>Chukars are my nemesis! They’re certainly not a gentleman’s bird by any standards. They run up hill just to turn around and jet right back to where you just came from. About the time you think you’ve got them figured out…they embarrass you again and again. Chukars are bird I love to hate! And the…
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.
A Lab a day keeps the Dr. away.
Dear Folks, Myself, Emma and friends, enjoyed a great day pheasant shooting last saturday, only for me to go down with a particularly nasty flu bug the following day. Is it Swine flu? In all honesty I don’t know, but it has certainly put me out of the hunting loop for a few days. I…
>Jambalaya Rebuttal
>Both of the above photographs are from my friend Nancy Whitehead…Sporting dog photographer extraordinaire Shawn-It’s time you stopped cooking minute rice out of a box, brother. Here’s the real deal and it takes the same time as your hamburger helper version (under 20 minutes, not including the making of homemade stock which is a project…
>Charamba
>Charamba is a traditional Portuguese dance from the XIXth century…it is an elegant, graceful dance, and it reminds me of pointing dogs and birds…of course, birds being quail. Quail in this case are of the scaled variety. Today, I fixed the birds from Thursday one of my favorite ways…and yes, it’s from a box! I…
>Bird Dogs & Optimism
> Have you ever noticed that bird dogs like their upland addict counterparts are an optimistic lot? We continue to trudge on & on in order to discover birds on the next hill & dale…or over on the cholla flats F-I-V-E miles from where you are currently standing. Tongue’s tough like boot leather, stuck to…
>”Invictus” by William E. Henley
>I was reminded today of my favorite poem by William E. Henley. The words to this poem ring true. Unconquerable! We are the masters of our own destiny…even in leans times! Thank you for reminding me! Invictus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever…
Better weather for pheasants.
Better weather for Pheasants. After days of torrential rain the weather finally broke, and yesterday, we enjoyed a beautiful day working the dogs on pheasants at a local estate shoot. The day dawned cold and frosty with a temperature reading of -2 C on the thermometer. For the first time this autumn I found a…
>Dann Jacobus
>Dann Jacobus’ Fence Line Flush made the cover of the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of the PDJ. I enjoyed the picture so much! It reminded me of chasing wily roughneck-roosters while I was in veterinary school in Eastern Washington with my very first crazy pointing dog…Jibbers! To find out more about Dann and his outstanding art…
>The Wordsmith…Julian and his Lovelies
>My friend and fellow contributor to Upland Equations recently sent me these photographs from his last weeks upland adventure. Julian and his significant other Emma spend a great deal of their spare time training bird dogs…a couple after my own heart. Below are Julian’s words of the weekend… Hi Shawn, Hopes all’s going well, and…
Great weather for ducks!
Dear All, Apologies for not having posted in a while, but my career as an amateur sporting writer has taken off with surprising speed, and that, along with the furniture making business, has kept me rather busy! No one is more surprised about the writing than I, believe me, ( no, really!) I cannot thank…
>William G. Tapply 1940-2009: Loss of a Great Outdoor Writer!
>I read with great sadness last night of the loss of one of my favorite outdoors writers of all times, William G. Tapply. I hadn’t heard the news until yesterday when I picked up the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of American Angler and read the news on the Editor’s Page. Bill’s writing touched many outdoor sports-peoples…
>Emile and Remy: Training with Gary Ruppel
>My good friend and hunting partner Mark Thompson recently acquired a new member of the family…a French Brittany from the author of “A Hunter’s Road” Jim Fergus. Here are some photos of Remy and Emile with gun dog trainer extraordinaire Gary Ruppel. I can hardly wait to get in the field with Mark and his…
Upland Ways 