Thanks Jack...:)

Jack,
Some great pix, as always. Reminds me of the farmhouses on the properties I've hunted in S.D.

Another place with upland bird potential

Jack, have you ever looked into who owned those places?

Where I spend all of my time in Vermont there are a number of old places - just stone foundations now - but I know the names and a small history of the people who built them as far back as the late 1780's. Knowing the names seems to bring me closer to the wonderful rural community there now.

Dean: Of all the places I have wandered around, I learned the name of only one of the original landowners. The few farmers left just don't know. Farming has changed from what it was. Those who have survived as "family" farmers have accumulated huge tracts of land and those who left are lost to history. In the early years, 1/4 section of land was a lot to handle with horse drawn equipment. Now there are "family" farms of 10 or more sections and corporate farms that have no people living there, just hire stuff done. These absentee folks can live anywhere. I once tried to get permission to hunt an area with good habitat where I had seen birds hanging around. What a process. I ended up getting a call from a lawyer who represented the owner who lived in Toronto - a mere 2000 miles from the "farm". In the final analysis, I was given permission but the neighbor, who still lived on his farm also was a client of the same lawyer and when he heard about someone going to hunt the area he got very upset. (Saw the birds as pets I guess) Of course he had no "legal" rights but I just couldn't be bothered to get into a hassle, so I continued to hunt other good spots. Out on the windswept bald prairie, there is not the same sense of "community" you refer to. There is indeed "community" but it is very spread out and the social activity will be in some small town or village that can be a long ways from the land I hunt. Here is another made from the rocks picked from the land. There are a few of these around but the vast majority are wooden structures.
Cheers,
Jack

Jack-I can see a covey of Huns just off the two track by the big bush on the right. I can see Daisy locked up solid as a rock, her nose full of the sweet smell of game. The covey flushes and a lith CHE 20 comes to the shoulder, a cock bird is singled out and a swarm of 7's from the 2 1/2 inch RST paper hull is launched from the right barrel. Contact is made and the bird tumbles to the ground. A double is possible but these are hardy birds and 1 in the vest is better than adding a lost bird to the bag.

Yup there is upland potential there for sure:bigbye:

Richard: You don't know just how close you are to reality - or maybe you do :) Huns just love these old yards, even more so than the roosters. Your weapon and ammo of choice would be just the ticket. Now this place is beyond "potential". It is definitely rooster proven, year after year after year. Can't say where, other than just around the corner and over the next rise (can't say "next hill" here, as that would be somewhere in another province or country).
Cheers,
Jack

Beautiful.... That is all I have to say.....