Posts from — January 2008

I don’t think I have just one ‘most memorable’ hunt.  I have multiple hunts that rank as a tie for most memorable.

We all have the hunt that involves friends or family or one particular dog.  Maybe it was a hunt with the best dog work you’ve ever had.  Maybe a hunt where family bonds and friendships were strengthened.  Perhaps a final hunt.  Maybe you are just getting started and building memories afield.

Its nice to reminisce about hunts gone by.  It also helps me put life in perspective.  Sometimes I want more and tend to forget the great times I’ve had with less.  Fond memories afield put things in perspective for me and a few tend to render me misty eyed.  Maybe your memorable bird hunts do the same for you.

Take care and take a child hunting!

Dave

This tactic assumes you have a trained dog and are now focusing on where you hunt.

Tactic #1 is Knowing your hunting area. …… [Read more →]

This weekend I went to ‘guide’ a hunt with my Brittanys and was awakened to the fact that quail hunting can be totally different than anything you’ve ever seen depending on where you are hunting.

Picture record rainfall in hot South Texas, home of the Muy Grande deer contest. Home of vegetation that sticks or tortures you and rattlesnakes that never hibernate. [Read more →]

Often times the gentleman’s bird becomes not so gentlemanly. After hard biting frosts and frozen precipitation, good cover declines. Add to the equation that there are many hungry predators including bird dogs, then you can then see why the gentleman’s bird no longer sits as predicted. He runs!

I remember one particular bird dog training clinic I gave a few years ago. After the clinic I invited … [Read more →]

Today my thoughts go to our military members, many of whom are from the central plains ‘red’ states; folks that are conservative and believe in freedom, life, liberty and the 2nd amendment. Folks from families with a long proud American heritage that are only a few generations removed from their stoic ancestors. Ancestors who fought the arduous prairie conditions way back when.

I am in no way purposely excluding others in my comments and just making comments on a small slice of America that I know.

My travels include…  [Read more →]