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Post by Kt29 on Oct 31, 2007 15:00:30 GMT -5
Just a beautiful cool, clear, crisp, morning. About 33 degrees with little wind. Would be nice to have another eight weeks or so of mornings like this. Dakota and I went south a few miles to look for a bird or two. Seems like most of the fields we hunt are half to a full section. Lots of ground to cover for me and this pup. We mostly just hit the most likely spots in the field. Dakota was on birds the minute we left the truck, but they were all hens. We hunted hard but couldn't find a rooster. About 50 yards from the truck on the walk back she was into some more birds. First two she put up were hens and finally a rooster. Made another nice shot with the 20 and Dakota another fine retrieve. We haven't been finding all that many birds, but alot of satisfaction in working hard to get the ones we do. I don't know how I could ask for anymore than that. She was still ready to hunt more, but had to get home to get some work done. Had somewhat of a surprise when I got home. Jan told me that the UPS man had stopped to pick up my rifle stock. Could hardly believe it. I just got it delivered yesterday from Bell & Carlson for my 6MM build, but the stock did not meet my needs. For one thing it was way to short. Pretty disappointing. So I called Cabela's. They had special ordered the stock for me. I talked with their Customer Service person and told them about the problem with the stock and that I needed to return it. They told me they would get right on it and take care of sending it back. Unbelievably this morning the UPS man showed up to pick it up and send it back. I've always had great service from Cabela's, but I'm thinking this is pretty extraordinary. My Kudos to Cabela's. Now I just have to find a stock that will work for me.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 3, 2007 16:26:45 GMT -5
Got up early this morning with the intent of shooting the rifles alittle more before deer season. Wouldn't ya know it, it was raining. The last few days have been very windy and except for the rain it was pretty calm this morning. Didn't really feel like dealing with the rain, so hung around the house for awhile. About 10:30 it quit drizzling, but the winds were back with full force. Decided since hadn't had Dakota out for a few days, we'd go brave the winds. Went to a field just a couple of miles from the house. Dakota put up one hen right away, but that was it for a half hour or so. Finally she got into some more birds. Made a nice shot on one rooster really going with the wind and Dakota had no problem getting it. On the walk back to the truck she got birdy again. She searched for this bird nearly ten minutes and finally found it and put it up. It was another tough shot with the terribly windy conditions we had. On its way down, I knew this bird was going to be a runner. Dakota raced past the spot where the bird had come down, so this pretty much confirmed that it was a runner. I lost track of her in the CRP. This stuff is really tall and nasty. After a few minutes I spotted her on the side of the hill about 75 yards away. She was a pouncing up and down, which is her sign that a bird is close. Finally I saw some feathers come shooting up and I new she was on the bird. I walked over to her. She was really pooped from the chase. When I picked the bird up all it's tail feather were gone. I sure would have liked to see what all went on during the chase. No doubt this bird would never have been recovered without a good dog. For eight and a half months old now, she is just amazing. She really earned her puppy food today. That was enough birds for today, so we finished walking back to the truck and headed home. The winds stronger than ever. Another memorable day afield. Bob will be coming in tonight and we will try to get out tomorrow after a few more birds. Bird hunting has been pretty tough around here this year, but with alot of work we have managed to get a few birds. Tomorrow promises to be a really ugly day. Winds predicted to be up to 50 MPH. If we get out, it should prove to be a very challenging day.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 4, 2007 22:22:52 GMT -5
As luck would have it, the weatherman was correct about todays weather. They predicted 50+ MPH winds, and I'm sure we met or exceeded that today. Bob showed up last night and this morning we headed out about 10:00 along with Dakota. Winds at this time about 30 MPH. We hit two fields in the morning. No birds in first field. Second field, Dakota put up a nice rooster for Bob. He got two shots at it, but couldn't catch up to it. Decided we would try one more field so headed North about 10 miles. When we pulled in to park by the haystack their were five hens and a rooster sitting there. They promptly left. Took that to be a good sign that there would be birds in this field. When we got out of the truck and started walking, found the winds to be at least 50 MPH. Couldn't wear my hat anymore, so finally took it off and put it in my vest. We tried walking against the wind, but it was too hard. So much dust was blowing that you could hardly keep your eyes open. It was horrendous. So we quartered the wind. It wasn't long and Dakota was into birds. As it turned out, we were into alot of birds. Roosters were getting up two and three at a time. Basically we were standing in one spot shooting. The bad news was, the birds were gone in a heartbeat before you could get the safety off. I could hear Bob shooting away and as I was, not hitting anything. I'm really not sure how many birds I missed, but I shot alot of shells. Finally I connected on a bird and a couple of seconds later another. Dakota was working feverishly. Birds that you could normally shoot at you couldn't get a shot at because they were gone to fast. Don't know how many birds Bob shot at but he never connected. Had many birds get up along side of us, maybe 10 feet away that we neither heard nor seen. Bob told me about the birds that got up next to me and I saw alot of birds get up next to him that he never saw. Finally ran out of birds in this little stretch. Maybe 40 roosters or so here. Walked another edge of the field going downwind. Many roosters flushing ahead of us way out of range. I'm sure they had no problem hearing us coming with all the wind. Finally towards the end of the walk I could see Dakota on a bird. She was standing there with her nose in the CRP and finally nosed it out. Just like the other birds, it was gone in a flash. I missed it first shot and knocked it down the second shot. By the time it came down it had crossed into another field. I new we'd never find this bird, but Dakota took out after it. She had marked it pretty good. I started walking towards where I thought it had come down. When I got there, I saw a puff of feathers coming up. I just couldn't believe she found and chased down that bird. She is forever amazing me. We didn't put up any more roosters on the walk back to the truck. We only covered a very small portion of the field, but we just couldn't take the wind anymore. I've hunted in alot of wind before, because thats all we ever have here, but nothing like this. It was incredable. Felt bad for Bob that he didn't get anything. We loaded up and went home. Called Jan to let her know we were on the way home. When we got home we were treated to a wonderful halibut and corn chowder lunch. Halibut was provided by Chris from last summers fishing trip. Man was it good. So ended the day. Sent the roosters home with Bob. What a day, but still alot of fun.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 6, 2007 19:49:03 GMT -5
Met up this morning at 8:00 with my buddy Russ and his two labs and Mark with his Brittany. Met out at Mike's farm. It was 10 above, but luckily very little wind. Just a whole lot of pheasants at Mike's. That was the good news. The bad news was they were really wild. I was really wondering how all these dogs would hunt together. As it turned out, they hunted very well together. It was sure fun watching all those dogs work. They really make bird hunting something special. Dakota was by far the youngest, but she held her own very well. It took us a couple of hours, but we all managed to get our limits. Russ and Mark are heading out to south of Bozeman, Mt. to elk hunt so they wanted to go out to the rifle range to shoot alittle. So we all had brought our rifles along. On the way to the range we stopped at Trapper's Kettle where Mark bought lunch. Got to the range and we were the only ones there. Mark had a difficult time getting his 30.06 to zero but finally got it to where he liked it. I just shot my rifles to get them fouled for this weekends deer hunt and to check the zero one last time. Now Russ's Savage 300 WSM. That rifle is just awesome. He shot four rounds into a three inch circle at 300 Yards and put it away. Still shooting like last year. I'm really starting to like that Savage 300 WSM. I've shot Chris's quite abit also and it is also a great long range shooter. It was another great day on the prairies, especially with some great buddies and puppy dogs.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 8, 2007 15:42:32 GMT -5
Beautiful morning on the prairie today. Took Dakota out for a short hunt, mainly for alittle exercise. She put up one hen and one nice rooster that I missed very nicely. I don't think I was trying to hard to hit it. This day is mainly about getting my gear together for the upcoming weekend opening of deer season. Didn't really feel like cleaning abird. She had a good run though and did your usually good job. I think I got everything rounded up so that I can start loading the old dodge. Do have to make a trip to town yet to pick up a battery for the rangefinder and some batteries for the camera just in case I get to use it. Plan on leaving about 7:30 in the morning. Will meet at my sister and brother-in-laws place in Bismarck. Logan should be showing up in the morning sometime also. Season opens at noon. Kinda different opening time, but its always been that way. Will be hunting NE of Bismarck. Have quite afew different farms that we can hunt at. My hope is that Logan can get his buck right away this weekend. Being a college student, he doesn't have that much time to hunt. Would be nice to get a big old buck, but these prairie bucks just don't rack up that much, so I would be more than fortunate to get a monster. Reality wise, would just like to make a nice spot and stalk on a buck and make a good shot. Have a doe tag also this year so should have plenty of oppurtunities for some success. Weather looks favorable for this weekend so things are lookin up. Also have a doe tag for the area around my house. One never knows how the season will go. That always makes it alot of fun to look forward to. Talked a couple days ago with Hal, and he said he's been seeing quite a few deer again on his farm and that we should bring the shotguns along because theres been quite a few pheasants on his place this year. We've sure been fortunate to have some good places to hunt. Better head to town to do my final shopping.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 13, 2007 15:06:53 GMT -5
Friday Nov.9-Left home at 7:30 Mtn. time and headed east to Bob's. Arrived their about 10:30, Logan was already their having taken off a day from college. We got all our gear packed into the truck and headed out northeast of town to check out one of our deer areas. Season opened at 12:00 noon today. When we arrived at our area, it didn't take long to start spotting deer. First ones were does. Crawled up on them looking for a buck, but did not see any. As we had doe tags, could have taken one of them, but put that off till later. Through the afternoon we saw another six bucks and 25 does, but were not able to get up on the bucks. Temps. made it up to 33 degrees today with little wind. Decided that for the late afternoon hunt would place Logan at one of our favorite ambush spots along a rolling ridegeline that overlooked an alfalfa field and a section of corn. Let Logan off at this spot about 3:30 than went back around on the two track and let Bob off on the same ridgeline a half mile to the north. I planned to be the pickup man for the evening. As I left Bob's location I spotted a buck coming over the hill and heading into a draw that made its way towards him. To far for me to get a shot but hoped it would continue on to Bob. About ten after five I decided I would head back and pick up Logan as the temps. were now 31 degrees out and he wasn't dressed all that warm. As I drove back up the two track along the fenceline towards the top of the ridge, I spotted Logan on a small finger ridge.He was down on his bipod and pointing East. I immediately stopped the truck and got out with my rifle and belly crawled along the fence line to the top of the ridge. Their out in the alfalfa field were three deer. Got out my rangefinder and found their were two bucks and a doe. They were right at 300 yards. The one buck was trying to run off the other and the doe was just standing and watching. The sun was just going down. What a great sight this was to watch. After a couple of minutes the doe jumped the fence and headed into the cornfield. Now I thought, its all over the bucks will follow her into the field. But they didn't. They started working their way towards us on the ridgeline. We still had great shooting light as we can shoot till one half hour after sunset. They came closer and closer till they were 140 yards out. I didn't want to shoot because I wanted Logan to get first crack at them. I had my bipod down and was watching them through the scope. As the grass was alittle high, I could barely see them through it. I waited and waited for Logan to shoot. Finally I heard the shot. The deer moved and I lost track of them for a few seconds. Finally I saw one buck standing their below me. I put the crosshairs on it and touched off the .06. It took one step and went down. After a couple of seconds, I heard Logan shooting again. Wasn't quite sure what was going on as I hadn't seen the second buck and figured he had gotten it. After a couple of minutes he headed down to me. He told me that he had missed the buck the first shot. It then ran around the ridge right below me. He didn't want to shoot again till it had gone way past me. But he said he was pretty excited and probably was really jerking the trigger. Anyways, it ran off, and he was a little bummed. He said he had been watching them for about ten minutes and his adrenalin was really flowing. I hadn't had any plans of shooting a deer this evening, but as it worked out, I was pretty happy with the outcome. The buck was a typical 4X4 prairie buck. I'd thought I'd shoot at least one deer with my old 30-06. The boys have all shot deer with it. I've only shot elk with it. Now I can just use it for my backup rifle and get back to using the .257 Roberts for deer hunting. Went back and picked up Bob before it was to dark to find him, then dressed out the buck. What a great end to the day. Saturday Nov.10-Left town about 7:00 and headed back to the same area as last night. Logan said he was awake most of the night thinking about the buck he had missed last night. We went up the two track to the ridgeline where Bob had sat last night. Off to the North Bob spotted a doe just topping the ridge. After a few seconds a buck showed up behind it. They both dropped down into a side draw. I drove back down the two track and let Logan off so that he could make his way over the ridge and possibly spot the buck. I let Bob off at the main draw where they usually cross going to the North. I then parked the truck and watched and waited, while glassing. After about five minutes I heard a shot ring out. I knew it was Logan and his .270. Heard another shot and than another. Was glassing all over looking for a deer. Finally I spotted the buck near the top of one of the ridges, just in time to see it go down. Man was I excited. Logan had gotten his buck. Bob and I walked up to where the buck lay and met Logan. No one was more excited than he was. It was the biggest buck he has ever shot to date. A nice 5X5. I lasered back to where he had shot from. It was 250 yards. He said that he had hit it on the first shot. And again the adrenalin was really flowing. As it didn't go down right away, he had visions of it running off. So he shot twice more. One a miss and one a hit. In reality though, it wasn't going anywheres. Spotting and stalking is truly very exciting. We gutted out the deer and dragged it back down to the truck. What a beautiful morning it was. Temp. about 44, clear blue skies and little wind. What a great and exciting morning. After we loaded the deer, we decided we would head aways up North to Hal's ranch and check that area out. Stopped at Hal's and talked with him alittle. He said he had been seeing quite afew deer, and also that he'd seen a cougar a mile north of the house, and if we saw it to be sure and shoot it. Stopped at lunch point to eat. Great place to eat lunch. It overlooks a very large slough and several deep woody draws leading down to it. Sat their last year eating lunch when a buck walked out of one of the draws. I shot it at 110 yards. What a great lunch that was. As we ate, we watched alot of geese coming in and landing in the slough along with quite a few swans. It was a great sight. After lunch we started looking around the area. We spotted 4 or five bucks and maybe 20 does, but could not get up on the bucks. Spotted a small bunch of deer in one draw and got up on them. Had one small buck in it, but Bob did not want to shoot that one. We decided that since we had Logan's buck to hang yet tonight, we would pass on hunting up here this evening. So we started working our way back south so that we would be closer to home after dark. On the way back we spotted some roosters flying out of a tree patch. Let Logan off with his shotgun to check out the patch in case their was still one left in it. When he got up to the patch, a flock of huns got up on the other side of the trees. He couldn't get a shot at them, but they landed not to far away in a stubble field. He walked up on them and made a very nice double. He is a way better shot with the shotgun than the rifle We got back down south to the same area as I shot my buck last night. Bob decided that, what the heck, maybe there would be another buck come out at dark in the same spot. Seemed like a great plan. Left Bob off 15 minutes before dark at the same location where I shot mine. Logan and I backed down the two track and sat and ate cookies and drank some coffee. Fifteen minutes later we heard a shot. Then there was Bob standing on the ridge waving to us. We drove back up the two track to the top of the ridge. Bob met us their and we walked down to his buck. Sure enough this buck was walking the edge of the cornfield and just about to walk into the alfalfa field when Bob shot him. Man, how great was that. He had shot a nice 4X4 buck also. To say the least, Bob was pretty excited also. Sometimes everything just seems to come together perfectly, and this was just one of those hunts. To our credit though, we know these areas very well and when and where the deer go, and most of all, how to hunt them. What a fun area to hunt. I love hunting here.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 15, 2007 15:42:43 GMT -5
Winds have been blowing pretty steady for the last three days, upwards of 40 MPH. Pretty happy now that we all got our bucks last weekend. Would have been really miserable hunting in this wind. Finished cutting up my deer today. No blood shot meat what so ever. What a bonus. Those Sierras worked very well in the .06. Buck alot bigger than I first thought. Alot of great eating to be had from it. Saved a good portion of it to make some more brats later on this winter. Dakota has been going through withdrawal since we haven't been out birdhunting for a week now. Still have a couple of doe tags that I could fill yet. Still undecided on that yet.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 17, 2007 11:06:39 GMT -5
Winds finally subsided somewhat yesterday afternoon. Hadn't had Dakota out for a hunt for a week and she was primed and ready to go. Went out later in the afternoon. As I still have a couple of doe tags I could fill, I took the rifle along also. Got out to a field just south abit. About 15 minutes into the hunt Dakota started getting birdy. Wouldn't ya know it, my cell phone was ringing. Since I've already lost it once this fall, I now carry it inside my coat pocket as per the instructions from my boss. As I was fumbling to get it out, birds started getting up everywheres. Seven hens and three roosters. Never got a shot. Guess I need to learn how to shoot and talk on the phone at the same time. To make it worse, the call was a wrong number. Got into a few more birds, but they were all hens. About half hour before dark, drove to the south end of the field to watch some draws to look for deer. Spotted two coming out of the draw. Got up on them, but they turned out to be yearlings. Spotted a small buck moving out of one of the side draws. I'm sure I spooked it. Didn't see anymore deer in these draws. Did glass over towards Pat's ranch. Were five coming out of the trees and feeding along the field. Had thought of going over their earlier, but leaving puppy in the truck probably woundn't have been a good deal anyways. Afternoon was mostly to get her out anyways. On the way back home, had a nice doe standing in the middle of the road. Had to nearly stop for it. Had a e-mail from Barry. He got Chris's new Buck Mark in. Said it was really nice. Was great to be out with Dakota again. She burned off alot of energy. Will head back and hunt with Bob again on Sunday. He has a doe tag left also. Don't really need another deer for the freezer, but if I do shoot one, will give the meat away. Sure was nice not to have all the wind. Hope that holds for awhile.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 20, 2007 18:57:16 GMT -5
Been out for the last few days with Bob, trying to get a few does. Surprisinly was not seeing many deer, either in the early morning or late afternoons. Did see flocks and flocks of sharptails. That was pretty nice. Geese also really starting to pass over going south. Bob did get a nice doe Monday afternoon. Only deer I got close to was a buck. Since I've already filled that tag, had to pass. Can only guess that deer must have been feeding after dark. Haven't seen another deer hunter for days, so I wouldn't expect the deer have been pressured very much at all.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 22, 2007 20:16:22 GMT -5
Had a nice Thanksgiving Day dinner along with my son and his family. After resting after dinner they talked me into going out after a deer. Since I already filled my buck tag it had to be a doe. Left about twenty minutes before dark with my son and grandson. It was my grandson's first time going along deer hunting. Right at sundown spotted a nice doe in a draw in the same area I'd seen some last week. Got out and laid on the ridge and dropped it with the .257 Roberts. My grandson Logan was really excited, though he didn't think all that much of the gutting out process. Was a nice 200 yard shot. Was great to have the help to drag it back to the truck. Got it gutted out while their was still enough light left to see. Turned out to be a great Thanksgiving. When the boys were still at home, this was always our favorite day to hunt deer. Quite a few times we got deer on Thanksgiving morning. Never seen anyone out hunting at all this evening. Saw several large flocks of roosters, so our plan is to go out tomorrow along with Dakota and see if we can find a few of them. Still have one doe tag left, but I'm going to call this good for this year. The freezer is already full. Next step will be to make some Country sausage and some brats later on. Was a beautiful late afternoon. 25 degrees out, clear skies and no wind. Doesn't get any better than this. End to a great day and made special by having family along on the hunt.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 24, 2007 21:02:47 GMT -5
Didn't get out hunting yesterday. Decided we'd take a short 25 mile trip down south today. Got invited to hunt pheasants at Dell's ranch. Along with myself, my grandson, and son and Reggie along with my pup,Dakota we headed out about noon. Just beautiful out this afternoon. About 40 degrees, mostly clear and light winds. At this point it's just plain hard to find the right adjective to describe the amount of birds we encountered. I'd say 2000 birds more or less would be close. It was totally awesome. Birds came out of the fields like swarms of locusts. Even though we saw that many birds, most flushed wildly, but that really didn't matter. It was just an incredible site. My grandson Logan was pretty much awestruck at the sight of all the birds. My pup Dakota was pretty much at a loss of what to do. It really didn't matter though. Her nose wasn't needed today to find and flush birds. She was only needed for retrieving. We didn't have any problem filling our limits, and actually we all shot pretty well. What a great afternoon of shooting roosters. To top it off, we never seen another hunter. My grandson was the photographer when we go home, and it looks like he managed to get most everyone in the picture. Wow! What an afternoon.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 26, 2007 17:21:45 GMT -5
Skinned out my Thanksgiving Day doe this morning. Weather is turning fast. Looking like winter may be setting in this week. Decided I'd take Dakota out for a bird hunt this afternoon. Left home about 12:30 and headed a few miles over to one of Pat's CRP fields. For sure not the numbers of pheasants that we were into Saturday, but on the other hand their's just enough to make it really alot of fun to work the dog. Not really into the numbers game anyway when it comes to hunting. Watching her work and put up birds is what its all about. We get enough birds through the season that getting one or two once in awhile is great plenty. Just shortly into the hunt she put up a nice rooster that I brought down and she retrieved. Watched a couple of whitetails get up ahead of us that had been bedded down in the CRP. Lots of geese flying south this afternoon. Mostly snows and lesser canadas. Temp. was 34 for with winds out of the west about 25-30 MPH. It was brisk. Had 5 or 6 other roosters flush wildly ahead of us plus 5 or 6 more hens that Dakota put up. When we turned back to head to the truck, the winds had switched to the North and were at least 30 MPH. My ears and cheeks were turning numb from the cold. When we got back to the truck it was snowing. Time to go home. When I got home I checked the temp. It was down to 24 and still dropping. It had dropped 10 degrees in an hour and a half. Looking pretty cold and snowy for the rest of the week. Time to get out the long handles. Not sure when we'll get out again. Don't mind the cold, but the 25 and 30 MPH winds with it make it pretty unbearable. Will cut up the deer tomorrow.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 27, 2007 11:25:01 GMT -5
14 below zero with windchill this morning. I'm not ready for this yet.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 29, 2007 17:00:25 GMT -5
Finally got ahold of Richards Microfit Gunstocks today. A hard bunch to get ahold of. Been trying for quite awhile. Ordered a new stock for my 6MM build. Will be walnut in their Classic design. Could have gone with a laminate, but I'm looking to save weight as it will be a carry varmint rifle. They are the only ones that I found that could build a stock for my old 1917 Eddystone action. Will have to be content this winter on using the old stock. It is in really bad shape. Has wood screws holding it together. Was hoping that the Bell and Carlson stock that I'd previously ordered would have fit. But that was not to be. Another 10-13 weeks to wait on delivery of this stock. Weather still not very nice out. Barely made it out of single digits today. If not to windy will try to make it out tomorrow for a bird.
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Post by Kt29 on Nov 30, 2007 20:41:00 GMT -5
Two below zero this morning at sunrise. Decided that if it didn't get too windy by this afternoon, would take Dakota out for a short hunt as she was bubbling over with energy. About 12:30 the temp. was 17 degrees and only about 10 MPH wind. It was time to go. Headed out to Pat's ranch again, only a few minutes away. About 15 minutes into the hunt Dakota was onto a bird. A few hens started getting up and then birds were getting up everywhere. Was sure hard to focus on a bird when they kept getting up closer and closer. Knocked the first one down and missed the second. Then it was over. Basically the whole flock had gotten up at once. That was fine though. Got a bird and Dakota made another fine retrieve. Started walking back to the south. Dakota was constantly putting up birds, but they were all hens. Just fun to watch her work. She sure has come along ways since our first dove hunt in September. On the walk back to the truck she was on another bird. She worked this bird for at least five minutes as it was on the move. Finally she was able to find it and put it up. It was a rooster and I was able to hit it and she made another nice retrieve. I do have to say my shooting with the old 20 gauge has been pretty darn good except for the first two days of season. That HI Viz sight sure seems to have made the difference. That was enough birds for me. I unloaded the 20 and we headed back to the truck. I let Dakota work more birds on the way back. Since she is still only a pup at nine months old, I want her to get all the time on birds this year that she can. Just after I finished cleaning the birds, the phone rang. It was my son Chris calling from North Idaho. Guess what Dad I heard. I knew right away what was up. You got the big one I said. Nope not a monster but a nice 4X4 Whitetail he said. He had just gotten it drug back down to the truck and loaded it. He was parked in a turnout up on Hoodoo Mtn. when he called. He had spotted it and was able to get up on it to get a shot with his 300 WSM at about a 100 yards. Since they had just got 6" of new snow, he said the drag back down hill was pretty easy. I don't know who was more excited, me or him. I think he was starting to feel alittle bad since his brother and I both had gotten our bucks and tomorrow would be the last day of deer season in is unit in Idaho. Man I'm proud of those boys, they sure did good this year hunting. Makes me thing they might have actually listened to me all those years I took them along to the woods. Another great day. Man do I feel very lucky to be able to do this stuff and have kids that love it also.
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