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Brought to you by award-winning writer and TV host Gary Lewis, Gary Lewis Outdoorsman (formerly Ballistic Chronicles) tells the stories of great hunts, provides insights into the firearms industry, discusses custom rifles, wildcat calibers and hunting for mule deer, elk, blacktail deer, whitetails, bear and coyotes. Other topics include hunting trucks, steelhead fishing, upland bird hunting and dog training.
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Justin James's Upcoming Gigs Wed 17 Oct, 18 Ableton University, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada Fri 19 Oct, 18 Ableton University, OCAD , Toronto, Canada Powered by GigaTools When a country’s electronic music scene punches as heavily as Canada’s, there is always a weight of expectation on artists emerging from its ranks. Fortunately, Justin James’ talent, energy and ambition have allowed him to climb the heights of his illustrious countrymen. Justin hails from Windsor, Ontario the sam ...
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Just back from a hunt in South Africa, we talk to one of the good guys Ryan Neeley, who recently hunted in Zimbabwe. We both took pre-64 Winchester Model 70s on our recent safaris and we talk about why we will do it again. We talk about the merits of the controlled round feed design and the faults and merits of the 270 Winchester and the 30-06 on p…
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We sit down with blacktail hunter, rifle enthusiast, sawyer and educator Bret Michalski to talk about blacktail deer vulnerabilities in the middle of the season. How to hunt the folds and benches you don't see from the road. Favorite calibers, deer camp food and the role of the hunter in modern society. If you want to support free speech and good h…
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Designed for Deer! It's the new Nosler Whitetail Country ammunition brought to you by the company in Bend, Oregon, renowned for premium bullets like AccuBond and E-Tip, Partition, Solid Base and Ballistic Tip and for suppressors and for some of the best rifles in hunting. Best of all, this new ammunition is priced at $34.95 and comes in the most po…
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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 a…
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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…
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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 hu…
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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 spe…
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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 …
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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 inst…
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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 a…
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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 meet…
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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 t…
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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…
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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 coff…
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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 foundin…
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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 hunti…
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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 …
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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 th…
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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…
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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 h…
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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 w…
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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…
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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 spinnin…
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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…
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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 i…
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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 g…
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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 a…
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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, y…
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Gain 10 years of hunting experience in the bush in 10 days with rifle or bow! Like shooting a rifle? Africa is the dream destination for the rifleman. We talk classic calibers and hunting South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia for plains game and dangerous game. To me, southern Africa is the ultimate destination for t…
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The grassy openings. The clearcuts. And the long glass. Spring bear hunting on the Oregon Coast. We talk to Amy Bennett about why she doesn’t hunt bear down in the bear tunnels and along the grassy roads anymore. It’s the adrenaline rush of spotting bears. Making her home on the Oregon Coast, this Florida transplant adrenaline junkie is a big game …
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From one side of the continent to the other with a muzzleloader. Mule deer, blacktail deer, whitetail deer and antelope, bandtail pigeons, ducks and squirrels with a muzzleloader. Clint Epps, a wildlife bio and a professor from Oregon State University, has built 15 muzzleloaders and is currently working on several more. We get an insight into what …
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November to February is prime time for prime fur all over the West. Kris Haughian has hunted the Saskatchewan prairies for 30 years. He tells us why his favorite caliber is the 20 BR and how to set up a stand for success. It’s time to throw coyote vocals like the challenges, the invitational howls, but don’t be the biggest dog! If you want to suppo…
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We go back in time with Marcelo Sodiro, an international hunter and a big game outfitter from Argentina. This was recorded in 2023. After two years without hunters, there were some big red stags walking around. And it’s a great opportunity in 2024. We’re talking about hunting one of my favorite animals, the free-range red stag in one of the most in…
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Coyote hunter by day, guitar tech by night. It’s our favorite guitar tech Marc Larese in this flashback episode talking coyote hunting in January. It’s the third week of January and that means SHOT Show and that means I am on the road right now, checking out what’s new and hot from SHOT. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content i…
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Over the counter mule deer hunting is very hard to come by these days. And in this hunt, you can see a lot of deer. I’ve counted 400 in a day. The place? It’s eastern Washington. And the outfitter is Jeff Miller of Field N Marsh Outfitters. We talk about what it takes to raise healthy fawns and how to give bucks the nutrition to grow big and health…
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Well, if you want to know more about whitetail doe-in-estrous and tarsal scents, urine in the right place. We talk to Deane Elliott of Inventive Outdoors about his Scent Relief and Fuzed products. This is the guy that invented the product where you pee in a bottle, add the neutralizer and the attractant scent. And I hear they have a job opening rig…
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The Deschutes River and the John Day River flow north through the High Desert, two great steelhead streams in mule deer country where bighorn sheep inhabit the rim rocks and chukar call in the canyons. Marty and Mia Sheppard have carved out a life in the canyons guiding for steelhead and fishing for bass. We talk to Marty about how he became a hunt…
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We catch up with Buzz Ramsey and talk steelhead fishing and favorite deer rifles, and hunting deer and elk in Washington and Oregon and get a glimpse into the life of an industry icon. Buzz worked for Luhr-Jensen for 30 years then worked for Yakima Bait and other major brands. Currently he is consulting with Douglas Rods. You can find his work at N…
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We catch up with Joal Reece, from Fruitland, Idaho, to talk favorite deer rifles – he likes the 6.5 PRC – and shooting long range, stalking close on whitetails and mule deer, shooting muzzleloaders and eating clean hormone-free wild deer, elk, antelope, turkey and chukar the way God and nature intended. If you want to support free speech and good h…
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We catch up with our favorite guitar tech Marc Larese after deer season and looking forward to hunting December and January coyotes. Marc hunted for one specific buck for three years and just happened to get a picture of the buck and sat down in the right stand at the right moment. You can find Marc on Facebook and Instagram at @marclareseoutdoors …
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24-year-old Brooke Watson drew a once in a lifetime bighorn sheep tag in Oregon and I can’t think of a person more deserving. Brooke is the co-founder of Children of Circumstance Outdoors taking kids who otherwise would not have a chance to hunt out in the field. She used a 300 PRC and a Hornady ELD on this hunt and took a trophy ram. To find Brook…
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Okay guys we go deep in this one. We talk to Linden Loren, the author of Your Hunting Healthspan, about how to hunt more, hunt harder and hunt longer, how to make hunting an integral part of your health and extend your life. We discuss our current favorite calibers and bullet choices and recap my recent hunts with the 45-70 and 26 Nosler. And then …
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We talk to Rob Phillips about the writing life and about the 257 Weatherby and hunting mule deer in Montana. Rob is from Yakima, Washington and is the author of the Luke McCain series of novels. His latest novel is due out soon, called Creature of the Cascades. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look fo…
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We talk to Robert Bowker of Nick Bowker Hunting in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. This is one of those destinations I’ve been eyeing for awhile. Here’s a look at what they have to offer. And the really good news is that while the cost of everything else has been going up, it’s still a GREAT value to hunt in Africa. Perhaps better than ever before. Pl…
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We talk to Troy Neimann, just back from scouting elk in the high country. We are coming off a full moon and elk season is starting for hunters all over the West. Here’s how to look at conditions on opening day and what to be thinking about as these big groups of elk get split up and start hiding out in the pole patches and blowdown. If you want to …
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We talk to Levi Mallory, one of the most dedicated whitetail hunters I know, about the whitetail rut, the role the moon plays in the breeding season and his favorite days to hunt. We also talk about stand placement, attractants, deer lures, wind direction and favorite calibers for shooting big Missouri whitetails. If you want to support free speech…
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We talk to Dan Mitchell, owner of Minuteman Ammunition and Sporting Systems, an unusual gun store based in Vancouver, Washington. Dan explains that werewolves are tough, thick-skinned and athletic, and he sees it as part of his mission on this earth to make sure his neighbors are prepared. Minuteman Ammunition’s Werewolf Defense line comes in 45 AC…
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We talk to Bill Herrick about converting cap and ball revolvers from muzzleloading technology to black powder cartridges. It is an interesting insight into that era after the Civil War when the sixgun was coming into its own. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffee and books and wildlife …
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We talk to Bill Beckley who has been hunting with the same bolt action 243 Winchester for 50 years. He shoots an 85-grain Nosler bullet and has seen good hunting come and go. He bow-hunted this year at the age of 72 and is looking forward to guiding his son on a deer hunt this week with the old 243. We talk conservation and the complicated Central …
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We hear it from a guide in bear camp. Ryan Wroolie tells about how he started guiding for bear and what he has learned about black bears after several seasons in the Northwoods. If you want to support free speech and good hunting content in the Internet Age, look for our coffees, books and wildlife forage blends at https://www.garylewisoutdoors.com…
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