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Beautiful Fabbri Mel, just beautiful.

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Another glorious morning well spent in the longleaf pine and wiregrass of Southwest Georgia. But hunting wild birds was bit slow this morn. 3 pairs of hunters spread across the property for a half day hunt. 2 of the groups found 1 covey each and 1 group found 4 coveys. We found one nice covey and had some decent dog work. I thought the conditions would have provided more birds but I guess that's hunting. We ended the morning at the old farmhouse for sandwiches and relaxation.

I used my Dickinson Plantation Grade .410 and was very pleased. I think its going to become my go-to quail gun.

In the field


The quail rigs


Point!


Copper on the retrieve


Yours truly with my Dickinson 410 and the mornings bag



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New Year's Eve morning on the L 'Anguille River near Caldwell, AR. Grandson Jackson (of dove shooting fame wink ) and I after his first foray into the waters of the L 'Anguille after mallards. He was shooting a 390 Beretta, I was using my 32" Super Fox with #4 HeviShot Classic Doubles loads. They work really good over dekes, I went 4 for 4 that morning with it.



Next morning, New Year's Day, we waded into a flooded milo field and threw out a couple dozen dekes, then backed into the edge of the timber. Jackson with a handful. He was shooting the 390 with RIO Blue Steel #4s. I was using my old 30" BSS with #4 RIOs in the right and #2s in the left. Yes, it's unloaded and No, it's not pointing at his head.



Yesterday morning was slower, four of us only managed to fool 5 into range and killed them all. Here's the floating blind's kitchen.



Part of the shooting area.



And a view from a shooting hole of the layout and hole, looking north.



Best part was that I got to spend three days and nights with my oldest grandson. What a blessing that was to me. I'm very thankful. I apologize if my post is too lengthy.

SRH

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Thanks Stan. Neat pictures of you and your grandson. Today is our last day of the season. Depression is already setting in so I cleaned and oiled all of my shotguns this afternoon. See ya'll next season. smile


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Originally Posted By: wyobirds
This time of the year when chasing mountain grouse a fly rod or two is a good idea. 16 GA # 2 AyA an a 28 GA Parker Repro 2 bl. set. Fly rods are built on Sage blanks and have local Juniper handles. No they are not slippery, primarily due to the full wells grips.

Most would term your flyrod's grips as reverse half wells rather than full wells.


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Hi all, well this will be the last picture I post as our upland season ended today. We went out and got skunked royally! Saw a couple birds, but nothing to bust a cap on. Wish could have closed the year with a bird or two, but still we were able to get out from the opener to the end. It was a good season, not great, but good. Had some memorable days and some not so memorable. But that's hunting. It was a safe season, no close calls or incidents, I'm thankful for that. The most important thing was I was able to get out and was able to hunt with my boys. I consider myself to be very blessed with them and where I live. I just want to thank God and St Hubert for another year in the field.

My three best hunting partners, bar none! Jim, Will and Raina.



Until later, for those of you who can still hunt, I trust you'll have a great and safe rest of the season!

Best!

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Dang Stan, what a nice report. Thanks for the great pics. You're going to fool around and talk me into working out a rendezvous up there next season. Maybe.
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Stan, you could have gone on for several pages about that hunt as far as I'm concerned. A great trip with one of your favorite folks for sure. Gil

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Very nice Stan! I thought about you when joe and I went duck hunting with SXSs a couple weeks ago. We hoped for some greenheads but only saw woodies. Guess the weather was too warm to send any down. Still had a good shoot and limited out. I used my Miroku and joe used his Parker. I wish I'd taken pictures.

And Greg, I hate to your season has come to a close. I always enjoy your posts and the wide variety of guns you hunt with. If you get the itch to come down South to escape the cold, you have an open invitation for Georgia quail hunt.

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Stan, those pics are just great! What a wonderful set up! Would be nice to hunt from something like that. Here all we do is plank our ass down on the shore and wait in the cold. My hats off to you for hunting with your grandson....ah the memories.

Good show old boy!

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