Tim K. and I went out to Kansas to hunt the last three days of the season with Cal Robinson of http://kansasquailhunts.com. We had 11 dogs with us including the new puppy Wild Apple Guinevere. The weather was perfect except for Saturday afternoon when it was really a little too hot to run the setters […]
I arrived in Kentucky last Friday with six dogs for our winter training. Ten minutes into the first run on Saturday Spot and Sam were into a wild covey that was out feeding in one of the many vegetable plots on the farm I train on. The farm is 450 acres that is used primarily […]
Any time we get to hunt in December is considered bonus time. The worst year I can remember, it snowed on Veteran’s Day (11/11) and we didn’t see bare ground again until Patriot’s Day (originally 4/19). A very few years in the last 30 we’ve had bare ground right up until Christmas. this may be […]
Monday seemed like a good day to get dogs out in hopes of finding some wary and wily late season grouse. The easy birds of the year that have survived human and animal predation by the time we reach December rarely make the same mistakes that give both dogs and hunters success back in October. […]