Well, my son and I got back Monday afternoon from our annual KS pheasant hunting trip and it was a success. I got skunked (first time ever) on Friday, however I made up for it on Saturday and Sunday with three roosters each day. I could have easily had my limit. My son got a bird on Sat and two on Sunday.
The best thing yet was my 17month yellow pointing lab, Remi, pointed his first wild pheasant (it was a hen
) however it locked up and was rock solid. I invited Stal67 from the forum to come out and join us. He was there to witness Remi on point. I wish I had my phone out, however I was moving in to flush the bird and didn't have it ready to take a pic.
Then on Sunday when some folks from our group were leaving to head home, a rooster was crippled by my good friends father in law in a stripped milo field (thick with weeds). We had Remi and another lab. We looked and looked, I told Remi "Find it, find the bird". That boy, for 17mos old, did something I had never seen from a young dog like himself being on his first wild pheasant hunt. He used the wind, ran up and down the rows working into the wind, with is nose stuck to the ground trying to find the rooster.
I just sat and watched him work and kept encouraging him. I knew he would find the bird, I just knew. And sure as s*$! he did. That rooster was buried under some tumbleweeds (which some of them were as big as an ATV nearly)
I was liked the proudest dad. Like one my kids had graduated high school or something. It was freaking awesome.
Now I didn't get the classic, point then I flush and getting to shoot the rooster and then Remi retrieve it. That didn't happen, it will, but just not on this trip.
However, Remi got a chance to retrieve his share of birds. It is tough going from hunting with flushing labs to a pointing lab.
I also learned that I will be getting an over/under. I love it because it swings up so much quicker than my Benelli nova pump. Need to maybe look at an autoloader.
Thanks Mike (aka Stal67) for coming along. It was good to meet you and funny that you are from Michigan. Can't wait until next year, unless we get a chance to go out again in January.
Kansas isn't that bad, it is better than Colorado. We hunted all private land, and more private land than I have ever had the chance to hunted in Colorado.
The public stuff in KS is better than the private in Colorado
Greg
The best thing yet was my 17month yellow pointing lab, Remi, pointed his first wild pheasant (it was a hen
) however it locked up and was rock solid. I invited Stal67 from the forum to come out and join us. He was there to witness Remi on point. I wish I had my phone out, however I was moving in to flush the bird and didn't have it ready to take a pic.Then on Sunday when some folks from our group were leaving to head home, a rooster was crippled by my good friends father in law in a stripped milo field (thick with weeds). We had Remi and another lab. We looked and looked, I told Remi "Find it, find the bird". That boy, for 17mos old, did something I had never seen from a young dog like himself being on his first wild pheasant hunt. He used the wind, ran up and down the rows working into the wind, with is nose stuck to the ground trying to find the rooster.
I just sat and watched him work and kept encouraging him. I knew he would find the bird, I just knew. And sure as s*$! he did. That rooster was buried under some tumbleweeds (which some of them were as big as an ATV nearly
)I was liked the proudest dad. Like one my kids had graduated high school or something. It was freaking awesome.
Now I didn't get the classic, point then I flush and getting to shoot the rooster and then Remi retrieve it. That didn't happen, it will, but just not on this trip.
However, Remi got a chance to retrieve his share of birds. It is tough going from hunting with flushing labs to a pointing lab.
I also learned that I will be getting an over/under. I love it because it swings up so much quicker than my Benelli nova pump. Need to maybe look at an autoloader.
Thanks Mike (aka Stal67) for coming along. It was good to meet you and funny that you are from Michigan. Can't wait until next year, unless we get a chance to go out again in January.
Kansas isn't that bad, it is better than Colorado. We hunted all private land, and more private land than I have ever had the chance to hunted in Colorado.
The public stuff in KS is better than the private in Colorado
Greg
