Gary Lewis Outdoorsman

It's the best time of the year! It's October, the month of road trips and big bucks and steelhead in the rivers and we have Jordan Knigge in the studio to talk about fishing Central Oregon and the next world record king salmon, which we believe someone is going to catch in South America. This is a great episode. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet...

It's a swapcast! This conversation was recorded for the We Are Outdoorsmen podcast with Richy Harrod and Bob Loomis and Britton Ransford and here it is in its entirety. We talk about favorite rifles, loads and how to put them to work in deer season. Happy October! If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffee and books and wildlife forage...

This M.D. doesn’t wear a lab coat. But he sure has spent a lot of time with black labs. Returning champion M.D. Johnson is back to talk brushy country deer hunting in the Pacific Northwest. He reveals his favorite deer rifle and the philosophies that have sustained him for 50 seasons in the deer woods.  If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our c...

It was a 2-1/2 day blackpowder hunt for a trophy blacktail in southern Oregon’s Applegate Unit. We rattled antlers, scraped antlers on branches and tried to make our luck and then it rolled our way. We sit down with Brad Douglas, the producer of High Desert Outdoorsman to recall a favorite hunt in poison oak country.  If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age,...

After a long day behind the long guns with the sun beating down and the wind swirling across the desert, we sit down to talk long range shooting, favorite calibers, suppressors, optics and doping the wind. Our guest is Brandon Wessels who got his start hunting for mule deer, joined the Marines right out of high school and loves to teach the art of the rifle.  If you want to support free speech and...

He’s 28 years old and he came to bear hunting the honest way. Working in the woods. Listening to the old guys. Paying attention. Watching for food sources. You can’t find Evan Goetz on social media, but you might be able to find him in some grove of chinquapins in northern California, watching a berry patch come mid-September. This is the 23rd installment in our How To Be A Bear Hunter series. If...

Back in the studio with Trevor Barclay from High Desert Tactical to talk holsters and specifically the belly band, that polyester tummy tucking pistol pocketer and spare tire harness. Wear it under your t-shirt or a tuxedo. Don’t be afraid. It’s got Velcro! And the worst that could happen is it could snag a few navel hairs. You could stand a trim anyway.   If you want to support free speech and go...

How do we keep deer on a piece of ground? There’s a lot we can learn from each other. Levi Mallory from Missouri and Troy Rodakowski from western Oregon join us for this one to talk about food plots and forage blends. And how to keep does on the property year-round with food sources, water, bedding cover and escape cover. Maybe this isn’t East meets West, but it’s Midwest meets West for sure. Talk...

We sit down with morning person Mikal Cline, Oregon’s state upland bird coordinator and the proud owner of a new Brittany puppy to talk about how fire season meets chukar season in the West and why this looks like THE year to hunt chukar and quail. Wondering what happens to wildlife when 1 million acres burns in eastern Oregon? We look at it from the upland bird biologist’s perspective and start l...

This M.D. doesn’t wear a lab coat. But he sure has spent a lot of time with black labs. Returning champion M.D. Johnson is back on the podcast to talk duck hunting for the modern man (or woman) and what it takes to get out in the swamps and the forest ponds hunting ducks. He reveals his favorite shotgun load and the philosophies that have sustained him for 50 seasons of hunting ducks and geese.  I...

Back in the studio with Trevor Barclay from High Desert Tactical to talk holsters and handguns and maintenance of the gear. What goes wrong. What we should be watching week to week on belts, belly bands and bandoliers. You have a bandolier, don’t you?  If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffee and books and wildlife forage blends at https:...

A long time ago, I sat down with old John Nosler and collected his stories on cassette tapes. Then the tapes were lost for many years. We found the tapes in filing cabinet back in the summer of 2019 and I digitized them and searched through the archives for stories like this. Now you can hear old John Nosler in his voice tell the stories of founding the company called Nosler. If you want a copy of...

We’re talking bear hunting: how-to in SE Alaska, the mistakes people make, the right gun and the right bullet for black bear. And how to time your hunt when hunting in the coastal environment. Why you can sometimes sleep in, eat a big breakfast and kill your bear at low tide in the late afternoon. Listen through to the end to get all the bear hunting advice from Lucas. Visit https://harlequinlodge...

We talk the rise of the .410 shotgun as an all-around waterfowl and turkey slayer. And we talk new .410 shotguns and #9 Tungsten for long-range shooting on mallards. Then we remember how many times we have been fooled by the wolf introduction advocates. Some of us have to have long memories. Sykes Mitchell is proprietor of Duck Creek Outfitters in Saskatchewan, hunting snow geese in the spring, wa...

A veteran of 12 North American sheep hunts, Jim has written a book called Tracks On A Mountain, sharing the highs and lows and his transition from a once-in-a-lifetime sheep hunter to a sheep fever-afflicted outdoorsman who sets challenging goals. Visit https://tracksonamountain.com/   If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffee and books an...

It’s go time. Here in Oregon, turkey season is a month old with a little better than two weeks left to go. Here’s how to be thinking if you want to tie a tag on a gobbler in the tail end of the season. We talk to Troy Rodakowski about the differences between urban/rural birds and mountain gobblers, what you can get away with when calling a tom away from hens and how to keep your head in the game. ...

We meet up with Joe Schroeder, a product development specialist from Alps Outdoorz in Missouri. We talk favorite rifles – he likes the 6.5 PRC and the 300 Win Mag – and we talk backpacking, mountain camps and stalking close on whitetails and pronghorns and preparing and eating pronghorn – America’s original and fastest food. Find Alps Outdoorz at https://alpsoutdoorz.com/ If you want to support fr...

His back story includes working in a jail in Ventura. He was a church youth pastor, musician, comedian, woodworking craftsman and a private investigator. But in this episode, the Randall Knight goes deep. We talk the North Hollywood Shootout and the fallout from that and the one day he and his mom were going camping and they end up at KFC and she whips out her pistol because she wants extra crispy...

We catch up with Jeremiah Polacek the editor of Rifle and Handloader magazines to talk pronghorns and how to plan the hunt and use optics to evaluate bucks at long range.  If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffee and books and wildlife forage blends at https://www.garylewisoutdoors.com/Shop/   For more info on forage blends, click on http...

We sit down with Zack Tickler, a builder of boutique trout baits for rainbows, browns and smallmouth bass too. On tour, on location with rock bands around the U.S. and the world, he’s whipping up the great meals and catching fish on the side. Here’s how he makes it all work. We talk how to fish in town, how to run a spinner, how to set up a spinning rod. And how to find fresh ingredients and cook...

We catch up with Chris Sulak, a gun guy, real estate agent, and comedian and we talk favorite calibers, favorite long guns, best calibers for deer and bear and how to shoot a lever action like a cowboy, like you mean it. Doesn’t mean you can hit what you’re aiming at, but you ought to know how to shoot a lever gun, dude.  If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet...

James Jenkinson grew up in rural New Zealand, but found he loved spending so much time in Argentina he decided to build a new wing-shooting lodge and share his fascination for high-volume dove and pigeon shooting as well as duck and perdiz. We talk all things wing-shooting, the food, what makes Argentina so special for wing-shooting and the truly incredible experience of high volume dove shooting....

We sit down with Trevor Barclay from High Desert Tactical to talk holsters and handguns and everyday carry. We try to cover all the ways people can carry handguns in day to day life and talk about philosophies a little bit too. Forgive us for not knowing all our body parts by name. We know the important ones. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for...

These are interesting times, people. And if you are planning your hunting camp this year, you’ve got to think about camp security. I’m talking about who is watching your camp when you’re not there? More and more transients and drifters are living in the woods, in Washington and Oregon and Texas and New Mexico, and they want your generator to sell at the pawn shop and they’ll take your truck and yo...

We’re talking prairie dog shooting in spring and summer with Tim Weddington. 10 Gauge Outfitters is based just outside of Dodge City, Kansas and 25 different prairie dog towns within 30 minutes of the lodge. Early May to mid-September is prime time for prairie dog hunting in Kansas. Optics, Tim says, are the key to this game. If you can see them, you can shoot them. Kansas is also known for big wh...