Chris Lewis got his German shorthaired pointers, Jetta and Nitro, out for a quail hunt and invited his buddies Harvey Rhoads and Tim Cincotta along for some fun.  I put some quail coveys in the Clubhouse Field and Nitro and Jetta set off to find them.  They had a great time, especially after many  of the birds found the east and west fence rows.  Good dog work and shooting led to bunch of quail for the dinner table.  

John Cavaletto brought out Burl, his pointer for a quail hunt.  I set out some quail in the Clubhouse Field and Burl found them all plus a few.  Hot afternoon shortened the hunt a bit, but not before John got all of his birds.

Bob Dasenbrock came out with his setter puppy Libby to do some training on quail.  Super windy, but I found a corner protected by the timber and set some quail singles in the prairie edge for Libby to find.  Libby did a good job, only bumping a couple  with some nice points and retrieves.  Can’t wait to see her compete in the upcoming field trail to be held at Sandy Run on March 19 and 20th.

Nick and Al Gironda came down for their annual overnight quail hunt.  They picked an extremely windy, spring day so I set some quail coveys in the bottom fields up next to the bluff to stay out of the wind.    Steve Sanders came out with his two pointers and lab to find and flush the birds.  They had a fun hunt busting up the coveys and chasing singles all around the fields.

Gregg Dougan donated a pheasant hunt to his chapter of Delta Waterfowl.  Caroline and Gary Rutledge along with Andrea Owens and Eric Schmitz won the hunt and came out to hunt over Greggs two German Shorthairs, Remmy and Gus.  They had a fun morning getting out of the duck blind and into the upland field shooting at escaping pheasants.  Good hunt and a nice lunch in the lodge to discuss all the birds that did and didn’t get away.

Max Oertwig brought out his two German Wirehairs, Ava and Autumn for a chukar hunt in the Clubhouse Field.  The girls had fun time finding the birds for Max and did a good job, Max came back with almost all of them.

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.