bird hunting

If you haven’t noticed, Hunt Gather Talk is something of a quail podcast. This episode is all about the desert quail: Mearns and Gambel’s, with a smattering of scaled quail talk. Hank is joined by hunter-biologist Kirby Bristow of the Arizona of Game & Fish Department.

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To many, the king of all game birds is the ruffed grouse. In this episode, Hank talks with hunter-biologists Heather Shaw and Rocky Gutierrez about the biology of the grouse, its habitat, and why it is so tame in the West yet so tricky in the East. Plus a healthy conversation about cooking and eating them.

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Hank talks wild turkey hunting with his friend Tony Caggiano of World Slam Adventures. Tony has done the world slam of turkeys and has guided turkey hunters for many years all over North America. He’s also a great game cook and runs a podcast called Wild Game Based.

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This is a very special episode of Hunt Gather Talk, as Hank gets the chance to talk with Rocky Gutierrez, one of the top three experts on mountain quail. They’ll talk a ton about this mysterious bird: how to find it, how it lives, and how to hunt it.

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Hank is joined by Bob St. Pierre of Pheasants Forever and outdoor writer Chris Niskanen as they talk in-depth about the history of this bird in America, its conservation status, how to hunt them both with and without a dog, which sort of dog works better for pheasants, where to hunt them, and of course how to cook them.

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Hank is joined by A.J. DeRosa of Project Upland and Matt Soberg of the American Woodcock Society to talk about hunting and eating these chunky shorebirds.

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Scaled quail are perhaps the quail that runs the most, making them especially challenging to hunt. Ryan knows these birds as well as anyone, and we go deep into how to chase them, what makes them tick and how to cook them.

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Our last huntable native pigeon, the band-tailed pigeon is an obsession of Hank’s — he tries to hunt them every year. The limit is two per day and the season is only nine days long but hunting them puts you into the High Sierra in fall, a gorgeous time of year to hunt a gorgeous bird.

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Hank will be joined by Kevin Kossowan, host and creator of TV’s From the Wild, and Minnesota DNR biologist Bailey Petersen. They’ll talk about the spruce grouse — the odd member of the grouse family, which is largely taken for granted among American and Canadian hunters.

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Ed Arnett is an expert on the science and conservation of this iconic sagebrush species. In this episode, Hank and Ed focus not only on what can be done to preserve the sage grouse, but also how to hunt it ethically. 

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Jorge and Owen are avid dove hunters, and together they’ll dive deep into dove hunting: habitat, tips, necessary gear, food habits and the ecology of North American doves, from the common mourning dove to the elusive white-tipped dove.

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Dwayne Elmore is the Wildlife Extension Specialist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University. In this episode, Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding the Bobwhite Quail, from folklore and the biology of these small, round birds, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—sprinkled with a couple of delicious recipes and preparations of these upland fowl.

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Tyler Webster hosts the podcast Birds, Booze and Buds, dedicated to giving advice and telling stories about bird hunting. In this episode Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding these wily birds, from folklore, and the biology of Hungarian partridges, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—as well as plenty of delicious recipes and preparations of these upland fowl.

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Scott Lindars runs Marshdoodle, a blog dedicated to the passion and pursuit of hunting snipe. In this episode Hank goes over all kinds of things surrounding these mysterious birds, from folklore, the word “sniper”, and an all-important guide to identifying the birds, to hunting technique, gear, dogs—as well as how to pluck, prep and cook your birds.

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Jim Millensifer runs the Kansas Ringneck Classic, focusing attention on the fantastic upland hunting in western Kansas. In this episode Hank covers everything surrounding these hard-to-get birds, from being physically fit enough to hike all the way up to 10,000 feet (and higher!), to gear, guns, biology, the history of the snowcock’s introduction into the United States—and of course how to pluck, prep and cook the birds.

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