(DOUBLE CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO FILL YOUR SCREEN) Another day at the game club. Thought you might like to see the “elegant” clubhouse. Note the founding date. It is rumored among the oldtimers that Roy Rogers was a member of the original group. He lived in Victorville, CA just a few miles away from…

(Double click the collage to enlarge) Not much to say except it was a stellar day: great weather, best gals, Joanne and Pride in tow, and some fat, sassy chukar in the bushes. This club is a blessing! Wish all our friends could join us there for a day. I know a lot of you…

Pride and I slipped up north to the game club yesterday and spent a couple of great hours with bobwhites. Last week’s adventure was drowned out with over six inches of rain and some snow thrown in too at the club. It is at 36oo feet altitude in the High Desert. The surrounding mountains rise…

Dear All, Might I take this opportunity to wish all readers of Upland Equations a very happy New Year, and great sport in 2010. My New Year certainly started with a bang, (quite literally) as I have just spent the morning of January 1st, chasing woodcock in the gorse patches, and Alder thickets down on…

The wild, wild west! Joanne and Pride at the start of the adventure. The family took a little outing last week to the wonderful game club I belong to in Southern California. 1400 acres of wild high desert country of varied brush, grasses, shrubs and lots of rocks. We arrived at noon on the first…

Dear Folks, Myself, Emma and friends, enjoyed a great day pheasant shooting last saturday, only for me to go down with a particularly nasty flu bug the following day. Is it Swine flu? In all honesty I don’t know, but it has certainly put me out of the hunting loop for a few days. I…

Better weather for Pheasants. After days of torrential rain the weather finally broke, and yesterday, we enjoyed a beautiful day working the dogs on pheasants at a local estate shoot. The day dawned cold and frosty with a temperature reading of -2 C on the thermometer. For the first time this autumn I found a…

Dear All, Apologies for not having posted in a while, but my career as an amateur sporting writer has taken off with surprising speed, and that, along with the furniture making business, has kept me rather busy! No one is more surprised about the writing than I, believe me, ( no, really!) I cannot thank…

I don’t think it can get any better than the experience we had hunting sage grouse here at home in Utah on Saturday. Beautiful weather, stunning landscape, devoted family, lots of wild birds, steady mounts, and enthusiastic (if not experienced in the pup’s case) dogs. We arrived and started saddling the horses before sunrise. Brilliant…

>Tonight I returned from north central Colorado where Sterling and I had a grand ol’ time chasing greater sage grouse on the wide open prairie. I know I’ve said this many times before, but I love sage grouse and the spaces which they inhabit! To me, they define the American West and what remains truly…

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…

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,…