The Big Honker Podcast

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Army Veteran Bear Bronaugh. After serving overseas and battling through PTSD, and multiple stretches in treatment facilities Bear is now in a place where helping other veterans is his top priority. Bear has now teamed up with The Fallen Outdoors in an attempt to reach veterans in need and get them into the outdoors. He is also participating in the Hotter’N Hell bike ride in Wichita Fall, Tx, in observation of the 22 Veterans that commit suicide each day.

Join the crew at Stanfield Hunting Outfitters as they switch gears to chase pheasants... West Texas style. When you live in a place that is absent of pheasants and your clients want pheasant hunting, you bring them the pheasants. Bentley Murdock, pheasant guide at SHO, brings you along as he gets everything ready for the clients pheasant hunt after a slow morning of waterfowl hunting.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by one of the owner of Pacific Calls, Trevor Austin. Trevor and his crew are burning down the roads in North Dakota scouting for one more goose hunt before heading back to Minnesota for the last weekend of Game Fair 2023.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by professional outdoors photographer, avid hunter and conservationist, Sam Soholt, who is getting ready to launch his annual Stamp It Forward project. Each year the Stamp It Forward program raises thousands of dollars for habitat conservation. The guys discuss what Stamp It Forward 2023 is going to look like and ways to donate, they look at the rise in AI and how it could impact creators, Sam tells of his Turkey Tour from the past spring, and they try to find ways to fight the decline in hunter numbers.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by hunter and outdoorsman, Shawn Keeton. One morning, after showing up for a goose hunt several hours early, Shawn and his hunting partner witnessed something that neither could explain, something that also woke the dog up from a dead sleep and caused her to go into a frenzy once this person or creatures feet started its sprint onto gravel.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by ‘Coyote Man’ Clay Reid. Clay is a world class coyote hunter and a once in a generation storyteller. This episode is packed with more hilarious stories from Clay’s younger days and the lessons that were learned through immense struggle.

Every waterfowl hunter has that once in a lifetime hunting dog... Lou is that dog for Andy Shaver and his young family. Lou is from one of the last litter of puppies to come from Andy's grandfather, Ron Stanfield's, bloodline, Lame Duck Retrievers. This episode follows one dogs journey from adorable puppy, full of potential, to a phenomenal hunting dog that closing in on the final years of his retrieving career. Proud Sponsors of The First Family of Waterfowl: Boss Shot Shells - @ Chêne Gear - @ Double T British Kennels - @ Looking Glass Podcast - @ Lucky Duck - @ Mossberg - @ Pacific Calls - @ Stanfield Hunting Outfitters - https://stanfieldhunting.com

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Travis Schneider, owner of Northern Prairie Outfitters in Alberta, Canada. The guys discuss the upcoming waterfowl season and the mindset it takes to make it through a full hunting season. They talk about Travis’ playing days at Texas A&M and how the game of football has advanced, and Travis shares about his off season passion of hitting that field trails circuit.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Ben Commodore, owner of Cloud 9 Outfitters in Alberta, Canada. The guys discuss Ben stepping out on his own and launching his very own guide service, chasing snow geese into the month of May, bucket list hunts, modern day human ignorance towards wild animals, and Ben shares his philosophy on training labradors for waterfowl hunting.

Dr. Philip Lavretsky explains why certain species of male ducks gained their bright colors.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Robert Williams who is the oldest deer breeder in Texas. A few of his deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease two years ago and he has been in a battle against Texas Parks and Wildlife ever sense in hopes of coming to a sensible conclusion to the matter that won’t result in the extermination of his entire stock.

The family switches gear and begins their long journey through waterfowl season by chasing some early season specklebelly geese. Long time friends and clients join them in the peanut fields of West Texas for a textbook morning of goose hunting. Then, the tides turn on Andy Shaver & Josh Stoner when a lack of wind has the team of guides scrambling to make a series of changes to their decoy spread in order to finish the flocks of geese. Proud Sponsors of The First Family of Waterfowl: Boss Shot Shells - https://bossshotshells.com Chêne Gear - https://chenegear.com Double T British Kennels - https://britlabs.com Looking Glass Podcast - https://patreon.com/LGPOD Lucky Duck - https://luckyduck.com Mossberg - https://mossberg.com Pacific Calls - https://pacificcustomcalls.com Stanfield Hunting Outfitters - https://stanfieldhunting.com

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Dr. Philip Lavretsky, who is a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. They discuss the pintail decline and the northern expansion of the Mexican Tree duck, what forced male ducks manifest bright colors, human impact on where waterfowl migrate, and what the first duck might have looked like millions of years ago.

A close call for one of the most famous poachers while inside the King Ranch! #deerhunting #outdoors

A look back on some of the craziness from the past 5 years with some of our all time favorite guests! #TheBigHonkerPodcast Sound by: joystock.org

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver recap the wild weekend of hunting shows. Jeff was at Delta’s show in Little Rock and Andy was braving the elements at SquadFest. They look back on some highlights from the weekend and then the guys discuss the state of the running back market in the NFL, the Senate Oversight Committee meeting on UFO’s, potential changes to hunting on waterways in Texas, and Mitch McConnell freezing mid speech.

The crew starts waterfowl season with a bang... and several headaches!

The folks at The Big Honker Lodge were blessed to be able to share their passion for hunting and the outdoors with 4 kids who lost their fathers in combat overseas. The kids brought along a few loved ones to share the weekend dove hunting in West Texas and eating like royalty at the lodge. In addition to dove hunting, the kids were surprised with a once in a lifetime helicopter hog hunt, provided by Cedar Ridge Aviation, and each kid also walked away with tons of hunting products from some top notch sponsors. Being able to give back in this tiny way led to this being one of the most rewarding weekends during the 2022-2023 hunting season at The Big Honker Lodge. Proud sponsors of the Gold Star Hunt: Boss Shot Shells Cedar Ridge Aviation Chêne Gear Dirty Duck Coffee Dive Bomb Industries Ducks Unlimited Looking Glass Podcast Lucky Duck Mossberg Pacific Calls Stanfield Hunting Outfitters Toe Tags LLC Ultimate Veteran Adventures

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver talk with one of the nations top linebacker recruits coming into this football season, Payton Pierce. Payton has committed to playing football at Ohio State and is looking forward to a productive senior year of high school football. The guys discuss what led him to choose Ohio St. over many of the nations other premiere programs, the NIL, working out with players from the Dallas Cowboys, and what has driven him to becoming such a sought after recruit. Payton is also one of the country’s top rated wrestlers and he explains how wrestling has improved his skill set on the football field.