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Recent Posts
March? Really!
Stokely’s Mikey D It may say March on the calendar but yesterday we had our biggest snowfall of the winter (about 8″) and when you put that on top of the six inches we got last weekend, it suddenly looks like winter outside. I decided yesterday to head down to the Southern New England Woodcock […]
The NSTRA Letter: An Editorial
(The following appeared in the Fall 2003 Issue of Field Trial Magazine. NSTRA continues to thrive while THE FIELD has struggled without their support.) At some point this summer, Wes Barr, president of the National Shoot-to-Retrieve Association received a letter from Bernie Matthys, editor of The American Field. In the letter, Mr. Matthys outlined a […]
Nature vs nurture
Here’s the thing, over the last 25 years I have had a lot of bird dogs come and go. Some I’ve bought, some I’ve been given, and some I’ve bred. Most of them have spent at least part of their lives with me as house dogs as well as being hunted and field trialed. They […]
Grouse, Grouse, and More Grouse
The mild winter is being kind to the grouse of Northern New Hampshire. This time of year we usually are just running dogs on a dead end road to start getting them in shape. This year there is so little snow that we are running them in the same place we usually use, but were […]