Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps.

12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout 2026.

These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love.

The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba.

If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like,

you'll love this episode.

My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour

trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

Check it out now on Meat Eaters' YouTube channel

and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months.

Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people

who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to Onex Hunt for their support of this

podcast. I'm your host, Lake Pickle.

And on today's episode, man, the stars line up just right.

As y'all have heard me say before, I love, man, I love spring turkey hunting.

Everything about it, the bird, the habitat, it's magical, top to bottom.

And on this episode, we're going to dive into one of the newest, one of the most fascinating,

and honestly one of the most uncharted areas of turkey research and biology, and without my planning to do so.

It just so happens to line up so very perfectly with what we just learned about wild turkey conservation,

just a few episodes back with Mr. Benning-Harring.

Y'all will see what I mean.

Let's dive in. This past Saturday was youth turkey opener here in Mississippi,

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