Anticipation

[Mike Shepherd]

My shooting student Joe Wood and I are leaving tomorrow morning at 6:30 to hunt Bob Whites. I always stack my stuff up by the front door the night before. The dogs and I start getting excited when I start stacking it up. I made my dogs whoa in front of my table and snapped this picture. Not such a great picture and for the life of I don't know how to keep their eyes from doing the Little Annie Orphan bit. That is my little O Frame sixteen and I am very fond of it. I have started wearing a full brim hat to lower the chances of skin cancer. The oil cloth vest is behind the dogs and has MagTech brass shells loaded with black powder and #7s. The canvas bag is full of dog gear. That is the first pheasant I ever killed - hunting by myself with a cheap Spanish SxS 410 the first season we ever had in Texas. Shot him once on the way up and once on the way down and he was dead, dead, dead. I was twelve

Normally I can't get Joe up that early but it is supposed to get up to 72 tomorrow and that is really too hot for the dogs so we are going to quit at Noon. We are going to eat at Nuttin' Fancy in Clarendon on the way back and Joe will outfumble me for the check again.

Best,

Mike

[E Robert Fabian]

Thanks for rubbing it in Mike !
No bird hunting for us till March... crows then it's Turkey in May then the long wait till the fall.
Good luck tomorrow
Bob

[Mike Shepherd]

Well at least you have something to anticipate.:)

Thanks for the reply,

Mike

[Eric Eis]

Mike most camera manufacturers have a red-eye program on their software to correct those red-eyes of your dogs. If you can get the dog to look slightly to left or right you will not get red-eye but when they look straight into the camera the flash is lighting up the back of their eye with all the red blood vessels which is what causes red-eye. Eric

[Mike Stahle]

My shooting student Joe Wood and I are leaving tomorrow morning at 6:30 to hunt Bob Whites. I always stack my stuff up by the front door the night before. The dogs and I start getting excited when I start stacking it up. I made my dogs whoa in front of my table and snapped this picture. Not such a great picture and for the life of I don't know how to keep their eyes from doing the Little Annie Orphan bit. That is my little O Frame sixteen and I am very fond of it. I have started wearing a full brim hat to lower the chances of skin cancer. The oil cloth vest is behind the dogs and has MagTech brass shells loaded with black powder and #7s. The canvas bag is full of dog gear. That is the first pheasant I ever killed - hunting by myself with a cheap Spanish SxS 410 the first season we ever had in Texas. Shot him once on the way up and once on the way down and he was dead, dead, dead. I was twelve

Normally I can't get Joe up that early but it is supposed to get up to 72 tomorrow and that is really too hot for the dogs so we are going to quit at Noon. We are going to eat at Nuttin' Fancy in Clarendon on the way back and Joe will outfumble me for the check again.

Best,

Mike

Looks like the sister to my little girl… :)

[charlie cleveland]

have you took the little 410 out lately...i havenot shot birds in years with it but it goes squirl hunting often...nice looking dogs i bet they and you are close...seems like only yesterday that i hunted wild quails every week end with my dads dogs but low and behold there arent enough wild quails left to hunt... and the dogs have been gone several years now...enjoy your hunting trip.... tell us how it turned out..... charlie

[Mike Shepherd]

Here are some pictures I took of the hunt yesterday. The first picture is of Red with a Bob out of a covey he found and pointed and then retrieved to hand. Red is drinking out of a cup I carry to make the water I carry for the dogs go farther. It has hot pink duct tape on it to make it easier to spot when I go to pick it up.

The next series is of a covey find Molly made. My shooting student Joe Wood goes in and makes the shot. It took about twenty minutes before Molly found the downed bird and the last shot is of course Molly bringing it in.

[Mike Shepherd]

My pride requires me to point out the collars my dogs wear are tracking collars and not shock collars. I use shock collars to train with but none of these dogs have had a shock collar on in at least a year.

Best,

Mike

[Mike Shepherd]

Charlie I loaned that 410 to a friend who had two young sons that he was taking quail hunting. He failed to return it before he moved to Cincinatti but everytime we talk he offers to ship it and I tell him to wait untill he comes back to Amarillo for a visit.

[charlie cleveland]

you must have those sand burrs.. nasty on the dogs feet are those special boots your dog is wearing.....last time i hunted with a fellow shooting black powder we had to have a young fellow with keen eyes to see if bird was hit or missed....lots of fun with black powder....charlie ps i bet your freind wishes he was back in texas instead of cinnattia....