Fix Bayonets!!!
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Got out to Holyoke yesterday, those birds are SKITTISH - it's late in the season for sure! Put up dozens of hens, watched a bunch of smart roosters flush at 70 yards, popped a couple of dumb ones that sat tight. It was so warm, they were running in circles and flushing all over the place... my poor pup only had one hard point all day and by the time I got to her, the bird she'd pointed was sprinting to Nebraska 
If it hadn't been so windy, we wouldn't have been able to sneak up on even the dumbest rooster. Tough conditions, but my buddy and I put three in the bag between us.
Going for one last hurrah on Monday - should be cooler with just a skiff of snow and a good breeze... PERFECT:10sign:
If it hadn't been so windy, we wouldn't have been able to sneak up on even the dumbest rooster. Tough conditions, but my buddy and I put three in the bag between us.Going for one last hurrah on Monday - should be cooler with just a skiff of snow and a good breeze... PERFECT:10sign:
henhenROOSTER!!!
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@obsession: I have always wanted to take a deer & a hog with a spear (and been practicing for it), but pheasants with bayonet is off the charts!!!
@wildflush: Take heart & a 2nd look, the weather you crave just may come together on the last-day Mon/31st! :thumbsup:
@lewis88: You got that right, I'm skippin all those Holyoke birds this wknd - had my fill of clouds of hens & way too many eyes & ears all bunched up last time out there! At least we know that flock will survive & no STUPID genetics will be passed on! :cheers:
@wildflush: Take heart & a 2nd look, the weather you crave just may come together on the last-day Mon/31st! :thumbsup:
@lewis88: You got that right, I'm skippin all those Holyoke birds this wknd - had my fill of clouds of hens & way too many eyes & ears all bunched up last time out there! At least we know that flock will survive & no STUPID genetics will be passed on!
:cheers:I finished up my season on Saturday with one of the best memories of the season!
I was working a shelter belt with a group of fellow UPHers and my pup. We were walking with the wind and my dog was ranging to my sides and turning to work back towards me and into the wind. The shelter belt was several rows wide with junipers planted on tyek strips. As I glanced up between the rows in front of me, I see this rooster dart out of the tree line about 30 yards in front of me and start running as fast as it could towards me with my pup only inches off of its tail feathers. The rooster flushed directly at me then banked hard to my right. My fist shot missed its mark but my second was true.
I will never forget the sight of that rooster running straight at me with reckless abandoned as my pup snapped her teeth at his tail feathers.
That memory and many others will last me until next November.
I was working a shelter belt with a group of fellow UPHers and my pup. We were walking with the wind and my dog was ranging to my sides and turning to work back towards me and into the wind. The shelter belt was several rows wide with junipers planted on tyek strips. As I glanced up between the rows in front of me, I see this rooster dart out of the tree line about 30 yards in front of me and start running as fast as it could towards me with my pup only inches off of its tail feathers. The rooster flushed directly at me then banked hard to my right. My fist shot missed its mark but my second was true.
I will never forget the sight of that rooster running straight at me with reckless abandoned as my pup snapped her teeth at his tail feathers.
That memory and many others will last me until next November.
I saw a similar thing with a late season bird two years ago, but to my daughter 12 at the time, who was on the other side of a bushy hedgerow. Bird flew straight at her, cackling for all he was worth, looked like an elephant, having been pointed by the dog who was out front and working back toward her. She got off 1 shot incoming, and 1 shot outgoing, missed both, came across the fencerow looking shaky, and promptly stepped on a covey of quail, running up the hedge, being handled by the two dogs on my side. Needless to say she was a little goosey for the rest of the day!
