DENVER (July 16, 2026) – The Bowhunter Podcast, presented by Tactacam, and in partnership with Poncho Outdoors, recently sat down for an entertaining and info-filled conversation with long-time Bowhunter TV contributors, current Bowhunter Magazine Hunting Editor and Host of Bowhunter TV, Curt Wells, and current “Empty Quiver” Columnist and regular TV Contributor Danny Farris. Both Wells and Farris have had long and storied careers with the Bowhunter brand. Wells previously served as the brand’s Equipment Editor and began his television hunting career back in 2004, when the brand launched its linear TV program. Later, he became the brand’s full-time Editor in 2016, following in the footsteps of legendary Editor Dwight Schuh, and at that time, Wells also assumed TV hosting responsibilities alongside Mike Carney, who is now President & CEO of Outdoor Sportsman Group.
Farris served Bowhunter and other OSG brands on the sales and publishing side of the business for many years. Today he runs Ultimate Predator/Stalker Decoys and continues to contribute to the Bowhunter brand at the highest level. In fact, Farris and his massive Colorado bighorn sheep grace the cover of the magazine’s July/August 2026 edition, on newsstands now. Wells’ story “Double Tap on Moose,” which details his recent successful Canada moose hunt in Alberta, is also in the issue. Not coincidentally, both magazine features complement incredible Bowhunter TV episodes that will be airing soon. These two hunters routinely compete for the unofficial title of “President of the Bowhunter TV Killing Department,” and they represent more than two decades of bowhunting experience with TV cameras over their shoulders and over 85 years of combined bowhunting experience.
When questioned by podcast Host and Bowhunter Editor-in-Chief Christian Berg about TV participation, Curt Wells had the following to say:
“I’ve been there since the beginning, and I still remember publisher Jeff Waring calling me in 2004 and asking me. He said, ‘We’re gonna create a TV show; do you want to be involved?’ and I told him, ‘That’s quite possibly the dumbest question I’ve ever heard in my life.’ I was leaving for Africa in two weeks, but we didn’t have cameras, we didn’t have cameramen, we didn’t have any production facilities or nothin’. They weren’t ready. So, I did that hunt on my own. But since then, it has been one hell of a ride. Twenty-two years of going on hunts that I never would have been able to go on before the TV show.”
“That’s one of the advantages when hunting for TV, because you get more opportunities than you otherwise might have. So, I’m up to 10 countries and every Canadian province, and probably 30 states, somewhere in there. I did things like hunt Yukon moose in the Yukon three years in a row, and then I hunted brown bears three years in a row. Even people with a whole lot of money don’t have a hunt schedule like that. So, it has just been incredible.”
“I told my wife, ‘If I can get 10 years out of this, I’ll be happy.’ But here we are at 22 years. I just sit on an airplane every now and then and shake my head in disbelief and keep thinking everytime the phone rings somebody is going to say, ‘No, no, we meant the other Curt Wells!’ So, I’m super appreciative of the opportunities I’ve had over the years.”
When questioned about his toughest or most memorable Bowhunter TV hunt, Danny Farris recalled a spring bear hunt he had at Fontaine Lake in northern Saskatchewan:
“What made it special was, we were struggling. This bear was dancing circles around us. He had a knack for knowing if we were going to be there. Let me back up a little bit. To get from camp to our bait site was an hour-and-a-half-long ordeal where you’d ride a four-wheeler part of the way and then you would boat for more than an hour way up north, right on the border of the [Northwest] Territories, so you couldn’t be there from early morning all the way to evening; you had to kind of pick one. Well, if we were there in the evening, that sucker would hit in the morning, and if we were there in the morning, he’d hit during the evening. And we were getting down to the last days of the hunt, so we decided that day we were going in early in the morning…”
“Of course, the days that time of year are long, long, long, and we had this cameraman named Matt Young on that hunt…crazy Matt Young. He is the only cameraman that I know of who would have done this with me. So, we got in that stand early in the morning and went all the way through that day, and you know dark is like 11 o’clock there, and so we hunted all through that day and the bear never showed up, and I looked at Matt at probably 9 o’clock that evening and said, ‘You know what’s going to happen; if they come and pick us up, we’re not going to be here in the morning and that sucker is going to hit first thing in the morning.’ And dark is only about 4 hours. And I said, ‘Dude, What do you think about trying to sleep in this treestand so that we’re here first thing in the morning?’ Ninety-nine percent of cameramen out there would have told me to go shove it. ‘Pack sand! I’m not sitting over a bait site in a treestand that’s only about six feet off the ground, overnight, with bears wandering around,’ and Matt was like, ‘Let’s do it!’ Instantly – there was no hesitation with that guy!”
“And literally, we just ran our safety harnesses further up the tree, so that we could kind of dangle forward in the stand without really going anywhere, and we slept. We slept in that stand. And, sure enough, right as it was cracking daylight, I woke up and said, ‘Let’s get our stuff together.’ No sooner did we get in position and that bear shows up and I arrowed that bear! The part that made it really cool for me is, I’ve hunted with my buddy here, my mentor, Curt Wells, a lot of times. Curt, he doesn’t get real excited. He’s monotone. He doesn’t ever show any big, emotional anything. He’s been doing this a long time, he’s a professional, and he keeps it that way. When I came in with the bear that morning, Curt got excited. Curt was whooping and hollering at me, and [that] made it one of my best moments – close with a couple of other moments I’ve had on Bowhunter TV – but just the fact that Curt was that fired up. ‘Gawd dang it,’ Curt said. ‘You did it! I can’t believe it!’”
Bowhunter TV has been dedicated to covering the entirety of the bowhunting experience for over two decades, and thanks to a team of devoted and sometimes downright stubborn hunters, equally determined cameramen and production team members – and stalwart partners like Hoyt, Easton, FeraDyne Outdoors (Rage, Muzzy, GlenDel & Block targets, Rhino blinds & stands), Browning Trail Cameras, Lancaster Archery Supply, Spot Hogg, Code of Silence, Kenetrek, QAD and more – the program has captured some of outdoor TV’s most compelling and memorable hunts. Be sure to tune in for an epic Season 22.
This episode is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Podbean. Watch the full episode here. Additionally, pick up the latest issue of Bowhunter Magazine on newsstands or subscribe.
“It was a lot of fun to visit with Curt Wells and Danny Farris,” two guys who have pretty much been there and done that where bowhunting for TV is concerned, and they’ve also previously held my current Bowhunter editorial and publishing roles, said Host Christian Berg. “It’s obvious to me that we need to get on the podcast together more often! Whether you’ve seen Bowhunter TV before or not, we hope you can see there’s some exciting stuff coming in this season’s new episodes on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel. Be sure to tune in for new shows premiering every Wednesday night at 9:30 p.m. ET on Sportsman Channel and 10:30 p.m. ET on Outdoor Channel.”
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