00:00:00 Speaker 1: Seth, what is going on? Welcome back to Refresh. This is Jake Koefer and we have an exciting episode because it’s October first. So if you’re one of the many states that have been sitting on the sidelines and have been watching some of these other earlier opening states, it is your time. This is October first, and the excitement and anticipation is going to build every single week. And we have a great episode with a variety of different guests here that have already killed some really great bucks, filled their dough tags, or one guest…

Until my retirement in the summer of 2021, I had never grown anything but weeds, which evidently, I’m pretty good at. However, growing anything else was hit and miss, mostly miss. During my working life my wife and I spent a lot of time in Asia. One of the commonly used vegetables often sliced thin, breaded, and deep fried on tempura platters is kabocha squash, also called Japanese pumpkin. Kabocha is a winter squash with a creamy texture. It’s used in many Asian cuisines. We could not bring home seeds but here we found that we could purchase them online…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s meat Podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your guest host Giannis but tell Us today, joined by Spencer Brody, Corey Seth and Bronson Strickland Ronson, this is your first time on the show. How do you think you’ll do it? Meat Eater Trivia? 00:00:29 Speaker 3: If I do fifty percent, it’ll be a victory for me. I’m terrible at trivia. 00:00:34 Speaker 2: Do you ever play along with this show at home? 00:00:38 Speaker 3: I have a couple times with graduate…

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We’ve announced the winners of Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. Note to the top three prize winners: Please contact me and let me know your UPS and USPS address(es), for your prizes. Thanks. – JWR The top three prize winners will each receive some great prize packages. The winners for Round 120 are… First Prize Winner: First Prize goes to AppComms, for Memoirs of a Disaster Survivor. (See: Part 1 and Part 2.) It was posted August 1-2, 2025. He will receive as prizes: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any…

Today is the 90th birthday of singer and actress Julie Andrews. She was born on October 1st, 1935. Her name will always be remembered for The Sound of Music. — On October 1, 1942, the Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, the first US jet, made its maiden flight. — The final day! Our big inventory reduction sale at Elk Creek Company — with nearly all of our guns, knives, bayonets, magazines, et cetera deeply discounted — ends at midnight tonight, Eastern Time. Get your order in today! — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest: Round 121 Begins Today, we present the first entry for…

Whitetail hunters love to argue about which state holds the biggest and baddest bucks. But which one is really the best?Well, a lot of what makes hunting ground “the best” depends on your personal preferences. Do you like big bucks, and you cannot lie? Maybe you just like to hunt around fewer people. Or maybe you like to feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by opportunities for deer of all ages. Do you prefer to travel or are you more of a homebody? Maybe you like to manage a food plot and be able to set up…

I spent quite a bit of my career as mostly an outdoor writer, before filming hunts and recording podcasts took over. That early role taught me how to use weasel words like a champion. Actually, it was reader responses that taught me to cover my ass with generalizations.What happens when you write hunting articles, even benign hunting articles you assume won’t piss people off, is that you end up pissing people off anyway. So, you start to think about how to say something you want to say, but also add in a qualifier or two to head off the rage.For…

Whitetail hunters love to argue about which state holds the biggest and baddest bucks. But which one is really the best?Well, a lot of what makes hunting ground “the best” depends on your personal preferences. Do you like big bucks, and you cannot lie? Maybe you just like to hunt around fewer people. Or maybe you like to feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by opportunities for deer of all ages. Do you prefer to travel or are you more of a homebody? Maybe you like to manage a food plot and be able to set up…