Episode 783: Lyme Disease – The Cost of Spring Turkey Hunting

Dylan Prater and I have been best friends for 43 years. Our moms met nursing us at a church party back in 1981. While Dylan enjoys golf and fishing, his hunting experience has been limited to a handful of dove hunts, an axis doe and an extensive list of failed spring turkey hunts with yours [...]

The annual Safar Recap Episode is always one of my favorite shows each year. This was my 8th trip to South Africa to hunt with John X Safaris. My longtime friend and PH Carl Van Zyl, Henry and I recorded this one at the John X Safaris Woodlands Camp on South Africa's beautiful Eastern Cape. [...]

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 from the area has put on united front opposing the landowner's actions and a [...]

Dr. Steve Demarais is a self-described 'deer nut'. The recently retired Co-Director of Mississippi State's famed Deer Lab made whitetail deer his life's work. On today's show we sit down and discuss some of the more fascinating discoveries his department made concerning whitetail deer behavior and genetics. Some of the highlights include: Can a whitetail [...]

Our good friend and passionate big game hunter Baker Leavitt returns to the show on this episode of Campfire Conversations. We talk all things hunting Africa and what it means for  your bank account. You might be surprised at how much the American dollar gets you on the Dark Continent. Baker, who turns 50 in [...]

Field and Stream contributor and passionate whitetail hunter Adam Lewis joins on this episode. We go into detail on his recent article titled We Know Big Bucks Disappear, Now We Know Where They Go. We've all likely been there before...hunting a mature buck that suddenly vanishes halfway through the season never to be seen again, only [...]

On this week's show we check in with Bryan LeFever of Purple Heart Homes. The lifelong sportsman has one of the coolest and most rewarding jobs I've come across in that he gets to take our veterans on hunting and fishing trips. His role as Corporate Relationship Director essentially involves fundraising and finding partners willing [...]

Journalist, reporter and Western filmmaker Keely Covello joins the show this week. I recently became aware of her popular AmericaUnwon Instagram page after a listener alerted me of a specific case where a South Dakota ranching couple were facing criminal charges for a fence line that existed long before they were even born. Keely's tireless [...]

This one is from the vault. We talk spear gun hunting for invasive lion fish with Captain Tony Young out of the Florida Keys. Then we check in with Wired2Fish's Walker Smith for a discussion on all things buzz bait fishing for big bucketmouths.

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 they keep sticking it to out of staters at every turn. What they do [...]