>This is a short story from Jim Shaver’s blog (CLICK HERE)…Jim’s stories are great! If you want a good laugh and fun read, check out his blog! The old preacher thumped out his favorite “yield not to temptation” sermon and warned against the evils of wild women, the wily devil and white lightning, things that…
Category: Upland Bird Hunting
>Pointin’ Dogs & Frozen Prairie
>Howling-windswept-minus-10-degrees-Kansas-prairie is where I just returned from. You know even if it’s miserable and bird-less and you have bird dogs, you’re gonna go! I adore Kansas and the prairie life. A few of my very favorite things are meeting the locals in town and sampling the gourmet dinning…breakfast is my favorite! January birds are combat…
>Shirt Sleeves & Setters
>Happy holidays to all…I hope 2010 is all you can hope and imagine for! I’ve enjoyed all the friendships I’ve made through Birddogdoc’s Chronicles! Enjoy the gunning season & I hope you all get out in the uplands with your bird dogs in tote! Be safe and always put your four legged partners first! New…
>Charles F. Waterman
>Painting by the great Eldridge Hardie: November Covey Bobwhites One of the greatest outdoor writers of all times was the late Charley Waterman whom passed on to the great-upland-covert-in-the-sky on January 12, 2005. I’m certain that Charley had a pack of bird dogs awaiting his arrival at the Rainbow Bridge! Charley authored 20 or more…
>Tis the Season to be Gunning…
>Sterling and I met up with JD this morn’ and with bird dogs in tote, we headed to quail country…cholla-cactus-choked-scaled-quail-stick-stab-&-jab ya country. JD brought his beloved setter Folsom with us…Folsom has a tragic story with a miracle happy ending! JD and his father were hunting birds in Montana about 8 weeks ago. They were rear…
>Blue Bird Kansas Skies & Bird Dogs
>Gun dog trainer extraordinaire, Gary Ruppel, and I loaded up his dog trailer and headed east to chase birds on the Kansas prairie. We had a combination of bird dogs ranging from Grand River Labradors, Elhew Pointers, English Cockers, and of course my Grouse River setter … QUAIL DOG FANATIC Gretchen! We started out in…
>We’re Off to See the Wizard!
>I’m headed to Kansas with bird dogs in tote…16 to be exact! I leave you with some of my favorite photos from the past! I will report on the haps and mishaps from the uplands of Kansas when I return! Hope the weather warms up just a bit! Until then…
>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…
>Roadside Revelations
>Roadside Revelations is a term coined by my younger brother Andy…meaning that good upland bird habitat that might have been over looked is found by birds being sighted near a road. Today…we found birds in a deserted area cause there were fresh tracts in the snow on an old logging road. Andy and I decided…
>Jambalaya Rebuttal
>Both of the above photographs are from my friend Nancy Whitehead…Sporting dog photographer extraordinaire Shawn-It’s time you stopped cooking minute rice out of a box, brother. Here’s the real deal and it takes the same time as your hamburger helper version (under 20 minutes, not including the making of homemade stock which is a project…
>Charamba
>Charamba is a traditional Portuguese dance from the XIXth century…it is an elegant, graceful dance, and it reminds me of pointing dogs and birds…of course, birds being quail. Quail in this case are of the scaled variety. Today, I fixed the birds from Thursday one of my favorite ways…and yes, it’s from a box! I…
>The Wordsmith…Julian and his Lovelies
>My friend and fellow contributor to Upland Equations recently sent me these photographs from his last weeks upland adventure. Julian and his significant other Emma spend a great deal of their spare time training bird dogs…a couple after my own heart. Below are Julian’s words of the weekend… Hi Shawn, Hopes all’s going well, and…
Upland Ways 