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Brooke Lanning of Medina, Ohio joins Lauren for a 1:1 conversation about Brooke’s journey into the lifestyle. Brooke enjoys many hobbies including working with horses, hunting upland game with English Pointers, shooting trap, and enjoying what the outdoors have to offer. 

Starting with horses, Brooke’s journey has taken her from a love of barrel racing, herding dogs and upland hunting to currently following two American English Coonhounds into the woods at night alone among huge patches of poison ivy and crazy coyotes. Lauren and Brooke talk about how she handles, trains, and uses her hounds, what she’s learned along the way, and the way outsiders can negatively perceive things and what we can do to help that. They talk about the great ways the lifestyle has changed their course in life.

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Scott Allan of SA Fieldsports Photography joins the Houndsman XP Team for a chat about hunting in jolly old England. Scott is a professional photographer that has travelled around the world photographing outdoor activities but truly loves hunting dogs and lives the houndsman lifestyle to the fullest.

Listeners will enjoy Scott’s stories about lurchers and earth working dogs. Scott explains how the freedoms of European hunters have been diminished. From the outside looking in, Scott explains how important for Houndsmen in the United States to protect the freedoms they have. Scott also talks rodent control.

Check out his amazing photography at safieldsportsphotography.com

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Do you want better hounds? Do you want to catch more game, have more pleasurable experiences, and enhance your total experience in the field with your hounds? Log it with the Stic Bow Outdoors “The Hound Log”!

Bart Hogge, an accomplished Houndsmen and dedicated bear hunter from Virginia, has built a company that produces products that can enhance your skills as a houndsman. Bart joins Chris to talk bear hunting and his re-invention of an age old technique specifically created for Hound doggers of every stripe; The Hound Log.

Bart and Chris give the listener a complete overview of the benefits of using the Stic Bow Outdoors Hound Log in this episode.

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Team HXP has a candid conversation about a variety of topics in this very relaxed episode of Houndsman XP. Topics range from Flintlocks, being a hunting snob, how big game quotas are set, bathing hounds and things that are questionable for the dishwasher.

Listeners should have a good time listening and get a few laughs as Chris, Lauren and Seth break away from the traditional interview style podcast to discuss topics that come up around the tailgate.

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A Houndsman in every sense of the word, Scottie Williams takes the Houndsman XP crew into new territory by hunting coyotes and feral pigs with sighthounds. Scottie explains how he hunts coyotes with his Staghounds in north Texas, what he likes in a good coyote sighthound, and how fast and tricky the ol' wily coyote can be! This episode is exuberant and exciting but also takes time to talk about the important aspects of modern houndsmanship in America and the great rewards of hunting with friends and family.  

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Listeners will ride along on an Idaho bear hunt with Chris and Michael Richie of Steel Creek/ Richie Outfitters. Michael is a third generation and houndsman. His grandfather, Gerald, his dad, Mike, and now Michael are carrying on a family tradition of outfitting hunters from across the world and hound doggin’ in the eastern Idaho mountains. Chris and Michael drill down into the outfitting business, hound training, the future of hunting and so many other topics that houndsmen discuss.

Richie Outfitters and Steel Creek Outfitters are family run outfits with an impeccable reputation in the hunting world and among the outfitting community. Backcountry camps, packed in on horses and mules for elk and mule deer to hound hunts for lion and bear, Michael Richie and his family can satisfy the most adventurous spirit in the most rugged and beautiful places in the world.

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Chris introduces two of his long time friends to the audience in this face to face interview. Steve Slack and Shane Koons join Chris in a conversation about growing up in a small Indiana town and how their passions for all things hunting and fishing developed.

Steve and Shane both are lifelong residents of Ohio County, Indiana. Ohio County is known as the smallest county in the United States. Its northern border, Laughery Creek, is the longest creek in the world and its eastern boarder is the Ohio River. Ohio County’s history dates back to pre Revelation War times and is home to one of two Indiana Revolutionary War battle sites.

Ohio County and its County Seat of Rising Sun is a peaceful town and some describe it as going back in time to a better lifestyle. As kids growing up in Ohio County, Steve and Shane describe how they became obsessed outdoorsmen. The group also discusses the changes that have been seen and what the future holds. Shane and Steve, while not dedicated houndsmen, have owned coonhounds in the past and can add that to their vast experiences living the lifestyle of an outdoorsman.

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Chase Rickard, a United States Marine Corps veteran, coonhunter, Black and Tan enthusiast and family man, joins Chris in a down to earth discussion about coonhunting in North Carolina. This episode takes some twists and turns an covers a wide array of topics. Listeners will hear about some legendary B&T breeders, how to get permission to hunt on private property, how Chase became so passionate about hunting with his Black and Tans but most of all how it changed his life. Chase was headed down a path to a dark future. You will hear how hunting and hounds changed his life.

Chase flips the podcast on its head when he puts Chris on the spot and starts shooting question at him about scent, breeding and drills down into some of the most asked questions and sought answers pertaining to the Houndsman lifestyle.

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This edition of the Houndsman XP Podcast is recorded in action as Chris and Larry Anderson search the Rocky Mountains of Idaho in search of spring black bear. The conversation is typical of a conversation had while driving mountain roads waiting on the epic box shaker, rig strike. You will be along for the ride as Larry does his best to drive the truck off the snowy, slushy mountain. No holds barred and editing for the sensitive ear, because Chris lost his religion in the presence of the possibility of dying or becoming seriously injured in this wreck.

Chainsaws buzzing, winches humming, hounds firing off and great conversation about hunting, breeding dogs, gritty bear dogs and good hunting partners, we cover it all in this episode of the Houndsman XP Podcast.

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In this episode of Houndsman XP Podcast houndsmen and deer hunters sit down together to discuss the elephant in the room. Do coonhunters mess up deer hunters or do deer hunting or do deer deer hunters mess up coonhunting?

Chris sits down with Dan Johnson, the owner and producer of Sportsmen’s Nation, the mother ship of the Houndsman XP podcast. Dan hosts his own podcast, Nine Finger Chronicles. Dan speaks to deer hunters every week and has finger on the pulse of all things deer hunting. Join us as we have civil discussion about how to reduce conflicts between user groups, dispel some myths and most importantly bring gaps between deer hunters and houndsmen.

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