I dove hunt a little spot . The top of a dam has a couple of trees for shade. A dry pond the first time I hunted was during the drought and thought that was why. I dropped a dove and my peake charged to the end of the dam and hit the brakes then took another way around to pick it up. I walked...
I had to round up to get to 5’-9” . . 40 yrs ago there were plenty of guys that were shorter.
On my drivers license Id list it at 5-9 175 even when I weighed a buck fifty. Now I’m about 220
last week I borrowed a Milwaukee electric to clean up some downed wood at the cabin we were staying at. The chain got loose quick. I don’t what was up with that? To much torque maybe? Is that common. I have an electric stihl blower. Handy to use to blow out places you don’t want the noise or the...
I started running gps. Running flushing dogs I’m sure I could get by without it , when they get lost eventually they will cut my track and work there way back to me from behind. It’s funny I always thought they were 60 or 70 yds away when they were lost. This year a couple of times they were...
I agree that would have been something.
Hunting the same pastures You get to know how many birds are in a pasture. Some of the better walk-in pastures I’d say a third of the flock is harvested by hunters over the course of a season and come back as strong the following year. The walkin pastures...
Greaters are doing pretty well in most of the smokys. They are an acquired taste. I’ve shot 25 or 30 of them. A lot of dog training birds. But one of my funnest birds to hunt.
I don’t know that it is illegal to shoot a lesser ? the state just closed the zone that lessers are located in . The boundaries are roughly west of Pratt and south of Hays I think. If I remember correctly there are a few mixed leks that have been documented outside of the boundary but I don’t...
I think at one point 60s 70s early 80s Washington and Idaho had pretty decent pheasants hunting. >500k in the best years. I looked up where are the now last night when I saw your post. Like 6000 stockers or something like that . Talk about going to shit. Wow
I do like the timing , mine should be just a few weeks younger. IMO a 7 or 8 month old dog is easier to deal with than an 11 month old dog. Like bird dude said light the fire.
I do hunt try to pheasant hunt them a few times that first year but I try get them out on the slam dunks and not the long walks. I’m afraid they will get injured while they are still growing. It’s not worth it the risk to me . I maybe over cautious but hip or growth plate injuries are for life.
There is a flock of chickens that I’ve seen 2 or 3 times kind of wondered if they were lessers but I wouldn’t know the difference. The places are no longer in walk-in so I’ll never know unless they turn up somewhere else.
Off leash with an ecollar my dogs are somewhat well behaved but onleash they are terrible.
I saw the curly coat people post something on facebook. the curls look short and tight, are they not? they looked bullet proof! Another facebook post that I saw was a polish spaniel, kind of neat looking...