Gone to the Dogs Podcast

Gone to the Dogs Podcast episodes:

• 06.24.2024

  Gone To The Dogs with Youth Promoter Caden Riley

  Desiring to do something to stimulate activity and participation in coon hunting among Georgia’s youth, Riley approached Professional Kennel Club’s National Youth Director Chris Freiberger for ideas.  The result is the Peach State Shootout series of qualifying events held throughout...

  
• 06.17.2024

  Gone To The Dogs with the Redbone Man

  In this episode Steve picked up the phone on the chance that he talk with his longtime friend and was lucky enough to catch Moran before he headed to the woods.   The conversation that ensued was vintage Moran with stories...

  
• 06.10.2024

  Gone To The Dogs, Tree Dogs Part 2

  In this, the second episode about tree dogs, the boys are dealing with problems that occur at the tree.  Everything from tree jacking to chewing to guarding the tree are discussed in detail.  In their years of experience with tree...

  
• 06.03.2024

  Gone To The Dogs, Tree Dogs That Is

    “A brace of cane-backed rocking chairs invited the pair with oaken arms and soon the rough-sawn wood floor was creaking with the ebb and flow of their rocking.”  Taken from “Too Old To Quit,” an essay from his Gone...

  
• 05.27.2024

  Gone To The Dogs – Steve and Corey Talk Stud Dogs

  While he was gone, Corey joined the fund-raising ranks with his involvement in a charity called Wags for Kids.  His plan involves raising money for deserving kids needing therapy dogs and such and it produced the idea of a coonhound...

  
• 05.20.2024

  JR Gray Has Gone To The Dogs

    J.R. Gray, at 27 years of age, has compiled quite a coon hunting resume with his hounds.  Prior to winning two world championships, Willy made the All- Grand Top 16 at Autumn Oaks and was named the UKC Male...

  
• 05.13.2024

  Gone To The Dogs with Outstanding Youth with Troy Smith

  When your dad’s the most successful Treeing Walker breeder in recent history with major money wins, World Championships and Hall of Fame inductions at every turn, it would appear that sharing the big stage, the limelight if you will, would...

  
• 05.06.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS at the JOHN STURGILL TRIBUTE HUNT

  Recently, Jamie Estep, who joins Sturgill and Bolen in this episode, designated the annual National Plott Hound Association’s West Virginia Plott Sectional the John Sturgill Tribute Hunt and Show.  Sturgill was honored throughout the recent three days of hunts, shows...

  
• 04.29.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS IN A FLORIDA SWAMP

  Florida coon hunter Mack Britt of Parrish, Florida, an unincorporated community in Manatee County near Sarasota on the west coast, began coon hunting with his dad as a boy.  He was bitten by the hound dog bug at an early...

  
• 04.22.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS – Why Walker Dogs Win

  This episode will be Corey’s last for awhile as he and his wife Kayla welcome their second child, another girl, into the Gruver household.  It could happen at any time. It’s an exciting time for sure and one that will...

  
• 04.15.2024

  Gone To The Dogs – Hot Stove Vol. 5 with Steve and Corey

  The boys have closed the damper, swept out the firebox and moved operations to the front porch for remainer of the spring and summer.  Spring peepers and hoot owls will provide ambient sound as the rockers get a workout on...

  
• 04.08.2024

  Gone To The Dogs- Hot Stove Vol. 4

  Steve is on the road for a couple of weeks to New Jersey for family time and some fly fishing.  The only dogs he’ll see is the daughter’s hound/pit bull mix and the family Dachshund Louie who accompanies Ella everywhere. ...

  
• 04.05.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS – PLOTT HOUND FEVER

  The trio drill down into Fever’s success story discussing the young hound’s progression from a five-month-old puppy to reaching the pinnacle in competition hunting at less than two and one-half years old.   Corey leads the interview leaving few stones unturned...

  
• 03.25.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS - HOT STOVE VOL. 3 (BLACK AND TANS)

  The bill comes under the umbrella of anti-trespass legislation and provides exorbitant penalties for hunting dogs and their owners that find themselves afoul of the provisions of the bill, whether advertently or not.   The boys hash out the bill and...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Gone To The Dogs Hot Stove Vol. 2 With Steve And Corey

  This is an interesting and informative look at the nation’s first and longest-standing “hunt-for-monetary-awards” organization. Many competition hunters begin their journeys in United Kennel Club events and may find the prospect of hunting for cash awards to be daunting if...

  
• 03.11.2024

  Ep 373: Gone To The Dogs Hot Stove with Steve and Corey

  In this episode, Steve announces the addition of Corey Gruver as an ongoing contributor to the weekly podcast. This week’s “Hot Stove”discussion covers several bases, all of which should interest coon hunting enthusiasts. Each of the boys served as interpreters...

  
• 03.04.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS with A WINNING PAIR

  Smith and Strickland are profits of the Davis Doctrine every time they release their immitigable Lone Pine Lady female into the deep dark woods of a major coonhound competition hunt and they are fulfilling Davis’ commission on an incredibly frequent...

  
• 02.26.2024

  EP 123: Gone To The Dogs with Cory Gruver

  Corey assumes the host role for a bit to quiz Steve on his recent trip to the UKC Winter Classic, a coonhound event that ranks high on each of their lists of favorite events to attend.  Corey is particularly interested...

  
• 02.19.2024

  EP 120: GONE TO THE DOGS AT THE UKC WINTER CLASSIC

  Steve and his buddy Nubbin Moore made the trip to Batesville, Mississippi for the 36th running of the prestigious event in early February.  This episode contains a collection of on-the-spot interviews with several of the events’ attendees that stopped by...

  
• 02.12.2024

  Gone To The Dogs On The Yadkin River

  In this episode Steve has a belated visit with Jim Meeks and Tom Gilroy which normally occurs at the annual Grand American Coon Hunt in Orangeburg..Jim is the founder and longtime curator of the Yadkin River strain of Treeing Walker...

  
• 02.05.2024

  Gone To The Dogs-Hunters Under Attack!

  It’s said that within every man there’s a ticking time bomb.  It manifests itself in a physical phenomenon we know as the dreaded heart attack.  In Steve’s years of experience, he’s known several hunters that experienced an attack that ended...

  
• 01.29.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS – TRIBUTE TO WIMP ARON

  Steve wrote an article about Wimp Aron that was published about five years ago in American Cooner magazine.  That article becomes the foundation upon which this episode is built and explores in detail the descriptions of Mr. Aron’s continuous line...

  
• 01.22.2024

  Gone To The Dogs – Tribute to Bill Wickham

  Special guest Mike Sheppard and Heath Hyatt join in the conversation that includes several stories of their own experiences with Wickham.   Steve takes the opportunity to share Sheppard’s interesting story of his life as a coon and deer hunter, hunting...

  
• 01.15.2024

  Gone To The Dogs With Mark Hauck

  In this episode, recorded at the 60th Annual Grand American Coon Hunt in Orangeburg, SC, Steve invites the newly-formed All American Bluetick Association’s Secretary/Treasurer Mark Hauck to the Gone To The Dogs Podcast mike for an interesting and provocative discussion...

  
• 01.01.2024

  GONE TO THE DOGS WITH JAMES OLIVER LAWS – PART 3

  Laws talks of dogs that were white with brindle spots, he talks of the most famous of the Plott family hunters, Von Plott, keeping Airedales and he speaks of a hunter that was afraid of bears.  In this episode Laws...

  
• 12.26.2023

  Gone To The Dogs with James Oliver Laws Part 2

  In this episode we resume the interview with James Oliver Laws. It was said of Mr. Laws father, Uncle Jimmy Laws, that he would know the day before the hunt where a bear would move that night. He served as...

  
• 12.18.2023

  Gone To The Dogs with James Oliver Laws

  James Oliver Laws provides many alternatives to the heretofore accepted accounts of the development of the Plott Hound in North Carolina.  Recorded with rudimentary equipment on the front porch of James Law’s home by Stewart Biesecker at Steve’s request, the...

  
• 09.27.2021

  Double U Has Gone to the Dogs

  In this inaugural episode of Gone To The Dogs, Buddy and Jason interview the show’s host, Steve Fielder.Fielder is revealed to be the sole owner and host of the show with DU Supply providing the platform on which the podcast...