Recorded in-person at BHA 10th Annual North American Rendezvous in Montana, join us today for an in-depth conversation between two certified gun nerds, Hal Herring and Nephi Cole. Nephi is director of government relations-state affairs of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry’s primary trade association. Nephi has a serious conservation, shooting and outdoors pedigree – in addition to currently representing America’s firearms manufacturers and retailers, he has ...

  Alaska-born and raised, top-level collegiate rower, Crossfit addict, big game hunter, river guide, athletic nutrition coach Heather Kelly has spent a lifetime exploring the junction where the food we carry in the backcountry is both deeply satisfying and at its most effective as fuel. In 2014, after preparing her own groceries for a 30-day Grand Canyon adventure, she founded Heather’s Choice – state-of-the-art, freeze-dried backpacking meals and high-performance snacks - in the kitchen of ...

Sit down with Hal and Hank Shaw, the man who transformed wild game cookery in America – and who ushered in an entirely new era of hunting, fishing, gathering and foraging as culinary as well as predatory arts. Hank, who runs the wild foods website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, was at the BHA 2021 Rendezvous to cook, see old friends and meet likeminded outdoorsmen and women. He also shared his new book, Hook, Line and Supper, which does for fishing what Duck, Duck, Goose did for waterfowl, ...

Archeologist Dr. Larry Todd came home to Meeteetse, Wyoming, after a long career studying ancient hunting peoples all over the planet. Asked to do a quick archeological survey of some high-elevation public lands in Northwest Wyoming, he took a crew of students and headed out, convinced of lean pickings and a fast return to the comforts of home. After all, how many ancient hunters would choose to live at 11,000 feet, on barren ridges swept by winter snow and bitter wind, blistered by summer ...

For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA’s North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting, fishing and conservation, writing for Field & Stream, Garden and Gun, Audubon and dozens of other publications. It’s a radical understatement to call him an outdoor writer, although the term fits the man who has published the best-selling behemoth of outdoor skills, Field & Stream’s Total Outdoorsman. In their conversation, Hal and Eddie ...

On our latest podcast focusing on the Eastern forests and upland game birds, Hal catches up to Mike “the Polish Hammer” Neiduski, the regional director of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, to talk habitat, public and private lands restoration, small scale timber harvest, and the heart-stopping explosion of wild birds flushing from dense cover, in front of the world’s best bird dogs- our own. The talk is public lands bird hunting from the Uwharrie National Forest to the ...

“It started with food, and it’s evolved into what most hunters have experienced…sure, the end goal is food, but there’s a million more things to enjoy about it.” Jenna Rozelle lives in southern Maine, where she teaches classes on wild foods, forages, hunts, fishes and chronicles an existence spent close to the land. For her, hunting and fishing go hand in hand with foraging and land stewardship. A board member of the New England chapter of BHA and self described late-onset hunter, Rozelle ...

The Eastern forests encompass 51 million acres of timberlands, including the Adirondack Park, which at 6 million-plus acres is the largest protected area in the lower 48 states. This wealth of land abuts the most populous region of the U.S. – exactly why it is the birthplace and the beating heart of the American conservation movement, a movement born from the catastrophic abuses of the not-so-distant past. This is the landscape that produced Theodore Roosevelt (who was climbing Mount Marcy ...

Texas offers a diversity and abundance – of topography, fish and wildlife, and experiences – that few other states can match. Grahame Jones, recently retired as the director of law enforcement with Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, as well as chairman of BHA’s Texas chapter, knows this landscape intimately. Jones, a fifth-generation Texan, is a veteran of over 27 years in the field, starting as a game warden in the wild piney woods of east Texas and working his way up to chief of ...

Durrell Smith is a bird dog trainer, artist, podcaster and writer from Georgia. He founded the Minority Outdoor Alliance, a pioneer in connecting minorities to their history and voice in the hunting and angling communities. “He lives what he speaks,” as Hal says of Durrell, who is also a bobwhite quail hunting fanatic, guiding and chasing birds largely on public lands. Through his work and pursuits, he is carrying on an incredible lineage of Southern quail hunting and dog training, giving ...