2/19/2009 Aspermont, TX
Last trip of the 2008 – 2009 bird hunting season. Texas starts on the last Saturday of October and runs to the last Sunday of February.
I made this trip with our head buyer, Jonathan. Jonathan owns a female German Shorthair named “Chick”.
She gets to go with me more than Jonathan does (since she doesn’t [...]
I have a couple of quick posts to finish up the 2008 – 2009 Quail Season. I’ll knock them out so I can get to my 2009 – 2010 boird hunting notes in the next couple of weeks.
1/23 Midland
I came over early before meeting up with the SportDOG boys. I spent the day hunting with [...]
1/21/2009 Aspermont, TX
Hunted for the first time with longtime firends and suppliers Chuck and Blanche Johnson. The Johnsons own Wilderness Adventures Press where we get many of our books including the popular and really handy Wingshooter Guides.
Chuck and Blanche have also written a mighty fine cook book – Savor Wild Game Cookbook and Training The Versatile [...]
1/20/2009 Midland, Texas – Hunting Notes
First we ran Em and Preston’s young German Shorthair “Penny”
Em found 3 coveys and about 10 singles and small groups of birds. Penny found one covey and a single. 6 birds killed. Lost one These seem like pretty low numbers for the amount of birds we found, but anyone that has hunted [...]
1/19/09 Midland, Texas
Hot, dry and windy. Not exactly the perfect conditions for quail hunting but pretty common in West Texas.
Ran Em and Roxy. Found two coveys of Blue Quail. Killed four birds.
Ran Click and Sage on a road covey. Found another group of birds in the field.
Sage had 2 nice points. Killed one bird. He was steady to wing and [...]
9/17 Nebraska
First day hunting prairie birds. This is also my first hunt in the state of Nebraska. We started our hunt in the Nebraska National Forest. It is called the “Sand Hills”
Prairie Birds include both the Sharptail Grouse and the Prairie Chicken. Unlike the Chukar, Pheasant, and the Hungarian Partridge, the Sharptails and the Prairie [...]
