QUGA Annual Banquet Coming up Sept. 23rd.

The Cumberland Chapter of the Quail and Upland Game Alliance will be holding its annual banquet on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at the Vandalia Moose Lodge.  The doors open at 5pm and dinner is served at 6pm.  Tickets are $15/each at the door.  We have a ton of stuff we will be auctioning off, live and silent as well as bucket raffles.  I think we have at least a dozen firearms that can be won at the banquet, including some really nice shotguns.  The chapter puts on the youth pheasant hunt out here at Sandy Run and does a lot of habitat around Fayette County.  Lots of fun and great chance to get some nice prizes.

QUGA Cumberland Trail 5th Annual Banquet September 23rd

Prairie Biological Diversity

Every year when I mow paths in the Clubhouse Field I set the tractor bucket to catch seeds, leaves and critters.  This video clip and picture doesn’t come close to showing the diversity of insects, larvae, spiders, worms and ticks that get collected.  The bucket is just a moving mass of insects like the massive praying mantis to spiders so small you can barely identify them without magnification.  Lots of bird feed crawling around out there.

Jeremy, Anthony, Bret and Barry, Last Hunt of the Season

Jeremy Manier brought out his nephew Anthony Samuel from Trescleoux, France along with his buddies, Bret Giaudrone and Barry Ownens to hunt some pheasant and chukar on the last afternoon of this hunting season.  Jeremy  brought along his lab, Darma to flush the first batch of birds and then Barry’s lab got the second batch.  I got out a few setters to help Darma on one last cleanup trip around the Clubhouse Field.  Great end to another awesome season.

 

Dan and Cletus, Spring Quail Work

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.

 

Alex, Kaden, Sean and David, Upland Bird Hunt

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.

Wil Bryant and Friends, Upland Bird Hunt

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.