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Recent Posts
Cover Hunting
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 […]
A Hare Raising Experience
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. […]
New England Bird Dog Club
My November 13th issue of the Field finally arrived battered and bagged. The report for our Labor Day trial was in that issue. New England Bird Dog Club The New England Bird Dog Club has long been a fixture on the southern New England field trial scene, but moved its fall event to the scenic […]
Cronk Farm and Dave Palmer
I recently had the time to add some more trial reports to the page http://wildapplekennel.com/field-trial-reports/. It was interesting to note that the first entry on that page was the 2004 report of the Miss Leslie Open Derby in which Wild Apple Jack was the runner-up while still a puppy. The most recent entry is the 2015 […]