Lone Star Outdoor Show

Mixing great pointing dogs with a bird of prey on an upland hunt seems like an odd technique. However, it's one that Tyler Sladen has mastered. The veteran falconer and pointing dog enthusiast uses his dogs to point/flush coveys before releasing his Goshawk to actually catch the quail. Tyler joins the show this week to [...]

As we've documented on previous episodes, Colorado is attempting to ban ALL mountain lion hunting by ballot initiative this November. The antis have reverted to the same playbook they used to pass wolf reintroduction - let the uneducated and emotionally swayed public decide the fate of sustainable use hunting and conservation. The recipe is one [...]

Jake Schumann and Micah Cano have been best friend since kindergarten. I've known Micah for a couple years as he manages the gym I go to. We often share trail camera images and talk about the big bucks we hope to run into. However, when he showed my a photo of a giant Collin County [...]

Henry just turned 11 and if you ask him how long he's been hunting with his old man, he'd tell you "my entire life".  Which is true considering there are photos of him and Belle in a dove patch where he's sitting in a stroller with a fan on him and a bottle of milk [...]

13 year old Marshall Colvin has been hunting with his dad Trey from the time he was a toddler. He's taken numerous deer, turkey, predators and other species in that time. He's now old enough to be dropped off at the blind on his own. That's exactly the scenario he found himself in this past [...]

Blood Origins founder Robbie Kroger makes his return this week. Few folks are as well versed on the global conservation initiative and sustainable use as Robbie. We discuss the latest attacks and attempts to undermine sustainable use from Colorado to Botswana. We also reflect on our very first discussion years ago. Highlights from today's talk include: [...]

Gabriella Hoffman is someone I respect highly and I'm always thrilled to have her join the show. Few folks are more in tune with potential legislative issues that could affect hunters and gun owners than 'Gabby'. The reporter, podcast host, writer and spokeswoman  and I get into some interesting topics today. Some of the highlights [...]

Perhaps no technological advancement has changed the game more than mapping applications over the past decade. From providing valuable property line/landowner data to now being able to predict peak rut dates by region for whitetail deer. Not to mention all the features that allow you to mark everything from bedding areas to blinds, feeders, wallows, [...]

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 to reintroduce wolves. This situation is eerily similar as they try to tug at [...]

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 least having them coincide with the usual black powder or shotgun seasons. On this [...]

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 can all agree that the main issue with CWD is that we still don't [...]

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 cat makes an easy kill as a result. To get that entire sequence on [...]

Bucks like this don't get killed very often, even less frequently when the hunter is a 14 year old. Thrilled to have Rickey and Reili Brewer in studio this week to share the tale of a true East Texas giant buck. 'Ol Monroe' as Rickey named him eluded hunters on the 12,000 acre Red River [...]

Bowhunter Jonas Poland drops by on this episode. We talk about his passion for bowhunting whitetails and how that ultimately lead to arrowing this 198 inch whopper on a 10 acre property. We discuss his set up, the weather conditions that day, and what happened when he let the arrow fly. We also get into [...]

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 hours of behind the scenes prep/taping/editing/content creation etc that goes into all this, but [...]

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. Do scientists get alarmed by big percentage changes by species on a year to [...]

I recently came across a NAT GEO piece that detailed the interesting phenomenon of cougars killing grey wolves in Washington. After a quick Google search, I realized that a similar feature was published in Outdoor Life over a year ago and the NAT GEO piece was largely just regurgitating the original. I reached out to [...]

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 of Enchantment this fall certainly peaked my interest. A few Instagram messages later and [...]

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 road. Road hunting is generally frowned upon and illegal in most states. However, 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 career we've seen the spotted sea trout limit go from 10 fish to 5 [...]

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 positive numbers and TPWD posting billboards on popular interstates while sending out mailers to [...]

There's been a significant amount of backlash after news broke that Liberty Safes provided the FBI a master access code to a safe belonging to Nathan Hughes during a recent raid of his home. Do all safe manufacturers keep a registry of their customers and should Liberty Safes have provided the code to the FBI? [...]

Our old friend Jesse Duebel of the New Mexico Wildlife Federation makes his return to the show this week. The passionate big game hunter gives us his thoughts on why New Mexico continues to be squarely in the crosshairs of anti hunting organizations. Has the Land of Enchantment's Game and Fish Commission been infiltrated or [...]

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 Jeff Lukas was quoted in the piece and with decades of experience in the [...]

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 archery and hunter education programming in the public school system. This obviously begs the [...]