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That trip might be why my knee is all messed up.

I have hunted behind a lot of incredible bird dogs......their ability and skill , in my opinion was a result of many many days training and hundreds or perhaps thousands of real hunt/wild bird contacts, not because of a field trial.

Keep your dog exercised (lean and mean). Keep taking it out in field situations, use live birds, frozen birds and training dummy’s. The most common mistake I’ve seen and been guilty of myself is not maintaining your responsibility as a dog owner and hunting partner. Daily off leash outings in...

Life is odd sometimes. When I was a kid there were quail mixed with pheasants in eastern Oregon and my Dad would get furious whenever I shot at a quail. He would say that they aren't worth the shot. After moving around the west and experiencing quail hunting at it's best and worse........I...

It's like the 100 commandments for pheasant hunters. I strive to live up to them all but.........fail at about half at any given moment or trip.

I'd say that it depends on where you are, what species you are hunting, what your expertise is and what your expectations are. I'll offer a couple of examples: 1. I went to school in eastern New Mexico, right on the Texas border. At the time there were plenty of Bobwhite to mess around...

Usually I take more pictures than I did this year. I had a great year, until I tore my knee up. I go in for surgery in a week and hope for the best. I hunted my same old haunts, but then explored some new country. I was amazed at the bird numbers this year. My little griffon turned 7 this year...

This year, I’ve almost completely stopped shooting any birds before the dog retrieves a downed bird. When I did I lost more birds due to the dog and I getting distracted. Shoot one, retrieve one.

I know you all might find this crazy, but several years ago, I had an over under that I didn’t use and a guy offered me a trade. He had this Russian made “Remington” semi auto 12 gauge 3 1/2” magnum black synthetic shotgun, ugly as hell, made by the same company who makes the AK 47. I looked at...

I find more birds in these spots “spring” and “seeps” later in the season. From looking at their crops, I always assumed they were feeding on the fresh green shoots that seem to come up quite a bit earlier than everywhere else.

One additional fairly frightening story for both my dog and myself. This October, I was hunting with my son in law, we were a mile or more from one another and I had limited out, so I was hustling back to the truck which was several miles from me. Along the way my dog went on point. I just...

Funny story.....I have never shot a Stoeger 3500, so while hunting with a friend who has one, I borrow his for a morning. I apologize to anyone who has one of these guns but damn. it is big and clunky and for some reason could not get it to connect with a bird. So, whether it was subconscious...

I’ll know more this Tuesday. I meet with the orthopedic surgeon then. Who knows, with a little luck, I might get out one more weekend before the season ends.

Well, I believe I’m done for the year. A life time of hard use has used up the miniscus in my left knee. I’ve had my right knee done a couple of years ago. So, surgery later this month and 10 months to dream of next season. This is not the way I wanted to end my hunting season, but everyone...

In my opinion, all the comments in this thread have some merit and all have a hand in struggling upland bird hunting in Utah. I would add urbanization to the list as a reason for struggling upland bird issues in Utah. You add urbanization with the increasing competition for water in the second...

I have a friend who seems to have two requirements for his dogs. 1. It has to be as large as possible 2. It must be a male I never understood it, from my experience larger dogs seem to wear out (hips, eyes etc) sooner.

Perhaps we will all be hunting Newfoundlands one day.

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I had a lab once that was impossible to slow down once she got on a hot pheasant smell. It all would happen so quickly that I didn't really have time to know or understand what was going on before it was over. I learned to keep an eye on her at all times and pace myself to her all the time...

I hunted with a guy who ran one. It was a tall lanky dog with an extremely long tail and ranged like nothing I’ve ever seen. I thought the dog hunted for itself and was not the friendliest dog. Perhaps they are one person dogs because this one wanted no part of me or my dog. Additionally, I...