Chris Whonsetler, host of the Okayest Cook Podcast, joins the guys to talk about getting better at cooking ducks, especially with out of state trips coming up for the crew.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys recap, in detail, their end of season adventures, which include a lot of nothing, a lot of pheasants, and Matt checking the Canvasback off his list of ducks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evan joins the podcast to recap a recent hunt he did with his young dog - the type of hunt we all dream of - and all the things he did to ensure she was setup for success. We talked about this topic previously with John McCarter and Evan puts many of those tips to use during his hunt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff recaps his experience guiding his nephew on the youth hunt and the guys discuss goose calls and upcoming hunting trips among other things.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a last minute guest reschedule and Jeff down with an illness, Matt and Tyler field listener questions about hunting, shooting, and everything in between.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Jeff, and Tyler recap their teal season openers - some good and some not so good.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John McCarter, head trainer at Bayou Gundog, joins the podcast in this shortened episode to share his wisdom, expertise, and experience with setting up your dog for success on their first hunt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madison Sharpe, the best female sporting clays shooter in the world, joins the podcast to talk all things shooting, from competitions to wing shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys break down where they are at with teal season prep and what changes they are making for the upcoming season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George, the owner and founder of Bluebird Waterfowl, joins the podcast to talk about his experiences growing up in the outdoors and what led him to create Bluebird Waterfowl. We examine his flagship product, the Animator, and why it helps waterfowlers kill more ducks.  **Listeners, use the code "UpDuck" at checkout on the Bluebird Waterfowl website to receive free shipping when you order any 2 animators, plus you get a free floating case** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Lessard, better known as Under Forty Yards on Instagram and Youtube, joins the podcast to discuss his experiences and learnings growing up hunting grouse and woodcock. We also discuss his experiences raising and training both Vizslas and GSPs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Joos from Red Cedar Retrievers joins the podcast and provides a great list of tips for that crucial time right after you bring home a new puppy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff flies solo on this episode and gets into some season wrap up discussion as well as few listener stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anna V joins the podcast as we discuss a whole host of topics from dogs to training and there’s a whole bunch of stories told.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Preuss, founder of EZ Dekes, shares his experience and inspiration for EZ Dekes as well as his experience as an adult onset waterfowl hunter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keagan, aka Mr. wildlifephotogmedia, joins the show again to talk about his latest adventures in Alaska.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest had to reschedule at the last minute and our listeners came up with a bunch of great questions for us to run through. This was a fun episode to do and one we’d like to do again in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off a weekend where Tyler was running hunt tests, this week we dive into the nitty gritty of getting started with tests, where to sign up, how to train for them, and everything in between. Jeff asks all the questions and Matt shares his experiences organizing and running tests with his local club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rich joins the guys to discuss his motivation and experience becoming a certified woodcock bander as well as taking his dog through the certification process. There’s plenty of dog talk and storytelling as usual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boats have come out of winter storage and modifications are being made; plus, the truck controversy comes to a close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Jeff, and Tyler discuss Matt’s decision to move to the raw food diet and the research he did many years ago, provide a few training updates, and talk about all the new trucks in the UpDuck world. This is not without a good story and a little controversy though. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Lone Duck, Bob Owens, joins the podcast to talk everything dogs, his experiences, and the bond he has with his own personal dogs. Use the code "upduck20" to get 20% off Bob's Force Fetch Course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ross, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association, joins the show to give an overview of all that the WWA does for waterfowl and details some of their latest projects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whitney Miller joins the podcast to discuss all things puppies and Riverstone Kennels.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blaine Winans, the owner of Winans Retriever Kennels, joins the show to talk all about British Labs from the physical appearance to traits to importing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Levi, host of the Western Territory podcast and waterfowl guide in Idaho, joins the show to give Matt and Tyler a run down of duck hunting skinny water out west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tyler, Jeff, and Matt sit down to discuss the latest happenings in their world including the potential of a new puppy entering the fray.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Jeff, and Tyler discuss their experiences hunting various game farms, the “classes” of game farms, and the merits of game farm hunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s duck boat build season and the guys revisit a conversation that was recorded last year as Jeff and Matt go into detail about their duck boat builds. The builds and finished boats and builds are very different, but the finished result is a bonified duck boat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys chat about the controversy regarding a couple reels they’ve posted, the commentary that folks in the hunting community have made on these reels, and how we treat each other as hunters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keagan is the first repeat guest on the podcat and he was recently in Mexico filming a duck hunt for the Road to 100 series. He recaps his experience and we contrast that with Matt’s experience as well hear about how Keagan’s season has gone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt is back this week and he recaps what some may consider the trip of a lifetime shooting ducks south of the border. The number of ducks, species harvested, and birds heading to the taxidermist is pretty staggering. This is one you’ll want to tune in for.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter Colbert from Kent Cartridge joins Tyler and Jeff this week to talk through shot shells and what you need to know as a hunter. We also talk about the history of Kent Cartridge and some of the changes Kent has made over the past few years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we sat down with John Wallace, aka The Wild Game Cook, to talk about all sorts of wild game cooking before honing in on pheasant. This insightful conversation will help us treat our wild game better and push us outside of our comfort zone in the kitchen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt and Jeff recap their Iowa trip which included a lot of birds seen and a good number making it into the game bag. It was a much different story than the prior two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Helmuth joins the podcast to chat about all things Vizslas and her experience raising and training 3 viszlas. Megan is an accomplished amateur trainer and bird hunter and shares her unique experiences.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the new year comes thoughts of getting a new gun dog and this conversation seemed like a fitting one to revisit. Tony is incredibly knowledgeable about dogs and has tons of great tid bits sprinkled in throughout the episode. Tony shares many of the lessons he learned about what to look for in a hunting dog, and what he looks for now based on his experiences.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Jeff, and Tyler discuss how their seasons wrapped up and they ended with both success and frustration. They try to put a bow on 2023 as we already look forward to the 2024 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys talk about the whooping they took from the late season, highly pressured Iowa roosters. There was some good on the trip, but one bad day can spoil a trip.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What better way to kick off 2024 than talking health and nutrition, of our gun dogs of course. Brian Conoley from Inukshuk joins the show and we dive into optimal performance dog nutrition and how Inukshuk came to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys recap their hunting experiences over the past couple weeks including turning a slow goose hunt into a dove hunt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Ferro from Fetching Feathers joins the guys this week to talk upland hunting, Anthony’s kennel, and how he was introduced to the world of hunting and bird dogs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Vandemore joins the guys to talk about all things dogs from his experience with his first dog to opening Habitat Flats Kennels to in-season care. They also delve into the topic of getting kids involved in hunting and the outdoors.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys have been doing a fair amount of hunting including Matt stacking up ducks on the Mississippi river and Jeff taking a trip to Minnesota for public land roosters and heading to the Northwoods of Wisconsin chasing Grouse.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys welcome in Stephen Findley to the podcast to talk about his passion for duck hunting - with a gun and a camera - and how that passion became Duckband Coffee.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Nelson makes all of us laugh with the instagram page Cock Patrol, but he’s got some great stories and he’s killed a pile of birds. We tackle all of that and more in this episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down 1 host and a guest, Jeff and Tyler talk about their success, and lack thereof, on the opening weekend of pheasant season in WI. There’s a wild story involving ducks on the pheasant season opener as well.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys talk about their hunts during the first split and share a few stories, including a few not so pleasant experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Art joins the guys to discuss his passion for hunting, Alclair Outdoors, and why hearing protection matters now. Spoiler, getting quality hearing protection is much easier than you think.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys continue their conversation with Conservation Warden Matt Groppi & Meghan Jensen and discuss safety and how we as hunters, can get involved.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices