This weeks episode features a discussion with Kevin Kaltenbach of Ohio, who works as a district conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, covering topics such as land ownership, habitat management, and wildlife control.

Kevin shares his insights on crop damage caused by various animals and his personal experiences with coyote hunting. The conversation also touched on land development issues, including the rapid sale of hunting lands and concerns about solar farm projects on private farmland.

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This week, Kevin and Josh share their recent fishing and hunting experiences, including techniques, challenges, and successes in both activities.

They discussed coyote predation issues and hunting strategies, emphasizing the importance of building good relationships with landowners for hunting access.

The conversation concluded with discussions about legislation affecting hunting and fishing, including tax changes for firearms and the importance of hearing protection devices.

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This week, Josh and Kevin are joined by fellow Michigan predator hunter Kyle Hill, from HDB Outdoors. They begin talking about current situations on landowners properties, including livestock loss and trying to determine what animal may be responsible.

They cover a range of topics related to wildlife management and hunting, including a discussion of predator control, coyote hunting regulations, and the role of the Natural Resources Commission. The guys debated recent legal and legislative developments affecting hunting rights, emphasizing the importance of science-based decision-making and public engagement in wildlife management issues. Personal experiences with hunting equipment and family matters were also shared.

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This week begins with a discussion about Kevin's gun sales business, including his experience as a firearms dealer and recent changes in ATF policies regarding background checks and CPL acceptance in Michigan. The conversation then shifted to the Hearing Protection Act and its implications for suppressor regulations, including the history of the NFA(EDIT***- NFA was enacted in 1934**) and potential market impacts of removing suppressors from the controlled list. The discussion concluded with various hunting-related topics, covering decoy effectiveness, drone usage for hunting, fishing techniques and experiences, ammunition testing, and upcoming hunting seasons, including plans for the next NRC meeting.

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This podcast discusses several key wildlife management issues in Michigan, with Jordan Hoover sharing updates on recent policy changes and ongoing challenges. The Deer Advisory Team (DAT), which replaced the previous DMI, successfully pushed through new regulations for 2025 including restoring archery doe tags in the Upper Peninsula's superior watershed and extending late archery season to January 1st. The discussion also covered controversial topics like wolf management and goose control, with Jordan explaining the complexities around wolf hunting regulations and expressing concerns about the DNR's goose gassing program. Jordan is working with legislators to make Natural Resources Commission meetings more accessible by proposing Saturday meetings and virtual participation options for UP residents, addressing the current system's financial barriers for working-class hunters to participate in policy discussions.

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The podcast features Josh Mapes and Kevin Rought discussing Josh's first turkey hunting experience with Tony, where they successfully harvested a tom turkey after several hours of waiting. The conversation then covers various hunting topics including predator hunting strategies, ammunition choices, and wildlife observations, with particular focus on coyote hunting techniques and ethics. They also discuss upcoming hunting seasons, fishing plans, and equipment considerations while sharing personal experiences with urban wildlife encounters and recent hunting activities. The discussion concludes with plans for future hunts and mentions of ongoing predator control challenges due to seasonal restrictions.

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This week Kevin and Josh welcome Pam Fleming to the show.

Pam hails from southern Colorado and is starting up a new app just for outdoors persons called OpenRange social.

Pam tells us about her experiences hunting and guiding, primarily in the western and south western US for Elk and deer along with her husband, how she got into it, and what it means to her.

Then we get into the info about the app they are developing.

Why develop the app, some of the things that have to take place in development of an app for IOS and Android.

Challenges of developing an app, who is involved, what the app will be like, the input from beta teams, some of the features that the app will have at start and features to be added as it grows.

Pam tells us what she believes (and we agree with her) it will take for the app to grow, and how it can be a reflection of the outdoors community. The importance of us sportspeople needing to come together to protect our heritage and our future.

We discuss a lot with Pam and this is a good listen for all about the outdoors mindset and what we need to do and HOW we can join together as a unified voice.

Thank you for taking the time Pam, looking forward to using OpenRange Social.

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This week on the Overdrive Outdoors podcast,

everything air guns.

We have special guest Tom Simmon from Michigan's own High Pressure Pneumatics.

Tom and his wife own Michigan's only dedicated Air Gun retail store in Harrison Michigan, where they sell and service PCP and other air guns.

During this show we hear everything Tom has to offer about PCP (Pre Charged Pneumatic) air guns from a guy that does it for a living, everything from the types of guns, function, maintenance, performance and the pros and cons for using PCP's for hunting and target shooting.

We learned about the rifles capabilities, costs, related equipment and types of projectiles as well.

If you wanted to delve into the world of Airguns for hunting, target shooting or just for fun, this one is a must listen.

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This week on the podcast we welcome back Rich Fowllab.

We start off by talking about some recent hunts and how we've had some oddly uncommitted coyotes and very few hard chargers.

We talk with Rich about his recent switch to hunting with a thermal optic, (he recently got the PTO Mission thermal scope) and his transition from going from thermal scanner, shooting NV to Thermal/Thermal.

We discuss the pros and cons of NV vs thermal, target identification and how it relates to experience level of the hunter and the quality of the optic, scenarios where it is important to have positive ID (It is ALWAYS important, but some areas require an added level of target ID).

We also get into talking about data taken from the Tactacam Reveal cameras. Rich has about 2 years of data now from his cameras for predators, where Kevin resets his each year. Rich has accumulated over 400 data points in those 2 years and Kevin is at only about 70. We talk about the trends, and variables that we get from that data.

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This week Kevin is joined by Ross Graveling.

We invited Ross on to tell us about the recent Youth predator workshop that was put on by Sportspersons Ministries with some of the funds coming from the donations provided by the Answering The Call charity hunt put on by SPI and Overdrive Outdoors.

We get a rundown of how the weekend went, how many people participated and worked at the event, that went from Friday evening until Sunday morning.

We get to hear about the activities that both the kids and parents got to experience, from trapping, to predator calling, seeing and learning about the tactics, equipment and processes involved from start to end of what it takes to target predators.

There were a couple kids that were successful during the hunt, and we get to hear about that as well.

Thank you Ross and all the other folks that came together to make this event happen.

Then Kevin asks Ross about the recent NRC meeting that took place in Grand Rapids, and his thoughts on what took place and how we as sportspersons need to come together to continue to try and preserve our way of life.

As always, THANK YOU for listening.

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