I have video of the struggle required to put meat on the table.

That's what you get when you let your big cock get into the bush!

Good stuff Sam. I'm sure Charlie is glad to see the scattergun is use also.

I know I’m a little crazy because that looks like great fun !

First grouse.

He fly into the window Ed?

Aren't you supposed to be dead? Coulda swore you had ome foot in the grave last week. Either way, great stuff, wish we had those here.

All I got right now.

Nice!

Can’t touch cock out here for another couple weeks. Quail and grouse are open though! Going out next weekend. See what I can scare up.

Nice bird Ed! Grouse is a tasty bird. I think my favorite.

And what’s up with ruffed grouse out here? They are STUPID. Back east they’ll flush at a fart, out here you can kill them with a stick.

Handfull!

Thanks Sam. Good viewing.

Majestic cock!

Are you really Steve Rinella?

Yep. Amazed it didn't crack. Boom... I have killed them with a rock.

Shouldn't you be wearing them glasses goin' thru the pricker weeds?

You could put an eye out you know.

Nice shout out to Charlie.

title the picture "Livin' the Montana Dream"

Sam0,

Glad the China flu didn’t get you!

Rock out with your cock out!

In Iowa our bird season is not until late October. Deer, early December.

LMAO

Nice -- hard work for keeping the winter meat on the table. Good on you and I hope the wounds you show when you got home were appreciated.

Seems too early for cock season.


I was out having coffee this morning......and was about to run off some hunters.


Wife said it was bird season.

You're a nice guy.

You folks have one of them deals that the bird hunters can come on your place?

Watch out a stray shot doesn't take out the terlet.

A first... where the wife prevents a cock block.

They come from all over.


From Florida all the way to Alaska.

BC to Nova Scotia.

Nice!

Sam, I figured you would ride your horse behind your bird dog.

3 for 3. Mike drop

I took my two wirehairs out today with a party of four hunters. The dogs got up about 20 grouse in about 4.5 hours. One guy got his first grouse ever. Beautiful fall day.

two laughies for you!

Thumbs up RAS!

RAS,

Great pics,

You hunt those in woods?

Sam hunts in fields?


Just wondering, no grouse in MS.

I don't like the sound of that.

Grouse are found in the woods. There are some woods that are definitely better than others. Middle age aspen was good today.

Glad to read that you’re getting some cock. *Two* in the hand....

One in the bush?

Maybe, maybe not. Waiting on the other shoe to drop.

I freaking love it

I luv chasing cock around too.

You're a lucky dude Sammo...

Nice vids, Sam but "biggest cock I've ever seen,..."? You will live in perpetual infamy here on the 'Fire.

It's amazing what some folks will put themselves through when they really need a cock.

Nice work. But damn, you need a dog!

Thanks for all the good comments!


We were busy with family yesterday afternoon so my posting was limited.



Windy and nasty now, off to go doze manure in some feed pens. Won't be as fun as yesterday.

Sammo! You handsome sonhofabitch! Good job limiting out with no dog!


Maybe I missed it but did you ever get tested for the Rona to confirm it? If so, did they shove a q-tip way in to your thinker?

Rooster, opening morning roosters...

Give 'em a another week or two and they smarten some!


I never did get tested so have idea if I had the 'Vid or not.


Still feel a little sluggish but nothing like last weekend.




Ode to the Cock...

Purty nice looking cock-slayer - Rizzini?

Pretty pic.

hillestadj, yep. Isidoro version.







Bender, young rooster.



This year's hatch?

He hung himself because he was afraid of getting the Vid?

Nice shooting Sam

Damn! I likes that shotgun...

Sam, Nice fencepost pic. Sure glad you're keeping that gun working as it should.

I forgot to comment on the video of the rooster with the "nub" for a spur. I took a turkey once like that, good long spur on the one side, worn off on the other. Nice long 10" or so beard. Heavy, +/- 20 lb. Took him to show some folks that were the chapter Prez of the NWTF and the Secty or some such, as they were the ones that gave me the dope on where to hunt that season. They thought he was quite an old bird looking at him and hearing that he was a loner that came in from behind me as I was working a group of toms that wouldn't come in. Do you think that bird you got with the nub was an oldster?

Sexy son of a bitch that is.....

What an a hole.

Trigger therapy plain works........great photos, thanks!

That shotgun is the only 'nice' gun I've ever bought.

Guess I do have a Kimber Classic Select 257 Roberts but Charlie's 16 gauge will always hold a place in the safe.


All 3 birds with the top barrel, #5 copper plated Fiochi, improved cylinder, maybe modified, hell if I know.





Geno, I think pheasants generally live 2-3 years in the wild before they run out of luck? He was certainly not from this year's hatch, long feathers on that dude.


T, I've mastered the art of sucking in a 20lb beer belly....


Cuzzin, I hope you enjoyed today's holiday!


Mr, walking around looking for cocks is my favorite hunting. Don't have time to get 'serious' about looking for a big buck so big cocks it is.

Nice goin' cowboy Sam, how them thar bovines doing?

Cleaning up feed pens right now Richard.


Easy work when it's dry.


Got the last of the hay baled on Friday.


Wean calves in early November so we are busying getting things ready.



We do have 2 more new horses to try out as well. Never a dull moment!

Don't shoot em all brother man!! Ill be over in less than a month for leftovers!!😀

Just look at him Ted!!!😂😂

Jud, just texted you topless version.....lol

Sam, how're those calves doing?

Richard we have about 60 pair here close to home and they are doing fine.


Big bunch is out in the hills and they should be fine as well. We don't see the main bunch very often as the pastures are much larger and further from home.


Lose a few no doubt but they should be healthy otherwise.


Looked okay when we changed pastures, maybe a touch lighter but it's always hard to tell. No rain lately so they probably will wean lighter which is not a big deal. We feed em until February.

Love the thread. Great pictures Sam!

I thought you were writing a Kamala Harris bio.

Sam's threads are always good.

😂😂

Gentlemen...and Conrad...


Sweet talked wife into frying up some cock strips for supper. Breast meat sliced and cooked fairly fast.


The cock was literally melting in my mouth.

Posterity

I pray to God my parents never see this nonsense....lol





I did show the first vid to wife and her sister.

My 13 year old niece and 10 year old nephew were within ear shot.






Had to explain that this is a bit of an inside joke on the whole cock thing....

lol. And Conrad 😂
Enjoy.

My wife won't touch the fried cock...


Hasn't touched it in years.




She's afraid of biting into a #5 and chipping a tooth.


I once told her there was no bb's in the meat. That I had them all cleaned out.



You guessed it, missed one and she wasn't happy.

Sam, what do the ringnecks eat out there?

Richard, these were full of field peas and spring wheat. The usual little pieces of green leafs mixed with the grain.



Snow on the ground and they will start feeding on buffalo and choke cherries. And dig through the snow for grain.


Late winter they hang on the feed grounds.

Sit on barley bales.



Smart birds, they adapt and survive.

Sam;
Good evening to you my cyber friend, I hope that the day was a good one for you and all is as it needs to be in your busy world.

Thanks for the videos and photos Sam, I've given them a "like" on youtube and appreciate the laugh as well as the scenery.

Somehow I've had similar experiences with game birds up on this side of the medicine line as well - so where we're at is my good wife says I can shoot what I want with a scatter gun just as long as she's warned ahead of time and can abstain like your better half does.

The 16 gauge is straight up über Sam, it's about as cool a way to chase birds as is possible.

Thanks again Sam, all the best to you all this fall and good luck on your hunts.

Dwayne

Sam, another import from China.

Is it roosters/cocks only in Montana?

Sam, another import from China.

Is it roosters/cocks only in Montana?

Dwayne, just tell her you aim for the head!
(you could head shoot one with a 22lr but that would be illegal....)


My woman was just over at fry pan nibbling.


She admits it was damn fine cock.....lol






Richard, roosters only, or as we say, cocks!


I have shot a couple hens in my day. Always by accident.

My father would shoot the birds with a 410 from a mounted picker. Like you Sam, he taught me, shoot a bit over the head.

Pheasant's are great runners, they wount fly till they come to the end of the row.

Many suppers during corn picking with ringnecks, and a small pile of shot on the plate side.

My first memories of hunting were with my dad, little brother and pheasants.

Nothing serious, but it was a big deal(for us) when he got one!


He had my grandpa's M37 Ithaca. Which is also a 16 gauge, full choke, I don't shoot it very well.



#4 Federal's with the purple hull...

I'd like to enjoy the ruffed grouse, the northern game bird.

My little guy turned 5 the other day Sam. He knows when we go bird hunting that the purple ones are 16ga and the yellows are 20s. The 12s mix him up, last time I packed the 12 I had red, green, and blue shells in the bag and he didn’t know what to make of it!

I love hunting, shooting and eating ruffies as much as anyone. But, grouse guts sure do stink to high heaven. Good thing they gut quickly. No other game bothers me, but those birds gag me at times.

I kinda miss grouse shooting in Alaska. Get up early and walk or drive old gravel roads with a 22. Flush them into a tree and step off the road and shoot their heads off. Pretty good eating but stomping the fence rows for cocks is much more exciting.

That’s a damn nice rooster

Kid, the 16 gauge Fiocchi are blue.

Confusing, Federals are still purple?

RS, I just take the breasts and hind quarters if they're not all shot to hell.


Leave the remains out in the field.


Technically not legal for proof of sex?



Not worried here local.

Roger on the Federales still being purple Sam, about all I can get around here without driving an hour. I buy the 1 ounce 7 1/2s and use them for everything, doves, quail, cocks. Not a whole big bunch of bird hunting around since the quail vanished about 20 years ago but we still shoot 100-150 doves a season if we try hard and have a good migration.

Did someone say Ithaca 16 gauge and northern game birds, but most especially purple and COCK-----all in the same thread?

I'm in heaven. Sammo, give me those aviators and let me die right here, in my happy place.

Dangit Tinman you fugged em up today. Do you have to have steel shot for seagulls?

Seagulls?

I thought they were cockatoo’s!

Pretty sure the Fed and Rem are black. Kent are green.

My dad paid $5 at an estate sale a couple years ago for like 15 boxes of Monkey Wards “Super Huntsman” 2 9/16” 16ga 7 1/2s. They were yellow paper hulls and the box claimed they were made in Mexico. He borrowed one of my 37s to shoot them in and finally used them up last month. Some M12 guy with a short chambered gun would have probably loved to have had those....

Sheit....I could have had twice that many seagulls if I could shoot worth a darn. I actually stood there and looked around one time to make sure nobody was watching me...after I missed 2 at maybe 20 yards, 4 times. It was bad....


No steel shot needed here, but on the North Slope you do....and need to be 5 miles from the haul road to use a shotgun. Those ptarmigan don't get much pressure up there....

You up the steese ?

I've got some up the Steese, but those particular ones weren't.

These were off of the Elliot Highway, then about 3 miles in to where the ptarmigan habitat starts.
It was a long day. 11.4 miles total.

T,

why you make them pretty white birds all red in the head?

11.4 miles for what, 8 birds?

Oh the fun we hunters think we have, right?

Well duh Geno.........

That's 9 birds actually, and I enjoy making them red. It brings me joy.
Right now, hunting them is just like a good big game stalk. Spot them 1/2 mile away, make your stalk, belly crawling if necessary and start shooting. Fun as hell.

These willow ptarmigan are about the most two sided challenge I've seen. Roughly 1/2 flush if they see you within 100 yards. The other 1/2 think they're hidden and stay put till you're about 20 yards away before flushing. I much prefer the latter.

Did a get up the Elliot to the Chatanika to spear whitefish at night? Always loved that.

I've hunted some quail like the former ones you mention. Especially after the first weekend of hunting season. See/hear them running up the hills in the desert, never down the wash of course. Then, if you do manage to get one shot and tumbling, it ends up in the middle of a cactus patch. At least those pretty white birds don't have cactus to land in.

Peasants leave the area when the motor stops while parking the car. Two wheat fields over. They don't even wait for the door to slam shut.

Glad you got a few, thanks for sharing the pics.

Can't say that I've done that...I did get quite drunk at the Chatnika Lodge though.

The lodge used to have a big darts tourney in February. I won men’s singles one year and part of the winnings was a T-shirt that said “I scored at Chatanika”. 🤣

Geat handful a cock there, big fella !

Vids wouldn't load for me, though ?

TFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good stuff guys !!

Deb with a handful of male ruffies n 20ga, off our own place;



I know T & Geno have seen the photo !

Ted, what glorious white cock you have!

Little different style hunt than brushy cock, bet you don't spend much time looking for downed birds.

Sweet pic with the old 16.





Paul, not sure why the vids don't load?


Your wife is a stone cold killer, in a lovely sort of way!

What make shotgun?

I have a bad case of Cock Envy after reading this thread.

LMAO!

The cock took a beat'n, for sure.

They stick out like a whore at a bachelor party; but fear not.
The bush gets thick, wet and dangerous once you go down on her---just a little bit...

Aw shucks! Thanks man!

All this COCK is sure making my hands tired.

Not sure either, get notifications of new vids. Won't load from youtuber, either ?

Might have ta revoke my ShortMagFag subscription !



Mossberg 500 - 20ga pump

All the cocks I could find this evening were tiny and gray. It’s not the size it’s the number right?

Kingston, I thought you up and died!

Good to see you didn't...




Ted, I KNOW you are a bushman.




Rooster, touche.




Flave, rest is over-rated.



Paul, I can't help it if you have a crappy computer!




Kid, all of God's cocks have a place in the choir.

Sitting here laughing! Maybe it was the manner of my laughing, I don't know, but my wife just gave me the "I'm not even doing to ask" look. If you know what I mean.

Pup gettin' goin.

RS, just sittin' around talkin' bout cock!



Clay, that is an interesting pic, nice one!

Cutting first hay is hard on sitting hens, more beef than bird out there.