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Bruce Day
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Posted: Tue Jan 20th, 2009 11:18 pm |
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| Very pretty inside. It stands alone on the plains and we hunted in sight of it. Attached Image (viewed 335 times):
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Tue Jan 20th, 2009 11:25 pm |
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On Monday night, our last night in the comfy cabin, Don, Christie and Matt came out from Dodge for dinner. Christie had prepared a magnificent prime rib roast, salad and apple cobbler desert. Wine, good friends, a grand hunt, fun show and tell with Parkers, good work by worthy dogs that hunted in control, wild pheasant and quail, warm temps and a grand close to the season. Interesting conversation about a variety of subjects by men and women of knowledge and achievement, and the evening ended all too soon.
So until next year my friends. I hope to see some of you at the Southern. Also, our Tasmanian member Ron McDonald is returning in the fall so we are putting together our usual SoDak pheasant hunt and an earlier ruffed grouse hunt, likely again in Minnesota. And I can hardly wait to get back to Montana.
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 01:39 am |
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| Thanks Bruce. It looks to have been a great time with lots of time to relax and enjoy the company of your friends..
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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 12:18 pm |
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Bruce it sounds like a great trip. One day I'll trade the confines of the Grouse woods for a trip to the great plains. A combo of Pheasant and Quail is mighty tempting.
In one of the pictures Charlie is flanked by two gents with rather strange looking guns however . How do you explain this?
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 12:46 pm |
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| Bill Bolyard is still out there for a couple more days....he heard there was another foot of snow in Alpena MI and doesn't relish returning. Yesterday he got into two coveys of 20-30 quail each and got a few. Says the rooster pheasants were crowing around the cabin last night. Says it was 53 degrees and a 5mph breeze yesterday and he knocked off early because his two setters were so tired they didn't want to go anymore. Today he is heading off for scalies and bobs in the nat'l grasslands. Now that is big country and will run dogs hard.
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Noel K Curtis
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 02:08 pm |
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Bruce,
Thank you for the update and the pictures of the recent hunt in Kansas. It was good to finally see pictures of the people I heard so much about over the last week. Take care and I hope to meet all of you soon.
Noel
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 02:16 pm |
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Noel, Bill will probably kill me for saying this but he couldn't stop talking about you and now I understand he is going back to Alpena earlier than anticipated.
There certainly are ladies that hunt and it might be something you would enjoy. I have a Parker DHE 20ga shotgun that was made for a fellow's fiance' in 1910. It obviously worked because she married him and used the gun until she was into her 80's.
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Noel K Curtis
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 02:23 pm |
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Bruce,
I missed him too!
Out of curiousity, how did the two girls do in the great plains? I missed them more!!
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 02:29 pm |
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You weren't supposed to say anything about the girls we had out there. Bill was talking about going down to the Longbranch Saloon( still there) but it was cleaned out years ago by Wyatt Earp, who was then the town marshall.
But I suspect you are talking about Bill's setters. They did fine. I've seen longhaired setters overheat out there, but those two did fine and were finding and pointing birds from the time they were let out, including the puppy. They were not wild, like some I have been around, they hunted in control and were first class bird dogs....and this from a pointer man.
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Noel K Curtis
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 03:25 pm |
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I forgot I wasn't suppose to mention the girls! But, yes you are correct. I did mean the setters, Judy and Parker. They are great dogs.
I understand you are definitely a pointer man through and through. I called the Pointer Jean Company in Tennessee and they are awaiting your next apparel order.
I am definitely intersted in coming out there to go hunting. Maybe next year. Bill said he also has a Parker I could use for the trip. We will see when he gets back. If not, I will find one.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Wed Jan 21st, 2009 04:39 pm |
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| Charlie sent another picture of our final dinner in the little house on the prairie. Attached Image (viewed 240 times):
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 09:36 pm |
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Doc Van sent additional photos and I am posting a few of those.
Me, without my usual western hat. It was so windy I kept on having to chase it down and I was afraid Charlie would think it was a rabbit bouncing along and shoot it. Carrying grandpa's 16ga.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 09:38 pm |
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| In the south they use mule drawn wagons. In the plains, we use pick up trucks. Attached Image (viewed 181 times):
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Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 09:40 pm |
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| Charlie kept on shooting those little quail when we were after pheasant. We had a rule that we would only shoot the male quail but Bill, being the newbie, shot a female quail and Charlie was rubbing it in. But then later so did I, so Charlie had double fun. Attached Image (viewed 132 times):
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Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 09:52 pm |
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| Bruce I think my setter Bert would like to meet those good lookin setter gals. Thanks for sharing the hunt pictures. Pete K.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 10:26 pm |
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Pete;
I almost had a heart attack when I saw that you had broken down and did a post.
Your little setter we hunted with in Dak is always talked about when Apple Jack starts on one of his tyrades about hunting, she is a fine dog.
PTG Roger Coger
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Posted: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 11:17 am |
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Ms. Noel, I have heard so much about you, I feel like I know you. Bill and the girls
stopped thru Pratt and spent the night. We got him fed, rested and on his way this morning. He is driving in to a real weather pattern. Sure hope he doesn't have trouble. We really had a great time getting aquainted. My wife would like to know when he gets home. Best Regards. Van
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 12:40 pm |
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The Parker Gang getting ready for a Kansas drive-by.
My poor old pointer is sitting down in the shade. At 10 years old he doesn't do very well by the third day and several days later he is still tuckered out. I'm going to have to get a puppy this spring and maybe if I can hunt Shortstop only half a day at a time, he can last better.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 12:49 pm |
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| The outside view of the little country church built by the German immigrant community including Don's grandparents. Attached Image (viewed 129 times):
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 12:53 pm |
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| The stained glass windows were paid for by local families, this one by Don's. Attached Image (viewed 126 times):
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