NavyChief
Member
Against my best judgement I decided to go northeast this last weekend, conditions were no different, still extremely dry and windy. I had hoped the little skiff of snow we had in town was more widespread but no dice.
My buddy that was supposed to go with me was feeling under the weather so I headed up Saturday morning just me and the two dogs. I walked five different WIA fields and managed to put up one hen. Temps got up into the high 50's and the wind was blowing at least 20. My friend felt better that afternoon so he drove up and to go out Sunday.
The extra manpower helped and we ended up seeing 11 birds Sunday but none of them ended up in the bag. Birds have sure wised up. Long gone are the slow, high flushes. Every single rooster either flushed wild at 70+ yards or was low and straight away. The best chance I had was a bird that held to point but I was on a high bank above the bird and dogs and he flushed low and straight away. I had to wait until he was about 50 yards out before he cleared the dogs and whiffed the shot.
Could we please get some colder temps and snow? PLEASE???
My buddy that was supposed to go with me was feeling under the weather so I headed up Saturday morning just me and the two dogs. I walked five different WIA fields and managed to put up one hen. Temps got up into the high 50's and the wind was blowing at least 20. My friend felt better that afternoon so he drove up and to go out Sunday.
The extra manpower helped and we ended up seeing 11 birds Sunday but none of them ended up in the bag. Birds have sure wised up. Long gone are the slow, high flushes. Every single rooster either flushed wild at 70+ yards or was low and straight away. The best chance I had was a bird that held to point but I was on a high bank above the bird and dogs and he flushed low and straight away. I had to wait until he was about 50 yards out before he cleared the dogs and whiffed the shot.
Could we please get some colder temps and snow? PLEASE???