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.

Blue Groused!

To Spay or Not…

The Society for Theriogenology just recently released their opinion on early spaying and neutering of our dogs…of course that means bird dogs! Here’s their opinion and it’s worth a reading! Have a great Fall and be safe! Setter Feathers…

Colorado Blues

Check out Upland Ways for my blue grouse hunting in Colorado’s awesome grouse country. Setter Feathers…

CHECK OUT OUR NEW BLOG UPLAND WAYS

For the last year, I have been bugging my brother Shawn Wayment to truly join forces with me on just one blog. I have been running Upland Equations primarily by myself for over four years now and Shawn has been solely running Setter Feathers & Groused Tales. As you may guess, it takes a lot…

Upland Ways: Red Letter Days and Upland Ways

My brother Andy and I decided to start a new blog together and concentrate on the uplands and streams of the American West…we’re excited to collaborate together, and we hope in return our readers will have a greater appreciation of the uplands here in the West. We’re not advocating that people (become Nimrods) take up…

Chubby Mormon Girl

My absence the past few months can be explained…I’ve been crazy about a river. Not just any river, but the Arkansas River near my Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado. Most fisherman know of the Arkansas for it prolific Mother’s Day caddis hatch, but come run off time she goes largely ignored except for…

THE WEBSITE FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH HAS BEEN UPDATED

If you are a follower of Upland Equations, you may already heard about my new book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly Fishing, Fun & Faith, which was officially released on April 1, 2012. In the archives you will find several posts with links to the numerous reviews the book has already received. To date, I have…

Rookies from Idaho

My younger brother Jake and his life long friend Austin (both from Idaho) met up with me in Kansas to pursue love struck turkeys. We arrived at Sterling’s place on Thursday evening to scrumptious BBQ ribs and tatters…which we scarfed down so that we could get in the field ASAP to chase some turkeys that…

Focus on real threats to sage grouse

Here’s an article that a friend of mine forwarded to me today. Here’s the direct link to Erik Molvar’s article. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has announced a plan to shut down all sage grouse hunting in the eastern portion of the state this year. At Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, we view this as a…

Current Field Dog Vaccination Guidelines

Here’s my latest contribution to Strideaway.com on the 2011 AAHA Vaccination Committee’s Guidelines. Next Strideaway topics on canine medicine will include 10 top useful tips and understanding canine pyometra disease. Setter Feathers…