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bird hunting

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Field Notes

Episode 22: Rabbits & Hares

Hunting rabbits is what started it all for Hank. So it’s with pleasure that he’ll join Jonathan O’Dell of the Arizona Department of Game & Fish on a deep dive into the biology, lore, hunting and yes, cooking of the numerous North American rabbit and hare species.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 21: Wild Game Cooking Geek Out

An all cooking episode with Wade Truong of Elevated Wild and Lori McCarthy of Cod Sounds. This is what it sounds like when you have three obsessive wild game chefs bounce ideas off each other.

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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 20: Desert Quail

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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Field Notes

Episode 19: Ruffed Grouse

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 18: Fall Wild Turkey

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 17: Mountain Quail

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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60 Min

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Field Notes

Episode 16: Pheasant

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 15: American Woodcock

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 14: Scaled Quail with Game Bird Biologist and Hunting Outfitter Ryan O’Shaughnessy

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 13: Band-Tailed Pigeons with Biologist Mark Seamans of the US Fish & Wildlife Service

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 12: Spruce Grouse with From the Wild’s Kevin Kossowan

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 11: Sage Grouse with Ed Arnett of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

Episode 10: Dove Hunting with Jorge Ramirez and Biologist Owen Fitzsimmons

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

How to Camouflage a Canoe for Duck Hunting

Seasoned outdoorsman T. Edward Nickens gives us his well-proven-play-by-play to camouflage a canoe and get up close with waterfowl before flushing them and taking the shot.

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Field Notes

Beginner’s Guide to Upland Hunting in Washington

Upland bird hunting is wonderful way to get some great exercise and interact with the outdoors at a high level. A common picture that comes to our minds about bird hunting is sitting in a duck blind with a thermos of coffee and a propane heater while waiting for birds to come to you. While duck hunting from a blind is a popular activity and can be very fun, it is much different than upland bird hunting.

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Field Notes

One Common Goal: 
Farming & Hunting for conservation

Across the Great Plains region stretches a vast network of protected grasslands and wetlands, from the never-ending grain fields of Kansas and Nebraska to the dusty prairie pothole regions of the Dakotas and Montana. These crucial ecosystems teem with wildflowers and tall swaying grasses, while cattails and bulrushes rustle next to quiet ponds, and throughout it all untold numbers of insects and small animals thrive. Overhead, all manner of birds soar, often stopping here during their crucial summer and winter migration periods to rest and raise new families. But here is the really interesting part of this story: Almost all of this land is privately owned, and if it weren’t for hunters, farmers, and ranchers, none of it would probably be here.

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How-To

Ruffed Grouse Hunting Basics

The ruffed grouse is affectionately called the king of game birds by those who enjoy hunting them on crisp autumn days. As their nickname hints, the ruffed grouse is challenging prey for new and seasoned hunters alike. They are swift fliers, wary, and learn by experience the fine art of avoiding predators of all kinds. But by using a few basic principles you can start off on good footing, and with any luck, bring home a few ruffs for the table.

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5 Min
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Field Notes

EPISODE 5: BOBWHITE QUAIL WITH HUNTER AND QUAIL
BIOLOGIST DWAYNE ELMORE

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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60 Min
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EPISODE 4: THE WILY HUN WITH NORTH DAKOTA HUNTER
 TYLER WEBSTER

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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EPISODE 3: SNIPE HUNT

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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60 Min
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Field Notes

EPISODE 2: PTARMIGAN AND SNOWCOCK WITH KANSAS
HUNTER JIM MILLENSIFER

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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60 Min
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Food

Filson Food: Roasted Pheasant Jalapeño Poppers with Bourbon Red Pepper Jelly

A version of this recipe can most likely be found in every single hunter’s recipe rolodex from the Florida Panhandle to the Olympic Peninsula and everywhere in between. It is a go-to no matter where you hunt your fowl, and works equally well with ducks or doves.

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Food

Filson Food: Duck Cassoulet

Some of the best things in life require the most time and effort to do them right. This recipe is one of those things.

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6 Min
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Field Notes

Duck Banding: Hunter-Backed Conservation Work Helps Waterfowl Thrive

Banding has been used for centuries. In 218 B.C., besieged Roman soldiers reportedly used thread to tie a message on a crow’s leg and then released the bird. John James Audubon and Ernest Thompson Seton pioneered early banding methods in the United States. Federal banding programs were established in the 1920s after the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918.

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Profiles

Wild Goose Jack

At the turn of the 20th century, sportsman John (Jack) Miner found himself amidst an unregulated commercial market, and local grassroots hunting. In the small town of Kingsville, Ontario, along the northern shore of Lake Erie, young Jack and his brother Ted spent their minimal free time carving and painting decoys in preparation for when the ducks would return.

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Field Notes

North America’s Flyways and Ducks Unlimited

Twice a year waterfowl and bird species make the long journey from south to north and back again along the Pacific Flyway, stopping at reservoirs, wetlands, and shallow lakes along the way to both rest and feed.

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9 Min
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Field Notes

History of the Shotgun for Upland Hunting

The earliest shotguns, or “Haile Shotte peics,” as they were called, date back to the 16th century in England, where they were used for hunting by the aristocracy, chief among them Henry VIII. These were multiple shot firearms and were used primarily for hunting birds.

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How-To

How to Process an Upland Bird

Steven Joyce of Reds Hunting, a renowned hunting and fly-fishing guide outfit in Eastern Washington, joined us at Filson’s annual Sportsman’s Expo to demonstrate how to harvest the meat from an upland bird. Check out Steve’s clean and efficient method for processing any game bird.

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Profiles

Duck Band: Friendship, Music, and Hunting

Friendships tend to be tribal in their origins – shared interests, hobbies, and lifestyles attract and keep folks together. For this group of friends, their love of music and duck hunting are the ties that bind.  “Would you have any interest in going on a duck hunt in Louisiana with us?” That seems like an

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5 Min
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Field Notes

Guinevere’s First Grouse: Learning to Hunt in the Olympic National Forest

Patrick Colleran has spent summers exploring the Wilderness of Oregon, Montana, and Idaho as a Wilderness Ranger and backpacking guide. Alison Riley is a former hiking and rafting guide who had more bird dogs than friends growing up in rural Vermont. It wasn’t until right before Guinevere, the 11-month old Wiredhaired Pointing Griffon was born, that they started bringing shotguns into the mountains to hunt birds

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