Randy Shepard

My Dog Hunts - Upland Birds

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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...

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Randy Shepard

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Prairie Birds, Pheasants & Wilson's Snipe 15.08.2020 53:49

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I talk three different combination limits on this podcast, all including Wilson's Snipe. I know you're thinking "who cares about snipe!". All I can say is if you think dove shooting is fun you need to head to a marsh in October and hustle after some snipe. They...

Regulating the Take and Pre-season Pheasant Scouting Advice 03.08.2020 55:32

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. The real intent of states establishing daily bag and possession limits. Why you should explore outside the "best" areas as defined by game commissions. And if you're a non-resident pheasant hunter traveling to the Dakotas, Kansas or Nebraska, why you should be early...

Midwestern Pheasant Hunting 22.07.2020 1:03:27

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. I recount pheasant hunts from Kansas to North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. I've hunted pheasants from 1970 thru today, taking dual limits of pheasants all the way through the 2019 season. All self-made, self-planned hunts on public (and a little bit a private) land. Every dual...

Getting On - How to Gain FREE Access to Private Land Hunting 02.07.2020 59:12

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. If you're not knocking on doors, you're missing out on most of the best upland bird hunting opportunities in the country. As good as public lands are, they don't compare to the acreage and underhunted habitat that you can gain access to for FREE , with just a short...

Double Limit of Prairie Chickens - 3 in Nebraska & 3 in South Dakota in the Same Day! 25.06.2020 46:14

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. In addition to recounting the day I took a double limit of prairie chickens while hunting dogless in Nebraska and South Dakota, I'll share "how to" advice on hunting these birds with and without a bird dog. If I can shoot six prairie chickens in one day, while hunti...

Combination Limit - Pheasants & Prairie Chickens in Nebraska 09.06.2020 1:06:31

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Ride along with me and 8 mo. old Bo, on her first pheasant hunt. Nebraska public land treated us well as always! I don't know what a guy can say about taking a combination limit of 3-pheasants and 3-prairie chickens over an 8 mo. old Lab pup on her first pheasant hunt. Of cou...

Pheasants - North Dakota - South Dakota - Minnesota 16.05.2020 1:38:13

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. With my current lab Bo at 7 months old, we take a double limit of pheasants in North Dakota & Minnesota. The next day we take a triple limit of pheasants in North Dakota, South Dakota & Minnesota and finish with a double limit of pheasants in North Dakota and South Dakota...

Combination Limit - Sharptails & Pheasants South Dakota 07.05.2020 51:49

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. This was my first of many combination limits of sharptails & pheasants. I sprinkled in some opinion on guns and chokes. Why I attempt dual limits and hopefully a little inspiration for you to attempt a few of your own.

S1 E3 Double Limit Sharptail Grouse 05.05.2020 58:12

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Hunting sharptail grouse in the sandhills of Nebraska and southern South Dakota.

S1 E2 Ruffed Grouse & Fall Turkey 27.03.2020 50:09

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Set aside a few minutes to listen to a couple of stories on hunting ruffed grouse and fall turkey in Iowa. One hunt I call my gunny sack day with my first dog, Pitch and another hunting dogless. You'll find a few opinions sprinkled in on the relationship of turkey and ruffed...

S1 E1 Ruffed Grouse Hunting in Minnesota and Iowa 26.03.2020 1:04:53

Send us Fan Mail MY DOG HUNTS - Upland Birds The personal and online chronicle of your bird dog's hunting career. Learn how to hunt hill country ruffed grouse across northeast Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. I'll recount double limits of 5-ruffed grouse in Minnesota and 3-ruffs in Iowa in the same day. Once while hunting with a Lab and another hunt while dogless.