In one of their most personal episodes yet, Bobby and Ian go deep on grief — what it looks like, how it shows up unexpectedly, and why men often struggle to name it. Bobby shares how picking up hunting again after years away brought a wave of unexpected grief for his late father, a Utah outdoorsman who first put a rifle in his hands. Ian opens up about losing Keith — his recovery mentor and the best deer hunter he ever knew — and the moment a peanut butter jar screwed to a tree nearly brought him to his knees on the day he killed the biggest buck of his life.

Together they explore the many faces of grief: the anger, the recklessness, the numbness, and the guilt. Ian speaks candidly about losing friends to addiction and how grief in recovery is relentless and cumulative. Bobby connects the dots between emotional numbness and unprocessed loss — and why the woods may be one of the few places men actually let themselves feel it.

This episode won't hand you a roadmap. But it will remind you that grief doesn't have to mean letting go — you can carry your legends with you.

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Ian sits down with longtime friend and Mossy Oak Pro Staff turkey hunter Mike Rexrode to talk about one of the most important parts of hunting culture: passing it on. They dig into Mike's approach to introducing kids and new hunters to the turkey woods — from choosing the right gun and managing expectations, to teaching patience, ethics, and respect for the bird. Mike shares stories from hunting with his own kids, the value of letting new hunters experience failure, and why going home empty-handed can be the best thing that happens to a first-timer. Plus, the two swap some of their most memorable hunts together and reflect on what turkey hunting has given them beyond the harvest.

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Ian and Bobby bring on their Vermont hunting buddy Chad for the first time to tell the story of how a chance introduction through Ian's wife's family turned into one of the most meaningful friendships Limb Junkies has made. They walk through the whole origin — from that first spring trip to the Northeast Kingdom where Bobby doubled up on Jakes and Ian spent four days chasing pressured long beards through cow pastures, to Chad and his son making the trip down to Virginia to fill their freezers with deer. Then Ian breaks down his second Vermont Turkey trip in full detail: the dairy farm bird on day one, the heartbreaker long beard that skirted them at 70 yards on day two, a perfect morning that went cold on day three, and the final-day chase through cornfields and rock walls that ended with two birds on the wall and cigars lit. Along the way Chad shares what Turkey hunting in the Northeast Kingdom is really like — late-season timing, a sea of Jakes, birds that won't come off roost in the rain, land access that works nothing like Virginia — and Ian admits he may not hunt quite like the locals up there.

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Bobby recorded this one while actively stuck in a fight mode loop — three nights of broken sleep, no appetite, a twitching jaw, and a brain running at full speed going nowhere. Rather than wait it out, he and Ian sat down to record anyway, and the result is one of the most raw and honest episodes yet. They break down what chronic fight mode actually looks like from the inside — the slow burn version that doesn't look like panic but quietly erodes everything — and why the shame of still struggling after years of therapy hits just as hard as the loop itself. Ian draws direct parallels to addiction: the obsession that never fully goes away, the acceptance it takes to keep moving, and how physical exertion becomes the wrench that breaks the cycle. Together they dig into the science behind why the woods works — Attention Restoration Theory, cortisol reduction, somatic anchoring — and make the case that for men carrying this kind of weight, getting back into nature isn't an escape. It's a biological necessity.

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Turkey season is around the corner and Bobby and Ian are fired up. In this episode they break down last season start to finish — opening weekend with Chad and his son in the Shenandoah Valley, a tough mid-season slog, a miss at 65 yards Ian won't soon forget, hunting on his wedding morning, and four Turkey hunting trips across Virginia, Vermont, and Pennsylvania. From there they look ahead to this season: preseason scouting goals, the dreaded door knock for new properties, gear loadouts (red dot incoming), mouth call care tips, the case for patience, calling philosophy, and why Ian is moving away from decoys and toward the curiosity game. They also get into pre-hunt rituals — the coffee before first gobble, standing on the field edge in the dark, and how those quiet moments before the game starts are where the real healing happens.

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This episode gets personal. Ian opens up about what it actually means to be in recovery — the obsessive mind, the compulsive nature, and why those things never fully go away. He talks about how the outdoors became a healthy outlet for the same brain wiring that once drove his addiction: the need to control, the need to feel something, the constant obsession redirected toward scouting, prepping, and chasing seasons. Coming up on 17 years clean, Ian explains how routine saved him, how hunting gave him checkpoints to look forward to when times got hard, and how the guys he met early in recovery introduced him to the woods in the first place. Bobby and Ian also look ahead — Turkey season content dropping in March, plans to hunt Vermont, trout fishing goals, and the hope of tagging three birds this spring.

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Bobby and Ian break down every hunt of the 2025 Virginia deer season from opener to late season — and it was Ian's best season in years. They cover the impact of a bumper acorn crop, hunting pressure from a government furlough, mentoring Ian's younger cousin, and the chaos of hosting their Vermont buddy Chad for two visits during muzzleloader and Thanksgiving week. Along the way there are missed shots, a birthday dough harvest, a mystery giant buck that disappeared after one photo, a muzzleloader buck in the standing corn, a unicorn encounter in the snow, and even a coyote taken with a bow. But underneath all the hunting talk is something deeper — the season as a pressure valve, a reset, and proof that the outdoors does exactly what Limb Junkies was built around.

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