Author Archives: jakeandgrady

I received a couple of comments today on my site and figured this as a good opportunity to post what I feel to be a very important topic. How we hunt. The first comment came from a fella that all chukar bloggers are familiar with. He has some pretty negative thoughts. But he still broughtContinue reading “How we hunt”

I took the boys out for a chukar training jaunt this morning. Things didn’t work out the way I hoped it would. We were hiking on some pretty steep chukar slopes with the southern slopes bare and the northern slopes covered with 6 to 12 inches of snow. Those white slopes were slick and slowContinue reading “Post season training”

Being retired, I’m lucky to have plenty of time to think about my favorite past time, dogs and chukar hunting. Today, Feb. 26, it’s snowing again. Although I’d rather be out there hiking the hills, the dogs and I are sitting here enjoying the fire and thinking about being out there the next time andContinue reading “A different February”

I promise that I’ll start being more positive after this post but, I wanted to get this video in for my benefit more than anything else. It’s a video of me that Greg took with his cell phone back in November. Greg and I had left the vehicle and went hunting in our separate waysContinue reading “Old men on the hill”

I’m pretty fortunate to be able to spend a lot of time in the outdoors. I’m also fortunate in living close to a variety of game animals. I get to watch them quite a bit. Mainly through a spotting scope but sometimes right in my front yard. This evening a crippled deer showed up again.Continue reading “Not that chukar related, but reality”

I was out early yesterday and found this covey of 7 Hungarian partridge huddled by this rock. I’m assuming that the rock might have had some heat from the sunshine the day before. The temperature was 16 degrees and it’s obvious by the shaking that I wasn’t as comfortable as the birds were. Still itContinue reading “Snow and the birds revisited”

Sitting up on the hill yesterday and watching a couple of coyotes, I wondered if my hunting dogs hear as well as these coyotes? I know many times I watch my dogs on point and they seem to know the birds are about to flush. Maybe they see a slight motion or maybe the birdsContinue reading “Dogs hearing”

Wow! With this last surge of snow I’m sure many are concerned about the upland birds. I know there is not anything we can do about this abnormally heavy snow, especially in mid February, but we all are concerned with how this is going to affect the birds.. 15 days ago the season end cameContinue reading “The snow and the birds”

There’s a pretty good snow day forming outside today and I figure it might be the smart thing to just stay home and enjoy it. Who knows what I could hurt going out and playing around in 6 inches of new snow here and probably 4 or 5 more than that in the mountains. So,Continue reading “Greg Allen and his pups”

There’s more to chukar hunting than just the birds and the dogs. Chukar country has such a wide variety of other game animals to see. That’s just one more thing that makes chukar hunting the best upland experience for me. Here’s a few of the hundreds of pictures I’ve taken over the years while pursuingContinue reading “The other animals”