Hunting stories with field-tested judgment.
Gamekeeper Podcast gathers hunters and outdoor guests for conversations that move from table banter into useful field lessons. Recent episodes lean heavily into turkey season, deer forage, scrape tactics, safety, old hunting stories, and the culture around camp.
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Gamekeeper Podcast is a hunting and outdoor conversation show with a strong sense of place. The table is often set in West Point, Mississippi, and the mood feels more like a camp-house conversation than a formal interview. It begins with jokes, weather, crops, local color, or someone getting teased for being too deep into turkey season. Then the useful stuff slips in. A story about a bird, a deer, a horse camp, or a food plot becomes a lesson about timing, habitat, safety, animal behavior, or the judgment that comes only from repeated days outside. Recent episodes show the series at its most turkey-heavy. The crew talks spring foliage, frosted plants, gobbler decoys, call making, youth hunters, and the kind of season fatigue that makes everybody a little sharper around the edges. The show is comfortable with long memories. Jim Zumbo brings old-school hunting ethics, horseback trips, grizzly encounters, and a view of how trail cameras, drones, and long-range shooting have changed the experience. Deer conversations get equally detailed. Dr. Mark Turner is brought in for deer forages, while another episode turns scrape traps, big antlers, jealousy, and map study into a bigger look at obsession and restraint. There is also room for side roads. Football excitement with Brennan and Mackenzie Thompson sits beside hunting and fishing talk. An elk story involving helicopters, tags, and a shared camp becomes less about spectacle than about the pleasure of being there with other people. The tone is friendly, but it does not sand off the serious parts. Firearms safety, hunting accidents, and ethical choices are treated as matters worth repeating, even if that makes someone sound overly cautious. The result is a show for people who want outdoor talk with dirt on it: practical, funny, occasionally reverent, and grounded in the details hunters notice before anyone else does.
Made for: Gamekeeper Podcast is for hunters and outdoor families who like practical field knowledge delivered through stories instead of tidy lectures. It especially fits listeners interested in turkeys, deer, habitat work, food plots, and hunting culture.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its lived-in roundtable feel: banter, teasing, and memory gradually turn into usable lessons about wildlife, safety, habitat, and ethics. It treats hunting as both skill and culture, with room for stories, mistakes, weather, family, and hard-earned restraint.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical field judgment meets candid hunting stories, with careful attention to safety, wildlife conditions and the ethics of changing technology.
Gamekeeper Podcast treats hunting as a practice shaped by close observation, preparation and judgment. Its roundtable conversations move easily from frost damage and spring foliage to turkey behavior, deer scrapes and remote elk country.
Turkey season turns the table into group therapy, and you get the useful kind of oversharing.
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Turkey season banter sharpens into a practical reminder to watch the bird before waiting for the cue.
Turkey season reaches the Gamekeeper table with worn nerves, familiar stories, and the usual question of whether a far-off call belonged to a Jake or a long beard.
A loose spring turkey discussion gains force through habitat detail and a sober warning about decoy safety.
Spring around turkey season sends the Gamekeeper crew into the small observations that can shape a hunt: frosted grass, figs, red mulberry, blueberries, Chickasaw plums, pecans, and the way fuller foliage seems to be pushing north.
Jim Zumbo turns a lifetime outdoors into a measured conversation about hunting ethics, technology, and wilderness.
Jim Zumbo brings a long outdoor life to Gamekeeper Podcast, and the conversation knows it. The crew frames him through years of reading his articles, hunting alongside him, and keeping one of his cookbooks near at hand, while Zumbo moves through ethics, memory, and the changing…
A helicopter-assisted elk hunt turns into a loose, funny story about access, patience, and first-shot etiquette.
Gamekeeper Podcast frames a helicopter-assisted elk hunt as more than a quick ride into elk country. The story turns on access, patience, and the slightly awkward question of who gets the first shot after the group reaches ground another hunter had helped prove was reachable.
A giant-buck story turns into a candid look at obsession, trust, and hunting scrapes.
Gamekeeper Podcast works best when it stays with the uneasy life of a giant buck after the shot. Cuz Strickland tells the story of killing a deer so big that he did not yet understand scoring, then follows the ripple effect: pride, suspicion, attention, and a tighter guard…
Mountain State hunting and fishing talk.
Gulf Coast outdoors, told from the boat ramp.
Serious carry talk, practical tradeoffs.
This episode features an interview with a college football player who shares a game-winning touchdown story, then transitions to hunting and wildlife management discussion.
Hosts in West Point, Mississippi, welcome guests Ben Rising and Javin Mullet from White Tail Edge.
Two hens behind a hunter made a gobbler break strut and come to 12 or 13 steps.
James Buice explains why a 6-inch trumpet call can sound better than a beautiful 10-inch one.
The episode features a turkey hunting discussion with guest Ernie Calandrelli, covering hunting tactics and family stories.
Jim Zumbo says a college newspaper story at Paul Smith’s College led to his first byline, then a bet with professor John Hunt sent him to Outdoor Life.
Andrew McKean, hunting and conservation editor at Outdoor Life, joins the Gamekeeper Podcast crew to describe finding a 1905 nickel at the site of Buffalo Bill Cody's historic Camp Monaco the day before killing his Wyoming bighorn ram.
Gamekeeper Podcast features Lamar Williams explaining how a 10th-grade shop project became a turkey-call craft spanning more than 40 years.
The episode features a discussion with Dr.