Onyourownadventures Podcasts

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy visits with Howard Vincent, long-time President and CEO of Pheasants Forever. A history of the organization sets the ground for many other topics; Volunteerism, Farm Bill for wildlife, policy and politics, soil and land conservation, expanded the hunting experience, what's the future, the necessit…

Shane Mahoney of Conservation Visions and Randy Newberg introduce the Wild Harvest Initiative, a 6 year data collection project that exhibits the impact and necessity of wild food in North America. As defined by the Wild Harvest Initiative team, "Wild Harvest Initiative® is the first serious effort to evaluate the combined economic, conservation, a…

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,…

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 stor…

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 habita…

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…

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 eac…

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 ye…

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…

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 …

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, pushi…

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 com…

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…

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 to…

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 cattl…

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 Commi…

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, …

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 i…

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 ca…

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 bis…

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 discu…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …