Upland Days

[Harold Lee Pickens]

My laptop has been down now for almost 6 weeks, my IT guy still thinks he can fix it, but I just want to buy another on the black Friday sales. I have barely looked at the forum as I find it tedious on the cell phone. Going to post some pictures of the beauty of the UP first then some hunting pictures. The first one is special to me.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Hunting pics

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[Harold Lee Pickens]

Are you bored yet?

[Harold Lee Pickens]

I had the shooting "yips" up there. Don't ever remember struggling so much before. Working my way out of it now on pheasants.

[scott kittredge]

Harold,
you are grouse killing machine !:bowdown:

[chris dawe]

Very nice !

[Stan Hoover]

Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures Harold, I’m glad to see you’re having a great time.
Makes me want to get up there one of these years:whistle:

PS A curious mind wants to know if that tire plug is still holding?

Stan

[Mike Koneski]

Harold, I enjoyed those pics until you showed snow at the cabin. :eek::nono::rotf:

[Kevin McCormack]

Thanks for the great pics Harold! My favorite is the one with the grouse with fanned tail and the gun laid across the stump! Have to try the UP!!

[charlie cleveland]

all of your pictures are top notch but the first picture really caught my eye it looks like a very good master painters oil finish painting....best set of pictures i ever seen....charlie

[Andrew Sacco]

Very well done Harold! I likey.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Stan, the plug still holds. Thanks again for that.

[Jim McKee]

Harold,
some people have all the fun!!!!!
Jim

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Thanks to Big Jim Justice, Governor of WV who pushed for quail releases on the WMA's.
3 birds is the daily limit. I can see why my friend Garry Gordon is so fond of quail hunting. Not a Parker, the gun is a little Grade 2 Ugartechea 20, a very nice light 20, sadly Ugartecheas no longer made, I have a 12, 20, and 28.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Birds were all in extremely dense thickets of Autumn Olive
Moved alot of birds, but couldn't get shots at them. Would have been hard to even see a pheasant getting up in that stuff, let alone a little quail.

[davidboyles]

Harold your pics are spectacular !!! I know you are proud of the one of you eye to eye with your loving dog.

[Garry L Gordon]

Harold, I was wondering how your hunts had been going, so I was pleasantly surprised to finally see your post. I'm sure those photos are filled with great memories that will be cherished by you for many years to come, but I do see why the first one is a favorite.

Good to see you found some quail(!). You'll have to tell us more about your WV quail when your technology is "fixed." The hardest bird to hit in my experience is a wild Bob in grouse-like cover (we call them "woods quail" here in Missouri).

Thanks for sharing your photos!

[keavin nelson]

What a wonderful trip Harold, beautiful pics, very well done. You have a great eye. Thanks for sharing, definitely a motivation to make it up there!