Hunting in Hawaii with Armando Martinez - a podcast by John Stallone
from 2021-11-15T13:46
Hunting in Hawaii and The Bow Hitch with Armando Martinez
Show Notes:
Armando Martinez has a great product called The Bow Hitch. It’s a neat little device that makes carrying your bow suck less. He’s got a website and is on Facebook and Instagram, so check it out. The links are below.
Armando started up The Bow Hitch with a friend of his in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was born and raised. Armando is a fireman by trade and is set to retire in about 10 months. He grew up hunting, and started doing work as a guide in New Mexico, which took his hunting to the next level. He’s got a great story about hunting in Hawaii, a place I’ve heard was wild but couldn’t wait to hear more.
While he was working as a guide, he met someone who lived in Hawaii and wound up inviting him out to hunt. Now, Hawaii is way different than the mainland when it comes to regulations. They do have game and fish and have seasons on some parts of the island, but most of the game lands are privately owned. On privately owned lands, they don’t have seasons, so the dates and weapon choices don’t matter. Some areas do draw tags, but Armando didn’t have to go through that for his trip.
On his first day out, Armando borrowed a custom rifle along with his bow after his guide suggested it. The animals in Hawaii are way more skittish, so a rifle would give him a better chance of shooting something to take back home with him. He went after a buck about 43 yards out but lost him. After 12 hours, he got pretty dehydrated from the heat and wind. The terrain on the islands is paradise, but it can be really rough.
The best part of the story is when Armando went to the airport to check in for his flight home and he realized he was a day early! He got an extra day of hunting to do, and he went out alone this time with his bow. In a grassy field, he came up on a bunch of deer and two bucks who were feeding and didn’t see him. It gets crazy from here on out. Armando wound up shooting the buck and then had to get some help to take it down. The buck kept getting back up and they would lose him in the grass, and at one point it charged at the other guy! It finally went down, and everyone lived to tell the tale.
What’s Inside:
- What it’s like to hunt in Hawaii’s terrain.
- Armando’s story of taking down a buck in the islands.
- How hunting permits are different in Hawaii.
- Information about The Bow Hitch.
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Short Description:
Armando Martinez is the co-founder of The Bow Hitch, a company with a device that makes carrying your bow suck less. He’s also got a wild story about hunting in Hawaii, which is way different than hunting on the mainland.
Tags:
big game hunting, hunting tips, hunting guide, big buck hunting, hunting stories, deer hunting, rifle hunting, archery hunting
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