The Ultimate Predator: Recent Episodes
Nate Granzow and Karl Hylle
The Ultimate Predator Podcast explores all things hunting, outdoors, and conservation. In each episode we deliver expert guidance, hunting techniques and strategies, interviews with experts, and memorable—often laughable—personal anecdotes.
After a prolonged hiatus from podcasting, Editor-in-chief Nate Granzow and TUP Founder Karl Hylle return to reflect on their epic/memorable/nearly deadly 2020 backcountry elk and bear hunt in the inhospitable mountains of Colorado. From freezing weather to back injuries and sore feet, few things went right, but they survived to tell the tale. They also
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Most parenting advice is bunk because every child is unique, but that isn’t going to stop Editor-in-Chief Nate Granzow from weighing in on when he thinks the best age is to start a child hunting. He and Karl go on to talk about their forthcoming backcountry elk/bear hunt in Colorado, bullet choices (and why Nate
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Arguing with TUP’s founder, Karl Hylle, is no fun. The guy should have been a lawyer. TUP Editor-in-Chief Nate Granzow finds this out the hard way in this episode when trying to make the argument that solid bullets—a throwback to another era of hunting—are still among the most versatile options available to today’s hunters. Karl
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Turns out the old battlefield quotation “no plan survives first contact with the enemy” applies to backcountry hunts, too. Despite his best efforts at planning, training, and preparedness, TUP Founder Karl Hylle found himself battling blizzards, washed out trails, overflowing rivers, and uncooperative game on his hunting trip to the Idaho backcountry wilderness. Meanwhile, Editor-in-Chief
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In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Nate Granzow is reunited with his lucky knife he thought was gone forever after losing it in the field last deer season. “It was my first fixed-blade knife. It’s nothing especially fancy, but it’s a nice, dependable knife. I’m really pleased to have it back.” TUP Founder Karl Hylle talks about
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Suffering from itchy trigger fingers as a result of the COVID-19 delay on the commencement of their summer trap league, the TUP team resolved to get their own automatic clay-pigeon thrower and take to the field. TUP Founder Karl Hylle and Editor-in-Chief Nate Granzow explore some of the ways shooting clay pigeons can improve a
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