Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Sporting Dogs
ImageSetters
Spent the past weekend with a great guy on the Colorado prairie…chasing scaled quail (the birds of my heart) and enjoying the upland life…grateful for what God has created & point’n dogs. Scott Johnson (formally of frozen Minnesota) is a ruffed grouse and woodcock aficionado. He and his family uprooted and transplanted to Paonia Colorado…
CHASING CHUKARS AND MEMORIES ON BLACK FRIDAY
Brother Shawn and I had the opportunity to get out and chase chukars Friday after Thanksgiving. We first hunted chukars on Black Friday nine years ago and we have done this quite a few times since. I jokingly call myself “The World’s Worst Chukar Hunter” and also have gone on the record saying that I…
Tradition
Cool country, wonderful birds, tough dogs, soulful men… These are the enlightened words of a fellow pointing dog (foremost), scaled quail, & Spanish smooth-bore aficionado who I spent the day with this past Saturday. Sinewy Dave Kruger, MD and his leathery brother Kraig (both sadly plagued with Chukar-Hunter’s Disease) met up with me at 0’dark-30….
Cranberry-Honey Crisp Apple Jalapeño Jam
Brother Andy double-dog-dared me the other day to make a cranberry jalapeño jam which I enthusiastically accepted. I think he was trying to confuse me so that he could get out of our planned Black Friday chukar hunt. Well brother, it didn’t work and we’re still going to chase those cantankerous phookars come Friday next!…
Borrowed Dogs
I’ve been known to borrow some dogs. The first offense was in October 2011. Gary Thompson was steelhead’n on the Grande Ronde River in eastern Washington and the plan was to meet up with Andy and I in western Idaho for a few glorious days of bird hunting on his way back to Colorado. I…
TWENTY REASONS WHY I HATE CHUKAR HUNTING
[Author’s Note: Before any of you diehards get upset, this post is written all in good fun]. Chukars live in the most inhospitable no-man’s land you can imagine, where no other game bird with half a brain would live. To sum it up, their country is impossibly steep, rocky, slick, or all of the above….
Tom Davis: Idaho Uplands: The Great American Bird Hunt
Here’s Field & Stream’s link to Tom Davis’s great article Here are some images from Upland Idaho October 2014…more tales and lies to come.
1920’s Colorado Blue Grouse Hunters–Salida, Colorado
My blue grouse hippy friend, Kent, found this photo in a Salida restaurant the other morning while having breakfast…he had to send this picture to me. It’s epic!
THANK GOD I’M A COUNTRY BOY!
(Written by John Denver and revised by Andy Wayment) Well life in the wild is kinda laid back Ain’t much an old country boy like me can’t hack It’s early to rise, early in the sack Thank God I’m a country boy Well a simple kinda life never did me no harm A raisin’ me…
MEGA GROUSE OF THE SEAS OF SAGE
I love to hunt grouse, any kind of grouse. For a grouse hunter such as myself, Idaho is a great state to live in with five different species namely: Ruffed Grouse, Dusky (Blue) Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Franklin Grouse, and last, but certainly not least, the Sage Grouse. Although they sometimes overlap, each grouse has its own little niche…
Images From Grouse Camp
Spent four glorious days in northern Colorado this past weekend chasing grouse with bird dogs. Bret…my partner in cahoots…traveled from McPherson Kansas with four setters and the fixings for a mystical weekend in God’s grouse country. Grouse we did find…including Bret’s first sage grouse and my first Colorado mountain sharptailed grouse. Here are some images…
Upland Ways 