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Too bad about N Dakota pheasants Greg. We dont have any quail in west Texas this year likely due to drought. The Michigan Ruffed Grouse appear to be down as well (I had a poor hunt last week in lower MI), people are saying due to West Nile Virus. Just a bad year, I guess. Is what it is, I suppose. One thing I noticed about the grouse we did find, they were wilder than the dickens. Couldnt hardly get a shot at one. I guess Mother Nature makes the birds extremely wild when numbers are low. Survival of the fittest and all....


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This is my new favorite picture of the year. It is also Gus's first goose, a wounded one at that. It took a lot of work to bring it to bag, but he did it. He could have used SCUBA gear though.



On the way back to the truck he busted about 14 pheasants -12 of which crowed. The rooster population is looking surprisingly good.


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My dove hunt was rained out and pheasant hunt is yet to come.

Instead, here are pix of recent feral hogs taken in southern OK:

First , my 600 pound sow:


The smallest of three boars taken one morning:


Not big, but a running shot that I just could not pass up.

Going there again next Saturday to chase trophy boars with hounds. Good sport with double rifle.


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Great pic Brent!


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That looks like some serious pork! What caliber double do you use?
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"Great pic Brent!"
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People do not think of the deep South as Canada Goose country. Yet, due to the introduction of non-migratory Giant Canadas (aka Golf Course Geese), we have an open season on them down here which basically is any time any other waterfowl season is open. The goose season coinciding with the early teal season ended recently.

67galaxie and another buddy and I have been watching a flock of about 100 'town birds' feeding in a green peanut field close to town. The peanuts are not turned yet, so we didn't want to shoot in the field. We discovered a nearby farm pond where they were dropping by to pass the mid day and have a sip to wash down the peanuts.

Morning of the last day we went out to the pond at 8:30 with six floater decoys and my goose call. There was heavy equipment parked next to the pond edge where the owner had been doing some excavation work. We hid in plain sight among the equipment. I sat on a stool between the blade and the body of a bull-dozer.

Promptly and according to schedule, the geese began leaving the field and coming to the pond at 9:30. A few calls to get their attention on our sparse decoy spread and a turn into the wind for landing brought us face to face with about 40 of them. We dropped two on the first pass and those birds were followed up by three more flocks of 5 to 10 each. All decoyed as hoped. We picked up 5 which was enough. These were Big birds.

Temperature was about 90 by the time we started shooting. Not exactly a snowy Canada shoot on the Saskatchewan prairie, but nevertheless a real honest satisfactory goose hunt over decoys...Geo


A picture of two 67galaxie shot with his A Grade Fox:



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Thanks as always for joining me Geo. The rest of the year should be great!

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Turns out my "purpose-built-doodle-gun" works! First upland bird of the season (which opened Saturday prior)...


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Been enjoying some nice dog work on WC this season. Had the H&H Royal 16 bore in the woods on this outing and took a pair from a nice dog point. The third bird for the daily limit would happen later in the day after missing more pointed birds than I care to admit.


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