>I just returned home from one of the greatest hunting trips I’ve ever experienced…3,700 miles round trip to southern Idaho to hunt upland birds with my brothers (who are my dearest & closest friends). My bird dogs are lying motionless on the bed next to me…plum worn to the bone. They cover hundreds of miles…
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.
Where Has The Old Man Been All Summer?
Much to Pride the Wonder Dog’s disgust I have spent the spare moments all Spring and Summer of 2010 indulging in the new passion. After ending a brief return to skeet due to that danged arthritis, last December I took up trap shooting. Where has this little diversion been all my life? I shot a…
>A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac by Mark Parman
>I recently received this book…and so far, I’m really enjoying the read. I’m off to southern Idaho this weekend for 2 weeks of setter chasing…and have my secrete weapon in tow (the FB English Cocker). Stay tuned for groused tales and loads of photographs! Setter Feathers…
Ramblings: By Michael Altizer
Re-printed with permission from Bernard & Associates from Sporting Classic’s Oct 2010 Issue. Enjoy! The Au Sable springs from Otsego and Roscommon and then consolidates itself near Grayling before venturing forth on its long ramble home to Lake Huron. Along its tangled edges the dark forest rises deep and verdant in random stands of popple…
>Grouse Pot Pie
>Grouse Pot Pie (adapted by Grouse Aficionado & Brittany Man Mark Kastler) Ingredients: 1 and ½ cups of sliced mushrooms (of your choice)1 cup of peppers mixed green and red1 chopped sweet onion1 clove of minced garlic1/3 cup of butter1/2 cup of all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon of paprika and pepper3 cups chicken broth 1/2…
>That Sweet Season
>“The good Hun dog is a shifty, grinning character who looks back for his hunter every time he sniffs birds and is impatient if you are too slow. A real canine martinet has been known to purposely jump birds when his hunting party dawdles. I have attempted open-country Huns with a cultured English pointer who…
>Grouse Vigilantes
>I just love chasing blue grouse in September here in colorful Colorado. The trick is discovering at what altitude the grouse are residing on the day you’re chasing them as they migrate to the higher elevations for winter. I found the coveys at 9,754 ft yesterday still in the wide-open sage and buck brush feeding…
>Montana Sporting Journal Wingshooting 2010
>A client sent me an email the other day to inform me that his bird dog, Rocky, got 15 minutes of fame…he’d made the cover of the Montana Sporting Journal’s Wingshooting issue 2010. Of course, I had to get my hands on a copy. I searched all the local bookstores high and low to no…
>GrouseCapades
> Two flat tires in one day of grouse hunting…what are the odds? Any day in the grouse woods with bird dogs is special despite the tire fiascos. We searched high and low in text-book perfect blue grouse habitat, but never saw a grouse! We didn’t care, it was a great weekend to be alive…
>Colorado Blues & other Blogger Happenings
>What’s better than opening day in the Colorado Rockies with bird dogs in tote? Not much! 70 degrees and blue bird skies with a slight cool September breeze was the perfect weather to kick off the grouse season. The morning started with my alarm going off at 2 am. A whorl-wind commute through the mountains…
>Glorious September First
>Just got back from Colorado blue grouse country. Glorious day. More details to follow… Setter Feathers…
>Gone Grousing Colorado Style…Stay Tuned!
>Colorado Greenback Cutthroat About The Western Native Trout InitiativeWith few exceptions, native trout populations have declined across the West, usually due to two general factors: habitat alteration and introduced non-native fish. Remaining native trout populations are often isolated from one another and exposed to increased predation, competition, and hybridization. Continued human population growth, coupled with…
Upland Ways 