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Welcome to Let's Go Guided, the premier media platform connecting hunters with the world’s most trusted outfitters. Episodes hosted by Robbie Clunes and Colin Lyons, we go behind the scenes of the hunting industry to bring you raw stories from the experts, sharing the traditions of hunting and the outfitter world. Whether you're a seasoned hunter or planning your very first guided trip, Let's Go Guided is your roadmap to ethical, successful, and life-changing outdoor experiences. Subscribe to join the movement of stewardship and adventure.

  1. hace 4 días

    EP23: Faro Safaris (Outfitter Spotlight)

    Three generations, one concession in Cameroon, fifty five years of guiding the same wild country. Xavier Vannier of Faro Safaris joins the show to explain why the Lord Derby Eland has become the animal that defines hunting in northern Cameroon, and why it is considered one of the most difficult trophies to close on anywhere in Africa. Faro Safaris was founded in 1971 by Xavier's grandfather, who got his start in the bush with the help of Xavier's great grandfather, already working in Cameroon since the 1940s. Xavier's father took over the operation in 2003, and Xavier joined full time in 2016, having spent his entire childhood immersed in the bush. Today the family holds one of the smaller hunting concessions in Cameroon by size, seventy five thousand hectares, but by their own account runs among the highest quota density per hectare of any area in the country. Xavier walks through what actually makes the Eland so hard to hunt: a January to March breeding season unlike any other species in the region, a herd structure built around wary, watchful females, and terrain so unstable underfoot that a single misstep can end a stalk. He and Robbie get into what a twelve day tracking hunt actually looks like day to day, the physical and mental demands it puts on a hunter, and a couple of specific hunts that stuck with Xavier for what they taught him about patience and pressure. The conversation also covers the making of Eden, a documentary filmed on the Faro Safaris concession during the COVID years, and the conservation side of the operation: anti poaching patrols, community relations, and a nonprofit called the Faro Conservancy Project that runs on hunting revenue, a published photo book, paid conservation trips for non hunters, and international conservation funding. If you're weighing a first guided hunt in Cameroon, trying to understand what an Eland hunt actually demands physically and mentally, or just want a straight account of how a well run, multi generational African outfit funds its own conservation work, this episode covers all of it in detail. Faro Safaris:🌐 farosafaris.com📸 @farosafariclubcameroon Let's Go Guided:Website + email signup: letsgoguided.comInstagram: @letsgoguided_Facebook: Let's Go Guided Photography credit: Courtesy of Faro Safaris

  2. 18 ago

    EP22: Primitive Outfitting (Outfitter Spotlight)

    Guiding hunters across Alberta and British Columbia for decades, Jeff Lander built his reputation on one rule: never oversell the hunt. Jeff Lander is the owner of Primitive Outfitting, based in British Columbia near McBride. He grew up hunting mule deer, elk, and upland birds in Washington State, then guided whitetail for years in Edmonton's Bowzone under outfitter Jim Hole Jr. From there he built his own archery-only mule deer operation in southern Alberta, ran it for decades, and sold it a few years back to focus solely on his BC operation. Today Primitive Outfitting runs spring black bear hunts out of a family-run lodge, where Jeff's wife cooks for the camp, and eight-day moose and elk hunts by jet boat and raft along a sixty-mile stretch of river that sees almost no other hunting pressure. Jeff has shot a longbow since 1985 and chased stone sheep with it six times; grizzly with a longbow is still on his list, not something he's done yet. In this conversation, Jeff and Robbie get into the landowner relationships that kept his Alberta operation running, the most common mistakes hunters make glassing open-country mule deer, how his team handles it when a hunt turns dangerous, and what he hopes clients say about him ten years from now. Jeff also gives his honest advice for anyone shopping for an outfitter: call the references who didn't fill their tag, not just the ones who did. Listen and subscribe to Let's Go Guided for more conversations with the outfitters and guides shaping western hunting. Let's Go Guided:Website + email signup: letsgoguided.comInstagram: @letsgoguided_Facebook: Let's Go Guided Primitive Outfitting:Website: primitive-outfitting.comEmail: primitivebowhunts@gmail.comInstagram: @primtve Photography credit: Courtesy of Primitive Outfitting

  3. 11 ago

    EP21: Findlay Creek Outfitters (Outfitter Spotlight)

    Lee Drescher didn't grow up hunting. His passion for the backcountry started after his father fell ill, and within a few years he had gone from watching Meat Eater videos in his living room to purchasing one of British Columbia's most remote guiding territories. Findlay Creek Outfitters operates 220,000 acres entirely within the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, protected since 1974, with no motor vehicle access whatsoever. The only way in is horseback or boot leather. In this episode, Robbie sits down with Lee to talk elk, moose, mountain goat, and mule deer hunting in the East Kootenays, what it actually feels like to be dropped into nearly a thousand square kilometers of backcountry with no one else around for forty kilometers in any direction, and the story of his very first guided hunt: a six point bull at fifteen yards, called in on the last day, shared with a client from Idaho who later mailed Lee a laser engraved skinning knife with his name and the words Lee Drescher Outfitter. Let's Go Guided: Website + email signup: letsgoguided.com Instagram: @letsgoguided_ Facebook: Let's Go Guided Findlay Creek Outfitters: 🌐 findlaycreekoutfitters.com 📧 lee@findlaycreekoutfitters.com 📸@findlaycreekoutfitters Photography credit: Courtesy of Findlay Creek Outfitters

  4. 4 ago

    EP20: Outfitter Spotlight - Running Water Hunting

    Jordan Budd grew up on her family's cattle ranch in the Sand Hills of northwest Nebraska, shot her first rabbit out the back door as a kid, and never really stopped. Today she runs Running Water Hunting on that same land, guides a deliberately small number of clients each season across ten miles of river creek bottom and vast grassland that hold mule deer, whitetail, antelope, and Merriam turkey, while also producing content for Meat Eater and running her own media operation on the side. In this episode, Robbie sits down with Jordan to talk about how she built a guiding business out of necessity and passion, why she condensed her season down to five focused weeks instead of spreading clients across the whole year, and what separates a good client from a great one in the field. She also gets into what it looked like going from filming sheep hunts in Wyoming right out of high school to becoming one of the more quietly accomplished operators in the western hunting space. Website + email signup: letsgoguided.comInstagram: @letsgoguided_Facebook: Let's Go Guided Running Water Hunting:🌐 jordan-budd.comIG: @Jordan.BuddYouTube: Jordan Budd Photography credit: Courtesy of Running Water Hunting

  5. 28 jul

    EP19: Outfitter Spotlight - Mossback Guides and Outfitters

    Doyle Moss has been guiding across the American West for decades. The record book tells part of the story: the number three Pope and Young bull ever taken, Utah's largest bull elk on record, and the legendary Spider Bull, the number one non typical bull elk in the world. But behind every record animal is a guiding philosophy built over decades of putting clients on trophy mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain lion, and bear across Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, primarily on public land. In this episode, Robbie sits down with Doyle, founder of Mossback Guides and Outfitters, to talk about how it all started, what conservation tags actually are and why they matter, how Mossback thinks about client expectations and preparation, and the full story behind the Spider Bull, including the client who killed it, and what happened years later after a stroke when that same client came back just to prove he still could. Let's Go Guided: Website + email signup: letsgoguided.com Instagram: @letsgoguided_ Facebook: Let's Go Guided Mossback Guides and Outfitters: 🌐 mossback.com 📸 @mossbackoutfitters Facebook: Mossback Outfitters Photography credit: Courtesy of Mossback Guides and Outfitters

  6. 21 jul

    EP18: Outfitter Spotlight - Hinterland Outdoors

    Ben Brochu started trapping as a kid in northern Alberta's Peace Country, sold his furs to save up for a trike, and was working for an outfitter by sixteen. Between then and now he spent years in vocational ministry, sailed Pacific Mexico for five months with his wife and four young children, and built one of Alberta's most diverse big game operations almost entirely on his own terms. In this episode, Robbie sits down with Ben, founder of Hinterland Outdoors, to talk moose, black bear, elk, whitetail, and mule deer hunting in northern Alberta, including a triple combo hunt where clients have had opportunity on all three big game species in a single six day window. Ben is candid about the kind of hunter he wants in camp and the kind he does not, what surprised him most about making the leap to full time outfitting, and why the best hunters he has ever guided are the ones who show up relaxed. Let's Go Guided: Website + email signup: letsgoguided.com Instagram: @letsgoguided_ Facebook: Let's Go Guided Hinterland Outdoors: 🌐 hinterlandoutdoors.ca 📞 1-780-978-2701 📧 ⁠ben@hinterlandoutdoors.ca⁠ Photography credit: Courtesy of Hinterland Outdoors

  7. 14 jul

    EP17: LGG Unplugged at Bear Camp - Upcoming Hunts & What's Coming in 2027

    This one is a little different. Episode 17 takes you out of the studio and into bear camp, where Robbie, Lindsay, and Colin recorded a casual check in from a wall tent somewhere in the BC interior on their second annual spring bear hunt. In this episode the team reintroduces themselves, shares what has been happening behind the scenes since launch, and announces what is coming next. Lindsay was given a surprise birthday hog hunt in California with SMC Williams Guide Service. Robbie is heading to the Yukon in August for a horse guided caribou hunt with Iron North. And for 2027, the team is planning two group hunts open to listeners: an Argentina hunt and a plains game hunt in South Africa. If either of those is on your radar, reach out to Lindsay directly at lindsay@letsgoguided.com for details as they come together. A short, raw update from the people building this thing in real time.Connect with Let's Go Guided:Website + email signup: letsgoguided.comInstagram: @letsgoguided_Facebook: Let's Go Guided YouTube: Let's Go Guided Group hunt inquiries: lindsay@letsgoguided.com Production and photography credit: Courtesy of Falk Filmz.

  8. 7 jul

    EP16: Outfitter Spotlight - FlyWays

    Alex Mitri grew up dove hunting in Colombia with his father, spent years guiding in Bolivia and Paraguay, and in 2005 landed in Córdoba, Argentina, the dove hunting capital of the world. He never left. Today him and his wife own and operate FlyWays, running two Beretta Trident endorsed wing shooting lodges in Córdoba, one of which sits on a private section of the legendary Macha dove roost found nowhere else in the region. In this episode, Robbie sits down with Alex to talk about what a dove hunting trip to Argentina actually looks like: the sheer volume of birds, multiple scouts in trucks at 6am every morning locating fields, guides who have been with the operation for 15 years, and a gaucho asado in the field at midday that clients talk about as much as the shooting. Alex also breaks down how FlyWays grew from 200 clients a year to over 1,500 and what a 75% repeat business rate tells you about the experience they deliver.Let's Go Guided:Website + email signup: letsgoguided.comInstagram: @letsgoguided_Facebook: Let's Go Guided FlyWays:🌐 flyways.com📧 alex@flyways.com📸 @flywaysargentina Photography credit: Courtesy of FlyWays

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Welcome to Let's Go Guided, the premier media platform connecting hunters with the world’s most trusted outfitters. Episodes hosted by Robbie Clunes and Colin Lyons, we go behind the scenes of the hunting industry to bring you raw stories from the experts, sharing the traditions of hunting and the outfitter world. Whether you're a seasoned hunter or planning your very first guided trip, Let's Go Guided is your roadmap to ethical, successful, and life-changing outdoor experiences. Subscribe to join the movement of stewardship and adventure.

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    Robbie, Colin and Lindsay | Let's Go Guided
  • Años de actividad
    2026
  • Episodios
    24
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