Trevor Hubbs came out with his year old, Red Setter, Jackson for a pheasant and chukar hunt.  Jackson found them all plus a pile of leftover pheasants from the Continental Shoot.   Some really nice early season work for the young setter.

The Central Prairie Field Trial Club will be holding its fall trial here in the Sandy Run Hunt Co. fields on October, 29 2016.  Saturday will have the Amateur Shooting Dog, Amateur Derby, Amateur Gun Dog, and Amateur Puppy Trials.  

If you have a good hunting dog, you should consider entering in the Amateur Gun Dog Trial.  The dogs in this trial run the course with another dog, need to be able to find birds, back dogs on point and hold their point until the bird flushes.  Sounds like your dog can do that easy enough, bring him out, maybe you will get one of mine in a brace.

If you are looking for hunting dogs and puppies, you can make some contacts with some folks who know where there are some of the nicest hunting dogs for sale or on the way.  Plus the trials give anyone a chance to see some classy looking dogs in action.  Bring your horse, ATV or walking shoes to be part of the gallery.  

Check out some video from the club’s last fall trial at Sandy Run.

Sandy Run Hunt Co.’s first Continental Pheasant Shoot of the season had some great hard and high flying birds.  The birds did a nice job avoiding a lot of the shooters attempt to bring them down.  Beautiful day to be in the field and we had a lot of fun shooting from the stands and then doing a some clean up hunting after the escapes after the pulled pork lunch.

If you haven’t got your own bird dog yet, we have you covered.   I usually run a German Wirehaired Pointer/English Setter pair when I guide a hunt, but if you just have to hunt behind a lab, I can do that to.  Our other guides have a variety of pointing and flushing dogs.  So, until you can get your own puppy, we would love to let our dogs find birds for you.

There is nothing I like better than setting up a quail hunt that is as close to wild quail hunting as you can get.  Here are some of the nicest covey rises from last season.  Lots of birds in the air, not too many getting knocked down, some great action.

These birds just keep flying.  Some just magically avoid clouds of lead, others take a hit and keep on going.  

Pointing dogs, flushing birds, great action shots or happy hunters, this is a collection of some of my favorite moments I caught on camera last season.

Here it is, the worst of the worst blow-ups I got on camera last season.  23 mostly, cringe-worthy shots that were just too close or too often or both.  Enjoy and if you recognize yourself, count to three before you pull the trigger.

Brad Ruckman brought out his daughter, Allyson for her first pheasant hunt along with his buddy, Rob Frost.  Rob got out his German shorthair, Susie to do the finding and retrieving.  I set out some pheasant and chukar in the Clubhouse Field and bottom pasture.  Susie did a nice job finding and pointing the birds.  Although the first pheasant got away on foot, the second took flight and Allyson knocked it down with one shot.  Really nice hunt with lots of action as Susie found a pile of quail to point as well.

Rod Ferguson came down for an overnight hunt with his two sons, Zach and Taylor to get their new puppies on some birds.  Rod and Zach picked up two, sister, German wirehaired pointers that are now 10 months old and just couldn’t wait to get out in the field to find some quail and pheasant.  The first afternoon we started off with a few quail singles to get the dogs in tune to what they were out here for, then on to a whole pile of quail coveys up all around the edges of the clubhouse field and pasture.  The pups did a nice job finding, pointing and chasing the quail around the pasture and bottom, even with the hot weather and dense cover.  We enjoyed a nice evening meal, and the baby bears even won a playoff game for them.  The next morning after coffee, eggs and bacon they headed back out starting out with some quail coveys and then on to some pheasant.  Zella and Zoe again had a blast and got better with each find.