On The Wing Podcast

By On The Wing Podcast by Pheasants Forever and Quail ForeverSports Science Wilderness Nature

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On The Wing Podcast episodes

November 16, 2020 PODCAST EP. 95: For the Love of Quail
Host Bob St. Pierre and Quail Forever Journal Editor Chad Love are joined by the organization’s Education & Outreach Program Manager Marissa Jensen for a conversation focused on the trio’s love of quail, upland hunting, covey rises, and the places quail live.
Episode Highlights:
• Marissa and Chad share their early season hunting adventures with young bird dogs in pursuit of prairie grouse in Nebraska’s Sandhills and sage grouse in Wyoming.
• Chad talks about bird hunting only with women so far this season and how that resulted in a story about “independent female badass hunters” in the Winter edition of the Quail Forever Journal.
• Responsible for the organization’s state-by-state quail hunting forecast, Chad gives his prospectus for the 2020 & 2021 quail hunting season ahead, and talks about the QF Journal stories he’s chasing this season.
1 hr 15 min
October 19, 2020 PODCAST EP. 94: 11 Mistakes Pheasant Hunters Make
Host Bob St. Pierre and Pheasants Forever Journal Editor Tom (Carp) Carpenter explore common mistakes pheasant hunters make and the remedies that will put more “roostery sags in your gamebag with long tailfeathers streaming out the side” this season.
Episode Highlights:
• Drawing on Carp’s feature in the Fall Issue, Bob St. Pierre and the author explore 11 mistakes, missteps, and misconceptions that can leave a pheasant hunter’s gamebag empty.
• The duo breaks down early season, mid-season, and late season tactics.
• The author brings the host around to some of the advantages of midday hunting.
• Did you know that “toodling” and “scouring” are good pheasant hunting strategies?
• Why pheasant hunting should be more like big game hunting than a casual hike.
• Sometimes no plan (other than trust your dog) can be the best plan of all.
1 hr 8 min
October 17, 2020 PODCAST EP. 93: Rooster Road Trip Day 5 Recap with the Traveling Crew
Host Bob St. Pierre and Rooster Road Trip co-host Andrew Vavra are joined by Pheasants Forever Graphic Design Manager Logan Hinners and Video Production Specialist Aaron Black-Schmidt to break down the final day of the 2020 event. The crew also deliver their own highlights and lowlights of the adventure while providing a behind-the-scenes view of the process leading to the creation of the daily written, video, photo, and audio content.
Episode Highlights:
• Black-Schmidt talks about how his filming and editing process evolved through the course of the trip to deliver compelling videos recapping each day’s events.
• Vavra and Hinners discuss how much they learned about habitat in the last week during hunts with Pheasants Forever biologists Megan Howell, Matt Christensen, Tanner Bruse, Becca Kludt, and Sabin Adams.
• And Bob finds his shooting eye on the final walk.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
1 hr 6 min
October 16, 2020 PODCAST EP. 92: Rooster Road Trip Day 4 Recap with a Biologist and a Musician
Host Bob St. Pierre and Rooster Road Trip co-host Andrew Vavra are joined by Pheasants Forever Habitat Restoration Specialist Becca Kludt and lead singer of Trampled by Turtles, Dave Simonett, to recap a beautiful day in west central Minnesota. The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the impact of changing climate on upland birds to exploring birdy cover before a concert.
Episode Highlights:
• In addition to bagging the day’s first rooster, Kludt is a wealth of knowledge on public lands habitat restoration for pheasants, prairie chickens, and sharp-tailed grouse.
• Simonett explains how bird hunting has deepened his connection with nature. He also shared an inspiringly fun story of transforming his rescued mixed breed pup, “Hrbek,” into a bird dog.
• As is the Rooster Road Trip tradition, Andrew delivers today’s Instagram questions for an entertaining lighting round.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
1 hr 20 min
October 15, 2020 PODCAST EP. 91: Rooster Road Trip Day 3 Recap with PF Volunteer Jeff Davis
Host Bob St. Pierre and Rooster Road Trip co-host Andrew Vavra are joined by Pheasants Forever biologist Tanner Bruse and PF chapter volunteer Jeff Davis to recap a very windy day afield. The crew spent the day primarily on federal Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) in southwest Minnesota’s “Buffalo Ridge” region where the wind on an average day is 17mph. Today’s sustained winds easily doubled that speed making for fast-flying and hard-to-hit roosters.
Episode Highlights:
• Davis, who works in the agriculture industry and volunteers as the chapter president in Lincoln County, estimates that more than 90% of the soybean crop has been harvested and likely 80% of the corn will be out by this Saturday for the second weekend of Minnesota’s pheasant hunting season.
• Bruse and Davis talk about the connection between the farming and hunting cultures that exists across rural southwest Minnesota.
• The crew also talks about the etiquette of going back to a public hunting spot that a friend has shared during a previous day’s hunt.
• As is the Rooster Road Trip tradition, Andrew delivers today’s Instagram questions for a lighting round.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
1 hr 4 min
October 14, 2020 PODCAST EP. 90: Rooster Road Trip Day 2 Recap with PF Biologist Megan Howell
Host Bob St. Pierre is joined by Pheasants Forever’s Director of Marketing Andrew Vavra and Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist Megan Howell to recap Day 2 of the Rooster Road Trip featuring a golden hour filled with hits, misses, and . . . Bob’s water retrieve. Throughout the episode, Howell explains how her love of bird hunting lead her to become a biologist.
Episode Highlights:
• Howell talks about her bird dog, “Biscuit,” who is a Braque du Bourbonnais, and Andrew chimes in with his previously unspoken affection for rare the breed.
• The lively and fun conversation covers a lot of ground from morel mushrooms and Bloody Mary asparagus to identifying birdy habitat from the road and strategies for pheasant hunting on very windy days.
• As is the Rooster Road Trip tradition, Andrew delivers today’s Instagram questions for a lighting round.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
1 hr 12 min
October 13, 2020 PODCAST EP. 89: Rooster Road Trip Day 1 Recap with PF Legend Joe Duggan
Host Bob St. Pierre is joined by Pheasants Forever’s Director of Marketing Andrew Vavra and conservation legend Joe Duggan to recap the first day of this year’s Rooster Road Trip spent hunting the Minnesota public wildlife area named in honor of Duggan.
Episode Highlights:
• A Sunday night thunderstorm added much-needed moisture to Monday morning’s landscape, which helped the team’s dogs get this year’s Rooster Road Trip off to a birdy start.
• Duggan reminisces about his career in conservation and explains how someone garners the recognition of having both a state Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and a federal Waterfowl Production Area (WPA) named in his honor.
• In what has become a Rooster Road Trip tradition, the crew answers questions from Pheasants Forever’s Instagram audience to round out the episode.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
1 hr 15 min
October 09, 2020 PODCAST EP. 88: BONUS Episode - 2020 Rooster Road Trip Preview
Host Bob St. Pierre is joined by fellow Pheasants Forever co-workers, Andrew Vavra and Logan Hinners, as the trio previews this year’s Rooster Road Trip. The year 2020 has brought change throughout our entire country, and the Rooster Road Trip is not immune to these adjustments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the crew discusses staying close to home and focusing on the state where the organization was founded in 1982: Minnesota.
Episode Highlights:
• The Road Trippers start the conversation with a recap of their early season prairie grouse, ruffed grouse, woodcock, and whitetail bow hunting adventures with reports from public lands trips to North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
• Andrew explains this year’s #ResponsibleRecreation theme, then shares his excitement for the forecasted mild weather and bumper crop of pheasants.
• Logan reasserts the “F-8 and Be There” motto of the digital event, while Bob talks about his hopes for a young bird dog set to experience her first pheasant hunt.
Follow along all this week at www.RoosterRoadTrip.org
51 min
October 06, 2020 PODCAST EP. 87: Ruben Mata on Volunteering and Starring in a new Project Upland Film
Host Bob St. Pierre and Quail Forever Journal Editor Chad Love head west to chat with Ruben Mata, vice president of the Ventura California Chapter of Quail Forever. Mata and his son are featured in the new Project Upland film “This Exists” about valley quail hunting and passing on hunting traditions.
Episode Highlights:
• Ruben’s connection to Quail Forever began with a completely random 5a.m. meeting with QF chapter volunteers and an impromptu valley quail hunt together. After that serendipitous day and the conversations had along the way, Ruben researched Quail Forever and quickly became a chapter volunteer.
• Ruben talks about the popularity of hunting within southern California’s Latino community and provides advice for how Quail Forever “can make more Ruben’s.”
• The trio also talk about the mythical 100-bird valley quail covey flush. Ruben says you can feel the “rumble” of that flush!
Check out Ruben in Project Upland’s film “This Exists – A California Quail Hunting Video”
47 min
October 01, 2020 PODCAST EP. 86: Pro Photographer Erik Petersen on the Making of a Pheasant Hunter
In this episode, host Bob St. Pierre is joined by Logan Hinners, PF & QF’s graphic design manager, and professional photographer Erik Petersen. The trio begin the discussion focused on taking better bird hunting photos. The conversation transitions to Erik’s very personal journey of raising two boys – one biological son and one adopted son from Ethiopia – as bird hunters in Montana.
Episode Highlights:
• Erik shares tips on how to improve bird hunter’s Instagram feeds and maybe even take a photo worthy of framing. The trio discuss the importance of moving past the tailgate shot and the grip & grin pose.
• The group unveil the backstory of a photo Erik sent to Logan and how it launched Erik’s effort to improve inclusivity through his work photographing and filming the uplands.
• Erik also provides a teaser for the film he’s partnering with Pheasants Forever on this hunting season called “A Long Way Home” which will premiere at the 2021 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic.
Read Erik Petersen’s story from the Fall issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal titled “To Make a Pheasant Hunter.” www.pheasantsforever.org/tomakeahunter
1 hr 10 min