Harry, Sherwood and I are booked for an early morning quail hunt this Saturday at Brays Island. This will be Harry's intro to quail hunting and is a training hunt more than anything

keep us posted on this hunt harry should learn a lot on this hunt....charlie

Jamie, Gracie and I will be headed back up to grouse camp Thursday evening for the weekend. I hope to have more pictures and short stories to post to my thread soon.





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all I got to report is I got my grass mowed....what a bummer....charlie

We got back up to grouse camp this morning about 9:30, unpacked and were out hunting by 10:30.
We were hoping the woodcock flights had dropped in since last Sunday evening when we went home... and they had!

Ten minutes into the tangled Gracie came on point. I stepped in and a woodcock popped into the air skimming over the tops of the bushes and small saplings. I dropped him neatly and Gracie made a bee line to him. She picked him up but put him right down again and ran straight to me then back to the bird and stood over him. She’ll retrieve a grouse with no hesitation.
So back to hunting. A minute later four grouse flushed unseen behind a screen of young spruces... never a shot was fired.

Within fifteen minutes I was on the rim of a bowl of low brush and scrubapple trees. The exact area where Phil Carr put up a woodcock and couldn’t get a clear shot at it. Jamie was below me and it seemed most of the woodcock were high where Gracie and I were working. Gracie pointed again. Two woodcock flushed - a huge female I presume and a much smaller male. I shot twice at the male as I couldn’t get a clear shot at the larger bird... no score.

Anyway, we hunted for another hour or so and had fifteen woodcock flushes in all and eight grouse flushes. The grouse flushed too far out for a fair shot so we passed on all of them. But we sure burned some powder on those woodcock though.

In the first picture Gracie is pointing a woodcock... which I missed.

Gracie chose Jamie as a nap mate.

Tomorrow’s another day.

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Went to Maine Wed. with both sons and granddaughter who is here from S.C. She brought luck with her in that it was raining when we got there and went exploring and found 2 new grouse covers we will not be able to hunt all of it in a week.
Stopped raining and we ran into 2 family groups right off and all but i had plenty of missing(they were flushing wild) and i was in the wrong place as usual.
The fog settled in on the mountain so we headed back to our longtime woodcock cover and flushed 10 with a lot of cartridge emptying and 1 each taken.
A grand day for the birds but also for the companions. Good luck Dean

I sure like that little 28 Dean! It looks to have a long LOP? My lanky frame likes a long LOP but it’s hard to find nice originals that way.

time to trade that gun off dean with all that missing....ha.....charlie

If it had double triggers Reggie it would have a 14 3/4” LOP.





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It ain’t the bow Charlie, it’s the Indian.




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