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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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During the 2025 fight against the mass sell-off of America's public lands, Utah-born cowboy, big game guide, and U.S. Army veteran Braxton McCoy seemed to be everywhere, from his barrage of fiery commentary on X to the Tucker Carlson and Shawn Ryan podcasts, to addressing public meetings across the West. He was the most powerful and tenacious conservative voice of the pro-public lands movement.
He hasn't let up, and he never will.
Join us for the story of a true American original, a soldier who suffered catastrophic injuries in a suicide bomb attack in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006, and fought successfully to rebuild his body, mind and life. It was a process that took years and the kind of resilience and discipline that few human beings possess. Through it all, from war to hospital bed to hunting elk in the Lost River Range of Idaho, raising four kids with his wife, and writing his harrowing memoir The Glass Factory, Braxton has drawn solace and power from the vast American public lands that he calls his natural home.
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| 0:00.0 | And I was like, you've got to get somebody on that's from the right-wing perspective |
| 0:09.7 | that understands, actually knows what they're talking about. |
| 0:13.3 | And then I think I even wrote in that tweet, I think I even said, and that person is absolutely |
| 0:17.6 | not Mike Lee. |
| 0:19.3 | And you've said some great things about American dirt and American, the ability to experience |
| 0:26.2 | American land for people who may not have been born with 10,000 acres, or even 15 acres, or |
| 0:35.8 | even in an apartment, they're in an apartment building |
| 0:38.4 | somewhere. |
| 0:40.9 | Culturally, one of the things that I saw was the world was getting small on people and |
| 0:47.0 | kind of mean. |
| 0:48.7 | Like, instead of thriving, I saw so many Americans, like, becoming, like, smaller. |
| 0:53.7 | Their world was smaller. And I was living, |
| 0:56.1 | dude, this has been 30 years. I mean, we're skiing the bitter roots or we're hunting elk, |
| 1:01.4 | you know, in the pioneers or, I mean, my world was huge. Yeah. |
| 1:06.5 | Hey, everybody. It's Hal Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:13.1 | Hey, I am proud to announce we have a new sponsor for our podcast, and that is Silencer Central. |
| 1:20.2 | If you are involved in hunting and shooting or both, you are probably looking at owning or dreaming of owning a silencer suppressor, the same thing |
| 1:31.1 | for your firearm. |
| 1:33.8 | I've got my first one a couple years ago. |
| 1:36.5 | It's been a complete game changer for me. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm just looking at another one right now for another rifle. |
| 1:43.2 | I will never go back to where I was. |
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