Thrive 62 - Axis Deer Showdown In Hawaii (Ft. Bow Disciples)

Late-season hunts aren't won on the mountain. They're won before you ever leave for the hunt. By late season, the animals on most public land have been chased for months. They've found security and isolation, and if you want to find them, you have to find it first. In this episode of PEAX Thrive, Mark Livesay walks through three late-season e-scouting tactics and demos each one live in Terrain IQ, the new Western e-scouting and hunt planning platform he built from the ground up. In this episode: • Glassing location analysis. Test your glassing spots before the hunt with the rebuilt Viewshed tool, then let Overwatch pick the top five glassing spots in your hunt area. • Hunting pressure predictions. Use Pressure Zones, Remote Areas, and the official Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUMs) to find where pressure will push late-season animals. • Advanced route planning. Get mile-by-mile hike times on and off trail, color-coded steepness, and a drone flyover of your route before you ever walk it. Try Terrain IQ iq.treelineacademy.net/map Gear up at peaxequipment.com and use discount code TREELINE Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com

Buying a preference point can cost you the tag. In this Peax Thrive episode, Mark breaks down the traps hiding inside the Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming nonresident draws before you spend a dime this tag season. In Idaho, general nonresident tags are now a lottery, and the zone you put first decides everything. Mark walks through the A tag and B tag odds, the $185 nonrefundable license, and why every elk tag was drawn in round one. In Montana, holding one point drew worse than holding zero. In Wyoming, only your first choice uses points, second and third choices rarely come through, and the nonresident elk point jumps from $52 to $75 on January 1. Mark covers the special and regular draws, the two-year rule, and why a point won't hurt you in Wyoming the way it can in Montana. Research every zone and unit with Treeline Hunt IQ: https://iq.treelineacademy.net Gear up at https://peaxequipment.com and use discount code TREELINE.

The reality is that draw odds tell you how hard a tag is to get. They don't tell you whether the unit is any good. In this Peax Thrive episode, Mark sits down with Chiam Loyd at the PEAX studio. They use the new Treeline Hunt IQ Suite to take Chiam's Montana general elk tag from 196 units down to a short list, live on screen. Mark walks through the State Heat Map, Tag Finder, Unit Reports, and side-by-side unit comparisons. He explains why he trusts 3-year and 5-year averages over any single year, why a unit with no hunters probably has no elk, and how soil moisture changes the elevation he hunts. There are so many Western hunting research nuggets packed into this episode. Thrive viewers get 20% off the Hunt IQ Suite annual membership with code THRIVE: https://iq.treelineacademy.net Gear up at https://peaxequipment.com and use discount code TREELINE. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaxequipment

Two bulls down, a grizzly on the blood trail, a barrage of gunfire next to our kill site, and a llama still running with an elk herd at 12,000 feet. The Wyoming hunt had it all. This is a Peax Thrive Live From the Hunt episode, recorded at a Montana trailhead the night before packing in. Mark wraps up the final days of the Wyoming elk hunt with Josh and Chiam Loyd, and previews what's next.The full stories behind the gunfire and the grizzly are coming in the Wyoming hunt film. Subscribe so you don't miss it. 🦙 HELP US FIND SMOKEY. Smokey, our 6-year-old pack llama, broke his lead rope during a bear encounter in camp and has been missing in the Wyoming backcountry since September 2nd. He's black with white face markings. If you're hunting the Cody area and see him, message us on Instagram @treeline_pursuits. Go to: https://www.treelineacademy.net/ to find out more about the new Treeline IQ Suite and other course offerings. Gear up at peaxequipment.com and use discount code TREELINE. Follow along: Instagram @treeline_pursuits Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaxequipment Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com

Five days into our Wyoming elk hunt, a grizzly came through camp at two in the morning. One of my llamas broke a half-inch lead rope and disappeared into the dark. He's still out there. This is a Peax Thrive Live From the Hunt episode — recorded in camp at last light, no script, still in the middle of it. Josh, Chiam, and I go through what's happened so far: hundreds of elk and almost nobody else in here, a textbook stalk on a bull with 25 cows that fell apart for no reason we could see until we heard the howls come up out of the drainage, and a grizzly above camp that turned an ordinary evening into buttoning down for war. It has not been a clean hunt. We don't have an elk on the ground. We've had more close encounters than I can count, and the wind has taken every single one of them — six straight days of it, thermals running exactly backwards, prevailing southwest blowing out of the north. IN THIS EPISODE • Elk are spread from the bottom to the top this year • A perfect stalk, a herd that blew out, and the sound that explained it • What llama alerts actually mean at night • The 2 a.m. wreck that cost us a llama • A grizzly above camp, and the worst thirty seconds of my week • Bulls answering but not committing • Smokey is still missing  Gear up at peaxequipment.com; use my discount code TREELINE Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/

Chiam owns more backcountry stoves than any sane person should. So, he finally did what nobody in the hunting space has done: he put twelve of them head-to-head on a 100-point scorecard and let the data decide. Boil times measured three separate ways and averaged. Fuel burn weighed to the gram, before and after every boil. Cold performance after twelve hours at negative four. Altitude performance re-tested at 12,800 feet on top of the Beartooth. Wind resistance at 20 miles an hour — where a surprising number of big-name stoves simply never boiled at all. The winner scored 91 out of 100. Last place scored 51. And the stove that took it costs under $70 — while the newest, priciest, most-hyped stoves in the test finished at the bottom of the board. I sat down with Chiam at the PEAX Equipment headquarters in Bozeman to walk through how he built the test, what shocked him, and the one number every backcountry hunter should know before their next hunt: how many grams of fuel your stove burns per boil. Get that wrong, and you're carrying a second canister you never needed — which weighs about the same as the stove itself. We keep the winner's name out of this one on purpose. Chiam's full review has the rankings, the charts, and every data point. Link below. WHAT WE COVER - Why almost every stove review you've watched is missing the comparison - How the 100-point scorecard was built, and what got weighted heaviest - 12 burner and pot combinations, 3 boils each, 16 oz every time - The cold soak, the altitude run, and the 20 mph wind test - Regulated vs. non-regulated, and why it decides everything - Where Jetboil still wins by a mile (simmer control is not close) - Why every piezo igniter on the market is on a countdown - The half-flame fuel myth, tested - The night in New Zealand when a stove was the difference between   miserable and done hunting WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gqMZAZxHNtE?si=GVLiVb6RGFZYkdGa GET 20% OFF THE HUNT IQ SUITE - Use code THRIVE at checkout: https://www.treelineacademy.net/ Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaxequipment

In this Thrive episode, we dive into the Work That Nobody Sees And Few Hunters Do! Five e-scouting and hunt-planning tactics that will help you find elk before you ever load the truck. How to set your elevation band off this year's soil moisture instead of habit, how to actually map hunting pressure instead of guessing at it, why the MVUM is the most useful access document nobody reads, why an elaborate basecamp may be costing you elk, and how to build the hunt plan that ties all ten tactics together. None of these is a silver bullet. It's the stack that matters. GET 20% OFF THE HUNT IQ SUITE - Use code THRIVE at checkout: https://www.treelineacademy.net/ Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaxequipment

Three hunters. Nine days. Three archery bulls. We recored this after the hunt a year ago, sitting in the dirt next to all three racks, the day we came off the mountain.Last September, Jeff Helm, Josh Smunk and I packed eight llamas 4,500 feet up into very remote piece of public land. What came out of it was a film called The Hat Trick — and this conversation, which has been sitting in the vault ever since.I open the show at the Peax studio with Chiam, who created the film. Then we jump straight to the recording we made on location, with Jeff and Josh, before any of us knew how it would land.What you'll hear:— Jeff's bull on day three. Thirty-eight minutes of nothing, and then an entire herd came in running, cows with their mouths open. He passed a five-point at seven yards to take the bull behind it.— Josh's bull, which crossed a canyon — a ranged 1,600 yards — to a cow call. It was his first archery elk.— My bull on the last day, out of a drainage with at least eight bulls in it. I drew on a bull at eight yards, broadside, and let him walk. I still can't tell you why. But the pass was worth it! Watch The Hat Trickhttps://youtu.be/oAyo6kbZGDg?si=iXrnFbwoqF7ikh7s TREELINE E-SCOUTING If you want to learn how to find elk before you leave for the hunt:https://www.treelineacademy.net/ Visit our website: https://peaxequipment.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peax_equip/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaxequipment

Elk season is just weeks away, and here are five tactics almost nobody actually uses. Every one of them is still doable this week. (Part 1 of 2 — Part 2 drops next Tuesday.   Most elk hunters read the same articles, watch the same videos, pick the same trailheads, and walk up the same trails — often at the same time. Predictable hunters get predictable results. In Part 1 of this two part series, I cover the five field moves that break the pattern: hunting downhill from trailheads, getting off established trails, being on the glass before first light, staying out of camp all day, and locating elk at night.   Part 2 next Tuesday covers the e-scouting side — soil moisture and elevation, mapping pressure zones, MVUMs, staying mobile, and building a real hunt plan.   HUNT IQ SUITE — 20% off with code THRIVE treelineacademy.net ________________________________________ Additional Thrive Resources Use My Code TREELINE For A Great Peax Discount At: https://peaxequipment.com Treeline Academy. – (Use code THRIVE to save 20% on any course) https://www.treelineacademy.net

On this Thrive Live From The Hunt, with Bow Disciples but this time we've traded the elk woods for the islands of Hawaii — chasing one of the most beautiful and most destructive animals in North America: the axis deer. Introduced over a century ago, they've exploded across the islands, stripping native forests, wrecking ranchland, and pushing fragile ecosystems to the brink. Out here, hunting isn't just sport — it's conservation!Join us for a special Live From The Hunt edition you won't forget. _________________________ Additional Thrive Resources Use My Code TREELINE For A Great Peax Discount. https://www.peaxequipment.com/   Treeline Academy. – (Use code THRIVE to save 20% on any course) https://www.treelineacademy.net   Treeline Podcast Archive https://www.treelineacademy.net/podcast-main--b42b4   Treeline Thrive Vodcast Archive https://www.treelineacademy.net/thrive