Hunting White-Tailed Ptarmigan in Colorado
Field Staff Writer Trey Johnson writes about revisiting the Colorado mountains where he vacationed as a child, but this time for another purpose – hunting white-tailed ptarmigan over his dogs.
Read MoreField Staff Writer Trey Johnson writes about revisiting the Colorado mountains where he vacationed as a child, but this time for another purpose – hunting white-tailed ptarmigan over his dogs.
Read MoreField Staff Writer Trey Johnson shares the story of a recent western ruffed grouse hunt with his late-blooming English setter, Pearl.
Read MoreDespite the pouring rain, Field Staff Writer Trey Johnson, and his English Setters Ruby and Pearl, set out down an old logging road to find that most elusive of upland birds: the American woodcock.
Read MoreTrey and his GSP Ranger brave the cold, desolate slopes of the sagebrush steppe in order to target chukar, a Eurasian transplant that now calls the area home.
Read MoreWhen Field Staff Writer Trey Johnson was gifted with free English setters, he thought it was too good to be true. Thinking he’d been proven right after poor performance, his dog Pearl suddenly “got it” and began outperforming his other dogs!
Read MoreHaving only one day available to hunt while passing through eastern Idaho, Field Staff Writer Trey Johnson decided he’d devote it to pursuing the local Colombian sharp-tails found there.
Read MoreSometimes after a bad day of hunting, you need to be reminded of just how good you’ve got it. Field Staff Writer Trey Johnson explores the concept in this essay.
Read MoreField Staff Writer Trey Johnson had heard chukar hunting was supposed to be hard, but his success on his first day out seemed to say otherwise. Was it just beginner’s luck?
Read MoreAfter hunting “textbook” ruffed grouse cover to no avail, Trey was about to give up when he flushed three birds in quick succession. You can never be too sure how a day in the grouse woods will unfold.
Read MoreTrey and his dogs take us from dry, rocky slopes to boggy mountain streams in search of chukar and grouse, the upland kings.
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