On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper we sit down with none other than Bill Duke. Bill is the owner and operator of Duke Traps and has been manufacturing wildlife management equipment since 1986. We talk about his family legacy in the fur industry and how things evolve and change over time. 

We also cover a wide variety of interesting topics like raccoons in Japan, shooting his first deer, and how trapping will survive for the next millenia. 

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On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper podcast, we sit down with Sarena Manee. Sarena is a hunter, trapper, and graduating college student who is probably one of the only people you’ll meet who has trapped a wolf in Michigan.

We chat about her introduction to trapping during COVID, what tradition means, and how she plans to keep trapping for a lifetime.

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On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper podcast we sit down with Joe Goodman! Joe is a lifelong trapper, hunter, and outdoorsman. He also happens to be an amazing artist whose work has been featured in Fur Fish Game magazine (and pretty much every other trapping publication) since 1987. 

Joe and I chat about his first experiences trapping, cleaning animals in an art-school dorm room, friendship, and working with some of the top names in the industry such as Tom Miranda.

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On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper Podcast we sat down with Cory Mosby. Cory is a lifelong trapper, hunter, and conservationist who also happens to be the Idaho Fish & Game furbearer biologist.

We chat about his upbringing running traplines in Missouri, what a day in the life of a wildlife biologist looks like, and how Idaho invests in managing its fur bearing population for outdoor recreation. 

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On this week’s episode of the Okayest Trapper we have a very exciting crossover episode with the OG trapping podcast “Trap House Podcast.” Justin and Charlie are part of the reason why I decided to start my own trapping podcast and it was an honor to sit down and chat about all things trapping with them!

If you haven't, give them a follow and make sure you add their podcast to your regular rotation.

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On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper we sit down with Justin Webb, executive director of The Foundation for Wildlife Management (F4WM). We chat about his unique childhood growing up off grid, elk hunting, and the impacts of the wolf introduction in Idaho.

If you have any interest in wolf hunting or trapping and the changes that have happened to our local landscape, you are not gonna want to miss this one.

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On today’s episode we sit down with the North American Trapper himself, Alan Probst. Alan comes from a long line of trappers and grew up during the fur boom. We chat about his family lineage, what makes trapping great, his decade long career as a professional baseball player, and what it means to create content and start a company.

Buckle up, you are not gonna want to miss this one.

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On today’s episode of the Okayest Trapper we sit down with Bryan Watson of Trapline Beard Oil. Bryan is a hunter, trapper, and entrepreneur who runs a bespoke beard oil company focused on the trapping community as well as his own ADC nuisance control company.

We chat about Bryan’s start and resurgence into trapping, why it’s vital we hold on to this heritage, and of course… why it’s important to take care of your beard(s)!

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Re-run the episode from when Zach guested on the Okayest Hunter podcast to talk about his journey going from his career in Artificial Intelligence to heading west and becoming the Okayest Trapper!

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On this week’s episode of the Okayest Trapper podcast we sit down with Autumn McEntee. Autumn is a conservationist, angler, hunter, and trapper who is now working with the National Deer Association.

We discuss Autumn’s favorite memories growing up trapping with her dad, catching her first fisher, FTA’s trapper college, and why it’s important for us to put our best foot forward in portraying trapping in a positive light.

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