Not just for the birds
Good boy's swag Hmm. The past two days have been pretty neat, just hunting with Peat. Today, near the end of our hunt, my friend Sam punched me in the arm and said, "And you were wanting to get rid of him less than a year ago!" Yesterday Peat pointed 7 coveys, and today he …
Been a while. I've been out there, with mixed results. Birds somehow await cleaning in my fridge, but it seems the burgeoning populations promised by early outings have eluded me of late. Last weekend, for example, I hiked for six hours without seeing one bird in areas I've often previously found chukar. Of the eight …
I'm lucky enough to be able to teach in a small school nestled here at Galliformes Ground Zero. One of my classes, a group of six 11th- and 12th-grade young men, each with a passion for hunting, has been reading A Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport (1997; a fantastic collection if you haven't …
The Golden Moment Forecasts for lots of birds this season are, in my experience so far, true. Covey sizes have also been relatively (or extremely) large, and locations have been all over the place: high, low, sage, open, rocks. Last weekend we hunted what was for us a new area, one I'd bet doesn't get …
I like these guys, and can't say enough in support of their take on this issue. I just got back from hunting on BLM land that abutted former Idaho State Endowment lands, which is now private and posted "No Hunting." As I headed out this morning, three big coveys of chukar coasted from the BLM …