October Setters
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…
Hunting
Firelight SettersI was fortunate enough to again spend a month of early hunting season in Montana. Always an adventure, hunting this year was dogged by alternating heat and rain. Never saw so many rainy days in such a dry place. Sharptail grouse were spotty but Hungarian partridge were good as were pheasants. I had…
RymanSetters.com is excited to announce that the first annual Ryman Setter Breeders Gathering and Hunt is scheduled to be in January 8-15, 2017 in northcentral Kansas. This wild-bird-only event is a long needed opportunity for dedicated breeders to hunt together to see each others dogs as well as evening fireplace conversations about breeding…
Mike and I have just wrapped up our hunting for the 2015-16 year. It was a good one that spanned the months of Sept-January and included 5 different states. My personal time afield was a bit restricted by a litter born in late November (I’m thinking these pups were worth it but I’m…
A week before our season closed here in Kansas we were very pleased to have Scott Gillis of Round River Setters and 3 of his dogs travel here from Iowa to join us for a weekend of quail hunting. Scott normally hunts pheasants back home and in South Dakota so quail hunting here…
We’ve always considered retrieving an important part of a hunting dog’s job. Aside from being a nice addition to the enjoyment of the hunt, a good retriever knows how to search for and locate crippled birds that run off after hitting the ground, giving you a chance to recover birds you have little…
Sugar Creek English SettersHello everyone, It’s Sunday evening on November 1, with a dark sky and hard winds that promise to lay maybe one last flight of fresh woodcock in our Finger Lakes coverts. Hopefully everyone had the October we all wish for and some more days of the same are coming in November. A friend and his son…