I've known Brett Jepsen and Charles Spiegel a long time. So long, in fact, that they both had corporate 9-5 jobs when we first started hunting together. Three Curl Outfitters was in its infancy back then (as was this show) which [...]
I traveled down to the New Braunfels area last week to hang out with the good folks over at Woods Cycle Country. The longtime power sports dealership is family owned and operated by hunters and anglers. You walk into the showroom [...]
Most duck hunters feel like waterfowl hunting has gotten more difficult in recent years. Some complain of a lack of access while others gripe about overcrowded WMA's and other public water bodies being chalk full of other hunters. Couple that with [...]
Two of my favorite singer songwriters join us in studio this week. William Clark Green makes his 3rd appearance on the show and John Baumann his debut. In addition to their chops as solo artists, they also make up one half [...]
Laird Hamberlain is a lifelong sportsman. When asked about his favorite thing to hunt, he'll respond with "DDT" (deer, ducks & turkey). The longtime Safari Club International CEO joined me for a candid conversation about the work SCI is doing both [...]
It was about a decade ago when I first met Tyler Toney and the Dude Perfect crew. I went to their old office (if you can call an adult playground for grown men such a thing) to record a podcast after [...]
Travis Thompson is a lifelong Floridian outdoorsman who serves as the Executive Director of All Florida. This conservation group's focus is to "develop a coalition of advocates and artists, hunters and hikers, fishermen and families, to ensure that Florida's future is [...]
What does the fall waterfowl flight look like based off the 2025 USFWS Waterfowl Survey? Ducks Unlimited's David Schuessler makes his return to show this week. We take a look at recent trends in various duck species populations, some new regulatory [...]
I made my inaugural trip to hunt moose with Arluk Outfitters back in 2018. Fast forward to 2025 and I found myself back in Newfoundland for round two. Ironically, it was Erin, that about a year ago asked, "when are you [...]
Henderson County residents have fished and hunted the Cut Off oxbow lake for over a century. The water body was listed as navigable back in the 1930s and therefore public access is a fundamental right for anyone wishing to utilize the [...]
It's been 15 years since Chad Waligura was last on the show giving him the distinction of having the longest time span between visits in Lone Star Outdoor Show history. So what has changed for our quadriplegic hunting buddy in the [...]
After two decades of beating up my truck on various deer leases across Texas and Oklahoma, I finally decided enough is enough. I have joined the ranks of the side by side community with a new Can Am Defender Lone Star [...]
Dustin Baker is a welder by trade. But after a private landowner fenced off all access to his favorite public fishing hole and duck hunting spot, he began to dive into the legality of the landowner's actions. The entire sporting community [...]
We've seen it in most Western states by now. Substantial fee increases on non-resident tags, licenses and even the application process seem to be the norm these days. Oklahoma, however, doesn't have the traditional western species to offer hunters and yet [...]
Ducks Unlimited Senior Waterfowl Scientist Mike Brasher makes his return to the show. We recount his recent spring turkey success before shifting our attention to the state of waterfowl populations. Highlights from the conversation include: NAWCA Funding Status (North American Wetlands [...]
Ryan Warhola and I have become good friends over the past handful of years. The former cop, turned off shore fishing captain now runs a multi million dollar industrial company as a result of a relationship forged in the blue waters [...]
This was a trip two years in the making and one that I'd wanted to check off the bucketlist for some time. Kent Cartridge actually set this trip up for 2023 but a bad weather system saw last year's trip postponed [...]
Last week's election results signaled big wins for hunting, conservation and the 2nd Amendment. We say goodbye to Deb Halaand's dumpster fire regime as Secretary of Interior. Florida passes Amendment 2 - the Right to Hunt and Fish, anti gun gubernatorial [...]
Dove season is finally here! For my family that means the start of the best time of year. My old friend Hunter Colbert of Kent Cartridge joins the show this week to talk doves, ducks, geese, cranes and more. I've shot [...]
Randall Cole serves as the Regional Vice President of Ducks Unlimited for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The lifelong Oklahoma native was also part of the 15 member coalition responsible for making sure the recent price increases to non resident hunters [...]
If you haven't heard by now, The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has raised the rent on non-resident hunters, and the rent went up substantially. A deer tag for archery only was $300 last year. That same experience in 2024 will [...]
When I got wind that Texas Parks and Wildlife was considering cancelling the long standing spring snow goose conservation season (you know, the one where you take the plug out of your shotgun and there's no daily bag limit) I was [...]
Brant MacDuff has an interesting story. The Brooklyn, NY native and self described animal lover who's always wrestled with eating meat. The economic environmentalist/taxidermy historian and now author joins me on this week's show. We talk about the mental gymnastics of [...]
