You're listening to an IHeart podcast.

You're listening to the Sportsman's Nation podcast network brought to you by Interstate Batteries.

Now, it's that time of year where we are trying to organize and prep and plan for the upcoming season.

And some of the gear that we use takes batteries. Now you should go visit your local interstate

battery store or visit interstate batteries.com to check out all the different varieties of batteries

that they offer. They have truck batteries. They have batteries for your trail cameras. They have

batteries for your range finder and everything else that is electronic that you use for your hunting equipment. They have batteries for that. Interstatebattaries.com. Awesome company. Check them out.

So I will regret forever the crosses that I did not make with, you know, with them.

That's a good statement right there.

You'll never regret a cross that you did make because you can correct it,

but you do regret the crosses that you didn't make from dogs that are long gone.

They're gone, yeah.

I mean, the list goes on on.

There's no other animal in the world that has to be bred to such a consistency of high caliber as what a trail hound.

A big game hound is, to me.

And so far no one has contradicted that statement, by the way.

I mean, you know, a show dog

has to look pretty in the ring, you know, but that's all. If it's legal run hounds, you can turn

your plots after them. That's right. Okay.

Okay. My name is Clay Newcomb, and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast.

I'll also be your host into the world of hunting the icon of North American wilderness.

We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you into some of the wildest country on the planet chasing bear.

...