Grouse Dogs: A Professional Training Journal

Anyone who has spent time hunting ruffed grouse knows that this bird presents one of the most difficult challenges for any gun dog. Extremely wary; given to early, explosive flushes; and running ahead of the hunter, grouse routinely shame all but the best of bird dogs. But it is to dogs capable of handling such challenges that Dick Weaver has devoted his life and career.

Here, he not only offers invaluable training tips but shares his hunting experiences, for Dick is a hunter’s professional, a man who believes the best way to train a grouse dog -- particularly one of his setters -- is to hunt him or her on wild birds. Grouse Dogs represents a rare opportunity for the serious upland hunter to go afield with one of the nation’s top trainers and to experience the thrill of walking up behind such dogs as Dick’s Rose and Amber.

Reviews
"This isn’t just another dog training book. It is a combination of a hunter’s journal and a grouse dog training book. It is a grouse dog training book that has been written as an enjoyable upland hunting story being told by an informed writer and a great grouse hunting dog trainer." --New Hampshire Wildlife