The Western Wingshooter Podcast

Jim Shockey is a LEGEND in the Outdoor world! He is a world traveler, Big game hunter, Author and Outfitter. 

He has taken over 360 different wild game species and has been in some of the most dangerous counties in the world. 

On this weeks episode we continue our Masterclass series on the Quail of Arizona! We dig deep into the Mearns Quail. From habitat to tips and tricks to help you find more of these little birds and hopefully put some in your Final Rise vest at the end of the day.

South West Quail Master Class! In this episode we talk about different tips and techniques for chasing these notorious little birds. Also check out the Patreon page at Patreon.com/b3podcast to watch the full video with hunting clips.

Since this episode was recorded we won. After hundreds of thousands of phone calls, emails, and letters written by sportsmen and women Mike Lee from Utah finally admidded defeat for now and ppulled the public land sale out of the budget bill.

In this epiosde we talk about the little things that we can do to help insure that our bird dogs can stay running at a higher level!

Kevin Bauer is the owner and man that created Furvor. Furvor is a bone broth supplement that help keep our dogs motors running at a high level.

The United States Senate has included in the "Big Beautiful Bill" a land sale of YOUR Public Lands. The time to fight is right now! They are planning on voting on this bill in the next few weeks. Now its not the 1.5 million acres that was included in the House version of this bill, now its 3.5 million acres of BLM land and forest service land. Call your Senator TODAY! 202-224-3121

On this episode we continue our species specific series. Mountian Grouse in Montana is this weeks focus. 

Primarily we talk about Blue Grouse but we do talk about both Spruce and Ruffed grouse also. George hasnt hunted them before but is very interested in them, so he asked Wess and Myself the questions that he was curious about and Wess and I did our best to answer.

About 7pm last night they removed the Public Land sale from the reconsiliation bill! This is a big win for those of us that enjoy hunting on this land. A HUGE thanks goes out to everyone that did their part in this fight. OnX Hunt deserves a huge thanks for putting their post out yesterday where they discovered it wasnt 500,000 acres set to be sold, but 1.5 million acres. 

Randy Newberg is a life long Hunter, trapper, and fisherman. He also has a long history of being one of the most outsporken public land advocates that we have.

We talk about the history of public land and previous attempts to sell it off. We spend alot of time talking about the polititians that are pushing this agenda aswell as their previous voting records on this topic.

We also talk about fishing on Fort Peck in Montana. 

Warning! This episode is going to contain some adult content! Bray is a local rancher here in North Dakota and one of my good buddies. 

We talk about hunter/ land owner relations from the land owner perspective. We try to figure out why nearly all of the private land is posted, unlike 20 years ago.

We also discuss some Do's and Don'ts as to how and when to approach a landowner to get permission.

Tim, Wess, George and Myself sit down to tell some lies and share some laughs after the first few days of the 2025 turkey season! 

The MOST asked question we get is what kind of boots do I wear....The answer is Crispi! So, we asked Lars from Crispi to join us for a poscast to chat about the new models they have coming out as well as some changes to their standbys.

We also spend a good bit of time talking about chasing chukars and other birds that are still on Lars's bucket list.

Ryan is the Director of conservation at Meateater, a public lands advocate, and on the board of directors of BHA, and host of Cal's Week In Review Podcast.

Ryan and myself dive in to alot of the issues that we are facing in relation to public lands. Cal does a great job of breaking down all the issues that are going on.

Then we switch gears and start talking about bird hunting and his dog, Snort.

Travis joins Wess and Tyler to chat about all of the events coming up at Pheasant Fest in Kansas City!

We talk about the live podcast the Flush is doing and explain the trivia game that Travis hosts. Tyler and Scott Fransen will be trying to stop George Lyall from the hat trick! 

We also talk a little Twins Baseball!

On this weeks episode we continue our series on tips and tactics. This week in honor or Pheasant Fest we cover the mighty Disco Chicken!

Tim Brown joins Wess, George and Myself to discuss the difference in early season vs late season. We also talk about the different tactics that we use to be put more birds in the bag.

You asked for it! Wess, George and Myself nerd out on Sharptails and Huns. We break down early season, mid season and late season. We also talk about shotgun shells, chokes, and gauges.

We spend alot of time talking about what weather means to numbers and tactics for succsess.