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Hunter Nation is taking the fight to the anti hunting / animal radicals. With a lineup of heavy hitters on board at Hunter Nation, they are proving they are willing to do what it takes to fight for hunters rights and freedoms on every level.

Hunter Nation CEO Luke Hilgemann sits down with Chris and Lauren at the WBHA annual convention for a discussion about the all out warfare to defend hunting. This is a great episode and a must listen for every Houndsman. 

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Having the knowledge to treat traumatic wounds in the field could very well be the difference between life and death for your hound. This can be a rough lifestyle and hounds are tough but they do get injured, just like in any action sport.

Sheridan Myer of Colorado lives the Houndsman lifestyle and brings her 20 years of experience in the field of veterinarian medicine to this podcast to give some valuable information for Houndsmen. Traumatic wounds, treating for shock, heat casualties, gun shots; it’s all in this episode. 

Every sporting dog enthusiast needs to listen to this important podcast.

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The HXP Team gets together for a great conversation about Lauren’s desert dwelling and coonhunting experiences. Listeners will get Seth’s perspective of hunting raccoons barefooted in the land of cactus needles and mesquite brush.

As always when the HXP Team gets together it is a wild conversation. What would it be like to put a Garmin on a legendary hound? What is it like living in an eleven foot camper with 4 hounds? How do hounds from Wisconsin preform in the deserts of the southwest? So many questions and so many crazy answers.

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In this episode of the Houndsman XP Podcast listeners ride along with Shorty Gorham and Chris in the early morning hours in south Texas in pursuit of bobcats. This is a fun episode filled with laughter. Chris and Shorty talk about the future of the Houndsman lifestyle, wildlife management, hound training, and maturing as a houndsman.

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Are you looking for a conversation from a great hunter and impactful breeder of performance hounds? Are you trying to hone your skills and increase your knowledge about breeding hounds? This episode is for you! 

Chris travels to southern Louisiana to hog hunt with good friend, legendary hunter and breeder Mike Cauley and his Bayou Cajun Plotts. This hunt was really a homecoming. Not for Chris, but for two plotts that were born in the Bayou Cajun Plott Kennel owned and operated for 39 years by Mike Cauley. Lotsagrit Bayou Cajun Bull and Diablo went home to run hogs with Mike and crew in their ancestral homeland. And the crew stacked them up. 

From breeding plotts to hog and bear hunting to bare foot skiing on the Tchefuncte River, Mike has lived a life of Xtreme Performance. Mike represents the ideal Houndsman. He is soft spoken, humble, yet humorous, dedicated and an expert on breeding and catching dangerous game with his plotts. Chris and Mike have a great conversation about hunting but really drill down on breeding Xtreme Performance hounds. Recorded after two hard going days of hog hunting, Chris and Mike fight off sleep to bring you this impactful episode.

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Big Show Game Calls owner and head coonhunter Josh Michaelis joins the podcast for an awesome discussion. Josh is a coonhound competition hunter that doubles down on his passion with custom game calls, particularly coon squallers. He also produces a Youtube Channel for Big Show Productions, featuring “The Show to Be Named Later”. Josh has interviewed the most recognizable and successful competition coonhound handlers in the game.

Josh and Chris go in depth about bridging the gap in the hunting world for the future of the Xtreme Performance Houndsmen. Josh lays out the recipe to success for interacting with hunters of other genres and how to gain and maintain access to private property to run his hounds on.

Josh, being a professional call maker, gives listeners a step by step instructional talk about how to properly blow a coon squaller for optimal success. He wraps up the session with a live demonstration of professional coon squalling.

Listeners will be entertained, while gaining valuable insight on hunting group interaction and successful hound handling skills.

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Chris Mason is an icon in the Saluki community who’s stellar hunting dogs are known far and wide for being some of the best. Chris has been hunting sighthounds for hares for more than 40 years and is still going strong hunting her hounds more than most people dream they can!

Chris and Seth sit down after a long and fantastic day’s coursing to hear the story of Chris’s interesting life with hounds, philosophies on hunting and training them, and how her opinions and techniques have evolved with time and knowledge gained. This is an episode that has a huge number of takeaways for sighthound hunters and those folks who just love to hear about hunting with the fastest canines in the world.

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Mark Booth had a vision to create a magazine that showcased the heritage of the southern houndsman. Southern Hound Hunting Magazine is a quarterly magazine that captures the rich tradition of hunting in the southern United States. 

Chris and Mark have and depth discussion about hunting deer with hounds. This often overlooked tradition of southern lifestyle is captured in this fun episode of the Houndsman XP Podcast. Listeners will get a peek into the dark swamps and southern wooded plains as they listen to Mark talk about hunting with his hounds. 

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Becky Dwire with the Nevada Sporting Dog Alliance makes her second appearance on the  podcast, representing the Nevada Sporting Dog Alliance. Becky is a houndsman of Xtreme  Performance in every sense of the word. She and her husband, Cleave, own a professional  outfitting business, Bull Creek Outfitters. Becky is an accomplished professional dog trainer.  

She also dedicates a substantial amount of her time to Preserve, Protect and Promote hunting  with hounds. 

Becky and Chris have a fun and lively conversation about mules, horses and the pleasure and  pain they bring. The heart of the conversation is about bear hunting in Nevada and the attack it  is under. Emotionally charged animal rights groups are attacking the use of hounds as a legal  pursuit method for black bears. Chris and Becky discuss this and anthropomorphism of dogs  and bears in this episode.

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Joe Kondelis, founder and CEO of the Western Bear Foundation, makes his second  appearance on the Houndsman XP Podcast. Chris and Joe discuss the work that continues to  preserve bear hunting. Bear baiting is under attack in Idaho and Joe and Chris have an in  depth discussion on how it effects Houndsmen and bear hunting with hounds. 

The Western Bear Foundation is a non profit organization that is committed to black bear  research and habitat improvement for the conservation of black bears in a way that promotes  hunting as the number one management tool in black bear conservation. 

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