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.

>Father’s Day Tribute & Campfire Chicken and Strawberry Salad

>Keith Wayment, MD (retired) on our last hunt in Idaho for chukars and huns Happy Father’s Day to all out there in Blogger Land. I’m especially grateful to my father who instilled the love of outdoor pursuits in me…bird dogs in particular! My father recently retired from 36 years of general medical practice. He was…

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>Chris Mathan & The Sportsman’s Cabinet

>I wanted to share a great photo done by my friend (& soon to be Kansas quail hunting partner-in-canine-crime…I won’t hold it against her that she hunts with pointers and hasn’t seen the true “setter- light” yet) Chris Mathan co-founded Strideaway.com and owns and operates a design and marking firm specializing in the shooting sports…

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>Day Dreaming

>I came across these drawings while looking at AYA’s website. I guess it doesn’t hurt to window shop and daydream! I got my AYA a couple years ago, and I’m still in love with my sweet Spanish gal! Here’s a link to AYA’s website…day dream away! Grouse season will be upon us in 77 short…

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>Waiting on Crow

>My river is blown. I guess that’s expected when my lonely gal is a freestoner…no man’s arms to hold her. So for now, I’m doing all the Spring cleaning and organizing and most importantly day dreaming. Inspecting the gear to make sure it’s ready for Autumn and the stories and groused adventures She’ll bring. Making…

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>Get a Bird Dog…

>“The way I figure it, dogs are the most advanced beings on the planet. They’re fully self-realized. They possess unconditional love. They forgive instantly. They’re empathetic and sympathetic. They’re incapable of guile or dishonesty. They’re always in the moment, not carrying the past or fretting about the future. Everything’s always new and wonderful. Every place…

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>Caddis & Coffee

>Spring has finally decided to settle in! Between-the-crazies as we call it…the time between the gunning season and everything else! We just pray (as gunners) to make it to another Indian summer and the uplands with pointing dogs and the devil cocker afield. Until then, I plan to hit the river as much as possible…

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>Odysseus of Groused

>Rod Crossman’s Painting (Click Here)Ogden Pleissner Painting 1905-1983Julian on the Isle of Skye, Scotland hunting woodcock Odysseus was one of the most influential Greek champions during the Trojan War, but he is most famous for the ten years it took him to return home from the war…and of course his infamous Trojan Horse trickery. Legend…

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>Eternity to Rest…

> Many a respectable person has been brought spiraling downward not by fame, fortune, greed or members of the opposite sex…but by a double smooth bore, setterdogs and wild birds in wild places. Chukars in particular. They are burned into my mental retina for eternity. I long for Indian Summer October days…when the frost triggers…

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>Upland Sporting Literature

>I’ve been collecting bird dog books now for 13 years…and many of my hunting partners and closest friends have been trying to get me to disclose my gundog book source. After L-O-N-G thought and deliberation, I’ve decided to give you all the information now that I have all of GBE’s books (11 years in the…

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