Not just for the birds
Now that most chukar seasons are over, one of the things we can do to bide the long months ahead before next season opens is to come up with some good dishes using the birds we have waiting for us in the freezer. I like making risotto but had never done it with birds before. …
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One more day left. Yesterday, Leslie and I joined Angus for a "quick" afternoon hunt not far from home (how lucky are we?). He and I had been to the same area last week and found a nice covey of chukar but I missed my three shots at them. That's another story. Yesterday was unseasonably …
At the risk of alienating half of my three readers, I have a confession to make: last night I ate my first road kill. It might or might not be what you're thinking. Our neighborhood is lousy with California valley quail, which - in Idaho for obvious reasons - they refer to as valley quail. …
Made it out yesterday for the first time since spraining my ankle on December 2. Leslie came along for the hike and to take video and photos. We decided to try a place I hunted a decade ago in the Owyhees. Long drive, but it was nice to revisit some of that terrain, and we …
Serious bird hunters: how many minutes of your life have you spent pulling and cutting cockle-burrs out of your partner's hair (I'm talking about your dog)? As a Brittany fan, I can say I've spent my share of time getting my dogs back to Ground Zero after a day in the weeds. Angus is a …
I'm not a spring chicken but I'm not dead yet, either. Still, I find lugging a heavy over-under up 2,000 feet of 60% slopes all day a pain in the butt. And the arm, and shoulder. I lift weights and try to keep a little strength going on in this aging body, but my gun …
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I'm nearly giddy with happiness after hiking today. For the first time since I sprained my ankle I was able to hike, much of it off-trail and on some steep side-hill stuff, wearing my new boots (review to come). It's been five weeks, and it's still nowhere near "good-as-new," but today was the first sense …
Not being able to hunt because of my sprained ankle has afforded me the unwanted leisure of thinking about chukar hunting more than doing it. But I thought I'd share some of the thoughts just because it's the next best thing to being on the hill with Angus. Imagining Whenever I drive anywhere near hilly …
The only kind of bad day hunting chukar: hurt yourself when you're alone and can't get any help. Don't do this at home or anywhere else!
Our first limit Angus was phenomenal today, and I was even better. He found lots of birds but not more than normal. And I actually hit everything today, which was very abnormal. I went with my friend Dan, who has a young, amazingly energetic springer spaniel (Kacie), who seems never to stop moving at full …