H20fwler
5 year old buck +
While the youngest boy was out west the oldest son and I packed up the truck and the dogs and headed north for our own little adventure. We left last Thursday afternoon and got back home Sunday night with a whole lot of fun in between.
This was the earliest in the season we have ever gone grouse hunting, the ferns were still waist high and leaves were still hanging making it really tough to see anything. It was the first time for either one of our dogs grouse hunting and it was my sons female GSP Lou's first time hunting wild birds ever.
LOTS of birds around with plenty of flushes but if we saw them at all it was only for a second in the thick early fall cover...as soon as we managed to scratch a bird down and the dogs got a good snort of a real one it was on! They did great for the conditions and when they got "birdy" we went on high alert...a few times over the weekend they flushed little coveys of them out of blown down tops.
We got a little shooting and the dogs put in a lot of work loving every second of it and we will have some good eating. We also found a few more spots to ad to our honey hole list and met a few of the nicest locals I could ever want to run into...looking forward to heading back next month.
Being out in the north woods with all the beautiful scenery and the damp smell of mixed conifers and aspen with the leaves just starting to turn watching the dogs do what they were born to do was just about perfect.
My favorite part of the whole trip was spending the time with my oldest son who I don't get to see near enough...it was a long drive up and back, we never even turned the radio on once!
And a well deserved smooch...
This was the earliest in the season we have ever gone grouse hunting, the ferns were still waist high and leaves were still hanging making it really tough to see anything. It was the first time for either one of our dogs grouse hunting and it was my sons female GSP Lou's first time hunting wild birds ever.
LOTS of birds around with plenty of flushes but if we saw them at all it was only for a second in the thick early fall cover...as soon as we managed to scratch a bird down and the dogs got a good snort of a real one it was on! They did great for the conditions and when they got "birdy" we went on high alert...a few times over the weekend they flushed little coveys of them out of blown down tops.
We got a little shooting and the dogs put in a lot of work loving every second of it and we will have some good eating. We also found a few more spots to ad to our honey hole list and met a few of the nicest locals I could ever want to run into...looking forward to heading back next month.
Being out in the north woods with all the beautiful scenery and the damp smell of mixed conifers and aspen with the leaves just starting to turn watching the dogs do what they were born to do was just about perfect.
My favorite part of the whole trip was spending the time with my oldest son who I don't get to see near enough...it was a long drive up and back, we never even turned the radio on once!
And a well deserved smooch...
