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Yes the phone app that came with the phone (original camera app)

Cell phone. I finally figured out how to take cell phone photos in "burst mode" and hope to try that out on today's hunt for the first time. I do have expensive Canon cameras and lenses that cost thousands of dollars which I use for wildlife photography, but do not take in my backpack upland...

Until snow, I do best after an all-night rain first thing in the morning. I think the roosters run to the edge of the wet cattails and hide rather than running deep into acres of cattails. That gives us and advantage...while the lab is crashing tracking a rooster, I can silently move way...

A cell phone photo from yesterday's hunt. I like the sly look on pup's face...we outsmarted that rooster!

Had a good solo hunt yesterday on roosters in cattails. I think the rain overnight helped as close flushes at sunrise with the lab working the edge of cattails. I silently position myself way in front of the lab crashing through cattails. Rain and cloudy days, early morning seem to work best for us.

I love getting out before sunrise, listening for roosters, then hitting the cattails with my little lab.

I don't like the noise with chaps or nylon lowers. I try to hunt solo as silently as I can, that is why I prefer the soft and quiet (and cheap) frogg toggs.

Sacrificial frogg toggs and swim the lab and we are good to hop into the pickup. Before: After:

I hunt solo almost exclusively. Just me and my dog. Rarely is my flushing dog within shotgun range as I am silently positioning myself way in front of the birdy dog. I have about 20 spots I rotate through and I think memory of what worked in the past at each spot helps. For example, yesterday I...

I hunt 5-7 mornings per week. Houndstongue and beggarticks seeds are the norm. So I wear a cheap pair of Froggs Toggs rain pants that I sacrifice as a shredded pair of pants after a couple months of hunting. The cheap rain pants are quiet, lightweight and waterproof. At the truck, I simply...

I hunt my labs one at a time and alternate them, sometimes one in the morning the other in the afternoon. Typically I hunt only mornings so the youngster 4-5 mornings and the older lab 2 mornings per week. A week ago my youngest crashed under barbed wire when a flock of huns flush 3 feet in...

Hunt roosters long enough and sooner or later you get a cripple. My strategy has always been to be quiet and trust the dog. An experienced pheasant dog knows more about tracking cripples than I ever would and a human yelling "find it!" or "hunt dead" commands seems counter-productive to me...

Running rooster this morning, not a problem for an experienced lab.

Yes the tailgate seal I used was ESI ROK Block XL Tailgate Gap Cover 7"

Solo hunting in thick cattails with the oldest lab this morning.

2010 Silverado and Leer topper. I am on dirt and gravel 95% of the time...road dust is a major problem. ESI ROK Block XL Tailgate Gap Cover 7" helped.

Typical big-country solo hunt, just me and my lab. From yesterday's hunt, started with a covey of huns, picked out 1 on the covey rise, took my time and got it. Then steep hillside for roosters. Wild roosters typically run or flush uphill, so I like to start at the rim with one pass, then drop...

One of my favorite cell phone photos hunting hun here in Montana.

I like huns early in the year before pheasants open and late in the year when my rooster spots have crunchy snow I can find south-facing sagebrush slopes snow-free with huns.