Fishing, and hunting reports (share yours)

Hi bud! Congrats to your girl and the rest of your family, those are great bucks! I really like to see the smiles on young hunters faces, it's contagious

We're doing good out here. We caught lots of bear which made for some happy ranchers as well as happy hunters. My mother drew another elk tag for the same unit, but for a cow this time. She's got the luck I tell ya! I'll work some more pictures and stories in if it gets slow in here

 

2018 Idaho public land mule deer. Finally got a nice one!!

 

That's a great open ground mulie. Those pictures look like they could have been taken here lol.

 

Indeed you did-Congrats

 

Yeah man!

 

That's a nice haul Brian! I've never done any upland bird hunting, but would love to one day!

 

Beautiful hunt! Merry Christmas Brian.

 

Holy smokes! That's super cool Brian.

 

Great family outing and hunting, well done Brian. I love pheasant hunts because I used to go with my Dad when I was a little nipper (in the past century!)

 

I shoot pretty good skeet and trap here at our local range. I hardly miss any doves on opening day!

 

Got a call on Friday from a friend who's neighbor lost her dog to some coyotes earlier in the week. This one won't be going after any more pets! Last meal was lead with a side of CPK FK.

 

Nice job! It's calving season out here and the ADC lines have been ringing for cat and coyote control.

 

looks like a great day ! For me I love all sorts of hunting ... but nothing beats watching good dogs work and fast and furious flushing birds !

 

^^^My personal expression of Heaven would be a single, wide open prairie of tall grass, a gentle breeze, and an English Setter doing what he was created to do. Oh, and a nice 20 gage O/U in a beautiful english walnut stock. 28" barrels choked improved and modified, if you please.

 

Does sound like a little piece of heaven for sure ... I switch between shotguns just depending on what catches me for the day ...

but I have a Brittney a German Shorthair pup right now ... but used to run Llewellin Setters.

this season I had a really good bunch of quail ... so I got out the 28 gauges ... Remington 1100 and 870 ... fun to shoot and feel like twigs carrying them.

 

My favorite was chasing chukar down on the Snake River in Idaho. Of course it was always fun to crest out of the canyon and jump a rooster. Sometimes the hawks would circle overhead when they saw hunters climbing the canyon because the chukar would run up hill. It was fun to have the hawk work to pin down the covey.

A light 28 gage, a brittany and some blackberry bushes chock full of quail would be a suitable substitute for the prairie version in my mind.

 

Opening day of turkey season this year was a washout with high winds and rain. Friday we had hail and tornadoes, good grief could I catch a break. Saturday am the winds died down and finally could hear a distant gobbler.
Late in the afternoon I got one fired up and before you knew it 6 gobblers we’re heading to my setup.
After a lot of hard work roosting birds and soft calling it paid off
Easter long Beard