Recent content by Bughucker

I wear a mother vest/day pack extra large. I have a long torso and it has plenty of length for me but I would not want it any shorter. Waist and chest are very adjustable so no problem there. Mother has been the best vest I've owned and hope to hold on to mine for as long as possible. I wish...

Multiple dogs and training are tough. I run 2 dogs and often start 1 dog at a time in order to focus on each dog during that "excited time" individually. Dealing with someone else's dog is tougher yet! If it's your good hunting buddy, you guys may want to hunt behind one dog at a time, you'll...

We got into our first covey yesterday and harvested two. I was just excited to see a covey somewhere! I chased them but they quickly flew across the creek into thick cover. Again, this is the poorest quail season I have seen. On the flip side, I've harvested and seen the most pheasant in many...

As a kid we hunted ditches and shot lots of pheasants that way. Birds were plentiful and we didn't have a dog. After I got my first dog I enjoyed watching him work scent and we were way more productive with our dog than running up and down the ditches. As I began traing my pointing dogs I would...

I've guided for a hunt club. The policy there is $30 hour with a 2 hour minimum on a guided hunt using my dogs. Most hunts are about 3 hours and I charge for the time my dogs are in the field. I do it to get my dogs on birds and I love to watch new and old hunters alike. Tips are above that and...

I know this is a pheasant site and I'm happy to report I've found some decent pheasant in SE Washington but I'm sorry to say that the quail hunting has been the worst I've experienced. We have seen more habitat planted in some of the areas where we hunt and we have seen the pheasant...

I have a montefeltro 20 and a SBE 2 and both are great guns. The Monte is light, which is greatly appreciated after a long day in the field, and shoots great. My SBE 2 is a workhorse and I love it. When it comes to cleaning the Monte does not allow you to get to the chamber/lever as it is...

I Live in the Tri-Cities, Kennewick, about 4+ hours from Everett. I use to hunt near Chelan, Douglas and Grant counties. It's tough hunting now. I have found ranchers let us on their property if I ask them early on in the season. We have gained permission later on in the season but have found...

I live in SE Washington and pheasant hunting has been tough at best. The release sites get pretty pounded but did produced earlier in the season. We have had our best luck lately in permission to hunt property, they have produced some wild birds and quail. Scouting and getting #'s will pay off...

Just received my Beretta 686 20 gauge for Christmas and it is exactly what I was hoping it to be, mine. I've only shot clays with it but I can't wait to get out and shoot some birds. Just wondering if you guys shoot steel or other alternate shot through your guns and what it may be?