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Happy Hunting friends! Man, oh man it just keeps getting better! The weather down here is cooling off, we're knocking on the door of the rut in the Midwest, and we're just weeks away from home duck season! This week is a little different as we will be sharing some listener submitted stories about some scary/unexplainable stories from their time in the woods! Check it out!

Boy, do we have a pile of stories for y'all this week. I just returned from a 9-day jaunt in the Dakotas duck hunting. Jordan has spent most of his time awake deer hunting here at home, which involves a bunch of crazy tales, one involving a bizarre encounter with an alligator. Check it out!

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Keith Polk is a highly respected forester, known for both timber and wildlife management. He is also a life-long Mississippian, church elder at Crossgates Baptist Church, a dedicated hunter, and long-time friend of the show.

Enjoy this conversation with him and Jordan because Lake went to duck hunt in North Dakota without telling anyone he was leaving. Check it out!

How has deer season only been open for 5 days? Seriously, it seems like so much as has happened already and do we ever has some entertaining stories to share with y'all. We have everything from 160 inch bucks inside of 25 yds, broken hearts, and broken ankles! (well, sort of) Also, we have a chance for lucky listener to win a brand new pair of Muck Outmax boots! Check it out!

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Fresh back from the elk country of New Mexico, and fresh off the John Deere tractor, we have a pile of stories and news to share this week. The biggest news is that Mississippi has a new law for hunting deer over bait, and frankly, it's now easier than ever to bait deer if that's what your into. We also have elk hunting stories from New Mexico, as well from a college professor in Pennsylvania. Check it out!

This wonderful week of entering late September we are joined by special guest, Josh Thrash, a life-long Mississippian, turkey hunter, and relatively new moose hunter. Throughout full-length discussion, all kinds of topics are covered that are worth your time, the most intriguing being the story of Josh's most recent archery moose hunt that you won't want to miss. Check it out!

If you're around central Mississippi today be sure to stop by AgUp in Canton, MS for the Deere Season kick-off event from 3-8pm! It's going to be a heck of a time! in this episode we talk failed velvet hunts, cell cam ethics, proposed law changes involving deer baiting, moose charges, and disgruntled hog hunters. Check it out!

Man, oh man do we have a full show for y'all today! Hopefully all of you are coming off of a burner of a Labor day weekend filled with dove hunts, cookouts, and college football! In the news we have the 2026 waterfowl population report, a very well thought out email from a listener, and serial poacher! After that, we play the Price is Right, archery edition! That leads to talk of what in the world does it cost to get into archery these days! Check it out!

Holy smokes it's September. All this time waiting and enduring the endless summer days and all of the sudden we are back in action. The dove opener is this weekend, velvet season will be open soon, along with elk, and a whole lot more. To top it all off, we have a week's worth of news to catch up on. New boat ramps being installed, more explanation on the roadless rule, and the new news about the Trump Administration supposedly putting together a land swap involving part of Yosemite National Park. Also, Jordan fills us in with what he learned in a recent deer management clinic. Check it out!

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Jordan and I have a pile to talk about this week. Some of it's fun, some of it's not. A listener sent in picture of a strange looking buck deer, we see a disturbing video a whitetail doe killing her own fawn, we talk about the border wall at Big Bend, and the proposal to rescind the roadless rule. Then to round it all of we talk about the dove opener and the upcoming Mississippi velvet season. Check it out!

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Welcome to the first Video version of the STL Podcast! You can check it out on our new YouTube channel "STL Show". We have a barrel full of news to talk over this week including:
-shooting hornet nests out of trees
- deer hunting with dogs controversy in South Carolina
- More CWD drama
- a Nebraska outfitter doing prison time for poaching charges
- an Iowa man jailed for catching and selling an endangered turtle in Alabama
and whole lot more. Check it out!

Thanks to a lot of your support, we believe that the Prairie Pothole region for now is safe. Rest assured, we will keep all of you in the loop as more news surfaces. We also talk about a recent poaching case that involved a young man in Ohio that will hopefully land at redemption down the road. Lastly, we firmly take a stance in taking up for a good colleague of ours who has recently come under fire. And we round it off with some standard food plot season and land management talk. Check it out.

Don't drain the duck factory! Some crazy folks are trying to drain tile some VERY crucial nesting grounds for our waterfowl! That's the top news of this episode and if you care about ducks and wetlands, you must submit a comment by this Friday, August 7. Also, there are folks out there that believe there are radio-controlled killer bears. That's not a joke. I mean, it is a joke, but it's not a joke that some people think that. Lastly, we discuss the ongoing Arkabutla Lake controversy. Check it out! 

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It's still summer. It's still hot, but we are close enough to fall hunting seasons and cooler weather that we can at least talk about it, dream about it, and report on current news that will affect the upcoming year. and yes, the government is literally asking us to hunt more deer. Check it out! 

In this bonus episode we will be talking about a topic that cannot be over-emphasized. Practice. It may seem rudimentary, but I'm telling you because of all the practice we did, we came to Africa more confidently than I have ever approached any other hunt. In this episode we will break down exactly what we did, the drills, the numbers, and why we did all of it. Check it out! 

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It has been an oddly busy week in local outdoor news. It's also been very hot. This episode involves trail cam talk, some very early beginnings of 26/27 deer strategy and some very interesting news updates. such as:

- a turtle lawsuit in Mississippi

- people losing their minds over black bears

- a corps of engineers lake controversy 

and more! Check it out!

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Since our recent episodes about safari and Africa we had a lot of inquiries about booking, travel logistics, and just some general guidelines about do's and don'ts for international hunts. Look, I get it. If you haven't done it, it can seem intimidating but with the right preparation it is very doable. 

I hope you find this helpful and if any of you have more questions or think I didn't cover something, reach out

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It may be the doldrums of a long, hot summer but there is still plenty going on in the world of wildlife. For instance: they culled hundreds of urban geese in Alabama for a disgruntled HOA, Mississippi has new public land, a man in Georgia broke a blue gill record, and what are supposed to think of data centers? check it out! 

In this special bonus episode we will dive into the untold hunting story of Lacey's Nyala from our recent safari in Zululand. If you can't tell, we have become completely obsessed with African wildlife, African wilderness, and African hunting. Frankly, we think you should be too. We hope you enjoy it. Check it out! 

Jordan got a new old truck, There is a huge python wrangling competition in Florida, red snapper season is in peril for recreational anglers, and Jordan has a new method for managing land in WRE tracts. Check it out!

Believe us when we say, we just returned from the most incredible hunting trip of our lives so far- and luckily for us, we got the opportunity to take our wives! In this episode, we have a full-on discussion, debrief, and breakdown of our incredible time in Zululand hunting buffalo, kudu, Nyala, and other things, seeing sights we have never seen before and getting life experiences you simply cannot replicate anywhere else other than the dark continent! I promise this is worth a listen! Check it out!

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Jordan I just got back- as in, got back yesterday- from a week-long safari in Zululand with Garry Kelly Safaris. I am not exaggerating when we say it was a life-changing experience. In this episode we talk with Cullen Kelly and Murray Clayton, our to PHs (professional hunters) for this trip about some of the adventures and hunts we got into. The most important part of this conversation to me, however, is when we go over some of the biggest and common misunderstanding about African hunting, especially in South Africa. Whatever you're up to, I can promise this one is worth bending your ear. Heck, you may even hear Jordan talk about getting charged by an elephant. Check it out! 

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Plot twist! We are not in Africa.....yet. boy, oh boy did the news stack up quick before our departure though. In this episode, we'll cover crooked politics, turkey egg eating lizards from Argentina, and a new hunting season being opened in Louisiana. Check it out! 

Summertime is here but do not fret, my friends, there is still plenty to get into and talk about. The Mississippi Alligator hunt draw is upon us, and unbeknownst to us, there is a fair amount of controversy around that process and the hunt itself. There was a new record set for Channel Catfish. Lastly, and the most unsettling news, there was a recent bust of a cockfighting ring in Mississippi. Wild times. Check it out! 

We are back and so is summer. Man, it's hot. Anyway, we have some updates on the Trump administration opening land to hunting. We have new on the propose Louisiana land grab. We dive into the topic of how to treat property owners when you're on a traveling hunting trip, and Jordan has some thoughts for summer deer strategies that will lead into fall hunting. Check it out! 

If you're going to end it, you might as well end it on a walk-off home run - and that just so happens to be what Jordan and I got to do.  This has stories of wins, losses, humidity, heat, hunting permission, controversy, and the best turkey hunting day of both our lives. Check it out! 

They are trying to sell-off 140,000 acres of national forest in Louisiana. A highly controversial candidate just got confirmed to be the new director for the bureau of land management. We've got fresh turkey stories!! Check it out! 

Blazing star, butterfly weed, and rattlesnake master are sitting atop of mind currently. There's some new laws being proposed in Mississippi that would significantly affect nonresident turkey hunters. There was a grizzly bear attack in Glacier National Park. There's a whole lot going on, along with a few more turkey ventures. Check it out! 

It's a wrap up for the final week of the MS turkey season. It's tales of giant snakes and hoards of crawfish swimming upstream like salmon. It's a brand new segment of people arguing on the internet about wildlife conservation. It's a little bit of everything. Check it out! 

One thing is for sure, Neither Jordan or myself are as young as we were when we kicked this podcast off in 2017. The current ailments we find ourselves dealing with are both inconvenient and comical at the same time. However, I heard a wise man once say, it is what it is. In this episode, we talk about getting old, cagey turkeys, thicket turkeys, and dead turkeys. They all have place in our hearts. Check it out! 

Join us for this unique STL episode as we cover some hot-off-the-press hunting stories, some very important news regarding public lands, and discussions of how deer should hibernate during the spring. Check it out! 

Clay Newcomb is the house of the Bear Grease Podcast and MeatEater team member. He and his long-time friend and producer, Josh Spielmaker, join us this week to talk about their current trip down in Mississippi for turkey camp. Check it out! 

As we get into the month of April we have yet another round of updates from the ever unpredictable spring woods. However, this week's updates will only be brought by Jordan, because Lake can't seem to find a turkey in a grocery store. We also give some pertinent updates regarding turkey stamps funds. Check it out! 

Welcome back to Springtime STL, where our thoughts, words, and episodes are consumed by wild turkeys. In this episode we have fresh turkey updates to share with you. Spoiler alert: They're both humdinger stories. We also talk a bit about turkey hunter superstitions. Check it out! 

Holy smokes has it really only been one week of regular season!? For some reason it feels like we are already in the thick of it. Maybe it's the warm weather, the humidity, or maybe odd acting turkeys. Whatever the reason, we have pile of stories to tell to get y'all all caught up. Check it out! 

Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially in the throws of it. Regular turkey spring turkey season is Mississippi is officially here, and from here on out until some dreaded time in May, you can expect some form of turkey talk on this here podcast every week! On this episode we have some stories to tell and action to catch you up on! We've got an action packed ending to youth season, a first time experience in the turkey woods, and a hunt that almost went perfect until it didn't. Check it out!

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Welcome to the first turkey story bonus drop of 2026! This is one unlike any other we have had told on this show before! Check it out! 

Man, oh man do we have a jam-packed episode for y'all today! We have turkey season updates, we have laws that effect how close you can hunt to a church on the Sabbath, we have some current turkey hunting stories from just a few days ago, and we have some pretty interesting news! This one does not disappoint so check it out! 

Today on this very special episode of STL we are joined by TJ and Greg of Ag Up Equipment. As we record from their office in Flora, Mississippi, we discuss finding the right tractor for the job, Jordan's prescribed fire that almost got out of hand, and some good old fashioned turkey hunting stories. Check it out! 

Logan Cooke is a punter for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He is also one of the most passionate landowners and turkey hunters you could ever hope to come across. In this episode, Jordan and logan talk about both. Check it out! 

The first spring turkey episode of 2026 is officially here. Settle in everyone because for the next few months, we're going full-bore into the spring woods! And get ready, because BONUS turkey episodes will start dropping this week! Man, what a time to be alive! This week we talk bad turkey slang, benefits of standing tall, hear a listener submitted turkey story that pulls at the heart strings, and hear hummdinger of a turkey tale from Jordan. Check it out! 

Today is a different episode, but if you have followed this show long enough you know we're big on honesty around here. There's also a story about youth waterfowl season, a letter from a Mississippi senator about wildlife refuges, and some updates about turkeys and NWTF. Check it out! 

This is about as live action of a podcast as we can ever manage to do! In this episode you will hear about Lake's kerfuffle on a national news network, a stellar and icy ending to duck season- AND GET READY we are coming in hot with the first spring turkey story of the year! Check it out! 

In this episode Jordan & Lake discuss the ice storm that has just recently hit the U.S South, Jordan's dad, Duck hunting updates, and Facebook disputes about deer hunting. Check it out! 

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This week we have a hot off the press lineup of stories and current news from the hunting world. The turkey stamp is now available in Mississippi, which I believe to be a huge conservation win. In less positive news, MS House bill 828- called the "Fair Chase Act" is potentially going to put a stop to hunting with dogs on public land and on Private land that is less than 2000 contiguous acres. This is would be significant rule change. We discuss it all here. Check it out! 

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Man do we have a jam-packed episode for y'all today! Jordan finally completed his mission for a Mississippi bow buck this season. The weather finally started acting right and we had some good ducks hunts.However, the hottest topic of them all for today is that a U.S Senator is formally asking the USFWS to investigate whether or not flooded corn could be altering waterfowl migration! It's some interesting stuff to say the least. Check it out!!

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Man, oh man do we have some stories to tell this week! Jordan got bamboozled by a GIANT buck, Lake bought a buffalo rifle that he does not need but wanted really bad, and we even talk about the drama that got stirred up in the public duck woods this past weekend. Check it out! 

This is unlike any other episode we have done before. We are recording an episode while we are duck hunting. Tune in as we misidentify birds, miss ducks, talk about deer updates, and more. Check it out! 

In this days before Christmas episode, we talk central Mississippi rutting deer, old lever action rifles, slip or still hunting, and what has caused the severe decline in quality of duck hunting in Mississippi. Check it out! 

Kurt Colgrove and Justin Ballard are the owners and operators fo Paragon Aerial solution based out of Alabama. In this episode, Jordan interviews them about their use of drones to survey properties for deer and land management purposes, putting a whole new twist on capability in being able to understand what the deer herd is like on any particular property. We must say, this is one of the most innovative and constructive uses of drones that we have seen to date! They also discuss a specific property survey they conducted with a property with Jordan the very day the interview was recorded. Y'all have to Check this out!