Grouse Hunting the U.P. of Michigan

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Daisy never met a porky she couldn't whip. We stopped hunting a good place for woodcock because it was also a good place for porky's. Ike got into one last year pretty bad. One quill was a real pain. His face swelled up and he was on antibiotics for months. The vet tried to take it out surgically twice. This year he got into one again but it mostly on his leg. I always carry a pair of hemostats in my vest.

While going to a cover to hunt I came on a big porky in the road. I stopped the truck got the Kimber 45 from the center counsel and gave the offending rodent two hollow points. He will never injure a bird dog.

Yep that one kill of Daisy's, cost Magic the season (over 200 quills) and I was with Rich when he dispatched that porky this fall I didn't see the sucker but he did and the truck came to a immediate halt, grab the 45 two shots and throw it into a tree, and nothing was said as we drove down the road after I hate those suckers!