest when it lets experienced people talk long enough for the real details to surface.
Made for: Best for traditional archers, bowhunters, barebow competitors, gear tinkerers, and listeners who enjoy long-form conversations from inside a niche sport. It especially suits people who want both field stories and technical detail.
What sets it apart: The Push stands out by treating traditional archery as both lived culture and measurable craft. It can move from bow history to fletching data, then into a personal hunting or competition story without losing its thread.
The Push - A Traditional Archery Podcast is intended to help expedite the traditional archery learning curve. Whether you're into bowhunting with a recurve or longbow, competition, or just enjoy the art of archery, this podcast will have something for everyone.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A practitioner's eye connects bow history to the physical craft, hunting culture, and competitive disciplines that carry traditional archery forward.
Mike keeps the conversation close to the physical practice of traditional archery. Interviews move between hunting experience, competitive shooting, equipment choices, mental control, and the making of self bows.
An old bow bears Ishii beneath its grip; good luck keeping your curiosity contained.
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A series opener that moves from human history to the handwriting on one old bow.
The Push Podcast opens History of the Bow with a broad sweep from earliest humans through the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, medieval times, the Golden Age of the European longbow, Native American use, and the shift brought by gunpowder.
A community-first archery conversation built around Barebow Boot Camp and campfire-style talk.
The review keeps the focus on a community-first archery conversation built around Barebow Boot Camp in Ohio and the social pull of the single-string scene.
A grounded service story that gives the archery conversation real weight.
Beyond the Archer lands best when it stays close to Justin Rokel and the ground he has already covered. The firefight, the repeated barrel changes, and the steady self-command to keep going give the episode a quiet force, while Mike keeps the exchange moving with an easy,…
A trad bowhunter's path from family roots to two big bucks, with gear talk and industry perspective.
Meredith's episode starts with turkey-season banter, then settles into her traditional-bowhunting background, shaped in part by a family where her dad and two brothers also shoot trad bows.
A self-bow builder brings field habits to the barebow line, where hunting craft and competition pressure meet.
Del Hilberry's route from primitive bow hunting to barebow competition gives this episode a clear spine. A self-bow builder and hunter brings a plainspoken field approach onto the competition line, with the Rushmore Rumble win and two Lancaster Classic elimination finals serving…
A grounded look at the gear, weight, and preset stands behind traditional archery films.
Traditional archery comes across as a craft built from work: the gear, filming habits, and fixed hunting setups that make a bowhunting film possible.
A Friday archery chat that settles into hog coats, trap lines, and the work after the shot.
Clay Epperson's appearance on The Push keeps to the show's Friday rhythm, with giveaway business and sponsor talk up front before shifting into a hog-focused conversation.
Bowhunting talk with real field mileage.
Competitive archery, minus the polish.
Host Clay Epperson interviews guest Clay Epperson, a traditional archer from East Texas, on The Push Podcast.
Steve Stivaly of Gettin' Stickbow Close joins The Push Podcast to discuss his decades-long journey in traditional archery.
Curt Cabrera shares three hunting stories from his successful season, including two buck harvests and a doe harvest, while promoting The Push Archery podcast and its resources.
Joe Miles of Asio Gear recounts two early-season South Carolina bucks, a compound kill on a roughly eight-year-old buck he called the 'river swamp nomad' and a recurve kill on the Santee River.
The Push’s Episode 440, “TradLab Monthly - September,” covers traditional bow setups, arrow weight, and equipment tuning.
This episode introduces a series on the history of the bow and arrow, featuring expert interviews and covering its evolution from ancient times to modern traditional bow hunting.
The host introduces an upcoming barebow archery boot camp event and then transitions to an interview with Schaefer Magnant, co-host of the Broken Arrow Podcast.
Host introduces an episode featuring veteran Justin Rokohl, discussing his personal story and how archery helps him and other veterans.
Joel Turner discusses his 2026 Vegas barebow championship and the controversy between triggered and non-triggered shooting in the archery community.
Cody Greenwood joins to discuss FOC in archery, debunking myths and explaining the importance of the arrow's front node over weight distribution.
Meredith Powroznik, a 35-year-old physical therapist in Virginia, talks about balancing a 40-hour clinic schedule with six weeks of turkey season and trad-bow hunting.
Del Hilberry, a Pennsylvania bowhunter from Greene County, talks through building an Osage self-bow and making arrows and glass heads.
Host catches up with Leo Pettersson and previews upcoming episodes and videos on archery and hunting.
The host discusses late season bow hunting tips and encourages listeners to join indoor archery leagues during winter.
Host returns from a barebow archery trip in Europe, shares a recent whitetail hunt success, and introduces an interview with Cody Greenwood about his hunting season and archery journey.