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6 Ranch Podcast
Stories from folks with calloused hands. Natural resources and their science, agriculture, blue collar, hunting, fishing, shooting and adventure.
Episodes
290 episodes
Gambler 500
What started as an off-road race using cars that cost less than $500 has turned into the largest organized clean up of trash on public land in the country. Tune in for some laughs, good stories, and to hear how the Sons of Smokey are taking car...
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Season 6
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Episode 292
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The Danny Bolton Episode
Danny Bolton is a father, skateboarder, spearfisherman, off-road driving instructor, and hunter— among other things. He’s also a good friend and an all around interesting guy. He came out to Oregon from Hawaii to guide archery elk with me this ...
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Season 6
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Episode 291
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1:04:00
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The Sounds of September.
My guests this week are several herds of rutting elk. This may be the best audio recording of elk ever made. Over the next hour you will hear up-close vocalizations from bulls, cows and calves like never before. In some cases you can hear the b...
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Season 6
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Episode 290
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Leather, Beef and Cowboy Hats with Cate Havstad
In this episode, we sit down with Cate Havstad-Casad—a hatmaker, rancher, and founder of Range Revolution—to unravel the hidden environmental cost of America’s closets and how she’s forging a different path. From handcrafting custom western hat...
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Season 6
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Episode 289
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Truck Camping
There is only one overland company that was born on an elk hunt, and I sat down with the owner and inventor of the Lone Peak to hear the story while mine was being installed on my truck. Since then I’ve spent a few nights in it and used the oth...
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Season 6
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Episode 288
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The Gun Engineer, Tim Butler
This week I have a very special guest, my mentor and friend, Tim Butler. Tim served in the Marines in the gulf war and since then has worked as an engineer for many if not most of the major gun manufacturers in America. While he may argue this ...
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Season 6
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Episode 287
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Broadhead Theory with Bryan Broderick
The broadhead is the most important part of any archery system. Every other piece of gear you wear, use or carry is simply a supporting effort for delivery your broadhead to the vitals of an animal. This week I drove to Casper, Wyoming to sit d...
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Season 6
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Episode 286
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Nutrition for hunters (and gardeners) with Valley to Peak Nutrition
Nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated so in this episode we make it simple, tell a few hunting stories, and rate the nutritional quality of everything I planted in my garden this year. Check out their website
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Season 6
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Episode 285
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The Good Bad and Ugly of Guiding with Hannah Mabbot
Hannah Mabbot runs Hunt Oregon and guides elk from August 1st through March. Last year she guided 65 hunters with a 90% success rate. I don’t know of anyone who guides more elk hunters than her. We talk about the guide life, hunter expectations...
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Season 6
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Episode 284
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Cowboying on 6 Different Continents with JB Zielke
My guest this week travelled all over the world to work as a cowboy. In fact, he worked on all six continents where the job is done. Meet The Lost Cowboy, Mr J.B. Zielke. From surviving cartel gunfights in Mexico to finding nomadic reindeer her...
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Season 6
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Episode 283
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Long Range Hunting with Salmon River Shooting
I love long range shooting and close range hunting, but let’s say something went wrong and a critter is wounded and the only chance you are going to get is across a canyon at 1,000 yards— can you make that shot? I got invited to attend the firs...
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Season 6
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Episode 282
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Engraving with Amy Raymond
Half a million years ago an early human in Java engraved a zigzag pattern into a shell, and ever since then engraving has been a lasting form of art. Amy Raymond is famous for engraving silver in a western style. We sat down to discuss her art,...
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Season 6
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Episode 281
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Suppressors
Building a small business is hard. Take a few minutes to listen to the folks at Sound Off Suppression talk about suppressors and the crazy dynamics of reducing the sound of supersonic gases from a rifle and the challenges of starting a suppress...
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Season 6
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Episode 280
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NFL Legend Steve Bartkowski
Steve Bartkowski could’ve played baseball, basketball or football at damn near any university in the country and chose football. He’d go on to be the number 1 draft pick and a hall of fame quarterback. We talk about what professional football w...
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Season 6
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Episode 279
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Jail, Music and Hunting with Paul Cauthen
I’ve been a fan of Paul Cauthen’s music since I first heard it, and later learned that him and my little sister were buddies when they lived in Austin. Finally got the chance to sit down with Paul backstage before one of his concerts and talk a...
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Season 6
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Episode 278
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Butchery and Philosophy with Anna Borgman
Anna studies 6 languages. Has four degrees. Has lived in at least three countries. And for a living, she slaughters animals and butchers their meat for people to eat. I deeply enjoyed our conversation where we discussed life, death, knives, qua...
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Season 6
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Episode 277
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The Mental Game of Archery with John Appleton
Archery is a mental game. Get good equipment that is well setup from a pro shop, develop the skills to use it and then the hard work begins of simply executing the same shot every time. In this episode we get into the mental side of archery. Jo...
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Season 6
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Episode 276
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Mountain Stream at Day Break
No words in this episode. Just a small mountain stream in the spring, tumbling over large boulders and winding through fallen logs into a pool where two redband rainbow trout dart from the shadows of a rock to eat passing nymphs. Birds singing ...
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Season 6
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Episode 275
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Trading Beers for Bighorns and Other Stories with Vic Coggins
We welcome back Vic Coggins for his second appearance on the show to talk about how he traded beer to wildlife biologists to reintroduce bighorn sheep into Oregon. Vic has been a wildlife biologist for close to 60 years now, and if it weren’t f...
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Season 6
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Episode 274
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Sailboat Living, Genetically Engineered Babies, and Manta Rays with Cody Sheehy
Cody Sheehy is an award winning documentary film maker who lives on a sailboat in Mexico. He broke the story about China genetically engineering and DNA editing babies, and is about to launch his next film about a Vietnam veteran who befriended...
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Native African Game Tracking
Amos was my tracker in South Africa. He speaks 7 languages and reads tracks like you are reading this sentence. In this episode we translate from English to Xhosa and back to English to get this one of a kind perspective on tracking wild animal...
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Season 6
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Episode 273
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African Hunting Stories with Sean Van Zyl
Leopard, Cape buffalo and many other critters in Africa can pose serious threats to hunters, especially when they are wounded. With over 25 years as a guide and professional hunter in Africa, Sean has some good stories. You may also be interest...
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Season 6
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Episode 272
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Myth Busting African Safaris with Sean Van Zyl
I’m in South Africa hunting with my new friend Sean and this is part one of a two part episode. First we discuss African wildlife, agriculture, and the persecution of farmers in South Africa as well as breaking down myths of African hunting. Ma...
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Season 6
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Episode 271
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The Legend of Dale Story
At age 5 Dale’s dad abandoned his family. At 11 he contracted polio and became paralyzed from the neck down for 18 months at 17 he set a national record in the mile, 4:11 seconds. He’d go on to win the first ever NCAA National title in the 5,00...
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Season 6
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Episode 270
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A River in a Canyon (White Noise Episode)
This episode has a brief introduction and then over an hour of listening to a river flow over a rapid in the bottom of a canyon lined by wildflowers while songbirds sing. Use this to fall asleep, meditate, or to help focus you at work. No...
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Season 6
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Episode 269
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