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That Judy and I went on our first trip to Montana shooting Sharptail Grouse. Yup, those were the good old days..... .15 cents a gallon for gas, shells were a buck a box and the hunting licences were $2.00. The roads were pretty poor back then and ya had to carry a couple of spare tires in...

After several good (and not so good) stabs at naming the man in the photo that was posted.............Ed L. (who seems to have forgoten how to spell his whole last name :^) came up with the correct answer! Congradulations Ed, email me your address and I will ship you your fine prize asap...

First person to get this elderly gentleman's name right wins a (post paid) lollipop! Dave

If I was not such a stickler for hard horned deer, I could probably do O.K. during our archery season which is open now. But I just can't see shooting s deer in velvet when his antlers are not even fully grown out. But to each his own. I did a little "Camera Hunting" this morning. A couple...

We started early this morning making use of my buddy's equipment, his excavator, front end loader and 5 yard dump truck. We took what was left of last summers 3" minus road base rock up at the pit and used it to rock the base of the road from where the new house will be up to the pheasant pens...

Been a busy day, but I finally found time to take a couple of pic's of teh Parker-Hale 7mm Mag. for you. The scope is no big deal, it's a 3-9 Bushnell. I think I'll go back over and buy that Eddy-Stone .300 H&H as it had a Leupold 3-9 on it. Here's some pic's of the 7mm R-Mag. Bolt...

Sorry to hear about your son's losing his dog. Around here most of us have gone thru that a time or two and it is the pits. Losing a good hunting dog is like losing a kid, they become part of the family and it takes time to get past it which is natural. I honestly feel that Steve Sutton has...

Judy and I were just a couple of miles from the house heading for town this morning when she saw a GARAGE SALE sign and suggested we stop and take a look. I declined and drove on to town. An hour later were again came to where teh same sign was and she said "oh come one, it will just take a...

The flight pen is finished, the 368 pheasants are in their new quarters with plenty of feed & water, the wire around the bottom of the pen is in and covered with dirt and the grass seed is planted atop it. The solar powered fence charger is installed and the sides are wired and HOT. So, now...

The last 4 days have been long ones, getting the pens ready for the birds. Wednesday Judy and I worked together from 8am until 9:30pm with 20 minutes off for lunch. Dinner was at 10pm and I was back down at the pen at 2:00am getting something I had forgoten done, got back to bed at 2:45am this...

Mac & his buddy showed up at 7:30 this morning and we got the sides and end wires on and pulled tight with the ATV. Next step is to staple the wire down each post with the Senco spale gun, then attach the heavy 4' animal wire to the posts and then nail the 2X6's along the bottom outside and...

The winter wheat in the food plot next to the flight pen (left center) is drying up in the warm weather we've been having. In November I'll disced the plot and plant it with strips of winter wheat and milo for next years crop. The skys cleared a little after a week of our valley being filled...

Well, I maxed out all my incubators............284 eggs in all. 5 different species now and I just got 80 more chukar. But for now that is it! The first batch of eggs should start to hatch early next week and the last eggs ordered should be finished in about 25 days. Depending on...

Mac showed up early this morning and we got the netting on the flight pen up within a couple of hours. Here are some pic's as the job went along. This stuff is tough, 232# breaking strength, 2" mesh netting with 10 year warrenty. (it should for it's $500 cost). The netting in a roll 150'...

I bought two pallets of the larger 9-1/2" x 15-1/2" foundation blocks for the partridge pens today and sure could of used your help in off-loading them :^). The back of the 2/3 ton was a we bit over-loaded with 78 30# blocks per pallet. As soon as I saw the weight of the first pallet in the...

Here's some of the birds she wants to raise: Mikado pheasant: Fireback pheasant: Red Golden pheasant: Another Red Golden pheasant: I prefer the partridges like these "Crock-Pot" partridges! They look pretty dang good to me! Dave

Thanks for the photo's and letter telling about Luke's turkey season (and yours). I let Judy read your letter and she said she could just see Lukke taking off after his bird! Too funny. Tell Luke that even "Bumper Tom" would be proud of him! You got a lifetime hunting partner there Gene...

I have 2 cozen of them coming for Speckled Fajita making. Or maybe some Speckled Quail con Chili Verde? Yesterday the 12 Jumbo Pheasant eggs I ordered came in the mail. The guy I got them from is teh same guy I got the 26 regular Ringnecks eggs from. He's a nice guy that lives in Green Bay...

Should I order some of these Mexican Speckled Quail? They are available and I sure like the looks of them. A South of the Border Bobwhite. I wonder if they are spicy tasting? :^) Great looking sub-species of Bobwhite. Yup, after looking at them again......I need to get some for raising...

Here's what I was telling you about this morning. Boni showed up at noon yesterday and we had all four corners of the flight pen braced by 4:30. We used 4x4's for the "H" braces and these ratchets on the New Zealand wire. A fence staple holds teh NZ wire in place while it's tightened at a...