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The Upland Almanac
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: LAST OHIO GROUSE
Sometimes what flies around the bend comes back again. In this magazine's Autumn 2022 issue, my subject was keeping a hunting journal, which I had done religiously for the previous 50 years.
5 min |
Winter 2022
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Tailfeathers
Circling
3 min |
Winter 2022
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Day's End
Bewitched by Woodcock
3 min |
Winter 2022
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A Lone Way For CHICKENS
It happened again last September what my father used to call Getting a hair.” And while Dad and I had never really discussed the phrase’s origin or implications, its definition lay somewhere between profane and esoteric, an action without much input from the mind the way he said I had always performed as a child.
4 min |
Winter 2022
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Chasing Sasquatch
I m pretty sure Sasquatch is a mythical creature, but I aim to find him anyway. Thanks to a hunting buddy, one opening weekend I learned that on a certain mobile mapping app, the mythical beast is an icon to mark places you drive past but want to get to someday.
6 min |
Winter 2022
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San Andres Meditations
Scaled quail live a hardscrabble existence.
9 min |
Winter 2022
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A Love Affair in Plain Sight
We'd walked about 200 yards, intensely scanning the dense cover She’s on point!”
5 min |
Winter 2022
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— Gunning for Ruffed Grouse in October Is Real Sport —
Nora Knows Her Thunder-wings
10+ min |
Winter 2022
The Upland Almanac
— Gunning for Ruffed Grouse in October Is Real Sport —
Nora Knows Her Thunder-wings
10+ min |
Winter 2022
The Upland Almanac
Just Dovey
The birds came in a rush, like a scatterbrained phalanx of fighter jets on low-elevation maneuvers.
7 min |
Spring 2021
The Upland Almanac
Make Your Adventure – and Your Dog's – Easier, Interesting and Fun
The devil is in the details” is an axiom for a reason: It’s easy to say. It’s infinitely harder to actually do.
7 min |
Spring 2021
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In the Swing
The Quartering Away Shot: A “Spearing”-Type Move
3 min |
Spring 2021
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Think Like a Dog, and “Shhh!”
Meemo’s Farm, a prime bird hunting destination in north-central Michigan, was the setting for dog trainer Ronnie Smith’s “Foundation Seminar,” a two-day introduction to the “Silent Command System” of dog training. Participants ranged in experience from those working with their first dogs to professional handlers/guides to veteran trainers with more than 40 years of experience.
8 min |
Spring 2021
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The Check Cord
Try a Different Approach
4 min |
Spring 2021
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Flushes & Noteworthy Points
Quite a Story from One Little Bird
5 min |
Spring 2021
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From Flying Feathers: A Yankee's Hunting Experiences in the South
If you have youngsters coming on, let them read these tales.
6 min |
Spring 2021
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DOGS FIRST
Smarter persons would have stayed home in harsh conditions, but among the fanatic grousers I partnered with, no one had the temerity to stay indoors when Saturdays or Sundays were the only times many of us could head out to the woods after a week of work.
5 min |
Spring 2021
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Classic Upland Guns
Baker Gun and Forging Company: Batavia Leader
3 min |
Spring 2021
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Bird Dogs - Health Matters
Joint Relief Made Easy
5 min |
Spring 2021
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ARTIST PROFILE: Bill Harrison
Every picture tells a story. Just as a writer reconstructs life through narrative, an artist tells his stories by interpreting life through lines, brushstrokes and textures.
7 min |
Winter 2020
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A Season of Sharptails
The birds erupted from knee-high grass, a scant 40 feet from the dark, twitching nose of a black-and-white English setter, his flanks, ribs and legs invisible to the eyes of the hunter. I swung on the nearest bird, the barred primary feathers of its wings beating frantically for lift into full flight.
8 min |
Winter 2020
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Minnesota Covers
It’s the peak of grouse and woodcock season; there are few better things.
6 min |
Winter 2020
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In the Swing
Senior Eyes Get New Life
3 min |
Winter 2020
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Classic Upland Guns
The Fowling Piece: Isaac Hollis & Sons London, Muzzle-Loading Sporting Percussion Shotgun
3 min |
Winter 2020
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For the Birds
Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society
8 min |
Winter 2020
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Old Timey Pheasant Facts
In one of his “Pages Past” columns, The Upland Almanac contributor Glen Blackwood suggested that we hunters spend some off-season time with biological books and bulletins to better know our favorite upland game birds. So I did.
5 min |
Winter 2020
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REDEFINING LIMITS
The joys of winter hunting know no limits. Drifting leaves and slanting sunlight may be the abiding images of autumn, but winter’s austerity is an acquired taste, like rare woodcock or straight whiskey.
5 min |
Winter 2020
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Hope Makes the Hunter
Day's End
3 min |
Winter 2020
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Sleeping with the Princess
In 1968, it was still universally accepted that a hunting dog would become “soft” if you let it sleep in the house at night. I had just purchased my first dog, a male Brittany, so I built a kennel outside, provided a nice doghouse and diligently put him up each night, even when it was snowing and blowing and the trek to his kennel door and back made me miserable.
5 min |
Winter 2020
The Upland Almanac
The Scout: 2020
It’s time for our annual preseason look at the habitat conditions, weather phenomena and bird populations across the Lower 48 states that will probably play a major role in the situations you face when you step into your favorite upland bird hunting spot this autumn.
10+ min |