The Outdoor Life Podcast

Spearfishing for walleyes and other game fish has slowly been gaining traction in the Great Lakes, and starting April 2026, the sport will enter a new phase there. In November, after years of input from local...

There are lots of things to consider when it comes to cartridge selection for killing deer. But when it comes to recovering those deer, especially when hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor, there’s still plenty of confusion. So...

Our gear editor got a chance to hang stands and trail cameras with Levi Morgan this summer. Now he's back hunting with the championship archer in Illinois. Here's how Morgan thinks about everything from trail cameras to...

Every year, trawlers operating off Alaska’s coast legally catch, kill, and toss overboard tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of salmon, along with millions of pounds of halibut, herring, crab, and, occasionally, some...

Antler collector Josh Duncan paid a premium to own the world-record whitetail shed antlers. But after he bought them, a troubling revelation came to light on social media. Hosted by editor-in-chief Alex Robinson...

The MeatEater personality and longtime conservationist has been tapped to run Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Here's how Ryan 'Cal' Callaghan thinks about public lands, safeguarding them, and why he's still an optimist...

Gear editor and absolute archery geek Scott Einsmann explains all the testing he's done lately on arrow speed and broadhead performance. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Alex Robinson. Produced by Executive Editor Natalie...

There's probably nobody out there who has covered precision rifles, ammo, and optics more intensely than OL shooting editor John B. Snow. But John is not saying to go out there and shoot elk at a thousand yards. In...

There are a lot of things people get wrong about picking a bear rifle or defensive gun. According to our resident Alaskan and bonafide griz skinner Tyler Freel, here's what actually makes a great bear gun. Hosted by...

In an unprecedented move, President Trump announced he was invoking an obscure federal provision to disregard public feedback and move forward with the 211-mile private industrial corridor in the Alaskan wilderness...

The biggest story in the outdoors recently was a tragic one. Two elk hunting buddies, Andrew Porter and Ian Stasco, were found dead in southern Colorado. The week-long search for the missing men captured the hunting...

OL's former shooting editor is arguably the greatest outdoor writer of all time. And even though Jack O'Connor was writing decades ago, much of his wisdom still rings true. In today's episode, current shooting editor...

A teenager is facing a felony charge in Georgia for killing a turkey that was strutting on his family’s property this spring — a bird that his former high-school history teacher claims was her pet. Here's how a...

In this episode, Alaska hunter Paul Forward explains what it's like bowhunting for doll sheep solo, why the Brooks Range is so special, and why he thinks the proposed Ambler Road is a problem that's worth our attention...

After collecting hundreds of hours of drone footage of wild deer on his family's Missouri property, Derrick Dixson of the Whitetail Research YouTube channel doesn't think about deer hunting the same way. Here are just a...

If you're hunting public land, you're probably not going to be able to pattern a mature buck before opening day. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Here's how Shane Simpson thinks about preseason on public ground...

Thinking about a new pair of binos or a riflescope? Here's what optics editor Andrew McKean recommends before you spend your hard-earned cash. This episode is brought to you by Let's Get Real About Skin Cancer, an...

Many outdoorsmen, conservationists, do not want to see a massive copper-nickle mine carved into the headwaters of the Boundary Waters. To better explain why, in this episode of the Outdoor Life podcast we interview two...

In this episode of the Outdoor Life podcast, gear editor Scott Einsmann sat down with Levi Morgan, a pro-archer, 16-time 3D archery world champion, and a diehard bowhunter who has hunted just about everything in North...

On a hot summer evening, two Alaskans were scouting for the upcoming moose season when they accidentally walked right into a grizzly bear’s kill. The bear charged at them from just 10 yards and a barrage of gunfire...

Contractor and lifelong wrangler Jackie Hughes knows how to scout and bait-trap wary feral horses. She also knows how to deal with irate activists who sabotage her operations, call her a horse killer, and tie up her...

After DOGE canceled funding for the Take Me Fishing campaign and the organization that administers it, the fishing industry was upset. Many online commenters weren't. Conservation editor Andrew McKean and executive...

Earlier this spring, on a ranch in Texas, we got the chance to sit down with the two diehard predator hunters who developed the fast and flat-shooting.22 Creedmoor. While that cartridge had been developed as a...

The Hearing Protection Act got thrown out of the Senate's version of the One Big Beautiful Bill — as expected. Brandon Maddox, the CEO of Silencer Central, breaks down what happened, why the gun industry split into two...

It's telling (and fun) to test all the new flagship compounds side by side, but one of the highlights is mapping out where the archery industry is headed — and what bowhunters should look out for. Edited by Mike...