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....when it's gametime!! Go Penn State!

Just like the pros need pre-season, so do the dogs. I got a late start this morning and the dogs got hot fast. I only ran them for 30-40 minutes. Nittany had a point on a quail in a field and the bird ended up flushing and flying over Blitz's head and landed 10 yards in front of him. Blitz...

I've been running the dogs the past couple of weeks on some johnny house quail and I was able to get some pictures of the dogs. Not much else going on so I thought I would share them. Nittany and Blitz on a single quail Closer shot of Blitz on same bird It's hard to see Blitz but he's...

I'm trying to figure out what is killing some of my pheasants. Sunday and Thursday morning I went to check the birds and each morning there were two birds dead. Three of the birds were missing their heads and the neck was missing the skin and feathers. The 4th bird was in the corner and it...

I started taking the dogs out for a run this week after the spring break. They had their first point of the new upland year today: Now, it was a sitting duck by the pond but its a start. I did get to see and hear the holdover rooster crowing earlier in the morning. The best part of the...

I saw this guy on my way home. I'm glad he made it through the fall and winter.

Its that time of year to get day old pheasant chicks to release this fall. 210 chicks were picked up today and so far so good. Are others still raising chicks? There were quite a few on her last year raising birds. Here are the little guys:

Over the weekend I went down to the club to clean up the flight pen since it will soon be time to get things ready. While I was doing some work in the flight pen I heard this: I've been hearing and seeing quail and pheasant in the area still. I hope they keep going.

Looks like the pheasant season will be extended state wide. I like the idea for getting the most value out of the stocked birds on public land. I think only the die hard pheasant hunters will be out there late. "PHEASANT: Male only in WMUs 2A, 2C, 4C, 4E, 5A and 5B – Oct. 26-Nov. 30, Dec...

Come on out for some fun shooting clays and support the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever (PA). The shoot will be held close to York, PA.

I took the dogs out today and decided to run them in the wood/swampy area in hopes to find some woodcock close to home. We sometimes find them in this area but not today. The dogs did have a point: Turned out that we found where the quail were hiding. These birds decided to run instead of...

I took the day off and made a trip out to Onpoint Outfitters for a hunt. I didn't get to do much late season hunting because of other commitments so I was looking forward to the day. There was a lot of snow out there. There hasn't been much snow at home so it was a change for sure. I planned...

I posted this on the PA forum but I know everybody doesn't check that out. Today I helped out with the flushing survey and the farm I was able to work put up 9 hens, 9 roosters and 9 short eared owls. Here are some pictures I was able to take: Helping out with the surveys is the...

I was able to help out with todays flushing survey and the magic number for the farm I was on was 9. Our final count was 9 roosters, 9 hens and 9 short eared owls. We also saw a huge flock of snow geese. I was able to get some pictures but I'll have to put them up later.

I had a chance to run the dogs today and I took the good camera in case they found some birds. It didn't take them long to find a covey of the liberated quail. Here are some of the pictures I took: a close up of the birds they found There are about a dozen birds in this group. We moved on...

I think most people on this forum knew about this. Glad they did a study to prove it. :( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/science/that-cuddly-kitty-of-yours-is-a-killer.html?_r=0

I met up with a another member of our PF chapter and we made the drive to help out with the flushing survey in the Hegins-Gratz WPRA. The group I was in went to a farm that did not get any pheasants when birds were released 2 years ago. We managed to push out 2 deer, about 4 or 4 rabbits, 2...

I ran the dogs down at the club that is close to home. Not long after getting to the fields the dogs find a group of 5 hens and 3 roosters running through the woods that runs along one of the switchgrass fields. After some of the birds flushed we moved on and we were able to find some of the...

http://www.pheasantblog.org/dog-of-the-day-4/ Nittany and Blitz made it on the PF website for dogs of the day. Neat to see.

I don't go back to work until Thursday so my wife and I took the dogs to a preserve today to chase after some quail. It was a little cold but once we got moving we warmed up. The dogs worked well and the quail flew great. They had their running shoes on today so they gave the dogs some good...