EP 323: Gone To The Dogs at Autumn Oaks
In this episode, Steve includes three separate interviews captured at the 64th Annual Autumn Oaks coonhound event in Indiana. The coonhound extravaganza, held over three days on the last holiday of summer, Labor Day weekend, ushers in the fall hunting seasons for hunters from across the nation. The three days, which draws huge crowds of enthusiasts each year, represents United Kennel Club’s best effort at showcasing the core of its extensive coonhound program, Nite Hunt and Bench Show events. Prestigious National Grand Champion and Dual Champion titles are awarded only at Autumn Oaks.
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Show Notes
The episode begins with the “First Family of Autumn Oaks” consisting of Curtis Elburn and his two daughters Nikki Elburn Rorvik and Andi Elburn Emory. Curtis has attended fifty-one consecutive Autumn Oaks events dating back to 1972 and his daughters have attended thirty-eight and forty events consecutively themselves. Steve remembers the ladies as babes in strollers as their parents attended Autumn Oaks. Shortly after the interview was conducted, Andi won the prestigious National Grand Show Champion of Autumn Oaks with her Redbone Coonhound.
Newcomers Shane Richard of Idaho and Esther Weimer traveled across the nation to attend their first Autumn Oaks and present an interesting interview including their first impressions of the event and an inside look at the part UKC-registered coonhounds play in their hunts for bears and mountain lions in the American West.
Rounding out the episode is an entertaining visit with three young hunters, ages 13 through 15, from New York and Tennessee, that met at Autumn Oaks. It’s a look at the grand old event in the eyes of the future and will be much enjoyed.
This is a don’t-miss episode for those that have attended Autumn Oaks for years and for those that have never been. It’s all here, recorded live at the Event Where History Is Made.
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