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…
Category: Quail Dogs
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…
Wayne Simmons’ The Story of Jules Verne: A Watch Pocket Dog
Stoically, I wait on for the upcoming bird-dog season and the aspen auxins to change the leaves from the green to golds of the Colorado blue grouse country…the caddis are hatching on my home waters seducing recluse big-browns to the surface. Before long, I’ll be in the Colorado high country hunting greenback cutthroats with mayflies, yellow…
William Harnden Foster Painting
Here’s another William Harnden Foster painting for your blog: Sport’s Peerless Pride, the 1939 National Champion. My old friend Earl Crangle, the legendary professional trainer, rode Pride’s brace that year (Earl was 19 at the time) and even helped scout for Pride’s handler, Dewey English. I remember Earl telling me “I saw every jump Sport’s…
>Hunting Quail with Sterling
>Ms Ellie did it again! She tried to catapult herself over a 4-foot barbed wire fence! Bummer!! Gretchen with a sundowner covey! It was 60 degrees at 4:30 p.m.Old farm implements make for great quail hang outs!Nice Tail! Gretchen on a singleSterling’s BJ becomes a quail dog!Strong human-animal bond! Sterling praising BJ for such a…
>Counting Quail & Quail Dogs
>Wind swept Kansas will be in my dreams for the days to come! Day dreams of plum thickets, milo’d edges and Western Rag Weed and tumble weeds will consume my every thought. Red grass and whirring wings with staunch dogs on point. Hearing the coyotes bark and roosters cackle while we patiently sat waiting the…
>Bobs on the Bottom!
>Gep nails a Kansas covey!Whoa Gretchen!Great sums of money are spent annually just for a 6 oz Handful of Feathers! Ms. Karen joined me recently on a quail escapade! We hiked all day long searching for just one covey of river bottom bobs! We found a sundowner covey that made the walking all worth while!…
Upland Ways 