2015-16 Hunting Reports & Pictures

Flushedup said:
Went out last night for a couple hours with Dad and my boy. Flushed 3 hens and then this young guy. My kid was pretty excited when I dumped him, I think he ran over faster than the dogs!


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I think I know that dog :). Great pic. Made it out today with the young triplets. Just hunted close to home here. Saw about 50 or so birds. We should have had our 4. Had one we could not come up with that I believe hauled tail across a picked corn field. Got beat by 6 others on plays around the bush LOL. All in all is was a great first day for the pups. Headed back out tomorrow with the veteran dogs. Wore these 3 out, and they got the first taste of bur removal. :D



 
I'm defiantly heading up there Ken.:D Good dogs and good bird numbers. Heaven on earth.;)


Nick
 
I learned again what it is like to be humbled by the illusive game bird yesterday. We got our butts kicked by the big red birds, and a grouse. But Willow grew up in to the real deal. Great dog work. You would think by now I would learn to trust my dog. Should have had a limit of 4 and a ruffie in 1 spot.

Willow tore up the ground, and put up about 8 hens. She learned to trail birds with ease and speed. So fast I just thought she was punching down field. Caught me flat footed 3 times, and all 3 times it was a rooster. Hale mary, hale mary, hale mary.

Odie put up a red bird and some hens, wiffle. He then puts up a ruff in the willows. I thought it was a hen, and hesitated :eek:. Then I saw the fan, that black band:eek:. Kerpow!!, Killed a bush.

My tail sagged low between my legs as I pulled in to the driveway with a WTF? look on the dogs face. But it was still a good time, and a good feeling, after I realized yet another dog hit that day where you now say, "you got it". Great day.:cheers:
 
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Made it out Saturday Dog was on fire he had a great day
(maybe his best to date) lost count of how many beautiful points he had, between the three of us hunters he gave enough opportunities to have a three man limit on our first walk but poor shooting does not help :eek: Second piece of public ended up being a spot full of birds much like I remember it was back 05'06'07' one 200+ yard stretch was amazing windy and birds held tight in shrub line and grass Hawk pointed four Roosters and down went all 4. On the walk back to the truck Hawk locked up again and down went bird 5. Water break and rest the legs for all plan out our next stop to try for bird 6 and we see a beautiful WIA
(probably the nicest one I have seen to date) Dog was hot immediately he tracked a ole Wiley bird for and long distance until we thought it may have slipped us until he locked up on the edge of a bean field down went bird 6 with over three hours to spare before sun down.

Not all about the limit boy does it feel good when the dog kicks butt :cheers:

Id post pic if anyone can help can figure it out from my phone.
 
Also got my butt kicked yesterday. Was introducing a friend to pheasant hunting yesterday and I think it threw me off my game. Shot one, did a bunch of missing, and my dog hunted down a cripple that couldn't fly. All in all, 2 birds were taken, only one was shot. Sometimes the wiley rooster wins.
 
Nor said:
Also got my butt kicked yesterday. Was introducing a friend to pheasant hunting yesterday and I think it threw me off my game. Shot one, did a bunch of missing, and my dog hunted down a cripple that couldn't fly. All in all, 2 birds were taken, only one was shot. Sometimes the wiley rooster wins.
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:DYes he does. And when you least expect it LOL. Big right hook.:cheers:
 
Not Pheasants, but ...

Still has it at 10.

on point:









and back 10 years ago at just 9 months:


the private land where she pointed and I shot this pair of roosters in now a MN GMA. We still kill 'em there every year.
 
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Got my first limit of the year last night, in an interesting way. For the last week I have been noticing both roosters and hens not wanting to fly, either holding extremely tight until they have to flush or just running a long ways. Yesterday was no different. About 5 minutes in to our hunt, my lab got extremely birdy and I could tell a bird was about to come up at any second. Well up goes the rooster with my lab hot on its tails, and down goes the rooster as my lab jumped up and snatched it out of the air. This is the first time he's caught a rooster, he's gotten a mouthful of tail feathers a couple times, and caught 2 hens on a late season hunt in SD when he was a pup a few years ago. Last week was a bad week shooting wise for me with lots of misses, so I think my dog thought, "if I want to taste feathers, I've got to take it into my own hands because I can't trust my shooter!"
 
BRITTMAN said:
Still has it at 10.

on point:









and back 10 years ago at just 9 months:


the private land where she pointed and I shot this pair of roosters in now a MN GMA. We still kill 'em there every year.
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Nice looking dog, lots to be proud of. My Springer is turning 7 this fall, time flies. I'm a lucky man, with two young daughters and a wife, but I can't help notice my Springer's hair is starting to grey a bit and feel a pang of guilty regret as I cancel days in the field for one thing or another.
 
MNSpaniels I second what you said time does fly my GSP is almost four
(still acts like a puppy or a moron :nutz:) and it stinks having to cancel trips for any reason kids and family tend to get in the way LOL :D as we all know owning a bird dog they love and cant wait for the next time. My pup is at home sore from a few minor nicks and bumps from my hunt this last weekend but I know if I grabbed the boots and gun he would jump up like he was shot out of a cannon.

Got to figure this kitchen pass thing out.....

:cheers:
 
GustavDaGSP said:
Made it out Saturday Dog was on fire he had a great day
(maybe his best to date) lost count of how many beautiful points he had, between the three of us hunters he gave enough opportunities to have a three man limit on our first walk but poor shooting does not help :eek: Second piece of public ended up being a spot full of birds much like I remember it was back 05'06'07' one 200+ yard stretch was amazing windy and birds held tight in shrub line and grass Hawk pointed four Roosters and down went all 4. On the walk back to the truck Hawk locked up again and down went bird 5. Water break and rest the legs for all plan out our next stop to try for bird 6 and we see a beautiful WIA
(probably the nicest one I have seen to date) Dog was hot immediately he tracked a ole Wiley bird for and long distance until we thought it may have slipped us until he locked up on the edge of a bean field down went bird 6 with over three hours to spare before sun down.

Not all about the limit boy does it feel good when the dog kicks butt :cheers:

Id post pic if anyone can help can figure it out from my phone.
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I wish I was there to see that display. Congrats! Sounds like Hawk is already amazing, can't wait to see what that dog will do when he's 5 or 6.
 
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Hunted around the Marshall area last weekend and did pretty well. All public and it was definitely feast or famine. We shot 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Should have shot another 4 at least, but still had a great time and it was a nice 15 mile walk over that time. Going to head out closer to home on Saturday and hopefully see a few. Pup is only 15 months old, but it's fun watching her get better every trip (she's the one on the right in the pic.)
 
I made it out to the Hutchinson area this past weekend on Sunday morning and saw a fair amount of action. The first WMA I went to the pup pointed and flushed about 4 hens and we got one rooster. While I was making my first pass around the perimeter I heard a couple of roosters crowing in the middle of the field. As I was circling back to get that area a couple of guys pulled their truck up along the side of the road, got out, and started hunting that side of the WMA (and were walking in my direction). That was a little strange and I didn't love it after I walked away and could hear them taking a number of shots! :mad: Then when I turned the corner toward the parking lot I saw that there was another truck parked there and a couple with a dog getting walking into the field. WTF. This was perhaps an 80 acre field and three hunting parties is way too much so I left immediately for safety reasons. I drove down the road to another WMA expecting to see more crowds and of course there was no one there. So I got out and ran the pup for another 30-40 min, figuring it had already been hunted that day, I didn't expect to see anything and I didn't.

Oh well, not bad for a weekend morning and only ~2.5 hours of hunting.

I'm planning on heading out tomorrow morning for a few hours. Should be a nice day to hunt.
 
Got out for a couple hours this morning in a WMA near St. Cloud. I ran the pointer first in an area next to standing corn. I thought we may find some in loafing cover since the precip had stop. She got birdy a couple times but produced nothing. After that I switched to my spaniel and hit the thick stuff (willows, switchgrass, sedge grass). She flushed a rooster that I may have had a shot at, but I didn't want to shoot towards the road. Almost at the exact same time another rooster flushed about 60 yards out from us. That was our morning. I can't wait until the corn comes down.
 
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