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. 5 days ago ·  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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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.

  4. 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)

  5. 4 Jun

    59: Six Hunters On The Same Tom And A First Timer Caught In The Middle With Michael Bennett II (Missouri)

    Michael grew up in central Missouri watching his grandfather pull into the driveway with one-fifty and one-sixty inch bucks draped across the hood, wishing he could be part of it. His dad never hunted, but his grandpa taught himself in his thirties and passed everything down to Michael the moment he was old enough to sit still. By fifteen he was hunting solo with a bow, tagged his first deer on opening day, and spent the rest of that season stacking meat in the freezer. Then his grandpa took him turkey hunting, and something clicked that never let go. Michael is a turkey hunter first and everything else second. He has chased birds across Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida, and Montana, and he has built his permission network the old fashioned way, knocking on doors, buying the farmer's wife a bottle of wine, and earning every acre he sets foot on. He talks about losing his grandpa's property after his grandfather passed, what it felt like to shoot his first out of state bird the same day he got that phone call, and why that hunt changed the way he thinks about the turkey woods forever. He also walks through one of the most chaotic public land turkey hunts you will hear on this show, six hunters converging on the same gobbling bird from six different directions on a Missouri lake, with a first-timer sitting right in the middle of it all. This is a turkey hunting story rooted in Missouri ridge systems, river bottoms, and the kind of public land pressure that will either break you or make you better. A Hunter's Legacy is where stories like Michael's belong, from first-generation turkey hunters learning the hard way to guys who will walk twelve miles just to find where the birds went. 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.

    59: Six Hunters On The Same Tom And A First Timer Caught In The Middle With Michael Bennett II (Missouri)

  6. 21 May

    58: Twenty Four Miles Of Snow Tracking A Mountain Lion On The Slopes With Kendall Anthony (Colorado)

    Kendall grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida fishing canals behind his house with a thirteen foot alligator living just downstream. When he was ten his family moved to Colorado and everything changed. He had no hunting family to learn from. His grandparents were from England, guns were foreign to them, and hunting was not part of anyone's plan. Then a Tom Miranda bowhunting show came on after his shark fishing program ended, and that was it. He spent the next fifteen years building one of the most diverse hunting resumes you will find on any average joe in the country. By sixteen he was chasing mountain lions through two feet of snow on Colorado's Western Slope, tracking a tom for twenty four miles over two days before putting two shots through him with a borrowed nine millimeter at fifteen yards. By his early twenties he had a cow moose on the ground, a pronghorn at three hundred yards, and a bear charge stopped at five yards by his buddy's snub nose revolver after his rifle jammed at the worst possible moment. He drew a Colorado moose tag his first year eligible, sent his girlfriend sprinting back for his magazine mid stalk, and nearly got pinned under eight hundred pounds of dead moose on a steep drainage. And then there was Africa, where a sixteen year dream of killing an eland finally came together on a mountainside with his mom watching from base camp. This episode covers mule deer and elk hunting on Colorado public land, spot and stalk pronghorn, mountain lion hunting with hounds, and what it looks like when a first generation hunter refuses to stop chasing the next one. A Hunter's Legacy is built for stories like Kendall's, from Colorado mountain hunting to dangerous game in South Africa and everything in between. 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.

    58: Twenty Four Miles Of Snow Tracking A Mountain Lion On The Slopes With Kendall Anthony (Colorado)

  7. 14 May

    57: First Generation Hunter Who Did It The Hardest Way Possible With Robert Arrieta (Arkansas)

    Robert did not grow up in a hunting family. His dad was a hotel guy, not a hunting guy. But a neighbor across the street in suburban Colorado named Mr. Rodriguez changed everything. Robert watched him hang elk and deer in the garage, cut his own jerky, and live a life that Robert could not stop thinking about. That was the seed. It took years before he had the land, the time, and the tools to act on it. When he finally did, he skipped the compound, skipped the rifle, and went straight for something most hunters never touch. Robert hunts the Ozark mountains of Arkansas with selfbows he carves by hand from Osage orange. He makes his own arrows, tracks deer on foot through timber and elevation changes, and measures a great hunt by how close he gets rather than whether he kills. He has spent full days following a single buck through the mountains, eating a slim jim for lunch while the deer fed and rested, never getting a shot, and called it one of the best days he has ever spent outdoors. It took him five years of hunting with traditional archery gear before he killed his first deer. He does not regret a single day of it. This episode goes deep into selfbow building, the philosophy of traditional hunting, what it means to be connected to the woods, and why Robert thinks the hunting world is drifting the wrong direction. A Hunter's Legacy is built for stories like this one, from Ozark mountain deer hunting to guys who carve their own bows and chase whitetails the hard way. 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.

    57: First Generation Hunter Who Did It The Hardest Way Possible With Robert Arrieta (Arkansas)

  8. 7 May

    56: Hunting Leopard At Midnight With One Headlamp And A Spearman With Samir Suleiman (North Carolina)

    Samir Suleiman grew up hunting with his father outside of Washington DC, knocking on farmhouse doors and chasing whatever was in season within a two hour drive. By the time he was nine he had his hunter safety card and his first deer. By twelve he had an eleven point buck on the wall that he still has not topped. When his family bought 105 acres in Virginia, he was hunting before and after school, dragging does down mountains and calling neighbors to help load them into the truck before his dad got home from work. Then his career in the NFL front office took over. Negotiating contracts and managing salary caps for teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers, St. Louis Rams, and Carolina Panthers meant football season ate hunting season whole. So he adapted. He started booking hunts around away games, borrowing rifles, and finding public land in whatever state the team was flying into. When the budget allowed, he went further. A mountain lion in the Kaibab National Forest near the Grand Canyon. Forty four hundred doves in four days in Argentina. And then Mozambique, where he hunted leopard at midnight with one headlamp and a spearman for backup, killed a problem hippo that had taken a boy's life, and fed an entire village on the spot. Samir's story covers whitetail hunting in Virginia, dove hunting across the Southeast, dangerous game in Africa, and what it takes to keep hunting at the center of a life that keeps pulling you somewhere else. A Hunter's Legacy exists for stories like this one, from public land deer hunters to guys chasing leopards in the dark, because the passion behind the hunt is always the same. 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.

    56: Hunting Leopard At Midnight With One Headlamp And A Spearman With Samir Suleiman (North Carolina)
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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
    67
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 A Hunter's Legacy
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    A Hunter's Legacy

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