Duck Engr wrote:By the time my tailbone gets sore from sitting on the stand it's time to saddle my horse and run the English pointers.
Rick wrote:Duck Engr wrote:By the time my tailbone gets sore from sitting on the stand it's time to saddle my horse and run the English pointers.
It's all put-and-take quail for him and his now, but my Brantley friend has told some great stories about and from trial pros he'd known but I'd only read about.
Duck Engr wrote:Yeah the wild quail is a thing of the past. We have a couple of coveys every year survive the summer into next season, leaving us with one or two "wild" coveys. When we get into those, we typically don't even shoot. We put birds out in October after the first frost and hunt them thought the season. It's not put and take exactly, tho we are putting the hawks do more taking than we ever do.
Duck Engr wrote:Was a bit of an eventful summer for me as I took a new job in Troy, Alabama and moved from Mobile. Definitely put me behind on boat projects of which I have completed exactly zero (new hubs on boat trailer, new fuel line up to the gas tank in the front, etc).
Good thing is I'm now 45 minutes from our land just north of me so I'll be making much more frequent trips. Have already worked a few weekends up there trying to prep dove fields although it has been weeeeeeet. Can't recall a summer with this much rain. We just got the the last of the dove field planted on Wednesday so our shoots will likely be pushed back a month which is fine by me because the weather is nicer.
Speaking of rain, we had another levee washout due to 13" of rain in two days back in January. Can't catch a break with these storms the last two years. Only designed the pond drainage system for ten year rainfall frequencies thinking certainly we'd have a year or two to let the levees settle and grass take root in our emergency spillways but we've been "blessed" by 100 year rainfall events in back to back years that have washed us out two years in a row. Now this summer has been too wet to dream of getting the dozer back in there. we were about fed up with it anyway so the year off will be good for us.
Also got into a pit lease out west this year so that has added a whole different dimension to our hunting. We've been river hunters the past few years but decided to have a backup for when there's low water or ducks aren't using the river or just somewhere to squeal at a few geese in the afternoons. The pit sent us into a decoy frenzy (though we already have plenty between the 5 of us). When the dust settled I'm now the owner of 3.5 dozen new decoys to go with my 6.5 dozen I already had. I'm currently in the process of switching all of my decoys over to Texas rigs and rigging the new ones.
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Duck Engr wrote:East central Arkansas.
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Duck Engr wrote:I believe Waldenburg will be our nearest town. Really haven't looked at closest hotels. I'm guessing Newport.
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Duck Engr wrote:Yeah it's kind of right on the line between north and central so I never know how to describe it. You're down to the south, correct? Can't remember if it's north LA or south AR
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Ericdc wrote:Duck Engr wrote:I believe Waldenburg will be our nearest town. Really haven't looked at closest hotels. I'm guessing Newport.
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Oh ok that's on up there a good ways.
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