A Bird Hunter's Thoughts

It started out pretty nice at 55 deg. Boy, it got hot in a hurry. Ace and I and Dennis and his Lab, Gracie, took off down a great grouse tra...

Ace is whining and pacing and sampling my coffee. The sky is blue and the temp is 55. We are on the way to one of my secret coverts. Opening...

Here's the Ace-man with a Sage Grouse. Huge bird that it is- they fly well and they will hold tight for a pointing dog. Ace did a great ...

We got up very early and decided that we'd be waiting for the birds when they got to the fields to stuff themselves with grasshoppers. W...

Hot!!!!!! We hunted hard until about 1pm then we took a break that lasted the rest of the day. Bandit is a hard hunting little Brit that is ...

This is what the well dressed, Montana, Sharpie hunter is wearing these days! Weather: windy and drizzle- 50 deg AM with clear and sunny 70...

We started out hunting in areas I was familiar with from the last few years. The birds are here, but not in the numbers of the last few year...

We found our motel to be a cozy, charming, fixer-upper- "as is". Can you spot the Sharptail Grouse in the picture?

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The picture doesn't do it justice. It's every inch of 8'.

You have GOT to love this place!

South Dakota Interstate. Flat, flat, flat!

Sun is coming up over the Iowa hills on my right. The Missouri River is on my left with Nebraska past that. I would sell a bird dog cheap fo...

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Right as the sun is setting over Nebraska on my left and Iowa on my right. Its time to find a soft bed!

I was shooting for 0400. Twenty minutes isn't too bad with all the buffoonery that goes on last minute. This should be a good trip. Old ...

My #1 dog got me this pillow for my birthday. It fits nicely with a saying I have on my wall at work- "Lord, let me be the person my do...

Here is Peaches (Julias Southern Peach) with a limit of Blue Quail in NM last year and nailing a sharpie in MT. She was known as a "del...

This time of year, I count down the time by grass cuttings. 4 weeks to go means 4 times strapped to the lawn mower cutting grass. Hunting ...

Red Rocks snake vaccine is a great security blanket for guys like me who hunt MT in the fall. I know the big rattlers are there, even though...