The author flies to a legendary day of woodcock hunting in northern Maine, where he learns how not to hunt timberdoodles.

Woodcock migrate, a trait they share among upland gamebirds only with the quail that fed the Israelites. That comparison isn’t lost on woodcock hunters, who treat their favorite birds as practically ...

For upland bird hunters seeking a challenge, consider pursuing the American woodcock. Pennsylvania boasts the greatest number of woodcock hunters in the Eastern Flyway, but that only amounts to about ...

Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

FLOODWOOD TOWNSHIP — This is what the Fries family looks forward to all year. Not 100 yards out from where we parked the trucks, Viper, their diminutive female Gordon Setter, was already locked on ...

Woodcock hunting has been associated with ruffed grouse hunting, which will get more attention this year because of an apparent upswing is grouse numbers. Wisconsin’s woodcock season got underway ...

IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA — While it's possible to hunt ducks without a dog, and pheasants and even ruffed grouse, chasing woodcock without a pointer out ahead, or even a Labrador or other flushing ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air was ...

It’s been nearly thirty years since I last hunted upland birds at Fort Bragg while stationed there. Yeah, I hunted dove there this year with my son. But I’m talking now about walking through the ...

As dawns turn cooler and signals frosty mornings on the way, my English setters are almost as excited as I am.  For me it is ...

A recent letter to the editor got me thinking, a sometimes dangerous activity where I’m concerned. It got me thinking about how hunters are a misunderstood group, sometimes even by those in their own ...