The Upland Almanac Magazine - Winter 2022

In this issue

On the cover: "Woodcock" by Bailey Cain. This issue features Section 799.2: Gunning for Ruffed Grouse in October Is Real Sport; A Love Affair in Plain Sight; San Andres Meditations; And Sharptails, Too; A Long Way for Chickens; Goodbye to All That: Last Ohio Grouse; Day's End; and much more.

Flushes & Noteworthy Points

Pending Legislation Threatens "World-leading and Highly Successful Wildlife Conservation Model"

4 mins

Bird Dogs Health Matters

Dr. SHAWN WAYMENT

4 mins

— Gunning for Ruffed Grouse in October Is Real Sport —

Nora Knows Her Thunder-wings

10+ mins

— Gunning for Ruffed Grouse in October Is Real Sport —

Nora Knows Her Thunder-wings

10+ mins

A Love Affair in Plain Sight

We'd walked about 200 yards, intensely scanning the dense cover She’s on point!”

5 mins

San Andres Meditations

Scaled quail live a hardscrabble existence.

9 mins

Chasing Sasquatch

I m pretty sure Sasquatch is a mythical creature, but I aim to find him anyway. Thanks to a hunting buddy, one opening weekend I learned that on a certain mobile mapping app, the mythical beast is an icon to mark places you drive past but want to get to someday.

6 mins

A Lone Way For CHICKENS

It happened again last September what my father used to call Getting a hair.” And while Dad and I had never really discussed the phrase’s origin or implications, its definition lay somewhere between profane and esoteric, an action without much input from the mind the way he said I had always performed as a child.

4 mins

GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: LAST OHIO GROUSE

Sometimes what flies around the bend comes back again. In this magazine's Autumn 2022 issue, my subject was keeping a hunting journal, which I had done religiously for the previous 50 years.

5 mins

Day's End

Bewitched by Woodcock

3 mins

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* Gear Reviews: Access reviews of the latest gear, firearms, and equipment tailored for upland bird hunting.

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