Nice work with the Fox Mike......
Looks like those poor pups with no, or abbreviated, tails got you in the right place at the right time.......
I have talked to a lot of Bird hunters State wide and I understand we have the BEST of it here on the Southern Rolling Plains......A fairly well known Quail Biologist/Researcher in my neighborhood reports Record numbers of Covey contacts on a lease near Big Spring, 60+ in one day for his party a couple of weeks ago.
Yesterday was indeed a great afternoon. I had checked the weather and decided to try to get the Girls out for a run.
Year end business kept me in town much later than I had hoped. But I was determined to get them out, so in spite of my late start (I opened the door to the dog rig at 4:08 pm)and was in birds immediately. 4 dogs down at once is organized chaos with these bird numbers, but I wanted all to get some action.
One covey find ran into another and never slacked up. Shooting and dead bird pick up was punctuated with additional points for a solid hour plus....Keeping the dog rig caught up with the action was my biggest challenge.....Counting coveys was impossible as one ran into multiple others.
I twice had two dogs in sight pointed on separate coveys simultaneously 100-200 yards apart.....
I pocketed the 15th bird of a limit at 5:16 pm.... 68 minutes...... Too fast to totally digest it all.....
Nature will return us to normal all too quickly......But I'm going to relish it while I can....
