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Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: Shot While HuntingIn this episode Steve and Fred Moran cover a number of topics, the chief of which is Fred’s account of being shot while on a hunting trip in Wyoming. Steve supports Fred’s story with an account of a well-known raccoon hunter that experienced the same fate. Several stories from experiences in the not-so-tame West ensue, including Fred’s tale of a horse and rider wreck of major proportions. The nearly two-hour conversation covers writing coonhound stud ads, the age limit for a prospective coonhound to be purchased, the best coonhound in Fred’s long experience of hunting with hou...
2025-08-251h 54
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs - Shot While HuntingIn this episode Steve and Fred Moran cover a number of topics, the chief of which is Fred’s account of being shot while on a hunting trip in Wyoming. Steve supports Fred’s story with an account of a well-known raccoon hunter that experienced the same fate. Several stories from experiences in the not-so-tame West ensue, including Fred’s tale of a horse and rider wreck of major proportions. The nearly two-hour conversation covers writing coonhound stud ads, the age limit for a prospective coonhound to be purchased, the best coonhound in Fred’s long experience of hunting with hou...
2025-08-251h 54
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: Shot While HuntingIn this episode Steve and Fred Moran cover a number of topics, the chief of which is Fred’s account of being shot while on a hunting trip in Wyoming. Steve supports Fred’s story with an account of a well-known raccoon hunter that experienced the same fate. Several stories from experiences in the not-so-tame West ensue, including Fred’s tale of a horse and rider wreck of major proportions.
The nearly two-hour conversation covers writing coonhound stud ads, the age limit for a prospective coonhound to be purchased, the best coonhound in Fred’s long experience of hunting with hou...
2025-08-251h 56
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Tom HopkinsIn this episode Steve visits with Tom Hopkins of Marshall, Texas.Tom owned, trained and handled what was perhaps the most famous Treeing Walker Coonhound in the history of coon hunting, the immortal House’s Lipper.Lipper distinguished himself in competition and in the breeding pen by winning major championships and by producing more that 5000 pups, not including those that were born through frozen semen breeding. Lipper’s record in that regard is most likely never to be broken.Lipper was making news before he was a year old and won the prestigious PCA National Champi...
2025-08-061h 12
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Tom HopkinsIn this episode Steve visits with Tom Hopkins of Marshall, Texas.Tom owned, trained and handled what was perhaps the most famous Treeing Walker Coonhound in the history of coon hunting, the immortal House’s Lipper.
Lipper distinguished himself in competition and in the breeding pen by winning major championships and by producing more that 5000 pups, not including those that were born through frozen semen breeding. Lipper’s record in that regard is most likely never to be broken.
Lipper was making news before he was a year old and won the prestigious PCA National Champi...
2025-08-061h 14
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Tom HopkinsIn this episode Steve visits with Tom Hopkins of Marshall, Texas.Tom owned, trained and handled what was perhaps the most famous Treeing Walker Coonhound in the history of coon hunting, the immortal House’s Lipper.Lipper distinguished himself in competition and in the breeding pen by winning major championships and by producing more that 5000 pups, not including those that were born through frozen semen breeding. Lipper’s record in that regard is most likely never to be broken.Lipper was making news before he was a year old and won the prestigious PCA National Champi...
2025-08-061h 12
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs with Rubert MorganIn this episode we journey to the village of Pope, in the southern tip of Panola County, Mississippi to visit with black coon hunter Rubert Morgan. At age 74, Morgan has worn many hats; farmer, auto worker, collegiate bull rider, community official and coonhound breed association director to name a few.
Mr. Morgan provides an entertaining look at the life of a black kid growing up under segregation but also enjoying his lifelong dream of being in the outdoors hunting with hounds.
Steve and Rubert met at the UKC Winter Classic in Batesville, Mississippi several years ago...
2025-07-211h 37
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs with Rubert MorganIn this episode we journey to the village of Pope, in the southern tip of Panola County, Mississippi to visit with black coon hunter Rubert Morgan. At age 74, Morgan has worn many hats; farmer, auto worker, collegiate bull rider, community official and coonhound breed association director to name a few. Mr. Morgan provides an entertaining look at the life of a black kid growing up under segregation but also enjoying his lifelong dream of being in the outdoors hunting with hounds. Steve and Rubert met at the UKC Winter Classic in Batesville, Mississippi several years ago...
2025-07-211h 23
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone to the Dogs with Rubert MorganIn this episode we journey to the village of Pope, in the southern tip of Panola County, Mississippi to visit with black coon hunter Rubert Morgan. At age 74, Morgan has worn many hats; farmer, auto worker, collegiate bull rider, community official and coonhound breed association director to name a few. Mr. Morgan provides an entertaining look at the life of a black kid growing up under segregation but also enjoying his lifelong dream of being in the outdoors hunting with hounds. Steve and Rubert met at the UKC Winter Classic in Batesville, Mississippi several years ago...
2025-07-211h 23
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Leon ChildersSimilarities in age and geographical backgrounds make for easy conversation between Steve and his entertaining guest Leon Childers in this episode. Childers, born in eastern Kentucky, followed the path of many mountain-born boys whose families sought better jobs and better times in northern climes. For Childers, the move from the same area in which Steve’s grandparents were raised, it was a move to western Ohio, particularly Fairborn, near Dayton. Steve and Leon bring the dog talk at its finest to the Gone To The Dogs microphones in an hour-plus of coon dog conversation the likes of which one wo...
2025-07-141h 24
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Leon ChildersSimilarities in age and geographical backgrounds make for easy conversation between Steve and his entertaining guest Leon Childers in this episode. Childers, born in eastern Kentucky, followed the path of many mountain-born boys whose families sought better jobs and better times in northern climes. For Childers, the move from the same area in which Steve’s grandparents were raised, it was a move to western Ohio, particularly Fairborn, near Dayton. Steve and Leon bring the dog talk at its finest to the Gone To The Dogs microphones in an hour-plus of coon dog conversation the likes of which one wo...
2025-07-141h 24
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Leon ChildersSimilarities in age and geographical backgrounds make for easy conversation between Steve and his entertaining guest Leon Childers in this episode.
Childers, born in eastern Kentucky, followed the path of many mountain-born boys whose families sought better jobs and better times in northern climes. For Childers, the move from the same area in which Steve’s grandparents were raised, it was a move to western Ohio, particularly Fairborn, near Dayton.
Steve and Leon bring the dog talk at its finest to the Gone To The Dogs microphones in an hour-plus of coon dog conversation the likes of which one wo...
2025-07-141h 25
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Competition Dogs: What does it take?In this episode Steve reviews the comments of several houndsmen concerning what it takes to make a winner in the world of coonhound competition.Steve consults twenty-one savvy hunters for their views on virtually every aspect of the toolset a hound needs to emerge a winner in today’s fast-paced competition game.
Which tools are most important? Is it brains, drive, accuracy, consistency, temperament, hunting or locating ability? These traits and more are discussed at length in this interesting and informative episode chock full of “dog talk at its finest.”
We would like to thank those wh...
2025-06-161h 13
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireCompetition Dogs. What does it take?In this episode Steve reviews the comments of several houndsmen concerning what it takes to make a winner in the world of coonhound competition. Steve consults twenty-one savvy hunters for their views on virtually every aspect of the toolset a hound needs to emerge a winner in today’s fast-paced competition game.Which tools are most important? Is it brains, drive, accuracy, consistency, temperament, hunting or locating ability? These traits and more are discussed at length in this interesting and informative episode chock full of “dog talk at its finest.” We would like to thank those wh...
2025-06-161h 00
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Competition Dogs: What does it take?In this episode Steve reviews the comments of several houndsmen concerning what it takes to make a winner in the world of coonhound competition.Steve consults twenty-one savvy hunters for their views on virtually every aspect of the toolset a hound needs to emerge a winner in today’s fast-paced competition game.Which tools are most important? Is it brains, drive, accuracy, consistency, temperament, hunting or locating ability? These traits and more are discussed at length in this interesting and informative episode chock full of “dog talk at its finest.” We would like to thank those wh...
2025-06-161h 00
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - NEW FRED MORAN STORIESThis episode features Gone To The Dogs regular guest Fred Moran.Fred, at 88 years of age, is a storehouse of memories from many genres. Steve and Fred discus deer hunting, Fred’s days as an animal control officer including some real live monkey business, and hunting trips to several states.Moran’s stories are as timeless as is he. Steve brings Fred on when he needs a personal boost concerning all things outdoors and the Pennsylvanian never disappoints. Dog talk a it’s finest, guaranteed!We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special than...
2025-06-091h 07
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireNEW FRED MORAN STORIESThis episode features Gone To The Dogs regular guest Fred Moran.Fred, at 88 years of age, is a storehouse of memories from many genres. Steve and Fred discus deer hunting, Fred’s days as an animal control officer including some real live monkey business, and hunting trips to several states.Moran’s stories are as timeless as is he. Steve brings Fred on when he needs a personal boost concerning all things outdoors and the Pennsylvanian never disappoints. Dog talk a it’s finest, guaranteed!We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special than...
2025-06-091h 07
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - NEW FRED MORAN STORIESThis episode features Gone To The Dogs regular guest Fred Moran.Fred, at 88 years of age, is a storehouse of memories from many genres. Steve and Fred discus deer hunting, Fred’s days as an animal control officer including some real live monkey business, and hunting trips to several states.
Moran’s stories are as timeless as is he. Steve brings Fred on when he needs a personal boost concerning all things outdoors and the Pennsylvanian never disappoints. Dog talk a it’s finest, guaranteed!
We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special than...
2025-06-091h 21
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Daniel SneedFresh off his win at the 2025 ProSport National Cup championship in Brazil, Ind., Daniel Sneed of Cherryville, North Carolina joins Steve for some dog talk at its finest, chiefly surrounding the hound with which Sneed won the prestigious event.
At thirty-eight years of age, Sneed has a story that’s all too familiar to the host having grown up in the home of a houndsman and developing a love for coon hunting at an early age. Steve and Daniel compare notes on their development in the sport and readily find many similarities in their backgrounds.
Sneed is an articulate st...
2025-05-281h 47
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Daniel SneedFresh off his win at the 2025 ProSport National Cup championship in Brazil, Ind., Daniel Sneed of Cherryville, North Carolina joins Steve for some dog talk at its finest, chiefly surrounding the hound with which Sneed won the prestigious event. At thirty-eight years of age, Sneed has a story that’s all too familiar to the host having grown up in the home of a houndsman and developing a love for coon hunting at an early age. Steve and Daniel compare notes on their development in the sport and readily find many similarities in their backgrounds. Sneed is an articulate st...
2025-05-281h 34
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Daniel SneedFresh off his win at the 2025 ProSport National Cup championship in Brazil, Ind., Daniel Sneed of Cherryville, North Carolina joins Steve for some dog talk at its finest, chiefly surrounding the hound with which Sneed won the prestigious event. At thirty-eight years of age, Sneed has a story that’s all too familiar to the host having grown up in the home of a houndsman and developing a love for coon hunting at an early age. Steve and Daniel compare notes on their development in the sport and readily find many similarities in their backgrounds. Sneed is an articulate st...
2025-05-281h 34
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - GTTD: Double U Has Gone to the DogsIn this inaugural episode of Gone To The Dogs, Buddy and Jason interview the show’s host, Steve Fielder.Fielder is revealed to be the sole owner and host of the show with DU Supply providing the platform on which the podcast will stand. The group gets to talking dogs and presents an overview of the latest member of DU Supply’s family of podcasts. Fielder is questioned about his earliest beginnings, his dog-related journey from the mountains of West Virginia to the cornfields and swamps of Michigan, his three-step journey with three of the nation’s largest and best-know...
2025-05-1958 min
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGTTD: Double U Has Gone to the DogsIn this inaugural episode of Gone To The Dogs, Buddy and Jason interview the show’s host, Steve Fielder. Fielder is revealed to be the sole owner and host of the show with DU Supply providing the platform on which the podcast will stand. The group gets to talking dogs and presents an overview of the latest member of DU Supply’s family of podcasts. Fielder is questioned about his earliest beginnings, his dog-related journey from the mountains of West Virginia to the cornfields and swamps of Michigan, his three-step journey with three of the nation’s largest and best-know...
2025-05-1958 min
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - GTTD: Double U Has Gone to the DogsIn this inaugural episode of Gone To The Dogs, Buddy and Jason interview the show’s host, Steve Fielder.Fielder is revealed to be the sole owner and host of the show with DU Supply providing the platform on which the podcast will stand. The group gets to talking dogs and presents an overview of the latest member of DU Supply’s family of podcasts. Fielder is questioned about his earliest beginnings, his dog-related journey from the mountains of West Virginia to the cornfields and swamps of Michigan, his three-step journey with three of the nation’s largest and best-know...
2025-05-191h 01
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGTTD: Double U Has Gone to the DogsIn this inaugural episode of Gone To The Dogs, Buddy and Jason interview the show’s host, Steve Fielder.Fielder is revealed to be the sole owner and host of the show with DU Supply providing the platform on which the podcast will stand. The group gets to talking dogs and presents an overview of the latest member of DU Supply’s family of podcasts. Fielder is questioned about his earliest beginnings, his dog-related journey from the mountains of West Virginia to the cornfields and swamps of Michigan, his three-step journey with three of the nation’s largest and best-know...
2025-05-1958 min
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs: Lifetime of MemoriesIn this episode Steve sits down with his best buddies Nubbin Moore to talk about, among several life-changing subjects, Nubbin’s recent election to honored lifetime membership status with the American Black and Tan Coonhound Association. The ABTCHA memberships votes one member into the exclusive group each year with the award presented the following year at Black and Tan Days. Nubbin questions his worthiness while Steve sets the record straight. Nubbin enjoys fishing as well as coon hunting and the two discuss Moore’s recent trips and successes. The conversation moves to the question, when does a coon hunter reco...
2025-05-121h 06
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone to the Dogs: Lifetime of MemoriesIn this episode Steve sits down with his best buddies Nubbin Moore to talk about, among several life-changing subjects, Nubbin’s recent election to honored lifetime membership status with the American Black and Tan Coonhound Association. The ABTCHA memberships votes one member into the exclusive group each year with the award presented the following year at Black and Tan Days. Nubbin questions his worthiness while Steve sets the record straight. Nubbin enjoys fishing as well as coon hunting and the two discuss Moore’s recent trips and successes. The conversation moves to the question, when does a coon hunter reco...
2025-05-121h 06
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs: Lifetime of MemoriesIn this episode Steve sits down with his best buddies Nubbin Moore to talk about, among several life-changing subjects, Nubbin’s recent election to honored lifetime membership status with the American Black and Tan Coonhound Association. The ABTCHA memberships votes one member into the exclusive group each year with the award presented the following year at Black and Tan Days. Nubbin questions his worthiness while Steve sets the record straight. Nubbin enjoys fishing as well as coon hunting and the two discuss Moore’s recent trips and successes. The conversation moves to the question, when does a coon hunter reco...
2025-05-121h 19
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Kenwood MaekerThe podcast reaches out to the State of Texas for the third episode in a row as Steve hosts octogenarian coon hunter Kenwood Maeker. Maeker, at 87 years of age has literally traveled the world in those many years in the oil industry to places like Nigeria and Indonesia to name but two. Listeners will be impressed by the amazing recall of one of Steve’s favorite acquaintances from his many years traveling the competitive coonhound circuit across the nation. Many of those trips were to Texas. Black and Tan Coonhounds have been Maeker’s breed of choice since boyhood and...
2025-05-061h 25
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Kenwood MaekerThe podcast reaches out to the State of Texas for the third episode in a row as Steve hosts octogenarian coon hunter Kenwood Maeker. Maeker, at 87 years of age has literally traveled the world in those many years in the oil industry to places like Nigeria and Indonesia to name but two. Listeners will be impressed by the amazing recall of one of Steve’s favorite acquaintances from his many years traveling the competitive coonhound circuit across the nation. Many of those trips were to Texas. Black and Tan Coonhounds have been Maeker’s breed of choice since boyhood and...
2025-05-051h 25
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Kenwood MaekerThe podcast reaches out to the State of Texas for the third episode in a row as Steve hosts octogenarian coon hunter Kenwood Maeker. Maeker, at 87 years of age has literally traveled the world in those many years in the oil industry to places like Nigeria and Indonesia to name but two.
Listeners will be impressed by the amazing recall of one of Steve’s favorite acquaintances from his many years traveling the competitive coonhound circuit across the nation. Many of those trips were to Texas.
Black and Tan Coonhounds have been Maeker’s breed of choice since boyhood and...
2025-05-051h 38
Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Texan Ray DismukesThis episode represents a Texas-style homecoming for host Steve Fielder as he reunites with longtime friend Ray Dismukes of McDade, Texas. Dismukes, fresh off a major win at the UKC Texas State Championship, joins Steve to talk all things coon hunting, Texas style. Fielder and Dismukes are contemporaries, having been born less than a month apart in 1946. They met at the UKC American Heritage Hunt in 1992 and took a hunt together at that hunt that’s part of the conversation. Dismukes has remained active in the sport despite being 78 years old, an age when most coon hunters have hung up...
2025-04-211h 21
Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Texan Ray DismukesThis episode represents a Texas-style homecoming for host Steve Fielder as he reunites with longtime friend Ray Dismukes of McDade, Texas. Dismukes, fresh off a major win at the UKC Texas State Championship, joins Steve to talk all things coon hunting, Texas style. Fielder and Dismukes are contemporaries, having been born less than a month apart in 1946. They met at the UKC American Heritage Hunt in 1992 and took a hunt together at that hunt that’s part of the conversation. Dismukes has remained active in the sport despite being 78 years old, an age when most coon hunters have hung up...
2025-04-211h 21
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingOn this episode, Dismukes, fresh off a major win at the UKC Texas State Championship, joins Steve to talk all things coon hunting, Texas style.This episode represents a Texas-style homecoming for host Steve Fielder as he reunites with longtime friend Ray Dismukes of McDade, Texas. Dismukes, fresh off a major win at the UKC Texas State Championship, joins Steve to talk all things coon hunting, Texas style. Fielder and Dismukes are contemporaries, having been born less than a month apart in 1946. They met at the UKC American Heritage Hunt in 1992 and took a hunt together at that hunt that’s part of the conversation. Dismukes has remained active in the sport despite being 78 years old, an age when most coon hunters have hung up...
2025-04-211h 35Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGTTD with the Kentucky Sporting Dog AllianceKentucky has long been noted as the cradle of coon hunting as we know it today. The famed Walker family, noted for their namesake the Walker foxhound which was the forerunner of today’s Treeing Walker, the most popular of all coonhound breeds, lived in Kentucky. In this episode Steve recalls the first licensed hunt in which he participated took place at a coon hunting club in Kentucky. Considered by many to be the Kentucky Derby of coon hunting competitions, the massive PKC World Hunt was held in the western Kentucky town of Aurora for many years. Our guest Bi...
2025-04-0758 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - GTTD with the Kentucky Sporting Dog AllianceKentucky has long been noted as the cradle of coon hunting as we know it today. The famed Walker family, noted for their namesake the Walker foxhound which was the forerunner of today’s Treeing Walker, the most popular of all coonhound breeds, lived in Kentucky. In this episode Steve recalls the first licensed hunt in which he participated took place at a coon hunting club in Kentucky. Considered by many to be the Kentucky Derby of coon hunting competitions, the massive PKC World Hunt was held in the western Kentucky town of Aurora for many years. Our guest Bi...
2025-04-0758 minSportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - GTTD with the Kentucky Sporting Dog AllianceKentucky has long been noted as the cradle of coon hunting as we know it today. The famed Walker family, noted for their namesake the Walker foxhound which was the forerunner of today’s Treeing Walker, the most popular of all coonhound breeds, lived in Kentucky. In this episode Steve recalls the first licensed hunt in which he participated took place at a coon hunting club in Kentucky. Considered by many to be the Kentucky Derby of coon hunting competitions, the massive PKC World Hunt was held in the western Kentucky town of Aurora for many years. Our guest Bi...
2025-04-0759 minHound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Billy BellIn this episode Steve talks with successful competition handler Billy Bell of Tennessee. Steve met Billy in 1998 when he joined the PKC organization as its Senior Vice President. Billy and his brother Avery were actively competing in PKC events and doing their share of winning at a time when entry fees and subsequent payouts were much smaller than they are today. Bell, has amassed nearly a half million dollars in handler earnings and continues to be a major force in today’s fast-paced competition game. The boys discuss several top hounds that Bell has handled including Carolina Peach, The Wi...
2025-03-311h 37Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Billy BellIn this episode Steve talks with successful competition handler Billy Bell of Tennessee. Steve met Billy in 1998 when he joined the PKC organization as its Senior Vice President. Billy and his brother Avery were actively competing in PKC events and doing their share of winning at a time when entry fees and subsequent payouts were much smaller than they are today. Bell, has amassed nearly a half million dollars in handler earnings and continues to be a major force in today’s fast-paced competition game. The boys discuss several top hounds that Bell has handled including Carolina Peach, The Wi...
2025-03-311h 37Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Billy BellIn this episode Steve talks with successful competition handler Billy Bell of Tennessee. Steve met Billy in 1998 when he joined the PKC organization as its Senior Vice President. Billy and his brother Avery were actively competing in PKC events and doing their share of winning at a time when entry fees and subsequent payouts were much smaller than they are today. Bell, has amassed nearly a half million dollars in handler earnings and continues to be a major force in today’s fast-paced competition game. The boys discuss several top hounds that Bell has handled including Carolina Peach, The Wi...
2025-03-311h 51Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs: The Volunteer ArmyIn this episode, Steve travels to Columbus, Georgia, home of the U.S. Army’s Fort Benning to attend the graduation of his granddaughter from the Army Advanced Infantry Training school. He recounts his visit to the National Infantry Museum and the impact it had as it reminded him that his father completed basic training at Fort Benning in 1939 prior to WWII. The account of Steve’s trip to Fort Benning provides a perfect segue into the episode’s purpose, the recognition of all the volunteers that make possible hundreds of events that are enjoyed by so many.
2025-03-2542 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: The Volunteer ArmyIn this episode, Steve travels to Columbus, Georgia, home of the U.S. Army’s Fort Benning to attend the graduation of his granddaughter from the Army Advanced Infantry Training school. He recounts his visit to the National Infantry Museum and the impact it had as it reminded him that his father completed basic training at Fort Benning in 1939 prior to WWII. The account of Steve’s trip to Fort Benning provides a perfect segue into the episode’s purpose, the recognition of all the volunteers that make possible hundreds of events that are enjoyed by so many.
2025-03-2542 minSportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: The Volunteer ArmyIn this episode, Steve travels to Columbus, Georgia, home of the U.S. Army’s Fort Benning to attend the graduation of his granddaughter from the Army Advanced Infantry Training school. He recounts his visit to the National Infantry Museum and the impact it had as it reminded him that his father completed basic training at Fort Benning in 1939 prior to WWII. The account of Steve’s trip to Fort Benning provides a perfect segue into the episode’s purpose, the recognition of all the volunteers that make possible hundreds of events that are enjoyed by so many.
2025-03-2443 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Jason's FarewellAfter almost 5 years of the DU Podcast Jason and Steve have had many opportunities to share stories, advice and have some great conversations and today is no different. The two have become good friends over the years and Jason wanted to take the opportunity to flip the script and put Steve Fielder in the guest seat instead of the host. This episode is a bit of an emotional farewell for Jason but opens the door to some great conversation. Jason and Steve dive into building community through shared passions, the importance of mentorship in hunting, life lessons from hunting...
2025-03-101h 26Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireJason's FarewellAfter almost 5 years of the DU Podcast Jason and Steve have had many opportunities to share stories, advice and have some great conversations and today is no different. The two have become good friends over the years and Jason wanted to take the opportunity to flip the script and put Steve Fielder in the guest seat instead of the host. This episode is a bit of an emotional farewell for Jason but opens the door to some great conversation. Jason and Steve dive into building community through shared passions, the importance of mentorship in hunting, life lessons from hunting...
2025-03-101h 26Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Jason's FarewellAfter almost 5 years of the DU Podcast Jason and Steve have had many opportunities to share stories, advice and have some great conversations and today is no different. The two have become good friends over the years and Jason wanted to take the opportunity to flip the script and put Steve Fielder in the guest seat instead of the host. This episode is a bit of an emotional farewell for Jason but opens the door to some great conversation. Jason and Steve dive into building community through shared passions, the importance of mentorship in hunting, life lessons from hunting...
2025-03-101h 39Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs with Fred MoranIt’s time for another visit with octogenarian coon hunter Fred Moran. Fred is affectionately known as Fred Moran the Redbone Man and has been for decades. Moran is now 88 years young and is still following the hounds of the night even though he has cut back to “two or three” nights a week by his own admission. Steve had been concerned about his old friend, largely due to age and some health concerns but finds Fred to be in rare form for this episode. Moran episodes always entertain and there’s always something for the listener no matter the demo...
2025-03-031h 22Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs With Al MetcalfSteve 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 ra...
2025-02-241h 24Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs With Al MetcalfSteve 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 ra...
2025-02-241h 24Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs At The RacesThis 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. Th...
2025-02-171h 14Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs At The RacesThis 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. Th...
2025-02-171h 14Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Lucas and Kayleigh ClemmonsWhen 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 JoleneIn this episode Steve talks with the Clemmons’ about the decision, the surprise the li...
2025-02-101h 14Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Lucas and Kayleigh ClemmonsWhen 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 JoleneIn this episode Steve talks with the Clemmons’ about the decision, the surprise the li...
2025-02-1028 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Good Ole BoysThe 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...
2025-02-041h 12Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Good Ole BoysThe 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 bat...
2025-02-041h 12Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Brad HallHoundsmen and hound women join the hound-hunting sport chiefly for one purpose, to experience the audible thrill of the chase, the proverbial music of the hounds. Imagine if you will, a consummate hound hunter since youth, loving this sport above all other experiences and facing the real possibility that he will lose his hearing, rendering him no longer able to experience the sport that which he truly loves?Our guest this week was that hunter. His story includes his failed attempts to join the military, his early days of competition hunting, his affinity for bluegrass music, his di...
2025-01-271h 34Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Brad HallHoundsmen and hound women join the hound-hunting sport chiefly for one purpose, to experience the audible thrill of the chase, the proverbial music of the hounds. Imagine if you will, a consummate hound hunter since youth, loving this sport above all other experiences and facing the real possibility that he will lose his hearing, rendering him no longer able to experience the sport that which he truly loves?Our guest this week was that hunter. His story includes his failed attempts to join the military, his early days of competition hunting, his affinity for bluegrass music, his discovery of...
2025-01-271h 34Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with DYI Coon Hunter Matthew HuffSteve met Matthew Huff three years ago on social media. The hunters shared a love for tree dogs that brought them to a personal meeting at the 2022 Grand American Coon Hunt in South Carolina. Huff’s story is unique. It begins in California and moves eastward to Georgia. The catalyst for his mostly urban coon hunting activities came in the form of a mixed breed, mostly hound, with perhaps a shot of Treeing Walker dog named Sargeant. As his travels took him across the nation Huff continued to hunt the orphaned Sarge mostly by himself on public grounds and parks...
2025-01-201h 25Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with DYI Coon Hunter Matthew HuffSteve met Matthew Huff three years ago on social media. The hunters shared a love for tree dogs that brought them to a personal meeting at the 2022 Grand American Coon Hunt in South Carolina. Huff’s story is unique. It begins in California and moves eastward to Georgia. The catalyst for his mostly urban coon hunting activities came in the form of a mixed breed, mostly hound, with perhaps a shot of Treeing Walker dog named Sargeant. As his travels took him across the nation Huff continued to hunt the orphaned Sarge mostly by himself on public grounds and parks...
2025-01-201h 25Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs-Remembering President Jimmy CarterBear hunter Holt Collier, who was the guide for the famous “teddy bear” hunt that earned President Theodore Roosevelt his nickname, can lay claim to taking a sitting president bear hunting. That’s a distinction similar to that of our guest but not quite. Our guest Mark Israel of Smithfield, Georgia, took the 39th President of the United States coon hunting and not just once, but several times following the family friend’s term in office.Steve met Israel during his PKC days and Mark related to our host, several stories of his hunts with the peanut farmer fro...
2025-01-131h 19Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs-Remembering President Jimmy CarterBear hunter Holt Collier, who was the guide for the famous “teddy bear” hunt that earned President Theodore Roosevelt his nickname, can lay claim to taking a sitting president bear hunting. That’s a distinction similar to that of our guest but not quite. Our guest Mark Israel of Smithfield, Georgia, took the 39th President of the United States coon hunting and not just once, but several times following the family friend’s term in office.Steve met Israel during his PKC days and Mark related to our host, several stories of his hunts with the peanut farmer fro...
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone To The Dogs-Remembering President Jimmy CarterBear hunter Holt Collier, who was the guide for the famous “teddy bear” hunt that earned President Theodore Roosevelt his nickname, can lay claim to taking a sitting president bear hunting. That’s a distinction similar to that of our guest but not quite. Our guest Mark Israel of Smithfield, Georgia, took the 39th President of the United States coon hunting and not just once, but several times following the family friend’s term in office.Steve met Israel during his PKC days and Mark related to our host, several stories of his hunts with the peanut farmer fro...
2025-01-131h 18Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireNew Shirts, Dog Food and Grand American with Buddy and JasonIn today’s episode Buddy and Jason get a chance to catch up after a busy holiday season and Jason’s trip to the Grand American Coon Hunt with fellow DU Podcast host Steve Fielder and Heath Hyatt. Jason was able to talk with several of our listeners and see a lot of customers on his trip. For anyone planning to attend the hunt next year Jason has a recommendation of what hotel to NOT stay at. The guys also talk some dog food and supplements as well as the new Tom Mansanarez line of T-shirt’s, Hoodies and more!...
2025-01-101h 16Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Dog Food and Grand American with Buddy and JasonIn today’s episode Buddy and Jason get a chance to catch up after a busy holiday season and Jason’s trip to the Grand American Coon Hunt with fellow DU Podcast host Steve Fielder and Heath Hyatt. Jason was able to talk with several of our listeners and see a lot of customers on his trip. For anyone planning to attend the hunt next year Jason has a recommendation of what hotel to NOT stay at. The guys also talk some dog food and supplements as well as the new Tom Mansanarez line of T-shirt’s, Hoodies and more!...
2025-01-101h 16Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: White River Recap 2024In this episode, Steve talks with five hunters from as many states that came to hunt raccoons with hounds in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas this year. Hunters from the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee are included in the conversations.The episode offers more than three hours of content that collectively describe the hunts and the types of hunting the refuge offered this year. Perhaps more so than any of the previous fourteen years Steve has hunted the White River Refuge, this year presented many challenges which are discussed in...
2024-12-173h 35Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs – White River Recap 2024In this episode, Steve talks with five hunters from as many states that came to hunt raccoons with hounds in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas this year. Hunters from the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee are included in the conversations.The episode offers more than three hours of content that collectively describe the hunts and the types of hunting the refuge offered this year. Perhaps more so than any of the previous fourteen years Steve has hunted the White River Refuge, this year presented many challenges which are discussed in...
2024-12-173h 35Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireOn The Road and Gone To The DogsAt the point of the recording, two nights of a four-night hunt have been accomplished. The account of opening night; a date coon hunters universally look forward to all year long, is the tale of a young dog coming of age and the tale of his journey from pup to coon dog.Each listener that keeps hounds and loves the outdoors will enjoy this podcast. The conversation will paint the picture of two friends, two hounds, a coon dog and a pup, in an amazing autumn setting that can only be experienced in depth by doing as S...
2024-12-0458 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - On The Road and Gone To The DogsAt the point of the recording, two nights of a four-night hunt have been accomplished. The account of opening night; a date coon hunters universally look forward to all year long, is the tale of a young dog coming of age and the tale of his journey from pup to coon dog.Each listener that keeps hounds and loves the outdoors will enjoy this podcast. The conversation will paint the picture of two friends, two hounds, a coon dog and a pup, in an amazing autumn setting that can only be experienced in depth by doing as S...
2024-12-0458 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs For ThanksgivingThis episode drops on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Steve extolls the joys of one of his favorite times of year as the episode opens. Thanksgiving could well be called the hunter’s holiday since so much hunting activity routinely takes place on and around the traditional holiday.Fellow podcast content creator Clayton Stark’s post on social media forms the basis for reflections by many members of the hound hunting community as they recall special memories. Moreso than any other, Thanksgiving is a holiday for families; sumptuous meals, football games, recounts of family adventures combine to make the mos...
2024-11-251h 04Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs For ThanksgivingThis episode drops on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Steve extolls the joys of one of his favorite times of year as the episode opens. Thanksgiving could well be called the hunter’s holiday since so much hunting activity routinely takes place on and around the traditional holiday.Fellow podcast content creator Clayton Stark’s post on social media forms the basis for reflections by many members of the hound hunting community as they recall special memories. Moreso than any other, Thanksgiving is a holiday for families; sumptuous meals, football games, recounts of family adventures combine to make the mos...
2024-11-251h 04Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Mark MillerMark is no stranger to the podcast at this point and it's always nice to listen in as he and Steve catch up. Listen in as they talk Plott dogs, Coon hunts and more!We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special thanks to Alpha Dog Nutrition and Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode. Want to learn more about Alpha Dog Nutrition? Check out the links belowhttps://www.dusupply.com/alphadogwww.dusupply.comhttps://alphadognutrition.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz co...
2024-11-121h 04Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Mark MillerMark is no stranger to the podcast at this point and it's always nice to listen in as he and Steve catch up. Listen in as they talk Plott dogs, Coon hunts and more!We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special thanks to Alpha Dog Nutrition and Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode. Want to learn more about Alpha Dog Nutrition? Check out the links belowhttps://www.dusupply.com/alphadogwww.dusupply.comhttps://alphadognutrition.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz co...
2024-11-121h 04Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Lone Pine KennelsSteve has been back on the road again and getting to the woods with longtime friend Randy Smith of Lone Pine Kennels. In between hunts Steve and Randy sat down to recap the week's events and talk some Lone Pine walker dogs.We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special thanks to Alpha Dog Nutrition and Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode. Want to learn more about Alpha Dog Nutrition? Check out the links belowhttps://www.dusupply.com/alphadogwww.dusupply.comhttps://alphadognutrition.com/
2024-11-041h 12Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Lone Pine KennelsSteve has been back on the road again and getting to the woods with longtime friend Randy Smith of Lone Pine Kennels. In between hunts Steve and Randy sat down to recap the week's events and talk some Lone Pine walker dogs.We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special thanks to Alpha Dog Nutrition and Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode. Want to learn more about Alpha Dog Nutrition? Check out the links belowhttps://www.dusupply.com/alphadogwww.dusupply.comhttps://alphadognutrition.com/
2024-11-041h 12Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs with Mr. Yadkin RiverThis week the podcast features a big helping of “Dog Talk At It’s Finest.” Steve brings one of the sports most respected and longest running breeders of Treeing Walker Coonhounds, the renown Jim “Wildman” Meeks to the Gone To The Dogs microphone. Meeks, a first ballot inductee into the North Carolina State Coon Hunters Hall of Fame, is possessed of a wealth of knowledge all areas of the coon hunting game. This one literally oozes Old School coon hunting from the first drop to the final tree. Steve and Jim discuss a gamut of subjects from hunting gear...
2024-10-221h 41Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs with Mr. Yadkin RiverThis week the podcast features a big helping of “Dog Talk At It’s Finest.” Steve brings one of the sports most respected and longest running breeders of Treeing Walker Coonhounds, the renown Jim “Wildman” Meeks to the Gone To The Dogs microphone. Meeks, a first ballot inductee into the North Carolina State Coon Hunters Hall of Fame, is possessed of a wealth of knowledge all areas of the coon hunting game. This one literally oozes Old School coon hunting from the first drop to the final tree. Steve and Jim discuss a gamut of subjects from hunting gear...
2024-10-221h 41Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone to the Dogs with The Old MenSteve’s guest is Tennessean T. L. Jones. Many of Jones’ friends know him as Tracey. Tracey is a third-generation houndsman and bear hunter. He is also an ordained Baptist minister and a newly-published author. He appears as our guest in this episode because he is a great speaker and an altogether interesting fellow on many subjects. Tracey has written a unique book titled The Old Men. Born in 1970 in East Tennessee, much of his boyhood was spent in the company of old men, farming, hunting, fishing and as he puts it, “loafering” in the Appalachian Mountains. Jones’ book consists o...
2024-09-191h 47Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone to the Dogs with The Old MenSteve’s guest is Tennessean T. L. Jones. Many of Jones’ friends know him as Tracey. Tracey is a third-generation houndsman and bear hunter. He is also an ordained Baptist minister and a newly-published author. He appears as our guest in this episode because he is a great speaker and an altogether interesting fellow on many subjects. Tracey has written a unique book titled The Old Men. Born in 1970 in East Tennessee, much of his boyhood was spent in the company of old men, farming, hunting, fishing and as he puts it, “loafering” in the Appalachian Mountains. Jones’ book consists o...
2024-09-191h 47Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs at Autumn OaksIn this the first of the 2024 Autumn Oaks recordings, Steve is joined by Texan Sid Underwood and by Land of Lincoln coon hunter Doug Crawley. The conversations were recorded live in media center of the Kuhlman Center, headquarters for the Event Where History Is Made.Underwood had the distinction of being the last Bench Show Judge to judge Autumn Oaks in its entirety as a single judge. The event now employs two judges and as many rings in the three-day event. The old friends discuss many aspects of Autumn Oaks, of coon hunting in the State of Texa...
2024-09-101h 31Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs at Autumn OaksIn this the first of the 2024 Autumn Oaks recordings, Steve is joined by Texan Sid Underwood and by Land of Lincoln coon hunter Doug Crawley. The conversations were recorded live in media center of the Kuhlman Center, headquarters for the Event Where History Is Made.Underwood had the distinction of being the last Bench Show Judge to judge Autumn Oaks in its entirety as a single judge. The event now employs two judges and as many rings in the three-day event. The old friends discuss many aspects of Autumn Oaks, of coon hunting in the State of Texa...
2024-09-101h 31Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone To The Dogs: Coon Hunting Legend Glen YoungGlen Young is 89 years old. He has hunted with James Merchant, Joe House, John Monroe, Frank Giddings, Harold Trusty, Buddy Gilbert, Tam Young, and the list goes on, of famous hunters past and present. Glen is nothing if not frank in the accounts of hunters and hunts and is a no-nonsense storyteller that calls them as he sees them.Steve recently spent an hour with Glen, with the promise of much more to come, to discuss his upbringing in rural Arkansas, his hunts with Deep River Mike, Merchant’s Banjo II (whom he remembers as the best comp...
2024-09-021h 06Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dogs: Coon Hunting Legend Glen YoungGlen Young is 89 years old. He has hunted with James Merchant, Joe House, John Monroe, Frank Giddings, Harold Trusty, Buddy Gilbert, Tam Young, and the list goes on, of famous hunters past and present. Glen is nothing if not frank in the accounts of hunters and hunts and is a no-nonsense storyteller that calls them as he sees them.Steve recently spent an hour with Glen, with the promise of much more to come, to discuss his upbringing in rural Arkansas, his hunts with Deep River Mike, Merchant’s Banjo II (whom he remembers as the best comp...
2024-09-021h 06Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireHard TimesWith training season in full swing, Heath is spending as much time as possible in the woods and working on the next wave of youngsters. This episode he follows up with a podcast Steve did on July 17th. He goes through how quitting was hard to overcome and the emotions that led to it. This one grabs you from all directions. IG - heathhyatt147FB Heath HyattYoutube - Heath HyattFollow our Sponsors:Inukshuk- Inukshukpro.com Corey.caDarkenergy Discount code is CODE4, darkenergy.com...
2024-08-0848 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Hard TimesWith training season in full swing, Heath is spending as much time as possible in the woods and working on the next wave of youngsters. This episode he follows up with a podcast Steve did on July 17th. He goes through how quitting was hard to overcome and the emotions that led to it. This one grabs you from all directions. IG - heathhyatt147FB Heath HyattYoutube - Heath HyattFollow our Sponsors:Inukshuk- Inukshukpro.com Corey.caDarkenergy Discount code is CODE4, darkenergy.com...
2024-08-0848 minSportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - The Elephant In The RoomWe’re taking about cheating. When Steve was with the registries he dealt with it on a fairly frequent basis. Determined to keep coon hunting in a positive light, he rarely wrote publicly about the subject, choosing to let the system deal with perpetrators behind the scenes. Now, unburdened by what was before, he and Corey spotlight the pencil crooks, the blind voters, the dog pitchers and catchers, and the movers and switchers in a sport that was built, and owes its very survival to the premise that honor belongs to whom honor is due.You’ll enjoy...
2024-08-021h 24Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone To The Dog - The Elephant In The RoomWe’re taking about cheating. When Steve was with the registries he dealt with it on a fairly frequent basis. Determined to keep coon hunting in a positive light, he rarely wrote publicly about the subject, choosing to let the system deal with perpetrators behind the scenes. Now, unburdened by what was before, he and Corey spotlight the pencil crooks, the blind voters, the dog pitchers and catchers, and the movers and switchers in a sport that was built, and owes its very survival to the premise that honor belongs to whom honor is due.You’ll enjoy...
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 436: GTTD with Steve and Corey Back On the PorchHot weather is abundant and so are summertime tales in this episode. Recent exploits of the boys Plott dogs as well as the announcement of the upcoming nuptials of Corey’s female Goldie to Bill Shininger’s stud dog are front and center. The talk moves to the latest accomplishments of Steve and Mark Miller’s Plott Fever in field and water events and progresses to the realm of deep-thinking about how to decide when and to which stud to breed with an admonition to owners of females “not to wait too long.” With Autumn Oaks less than two months...
2024-07-081h 23Hound Dog Podcast Network by The Sportsmen's EmpireGone to the Dogs, Tree Dogs That IsTodays episode dives into the true meaning of a tree dog. Everyone has their own idea of what makes a tree dog, so today Steve and Corey give their two cents.“A brace of cane-backed rocking chairs invited the pair with oaken arms and soon the rough-sawn wood floor was creaking with the ebb and flow of their rocking.” Taken from “Too Old To Quit,” an essay from his Gone To The Dogs – A Coon Hunter’s Journey book by Steve Fielder.In this week’s episode, Steve and Corey participate in some summertime front porch-sitting an...
2024-06-061h 19
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 411: Gone To The Dogs – Steve and Corey Talk Stud DogsWhile he was gone, Corey joined the fund-raising ranks with his involvement in a charity called Wags for Kids. His plan involves raising money for deserving kids needing therapy dogs and such and it produced the idea of a coonhound stud dog auction. Thirty owners agreed to provide stud service on social media to the highest bidder with all proceeds going to the benefit. The plan is working great and the boys talk about that in this episode which naturally leads into a much broader discussion of the ins and outs of running a stud dog in today’s tree d...
2024-05-271h 24
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 384: Gone To The Dogs – Hot Stove Vol. 5 with Steve and CoreyThe boys have closed the damper, swept out the firebox and moved operations to the front porch for remainer of the spring and summer. Spring peepers and hoot owls will provide ambient sound as the rockers get a workout on the rough-sawn boards at close of day. But in this episode, the fire is still crackling and the conversation drifts to the subject of multi-purpose dogs, mostly coonhounds operating outside the normal bounds of track and tree. It’s a good listen and a thought-provoker for anyone bold enough to consider using Old Blue to perform what many would consid...
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 375: Gone To The Dogs Hot Stove Vol. 2 With Steve and CoreyThis is an interesting and informative look at the nation’s first and longest-standing “hunt-for-monetary-awards” organization. Many competition hunters begin their journeys in United Kennel Club events and may find the prospect of hunting for cash awards to be daunting if not all-out confusing. This episode provides the remedy in easy-to-swallow doses.The boys talk about the stereotypes generally attributed to money hunts and explore the basic differences in hunting for cash versus hunting for traditional commemorative awards. Listeners that have never tried PKC or its style of competition will benefit greatly from the discussions as the boys gat...
2024-03-181h 24
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEp 373: Gone To The Dogs Hot Stove with Steve and CoreyThis week’s “Hot Stove”discussion covers several bases, all of which should interest coon hunting enthusiasts. Each of the boys served as interpreters of UKC coonhound Nite Hunt rules in their tenures at UKC. Each traveled extensively in their jobs at the registry as well. The similarities in experiences fuel the conversation as does the interest each shares in the training of tree dog puppies. The Coon Hunting Conversations group on Facebook is mined by the pair to reveal questions that should pique the interest of hound people of all persuasions. Steve hopes listeners will join him in welcom...
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEp 317: What Made "The Event Where History Is Made" With Jason and SteveTimes change, but one thing that stays the same for many is the annual pilgrimage to Autumn Oaks. It’s that time of year again and the anticipation continues to grow as plans are being made, maps plotted and dogs/handlers are gearing up for the big show! Jason and Steve talk a bit about Autumn Oaks, its predecessor the “Leafy Oaks” field trial and the history behind the event that is easily recognized as one of the most prestigious hunts in the world of coonhounds. They also talk about how many of the early well know coonhounds contributed to the ma...
2023-08-1850 min
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 289: Gone To The Dogs With Your Host Steve FielderToday Steve hits the mic solo for your listening pleasure. Gather 'round, pull up a seat and sit a spell with us.
We would like to thank those who support this podcast. Special thanks to Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode. www.dusupply.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@DoubleUHuntingSupply/podcasts
2023-05-081h 02
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 261: Born 100 Years Too Late With Jim Buhler and Steve SmithThis week we have a great episode with Brett Vaughn that starts off with Brett's eyewhitness account of a lion picking its scent up and how the dogs reacted. We all speculate what happens out there when the dogs make a loose, but its not often you actually get to watch it happen. For the meat and potatoes of this episode Brett is joined by good friends and fellow dry ground lion hunters Jim Buhler and Steve Smith. Jim and Steve are a wealth of knowledge and great storytellers to boot!
We would like to thank those...
2023-02-012h 21
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 260: Gone To The Dogs Story HourAudible books, for many, are replacing hardcopy for many reasons but mainly for convenience. Hunters particularly enjoy the ability to listen while logging windshield time to and from the hunt. Testing the waters so to speak, Steve has chosen to read an essay from his book titled Time Travel. The piece spotlights Steve’s physical journey to the land of 1950’s author and self-proclaimed “perfect” hunter/houndsman Samuel J. Hunnicutt who wrote the cherished Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains. Steve read the book in the 1950s and it remains one of his favorites.Additional...
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 180: Gone To The Dogs with Mark MillerIn this episode, Steve’s partner Mark Miller is in the studio to discuss pup training, how he has successfully trained his Grand Nite Champion (2) Treeing Walker and how he is applying his training principles to a project he and Steve own together, an eight-month-old Plott Hound pup named Fever. Fever is a bright pup and is responding well to Mark’s training regimen. Miller goes over the steps he’s applied to bring Fever from a green four-month-old to a pup that has treed his own coon and split treed from the dogs at less than eight months of age...
2022-07-041h 43
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 171: Gone to the Dogs with Steve FielderErnest Hemmingway said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” A longtime lover of books and especially those about hound hunting, Steve takes his listeners on a literary journey in this episode, an unusual “guest-free” trip in which he shares two old and dear book-friends from his personal library. A chapter from Steve’s book, Gone to the Dogs – A Coon Hunter’s Journey provides the basis for the first conversation centered upon a historic coon hunt in southwestern Michigan in the year 1924. Fielder builds his story upon the original story, published in Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine from coon hunte...
2022-06-131h 30
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 142: Respecting your Elders with Steve FielderIn this episode of The Hunting Hound, Bear sits down with Steve Fielder. It's taken a couple of years to get this one done but I guarantee it was worth the wait! We delve a bit deeper into Steve's start in hounds, and talk about specific dogs, men, and experiences that have meant a lot for Steve and the Houndsman he became. If you respect your elders, you might just learn something!Check out Steve's Podcast, “Gone to the Dogs” on the Double U Podcast Network anywhere podcasts are available. Follow us on Facebook and Insta...
2022-04-061h 14
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 87: Gone to the Dogs with Trent WilliamsAfter meeting at Autumn Oaks and spending an hour or more talking dogs, Steve and his guest for this episode discovered common ground outside the world of coonhounds and coon hunting, their mutual love for bluegrass music. Trent Williams, an electrical engineer living and working in southern Ohio, has been playing and performing bluegrass music in church, at home with talented members of his family and at a multitude of festivals, beginning at six years of age. Williams sent Steve a copy of his CD titled Someday which included several of his own songs and it blew our host aw...
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