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Mike Shepherd
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 03:59 am |
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Motorcycle innertubes - prevents blowouts!
Actually seems like Bobwhites and Sandburrs go together and the innertubes do a good job of keeping the sand burrs out from between their toes and the colored duct tape does a good job of holding the innertubes on. Red is my favorite color tape for this but I ran out of it that day,
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Mike
I never miss a chance to write, talk, or show pictures of my dogs so here is another:
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james w van blaricum,III
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 04:08 am |
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Bill: Is that Noel with your dogs? So glad to see her pix, looks like she is a keeper.can't wait to meet her. We have been all tied up with Kansas Univ. basket ball, so haven't been doing much else.
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Mike Shepherd
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 04:43 am |
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Hi Tom - I missed your post when I made my last one.
I have dove hunted with them when it was in the nineties and they did fine. Just haven't been out in anything hotter than that. I keep a pan of water out for them if we aren't hunting a pond.
When they are running around hunting upland game anything above seventy limits them to about thirty minutes a run when they are in shape.
The NSTRA field trial braces are for thirty minutes I have run them in the eighties.
They all love water and swim. I don't hunt ducks but I have had them fetch a couple of dove out of the stock tank - they had to swim.
I forgot to mention that I have never lost a French Brittany for over thirty minutes. They do a really great job of staying in touch. The one with the longest range I keep a beeper collar on.
This was about noon on a seventy degree day. My best dog Beau had run all morning - and no, he is not dead.
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 11:14 am |
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Doc,
Yes that is Noel, Have you been going to the gym getting ready for next bird season?
Bill
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 01:27 pm |
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| "Wilkes" the Ryman/Old Hemlock Setter doing what he does...in seach of "Piedmont Pottiges" Halifax County, Va. Fed. '09 Attached Image (viewed 214 times):
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 01:40 pm |
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Don,
Nice Dog..
Bill
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 03:41 pm |
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Can you tell why she came home !! She's running along snowshoe trail to the bird feeders. The rest of the snow is soft fluffy dry and deep. She made a flying leap off the trail and disappeared. Struggled her way back onto the trail. Puppy time - lots of fun but it has been a long time since dealing with razor sharp teeth and house breaking. Bandaids and paper towels at the moment.. Should be a hoot.
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David Purnell
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 03:43 pm |
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FWIW,
I called and spoke to Steven Bohl this morning. He was appreciative and thanked me for the sentiment, but said his Dad kept multiple lists and records of his collection. And feel free to keep the list I have, as the entire collection was sold.
Dave
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 03:48 pm |
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Dave: the WIW is a strong indicator that collectors are doing their own thing and following generations typically convert to cash. So shoot and enjoy but..... I think I agree with Bruce about a pristine original. If I had such a piece, I'm thinking it would find it's way to somewhere like the NFM for preservation in perpetuity and available for all to see and marvel at the artistry of early gun makers.
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Tom Bria
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 04:16 pm |
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| Mike, thanks for the additional info on your dogs in hot weather. Last September, the first Saturday of dove season was 117, and it rained that night so the humidity was nasty. Even the early morning hunting hours were oppressive, so I don't know that any dogs could have handled it. We typically walk a lot for doves, with no ponds or tanks in the areas we hunt. One of my cousins used to have a black lab that he used for dove and quail in those conditions, but every time the dog found an irrigation canal, he would jump in and then we had to fish him out. Spent more time fishing for dogs than hunting birds, so that didn't work out too well.
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Fred Preston
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 04:17 pm |
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Jack, Nice pics of your new pup. My grandson just got a new "mut", Lab-Golden. They can learn together.
Fred
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 04:37 pm |
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Looking forward to seeing some October pics. Did mama get a ride on the bike yet??
Cheers,
Jack
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Dave Noreen
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 05:46 pm |
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I had a couple of dog pound Britanies when I was in college, but then for 35 years of my working life. living in apartments, government quarters and a condo, I relied on the kindness of others with bird dogs to take me hunting. I always remember a statement by a Navy enlisted buddy of mine who was from Iowa and a big fan of Bobwhite hunting with his Winchester Model 42. I showed Tom one of my George Bird Evans books and Tom said "I don't like those big slavering dogs!!" He and his Father had been raising and training small English Setters, and these 30 pounders are what I stumbled into in my retirement in Spokane County, Washington.
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 06:00 pm |
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Fred,
Golden labs are my wife's favorite Dixie Dog ala pest. She trained easy.
The dog will learn quicker than your grandson.
Roger
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Mike Shepherd
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 07:02 pm |
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Tom you are welcome.
I have to say my Brittanys can be hard to find when they are on point sometimes. Dave N's picture of the long tailed Setter reminded me how hard it can be to find a Brittany on point. The Beepers work just fine but it does get old listening to them. My shooting student Joe Wood says the beepers are a prosthesis for a tail. Around here it is usually only a problem in the early season. After a few weeks the cows and the wind have knocked the cover down quite a bit and the leaves have fallen off the mesquite.
Best,
Mike
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 07:40 pm |
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| Other than listening to Destry lie to me in a duck blind in his best southern Illinois copperhead patios (about just about any subject you can think of...), my favorite outdoors moment is pictured below, a fine cool day, Wilkes the Setter and my 1912 family 16ga 0 frame DHE walking my good friend's Virginia farm in search of Mr. Bob... Attached Image (viewed 169 times):
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 08:06 pm |
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Don,
I only ever lie about how many shells I shot that day. The rest is actually true!!! *wink*
The scouting report from Jim and Nathan is dismal so far, it looks like the late goose season is going to be a flop. They've made it as far as Geulph and barely seen a feather.
Destry
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 08:38 pm |
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| All the geese are at my house. The place is filthy with them. They are starting to pair up and stake out claims along my creek. They fly over my farm in the thousands...in a few weeks the ganders will begin calling the starters at their golf clubs and arranging tee times.
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 09:33 pm |
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Quite a few right around here too, a pair literally passed my window as I read your reply. The St. Clair is black with them right now but that zone is closed to hunting. I'm crossing my fingers I get that call:
"Destry, we've got a field. Meet us an hour before daylight at......"
DLH
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 11:56 pm |
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Destry... Destry,  something happened with your keyboard! Where are you going to meet them ??
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