Recent content by matto

Only one for me, but I bring a backup on overnight trips.

Buddy tried to dispute the (accurate) pet fee on a motel bill once. Then they sent him video from the hallway.

I just got back from my one annual trip entertaining one of my customers. While some of the birds were surprisingly jumpy, most were not. I saw 3-4 on the ground before the flush. That happens with wild birds once every few years at most. During this last season I saw a rooster head sticking...

Good to know. Maybe they just didn't stand out when we were looking. We handled a lot of guns that day. What you wrote about the market for Euro guns crashing is resonating. In the run-up my visit to Murphy I was looking at the AYAs shown on Bass Pro's site and the prices were surprisingly low.

I spent over an hour at Murphy's with a buddy a couple of weeks ago. He developed an itch for an sxs and Murphy has the best inventory around here. However, out of maybe 50+ that we handled, there were definitely not "lots" of Uggies unless they're hidden somewhere. I'm not even sure I...

A Prairie Chicken would be cool, but I'm not entirely sure the area I hunt for pheasants is open for Prairie Chickens. I don't usually hunt for pheasants in the areas I hunt for Prairie Chickens.

With the push-button forend latch it looks a little like the new Weatherby Orion.

I worry about my dogs more than myself. They move pretty fast and (obviously) stand a little shorter than I do. A few years ago a hunter lost a dog in an uncapped well on a Kansas WIHA. I'm always a little leery of abandoned farmsteads for that reason and also because of junk metal, broken...

I've been there every summer for the last couple of years fishing. The guides are almost all hunters too, but hunting in the area seems to be more waterfowl focused. Nevertheless, last year we saw quite few on the roadsides in the mornings and it looks like there should be pheasants around.

I've never lost one or had a "close call" while hunting. If that ever happened I don't think I'd be allowed back in the house without the dog. "Turn your ass around and go find that dog." But, I run them off leash on a local golf course in the summer. It's a pretty tight course, built on 160...

Found a couple of slugs in a quail crop earlier this year. I'd never seen that before.

Never been checked in SD, but several times in Kansas. I think I've related this story before. A Highway Patrol guy (ie, not a game warden) interrupted a hunt on some private, posted ground pretty early in the morning. It was primarily a permission check. We had permission; I even put up the...

About 7"-8" in Wichita. Probably less when you get out west to pheasant range. Very dry, powdery stuff. 0ish in the morning, teens in the afternoon yesterday with lots of sunshine.

Have you done testing on the parents, hunting or health?

If it's a day trip I'll hunt both my vizslas at the same time. But then there are my two hunting buddies. They both have dogs, a lab and a WPG. Both those dogs stay much closer than mine so there is no real conflict. If all three of us are hunting, there will be 4 dogs on the ground. On...