Larry Jones came out with his friends, Jimmy Robinson and Kenny Arnold  for a quail hunt.   I set some quail coveys around the Tinkerfarm Field and they set out to bring them back.  The birds busted out of the cover and the lucky ones made it to the timber around the old lake bed.  This led to some fun and interesting shooting.  Larry claimed almost three quarters of the birds taken, but it may have been that he had a better retriever.

Roy Evans and his buddy Trent Yokely came out for an upland bird hunt.  I filled the Clubhouse Field with pheasant, chukar and quail and got Curly and Doo to find the birds.  They knocked down almost all the birds raised so I went back to get more birds along with a couple more dogs to extend our afternoon hunt.  Tons of bird hunting action in this video from a fun hunt.

Dave Schumacher set up a hunt for his buddies, Doug Hayes, Larry Kleiner and Marc Seale.  They brought along their dogs, Dan, Daisy, Holly and Chica, respectively.  I set some quail coveys in the Tinkerfarm Field and they elimated the first one that got up in 3 rises, their hunt got more interesting after that with some coveys flying to prairie strips and timber around the edges of the field.  That turned out to be a good thing, because they found three pheasants hiding out in the fencerows.  Marc got Chica, his young, Golden Retriever, a little work by herself on a couple of chukar in the Clubhouse Field.  She did a good job, finding and flushing both, one twice and a couple of nice retrieves.

Gene Hodge and Chuck Gurkin came out for a pheasant and chukar hunt along with Gene’s young shorthair, AddieMay.  Addie did a nice job finding, pointing and retrieving the birds.  The pheasants behaved well with only one trying to run away (switched to flying and came down).  While trying to find their wayward Chukar, Addie found some extra quail too.

Brad Bickhaus came out with all his friends for an upland bird hunt.  There were enough hunters for me to spread pheasant, chukar and quail around three fields.  After piling up a bunch of harvested birds, Brad started to fry fish, hushpuppies, ect.  Always a good time when Brad comes out for a hunt with his buddies.

Christian Smith and Dwayne Ritchey  came out for an upland bird hunt.   I set out some pheasant, quail and chukar  in the Clubhouse and got Curly and Doo to start out the hunt.  This was Christian’s first upland hunt so Dwayne was primarily on back up duty.  Christian didn’t need much help with his new Ruger, but Dwayne helped knock down a few.  The warm day meant  it was time to switch dogs after a bit so, Sol, Ava and Mac got to do some clean up.  They ended up with more birds than I released so must have been some good shooting and dog work.

Scott Stewart set up a chukar for his friends Jon Shadduck and Matt Wallace.  They brought along their setters, Joey and Enders to find, point and retrieve their birds.  Even with the warm weather the chukar held tight and flew hard.  I set the chukar doubles next to the wooded edge in hopes that hunters may have to chase a few through the timber, but they didn’t miss when I was around.

John Cavaletto and Larry Ackerman came out for a quail hunt.  John brought his pointer, Burl and Larry his shorthair, McCallister to find the birds.  I stocked the north Cabin Field with some quail coveys and the dogs found them.  Some of the birds made it to the timber and the shooters made some nice shots through the trees.

Brien Guy came out for a quail hunt with his pointer, Rex and buddy Stan Soldner and his setters, Tex, Mutt and Pearl.   I set some quail coveys in the Clubhouse Field for the dogs to find and point.  The warm, sunny day had the quail on the move but they had a nice hunt with a lot of points throughout the field.

Gary Rogers came down to work his pointers and brittany on some quail.  I set out some quail mini-coveys around the Cabin Field in the prairie strips around the timber edges.  The birds flew well with some escaping into the timber to give Gary a bunch of nice dog work and some interesting shooting.