Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail Hunting

On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan talks with deer habitat specialist Jon Teater about how deer use a variety of terrain features to keep cool in warm weather and warm is cold weather and using that information to locate ambush points. Jon talks about specific locations for both early season and late season bedding, how water can impact their thermoregulation, soil temperature, tre...

On this episode of The Nomadic Outdoorsman Dan talks to Ty Runyan, a game warden and lifelong outdoorsman from Oklahoma. Dan and Ty share stories from the field and talk about encounters between outdoorsmen and law enforcement. Ty was raised in southern Oklahoma on cattle ranches. He grew up shed hunting, fishing and working outdoors. He quickly became an avid hunter and fisherman. Ty won 2 nation...

On this episode of The Western Rookie Dan talks with Landon, Brandon, Tucker, Cody, Victoria and Tyler about Dan’s recent trip to Texas to chase hogs with thermal hunting equipment and helicopters. Landon and Brandon own Rogue Texan Outfitters, a guided hog eradication company where they host people from around the country. RTO uses out of the box strategies that most midwestern hunters only dream...

This week the guys are joined by Josh Carney. Josh is a hoot, and we don’t just mean that in the comedic sense. Josh has an amazing ability to make many different animal calls with just his voice, including an owl. This episode will make your belly hurt from laughter, so get those abs ready for soreness. Paul has spent sometime hunting in Alabama. No birds on the ground, but good stories, and scar...

This week on The Average Conservationist Podcast, Marcus welcomes Steven Gremillion. Steven Founder and Principal of 2% Certified Palustris Design Studio. The guys discuss a variety of topics including how Steven ended up becoming a landscape architect and why he's using predominantly native materials to Louisiana in his designs. Steven talks about some of the various design styles used in the...

In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) discusses his recent travels to clients and most importantly the mindset you should have to succeed with changing your property for the better. The concepts suggested will displace non-native plants with healthy natural, native plants that will lead to more opportunities to attract and hold deer on your property. Jon’s process and recommendations...

It’s April, and that means fly fishing in the Wisconsin Driftless is in full swing! One would be hard pressed to find a better way to spend a beautiful spring day. If you don’t fly fish already, it can be an intimidating world to wade into (no pun intended). On this week’s episode, Josh talks with Pierce Nelles, head guide at Good Chance Fly Fishing, about targeting Driftless trout on the fly. Pie...

On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan talks with Ohio bowhunter Josh Grund about how he locates shooter bucks and when to move on if a hit list buck is a no show. Dan and Josh kick off the show by talking about how much Dan hates his current coffee maker. Then Josh talks about how he breaks down a normal season, the terrain that he hunts, and how he puts together a hit list. As the se...

Join us as we celebrate our 100th episode this week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast. The guys and good friends Russell Ryun and Pat Slivkov sit down for a good ole fashioned BS session and answer our submitted listener questions that range from archery set ups to our favorite coyote calibers. Also, don't miss our 100th episode giveaway video we will be posting on our social media tod...

On this episode of The Nomadic Outdoorsman Dan talks to Holt Watson, an avid outdoorsman that loves chasing snow geese from the Great Lakes down to the waterfowl Mecca known as Arkansas.  Holt grew up in the St. Croix river Valley fishing for walleyes on the St. Croix river as well as various lakes in MN and WI. His passion for things like chasing whitetail and ducks quickly grew and he eventually...

This weeks episode of the Oklahoma Outdoors Podcast is one of the more random ones, but its because this weeks guest is such an avid outdoorsmen that we had to cover a little bit of it all. Bransen Shelton of Three Rivers Outdoors is a man of many parts. He enjoys bird hunting with his dogs, shed hunting, deer hunting, trapping, photography, and his most recent venture of coon hunting. It was just...

Dan talks with good friend Tim Kent about how they make their hunting gear purchasing decisions in this hunting equipment B.S. Session. Tim explains how he breaks down his hunting gear purchasing decisions including how he researches those decisions. The guys talk about everything from archery equipment and tents to boots, backcountry food, and backcountry hunting equipment. The conversation revol...

How many of you can relate to hunting small tracts of property? What about a micro-parcel of 10 acres of less? The vast majority of deer hunters with access to private land can relate to this type of parcel, especially those that are chopped up in the Northeast. While a Whitetail deer’s home range is significantly larger than the confinement of a micro-parcel, there is more that can be done in the...

On this episode Lee is joined by two of his long time buddies Joel and Ben Langton. They get together at Lee’s to sit down and discuss what their top three items they had for their Montana hunt this past November for Elk. This episode is great because there are ZERO sponsors and no incentives here for products discussed. Lee, Joel and Ben are honest and give you some very impactful and must have i...

On this episode of The Nomadic Outdoorsman Dan talks Daniel Ewald, a hounds-man from West Virginia. They take an in depth look at the ins and outs of chasing bears with dogs. Daniel is an all around outdoorsman. From running his own pack of hounds after bears and raccoons to chasing whitetail with a bow, he does it all. He loves teaching his boys about the importance of hunting and conservation. D...

We've got a heck of a turkey conversation this week on the Southern Ground Hunting podcast! Adam Crews takes some time to share with us the story of his public land gobbler from opening weekend in the Florida swamps, and Matt Reaves shares his opening week successful father/son hunt in Alabama. They guys discuss some in depth tactics that went into the success.  As the episode closes, the crew...

Sooner or later, every deer hunter wants to find a way to share the experiences they have in the field with others. Some will just tell stories, some will write about it, some will take photos, and a few will tackle filming their hunts. Filming hunts requires a whole new level of dedication and skill and can be extremely rewarding, or extremely frustrating.  In this episode of the How to Hunt Deer...

This week Fred Bird joins the guys for an indepth talk about turkeys in the US as well as the National Wild Turkey Federation. Fred has been working with the NWTF full time and runs their podcast among many other titles. The conservation success story of the turkey is one that many hunters and outdoorsmen are proud to be apart of and Fred fills in some of the details.  The guys have been doing the...

On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles deer hunting podcast, Dan recaps his recent vasectomy and talks about early November and the pre-rut timeframe. To kick off the episode Dan takes you step by step through the vasectomy process, where he encountered the pain and what it felt like to have his newly cut scrotum jumped on by two of his children.  While icing down his balls, Dan was looking...

On this episode of The Western Rookie Dan shares information about all of his hunting equipment. From boots to optics this episode covers it all. Dan has been using a variety of hunting gear over the past 20 years in the woods. He has hunted everything from frogs to moose and has honed in on the right gear for each job along the way. He loves to share information and gear recommendations with his...

Today on The Average Conservationist Podcast Marcus is joined by Blaine Freeman. Blaine is the owner and founder of 2% Certified Cairn Coffee Roasters. The guys start the conversation talking about Blaine's upbringing in Pennsylvania and how that shaped his love for the outdoors. After spending time in the Navy, Blained traveled around the U.S working in various cities and enjoying the outdoor...

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water podcast the guys drive over to the St. Louis area and sit down with Cameron Tinker of Midwest Gun Works to talk about the basics of an AR build. For a lot of normal people, building an AR is an intimidating thing, but if you know some key things it can actually be a very fun process and get you an AR that is truly what you are looking for as opposed to b...

In this episode of the Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast, Josh is joined by Matt Streim of Weathered Oaks Custom Calls. Weathered Oaks is a Wisconsin based call company specializing in high quality, hand made pot calls. Josh and Matt have a good ol’ fashion campfire chat covering everything from how Weathered Oaks got started to reaping turkeys to roosting birds.  Though Weathered Oaks is relatively new...

In this episode, Jon Teater of Whitetail Landscapes discusses with Steve Sherk of Sherk’s Guide Service the process of finding big buck sheds. Jon discusses his recent shed find folly. Steve and Jon discuss how to hunt sheds, versus just find sheds, especially in the big woods.   Shed hunting can be just as rewarding for some hunters and targeting a specific buck and their sheds can lead to excell...

When a guy stops by your booth at a trade show and asks if you like big buck stories, you have to assume he has a few. That's exactly what happened with Andrew Mack a few weeks ago, and he did not disappoint. This week on the Oklahoma Outdoors Podcast, John and Andrew have a good ol fashion storytelling conversation. Andrew starts things off with a western Oklahoma spot and stalk rifle hunt fr...