K-ler's Kennel

K-ler's Kennel Owner and trainer of field bred English Springer Spaniels. Participates in field trials, hunt tests and HUNTING!

Tonight's dinner was grouse schnitzel with portobello and morel mushroom gravy. 👍The grouse was delicious as usual, and ...
01/17/2026

Tonight's dinner was grouse schnitzel with portobello and morel mushroom gravy. 👍
The grouse was delicious as usual, and I swear I'd eat an old boot if it was smothered in that delicious, brown gravy. 😜

This morning's pre-sunrise sky on the prairie.
01/11/2026

This morning's pre-sunrise sky on the prairie.

With the subzero temperatures this morning it was too cold for Bart, Porter, and Graham to ride in their crates in the p...
12/14/2025

With the subzero temperatures this morning it was too cold for Bart, Porter, and Graham to ride in their crates in the pickup topper. Instead they rode home in the warm back seat.
Given how excellent hunting was the past three days we decided not to fight the cold to do the usual morning hunt before heading home.

12/14/2025

The good news is that Graham is no longer afraid of Joe's dogs. The bad news is that Graham is no longer afraid of Joe's dogs. 😂😜😂

It was another good day in South Dakota. Joe and I both limited out again. It got up to about 5 degrees, and the windchi...
12/14/2025

It was another good day in South Dakota. Joe and I both limited out again.
It got up to about 5 degrees, and the windchills were in the -15 to -20 range. It would have been really miserable without my heated glove liners.

Joe and I shot our limits again today. 👍Graham flushed my third rooster out of the cattails on a Game Production Area.It...
12/12/2025

Joe and I shot our limits again today. 👍
Graham flushed my third rooster out of the cattails on a Game Production Area.
It's too cold out for a lot of photos, but the youngster's public land rooster to end the day was worth pulling out the phone.
It was pretty comfortable in the cattail sloughs where there was shelter from the wind. But the ten plus minute walk back to the truck straight into the wind across a harvested corn field was mighty chilly. It was 7 degrees, and the 20 mph wind made it a -15 wind-chill. 🥶

That was a fun day hunting with birthday boy, Joe. We must have seen over a hundred pheasants, and dozens of them were r...
12/11/2025

That was a fun day hunting with birthday boy, Joe. We must have seen over a hundred pheasants, and dozens of them were roosters. We limited out in a little over two hours.

Career milestone: 10 1/2 month old Graham flushed and bagged his first wild rooster today.It was a challenging day in So...
12/11/2025

Career milestone: 10 1/2 month old Graham flushed and bagged his first wild rooster today.
It was a challenging day in South Dakota. We saw a lot more hens than roosters, and most of the roosters weren't waiting around long enough to get in gun range. Can't complain, though, when the youngster got it done. He continues to do a great job locating and trailing birds in the cattails. He's definitely not afraid of thick cover. 👍

Tonight's dinner was spruce grouse prepared based upon a Project Upland recipe for Butter Garlic Sage Sharp-Tailed Grous...
11/13/2025

Tonight's dinner was spruce grouse prepared based upon a Project Upland recipe for Butter Garlic Sage Sharp-Tailed Grouse Breast (recipe link in comments).
I cooked the entire bird and pulled the prosciutto-covered breasts when they reached 140 degrees F.
Mighty tasty.

I spent my birthday hunting grouse in far northern Minnesota. It was a lot tougher going than yesterday. I only had four...
11/06/2025

I spent my birthday hunting grouse in far northern Minnesota. It was a lot tougher going than yesterday. I only had four flushes all day and took a long shot through the thick woods at one, but apparently didn't connect. Oh, well, I got plenty of quality time with the dogs. I got to see my puppy, Graham, start to figure out this woods hunting. And old-timer Bart busted the brush like a champ.
This morning Bart was about ten yards from me and a grouse flushed right between us, but I was in thick aspen and I couldn't swing my gun barrel to shoot it. ☹️
Oh, well, I figure anyone who can still put on 11 miles in the woods at the ripe old age of 65 has no right to complain.

I'm in northern Minnesota hunting grouse with Bart, Porter, and Graham. We had a pretty good day, totalling 17 flushes w...
11/05/2025

I'm in northern Minnesota hunting grouse with Bart, Porter, and Graham. We had a pretty good day, totalling 17 flushes with 3 grouse in the bag.

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