So Blessed

[Gerald McPherson]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4x...zJXAFKLhjkWB4g

Throughout my life I have been blessed to have had many good friends and hunting buddies. I just turned 75 last month. At the age of 18 I began hunting quail with a friend that I worked with. I remember the first time I saw his dogs point a covey on an after work hunt. He had an English Pointer named Club, an English Setter named Riley and a German Shorthair that I cannot remember his name. That hunt set me on fire. Over the next 32 years I hunted with several fine friends who owned bird dogs. Most all of these men were older than me. One by one they passed away. In my twenty's I had several several boys that worked with me through high school and college. Most of them have done very well in life. I spent some time with them shooting clays and pulling them behind my boat while they skied and such things. At about age fifty my work changed and my hunting buddies passed away and my quail hunting came to an end. I continued to hunt doves through the years and started hunting turkeys about 5 years ago. Recently one of these young men that worked with me and is a son of one of my hunting buddies called. He now owns some property near Kingston Georgia and is in the process of making a hunting preserve. He invited me over to shoot some fezants. The link above will take you to a video of the hunt. The first bird took me by surprise. I expected it to be much faster and shot a little in front. The dog is his oldest, he is getting old. Jasper and I make a good team. I must say that if it was not for Jasper we may not have caught up with any of those running birds. When we knocked one down he would go out of sight and bring them back. Maybe I needed larger shot. I enjoyed the day and it was good to see him after all the years. I didn't know if I could walk but I made it pretty well. Enjoy the show and don't be to critical. This is my first fezant hunt and was quite different from wild Georgia quail back in the day. Merry Christmas. Gerald