Today was a hard day at the office as we have reached the part of the season where the woodcock can be few and far between.  By lunch time we had run four dogs and only moved 3 woodcock and 3 grouse.  The first dog on the ground after our roadside hot lunch of soup […]

When I got my Guide’s License I thought I’d do 5 to 10 days the first year just to get my feet wet.  So far I’ve Guided 13 days and have a bunch more booked for November.  It’s been really good with some great people who have brought along some good dogs and some great […]

Back in the early 90s, I kept a hunting log.  Now that I’m guiding I’m supposed to keep a log again.  I thought it might be interesting to see how things compare at the middle of the month. As of today, we’ve moved 200 woodcock and 113 grouse. According to my old logs at about […]

After their trip to New Brunswick to hunt and run in their first field trial the three Wild Apple puppies — Brandy, Glo, and Samantha got to go hunting today with Tony, The Great Carnoski and me.  Brandy pointed four woodcock, Glo pointed two, and Sam pointed one.  My two wingmen were a collective 0 […]