Plot twist! We are not in Africa.....yet. boy, oh boy did the news stack up quick before our departure though. In this episode, we'll cover crooked politics, turkey egg eating lizards from Argentina, and a new hunting season being opened in Louisiana. Check it out! 

Summertime is here but do not fret, my friends, there is still plenty to get into and talk about. The Mississippi Alligator hunt draw is upon us, and unbeknownst to us, there is a fair amount of controversy around that process and the hunt itself. There was a new record set for Channel Catfish. Lastly, and the most unsettling news, there was a recent bust of a cockfighting ring in Mississippi. Wild times. Check it out! 

We are back and so is summer. Man, it's hot. Anyway, we have some updates on the Trump administration opening land to hunting. We have new on the propose Louisiana land grab. We dive into the topic of how to treat property owners when you're on a traveling hunting trip, and Jordan has some thoughts for summer deer strategies that will lead into fall hunting. Check it out! 

If you're going to end it, you might as well end it on a walk-off home run - and that just so happens to be what Jordan and I got to do.  This has stories of wins, losses, humidity, heat, hunting permission, controversy, and the best turkey hunting day of both our lives. Check it out! 

They are trying to sell-off 140,000 acres of national forest in Louisiana. A highly controversial candidate just got confirmed to be the new director for the bureau of land management. We've got fresh turkey stories!! Check it out! 

Blazing star, butterfly weed, and rattlesnake master are sitting atop of mind currently. There's some new laws being proposed in Mississippi that would significantly affect nonresident turkey hunters. There was a grizzly bear attack in Glacier National Park. There's a whole lot going on, along with a few more turkey ventures. Check it out! 

It's a wrap up for the final week of the MS turkey season. It's tales of giant snakes and hoards of crawfish swimming upstream like salmon. It's a brand new segment of people arguing on the internet about wildlife conservation. It's a little bit of everything. Check it out! 

One thing is for sure, Neither Jordan or myself are as young as we were when we kicked this podcast off in 2017. The current ailments we find ourselves dealing with are both inconvenient and comical at the same time. However, I heard a wise man once say, it is what it is. In this episode, we talk about getting old, cagey turkeys, thicket turkeys, and dead turkeys. They all have place in our hearts. Check it out! 

Join us for this unique STL episode as we cover some hot-off-the-press hunting stories, some very important news regarding public lands, and discussions of how deer should hibernate during the spring. Check it out! 

Clay Newcomb is the house of the Bear Grease Podcast and MeatEater team member. He and his long-time friend and producer, Josh Spielmaker, join us this week to talk about their current trip down in Mississippi for turkey camp. Check it out!