Pheasants

First trip for the girls this season, mixed bag of pheasant, chukar and quail. The girls were a little out of control in the morning but settled down nicely.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like wonderful fun! Pretty country too... CL

Excellent harvest of some great birds.

Very cool! Am breaking in a new dog. We're both working hard.

Congrats on a great day!

Guy

Oh yeah, looks great!
I love shotgun-hunting, but smallgame is almost completely gone. No habitat anymore...

Keep us posted!

Gesendet von meinem HUAWEI VNS-L31 mit Tapatalk

Nice is the one a Albino ?

Good luck Guy, new dogs are rewarding and challenging. Yes, one was I think Albino. Red eyes etc. Another was very pale colored. I’ve not seen this before so there is something in the gene pool.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I find myself way more excited about bird hunting this year, than big game hunting. Ah well.

Still have a late archery elk season ahead of me, maybe I'll get more worked up about that. Meanwhile, young Maverick is learning to hunt. He's a real handful! Laughin' here. :mrgreen:



He is really packing on some muscle now - about 14 or 15 months old I think, and he's up to 61 pounds two days ago. Was 53 pounds just a couple of months ago. Solid & strong! We're exercising & training every day.

Guy

Guy Miner":3uqlgu8g said:

I find myself way more excited about bird hunting this year, than big game hunting. Ah well.

Still have a late archery elk season ahead of me, maybe I'll get more worked up about that. Meanwhile, young Maverick is learning to hunt. He's a real handful! Laughin' here. :mrgreen:

He is really packing on some muscle now - about 14 or 15 months old I think, and he's up to 61 pounds two days ago. Was 53 pounds just a couple of months ago. Solid & strong! We're exercising & training every day.

Guy

Click to expand...

German wire-hair?
Love that breed. They really like to hunt and please.

Once was on a duck-hunt along a stream with a foot of snow on the ground. When he went in to get the ducks, I started shivering. Afterwards, he rubed himself dry in the snow like I have only seen on TV with polar bears before and 'asked' us - 'what's next'?

Once I find the proper house with a garden after the divorce is through, one of those will move in...



Gesendet von meinem HUAWEI VNS-L31 mit Tapatalk

GWP is very popular in the North West. I would guess I’m seeing more every year. I’ve a friend who is a hunt test and field trial judge, she owns five or six of them.
I don’t get it, I much prefer the GSP [emoji38]


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Help.me out. gsp is ... - ?

Ok, Google helped!
Actually, the German pointers go back to common ancestors.

The differences area not great, more to the kennel they come from.
The wire hair is a bit more robust, depending on your climate.

Wirehair, German long hair, short hair, great Münsterländer - more or less the same in the field.

Yes, I have seen them all in the field. Being German...

I’ve run GSPs since I was a kid. As a senior in high school I could churn out a mile in hunting boots, wearing a vest and carrying a shot gun in under five and a half minutes; 4:20 in shorts and track shoes. In any event I was well suited to running, literally, behind big running, ground covering dogs.
As I get older I find my legs are shorter and I haven’t run a mile in much under 8 minutes in a long time.
It’s my impression the greatest advantage of the Wire hair is their willingness to hunt slower and closer than a Short hair.
That is of course a result of training, it just seems easier to break the wire hair to hunting with old guys like me.
Susan is not a dog person, well she wasn’t. I’m trying to get her to warm up to the Wire hair, it’s time to start bringing up a pup, might very well be a Wire hair. We will see....
Never spoil your bird dog and always hold them accountable for chasing your neighbors cat.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Excellent.

4:20 mile? Yikes! My best in high school was about 5:40.

I was able to hang onto sub 6:00 miles until I was in my mid 30's or so and doing a lot of weight lifting. Got too big and too old for that kinda speed. Now, I walk. Running days are long gone due to leg injuries. I would dearly love to run with Maverick if I could.

Guy

Salmonchaser. I always spoil my dogs. I even managed to spoil my working dogs when I was in the Air Force. They work harder for you and listen better. And, you don’t need to worry about them taking off on you if they know they have a cushy couch at home.

Brinky72":3rnryi4g said:

Salmonchaser. I always spoil my dogs. I even managed to spoil my working dogs when I was in the Air Force. They work harder for you and listen better. And, you don’t need to worry about them taking off on you if they know they have a cushy couch at home.

Click to expand...

I agree, we’ve only two pieces of furniture they are not allowed on if they want to come snuggle.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk