The Outdoor Life Podcast cover art

All Episodes

The Outdoor Life Podcast — 166 episodes

#
Title
1

What It Felt Like to Get Struck by Lightning

2

Brace for Public Land Sales, Development Under the Next BLM Director

3

Is Trout Fishing in the West Doomed This Season?

4

It's Time to Reconsider Turkey Hunting Ethics

5

The Best Creedmoor Yet?

6

Slashing and Burning at the U.S. Forest Service

7

The Animal-Rights Movement Is Getting Weirder

E
8

Why Some Rifle Cartridges Thrive, and Others Die Out

9

Turkey Calling Secrets with Champion Caller Dustin Jones

10

They Lived in the Boundary Waters for an Entire Year

11

The Full Story Behind Our Controversial Helicopter Hunt on Landlocked Public Ground

12

Unexpected Takeaways from the Ultimate Turkey Load Test

E
13

Randy Newberg Breaks Down What’s Coming for Public Lands in 2026

14

Surprising Destinations for the DIY Turkey Hunter

15

NWTF's Top Researcher Explains the Turkey Decline

16

Here's Why the Plan to Recover Wild Bison Has Become So Controversial

17

The Flooded-Corn Controversy vs. Duck Hunting's New Reality

18

New Guns, Trends, and Tech from the SHOT Show

19

Director Brian Nesvik on the Future of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

20

I Corner Crossed the Wyoming Ranch That Started It All

E
21

Our Senior Staff Writer Nearly Died on a Backcountry Hunt

E
22

Spearfishing for Walleyes Is Coming to the Great Lakes. And That's Not a Bad Thing

23

This Is Why You're Getting Bad Blood Trails with the 6.5 Creedmoor

24

Levi Morgan’s Whitetail Secrets

25

How Trawling Is Robbing Alaska's Anglers

26

The Bizarre Mystery Behind the World-Record Whitetail Sheds

27

Is Ryan Callaghan the Optimist Our Public Lands Need?

E
28

Everything You Need to Know About Broadheads and Arrow Speed

29

The Ethics of Long-Range Hunting

E
30

The Truth About Bear Guns

31

Trump Just Approved the Ambler Road Project. Here's What Outdoorsmen Need to Know

32

What Really Happened to the Missing Colorado Elk Hunters

33

Jack O'Connor Was Right All Along

34

A Kid Shot His First Turkey. Why Is He Being Charged with a Felony?

35

Bowhunting Dall Sheep Solo — with a Longbow

36

The Drone Project That's Revealing Surprising Buck Behavior

37

Hard Truths About Scouting Public Land

38

Don't Buy a New Optic Without This Advice

39

Why the Boundary Waters Mine Is a "Bad Trade"

40

One of the Greatest Archers of All Time Explains How to Be a Better Bowhunter

41

How I Stopped a Charging Griz at 5 Yards (with My 10mm)

42

Sued, Sabotaged, and Threatened: The Cowboys Caught Up in the Wild Horse Problem

43

Are Conservation Groups Spending Our Money Wisely?

44

Deer Hunting with a .22 Creedmoor?

45

Why Can’t We Pass Silencer Deregulation?

46

The Best Bow of the Year Is...

47

Randy Newberg on How Hunters Can Kill the Public Land Sales Bill

48

The Washington Wildlife Commission Is “Bad Government on Steroids”

49

Father’s Day Special: One Last Hunt on the Family Farm

50

Is There Really Price Fixing in the Archery Industry?

51

What Happens After You Kill a Grizzly in Self Defense

52

The Game Wardens Who Cracked the CJ Alexander Case

53

The Most Accurate Rifle Ammo We've Ever Tested

54

Inside the 'Dark-of-Night' Scheme to Sell Public Lands

55

Why Does Ammo Keep Getting More Expensive?

56

The Shooting Match All Hunters Should Compete In

57

America's Great Public Lands Agitator Is Back

E
58

Advanced Turkey Decoy Tactics with Mark Drury

59

The Best New Rifles & Handguns of the Year

60

Suppressors Are the New Normal

E
61

Turkey Calling Tips with Shane Simpson

62

The Real Story Behind the Pending World-Record Elk

E
63

Everything You Need to Know About Shooting Turkeys (Beyond 40 Yards)

64

It's Time to Start Taking Public-Land Transfer Seriously

65

I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt

66

The Feds Fired Key Public-Land Workers. Here's What It Means for You

67

Friction-Call Secrets from the Winningest Turkey Caller in History

68

Trump, Conservation, and Public Lands

69

How Do You Wage a War on Poaching? With Lie Detectors, K9 Units, and Pure Grit

70

New Guns, Trends, and Ammo from the SHOT Show

E
71

The Most Interesting (and Polarizing) New Rifle Cartridge of the Year

72

Wolves Will Be Delisted, and Other Predictions for 2025

73

The Story Behind the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year

74

What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis

75

How to Miss Fewer Birds

76

Are American-Made Knives Still the Best?

E
77

Real Talk About the Best Deer Cartridges and Bullets

78

Ditch Your Treestand and Hunt from the Ground, with Andrew McKean / Masters of the Rut

79

How to Help New Hunters Shoot Their First Deer with Natalie Krebs / Masters of the Rut

E
80

Secrets of Big Buck Killer Jared Mills / Masters of the Rut

81

Advanced Trail Cam Tactics with Josh Honeycutt and Dr. James Johnson / Masters of the Rut

82

Secrets of GPS Collared Bucks with Dr. Bronson Strickland / Masters of the Rut

83

Hunting Big-Woods Bucks with Brett Joy / Masters of the Rut

84

Why Small Cartridges Are So Effective on Big Game

E
85

Why Your Trail Cameras Don’t Work

86

Inside the Strangest Fishing Competition in America

E
87

Did YouTube Ban Gun Videos?

88

Where Are All the Ducks?

89

The Biggest Myths in Mountain Hunting

E
90

Why Today's College Anglers Are Tomorrow's Bass Pros

91

The Only Bowhunting Gear That Actually Matters

92

The Best New Shotguns of the Year

93

Why Forward Facing Sonar Won’t Be Banned

94

Why Traditional Backpacking Gear Is Dead

95

What You Need to Know About New Optics

96

Here’s How Hunting Gets Banned

97

Has Trail Cam Technology Gotten Too Good?

98

Quick Strike with Joe Cermele: Old School Bass Lures You Should Be Fishing Right Now

99

Fudd Lore: 5 of the Worst Myths in Rifle Shooting and Hunting

E
100

Australia Has an Anti-Hunter Problem, and the U.S. Isn't Far Behind

E
101

Budget Bows vs Used Flagships: What's the Better Deal?

102

You've Been Sighting in Your Rifle All Wrong

103

Why Big-Game Auction Tags Are a Necessary Evil

104

I Shot a Mountain Lion at 7 Paces

105

Deer Love Mushroom Food Plots. Why Aren’t More Hunters Planting Them?

106

PFAS Bans Will Radically Change How Outdoor Gear Is Made

107

Why the Wyoming Wolf Torture Incident Could Shape Wolf Management for a Generation

E
108

The Best New Guns of the Year

109

The Time of the Lever Gun Is Now

110

The Truth About TSS Turkey Loads

111

Ultra-Close Range Turkey Hunting Tactics with Mike Hunsucker

112

The Most Remarkable Bow We've Ever Tested—and More from the 2024 Bow Test

113

Will Thermals Change the Way We Hunt?

114

Do We Really Need All These New Rifle Cartridges?

115

What Will onX Do With All Our Data?

116

Making Deer Hunting Fun Again, with Lindsay Thomas

E
117

Busting Deer Movement Weather Myths, with Dr. Grant Woods

118

How Deer Use Habitat During the Rut, with Dr. Craig Harper

119

How to Hunt the Rut on Public Land, with Aaron Warbritton

120

John Dudley on How to Beat Buck Fever

121

How to Hunt the Most Elusive Old Bucks, with Mike Hunsucker

E
122

The Best Shotguns of 2023

E
123

Rediscovering the M1 Garand: The Greatest Generation's Service Rifle

124

Public Approval for Hunting Drops Sharply

125

Only Accurate Rifles Are Interesting

126

Grizzly Hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor

E
127

Does Ultralight Backpacking Gear Make Sense for Hunting?

128

What It Takes to Raise Diehard Hunters (A Mother's Day Special)

129

Why No One Else Tests Guns the Way Outdoor Life Does

130

The Turkey Biology Every Hunter Should Know, with Dr. Mike Chamberlain

131

Masters of the Rut: The Biggest Myths About Deer Rifles and Cartridges

132

Masters of the Rut: Billy Phillips on Why It's Time to Ditch Your Treestand

133

Masters of the Rut: Kip Adams Explains Why Aging Deer Is Easier Than You Think

134

Masters of the Rut: Dr. Grant Woods on Using A.I. to Improve Your Hunting

135

Masters of the Rut: Inside the Mind of a Big Buck Serial Killer

136

Masters of the Rut: Blood Trailing Secrets from Shane Simpson

137

Epilogue: Crazy as a Sheep Hunter

138

Tracking Big Bucks with the Mule Deer Master

139

Rue Mapp Is a Woman on a Mission

140

Wild Horses and Burros Have Become Beasts of Burden

141

Kristine Fischer's Rise to Kayak-Fishing Fame

142

The Case Against Scoring Big-Game Animals

143

Season 3: The Diehards

144

Epilogue: Primitive Skills in a Modern World

145

When a Lost Kid Wanders into Your Camp

146

Life and Death in Grizzly Country

E
147

The Wilderness Isn't Out to Get You

148

Stranded in Sheep Country

149

Can Hunting Survive in California?

E
150

Miracle on the Tundra: Surviving a 5-Day Blizzard

151

Season 2: The Survivor's Mindset

152

Are Duck Hunters Really Losing 1 in 5 Birds? Here’s How We Can Do Better

153

How I Made the Biggest Archery Shot of My Life

154

Wildlife and the Megadrought

155

The Wolf Wars are Getting More Extreme

156

The Story Behind Vincent Hancock's Gold Medal Win

157

The Remington Ammunition Comeback

158

Trouble in Turkey Country

159

What We Got Wrong About Snow Geese

160

The Godfather of Axis Deer Culling on Molokai Island

161

The Mysterious Chronic Lyme Disease Nightmare

162

Why Do We Have Such Strange Hunting Laws?

E
163

Where’s All the Ammunition?

164

The New World-Record Elk—That Almost Wasn’t

165

What Really Happened to the Duck Hunters Who Were Killed on Reelfoot Lake?

166

Trailer: The Outdoor Life Podcast