At the Shamrock Gun Club in Heppner, Oregon, we hunt upland birds in the rolling hills of the Columbia Plateau. In the footsteps of the Irish immigrants who settled there over a century ago, we experiment to create pheasant habitat on a working cattle ranch as we live through up and down bird population cycles. Over the course of twenty years, new pups take the place of beloved old dogs as old and new friends spend days afield. Gray’s Sporting Journal (August, 2024 edition) calls it “a fine memoir of hunting upland game on the rugged ranch country of eastern Oregon….the strength of this clearly written, well-paced memoir is the author’s appreciation of the history of the land he hunts and the character of this unsung region of the country, a realm of mill towns and wheat towns.”