Working Pointers in the Scottish Highlands


  • Entertaining weekend for Gollum

    The Hunt-point-retrieving dogs (HPRs) have lots to do all year as we count grouse pairs and run spring pointing tests in February-March whereafter the season goes seamlessly over to Working tests. I took Tippex and Goll..
  • The Glorious Grouse Pairs Counting.

    Such beautiful weather!!! This is the time of year where the grouse moor 'keepers want to know what the breeding potential is, in other words how many grouse are planning on a family on each moor. It is an ideal time to ..
  • Pointers away from the day job

    Time flies and the shooting season now seems a long way away. Here is Gollum on his last working day of the season; picking up at Glenstriven Estate, West Scotland. It is nice that you can work the HPR breed both on poin..
  • Now we get it!! First prize in Field Trial.

    So, at last, having been to two field trials this winter and seen Gollum being put out for missing the birds, he got a first prize on Saturday at the GSPC Novice Trial at Ashintully. He never missed a thing. He first cam..