Author Archives: jakeandgrady

Barb, the dogs and I just got home from a 12 day chukar hunt. We camped in four different locations starting in Riggins and ended up in the Owyhees. Two out of the 12 days was recovery time for me and that wasn’t enough. I now know how out -of -staters must feel coming allContinue reading “Butt kicked”

The hunting seems to be picking up each day even though we are in need of some moisture. We’re finding lots of birds but not getting as much good dog work as we’d like. Too often the boys are walking right into them before they catch scent. But sometimes the coveys are so large theyContinue reading “Dry”

Well, another season is about to start. Idaho upland birds (chukar, huns and quail) open the day after tomorrow. We lost a lot of hunting area to fires this year but there is still more than enough left to chase our favorite birds. And, wow! are there ever a lot out there. Late scouting revealedContinue reading “Best of luck”

Thank you Mark for the notification of the Mineral fire. For all of us chukar hunters. it’s burning a lot of great chukar ground on the Idaho side of Brownlee reservoir. It started yesterday and had covered a couple of thousand acres in just a few short hours. As of today it has bloomed toContinue reading “Round 2 of fires”

I believe this is that season us chukar hunters have been dreaming about. This last week I spent more time scouting than the rest of the summer and can’t believe the number of all upland birds I found. Here is pretty much what I found. First off are the quail. Suddenly they have shown upContinue reading “Oh! Happy Days”

Finally got out on short hike with the boys early this morning. Temperature was 58 degrees which was about as cool as it has got for quite a while. Grady and I are in terrible shape and didn’t cover as much country as we intended. But, what we did cover was very good. We wentContinue reading “Positive news”

For the most part, most of the fires around eastern Oregon have been contained or are out. It could have been a lot worse, but a lot of the chukar habitat is still there. I was imagining the worst and thought a couple of the fires would blow up and burn most of the landContinue reading “Better news”

Thanks to those who are posting about the fires. You’re giving information that I seem to have a hard time accessing. I’m sure the chukar hunters that travel from afar appreciate it also. Good news is that I am getting good reports about the hatch and I have personally received some great information about theContinue reading “Bad”

I’m sure most of the local chukar hunters of eastern Oregon and western Idaho are well aware of the fires going on right now, but here is another bad update for those out of state guys planning a fall chukar hunt. Oregon had over 1,000 lightening strikes yesterday and the day before with little orContinue reading “More fires.”