Here’s Field & Stream’s link to Tom Davis’s great article Here are some images from Upland Idaho October 2014…more tales and lies to come.
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.
1920’s Colorado Blue Grouse Hunters–Salida, Colorado
My blue grouse hippy friend, Kent, found this photo in a Salida restaurant the other morning while having breakfast…he had to send this picture to me. It’s epic!
Images From Grouse Camp
Spent four glorious days in northern Colorado this past weekend chasing grouse with bird dogs. Bret…my partner in cahoots…traveled from McPherson Kansas with four setters and the fixings for a mystical weekend in God’s grouse country. Grouse we did find…including Bret’s first sage grouse and my first Colorado mountain sharptailed grouse. Here are some images…
Colorado Blue Grouse
The Colorado dusky grouse season opened on Labor Day this year…getting out of the I-70 parking lot is an absolute nightmare as there are hordes and hordes of people in mass exodus from the mountains. I decided not to brave the crowds and waited until the following Thursday to chase grouse with the birddogs. I…
The Sporting Life Radio Show
Today I was invited to be a guest on Bob Svetich’s radio show to chat about pre-season conditioning of our bird dogs and how to recognize hypothermia. The podcast will be available later this week… http://www.thesportinglifeshow.com/podcasts/ Setter Feathers
Jalapeño Sauerkraut
It’s the in-between season…time to throw dries for Arkansas River browns and daydream about birds and dogs and wild country. The Ark has been incredible fishing so far this spring minus the snow melt in the higher elevation. The caddis are present and this spring we’ve seen the best blue wing olive action I can…
Skin Laceration Repair in the Field: SportDOG Blog
Here’s my latest veterinary blog post on SportDOG Brand’s Blog. http://www.sportdog.com/blog/2014/04/skin-laceration-repair-in-the-field/ I’ve been fishing the Arkansas River a lot this spring and the caddis are finally here…more to follow.
Final Days on the Prairies with Gundogs
Matt Lucia (Mark Kastler joined us on one of those special days) and I spent three glorious final days on the prairies in pursuit of birds. Havilah Babcock’s prose of not wanting to travel to the Dark Continent to kill elephants has rang true to me this season…Colorado has a good population of my favorite…
Upland Ways 