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Iowa Pheasants

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - February 27, 2024 22:00 - 51 minutes
Several 2023 pheasant hunts in Iowa. Chaos and Maybe both got limits. Lots of birds! We even shot a few sharptails in Montana. 

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Pheasnt & Sharptails South Dakota 2023

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - January 30, 2024 18:00 - 47 minutes
Seven days hunting pheasants and sharptails in South Dakota with Maybe and Chaos. The dogs were too clownish to compliment, but with my expectations, they did just fine. We even took a couple of combo limits of grouse and pheasants.  I threw in a short story about a ruffed grouse hunting mishap...

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Idaho 2023 Huns & Sharp Tails

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - November 08, 2023 16:00 - 45 minutes
Chaos & Maybe Exploring Idaho for next trip from Thanksgiving to Christmas.  Took a couple of newbies on sharp tail hunts (lots of birds!) and looked for better partridge hills than I've hunted in the past. Both dogs earned Story Bands for 1st Idaho Sharptail and 1st Daily Bag Limit of Idaho Sh...

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Critter's Double Limit of Pheasants, N&S Dakotas

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - May 06, 2023 17:00 - 23 minutes
I can't say too much good about "Critter". She hunted the tail end of the southern Minnesota/Iowa ruffed grouse years, the best Kansas and Nebraska pheasant years, and a half dozen Dakota years.  This hunt was a seat of my pants exploration into northern South Dakota. I was looking for a new ar...

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Miss Bodet and Pheasants - Iowa, Minnesota & South Dakota

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - April 23, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes
Miss Bodet, took 3-roosters in Iowa & 2 in Minnesota in the same day on public land. Then on another trip I knocked on doors in South Dakota and shot limits of pheasants for 6 days, without paying a fee.  Bo was only a couple years old on these hunts.  

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RUFFED GROUSE & PHEASANTS - Minnesota Combination Limit

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - April 10, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutes
Yeah, I was a whole lot younger back then, and those two pups were pretty special dogs.  Critter & Woogs as pups, hunting ruffed grouse in southeast Minnesota and pheasants in southcentral Minnesota. This was the first time that I tried to take this combination limit, instead of just hoping it ...

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"Hell-Hole Roosters" - Kansas & Nebraska Double Limit of Pheasants

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - April 09, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes
I was fortunate to have hunted Kansas and Nebraska when both states had a lot of pheasants. At that time, and for decades to come, I believed this hunt was the epitome of pheasant hunting. I only surpassed this day one time, on a hunt most of you have listened to in an earlier episode.  Back in...

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Prairie Chicken & Turkey Combo

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - March 25, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes
Follow along on a dogless prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska. This was early in a 5 day prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska and South Dakota. It was my first attempt at a combo of 3 chickens and a fall turkey.  The previous "Double Limit of Prairie Chickens" episode, was two days after this hunt. If ...

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Valley Quail in Idaho & Poor Season 2021

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - March 19, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes
Had a solid few days hunting quail in Idaho with Chaos and Maybe. I tell you about my 2021 season and maybe you'll understand why I didn't have much to talk about.  

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Idaho/Oregon Bird Hunting

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - February 27, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes
Mostly chukar hunting with Chaos and my new pup Mayhem.

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Coyote Calling III

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - August 21, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes
This episode has the best coyote calling advice anyone could give. The two most important factors for setting up your best opportunity for a successful shot. Stopping a coyote exactly where you want him and how to select the best stand location. These two practices will greatly increase your odd...

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Coyote Calling II

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - July 23, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutes
More calling how-to and gear suggestions.  There's some important information here mixed in with hunt stories. I could have saved a lot of money and shot a lot more coyotes if I knew this stuff 30 years ago!  I have two more coyote calling episodes in the works. I'll discuss stand locations, ho...

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Coyote Calling

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - July 16, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes
I've been calling coyotes for more than 30 years from Arizona to Montana and love coyote calling only second to upland bird hunting. If you've ever thought about calling coyotes or are looking for new information, you'll want to give this a listen!   This is the first of a series of coyote calli...

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Coyote Calling

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - July 16, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes
I've been calling coyotes for more than 30 years from Arizona to Montana and love coyote calling only second to upland bird hunting. If you've ever thought about calling coyotes or are looking for new information, you'll want to give this a listen!   This is the first of a series of coyote calli...

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Last Chance Pheasants & Grouse

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - December 23, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes
Unexpected late season pheasant and sharptail "fun" hunt in South Dakota. Me and Chaos hoping to average 2 birds a day on a 4 day mid-December public land hunt. We just hunted a few hours each day and still averaged 3 birds.  10 roosters and 2 grouse.   

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December Pheasants & Sharptails

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - December 12, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes
Hunting pheasants and sharptails in the tall grass of western South Dakota. Chaos and I take the combo limit of Sharps & Phez on two of five days and still have a day for North Dakota. 

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Pheasants IA, NE SD & Sharptails too!

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - November 10, 2020 22:00 - 32 minutes
A buddy and I hunt opening day in Iowa, I finish the day hunting Nebraska. Then we head to South Dakota for 5 days of pheasants and sharptails. Lots of birds!

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2020 Combo Limit Pheasants & Sharptails

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - October 24, 2020 01:00 - 36 minutes
Chaos and I just returned from a four day pheasant and grouse hunt in South Dakota and we took the 6 bird combo the first two days of our hunt! Give this episode a listen to get your dander up for a hunt of your own.

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Combination Limit Huns & Sharptails

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - October 05, 2020 22:00 - 46 minutes
A little talk about last week's sharptail hunt in the Dakotas and a re-live of a sharptail & Hun combination limit I took over two pups. 

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Pheasants, Sharptails & Turkey

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - September 17, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutes
Follow along with me and Critter, as we take a triple limit of 3-pheasants, 3-sharptails and a fall turkey in South Dakota. 

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Quail Birds

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - September 09, 2020 22:00 - 58 minutes
Bobwhite quail from Oklahoma to Nebraska, Blue quail in New Mexico, and Valley Quail in Idaho, Oregon & Nevada. And a short story about Gambel's and Mearn's in Arizona. Mostly limits over Labs with a little Springer work as well. 

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Reservoir Roosters

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - August 22, 2020 01:00 - 46 minutes
I can't believe I'm doing this. I got no sense! Now I'm going to find out of state plates at every one of my rooster hidey holes. Bo's turning over in her grave and Chaos is whining, "Don't do it dummy!".  How I shot more than 50 roosters off the same public area in Nebraska in one season, with...

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Prairie Birds, Pheasants & Wilson's Snipe

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - August 15, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes
I talk three different combination limits on this podcast, all including Wilson's Snipe. I know you're thinking "who cares about snipe!". All I can say is if you think dove shooting is fun you need to head to a marsh in October and hustle after some snipe. They'll teach you what shooting is all ...

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LISTENER APPRECIATION - FREE STORY BANDS!

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - August 06, 2020 01:00 - 2 minutes
In thanks to my current podcast listeners, I'll be giving away 10 free pairs of My Dog Hunts Story Bands, to current listeners AND the potential of another free pair of Story Bands to those same winners! Enter by August 30, 2020! 

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Regulating the Take and Pre-season Pheasant Scouting Advice

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - August 03, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes
The real intent of states establishing daily bag and possession limits. Why you should explore outside the "best" areas as defined by game commissions. And if you're a non-resident pheasant hunter traveling to the Dakotas, Kansas or Nebraska, why you should be early season prairie grouse hunting. 

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Midwestern Pheasant Hunting

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - July 22, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour
I recount pheasant hunts from Kansas to North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. I've hunted pheasants from 1970 thru today, taking dual limits of pheasants all the way through the 2019 season. All self-made, self-planned hunts on public (and a little bit a private) land. Every dual limit hunt that I ...

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Getting On - How to Gain FREE Access to Private Land Hunting

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - July 02, 2020 16:00 - 59 minutes
If you're not knocking on doors, you're missing out on most of the best upland bird hunting opportunities in the country. As good as public lands are, they don't compare to the acreage and underhunted habitat that you can gain access to for FREE, with just a short conversation! I'll share every...

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Double Limit of Prairie Chickens - 3 in Nebraska & 3 in South Dakota in the Same Day!

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - June 25, 2020 18:00 - 46 minutes
In addition to recounting the day I took a double limit of prairie chickens while hunting dogless in Nebraska and South Dakota, I'll share "how to" advice on hunting these birds with and without a bird dog. If I can shoot six prairie chickens in one day, while hunting virgin private and public l...

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Combination Limit - Pheasants & Prairie Chickens in Nebraska

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - June 09, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour
Ride along with me and 8 mo. old Bo, on her first pheasant hunt. Nebraska public land treated us well as always! I don't know what a guy can say about taking a combination limit of 3-pheasants and 3-prairie chickens over an 8 mo. old Lab pup on her first pheasant hunt. Of course, she benefited f...

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Pheasants - North Dakota - South Dakota - Minnesota

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds - May 16, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour
With my current lab Bo at 7 months old, we take a double limit of pheasants in North Dakota & Minnesota. The next day we take a triple limit of pheasants in North Dakota, South Dakota & Minnesota and finish with a double limit of pheasants in North Dakota and South Dakota on day three!  Spur of...

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