As a sportsman, have you noticed as the seasons change that you find yourself doing similar things that you have done in the past? Over the years, I have tried to go fishing every President’s Day even if it means standing in ice-choked river freezing my butt off. For me this recurring experience really brings…
Quilomene Co. & Desert Dogs
A good friend and client of mine told me a great story last year… He was hunting in Southern Arizona’s Mearn’s Country…they’d been hunting hard all day in those steep, slippery, gaud-awful rocky draws and were exhausted as they emerged from the nasty thickets. A stranger was standing next to their vehicle waiting to discuss…
THE WHITE WONDER: ELECTRICAL PERSUASION
This is a photo of Farley right after Kari picked him up. Looks pretty goofy to me! When I lived in Deary, Idaho during law school, the property upon which we lived had these tantilizing bass ponds. Every day after school, I would grab my family, my flyrod and little Farley and walk down to…
THE WHITE WONDER: FINDING FARLEY
With the hunting season over, I’m going to have to dig a little deeper into my repetiore to keep the blog going “in between the crazies” (a phrase coined by Steve Smith to describe the time in between hunting seasons). I thought I would share some birddog stories from my past. Since I started bird…
>Filson’s Shooting Bag
>This is my favorite piece of equipment while pursuing quail on the heartland prairies. Below are the details per Filson’s website. I’ve had several of them…they’re virtually indestructible too! I have carried water for the dogs, shells and 3 roosters and 8 quail in my bag for several hours on a glorious day in NC…
THE REAL QUAIL HOARS
Last weekend, I received a few text messages from my brother Shawn that I wanted to share with you . Hopefully, he will forgive me (oh, and I apologize in advance for the crudeness). But first I need to share a little background information. Shawn was hunting bobwhite quail and pheasants in Kansas one final…
>Paraphimosis and C&H Pure Cane Sugar
>Last week a 16 week old Pointer pup presented to my clinic with a condition termed paraphimosis…which is a condition where a male dog has the inability to retract his penis into the preputial sheath or prepuce. I’ve only seen a handful of these dogs over the last 12 years. This was the worst one…minus…
>Twenty-Four Coveys and the Final Hoorah!!
>Gary Ruppel and I headed to Kansas at 0’dark-thirty Thursday morning to chase birds in great quail country for the final weekend. It was great to say the least. We loaded his dog trailer with a mixture of 10 bird dogs from Labs to Pointers to setters to what he called a “novelty”…my FB English…
>ONCE MORE INTO THE THROWS…
>Author John Taylor and my son Dylan in Southern Kansas chasing Scaled Quail…John is doing field research for his up and coming new book “Autumn Prairie”When in Rome…I laugh every time I look at this photo…Casey had a great quail dog he’d run down the burrow ditch looking for coveys on a very busy 55…
>Chasing Birds with Sterling Part the Second
>Sterling and I made a whirl-wind trip to Kansas Wednesday night to chase quail for the day…what a day we had. We moved 9 coveys in 8 hours of hunting…we kept joking that the stars we aligned right for us! Here are a few photos from our day! Gretchen backing Gep!!! Sterling and BJ the…
COVET NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR’S COVERT
My brother and co-contributor to this blog, Shawn Wayment, recently wrote about the most unsportsmen-like conduct he ever witnessed afield. To get the full account, check out “Birddoggin’ Days” at http://www.birddogdocschronicles.blogspot.com/ . In short, Shawn’s setter, Gretchen, was pointing a covey of quail in a remote area of a public walk-in area and three hunters…
>Nothing Gold Can Stay by robert frost
>This is a photograph of the most precious gift I’ve ever been given by a client as a veterinarian. This photograph does not do the beauty of it justice! This gift came to me by the way of a loss of a gelding that was most dear to her…he was gently laid to rest last…
Upland Ways 