By Joel Schnell for ruffedgrouseminnesota.com They give 100 percent, our bird dogs. Levi doesn’t have a half-effort in him, especially when it comes to chasing the training dummy. Last week he overshot the dummy and hit a fence beyond in making the turn back. Chipped a bone in his wrist, so he’ll be out for ...
By Joel Schnell for Ruffedgrouseminnesota.com Traveling the backroads of grouse country, we catch a glimpse of the old working buildings of the Northwoods. The barns, sheds, chicken coops and farm houses tucked down an overgrown driveway edged with lilacs. In their day, a family scratched out a living in the woods and fields with daily ...
By Joel Schnell for Ruffedgrouseminnesota.com The drumming counts are in, so what can we expect this grouse season on the ground? The short answer, is the count is down 29% compared to last year (emphasis added). But let’s not get too excited about that number, what does it really mean? For decades now, volunteers have been ...
When building my own hunting cabin, I wanted a low maintenance structure, and one that can be built on a site off the grid. We’ve all been in the hunting shack with the tilted floors and crooked door frames like the fun house at the fair. I didn’t want to spend my free time up ...
It’s been a busy spring. I had a Woodland Stewardship Plan for sustainable management of the land written and enrolled with the MN DNR. It comes with a number of benefits including property tax savings. The cost of hiring a certified forester to write the plan was three-quarters paid for by the state. Designing a management ...
