Gary Lewis Outdoorsman

Talking about blacktails again this week. This time with Troy Rodakowski who has taken his biggest blacktails with muzzleloader and rifle while hunting from the ground. How to think about bedding areas. How to play the wind and keep bucks moving your way. This is a great time to be improving your game plan for October and November. Email Troy at trodakowski@baileyseed.com for information on planting for wildlife.

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In this episode we get the story of McKibben Womack's trophy California bighorn hunt in Oregon's John Day River canyon. He set out to do it DIY with a few friends on public land. It was a November hunt and several big rams had been killed already. We also talk blacktail deer hunting and elk hunting. McKibben works for Mission 22, serving veterans. Learn more at https://mission22.org/ 

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Calling black bears and hunting antelope in August! It's episode No. 260 and we celebrate the 260 Remington by talking to wildlife bio Tod Lum who bought one of the first 260 Remingtons on the market and immediately had to become a reloader because it was hard to find ammo! And we talk calling black bears and antelope hunting in eastern Oregon.

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At 52-years-old, Randall Knight embarked on his lifelong dream of going to the police academy and into law enforcement. We hear about qualifying with pistol and shotgun, getting tased, pepper-sprayed and beat up with a baton. If you want to hear his backstory, go back and listen to Mom carried a Saturday Night Special and she wasn't afraid to use it. We recorded that one in May, 2024.

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You gotta hear this one. We talk to Justin Edwards about hunting hogs, wild boars, feral pigs and black bear too. Using scents. Using blinds. Favorite cartridge: 270 Winchester. You can learn more at https://cervicide.com/ For info on scents, check out https://odinsinnovations.com/

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There's a better way to hunt blacktail deer and black bear and a new breed of hunters is making the most of it. Find a couple of travel corridors. Build a couple of blinds. Cut shooting lanes. Dope the wind. Today we talk to Paul Black about synthetic scents and attractants. For more info, check out https://odinsinnovations.com/ 

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On his way back to Wyoming, Gus Smith stops in to talk about why reloading, and why the 7mm Remington Magnum. We also talk about the 30 Nosler, the 6.5 Creedmoor and the 416 Rigby. Gus has been shooting since before he could hold a gun barrel off the ground and has been in the reloading room since he could reach the top of the counter. 

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And we are just back from 4 days hunting in the berry patches in western Oregon. The blackberries are heavy on the vines and you can smell them when you get out of the truck. This time we had a sound engineer with us and our favorite guitar tech. The sound engineer stepped off the plane in Oregon and three hours later he had his first black bear. Hunting by himself in a berry patch. With us on this podcast are Chris Daniels, Marc L...

Just back from Tanzania, Brian Smith and Mason Smith recount hunting in the historic Selous region of Tanzania. They fly into Johannesburg then to Dar El Salam and then to a tiny airstrip where they unlimber their rifles, a 470 Nitro double and a WInchester Model 70 in 375 H&H. If you want to hunt in southern Africa, send me a note at garylewisoutdoors@gmail.com and I will help to arrange your safari. 

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One of the best bear hunts in North America, that's what I call hunting the mainland of upper British Columbia. On this episode we talk to bear hunter and blade maker Mike Jones of Quesnel, B.C. and get his perspective on hunting bears in the province. Ever wonder what makes a good blade for the bear hunter. We talk about it here. For more on Mike Jones, click on https://www.mikejonesknifeandtool.com/ 

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Okay, I have been meaning to do this one for about 4 years. Ron Spomer is back from Namibia and the Eastern Cape in South Africa and we're talking bushbucks and oryx and eland and rifles we take to Africa and what it's really like to hunt Namibia now, and South Africa. Not how to do it, but what it's like on safari in 2026. Oh, and this one is for Gus, by the way. For more Ron Spomer, visit https://www.ronspomeroutdoors.com/ron-spo...

Today! This is the day we record our 250th episode. America! We're talking pheasants and pheasant futures in the Midwest and especially in the environs around Aberdeen, South Dakota, home of the pheasant sandwich. Our guest is Casey Weismantel from https://huntfishsd.com/ 

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This is the summer we celebrate 250 years of America. I remember riding in a parade in Kalama, Washington, with my uncle Jack in a Model T Ford 50 years ago and I also remember becoming intensely interested in the Revolutionary War, the age of the mountain man and the American Indian. All of that fed into my fascination with firearms. In this episode we talk about side-by-side shotguns and reloading for the 16 gauge. And we talk ab...

A new way of hunting blacktail deer. That's what this is. We visit with Aaron Dobbins of Woodland, Washington to talk trophy blacktails at 20 yards. For more information, visit https://theblacktailcoach.com/

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This episode is packed. We start our chainsaws, drop a few trees and then Greg Roberts starts dropping knowledge. We talk weather, wolves, juniper removal, the 30-06, the 22-250, deer, bears and elk and whether or not IP28 has a chance at transforming the West. 

Roberts has over 40 years of weather forecasting experience, specializing in severe weather events. A big game hunter and a consummate observer, Greg has spent many hou...

One of the best tasting meats in the world. That's what people say about axis deer. We hunt them in Hawaii, Texas and Florida (and a few other places). We're going holo-holo with my friend Kahai to talk axis deer hunting. 

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We catch up with Jeremiah Polacek the editor of Rifle & Handgun and Handloader magazines to talk rifles, optics and hunting elk in the desert at the end of September when bull elk bugle in the early morning. Visit https://www.riflemagazine.com/

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In this latest installment in our mini-series, How To Be A Bear Hunter, we talk to Dante Zuniga-West about hunting pumpkin-headed monsters. We talk stillness, visualization and readiness, as well as Dante’s favorite bear gun and loads. 

Dante came to hunting by way of prep school in Bel Air. He is a mild-mannered high school principal, the offspring of educators, he holds a master’s degree from an art institute and ...

In this episode we hear from Chris Dudley, candidate for governor in the great state of Oregon. He makes his home east of the Cascades and he knows rural Oregon. He played 16 seasons in the NBA, he played center for the Trailblazers, was a big shot blocker and was voted the most caring NBA player by USA Today. And we have him for 18 minutes of conversation to talk hunting and fishing and leadership. Visit https://www.dudley4oregon....