Bird Hunting West Virginia, Woodcock, Ruffed Grouse, and a Weimaraner – Perspectives
Bird Hunting West Virginia, Woodcock, Ruffed Grouse, and a Weimaraner – Perspectives
My experience with the Amanda, Same, and Michael is one I will never forget for a few reasons. The first was being able to witness Amanda and Sam in the outdoors, not only partners in life but the best of friends each enjoying bird hunting in their own way, and encouraging each other steadfastly in the facets of it they each pursued. The second reason was being floored to see hunting shared down from father to daughter and the deep rewards it brought each of them individually and through the bonds it created between them as family. Perhaps we try too hard to make our children love what we love and need to be more like Michael, who simply let his children witness how the outdoors brought him fulfilment so that they wanted to try it themselves. This was something I dream of sharing with my own daughter—to witness her experience her first bird and bird dog and to watch the spark ignite in her for the outdoors and, more specifically, for bird hunting. It’s not just my dream, but the dream of many fathers. Amanda, Sam, and Michael are a beautiful example of what a family looks like when they are brought together frequently by their love of bird hunting and bird dogs. Thinking back to that first day of hunting with them when Michael declared it a “Banner day in West Virginia,” I can’t help but wonder whether he was talking about the birds we had seen that day, or the fact that he was hunting within the good and favored company of his family.
To find Amanda’s work check out:
https://www.instagram.com/amandaballengee/
https://www.amandaballengee.com
To learn about American woodcock hunting check out: https://projectupland.com/american-woodcock-hunting/
To learn more about the Weimaraner read: https://projectupland.com/hunting-dogs/the-complete-weimaraner-history-profile-and-hunting-dog-story-2/
LOVED that! Amazing work!
As a girl dad, this brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing this with me!!
Absolutely beautiful! Live to hunt! Hunt to live!
Loved this. Beautiful work everyone!
What a blessing!
😊💖🐶🐶🎅
Knocked out of the park!
I’d like to invite y’all out to Nc to come rabbit hunting with beagles
awesome. As real as it gets !! Love to see the passion that is actually rooted like this.
Well Amanda, I’ve hunted moose, bear, deer, etc. and NOTHING even approximates hunting wild birds with my setter or pointer……..nothing. Thanks for sharing.
Amanda, is your work online?
Interesting. Here in the UK we never put collars on retrievers or flushing dogs, the idea being they can get tangled/snagged in thick cover.
Brought a tear to my eye when she spoke of her first experience with the dog fetching up for her made me think of my two chessies who have now passed and the special times I spent hunting with them.✌🏻
Wonderful video guys!
What pants is she wearing? Looking a pair for my wife. They appear to be synthetic and not heavy cotton canvas.
Does anybody else want one of those Ruffed Grouse paintings now?!?! Amazing work
Great story; does she have a website or IG account so I can see more of her work?
She is beautiful. She is talented AND she is a southpaw too! That explains it. 😉 Her work looks almost spiritual – something that can only come from THAT PLACE. Yup…I want one of those paintings!!
Art threw u in exploring nature and its Gems
Just lovely to see this! Without our dogs, it’s shooting but with our dogs it’s hunting. Thanks for posting 🎄🐾🐾
I have access to 100s acres in Wayne county Wv ! Are grouse and Quail have been gone for years ! DNR say there here but there not !
Wow.. this made me cry. Thank you
Beautiful.
Quit hunting woodcocks!!
They’re on the the list for extinction, and it should be illegal!!
Great passion
Best demonstration of nature by following by grooving as a hunter. Stay like this till u get older and stay strengthened till last airs .
I need to train my Weimaraner Junebug to hunt more than just turtles ! Great film awesome paintings
I love it, great art.! I want someone..!
Great video and story! Question: what are the colored things on the pointer’s front feet at the end of the video?
Great story! Thanks so much. My first (best) bird dog was a Brittany named Sam. My 14 year old daughter was recently the 4th generation to shoot my great uncles 12 GA Sterlingworth Fox. She just received her first shotgun, CZ reduced length Redhead Premier. She will be getting a share of this vid as a follow up and wonderful representation of what I think of her company in the upland Woods. We don’t presently have a dog but have friends with them and a dog is on the list for sure.
Thanks again.