Hunt Talk Radio, Randy Newberg Unfiltered | Hunting | Conservation | Politics | Tactics

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy talks with Ben Long, an experienced writer, advocate, and hunter, about Ben's new book, Field Guide to Raising Hell. Topics covered include, how long hunters have been raising hell for wildlife, are we here to fight or here to win, how the systems work, wins matter, focus on values, Spank & Thank, being a happy warrior, and a ton of other good information about how to effectively advocate for the wild places and the wild things we dearly love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Hunt Talk Radio, Randy, Marcus, and Michael talk about their conservation fishing series titled Any Fin Goes. Topics covered include why people don't watch conservation media, fish conservation stories, fishing hypocrites, non-native fish species, social norms in different fishing cultures, killing fish, telling conservation stories, producing education content, pronghorn hunting, Outdoor Class, Randy the pronghorn geek, and a ton of other fun side notes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares a mic with Whit Fosburgh, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP). Topics covered include policy making an partisan neutrality, Federal policies and programs most impacting hunting and conservation, why access should be easier, private lands being the majority of wildlife habitat, the importance of Farm Bills and conservation on private lands, making progress by looking for wins and not looking for fights, ways average hunters can make a difference, and other topics from the unwild world of DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares some stories with two US Senators, Senator Daines from Montana and Senator Heinrich from New Mexico. Both are avid hunters and both work on conservation and public land policy. In addition to some hunting stories, topics covered include getting banned from social media, focusing on the next generation, challenges of partisanship, importance of public lands, Great American Outdoor Act, and other Congressional issues that impact your hunting and access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode (#209) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, John Barklow returns to discuss his new online course with Outdoor Class; Backcountry Mission Planning. John uses his many decades of military training and teaching and provides 16 chapters of indepth backcountry skills. Confidence, comfort, and knowledge bring success. Randy and John go into each chapter to explain how these backcountry skills will help every hunter have more success and more fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 (#207) 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 (#206) 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 (#205) 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 (#204) 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 (#203) 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 #202) 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.