BHA Podcast & Blast, Episode 169: Mouthful of Feathers

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

If you are an upland bird hunter with a yen for great writing and vividly lived experiences, you have probably been reading the Mouthful of Feathers crew -- Tom Reed, Marissa Jensen and Greg McReynolds -- on the internet since 2009. Whether you have or have not, you are in for a treat.

Join us for a celebration of wild birds and wild dogs and their first publication, in a book that you can hold in your hands, of the best of the best of the Mouthful of Feathers short essays and stories.

The book is the perfect off-season reading: 20 writers from all walks of life and all over North America. It’s old friends and old and young dogs, venerable old double barrels and pawnshop pump shotguns with stocks cracked from a tumble down the chukar’s steepest basalt. It’s bobwhites and sharptails, Huns and timberdoodles and Mearn’s, from the southern longleaf to the rain-soaked poplars of Michigan, the Sandhills to the Madrean Sky Islands.

And the conversation in epidode 169 of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ Podcast & Blast is one hell of a good time.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, hey everybody. Hal Herring, brief intro to today's podcast, which I'm proud to get.
0:06.6	Tom Reed and I, a mouthful of feathers, have been working on getting this together for about six seven months and I wanted to let you know that Tom
0:19.0	Due to the vagaries of December weather in the tobacco root mountains of Montana is lost at about
0:26.4	minute 52 or so. So don't think that he's totally disappeared. I got him on a
0:32.4	cell phone later and he is among the living and fine. But we did lose him off the podcast, so he's not there after 52 minutes. The book we're talking about today is,
0:44.8	Mouth Full of Feather's Upland in America.
0:47.7	Anybody who has been following the Mouth Full of Feather's blog
0:51.3	since 2009 will recognize some of the voices here and I wanted just to get this
1:00.0	in because if you want to buy this book after you listen to the
1:03.8	podcast or before you can find it on Amazon it's got some great writing in it they're
1:10.6	short compressed bignettes I've been reading them for the last couple months.
1:16.0	Just a lot of good stuff on up and bird hunting guns, dogs, family, mortality, all of it. And you can get it, find it on Amazon, you buy it, it's a,
1:29.7	it's a published on demand, you will get a hard copy of the book in the mail.
1:34.0	1699 and it's a great addition to a bookcase.
1:40.0	I've had mine sitting by the chair by the wood stove the last couple of weeks getting ready for reading this and also getting ready for this podcast but also just reading it with a lot of sense of pleasure and connection really.
1:54.0	So check it out.
1:55.9	Thanks for being here.
1:56.8	Thanks for listening to the podcast.
1:58.9	I will say one of the coolest things
2:00.8	that I was able to witness.
2:03.5	We actually saw quite a few Harriers in the field that day and it was a rooster and a harrier
2:10.5	just going after one another and peeled off and hid into the sunflowers and I said
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