Alaska Phezants

[Richard Flanders]

Trigg, his brother Mark and I put out 30 pheasants at the preserve yesterday and chased them up....literally for some of them that ran or flew into the forest. We only lost 7 and had a long day of it. The roosters are tough this time of year; you just about have to cut their head off to get them to go to sleep and stay put so you can do some dog training. I just spent most of the day cleaning what I brought back to Fairbanks. I shot a Daly and a JD Dougall, Trigg a Ferlib 20 and a nice Merkel 28, and Mark his O/Uwhatever and his $200 church-sale VH12 with two bolts through the wrist. He got his first birds with it yesterday. I made the 7hr drive back home after hunting all day. Trigg is going in to put a bird up that Shine is pointing in the pic below. I expect Rich Anderson to order up some NICE WARM weather for our annual Michigan hunt coming up soon.