Author Archives: jakeandgrady

Conner, my grandson, is at that stage in his life where he wants to hunt anything and everything. His favorite is duck and goose hunting but when I asked him if he wanted to chase some hounds he couldn’t get here fast enough. The kind of hounds I’m talking about are bear/lion dogs. With theContinue reading “Different type of hunt”

I knew better, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway. When it is snowing at my house there would surely be snow where I usually hunt. Most of the places I hunt are about 100 road miles away from where I live and although there was only about an inch of snow onContinue reading “Here comes winter”

Several years back, I was hunting some BLM land when I came upon a range bull stuck in a bog. At first, I thought the bull was dead. I took a couple of pictures of him and when I moved closer he thrashed around the best he could. At first I decided to flag aContinue reading “Private property”

Of course, I could use a bunch of those four letter words to describe chukar hunting and the obstacles and so on that goes with it. But I’m going to try and keep it clean. First off is a word coined by my hunting partner Greg Allen. He started it way back when we wereContinue reading “Chukar terminology”

Just got back from another chukar hunt and had a neat email to look at. So instead of boring you with my complaining about how hard it is to get up the mountain, I’ve got a cool story from Brian and Terri Kondeff. I hope I don’t screw it up. By the looks of theContinue reading “How cool is that”

It seems like even when I’m just sitting at home watching a football game, chukar and dogs are on my mind. When I checked my voice mail there was a message from a gentleman in Nevada wondering if I ever had a bad day or if there are that many birds in Idaho. The simpleContinue reading “Good days bad days”

A friend lost a dog while hunting over at camp Kettle creek off the Owyhee reservoir. She’s a liver and white GWP and got lost chasing a cripple. If any information or seen please call Jeff Funke at (208)-989-0721. We all know how hard it is to lose one of our great companions, so pleaseContinue reading “Lost dog.”

The weather yesterday felt more like November 2nd than December 2nd. The temperature at 4:00 when I got back to the truck was 54 degrees and the soil was dry. What a fabulous day to have been on the mountain. I started the day out just to go on a shorter hunt but like usualContinue reading “December 2”

Like usual the hunt started with a fairly steep incline hoping to find some chukars before we gained too much elevation. As usual we did find a few but they were either running up the steep grade or flying wild, looking like they were headed down but were actually as swinging around the ridge andContinue reading “Crippled bird”

If I had only one month to chase chukars it would be November. The heat is gone and most places have had enough moisture that I don’t have to pack too much extra water. Scenting conditions are as good as they are going to get and the dogs don’t act beat after each retrieve. TheContinue reading “November”