Dean and Travis Devall brought out their new pointers, Cy and Sadie, along with the old lab, Peaches a chukar hunt. Dean’s daughter, Karey Courson, her two boys, Blaze and Blake, and husband, David came along to help with the harvest. Lots of birds in the air and a lot of orange on the ground, so nice chukar action in this video.
John Cavaletto picked a nice day to bring up his English Pointer, Burl for some quail hunting. I tried a new method of releasing single birds into the Clubhouse Field and it worked well. Burl was able to find all the birds randomly flown around the field plus some extras.
Harry Lyness and Leon Kersey were travelling back to Indiana and stopped by for the night, breakfast and a quail and chukar hunt. Harry brought his Llewellin Setter, Abby to find the birds I set out in the Clubhouse Field. Abby did a fine job and Leon and Harry did theirs and they had an enjoyable morning in the field.
Larry Kleiner set up a quail hunt with his buddies, Doug Hayes, Dave Schumacher and Bob Dasenbrock. Each brought their own dog, Holly, Pepper, Dan and Libby. Needless to say the birds didn’t have a chance. I set some coveys around the Clubhouse Field and they cleaned up.
Chad, Justin and Cameron Lowry came out for an upland hunt. They brought out their young setter, Meg, to get her on some birds and she got into a bunch. Lots of good experiences and a chance to take a few birds home for dinner.
I picked a nice day for Sandy Run’s January Continental Pheasant Shoot. Sunny, almost 70 with not too much wind, not bad for January. After all the hunters got in place we threw 252 pheasants for them to blast. Lots of flying, lots of shooting, some birds biting the dust. The shooters knocked down 142 on the shoot. After some BBQ pulled pork, baked beans, mac salad and chips for lunch, some of us went back to clean up and came back with another 45 pheasants. Non-stop shooting in the video.
Stan, Mike, Ben and Kyle Kuhns got together for their annual business meeting to discuss their hog operation with their veterinarians, Charlie Durbin and Courtney Daum. I prepared some biscuits and gravy (pork sausage included), eggs and bacon for their breakfast meeting and headed off with the two guides, Jeff Powell and Steve Sanders to set their birds. Winds were gusting over 30 mph so we tucked some pheasant, quail and chukar around the western edge of the Cabin Field and then some more in the East Bottom. Even with the blustery conditions they were able to find and knock down most of their birds.
Bill Warix and Alan Feezel snuck out to do a pheasant hunt with their shorthairs, Whip and Harley. The four of them had a good time hunitng the birds I stashed in the Clubhouse Field.
Brad Fanale came down from Lincoln with his buddy, J.D. Moore to hunt some quail and pheasant. I set some birds in the Clubhouse Field and Sol and Mac came out to find them for Brad and J.D. Some nice rooster and covey rises in this video. Doo and Ava came out to help clean up the stragglers. Plenty of action and a pile of birds to take home.
Brian Westendorf set up a hunt for his grandson, Thacker Cripe. This was one of Thacker’s first times in the upland field with a gun, so I decided some big targets like pheasant and chukar would be best. I set some out in the Clubhouse Field and got Sol out to the kennel to start the hunt. Then I got Doo and Ava to find the birds spread out around the field. Thacker had some nice shots, maybe better than Grandpa.