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I like the AA 7 1/2… I shoot all sub gauge stuff these days 20 is the top end My main rule is pick a velocity and stick with it 1300 fps is my go to…. Don’t have to adjust leads if I swap shot size or gauges. If mixed bag I’ll hunt 5’s or 6’s with in Super X as close to 1300 fps as I can get

See quail habits above I accidentally embedded….. Here’s how I hunt new quail ground…. Scout in an afternoon for country that “looks right” meaning it has open ground with seed bearing plants, and cover nearby. Walk a mile or so and look for roost piles… An hour before daylight drop a buddy or...

I personally don’t like fixed location feeders because of predator pressure…..a barrel feeder is like a fast food sign for raptors in my area…bobcats figure it out pretty quick too. If (big if) I feed I spread it over long distance in cover… Hawks will catch their share regardless, but I do not...

As others have said, a lot of moving parts… generally speaking the further north you are and the lower the near term temperatures are the more birds you need wadded up at roost to keep from freezing. In the rolling plains in N. Texas in “bad years” (coveys far apart) I use 8 birds as a rule… in...

Forgot to answer the OP questions….i pre-emergent treat with Dual Mag, but I have to wait for a good heavy rain before I can plant the sesame in that pretreated dirt, if I don’t the sesame will get burnt post emergence if under 4 true leaf pairs on the next rain. I will spray over the top of the...

Can’t find a photo of the lower part of this food plot which is millet and sunflower… but this is the top of this 30 acres with my favorites for fall and winter groceries…I’ll burn down the sesame in late August/September and it will sprinkle seeds until March….it the Milo is too thick I might...

9yo GSP on one TPLO surgery will hunt all day with no sign of pain, next morning was a different story…Started her on Adequan injectable intramuscular post hunt and her recovery times improved a lot. Started giving it in low dose pre hunt and cut her back to 1/2 day hunts and she barely stiffens...

Nevermind …. Need to figure out how to edit 😀

I’m not sure where in my post I may have suggested mistreating a dog….positive recall is an imperative for the dogs safety as well as whoa…. Is that what you call mistreatment? Just curious…

Interesting points by all….last Friday I had 2 GSPs creep pointing some birds in some bayberry. After about 40 yards my springer got ahead of them and cut off their retreat, flushed the 2 roosters and I shot a nice double. My chessie broke from my side on the flush and my springer and the...

I thought I was the only guy listening to the wife about springer trims…..the good news is he’s got such a high motor he has to get a pound of cholla in his grape to slow him down the bad news he collects every burr and thorn known in the region and at the end of every of hunting day he flops...

Oh ya forgot to add……cheesies started out as old school newfies 😀

You’d be hard pressed for many hunting days on the Texas Gulf Coast if 65 dregs is your cut off but I get it😀 Since this is a golden thread I’ll say my brothers 2 do ok under 85 and they’ve played in Montana on duck hunts just fine. Weirdest thing about my pack is the dog that does the best in...

I train my dogs myself to my taste…. 1. Your dog probably knows more than you think he does 2. Have fun ( hunt often) 3. Go nuts on good results 4. Ignore stupid little stuff from pups 5. Correct big stupid stuff early and often My only really novel advice is this…. Don’t use commands like...

Morgan and his dad are good people. Bauer has been a peach but can’t stand my chessie…9 years and they haven’t sorted it out yet…. Intact males and all that plus just the regular springer male intolerance of the other boys

Pine Shadows in Brainerd, I picked him up at a lodge they run in ND he was a started dog. I had (and still do) have some running bobs on some country in the rolling plains TX I lease….. he was/ is the cure….kinda works, birds hold up for the pointers after he busts em up and scatters them about...

Take an 8’ piece of hog or horse panel, cut it into 12”strips or convenient stay wire. Bend it into a circle and cover the circumference and top with 3/8” hardware cloth ( you may need some support on the top use a piece of the panel) build a door on the top near the edge of the circumference...

You guys don’t disk firebreaks? I keep a 12’ disk harrow just for that and open em up twice a year just to stay ahead…. The firebreaks also have a lot of secession broad leaf stuff in them most of the year since grasses never get a toe hold.

I plant brown top millet where I have drainage, Japanese millet where I get standing water, proso millet (actually panicum not a tru millet) with the brown top. If you plant it early it will drop and reseed itself really well (the proso better than brown top) if you can catch a rain. All of...