KHC 122 - The King of Elk Hunting: Casey Brooks

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

Cameron Hanes

Health & Fitness, Sports

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Join us for a conversation with Cameron Hanes and Casey Brooks, a farmer out of Washington and has been chasing bulls with a bow for decades. He’s put down 86 bulls, with his recent bull being a pending world record! Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameronrhanes Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronhanes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camhanes/ Website: https://www.cameronhanes.com Follow Casey Brooks: https://www.instagram.com/caseybrooks65 Thank you to our sponsors: MTN OPS Supplements: https://mtnops.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off and Free Shipping Grizzly Coolers: https://www.grizzlycoolers.com/ use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Hoyt: http://bit.ly/3Zdamyv use code CAM for 10% off Sig Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/ use code CAM10 for 10% off optics Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% your first order GoHunt: https://gohunt.com/ use code CAM when you sign up for $50 towards the gear shop + 10% off the GoHunt store Timestamps: 00:00:00 Competitive Nature in Bowhunting 00:06:07 Casey Brooks Son 00:08:39 A Leaked Photo - World Record Bull 00:16:10 Passing Up Bulls Over 400 00:19:47 Casey’s Favorite Hunts 00:21:01 Dealing with Negativity from Shooting Big Bulls 00:30:12 Ad Break 00:31:47 Photoshopped Images of Casey’s Bull 00:34:41 The Distances that Elk Travel 00:37:33 Respect for the Sacrifices in Hunting 00:41:39 Casey’s Favorite Hunt 00:45:57 You Can’t Believe Everything You Hear 00:49:28 The Secret to Finding Big Bulls 00:53:09 Casey’s Preferred Elk Calling Strategy 00:58:16 Where Casey’s Woodsmanship Came From 01:03:55 Darren Collins & Randy Ulmer 01:06:15 Learning from Blood Trailing 01:09:41 Casey’s Hunting Goals 01:10:58 Casey’s Dad, Calling Bulls as a Kid, & Jack Nicklaus 01:15:39 Premium Hunts & Michael Park 01:20:10 Casey’s Hunting Mentors as a Kid & Working at the Archery Shop 01:25:44 Learning from Hunting the Wilderness Alone 01:28:41 How Casey’s Evolved Over the Years in Bowhunting 01:32:16 You Never Regret the Pain from Packing a Successful Kill Out 01:36:48 Casey’s Advice to Upcoming Bowhunters 01:39:32 The Key for New Bowhunters to Having a Successful Journey 01:40:44 Casey’s Bowhunting Gear 01:45:29 Broadheads - Rocky Mountain Titanium 100 01:52:35 RIVEN Elk Calls 01:56:25 Big Names in the Hunting Industry & Being Approachable 02:00:21 Memories from one of Casey’s Caribou Hunts 02:05:34 Outro

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0:00.0	Every step I take I move my truth.
0:02.5	Every time they tell me stop I use.
0:04.2	Every comment hate that makes my feel.
0:06.0	Gather up my energy and boom.
0:07.9	I hear them talking saying the way that I move it's so reckless.
0:10.5	That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with.
0:12.2	Giving my blood so I am relentless.
0:13.7	This is the Keep Hammering Collective with Casey Brooks.
0:19.8	This is kind of, is this distracting to you? Collective with Casey Brooks.
0:23.7	This is kind of, is this distracting to you?
0:26.2	Never.
0:29.7	So Casey Brooks, for those that don't know,
0:32.7	the pending world record is sitting right here,
0:35.1	400 and what was the official score, 82? Yeah, 482 and 42 and 4 net 491 and 6 gross incredible almost can't say it
0:43.2	I know incredible so yeah I wanted this to start the podcast just for a little perspective on how big
0:49.1	how giant this animal is it looks prehistoric it's incredible so let's lift this off here now we can get to the talk talk
1:01.6	about the hunt casey so we did a fun little intro with the antler sitting on the table and uh so now we're to the real meat and potatoes of what we're going to talk about.
1:15.1	But I want to say, I want to get something out of the way real quick.
1:20.0	It's like you've been like a let, you know, you always hear about these people who, oh, I know the hunter that could, that could blow
1:29.3	socks off anybody, just nobody's ever heard of them. And I'm not saying nobody's ever heard of you,
1:33.5	but your presence in the industry, I think, is like, it's big, but it should have been, to me,
1:42.9	it's like you've always been like this icon in bow hunting.
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