Steve Nash grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and learned many outdoor skills related to hunting and fishing from his Uncle, Jack Brown. He has many fond memories calling in ducks and geese and the camaraderie that can only be found in a goose pit with family and close buddies. Steve fondly recalls the annual pheasant hunting trips to Viborg, South Dakota in the late fifties. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way towa...
May 16, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Steve Hornung grew up in Iowa Falls, Iowa and was exposed to pheasant hunting at an early age. Steve learned about bird hunting and dogs from his uncle. This experience created a life long love of bird hunting which continues this day. As a career educator Steve found himself living in rural areas of Iowa where pheasant hunting was very popular. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, le...
Mar 28, 2025•46 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Larry Wray is a life long resident of Poweshiek County having grown up in Grinnell, Iowa. Early in his youth Larry’s family exposed him to hunting and fishing and were instrumental in his life long love of the outdoors. Pheasant hunting became one of his passions and he has passed that on first to his son, and now to his grandson. Join us for some special dog stories of his preferred breed, Britney Spaniels. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leav...
Mar 01, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Steve Miller, 83 years old, grew up in Boone, Iowa and was first exposed to upland bird hunting in the early 1950’s tagging along with his best friend, Larry and Larry’s Dad. Pheasants were plentiful and getting a limit of birds was easily accomplished even without a dog. Like many youth beginning hunters, Steve purchased a .410 single shot shotgun which he used to bag his first rooster along the railroad tracks behind his family home. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe,...
Feb 01, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Wade shares stories with Bob Harken about bird hunting in Iowa Falls and growing up and working around farmers. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
Dec 29, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Wade sits down with veteran Bill Cammarata to share stories about growing up hunting in Pennsylvania, good hunting dogs and passing down the tradition of hunting as it was passed down to him. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagra...
Dec 04, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Wade travels to Hendersonville, Tennessee to have a chat with Ed Laneville about growing up in Iowa and hunting for the first time in his youth. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
Oct 26, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Ryan Shoop shares some memories from his time growing up in Eastern Iowa. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Ray Stefani sits down with Wade to talk growing up hunting to eat, and sweet memories of beloved past dogs. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
Sep 20, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Dick Heft grew up on a farm in rural Floyd County Iowa. The family farm provided the perfect habitat for pheasants and early in his life Dick was exposed to bird hunting with his family and their dog. After taking his first rooster, Dick was hooked on upland hunting and at age 78 he continues to enjoy being in a field with good hunting dogs and a fine shotgun. Join us as Dick shares his “Memories from the Field” Send us a text Kinetic Performance Dog Food Kinetic offers a full line of premium dr...
Jul 25, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Wade sits with Greg Johnston in studio to reminisce about the days of growing up in south-western Wisconsin with nine siblings. A neighbor boy introduces his family to hunting squirrel hunting that starts a life-long passion of working with field dogs. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them....
May 16, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Ed Rader takes us on the journey of his original electronic collar invention and as well as some insight into the "immoral" pheasant. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
May 02, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 56
Jim Smith, 80, remembers what it was like hunting in Iowa back in the 1970s-1980s. He and several friends would walk farm fields hunting pheasants, describing a time when the skies were dark with birds. Join us for some Memories From the Field! Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter ...
Apr 18, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Ross Baxter takes time to discuss the finer points of the 501c Non-Profit Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation . The foundation protects and restores Iowa's land, water and wildlife while always looking for more people and ways to preserve habitat for the public! Website - https://www.inhf.org/ Website - https://www.iowalandoptions.org/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IowaNaturalHeritage/ Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes ...
Mar 21, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Wade and Tomas return from hiatus to discuss their goings on and looking forward to material for the show. Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon...
Feb 29, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Wade speaks with Chuy Garcia, Owner of Cash Setters in Southeast Iowa. Chuy is a trainer and breeder of Llewellin Setters and gets into the finer details of growing up with gundogs, teaching his sons the craft, and his favorite memories of his dogs.Support the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram T...
Feb 28, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Grouse hunting in Ohio and how Scottie Leach hopes to recruit a whole new generation of upland hunters through his project: R3 Upland, his experience with the Ruffed Grouse Society, Pheasants Forever, and his favorite story about his Brittany hunting dog.Support the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Insta...
Feb 28, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Wade and Tomas have a chat with Tyler Sladen, Veteran and Owner of Southwest Wildlife Pros about hunting alongside falcons in the wilds of New Mexico. WebsiteInstagramFacebookSupport the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe...
Feb 28, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Wade and Tomas host a round table remote show at Highland Hideaway Hunting in Riverside, IA with several special guests. Join us for episode 34 of Setter Tales Podcast! Website Facebook YouTubeSupport the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon Send us a text Support the show Please be...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr
Our guest Matthew Puckett shares the story of having his trailer with dogs stolen in New Mexico and answers questions live. Share in lessons learned and the story that brought the gun dog community together!InstagramSupport the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon Send us a text Sup...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Join us as we learn more about the Gordon Setter and what its like to hunt multiple species of upland birds in the Snake River Valley of Idaho. Tom Loy has had a passion for his Gordon Setters since getting his first one in 1989. Tom gives us some insight into the challenges of pursuing his upland favorite, the Hungarian Partridge. WebsiteFacebookYouTubeSupport the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you hav...
Feb 28, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 31
This week we discuss the fine work being done for veterans by the Heroes Hunting Foundation with Sgt Patrick Perkins. HHF, a 501(c)(3) non profit, gets formerly deployed veterans out into the field to hunt as a form of therapy. Traveling around the country HHF covers all expenses for selected veterans while seeking the best outdoor experience in various types of hunting disciplines. Website Facebook:Iowa Chapter Nebraska ChapterIndiana Chapter Support the show Please be sure to subscribe and lea...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 24
We had a great time speaking with our old friend, Greg Pierce from Great Falls, Montana. While researching English setters for a possible new pup a few years ago, Greg discovered our Setter Tales video series and he knew right away that his new hunting companion would be a blue belton English setter like Sweet Lou. Today Greg hunts with his blue belton setter, Jackson and his newest setter, Lou, on public lands in Montana pursuing the many upland bird species that can be found just outside his d...
Feb 28, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Tune in as we explore the things to know when participating in AKC Hunt tests with Perry Dlugie, President of the German Shorthair Pointer Club of Illinois. Perry has been involved in helping his organization host hunt tests for over 16 years at the Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area training grounds outside Jolliet, Illinois. Hunt test title requirements, common mistakes to avoid as a handler and what judges are looking for when scoring your dog will be discussed. Support the show Please ...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 16
Greg Heidebrink is a graduate of Iowa State University with a BS in Forest Management. He has worked as a private consulting forester and for the last 22 years as a district forester with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. One of his favorite things to do is work with private landowners on their forest lands. He says it is fun watching them get excited about forestry! Greg also has the opportunity to work on state owned Wildlife Management Areas. The area biologists and the foresters mana...
Feb 28, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We speak with Dr. Ryan Steen, DVM about all things canine health. Be sure to bring your burning questions for this orthopedic specialist with Frey Pet Hospital in Cedar Rapids, IA.WebsiteFacebookSupport the show Please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. It helps the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon Send us a text Support the show Please ...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Michael Mapes has a particular kinship with bird dogs. Dogs that had a rough go, some through multiple placements without a forever home. He takes them under his training and realizes their potential to be good bird dogs, and wonderful family pets. That is the mission behind Second Chance Bird Dogs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Lakeview, Michigan, regardless of breed or temperament. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602587107635133/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/second_chance_bird_dogs...
Feb 28, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This week we sit down in the studio with Bryan Camper: Owner, Head Trainer for Swift Rock Kennel to talk shop about raising gundogs, the differences in training various breeds., and handling up to fifty dogs at a time! Website: https://swiftrockkennel.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063676297022 Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think i...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Hunting in Florida can sometimes find you crossing paths with things that can hunt you back! Wade and Tomas speak with author, Founder of Marshdoodle, and Florida hunter, Scott Lindars about his time in the outdoors chasing the speedy Snipe. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marshdoodle/ Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have fu...
Oct 12, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 50
We are joined for an update live from the prairies of North Dakota by Bret Ingram & Coach in this episode of OPEN FIELDS! -------------------------------------------------------- Setter Tales Podcast is a proud member of the ORN Network https://www.orncreative.com/ Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd l...
Sep 28, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 49
