One of our property bounds is a trout stream. The state Fish and Game Department dump some trout in that stream every year, but there...

      The weather during October and early November had been particularly warm and windless, possibly a record setting warmth. Warm weather ...

Volumes have been written about shotgun stock fit. Most of us bumble along with factory fit stocks. Certain guns, like the Remington models ...

       Every spring we wonder where the woodcock are.   Are they headed north yet?   Woodcock splash,  A sure sign they are  around. Then co...

      There is an abandoned field a few miles from our home that has sat for twenty years or more without attention. It is up high with view...

  Few things are as soothing as the sound of rain. Without rain the world would be nothing but a ball of dust. And why is it that the dogs s...

       The water shoots from a tangle of fallen softwood trees that fell into the stream, rattling down a riffle into a sharp left-hand bend...

                During the summer months a fly rod always leans the corner of our screened porch, rigged and ready to go. It is a three-we...

       It doesn’t take a lot to make an adventure. How about a spot on a map and time to go find it? That’s what we had.         T he spot w...

       Before we can talk about a New England Upland Life, we had better decide what an Upland Life is. I supposed to different people it ca...

       Step outside the door of Camp Grouse. The sound of running water is everywhere. Snow is melting. Spring rains made certain the remain...

Cranberries earlier in the fall.   A friend mentioned that a few years ago visiting bird hunters had found a parcel of grouse in windrows th...

       Bird season stayed hot for far too long. Usually there are frosts and cold mornings, often an inch or two of snow that never sticks a...

       Hot weather, isn’t that July? We had some up here at Camp Grouse, but most of the weather has been cool. Many mornings there has been...

         It is June, the time for young grouse to climb out of their eggshells. It actually started at the beginning of the month and mayb...

        There’s getting to be less and less of the old timers around, at least from my prospective. When you find one and he is willing to t...

     February usually means snow. By the time the month starts the hillsides are covered with a couple of feet beneath the hardwoods. Under ...

  Catkins will feed the winter grouse.      W inter really gets a grip on the land come January. Temperatures drop often to zero or below an...

     Grouse hunters are always trying to figure it out. Why was last Sunday so good, with birds everywhere? The day before we saw none in si...

       About every other year the snow is deep enough by December that upland bird hunting is either difficult or impossible. When the weath...