The final trip of the year I found myself in the land of the enchantment with Matt Lucia and Dave Kruger chasing scaled quail on some of the most gorgeous short grass prairie I’ve strolled upon chasing bird dogs. Matt and I met Dave in southern New Mexico to finish the…
Tag: Bobwhite Quail
Cover Dogs: Makings of Great Quail Dogs
Grouse River Gretchen was 4 months old when she arrived to DIA from Pinkney MI. My first impression was “Where’s the other half of my dog?”. At 16 weeks she was scrawny…smallest setter puppy I’d ever seen. She was a juvenile hellion on wheels around the house. Several times I recall her jumping the…
Wayne Simmons’ The Story of Jules Verne: A Watch Pocket Dog
Stoically, I wait on for the upcoming bird-dog season and the aspen auxins to change the leaves from the green to golds of the Colorado blue grouse country…the caddis are hatching on my home waters seducing recluse big-browns to the surface. Before long, I’ll be in the Colorado high country hunting greenback cutthroats with mayflies, yellow…
The Master
People just don’t say things or write them the way they used to. Not to dwell on nostalgia…but we live in the days of instant gratification…the days of go big or go home. I recently finished a great book on 1776 giving the first hand accounts of General George Washington‘s first year as the commander of…
Upland Ways 