Loree Riggs brought out his friend Bob Colton and his German Shorthair, Gabby for a chukar hunt.  I set some chukar doubles in the Clubhouse Field and Gabby found them all to give the hunters some nice shooting opportunities.   The warm temperatures tired Gabby out so Doo and Mac got to find the scattered birds, giving Loree and Bob some more shots.

Scott Staehnky brought along his fellow Minnesotan, Travis Yerbich to hunt some pheasant and chukar.  Steve Sanders brought out his Pointer, Rose and lab, Stella to find and then flush the birds I placed in the Clubhouse Field.  They had a great time on a beautiful day chasing the pheasant around the field.  Bunch of extra birds are running around and they picked up a spare pheasant and quail.

Ty Leder brought out his young pointer, Zeb, to do some quail hunting work.  Zeb found most of the single quail I set out in the East Bottom Field and has some very stylish points.

J.D. Stroud came up with his two sons, Josh and Jeremy, for an upland bird hunt.  J.D. hung up his upland hunting a few years back with wild bird hunting a distant memory in Jeremy’s mind and Josh had never downed a game bird.  They got right into the swing knocking down some pheasant and chukar, but the quail covey rises were surprising and we had a lot of singles to track down around the Clubhouse and West Bottom Fields.  Lots of action in the field with some nice dog work and a bunch of birds to take home.

Nathan Mettendorf set up an upland bird hunt for his friends, Brett Stuemke and Kyle Kuhns.  I called Greg Ireland to do the guiding with his dog, Daisy and filled the Clubhouse Field with pheasant, chukar and quail.  The first pheasants were on the run, but Daisy found them plus a few extra as well as the chukar and quail.  I got three setters out later on to track down the remaining birds and we had some nice points with 3 dogs backing.

Larry Jones brought out his old pointer, Bill and pup brittany, King, for some quail hunting and backing work for King.  Jimmy Robinson came to do the dog handling and Brian Lewis came to help knock down the birds.  I set out some mini-coveys in the Clubhouse Field for the group to work.  Some of the coveys had already split by the time we got there and some had some nice 3 and 4 bird rises, but soon the birds were scattered to the edges and that led to some nice points and fun shooting in the timber.

Terry Knebel came out with his hunting buddy, Roger Well and German Shorthair, Sadie for a quail hunt.  The field was full of leftover birds, Terry even found a group of 7 pheasant hiding out together in a fencerow.  The extra birds made it the hunt more of a challenge with an abundance of scent spread throughout the field.   They found all their quail and Terry knocked down a rooster we found after chasing a quail and two pheasant down a long timberline.

Greg Bouras, along with Frank LaCaze,  Randall Beasley and Christopher and Zachary Rose came up to try their luck knocking down some pheasants with their recurve bows and arrows.  I set a few pheasants out and then we would flush and attemp to arrow them down.  They knocked feathers off of several birds and had a bunch of close misses.  I took out two of my English Setters, Mac and Doo to point the wayward birds and we had several nice rises and found and retrieved a wounded rooster.

The Cumberland Chapter of the Quail and Upland Game Alliance picked an awesome day for their annual youth pheasant at Sandy Run Hunt Co.  Light wind and the temperature right at freezing kept a few inches of snow around for some good hunting.  Lots of kids, birds and food made for a fun day in the field.

Steve Bowen, Dave Jones, Marvin Forbes and Joe Reck came back for another hunt, but this time they added some quail and I snuck in a couple of chukar.  We hunted the Clubhouse Field again, this time with a couple of inches of snow, which helped find some of the running pheasant.  A really nice covey rise on the quail and the group only left one of their birds in the field.