Thanks for the replies.
In regards to stopping hot spots. Where are the likely areas that they show up?
And are you just duct taping the tube together or is there some tape on the leg hair?
We hunted Nevada this last season.
On multiple occasions while trying to get to likely public cover the grass stickers stopped my griffs.
Ive never had an issue in with stickers in South Dakota, but dang they were bad in Nebraska and it cost us birds.
Looking for some help with a durable dog...
We have two griffons.
They work close, have great noses love to retrieve birds. I use them for all upland birds.
Ive used them to blood trail and recover big game that we would not have recovered otherwise.
I use them for all waterfowl hunting except cranes.
They are great in the house...
For me, it is when he cannot physically do even a small push.
I witnessed a 14 yr old lab make her final wild pheasant retrieve last season.
She passed this last Easter.
I say hunt them as long as they have the drive, just tailor the hunt for them.
We boondock next to the farmers silos. We boondock while elk hunting in colorado as well.
We haul a 40 ft. fifth wheel toy hauler with a gator sxs inside.
Hunting Nebraska for the first time this year, but will be staying at a park for the 10 days we are there.
We are unbelievably blessed to have a farmer and his wife that we are able to swap a multiday offshore fishing trip for hunting privileges for.
They leave some row corn standing for us. They have "straightened" out the the row crop planting along the many creeks. Thereby leaving great cover...
I have male and female griffs that I hunt together. Not a issue at all. Now my buddies lab has love on his mind sometimes. When that happens
we just hunt opposite sides of the cover.
Ive always heard quail will re-nest but have never witnessed this, until last year. We had a horrible drought in West Texas and Old Mexico(where my deer lease is). I made it down for the rut in mid December and hunted quail. They were about the size of sparrows. I shot one, then left them...