Author Archives: jakeandgrady

It’s come to the point I was hoping wouldn’t happen. My back and leg are hurting so bad I can’t even walk up my driveway let alone a chukar mountain. I was lucky and got one last chukar outing before I went down. The dogs are what I feel bad for. They depend on meContinue reading “Ouch”

25 years ago, I got my first shorthair, Tucker. He was an amazing dog and taught me so much about chukar hunting. He came before the GPS collar days and I hunted him with a beeper collar that I could push a button to locate him. Even at that, Tucker did not like being separatedContinue reading “Dogs never cease to amaze me”

I remember back in the 70s when I use to hunt ducks and geese and how many birds we would see. At night, after a hunt, I would close my eyes and all I could hear and see hundreds of birds coming into the decoys. That happened to me last night. Only the difference wasContinue reading “Tracks”

Just a bunch of pictures of Grady and my hunt yesterday. Jake was a little stoved up and stayed home. We found at least 14 different covey’s of huns and chukars. We had a great day in Idaho chasing chukars and huns. It’s what Idaho has to offer. Just what can be had on aContinue reading “Idaho”

You’d think with a title like that, I’d have lots of pictures of dogs and birds. Not a chance, since I decided to leave my camera at home. But it was fun all the same. The hunt started last evening when Greg called and left a message that he was ready to chase chukars theContinue reading “What a day”

I’m continuing to whine as I chukar hunt thinking that someone will care, but I haven’t found that person yet. But the truth is I’m tickled to be able to get out there with the boys even if it is slow going. I’m able to make it about four miles on a hunt and gainContinue reading “A couple of different hunts”

Friday evening and the phone call from Greg Allen came. “Are you ready to hit them tomorrow ?” came the question. Greg and I have chased chukars together for over thirty years and I can only remember a time or two saying NO. And those times only because of the weather. This time it wasContinue reading “Hard to say no to chukar hunting”

Once again, “it ain’t gonna happen”. My two hunts this week are proof that we will never go away. I’ll combine the two hunts because they were similar in weather, steepness, miles dog work, etc. I went four miles both days, Jake tripled my distance and Grady went 4 1/2 what I did. My elevationContinue reading “The demise of the chukar hunter”

I could make it a short post by saying “it ain’t gonna happen”. But being so beat up lately, I’m going to post my beliefs and experiences on why I believe we don’t have to worry much about it. Seems like due to my sore body I’ve been posting almost as much as hunting. FirstContinue reading “The demise of chukar”

Greg and I finally made our trip down into the deep Owyhee’s. The trip in was a little cooler than expected, -1 at the summit, but the sun shining where we started our hunt made the 13 degree temperature not seem so bad. We parked the rig and let the dogs out. Greg had hisContinue reading “A little comedy”