Pineridge

[Bruce Day]

My dogs have been with Jerry the last two months while I was teaching shooting at Boy Scout camp. We run about 6000 youth and adult leaders through camp and are the largest session camp and second only to Philmont. So Jerry boarded, did a refresher on Bert and Fielder. I want my dogs to be steady to wing and shot. And not to bust birds at all. Bert the pointer is a better big runner for prairies but Fielder the setter is closer, methodical and cautious and may be the better ruffed grouse dog.

Jerry Havel at Pineridge Grouse Camp is a Parker guy and PGCA member. There are a bunch of u tube videos on the camp .

I often hunt with Jerry for a couple days and usually rent a cabin or house in the next county north and guide friends. Lots of places. Walleye dinners. The grouse count was down last year but this year the drumming count is high and it may the apex of the cycle for this year and next. I’m spending a month out to start on sharptails and Hungarian partridge in Montana and move east to Minnesota for sharptails, woodcock and ruffs.