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My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds

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Rating
★★★★★
5
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11 reviews
This podcast has
36 episodes
Language
English
Publisher
Randy Shepard
Explicit
No
Date created
2020/04/16
Latest episode
2025/09/18
Average duration
41 min.
Release period
107 days

Description

Where-to, how-to and when-to bird hunting advice on pheasant, partridge, ruffed grouse, sharptails, prairie chickens and quail, Host Randy Shepard has bird hunted from Oregon to Wisconsin to New Mexico and Arizona. He's taken 15 different combination limits and four different double limits of upland birds across the mid-west. He's never hired a guide, leased land, hunted as a guest or engaged in a swap hunt, while in pursuit of dual limits. All self-made, self-planned hunts, on public (and a little bit of private) land.  My Dog Hunts, isn’t your typical upland bird hunting podcast. You won’t find 20, or even one minute of advertising in my episodes. I’m not trying to convince you that if you buy this gun and that ammunition you’ll become a better shot. That if your dog comes from this line and travels in that crate, he’ll be a better hunter. And if you “Friend” me, you’ll be hunting all these wonderful covers and shooting birds in numbers you’ve only dreamed of. Nope, that ain’t My Dog Hunts. My goal in presenting the My Dog Hunts podcast, is to encourage each of you to hunt - more birds - in more states – more often. And to buy more hunting licenses! I believe that the most important investment that each of us can make for the future of bird hunting, is in the purchase of multiple, bird hunting licenses. Lots and lots of licenses.Hopefully, my stories will convince you to do just that. After listening to my successes, you’ll realize that taking a daily bag limit of birds, even as a non-resident, can be a realistic goal for you. I’m as close to a trophy hunter as an upland bird hunter can be. I’ve been pursuing combination and double limits of upland birds for more than 40 years. My hunts have never been about amassing large numbers of birds in a season. I believe that season numbers are more a reflection of time, access and money. Enablers that I’ve never had in abundance. In the beginning, my interest in taking dual limits was a private matter. Dual limits have never been a recognized activity, and there’s no one out there keeping score. In fact, I don’t even have pictures of many of the dual limits I’ve taken. Those hunts were always between myself and my dogs.Then my intent changed. I continued in protest of the commercialization of upland bird hunting. All of the attempts to convince recreational hunters, that they have to spend thousands of dollars on gear, guns, dogs and access, to be successful. My stories will convince you that you don’t need to buy expensive crap to be successful. Dollars don’t make you a better hunter. Planning and practice are what it takes to be successful.You’ll find that I adhere to very strict rules in pursuing dual limits. All of my bird hunts are self-made, self-planned hunts on public and a little bit of private land. Every trip and hunt that I share is available to any of you willing to travel and walk the miles I have.  Give My Dog Hunts a listen, and start planning for your best bird season ever.

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More South Dakota Pheasants, Grouse & Huns 2024
2025/09/18
Send us a text Chaos & Mayhem Opening week of South Dakota's pheasant season.   MY DOG HUNTS - Upland BirdsThe personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
South Dakota Huns, Sharptails & Pheasants
2025/02/08
Send us a text  MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.  Chaos & Mayhem in South Dakota. Lots of grouse, huns, pheasants and hunters too! Several day hunts from five weeks spent in South Dakota last season.  "One morning I left the truck at 11:00 with Mayhem and was back before noon with the three bird limit. A clean triple of sharptails. A couple hunters stopped to chat as I was stowing birds. They said their pointers had moved about 80 birds that morning and they got one. I didn’t tell them that Mayhem flushed one covey of 7 and I shot three."  A few days having fun with my buddy Russ. A 3 species day with Chaos and a combo limit of sharps and pheasants. More South Dakota hunts in the next episode.  
Chukar, Huns & Quail in Oregon & Nevada
2025/01/02
Send us a text  MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.  Spent 8 days chasing chukar, Huns and valley quail in Oregon and Nevada. Lots of birds but not so great dog work. Still had a good time and can't wait to return next year. The quail saved the trip. Lots and lots of quail. No dual limits in this episode, but still a lot of fun.  MY DOG HUNTS - Upland BirdsThe personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Ruffed Grouse & Woodcock Combo Limit
2024/12/09
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. This was in the "good ol' days" of ruffed grouse hunting in southeast Minnesota. Back when the daily bag limit for woodcock was 5 birds. Hunting with a buddy Russ and his lab Char, we shot 19 ruffs and 14 woodcock in two days of hunting.       I had tried for several years for this combination limit. It was tough because it was a lucky day for me to even see five woodcock in a long day of hunting. I've been told that was because the majority of migraters funneled down the Mississippi River bottomlands, rather than dispersed across the landscape as they are further north. Another case of me trying to shoot birds where they weren't.       I've had good luck, sometimes underserved, that's allowed me to take a few of my dual limits, but this was exceptional luck.  
Iowa Pheasants
2024/02/27
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Several 2023 pheasant hunts in Iowa. Chaos and Maybe both got limits. Lots of birds! We even shot a few sharptails in Montana. 
Pheasant & Sharptails South Dakota 2023
2024/01/30
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Seven days hunting pheasants and sharptails in South Dakota with Maybe and Chaos. The dogs were too clownish to compliment, but with my expectations, they did just fine. We even took a couple of combo limits of grouse and pheasants.  I threw in a short story about a ruffed grouse hunting mishap that I hope won't cause you to question my sanity. 
Idaho 2023 Huns & Sharp Tails
2023/11/08
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Chaos & Maybe Exploring Idaho for next trip from Thanksgiving to Christmas.  Took a couple of newbies on sharp tail hunts (lots of birds!) and looked for better partridge hills than I've hunted in the past. Both dogs earned Story Bands for 1st Idaho Sharptail and 1st Daily Bag Limit of Idaho Sharptails.  Spent most of this fall in South Dakota for pheasants and sharptails (Maybe earned 4 new Story Bands) and Iowa for pheasants (Maybe earned two more new Story Bands). South Dakota was very good and Iowa continues to be very good. I'm sure South Dakota will be very good again, if I can make it back.  These stories will be in upcoming episodes.   
Critter's Double Limit of Pheasants, N&S Dakotas
2023/05/06
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I can't say too much good about "Critter". She hunted the tail end of the southern Minnesota/Iowa ruffed grouse years, the best Kansas and Nebraska pheasant years, and a half dozen Dakota years.  This hunt was a seat of my pants exploration into northern South Dakota. I was looking for a new area for pheasants and sharptails, and we found it. The strange thing is, in the following days, I found an even better area that I've spoken of in several other episodes. If you like pheasants and sharptails, you'll enjoy this talk. If you like springer spaniels, you'll love this hunt.    
Miss Bodet and Pheasants - Iowa, Minnesota & South Dakota
2023/04/23
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Miss Bodet, took 3-roosters in Iowa & 2 in Minnesota in the same day on public land. Then on another trip I knocked on doors in South Dakota and shot limits of pheasants for 6 days, without paying a fee.  Bo was only a couple years old on these hunts.  
RUFFED GROUSE & PHEASANTS - Minnesota Combination Limit
2023/04/10
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Yeah, I was a whole lot younger back then, and those two pups were pretty special dogs.  Critter & Woogs as pups, hunting ruffed grouse in southeast Minnesota and pheasants in southcentral Minnesota. This was the first time that I tried to take this combination limit, instead of just hoping it would happen.  There were several days over those years, that I took the 5-bird limit of ruffs, but only got one pheasant, while grouse hunting.  I finally accepted that if I was ever going to take this combination limit, I would have to drive to pheasants.  Just a few days after this hunt, I tried to duplicate the same combination limit in Iowa, with the pups. We took the 3-bird limit of ruffed grouse in Iowa in less than an hour. Shot a Hun in the first pheasant field. Had two pheasants an hour later, then chased a partial albino pheasant the rest of the day. We flushed that albino three times within 40 yards, but I never could be certain it was a rooster.  I should have just shot one of the several normal roosters the pups flushed. But that's me,  always trying to make a normal hunting day into a special one and a special day into a never before heard of day.  Well if that wasn't my nature, I wouldn't have had the special days that I talk about, and wouldn't feel like I had anything to offer on podcasts, that all the other guys aren't doing. 
"Hell-Hole Roosters" - Kansas & Nebraska Double Limit of Pheasants
2023/04/09
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I was fortunate to have hunted Kansas and Nebraska when both states had a lot of pheasants. At that time, and for decades to come, I believed this hunt was the epitome of pheasant hunting. I only surpassed this day one time, on a hunt most of you have listened to in an earlier episode.  Back in 1981, with two young dogs, Critter, a female, liver & white springer, and Woogie a female yellow lab, we took the four rooster limit in Kansas and the three rooster limit in Nebraska, seven roosters, in the same day! The three of us were fortunate to be together at a time when all species of birds in the mid-west, and private access, were plentiful. Back then, a guy could hunt anywhere from Iowa to Minnesota, and North Dakota to Kansas and find a lot, of any of the upland birds, those states allowed.  You still can in certain years, and for short periods of time, find hunting like I experienced. If you're smart, you'll make the sacrifices I made to enjoy it to the fullest. As many of you already realize, the very best, goes away, very fast. 
Prairie Chicken & Turkey Combo
2023/03/25
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Follow along on a dogless prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska. This was early in a 5 day prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska and South Dakota. It was my first attempt at a combo of 3 chickens and a fall turkey.  The previous "Double Limit of Prairie Chickens" episode, was two days after this hunt. If these two episodes don't convince you to get after prairie chickens, I feel bad for your dogs.     
Valley Quail in Idaho & Poor Season 2021
2023/03/19
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Had a solid few days hunting quail in Idaho with Chaos and Maybe. I tell you about my 2021 season and maybe you'll understand why I didn't have much to talk about.  
Idaho/Oregon Bird Hunting
2023/02/27
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Mostly chukar hunting with Chaos and my new pup Mayhem.
Coyote Calling III
2021/08/21
Send us a text MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. This episode has the best coyote calling advice anyone could give. The two most important factors for setting up your best opportunity for a successful shot. Stopping a coyote exactly where you want him and how to select the best stand location. These two practices will greatly increase your odds of killing the coyotes that respond to your calls.  And of course lots of personal anecdotes that illustrate how I learned this advice.    

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5 out of 5
11 reviews
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JDGjer 2025/09/09
Great
Just found this thanks to the birdshot podcast and I love the story telling it’s a great change from the normal podcast
★★★★★
Clareisawesome 2023/05/06
Best upland podcast!
This is a great podcast! Fun listen for the upland junkies.
★★★★★
ChasingTimber 2023/03/20
Missed ya!
I’m Glad your back! I missed your story’s!
★★★★★
russ tt 2021/12/22
My new favorite podcast
I just found this podcast and listened to the oct 2020 episode- Very informative and hilarious! I drive alot and listen to tons of bird hunting (and m...
★★★★★
padave69 2020/09/15
No commercials here.
Nice to hear a podcast that’s not a hour long infomercial on what I NEED, to be a better hunter.
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