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by Don
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:54 pm
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: Hunting Grouse with a Cannon
Replies: 8
Views: 4693

Re: Hunting Grouse with a Cannon

Best grouse gun I ever had was a Browning Double Auto with a 26" skeet barrel and using 1 oz loads of #7 1/2. Next best was 870 Special Field with a short, don't rememner the length, barrel bored out to skeet and using 7/8 oz #7 1/2. It was a 20ga. Both of those guns just threw up and shoot. Neither...
by Don
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:46 pm
Forum: Hunting
Topic: Quail...dusting the rust off
Replies: 4
Views: 1688

Re: Quail...dusting the rust off

Finally out of Eugene huh! Good for you. You found a spot in Central Ore with wild birds, keep your mouth shut. Been really really hard to come by in recent years.
by Don
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:42 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: some pointing help!
Replies: 27
Views: 8232

Re: some pointing help!

Where do you live anyway? You need some help. You are going down the wrong road again with those manual launcher's. Your problrm is your dog is taking liberties, not that the birds won't hoild still. And even if the birds aren
t hiolding still, the problen is still the dog taking liberties.
by Don
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: new level of attempted spam?
Replies: 11
Views: 3136

Re: new level of attempted spam?

Soon as I figured out I was not talking to the caller, I would have hung up.
by Don
Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:08 am
Forum: Training
Topic: some pointing help!
Replies: 27
Views: 8232

Re: some pointing help!

You do your part and he will do his. May take a bit to straighten it out but it will.
by Don
Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:38 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Lesson learned the hard way
Replies: 5
Views: 1691

Re: Lesson learned the hard way

Not learning the lesson is not the bad part. Dog's get into those things and they hold a grudge! They are quite certain they will whip the next one!
by Don
Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SD hunt = no roosters
Replies: 33
Views: 18373

Re: SD hunt = no roosters

I'm in pretty much the same boat in Oregon. I love chukar hunting but can't get around well enough any more. Used to be a lot of birds around here, almost zilch anymore. Rather than drive 6hrs and spend the gas money needed it's almost cheaper to preserve hunt. Love the wild country but would rather...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:36 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: honoring.....
Replies: 8
Views: 2597

Re: honoring.....

Nice photo. Hope ya don't mind, I lifted it and changed the lighting a bit. Wanted to see if it would make a 12 x 30 panoramic photo. Not enough pixiels. So tried a 10 x 20 and my program says it's still not enough. Your post has 1000X614 pixels, if you have a bigger version I can make a 10x20 for y...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Should I do it?
Replies: 14
Views: 4220

Re: Should I do it?

Why in the world would you ask us? Surely you have an idea of what the answer will be. So what do you think? Would you like to try it? Guy's that like it are on boards like this and think it's a hoot (addiction). We drive 4 wh drive's, attract beautiful women and get invited to Republican fund raise...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Roading, all its cracked up to be??
Replies: 6
Views: 2073

Re: Roading, all its cracked up to be??

I don't think it's all that important. Unless the dog is either running up hill or pulling weight, what good does it really do? And then I'm old and a bit overweight, how good of shape do you think your dog needs to be in to keep up? Where I live and let my dogs run, it's a lot of uphill, real hills...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:24 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Does my GSP need a refresher course?
Replies: 7
Views: 3102

Re: Does my GSP need a refresher course?

Send him back to the same pro for a couple weeks to a month. You know how he's supposed to react to the commands, the pro know's how he got him to.
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:17 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Gun shy 6 month old lab
Replies: 10
Views: 5318

Re: Gun shy 6 month old lab

Ya got two more thing's to change. When your neighbor is out shooting, don't work with your dog. Sounds like he's shooting a rifle. Rifle's have a much sharper crack than a shotgun, harder on the ears. Don't go back to the perserve till you fix the problem and then go with maybe one more dog but onl...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:10 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: some pointing help!
Replies: 27
Views: 8232

Re: some pointing help!

Put him on a check cord and check cord him into the bird. Soon as he tell's you he smell's the bird, stop him. You'll want to citcle away from the bird with your end of the cord so it stays tight and you end up behind him. Then work your way up the cord to him. If you don't have help, teach the whoa...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:01 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Selective Hard Mouth
Replies: 10
Views: 4348

Re: Selective Hard Mouth

I knew GH would tell you to use the "hold" command. If you did teach it, use it! If you didn't, tell her fetch. She's doing it when she first picks up the bird, right? Sounds to me like she got a cripple that either pecked or spurred her. Now she's making sure they are dead. Does not sound like she'...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:49 pm
Forum: Hunting
Topic: Weiser Idaho Chucker Hunt
Replies: 2
Views: 1599

Re: Weiser Idaho Chucker Hunt

I don't know what computer program you have and it probably wouldn't matter. I'm not so good with them. But if youn have a photo program, find something that say's "resize". It'll probably say it's in inchs, change it to pixels. Then change the pixel count on the long side of the photo to maybe 600p...
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:05 am
Forum: Horses
Topic: Gaited Percherons?
Replies: 9
Views: 9154

Re: Gaited Percherons?

A guy that used to provide judges horse's for a NSTRA club provided Percheron's. Big, wide and rough riding!
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:55 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: Sleeping situation
Replies: 16
Views: 13743

Re: Sleeping situation

Have you told her she's being a bit narrow minded about it? All the time. Some time i'll disable the furance when it's 40 below out . She'll welcome a 3 dog night!!!! :lol: :lol: Good,good! As k9 would say, "you can be her friend or her leader"! I wonder if she ever shut off the furnace on Bob?
by Don
Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:34 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Puppy hurt, please look
Replies: 3
Views: 1411

Re: Puppy hurt, please look

If there are no signs of injury, she's probably just worn out. My guy's never eat till an hour or so after a hard run. They also mope around for a day or so. But if I go back out while they are tired, they are ready to go. She probably walked back with you becasue she found nothing (?) and doesn't u...
by Don
Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:00 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Sleeping situation
Replies: 16
Views: 13743

Re: Sleeping situation

3 dogs 2 people in our qween size bed. There's times my wife wakes up so dammm mad she throws us all out. Me included. YOU LET ALL THEM DOGS IN BED YOU CAN GO SLEEP ON THE COUCH WITH THEM. :lol: She doesn't mind Blitz in bed but when JJ and Cage bail in it gets to be to much for her. Have you told ...
by Don
Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:28 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Seximg pigeons
Replies: 2
Views: 990

Re: Seximg pigeons

I had a hard time believing it too till I saw it. Felt like a real fool yesterday. I went out and checked by chicks for happy faces. Don't tell anybody, alright?
by Don
Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:38 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bad Day!
Replies: 8
Views: 2028

Re: Bad Day!

I though that Duke was all thru the puppy garbage. Hadn't eaten anything of value in several months. Then I went to a friends for coffee one morning and forgot to put him in his crate. Got home and he ate the toe out of my hunting boots. That was four days before I left on a hunting tirp! Wore a bra...
by Don
Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:03 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bad Day!
Replies: 8
Views: 2028

Re: Bad Day!

He's a pup!
by Don
Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:40 am
Forum: Hunting
Topic: chukars
Replies: 40
Views: 15752

Re: chukars

Pretty nice, but do you have any flat land chukars for us Utah folks who relocated to Kansas? I don't know if I could run up those hills anymore! Rut Idaho and Ore chukar country. Brownlee Resivour on the Snake River. Pretty unforgiving country! I can't get up the hills with my knee's anymore but t...
by Don
Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:27 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Seximg pigeons
Replies: 2
Views: 990

Seximg pigeons

I picked up three pairs of racing homers last night from a local sheep rancher. He's a long time member of the Oregon Pigeon Racing Assoc and the Central Oregon Pigeon Racing Assoc. He told me that you can tell by looking, the males are just plain bigger. I looked at mine in the pen today and the ma...
by Don
Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:18 am
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?
Replies: 214
Views: 220581

Re: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?

LC Smith I would look and save for a Fox Sterlingworth or a low letter grade Fox and slowly work to make it my own as expenses allow rather than buy the Russian or Turkish stuff which is maxxed out when you buy it...but each to their own. Or there is nothing wrong with the Browning BSS or the older...
by Don
Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: gsp vs pointer?
Replies: 34
Views: 17715

Re: gsp vs pointer?

hustonmc wrote:Join the 3 Rivers Bird Dog Club up there in Tri-Cities. We have training days in the spring and many people you can meet that have pointing dogs. Any further info you can PM me.
They got the best quail raiser on the planet earth there, Tom Medley! God he has good birds!
by Don
Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: gsp vs pointer?
Replies: 34
Views: 17715

Re: gsp vs pointer?

I've had five pointer's, a bunch of shorthairs and now two setter's. All I can say is if you want to hunt with your dog, get the shorthair. If you want to hunt for your dog, get the pointer! The most natural point and back I've ever seen in a dog is one of my setter's. No natural retrieve though and...
by Don
Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:57 am
Forum: Training
Topic: New to Phez
Replies: 12
Views: 3702

Re: New to Phez

I put Duke down with my guy's all the time. Difference being he's young and has some experience on birds. Training birds. He's also run wild birds in the off season. Bills dog is 6yrs old and never been hunting before. Around my dogs he would be an interloper. If that dog was down with my old Hannah...
by Don
Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How many people
Replies: 5
Views: 1680

Re: How many people

When I had shorthairs I got it but I also had pointer's then. Never ran AF trials and don't get it any more. Was a good paper.
by Don
Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:25 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Brittany keeps getting lost
Replies: 19
Views: 5920

Re: Brittany keeps getting lost

My 8 month old Brittany keeps getting lost. When he is out of my sight he panics and takes off. I can hear him yelping and can take up to 10 minutes to return. This problem just started. Any advice on how to correct? Panics and takes off. 8mos old. Humm. sounds like you've arrived at a new stage in...
by Don
Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:11 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Wet Dog Drops Birds
Replies: 16
Views: 4675

Re: Wet Dog Drops Birds

I'm courious, what does "fetch" mean? Don, I understand what you are asking, and some people use only one command during FF, and that is fetch. As you know, that command also means hold. I personally like to use the fetch and hold command. I had better success with my dog, using two different comma...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:45 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Wet Dog Drops Birds
Replies: 16
Views: 4675

Re: Wet Dog Drops Birds

That is why I go ahead and teach "hold" when I do the conditioned retrieve. If you had a hold command firmly, you could command it right befoe the dog started to drop to shake. As I now read others have said. Secondly, I'd train the dog not to shake until I said so. Assign a command to it when she ...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ever had hunting success with a rescue?
Replies: 58
Views: 74049

Re: ever had hunting success with a rescue?

Well, I'm hopeful on this one! Got this little 10 month old guy a few weeks ago. He was basically abandoned in an outdoor kennel with another dominant dog. Was mud caked, emaciated, a week or two from being put down by the owner. I haven't had a shorthair before. Hunted with em and always liked em....
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:37 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Pigeon launchers
Replies: 12
Views: 2864

Re: Pigeon launchers

Hi Mark! No. no delay. release instently.
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:32 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: New to Phez
Replies: 12
Views: 3702

Re: New to Phez

That is a heck of a tolerant buddy! Why not just hunt over his dog awhile then give it a rest and turn your's loose. No offense but I would not put my dog down with a completely green dog. I would let you hunt over my dog and I would put mine up to let your's go. But not both at the same time check ...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:21 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: What shotgun styles, ga. & brands do you use? Expanded poll
Replies: 12
Views: 12924

Re: What shotgun styles, ga. & brands do you use? Expanded poll

I use AyA SxS's and I have a Rem 870 I'll never shoot and an Ithica mod 37 I'll never part with. All I shoot for gauges much any more in 16 and 28 but have a little 410 I keep around with shell's. Keep thinking I'll try it on quail someday!
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:58 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Pigeon launchers
Replies: 12
Views: 2864

Re: Pigeon launchers

You can put three launchers in one spot and simulate a covy launch. Get's the dogs attention if it breaks and swuddenly another bird comes up and then another
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:52 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Need some info finding a breeder.......
Replies: 18
Views: 6126

Re: Need some info finding a breeder.......

There are at least a couple that are thought to be good breeders on this site. Brenda has been here a long time and I believe Keith Gulleridge (sp), is still here. There may be other's. Wagon Master breeds a litter now and then I think, or use's his dog's at stud. I forgot Charly Rose. I konw a guy ...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:44 am
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?
Replies: 214
Views: 220581

Re: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?

I don't believe that you can't get a good SxS for under $500. Savage has marketed the Fox and the Stevens 311. Both are pretty heavy but solid as can be. I carried a 311 for a long time. There's also the AyA Matador series. I have three, 16, 28 and 410. They are very well made and got each for right...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:33 am
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: Remington Model 31
Replies: 2
Views: 2194

Re: Remington Model 31

Don't believe I've ever seen a Mod 31, sure would like to see a photo. I have a very old Ithica Mod37 Featherweight in 16ga. I've always though it was the slickest slide ever made.
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:29 am
Forum: Training
Topic: How many hunters with 2nd season GSP
Replies: 6
Views: 3259

Re: How many hunters with 2nd season GSP

Agree with everyone else. Choose your hunting companion wisely. You don't want anyone that is going to help handle you dog for you. And you shur don't want a trigger happy guy that shoot's when you don't want him to. It's all a big hoot till your the one that owns the dog! More care must be taken in...
by Don
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:23 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Pigeon launchers
Replies: 12
Views: 2864

Re: Pigeon launchers

I have used Wag Ag, EZ, B&B Farms and now have a Lion country Supply. Some guy's told me the Lion Country Supply is really the old Inoteck. Maybe and maybe not, it works wonderfully well. I'm not sold on the idea of trap doors to slide birds in and out, just to easy to push them down from the top. A...
by Don
Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Confidence- He has None !
Replies: 6
Views: 2324

Re: Confidence- He has None !

Take him to a busy store and try to get everyone that comes along to give him treats and fuss over him a bit. He doesn't need to know the recall now it doesn't sound like, don't train now, let him happy time.
by Don
Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:42 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Please Help- collar related problem
Replies: 6
Views: 1558

Re: Please Help- collar related problem

I also agree with K9, think happy timing! Start over with the dog wearing the collar but no training to speak of, happy timing till the dog regains its confidence. If you want to work it a bit while doing this, let the dog drag a check cord and use only it to inforce really basic commands and then d...
by Don
Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Blasted Puppies
Replies: 13
Views: 4833

Re: Blasted Puppies

I don't believe in setting a dog up to fail. Yet everytime you've turned her loose without her check ccord, that's just what you did. The probelm is when you do that without an e-collar, you have no means to reinforce any command. If I were to do what you are doing, she would be on the check cord un...
by Don
Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:19 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Wet Dog Drops Birds
Replies: 16
Views: 4675

Re: Wet Dog Drops Birds

When she gets to you and drops the buck, kick it away immediately. do it everytime till she holds it for you. You could also back up before she drops it and take it while she's moving.
by Don
Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shorthair Advice-Do you know this pedigree?
Replies: 34
Views: 12522

Re: Shorthair Advice-Do you know this pedigree?

I'd go look at that litter. Suggestion of Rawhides Clown, Dixieland Luke I believe was out of Dixieland Rusty and that dog was a God in the shorthair world. Very dominate breeder! The von Grief stuff was great stuff, often mixed with Erdinreich's blood from where came erdinrich's Heckla von Griel an...
by Don
Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:19 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bird carrier revisited
Replies: 3
Views: 1761

Re: Bird carrier revisited

I assume 6 to 8 birds means quail? I use a milk crate with a piece of plywood on top with a trap door on top. The thing rides straped to the front carrier of my 4 wheeler. Will probably hold 8 or 10 pigeons but all I even put in it is 6. I used to use inner tube for top access on the boxes I used to...
by Don
Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Who wins
Replies: 7
Views: 1754

Re: Who wins

Yama is one of a kind. Nobody can not like him nor can ya not agree with him. Love that guy!
by Don
Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GET WELL SOON DOC FAVOR!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 4361

Re: GET WELL SOON DOC FAVOR!!!

Good luck to ya! My worst wreack was at Boyce Corrales years ago. Dog jumped out from under a trailer and the horse went ape. Rode him though. Seperated my pelvis in the process but certainly taught him a lesson! :mrgreen: You can laugh about it at some point down the road. Ask R.J. about getting du...