The Outdoor Gibbon

A storm is rattling the trees outside, but the audio takes us back to a very different kind of noise: a bus full of hunters, shooters, and content creators rolling away from a rifle range in Lithuania. That’s where we sit down with Pulsar Pro Staff members from across Europe to talk about the range day, the camaraderie, and what it actually means to be “Pro Staff” when professionalism and field experience matter more than hype. The big reason this recording stayed under wraps for months is f...

A mink can look small and “cute” right up until you see what it does to a river. We’re out on the ground with Robert from the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative, setting mink rafts and talking through the real mechanics of American mink control in Scotland. If you’ve ever wondered how conservation work actually looks day to day, this is the muddy boots version, complete with ropes, rafts, signal checks, and the kind of simple decisions that make or break a project. We get into the full set...

Deer are one of Scotland’s most iconic animals, yet they keep getting cast as the villain. We sit down with a Scottish Game Fair panel featuring James Fenton alongside Megan Rowlands, Tom Turnbull, Scott Mackenzie, and Bill Cowie to ask a harder question: what is the real role of deer on the hill when you zoom out to ecology, rural livelihoods, and culture? We dig into why “ideal” deer numbers don’t exist without clear land management objectives, and how deer influence upland grazing systems...

Wildfire doesn’t need Hollywood flames to become a crisis, it just needs the right fuel load, a dry spell, and one careless spark. We sit down with Richard Bailey of the Peak District Moorland Group and Callum Kippen, a Highland grouse keeper and co-owner of Bright Spark training, to talk about what’s really driving wildfire risk across UK moorland and peatland, from the Scottish Highlands to the Peak District National Park. We get into the on-the-ground reality of the Carrbridge Dava fire, ...

Vegan. Hunter. Mostly vegetarian. If you think those words can’t sit in the same room without a fight, this conversation will surprise you. We’re joined by Mark, an author and stand-up comedian who once went fully vegan, then slid back toward an 80% vegetarian life, and he’s candid about why: ethics, habit, comfort, lockdown, travel, and the simple fact that food is never just food. We talk about the part of veganism that rarely gets airtime the quieter middle, where people genuinely care ab...