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Episode 6: Seize The Moment Outdoors with Dave Mayers

Author
Ryan Lynton
Published
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theuplandsocial/episodes/Episode-6-Seize-The-Moment-Outdoors-with-Dave-Mayers-e34k6gf

Dave Mayers is a Pennsylvania native, where he cut his teeth bird hunting behind his friend's close working black labradors. He hunted ruffed grouse and wild pheasants in the PA hills before moving to Missouri in 1986. Dave also spent a couple of years in central Wisconsin. 

Since 1996, he has walked behind his own german short-haired pointers and has been fortunate enough to travel with them to several Midwestern and Western states, chasing pheasants, woodcock, bobwhite quail, ruffed grouse, and a few sharp tails. Dave retired as fisheries biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation in 2014 and has had more time to devote to his dogs and see what awaits them over the next rise.


Topics covered include:

  • ​Living with bird dogs in the house
  • ​Hunting the woodcock migration in the Ozarks
  • ​Fish habitat overlapping with upland bird habitat
  • ​Making "micro hunts" out of large group hunts
  • ​The mysteries of the American Woodcock


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