Welcome to the Michigan Upland
Championship Website.
Tournament hunting is the ultimate challenge for upland game hunters and their faithful companions. It offers a format for competitive upland bird hunting that requires professional performance from both dog and handler/shooter. It allows performance to be scored on the basis of objective measures rather than subjective judgments. Tournament hunting has gained popularity throughout the United States over the past three decades.
Michigan Upland Championship Series is committed to bringing tournament hunting to Michigan. For the 2010 - 2011 season, it will offer at least three events at which competitors will have the opportunity to qualify to compete in the Championship event at the end of the season. It will also honor a "Dog of the Year" in both flushing and pointing divisions on the basis of scores accumulated throughout the year.
On our "Vision" page, we set forth our vision for MUCS and for Tournament Hunting in Michigan. On our "Rules" page you can find the rules regulating competition in our events. Our "Events" page will take you to information regarding our qualifying and Championship contests and registration information. On our "Results" page, you will be able to track your achievements and progress toward qualification for the Championship event and your standing in the "Dog of the Year" race. The "Photo Gallery" page will have photos from our events. (Until the first event you will see photos from my personal tournament gallery).
Photo Gallery
Resources
A Poem
Written by George Edie (1775)
ROUSE, rouse, ye sportsmen, to my call attend,
And in your pleasure seek a faithful friend;
Health calls you forth, obey the cheerful voice,
Breathe in her air, and in her fields rejoice;
Come with your fowling-piece, and boldy spring
The feather'd game that love to take the wing;
With shot and powder's irresistless force,
Arrest their journey, and annoy their course.
Come then, my friends, leave politics and town,
To skirt the woods, and brush along the down:
Rise ere the fun, and in the cheerful dawn,
Traverse the groves, the meadows, and the lawn;
Such exercise much pleasure will produce,
Recruit your spirits, and to health conduce.
In sloth let others pass their time away,
And fall to idleness an easy prey:
But let my Sportsmen to the field repair,
And find both health and pleasure in the air;
And while the nimble, flutt'ring game they chace,
By exercise their flagging nerves new brace.
Town modes of passing time, sure death will give,
In sporting plains you'll learn the way to live:
In sporting plains you'll gain the certain means,
And all the joys possess of rural scenes.
When day withdraws, and sporting time is o'er,
Fancy, your absent pleasure will explore;
When in imagination you'll behold
The pheasant gay with breast that flames like gold;
The skulking partridge flutt'ring for its life,
The woodcock trembling, and with death at strife;
The snipe, that loves in marshy grounds to feed,
The water-fowl, and those of fenny breed:
The upland shooting in the winter air,
When hoary frosts salubrious winds declare,
Winds that will keenest appetites bestow,
And make the tardy spirits briskly flow,
Give nature aid, and purify the blood,
With glowing health's invigorating flood.
With joy the ev'ning of the day to pass,
Feast on your Game,--and drink a cheerful Glass.
FINIS