henhenROOSTER!!!
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FINALLY managed to get out for the first time this yr on Thurs, just me & the pooch. Had two birds on the ground by 8:15 a.m. (should've had my limit already if I shot like I normally do - but kinda rusty these days)...Shooter may have sucked, but watching my lab make two L-O-N-G retrieves running down roosters that hit the ground like rockets in an open cornfield made my entire day! A dogless hunter would've NEVER got those birds... :thumbsup:
Man I love that "dirty-corn" - found some long-stalked, raggedy-cut stuff w/leftover wheat stubble underneath & scattered tumbleweeds (+ one cornfield that even had fairly substantial grass mixed underneath with the corn) - that kind of combo works like a magic charm, especially with a stiff breeze in the face to help cover the noise!
Afternoon hunting wasn't nearly so hot - near hurricane-force winds blew so hard it was difficult to see for all the dust & chaff being blown in my and the dog's eyes!!! I decided to cover a lot of miles & spent some time scouting, hitting a likely-looking spot here-&-there for my one more bird (most of them were highly-trampled over w/shotgun shells littered everywhere & for the most part birdless)...I did find some new stuff though, that I will be on like glue the minute first snow flies!
Finished up the day in a HUGE, THICK, KNARLY special piece of private "CRP" (HAHA- if that's what the farmer wants to call it). The stuff was endless & chest-deep to nose-high - exactly same stuff as my much smaller "money-in-the-bank" honey-hole that always holds birds like flies & mosquitoes for the stout of heart, lungs & legs. The dog & I both could hardly walk back to the truck when we got finished! But man did we see the phez!!! No exaggeration to say hundreds of birds - and IMPOSSIBLE even in a 30-40 mph stiff headwind to get within shooting distance of a single one of them! I think every pheasant in the entire county was in there & I promise - NO ONE will ever thin 'em out much!!! Yes, there really is such thing as too many birds, all those eyes & ears in such NOISY cover...
Sure was a pretty sight to behold though!
All-in-all it was a very pleasant & theraputic day afield with man & dog alone out on the golden prairie! Never saw another hunter all day long...
Side Note: Not too many birds in the CRP grass yet on such a warm day - except for the one patch adjacent to the early-morning "dirty-corn", where I should've had my limit be4 I even got to the corn. But who wants to end such a good day in rooster-country so soon anyway??? :cheers:
Man I love that "dirty-corn" - found some long-stalked, raggedy-cut stuff w/leftover wheat stubble underneath & scattered tumbleweeds (+ one cornfield that even had fairly substantial grass mixed underneath with the corn) - that kind of combo works like a magic charm, especially with a stiff breeze in the face to help cover the noise!
Afternoon hunting wasn't nearly so hot - near hurricane-force winds blew so hard it was difficult to see for all the dust & chaff being blown in my and the dog's eyes!!! I decided to cover a lot of miles & spent some time scouting, hitting a likely-looking spot here-&-there for my one more bird (most of them were highly-trampled over w/shotgun shells littered everywhere & for the most part birdless)...I did find some new stuff though, that I will be on like glue the minute first snow flies!
Finished up the day in a HUGE, THICK, KNARLY special piece of private "CRP" (HAHA- if that's what the farmer wants to call it). The stuff was endless & chest-deep to nose-high - exactly same stuff as my much smaller "money-in-the-bank" honey-hole that always holds birds like flies & mosquitoes for the stout of heart, lungs & legs. The dog & I both could hardly walk back to the truck when we got finished! But man did we see the phez!!! No exaggeration to say hundreds of birds - and IMPOSSIBLE even in a 30-40 mph stiff headwind to get within shooting distance of a single one of them! I think every pheasant in the entire county was in there & I promise - NO ONE will ever thin 'em out much!!! Yes, there really is such thing as too many birds, all those eyes & ears in such NOISY cover...
Sure was a pretty sight to behold though!All-in-all it was a very pleasant & theraputic day afield with man & dog alone out on the golden prairie! Never saw another hunter all day long...
Side Note: Not too many birds in the CRP grass yet on such a warm day - except for the one patch adjacent to the early-morning "dirty-corn", where I should've had my limit be4 I even got to the corn. But who wants to end such a good day in rooster-country so soon anyway??? :cheers:
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