Let's Go Guided

Jordan Budd grew up on her family's cattle ranch in the Sand Hills of northwest Nebraska, shot her first rabbit out the back door as a kid, and never really stopped. Today she runs Running Water Hunting on that same land, guides a deliberately small number of clients each season across ten miles of river creek bottom and vast grassland that hold mule deer, whitetail, antelope, and Merriam turkey, while also producing content for Meat Eater and running her own media operation on the side.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Jordan to talk about how she built a guiding business out of necessity and passion, why she condensed her season down to five focused weeks instead of spreading clients across the whole year, and what separates a good client from a great one in the field. She also gets into what it looked like going from filming sheep hunts in Wyoming right out of high school to becoming one of the more quietly accomplished operators in the western hunting space.

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Doyle Moss has been guiding across the American West for decades. The record book tells part of the story: the number three Pope and Young bull ever taken, Utah's largest bull elk on record, and the legendary Spider Bull, the number one non typical bull elk in the world. But behind every record animal is a guiding philosophy built over decades of putting clients on trophy mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain lion, and bear across Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, primarily on public land.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Doyle, founder of Mossback Guides and Outfitters, to talk about how it all started, what conservation tags actually are and why they matter, how Mossback thinks about client expectations and preparation, and the full story behind the Spider Bull, including the client who killed it, and what happened years later after a stroke when that same client came back just to prove he still could.

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Ben Brochu started trapping as a kid in northern Alberta's Peace Country, sold his furs to save up for a trike, and was working for an outfitter by sixteen. Between then and now he spent years in vocational ministry, sailed Pacific Mexico for five months with his wife and four young children, and built one of Alberta's most diverse big game operations almost entirely on his own terms.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Ben, founder of Hinterland Outdoors, to talk moose, black bear, elk, whitetail, and mule deer hunting in northern Alberta, including a triple combo hunt where clients have had opportunity on all three big game species in a single six day window. Ben is candid about the kind of hunter he wants in camp and the kind he does not, what surprised him most about making the leap to full time outfitting, and why the best hunters he has ever guided are the ones who show up relaxed.

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This one is a little different. Episode 17 takes you out of the studio and into bear camp, where Robbie, Lindsay, and Colin recorded a casual check in from a wall tent somewhere in the BC interior on their second annual spring bear hunt.

In this episode the team reintroduces themselves, shares what has been happening behind the scenes since launch, and announces what is coming next. Lindsay was given a surprise birthday hog hunt in California with SMC Williams Guide Service. Robbie is heading to the Yukon in August for a horse guided caribou hunt with Iron North. And for 2027, the team is planning two group hunts open to listeners: an Argentina hunt and a plains game hunt in South Africa. If either of those is on your radar, reach out to Lindsay directly at [email protected] for details as they come together.

A short, raw update from the people building this thing in real time.
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Alex Mitri grew up dove hunting in Colombia with his father, spent years guiding in Bolivia and Paraguay, and in 2005 landed in Córdoba, Argentina, the dove hunting capital of the world. He never left. Today him and his wife own and operate FlyWays, running two Beretta Trident endorsed wing shooting lodges in Córdoba, one of which sits on a private section of the legendary Macha dove roost found nowhere else in the region.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Alex to talk about what a dove hunting trip to Argentina actually looks like: the sheer volume of birds, multiple scouts in trucks at 6am every morning locating fields, guides who have been with the operation for 15 years, and a gaucho asado in the field at midday that clients talk about as much as the shooting. Alex also breaks down how FlyWays grew from 200 clients a year to over 1,500 and what a 75% repeat business rate tells you about the experience they deliver.
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Robert Sergi took over Legends Ranch in Michigan at 24 years old, two days after finishing his wildlife biology degree, and has spent the years since building something that goes well beyond a trophy whitetail operation.

On 2,000 acres of Michigan hardwoods and open savannah where 200-inch-plus bucks move through tall grass in the rut, Legends Ranch is also home to a 24,000 square foot wildlife center, first-time hunter programs, Purple Heart veteran hunts, and a goal of getting 1,000 people their first deer.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Robert and Kyle Chalut, Director of Marketing, to talk about what makes Legends Ranch different, from the genetics program managing trophy bucks to the school tours bringing 3,000 students through every year, and a new 1,000-yard long-range shooting course taught by a 26-year military sniper. This one is about what a hunting operation can look like when conservation and community are built into the foundation of everything they create.

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Boris Basso of Basso Safaris shot his first impala at nine years old, hunting alongside his father in South Africa's Limpopo province and he's spent his life since then turning that same experience into a business built on fair chase, conservation, and genuine hospitality. He runs his operation on his own farm right on the Botswana border, in malaria-free country his clients describe as life changing.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Boris to talk about South Africa's plains game, Cape buffalo, and wing shooting, the evolution of game ranching since the 1970s, as well as the conservation model that's made South Africa a global destination for ethical hunting.

Boris also talks about the decision that defined his career, walking away from a 36-year career in the plastics industry to buy a farm during COVID lockdown, a bet that fellow farmers thought was crazy at the time.

If Africa has ever crossed your mind, this conversation is one you want to hear.

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Shane Palmer of Saddle Axe Outfitters didn't just build a guiding operation in the Kootenays of British Columbia, he built a family one. Co-founded with his brother Jason in 2014, the outfit is now three generations deep, with Shane's kids guiding alongside their parents and the next generation already in the saddle.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Shane to talk elk, moose, mountain goats, black bear, and cat hunting with hounds across BC's backcountry, all accessed on horseback.

Shane shares what it took to go from self-taught elk caller to full-time outfitter, the moment he knew guiding clients to their first elk was what he wanted to do, and what it actually takes to keep 250 kilometers of trail open every season before a single hunter shows up. He also opens up about hunting alongside his own kids and watching them grow into guides themselves.

This one is about elk hunting, mountain hunting prep, and what family legacy looks like when it's built one season at a time.

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Rafa and Lucia of Herederos Hunting built their company on a philosophy embedded in the name itself.. Herederos means "those who inherit.".

Both grew up in Spanish hunting families, met at a hunting show, and eventually turned a shared passion into a boutique outfitting operation in Spain built around one non-negotiable: every hunt is guided by them, personally.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Rafa and Lucia to talk about hunting in Spain — Spanish Ibex, Mouflon, Red Stag, and more across some of Europe's most distinct landscapes.

They talk through what makes a guided hunt in Spain genuinely different from anything in North America, the conservation work being done around the Beceite Ibex, as well as why Rafa and Lucia made the deliberate decision to grow slowly and cap their bookings rather than scale beyond what they can guide themselves. If Spain hasn't been on your radar as a hunting destination, this conversation will put it there.

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Spencer Getty didn't grow up hunting. In his early 30s, working as a rock climbing and mountaineering guide in California, he decided he wanted to understand where his food came from and then hunting took over his life completely.

In this episode, Robbie sits down with Spencer, owner of Primal Wilderness Outfitters, to talk black bear hunting in California's backcountry.

Rugged public land, technical terrain, and hunts that demand patience, physical fitness, and real decision-making under pressure. Spencer talks through what it means to guide hunters the way he wished someone had guided him when he was starting out, why he believes mentorship is one of the most underdeveloped parts of the hunting industry.

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