A Hunter's Legacy

Mitchell Fox
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Step into the world of everyday hunters as we uncover the stories, passion, and drive behind their love for the hunt. A Hunter's Legacy is a podcast that celebrates the heart and soul of hunting through conversations with real, everyday hunters. From their first hunts to their most unforgettable moments in the field, we dive deep into the experiences that connect hunters to the outdoors and their traditions. Join us as we explore the values, lessons, and motivations that make hunting more than a sport—it’s a legacy. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter, a curious enthusiast, or simply love hearing authentic stories of connection to nature, A Hunter's Legacy has a tale for you. Grab your gear and tune in to hear why hunting is more than just a pastime—it’s a way of life.

  1. 2 days ago ·  Video

    64: Hunting The Same Dates On The Same Properties For Decades With Nelson Chandler (Georgia)

    Nelson Chandler has been hunting the ridges and valleys of northwest Georgia since 1974, when he was ten years old and his dad handed him a single shot sixteen gauge with buckshot and said let's figure this out. Neither of them knew what they were doing, but Nelson missed a buck that first morning and has been chasing deer every season since. Fifty years without missing an opening day. He went from hunting off the school bus every afternoon after class, to working twenty-six years as a Walker County sheriff's deputy, to now finishing out his career at the county road department and planning his retirement around hunting season. Nelson hunts a mix of leased ground, permission farms, and family property in the ridge and valley country just south of Chattanooga. He has been bow hunting Illinois for whitetails since 2004, killed a 138-inch buck in 1986 that still ranks in the county, and came within ten steps of what he describes as the biggest deer he has ever seen anywhere, only to watch a limb deflect his arrow in Illinois in 2020. He talks about the rut happening on the same dates on the same properties year after year, why he does not trust anybody who says temperature shifts the rut, and why finding a place to hunt is the single biggest threat facing hunters today. He is also getting his grandkids into it, mailing out permission letters every offseason, and hitting the weight room fifty years into a lifting habit he started in 1978. A Hunter's Legacy is built for stories like Nelson's, fifty years of Georgia whitetail hunting from a man who has never stopped putting in the work. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

    64: Hunting The Same Dates On The Same Properties For Decades With Nelson Chandler (Georgia)

  2. 23 Jul ·  Video

    63: The Shotgun On The Bottom Of A River And Five Ducks Still In The Boat With Hunter Childs (Wisconsin)

    Hunter Childs goes by Rooster, a nickname his grandpa gave him for quoting John Wayne lines from True Grit so well it just stuck. He grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin near Webster, where the county forest system runs for miles, the dirt roads are sand and gravel, and the duck hunting is as good as anywhere in the country if you know where to look. His grandpa taught him to road hunt grouse from a Tahoe on snowmobile trails, his dad dropped him in a canoe with two boxes of shells and told him to figure it out, and somewhere in between he became one of the more passionate duck hunting guides in northern Wisconsin. Rooster shot his first duck at six years old, his first wood duck at fourteen, and has spent the years since learning every bend of river and shallow slough in Burnett County worth knowing. He floats the river with a canoe instead of a big duck boat, times his hunts around frozen interior lakes when every bird in the county piles into the moving water, and guides people into spots most hunters will never find on a map. He also talks about Wisconsin's wolf problem, bear hunting with hounds, the reintroduced elk herd at Clam Lake, forty-two coyotes in three days in North Dakota, and the time his shotgun flew out of his hand and sank to the bottom of a river in November. This is a northern Wisconsin hunting story about ducks, wolves, grouse, predators, and a guy who would rather float a river alone all day than sit in a blind waiting for something to happen. A Hunter's Legacy is built for stories like Rooster's, from first-generation guides learning the river to guys who still haven't found their shotgun. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

    63: The Shotgun On The Bottom Of A River And Five Ducks Still In The Boat With Hunter Childs (Wisconsin)

  3. 16 Jul ·  Video

    62: Proving The Woods Are Open To Everyone With Shannon Kortman (Michigan)

    Shannon Kortman has been in a wheelchair since he was two years old, paralyzed from the waist down due to spina bifida. He was adopted by a family who refused to let a diagnosis define what their son could do, and that mindset stuck. Shannon did not grow up in a hunting family, but when a man named Doug, another wheelchair-bound hunter, reached out and said he wanted to take him on a deer hunt in Michigan, something lit up that has never gone out. That first eight point buck at a high fence ranch in 2010 was just the beginning. Since then Shannon has turkey hunted his way onto Michigan Out of Doors television, shot bears in Michigan and Canada, and built a content platform called Anyone Can Outdoors to show other people with disabilities that the woods are still open to them. His Canada bear hunt last spring ended with a bear so large it broke the arm of the excavator trying to weigh it, somewhere north of 400 pounds and now heading toward a full body mount. Shannon is also a certified counselor, a Sunday school teacher, a public speaker, and one of the most naturally gifted storytellers to sit down with A Hunter's Legacy. This episode is about deer hunting, turkey hunting, bear hunting in Michigan and Canada, and the kind of faith and grit that keeps a man in the woods no matter what life puts in front of him. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

    62: Proving The Woods Are Open To Everyone With Shannon Kortman (Michigan)

  4. 9 Jul ·  Video

    V4 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field

    Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest about the dumbest things they've ever done in the field. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

  5. 2 Jul

    61: How A Stock Market Crash Led To A Great Land Investment With Randy Scheel (Iowa)

    Randy Scheel grew up in rural Iowa chasing pheasants and rabbits through fence rows and creek bottoms, tagging along on hunts before he was old enough to carry a gun. His dad passed away when he was young, and it was his brother-in-law Paul who really brought him into the outdoors and kept him there for decades. When Paul's health declined and dementia set in, Randy returned the favor, tracking down a light enough shotgun and setting up one last pheasant hunt. He got it on video with his phone, dogs on point, Paul shooting a rooster, the excitement on his face. That was the memory Paul held onto even when he could not remember people anymore. Randy hunts whitetails and turkeys across Iowa and spent fifteen years managing sixty acres of timber in northern Missouri before selling it to move closer to home. He is a longtime member of the National Wild Turkey Federation, runs Jake's Day events for youth hunters, and recently launched one of the first adult turkey hunting courses in his county, filling all fifteen slots almost immediately. He talks about what it looks like when adults decide they want to get into hunting later in life, why he thinks hunting shows have done more harm than good, and how pheasants are adapting to timber cover in ways that did not exist a generation ago. This episode covers Iowa pheasant and deer hunting, food plot management on small acreage, coyote calling, and why Randy believes patience and getting back to basics is what the hunting community needs most right now. A Hunter's Legacy is exactly where stories like his belong, from the guys who gave everything to the sport to the ones just getting started. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

    61: How A Stock Market Crash Led To A Great Land Investment With Randy Scheel (Iowa)

  6. 25 Jun

    V3 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field

    Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest about the dumbest things they've ever done in the field. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

  7. 18 Jun

    60: Hunting A Buck In Every State One Tag At A Time With Jackson Knight (Missouri)

    Jackson grew up on a family farm in Missouri watching his dad carry out the Bone Crusher, a Remington twelve gauge that had dropped more deer than either of them could count. He started tagging along before he could carry a gun, sat through three seasons as a passenger, and then on one random school morning looked out the back door and saw six deer feeding fifty yards from the house. He snuck to the truck, grabbed the guns, got on the deck, and shot his first deer at eighty yards. It hit the doe in the back end and dropped her where she stood. Jackson is not just a deer hunter. He owns Trapper Jack Pest Control, designs hunting properties, competes in Spartan endurance racing with a world championship appearance in Greece on his schedule, and holds a degree in wildlife conservation management. He has trapped everything from eighty pound beavers to a solid black coyote, caught fifty raccoons off one property in three weeks, and built food plots and habitat on his family's Missouri farm since he was eleven years old. He hunts deer across multiple states every year, chases elk points in Utah and Montana, and approaches every piece of ground with the same mindset he uses running fifty miles a week: put in the work and the results follow. This episode covers Missouri whitetail hunting, food plot design, habitat management, wildlife trapping, and what it looks like when somebody treats hunting as seriously as a profession. A Hunter's Legacy is built for guys like Jackson, everyday hunters who are all in on the resource and do not need a camera crew to make it worth showing up. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

    60: Hunting A Buck In Every State One Tag At A Time With Jackson Knight (Missouri)

  8. 11 Jun

    V2 | The Bonehead Chronicles: A Series of Questionable Choices from the Field

    Every hunter has that one story they wish they could take back. In this episode, we're pulling the most embarrassing moments from the A Hunter's Legacy archives and putting them on full display. No filters, no excuses, just hunters being honest about the dumbest things they've ever done in the field. Want to be a guest? Ready to share your hunting legacy? Apply here. Like what you’re hearing? Hit subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. New stories drop every week. Follow A Hunter’s Legacy: Instagram Facebook TikTok Youtube Website Share the show with a buddy who lives for cold mornings, heavy packs, and quiet woods.

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Step into the world of everyday hunters as we uncover the stories, passion, and drive behind their love for the hunt. A Hunter's Legacy is a podcast that celebrates the heart and soul of hunting through conversations with real, everyday hunters. From their first hunts to their most unforgettable moments in the field, we dive deep into the experiences that connect hunters to the outdoors and their traditions. Join us as we explore the values, lessons, and motivations that make hunting more than a sport—it’s a legacy. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter, a curious enthusiast, or simply love hearing authentic stories of connection to nature, A Hunter's Legacy has a tale for you. Grab your gear and tune in to hear why hunting is more than just a pastime—it’s a way of life.

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  • Creator
    Mitchell Fox
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 A Hunter's Legacy
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