THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

JERRY HAVEL IS A GROUSE AND ELHEW POINTER MAN — AND MUCH MORE.

JEREMY MOORE

THE CALENDAR says October has 31 days. Why then does it always feel like it begins and ends the same week? It was early November and I’d missed my window of opportunity, so this began as a call to a stranger named Jerry Havel that I’d heard on a podcast about shotguns, grouse camps, and Elhew pointers. I’d read Bob Wehle’s Snakefoot, The Making of a Champion, a must read on a dog man and his Elhew line of pointers. My copy was filled with scribbled on post-it notes, underlined sentences, highlighted paragraphs, and a list of unanswered questions. I first introduced myself to Jerry, explained what I was trying to accomplish with this column and invited him to bring dogs and join me at my camp. Not long into the…

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Gun Dog (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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