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Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures with Wm. Hovey Smith

Wm. Hovey Smith is a native Georgian whose early love of hunting took him into the woods and swamps of his home state at a young age. Almost as soon, his interest in writing developed in high school and at the University of Georgia. Later, as an Engineer officer in the U.S. Army, he started selling outdoor stories.

Hovey’s work as a Professional Geologist took him to all parts of the country, an opportunity that allowed him to hunt and write about his experiences. These writings found their way into the NRA magazines and later into the Gun Digest where Hovey is now a Corresponding Editor covering black-powder guns and hunting. He has published thousands of newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of topics as well as 14 books.

The unusual has always interested Hovey, and he became interested in black-powder hunting, bowfishing and crossbow hunting. He has also participated in hunts using more traditional methods, still occasionally going out with a knife or spear.

His books include Practical Bowfishing, Backyard Deer Hunting, and CrossBow Hunting, all of which can be ordered by clicking the book covers on the previous page.

Hovey is also a playwright, blogger, producer and filmmaker.

Archived Shows

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – De'j`a Vu Vegas. Shot Show 2012. Part II Ext.

  De'j`a Vu Vegas. Shot Show 2012. Part II Ext. In this extended 90 minute episode, Hovey interviews Shot Show exhibitors of knives, crossbows, guns, hunting accessories and outdoor personalities and concludes with a live-recorded cooking segment on m...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – De'j`a Vu Vegas. Shot Show 2012, Part I

  De'j`a Vu Vegas. Shot Show 2012, Part I Once more North America's largest outdoor show in Las Vegas proved to yield some surprises as I made the rounds through Range Day and tromped for four days looking at thousands of exhibitor's booths at the 201...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – All About North Carolina Swan Hunting: Part 2

  Continuing the exploration of the swan hunting potential of North Carolina, Hovey visits Nags Head on the Outer Banks to duck hunt at Bodie Island on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. There he also finds swan, but having already taken his allotted b...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – All About Swan Hunting: Part 1.

  All About Swan Hunting: Part 1. Taking a bird the size of a swan with a single-shot muzzleloading shotgun is always a challenge, but Hovey found that these huge fowl also presented problems for cartridge-gun uses during a field shoot for swan near L...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Sponsors Salute: Velcro Wall, Misty Mange, SIN, Inc. & Others

  Re-aired on this show are a selection of ads from last year's sponsors, including Velcro Wall, The leader in child suspension systems; Misty Mange, The hair care product that you and your pet can share; and SIN, Inc., The leader in synthetic foods. ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Backyard Hunting for Deer, Squirrels and Geese

  Backyard Hunting for Deer, Squirrels and Geese Concluding his hunts with percussion revolvers, Hovey takes an 8-point buck with a Ruger Old Army .44 and progresses to a one-day squirrel, deer and goose hunt with a muzzleloading pistol, rifle and sho...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Destination: Moncks Corner, South Carolina

  Moncks Corner, the county seat of Berkeley County, South Carolina, is the gateway to unlimited fishing opportunities on lakes Marion and Moultrie and hunting opportunities in the Santee-Cooper Region. Located 30-miles from Charleston with abundant powe...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Deer Killin' with Wounded Warrior and Son

  Former Sargent Billy Deen and his 13-year-old son Hunter "Dead Eye" Deen participated on a Wounded Warrior deer hunt where Hunter harvested his first deer with a CVA Electra muzzleloading rifle. More veterans' programs are discussed with Chris Chaffin ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Guns, Game and Quail Balls

  The first EPIC Outdoor Game Fair was held by Safari Club International and Quail Unlimited at the Foxhall Resort near Atlanta. This event featured fine guns, sporting clothes, wines, outdoor activities and Alabama Black Belt quail balls. Sprawled ov...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A'Fixing to Go Deer Hunting: Holistic Health

  As more aging, rather than younger, hunters are taking to the woods this year, the accumulated pains of life can sometimes be reduced or eliminated by a single visit to a chiropractor, as occurred with me. An automobile accident a decade ago left me...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – 200-Year Plan for Gulf Coast Restoration

  President Obama's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force got what they asked for when I presented a plan for the 200-year restoration of the Mississippi Delta following the effects of the BP oil spill, Katrina and Rita. In a mash-up between tra...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Gator Getting

  September is alligator season in many Southeastern states, providing one of the most Adrenalin-charged hunting experiences available to the North American hunter. These large predatory reptiles have primitive nervous systems that are impervious to pain...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A'Fixing to Get Ready to Go Deer Hunting - Trade Shows

  Even though in the midst of sweltering mid-Summer heat, deer hunters are a'fixing to get ready to go deer hunting by attending local trade shows such as the Georgia Wildlife Federation's Buckarama where there is something for every member of the family...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Muzzleloading Marvels

  Modern muzzleloading guns and new components have enabled the best of percussion revolvers to be considered as deer-hunting handguns for the first time, and BPI's Dudley McGarity discusses the CVA Electra muzzleloading rifle which employed a novel elec...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – 071811

  Called "Mr. Whitetail" because of his encyclopedic knowledge of whitetailed deer management and hunting, Larry Weishuhn is also a life-long handgun hunter. Grab a cool one and listen as he and Hovey trace the evolution of cartridge and black-powder ha...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Buck Knives Factory and Blade Show Part II

  C.J. Buck explains why the company relocated from southern California to Idaho as he conducts a tour of the new factory, and, in Part II, Hovey continues his interviews with knife makers at the 2011 Atlanta Blade Show and Cutlery Fair. After a preci...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – 2011 Blade Show: Part I. Individual Exhibitors

  Knives are a diverse set of objects, and the 900 exhibitors at the 30th. International Blade Show and Cutlery Exposition at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta certainly brought an assortment. On exhibit were knife collections from the distant and recent past...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Destination: Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte, Louisiana

  Journey to "The Jump" at land's end in Southern Louisiana with Hovey and a group of journalists as they tour Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes, sample seafood, visit nature preserves, fish and examine beaches for traces of last year's oil spill. Each ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Backyard Business Conclave at the Road Kill Cafe

  Sit in on the Backyard Business Conclave at the Road Kill Cafe as Professore Luigi "Bubba" Pasquale of the University of Padua returns home to Podunkville, U.S.A., and explains to the locals why and how they should start their own businesses in these t...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A walk through my home town

  A historic and cultural tour of a rural Southern town is given during a walk around the Sandersville, Georgia, town square as Hovey Smith traces the town's evolution from the 1790s to 2011 with comments on the events, people and things that shaped the ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Destination Bryan County, Georgia

  Opportunities abound for sportsmen in Bryan County, Georgia, located only 20 miles from Savannah. The featured town of Richmond Hill is between Ft. Steward, which offers some public hunting, and a State WMA. Off shore, Ossabaw Island has quota hunts fo...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – The Lady and The Spear

  A popular early show featuring a lady spear hunter, man-woman relationships, sex changes through life and an unexpected consequence from some nude photography is rebroadcasts while Hovey is receiving an award for this show. For an unusual hunting expe...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Engines of Change

  Even after using a charm from Beau and Lou-Ann's Small Engine Exorcisms, Hovey's first bowfishing trip degrades into a "bowfishing anyway I have to do it" experience. Much more successful was his investigation of making wines from Southern grapes and f...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A'fixing to get ready to go bowfishing

  Bowfishing can put lots of good fish on the table. Hovey interviews Muzzy's Mark Land to provide a complete view of the sport as both an individual and group activity. Click the following link to look at the equipment, supplier's contacts and a recipe ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures - Sandersville, Georgia

  Hovey's home town of Sandersville, Georgia, is featured with interviews with Rea Garrett, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Neil Pittman of the Country Buffet who talks hunting and cooking and with visiting Florida hunter Chris Holloway who tells a...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures - Turkey Hunting Stories

  To provide turkey-hunting thrills and laughs, listen as Hovey tells how long-time Outdoor Life writer Charles Elliott bagged his first turkey and had his first drink, Thunderball Turkey, Catch and Release Turkey Hunting and Turkey Dance with Feathers, ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Going Turkey Hunting

  Starting with wake-up yawns and ending with an exciting climax, listeners to three days of Hovey's Spring turkey hunts with a flintlock rifle and a 3000-year-old chip from an Indian's arrow point. Cooking features turkey plucking and cleaning as well a...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A'Fixing to Get Ready to Go Turkey Hunting

  The "a'fixing stage" of getting ready to go turkey hunting may last for weeks or months before opening day. When that day finally arrives everyone breathes a sigh of relief that the spouse infected with the turkey hunting disease is finally out of the ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Travel: Car, Plane, Boat and Train

  A not-too-serious look at Hovey's hunting travels throughout North America by car, plane, boat and train. In the cooking section, he discusses making what has been often judged as the best American whiskey at The George Dickel distillery in Tennessee. ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Destination: Seward, Nebraska

  First of a series on destinations in small-town America, Hovey hunts snow geese near Seward, Nebraska, and explores Fall hunts for deer, pheasants, and waterfowl. A 228- class whitetail was taken last year just outside the city. Interviews with Pat Col...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Africa Now

  Almost every hunter wants to hunt Africa. Hovey Smith explains how to do it, and includes real-time recordings of Cape buffalo and other hunts. He asserts that the best time to go is now and that the best-value hunts are in The Republic of South Africa...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Turkey Talk, The NWTF National Convention

  Turkey hunters, volunteers and members of the armed forces listened to calling contests, purchased innovative turkey-hunting products and learned from the experts at the National Wild Turkey Federation's 2011 National Convention in Nashville. Listen as...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Gun Talk 101

  In a bang-up episode brought to you by Big Boomers, Inc., the evolution of firearms is explored by Hovey's loading and shooting matchlock, flintlock, rimfire, and centerfire rifles, shotguns and pistols while explaining their hunting uses. This explana...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Snow Goose Hunting in North Carolina

  An opportunity to hunt eastern snow geese in coastal North Carolina proved irresistible to host Hovey Smith as he hunted with fourth-generation guide Aaron Mathews near the historic town of Currituck. Hunting a muzzleloading shotgun, Smith got his snow...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – The Lady and the Spear

  Hunting with spears, libido changes for a guy through live, having women hunting companions, nude photography with an humorous outcome, a fun romp through man-woman relationships and a Valentine's Day recipe for wooing women with Deer Heart Soup are in...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Handguns and Handgun Hunting

  Relax at the campfire while world-class hunters Bill Booth and Hovey discuss the diversity of world opportunities for handgun hunting. Topics include the new S&W Governor revolver which shoots the .410 shotshell, selecting a hunting pistol, wild hog hu...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Viva Las Vegas, Shot Show, 2011

  With 1,600 exhibitors, 57,400 attendees and 2,000 members of the media covering the event, the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 50th anniversary Shot Show was a resounding success. Interviews taped during the show introduce new hunting accessories...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – The Hunting Buddies

  Interviews with two hunting buddies, Bill Krantz and Roger Kicklighter, provide a wealth of stories through which to examine the hunting-buddy relationship. Featured will be hunts for swan and brant in North Carolina and hunts for deer, wild hogs, wat...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunting with Crossbows

  Nebraska, Florida and some other states will allow their archers to use crossbows next year as discussed by Excalibur Crossbow's founders Bill and Kath Troubridge. They who taken much wild game, including elephant, with crossbws. Hovey considers other ...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Ice fishing and stories to "chill a man's soul"

  Ice fishing, living in very cold climates and stories to "chill a man's soul" are featured in this tribute to cold-climate living and the people who thrive in environments that many consider hostile beyond belief as Hovey discusses ice fishing with Ca...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – CO2 Does Not Cause Global Warming

  Climates change, and increased carbon dioxide levels are a result of global warming rather than causing it. Hovey and his guest, Mark Wilson Thomas, will present this politically incorrect position. Making homemade wine is featured on the cooking segme...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Dogs are Different People

  A show completely, "gone to the dogs", will feature Hovey's mixed-breed retrievers as he discusses how to evaluate and adopt the increasing number of trained dogs that are now in pounds with his Veterinarian, Dr. Kristine Evans. Stories feature Labs as...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Christmas Show

  Starting with an original Christmas story, "A Visit from Auntie Thresa Claus," the show continues the holiday theme with "Christmas at Copper River" as Hovey Smith relates his experiences as a young Engineer Lt. in Alaska, cooking an Idaho turkey taken...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt for Idaho Elk and Turkey

  Clint Boone talks about "Buddy Hunts" for Idaho elk as he and Hovey tells about the Idaho elk seasons with discussions of gear, techniques and regulations. Clint also takes you along through captivating stories of some of his hunts while Hovey describe...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Traditional Bow Hunting and Fishing

  If shooting your annual deer has become routine, listen as Dennis Dunn describes taking all 29 species of North American big game with traditional archery gear and Hovey discusses bowfishing. The cooking section will discuss handling large animals, and...

• Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – All About Turkeys

  Putting a wild turkey on the holiday table becomes a real possibility as Hovey discusses Fall and Spring turkey hunting with champion callers Jason Kidd and Mark Coin of DownNDirty Turkey Calls, cooking turkeys and an ad about SIN, Inc.'s new synthetic...

• Hovey's Outdoor Adventures - A New Outdoor Show?

  A new radio host considers an interview with Cheryl Long, the editor of Mother Earth News; a gun story, "Brunswick Rifle at Hard Labor"; "Practical Wild Game Cooking" and relates some dark humor from the 1860s, "The Dog Died," as possibilities for broa...