Any fans of Randy Newberg?

[Highlander Hunting]

If you could ask Randy Newberg a question, what would it be?
We'll be having a chat with him this week and are looking for topic suggestions.

Cheers.
John
https://highlanderhunting.wordpress.com/

[igojuone]

Who's Randy Newberg? Is he the guy that sings the song Little People?

[pg83]

He's a great advocate for hunting.

General conservation and improving our relationship with the non-hunting community would be a couple options.

[twoSevenO]

I like his videos because I don't see any BS. He isn't afraid to show unsuccessful hunts. He isn't afraid to show he hunts around other people and he clearly doesn't lie about his public land hunting as he's never shot one of those obvious high fence elk or mule deer.

He also has some very educational material too. His gutless method video is probably the best one out there. I must have watched that one like 6-7 times.

His Alaska sitka blacktail hunt in the alpine was also an excellent video.

[264mag]

Ask him what his opinion the elk seminar/courses are. He took Cory Jacobsen Elk 101, and possibly Mike Roes course.

[RambleOn]

Randy is for the most part no BS which is nice/refreshing to watch. Great show, lots of good info. Get it done, or not, in 5 days. All public land and no outfitters. And sometimes............a Howa Handshake!

[Rob Chipman]

What are his nuts and bolts suggestions for getting government to pay attention to hunter/conservationist concerns? Or, to put it more bluntly, is there a way to make hunting/conservation something that politicians fear screwing with?

He's got long history of involvement with politicians and special interest groups on the other side. Any tips he can offer will allow us to model success.

[bc_buckshot]

He is a lot involved with backing up hunters and fighting for the rights of public land. He attends to all the bills that are trying to take away public land fighting. A very knowledgeable man. Maybe he can give us insight on how we can start a process on getting grizzly hunting back

[ajr5406]

I really like him, and appreciate that he puts a lot of free content on his YouTube channel for people to learn from. I love his "how-to" videos. He also does a lot for conservation in the US.

Not sure what I would ask him though, as he has proactively put out a lot of great stuff. His podcasts are good too, but are a little long sometimes. Maybe tell him to get OnX Maps to invest in Canada?

[Rob]

Yeah, I agree with above, he seems like a straight shooter, no BS and isnt all ego. How about when hitting a new area for Elk what is the best way for initially trying to locate them, this being in pressured areas as well as it seems like we have more of these areas than not. Im sure if I looked he has answered this before....

[DeepJeep]

I like his stuff mostly because he's not afraid to show failures and is a minimalist. Gives good tips as well.

[dapesche]

Would be interesting to hear you run the interview as if you were a proactive gov't employee that felt there maybe a better way to manage our wildlife.
By the time you were done the interview, it'd be great to have created something that you could pass on the the BC ministry of forests/Lands/Natural resources that would be informative.
There'd be US examples of success and failures that the ministry could review and use for ideas North of the 49th. If the interview was wrapped out without demonizing the gov't and their debatable mismanagement of wildlife that'd be a win.

Reality is that you are our voice and you have a terrific guest coming onto your podcast that could provide some excellent perspective on the issues were facing in BC.

I've got you on stitcher now and I'll be listening to the cast when it's uploaded.

Thank you!

[Mark-R]

This was my first hunting season and because I watched a lot of Randy Newberg's shows, youtube channel, podcasts, elk talk live Q&A's, I was able to ramp up pretty quickly.
I basically copied a lot of his gear suggestions and hunting style. The DIY public land approach is what I like about him.
The result has been 2 backcountry Blacktail deer backpacked out using the gutless method.
I still had to make a lot of mistakes in the field and spend a lot of days out there to get the feel for it but without Randy's content, I'd have struggled a lot more.
Looking forward to hear the podcast.

[Highlander Hunting]

He's a great resource for "how to" type of info as well as entertaining.

John
https://highlanderhunting.wordpress.com/

[Highlander Hunting]

Well we did it. Chatted with Mr. Newberg for almost 2 hours. He's a great guy.
He grew up very close to the border in Minnesota, grew up watching CBC, poor guy!

Thanks for the suggestions, think we covered most.

We will do two episodes out of it, based on how long it went. So first one will be mostly gear and hunting, the second will be policy, politics, social media, BHA and that kind of thing.

Thanks again to those who gave their input.
John
https://highlanderhunting.wordpress.com/episodes-and-notes/

[warnniklz]

don't forget to talk about Dairy Queen

[whitlers]

I have watched quite a few of his videos. Great stuff. Glad you had the chance to interview him.

[Rotorwash]

Like the other comments on here I appreciate his videos.
Seems like a pretty straight forward guy

[madBEAVER]

Just listened to the podcast, great job guys! Two of my favorite podcasts were combined in one.

[HarryToolips]

Great job on the podcast, I'm a fan of his.....

[Highlander Hunting]

Guys, if you're interested the episode is up for download.
Been a busy week. We also interviewed Jay Scott from Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. We talked about coues deer hunting in Arizona.

Cheers
John
https://highlanderhunting.wordpress.com/