Bird Hunting Pictures

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

 

[PCC600]

Good story. I had an old Purdey 2.5-inch 16 gauge that was a real killer. I sold it along with many of my guns when I learned of advanced cancer and did not want my wife getting stuck with trying to sell them. I made a miraculous recovery and am even able to resume hunting the mountains now. But I miss that old 16. Before I sold it, a friend invited me to a clay shoot at his club, and I clearly misunderstood what was going on. It was a trap shoot, and there I was with that SXS 16 attracting all the funny looks. At best I am a so-so shot with a shotgun having carried many rifle handling habits to the shotgun sports. And there everybody was with their target guns, towels, and shooting accessories but the Purdy 16 broke 24 of 25. I spent 6 years working in London and became quite an Anglophile where doubles are concerned. You'll not be disappointed if you can find the right British double 16.

Well done . I thing like being the odd man out and then delivering in spades .

 

[PCC600]

Well done . Nothing like being the odd man out and then delivering in spades .

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

 

[Jfet]

Maybe my last trip too. Sigh!

One of the best ways to keep out “The Old Man” is to get a couple of English Cocker Spaniels

They do wonders for me.

 

[Jfet]

Since the early 1980’s I have spent the fall hunting running backs and quarterbacks in Texas. A few years as a player and then most of it as a coach. When Tuesday practice was going slow and it was 100* on the practice field I always wondered what it would be like in a cooler environment like Montana. This year I got to find out and do it with a group of dogs I got to train. Already plotting to go back next year.

First pheasant for Sassy and Roley

First sharptail grouse for me and Java. Java is my Forrest Gump dog. She is terrible to work with but once she is in the field everything good happens.

 

[Hunt anything]

Slow day 2, we managed 1 blue winged teal, 2 western Canada’s and 3 cranes. This was my first western (moffiti latin designation) this leaves me only the cackler (minima) and the Aleutian (leucoptera) of the Canada/calling goose clan to collect. One more day to go hopefully it will be a good one.

 

[Hunt anything]

That should be Canada/ cackling goose clan, here is a look at the western.

 

[ShaneLyle]

South Dakota!

 

[Altitude sickness]

I used to go to SD for years. With a large group of SD residents. The first trip I realized that they drive the birds into blockers.

Not the best tactic for a using a young pointer :>)))

So instead of ruining him I had to break off into a smaller group to work birds.

With that many birds and tactics. A flusher and or retriever worked better.