Bird hunting can be humbling and exhilarating, often compressing these extremes in a weekend or day, or even brief moments between shots. I was fortunate to return to the chukar grounds before ...

Gary Lewis hunting with Liesl the pudelpointer high above the Deschutes canyon. When chukar hunters gather, we talk about places like Juntura and Riverside and the Snake and the Owyhee, but there are ...

Eric Thompson steps out of his truck and scans the horizon — rolling shrub-steppe dusted with snow as far as the eye can see, a typical scene for the Oregon desert in late fall. Another vehicle pulls ...

It's said that your first chukar hunt is a bird hunt; every hunt after is to seek revenge. Chukar hunting is not for the weak of leg nor faint of heart and is demanding on both hunter and birddog ...