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Archive for June, 2009

Welcome behind the scenes again. As I’ve noted before, making a television show is not all beer and skittles. You don’t simply show up, go hunting, then send the tape to a network. There are a lot of steps between booking a hunting trip and lounging on the couch in your skivvies watching the show [...]

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At a recent training day, I had an epiphany. Don’t know if my partners thought so, but it hit me like a gulp of cold coffee. I’d already put up Buddy … two, three good executions of a command and we’re done (why tempt fate?). But the other guys all wanted to steady their dogs [...]

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Just had to share the great work of one of my friends … Mike Houska is a fantastic photographer … so good, you’ll soon see his work on the cover of a Cabela’s catalog. He asked to shoot still photos of Buddy and me while we were videotaping upcoming “Buddy & Me” segments for the [...]

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You know what it’s like: We were killing time between bird planting chores at a recent hunt test when Silke (a transplanted German) wondered aloud what else she could hunt with her versatile dog when birds were unavailable or seasons closed. There began a long discussion on the European hunting ethic, furred game, blood tracking, [...]

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I’ve gotta say, I like having a covert all to myself. No competition, no strangers hunting my birds … admit it, you’ve said the same things. Haven’t you? So why would a bunch of high-powered industry and government types meet in hot, sticky Florida in June to figure out how to turn more people into [...]

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