Strangers in the Night
Excerpt from the 1998 North American Woodcock Championship The sexy redhead in the fur coated seated at the head of the table in the chair reserved for the guest of honor was happily dining on… 
Excerpt from the 1998 North American Woodcock Championship The sexy redhead in the fur coated seated at the head of the table in the chair reserved for the guest of honor was happily dining on…
The new AFTCA website features histories of Amateur Wild Bird Championships…so far for the following: • National Amateur Quail Championship by Steve Standley • National Amateur Chukar All-Age & Shooting Dog Championships by Torben Hansen…
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…
Photos from the 2102 North American Woodcock Championship held in Nackawic, New Brunswick, September 14 — 16 can be found in the Photo Gallery: Grouse and Woodcock Championships. Judges for the Championship were Tony Bly…
…Seldom does man achieve phenomenal success in the profession to which he has devoted more than half a century and still retain the candor, simplicity, and unpretentious modesty inherited from his forbears yet such a…
While searching for a description of a great grouse dog performance, several people mentioned Northern Dancer’s win in the 1991 Lake States Grouse Championship. The dog was trained and handled by Jim Tande from Minnesota.…
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…
While other American game birds may well demand the respect of the confirmed grouse hunter, the present day ruffed grouse is far more of a problem for a dog to handle than any other. He…
The Pennsylvania Grouse Trial Club is, amazingly, coming up on its 100th Anniversary. This not only marks the origin of the club but the dawn of all field trials run on ruffed grouse in this…
When the jaunty Traveler was put down in the very first brace of twenty-seven starters he laid down a heat, coupled with faultless bird work, which started low mutterings that he was being unfair to…