I truly believe the biggest issue facing American hunters in 2024 will be the Colorado ballot initiative to ban all mountain lion hunting. The animal rights activists earned a major victory in Colorado in 2020 when they won the ballot initiative [...]
Straight walled cartridges have been around for over 150 years. So the technology isn't new, but it has evolved considerably in recent years. That evolution has lead to some state wildlife agencies opening up straight walled specific deer seasons or at [...]
When it comes to whitetail deer, I don't believe you'll find a more controversial topic than Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). On this week's show we sit down with Texas Parks and Wildlife Whitetail Deer Program Lead Alan Cain. I think we [...]
You might have seen the crazy video of a mountain lion's failed stalk on a cow elk. The cat misses out on the elk but in it's attempt to escape, the elk becomes entangled in a barbed wire fence, and the [...]
They say most people switch careers 3 times in their lives. I hope that never becomes my reality. It's no secret that I am blessed to get to call hunting and fishing a job. Of course there are the hours upon [...]
This one is all ducks all the time. Our old friend and Ducks Unlimited Senior Waterfowl Scientist Mike Brasher makes his return to the show. We discuss some changes in puddle duck populations based off the recent 2023 Annual Waterfowl Survey. [...]
New Mexico has long been a place that is near and dear to me. I've backpacked, flyfished and hunted the Sangre De Cristos mountains for over 20 years. So to see a record shattering bull elk come out of the Land [...]
I became aware of Team Endure through a viral deer hunting video I came across a few weeks back. It was of a whitetail buck sliding down a snow covered hill where the hunter clearly had shot the animal from the [...]
Texas Parks and Wildlife Coastal Fisheries Program Leader Robin Reichers makes his return this week. We discuss the latest in saltwater fisheries management pertaining to our most sought after bay species in trout, redfish and flounder. Over the course of my [...]
No hunter, outdoorsman, biologist I've come across dismisses Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) as a made up disease that doesn't affect an infected deer. However, is CWD really the Grim Reaper for deer herds? With Tennessee's state wildlife agency possibly manipulating CWD [...]
I recently came across a fascinating Field and Stream article written by Charlie Booher concerning the first ever documented smallmouth bass being caught in Montana's famed Bitterroot trout fishery outside of Missoula. Long time fishing guide and Montana Wildlife Federation employee [...]
Here it is again and let me say it louder for the folks in the back... if you voted for Biden and call yourself a hunter, then this is on you. Time for some self reflection. The Biden Administration recently defunded [...]
Beau Saucier and I have been friends for a long time. We seen some good duck dogs come and go, kiddos born, careers blossom and without fail each fall we end up chasing birds together each fall. Whether it's in a [...]
I was first introduced to Kodiak Canvas tents while on a 9 day archery elk hunt in Wyoming last September. My lifelong friend David Morgan pulled this thing out of his truck bed and once we had it up I knew [...]
Everyone's favorite bowhunting couple Jess and Braxton Byers jump on the show this week. The Texas transplants moved to Utah to work for Huntin'Fool a few years back. We dive into a plethora of topics including: Do they think they will [...]
We get things going with a quick hit segment on Horny Toads, Biden's latest attack on hunting through defunding archery and hunter education in public schools and a funny little rumor I heard about myself. You can't make it up lol! [...]
Texas Trophy Hunters has represented the Texas hunting community for nearly 50 years. The 2023 Extravaganza season kicks off this week in Houston as the TTHA tradition of hunting, family and community come together once again in Houston, Fort Worth and [...]
Former Texas Parks and Wildlife Director of Hunter Education Robert Ramirez joins me to discuss SB 1236 - the biggest anti hunting bill to ever pass in Texas history. As of September 1st, 2023, Texas sportsmen and women will no longer [...]
Assistant Commander Stormy King of our TPWD Game Warden Division joins us on this episode of Campfire Conversations. We discuss the implications of SB 1236 and it's potential impact on the hunting community and our Game Wardens as far as enforcing [...]
This one might ruffle a few feathers and for that, we make absolutely ZERO apologies. My good friend and hunting industry mogul Baker Leavitt joins me this week. Baker is the Director of Black Rifle Coffee and the owner of the [...]
I've covered hunting and fishing in Texas for nearly 15 years and I never knew we had a Bureau of Land Management Unit anywhere in the Lone Star State, much less one that is open to public land bowhunters. The 12,000 [...]
Safari Club International VP Government Affairs Ben Cassidy and District of Conservation Podcast Host Gabriella Hoffman join Cable for an interesting round table discussion concerning the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) recent proposed rule on Conservation and Health Landscape. The rule [...]
I won't lie, the world of Cross Fit is something I'm not familiar with. (However, by the time this podcast posts, I will have completed my first ever Cross Fit training session). Apparently though, there's this dude Rich Froning who is [...]
