FFOD299 : From Bent Creek to the Big Picture ~ Chuck Sykes on the Future of Hunting pt I

Fist Full of Dirt

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Send us a text From a guide at Bent Creek Lodge to head of Alabama Game and Fish … and today CEO of the Council to Advance Hunting and Shooting Sports, Chuck Sykes has a very unique perspective on what’s actually going on in the hunting world. He has the education and experience, access to tons of good data, along with a country boy’s take on changes and opinions in today’s environment. This one is fascinating and maybe a bit alarming. Either way you need to listen and hear some cold hard fac...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fistful of Dirt, the official podcast of Mossy Oak Properties.
0:09.3	Whether you own a small farm, lease land, or just love hanging in your backyard.
0:14.8	We're all about the outdoor lifestyle and how to get the most from your time in God's
0:19.4	great outdoors.
0:23.9	Now here's your host, Ronnie Cus Strickland.
0:25.9	This is my live from the Camel Cave.
0:26.5	Good morning.
0:30.9	How about that, uh, Gerald Swindle, the G-Man.
0:32.1	How fun was that?
0:34.1	We haven't laughed that hard in a while.
0:36.0	My phone is still blowing up.
0:38.1	Man, I tell you what.
0:41.5	And for all you hardcore fishermen, I apologize.
0:44.4	Because I don't think I ask him a single fishing question.
0:45.1	You did not.
0:48.6	But I told you up front, Spallel alert, that probably wasn't going to happen. But his journey is very interesting.
0:51.5	He didn't go into it that deep, but he has been through a lot.
0:56.0	Like, and just since that episode went up, he's been through some more.
1:00.5	I mean, yeah, I mean, he had his knee out.
1:03.0	The next post after we had him on, he was doing a knee surgery, knee replacement or something,
1:08.8	and was up the next day on crutches and had the funniest post
1:12.2	talking about you know they got me up to do this and was it painful let's just say there
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