Well, the third shot was a pipe dream. Lol it was long gone by then.
Anyone get any birds today?
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I thought long and hard about the Montefeltro but ended up with a SBE because I needed to be able to use 3.5” occasionally. Wish I had the Montefeltro and it’s lighter weight while walking though.
Great guns both of them
I shoot a 12 gauge citori because the 16gauge ammo got hard to find. Browning guys through and through. The citori just fits when you shoulder it, like it’s instinctive
It's such a sweet gun. I kinda wish mine was in 12 but also kind of love the mystique of it being a 16.
How's the bird population down there?
I have both and will inherit the other gauges (20,28, .410) at some point. Wish Southwest Iowa had more cover and birds.
She’s old and I want her to have more hunts before she crosses the rainbow bridge. Best dog I’ve had overall, second best hunter.
We hunted last weekend, and success was marginal. Could have been the beers Friday night, or the nice weather, but we just couldn't find the damn things. Most of our CRP ground was relatively vacant, scratched a few birds here and there. We switched it up, walked two dredge ditches and scratched another 7 to end Saturday. We had two dogs, my wirehair who has been spectacular to start the year (she isn't a strong retriever, but did great opening weekend bringing birds back - decided this weekend she was going to take some time off from retrieving, I guess..) and a yellow lab. Both dogs are 3 years old, the lab is a great retriever, pheasant hunting is clicking for her.
Had 11 birds Saturday, and scratched 3 on Sunday morning. Strange, thought we'd find them in light grass, but hit a private piece with some gnarly public next to it. The birds just exploded 100 yards away, in giant, thick patches of thickets, that we might have been too lazy to go and explore....
It's certainly more about the dogs and comradery than filling limits any more. Man, that makes me sound old.
Had 11 birds Saturday, and scratched 3 on Sunday morning. Strange, thought we'd find them in light grass, but hit a private piece with some gnarly public next to it. The birds just exploded 100 yards away, in giant, thick patches of thickets, that we might have been too lazy to go and explore....
It's certainly more about the dogs and comradery than filling limits any more. Man, that makes me sound old.
Not old, wise. Nothing better than a day afford with great dogs and buddies. Shooting well and razzing your boys for their misses . Your dog looking back at you like wtf are you doing, after missing a few birds in a row. God I miss the glory days
We certainly had our fun. I can't wait until my kids get old enough to be able to walk just a bit behind the mutt and watch her actually work. She has had some awesome points this year, held still until I got there to kick them up. She has bumped a runner or two, but I don't believe too much of it was from her over excitement.
My 9 year old has asked, she's kind of a weenie, but I'll probably walk a dredge or two with her this fall yet and see what we can scrounge up. She also told me she wants to kill a deer, so that's on the docket for 2nd season shotgun. Deer blind, heater, .350 legend. I can't wait.
Side note, when they open up CRP for haying, it just KILLS our area. I bet there is 1,000+ acres of grass within a 5 miles radius of me that were hayed. It puts birds in strange locations...
This hits too close to home for me....my vizsla turned 13 this past July. Even up through last season she pretty much hunted about like normal (obviously a little slower here or there, took more time to recover during the week, etc), but this season she's finally entered the twilight era of her hunting career.
Has gone with me both days the first 2 weekends, and has probably just kind of walked along side of me about 60% of the time, just happy to be out there, but she has actually "hunted" the other 40% of the time in her own slow, old dog lope if you will.
She gave me a decade of great hunting so she can do whatever she wants these days as she's earned it.
Physically seems pretty decent still, but I think she is probably about 90% deaf if I had to guess.
Its going to hit me (and Mrs. OV) really hard when that day comes.....we got her when we were engaged, now 13+ years later and 2 kids she's still with us as she's always been.
I dread thinking about the day.....I'd pay good money to ensure she just goes in her sleep, but I realize that's probably not going to be the case.
****Ok sorry to derail the thread, got me all stirred up on a Friday morning....
****So far, our group of about 4 guys has a total of 11 birds in 4 outings. Between some crops still being out, warm weather and lot of CRP being baled, has been a little tougher than normal.
I wish my son would have experienced the good days.
Got out a bit Monday with my youngest and my in-laws 18 month lab.
The boy shot his biggest buck ever with his bow on Friday, and got his first pheasant on Monday so I'm a pretty proud papa.
I pretty much just worked the dog.
He's young and inexperienced but you could literally see his instincts kicking in as he worked. Its amazing to see a dog go from not really being sure why hes there to figuring a lot of it out in just a few hours.
He ended up kicking up 3, and finding a recently shot and unrecovered bird.
The boy shot his biggest buck ever with his bow on Friday, and got his first pheasant on Monday so I'm a pretty proud papa.
I pretty much just worked the dog.
He's young and inexperienced but you could literally see his instincts kicking in as he worked. Its amazing to see a dog go from not really being sure why hes there to figuring a lot of it out in just a few hours.
He ended up kicking up 3, and finding a recently shot and unrecovered bird.
Went this morning again. Shot two, flushed 30 birds. And hesitated and missed on a piebald rooster for my limit.
Just a great day to be out
Just a great day to be out
That extra one was mine. You can drop it off at my house.
Only gone once for a quick walk. Took one quail each out of the three coveys I saw.
Cool story bro time...and to circle back on the type of gun to use and sometimes needing/wanting more than 2 shots.
*ALMOST* had a triple yesterday morning. My FIL's shorthair was locked up tighter than a drum, walked up to her and 2 roosters flushed, 1 straight away and 1 to the left and I dropped the one straight away first, then swung and dropped the one to the left, then to my surprise a 3rd rooster came up back to the right of me, but he was headed 180 degrees back the other direction and so I tried to get turned around but he corkscrewed me pretty good and I never could catch up to him, fired off 2 shots but to no avail.
A double off of a pointed dog was pretty sweet though.....and damn near had a triple.
Our little group got 5 Saturday and then just the 2 I shot yesterday. Our group total (like 3-4 guys) for the year sits at 18.
*ALMOST* had a triple yesterday morning. My FIL's shorthair was locked up tighter than a drum, walked up to her and 2 roosters flushed, 1 straight away and 1 to the left and I dropped the one straight away first, then swung and dropped the one to the left, then to my surprise a 3rd rooster came up back to the right of me, but he was headed 180 degrees back the other direction and so I tried to get turned around but he corkscrewed me pretty good and I never could catch up to him, fired off 2 shots but to no avail.
A double off of a pointed dog was pretty sweet though.....and damn near had a triple.
Our little group got 5 Saturday and then just the 2 I shot yesterday. Our group total (like 3-4 guys) for the year sits at 18.
Scratched one down off the public this morning.
Me too. I used to go as a kid. It’s sad that I have never taken my sons out pheasant or quail hunting before. There wouldn’t be a point anymore.
Had a Good Friday and Saturday in NWIA. Group of 13 shot 52 overall hunting mornings. Warm weather made afternoons tough. Proud of my 1 year old lab for having multiple points. Retrieving is still not a thing for him apparently. Loves to play fetch though. It’ll come
We used to call your third shot a “go to hell shot” because we missed the first two. 🤣
How old are they and do they have hunters ed?
If anyone is in the DM area and wants to get a young person into hunting but hasn't done it because you don't have a dog I would be happy to run my dog for you to get youth hunters engaged. You guys can shoot all the birds, I just love running the dog. We need to get more young people into hunting.
We hunt for deer, rabbits and turkey. My sons are 15 and 11. We have an English Setter but it isn’t trained. We had them when I was a kid and they are great family pets.
Good man, teach them safety young and to respect what firearms can do and they will be good men for life.
This one hit me right in the feels. Pretty sure this is how I was speaking to my wife a week ago:
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What a handsome and proud boy!Scratched one down off the public this morning.
That Black Lab had the best day ever.Scratched one down off the public this morning.
The group of 5 of us wrapped up our limit around 11:30 yesterday, gorgeous day for hunting out there.
Had to look up what a piebald rooster was. Never heard that term before. We always called them albino. I've only ever seen one, once, 30 years ago when I was 16. It got up on my left and I was the left guy on the line. I hesitated because I thought it was a hen. My dad was yelling, "Shoot it. Shoot it." I told him it looked weird and I thought it was a hen. He said he knew it was a rooster when it cackled.
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That’s pretty much what happened with me. About 5-6 birds flushed and dropped a rooster to my right, the piebald flew towards me between myself and my partner. I thought it was a hen too until it came screaming between us. At that point I had to turn completely around to the left in waist high grass to pull up on it and the bird had caught the wind and there was little chance that I was going to bring it down.
Only the second one I’ve ever seen in 50+ years of hunting pheasants. Feel fortunate for seeing it.
He is. It's another "ron" alt.
This upsets me. That's a shitty thing to do.
I hope you are just trolling.
Has to be.
This upsets me. That's a shitty thing to do.
I hope you are just trolling.
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