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2 weeks ago | 
themeateater.com | Tony Peterson |Sean Weaver
Subscribe In this episode This week, Tony interviews MeatEater's Max Barta. They discuss how Max went about getting his first real bird dog, and what it took to develop her into an asset in the duck blind. Connect with Tony, Cal, and MeatEaterCal on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Presented By
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Mark Kenyon |Sam Lungren |Doug Duren |Sean Weaver
Subscribe In this episode This week on the show I’m joined by professor, ecologist, and best-selling author Doug Tallamy, to discuss the fascinating ways that hunters can turn their properties into DIY wildlife refuges for the critters we hunt and other threatened species at the same time.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
themeateater.com | Tony Peterson |Sean Weaver
If you spend a single day out hunting waterfowl, you’ll quickly learn that their eyesight is almost second to none. They can pick out even the most hidden blinds, they’ll flare off the simplest of movements, and they have an uncanny ability to see and land with a lone real duck instead of your...
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
themeateater.com | Matthew Every |Sean Weaver |Joe Genzel
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty broken up about waterfowl seasons being over. Late winter means the days are short and depressing, and just when I’ve missed enough ducks and geese to actually start hitting some, it seems like things are about to close. But it isn’t all lost yet. March is the final gasp for waterfowlers before they need to hang up their waders for the summer—and March is all about snow goose hunting. A snow goose hunt is a big production.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Bethany Beathard |Ryan Callaghan |Sean Weaver
Two experienced Louisiana duck hunters are lucky to be alive after their boat sank and they were forced to light a fire in their cooler to keep warm. Texas Game Wardens reported on January 19th that they were called the week prior to Bois D'Arc Lake to look for two hunters who had been reported missing. The men had been hunting the North Texas lake for the past two days, but their wives became concerned after not hearing from them after the sun had set.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Tony Peterson |Keith Crowley |Sean Weaver
If you want to see a pheasant hunter lose his shit (yes, it’ll be a dude), watch how someone deals with a dog that suddenly decides to go into bootlicker mode. This is one of the most embarrassing and frustrating things a pheasant dog can do. With some dogs, that’s their natural mode of travel. Low-drive dogs aren’t going to suddenly find a work ethic that genetics and training didn’t already install in them. It doesn’t happen that way.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Matthew Every |Sean Weaver
This election season, most people are thinking about donkeys and elephants, but I’ve got geese on my mind—specifically, the windfall of free honker decoys I’m about to get come November 6. Most of the year, I find corrugated election signs a bit annoying, no matter the party. But they have one shining virtue. The plastic itself is tough as nails and sized perfectly for making decoys.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Bethany Beathard |Sean Weaver |Tony Peterson
Waterfowl diets are as diverse as the birds themselves, and knowing what they eat can really influence your hunting strategy. From puddle ducks dabbling the shallows to divers plunging the deep, what these birds eat shapes everything from where they hang out to how they taste on your plate.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Matthew Every |Joe Genzel |Sean Weaver
Recently, I practically gave away the last of my plastic mallard decoys. It was such a deal, that the guy I sold them to almost felt guilty. But I didn’t have use for them any more. For about two years, I’ve slowly been building up a rig of all wooden decoys. Most come from decoy carver friends of mine, others are antiques, and one I even carved myself. You might think this is stupid, crazy, or just another hipster-hunter idiosyncrasy like shooting a side-by-side (and yeah, I do that sometimes, too).
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Dylan Tramp |Sean Weaver
There are more new gun owners in our country right now than at any time in the last 25 years. If you count yourself among them, welcome! Gun ownership is a constitutional right in the US of A, but that doesn’t mean you should check your common sense at the gun shop door. I didn’t grow up around guns, so here are a few of the things I wish I’d been told after I took home my first shooting iron. Learning the four rules of gun safety is just the first step.
