Idaho is home to six native species of upland game birds, ruffed grouse, blue grouse, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, Franklin grouse, and mountain quail. Idaho’s forest grouse are holding their own and provide unlimited opportunities for those willing to burn the boot rubber to find them. There is no longer a season for mountain quail…
Category: Huns
GRAY LIGHTNING
“Huns sound fast.” –E. Donnall Thomas, Jr. On day one of our annual hunt, Saturday, October 1st, Shawn and I first hunted the Royal Macnab in the morning with great success. Since it was Shawn’s birthday, we then went for tacos at a place called Taqueria La Costa in Chubbuck, Idaho. I bought Shawn’s lunch…
SAGEBRUSH HUNS by ROSS YOUNG
The Wayment Brothers have been friends with Ross B. Young on Facebook for years. You may have heard of Ross or seen his beautiful hunting and fishing artwork. I wrote a blog post about Ross’ book, The Way it Should Be, which features his excellent work. Ross and I recently teamed up in The Ruffed…
Borrowed Dogs
I’ve been known to borrow some dogs. The first offense was in October 2011. Gary Thompson was steelhead’n on the Grande Ronde River in eastern Washington and the plan was to meet up with Andy and I in western Idaho for a few glorious days of bird hunting on his way back to Colorado. I…
IDAHO’S FAB FOUR
IDAHO’ S FAB FOUR Idaho truly is one of the best kept secrets in upland bird hunting. Idaho is home to a variety of upland game birds. We have five species of grouse: Sage, ruffed, dusky (blue), spruce, and sharp-tailed. In addition, we have valley quail, Hungarian partridge, chukar partridge, and pheasants. With this variety,…
Coccygeal Muscle Injury: (AKA)Limber Tail Syndrome
I arrived the first afternoon in southeastern Idaho to chase sharp-tailed grouse and gray partridge after an 11 hour white-knuckled drive…I left Colorado at O’dark-30 so that Andy and I could get in a half day’s hunt before heading to our folks home. We were told of a place where our brother Scott and his…
Upland Idaho 2011
Here’s some of my favorite photos from my recent trip to South Eastern Idaho. I’ll post some specifics later this week… Setter Feathers…
Gadabout
Gadabout is a person that travels for personal pleasure…which is what I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing the past 10 days in southern Idaho in search of birds with dogs! Below are a few preview photos from Idaho….much more to follow when I return to Colorado next week. Setter Feathers…
>Black Friday Nemesis OR Cantankerous Phookars!
>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…
Upland Ways 