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 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Making the TV show Wingshooting USA: the raw and the cooked … footage, that is
Posted in News, tagged bird dogs, bird hunting, dog blog, dog training, hunting dog, making an outdoors television show, National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF, obedience training, pheasant hunting, upland bird hunting, videotaping hunting, Wingshooting USA on June 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Distance brings your dog closer to perfection
Posted in News, tagged bird dog, bird hunting, dog training; obedience training, gun dog, upland bird hunting, versatile hunting dog, Wingshooting USA on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Just a great bird dog photo
Posted in News, tagged bird dog, bird hunting, Buddy & Me, dog training, German wirehaired pointer, gun dog, hunting dog photo, making a TV show, Mike Houska, outdoors photography, Scott Linden, upland bird hunting, versatile hunting dogs, Wingshooting USA on June 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Bird dog “games” and why we play them
Posted in News, tagged bird dog games, dog training, hunting dog, NAVHDA, obedience training, upland hunting, versatile hunting dog on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Shooting Sports Summit: what we’re about, for real
Posted in News, tagged excise taxes, increasing n umber of hunters and shooters, marketing, National Shooting Sports, shooting industry, Shooting Sports Summit on June 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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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