HISTORIC DUCK HUNTING STORIES THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUCK HUNTING

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Most duck hunters want to know what happened in the olden and golden days when the old timers pursued their love of duck hunting, but not everyone has the time nor patience to read through a bunch of books and outdoor journals. So, sit back and relax as a passionate duck hunter of 60 years, Wayne Capooth, author of eleven historical waterfowling books and outdoor writer, recaps from his 40 years of research the hidden riches and treasures of duck hunting by the old timers, who sadly have all passed away! The podcast will cover all facets of duck hunting.

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E52 THE HOLY GRAIL OF PUNT GUNS

Jun 05 2024 26 mins

Hopefully, someone can unravel the two great mysteries of this extraordinary and historic relic--a monstrous three-barreled punt gun: where is and what happened to this Holy Grail of a unique and unusual monstrous punt gun and who was the gunmaker Lizerad?

E51 ROCKET MAN

Mar 18 2024 26 mins

Many gave him the sobriquet the “Rocket Man,” the one who developed the Saturn V rocket that put six teams of American astronauts on the moon from 1969 to 1972. He was the father and superstar of our space program. Werhner von Braun and three others flew from Huntsville, Alabama to Walnut Ridge AFB, where they drove to Jonesboro on December 26, 1959. The four traveled to Wallac

E50 MISSISSIPPI RIVER CANADA GOOSE HUNTING AND INTERGLACIAL WARMING

Feb 22 2024 30 mins

Mud flats of the river islands and the sandbar inlets were where sports found Canada geese during the olden times. All along the Mississippi River and its tributaries were located numerous islands and sandbars that were the feeding and wintering grounds for Canada geese for many years immemorial, and since pioneer days it was noted for the goose shooting it afforded. In the olden d

E 49 IN THE LAND OF SWEET REMEMBRAN CES

Feb 06 2024 17 mins

A TIME TO REFLECT When the shadows from the hills have gown longer, caused by the departing sun, kindly reflect of your days spent amid the solitude of Mother Nature, which were the sweetest enjoyment to you. Sometime, somewhere, in that undiscovered paradise high in the heavens whose scenes are painted by His hand, shall you find a happy hunting ground where the axe of the lumberm

E48 PLOVER JOE AND DE PLOV

Jan 23 2024 42 mins

There lived in Chicago an Italian about 40 years of age in 1890, who kept a little fruit store on Wabash Avenue, and was known in the game market and among Chicago sportsmen by the sobriquet of “Plover Joe” or “Italian Joe” as he was interchangeably called. His real name was Joseph Paoli. He was considered the authority on one particular bird of passages, having hunted gold

E47 THE PUNT OR STANCHION GUN--THE DEATH DESTRUCTOR

Jan 09 2024 65 mins

It is common wisdom that most everyone believes that the punt or stanchion gun, also known as the big gun, saw its beginning in England. In the podcast, I give some history of the punt/stanchion/big gun along with a few of my thoughts on why, how, where, and when the punt gun originated and the general area where it originated. With this podcast, it surely looks like that big guns

E46 THE PREHISTORIC FEARLESS WANDERER OF THE SKY

Dec 26 2023 34 mins

Hearkening back to the Pleistocene epoch, symbolizing good fortune, fidelity, and longevity, the distinctive large winged, long necked, and long-legged sandhill cranes with crimson foreheads are known throughout the world for their mesmerizing courtship dances, their calling, oftentimes heard for three miles away and described as bulging, rattling, or croaking, their longevity, shy

E45 PART II CHICAGO THE KLEINMAN BROTHERS AND THE TREMONT HOTEL

Dec 12 2023 50 mins

In 1855, in the springtime, John B. Drake came to Chicago from Cincinnati. Having saved enough money prior to his arrival in Chicago, he purchased a quarter interest in the Tremont House in 1855. He became the sole owner in 1868. What better way to harness the local resources and build his reputation in a new city, Drake thought, than by hosting an elaborate game-dinner party for

E44 CHICAGO THE KLEINMAN BROTHERS AND THE TREMONT HOUSE PART I

Nov 28 2023 34 mins

PART I In 1801, Chicago was a swamp. From 1823 to 1832, Chicago was merely an Indian Agency; an agent of the American Fur Company. David McKee, resident of Chicago during these early times, referred to the Chicago River when he recalled: “Over it hovered wild geese, ducks and sandhill cranes in vast flocks, and pelicans and swans were sometimes seen.” In 1825, the year the Erie

E43 TOLING

Nov 14 2023 41 mins

There was one style of fowling that was practiced in America, named toling, which was as curious in performance as it was interesting. It probably came closer to the system of the duck decoy as practiced by the Dutch and English as any of the arts employed by the people of a foreign country for the capture of waterfowl. The American fashion of toling/tolling/toleing probably began