Episodes

It’s hard to believe that Season 5 has come to an end, but even harder to believe Pure Hunting has had 5 seasons. Here is a “best of series” from the last 5 years, including amazing hunts, mishaps, time in the field with family and friends, never before seen footage in any episode, and really what Pure Hunting is all …

The best of Season 5 of Pure Hunting

Willi heads to Alberta to hunt black bear with good friend, and host of “Into High Country”, Jason Matzinger. They’re hunting with Colin Play of Northern Edge Outfitting. If they are successful, it will be Willi’s first archery black bear.

Join Willi as he, his dad and friends head to Argentina for a bucket list hunt for Argentina doves. Willi gave this hunt to his father for his recent retirement and it has always been his dad, John’s dream to hunt doves in Argentina. As the trip was planned, several other friends and family joined them on this hunt and …

Willi heads to Texas to his friend Randy Peck’s ranch to hunt hogs and coyotes. The hunt didn’t turn out like expected, but Willi and Chris headed back to Texas a few weeks later. They had thermal imaging equipment and the results were far better.

Willi and his buddy Brad head to Southern Colorado to hunt archery deer. Willi scouted the area with another friend and had some good intel, but nothing could prepare them for what happened causing the animals to leave the area. They re-locate hoping to seal the deal with only a short time left in their hunt.

A huge part of any hunting trip is sharing it with family and friends. I have always enjoyed waterfowl hunting because of the camaraderie shared in a duck blind. This hunt was very special, regardless of the number of birds taken, because it was a rare time that my dad, son and I enjoyed a hunt together.

Chris and I love chasing bugling bulls and a friend suggested we apply for a new spot we had never hunted in Western Wyoming. We drew the tag, looked at maps and went for it, the first week of September, never having set foot in that area before. It’s a hunt we would definitely consider again.

Elk hunting is Chris Nowak’s and my biggest passion but for the last 25 years, we’ve only hunted them with archery gear. We decided to head to an area familiar to us and go after them during the early rifle season. Our hopes and expectations were high, but in the dark timber, even with a rifle, things need to line …

I have hunted with this Illinois outfitter many times, five times in fact, both shotgun and archery, but had yet to take a good deer. I’m heading back, once again, hoping the sixth time’s a charm.

After hunting pronghorn for the first time in over 20 years in Wyoming last year, I was determined to hunt them again. I wasn’t successful in the draws for a few states so when I had the opportunity to purchase a landowner tag from friends in NM, I jumped at the chance!

It’s hard to believe that there have been 4 full seasons of Pure Hunting. Season 4’s “Best Of” shows what a “season of firsts” this season was. I hope you enjoy this wrap up of Season 4.

Join Chris and me as I take him to the Panhandle of Nebraska for some December waterfowl action.

Follow along as I take friend, Justin Roach to the Panhandle of Nebraska to try to help him kill his first turkey in several years.

Join Chris and me as we continue our Colorado DIY archery mountain goat hunt. This is part 2 from “Thin Air Duo”. If you haven’t watched that yet, do so then follow up with this as this awesome DIY archery mountain goat hunt unfolds. This hunt does not go ideal for Chris Nowak, as he learns his sight is loose …

Willi and Chris both drew a nearly once-in-a-lifetime Colorado archery mountain goat tags. Join them as they hunt a DIY hunt in the rugged San Juan Mountains of S. Colorado.

I had always heard how good Axis deer meat is. When I learned you can hunt them during the rut in June, I began to look for free-range opportunities. I found SOE hunts and made plans for the hunt. This proved to be a fun hunt, chasing the roars of the bucks and the meat proved to be as good …

Most people who have hunted Desert Bighorn Sheep pay big bucks have paid big bucks for the opportunity and have gone South of the border and/or hired a high priced outfitter. Chris Nowak was one of the lucky few who drew this true once-in-a-lifetime tag in our home state of Colorado. He had the whole month of November and could …

It’s been awhile since Chris Nowak, Brad Billingsley and I have had a hunt together. Chris invited Brad and me for a hog hunt on his Texas lease and put some new toys to use.

Chris Nowak drew 3 of Colorado’s coveted tags in 2014. Follow along on his first one, Colorado Shiras Moose. He spent much of the summer scouting and had friends in the area keep an eye out for him as well.

I haven’t hunted Pronghorn since college but when Zach Dorr, a native of Gillette, Wyoming asked me up to hunt with him, I jumped at the chance. I had just enough time to learn the area before Zach had to leave me to join his wife as they got ready for the birth of their son, Korbyn.  

This episode wraps up 3 full seasons of Pure Hunting. A compilation of what Pure Hunting stands for, showing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the adventures we’ve had and the people we’ve met. It’s hard to believe we’ve had 3 seasons and season 4 is right around the corner.

Follow along as Jim Burgen, Lead Pastor at Flatirons Church, heads out to Southern Colorado on his first ever big game hunt, for early season rifle elk.

I’ve hunted bears a couple of times, but have yet to bring one home. For this bear hunt, I’m going along with Santino Castellanos as we join Dan and Rod Staton in Idaho. We’re staying at their family cabin and hunting with bows and rifles on the baits they maintain on land that is available to anyone. Hopefully this year …

I have hunted this part of South Dakots the last two years. This year I’m introducing my buddy, Brad Billngsley to this great, spot and stalk archery deer hunt. Hopefully we’ll have the same success I had last year. Come along as we chase whitetails and mule deer in the badlands of South Dakota.

Join my friends, Luke Caudillo and Santino Castellanos as they head to Nebraska to hunt whitetails during the rifle season in November. After returning, Santino still has a Colorado “B” license burning a hole in his pocket and I get to join him on this hunt as he tries to fill it.

On this episode I head to Idaho for a rifle whitetail hunt with Jay Robert from Tenzing and Jana Waller of “Skullbound TV”. Jay Robert was our host on this hunt. Hells Canyon is a unique and spectacular place. There are a lot of firsts on this trip, and there is lots of wildlife, but is an Idaho whitetail in …

Follow along as I head to Texas with Jim Burgen, pastor of Flatirons Church to hunt hogs. This is only my second hog hunt, Jim’s first and his son Jordan’s first hunt ever. We’re hunting some land that a family of a missionary friend of Jim’s owns.

Follow along as Co-Host Chris Nowak for his Colorado archery Bighorn Sheep. It took him 13 years to draw this tag and he’s hunting like we nearly always do, DIY on public land and we love it!

Follow along as I join Chris on his trophy pronghorn hunt in Colorado. It took him 13 years to draw the tag and it’s his first ever pronghorn hunt.

Follow along as Willi heads to Colorado’s Unit 76 for a limited draw archery elk tag.

Join Chris Nowak and me for the second part of our Alaskan drop camp caribou adventure.

Join me on a fun, Montana turkey hunt with Jason Matzinger of “Into High Country” and Jana Waller of “Skullbound” as well as Tim Endsley of Bad Medicine Archery. We break out the wall tents, tell campfire stories and get into some Missouri Breaks stutters.

Join me on this fun, entertaining hunt with MMA fighter, Luke Caudillo as we battle cactus, spiders and the August heat as we hunt for hogs in Texas.

Join me on a NM coyote hunt with Lance Tangen and Mike Law, two hunters who are usually behind the camera.

Join me as I head back to South Dakota to redeem myself from last year’s hunt. I shot a nice buck, only to search him for a day and a half and never recover him. It’s great country and terrain for a spot and stalk archery deer hunt.

Join Willi’s long-time hunting friend and Pure Hunting Co-Host, Brad Billingsley as he goes on a DIY Colorado archery pronghorn hunt. After a long, dry summer, there’s not much cover and he finds a traditional spot and stalk hunt to be more challenging than he originally thought.

Join me as my dad and I go on our annual Kansas rifle white tail hunt. He killed a great deer last year, can he do it again?

Join Chris Nowak and me as we head to Colorado’s Limited Unit 61 on his public land, DIY archery elk hunt.

Join me as my dad and I head ingot the mountains of Colorado for a DIY Rocky Moutain elk hunt on public land. I’m hunting with the bow and my dad has his muzzleloader. It’s the heart of the rut and I’m hoping I can get my dad a nice bull to take home to Kansas.

Join Chris and me as we’re dropped off in Alaska for an outfitted, DIY caribou hunt in some of the most stunning scenery there is.

Follow Willi from his home in Colorado to join his friend, Shan Smith and Outfitter Flen Grizzaffe into the Florida swamps to hunt alligators with his bow.

After hunting in South Dakota for deer the previous fall and seeing a ton of turkeys, I figured it would be a fun hunt this spring. I’m heading back for an archery turkey hunt with 2 tags in my pocket.

Join Willi as he heads to Kansas to hunt with his dad during Kansas rifle season.

Join Willi as he heads to the Badlands of South Dakota in search of an archery, sport and stalk mule deer.

When hunters think of deer hunting in Colorado, they probably think of Mule Deer hunting first, but what many hunters don’t know is that there’s world-class whitetail hunting just a few miles from the front range. Willi accompanies his friend Chris to northern Colorado to hunt Whitetails along the famous South Platte River, where the muley and whitetail ranges overlap …

There aren’t many areas in the country known for big elk, so it can take some creativity to find public land elk destinations that are largely untouched but still offer good chances at big bulls. Willi and his friends, Chris and Brad, put their heads together to uncover some amazing Pure Hunting for Elk in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado …

Willi Schmidt’s quest for Pure Hunting destinations continues with one of America’s best kept secrets: a budget-wise Barbary Sheep hunt in Texas canyon country. And Willi joins his friend Brad in the high-country of Colorado to chase elusive Rocky Mountain Mule Deer on public land that’s challenging enough to discourage all but the bravest do-it-yourself hunters.

Willi Schmidt’s quest to find the last, best, affordable Pure Hunting destinations begins on a trip to Alaska with his friend Brad to take on an epic self-guided bear hunt. This hunt will test not only their hunting abilities, but their survival skills as well. Dropped off in the middle of nowhere with no guide, no phones, no help and …