Missouri Woods & Water - Hunting and Fishing Podcast

We have an awesome show as we celebrate number 150!  This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get to talk with Dustin Williams, owner of Habitat Works, about property planning.  We wanted to go through what it is like to have someone like Dustin come out to a property from the walk through all the way through the planning service, so we had Dustin come out to both Micah and Nate's huntin...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys get to talk with Paul Campbell of the O2 podcast about his obsession with turkey hunting.  His co-host Andrew Muntz also joins us as moral support and to offer a few of his thoughts as well.  We get into Paul's background with tukey hunting, habitat loss, his opinion on reaping, hunting strategy, calling, and much more with Paul and Andrew. ...

If you had 48 hours to kill as many coyotes as possible and you could hunt with any 3 people in the world.....who would you pick?  Well, this week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast, we have the 2023 coyote hunting fantasy draft.  We set it up like the NFL draft, 3 rounds and an honorable mention/free agent pick.  Who will Nate, Micah, and Andy pick?  There are alot of great coyote hunters out...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys get to talk with the host of The Huntavore podcast, Nick Otto about the fun world of deer jerky.  All deer hunters know that deer jerky is the most popular venison meal/snack out there.  But what makes deer jerky so good and can you step up your jerky game, or maybe you are just starting the process of making jerky.  If so, this is the show...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast Nate and Andy get the chance to talk with Josh Ishmael, the founder of Flatlanders TV about a new series of outdoor children's books he has created.  First we get into what Flatlanders has been doing and some of the cool hunts he has been fortunate enough to film throughout his years doing that.  Then we get into his series of outdoor kids books.  Jo...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys get to talk with Alex, the host of Talk About It Outdoors podcast about night hunting coyotes.  First we get into how Alex got into night hunting and how it grew into thermal hunting from his beginnings.  We also talk about some of the differences between day and night hunting and what Alex likes about both.  We also discuss how calling coyo...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the three of us sit down and discuss hunting in coyote tournaments.  We talk about some of the differences compared to just hunting regularly we have noticed when doing tournaments. We tend to change our hunting strategies just a little bit during a tournament, right or wrong, we have noticed we do it.  Also, about halfway through the recording, our...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get the pleasure of talking with Big Al Morris, a coyote hunting legend.  Al talks about hunting coyotes all across North America and some of the differences and similarities he has noticed over the years.  We then get into all kinds of great information from Al ranging from some of his favorite sounds, calling techniques and sequences he uses, ho...

On the Missouri Woods & Water podcast this week we talk about our experience at this year's ATA show.  Andy kind of "interviews" Nate & Micah about the show and what we liked etc.  We talk about some cool new products we saw and each of our favorite products at the show.  That list grows throughout the show as we remember more and more of the stuff we liked too.  We also talk about some of the sto...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast Nate & Micah sit down with Dan & Sam Mathews of The Nomadic Outdoorsman podcast while at the ATA show.  We got to spend some time with a bunch of the different members of the network including Dan & Sam, so naturally we decided to record an episode with them.  First, we talk about starting a podcast and some of the hurdles that all of us had back whe...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast Nate and Micah get to talk with predator hunter Corey Groff about hunting bobcats.  Corey is a very successful bobcat hunter, among other things, and we get into how he goes about attacking bobcats.  We talk about how he sets up, his calling techniques, bobcat mannerisms, stand lengths, the usage of glass, and many other cool things.  If you are want...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast Nate, Micah, and Andy look back on 2022 and talk about the year passed.  We also answer all the listener questions and comments asked to us through our social media posts before the show, some interesting questions posed so enjoy.  We also look forward to 2023 and what we have planned moving forward.  Thanks to all our listeners and supporters for an...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys sit down with their buddies and fellow coyote hunters Austin Alumbaugh, Brandon Calder, and Cody Deweese to kick off our "coyote season."  First, we go over all of the coyote tournaments in the state (that we are aware of) and talk about some of the ones we will be attending.  Then we discuss our setups like rifles, scopes, thermals, calls,...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get to talk with the host of the Oklahoma Outdoors podcast John Hudspeth about his recent elk trip from hell.  John got to go on an elk trip this year after waiting for several years and the trip barely even got started when disaster struck for him.  However, as the quote goes from one of the worst movies I've ever watched, "without evil, we would...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast Nate & Andy get to talk with fellow Missourian Jake Kaullen about a 200+ inch deer he was able to punch his tag with this year.  Jake would have never even known this deer existed if he hadn't have just went hunting one time last season.  With no previous trail cam pictures of him and no one knowing of him, this deer was basically a ghost on the farm...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get the chance to sit down with Michael Hunsucker and Ty Easley with Heartland Bowhunter and talk about the amazing 2022 season they have had so far.  We start off by talking about the awesome trip Michael had out west elk hunting to start the season off with a bang.  Then back at home Michael's son was able to take his first deer ever and we got...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys are joined by friend of the show Pat again to talk about their rut/rifle season.  Starting the night before Missouri's rifle season, the MWW crew was able to find some success in the deer woods over the rut.  We get into those stories and what we did to find success in those situations.  We are also joined by Nate's 9 year old son Chase as h...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get to sit down in the studio with our friends from Louisiana, D-Wasc and Dirty from the Between the Tines podcast.  They have been hunting up here in Missouri for years and really enjoy their time in the midwest every year.  We talk about the differences between hunting in Louisiana compared to here in Missouri and some success Dirty had as well....

This week the boys and their buddy Pat recap their hunting seasons so far in a good old fashioned BS session.  A lot has happened for us since the recording of this show the Wednesday before rifle season opened in Missouri and I am sure we will have a show recapping that as well.  Good luck the remainder of rifle season folks.  Stay safe and shoot straight. Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get to talk with Cameron Tinker with Midwest Gun Works and have some fun with a top 5 whitetail hunting calibers list as the Missouri rifle opener is just around the corner.  Cameron is a gunsmith by trade and is very knowledgeable in the firearms arena so we thought he would be a great person to put together a list of his top 5 deer rifle caliber...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we first welcome the return of our long lost host Andy!  We also get the chance to talk with Chase Watson of Northeast Arkansas about one of the craziest hunts we have ever heard of.  If you follow social media at all, I am sure you have seen the picture floating around of Chase getting a picture taken with a monster buck he killed.....in the parking...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast we get to talk with Zach Ferenbaugh of The Hunting Public about hunting from the ground.  If you follow along with THP at all, you know that Zach is a huge fan of hunting from the ground and has been very successful at it.  In today's show, Zach gets into what he does in order to have success from the ground.  He talks about things like speed of move...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys have on fellow Missourian Anthony Peoples to tell the story of an absolute beast whitetail he was able to take down a few weeks ago.  Anthony has known this deer for several years, and after some close calls and some heartbreaking series of events, he was able to put a lethal shot on this deer using his Black Widow traditional bow.  We are t...

On the Missouri Woods & Water podcast this week we get to talk with Lindsay Thomas Jr. with the National Deer Association about hunting food plots. In this show, we go through an article Lindsay recently wrote about hunting food plots and some research that has recently been done on the topic. He talks about different ways to think about hunting plots and how many of us hunt over plots a little to...

This week Nate and Micah get to talk with Matt Davis, the owner of Broken Arrow Game Recovery, about blood tracking deer.  Matt talks about how a dog gets trained to do this type of work and how they do it.  We also talk about tips for hunters if they feel like they might need a tracking dog and things they can do to help make the track more successful.  Thanks to Matt for making the drive down to...