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whew! a looong day
it started out hunting at 0700 north of I70 and working my way north toward Yuma. the hours rolled passed and the miles added up walking through grass, trees and wheat. soon it was 1400 and the dog and i had yet to see a bird, even a hen in the fields or crossing the roads. i was beginning to give up hope...
I saw a group of hunters in a private field and decided to stop and ask if they also werent seeing anything. they said they saw a few but the roosters were really skiddish and flushing 100+ yards out. thank god they wanted another gun and flusher so i tagged along with them for a bit. we all hit a grass corner and nothing flushed and then decided to walk a wheat stubble field. not 20ft from the truck two hens flush and a second later a rooster! i was ready for him after watching those hens and bam! a hit but just a wing, he went down hard and i thought he wasnt going anywhere but as i started heading to where he was the other guys saw it running up a hill...sigh. without the dogs, we left them in the trucks due to a ton of stickers in this field, i became the dog lol 50yards later up a hill i can see the bastage running, zigzagging and jumping...man those things are fast! anyway i was able to catch up to him and rung its neck after another 25yards. but i think it got the last laugh as i put him in my pouch he was bleeding all over the place and i looked like an axe murderer lol
we worked that field and flush about 5 hens and 5 roosters, 4 of which flushed at 100+yards and the 5th was taken down by another one of the hunters...well all 5 of us that saw it thought it was taken down as it got hit and folded up and dropped like a rock. but yet again Mr. Rooster is smarter then we think, i guess he was just stunned as he just got up and ran down the wheat lol and all 6 of us couldnt find the bugger
on top of that one, are these late season birds flying around with armor? for real, those two got hit and went down and later in the day i had a perfect flight path for another and when i shot, i saw feathers fall off and the rooster stumbled in flight but a half a second later hit caught its self midflight and continued on flying
im a thankful hunter!
we'll see how Rocky Mountain Roosters goes this weekend
it started out hunting at 0700 north of I70 and working my way north toward Yuma. the hours rolled passed and the miles added up walking through grass, trees and wheat. soon it was 1400 and the dog and i had yet to see a bird, even a hen in the fields or crossing the roads. i was beginning to give up hope...
I saw a group of hunters in a private field and decided to stop and ask if they also werent seeing anything. they said they saw a few but the roosters were really skiddish and flushing 100+ yards out. thank god they wanted another gun and flusher so i tagged along with them for a bit. we all hit a grass corner and nothing flushed and then decided to walk a wheat stubble field. not 20ft from the truck two hens flush and a second later a rooster! i was ready for him after watching those hens and bam! a hit but just a wing, he went down hard and i thought he wasnt going anywhere but as i started heading to where he was the other guys saw it running up a hill...sigh. without the dogs, we left them in the trucks due to a ton of stickers in this field, i became the dog lol 50yards later up a hill i can see the bastage running, zigzagging and jumping...man those things are fast! anyway i was able to catch up to him and rung its neck after another 25yards. but i think it got the last laugh as i put him in my pouch he was bleeding all over the place and i looked like an axe murderer lol
we worked that field and flush about 5 hens and 5 roosters, 4 of which flushed at 100+yards and the 5th was taken down by another one of the hunters...well all 5 of us that saw it thought it was taken down as it got hit and folded up and dropped like a rock. but yet again Mr. Rooster is smarter then we think, i guess he was just stunned as he just got up and ran down the wheat lol and all 6 of us couldnt find the bugger
on top of that one, are these late season birds flying around with armor? for real, those two got hit and went down and later in the day i had a perfect flight path for another and when i shot, i saw feathers fall off and the rooster stumbled in flight but a half a second later hit caught its self midflight and continued on flying
im a thankful hunter!
we'll see how Rocky Mountain Roosters goes this weekend
Co Buckeye
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I folded one up a week or so ago near Holyoke and the same thing. Saw it go down and searched for 30 minutes for the damn thing and never found it. No feathers, blood, nothing . . .
Shot a limit yesterday in Eastern Colorado. First two birds were in your face flushes as my younger pudelpointer tracked forever and finally pinned them.
Two shells, two birds. This was on the second walk of the day as the first walk produced nothing. I took a break and took my older PP out. She got real birdy and kept on pointing and moving. Two hens flush. She continues working running birds and 100 yards later, two more hens flush-then the rooster comes up at 30 yards and I empty my gun at him. Nothing. But I keep on watching and at about 450 yards the rooster does the big "elfoldo" and I know its dead.
I just have to find it. I marked it really well and my older dog finds it within ten minutes-hugs and kisses for sure as that is a limit. Now, I have to get to the truck almost 1 mile away and I was sure this would happen as my dog keeps on pointing and moving and yes, I have another rooster shot; but, of course, I just watch it fly away as my dog gives me the "why didn't you shoot look". Great day in the field-as good as it gets.
arkrivco
Two shells, two birds. This was on the second walk of the day as the first walk produced nothing. I took a break and took my older PP out. She got real birdy and kept on pointing and moving. Two hens flush. She continues working running birds and 100 yards later, two more hens flush-then the rooster comes up at 30 yards and I empty my gun at him. Nothing. But I keep on watching and at about 450 yards the rooster does the big "elfoldo" and I know its dead.
I just have to find it. I marked it really well and my older dog finds it within ten minutes-hugs and kisses for sure as that is a limit. Now, I have to get to the truck almost 1 mile away and I was sure this would happen as my dog keeps on pointing and moving and yes, I have another rooster shot; but, of course, I just watch it fly away as my dog gives me the "why didn't you shoot look". Great day in the field-as good as it gets.
arkrivco
Scoelki
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Shot a limit yesterday in Eastern Colorado. First two birds were in your face flushes as my younger pudelpointer tracked forever and finally pinned them.
Two shells, two birds. This was on the second walk of the day as the first walk produced nothing. I took a break and took my older PP out. She got real birdy and kept on pointing and moving. Two hens flush. She continues working running birds and 100 yards later, two more hens flush-then the rooster comes up at 30 yards and I empty my gun at him. Nothing. But I keep on watching and at about 450 yards the rooster does the big "elfoldo" and I know its dead.
I just have to find it. I marked it really well and my older dog finds it within ten minutes-hugs and kisses for sure as that is a limit. Now, I have to get to the truck almost 1 mile away and I was sure this would happen as my dog keeps on pointing and moving and yes, I have another rooster shot; but, of course, I just watch it fly away as my dog gives me the "why didn't you shoot look". Great day in the field-as good as it gets.
arkrivco
Awesome job :thumbsup:. Any pics? Also what kind of cover were you finding the birds in? I might be headed out Friday.
Shot a limit yesterday in Eastern Colorado. First two birds were in your face flushes as my younger pudelpointer tracked forever and finally pinned them.
Two shells, two birds. This was on the second walk of the day as the first walk produced nothing. I took a break and took my older PP out. She got real birdy and kept on pointing and moving. Two hens flush. She continues working running birds and 100 yards later, two more hens flush-then the rooster comes up at 30 yards and I empty my gun at him. Nothing. But I keep on watching and at about 450 yards the rooster does the big "elfoldo" and I know its dead.
I just have to find it. I marked it really well and my older dog finds it within ten minutes-hugs and kisses for sure as that is a limit. Now, I have to get to the truck almost 1 mile away and I was sure this would happen as my dog keeps on pointing and moving and yes, I have another rooster shot; but, of course, I just watch it fly away as my dog gives me the "why didn't you shoot look". Great day in the field-as good as it gets.
arkrivco
great stuff! im still hoping to get my limit before the season is over...looking forward to a saturday hunt
I believe that this time of year the birds travel less from food sources to roosting cover. I found all the birds in grassland next to wheat stubble. All 3 birds were eating wheat seeds. I also saw birds moving from wheat stubble to grassland as I was driving in the AM. So, my question now is: are they targeting wheat or just adjusting to all the wheat that is out there. I believe that the birds are just adjusting to all the wheat that is out there. I found a similar situation in Kansas a few weeks ago. I scouted this spot for prairie chickens. It was a cornfield on top of a hillside next to a grassland with a large draw in it. With about a 1/2 hour left 'til sunset, I walked along the interface of the corn and the grass and birds start popping out all over the place. I realize that both prairie chickens and pheasants were in this spot. I couldn't get close to the chickens; but, finished off a fine day by shooting two roosters to finish a Kansas limit that day. Now, although it was corn, the birds in that situation also were staying as close to the food as they could. I also believe that in January, being that there is less hunting pressure, the birds get back to a more natural cycle and can be surprised by the solitary hunter with a good pointing dog.
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