Setter Tales Podcast
Setter Tales Podcast is an interview format show with friends trading stories and experiences about their outdoor adventures and beloved gun dogs. Subjects are fun, entertaining, and often educational. Host Wade Kisner speaks with guests of various backgrounds: Hunter, Breeder, Veterinarian, other experts, or just regular folk who have a passion for the outdoors.
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Tom Riccardi didn’t grow up hunting but was given an opportunity to accompany a college friend on a waterfowl hunt and was hooked. Tom found the many preparations of equipment leading up to the hunt, the early mornings to deploy decoys on that special spot with a good friend and dog an experience he had to repeat. Over the years Tom has expanded his hunting to include pheasant hunting and he can be found chasing ringnecks in Kansas...
Brad grew up in Corydon, Iowa where as a youth he learned to hunt both pheasants and quail. After high school Brad’s life journey led him to play college football in South Dakota where he excelled at sports and immersed himself in the pheasant hunting gundog lifestyle that flourished there. To earn extra money during the summer breaks, Tom began training hunting dogs and his abilities led to opportunities to work for and learn from...
As a youth growing up in Mound City, Missouri, Pete Clegett took advantage of the abundance of water fowl hunting opportunities and became a regular in many of the goose pits. An early fascination with duck and goose calling led Pete to learn from veteran callers and develop a style of his own. His ability at deceiving ducks became legendary and sent him into calling competition. At the age of 17 Pete won the Missouri State Calling...
On this episode, Wade is the subject of our series Memories From the Field!
Wade reminiscences about his first dog as a child, growing up on a farm, hunting as a family tradition, and more!
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Steve Nash grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and learned many outdoor skills related to hunting and fishing from his Uncle, Jack Brown. He has many fond memories calling in ducks and geese and the camaraderie that can only be found in a goose pit with family and close buddies. Steve fondly recalls the annual pheasant hunting trips to Viborg, South Dakota in the late fifties.
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Steve Hornung grew up in Iowa Falls, Iowa and was exposed to pheasant hunting at an early age. Steve learned about bird hunting and dogs from his uncle. This experience created a life long love of bird hunting which continues this day. As a career educator Steve found himself living in rural areas of Iowa where pheasant hunting was very popular.
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Larry Wray is a life long resident of Poweshiek County having grown up in Grinnell, Iowa. Early in his youth Larry’s family exposed him to hunting and fishing and were instrumental in his life long love of the outdoors. Pheasant hunting became one of his passions and he has passed that on first to his son, and now to his grandson. Join us for some special dog stories of his preferred breed, Britney Spaniels.
Steve Miller, 83 years old, grew up in Boone, Iowa and was first exposed to upland bird hunting in the early 1950’s tagging along with his best friend, Larry and Larry’s Dad. Pheasants were plentiful and getting a limit of birds was easily accomplished even without a dog. Like many youth beginning hunters, Steve purchased a .410 single shot shotgun which he used to bag his first rooster along the railroad tracks behind his family h...
Wade shares stories with Bob Harken about bird hunting in Iowa Falls and growing up and working around farmers.
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Wade sits down with veteran Bill Cammarata to share stories about growing up hunting in Pennsylvania, good hunting dogs and passing down the tradition of hunting as it was passed down to him.
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Wade travels to Hendersonville, Tennessee to have a chat with Ed Laneville about growing up in Iowa and hunting for the first time in his youth.
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Ryan Shoop shares some memories from his time growing up in Eastern Iowa.
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Ray Stefani sits down with Wade to talk growing up hunting to eat, and sweet memories of beloved past dogs.
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Dick Heft grew up on a farm in rural Floyd County Iowa. The family farm provided the perfect habitat for pheasants and early in his life Dick was exposed to bird hunting with his family and their dog. After taking his first rooster, Dick was hooked on upland hunting and at age 78 he continues to enjoy being in a field with good hunting dogs and a fine shotgun. Join us as Dick shares his “Memories from the Field”
Kineti...Wade sits with Greg Johnston in studio to reminisce about the days of growing up in south-western Wisconsin with nine siblings. A neighbor boy introduces his family to hunting squirrel hunting that starts a life-long passion of working with field dogs.
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Ed Rader takes us on the journey of his original electronic collar invention and as well as some insight into the "immoral" pheasant.
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Jim Smith, 80, remembers what it was like hunting in Iowa back in the 1970s-1980s. He and several friends would walk farm fields hunting pheasants, describing a time when the skies were dark with birds. Join us for some Memories From the Field!
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Ross Baxter takes time to discuss the finer points of the 501c Non-Profit Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. The foundation protects and restores Iowa's land, water and wildlife while always looking for more people and ways to preserve habitat for the public!
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Wade and Tomas return from hiatus to discuss their goings on and looking forward to material for the show.
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Michael Mapes has a particular kinship with bird dogs. Dogs that had a rough go, some through multiple placements without a forever home. He takes them under his training and realizes their potential to be good bird dogs, and wonderful family pets. That is the mission behind Second Chance Bird Dogs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Lakeview, Michigan, regardless of breed or temperament. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/60258710763...
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