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Bowhunting podcasts tend to split into two camps: guys trading gear talk about broadheads and rangefinders, and guys who treat the hunt as a philosophy of life. The episodes below, pulled from our full library of episode summaries, do both. They come almost entirely out of Joe Rogan's orbit, where bowhunter Cameron Hanes has become a recurring fixture, joined by his Australian hunting partner Adam Greentree and a rotating cast of strength coaches and survivalists who all happen to be obsessed with the same brutal, deliberate way of getting food.
Expect stories about public land fights, backcountry hunts that go sideways in genuinely dangerous ways, and the gear-nerd deep dives that only make sense once you understand why someone would spend 30 days alone in Colorado chasing elk with a bow instead of a rifle. Whether you're a bowhunter yourself or just curious why so many tough guys keep circling back to this sport, this list is a solid entry point.
Joe Rogan Experience #2514 - Cameron Hanes
Cam Hanes and Joe Rogan open with lightning strikes and alligator attacks before landing on the episode's real spine: a quiet roadless-rule amendment and a push from Senator Mike Lee to sell off millions of acres of federal public land, the ground bowhunters like Hanes actually depend on. It gets personal too. Hanes spends a long stretch defending himself against a rival runner who called him a doper after he won his age group at the Eugene Marathon, since he'd once used BPC-157 to heal a broken foot. There's also a genuinely odd detail: Hanes got a gold front tooth after a dentist chased a cavity that didn't exist. Listen for the public-land fight and the unfiltered look at how far the bowhunting-as-lifestyle brand goes off the trail.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2426 - Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree
Hanes brings his longtime hunting partner Adam Greentree for a two-on-one with Rogan that starts on predator-prey politics, including a striking data point: Japan logged a record surge of brown bear attacks in 2025, at least 13 fatal, serious enough that the military got deployed. From there the three of them geek out hard on the actual craft, tracing how archery gear, optics, and rangefinders have evolved, and wrestling with whether new tech like thermal optics makes hunting too easy to still be ethical. It closes with each man naming his single biggest lesson from the season. This is the one to hear if you want the gear-nerd conversation and the ethics debate in the same sitting.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2059 - Adam Greentree
Greentree returns to Rogan's show after five years away to describe a 30-day, over-the-counter backcountry elk hunt in Colorado so grueling that day 27 broke him and delivered what he calls complete satisfaction. That's not even the most harrowing part of the episode. He recounts nearly dying in New Zealand after sliding into glacial water with a loaded pack, fracturing his spine, and surviving a freezing night before a rescue helicopter happened to find him during an unrelated training exercise, plus separate close calls with saltwater crocodiles while collecting drinking water in Australia. This is the episode for anyone who wants proof that deliberate hardship, not comfort, is the actual point for hunters like Greentree.
Read the full episode notesChampion of "Alone" on The Art of Survival — Jordan Jonas
Jordan Jonas isn't a JRE regular, he's Tim Ferriss's guest, and his path to bowhunting mastery runs through years living with Siberian reindeer nomads rather than American elk camps. He details killing a moose with a recurve bow and a wolverine with an arrow and axe during his championship run on History Channel's Alone season 6, skills he traces back to designing his own single-bevel Siberian axe and learning to make fire from feather curls in a downpour. A knife-sharp axe accident that nearly severed his MCL, treated only with spruce sap, underlines how far from modern medicine this skill set operates. Recommended for listeners who want bowhunting framed as a survival discipline rather than a weekend sport.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2242 - Bert Sorin
Strength-equipment builder Bert Sorin brings his Sorinex XOR machine into the studio, but the conversation drifts hard into bowhunting gear, rangefinders, binoculars, and big-game strategy alongside the strength talk. Rogan reveals he pulls his 84 to 90 pound bows up to 100 times a day, which has caused lower-back tendonitis he's now rehabbing with EMS therapy, a detail that says a lot about the physical toll competitive archery draw weight actually takes. Good pick for listeners who care about the equipment side of the sport and want it paired with real training-science context from someone who outfits the UFC Performance Institute.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #1997 - Cameron Hanes
Recorded on the actual launch day of Hanes and Rogan's Kill Cliff 'Elk Blood' CBD drink collaboration, this episode catches Hanes at a turning point: he reveals he quit his longtime day job to run his own podcast, crediting years of Rogan pushing him to do it. The conversation covers the brutal reality of predators versus their Disney-fied public image and the ongoing fight over public-land hunting access, before Hanes closes on turning jealousy into fuel rather than resentment. Worth it for the origin story of Hanes betting on himself, told at the exact moment it paid off.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2068 - Cameron Hanes
This is the most gear-focused Hanes episode of the bunch, with a long back half spent entirely on bows, broadheads, sights, arrows, and lighted nocks, and why the precision matters for making an ethical kill rather than just a successful one. Along the way Rogan and Hanes trade notes on peptides and stem cells, including Shane Dorian's full-body stem cell treatment in Tijuana for injured discs, part of a broader distrust of conventional medicine that runs through Hanes' whole worldview. It closes on why earning your food through hunting reconnects you to something primal that modern life strips away. Best suited to listeners who want the philosophy and the equipment talk in equal measure.
Read the full episode notesThat's seven episodes, but our library has plenty more conversations touching on hunting, public land, and life in the backcountry. Browse the full collection of episode summaries on Episode Notes to find your next listen.