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Unread 11-28-2021, 04:15 PM   #1
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Default Sunday Morning Services

After a week of hunting that seemed to bear out the biologists' forecast of low quail numbers after our February bad weather bout, I was getting pretty dejected. As bad as not finding birds is, we also encountered other, more ominous signs -- farms sold, access denied, and bulldozers busy demolishing cover. Still, we hunt...and hope for the best.

I had no expectations for success when we headed out this morning to one of our Sunday morning farms -- a small place close enough to allow us a morning hunt, a Sunday tradition. This little farm is adjacent to a small public lake that includes a tiny, old field cover that the Conservation Dept. burns regularly (thank you for fire!) to keep the cedars at bay. Less than an hour into our hunt Aspen ran into the middle of a covey spread out on the hillside. He put on the breaks, but not before birds erupted all around him. No shots. Aspen then found singles and I took my self-imposed limit of two, both retrieved to hand.

Elaine and I headed out with blessings of the day from our Sunday morning service.

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1. A farm draw we visited earlier in the week that has held a covey of birds for over 10 years. The bulldozers took care of it.

2. Elaine managed to get this single in the air just before the shot...

3 ...and then snapped a photo of the end of a successful retrieve by Aspen.

4. My 1918 DHE 20 was made for wild Bobs, ordered by a quail hunting Kentuckian during a pandemic 100+ years ago. Its 30 inch barrels, perfect quail chokes, and high dimensions make it just right for the kind of hunting we have in our home covers.
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Thanks for sharing! That’s my kind of Parker! Love 30” Barrels and a straight stock.
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Very nice ! I have a match to your gun , that I think is going to a tower shoot this coming Sunday for Ringnecks and Greenheads
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Very nice ! I have a match to your gun , that I think is going to a tower shoot this coming Sunday for Ringnecks and Greenheads
So, Craig, I hope you'll post photos and an account of your "Sunday Service." I'd look forward to seeing that gun, too.
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So, Craig, I hope you'll post photos and an account of your "Sunday Service." I'd look forward to seeing that gun, too.
Not a problem ! I’ve never fired in anger at a duck of any kind before I’m hoping to remedy that situation sunday . Got the little gun from a member here when in Sanford back in April . Shot it at Hausemann’s , Rock Mountain and the Fall Southern . Little gun does very well and makes me look better than I suspect I am
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Little gun does very well and makes me look better than I suspect I am
Craig, that does sound like it could be the twin of my gun, at least the "makes me look better" part. (BTW, for me it's really "makes me shoot better than I normally do." No gun could make me look better!)
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Great pics as always Garry!
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Great pics as always Garry!
I'll pass your comments on to my wife. It helps to have a photographer go along for the hunt. Elaine always goes on our bird hunts and does the photography. Deer, turkey, ducks -- I'm on my own. It's the dogs that encourage her to come along...not me(!)
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