A longtime listener recently reached out to me claiming his hunting partner had lost 3 dogs after a recent hog hunt. The dogs were fine after the hunt but soon after began showing rabies like symptoms of foaming at the mouth, [...]
What to do with all that pork? That is the question that many hunters face a night of thermal or aerial hog control. This week we discuss the limitations the USDA has placed on the donation of feral hog meat to [...]
You've likely been told that eating raw freshwater fish is extremely dangerous. But is that really accurate information? MeatEater Fishing Editor Sam Lungren has done much research on the topic. He joins me this week to discuss this topic in depth. [...]
Our good friend and First Lite Community Manager Kevin Harlander makes his return to the show. We discuss how the Covid 19 Pandemic is affecting the hunting retail industry. We also hit on cancelled hunting trips due to the pandemic. Plus, [...]
Sometimes hunters make an honest mistake. My friend Jeff Jackson found out the hard way that even an honest mistake will result in TPWD throwing the book at you. He ended up losing this 226 inch high fence buck which we [...]
Marion Julius always loved having different animals on the family's Illinois farm. So it was no surprise to his son Kent when he brought home a black bear cub. 9 years later, the bear (named Clifford) had reached a massive 1,000 [...]
Chronic Wasting Disease has long been a hot topic of conversation among the wildlife management and hunting community. In recent weeks however, it has come to the forefront again through a series of assaults on Texas hunting culture. I.E., is labeling [...]
Common sense tells deer hunters that a management plan based on removinginferior racked or 'cull' bucks from the gene pool would ultimately lead to an overall increase in antler production within a property. However, recent research doesn't back that assertion up. [...]
So much to get into this week and we start with Sportsmen's Alliance VP of Marketing Brian Lynn. The fact that Pennsylvania hunters haven't been legally allowed to hunt on Sundays since the colonial days of the late 1600s is mind [...]
I was saddened to hear the story my longtime friend and Texoma striper guide Jacob Orr told me concerning his pup "Ember". After nearly a $10,000 investment on the dog and 13 months of professional training it was apparent that she [...]
Go Wild and First Lite have partnered together to offer up one of the best hunting experiences you'll find - one lucky listener will win a Nebraska mule deer hunt and be outfitted head to toe in First Lite gear. We [...]
Atlantic Flyway greenheads are struggling and nobody seems to know why. The flyway wide bag limit was reduced to 2 birds for the 2019-2020 season. Ducks Unlimited Chief Biologist Tom Moorman jumps on to discuss this unfortunate reality and what, if [...]
We kick things off by breaking down the relationship between Desert Big Horn Sheep and invasive aoudad with Texas Parks and Wildlife Desert Big Horn Leader Froylan Hernandez. His department is in the middle of their aerial surveys which they also [...]
Anthrax outbreaks in a few Southern Texas counties have killed hundreds of deer, exotics and livestock. Texas Parks and Wildlife head veterinarian Bob Dittmar joins the discussion this week to shed light on a disease I knew vary little about. How [...]
We kick things off by talking back country boots with lifelong Western big game hunter Jim Winjum- Owner and Founder of Kenetrek Boots. What is flex in a boot, why is it important in the mountains? What about matching the right [...]
In a career spanning 2 decades, California angler Mike Long built a reputation as America's Big Bass King. Fellow tournament angler and SDFish founder Kellen Ellis was competing against Mike in the early days and they even considered going into business [...]
Ivan Carter has lived an interesting life as a hunter and conservationist. After nearly 3 decades spent as a Professional Hunter, his career has taken a turn towards full time conservation. He has become in a sense the most respected and [...]
About once a year Erin agrees to go varmint hunting with me. That usually occurs at our annual Guns and Guitars event at Koon’s Canyon Ranch. This year, that outing took a turn for the worse when a venomous giant centipede [...]
Diving with tiger sharks and great whites is something I’ve never considered, certainly not without a cage anyway. But for One Ocean Dive Instructor and Shark Naturalist Kayleigh Grant, it’s just another day at the office off the coast of Hawaii’s [...]
Every safari is unique to itself. My 3rd trip to hunt South Africa's Eastern Cape with John X Safaris was more diverse than the previous two safaris. My friend and PH Carl Van Zyl (2nd Generation Owner of John X Safaris) [...]
Humans have taken running shots at wild game since the dawn of time. Yet for some reason that skill set seems to be dying on the vine. I find that reality somewhat shocking due to the fact that modern technology has [...]
Trail Camera technology has come along ways in recent years and Stealth Cam has long been at the forefront of pioneering those advancements. This week, I'm thrilled to have Stealth Cam and GSM Outdoors' Taylor Black drop by the studio to [...]
Hunting free range Nilgai Antelope in deep South Texas has long been a hunt near the top of my bucketlist. So when my friends at First Lite mentioned they wanted to come to Texas and test/photograph some of their new gear [...]
