Wednesday, September 22nd.
I came to Pierre last night. I had a really hard time finding a hotel room because there’s a couple of conventions in town. I ended up staying in Fort Pierre, which is across the river from Pierre. I prefer it because it’s smaller and closer to the Ft. Pierre National Grasslands.
I woke [...]
Tuesday, September 21st.
I spent last night in Bismarck, North Dakota. I got up this morning and headed down to Flasher, where I met up with pro bird dog trainer – J.C. Turner. J.C. has been working Cash and Merle for the last 10 weeks on wild Sharptail Grouse, young pheasants, and a bunch [...]
It’s Monday, September 20th.
I stayed in Fort Pierre, SD last night and got a chance to go by the ranger station for the Pierre National Grassland. I’ve been wanting to hunt the grassland for years and just haven’t been able to work it out.
I stopped at the main station to get a little information and [...]
September 19th, 2010 Sunday morning.
We took the first round with Boo and Ted’s dog Lulu. I was real pleased with Lulu. She’s an eight month old puppy out of Wizard and Saffron, which is the same breeding as Apple.
She runs really big, but very deliberate. She’s not just running, she’s hunting. I like to see [...]
It’s Sunday morning. I got up about 5:30, and we were on the road around 6:30. Headed over to hunt some more Kansas walk in ground.
There’s a fine line in dogs between the healthy weight of a bird dog and a little too thin. I’ve been working on an article about feeding dogs and what [...]
Well, first day of upland bird hunting. I’ve been on a couple of goose hunts, but today was the first day we got the hounds out and chased after some upland game.
We are in North Central, Kansas chasing prairie chickens. We are up here with Ted and John and a couple of their buddies. I [...]
9/17/2010
We made it to Blackwell, Oklahoma last night, and I am now in North Central Oklahoma. We are headed into Kansas and have about three hours left on this part of the trip. We are going to stop in North Central Kansas and chase some prairie chickens for a day or [...]
