A Hunter's Legacy
Step into the world of everyday hunters as we uncover the stories, passion, and drive behind their love for the hunt. A Hunter's Legacy is a podcast that celebrates the heart and soul of hunting through conversations with real, everyday hunters. From their first hunts to their most unforgettable moments in the field, we dive deep into the experiences that connect hunters to the outdoors and their traditions.
Join us as we explore the values, lessons, and motivations that make hunting more than a sport—it’s a legacy. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter, a curious enthusiast, or simply love hearing authentic stories of connection to nature, A Hunter's Legacy has a tale for you. Grab your gear and tune in to hear why hunting is more than just a pastime—it’s a way of life.
Episodes
70 episodes
66: How Running Tracking Dogs Replaced Deer Hunting As The Best Part Of His Season With John Sturtevant (Iowa)
John grew up with no hunting family and no mentor, just a buddy, a .22 LR, and some creek bottoms to run around in. They trapped muskrats and coons before school, shot anything that moved, and figured it all out the hard way. That foundation tu...
65: How A Bad Neighbor Turned A Great Hunting Spot Into A Safety Hazard With Nathan Kopp (Missouri)
Nathan grew up in a subdivision outside of Washington, Missouri, but his heart has always belonged to a stretch of farmland two and a half hours north. His dad put him in a tree stand at seven years old, and before the sun even fully cleared th...
64: Hunting The Same Dates On The Same Properties For Decades With Nelson Chandler (Georgia)
Nelson Chandler has been hunting the ridges and valleys of northwest Georgia since 1974, when he was ten years old and his dad handed him a single shot sixteen gauge with buckshot and said let's figure this out. Neither of them knew what they w...
63: The Shotgun On The Bottom Of A River And Five Ducks Still In The Boat With Hunter Childs (Wisconsin)
Hunter Childs goes by Rooster, a nickname his grandpa gave him for quoting John Wayne lines from True Grit so well it just stuck. He grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin near Webster, where the county forest system runs for miles, the dirt ro...
62: Proving The Woods Are Open To Everyone With Shannon Kortman (Michigan)
Shannon Kortman has been in a wheelchair since he was two years old, paralyzed from the waist down due to spina bifida. He was adopted by a family who refused to let a diagnosis define what their son could do, and that mindset stuck. Shannon di...
V4 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field
Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest...
61: How A Stock Market Crash Led To A Great Land Investment With Randy Scheel (Iowa)
Randy Scheel grew up in rural Iowa chasing pheasants and rabbits through fence rows and creek bottoms, tagging along on hunts before he was old enough to carry a gun. His dad passed away when he was young, and it was his brother-in-law Paul who...
V3 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field
Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest...
60: Hunting A Buck In Every State One Tag At A Time With Jackson Knight (Missouri)
Jackson grew up on a family farm in Missouri watching his dad carry out the Bone Crusher, a Remington twelve gauge that had dropped more deer than either of them could count. He started tagging along before he could carry a gun, sat through thr...
V2 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field
Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest...
59: Six Hunters On The Same Tom And A First Timer Caught In The Middle With Michael Bennett II (Missouri)
Michael grew up in central Missouri watching his grandfather pull into the driveway with one-fifty and one-sixty inch bucks draped across the hood, wishing he could be part of it. His dad never hunted, but his grandpa taught himself in his thir...
V1 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field
Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest...
58: Twenty Four Miles Of Snow Tracking A Mountain Lion On The Slopes With Kendall Anthony (Colorado)
Kendall grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida fishing canals behind his house with a thirteen foot alligator living just downstream. When he was ten his family moved to Colorado and everything changed. He had no hunting family to learn from. His g...
57: First Generation Hunter Who Did It The Hardest Way Possible With Robert Arrieta (Arkansas)
Robert did not grow up in a hunting family. His dad was a hotel guy, not a hunting guy. But a neighbor across the street in suburban Colorado named Mr. Rodriguez changed everything. Robert watched him hang elk and deer in the garage, cut his ow...
56: Hunting Leopard At Midnight With One Headlamp And A Spearman With Samir Suleiman (North Carolina)
Samir Suleiman grew up hunting with his father outside of Washington DC, knocking on farmhouse doors and chasing whatever was in season within a two hour drive. By the time he was nine he had his hunter safety card and his first deer. By twelve...
55: No Agriculture, No Pattern, No Problem With John LaMarca (Maine)
John LaMarca didn't grow up in a hunting family. Nobody in his house hunted, nobody handed him a rifle, and nobody showed him how to read the woods. At 18, he decided he wanted to hunt, walked into the Maine timber country with a borrowed shotg...
54: Why He Chooses Public Land Over Corn Piles With Patrick Miller (South Carolina)
Patrick Miller grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians in northwest South Carolina, where deer were hard to come by and nobody in his family really knew how to hunt. He was ten years old when he convinced his dad to pick up a rifle and giv...
53: The Buck He Narrated Too Long Before Grandpa Shot First With Andy Keller (Oklahoma)
In this episode of A Hunter’s Legacy, Andy Keller joins the show from northeast Oklahoma to talk about the kind of deer hunting that gets passed down, not bought. From riding along with his dad and grandpa as a kid to raising a young family of ...
52: How He Taught Himself To Hunt From YouTube And Refused To Quit With Levi Tart (Pennsylvania)
Levi from southern Pennsylvania came into hunting without the family background most guys lean on. No mentors, no hand-me-down rifles, and no one at home who really knew what to do when he killed his first deer. In this episode, he tells the st...
51: From Sleeping Under Dad’s Tree Stand To Guiding in Alaska With Sam Beavers (Iowa)
In this Iowa deer hunting episode, Sam Beavers sits down with Mitchell Fox to talk about growing up just west of Des Moines, learning from his dad, and getting hooked on whitetail hunting in the kind of country that can make even simple access ...
50: The Hardest Lesson In Hunting: Finishing A Wounded Animal With Sam Westfall (Colorado)
His first shot on big game is something he still thinks about today.Growing up east of Boulder, Colorado, he started shooting prairie dogs at eight years old and was already helping local farmers by ten. By twelve he had his hunter educa...
49: Deer Hunting In Shelter Belts And River Bottoms With Dustin Sperlich (South Dakota)
In this episode of A Hunter’s Legacy, Dustin from South Dakota shares how deer hunting shaped his life from a young age, starting with rifle hunts in the shelter belts of East River country and growing into a deeper passion for archery, land ma...
48: New York Deer Hunting On Public Land And Hemlock Swamps With Tanner Carey (New York)
Tanner Carey grew up in upstate New York with deer hunting in his blood. From watching his dad’s headlamp come out of the swamp after dark to sitting alone in a cherry tree at 9 years old, his story is rooted in family, hard country, and learni...
47: Washington Blacktail To Idaho Whitetail: A Hunter’s Shift With Boaz Koski (Idaho)
Boaz Koski grew up in the thick, wet timber of southwest Washington, where 50 yard shots felt long and the rain was just part of the deal. In this episode, he talks about what shaped him as a hunter, why he left Washington for southern Idaho, a...
46: Mobile Hunting The Steep Ridges Of North Carolina Appalachia With Cody Triplett (North Carolina)
This episode of A Hunter’s Legacy heads into the mountains of North Carolina with Cody Triplett, a rock quarry welder and heavy equipment operator who lives in small town Appalachia where Christmas trees outnumber crop fields and the hills are ...
