Recent content by lbills

I have a new A5 Sweet 16, I bought it the year they first came out. It is my “go to” quail gun, and I’ll carry it at least one day when pheasant hunting in South Dakota. I love that shotgun. If the new A5 20 gauge ever becomes available, I’d like to get one. I asked my local gun store...

I’m hoping they have one of the new A5 20 gauges at the Browning booth/display at Pheasant Fest this weekend. I’d at least like to see one in person and handle one if at all possible. I’m a Browning guy, but I don’t understand why they made the big announcement about the new A5 20 gauges...

For Christmas, my wife and daughter gave me a Pheasant Fest trip package which included hotel, tickets to Pheasant Fest, and supper one night at The Golden Ox Steakhouse there in KC. They caught me completely by surprise, which doesn’t happen very often. The package deal has 4 of everything...

I have that Orvis vest and love mine. I like it better than a way more expensive Filson strap vest that I bought last year.

Who did you order the new A5 from? I’ve been on a quest to find one and it’s like trying to find the Ark of the Covenant! Nobody seems to know how to get one, and I even contacted customer service at Browning!

I just bought a Citori Lightning Feather in 16 gauge off of a guy on Guns International. It was made in 2003, and it’s in almost new condition. If you’re looking for a lighter gun and like the Citori, give one a try. I haven’t weighed mine, but I bet it’s right around 6 pounds.

We still have 11 days left in our quail season here in Texas. I’m taking a father/son quail hunting on Saturday, and this will be the young man’s first time to hunt quail with pointing dogs. No, I’m not a guide. I just get asked if I’ll take people bird hunting, a lot, which I always do...

Take this for what it’s worth, but on my way back from South Dakota this fall I talked to a guy in the new Casey’s convenience store in Liberal. He saw my pickup and dog trailer and asked where we’d been hunting. I told him South Dakota, and he said he was from the Liberal area and they’d been...

My daughter’s college roommate is from Elkhart and her family farms a lot of country. According to the roommate’s father, they have seen very, very few pheasants this fall. In his words, “it’s the worst he has ever seen”. I didn’t even ask about quail after hearing that report.

Nice pup! If I were Lointer Man, I’d be taking a look at that one.

You’re correct about the terrain we hunt out here, it’s big country with scattered cover. Most of the cover has thorns on it; mesquite, catclaw, prickly pear, etc. It takes a bigger running dog. My youngest dog is a son of Ch Skyfall and this will be his first full season. He was raised...

I agree with both Elhew and GTTP. I think it depends on how you hunt and what you plan to hunt with them. I primarily use my Phantom Kennels dogs to quail hunt in west Texas where I live, and was thinking more from that perspective. I pheasant hunt a couple of times a year with them, and they...

Contact Dan Hendrickson at Phantom Kennels in Abilene, Texas. Dan has been in the bird dog business for a long time and the genetics in his dogs run deep. http://www.phantomkennels.com/ I currently have 4 pointers that he raised.

My group got checked by a pair of game wardens in South Dakota a couple of years ago. They were waiting on us where we’d parked our pickups. They checked to be sure everyone had the correct license and habitat stamp, and that was it. They didn’t even check the birds we had. One year in the...

My group hunts west river, every year, on a farming family’s properties. They have a really nice, fully furnished farm house we stay in. Everything is there for us to use except our food, drink, and hunting gear. We bring our own dogs and portable kennels and crates and they stay in an...