The Real Ryman Setter | Ep. 266

You should always jump at the opportunity when you get the chance to talk to someone in the upland space who has been chasing these birds for as long as Walt Lesser has! After all, he literally wrote the book on the Real Ryman Setter | https://2ly.link/1yB0D

It was a privilege to sit down with Walt in his home and hear about his story and what it was exactly that spoke to him about the Ryman Setters.

~Starting out bird hunting with beagles?!?
~Getting the first setters from George Bird Evans & George Ryman
~Tryin to fix a blinking Setter back in the day
~Not much interest in trials and testing. It was all about the birds and habitat.
~Continuing the Ryman lines
~Bringing Turkeys back to Doddrige County, WV
~The Appalachian Ryman breeders
~How Rymans range and hunt
~Hunting the legendary Canaan Valley
~Thinking of Grouse or WC when planning future dogs?
~The WV grouse habitat though out the decades
~The process of developing dogs back then
~The first beeper collars
~Maintaining the Ryman type Setters today

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