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Gone To The Dogs - Legend Series: Jim Meeks

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Sportsmen's Empire Outdoor Network

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4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Gone To The Dogs Podcast introduces its Legend Series of recordings with the nation’s best known and most revered raccoon hunters occupying the guest spot. This week the podcast features one of the sports most respected and longest running breeders of Treeing Walker Coonhounds, as Steve brings the renown Jim “Wildman” Meeks to the Gone To The Dogs microphone.   Meeks, a first ballot inductee into the North Carolina State Coon Hunters Hall of Fame, is possessed of a wealth of knowledge in all areas of the coon hunting game.  Steve and Jim, besides being contemporaries in age, have been friends for many years.  A visit with Jim Meeks is like experiencing a real, live family reunion each time the pair gets together. With hunting seasons upon us, this one is for listeners that coon hunt simply for the love of the hounds and features one of the true purists in our sport, the incomparable Wildman Meeks.  Enjoy.  We would like to thank those who support this podcast.  Special thanks to Double U Hunting Supply for sponsoring this episode.   www.dusupply.com https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleUHuntingSupply/podcasts Our Sponsors: * Check out Thompson Cigars and use my code SE for a great deal: https://thompsoncigar.com * Check out Troll Co Clothing and use my code EMPIRE25 for a great deal: https://www.trollco.com/hunting Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

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Enter the discount code SE15 for 15% off. Where's Gilder?

1:05.3

He's gone to the dogs.

1:09.4

Welcome to the Gone to the Dogs podcast.

1:12.3

We're reaching up, as the case may be for me, to the state.

1:17.1

Well, wait a minute, Jim, I always go through this.

1:20.8

Are you in South Carolina or North Carolina?

1:25.1

North Carolina.

1:26.3

North Carolina.

1:27.2

I know you dabbled down there in South Carolina for a while, and then you came back, right?

1:34.3

Right.

1:35.6

Yeah, North Carolina.

1:37.5

I spend a lot of time talking to people in North Carolina.

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