Hey Dave,Last day afield for 3Dogs

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Joe O

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Actually tomorrow is the last day,but the forcast is calling for Duck weather and today was 65 so I had 9 bieds to finish up.Brought out the 20ga Bardanelli with .410
tubes and a handful of 1/2oz 21/2 reloads #81/2.couldn't wear a coat or vest so put them in my jeans pocket.Decided to hunt the Britts seperately because Momma Cass finds them all while Patch,her son,does all the retrieving.Put her in a crate at the barn and set out with Patch on the first five birds.We haven't been out for over a month.Don't ask me why.I don't know.Patch found every bird good flush,shot(two on two of the birds),and retrieve to hand.It was warm and going up.I needed only a tee shirt.So put out the other four birds,picked up Cass and left Patch hooked in the box in back of the bird buggy.Same routine,she finds them quick but wouldn't retrieve,so put patch down to do the work.He backed her on the next three,I made all one hot kills this time and My boy did the retrieving.A great day. Only put out 80 birds this year.I usually do about 120.I cleaned all 0 today and put in the freezer except a few legs which cooked up to go into the dog food tonight.They loved it.Now fitting out a BBSB
Fair Winds
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Nice finish to your bobwhite shooting for the season. Thank's for the conference call this morning, if I'd known you were going to call I would have had Judy bring you a capuccino too, haha.

If we wind up selling just 1/2 the place I will buid the pheasant raising pens I mentioned for releasing birds here on the place. I have a friend just down the road that is currently building his pens and he has 3 large commercial incubators.

We will do eggs as they are the cheapest to start with. There is a new 80 acre B&B across the road from him and the owner wants to raise pheasants too, so that he can release them as a part of a B&B pheasant hunt on his property.

We thought that if we all are releasing good numbers of birds, we may get enough breeding in the wild that we will have pheasants around like we used to 20 years ago here in the valley.

I don't have a local source for Valley Quail or Bobwhite and I'm not sure that we can release Bobwhites here in Oregon since they are not native. Ofcourse pheasants were not native to Oregon either, but Oregon was the first place that they were released from the stock brought from China in 1882 (as I remember). So, basically the brood stock for the rest of the U.S. came from either Oregon or directly from China.

You have fun getting all those long likes rigged for your ne wsneak boat and let me know when you plan the long drive to pick it up.

BTW That printer/scanner I got was the Cannon MP-600. They are $200, but Staples had them on sale for $179.95 at the time. The photo print quality is so much better than my H.P. and Dell printers it is amazing. along with the USB plug-in on the front, it also has theslots for both the small and large style digital camera disc's. You just stick them in teh printer and download them to the CD in your comutor.

Best,

Dave
 



Dave
I still have a crook in my wrist from holding the phone so long.The MP-600 Cannon sounds like the one to check out.Thanks.
Don't know why you couldn't release Bob white quail there there,since I
know I've seen shows from eastern Oregon shooting preserves where they were takeing Mr Bob.It's like pheasants here are not listed as a game bird,or any category,hense they can be placed/released and hunted year round if you wanted to. Fair Winds
3Dogs
 
You are probably right Joe, I'll have to check with the ODFW and see. Seem's to me that I remember Dez Young shooting some bobwhite on that bird club east of Redmond, Oregon on a couple of his "Hunting with Hank" shows.

I would have liked his shows better if he would have done TWO things, hunted more wild birds and talked about guns more. Like you mentioned on the phone, he never said squat about the doubles & O/U's he was shooting.

I think you and I should start a bird hunting TV show! We could test all the shotguns that come out (at least the one's that run over $10K) and we'd travel all over the world hunting all the species of upland game birds & waterfowl.

I can see the advertising now........On tofays hunt Joe's equipment includes, a Holland & Holland 28 bore in the Kings Model Delux with 26" barrels and a slight cast out stock, A Barbour coat, Purdey tweed knickers, Purdey rubber kneeboots, Purdey virgin wool (mustard colored) knee socks (with garters) and a pair of "Fruit of the Loom" Jockey Shorts in gun metal grey. His "Driven Pheasant" brand after shave is their new "Fall Fluch" fragrance.....made for the man who can't wait to flush!

Heck, you could do some diver duck hunting while field testing that new Purdey Sporter model O/U that they are having Perugini & Visini make the trigger plate action and the monobloc design in Italy. That's a first for Purdey!

You could even write articles for Shooting Sportsman and Double Gun Journal. Ofcourse you better not write anything about shotguns with pistol grips or camo paint jobs.....you would not want to be associated with any of those terrorist type turkey & duck hunters :^)

BTW did you get thru to Mark yet?

Dave
 


FUNNY Dave
The Snow birds a getting to you.I'm going to have to talk to Judy about you spending so much time on EBay and Gun sites.:>).Probably more info than one wants to know if equipment discription gets down to underwear and calonge,don't you think.Never did se Dez with other than a SxS.Always a 20ga,and shot Winchester Hi Brass field loads.I know that in some episodes he had a Merkle,but the others,I couldn't tell.All had BT forends except maybe one as with pistol grips Vs straight stocks.I don't ever recall him talking about the Gun or loads.The only way you knew about the clothing was the credits and sponsors.He only hunted wild birds a few times in NM and CA.I guess the important thing was to emphasise the dog work and not the shooting part.
NOW! When we hunt the world.You hunt whatever English or American gun you can get your hands on and I'll be happy to confine myself with Italian SxS,including Hammer guns.I'll only wear britches when on estates in the British Isles,and Ill leave all that English hunting clothing to you,while I'll wear American outfitters gear and maybe a Beretta jacket now and then.:>(
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