Gun Dog Forum

TXShooter

Paying to hunt is growing and here to stay. It's the future, but I'm glad I've been able to enjoy a lot without paying. If you really do your homework free hunting is still available, but it's sure not easy to find. As far as the Texas comments, when the conditions are right there are more numbers t...

TXShooter

If you milo the roads in areas that are not so thick you would probably get good dog work.

Once you bust the covey they will hold much better.

TXShooter

Wild blues are tough but with experience he will get better. Pen raised birds, in my opinion, will never teach a dog as well as wild.
I love wild blues but they are gangsters compared to wild gentlemen bobs.

Good luck.

TXShooter

WOW!!

TXShooter

Congrats, sounds like a natural.

TXShooter

That was great.

It made me a little sad because one of my dogs is pretty old, and I know I'm going to really miss him when he's gone.

TXShooter

I agree with being quiet and letting him hunt, but I would not let him run around by himself.

Wild birds will teach him but I wouldn't let them do it unless I was there with him.

TXShooter

Years ago a friend and I shot a few rabbits while hunting quail with a Britt I had at the time (Best dog I've ever had). We did not shoot any of the rabbits in front of him. He never saw any of the kills. But I believe he smelled them in our vests and after that he became a rabbit hunting machine. I...

TXShooter

Where I hunt in SE Kansas coyotes are hunted a lot with greyhounds. The hunters split up in trucks around a section of land and communicate over CB's. The dogs are in a box on the back of a modified flatbed with a seperation in the center. Dogs on each side can stick there heads out to see into the ...

TXShooter

Wow! That is really nice.

TXShooter

Very nice looking pup

TXShooter

Anyone familiar with Cibolo Creek kennel in Cibolo, TX?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TXShooter

My buddy has a Pointer that will ground trail a running covey of quail from the upwind side. He will keep looking ahead for a place to make his move. When he sees a place where he can make a fast circle to the front he will bolt out, then come in from the downwind side and pin the birds. It is a sig...

TXShooter

Looks great.

TXShooter

Best of luck to you.

TXShooter

If you can get permission to hunt SE Kansas it usually holds good numbers of quail.

TXShooter

I work at a wafer fab in Houston where the wafers are made in clean rooms and you have to operate under very strict humidity levels to produce the different products. We have a SE breeze that comes off the Gulf and brings alot of moisture with it, this is what causes the humidity, not the temperatur...

TXShooter

I sold my large collection of Gun Dog and PDJ to a gentleman on this site. I just had no room to store them, and I couldn't throw them away. His collection at this time only lacks PDJ NOV- DEC 2002. If anyone coud help him it would be greatly appreciated. Let me know, and I will put you in touch wit...

TXShooter

My Filsons have not been holding up like they used to. Can the Pella take the South Texas brush and barbed wire?

TXShooter

My camera is not working right now.

It does not seem like a scab, but honestly I don't know what it is.

Appreciate the help.

TXShooter

K9, The dog is six months old. The spot didn't look like it changed much when I looked at it yesterday. When I soaked it and worked it with my fingers, it seemed as though the whole thing wanted to come off hair and all. The water and working it with my fingers did not change the matted spot itself,...

TXShooter

About two weeks ago my shorthair had what appeared to be a piece of mud on his head while I ran him along a bayou. Due to working long days and getting ready for a vacation I didn't see him much the rest of the week and my wife was feeding the dogs before I got home. Yesterday was the first time I h...

TXShooter

Great looking pup.

Where are you located in SW PA? I grew up not far from Uniontown.

TXShooter

Very nice.

It will look great in the cave.

TXShooter

I'm no expert, but I gauge distance of the bird with how the head is held. JMHO

TXShooter

That's what I call intensity.

TXShooter

I've been using a three hole aluminum box for the last 13 years, in Texas where it gets pretty hot. Mine doesn't have fans, it has sliding vents and works really well. When I hunt in cold weather such as in Kansas I fill the holes with hay, close the vents, and put slide in covers on the doors. I ha...

TXShooter

I think the pheasants have been here long enough to be given citizenship.

TXShooter

I think they have the best plan yet. I hope it works.

I remember the pheasant hunting in PA in the late 60's and early 70's, it was fantastic.

TXShooter

I have been lucky and never had a problem with them, but I would think they could be out on these warm days like were having right now.

I think it would be a good idea to keep a look out for them.

TXShooter

blanked, I think the main reason I went with the GSP is in the hope of getting a better dead bird finder. Most of the Pointers I have had were great bird finders, but didn't care too much for dead birds. They would give a half hearted effort to look for dead birds but their skill was average at best...

TXShooter

WOW!! The Mariposa, that's some serious bird hunting.

In a year like this I bet they were really thick.

TXShooter

He is about seven weeks old. John was on the road when I talked to him and he wasn't exactly sure what day the litter was whelped.

CC
I felt sorry for my dogs with the bloody tails in South Texas.lol

TXShooter

Thanks, Dave. I appreciate the help.

TXShooter

Dave,

He is out of Dunfur's Moondoggie Rocky X Uodibar's Little Terror.

e-mail sent.

Thanks

TXShooter

I just sent the deposit for a new pup. He is a GSP and it will be the first one I have ever owned. I have been running Pointers for many years now but I wanted to throw something different into the mix. I am getting him from John Rabidou at Uodibar Kennels. I have a picture of him but really don't k...

TXShooter

ES,

The places I always counted on in South Texas are not producing this year. They are in different places. Wish I knew why, but just like fishing, they are where you find them. We have to let them tell us, which means changing tactics.

Good luck.

TXShooter

nc,

I will take your advice to send it back, I just have to make it to the end of Feb. I guess I'll have to duct tape the inside this weekend.

Thanks.

TXShooter

Yes, tearing up clothes isn't all bad, it's buying new that's no fun.

My vest is pretty much gone, due to the fact I'm losing shells thru the holes. With the price of shells at this time I guess it's time to get a new one.

TXShooter

RGD, I'm not sure where Don Moodys lease is. I'm hunting not too far from the small airport at the end of town. I wish I had some pics also. It is hard to take the field shots down in that South Texas brush. My Filson vest and chaps are already showing tears after being replaced just five years ago....

TXShooter

Hunted a friends 1200 acre Ranch in Rio Grande City last week, a town on the Mexico border and the number of quail were unbelievable. A friend of mine flew down from Kansas for his first out of state hunt and now I think he is spoiled. We killed a decent amount of quail in Kansas before, but the num...

TXShooter

The Prairie Nut Hut in Altoona, KS.

I guess you can figure out their speciality from the name, but everything is good.

TXShooter

I love my Filson vest. Very comfortable and you don't lose shells with the deep pockets.

I have worn them out though, both the vest and the chaps. I don't think they are as tough as they were many years ago, they seem to get torn easier on barbed wire now. But I still like them.

TXShooter

I got the powder coated Priefert for my three dogs and they looked great. But, after a few years the one that houses my oldest male totally rusted out the bottom rail where he would urinate.

TXShooter

Great pics, looks like you had a blast.

I'm heading to Rio Grande City on Saturday with a friend from Kansas who has never seen a blue. We will spend five days trying not to get bloody in all the brush.

I hunted there on opening weekend and they were thick, hope these cold fronts haven't hurt them.

TXShooter

Don't want to hijack the thread, but I have a lagre collection of both from the 80's & 90's I wouldn't mind letting go.

TXShooter

He looks great.

TXShooter

Looks great.

TXShooter

I bought a Fourtrax 300 in 1988 when they first came out. I sold it last year when I bought a Ranger.

I never had trouble with it and thought it was a great four wheeler.

TXShooter

Congrats on a great hunt and a great story.

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