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As I am now older and damaged from a fall off a roof last year, I am hunting upland game birds more and big game less now.
Here are some of what we hunt in my area.
Chuckar Partridge:
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Valley Quail:
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Wife just requested a honey-do, so I'll post more later.
I would love to see your game birds!
honey-do sounds much better than have you done that yet!
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Great Point! :P
Blue Grouse: (they live in the high alpine and alder thicket mountains)
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Pheasant:
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Those last two photos are of mule deer and blue grouse country. The dog is my old Llewellin, Rocky, with my friend the elk guide.
Rocky knows his stuff. Jim shot the bird, but Rock retrieved it to me. :thumbsup:
Your Mule deer and Blue Grouse country is very similar to Central Otago where I live. We also have a dry climate with hot summers and cold winters. Local gamebirds are Ducks, Canada geese, California Quail and some Chukar. Apart from millions of rabbits we also have goats, pigs, Fallow and Red deer, the odd Chamois, and Wallabies are also creeping into the area. Most gamebird shooters use 12 gauge semi-autos and a few 20 gauges as well. We have to use steel shot for waterfowl (12 gauge only so the 20's can still use lead). .22's and .17 HMR's are the main small game calibres, and centre-fire calibres are .223, .243, .270, 7mm-08, .308, .303. and .30-06 predominately, although just about every other centre-fire calibre has been used at some stage. We have a game bird season only. All other game is open season with no limit. We have good fishing as well!
doc,
As a young guy I almost tried to emigrate to NZ. It was easier back then. The only things stopping me were my then wife, family, money, your "foreign" language, and...did I say money?
I wish I could spend a few months there and hunt 'n fish the whole time.
doc,
As a young guy I almost tried to emigrate to NZ. It was easier back then. The only things stopping me were my then wife, family, money, your "foreign" language, and...did I say money?
I wish I could spend a few months there and hunt 'n fish the whole time. I would learn the language. :pacman:
Learn the language???
All the hunting words are the same. You'd get along just fine.
Whats all the white stuff? I thought Nevada was a desert where John Wayne rode a horse
Great photos and fond memories right there
Most of us communicate with grunts so you will be fine. The true test for people thinking of immigrating, is being able to drive a car and eat a hot pie one handed at the same time without spilling the contents . All kiwis can do this :)
Enjoying the pics, nice choice of dog breed too!
awesome mate simply awesome
It should be duck soup for me then. I can eat a taco in one hand with a beer in the other and drive with my knees. :beer:Quote:
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Originally Posted by luv2safari
I was especially proud of my once-in-a-lifetime Ms Scarlet. She was semi-famous and that one special dog that will never come along again.
She LOVED to hunt, and quail were her favorite. There were lots of them and lots of action.
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She was also the Classic setter grouse dog. These three ruffed grouse were taken near my little second home in NW Montana. I was fortunate to inherit the home in a grouse honey-hole area.
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We both got older and fatter over the years. I sure miss Scarlie..
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a couple of some california quail [img]http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/...rown15/4-2.jpg[/img]
when these quail flushed even tho i was exp[ecting something i nearely needed clean laundry:yaeh am not durnk:
Thanks for the post.
I have three covies on my small place and take a few every fall. Ours like thick wild rose and other nasty cover, but we sometimes catch them in the sage. Same beautiful birds...
i have a question luv2safari
i watch a lot of gundog vids from america
why do so many of the dog workers i see place so much emphasis on the dog holding point?? some so much so that when THEY go to flush the bird its often a long way from where the dogs holding point.??or they appear to running round in circles kicking every bloody bush in a 10 metre radius
is this because of preserve hunting ie theyre frightened the dog will catch the birds before they shoot?
my last gsp was steady on the whoa .[certainly not on the shot :yaeh am not durnk: and was allowed to flush on the release [good boy]
i hunt wild birds and have only ever had the dogs over many years catch 2 [both hen pheasants which i released unharmed]
Some dogs have such good noses they point a bit far back from the birds. As a young boy I had a dog like that, Rip was his name. My name is Bruce, and he was Bruce's Rip-Snorter. He and his sister Lady (Chuckar Lady Reeva) were a great team. Rip would go 200 yards to birds sometimes, nose held high, and Lady would point in closer than Rip, holding the birds better.
My dogs aren't steady to wing and shot on purpose. They're 90% chuckar dogs, and I want them right there where the birds fall. Our country has a lot of volcanic rock fields on steep mountains, and a crippled chuckar will dart down into holes in these rocks or run off and find some kind of hole...badger, groundhog, etc.
This is a bit of a problem when I miss ( too d@mned often now) or miss a pheasant...of go the dogs.
It's customary for our dogs to hold points and the hunter kick the bird out on ahead of the dog, just the way we do it. ;)
i get all of that luv2safari my old duck dog was allowed to be unsteady [like i had a choice with the old bastard:D] basicly for the reasons of fast water in some of the locations we hunted.Quote:
Originally Posted by luv2safari
as stated i had a gsp so considered it part of his job to flush but i see our pointer and setter trials the dog must flush and be steady to it to gain top prize.
