A Bird Hunter's Thoughts

I came across this picture of my Brit, Cap, from NM 4 years ago. We were hunting Gambel’s Quail around an old corral. The initial cast was a...

  The Book When I was growing up, my father would regale me with stories of coon hunting in the swamps of southern Mississippi.  He would te...

Blue injured his right rear leg after a run about a month ago.  The vet diagnosed CCL tear (equivalent to an ACL tear in humans).   I am a h...

    The old dog and I put out on a day that was cool, as the sun was about an hour above the Montana horizon.  This was a special spot.  Las...

  Texas   I’d like to hunt Texas more. The reason I don’t is simple.  I can’t afford it. That’s not a reflection on the folks in Texas, it’s...

It's been over a half-century since this boy spent any time in a tent.  This hunting trip, I decided to revert to the basics in order to...

Unfortunately,  Blue tore his CCL a few months ago.  One month before we were due to leave for Wyoming and Montana. Throughout the process o...

I loaded the dogs and drove to meet friends, first in Wyoming, then in Montana. I waited a little later in September to try and avoid the st...

2013 F250 Lariat ​ The Beast has been everywhere and done everything I’ve asked of it. Many of those situations I look back and just shake m...

Today was the day. JD and I headed out to the barn. Graduation day! I put her in the with the big dogs while I eased out to the bird pen wit...

What to do, and more important, what NOT to do when your dog is bitten by a snake! Click the link below to listen to the podcast.    SNAKE B...

Whatever Happened to Antonio?   Mearns Quail are special.  Many years ago, through a friend of a friend of a friend, I was introduced to Wal...