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Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Foundations podcast. I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today the Houndations podcast.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is sort of a love letter to what I consider

to be the best game bird out there, but also how that relates to dogs and the truth about

all upland hunting opportunities.

Look, we all have our favorites. I don't know, yours might be chuckers because you live out west and your

dog has a beard and that's the most challenging bird you're going to run across or i don't know

you might be from down south somewhere and while you'd give anything to have more quail to hunt

the truth is that the annual dove hunts are your favorite time to get out for me me, it's the pheasant, which I'm going to talk about today,

but I'm going to go deeper than that into dog behavior and how we can use any real type of hunt

to shape the way our dogs work for us and with us.

So buckle up because it's time to talk dogs and upland hunting.

Okay. So buckle up because it's time to talk dogs and upland hunting. As a kid, there were two hunting opportunities that took forever to come my way.

And they'll wait for both, just pure, absolute torture.

The first was in my home state of Minnesota, which is, you know,

at the time, the only state I thought I'd ever hunt because nobody ever traveled,

waiting on whitetail hunting, bow hunting. When I was a young fella, you couldn't hunt until you

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