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Hey everyone, welcome to the Houndations podcast. I'm your host, Tony Peterson. And this episode

is all about where our hunting opportunities are going and why we should all think about

planning a bird hunting trip with our pups before it's too late.

It was an attempt to buy turkey tags that spawn the idea for this podcast.

Although, if I'm being totally honest, this is a topic I think about all of the time,

not just in the bird hunting world, but in the big game world as well.

Taking a hunting trip with your dogs to experience

something you can't get at home. Think about it all the time. And it seems so simple. And quite

honestly, something that a lot of us have taken for granted. But that's a bad move in my opinion.

I'm going to tell you why right now and tell you why this should be your year to do something

out of your comfort zone with your four-legged hunting partner before it's too late.

It was during one of those random off-season phone calls with a hunting buddy where we got on a topic of spring turkeys.

That conversation prompted me to look up when

the deadline to buy a tag for Nebraska was going to be this year because I love hunting turkeys

down there. In fact, I love hunting a lot of stuff in the cornhusker state, which is something I'm

going to get into later on this episode. Anyhuski, when I looked up when the window would open

to buy one of the 10,000 tags that's offered up to non-residents in a first come-for-serve format, I saw to my surprise that it was that very day an hour and a half from the moment I looked it up.

Maybe it was coincidence, or maybe it was something in my reptile brain that reminded me to look it up after doing

pretty much the same thing, I don't know, ever since they went from over-the-counter licenses

to limited license. It doesn't matter. Because I knew that I'd get a tag since I had

remembered in time. And when I logged in a few minutes before the window opened, the virtual

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