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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
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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 won’t ex...2025-07-141h 24
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
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 PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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 the...2025-05-051h 24
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 35
Hound 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 min
Sportsmen'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 min
Sportsmen'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 min
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGTTD 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 Billy Ca...2025-04-0757 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 51
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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 Wicked Sp...2025-03-311h 37Sportsmen'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 minHound 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 - 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 min
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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. 2025-03-2441 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 39
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyJason'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, family...2025-03-071h 25
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone 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 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 - Whitetail 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. The...2025-02-171h 17
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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 14
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone To The Dogs- A Tribute to 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 18Sportsmen'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...2025-01-131h 19Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail 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 32
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 18
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone To The Dogs with Fred BrightWhat a way to start a new year with a guest like Black and Tan enthusiast Fred Bright!Fred and Steve’s friendship goes back to the UKC days but Fred’s involvement with coon hunting and particularly with Black and Tans goes back much farther. Fred served the Purina Outstanding Nite Hunt Coonhound Award as a committeeman from nearly thirty years and met many history figures face to face; Hans Wagner, Joe Bloodworth and Plott icon John Plott. Fred and Steve hunted together several years on the incomparable Southern Heritage Plantation near Albany...2025-01-061h 34
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone To The Dogs-White River RecapIn 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...2024-12-163h 35
Gone to the Dogs PodcastOn The Road and Gone To The Dogs At 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 do...2024-12-0258 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 - Whitetail 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 14
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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 04
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone To The Dogs with Robbie SpearsThis episode takes the listener to eastern Kentucky, land of our host’s roots and home of our guest Robbie Spears.Spears is a coon hunting game warden with the rank of Lieutenant in the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, a coon hunting Mr. Green Jeans.Robbie and Steve enjoy a conversation about their Kentucky roots, about Robbie’s lifelong desire to work outdoors, and spend a great deal of the episode talking about some successful English Coonhounds, his breed of choice.Spears has done his share of winning in competition, placing sixt...2024-11-191h 26
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone To The Dogs with Lone Pine KennelsIn this episode, Steve records with Randy Smith of the famed Lone Pine Kennels in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, renown producers of world class Treeing Walkers Steve recently spent seven nights hunting with Randy. Randy’s son Troy and video and podcast content producer Clayton Stark of Stark Outdoors joined Steve and Randy on some of the hunts.In what could also be described as “A Trip To The Lone Pine Museum” Steve questions Randy about several of the photos and paintings found hanging in the guest quarters and the answers are a walk through the annals of Lone Pine hist...2024-11-041h 12
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone To The Dogs - Houndsmen and the Appalachian FloodJones describes first-hand what it’s like to see entire towns, bridges and highways swept away with no warning. This frank conversation exposes the insensitivities of those outside the region and the shear hopelessness felt by citizens of the region, many of them hound people themselves. Jones describes the devastation and recounts the terrible tragedy as a fellow coon and bear hunter on a rescue mission with his boat is swept under a bridge and has not been seen. It’s not the average feel-good episode but it does reveal the importance of living each day as if it is...2024-10-1455 minSportsmen's Empire - Whitetail 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...2024-09-201h 49Sportsmen'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 47
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGONE TO THE DOGS With The Old Men Steve’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 of...2024-09-161h 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 - Whitetail 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...2024-09-091h 33
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyGone 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...2024-09-091h 31
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 441: Gone To The Dogs-Who Is Heath Hyatt?Wes and Steve have known and have made many hunts with Heath over several years. It was on a Freedom Hunter’s Adventure with Heath that Steve and Wes became well-acquainted. This week the two come together to discuss some “Hyatt-style Adventures” that adequately spill the beans on the professional trainer. Woodyard credits Heath with bringing him into the hound sport and when he asked for the opportunity to give credit where credit is due on a podcast, Steve was glad to comply. The episode illustrates the importance of mentoring new hunters into the sport. This is a feel-good...2024-07-151h 11
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 23Sportsmen's Empire - Western Big Game HuntingHound Dog Network - Gone 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 19Hound 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
Gone to the Dogs PodcastGone To The Dogs, Tree Dogs That Is “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 and the conversation turns to the core of the sport of hunting furbearers with the quintessential tree dog. As sure as pointing dogs point birds and waterfowl dogs retrieve ducks, t...2024-06-031h 18
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...2024-04-151h 11
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...2024-03-111h 37
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 365: Gone To The Dogs On The Yadkin RiverIn this episode Steve has a belated visit with Jim Meeks and Tom Gilroy which normally occurs at the annual Grand American Coon Hunt in Orangeburg..Jim is the founder and longtime curator of the Yadkin River strain of Treeing Walker hounds, known nationally for its contributions to coonhound history through several notable, well-advertised hounds. Circumstances this year prevented the old friends’ annual reunion in Orangeburg and so Steve the pair to fill in the gap. Listeners become the beneficiaries in the interesting exchange. Young Tom, soon to be 23, joins his mentor and longtime family friend Jim to di...2024-02-122h 02
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 363: Gone To The Dogs-Hunters Under Attack!It’s said that within every man there’s a ticking time bomb. It manifests itself in a physical phenomenon we know as the dreaded heart attack. In Steve’s years of experience, he’s known several hunters that experienced an attack that ended poorly for them. Houndsmen are particularly vulnerable due to a number of factors. Poor physical condition, due in part to the false sense that following hounds replaces regular cardio exercise is certainly a factor. And, the fact that an attack may come when we are off the grid where rapid medical attention may mean the difference in a...2024-02-051h 05
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 352: Gone To The Dogs with James Oliver Laws Part 2In this episode we resume the interview with James Oliver Laws. It was said of Mr. Laws father, Uncle Jimmy Laws, that he would know the day before the hunt where a bear would move that night. He served as the paid guide at the famed Hazel Creek Rod and Gun Club where Von and Little George Plott hunted bears with hounds. In this episode you will hear James Oliver Laws give descriptions of the dogs that were hunted by the Plott family as well as other famous houndsmen of that day. Descriptions of the dogs by Mr. Laws...2023-12-2655 min
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 331: Gone To The Dogs with Morris HardyMorris Hardy, who just had his 79th birthday, is a Mississippi Delta coon hunter that is part of the annual group Steve joins each year at the White River National Wildlife Refuge the week after Thanksgiving. Steve isn’t sure that they keep Hardy around more for his culinary skills or his stories but the consensus is that hunting camp could never be the same without him. He’s an interesting guy. Steve and Morris share an hour or more of coon hunting conversation that covers Morris’ beginnings, the friendships he’s made over the years and some of his f...2023-10-091h 03
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 318: Gone To The Dogs ARE MAGAZINES RELEVANT TODAY?Steve invited Corey Gruver back to the Gone To The Dogs microphone, after a recent guest appearance, and the two seasoned contributors tackle the question, “Are coon hunting magazines relevant today?” Gruver will be working with the revived publication and reveals some of the mission planned for the periodical going forward. The discussion begins with news of Gruver’s newest project, training his first Plott female. Steve’s experience with the breed spanning seventy years, and Gruver’s recent experiences including treeing a black bear, make for interesting banter involving the brindle breed. Steve finishes the episode by...2023-08-211h 22
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 312: Gone To The Dogs The Vay Kay EditionIn this episode, Steve takes a break from the normal routine to replay one of the most popular Gone To The Dogs episodes in the ninety-six-episode history of the podcast, a visit with South Carolina’s Jim “Wildman” Meeks. As a bonus play, Steve sneaks in a candid conversation with soon-to-be-ninety-yea-old coon hunter Johnny Brinkley who will be appearing in a special episode with Steve and mutual friend Lee Currens, scheduled to air in August.
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Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 307: Gone To The Dogs in Sweet Home AlabamaClint, a high school head football coach, uses motivational skills to encourage the youth in our sport. He and Steve discuss the temperature of coon hunting in Alabama which Chase has determined to be very good. A Black and Tan man from the start, Steve digs deep into the breed with Chase who has extensive knowledge of the top dogs and their successes in major competitions. Seizing the opportunity, Steve drills down to the core of Chase’s love for the breed, comparing the dogs of yesterday to today’s winning hounds and how the breed has changed over time. ...2023-07-101h 11
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 299: GONE TO THE DOGS WITH COREY GRUVERIn this episode Steve talks with Corey Gruver of Greenville, Pennsylvania. Steve and Corey have a common denominator in their backgrounds, each having worked for United Kennel Club, the recognized chief registry of coonhounds worldwide. Furthermore, each worked with coonhounds and coonhound activities in what is now the Hunting Ops Department. Steve became interested in having Corey share the Gone To The Dogs microphone as he recognized Gruver’s wide interest in several breeds and combinations of breeds of tree dogs. Steve wanted to, and does, explore the reasons his guest has chosen to enjoy several breeds inste...2023-06-122h 00
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.
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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!
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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...2023-01-301h 09
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 252: Gone To The Dogs With David McKeeSteve joins longtime friend David McKee a trip down memory lane that includes David’s activities as president of the Grand American Association, hosts of the annual Grand American Coon Hunt in Orangeburg, South Carolina each January. McKee takes listeners on a verbal tour of the event including preparation, staffing, the phenomenal crowds and some memorable happenings over the years since 1995. Old friends discuss pleasure hunting, their mutual friendship with octogenarian Johnny Brinkley and their annual visits to hunt with their treasured friend. McKee relates a funny story involving Steve and a pair of cell phones. The...2023-01-091h 07
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 246: Gone To The Dogs The Phrogger PhenomenonThe subject of the day is the phenomenal popularity of Burchell Davis’ Rosedale Phrogger, a four-year-old Treeing Walker with an impressive competition resume and a mouth that’s drawing coon hunters to the hound like mosquitos to a good dose of bug dope. The impressive part of the Phrogger story is the hound’s habit, on a consistent basis, of passing his coon-treeing ability and his indescribably loud and unique mouth on to his pups through what Steve calls the Phrogger Phenomenon. Each of the boys have some degree of experience with Davis’ Rosedale Phrogger or his offspring.S...2022-12-191h 13
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 237: Gone To The Dogs For ThanksgivingMark is a veteran, having finished several Grand Nite Champions including his current Grand (2) Walker dog that has earned the prestigious titles in the woods and on the bench. He recently finished a thirteen-month-old Plott dog that he and Steve co-own to Dual Champion in UKC. Kesten is a young hunter that hunts as hard as anyone in the game and has a fifteen-month old coon treeing artist to show for the effort. He and Steve partner on an All Grand Track Man female that routinely requires a deep reach into the resource bag for answers to the questions she...2022-11-211h 23
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 222: Gone To The Dogs in the BoneyardJosh and Steve visited this summer in Florida when Josh brought his family down to enjoy the beaches.He and his sons Bryson and Peyton joined Steve for lunch at a favorite watering hole and spent some time at the Tampa Bass Pro Shops complex. Josh and Steve talk coonhounds and coon hunting and cover the trauma of losing a good hound, discuss coon conservation in an age when coons seem to be worthless from a monetary standpoint, and paint a picture of coon hunting in one of the most challenging areas of the country, an area w...2022-10-101h 18
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 195: Gone To The Dogs at the Tennis CenterSteve joined the PKC staff in 1998, the same year his guest Rusty Jones made the final four and placed second overall in the PKC Youth World Championship at Aurora. A recent phone conversation between the longtime friends prompted Steve to record this look back at one of the most enjoyable times for both he and Jones as well as thousands of other coon hunters, in all their years of experience with the sport.Jones and Steve paint a mental picture of the Tennis Center, not only by describing the physical attributes of the legendary venue but also b...2022-08-081h 18
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 174: Gone to the Dogs with Martha BrownSteve shares the Gone to the Dogs microphone this week with a charming and equally interesting guest from the State of Florida, Martha Brown. Coming from a bird dog background as a child, Brown learned the coon hunting sport from a local hunter affectionally known as Uncle Fred. When the coon hunting bug bit like a Florida mosquito, for Brown there was no turning back. A nurse professionally, Brown competition-hunted early on with English dogs but switched to the Treeing Walker breed and never looked back. Thinks came to a screeching halt when Hurricane Michael devasted her h...2022-06-201h 42
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 147: Gone To The Dogs with Ed Zorn and Kenneth TullesIn this episode Steve visits with Deep East Texas coon hunters Ed Zorn and Kenneth Tulles.Kenneth, a former rodeo cowboy and Army veteran, attributes his love for coon hunting, and a world of experience he’s gained, to his association with octogenarian Ed Zorn. At age 88 years, Ed was born in the small town of Cloverleaf, about twenty miles from Houston. He still actively feeds, in Kenneth’s words, his blue dog addiction by coon hunting.Both Zorn and Tulles hunt Blueticks.It is veteran hunters like Ed Zorn whom Steve tries to seek out as potent...2022-04-181h 20
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 144: Gone to the Dogs with Calvin RedhouseThree years ago, Steve participated in a Freedom Hunters Outdoor Adventure with Native American houndsman and guide, Calvin Redhouse of Chinle, Arizona. The hunt was held in honor of Gold Star Family Member and Marine Corps veteran Tanner Babb and took place on the 17 million-acre Navajo Nation in Arizona. The target animal for the hunt was the mountain lion. The main objective of the hunt was to have Babb score a mountain lion. The lions proved to be illusive, but through his prowess and dedication as a houndsman, Redhouse managed to put the veteran under a nice bobcat that Bab...2022-04-111h 16
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 141: Gone to the Dogs with Gordie SchroederIn this episode, Steve’s hunting buddy Gordie Schroeder of Oklawaha, Florida occupies the guest chair for a good conversation on all things Plott. Like Steve, Gordie prefers the brindle dogs and has had remarkable success in major UKC Nite Hunt competition with a Plott female named Bayou Banana. Nana has made her presence known in the winner’s circle at the Florida State Championship, the Georgia State Championship, Autumn Oaks, the UKC World Championship and as the three-night opposite-sex winner at the National Plott Hound Association’s annual Plott Days.Steve and Gordie each drive fifty miles to...2022-04-041h 36
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 129: Gone to the Dogs with Monty GusseIn this episode Steve is joined by a veteran competition-hunter who, among other significant wins including those at UKC Treeing Walker Days, placed third in the 2019 UKC World Championship. Despite his prowess in competition, our guest is evolving, as most hunters do with age, into a serious breeder and pleasure hunter with a dog-related commercial enterprise or two thrown in for good measure. This is a broad-reaching conversation on the hounds and the hunts of yesterday and today, enjoyed by two coon hunters as they talk about as many aspects of the sport as can possibly be crammed into a...2022-03-071h 59
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 102: Gone to the Dogs with Bear Pen PlottsIn this episode Steve Fielder recaps the history of his family's involvement in breeding and hunting purebred Plott coon and big game hounds over a period spanning sixty-eight years, Steve discusses the crosses and the reasons behind the crosses of the effort that resulted in four hounds being inducted into the National Plott Hound Association Hall of Fame as well as Hall of Fame inductions for his father, Homon Fielder into the West Virginia Bear Hunter's and National Plott Hound Association's Halls of Fame. This episode should serve as inspiration for anyone aspiring to make their mark as breeders, hunt...2022-01-031h 14
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 96: Gone to the Dogs with Phillip HerronThis episode is part of the White River National Wildlife Refuge series of interviews conducted on site during the 2021 annual coon hunt. In this episode Steve sits down with Nubbin Moore and their mutual friend Phillip Herron. Herron is best known as the do-everything, man-in-the-black-hat at the annual American Black and Tan Coonhound Association’s annual Black and Tan Days.Herron served 22 years in the US Army and Arkansas National Guard. He is a breeder of world class Black and Tan Coonhounds and has served as the number one guy in the association’s outreach to youth for a n...2021-12-131h 03
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 94: Gone to the Dogs at the White River RefugeIn this episode Steve is joined by Jason Duby as they discuss Steve’s annual week-long coon hunt with friends at the White River National Wildlife Refuge in the big woods of eastern Arkansas. This year marks the twelfth annual trip for Steve and his hunting buddy Nubbin Moore and hunting has been particularly good this year. Several interviews have been stockpiled on the trip for future episodes but in this one Steve becomes the roving reporter with an on-scene account of the hunt at mid-week. The conversation includes all the things houndsmen and women like to discuss; hounds, hounds...2021-12-0641 min
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...2021-11-081h 17
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 85: Gone to the Dogs in West VirginiaIn this episode Steve visits with a fellow West Virginia coon hunter. The conversation looks hard at an equally hard and unforgiving area of the country in which to hunt raccoons, the same type of area that Steve experienced growing up and in the years prior to his coonhound registry career. Guest Josh Muncy lives in Kermit, on the West Virginia side of the Tug River that separates the Mountain State from Kentucky, a land famous for the nation’s most-publicized feud and believed to harbor more raccoon hunters than raccoons. Muncy is gaining a considerable following for his Muncy...2021-11-011h 06
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 83: Gone to the PKC World HuntIn this episode, Steve re-enacts his many years with the dog registries by staying up late to record the podcast as the play by play of the PKC World Championship is taking place. As the innovator of online, up-to-minute reporting of final casts at world championships, Steve takes the listener back to the golden days of the event at the tennis center in Aurora, Kentucky as seven world champions were crowned. As the 2021 final cast unfolds, lulls in the action are filled with listener comments and a look at raccoon seasons across the country. This is coon hunting stuff. Enjo...2021-10-251h 01
Hound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 81: Gone to the Dogs with a Connecticut YankeeIn this episode Steve joins a fellow cooner who has forsaken the great hunting opportunities of his home state of Indiana for the challenges of hunting coons in one of the nation’s smallest-in-land-mass states and also one of the most-heavily populated, the State of Connecticut.David Schmidt is known by coon hunters nationally as the producer of the popular Tailgate Adventures tv show of a few years back and is also the founder of a national tree dog association.In the conversation, Steve draws comparisons to Mark Twain’s 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King...2021-10-181h 17
Gone to the Dogs PodcastDouble 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...2021-09-2758 minHound PodCast: Double U Hunting SupplyEP 75: 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...2021-09-2758 min