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I went out to nw kansas last year totally blind, other than the internet research that I had done. Had a phenomenal trip. Get the walk in area map before you do anything else. We hunted these areas exclusively for 4 days in a local area and never returned back to the same area twice, and still did n...

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Nice work looks like good times.

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6's i.c.

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You will want to check these guy's out! Awesome all the way around! http://www.doryfun.com/about_us.html

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Just curious if anyone has owned or shot one of these. I own a franchi i-12 (not the upland hunter model) and have been very pleased with it's performance, feel, and value. Moving ahead I am looking to upgrade for next season to something a little bit lighter. At this point I am leaning towards the ...

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Everyone is going to have thier own opinion on what breed is better...you can usually look at thier avatar photo and take a wild stab :D :lol: ...but in my opinion if you have it narrowed down to a few breeds take the time to visit a breeder or two from the breeds you like in your area when you get...

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I have gotten points on cottontails from both my gsp, and my ep, as well as several of my partners gsp's as well. However, most of the time by time I get within what i consider to be bow range the rabbit usually has left, or is in the process of leaving. I personally think that a gsp would be a good...

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Sprig wrote:.i for one chase blue grouse like ohters chase pheasants, since we have very few roosters in our state.
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So is that the only upland game you chase in Utah?

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I think it is awesome how you can see your shadow in the light of the fog. It's captivating, meaningful, and even a bit artsy!

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Tex, you need to frame that picture second from the bottom!

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Swinging through kansas sounds like a great idea! I have never gotten into wild bobwhites, would love to try them. I don't have my dog's snake broke, but all the snakes are sleeping in January.

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Arizona, Montana, Kansas, and Idaho. In no paticular order. Az , Mearn's , gambles, scaled quail. Montana , sharpies, huns, phez. Kansas , bob's, phez, prarie chickens. Idaho , chukar, hun's, phez, sharpies, forest grouse, california quail, sage grouse. Whatever floats your boat. You need to pick th...

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Franchi makes reliable auto's for a reasonable price. They also make a few double guns in 28. I have owned 5 different shotguns from this manufacturer ( none in 28 ) and have found them to be high quality for the price.

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I can't hear mine quite often. Other than than that it is a great collar. No problems yet. I do have to replace the part you mentioned that twists off. My dog's are sensitive to electricity and I have often turned the collars upside down so that I can hear them better.

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Thanks, we got lucky on that photo. A wounded quail that we were trying to retrieve jumped up in the cactus and wasn't about to move out of there so we were able to get some very cool pics of him.

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As a kid growing up in the Phoenix area, I had never known anyone who hunted mearn's quail. I knew they existed but back then they were hard to come by compared to the good numbers that we are experiencing right now. Yup as a kid growing up in the Phoenix area we matched our skills with the gambels ...

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febuary 8th

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I see one common denominator in all of the replies to this post. BIRDS! I recently had the same concerns about my up and coming gsp puppy. The three previous pointing dogs that I have raised\trained all seemed to show more prey drive and started pointing wings on a string at a young age. After expre...

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Yup funny you should mention that. I am going to az on the 21st of this month for quail! Can't wait!

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Yeah, I was a little bummed out. I was hoping for one more trip! Although it may not have been any good anyway with all the snow. I have had a hard time even here in utah getting in and out of some area's and I am not covering as much ground cause i get slowed down so much. My wife shed big tears of...

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I just read an article in the idaho statesman stating that the season for chukars and huns in Idaho will close three weeks early this year due to the heavy snowfall and the already low population of chukars and hun's. It will close on January 10th.

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I will chime in to tip the scale and put in another vote for Idaho. The reason is variety. Not just in bird species but the country. In a days trip you can spend time on the rimrock of one of the massive river's and twenty minutes later be up in rolling sagebrush hills for hun's. And yet another twe...

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I just purchased a used double barrel shotgun and the gun as a whole is in good shape. However there are some nicks in the blueing. I saw a kit on Cabela's website for reblueing and it had good reviews. I have never attempted anything similar to this and I was just wondering if anyone had experience...

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Just giving you a hard time. I can't wrap my mind around chukars existing in an area with no cheat grass. That looks like a lot of fun to chase them around in that type of country.

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Did the " chukars " you were chasing look like this?

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Huge rooster!

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What do they eat out there? I know a couple of guys who hunt that far south but I always figured that they had some areas with a little bit of grass. Have you opened up a crop? Ohh and congrats on the finds. I have yet to find that many birds on one outing this year, or at least in utah. :roll:

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http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd39/joshandkmac/HPIM1730.jpg Youth hunt 08 One hour before my dog ended up looking like Jake's. 19 staples and out for two weeks. Left the vest in the truck because the terrain was much easier than i had been hunting for the past week. All it takes is one random ...

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Planning my trip to northern az right now. Can't wait.

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http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd39/joshandkmac/birds2008029.jpg Took my 4 1/2 month old gsp pup Sam out for his first trip to Idaho. Got into the chukars pretty good but the quail and huns were few and far between. The puppy retrieved most all of the birds which made me happy. He only had thre...

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I use tuff foot. Works great!

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Thanks for the replies. My mind has been set at ease. The puppy is doing awesome with people and with my six year old english pointer. I got to see both the sire and dam on birds, and they definatly had prey drive, so I imagine it will come with time. Thanks again.

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I have a seven week old GSP puppy. I had been planning on getting a pup and have saved lots of wings from last year. The first couple of days that I had the pup home I tried to get him to point a wing. He didn't even seem real interested. I thought, well thats ok, he is just getting situated in his ...

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Nice start to the new year! That looks like awesome weather for the dogs. I'm getting my start tommorow.

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Headed out yesterday in search of chukars. A big storm had come in and layed a good amount of snow down over the last day and a half. It was still snowing pretty hard when I left my house at 5:00 am. Half of the city of Bountiful was without power. I must admit I had my doubts. The forecast that I w...

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Nice work! That is awesome bird hunting weather well minus 5-10mph with the wind. Sounds like you got some great late season action!

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You are right ezz. I know it's not really the last time we will meet up, or even the last hunt. I guess it's just the closing of a chapter and the beggining of a new one, cause I hunted so often with him. Seventh son we will definatly have to hook up next fall, that sounds like a worthy quest! I mig...

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My brother had the same experience with a brand new mossberg about 3 months ago. I took it and cycled it without any shells in it as many times as I could to try to figure out where it was catching and then took it apart and tried to locate whatever was hanging it up. When I took it apart it must ha...

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Good for you! It takes courage to change your situation like that so that you have an opportunity to enjoy life more.

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Nope! Dog is still alive and well, thanks for the concern however. :lol: And with birds like this out in N.D. I'm sure I will get out to see him once a year or so. He is already planting the seed in my wifes head to plan on me being gone each year for a few days during the christmas time, cause he w...

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New england area, south of Dikinson. We already sampled the pheasants and sharpies out there. And yes good hunting buddies are hard to find!!!!!

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Once again, as it often does. Daydreams of the uplands of Idaho turn into e-mails, phone calls, pm's, begging of the wives for permission, and eventually you start to get a plan together for another exciting adventure. This one would be special, the kind of hunt that you take the time to laugh about...

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And then again some people just don't like recoil operated shotguns and might happen to take very good care of them, but they might get frustrated when they can't get the cap off of the end of the magazine to assemble their gun after driving for two hours just to spend another half hour trying to pu...

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Lot's of good grouse hunting opportunities close to park city. If you head east (plan on driving between35 min to 50 min)there is lot's of public land available with plenty of grouse on it. There are a few isolated spots that you can still hunt closer to home, but you really have to be carefull, as ...

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Yeah, I'd say that is true to an extent. I did have out once and it is not as distiguishable as the tri-tronics models, so I would say that has a lot to do with it, since it is pointing down. I did hear it from about 150 yards out twice when my dog was pointing a covey, however that range might not ...

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I just picked up the dogtra 2500 t&b in the two dog system. Only had it out once. Initial thoughts Love the beeper built in to the reciever! Love being able to change beeper modes with the transmitter on the fly. 127 levels of stimulation, way overkill. I tested it on myself and I couldn't even feel...

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Yeah sell it. I had nothing but problems with my al 48 in 20 gauge. It was a nice looking gun and a pleasure to carry afield but more often than not I found myself leaving it at home and taking one of my more reliable auto's out. Every time I carried it in the hills at least once in the outing I fou...

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Like chaingang said the one that feels the best is probably your best bet. To me that would be the montefeltro. Both gun's are high quality and you may not notice much of a difference in performance. I own several autoloading shotguns and in my mind you can't beat the benelli.

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Hi my name is Josh, I live near Salt lake city , I am a 27 year old male engaged to be married in april. I am an asphalt paver by trade and have recently went into buisness on my own. This is seasonal work so I have lot's of time to hunt in the late fall and winter. Covey birds of all varieties are ...

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You have some real talent there with those pictures. I can say that cause I have tried, and never got ANY shots like those! Nice work! Pictures that good make it worthwhile to put down the gun for a few hours!

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