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Man, oh Man. The anticipation is really getting to me. Fall is close enough to taste and smell and I am anxious, like a kid on Christmas Eve. The moisture throughout the west has been incredible and birds numbers should be up from last year. I can’t wait, I am sharing a few with you all in...

In the west advances in farming practices have greatly impacted upland bird habitat more than hay cutting will ever do. Large corporate farms, huge fields, circle pivot sprinklers, no edge, no fence line have all ruined upland hunting in many of my childhood haunts. the small farmers are...

I made some sweet and sour quail with fried rice that was fantastic!!

It does make great summer sausage!! I collect all of the dark meated birds through the year and make one big batch of summer sausage at the end of the season.

I agree with low gun and wobble trap for pheasants, skeet for quail and sporting clays for chukar and grouse.

Oh man!! A couple notable reservoirs. Owyhee and Brownlee are two that you have to experience!! If you are truly a crappie addict.

I agree about the advantage going to the birds during windy days. I typically get one good shot before they turn and head down wind.

Just got back from my annual crappie fishing trip to eastern Oregon. Had a great time with great friends caught lots and lots of crappie. I saw young quail and chukar everywhere. The quail were about the size of a golf ball. There were grass hoppers everywhere and the quail and chukar were...

My “new” Browning Light 12 A5. A friend moved into a retirement home and gave me this shotgun. It looked like he put it away wet. Several the action spring, pin and housing that fits into the butt stock were completely rusted (gone). After a few new parts and a lot of cleaning it is a...

I am assuming based on previous years all the upland birds here (quail, pheasants and chukar) are nested up now and should be hatching within a week. I am really hoping for stable weather for the next week or two and lots of bugs for the little guys to eat for a while. Last year was as good of...

I have yet to shoot a Stoeger that I liked. I used a friends for 1/2 a day and it felt like swinging a 2x4. Hopefully this is better than what I experienced.

I just realized that some of you folks are retired. Otherwise you are calling in sick a lot.

All told, I hunt 3-5 days for grouse, 6-10 days for chukar, 12-16 days for quail and pheasant. I would love to hunt more but my job gets in the way.

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I should stop, but……… I never said ignore the world’s problems, or bury your head in the sand. I have dear friends on both sides of politics and I respect them all as well as their stances on issues. I just don’t want to spend my spare time talking about things (issues/politics) that are...

I sincerely wish that folks would leave politics out of discussions like this. I was raised in a very rural community and my family were farmers in Iowa. You see a lot of death for a lot of reasons, some of them justified and some of them not. As a result, perhaps I am hardened to the act of...

I am trying to locate some ammo for it right now. It is a pretty cool gun.

A good friend of mine was moving into a retirement home and selling his house and many possessions and asked me to come over to see if there was anything I wanted. He had some 12 gauge ammo that was purchased in the 1960's, several gun cleaning kits that he wanted to give me and the he pulled...

I hunt with a guy who runs a Golden. It's the first time I've ever seen one in the field. It is a solid hunting dog. Oddly enough, it's never hunted waterfowl. Only chukar, pheasants, quail and grouse. It is equally talented on any of those birds and in all habitats. It does have a really...

I'm still trying to find the right hearing protection. In my Army days, I dealt with explosives pretty much all the time and am trying to minimize any additional hearing loss. I have tried Walker Ear electronic hearing protection and I don't like the background noise that you get when it's...