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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
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. Read more 60 Min
Field Notes 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. Read more 60 Min
Field Notes 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. Read more 60 Min
Field Notes Hunt Gather Talk Podcast Renowned wild game chef Hank Shaw has spent a lifetime gathering wild edible plants and fishing the waters of North America. On this season of Hunt Gather Talk, he talks upland game—focusing on a different animal each episode. Read more
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. Read more 60 Min
Field Notes EPISODE 1: Squirrels with Arizona fish & game biologist Johnathan O’Dell Johnathan O’Dell is the first person ever recorded to complete the Great American Squirrel Slam, having hunted, shot, and eaten every species of tree squirrel that’s legal to hunt in the US. In this episode Hank covers all things squirrel-related—from biology to the rifle vs. shotgun debate, how to hunt the various species, cooking squirrels, the myth of barking squirrels, as well as gear you might want to have while chasing Mr. Bushytail. Read more 60 Min