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Great Escape with Heath Hyatt Feb 26, 2025

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Preventing the Great Escape. Training has been stalled with sports obligations and weather. A day trip to the Western Va Sportsman Show and a story about Dec 5th 2003.

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Gone To The Dogs With Al Metcalf Feb 24, 2025

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Steve lands the interview with one of his most-highly sought-after guests in this episode. Al Metcalf of Barnesville, Georgia is a tree dog enthusiast like no other. His transformation from a 32-year veteran of the Georgia Highway Patrol to what can only be described as the renaissance man of tree dog enthusiasts, Medcalf is a throwback to a time when men hunted for food and the tree dog was essential to their survival. Medcalf’s mantra “If it climbs, it’s not trash” and his waste-not-want-not attitude toward tree game reveal the soul of a real hunter and woodsman, the kind rarely seen today. Medcalf hunts a mixed bag of Plotts, Mountain Curs and Plott/Cur crosses, with little concern for popular breeds or bloodlines and proves, when the record button turns red, to be a storyteller par excellence. You’re going to love this episode.

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Cats, Bears & Cross Training Hounds with Heath Hyatt Feb 20, 2025

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Have you run your bear hounds on bobcats? Heath talks with Ross Ellwanger from Wisconsin about the pros and cons of such. Ross uses the same dogs on both. They talk about how setting up the context in which each hunt starts helps the dog understand which game they are pursuing. Catch the best on What’s up Wednesday.

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Gone To The Dogs At The Races Feb 17, 2025

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This episode finds its roots in a text message in which a listener asks Steve if he’s going to do a podcast on Field Trials and Water races. Steve’s immediate response is, “I’m going to now.”

Nate Hickson is a brand shiny new tree dog enthusiast, but not at all new to training dogs. In fact dog training is his vocation, it’s just that his is not the type of training we normally associate with trail and tree dogs.

Nate had lots of questions for the old timer and Steve doesn’t hold back. The origin of field trails as the precourser to Nite Hunts is a good place to begin the conversations and things sort of accelerate from there. Citing the UKC’s centenial publication The First 100 Years as a reference source, Steve, who authoring many of the articles in the book, takes Nate, and the listener on a fact-filled journey back to the 1930s in this interesting look at the genesis of hound games and ends by asking the question, will the Field Trails and Water Races be the game of the future. It’s an interesting question framed in a lot of interesting accounts and rememberances. Enjoy.

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$5,000 Give-A-Way and Shipping Jason Down River Feb 14, 2025

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In todays podcast Heath Hyatt joins Buddy and Jason to talk about ongoing give a ways, talk some hunting and Buddy’s dream of giving a truck away. Jason has some big news of his own and announces a new adventure for him and his family.

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Fishing Lies and a Shopping Surprise Feb 12, 2025

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With a busy week and even busier weekend. We hear about a trip to Santee Cooper for cat fishing and a quick and easy way to work lead breaking multiple dogs at one time.

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Gone To The Dogs with Lucas and Kayleigh Clemmons Feb 10, 2025

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When Steve and his partner in coonhounds Mark Miller made the decision to offer their young Quadruple Grand Champion Bear Pen Fever at stud, a young couple from southeastern North Carolina were the first to book a breeding. Lucas and Kayleigh Clemmons, both in their 20s decided to take a chance on the unproven stud dog after losing the hound that had intended to use. The bitch the Clemmons duo wanted to breed was a two-year old Plott female they named Lean Mean Jolene

In this episode Steve talks with the Clemmons’ about the decision, the surprise the litter of twelve provided them and the decision to raise the entire litter in their home. This is a great conversation for hunters wishing to get their spouses involved in their sport and addresses the advantages to be had and the pitfalls to be avoided. Lady listeners will particularly enjoy Kayleigh’s perspective on hounds and hunting from a woman’s point of view.

With so many young hunters entering the hound sports today, this episode provides the answer to the age old question, is coon hunting strictly a man’s game.

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Bringing A New Pup Into The Mix Feb 07, 2025

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If you have been in dogs any time at all you know that it is a constant struggle to keep the next generation on the rise. Buddy and James give a little insight into what they are looking for from a young dog and how they expect it to behave.

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A Lasting Impact with Heath Hyatt Feb 07, 2025

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Throughout our journey in life there is always someone who stands out. In the dog world, those small things leave a lasting impression. Heath tells about meeting a person that left one of those impressions on him. Harris Dunlap of Bakers Mills, Ny gave Heath advice over 20 years ago that still sticks with him. He also talks about the Lester Harvey incident and how we can learn from that. Join us on What’s up Wednesday.

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Gone To The Dogs with Good Ole Boys Feb 04, 2025

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The theme for the popular Dukes of Hazard tv show features the following line:
“Straight'nin' the curves, flat’nin the hills. Someday the mountain might get ‘em, but the law never will.”

This episode features two “good ole boys” in the persons of host Steve Fielder and his Kentucky-born guest Jerry Barker. Like the Bo and Luke Duke theme suggests, the boys “make their way” through a pile of coon hunting topics that should resonate with anyone comfortable enough to wear the good ole boy label themselves.
This one comes through as tasty as country ham bathed in red eye gravy with grits on the side. It’s a down-home kind of “thang” that anyone identifying with the “good ole boy” label will enjoy. “Just a good ol' boys, wouldn’t change if they could, fightin’ the system like modern day Robin Hoods.” Good ole boys.

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