Bow hunting shows up on Joe Rogan's podcast more than almost any other outdoor topic, and not just as small talk. Across hundreds of episodes in our library, the ones that go deep on archery, wildlife management, and the mental game of a single high-stakes shot tend to be the ones people bookmark. We combed our full set of episode summaries to pull the ten conversations that actually earn a spot on a bow hunting list, not just the ones where a guest mentions owning a bow.
Expect a mix of dedicated hunting authorities like Cameron Hanes and Remi Warren, athletes who found bow hunting as a second obsession, and one former SWAT sniper whose mental framework for beating target panic has quietly become required listening in the archery world. Each entry below cites a specific reveal or fact from that episode's summary, so you know exactly what you're getting before you press play.
Joe Rogan Experience #2100 - Steven Rinella & Cameron Hanes
If you only listen to one episode on this list, make it this one. It is almost entirely hunting craft and politics, no detours. Rinella breaks down why wildlife groups strategically use the term 'trophy hunting' in ballot language to chip away at hunting rights generally, and the trio walks through Joel Turner's open-loop versus closed-loop framework for beating target panic. There's also a sobering stat: in one Idaho region elk dropped from 16,000 to about 1,000 after wolves were reintroduced. Essential for anyone who wants the policy and technique side of bow hunting from the two guys who live it.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #1950 - Derek Wolfe
Former Broncos lineman Derek Wolfe turns his post-NFL life into an obsession with bow hunting, and the centerpiece here is a grueling pursuit of a roughly 220-pound mountain lion, the biggest his guide had ever seen, tracked up an 11,000-foot mountain through chest-deep snow. Wolfe also details the Pittman-Robertson Act, which funds American wildlife conservation through taxes on bullets, bows, and gear, plus a jaw-dropping $725,000 sale of a single Arizona mule deer tag at auction. Good for listeners who want hunting paired with real physical stakes and a wild personal backstory.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #1943 - Joel Turner
Not a hunting episode in the traditional sense, but the one every serious archer eventually gets pointed to. Former SWAT sniper Joel Turner explains the core problem behind target panic: your subconscious will not let you cause your own body's impact as a surprise. He details the four-question 'blueprint' he mapped after a botched shot, and how he used it during an actual hostage rescue exactly 364 days later. His son Bod, a teenage archery prodigy, adds a second layer of proof the system works. Listen if you've ever choked on a shot you knew you could make.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2154 - Remi Warren
Remi Warren hunts roughly 200 days a year, and this episode covers the extremes that job can produce. After a botched wrist surgery left a drill bit in his wrist, he taught himself to shoot a bow by biting down on a mouth tab, then had one of his best seasons ever. The stories from a Marco Polo sheep hunt in Kyrgyzstan, including a gang fight at camp and a guide driving with a loaded shotgun pointed at his head, are as much survival tale as hunting story. Ideal for listeners who want the genuinely dangerous side of global bow hunting.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2424 - Jelly Roll
Mostly a weight-loss and redemption episode, but bow hunting with Cameron Hanes becomes Jelly Roll's new obsession and gives the conversation an unexpectedly moving edge. As a felon, he's fighting for a governor's pardon partly just to regain his right to hunt, since Tennessee won't fully clear violent offenders. He also confesses a rookie mistake, spooking three deer and a buck by putting on a hoodie at the wrong moment. Worth it for listeners who want to see hunting function as part of someone's larger personal turnaround.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2057 - Dale Brisby
Rodeo cowboy Dale Brisby's first-ever bow hunt, and first animal ever killed with a bow, an elk, anchors the back half of this conversation. It's a great entry point for the sugar-industry cover-up debate that runs alongside it: Brisby and Rogan discuss how the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists about $50,000 in today's dollars back in 1967 to blame saturated fat instead of sugar for heart disease. There's also a stray detail bow hunters will appreciate, his bowstring had already come off the cam and he kept shooting it for two more months anyway. Good for listeners who like their hunting talk mixed with cowboy culture and diet debates.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2052 - Shane Dorian
Big-wave surfer Shane Dorian draws a direct line between the mental discipline of riding giant waves and the discipline of a perfect archery shot, both requiring the same kind of controlled composure under pressure. The episode notes that axis deer evolved to evade tigers and can duck a roughly 275-feet-per-second arrow at close range, which explains why only one of about 150 hunters who followed Rogan's crew to Lanai actually connected. Best for listeners interested in the mental-game overlap between extreme sports and bow hunting rather than gear talk.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2291 - Bert Kreischer
This one is a loose, joke-heavy hang more than a hunting deep dive, but the bow hunting talk sits inside a genuinely interesting wildlife thread: Colorado's wolf reintroduction near Aspen, including wolves relocated from Oregon that promptly started killing cattle again. Compound versus recurve bow debates thread through the conversation alongside mob stories and addiction history. Good pick for listeners who want bow hunting as one thread in a wider, funnier conversation rather than the main event.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2373 - Dave Landau
Comedian Dave Landau's episode leans heavily into dangerous-animal stories, bears, moose, pit bulls, and wildlife reintroduction programs gone wrong, with bow hunting woven through as one more entry in that catalog. A standout detail: New Jersey has one of the highest black bear concentrations in the country, around 3,000 bears. Best suited to listeners who want hunting and wildlife talk served alongside heavier personal material, since Landau also gets candid about addiction and family trauma.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2250 - Raekwon
An unlikely inclusion, but the Wu-Tang legend's bow-hunting interest with Rogan closes out an otherwise hip-hop-focused conversation, and Rogan uses the moment to explain he took up hunting in 2012 after watching PETA factory-farming films and choosing hunting over going vegan. Not a hunting deep dive by any measure, but a good listen for anyone curious how the topic surfaces even in interviews you wouldn't expect, alongside real history on Wu-Tang's formation and the record industry.
Read the full episode notesThat's ten conversations worth your drive time or your next hunt prep, ranked by how much real substance they deliver on bow hunting specifically. Browse our full library of episode summaries to find more from your favorite guests, or dig into related lists on wildlife conservation and the mental side of precision sports.