> Here’s the article in the Colorado Springs Gazette on Colorado small game hunting opportunities…(Click Here) Setter Feathers…
Month: November 2010
Opening Day for Pride and Digby has been promoted!
It was a grand day at our game club in the high desert valley north of San Bernardino. Breezy, cool and sunny, a fine day for some chukar shooting. Pride worked four chukar and my shooting was up to her good work since all are now in the freezer awaiting some culinary magic. We also…
A fondness for fine things
An Ithica NID I refurbished with the help and patience of my good friend Terry Nicholson A wise shooting instructor and good friend of mine once told me, “there are two things in life a man should never fall in love with, bamboo and walnut.” At the time, I paid the man little mind as…
>God Made Birddogs Tuff…
>My quail-bum friend & I exchanged texts today that went something on the lines like this… birddogdoc: How many coveys did you move today? Quail-bum: No hunting today. Dogs are 3 legged and a lot of swelling and feet are sore. birddogdoc: Liar…I know you! So, how many coveys? Quail-bum: No really, hunted a pasture…
>Coveys on the Prairie Wind
>The windswept Colorado prairie is home to many creatures great and small…antelope, mule deer, pat rats, jack rabbits and most importantly, scaled quail. Double gun, bamboo, and birddog affectionado Gary Thompson from Silk Lines & Paper Hulls and I set out to the eastern Colorado plains in search of the proclaimed elusive bird of the…
>Ginny Girl Retrieving a Scaled Quail in Kansas
>This is a photo from 2007 from one of the last hunts with my favorite setter! Ginny Girl was something special… Quail country, here we come. Setter Feathers…
>William Harnden Foster
>Excerpt from Animal and Sporting Artists in America by F. Turner Reuter, Jr. © 2008: Foster was born in Andover, MA, on 22 July 1886. The son of a railroad man who was also an avid wingshooter, he grew up around shotguns and steam locomotives and retained a lifelong interest in both. He studied for…
>November
>Here are some final photos from my Idaho dream trip. A photo essay with the great words from my brother and favorite hunting partner. Andy, thanks for such a memorable trip! Enjoy… By Andrew M. Wayment [Author’s Note: With October quietly slipping away, I am beginning to think of the times to come. This piece…
Upland Ways 