>There’s a place in southern Idaho that I spend all year day dreaming about…the Royal MacNab. My brother and I named this special covert after a famous Scottish story that Robert F. Jones modified in one of his great books. This incredible covert is home to Columbia sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse and huns. We were…
>Upland Idaho or Richard Edward: Part Deuce
>My brothers and I had 2 fantastic days chasing valley quail and gray partridge. The past few years have been poor due to draught conditions throughout the whole Gem State …but this year, the birds are back! We saw several hundred quail and huns over the two days. Andy and my dogs were awesome to…
>Upland Idaho or Richard Edward I
>I just returned home from one of the greatest hunting trips I’ve ever experienced…3,700 miles round trip to southern Idaho to hunt upland birds with my brothers (who are my dearest & closest friends). My bird dogs are lying motionless on the bed next to me…plum worn to the bone. They cover hundreds of miles…
Where Has The Old Man Been All Summer?
Much to Pride the Wonder Dog’s disgust I have spent the spare moments all Spring and Summer of 2010 indulging in the new passion. After ending a brief return to skeet due to that danged arthritis, last December I took up trap shooting. Where has this little diversion been all my life? I shot a…
>A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac by Mark Parman
>I recently received this book…and so far, I’m really enjoying the read. I’m off to southern Idaho this weekend for 2 weeks of setter chasing…and have my secrete weapon in tow (the FB English Cocker). Stay tuned for groused tales and loads of photographs! Setter Feathers…
Ramblings: By Michael Altizer
Re-printed with permission from Bernard & Associates from Sporting Classic’s Oct 2010 Issue. Enjoy! The Au Sable springs from Otsego and Roscommon and then consolidates itself near Grayling before venturing forth on its long ramble home to Lake Huron. Along its tangled edges the dark forest rises deep and verdant in random stands of popple…
>Grouse Pot Pie
>Grouse Pot Pie (adapted by Grouse Aficionado & Brittany Man Mark Kastler) Ingredients: 1 and ½ cups of sliced mushrooms (of your choice)1 cup of peppers mixed green and red1 chopped sweet onion1 clove of minced garlic1/3 cup of butter1/2 cup of all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon of paprika and pepper3 cups chicken broth 1/2…
>That Sweet Season
>“The good Hun dog is a shifty, grinning character who looks back for his hunter every time he sniffs birds and is impatient if you are too slow. A real canine martinet has been known to purposely jump birds when his hunting party dawdles. I have attempted open-country Huns with a cultured English pointer who…
>Broken Down and Shot Out
>Reprinted with permission from Bernard & Associates from Sporting Classics October 2010. The Tin Liz sighed, sank on her haunches, sighed again and expired. The Old Man got out and looked at her innards suspiciously, crouched down to peer at her lower parts, thumped her a couple of times, like you’d tap a melon to…
SOMETIMES GROUSED
I find it extremely ironic that Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “grouse” as: “1 v. to grumble 2. n. a fit of grumbling [origin unknown].” All grouse hunters who have been outsmarted by a wily ruffed grouse or who have whiffed an easy shot on any kind of grouse know exactly where this word came…
>Grouse Vigilantes
>I just love chasing blue grouse in September here in colorful Colorado. The trick is discovering at what altitude the grouse are residing on the day you’re chasing them as they migrate to the higher elevations for winter. I found the coveys at 9,754 ft yesterday still in the wide-open sage and buck brush feeding…
>Montana Sporting Journal Wingshooting 2010
>A client sent me an email the other day to inform me that his bird dog, Rocky, got 15 minutes of fame…he’d made the cover of the Montana Sporting Journal’s Wingshooting issue 2010. Of course, I had to get my hands on a copy. I searched all the local bookstores high and low to no…
Upland Ways 