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tomt

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How many ways can you screw up in one field??
So my first walk was a 3.6 miler around a WPA. Kali got birdy right away and I stupidly didn't go with it as I thought the birds would be on the side of the pond further away from the truck where the thick grass met corn. Instead, we got to the first fence and I put my gun down safely to cross and birds started jumping. Most were hens but I was close enough to a rooster to take a shot IF I would've had the gun in my hands.. 🙄
Then, other side of lake, Kali getting crazy, watching her and a rooster pops up between us. I fumble and pull the trigger without taking the safety off...another 🙄.... glove comes off my right hand..
About 20 minutes later after circling through deep grass with only a few hens to show for it , Kali flushes a hen down by the cattails, then goes on point. I walk up, flush the rooster and draw up on it. Right then another rooster jumps up just to the left.. I glance at it, look back at the first bird and proceed to miss it twice!!!!! Both shots within 20 yards!! 🙄🙄 don't have a chance at the 2nd one.... changed from modified choke to IC.... obviously it's not MY fault.. has to be the choke(another 🙄)
no more roosters on the way back from the truck except a few Kali busted to far out...

Went to another WPA, got 1 with a another 3 mile ramble. Then ended up shooting 2 more birds in a walk in, but lost one in the cattails..... it was a crazy flush of about 30 birds... couldn't figure out what to shoot at but finally dropped 2 towards the end of the eruption.....
Kali was real confused with me asking her to hunt up the 2nd bird as she hasn't done that before with birds. With bumpers yes.. many times. But the connection to the same situation with birds didn't click. My fault that the 2 nd bird wasn't killed and ran since we looked tougher for quite awhile. Stopped there with 3 birds shot, 2 in the vest
silly day.. but a great one
 
That's how my opening day went. Fumbled with the safety on my shotgun, flat out 20 yard miss, etc... Sunday and Monday though I'm 5 shells for 5 birds. So I think I'm back on track and my dog is happy with me again LOL
 
tomt said:
How many ways can you screw up in one field??
So my first walk was a 3.6 miler around a WPA. Kali got birdy right away and I stupidly didn't go with it as I thought the birds would be on the side of the pond further away from the truck where the thick grass met corn. Instead, we got to the first fence and I put my gun down safely to cross and birds started jumping. Most were hens but I was close enough to a rooster to take a shot IF I would've had the gun in my hands.. 🙄
Then, other side of lake, Kali getting crazy, watching her and a rooster pops up between us. I fumble and pull the trigger without taking the safety off...another 🙄.... glove comes off my right hand..
About 20 minutes later after circling through deep grass with only a few hens to show for it , Kali flushes a hen down by the cattails, then goes on point. I walk up, flush the rooster and draw up on it. Right then another rooster jumps up just to the left.. I glance at it, look back at the first bird and proceed to miss it twice!!!!! Both shots within 20 yards!! 🙄🙄 don't have a chance at the 2nd one.... changed from modified choke to IC.... obviously it's not MY fault.. has to be the choke(another 🙄)
no more roosters on the way back from the truck except a few Kali busted to far out...

Went to another WPA, got 1 with a another 3 mile ramble. Then ended up shooting 2 more birds in a walk in, but lost one in the cattails..... it was a crazy flush of about 30 birds... couldn't figure out what to shoot at but finally dropped 2 towards the end of the eruption.....
Kali was real confused with me asking her to hunt up the 2nd bird as she hasn't done that before with birds. With bumpers yes.. many times. But the connection to the same situation with birds didn't click. My fault that the 2 nd bird wasn't killed and ran since we looked tougher for quite awhile. Stopped there with 3 birds shot, 2 in the vest
silly day.. but a great one
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Dang, it's a wonder you didn't hit a deer on the way home.
 
“One day you get no chances for all your struggle. Or, worse yet, you fail chances that you should have seized. Another time you make them all. If you consistently get limits, however, consider making the rules more difficult for yourself. Field sports are not about targets and scores. Score keeping is necessary in competitions between humans, unattractive in competitions with weaker adversaries. Consistent scores of many to zero do not smell of struggle and chance. They smell of greed.”

Datus Proper
 
good shooting really
 
I had a bad miss the other day, while walking a cruck.4 roosters flushed and I got one with my second shot. Then another got up,and I had forgotten to eject the empty!I still got a close shot,after jacking the gun,and missed.I could have been limited on that one spot.But,I got to hunt 3 more hours.Thats great.
 
Making too much noise is a sure way to let every bird know you're coming before you get there. Completely preventable and avoidable too.
 
gimruis said:
Making too much noise is a sure way to let every bird know you're coming before you get there. Completely preventable and avoidable too.
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Yeah I may as well honk my horn.My 11 year old has always been a barker.Loves to hunt,even at 11.Barks when I down a bird.
 
Don’t feel bad on the safety issue, I am good for one each trip at least. I have a thirty year old sixteen that only resets the safety about half the time. I usually check but a couple weeks ago the dog and I finished up an unproductive walk on some public grass when she locks up hard about sixty yards from the truck. I walked in and a big old rooster got up and I proceeded to draw down and the gun wouldn’t fire. I realized then I had walked the field off safe and proceeded to engage the safety before attempting to shoot…. I have only shot hundreds of rounds through this gun.
 
carptom1 said:
Don’t feel bad on the safety issue, I am good for one each trip at least. I have a thirty year old sixteen that only resets the safety about half the time. I usually check but a couple weeks ago the dog and I finished up an unproductive walk on some public grass when she locks up hard about sixty yards from the truck. I walked in and a big old rooster got up and I proceeded to draw down and the gun wouldn’t fire. I realized then I had walked the field off safe and proceeded to engage the safety before attempting to shoot…. I have only shot hundreds of rounds through this gun.
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If you walk for hours with no shooting, mishaps happen.
 
I usually hunt the opposite direction of typical hunters.
Yesterday morning, I hiked a fenceline a mile, then side-hilled a steep canyon for another mile,
to get to a nice catttail draw where a typical hunter would hunt directly from the west and
the roosters would run and flush across the steep canyon.
I had my lab at heel as we climbed up towards the draw along a fenceline.
Just as I peaked over the hill, 2 roosters ran right along the fenceline towards me,
they flushed at 20 yards but flew right at livestock and the only house within a mile, so I let them go.
 
Zest is only little over a year old but he needs a new gun man good grief I let too many birds fly little dude does his part
This morning pointed a hen I’m a idiot lol I’m so happy just to watch him work but crap
 
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