Dan Crunk and Cletus Roy came out to run their pointers on some quail. It was way too hot and dry, but they had a lot of dogs to run, so none got too hot. So hot that Dan wore his nice white tennis shoes, but unfortunately got into some mud in the timber flushing a quail.
Sean, Kaden and Alex Junge along with David Budde brought out their two labs, Kola and Ben to hunt some pheasant, chukar and quaill on a hot spring day. Tyler came along to help do some filming. The labs did a good job finding and flushing the birds, but Kola ran out of gas after the first round. I was able to get my lab, Ty, out of the kennel to help Ben find the rest of the birds. All went well, til Kaden got attacked by a flushing rooster, it turned out ok because his brother Alex knocked it out of the air.
Dale Phillips set up a hunt for his buddies, Tyler Startt and Tim Lillie. He brought out his young German Wirehaired Pointer, Franklin to find the pheasant and chukar stashed around the Clubhouse Field. High temps and wind on a late spring day, made the hunting difficult but with a little help they had a good morning in the field.
Wil Bryant, Gerritt McCrory, Wayne Lilly, Todd Goeb, Jon Johnson, Randy Hardtner, Tim Guskey and Tyler Schroeder came out for a late season day of upland bird hunting. Jeff Powell took have the group over to the Cabin Field and Steve Sanders guided another four on the Clubhouse Field. After a nice morning of pheasant, chukar and quail hunting, I served them some of my pulled pork and chips. Then I took a group out to the Clubhouse Field while Jeff headed back with another four to the Cabin Field. Lots of shooting action and dog work in this video.
Brien and Hanley Guy came out after their turkey hunt to run Brien’s dog, Rex on some quail. I set out some quail coveys and Rex hunted them up. No gobblers out of the Clubhouse Field, but they got some action knocking down a few quail.
Larry Holman and Brad Hecht came out to work Brad’s pointer Ruby on some quail. With each bird Ruby got a little steadier. Gonna be ready for shooting dog trials next fall.
Bob Dasenbrock got out for a couple hunts the last week of the season with his young setter, Libby. First, Bob and his buddy and his buddy Derek Atchison, hunted some pheasant and quail around the Cabin Field. Ended up chasing some quail through the timber with some interesting shooting. Then to finish off the season it is just Bob and Libby hunting some pheasant and quail around the Clubhouse Field. Libby has had a bunch of birds shot over her this season and is becoming quite the bird dog.
Larry and Jimmy Robinson came out to run Larrys’ dogs, Ike and King, on some quail coveys. Ike and King had a good day, so Larry brought them back out in a week with his grandson and son-in-law, Caleb and Brian Lewis for once last hunt for this season. Lots of good flying birds for the second and some good dog work.
Rich and Peggy Mason brought out their young brittany, Mason out for a couple hunts in April to finish off the upland season. For the first hunt, Mason went after some chukar and scored a perfect 7 for 7. Couple weeks later Rich and Mason went 6 for 7 on pheasant on a tough, breezy hot spring day, getting better every hunt.
Greg Presson came out with his lab, Jake and buddy Jeremy Wolf to hunt some pheasant and chukar. The south end of the Tinkerfarm still had some nice cover on April 2nd, so they headed down to find the birds in the milo, prairie strips and fencerows. Jake did a fine job with only a couple of pheasants getting away.