On a late August morning a good friend and hunting partner and I headed north to run our bird dogs and scout out some new area. Heading into new areas to scout for grouse [...]
My favorite grouse covert is three hours away. That same covert used to be eight miles from my driveway.While my career enabled me to move to Northern Michigan, have a drift [...]
After a long wait, I finally brought Chief home this spring from HiFive Kennels. He is my latest addition to the team. I had been on the waiting list for a pup since [...]
They call it ‘the game’. Many of the hunting dog clubs out there are all about the individual achievement of each animal. While you may sometimes run with [...]
By: Kirk Howes The October woods are Gods finest creation. Great, is a word I use often but it does nothing to express how I feel about the woods in October. I revere the [...]
by Milton F. Whitmore Harry and I would team up to hunt grouse and other small game back in the 1960s. We loved prowling thick heavy cover in Lake County near Peacock and [...]
By: Kirk Howes Nothing in the world captures the heart of a bird- hunter better than a good dog on a solid point. Up until that point in time, all the talk and promise of [...]