Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game Hunting

The boys are baking their bones by the stove again in this episode that covers everything from cross-bred bulldogs to the UKC Tournament of Champions. 

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.  But the combined efforts of Ma Bell and Al Gore provide the opportunity to keep Gone To The Dogs on schedule while on the long and winding road. 

The boys discuss the format, breed breakdowns and the ambiance that makes the TOC the premier coonhound event that it is, an event that boasts a purse of $250,000 distributed among winners at the finals held on the weekend following the airing of this episode.  The overall winner captures $50 grand!  Who would have thunk it?

Things get interesting, even humorous, when the boys throw another chunk in the stove to discuss recent posts on the Coon Hunting Conversations Facebook group page.  Moving stud dogs around the country, deep-and-lonely dogs being born that way or manmade and what is seemingly causing smaller heads in some coonhounds.  It’s all here and as the cliched phrase admonishes, “You won’t want to miss this one.”  Heck, we don’t want you to miss any of them.   Give that log a little more air, son.

On this bonus episode of The Western Rookie Podcast, Brian covers a few upcoming applications in North Dakota, Wyoming, and Kansas for anyone looking to add a couple deer hunts to their calendar this fall or swing for the fences on a Moose, Sheep, or Goat tag! Don’t forget the deadline to get $100 in gear shop credit at GoHunt when you sign up for Insider is April 7th! Use the code WESTERN when you sign up!

Application Deadline:

State and Species: North Dakota NR Archery Deer

Deadline: Apr 15th - May 15th

Draw System: Lottery

Party App Notes: Groups of 5

Leftover Tags: No Leftover tags

Cost: $250 Bucks

State and Species: Wyoming MSGB

Deadline: April 30th  

Draw System:

            Mountain Goat & Bison: Random Lottery

            Moose & Bighorn: Modified Preference Point 75% PP, 25% Random

                        Very few units have enough NR tags to have a random tag.

Party App Notes: None

Leftover Tags: None

NR Costs:

            Bighorn: $3002

            Moose: $2752

            Mountain Goat: $2752

            Any Bison: $6002

State and Species: Kansas NR Deer

Deadline: April 26th

Draw System: NR Deer: Two Phases, whitetail tag first (True Preference), then Mule Deer Stamp for certain areas for Archery & Muzzleloader Hunters

Party App Notes: Groups of 5 – Lowest Point

NR Cost: Whitetail $442.50 Mule Deer Stamp: $152.50

Connect with Brian Krebs
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Have Questions or Comments? Send an email to [email protected]!

Sponsors and Discounts:

GOHUNT Insider - $50 Gear Shop Credit with code WESTERN
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GOHUNT Gear Shop – 10% off most items with code WESTERN
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GOHUNT Explorer Mapping Only - $20 Gear Shop Credit with code WESTERN
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Save $150 on Steelhead Outdoors Gun Safes with code WESTERNROOKIE
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Save10% on Maverick Hunting Blinds & Accessories with code WESTERNROOKIE

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Save 10% on Ollin Digiscoping Adapters with code TWOBUCKS

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Save 20% on your first order at Bull Elk Beard Oil with code TWOBUCKS

The DU Crew made the annual pilgrimage to the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association banquet and had a chance to catch up with Sara Meinert and her husband Chris to talk a little bit about The American Plott Association (APA) to talk about their recent Breed Days event.  Double U always enjoys seeing the APA crew and continuing our longstanding “Shirt war”.  We talk about all the events they host including the bear bay, sprint race, nite hunt, water race and more.  

Like what you hear? leave us a review and check us out at www.dusupply.com

Chuck Rossi with Open Source Defense sits down with us at SHOT show to talk all about hunting and firearms on Facebook and Twitter. With Chuck's previous behind-the-scenes experience at Facebook, he knows the truth about shadow bans, limiting accounts and many more Meta secrets.

On this show with GunBroker.com:

- Social Media & Firearms
- The Truth About Firearms Shadow Bans
- Is There Really a Shadow Ban Button?
- How Social Media Shutsdown Firearm Related Advertising
- The Impacts of AI in Catching Firearm Related Content
- The Best Way to Keep Up To Date on Social Media

The show launches every Tuesday & Thursday morning. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcast.

Have ever thought about the moon and whether or not it impacts your encounters or ability to fill tags? Some prolific hunters swear by it, and others focus on other environmental factors. In this episode, Jacob examines the concept of the moon being "overhead" and "underfoot" and looking at the dates and times when that specific path of the moon intersects within an hour of sunrise or sunset. These are identified as "Hunting Moon" dates and could be something to take note of for this upcoming season. 

Todd Jarrett, competitive shooter for Staccato and Federal Premium sits down with us at SHOT show to talk about competitive shooting, its history, and the evolution to what it is today.

On today's show with GunBroker.com:
- Todd's Start in Competitive Shooting
- The History and Evolution of Competitive Shooting
- The Differences Between the 1911 & 2011 Pistol
- Staccato's History and The World's Best Handgun
- Tips on Learning to be a Better Shot

The show launches every Tuesday & Thursday morning. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

On this episode of the Hunting Gear Deals Series on The Hunting Gear Podcast, Camron talks with Brett Rouselle from Goat Gear to discuss the start of a brand new hunting clothing brand. Brett talks about his inspiration for Goat Gear and the struggles that he's endured to bring his products to market.  

Brett talks us through the process of designing hunting clothing and the networking process of putting all of the pieces in place to get started. One unique facet of the start of Goat Gear is teh input that the hunting community has had in helping him design each garment. The podcast was recorded the same day that the Goat Gear website went live and orders are already flowing in.  

On this episode of GOHUNT’s  Western Rookie Podcast, Brian talks with Tom LaLond from XOP gear on travelling west for whitetails and creating deer camps!

Tom is part of the marketing and branding team for XOP gear and one of the guys that puts together the teamp deer camps and content hunts for XOP. Brian and Tom talk about western whitetail hunting, using saddles in the west for elk, and creating deer camps! Click the links below to check out more from Tom and XOP Gear!

https://www.instagram.com/tom_lalond/

https://www.instagram.com/xopgear/

Connect with Brian Krebs
https://linktr.ee/thewesternrookie

Have Questions or Comments? Send an email to [email protected]!

Sponsors and Discounts:

GOHUNT Insider - $50 Gear Shop Credit with code WESTERN
https://alnk.to/g3aa8L4

GOHUNT Gear Shop – 10% off most items with code WESTERN
https://alnk.to/e75Pm4u

GOHUNT Explorer Mapping Only - $20 Gear Shop Credit with code WESTERN
https://alnk.to/4BEUo3x

Save $150 on Steelhead Outdoors Gun Safes with code WESTERNROOKIE
https://tr.ee/fbNvbFXX6Q

Save10% on Maverick Hunting Blinds & Accessories with code WESTERNROOKIE
https://tr.ee/vWHcxHKo4u

Save 10% on Ollin Digiscoping Adapters with code TWOBUCKS
https://tr.ee/ZE1XcQ-fbb

Save 20% on your first order at Bull Elk Beard Oil with code TWOBUCKS
https://tr.ee/X4mp2wWCRK

In this episode co-hosts Steve Fielder and Corey Gruver are joined by coon hunter, trainer and handler Mark Miller of Taylorsville, North Carolina.   Miller recently completed the Holy Grail of coon hunting, the United Kennel Club Grand Nite Champion title with a Plott dog co-owned by Steve and himself, Bear Pen 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 in terms of exactly what’s involved in achieving the Grand Nite Champion and other UKC titles.  Fever currently holds titles in Field Trials, Water Races, Nite Hunting, Hunt Tests and Bench Showing in UKC as well as Nite Hunting in Professional Kennel Club events.   The expense, the determination, the challenges and the setbacks are all fair game.  Of particular interest to listeners will be the reasons a confirmed, highly successful Treeing Walker fancier would embark on the arduous journey with a Plott of all available breeds.  Steve wades the murky waters of why Plott hunters may be more prone to breed to dogs in their own backyards.   You expect dog talk at its finest on the Gone To The Dogs Podcast and there’s plenty to enjoy in this episode.  

This past summer Bear and his hounds avoided a natural disaster by the skin of their teeth. Hear about it and what Bear has in his hound-bug-out bag and his plan for getting the hounds out safe and sound. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.