Sporting Classics Podcast Sporting Classics

This week Luke and Larry discuss a recent buffalo hunt at the Choctaw Hunting lodge.

There is no doubt food cooked in camp or in the outdoors simply tastes better, regardless of the "makings".  Both Luke and Larry are adept at cooking outdoors particularly over an open-fire with cast iron. Luke too has mastered cooking with smoke in this week's episode they discuss cooking in the great outdoors.

With Spring just around the corner Larry and Luke talk about some of the things they're looking forward to, from fishing for white bass to especially spring bear hunting.  Larry has spent many years hunting spring bear and talks a bit about some of his experiences, while Luke's experiences with bear occurred mostly during the fall. This week they provide both wisdom and a bit of plain good old story telling. 

Thanks to Texas’ Managed Land Deer Permit, properties under the program whitetails can be hunted until the last day of February. In this episode Larry and Luke talk about a buck, Larry initially passed in November, and then the long subsequent hunt for him, and how it became “the never give up buck”.

What's Old is New Again...

Luke and Larry started shooting muzzleloaders back in the past century, fueled somewhat by the "Jeremiah Johnson" movie. Larry started with kits for .50 Hawkens from both CVA and Thompson/Center. Luke followed suit a short time later. From there Larry started hunting with Tony Knight when he first released the revolutionary MK-85 and progressed from there. Around this campfire Luke and Larry talk about the changes they've seen from shooting patched balls and conical in slow-twist barrels to faster twist barrel shooting sabots, as well as going from blackpowder to modern day blackpowder substitutes and along the way tell an interesting anecdote or two.

Texas’ Managed Land Deer Permit allows Luke and Larry to continue hunting whitetails on Larry’s lease after Texas’ regular deer season is closed, providing prime venison and great camp fun, which of course including cooking! In this episode Luke and Larry discuss what they hunted with, late season doe harvest strategies and even a quick camp recipe!