The Outdoor Life Podcast

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Episodes: 145

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Outdoor Life has been publishing hunting, fishing, and conservation stories since 1898. Its flagship podcast brings deep-dive journalism to the issues that are most important to sportsmen and women. Hosted and produced by the editors with field reporting from our best contributors, the show airs weekly.

Episode Date
Spearfishing for Walleyes Is Coming to the Great Lakes. And That's Not a Bad Thing
Dec 10, 2025
This Is Why You're Getting Bad Blood Trails with the 6.5 Creedmoor
Dec 03, 2025
Levi Morgan’s Whitetail Secrets
Nov 26, 2025
How Trawling Is Robbing Alaska's Anglers
Nov 19, 2025
The Bizarre Mystery Behind the World-Record Whitetail Sheds
Nov 12, 2025
Is Ryan Callaghan the Optimist Our Public Lands Need?
Nov 05, 2025
Everything You Need to Know About Broadheads and Arrow Speed
Oct 29, 2025
The Ethics of Long-Range Hunting
Oct 22, 2025
The Truth About Bear Guns
Oct 15, 2025
Trump Just Approved the Ambler Road Project. Here's What Outdoorsmen Need to Know
Oct 08, 2025
What Really Happened to the Missing Colorado Elk Hunters
Oct 01, 2025
Jack O'Connor Was Right All Along
Sep 24, 2025
A Kid Shot His First Turkey. Why Is He Being Charged with a Felony?
Sep 17, 2025
Bowhunting Dall Sheep Solo — with a Longbow
Sep 10, 2025
The Drone Project That's Revealing Surprising Buck Behavior
Sep 03, 2025
Hard Truths About Scouting Public Land
Aug 27, 2025
Don't Buy a New Optic Without This Advice
Aug 20, 2025
Why the Boundary Waters Mine Is a "Bad Trade"
Aug 13, 2025
One of the Greatest Archers of All Time Explains How to Be a Better Bowhunter
Aug 06, 2025
How I Stopped a Charging Griz at 5 Yards (with My 10mm)
Jul 30, 2025
Sued, Sabotaged, and Threatened: The Cowboys Caught Up in the Wild Horse Problem
Jul 23, 2025
Are Conservation Groups Spending Our Money Wisely?
Jul 16, 2025
Deer Hunting with a .22 Creedmoor?
Jul 09, 2025
Why Can’t We Pass Silencer Deregulation?
Jul 02, 2025
The Best Bow of the Year Is...
Jun 25, 2025
Randy Newberg on How Hunters Can Kill the Public Land Sales Bill
Jun 20, 2025
The Washington Wildlife Commission Is “Bad Government on Steroids”
Jun 18, 2025
Father’s Day Special: One Last Hunt on the Family Farm
Jun 15, 2025
Is There Really Price Fixing in the Archery Industry?
Jun 11, 2025
What Happens After You Kill a Grizzly in Self Defense
Jun 04, 2025
The Game Wardens Who Cracked the CJ Alexander Case
May 28, 2025
The Most Accurate Rifle Ammo We've Ever Tested
May 21, 2025
Inside the 'Dark-of-Night' Scheme to Sell Public Lands
May 14, 2025
Why Does Ammo Keep Getting More Expensive?
May 07, 2025
The Shooting Match All Hunters Should Compete In
Apr 30, 2025
America's Great Public Lands Agitator Is Back
Apr 23, 2025
Advanced Turkey Decoy Tactics with Mark Drury
Apr 16, 2025
The Best New Rifles & Handguns of the Year
Apr 09, 2025
Suppressors Are the New Normal
Apr 02, 2025
Turkey Calling Tips with Shane Simpson
Mar 26, 2025
The Real Story Behind the Pending World-Record Elk
Mar 19, 2025
Everything You Need to Know About Shooting Turkeys (Beyond 40 Yards)
Mar 12, 2025
It's Time to Start Taking Public-Land Transfer Seriously
Mar 05, 2025
I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt
Feb 26, 2025
The Feds Fired Key Public-Land Workers. Here's What It Means for You
Feb 19, 2025
Friction-Call Secrets from the Winningest Turkey Caller in History
Feb 12, 2025
Trump, Conservation, and Public Lands
Feb 05, 2025
How Do You Wage a War on Poaching? With Lie Detectors, K9 Units, and Pure Grit
Jan 29, 2025
New Guns, Trends, and Ammo from the SHOT Show
Jan 23, 2025
The Most Interesting (and Polarizing) New Rifle Cartridge of the Year
Jan 15, 2025
Wolves Will Be Delisted, and Other Predictions for 2025
Jan 08, 2025
The Story Behind the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year
Dec 23, 2024
What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis
Dec 18, 2024
How to Miss Fewer Birds
Dec 11, 2024
Are American-Made Knives Still the Best?
Dec 04, 2024
Real Talk About the Best Deer Cartridges and Bullets
Nov 27, 2024
Ditch Your Treestand and Hunt from the Ground, with Andrew McKean / Masters of the Rut
Nov 20, 2024
How to Help New Hunters Shoot Their First Deer with Natalie Krebs / Masters of the Rut
Nov 13, 2024
Secrets of Big Buck Killer Jared Mills / Masters of the Rut
Nov 06, 2024
Advanced Trail Cam Tactics with Josh Honeycutt and Dr. James Johnson / Masters of the Rut
Oct 30, 2024
Secrets of GPS Collared Bucks with Dr. Bronson Strickland / Masters of the Rut
Oct 23, 2024
Hunting Big-Woods Bucks with Brett Joy / Masters of the Rut
Oct 16, 2024
Why Small Cartridges Are So Effective on Big Game
Oct 09, 2024
Why Your Trail Cameras Don’t Work
Oct 02, 2024
Inside the Strangest Fishing Competition in America
Sep 25, 2024
Did YouTube Ban Gun Videos?
Sep 18, 2024
Where Are All the Ducks?
Sep 11, 2024
The Biggest Myths in Mountain Hunting
Sep 04, 2024
Why Today's College Anglers Are Tomorrow's Bass Pros
Aug 28, 2024
The Only Bowhunting Gear That Actually Matters
Aug 21, 2024
The Best New Shotguns of the Year
Aug 14, 2024
Why Forward Facing Sonar Won’t Be Banned
Aug 07, 2024
Why Traditional Backpacking Gear Is Dead
Jul 31, 2024
What You Need to Know About New Optics
Jul 24, 2024
Here’s How Hunting Gets Banned
Jul 17, 2024
Has Trail Cam Technology Gotten Too Good?
Jul 10, 2024
Quick Strike with Joe Cermele: Old School Bass Lures You Should Be Fishing Right Now
Jul 03, 2024
Fudd Lore: 5 of the Worst Myths in Rifle Shooting and Hunting
Jun 26, 2024
Australia Has an Anti-Hunter Problem, and the U.S. Isn't Far Behind
Jun 19, 2024
Budget Bows vs Used Flagships: What's the Better Deal?
Jun 12, 2024
You've Been Sighting in Your Rifle All Wrong
Jun 05, 2024
Why Big-Game Auction Tags Are a Necessary Evil
May 29, 2024
I Shot a Mountain Lion at 7 Paces
May 22, 2024
Deer Love Mushroom Food Plots. Why Aren’t More Hunters Planting Them?
May 15, 2024
PFAS Bans Will Radically Change How Outdoor Gear Is Made
May 08, 2024
Why the Wyoming Wolf Torture Incident Could Shape Wolf Management for a Generation
May 01, 2024
The Best New Guns of the Year
Apr 24, 2024
The Time of the Lever Gun Is Now
Apr 17, 2024
The Truth About TSS Turkey Loads
Apr 10, 2024
Ultra-Close Range Turkey Hunting Tactics with Mike Hunsucker
Apr 03, 2024
The Most Remarkable Bow We've Ever Tested—and More from the 2024 Bow Test
Mar 27, 2024
Will Thermals Change the Way We Hunt?
Mar 20, 2024
Do We Really Need All These New Rifle Cartridges?
Mar 13, 2024
What Will onX Do With All Our Data?
Mar 06, 2024
Making Deer Hunting Fun Again, with Lindsay Thomas
Nov 09, 2023
Busting Deer Movement Weather Myths, with Dr. Grant Woods
Nov 02, 2023
How Deer Use Habitat During the Rut, with Dr. Craig Harper
Oct 26, 2023
How to Hunt the Rut on Public Land, with Aaron Warbritton
Oct 19, 2023
John Dudley on How to Beat Buck Fever
Oct 12, 2023
How to Hunt the Most Elusive Old Bucks, with Mike Hunsucker
Oct 05, 2023
The Best Shotguns of 2023
Aug 18, 2023
Rediscovering the M1 Garand: The Greatest Generation's Service Rifle
Jul 21, 2023
Public Approval for Hunting Drops Sharply
Jul 07, 2023
Only Accurate Rifles Are Interesting
Jun 23, 2023
Grizzly Hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor
Jun 15, 2023
Does Ultralight Backpacking Gear Make Sense for Hunting?
May 31, 2023
What It Takes to Raise Diehard Hunters (A Mother's Day Special)
May 12, 2023
Why No One Else Tests Guns the Way Outdoor Life Does
Apr 25, 2023
The Turkey Biology Every Hunter Should Know, with Dr. Mike Chamberlain
Apr 19, 2023
Masters of the Rut: The Biggest Myths About Deer Rifles and Cartridges
Nov 07, 2022
Masters of the Rut: Billy Phillips on Why It's Time to Ditch Your Treestand
Oct 31, 2022
Masters of the Rut: Kip Adams Explains Why Aging Deer Is Easier Than You Think
Oct 24, 2022
Masters of the Rut: Dr. Grant Woods on Using A.I. to Improve Your Hunting
Oct 17, 2022
Masters of the Rut: Inside the Mind of a Big Buck Serial Killer
Oct 11, 2022
Masters of the Rut: Blood Trailing Secrets from Shane Simpson
Oct 03, 2022
Epilogue: Crazy as a Sheep Hunter
Aug 10, 2022
Tracking Big Bucks with the Mule Deer Master
Aug 03, 2022
Rue Mapp Is a Woman on a Mission
Jul 27, 2022
Wild Horses and Burros Have Become Beasts of Burden
Jul 20, 2022
Kristine Fischer's Rise to Kayak-Fishing Fame
Jul 13, 2022
The Case Against Scoring Big-Game Animals
Jul 06, 2022
Season 3: The Diehards
Jun 29, 2022
Epilogue: Primitive Skills in a Modern World
May 18, 2022
When a Lost Kid Wanders into Your Camp
May 11, 2022
Life and Death in Grizzly Country
May 04, 2022
The Wilderness Isn't Out to Get You
Apr 27, 2022
Stranded in Sheep Country
Apr 20, 2022
Can Hunting Survive in California?
Apr 13, 2022
Miracle on the Tundra: Surviving a 5-Day Blizzard
Apr 06, 2022
Season 2: The Survivor's Mindset
Apr 05, 2022
Are Duck Hunters Really Losing 1 in 5 Birds? Here’s How We Can Do Better
Sep 24, 2021
How I Made the Biggest Archery Shot of My Life
Sep 03, 2021
Wildlife and the Megadrought
Aug 27, 2021
The Wolf Wars are Getting More Extreme
Aug 27, 2021
The Story Behind Vincent Hancock's Gold Medal Win
Aug 13, 2021
The Remington Ammunition Comeback
Aug 02, 2021
Trouble in Turkey Country
Jul 13, 2021
What We Got Wrong About Snow Geese
Jun 25, 2021
The Godfather of Axis Deer Culling on Molokai Island
Jun 16, 2021
The Mysterious Chronic Lyme Disease Nightmare
Jun 04, 2021
Why Do We Have Such Strange Hunting Laws?
May 28, 2021
Where’s All the Ammunition?
May 17, 2021
The New World-Record Elk—That Almost Wasn’t
May 07, 2021
What Really Happened to the Duck Hunters Who Were Killed on Reelfoot Lake?
Apr 27, 2021
Trailer: The Outdoor Life Podcast
Mar 26, 2021