Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 14 segments
We are live from the Sandhills of Nebraska! I sit down in person with Matt Fruge, an accomplished upland hunter who lives in the heart of prairie grouse country. **Topics Covered:** - The challenges…
Matt FrugeGuestYeah.
And I was super proud of Creek, the dog that like, yeah, her tracking sequence on that cup, you know, or brood, whatever you want to call it.
Um, yeah.
Because we had a wild flush.
And I got up there because I was like, all right, where's your buddies at? They're around here somewhere.
And that initially didn't turn into anything.
But I could tell that, like, you know, I was telling you, she's getting that creepy, creeping cat kind of like vibe.
And her little nub was just going 100 miles an hour.
And I was like, this is not...
The sparrows and meadowlarks we've been messing around with.
This is not nothing.
This is like something else.
And now it seems like those birds have probably been up there all morning just kind of loafing around, feeding.
And I think, you know, this was nine o'clock.
So they might have been done feeding at that point, kind of tucked in.
But they were they were all tight.
I mean, within a. two by two foot square there was four birds sitting there um and but yeah she locked them down walked up there beautiful flush and uh you know just didn't finish the final part of it you know but that's
but you
yeah yeah and i was like you know, apologizing to her, but like, I also know she does not care.
Like she, like for her, the fun is in the find.
That's right.
And so really it's me just apologizing to myself is what I'm realizing.
And so, so yeah, I know that like I, you know, you just, like I said, you just keep grinding and it'll, it'll eventually pay off.
Yeah.
And I was super proud of Creek, the dog that like, yeah, her tracking sequence on that cup, you know, or brood, whatever you want to call it.
Um, yeah.
Because we had a wild flush.
And I got up there because I was like, all right, where's your buddies at? They're around here somewhere.
And that initially didn't turn into anything.
But I could tell that, like, you know, I was telling you, she's getting that creepy, creeping cat kind of like vibe.
And her little nub was just going 100 miles an hour.
And I was like, this is not...
The sparrows and meadowlarks we've been messing around with.
This is not nothing.
This is like something else.
And now it seems like those birds have probably been up there all morning just kind of loafing around, feeding.
And I think, you know, this was nine o'clock.
So they might have been done feeding at that point, kind of tucked in.
But they were they were all tight.
I mean, within a. two by two foot square there was four birds sitting there um and but yeah she locked them down walked up there beautiful flush and uh you know just didn't finish the final part of it you know but that's
but you
yeah yeah and i was like you know, apologizing to her, but like, I also know she does not care.
Like she, like for her, the fun is in the find.
That's right.
And so really it's me just apologizing to myself is what I'm realizing.
And so, so yeah, I know that like I, you know, you just, like I said, you just keep grinding and it'll, it'll eventually pay off.
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