Kevin Diekroeger invited Bob Rainey to join him and Ina and Penny for a two day quail hunt.  They donned their briar chaps and headed to the Tinkerfarm Field in search of coveys of quail.  The snow had the birds holding tight leading to some great covey rises, hard to tell this action from the real wild thing.   We had a nice meal and good company around the fireplace in the evening, homemade biscuits and gravy before the next morning hunt and back to the Tinkerfarm for more quail action.

Charlie Diecker set up a hunt with his brother Ron and son Brad and Brad’s friend Chad Welch.   Lincoln and Reagan, their English pointer and Brittany, found the pheasants and chukar on a soggy day.  Some good shooting and dog work, the Dieckers came back with most of their birds.

Kevin Diekroeger brought Penny and Ina for a short hunt on a couple of four bird mini-coveys.  Dogs found ’em and Kevin cleaned up in the Clubhouse Field.

Larry Kleiner brought out his friends Joe Mioux and Mark Meyer for an afternoon upland bird hunt.  Larry came with his two German Shorthairs, Trigger and Holly, while Joe brought his English Pointer, Ginger.  Some real nice points with all three dogs locked down quail coveys and singles.  Mark got to shoot his first chukar partridge on a double rise with larry knocking down the other.

Caleb Corzine and Reece Waddington enjoyed their first upland bird hunt at Sandy Run.   Greg Ireland with Daisy did the guiding for an action packed morning.  Caleb and Reece were able to pick up a few of the pheasants left behind from the youth pheasant hunt the day before.

Bob Dasenbrook came out with Flame for another cold and windy hunt.   Chukar and Quail were on the menu and Flame found them all.   Quail headed for the trees, making for some interesting shooting, while some of the chukar grouped up and moved around the Tinkerfarm pond.

Don Cooper came out with his two sons, Tyler and Luke, and chocolate lab, Ruby.  They went after some pheasant and chukar.  Ruby did a good job finding the birds and the boys did great knocking them down.  Don had the shot of the year on a  pair of chukars, slowed the first one down with the first shot and then took both out with the second.  Unfortunately no video proof due to dead camera battery, but both Ruby and I witnessed the shot.

Ron and Matt Murfee brought their chocolate lab, Bailey, for an all chukar hunt.  Bailey’s first time out this year, she did a good job finding and flushing the chukar.

Chuck Johnson brought out his veterinarian, Dr. Michael Douglas, for his first upland bird hunt.   Shed, Chuck’s German Shorthair, did an awesome job on the pheasant, chukar and quail.  Shed even tracked down all of a six bird covey when five got away on the rise.  Mike starts catching up with the chukar and quail and knocks a few down.