Wow what a weekend

SDJIM

SDJIM

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Last year I was approached about letting someone hunt on my land by a friends wife, the deal was she needed to raise funds for a class project (she is a nurseing student). Well this weekend the couple that bought the hunt came to Platte for their hunt.

First both of them had ever hunted birds before or even shot a shotgun, on top of that they didn't even own a shotgun. So I loaned them my 870 and my friends dad loaned them a 1100. The guy killed the 1st rooster we flushed with one shot, what a first ---first shot fired with a shotgun--first rooster, told him to enjoy the moment but it was very likely that his shot to kill ratio was going to go down from that point on-- I was right.

Two days of great weather, great dog work, hundreds of birds seen and one very happy young couple going home as confirmed new pheasant hunters.

Tomorrow Daktoa Zeb is coming to hunt with me.

It just doesn't get and better that this.:thumbsup:
 
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Very cool Jim.:10sign: This sport we so dearly love needs more new recruits and people like you to survive.:cheers:
 
kansasbrittany said:
So Jim (or Zeb), how was the hunt?
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We struggled to find birds. Or at least any we could get a shot at. I think every single bird my dogs pointed was a hen. I shot one rooster on Monday and Jim shot one on Tuesday. But we had a good time and got to meet another UPH member. Yesterday morning we hit a little slough bottom in the NW corner of Jim's 35 acre CRP. Must have flushed 50-60 or more birds but they all flushed wild and we never fired a shot. The only ones close enough to shoot were hens. However, they just flew out into the CRP and set down. We figured we had them right where we want them. We walked right where they went and I'm not sure we found more than a dozen birds. Again, mainly hens although Jim did managed to bag one rooster. Where the rest of them went is a mystery. But somehow in a 35 acre patch they manged to put the slip on Jim, myself and my 2 Brittanys.

Thanks Jim, hope to do it again some day.
 
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