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Another successful huntingtrip is behind

The snow that appeared last week is now history for the moment. The groud is black, as we say, and poor grouses have no shelter of its colour as you can see from some photos...

The amount of daylight is poor from now on as you can also see.

Here is Woitto on point

and here is "the man of the house"shooting

Woitto…

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Added by Katariina Roiha on October 28, 2007 at 1:16pm — 2 Comments

A Sunday huntingtrip was a success

I was having my camera(again) and rifle with me when I went for just a little trip in the mountains today. And because the polar night-time is coming soon the light is not ideal for photo shooting. But other kind of shooting did happen ;))

If you can look the right spot, you might see the grouse as a bright… Continue

Added by Katariina Roiha on October 21, 2007 at 12:19pm — 5 Comments

Snow has arrived

The northern Finland is now covered in snow. Which is ideal for the grouses in white wintercoats. Me and my husband went for a little huntingtrip with the youngest setters from our gang.

And as Gene aswell can see my blog is working ;-)

Here is Evita waiting for her turn

And here Sheriff waiting for his turn with a good example of exellent eye contact…

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Added by Katariina Roiha on October 16, 2007 at 6:55am — 7 Comments

Hunting season is ON!

Hunting has been going on for a few days already. We have lots of willow grouses and all of our dogs have had more than enough of beautiful situations with game so far.

Here`s my little Evita on point

And here again

Look closely and you can see the grouse in the picture. It has quite a shelter with its colour…

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Added by Katariina Roiha on October 9, 2007 at 9:43am — 6 Comments

Hunting season is behind the corner

Our training sessions have gone thru beautifully in a bright autumn weather.

We´re not allowed to shoot grouse yet, but by using a startpistol I can give the dog a feeling of a very bad shooter :-)

setters on a break

Added by Katariina Roiha on September 6, 2007 at 12:54pm — 5 Comments

Hunting season is behind the corner

The first training session is behind. Not too much willow grouse, only a few broods were found. And the honored dog was our hunter number 1. Woitto(Winner in english). The broods are still hiding in wet swamps. The high mountain area is full of lemmings, little hamsterlike creatures. Lots of food for owls and hawks. Hopefully those will leave willow grouses in peace.…