Latest Podcasts
In this episode of Leupold’s Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Brant Chutter and Quynn Nielsen, two avid lion hunters from British Columbia, who Randy happened to spend a lot of time with last summer in the MacKenzie Mountains. Brant grew up in a home with two wildlife biologist-parents, who formed his view of science and sustainability. Brant and Quynn now own Rival Outfitting in British Columbia, with lion hunts being a featured hunt. Listen in while Randy, Brant, […]
Recorded in front of a live audience in Portland, OR
Randy is joined by Charles Whitwam and Mike Costellor of HOWL For Wildlife. HOWL is an organization designed to help hunters organize, communicate, and be effective when advocating for their cause. Using new technology and communication strategies, HOWL has built the infrastructure that brings hunters together on important issues. Topics covered include every hunter as an ambassador, strategy of messaging to win, ignoring the vocal fringe, accepting reality as a small interest group and being effective, examples of victories, hunting’s […]
In this episode of Leupold’s Hunt Talk Radio, Randy and Marcus sit down with Jim Baichtail to talk about the new conservation group known as the Blacktail Deer Foundation. Originating within the Mule Deer Foundation, Jim is leading the efforts for Sitka Blacktails in Alaska, while his co-workers lead the efforts for Columbia Blacktails in the Pacific Northwest. Topics covered include a lot of hunting stories, where the new idea started, different needs for different deer, Sitka blacktails as an […]
Randy discusses conservation easements with Jennifer Doherty of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Kendall Van Dyk of Montana Land Reliance, both who have extensive careers helping private landowners conserve their landscapes with conservation easements (CE). Topics covered include CEs, CEs as one of many tools working landowners need, willing-seller/donor exercising one of their property rights, when a CE is the best tool, a CE isn’t always the solution, tax issues involving CEs, myths around CEs, the role CEs play to […]
Randy and Marcus join Joel Webster of Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partners (TRCP) on Joel’s Nevada elk hunt. Topics covered include a great elk hunting story, conservation issues creating huge challenges for native wildlife, specifically feral horses, invasive cheatgrass, conifer encroachment, changing fire cycles, and the need to increase priority of those issues. Mule deer, elk, pronghorn, and sage grouse of the Great Basin states are suffering from these invasive species. A call to action for hunters to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit […]
Three hunttalk.com regulars stop arguing and work together to advocate for mule deer
In this episode (#253) Randy is joined by David Willms, an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation and avid hunter from Wyoming. The guys explore Utah’s latest attempt to demand 18 million acres of BLM lands be transferred to Utah. Utah is known for selling their state lands to fund their school system. What’s the motivation? Why now? This is another repackaged effort to rekindle the movement to rid America of its public lands. Utah is spending millions and millions […]
In this episode (#252) of Leupold’s Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Mike Kautz and Paul Kemper of American Prairie, known as AP. Topics focus on access and conservation. AP has enrolled 88,000 acres of their private land in Montana’s Block Management access program, along with allowing access across their private land to reach otherwise inaccessible public lands. The focus is on an uncrowded “quality experience,” not necessarily big animals. AP has a herd of 800 bison and leases their lands […]