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EP 81: Gone to the Dogs with a Connecticut Yankee

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In this episode Steve joins a fellow cooner who has forsaken the great hunting opportunities of his home state of Indiana for the challenges of hunting coons in one of the nation’s smallest-in-land-mass states and also one of the most-heavily populated, the State of Connecticut.

David Schmidt is known by coon hunters nationally as the producer of the popular Tailgate Adventures tv show of a few years back and is also the founder of a national tree dog association.

In the conversation, Steve draws comparisons to Mark Twain’s 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.  The tale’s protagonist, Hank Morgan, was an engineer as is Schmidt.  Each was transported to a foreign land to face untold adventures.  The conversation between Fielder and Schmidt veers off the literary path to explore Schmidt’s affinity for Clover-bred Walkers, the comparisons of hunting in Connecticut to the Midwest, his son Alex’ achievements in UKC’s youth program, and finishes with a discussion between friends about things that didn’t work out as they hoped.   The determination Schmidt shows to pursue his sport despite the odds, is inspiring and worth the price of the ticket.  Pop the corn and let’s take a trip to the Nutmeg State, or if you will, the Land of Steady Habits.   

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