Recent content by Matt D

Sounds like a great run of hunting for sure. Great memories! All the best going forward.

Love to hear a story like yours. No one is ever gonna say preserve birds are the same as wild but they sure as hell beat no birds!! I’ve quail hunted in Georgia with the dog set up you describe. I’ve not seen it in the wild per se but sure there are some that do. Hope you get back out again...

Wow a great intro. Congrats and welcome to the upland world. It is addicting. Hope you have a great trip. Do some reading from the last few years posts and you will find lots of good advice that can be used to learn for sure. Hope someone take a you up on your offer to maybe join you in Kansas.

Welcome from Ohio.

Should be done by now. LOL

Welcome. I am a flusher guy so not a lot of help but welcome to the forum. I will say there are a lot of good options so continue to research and get around as many different breeds as you can while trying to make your decision.

Got a pic this morning of heavy frost so for anything not turning yet it will here soon. Talked to a farmer 2 days ago. 3-4 more days of beans and then will roll in to corn he figured. Agree that the next 2 weeks will see more corn shelled across a larger swath of the state. Can’t wait to get there.

Never used Sport Dog but have been very happy with my Garmin Pro 550. Run flushers so the GPS is mostly just ncase somehow we get separated and needed to locate them. Adds a lot of peace of mind.

Welcome to the site. Great to see a younger new hunter wanting to learn about something we all love. Take these guys up on any offer you can make work to help speed up the learning curve. Keep us posted on how it goes. I remember my first bird shot behind beagles while rabbit hunting.

Lots of good shooting glasses out there and can spend a ton Of money. I went with X Sight a few years ago and for the cost I am happy. The RX can be switched to various colors. I find on sunny days the brown works well. All other days yellow works fine. Don’t recommend the purple. Tried them and...

Love my Rizzini Aurum.

We chopped silage this past week but a neighbor is combining corn. He plants short date corn early so he can say he was first to harvest every year. The rest of the are is 7-10 days from beans being ready and 3 weeks or so from corn. This is in Ohio.

I agree that I would have no issue getting her out on some birds this fall.

There are a couple of started dogs listed here https://gundogcentral.com/hunting-dogs-for-sale

Lots of great advice. Over the years I’ve fed anbout everything mentioned. Have been using Black Gold Explorer now for the last 4-5 years. Have great access here to it and dogs like it and seem to do well on it.