A Bird Hunter's Thoughts

Here's a pic of my dog Cap.  He's sleeping off the effects of sedation from the vet.  It seems that yesterday, while exercis...

I am approached, on occasion, by vendors asking me to try their product.  I like to try different things and usually agree.  This time...

Do you hunt with a GPS? An Astro, or Nuvi? I do.  And, I'm finding more and more uses for the units.  (However, and this is BIG, I N...

Bo, at 14, still has it! Cap shows his intensity and Ruby is trying to tell me where they are. While I enjoy bird hun...

 Rhys and me. It was a pleasure to be able to introduce a new hunter to the sport.   Rhys, my prospective son-in-law,   a native of ...

Typical fall day on North Dakota prairie North Dakota, this year, was beautiful! Sometimes, one gets lucky with a camera and captures a ...

We have a "group" on Facebook (yes, even I am on Facebook) called Bird Dogs and Fly Fishing.  At this time of the year, 95% of th...

I've been working the pups and even the main dog (Ace) on a few items that are required in field trial competition. Things like a staunc...

The field trial went OK.  Cap, my 18 month old, found three birds and made three solid finds and retrieves.  He handled well, listened to...

Tomorrow, my puppies are being thrown to the wolves. Since I have some "between trips" time on my hands, they (Ruby/F/Brit...

Although I usually give lip service to hunting ammunition, it's difficult for me to get excited about it.  Until now. Over the years,...

The Kids and Me  End of the Rainbow   My Top Dog Ace and Me I'm already in withdrawal.  That's the probl...

The day was promising.  It was 25 degrees, clear with light wind.  I'd scouted the area the day before and knew the trail and likel...

I had to swing by Minnesota and have another shot at the Ruffed Grouse! Earlier in the year, I was here for a week and didn't do tha...

It's a great time when my lovely wife wants to come up and see what I do on these hunting trips! We had a good day today and the weat...

Lots of birds up here, even though they are saying the bird numbers are down 60%.

For some reason, the antenna on my Tritronics Classic 70 G3 EXP disappeared.  I admit it had been some time since I checked the security o...

Randy and Ace in ND with limit of Pheasant Another great day. The pups are hunting like experienced dogs and  Ace is his usual business-as...

We worked hard all morning and finally hit the jackpot. Lots of birds and some great dog work from my top dog! It was the ...

That's Bobby Ferris (top picture) and Ace and me in the lower picture. This was the first day on the ground in Southwest North ...