A Bird Hunter's Thoughts

Just smell the aroma of guy stuff! So, it's Labor Day! It's also my birthday! The Ball and Chain and I were sitting in the livi...

Blue Grouse I, someday, will chase a few of these.  Old books I read say they are the largest of the grouse family and only smaller than...

Randy and Ace- ID 2012 Randy and Cap- ID 2012 Randy, Ruby, Cap, Ace- ND 2011 The weather is (somewhat) cooler. The muscadines...

If you look carefully at the bottom picture, you can see that the vault fits perfectly between the wheel wells.  When the drawers ar...

Thanks to Glen Bahde, and his father who did the carpentry, I am very close to finishing my truck vault.  Made of poplar, oak,...

The Overhead Display Hole I guess I was blessed with one that lasted longer than most, but when my overhead display (also known as the ...

Western Diamondback- Crotalus Atrox Prairie Rattler- Crotalus viridis Bird Dog- Caninus Buddyus They do not mix well.  The terr...

Bronze and Regular Muscadines From the Arbor When we moved to our home, the landscape architect suggested we plant a few muscadine vine...

Bunch of Brittanies Cap (left) and Ruby (right) It's extremely difficult for me, and for the dogs, to let go of hunting season...

I was extolling the virtues of the WingWorks vest to a plantation manager and his head guide the other day explaining the well-considered fe...

Coiled King Snake Pasture cut in progress. Snake and Yellar and BJ All kinds of critters come out when we cut the hay in the ...

Diamond Pet Foods makes Taste Of The Wild dog food. I've been feeding TOW and I've been very pleased with the results in my hunting ...

The Judges and Winners Cap, me, Paul (Trial Chairman) Between the beautiful country, vistas that stretched to next week and the we...

Cap My wife and I are on the way to a field trial in Idaho.  I had so much fun hunting out there in January that I was looking through ...

Ace is thrilled with the new rig. This sure beats the old iron bar and rubber bungee cord!

Bob made me lanyard last summer and even patterned it after the color of my Brittanies. But, through the season, I found I really missed the...

I did two things this week, with my dogs, that I've never done before.  First, I took them in to have their teeth cleaned.  Up u...

 (Photo by Nancy Whitehead) This is Bob Welsh and me hunting Valley Quail in Idaho January 2012. We are both wearing the WingWorks...

Click here for YouTube video! Now the season is 100% definitely over.  Only 6 1/2 months to go and we'll be back on the road to Mont...

Glen Bahde and I are building sliding drawers for use in our respective trucks. He has a 2012 Chevy 1500 and I am piloting a 2001 Ford ...