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I took Tucker down to the farm last night to take advantage of the less than 100+F temps. Indy once again had cut himself running over the weekend and is out of action with staples. I put Tuck on a CC and couple of pigeons in launchers. He is doing real well for a 10 month old. Then I...

Making at trip down by San Angelo Tx this coming week. The reports are 15 to even 20 coveys a day. We will have some young dogs and a couple of quail veterans. Main goal is to get the young dogs into as many birds as possible and get some training in. But with the older dogs there may be...

I need to get an AVT for my small farm. I have 160 acres, 70 pasture that I have to burn 1/3 of each year, and the rest crop or wooded area . I have a 50hp tractor with a sprayer, loader, and forks, so the heavy stuff will be handled with it. What I will be using the ATV for is: -Sprayer...

My dog Indy has managed to cut himself up badly for the 2nd time in a month, and is on the IR for a couple weeks again. 40+ stitches and some staples. So my SIL Blaine and I took his 10 month old Llew pup Mia out as the only dog. She has really come a long way in the last few weeks. In the...

I had someone recommend these tags. They work great on a Garmin tracking collar. This is on a Garmin TT-10 collar for a Garmin Alpha. My dogs necks are small enough that there isn't room to put a standard brass riveted tag on the collar.

I hate Locust trees, and have a patch of them around the house at the farm. There is also a patch of them back by one of the crop fields. Have decided that they are going to die. The patch back by the crop field will likely become a covey headquarters. But first they I am going to kill...

Well for the 2nd time in two years something got in my pigeon coop and killed and dragged off all my pigeons. A buddy of mine had just given me 5 more pigeons to add the the few I had. With my Daughters new setter pup and a good friend with a new V pup, I really needed some pigeons to train...

I have a 2001 F150 4x4 super crew with 225,000 miles on it. It has been a great truck, but it is showing its age, and I am not sure how much longer I want to go before replacing it. So I have started thinking about what I would like to get next. I would like a little better mileage if I can...

It is time for me to start looking for a tractor and other implements to do some work around the farm. I could use some advice and suggestions from those of you that have some experience. So here is the background: I have a 1/4 section in the tall grass prairie of the Flinthill in KS. It...

My Daughter and SIL got a pup recently. It is from a breeder in NM, Jornada Setters. They have headed off for a summer internship, so I will not get to see the pup again for a couple of months. But I was pretty impressed with what I saw so far. The pup shows some natural retrieve, uses its...

Its only a few day before archery season start for Turkeys. Sure seem to me that the things are behind last season. Not much has greened up. We haven't been seeing a lot of turkeys showing up on the place. I was kind of the same last year before the season, didn't see many. But once the...

Over the next couple years I will be removing a fair number of hedge trees that have cedars growing under them, from my pasture. So there will be a good number of bare dirt patches spread out all over the pasture. What I would like to do is plant something in the bare dirt that would help my...

Is anyone else going to Wichita next weekend? Looks like I am going.

Got out yesterday with my SIL and my friend Bill who's litter I got Ace my 5yo Llewellin, from. Bill's young pup Dixie was in heat so we had to leave Indy at home for the morning hunt. This let Ace be the star, since the "bird hog" Indy was not there. Then in the afternoon we got Indy and...

What is it that drives you to bird hunt? The time with friends, family tradition, shooting a limit, being outdoors, the dogs......? When I first started it was shooting a bird, but that did not last long when I started to get hooked watching my Irish Setter I had as a kid. I have alway though...

I have some places on my land that have these small little burrs. They are not super bad, but a pain with the dogs at times. Would burning those areas help prevent them from come back next spring?

Let see some of your pictures and videos of quail hunting. I'll start with a video from last season, some of you may have already seen, but I like it a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RKwP6qCPw

What is your favorite pheasant hunt? - good sized group walking and blocking big fields - small group hunting small patches with close working dogs - some other type For me I like hunting fairly large grassy areas where birds are spread out and can go anywhere. Blocking is impossible, you...

It was a nice cool day today. I have been working way to many hours the last couple of weeks and have been a little under the weather as well. But today was Ace's 5th birthday, so I had to get him out for some fun. So we loaded up and headed down to the land. Most of the time when Ace and...

I did not get a chance to get out after PC on Sunday. Hope that I can get out after them some in the early season. In this part of the country, I consider a pointed and shot Prairie Chicken to be the pinnacle of dog work. Did you get out, any PC spotted, pointed or shot?