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This week, Derek and Eric chat with guest Zac Venchus who owns his own critter trapping business and has had years of experience working with various wildlife organizations such as the Wisconsin DNR and others like North Dakota Game and Fish, and Pheasants Forever. If you've ever been curious about trapping, this is a great episode that scratches the surface with just enough detail to get you intr...

Hunters helping hunters. On this week's podcast, Greg and Eric sit down with John Stellflue from The Hunt in Common about how their non-profit organization is helping to mentor hunters around the US, Canada, and Australia! If you've ever mentored a new hunter, you know just how intrinsically rewarding it can be. Moreover, if you're a new hunter looking to learn the ropes, you ought to consider lea...

Who is Half Rack™️ and what is conservation day? Jimmy Giarraputo, Marketing Director for Half Rack joins us on the podcast this week to chat about their brand, their unique products, and some of the things they have going on and coming up. If you've ever used a slug gun for deer hunting, you're going to love this episode, but you'll have to tune in to hear why! Moreover, if you support conservati...

This week Greg, and Eric chat with AJ Kazmierczak, AKA the Coffee Viking about how he won a truck from the Total Archery Challenge. Additionally, AJ talks about his mindset insofar as how he looks at hunting through a lens of a sponge so he can always be learning and growing as a hunter. No matter how good or bad your season might go, it's also important to keep on moving. There's always next seas...

This week, Greg, Derek, and Eric chat with Dave Thomas from Bowhunter Planet about bows and archery. We chat about some relic bows of the past, what's important to consider for new bows, old bows, bow maintenance, and selecting a bow for comfort, speed, short arms, and long arms! It's a great episode if you're a bow hunter or into archery! Be sure to check out our friends: Spartan Forge - https://...

This week, Eric sits down with Matt Streim Co-Owner of Weathered Oaks Game Calls to talk about turkey calling tips and tricks, dos and don'ts. We also chat about general turkey hunting strategies and how to apply which calls when. Weathered Oaks Game Calls custom manufactures wooden pot calls and other game calls from wood as well. Matthew is an avid turkey hunter and makes calls he'd use himself...

This week, Adam Kaufmann with Free to Prowl joins Greg, Derek, and Eric in the studio to talk about how he made a huge leap to live out of his truck and traverse the western US in the prowl of Elk and Mule Deer. Hear how Adam has outfitted his truck to fit his nomadic lifestyle, some of his learnings, blunders, and perseverance through some tough situations. Adam got rid of some of his material be...

This week, Greg, Derek, and Eric talk guns with Ryan Cleckner. Ryan Cleckner is a former Army Ranger sniper and instructor with the 1st Ranger Battalion of the US Army. He is currently a constitutional law and firearms attorney, an adjunct university professor, the founder of Gun University and Rocket FFL, as well as the author of the Long Range Shooting Handbook. We cover a lot of ground in terms...

This week we hear from Christian Schauf, Founder, and CEO of Uncharted Supply Co about some basic survival tips for midwest whitetail hunters and western elk hunters. Christian takes a very logical approach to survival and talks about some of the unique and practical products they've brought to market to help ensure the safety of hunters, outdoorsmen, and women. We also take a few calls from liste...

As hunters, we have a responsibility to new generations of hunters to be good role models. This week, Derek, Greg, and Eric chat with Josh Morrow, AKA the Hunt Critic. What started out as a passionate hunter calling out other hunters on TikTok has become so much more as a way to educate all hunters on various hunting topics ranging from the whitetail community and reverberating all the way to shee...

This week our good friends Isaac Smith and Brian Austin join us in the studio to talk about what's new with their Wisconsin-based businesses, Vector Custom Shop and Beast Mode Archery. Both Isaac and Brian started their businesses around the same time two years ago and both survived a tumultuous time in business through a pandemic only to emerge stronger! Hear about some of Vector's latest arrows...

After two weeks off, Eric and Greg are back in the studio and joined by guest, Caleb Stillians from Rise Up. Caleb is a guide in Alaska and hunts almost year-round and camps 5 months out of the year in between hunts. He guides several hunts of several big game species throughout the year. Eric met Caleb at the ATA show this past January and had to get Caleb on the show to hear some of his stories....

Are you on TikTok? If not, you might be missing out on some really practical and entertaining deer hunting content! Not to mention, a ton of young hunters are on the platform. Chris Whitley with Get Outdoors 2Day thought the TikTok was just a social platform for people to goof off among other things, but it turns out there's an appetite for more hunting content. Rather than watching a 20-minute ho...

If you think one person can't make a difference, you haven't met Sam Soholt. Sam is a practical conservationist and a major influencer in the hunting and outdoor category. He's known for the public land bus, and public land tee's primarily but has also spun up some really unique and impactful conservation initiatives like the Stamp it Forward project. Through his mission, initiatives, brand partne...

This week on the show, Derek, Greg, and Eric chat with guest, Terron Hunt with EHUNTR about wester hunting, turkey hunting, and it wouldn't be the Okayest Hunter podcast without some shenanigans. Seriously, though a great episode about what to consider for an out-of-state hunt, and we also talk about cooking and eating wild game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric is joined by guest, Ped Dragich this week. Ped has vowed to stop sharing grip and grins altogether as a way to show that his actions speak louder than words in an attempt to prove that hunting means more to him than a grip and grin. Ped hunts for his own personal reasons and loves the process and all that goes into the hunt. The harvest, in his opinion, is only a small part of the whole spect...

This week, Eric chats with GoWild Co-Founder and CEO, Brad Luttrell about the censorship of hunting and how it is being deleted from society by some of the leading tech juggernauts. We also talk about the GoWild platform and welcoming hunters to the lifestyle among other things like smoking meat and more. Be sure to check out our friends: Spartan Forge - https://www.spartanforge.ai/ use code: OHP...

This week we chat with Chris Wheeler from WheelsUp Outdoors. Eric got to meet Chris in PA for the Spartan Forge veteran hunt up at Johnny Stewart's cabin. Chris is an Ohio native and hunts something almost all times of the year. Whether it's coyotes, whitetail, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, and more he's always having a good time and filling his freezer! Be sure to check out our friends: Spartan For...

The fellas chat with Lee Ellis from Seek One about his pet turkey, camouflage limo, cliff jumping in quarries... and eventually get into some tactics for hunting urban areas. From knocking on doors, gaining permission, and all the way to how high to set your stand, Lee covers all the things that go into how he hunts in high deer density, urban areas. It wouldn't be an Okayest Hunter podcast withou...

In case you haven’t noticed, shed hunting has become wildly popular over the past 10 years. What was once a niche spring pastime for the hardcore has become a weekend hobby for many. Whether you are looking to try your hand at finding your first antler or are a seasoned vet, we will be sharing a few tips that may help add some heft to your haul this spring! If you'd like to increase your odds of s...

Greg, Derek, and Eric jump into a virtual chat this week with Justin Synan about life lessons learned from hunting. What has hunting taught us that we can apply to life, work, and family? Tune in this week to hear more about Justin's perspective as well as the Okayest Hunter's. Additionally, Justin formally used to hunt a lot of urban areas and shared some of his experiences around that in additio...

Greg and Eric drove up to Doug Duren's family farm to have a chat about conservation. Doug talks about the legacy of his family farm, the gentrification of the land in the Wisconsin Driftless area, what his definition of conservation is, how all of that impacts Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), what Doug has been able to do to minimize the risk and spread of CWD and what we all can be doing to suppor...

This week on the podcast, Jordan Syatt with Syatt Fitness, Gary Vaynerchuk's former fitness coach for three years joins us on the show to share his first ever experience hunting. Jordan shares how he navigated learning about how to hunt for the first time, what his overall experience was, what it meant to him, why he decided to hunt, and also how he navigated sharing his experience with nearly a m...

Eric flew to Kentucky for this one and had a chance to sit down with the Bone Collector himself, Michael Waddell at the Waypoint TV booth. We get to hear what Michaels is up to these days with his new TV show on the Waypoint network, Downton Dixie. From there, we dive pretty deep into what has changed and what has stayed the same within the hunting industry, and what it means to be a hunter within...

Greg finally has the opportunity to share his 2021 bow buck story! It's a great story with all the right ingredients of trial and tribulation. From poison sumac, to rain, snow, and dropped phones... we're sure as Okayest Hunter's you can relate and rejoice when you hear how it all finally came together. From there, we take to the phones and hear from our listeners and some of their 2021 hunting st...