>Today was my first chance to chase blue grouse in colorful Colorado this season. It was an awesome day. It felt great to be alive in the uplands & listening to that familiar clank-clank of the dogs’ bells and getting reacquainted with my ol’ Spanish love affair…my AYA 453 box lock. We didn’t find 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.
>To Puke or not to…
>I was let off of jury duty an hour early today (yes that’s right…jury duty for 2 to 3 weeks…I was picked out of 300 prospective jurors!)…so I was excited to run the dogs and then head down to the Arkansas to maybe catch an evening hatch! I left my dogs for 3 seconds and…
>Blue Grouse & Greenbacks: Although Stimulating, Not a Part of Washington’s “Stimulus Package”!
>What a glorious day! Karen and I decided to get away for the afternoon and do some hiking. Hiking, for the sake of hiking, can be a little monotonous…but hiking behind a couple of bird dogs and carrying your favorite smooth bore or fly rod is entirely different! Today it was a 4 weight Sage…
>Rain & More Rain
>Here are a few photos from the past few weeks…not much exciting going on! I’ve been conditioning my bird dogs for the much anticipated grouse season. It’s gonna be a banner season. My health is certainly better during the gunning season! The Arkansas has been fishing very well this Summer…I consider the Ark my home…
FREE NRA MEMBERSHIPS! SUPPORT YOUR GUN RIGHTS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Follow this link to print a form to obtain a free, one year membership to the National Rifle Association.(Copy and paste it into your browser URL box.) https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp It is our ONLY defense against the anti-gun crowd. For some reason, a number of bird hunters I have met don’t belong, they don’t see themselves as…
In a rut.
The young four pointer roe buck dashed out of the Sitka spruce plantation, and standing twenty or thirty feet out into the field, looked nervously back over his shoulder, from where he had run. He was being chased. Gripping the fore end of the rifle with my left hand, I quietly eased it up onto…
>In the Field: A Photograher’s Journey with Sporting Dogs
>Photographer Nancy Whitehead recently released her new book, In the Field: A Photographer’s Journey with Sporting Dogs . Nancy has a natural eye and ability of portraying bird dogs doing what they do best! Nancy’s wonderful book is definitely a must for your sporting dog library!
>LimeStoner…Centre County, PA
>It’s a dang good thing that central Pennsylvania doesn’t have any bobwhite quail…I’d move there tomorrow without any second thoughts! We just returned from 10 days of fly fishing heaven-on-earth. I fished almost every day on a different creek or run. I’m sworn to secrecy which creeks and runs we fished, but I can tell…
The AyA "Fraternal Twins" are In-hand!
Some of you know, especially Scolopax, that I had made arrangements to import a gun from Scotland. It is a used AyA XXV 12 bore in the Churchill style with high, raised rib. I already had the boxlock version and wanted the sidelock. Graham Mackinlay of Glasgow, Scotland had one that was made in 1967,…
>Washed Out…but, Never Wasted!
>Regardless of weather, any day spent afield is better than work! It’s a pleasure and privilege for us to be able to get out and live nature! Yesterday I did just that on the South Platte River. My advice…get out and enjoy life!
Stalking the Will O’ the Whisp.
My apologies for not having written posts for a few weeks – but things have been somewhat busy here of late. Not least – because the best of the Roe Buck stalking has now arrived with us. The months of May and June – with warm, ( usually) weather, and a surge of growth in…
Upland Ways 