Recent content by OldDublin

I would consider taking him along on a birdhunt....mindful of a successful experience past gamebirds. But, as my own Father was not much of a hunter and died before I was 30, I expect I might treasure the time spent deerhunting, if he enjoys it and put my own rather-dos in the...

I believe your fiancee was wrong, as and for why I stated. I'm sure she is a lovely lady tho. Sorry, a dog does not negate a hunter as a hunter. In fact, some dogs receive a helping hand from the hunter...."team" is a word often used amongst those that understand the realities of a dog and...

There is a birdhunting video of AS with a couple of episodes of B&P available on Ebay....actually, there are two versions of that tape. One being shorter than the other by 9 minutes or so(be advised)...the shortened segment was of a B&P pheasant hunt in Iowa. There are also occassional film...

Whenever this subject arises, I think back upon my standard comparison...the old American Sportsman. But I never thought to watch that show to learn anything about hunting or birdhunting or to watch stellar dog work or whatever...I watched it to discover something recognizable and to watch...

Yes, dogs can be so inconsiderate with all that panting, the oafs!...and they like me to wear that chaueffer cap for which I have not the face. It is a terrible imposition when one must "accept" a dog....the ignominy of it all. Few errors, C....a hunter hunts....even with a birddog. A hunter...

I have long suspicioned that once a gamebird discovers a setter is out and about the woods or field, the bird gives off the cloying scent of fear. Therefore...scent, not heat.:)

The southeast, to many even today, is not The South. I would suggest that a few of those states may well prefer the later geographic designation......college football notwithstanding. I'm fairly content with my understanding of the War of Northern Aggression. Kentucky likker is very good for...

Be nice to hear some hog, turkey, squirrel, crow and rabbit stories. But I doubt any of those states consider themselves in the SE US.

Oddly enough, my wife is looking at one of those as a house dog....the non-curly-haired rendition. I'd prefer another lab but...one will have such issues arise. I would expect the odds of winning out with a mix of a hunting lab and a hunting poodle to be fairly large as owners of each would...

One does not have to shoot skeet targets with a mounted scattergun.:confused: Clays are targets. Clays shot are, by and large, artificial shooting games.....kinda hard to be anything else but they don't claim to be anything else. Point is tho,from skeet especially, and with many other clays one...

Raptors are a small factor, comparably, and whether "large financial interests" play the presently popular black heliocopter role for everything from soup to nuts or, a smaller and more realistic one is often based upon the fear and agendas of those rating. WE, for example, are the ones most...

Big Anything...Oil, Coal, Timber, Wind...Ag, will always be the easiest black hats to blame....rather than that which is closest home and most difficult to address. Much the same as the raptor rap...and just as wrong. Many stoops have blame set upon them as empty milk bottles wait in the...

Not sure that Ohio has more ground or better topography for gamebirds than Pennsylvania. But I do know that the plowing, planting and poisioning is not a fault of the ODNR. The PGC benefits from it's own blessings of topography variation and from foresight in their Gameland system and the...

Be nice to believe the blame you imply falls to the "landscrapers" or chemical folks but those companies exist because there is a demand for their product from We, the People. The nature of PF in Ohio is driven by land ownership and acreage size. It is difficult to get on Private in Ohio but...

As I said, up to you. But, you really do not know what you are...missing.:) And if you ever hunt with a dog....I wish it luck. Bad stuff can happen with bad ideas. Bad ideas also get spread over the Internet to less experienced folks who believe very easily that time is fleeting on any bird's...