In 2006, I did an interview with professional trainer, Joe McCarl about his multiple wild bird champion, Hard Driving Bev. Her wins included all three national championships on grouse: the 2002 National Amateur Grouse Championship… 
Of the half dozen or so really memorable performances I have witnessed, Grouse Ridge Storm’s 1994 win of the Grand National Grouse Championship at Gladwin, Michigan has to be one of them. It was a…
Hard Driving Bev and owner/trainer Joe McCarl are the only dog/handler team in history to have won all three national championships on ruffed grouse — by many considered the king of game birds. This past…