Recent content by Alaskan swamp collies

Yep, you get a poke at a small window between the Russian olives. I think you can hunt one rooster all day, flush him a half dozen times and never get a clear shot.

Hunting the milk is a real experience. Totally different from SD. Think deep, really deep irrigation ditches, like crawl up on your hands and knees. Then trees and brush. I mean trees like forest grouse hunting. There’s birds and a good year can be really decent. Thing is you will see them when...

Okay you are messing with my mind. I close my eyes and there you are next to Goose with black socks and sandals riding on his ski boat.

Wow and she shot her dog for not behaving. That ruined my supper.

You have all the best gossip. Never hear that stuff in the frozen north.

You guys are making me feel good. Wrestled in college at 150, but really weighed 165 when not starving, now 55 years later only 175. Also passed the eye exam for my drivers license renewal the other day and did it without glasses.

Yep short. Just checked my height for the first time since college. Lost an inch and didn’t have many to begin with.

The breeders I bought the last 2 dogs from starts touching their feet with a Qtip before the eyes are open. We can dremel or clip with no problem. The nails grow worse as they get older. The 17 year old has nails like rebar.

I have a Golden now that turned 17 last month. Hunted her when she was 15 and shot several roosters over her. She can’t hear and the eye site is not great but still goes on a half hour walk every day. I’m kind of wondering if she will outlive me.

Damn hell has frozen over, but I kind of agree with Goose. There is a caveat in that you should take the dog to obedience classes, if nothing else just to socialize,by having decent habits around other people and dogs. Almost any where you live there will be some hunters that get together to...

Yeh Goose I’ve only been going to MT since the mid nineties. I could use some help too. I’d buy beer but I only drink craft beer not mass market swill.

To my knowledge no. I hate to say it but Goose would be more knowledgeable. From my understanding the “pro trainers” pretty much got a bye. Again I don’t blame MT something needed to be done. There will not be much money lost by the state for these new rules. They were dirt cheap for years...

The issue came to a head with the locals over the trailers with dozens of dogs. One campground I stayed at had an outfit with 43 dogs. They would take a few out to train and leave the rest on chains to bark all day long. That campground now has a 3 dog limit. MT has one license good for all...

Last year they were telling nonresidents to voluntarily not shoot pheasants the first week. I ran into hunters in the campground who thought that law was already in effect. This is in response to nonresidents coming out for the grouse hunting in September and staying through the pheasant opener...

Now that is a great idea and a worthy cause. Personally I have run into trial washouts that are great family pets and hunting dogs. I have seen some wonderful dogs that were not a right fit for their original owners that blossomed under a new owner.good for him.