I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a Weimaraner named Remington.
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Brandon Butler’s syndicated outdoor column, Driftwood Outdoors, appears in over 30 newspapers, websites and regional magazines each week. He is the co-host of the Driftwood Outdoors Podcast, with new episodes released every Tuesday. Butler is a past-president of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers, Missouri Outdoor Communicators and Hoosier Outdoor Writers. He is also an active member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association.
Butler serves as Director of Communications for Roeslein Alternative Energy. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the state’s largest conservation non-profit. He holds a B.S. from Purdue University, M.A from Gonzaga University and a M.B.A. from the University of Missouri. Butler resides in rural Howard County, Missouri with his wife and two daughters. They spend a significant amount of time fishing, hunting and shooting at their property in the Missouri Ozarks.
I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a Weimaraner named Remington.
In North Dakota what I found was an answer to the question of why Theodore Roosevelt chose this somewhat unheralded land to serve as his wilderness reprieve from life in New York City.
Putting in the time and effort to build up the necessary preference points, and going through all the planning, may seem like too much work for a deer.
Each year, as fall begins to set in, I try to find my way north before all those perfect attributes arrive further south where I live.
I believe I speak for most of us when I say, we never expected this upside-down COVID world we’ve been living in to stretch into 2021, but it has and we have to adapt.
The general population may not understand how critical of a problem the Asian carp invasion has become.
Hunting is a learned skill. One I’ll never perfect. I just hope to continuously evolve throughout my life.
I have not met too many farmers, none really, who do not care about the land, especially their land. Do they push back on regulations? Yes, often because…
Brandon Butler joins Luttrell to discuss his journey through the outdoor landscape as a writer, conservationist, and lobbyist. In doing so, he highlights many of the issues he uncovered along the way.