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    Thank you all for your great comments. I really love this dog!

    Weather permitting Miss Belle will be poking around looking for migratory woodcock this weekend.

    And she'll take s snoot full of Ole Ruff given the chance.

    We are on our way to being Partridge Gypsy's!

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    03-20-16
    Found these two following us.



    Told us as long as the sun was shining they always had our back.

    One very happy grouse dog shaking off cabin fever.



    It was a beautiful day in the partridge woods trying to touch a cloud.

    Earliest ice out on Lake Winnipesaukee EVER!



    Thanks for coming!

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    "The Road to Tinkhamtown"

    I think we found ours. Where is yours?

    Thank you Mr Ford.

    The Road to Tinkhamtown | Michigan-Sportsman

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    Doodling with Dave

    Please take a few minutes and listen to Dave Anderson of NH Public Radio's "Something Wild".

    Aired last April 10, 2015 it is a touching story about dancing doodles and educating our youth about this unique game bird.

    Dave is the Educational and Volunteer Director for the Society for the Protection of NH Forests, an organization dedicated to managing NH forests and promoting all age growth.

    Well done my friend!

    https://nhpr.org/post....emories

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    04-02-16
    If you look close you can see the NEHN Captains and their crews fishing the big lake.

    Belle and I kept our feet on terra firma.

    It was a good morning in the upland woods.


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    BIL and I visited the Bay. Time for a 2016 gobbler season spring cleaning.
    Brought the cameras. Set one on the crossing above the brook where I shot my eight point in 2014. I saw deer tracks there in the snow on our visit last month.

    Camera # 2 is guarding the low gap a couple hundred feet up the trail.

    Camera #3 was saved for the drumming log. The one I chose a month ago wasn't being used. So our search continued. BIL went north up the mountain. I went south.

    With my eyes closed I visualized where I have been hearing the drumming since the founding days of Bay's Place. In October 2012 the drumming came from the same place as the previous May.

    There along the stone wall was another prospect log. It was very exciting for both of us to find it.



    The camera view now set on video.



    In quest of Drummer!

    Side note.. the turkeys are back!!

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    very cool, i hope you get some good footage to confirm the evidence!
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    My Drummer. Ain't what he used to be.

    https://youtu.be/dkBnivmVMTo

    Left the camera. I'll give it a couple more weeks

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    As I read further down the road of grouse hunting there is one thing that rises to the top with each author I embrace.

    It isn't about the woods.
    It isn't about the birds.

    It is ALL about the dog.

    Beo fada and fiach,


    Coalman and Belle

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    Tinkham Town

    Spending time hunting ruffed grouse behind Belle last fall had a profound impact on my life. A special friend loaned me his book "A Passion for Grouse". In the pages of the book was a story by Corey Ford called "The Road to Tinkhamtown".

    Tinkhamtown is said to be a fictitious place where a town of hard core setters tried to make a living in the mid 1800’s tilling NH's granite laden soil. Frank and his setter Shadow found Tinkhamtown. The story left a sentimental bulge in my heart. I so much want to find a Tinkhamtown for Belle and I.

    Well the research is over. Historical Societies, old maps and a new found surveyor friend have put an X on the map. I hope to be blessed in our quest. I want to feel the rush Mr. Ford had when he discovered Tinkhamtown.

    So this weekend Bruce and I will be putting boots to the ground as we explore the wild and beautiful back country of NH in our journey to find....

    Tinkham Town.
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