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Post by Rommel on Mar 31, 2007 20:13:27 GMT -5
I saw alot of small ones on the courses that I played, he was one of the bigger gators. On this one hole my ball was within a few yards of a small gator and I got within 10' of him and bent down, put on my best Australian accent and imitated "The Crocodile Hunter" the other guys got a kick out of it and then said "you better get you as* away from him". The gator never moved a muscle. There's plenty of them down there you shouldn't have any problem finding some to see. My son was with me last week and is going back the last week of July with his in-laws, if your there at the same time he knows where to find some gators. Maybe you guys can hook up. The Buckmaster met my son, "Sparky" and I when we bought shirts from him in the parking lot at Food Lion. Myrtle's a fun spot, lots to do, You'll have a good time. Oh yeah, you boys stay out of those strip clubs down there Lots of those too!
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 31, 2007 20:45:30 GMT -5
Hmmmmmm. Didn't think of that. I'll have to watch buckmaster and make sure he doesn't come back with one hand and a STD. LOL We'll be there july 15th thru the 21st. A real nice local bowfisherman is going to take us out to some good spots down there. I'll bring extra $1's for after we fish.
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Post by Rommel on Mar 31, 2007 21:31:35 GMT -5
Make sure you check out Derrie'res (Highly recommended) and yes bring your $ingle$.
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Post by BuckMaster on Apr 1, 2007 15:19:06 GMT -5
A deer I jumped up A deer skull in a tree
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Post by captwahoo on Apr 4, 2007 17:04:32 GMT -5
Me and my best friend at my mountain.. On the way to Cripple Creek in Colorado... Top of the World Resturant in Las Vegas.... Ain't Nature Grand
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Post by Rommel on Apr 4, 2007 17:28:54 GMT -5
German shorthair , are you a bird hunter? Las Vegas pic is cool, my son got married there Oct. 05. It's the only time I've been there, I'm not much of a gambler but there is alot of cool stuff to see.
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Post by captwahoo on Apr 5, 2007 4:09:19 GMT -5
We are bird hunters. There are a few grouse on my mountain property, and we use to give em hell. Hard to find many wild birds anymore. We raised 300+ phesants a couple of years ago in Clements, had a great time hunting those. My girl is over the hill now, but in her day, she could really get them up.
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Post by Rommel on Apr 5, 2007 6:00:26 GMT -5
I saw the gray in her muzzle, figured she had seen better days. My lab is over the hill now as well. I trained him on pheasants that I raised on my property. Whistle trained , hand signals, forced fetch retrieve, the whole nine yards. I spent alot of time with him when he was a pup. I had him in South Dakota 3 out of the 4 times that I was there. I've had him out to the grouse woods as well up in Garrett Co., not many birds but I managed to bag a few. I have one mounted in full drumming position. I know a guy who goes to Wisc. every year for the grouse, he can't get enough of those birds. He hunts English pointers, the long hair is to much to take care of for me. Happy hunting
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Post by BIG FOX on Apr 5, 2007 6:39:02 GMT -5
great pics, i sure miss going pheasent hunting in Utah when i was a kid.. i was more of a flush dog than a hunter but man it sure was fun to have them buggers jump up right under your feet... My dad use to raise champion labs and had a couple that could catch the pheasent before they got off the ground, good way to save on ammo . they would also get them when the bird would burrow under the snow and all the sudden the dog would just dive in the snow and come up with a bird.. it was awesome... i thought that was the coolest thing ever, but i was just a kid... i still think it is neat as hell though... Back before i was born my dad had a dog that he would let go at night to the hay feild in Utah and in the morning his dog Luke would be sitting at the back door of our house with a live pheasent in his mouth... my older brother tells me the story every now and then and i still smile.. that is awesome...
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Post by captwahoo on Apr 5, 2007 16:18:00 GMT -5
Back a bunch of years ago, my brother was stationed in Newfoundland, he was training Canadian Pilots, I spent a long weekend with him and our dogs, I was phesantville. In less than an hour, everyday for 3 days, we had our limits, beautiful wild birds. I did get alot of our hunts on video. I just love watching those dogs work. I don't know if you've ever seen a "Covey" of phesants, but it is a sight to see. In three days of hunting, my girl needed a week of recovery, those birds flat wore us out. This was a Southern Maryland quail day
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Post by Rommel on Apr 5, 2007 18:01:36 GMT -5
It is quite a sight to drive a grain field and see a hundred or more birds getting up. I didn't go with the guys last year but they hunted a devils weed field(tumbleweed) and all 8 guys had their limit of 3 birds each in under 2 hours out of this one field. I've hunted this field before and it is as thick as any cover I've ever seen. The drivers use the trails made by the deer and the dogs use the tunnels made by the birds.
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Post by osprey on Apr 7, 2007 11:12:09 GMT -5
Geez, you guys are really making me miss bird hunting. I got started hunting mainly on quail, used to hit the fields and woods every day after school to chase the bobwhites. Raised quail and pheasants, chased grouse while at Frostburg (another sad tale much like turkeys, took me a dozen years to kill one, finally went with a guy from PA that had good Briittanies a few years ago, killed several over two days in Garret County with him on a late January hunt. Still call them the Ghost Birds.) and still daydream about birds on the prairie. I've gotta hunt birds out west this year!!!!! I think one of the biggest things I like about birds is the ability to walk and roam - I know that's why I started, I couldn't sit still in a duck blind or deer stand - and it seems more and more I want to do that sort of hunting again. Guess I just like wandering about...
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Apr 7, 2007 11:35:41 GMT -5
I've never been quail hunting, but my dad says that it is his favorite kind of hunting. When he was growing up, there were quail all over the place where I live, but now, I am lucky if I jump up a single bird in a year. I've thought about maybe raising quail. Is that a lot of work/is the reward worth it?
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Post by Rommel on Apr 7, 2007 11:49:13 GMT -5
I hear ya Osprey, The first Ruffed I ever killed was in Swallow Falls SP in Garrett Co.. They are "The Ghost Bird", now you see 'em and now you don't! My 12ga. was just too heavy for that hunting, I went to a 20ga. side by side Ithaca/SKB, nothin fancy, but only weighed 7 1/2 lbs. You gotta be quick! Sharptails on the prairie are a little easier to hit than Ruffeds, and Pheasants, well that is just alot of fun, but be careful, they like to run when they hit the ground and thats where the dogs come in handy. I'm a flushing dog guy myself(Labs), my buddies are into German Shorthair pointers. There's obviously a place for both types in the Mid-west, and when it comes to Quail, well you have to have pointers. I did most of my quail hunting on the Eastern Shore around Roxanna and Selbyville in the 80's and some in southern Indiana where my Moms family lives. If you get the chance you should make time to get in some bird hunting this fall, good luck.
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Post by Rommel on Apr 7, 2007 11:57:48 GMT -5
I've never been quail hunting, but my dad says that it is his favorite kind of hunting. When he was growing up, there were quail all over the place where I live, but now, I am lucky if I jump up a single bird in a year. I've thought about maybe raising quail. Is that a lot of work/is the reward worth it? It's worth it if your training a dog because you need to have real birds to train with and Quail are a little easier to raise than Pheasants. Male Pheasants will kill each other in the pen and quail won't. Quail are smaller and you can raise more birds in a smaller pen compared to Pheasants. Pen raised birds don't typically fly very high off the ground, ask VP Richard Chainey, but they still taste the same.
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