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Good luck. We need pics.

Great pic. Where is that bit of heaven, please?

You lose the plug to your shotgun or something'?

Great stuff T, as usual.

Hahaha, tff.

But it takes a devious mind.

Nice, L2S and great multi bag.

I didn't have a drilling but was ready for coyotes with a 22-250. Yep, it was deer season too. A 55 gr SP to a bucks neck works.

Speaking of Javelina. We are always on the lookout for them. I do my best to steer the dogs away if I see them.

Around 12 years ago my former pair of GWPs and I rounded a small hill deep in Gardner Canyon while mearns hunting. The dogs worked forward and loped right into a sounder of 15 javelina! The javelina and dogs were going the same direction. One big one sided Thor and bit him in the face as they ran side by side. I immediately began firing the shotgun and ran in the dog's direction. It was over in seconds.

After seeing cut on his cheek didn't seem too bad we went back to hunting. A day or so later the swelling began. Took him to the vet. After a careful inspection the vet found two connecting holes. Thor's face was shaved and the infected area was irrigated. Antibiotics stopped the infection and eventually his hair grew back. As you can see, for a while he was a strange looking dog.


Here is Thor along with Abbey with his regular hairy face.

Only reason to hunt birds is for the dog work. I feel sorry for those that don’t have that pleasure. Yeah they’re good to eat and fun to get but the dogs are the reason for the season.

THAT Rates a Two Cool!!

Dang,

tusked your dog good that pig did.

Glad he healed up nicely.

Most of the dogs I've seen get away from a storm with Javy's Need stitch's and big antibiotics,we manage to save about 75% of them, if we see them we bring our dogs in fast we have a huge Quail crop this year so we will be Quail from JAN 1st to March 28th all wild free range birds. Rio7

I always enjoy seeing your dogs.

Count me in as another that loves to hunt upland birds. I don't currently have a dog, but I used to have GSP, raised a couple of litters and used to run dog trials and did pretty well.

Although the pheasant population isn't nothing like it used to be back in N.C. Kansas around our farm, the bobwhites are making a comeback. Last year was the first season in a long time that I was able to kill a limit one day. And the dove hunting has been nothing short of great the past several years. Love some good fast wing shooting almost as much as watching a good dog work.

Pigeon is just a big dove which they taste like, The carp are okay but nothing special.

A guy I worked for back in the 80s had a javelina for a pet, it nipped him on the ankle playing around and almost killed him, he almost bled out from the cut artery before getting to the hospital from his ranch outside Benavides Texas.
My buddy and I had a pet javelina that we kept at the motel his parents owned. One day an Indian dot was there looking at the place to buy. He made the mistake of kicking it and got bit, animal control was called and they took the javelina to the pound and the day before we could get him back someone cut the chain link fence and took him. They probably made tamales out of him.

I'm laughing,

tamales.


Bummer about your pet though Rog.

PM coming today about another question I have for you and krp.

My history too, Sam, just fifty miles further north. If others had the experience we are describing, they would come to the same conclusion. ;-{>

Love wild quail above any other hunting. Here in Texas the prices have gotten too rich for the average guy and public hunts are few and far between. Urban sprawl and the eye worm parasite have decimated my old hunting areas. I need to find a group of hunters that are willing to travel west and start hunting for different bird species.

Again, thank you guys for the great replies and pics. I've really enjoyed this thread, two thumbs up!

NE Montana