Wednesday, February 24th, 2010...8:42 am
Quail Hunting – Aspermont, TX 1-21 to 1-22-2009
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 Hunting Dog – a guide for training and bringing out the natural abilities, desire, search, pointing, and tracking in the versatile breeds.
Chuck also writes the Versatile Dog column for the Pointing Dog Journal. You can read about his trip to Texas in the November December 2009 issue.
Chuck brought two of his fine German wirehaired pointers. It was their first trip to hunt Texas Bobs. I was very pleased with how they ran and handled their birds.
The first day out was pretty typical Texas. Hot and Dry. We were only able to make a few rounds and did not move any birds. It was my first “shut out” of the season.
We headed back to town and will try again tomorrow.
1/22/2009 Aspermont
Ran Em and one of Chuck’s GWPs. Em really needs a couple of days off. She hurt her foot and I had to carry her back to the truck. She just turned 11 and is really starting to show her age.
We ran Richard and Click. Richard found two coveys. Click got to back a couple of times.
Richard did a really nice job. I think many of his issues in the past whave been from a lack of maturity. He still has a way to go, but he will make a fine bird dog.
Ran Stud and Sage. Sage found one covey. I killed one bird on the rise. Stud found it and retrieved to hand.
Stud ran much better. I really love the new SportDog 1825 high stim collar. It’s the only collar I have found so far that will get Stud’s attention. The thing I have to be most careful about is making sure I reset the collar back to medium before I put it on another one of my dogs. It’s really easy to switch it back and forth between settings.
I worked Roxy on a few blind setups just to keep her sharp and then ran the pups. The heat finished another day early for us.
That’s just part of bird hunting in Texas.
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