On today's episode of Lone D's Gun Dog Chronicles, we chat with our good friend, Marie Madaras, from Silver Lion Kennels in NH. If you thought Bob's hunting trip out west was interesting, then saddle up for this one.

Marie started her hunting season on the east coast in New Hampshire and then went north to chase grouse in Maine where she was mentoring students and running her dogs. Then she went west to the prairies with a group of women and their dogs and holy smokes, they got on some birds. If you haven't done it, it's always tough to load up and point your truck west in search of birds-- for tons of reasons. It's even more difficult to be successful with it; wellllllll Marie was.

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Tonight we have the absolute pleasure of trading a few stories with our buddy and fantastic hunting & fly fishing guide, Joe Heusinger from Covert Creek Outfitters. If you like hunting with your dog, weathered shotguns and bird hunting stories from the ol' days by some of the outdoor writing greats... then this show is for you. Joe is an extremely hard working hunting guide and travels every day searching for birds, whether its a guiding day or not. He is super knowledgeable about the history of chasing birds in some nostalgic areas to any ruffed grouse hunter and his dogs are second to none. If you'd like to have yourself a real good time chasing birds through rock wall-lined covers you've read about in Field n Stream... then give him a shout here.

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Welcome back for another good show. Tonight, Bob and Kevin sit down to recap Bob's most recent hunting roadtrip out west. Bob traveled from NY to Wisconsin for some grousing around and had the pleasure of hanging with our buddy, Ben, from onX. Then he went and hunted with Nick Larson from the Birdshot Podcast. What a treat to spend time with each of these guys and watch their dogs work some cover. Then Bob went even further west to look for ducks with a group of friends. What a lucky son of a gun, right?

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Today we had the pleasure of hanging out with Will Newell from Project Upland. We kick off the show hearing about how Will got into hunting as a young man and how impactful dogs have been on his life. We transition into some discussion about Project Upland, their projects they're working on and SEWE, which we've spoken about before on Lone Duck. One of the coolest parts of our conversation with Will is when we discuss the trial Bob is helping to judge down in South Carolina called St. Hubert's Field Trial at H. Cooper Black. If you run bird dogs or if you love hunting, then you should check it out!

A big shout out to Will for jumping on our show and sharing a few laughs. Do yourself a favor and follow all the awesome work Project Upland is doing and tell Will we sent ya.

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Today's mini episode is from our chat with good friends Cody and Michael at First Lite. In this show, Michael asks about spaying and neutering dogs and what Bob thinks. It's important to note that this is not a vet's opinion but it's good info to consider if you're looking to do the best for your dog. *Fun fact: this was the first "7 minutes" we did!

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Welcome back for another good ol' time with Uncle Bob. Today's quick hitter is from our friend, Jeff Coats, from Pitboss Waterfowl (check him out on instagram and youtube!). Jeff is a great trainer hunting guide and is asking Bob and Michael Demmer about bugging and getting your dog to have a nice, straight line on water blinds. Listen in for a few good tips.

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On today's show, we chat with our good buddy, Michael Demmer, about training dogs with a purpose: hunting, training or ...... both?

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On today's show, Bob and Kevin sit down over a beer to discuss the 2024 hunting season. You might be thinking "it just started, how have you had two hunting trips already... who has time for this?" Bob somehow does and what a son of a gun. Bob, Nick, Huey and the Setter girls put some miles in looking for grouse up here in NY for a weekend. Bob talks through his weekend hunts, meeting some cool new people, marking new spots on the ol' onX map, training his Setter pup and a whole lot more.

Then we dig into Bob's quick trip for a three day hunt in Canada for ducks and geese and a little bonus hike for upland birds, too. Bob and the group he went with saw so many birds each day it'd be hard to believe if there weren't pictures. This is an awesome episode, enjoy.

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What a treat. Today we had Michael Demmer back on the show AND he was in person. If you haven't heard the first episode with him, please check out episode 181. We get into all sorts of great dog training conversations as we talk through SRS and field trials and raising dogs to be excellent.

We then jump into some good Q&A from patreon friends and discuss the following: raising puppies to be great field trial dogs, building successful dogs, quality training vs quantity, corrections during popping, how dog training evolves, poison birds and KRD drills and when and how Michael prepares for The Grand and what his set ups are like.

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This week, we have the pleasure of chatting with our good friend, Blake Haddock, from Feather Point Retrievers. We kick off the show chatting about Blake's background and how he grew up farming and working with horses and setters. He got his first lab as a little kid when he got real serious about duck hunting. As for most of us, once you get bit by the duck hunting bug, you move quickly onto the part where you need a dog... especially for dog people.

We talk a lot about how Blake got working with pointing labs, how they are unique, how they are similar to Bob's dogs, what kind of training is involved and we answer any question you might have about pointing labs. We also get to hear about Blake's awesome hunting plans for the season and boy, it is gonna be great.

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For this week, we chat with Luke Cour and hear how he calms his nerves before a competition. Pro tip: dogs can feel your nerves so if you can get a routine that calms you, it'll help your dog, too.

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