>My second article on Canine Reproduction : the breeding soundness of the male dog was recently posted to Strideaway.com. Photo of 1938 National Champion Air Pilot’s Sam by William Harnden Foster–courtesy of author Tom Davis Tom Davis writes for many of my favorite magazines…his book The Tattered Autumn Sky should be included in your literary…
Author: birddogdoc
Have bird dogs...will travel. I enjoy chasing my setters and FB English Cocker in wide open spaces. (Fly fishing is something to get me between the bird dog seasons!)When not chasing my bird dogs, I'm thinking, reading or writing about bird dogs! The perfect day to me is hunting upland birds with my brother Andy in the bird rich Uplands of Idaho! There's nothing better than dogs on point and puppy breath! I love the tradition associated with upland gunning and birddogs. I'm also a classic America double gun enthusiast...nothing like carrying a 100+ y/o smooth bore on the short-grass prairie.
>Armstrong-Umbel Endurance Classic
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>Future Setter Man
> My grandson Liam with his new setter dog from Northwoods Bird Dogs
>Follow’n My Folly
> Avoiding black ice and traffic the other day while listening to the drone & thumps from the interstate cracks, I saw a New Belgium Brewing Company truck. The makers of Fat Tire had plastered the catchphrase of Follow Your Folly. Ours is Beer. obtrusively upon their beer carriage. Well, my folly isn’t beer, but…
>A Tale of Two Temperatures
>My brother Andy (the poet) and I spent the last weekend of the bird season on the Kansas prairie in the company of bobwhite quail. The weather was great…great…great, if you want to hit 18 holes. It was too warm for bird dogs in pursuit of our favorite game bird (or at least mine). We…
The Yardstick
Photo: birddogdoc The prairie is lonely, an environment thunderous with silence where only a strident high-pitched scream of wind keeps you company. On this day, I come to test my skill, to confront the elements and measure my conviction to find a needle in a haystack. Can a man find a quail on the prairie…
>Windmills
> I spend too much time raiding windmillsWe go side by sideLaughing until it’s right There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesTake the darkest hour-break it openWater to repair what we have broken There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesBaby anywhere the wind blowsIt’s all worth waiting for Pull…
>A View From the Kansas Prairie
>The remaining days of the bird season are coming to an end. I’ve enjoyed following my bird dogs across the Kansas prairie and dream of setter feathers in the wind and the roaring whirr of a 50 birder erupting from the short grass…organized-chaotically escaping. It’s been a grand season. My dogs are thin and worn,…
>Making of a Bird Dog
>Quail are the perfect bird to make a bird dog. I’ve seen several dogs have their lights flip and shine brightly while in pursuit of these delectable birds. I’ve also witnessed some season veterans go berserk. My first pointer, Jibbers, lost her mind once on a thousand bird covey of valley quail on the Snake…
>Bird Dog on a Hill…
>Today, being Christmas and all, I have a confession to make. I’m plum nuts about a 6 ounce hand full of feathers…not just any bird, but one that holds nice for pointin’ dogs and can explode and be gone in a mere blink of an eye. Leaving one standing with smokin’ barrels and nothing to…
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!
As most of you wind down your hunting seasons, or have already been snowed out, I am looking forward to several months of high desert adventuring with Pride and Joanne. BUT, The Grinch has entered the picture here too. Not cold enough last weekend to bring snow to the 3400 ft elevation the valley where…
Upland Ways 