Sugar Creek English SettersWarmer weather is coming in a few weeks. So are the woodcock, coming back soon from southern locales, at least for those of us within their range. Our friend and mentor Walt Lesser discussed a lot of good reasons to run dogs on spring woodcock in a post here back in 2017 titled…
Hunting
October Setters
We just want to post a quick mid season update on our males from our outcross to Hafrafells Mori. Both are doing great and we’re really excited about their performance so far. Here is a short video of Birch pointing Huns. And one of Hunter also on Huns. He had to find a…
Ryman-Type Range Range is an important aspect of a dog’s performance for hunters to consider. Ryman-type setters’ range is often described as “close”, “close working”, or “foot hunting”. These are, at best, highly subjective terms that have VERY different meanings to different people. Most of us who are attracted to the Ryman-type want…
FoundersHunting season stretches from September through January but October is special with it’s colors, long days, and temps and leaves dropping . RS Breeder Members and their dogs have been putting in long days and weeks afield to enjoy every possible minute of October. Time in the field and woods with our dogs…
Wild birds, wild birds, wild birds, wild birds…”Our dogs handle wild birds”…”We prove our dogs on wild birds”…etc etc. We’ve all heard it before but what does it really mean? Does it really matter? Is it just an advertising tactic? In short, yes it really matters. But why and how it makes a…
We’ve finally settled in at home and got ourselves caught up so we thought we’d post our assessment of the first Ryman Setters .com breeder’s gathering in Kansas back in January. We were quite impressed with the turnout, both in terms of the number of breeders and their dedication/commitment to producing healthy first…
We are recently home from our annual Wisconsin Grouse and Woodcock hunt. Grouse numbers were still spotty in the region we hunt, but up a little from last year and maybe a bit more consistent. Not so many covers where you didn’t see any or maybe only saw a couple, and we had…