In this bonus episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy gives the big changes ahead for 2023 applications in NM, CO, MT, UT, NV, and WY. He also gives a herd status update for winterkill in MT and WY. Also discussed are the 2024 changes in Wyoming for deer, elk, pronghorn, and what is likely to be changing with Colorado OTC elk in the next few years. Last is a list of all the upcoming draw deadline dates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is at the Leupold factory and spends an hour with CEO Bruce Pettet and VP of Product Development & Marketing, Tim Lesser. Topics covered include Leupold's support of hunting and shooting activities, their investment in American made products, insight to issues facing hunting, shooting, access, and conservation funding, recent efforts to restrict shooting and hunting, and how we can all be part of solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#235) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, joined by Hal Herring, Randy and Hal accept the generous offer of Alex Harvey, a local Mississippian and consulting forester, to hunt rabbits and deer in the areas Alex grew up hunting. Randy claims this to be the most eye-opening immersive hunt of his life. Topics covered include Alex's hunting background, the culture of hunting in rural Mississippi, cane cutter rabbits, beagles and dogmen, realities of race and land ownership, losing access, hunting and rural food security, and a host of other topics you won't want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#234) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Craig Jourdonnais. Craig is a wildlife biologist, hunting instructor, and researcher who now oversees wildlife studies. This topic covered is wounding, what can be done to lessen the likelihood of bad outcomes, practice and preparation, follow up, tracking shot selection, pushing talent and technology beyond effective limits, the limits of the human element, and how hunters need to be addressing the issue so others don't have to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#233) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is live from Sitka's booth at the raucous Wild Sheep Show in Reno, talking backcountry hunting tips and stories with Dustin Roe, Steven Drake, and John Barklow. Backcountry hunting topics covered include hitting the SOS button, scariest hunts, one thing you never leave at home, physical comfort/discomfort, how to find mental comfort, heavy packs, and many hunting stories from guys who've been there and done it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#232) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Tom Stonecipher and Nick VandenBos, two attorneys with a deep understanding of the legal issues related to corner crossing. This is the third episode of our corner crossing series. We discuss the current case in Wyoming, the legal issues in question, the Unlawful Inclosures Act, who owns the airspace under the law, possible outcomes, precedent or not, and a ton of other information pertinent to hunters interested in the outcome of this Wyoming corner crossing case and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#231) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Charlie Bahnson and Bryan Richards. Charlie is the Wildlife Veterinarian for North Dakota Game and Fish, and Bryan is an Emerging Disease Specialist with the USGS. In this episode, we discuss Chronic Wasting Disease, disease management protocols, disease movement, management tools available, interference by politicians, North Dakota HB 1151 and baiting traditions, misinformation by hunting media, artificial congregations of cervids, challenges in managing emerging diseases, and other topics related to managing CWD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (episode #230) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy talks with Brian Yablonski of the Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) about a new strategy to increase winter elk tolerance by private landowners who own most of the winter range north of Yellowstone National Park. Brucellosis is a disease for which elk are a risk to cattle, with strange Federal rules placing huge economic liability on cattle operators. PERC has started a brucellosis compensation fund to lower landowner financial risk when elk winter on their lands and bring brucellosis risk with them. Using partnerships, PERC has brought together landowners, hunters, and environmental groups to find solutions that allow for higher tolerance of elk on their winter range and create a solution that helps wildlife using private lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (201) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy has guests from Washington State to discuss the rapid deterioration of hunter's and angler's voices in the state wildlife management system and the anti-hunting slant of the Wildlife Commission's new appointments. Chris Hager and Dan Wilson give a history that started with the Wildlife Commission rejecting a spring black bear season that was supported by the wildlife agency and now brings a strong bias against science and the benefit of hunters and hunting as a wildlife management tool. A cautionary lesson to all hunters, no matter where you live, that we must pay attention and be actively engaged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (200) of Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is nursing a virus and remotely hosts Jim Baichtal and Marcus Hockett as Jim and Marcus retell the story of Jim's 2022 Alaska bison hunt. Topics covered include logistics of this hunt, how many plane flights, changing river channels, history of Alaska bison, Covid in bison camp, what rafts were used, field care for a beast, bears and fresh meat, changing habitat in the permafrost, burns and bison, and many other tangents that show how some hunts are mostly adventure and logistics, with a quick conclusion when a change is provided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (199) if Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy invites New Mexico hunters Brandon Wynn and Jesse Deubel to talk about wildlife allocation and Trustee duties in their home state, with New Mexico being the motherland for landowner elk vouchers.  Topics covered include the New Mexico example, Trustee duties, who are the beneficiaries, what is a fair allocation of the resource, can incentives work, do Trustees understand their responsibilities, recourse when Trustees ignore their duties, and many other topics that are expressed when Trustees of the Public Trust that holds wildlife do not feel accountable to their beneficiaries (the citizens of that state). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (198) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by prior guest and renowned wild game chef, Hank Shaw. This podcast focuses on Hank's wild game teaching, via his books, his website, and now his course with Outdoor Class. Hank emphasizes that with game, birds, or fish, very often the meat quality is gone due to how the meat is cared for before it gets to the kitchen. Other topics covered include "meat myths," love of pronghorn, knee surgery, cooking meat with complimentary methods, younger is tender, why Hank focuses on teaching, and a host of other funny stories about hunting, fishing, and the wild meat we get from those pursuits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Episode (197) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy, Marcus, Michael, and Jace sit down for a couple hour discussion of the season travels to date. We are on a roll, having some of our greatest success and most compelling stories in fifteen years of filming.  From Nevada to Idaho to Wyoming to Alaska, we've been chasing pronghorn, elk, and bison.  Lots of lessons learned and some fundamentals reinforced.  Great camps with great friends make for good stories.  Enjoy and thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a bonus episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, with Steve Decker of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, explaining the annual "Win A Hunt With Randy" sweepstakes we do with RMEF.  This year's winner will win a 2022 rifle elk hunt in Kentucky. Steve talks about the benefits of this sweepstakes and how important membership is to RMEF.  Also discussed are the rules, the manners to enter for existing and new members, and details of how the Kentucky elk reintroduction is one of the amazing conservation stories of our times.  To enter, go to www.RMEF.org/win-a-hunt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (196) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy has a conversation about protecting wildlife and other public assets from the politicians through grassroots advocacy that is rooted in the Public Trust Doctrine; a principle the courts have applied to affirm that wildlife and other public resources are held in trust for the citizens of the state. With recent efforts to privatize public wildlife resources via the legislative process, Andrew Posewitz and Jeff Herbert have formed a citizens-based organization to protect the public interest in wildlife in Montana.  To see citizen advocacy in action, this is another example no matter where a person lives. Be your own advocate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (195) Randy shares the mic with Shannon Waters of Gastro Gnome and Ty Stubblefield of Wild Bison Ranch to talk about backcountry food, food quality, starting businesses around wild food ideas, hunting stories, stories of how they got into hunting, what it takes to start a small business, bison conservation stories, how to make great food from great products, and some other fun stories from two great people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (194) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy invites John Barklow, lead designer for Sitka Gear, and Tyler Johnerson, Randy's former camera guy and amazing hunter, for a discussion about how product testing works for high performance products.  We all benefit from these intensive testing processes, yet we seldom get to hear how it works, when it succeeds, and when it is time to go back to the drawing board. John and Tyler talk about the many products John has designed for Tyler to test and the process used to improve the Sitka Jetstream Jacket that launched this summer. Many hunting stories get told along the way, explaining the tough conditions that brought about a new idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (193) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio Randy is joined by Todd Wilkinson of the Mountain Journal. Topics covered include the consequences of human development on western landscapes, loving it to death, lack of care about wild things, running out of habitable land, destruction of the things we love, no restraint to say NO, critical need for private land conservation, loss of migration corridors, and a host of other topics focused around destruction of wild places by the sheer volume of human activity, and other topics related to the rapid destruction of America's wild places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Episode (192) of Hunt Talk Radio Randy shares a mic with Jim Heffelfinger, a member of the Mexican Recovery Team and Wildlife & Science Coordinator for Arizona Game & Fish. Topics covered include the history of Mexican wolves in the southwest, history of the recovery efforts, and status of recovery. Any Endangered Species issue requires discussion of the Endangered Species Act, the struggle between politics and science. We explore the likelihood of recovery, the impacts Colorado gray wolves could have on Mexican wolves. and a wrap up of the status of mule deer and blacktail deer based on Jim's projects with the Association of Western Fish & Wildlife Agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (191) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares the mic with Chris Servheen, PhD who dedicated his entire career to the cause of grizzly bear recovery in the Lower 48.  Topics covered include the history of Gbears, population trends, human encroachments and habitat impacts, Gbears need big country, human caused mortalities, working on "delisting" and getting sued for doing so, why Gbears get in trouble, intricacies of the ESA, risks of living and recreating in grizzly country, why we should celebrate Gbear recovery, the risks politics brings to wildlife management, and a ton of other great topics from the expert on Grizzly Bear management in the Lower 48. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices