Welcome to The Reigning Chukar Champions
Elk
Nothing new as far as the chukars go except some good pictures in other blogs of some birds being taken. Makes me envious. Not looking for any condolences, just explaining why I’m not out there. Eye surgery last Wednesday, back ablation and a couple of other shots my on back this morning, and my other…
Layne’s a bird dog
Didn’t take long for me to realize that Layne was paying a lot more attention to what our hikes were about this summer than I thought. Grady, Layne and I made another trip to the mountains yesterday. It was a cloudy day and we felt maybe a dozen rain drops, but it was very dry.…
Ouch
I’m one of those guys that is glad Idaho opens upland season so early. For whatever reason a hunter might have against it, you still don’t have to go out that early. There is always a few cooler days and maybe wetter days before the opener in Oregon and Nevada. I like to take advantage…
First outing of 2026
My first outing of the season wasn’t quite what I expected, but there was some learning to it. It was just Grady and me on a grouse hunt. We don’t hunt them much but they are a good warm up for chukars. Thee temperature was great. Long sleeve shirt weather after a night of drizzleing…
Some energizing news
I’ve been getting out as much as possible in different chukar spots. Most of the time it’s been the same thing. Getting up early, driving, and picking a spot I’ve hunted before. The dogs and I hike for about 1 1/2 hour before the water is gone and it is hot. This mornings hike was…
Tough training year
Less then a month of summer, according to the calender, and I still haven’t had a point by Layne on a scented upland game bird. She’s pointed many by sight. Both game birds and every other bird imaginable. She lets me walk in front and do the flushing, and then goes on looking for the…
Dry
I’ve been trying hard to both find good numbers of birds and training Layne. I have to admit that it’s been hard on both acounts. Maybe I don’t remember to good any more but I can’t remember the high desert mountains looking this brown. The cheat, weeds and other grasses are tall but brown from…
Finally
With all the news I’m hearing from others about seeing birds out there, I finally had some good results. Most of the reports I have gotten were from road sightings and I had a few of them myself. But me and the dogs finally got some good reports from the field. In our last two…
Fires
About this time of the year, I start seeing more fires in chukar country. This year is no different, and there are plenty of fires burning right now. Just a quick reminder. If you hunt specific places, you might spend some time looking at fire maps to make sure your area hasn’t burned up before…
Sometimes doing the wrong thing becomes right
Went out today, driving the roads, looking for a bullsnake to teach Layne snake avoidance. As hot as it’s been, I should have realized there was no reason for snakes to be out on the roads to warm up. Saw a few very old and smashed snakes on the road, but I need a live,…
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