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h4everything
Blanchard, OK

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10/19/2006 6:24 AM	Alert
I have finally made time to post on the forum about my bird hunt in Wyoming last weekend. Myself and 2 other friends loaded up Thursday after work and started our adventure to Wyoming. We were driving all night long. I managed to get a ticket in Wichita. 78 in a 60. We finally got to my friends parnets Casper at 5:30 in the morning. We slept for a couple of hours then headed up to Thermopolis and hit some private land that my buddy new and we started hunting Huns. Those are the wildest flushing birds that I have ever hunted. We had my PL pup and my friends old wild flushing dog. Ziggy my yellow PL ran around and hunted a little bit but spent most of his time with me. He did get in a couple of good retrieves. Saturday we hit up the Chukars and they can run better and faster that any blue quail. We walked about 10 miles that day and shot a few chukars and a lot of rabbits. My lab fetched a lot of rabbits and made himself very useful on a couple of retrieves on cripples. Sunday we did a mixed bag of Huns and Chukars. I managed to get 2 huns and limited out on Chukars (4). Those mountain birds are very hard to hunt but it sure was rewarding. I was pretty happy with my pup as well. He is showing a little bit of point which I am sure will improve with time and if I can't bring it out I know Air Castle Tom will. Best of all my friends were pretty happy and impress with my dog. Also could somone please tel me how to shrink big res photos down to small enough to attach. Rion, Thanks for the help on that.

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10/19/2006 8:32 AM	Alert
Sounds like a great hunt! Glad you had fun. We haven't done so good yet, scratched out one duck on Saturday and that's it for birds so far, unseasonably warm conditions and blue bird days doesn't help in the duck blind though. easiest way for me to make pics smaller is if you have outlook on your computer then just highlight all of the ones you want to shrink, right click and choose Send To: Mail Recipient. This will open an outlook mail message, then just go to the file menu, choose save attachments. Rion

Trout Bum
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10/19/2006 11:03 AM	Alert
Very nice indeed! That's some tough hunting for sure, keep it up and you will have a brid dog that can hunt any type of upland game. Huns will flush when pressured, but a wonderful bird to train on as well as hunt. They have a strong scent when covied up, dogs learn pretty quickly they need to stop when they get scent.

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10/19/2006 11:53 AM	Alert
Great pictures and beautiful hunting country! Wish I was getting after them right now with the dogs. Enjoy. Pat

Lord may I be half the man that my dogs think that I am!

Doc_E
N.E. WA state

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10/23/2006 6:53 AM	Alert
Huns, and especially Chukars are definitely a "young man's sport (trust me, I'm getting old). Run up, fly down, run up, fly down, run up, fly down. Great pics and it sounds like some fun hunting. .

Doc E and Cujo Casey boy.

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10/26/2006 9:30 PM	Alert
It's cool you got into chukar and huns first time out. Very fun birds. Real chukar sure aren't anything like the birds you train with Next time you go after them it will probably be for revenge...is for me anyway. Damn things ooutta be in jail for attempted murder.

h4everything
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11/01/2006 12:23 PM	Alert
I will definitely be back to get my revenge on the Chukars. The sad thing was that the fourth member of our hunting party was a 63 year old man and he walked us into the ground. He also runs 6-7 miles every morning too. Young is a state of mind Doc E.

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