>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…
A Lab a day keeps the Dr. away.
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…
>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…
ANCIENT PROVERB ABOUT DREAM CRUSHERS
For those of you who have followed the blog for a while, last March, I wrote a funny blog entry called, “Dream Crushers” about the spouses in our lives (or our hunting companion’s) who sometimes put the kibosh on our collective sporting pursuits. While many readers loved the story, some people (they who must not…
>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…
QUOTE OF THE DAY ON PHEASANT HUNTING
Today, I’m home spending time with the family. So Sunny-girl and I will not be out chasing pheasants until Thanksgiving break next week. However, since the soreness and pain (physical and emotional) from last week’s difficult hunt have subsided (see “Hunting the Hell Hole” below), I’m ready to get after those roughneck roosters once more….
>Bird Dogs & Optimism
> Have you ever noticed that bird dogs like their upland addict counterparts are an optimistic lot? We continue to trudge on & on in order to discover birds on the next hill & dale…or over on the cholla flats F-I-V-E miles from where you are currently standing. Tongue’s tough like boot leather, stuck to…
HUNTING THE HELL HOLE
Anytime someone tells me they have just killed a limit of pheasants in Idaho, I have to call into question their honesty. Are they hunting the same birds and places that I am hunting? I guess this could happen occasionally on opening day with naive birds-of-the-year or on a WMA, but I am willing to…
>”Invictus” by William E. Henley
>I was reminded today of my favorite poem by William E. Henley. The words to this poem ring true. Unconquerable! We are the masters of our own destiny…even in leans times! Thank you for reminding me! Invictus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever…
NOVEMBER
November. The kindlier months have come and gone and Ol’ Man Winter grows stronger each day, eager to rule his kingdom with his icy grip.Little Sunny’s first rooster, which she backed Farley on. The harvest is over, the leaves have long since bloomed with color, wilted, and trickled to the ground where they are tossed…
Better weather for pheasants.
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…
Upland Ways 